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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!usenet From: gorski@cipw03.physik.uni-bonn.de (Achim Gorski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pppd does not work with modem Date: 25 Apr 1996 11:26:48 GMT Organization: University of Bonn, Germany Lines: 28 Message-ID: <GORSKI.96Apr25132649@cipw03.physik.uni-bonn.de> References: <GORSKI.96Apr24183610@cips01.physik.uni-bonn.de> <317EAA8C.41C67EA6@sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cipw03.physik.uni-bonn.de In-reply-to: Stephane Russell's message of Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:26:20 -0400 In article <317EAA8C.41C67EA6@sprynet.com> Stephane Russell <sstef@sprynet.com> writes: > From: Stephane Russell <sstef@sprynet.com> > > Since FreeBSD comes with the pseudo-device ppp disables, > and since this pseudo-device is needed by the pppd daemon, > this may be the reason why you can't make it work. In > FreeBSD, the *ppp* utility is used instead of *pppd*. The > first one uses tun0 instead of ppp as pseudo-device. If > it's your case, then you should uncomment that line in > your system's configuration file: > > #pseudo-device ppp 1 > Sorry, but this isn't the fault. If there's no ppp pseudo-device, pppd says something like that: ppp not configured on this system The point is: before reinstallation of Free2.1.0 it works, now it won't ! Currently I have no idea why. (cu works!) Thanks for your suggestion. Achim