At 4:31 PM -0800 3/30/00, Bob Nestor wrote:
>Jim Watson  (jwinter@ticnet.com) wrote:
>
>>I still don't have any dialog in my /var/log/messages file
>>I don't even see the chat dialog & I am connecting (noise stop) the ISP
>>has it but pppd is dropping the ball.
>>
>You need to make sure you've enabled the messages in /etc/syslog _AND_
>forced syslog to restart with a "kill -HUP".
>
>>My /etc/ppp/ppp-up looks just like yours.....
>
>One thing you should verify is your modme and your cable.  Make sure the
>modem works on the SE/30 under MacOS with the same cable.  Most old Mac
>modme cables didn't support hardware handshake signals, and trying to use
>them with NetBSD creates a condition where the system never sees the
>modem come "online" after negotiating the call.
>
>-bob

Also,  Make sure that you have a full machine.domainname in both
your rc.conf file and your /etc/hosts file.  When I had just the
nickname for my machine in the hosts file, pppd did nothing when
I tried to start it up.  When I put a full name there, it worked
like a charm.

Good Luck,
Rog