Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:00:07 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Patrick Morris <patrick@expresshost.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help - Ethernet AND Modem Message-ID: <19990207120007.V79703@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990206200356.0093eea0@expresshost.com>; from Patrick Morris on Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 08:03:56PM -0500 References: <36BC2309.6E7175A3@uk.radan.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206011314.00927290@expresshost.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206011314.00927290@expresshost.com> <19990206173504.I79703@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206023156.0090d5c0@expresshost.com> <19990206181403.K79703@freebie.lemis.com> <36BC2309.6E7175A3@uk.radan.com> <19990207100405.M79703@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206200356.0093eea0@expresshost.com>
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On Saturday, 6 February 1999 at 20:03:56 -0500, Patrick Morris wrote: > At 10:04 AM 2/7/99 +1030, you wrote: >> On Saturday, 6 February 1999 at 11:10:01 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >>> >>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> >>>> OK. I said at the very beginning I wasn't sure what you mean by kppp. >>>> Now we have kppp, KPPP, ~*KPPP*~ and Kppp. You need to explain what >>>> you are doing. >>> >>> PMJI Greg, but "kppp" is KDE's GUI front end dialler (kind of like M$ >>> Dial Up Networking thing) that uses the kernel pppd rather than Brian's >>> user ppp. It's just confusing that the names for everything in KDE start >>> with "k", which in this case make it look like an abbreviation for >>> "kernel ppp". >> >> Thanks. Yes, it would have been of help had Patrick said that the >> first time round. >> >> I don't understand why anybody would want to use kppp. It looks like >> a lot of work for nothing. The UNIX way is to set things up so that >> they run automatically. >> >>> BTW, liked the joke about the drunk, never heard it before, must be an >>> Aussie joke I guess ;-) >> >> No, it's from Weizenbaum. As I said, there's no reason for it to be a >> drunk. I also heard the story told in a Yiddish context about a girl >> coming home from the synagogue. > > i DID say it the first time around, i said "I'm using kde, and the kppp > dialer to connect" > > Do NOT blame me because of your lack of knowledge of KDE. My sincere apologies for my lack of knowledge and my inability to read your mind. I'm obviously not good enough to solve your problems, and so I won't try. You'd best find somebody better than me. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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