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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!news.LASER.NET!usenet From: warbird@laser.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Help: PPP and Modem communications Date: 20 Aug 1995 04:46:59 GMT Organization: LaserNet, L.L.C. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <416eo3$4s1@news.laser.net> Reply-To: patton@laser.net NNTP-Posting-Host: com1ffx57.laser.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 I've read and read all about pppd and chat etc but am stumped as to why pppd fails to properly talk to my external modem. The board/cables/modem all check out as I've use the combo under dos/OS/2 just fine. This is what I've typed at the prompt: pppd /dev/tty01 38400 connect 'chat "" "ATE1L0M1N1Q0V1W2X4....." "OK" (wrap) "ATDT934-9021" "login:" "****" "ssword:" "****"' The DTR light comes on but the send/receive lights do nothing. dmesg reports the existance of com0 and com1 as 16550 uarts, FIFO enabled but there is no /dev/com0 device. I looked at the MAKEDEV and sure enough they don't get created but given the comments in there I assume there is a reason for this. Also, can anyone tell me why the following returns an error "unknown -f flag"? pppd /dev/tty01 38400 connect 'chat -f ~/chat.ppp' The only way I got it to not return an error was to enclose the 'chat...' section in double quotes instead of single. Is this proper? Finally, how do I communicate directly to the modem, as one can do in dos and OS/2 with a 'copy con com2' and then send it the commands? Chat appears to have no facility for specifying which device to open and initialize. I really want to get this set up so I can have my NetBSD machine do the connection to the ISP and route the traffic over my lan so multiple hosts can use the PPP pipe. Many thanks.