From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 4 16:14:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27481 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 16:14:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27148 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 16:13:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA15231; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 01:00:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199804050000.BAA15231@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Derrick Springer" cc: capriotti@geocities.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP help w/ Release 2.2.5 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Apr 1998 14:59:05 PST." <19980401225905.12573.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 01:00:21 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try connecting then `load default' and `load provider'. Does that help ? Do you see any errors or warnings in the log file ? > >OK. You have a problem with you initialization string, probably. > > > >Maybe it sounds crazy, but it happened to me once. > > As crazy as it sounds, I tried it, but it still didn't work. > I can't get the PPP program to load the settings for my provider from > the ppp.conf file. It just won't look at it. > > > > >If all fails, try using this: > > > >http://www.nettaxi.com/citizens/E.Brandi/ppp.conf > > > > Tried it and the ones that come with the installation. I even tried > USING the sample files by copying them as ppp.conf and it won't even > look for "provider" that was written in the sample! > > Like I said before, if I execute all the commands manually into PPP (ie. > "set device...", "set speed..." to "add 0 0 HISADDR") I get a good, > solid connection with no problems. Dialing isn't my problem, but > auto-dialing & loading the provider settings is. > > Help! > > Derrick > mc_knight@hotmail.com > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message