> 
> > You did remember to keep the serial port speed constant between
> > everything, correct?  The most common problem that I have is when I dial
> > under one OS at say, 57600 baud, and then have my pppd setup for 115200.
> 
> I dial with kermit setting the serial port to 38400 (although I did try
> 9600), the modem connects to our service provider at 28800. I log into
> the service provider manually, then shell out and run pppd. The
> /etc/ppp/options file has the baud rate set to match kermit. I do the
> same thing on NetBSD/i386 and it works. I never bothered to set up chat
> scripts. 8-). I don't do this very often.
> 
> After running pppd, I see the recv led on the modem blip every few seconds 
> as the service provider puts out the sync stuff (I guess). I see no
> activity on the send led. As Berndt said in his message, pppd just gives
> an lcp timeout (whatever that is). The debug option to pppd logs nothing
> to syslog other than:
> 
> May 24 15:33:26 netbsd2 pppd[123]: pppd 2.3.0 started by jb, uid 102
> May 24 15:33:26 netbsd2 pppd[123]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyC0
> May 24 15:33:56 netbsd2 pppd[123]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> May 24 15:33:56 netbsd2 pppd[123]: Connection terminated.
> 
> whereas on NetBSD/i386 I get:
> 
> May 25 08:31:21 netbsd1 pppd[162]: pppd 2.3.0 started by jb, uid 102
> May 25 08:31:21 netbsd1 pppd[162]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tty00
> May 25 08:31:27 netbsd1 pppd[162]: local  IP address 203.17.40.115
> May 25 08:31:27 netbsd1 pppd[162]: remote IP address 203.9.190.29
> 
> >                        Greg Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com)
> >      Amiga junkie and user since 1987    Computer Science & DTV Student
> >      Commodore64 fan since about 1983    http://www.eskimo.com/~drizzit
> >                Tyranical EFNet #Amiga Channel Operator "Drizzit"
> 
> I guess I have to assume that unless someone says "it works for me", then
> it *doesn't* work for any of us (and then we'd better find out why not 8-).

I don't think its a problem with configuring the modem/system speed
rate. I have set my modem to a fixed rate matching the system and
configuration to no avail.

cheerio Berndt
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Name	: Berndt Josef Wulf
E-Mail	: wulf@hotdog.apana.org.au
Sysinfo	: DEC AXPpci33+, NetBSD-1.1B