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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Chat: no connection to modem Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 13:37:57 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 31 Message-ID: <31F143A5.1B82@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4s02t8$d8o@mn5.swip.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Marek Pola wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm having a little difficulty connecting with pppd and chat. Using the ppp > program, and the term command inside ppp, it works ok. I've been using the > setup in the handbook as a reference. However, chat doesn't work at all. It > seems it doesn't have any contact with the modem, because no lamps are > blinking on it. > > Is there a way of defining the device chat is using? For ppp, I'm using > /dev/cua00, my COM1 port on my PC (a 486-33). I'm using FreeBSD > 2.1.0-released. Also, is there a way of getting more extensive logs from chat > where it explains what it is doing (apart from the -v flag)? > Start pppd with both the device and speed as parameters. For example, my modem is on COM2 and I start pppd in /etc/rc.local as the command: pppd /dev/cuaa1 115200 The chat script is identified on the "connect" line of /etc/ppp/options. This arrangement works fine for my full-time connection to my ISP. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |