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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.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.mis.net!usenet From: jegill@mis.net (jeff gill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.0 pppd problem Date: 30 May 1996 16:39:50 GMT Organization: Mikrotec Internet Services, Inc. (MISNet) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4okj0m$gnc@netnews.mis.net> References: <4oia68$jms@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: frank19.mis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Voyager/AmigaOS 1.0 On 29 May 1996 19:56:56 GMT, ymurata@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (yoshinori murata) wrote: > Hello. I have NetBSD 1.0 (I know I need to update it, but I'm busy with skating and stuff) > running on my machine. I use slip(!) to connect to a local internet service. But, they don't > like the software. They want me to use ppp, but my pppd doesn't work as I want it to. > Am I running pppd right? This is what I do at prompt: ppd -d crtscts modem noipdefault connect 'chat "" ATDT "their phone number" If someone could help me with this, I would appreciate it very much. > > La8 > -- > La8e > > Here comes da flava for ya mind. > I avoid the pppd problems by using kermit to login to my provider, and then exiting and running pppd simply with the tty name and speed, i.e. pppd /dev/tty00 38400 . This works for my ppp provider, hope it helps. JeGill