Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 22:08:16 -0700 From: leonard@pacbell.net (Leonard Chung) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sysinstall fails - Too many ECHO packets are lost? Message-ID: <v01540b00ae5561eed6cf@[206.170.1.151]>
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I'm trying to reinstall FBSD using FTP over a PPP connection. I'm using a USR 14.4K Sportster modem on com 1, IRQ 4, with the following modem string: AT&F&A3&B1&H1&C1&R2, which resets the modem to its defaults, enables HW Handshaking, fixes the serial port speed, and tells the modem to give real info for carrier detect. The port speed is 19.2K. There shouldn't be any IRQ or port conflicts, as I have pulled out my serial card, so only the modem is using any ports. I can connect ok to my ISP, and login fine, and PPP enters packet mode ok. The install begins and then all of a sudden after about 100K-200K has been transfered (or about 3 minutes later), ppp suddenly drops the connection. In the log, ppp reports that the connection was dropped because "Too many ECHO packets are lost". Does anybody know what is causing this program? ppp worked fine for me before in FBSD, but my modem was on com 2 then. When I tried to do a reinstall FBSD over FTP using the boot disk, I found that for some reason, I couldn't access my modem, as even when I told sysinstall to use com 2/cuaa1, it would always start up ppp with com1/cuaa0. If I manually tried to get ppp to switch over to com2 by typing "set device /dev/cuaa1" and go to term, I find that it is still using com1. Before I tried to reinstall FreeBSD, I could use ppp fine for hours on end, but now that I'm installing from the bootdisk, ppp fails repeatedly. I've tried playing around with many different types of modem strings, port speeds, etc. but nothing seems to work. Strangely, ppp can stay connected as long as it wishes if no data is being transmitted, but the moment the FTP begins, the 3 minute/200K timer starts ticking... Has this happened to anybody else before? Is there just some little setup option that I have overlooked? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Leonard
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