From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 15 14:24:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17516 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17414 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 21:23:50 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA05279; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:23:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:23:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rc.serial ? In-Reply-To: <199804151100.NAA01067@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > While still fighting with my pppd problems (I can now login from > linux while another can't with his linux machine) I'm wondering > whether the rc.serial mimicry is still necessary to set up the modem > line correctly. I think it's mainly meant for terminal lines that don't get any additional setup. I don't even think I have anything in rc.serial that's actually active. > The problem is that the modem prematurely hangs up during link > setup so that the connection gets terminated abruptly by a cause > I havn't yet figured out. You should probably track this down first before picking apart the software setup. My guess would be modem incompatibility. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message