Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:15:44 -0700 From: "Greg Smith" <freebsd_mail@yahoo.com> To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *shudder* ready to try ppp again Message-ID: <200106131315440910.0034CEFC@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200106131851.f5DIpbZ90735@fac13.ds.psu.edu> References: <200106131851.f5DIpbZ90735@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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Richard, Assuming your modem works under FreeBSD it shouldn't be hard at all to get ppp going. I procrastinated for the longest time, but eventually I tried it and it worked. If I remember correctly I made sure tun was in the kernel. Then I read man 8 ppp, which might advise you to tinker with /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. Then I tried it using the term command then at then atdt*70,7674444 commands and it worked. It wasn't really necessary for me to tinker with ppp.conf, because ppp lets you set all that stuff manually, via setting variables and using the term command (maybe it worked better for me because my ISP supports old-fashioned unix-style login in addition to pap/chap). But it does make it a lot easier. I think I just changed papchap: to pacbell: (my ISP) and entered the phone number, userid and password. It turned out to be one of the easiest things I ever did with FreeBSD! Greg -----Original Message----- >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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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