Subject: Re: pppd doesn't work on laptop
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg@myrealbox.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/02/2004 18:23:33
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:11:30AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 06:39:06PM +0800, Rui-Xiang Guo wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> > I copied all the files in /etc/ppp of my desktop which was able to
> > diap up to internet to my laptop besides just fixed the device name tty00 to
> > tty01(because there is only com1 on my laptop), but I couldn't be successful
> > to connect to the network(even has no dialing tone). Where is the problem??
> 
> COM1 is tty00
> COM2 is tty01
> COM3 is tty02
> COM4 is tty03
> 
> You see, MS-DOS and your BIOS were written in FORTRAN, and NetBSD was written
> in C.

Hi,
The com1 I mentioned is under NetBSD -
[...]
cbb0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: Ricoh 5C475 PCI-CardBus bridge (rev. 0xb8)
Ricoh 5C551 PCI-CardBus bridge/Firewire (Firewire serial bus, interface 0x10) at
 pci0 dev 10 function 1 not configured
bce0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: Broadcom BCM4401 10/100 Ethernet
bce0: interrupting at irq 11
ukphy0 at bce0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x000818, model 0x0036, rev. 0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
bce0: Ethernet address 00:e0:18:06:e8:3f
isa0 at pcib0
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
cbb0: interrupting at irq 11
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 2 device 0
[...]

I think it is correct to set tty01 as the device name, isn't it?

Thanks for your reply.