From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 22:37:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8397737B404 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:37:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from chip3.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A36BE03C00A0; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:40:43 -0800 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:13:43 -0800 From: Chip Wiegand To: James Starr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie who is fed up with windows! Message-Id: <20020323001343.6ee3ce8a.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Homenet X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, it looks like James Starr opened his big mouth again, on Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:00:56 -0800, and spouted out this: > Hi, > > I've had about all I can stand of windows. I know very little about > using Unix, but my first attempt to set up FreeBSD seemed pretty > straight forward. Mine also, about 3 years ago. > Only trouble was the modem. You need to determine if the modem is a winmodem (software modem) or a standard modem. I believe it is next to impossible to get a winmodem to work on any *nix. If it is a winmodem, you would be better off buying a real modem. And one more point, if you do buy a new modem, buy external. They are always the easiest to set up. BTW, welcome to a real operating system. Once here, you'll not go back. Just keep in mind, there are certain things windoze is better for - mainly games. > Because I'm pretty > new to this, I get frustrated when I can't make something work. > But I'm not so frustrated that I'll stick with windows. I scoured > The Complete FreeBSD, but everything I tried doesn't seem to work, > and I'm not that much of an idiot. Also take a look at man ppp. Some say it makes it look more complicated than it really is, but you should at least read through it. The ppp.conf default file should be enough though. > Shouldn't I be able to install > the right modem driver from sysinstall? I don't believe there is any setup option in sysinstall for ppp. > Anyone's suggestions or > help will be much appreciated. Help a Microsoft victim break free! > > ~James The default ppp.conf is a great place to start. I just made a couple changes to it and it worked. The changes involved simply plugging in the appropriate info my dial-up. Once again, though, I had an external modem - 56k 3com. Works like a charm. I use that at work on a rare occasion. Here at home I have dsl so it's not a problem. Welcome to the ranks. Glad to have ya! Regards -- Chip W www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message