Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:46:13 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ? Message-ID: <20110628184613.GA1074@tiny> In-Reply-To: <4E098E1B.2000700@gmail.com> References: <4E098E1B.2000700@gmail.com>
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El día Tuesday, June 28, 2011 a las 01:47:31PM +0530, Manish Jain escribió: > > Hi all, > My tata-photon (huawei) modem works painlessly on Win XP. Every > setting is auto (including getting the nameserver). The auth protocol > is CHAP. But when I boot into FreeBSD 8.0 (stable), and run 'ppp -auto > pmdemand' followed by 'ping [1]www.google.com' (or yahoo or any other > site, for that matter), I always get "Hostname lookup failure". BTW, I > don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see > below for details). Can someone please help me set up the modem so > that I can dial out and connect to the internet from my FreeBSD box ? > Thanks in advance. > Manish Jain > This is my ppp.conf : ... Hello Manish, Before digging into the ppp details (there is a log about in /var/log/ppp.log), do you have after attaching the Huawei modem a device /dev/cuaU0 at all? What does the following command gives: ls -l /dev/cua* chat -vs < /dev/cuaU0.0 > /dev/cuaU0.0 '' AT OK 'ATI2' O printf "\n" HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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