Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:16:55 +1000 From: "Young" <young@richardson.apana.org.au> To: <jesper.b@home.se> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Access && Modem Message-ID: <008b01bef5ba$c941afc0$857e03cb@jdy>
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I'm a relative newbie to this stuff too so I can only provide very limited assistance with setup stuff. I had a devil of a problem getting modem dialup working at all, even after reading everything known to mankind. The Pedantic PPP Primer is easily the most intelligible doc I'm aware of, and most of the other ppp related docs linked to http://www.free.bsd.org, are probably worth a read, but they weren't anywhere near explicit or relevant enough to my situation to help me get the thing working. Even after trying every possible combination & permutation of configurations I couldn't get ping, traceroute, or lynx to work and had completely run out of ideas. The thing that finally helped me get it online with ping, traceroute & lynx working was a shell script from ftp://flag.blackened.net, ,but it certainly wasn't the end to the troubles. Apparently that script enables something called "auto mode", which is something suited to yankee conditions but not Australian ones, so now I'm trying to figure out the rather obtuse comments in the ppp.conf.sample file so I can disable an idletimer which insists on breaking the connection the instant no data is moving. I don't know how your phone system works in Sweden, or what sort of ISP account you have, but that will determine what ppp mode you will need to use. A lot of experts frown on internal modems, however I've had no trouble at all with them so its more a matter of choice than anything else. With 56k internal ones however, you do need to be certain you haven't got one of the ones designed specifically for Windows, as those ones typically won't work in any other operating system. I haven't tried copying files from / to a DOS partition in BSD, but in linux its easy enough if you tell the system about the partition during installation and you install a 20th century window type manager like KDE so you can just "drag & drop" files from A to B. With CLI mode its another story entirely and something I avoid like the plague. My BSD machine is only a CLI one as its only used as a gateway / router, and for that matter I've seen many total lockups in KDE / linux to speak highly of it personally .... maybe its OK in BSD, but not something I've had reason to investigate. My desktop machines run Win98 / 2000 / Solaris which do what i need quite well leaving the BSD one to do what I guess it should do quite well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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