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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PPP problems
Date: 10 May 94 13:42:42 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Message-ID: <michaelv.768577362@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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In <DFR.94May10120557@minnow.render.com> dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) writes:
>Has anyone managed to get pppd working on a 16550A based com port? I
>have been using it successfully with a 16450 and since I am about to
>buy a V.FAST modem, I thought I should buy a better comms board first.
>I configured the new board as sio2 and used tip to talk to the modem
>which was fine. However, I cannot get pppd to work with it at all.
>Should I be using the com driver instead of the sio driver? Would
>FreeBSD-1.1 work better?
I had PPP working on NetBSD-current with a 16550 on a com driver when
we had a trail PPP server here on campus. It worked perfectly for me.
This is not exactly what you asked for, however.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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