Jim Kidd wrote:
> I just recently installed the base and etc tarballs for netbsd 1.3 for my mac.  I also downloaded the ppp kit for the same.
> 
> After altering the files indicated (ppp-numbers, ppp-login) and getting my /etc/resolv.conf file complete, I tried dialing into my service.  Here is the errors I got:
> 
> sojourner pppd[213]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/tty01
> sojourner pppd[213]: Serial line is looped back.
> sojourner pppd[213]: Connection terminated.

Try power cycling your modem, that usually works for me.
 
> I also found an error file in the /etc/ppp directory, it contained
> 
> 	sed 1: "s/$NUMBER/#
> 	1234567/g" unescaped newline inside substitution pattern
> 
> I could not find anything wrong (but then I might not know what I am looking for!).
> 
> Has anyone had this problem?  What is the fix?

It kinda depends on what your ppp-numbers file looks like, I think.  It
appears that you have managed to put an extra carriage return in there
somewhere.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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