Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:56:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Vorchak, Alan" <avorchak@prografx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP install trouble Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970830215532.664H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19970828164052147.AAA236@avorchak>
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On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Vorchak, Alan wrote: > The system then gets to the dialog where I must switch over to the Terminal > Emulator by pressing Alt-F3, go into the system, type *term* > > The system then returns: "Press ~? for help" > I press ~? and a few commands are allowed: help, log up, log down, quit > program, and one or two more. > > Ok, this is where I am stuck, what do I need to do to configure the system > to recognize my modem and dialup my ISP? You're talking directly to your modem now, so you need to issue the dial command, which is `ATDT 555-5555', where 5's are the number for your ISP. You want to log in enough to start a PPP session (some ISPs do it automatically) then wait for ppp> to become PPP>. Then you can jump back by ALT-F1 to the main screen and continue. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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