Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 09:26:50 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Daniel Griswold <griswold_d82@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Questions: connecting during installation Message-ID: <XFMail.990327092650.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <19990327030616.75553.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On 27-Mar-99 Daniel Griswold wrote: > I am having trouble connecting to the ftp.freebsd.org site during > installation. I have gotten a lot of help from a friend who has > FreeBSD, but I still can't get my modem to initialize or dial up. I > have set the modem to different devices ( /dev/cuaa0 for example), but > when I run the "term" program I can't type anything except for the ~x > commands. I am not sure what to set my external modem to, because I > beleive /dev/cuaaX is for internals only. What do you suggest. > -Dan My external modem is set to /dev/cuaa1 since that is my sio1 (com2) do the appropriate sio devices get detected alright? (dmesg | grep sio) is the kernel a kernel appropriate for yer hardware? GENERIC is fun, but not usable in all situations. ftp.freebsd.org is the default and thus heavily (ab)used, try ftp1, ftp2, ftp3, etc for better connectivity or try an even more local mirror. HTH, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <http://www.freebsdzine.org>; asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://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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