Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 08 Nov 1998 11:41:28 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        larry_nilsen <larry_nilsen@eee.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ping hostname 
Message-ID:  <199811081141.LAA23479@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Nov 1998 09:52:28 PST." <364488DB.B5AF2196@eee.org> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Hi I have FREEBSD 2.2.7 installed
> i would like to run ppp?
> Question this is what it looks like
> pppONcircle>term
> working in interactivemode
> Type ? for help
> []

I've seen at least two answers to this question in response to your 
previous posts.  Have you tried typing ``AT'' ?

>           this is all it gives me? i cant type nothing
>   because my cursor is gone and all i see is a
> little white rectangle box just sitting there bottom
> left corner i cant even type ? to get anything.
> please what am i not doing to beable to dial my
> isp.if this helps this is another message i see

And I've already mentioned that you need ``~?'' not just ``?''.

> circle# ping hostname
> ping: cannot resolve hostname: host name
> lookup failure.
> is there away to fix this problem and if so
> please" step by step how to instruction.
> P.S. can you send me quick working
> examples what im suppose to have in these
> three files.im not going to be a server i just
> want to dial my isp and connect to the internet.
> /etc/host.conf

hosts
bind

> /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost myhost.mydomain myhost

> /etc/resolv.conf

domain mydomain
nameserver x.x.x.x
nameserver y.y.y.y


x.x.x.x and y.y.y.y should be supplied by your ISP.
 
If you've got a static IP number, you'll have been given your 
hostname by your ISP.  If not, pick something that's not likely to 
conflict with the rest of the world - say ending with .ln.

>                                       thankyou

As I've asked in the past, are your sure your serial port is being 
recognised ?  Have you tried ``dmesg | fgrep sio'' ?

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199811081141.LAA23479>