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From: ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com (Christopher T. Origer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tip, can't synchronize with modem. Help!
Date: 7 Jan 1996 15:25:58 GMT
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2-King (wleong@sfsu.edu) wrote:
: Hi,
:    recently I helped a friend to install the FreeBSD but we ran 
: into a problem when trying to use the modem. The modem is a Boca 14.4
: on com2 (/dev/cuaa1). I tweaked a the init-string of the sportster setting
: in /etc/modems and when I tried to dial using tip, I got an error saying
: "tip can't synchronize with modem". I am stucked cause I couldn't find
: any documentation of troubleshooting the tip error message.

:   You reply is greatly appreciated.

Look at you init string again.

chris