Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 05:18:00 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: "Douglas R. Brown" <dbrown@excel.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <19980520051800.25961@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <001901bd834e$76e133c0$8c662e9c@doug>; from Douglas R. Brown on Tue, May 19, 1998 at 12:49:24PM -0500 References: <001901bd834e$76e133c0$8c662e9c@doug>
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On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 12:49:24PM -0500, Douglas R. Brown wrote: > can anyone help with ppp setup i could use some where to start have looked > through everything i can find OK, have a look at http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html to find all the good info about ppp. > and still wont recoginze my modem says can't > open modem not configured???Doug Of course we can't answer questions like that here, but we can help you to find the answers elsewhere. If you haven't seen the Newbies First Aid Kit at http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ this is a good time to have a look. There could be many reasons why you would get that error message. If you send your question to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org be sure to give them as much information as you can so that they can help you properly. The answer to this question might be very simple, but without the right information it could take days of emailing back and forth to find that out. In general, when asking a question you need to tell about what version of FreeBSD you have, what hardware, what software you're using, exactly what you have done, how far you got before it went wrong, what were the first signs of something not behaving as you expected, where the error message came from and when, what you tried to do after that, and so on. For example, in your particular case, what have you done to try to find out what is wrong? Have you thought about where the error message might be coming from and why? Have you investigated your system to try to see what's happening? For example, if something can't see your modem can something else see it or not? Can you see it? Is it there? How do you know that the modem is working? How do you know that FreeBSD can find it? that other software can find it? that this software can't find it? We don't want you to tell us the answer to these questions here, but you need to find them out for yourself. Newbies can't tell what information is relevant and what is not, so we have to tell everything, just in case :-) When you ask for help from the volunteers at freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, show them that you have already checked everything you can at your end and they'll be pleased to help you from there. I hope some of this helps. Good luck, and let us know how you get on. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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