From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 8: 0:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-107.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3098156AF for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 07:59:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03104; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:58:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00823; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:01:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199908171401.PAA00823@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jonathan D. Proulx" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Modem not responding at install In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:05:40 EDT." <19990814110540.A1619@amergin..ids.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:01:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 09:53:55AM -0400, Bill A. K. wrote: > > do you really need to use PAP? > > can't you just use login style authentication (e.g. just type in your user > > name and password at the prompts and when the other side starts sending PPP, > > just press SHIFT + ~ and then press P)? > > let me know what happens. > > Two things... > > First the screen (in ppp terminal mode) seems one character behind > the responses from the process (local or remote) don't show up > untill after I type the next character (which itself doesn't > show up untill after the second character etc) > > This is bothersome since the prompts don't show-up untill > after I start typing the response...it's a very simple > standard login so this is surmountable. Sounds like you've got an IRQ problem. Are you sure your UART is probing correctly (``dmesg | fgrep sio'', or pressing SCROLL LOCK and a few PGUPs after booting) ? > Second the connection won't stay up. I get assigned my IP address > packets start coming and going. I switch back to tty1 hit OK > and I sais it can't resolve ftp.freebsd.org. I switch back to > tty3 and the connection is down. I've tried specifying both > my primary and secondary DNS servers as "Domain Name Server" > for "Gateway" I've tried both blank and 127.0.0.1 (this is a > home computer with dynamic IP dial-up) This is probably the same problem - your port doesn't work. > -- > Email: jon@osfn.org Resume: > jdp@efn.org http://users.ids.net/~tuan/resume -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message