Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:25:42 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: eric.boucher24@sympatico.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet connexion Message-ID: <3947F856.30623453@3-cities.com> References: <3947D391.E65C843C@sympatico.ca>
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Boucher Eric wrote: > > Hi > > It's been now about 1 month (not at full time) that I try to log into > the internet. I'm not really good with informatic and I try the best I > can by reading the handbook to log on. I did every step that is > written, but it still don't work. I know that Unix-like systems are good > systems, but they are also frustating to configure. I guess that's part > of the game. Anyway, my new question goes like this : > > After typing ppp and then dial isp (isp is the > name I gave in ppp.conf), 2 messages appears.: Show us your ppp.conf. Don't send the real one but copy it to a temp file and change your password and username to x's and y's. Send the modified file to the list. When I started dialing out, I cd'ed to /etc/ppp and typed ppp -nat myISP. This brought up the ppp menu and I typed dial to make it dial. I had my username and password on the "set login" line. Kent > > Warning isp : Configuration label not found > > and > > Warning dial : Failed 1 > > I don't understand why it says that the configuration label is not > found, because that's the name I gave in ppp.conf, , after defaults. > > I use the version 3.4 of FreeBSD. > > I also want to know if the handbook is better than the book (from Walnut > Creek) to configure my connexion and also how do I know wich version of > PPP I'm using > > Thanks a lot > > Eric > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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