From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 11:27: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A466E14F59 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA67981; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:26:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:26:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "templer." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd3.1 and a modem In-Reply-To: <19990620202841.71136.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, templer. wrote: > not long installed freebsd 3.1 for the first time, and really wanted to get > it connected to the internet ASAP. > i have moved over from linux, where i was using redhat, on there they had a > command "modemtool" or something like that which let you tell the system > which port the modem was connected too. > i was woundering if there is something like that in freebsd at all? just at > the moment i tried to use kde's KPPP to connect to the inet, only kde just > hangs, and i have to kill the process to get out of it. Use 'ppp'. It's CLI but the defaults are quite reasonable. Plus, there's plenty of docs floating about, in the manpage, Handbook, FAQ, and paper books. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message