From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 16:09:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22587 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:09:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phs.k12.ar.us (garman@phs.k12.ar.us [165.29.117.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA22581 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garman@localhost) by phs.k12.ar.us (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA21690; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 18:09:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 18:09:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Garman To: eric@starburst.cbl.cees.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bug report on installation In-Reply-To: <199607232226.SAA16584@cais3.cais.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 eric@starburst.cbl.cees.edu wrote: > > Hi there, > > I tried to install FreeBSD 2.2-960612-SNAP and 2.1.5 thru PPP. > The problem I have encountered is that even if I chose PPP (com 2), > it will still use /dev/cuaa0 (have to manually set device and all). > Yes, that's bitten me too. > Plus, (I don't know if this is only happened to my 28.8 Hayes Accura > V.34+FAX) after selected PPP and manually set device to /dev/cuaa1, > 'term' won't talk to the modem (can't type anything) that I have to > turn off the modem and rerun the setup up to the point before the > 'term' and then turn on the modem. > What I did to get a successful connect out of my (internal...) modem was to: 1. Select com1 from the net device screen 2. Use set device to change it to cuaa1 3. Run term It seems that if you try and connect with term before changing the device, ppp will ignore the device change later, which caused me no end of head-banging when I was attempting to install 2.1.5-R. Enjoy, -- Jason Garman http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/ Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School garman@phs.k12.ar.us