From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 07:29:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB12716A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:29:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from 82-41-27-158.cable.ubr04.edin.blueyonder.co.uk (82-41-27-158.cable.ubr04.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.27.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB9143D5F for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:29:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from cream.org (spatula.flat [192.168.0.2]) by myriad.flat (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32C3C2; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:23:07 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <40040EE9.2000608@cream.org> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:29:45 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Adams References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:29:43 -0000 John Adams wrote: > On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 09:59 PM, fbsd_user wrote: > >> It would be a whole lot more helpful if you posted your ppp.conf >> and the ppp.log of your last test > > > I may have to type this in--I'm unable to mount the floppy drive, and > MAKEDEV is telling me "bad unit for disk in: fd*" for each /dev/fd*. > Should I consider this a second message to me saying, you have weird > hardware, and give up? I'd rather not. Perhaps I have a different > problem to work with first, getting the floppy mounted so I can write > logs to it. Advice? How are you trying to mount your floppy? "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt"? >> Explain how you know FBSD has found your modem and can connect to >> it. > > > Perhaps it hasn't--the last thing in the ppp.log is: > > ppp[116]: tun0 : Command: /dev/tty: set device cuaa0 > > That's from the interactive mode entry. From the auto mode entry, the > last listing is: > > ppp[116]: tun0: Phase: PPP Started (auto mode) This might be a silly question, but the modem is plugged into serial port 1 isn't it? Try using /dev/cuaa1? Are your serial ports probed correctly during boot? Look at "dmesg|grep cuaa". TBH, it's been a long time since I did PPP under FreeBSD. Broadband rules ;) Andrew