From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 2:56:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from operamail.com (OperaMail.com [199.29.68.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB74037B69B for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 02:56:02 -0800 (PST) X-WM-Posted-At: operamail.com; Tue, 23 Jan 01 05:56:01 -0500 X-WebMail-UserID: jim_fix Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:56:01 -0500 From: jimmy fix To: Jonathan Chen , Tim McMillen Cc: freebsd-questions X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00000000 Subject: RE: rpm on freebsd - beginner Message-ID: <3AB7CD4F@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.61.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, thank u all for the help. im just reading ppp primer now and hopefully ill sort it out. the cd i have is not original, i burn it at work where there is cd writer thats why it doesnt have ports... i was just hoping to avoid setting the ppp conf by hand as im very new to freebsd and have to admit ive got a bit baffled... at the moment, when i tell ppp to dial i see the lights of the modem comming up but the connection is droped (it doesnt diad). in ms-windows, i specify not to detect dial-tone. this is because my phone dont have a constant dial tone as in many countries... i'm 99% sure that if i find out how to conf so it doesnt try to detect dial-tone it'll be ok. i got 2 isps, one being a university dial-up that someone gave me the pass. dont know if it uses pap, chap, what is the dns etc... the other i can find out. it is nt server, if thats relevant. for the second isp to work, in ms-windows,apart from not detect dial-tone, i also have to add an additional string in the advanced settings of the modem: "x3". i know this stuff may be simple i one uses freebsd for a while but if u are complete newbie it doesnt look very encouraging... any suggestions are wellcome... thanx again... >===== Original Message From Tim McMillen ===== >On Monday January 22, 2001 15:01, Jonathan Chen wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:45:17PM -0500, jimmy fix wrote: >> > basically i wanna change the window manager and put KDE so i can >> > configure ppp (its easier from there) >> >> Installing a KDE ppp configuration tool for Linux will *NOT* work for >> FreeBSD, since Linux configuration file locations are different >> enough from FreeBSD that it won't find anything to work against. > >I didn't reallize that, but either way, kppp should get him a working >script and then he could use that to put the right info in the right >files. You'll have to read the ppp primers, as I have a cable modem >and don't worry about ppp anymore. > >> Configuring PPP is usually as simple as editing /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, >> editing the "set device ...", "set phone ...", "set authname ..." and >> "set authkey ..." lines. And then running the ppp(1) program to see >> what happens. >> >> If you've got the ports system installed (and you've got Internet >> connectivity), you can build KDE by: > >right, but if he doesn't have ppp working, that won't be so easy. >If you have an installation cd, kde should be on it. From root type >/stand/sysinstall to get back into the installation/config program use >it to install the kde packages that are on the CD. Or you can do it >manually by cd'ing into the packages directory on the CD after mounting >it. Installing the package from cd-rom will work without an internet >connection. > > Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message