On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:58, Michael Vondung wrote: > I am fairly to FreeBSD (and any kind of Unix), so please be easy on me in > case I'm overlooking the obvious. :) > > I've been trying to connect to my ISP with an external "Elsa Microlink > ISDN/TL pro" modem. The init string that the modem requires is AT&F\N9. I > modified the following line in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: > > set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \ > \"\" AT OK-AT-OK AT&F\\N9 OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT > > The man page for chat > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chat&sektion=8) says that \\ > sends a backlash character, so I figured that AT&F\\N9 would be sent as > AT&F\N9. However, it doesn't seem to send a backslash. Here's the relevant > bit from /var/log/ppp.log:
The string is interpreted twice -- first by ppp itself which reduces '\\' to '\' so caht sees only one '\'. Sould work if you use '\\\\', that is: AT&F\\\\N9 which the first interpretation reduces to: AT&F\\N9 Malcolm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
