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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!netcom.com!mvh From: mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding) Subject: Re: tip, ecu broken? How to bootstrap net? Message-ID: <mvhDzMs4H.2D1@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <mvhDzH9vo.H7E@netcom.com> <54dgil$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:55:29 GMT Lines: 30 Sender: mvh@netcom14.netcom.com Finally got PPP to work - I will post some hints later. Mostly, I had to set PPP up to do active negotiation, and turn off the PRED1 predictive compression. Works great now! But I sure had some lucky guesses... J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding) wrote: : > What's the recommended way to dial in to my Netcom account so I can : > launch slirp and do a 'slattach'? : cu -l /dev/cuaa0 -s 19200 : You must be a member of group `dialer' in order to do this. This will : simply drop you directly to the modem, so you gotta dial with AT : commands directly. However, it's the only way that doesn't require : touching any configuration file beforehand. : If you wanna break out to start slattach locally, use ``~^Z'', where : the tilde must come right after a newline, and ^Z is Control-Z. This : will just suspend the cu process without closing the modem (which : would cause it to hangup). : -- : 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. ;-)