Re: PPP dialer (Re: TOS platform)

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:

> I used it shortly, then I found out I have a weird problem on my machine:
> pppd doesn't like GEM. I have no idea where the cause lies, but as long as
> I don't know, I would advice caution in GEMming pppd..:)
> 
> The thing is, when I start ppd from GEM (either from Connexion or by
> typing pppd in a shell in toswin), the modem port randomly misses
> characters. This either screws up the login process, or makes my

This doesn't make any sense, can you give us some more details on your
setup? Single-GEM would probably cause such problems, but I've never
heard that N.AES does it.

> Oh btw, I use N.AES 1.1.0 and run it "by default" (started from ttytab),
> so also when I successfully run pppd from a vconsole.

It might be some other application, acc or CPX that interferes. E.g.
serial.cpx, modem.cpx, a dirty screensaver...


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