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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Release and PPP Message-ID: <CG3Mnu.Cu1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN References: <2bfvab$kpj@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1993 01:55:05 GMT Lines: 29 In article <2bfvab$kpj@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> erick@css.itd.umich.edu (Erick Krueger) writes: >SLIP up and running. I would _VERY_ much prefer PPP over SLIP as SLIP >access here is severely restricted in comparison. I have tried a number >of times to use pppd and chat to get a connection up and running without >any success. I have even tried using tip to open the connection on /dev/tty00 >and then suspend and start pppd, but that creates the following error: > ioctl(TIOCSETD): Operation not supported by device Be sure that you have the line 'pseudo-device ppp 2' in your kernel config file. (2 is for 2 interfaces, more or less depending on your system.) I assume that /dev/tty00 is configured correctly, since you claim you 'tip' to it. I start pppd up with: pppd sio01 19200 It works well and is that simple. > >Could anyone provide any ideas, etc to help me on this quest of sorts. >Newsposts, or email is great. Thanks alot for the help. > Feel free to E-mail if you need more help. Glad to be of service. Jim