Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:24:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: hawky/Hawksmom <hawk2@netcom.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Communication problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960612132203.7312F-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9606120012.A19012-0100000@netcom17>
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On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, hawky/Hawksmom wrote: > I was able to use the term command and manually dial into both a ppp > account and my shell account with the ppp I was able to tlenet to the > machine I was dialed into. No problem there. > But my new problem is in the time I was fixing my local ethernet, I > seemed to messed up my modem. the only thing I was changing was the > ifconfig lines in /etc/sysconfig. What did you change? > The ppp.conf and other files were able to > locat e the mode at /dev/cuaa0 now it seem to not be able to find it. On > boot up it seems to find it on sio1 type 16550A so I tried changing all > /dev/cuaa0 to /dev/cuaa1 in all the /etc and /etc/ppp files and I was > able to open term inside of ppp but i could not type into it nor could I > kill the process. I could only ~. out of term but I could not kill the > process, I could only suspend it. they same thing happened when I tried > putting all the /dev/cuaa1 back to /dev/cuaa0 and tried to use /dev/cuaa0 > as a hard link to /dev/cuaa1 Be REALLY, REALLY careful linking and moving devices. /dev/cuaa0 points to sio0 and /dev/cuaa1 points to sio1. You could conceivably wreck the device files and make them totally unusable. Then you would have to re-MAKEDEV them. (./MAKEDEV sio0 (?)) > I can't figure how my modem could have been moved to another com > port by toying with the /etc/sysconfig. I am very new to FreeeBSD but > I am fairly familiar with running linux. I would like to know what you did to sysconfig. There is nothing in there (that I remember) that controls the sio ports. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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