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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 1996 17:08:51 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Mike K." <flaq@synwork.com>
To:        Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Help
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960706170711.2065A-100000@synwork.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960706140634.13790A-100000@lint.cisco.com>

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On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Sridhar Krishnan wrote:

> 
> Thanks taking the time to respond.
> 
> 1. cu -l cuaa0 
> says "connected". Then when I type "ATDTE1Q0", I am expecting "OK".
> Nothing happens. When I quit out with ~. it takes a minute to disconnect. 
> Yet another person aksed me disable PnP (plug and Play) option. I do not 
> know how-to. I'll give it a try. It is an internal modem and it is hard 
> to diagnose without any lights. I also tried cu -x9 -l cuaa0. Did not 
> help since there is no response from the modem. It is an MWave 28.8 
> Internal modem.

ATDTE1Q0 ?  You're telling it to dial tone.  Try ate1q0 instead

> 
> 2. On fvwm, I am little confused. I start xdm as explained in the book 
> (via init - ttys. Ofcourse I cannot use because a wm is already running.
> If I do startx, then whole bunch of X sessions start but I am unable to 
> bring up fvwm. Any way I should read the man pages.
> 
> That's all.
> 
> > Sridhar Krishnan writes:
> > >
> > >> I don't know if this should work.  I personally use cu for this sort
> > >> of thing
> > >>
> > >> $ cu -s 38400 -l /dev/cuaa0
> > >>
> > >
> > > I tried, and it does not seem to work. The device is properly configured.
> > > I even deleted cuaa0 and re-added using /dev/MAKEDEV. the tun0 is all set
> > > up. I set up the ppp according to the handbook. Help!
> > 
> > What goes wrong?
> > 
> > > I have one othe question regarding "fvwm". What do I set before getting
> > > it to work ? What should be my display ? I tried setting up in /etc/ttys
> > > and it did not work.
> > 
> > What did you put in /etc/ttys?  If you can start X, you just need to
> > start /usr/X11/bin/fvwm as well, after installing it (see page 97 of
> > The Book).  You can put the start in your .xinit file, but that's not
> > essential, just a good idea.  When you start it up, it should come
> > with a whole lot of clients pre-configured, but one way or another
> > you're going to have to read the man page.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> 

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