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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: tony@warp.co.uk
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Subject: Re: ppp & modem stopped working
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On Sat, 28 Dec 1996 tony@warp.co.uk wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I busy experimenting with freebsd 2.1.6 on my home PC in a view to moving our 
> servers over on to it from linux. I currently multi-boot win95, 
> Linux, and FreeBSD on the same machine.
> 
> I used the ppp command to connect to work and this worked fine for a 
> few days, now all I get when I dial in is gibberish on the screen. 
> I feel that this is possibly related to a handshaking problem.
> 
> The modem is a 28.8 internal on set to com2 - com2 on the motherboard as 
> been disabled.
> 
> Does anyone know what to look for - the same system works fine with 
> linux & windows95, and was working fine with freebsd until tonight 

Type 'show modem' at the ppp> prompt and make sure everything checks out
there.

> I've re-compiled the kernal with option XSERVER enabled (the modem 
> worked ok with the new kernal) however when I startx the screen goes 
> blank and the system crashes - I've also tried /stand/sysinstall and 
> selected config XF86 in there but with the same result. Again XFree86 
> runs fine under the Linux system. The video card is a 2Mb PCI 
> S3Triov+ Any pointers would greartly be appreciated. 

Did you run xf86config?

You'll have to try and capture the output before the system dies.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major