From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 23:30:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE044798 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:24:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from webserver ([209.197.159.19]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id FPN2JO00.I32; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:23:48 -0700 Message-ID: <001901bf729c$84615860$139fc5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: "Doug Young" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Dual Booting Win98 and FreeBSD 2 sep. HDs Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 10:34:47 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tuesday, February 08, 2000 12:12 AM Doug Young wrote: [snip] >Secondly, the ppp issue. I had most of the typical newbie problems >with it until I discovered the atached script which got me online with >very little trouble other than a minor bit of editing the ppp.conf file. >Hopefully you are taking the easier route here by running user-ppp instead >of the (reportedly) more complicated kernel-ppp. I've yet to have >significant problems with any machine where I've used the script, but in >case you do there's a resident user-ppp guru by the name of Brian Somers >lurking around here someplace who can undoubtedly help resolve any >residual user-ppp issues. I've never been able to contact the author of >the script but I'd gladly buy him a beer or three if he ever visits >Brisbane Australia :) Thanks and ``amen'' to the beer -- you only get 2 though -- for having taken so bloody long to post this jewel ;^). If I ever get down your way, or if you come up for the Calgary Stampede(Canada), they're on me. We need about a dozen more of these types of scripts to set all the other stuff up, then look out! Where can this script be left so that it's front-and-center for all us newbies? -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message