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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation Problem... Date: 4 Apr 1996 21:12:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4k1e09$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4j7r2k$8c4@kirin.wwa.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 buk@buk.ip.wwa.com (Ben Buktenica) writes: > I switch to the 3rd terminal and have the > PPP ON> > prompt (no problems yet) Certainly it's ppp ON> actually. That *makes* a difference, the lowercase ppp means it's not connected. > I type 'term' > After getting the dumb terminal I dial up to my ISP and login. > Packet mode is automatically started, but soon after I hear the modem drop > the connection and then I get the > PPP ON> > prompt again. It's normal that you get the prompt again. It will quickly appear with the lowercase ppp, but soon switch to uppercase PPP indicating the connection is established. > using "show log" (or somthing like that) > it looks like my ISP (or the software) doesn't like my configuration (but > I am not familiar w/ that logging format.) But we certainly need the log output to help you. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)