Neil Hoggarth writes:
 > Does anyone have any experience of using pppd with RiscBSD?
 > 
 > I've had a go at setting it up, but I've run into problems. The
 > modem dials correctly but it appears that the PPP negotiation phase
 > doesn't complete. A typical set of syslog entries from an attempt
 > to connect looks like this:
 > 
 > Aug 26 09:21:10 chuck pppd[133]: pppd 2.3.0 started by njh, uid 0
 > Aug 26 09:21:31 chuck pppd[133]: Serial connection established.
 > Aug 26 09:21:32 chuck pppd[133]: Using interface ppp0
 > Aug 26 09:21:32 chuck pppd[133]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tty00
 > Aug 26 09:21:32 chuck pppd[133]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic
 > 0x530f29e9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
 > Aug 26 09:21:59 chuck last message repeated 9 times
 > Aug 26 09:22:02 chuck pppd[133]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
 > Aug 26 09:22:02 chuck pppd[133]: Connection terminated.
 > Aug 26 09:22:02 chuck pppd[133]: Serial link is not 8-bit clean:
 > Aug 26 09:22:02 chuck pppd[133]: All received characters had bit 7 set to 0
 > Aug 26 09:22:03 chuck pppd[133]: Exit.

Bingo. Just as I had. I checked a little deeper and the select on the
serial port fd always times out. ie no packets are ever processed. I'm
afraid I had to return the modem I'd borrowed today and so can't delve
deeper... but I would be interested to know if anyone's got it
working.

 > Regards,
 > 
 > Neil Hoggarth, <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>

Cheers Scott

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