Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:31:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP/Modem Problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809171430300.2759-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980917103042.18466D-100000@dsinw.com>
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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, rick hamell wrote: > > > Hello all, I've got a rather strange problem happening now. Last > night I changed my PPP timeout in ppp.conf to 1200 from 600. After that, > I rebooted the system to check some hardware settings, didn't change > anything. Aftewards, it came back up, and I started to telnet out. The > modem now dials the phone number, then makes one loud beep, it then > proceeds to try and connect for about 25 seconds, it fails and tries > again. In fact it tried all night! This has nothing to do with FreeBSD, btw; it's strictly a modem-modem issue. You changed your dialup pool. it sounds like and now you're tripping over the v.80 tone. Add some commas after the dial string to enforce a delay so that the modem doesn't hear the tone. > :) This morning, I've changed the timeout back, pulled the modem and > reseated it. Left the system off for several hours, checked and > rechecked all my hardware settings. Does anyone have any idea what's > going on? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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