New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

[fbsd_user]

It would be a whole lot more helpful if you posted your ppp.conf
and the ppp.log of your last test

Explain how you know FBSD has found your modem and can connect to
it.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of John Adams
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:40 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

Hi, folks,

        I've got a brand-new installation of FreeBSD and the next
thing I want
to do is upgrade from 4.6 (the CD I had) to 4.9 or 5.1. However,
first
I need to dial out, and there I'm having a problem.

        I've followed the instructions (I hope!) in Chapter 18 of
the
handbook, and whatever approach I take to dialing out, the box
hangs--I
can't even Alt-F3 to a new shell. This happens whether I'm using cu
or
trying a manual connection in ppp. When I do the latter, after I
type
term, I get the responses, but, after type '~?' for help, the
keyboard
stops responding. ~. doesn't get me out of it--nothing does. The box
is
an eMachines etower 600is and the modem is a Microcom Deskporte
28.8P.

        Any help would be greatly appreciated.

All the best,

        John A

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