From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 13 12:42: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAAC337B405 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5DIpbZ90735 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:51:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200106131851.f5DIpbZ90735@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: *shudder* ready to try ppp again From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:51:37 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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