Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:51:37 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: *shudder* ready to try ppp again Message-ID: <200106131851.f5DIpbZ90735@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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I always end up regretting this, but sometimes I get something usable out of it . . . I'm going to try to face down ppp again. While I can do many wondrous things, I've never gotten anywhere with ppp without abnormally large amounts of hand-holding. I got the modem working with the linux, got it to call out, and am now at a loss. Oh, it's a Thinkpad A21p . . . Ideally, the system would, on boot, look to see if it's regular gateway is there, and if so, boot normally. Failing that it should look for a DHCP on the ethernet port (the library is actually wired for this in the stacks!), and go that way. If *that* fails, it should try to have on-demand ppp waiting. how far has anyone gone in this direction? ANd are there any references at all out there for getting ppp going on a machine that normally uses ethernet? Everything seems to assume that ppp will be *the* connection on the machine . . . hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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