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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!hillres155.cc.purdue.edu!willey From: willey@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting PPP Links up and Running Date: 29 Dec 1995 19:27:35 GMT Organization: Purdue University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4c1ff7$1vn@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <4btgbk$plv@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: hillres155.cc.purdue.edu Curt Sampson (curt@portal.ca) wrote: : Well, this is an old question, I know, but I once long ago had PPP : dialing out nicely on my NetBSD 1.0 system, and now that I've come : back to a point where I need it again, I can't get it to work : anymore. For some reason I just can't get a chat script to reliably : dial. I've mucked about a bit with CLOCAL settings, but to no avail. : Does anyone have any instructions for doing this? Make sure you have the "local" flag set in /etc/ttys on that tty that you are using: tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200" vt100 on secure local Now, you will want to change the "on" to "off" because this entry is for a terminal, not a dialout. Also, delete "secure". ;-) Mark