New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

[Andrew Boothman]

John Adams wrote:
> On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 09:59 PM, fbsd_user wrote:
> 
>> It would be a whole lot more helpful if you posted your ppp.conf
>> and the ppp.log of your last test
> 
> 
> I may have to type this in--I'm unable to mount the floppy drive, and 
> MAKEDEV is telling me "bad unit for disk in: fd*" for each /dev/fd*. 
> Should I consider this a second message to me saying, you have weird 
> hardware, and give up? I'd rather not. Perhaps I have a different 
> problem to work with first, getting the floppy mounted so I can write 
> logs to it. Advice?

How are you trying to mount your floppy? "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt"?

>> Explain how you know FBSD has found your modem and can connect to
>> it.
> 
> 
> Perhaps it hasn't--the last thing in the ppp.log is:
> 
> ppp[116]: tun0 : Command: /dev/tty: set device cuaa0
> 
> That's from the interactive mode entry. From the auto mode entry, the 
> last listing is:
> 
> ppp[116]: tun0: Phase: PPP Started (auto mode)

This might be a silly question, but the modem is plugged into serial 
port 1 isn't it? Try using /dev/cuaa1? Are your serial ports probed 
correctly during boot? Look at "dmesg|grep cuaa".

TBH, it's been a long time since I did PPP under FreeBSD. Broadband rules ;)

Andrew