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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Modem stuff and PPP crashes Date: 20 Dec 1994 18:11:49 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3d76p5$h38@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <D0oKCt.ntA@ns1.nodak.edu> <GENE.94Dec13192705@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> <D10tII.Dty@ns1.nodak.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <D10tII.Dty@ns1.nodak.edu>, Daniel Ortmann <ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu> wrote: >In article <GENE.94Dec13192705@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>, >Gene Stark <gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> wrote: >>In article <D0oKCt.ntA@ns1.nodak.edu> ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) writes: >> >>>So far I know of 4 people who have had serious modem problems: >>> - sio not recognized on startup >>> - able to dial (and hear the connect) but unable to sustain the connection > >>What version of FreeBSD are you running? > >2.0 release. > >Now that my modem is being found 99% of the time on startup...and I have >been using minicom to dialout... What did you do to get your modem to be found? >I've begun using PPP, and have been experiencing the mysterious crashes >that I read about a while ago. > > >1) Did someone actually resolve the problems with the PPP related crashes? There are bugs in 2.0R regarding PPP which have been fixed in current. No, I don't have the patches, but they have been posted to the mailing lists which are archived on ftp.cdrom.com. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field.