Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:14:50 -0500 From: "ScaryG" <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> To: "Fuji Zhang" <fzhang3@csd.uwo.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: high speed internet connection and lesstif question Message-ID: <000d01c17381$94666b00$7301a8c0@eagle.ca> References: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0111221215090.19676-100000@algernon.csd.uwo.ca>
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> hi, thx for replying. no. i don't have any network card. when i called > BELL they seem to suggest if i have USB port on my MB i don't need to have > network card. i have no experience or any knowledge in this thing. Oh, well that's a little bit different. First you'd have to ensure your USB DSL "modem" is supported under FreeBSD. I have no idea if they are or aren't -- sorry. It's quite easy if you have an external, ethernet based DSL Modem, 'cause then you'd connect a network cable between it and your network card. The FreeBSD Handbook has a chapter on PPPoE. Depending on what release of FreeBSD you're using, it may involve recompiling your Kernel to include the options required to do this. # PPPoE Stuff options NETGRAPH options NETGRAPH_ETHER options NETGRAPH_PPPOE options NETGRAPH_SOCKET Most of the tutorials leave out one of the 4 options and then your kernel panics with errors about netgraph already installed, so be sure to include all four! I believe FreeBSD 4.4+ will auto load the kernel modules for you. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html I added some items to my /etc/rc.conf file like: # PPPoE stuff ifconfig_vr1="up" ppp_enable="YES" ppp_mode="ddial" ppp_profile="default" Then you have to configure /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. This is my entire file: default: set device PPPoE:vr1 set speed sync set mru 1492 set mtu 1492 set ctsrts off enable lqr set authname your.bell.user.id set authkey your.bell.password set log Phase tun command set dial set login set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 add default HISADDR # nat enable yes papchap: set authname your.bell.user.id set authkey your.bell.password In this case, vr1 is the network card I'm using to connect to the DSL Modem. I suppose if you get your USB DSL Modem installed you would substitute that device name there. They've made it super easy lately. More and more are using ADSL connections. I remember a little over a year ago when I tried to do this with FreeBSD 4.1 I believe, it was a bit of a hassle for about a week before I got it working ;-) -gf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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