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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:24:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brandon Bossenbroek <bossenbr@horse.supranet.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dial-up
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980601132344.15962L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980529172843.18842A-100000@horse.supranet.net>

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On Fri, 29 May 1998, Brandon Bossenbroek wrote:

> 	I have an acer note light laptop and I'm trying to dial up my ISP
> through freebsd. I have given up using my internal modem, as I cannot get
> the kernel to recognize com2-4. Anyway, I have an external modem that I
> had lying around hooked up to com1. When I type "dial supranet(ISP)" the
> "TR" light goes on on the modem and then it says "dial failed". So, it
> seems to be opening the modem and then timing out. Here is the contents of
> my ppp.conf file:
> 
> default:
>  set device /dev/cuaa0
>  set speed 115200

[..]

> My modem is a Eagle V.32 Data/Fax by Digicom Systems Inc. Also, when I
> type "term" it doesn't respond to "at" commands or echo them.

That's a problem.  You need to get your system and your modem talking.  If
it's a v.32 it can't communicate at 115200; drop the baudrate to 57600,
then try it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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