From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 00:05:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA22076 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 00:05:04 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.BARRNET.NET [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA22067 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 00:04:54 -0700 Received: from tuatara (tuatara.reptiles.org [142.57.253.134]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id AAA05357 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 00:02:01 -0700 Received: by tuatara (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0s6Beb-0003ZjC; Tue, 2 May 95 02:41 EDT Message-Id: Date: Tue, 2 May 95 02:41 EDT From: jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: AST 4 port, pppd and FreeBSD 2.0--950412-SNAP Organization: Reptilian Research, Toronto, Canada Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ please cc: me via email, as my news service is somewhat spotty while my new news server is under construction. thanx ] i currently have a 486sx, 8 meg, with 2 16450 serials (sio0, sio1) and an AST 4 port card. my first problem is that the AST 4 port card, although recognized by the kernel on boot, does not seem to talk to the modems i have connected to the ports. did something possibly slip in the -current stuff? also, i have modems on sio0 and sio1. pppd seems to run fine on either port, however, if i want to do two conncurrent pppd's it doesn't seem to allocate the next ppp device in the kernel. am i doing something wrong? -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 506-0654 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Never, ever forget to replace the toiletseat after use!!! A wet ] [ chinchilla is a very funny and pathetic sight. -- alt.chinchilla ]