Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:12:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Kenneth Legg <sce04020@mail.wvnet.edu> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: modems and ppp Message-ID: <199906020612.HAA13639@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 22:54:59 EDT." <37549D03.597C43F2@mail.wvnet.edu>
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> My P.C. has only on serial port and my three button Logitech mouse is > using it. I just bough a external modem and would like to use it for > FreeBSD. I have a extra parallel port, can I hook the modem to it, or > should I buy a serial i/o card? You need more serial ports I'm afraid. > How many of the files in the /etc/ppp directory have to be edited to set > up ppp. How do you edit the files, make a copy and leave off the sample > at the end file and edit the copy? Example: copy ppp.conf.sample to > ppp.conf and edit ppp.conf to my specs, leaving the original in tack. You can do it whatever way you want. There's a section in the man page on setting up an ISP connection. The latest versions of ppp only require ppp.conf. -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@uk.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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