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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: pppd ioctl error - HELP Date: 31 May 1994 04:53:25 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 30 Message-ID: <2sefs5$mvt@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CprwA4.G3u@csn.org> <769000220snz@bstone.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <769000220snz@bstone.demon.co.uk>, Ian Steel <Ian@bstone.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <CprwA4.G3u@csn.org> erich@teal.csn.org "Eric Hilfer" writes: >> I have a problem with pppd on FreeBSD 1.0. I can get it to connect >> with a remote system, and then I get the message: >> >> ioctl(TIOCSETD) Operation note supported by device >> >> and pppd exits. This generally means that you don't have any slip lines in the kernel. (Slip == PPP in this case) >Pointless upgrading, I get exactly the same error under 1.1. However, using >1.1 I can dial the site, and use slip to get a good tcp connection. The only >problem I then have is getting the modem to drop the line. This is probably fixed in -current (soon to become 1.1.5). Bruce Evans has been making lots of fixes to the sio driver, and hopefully we'll have more bugs fixed than are added. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Looking for a good job.