Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:35:06 -0700 (PDT) From: <keith@mail.telestream.com> To: Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com> Cc: "Lynn, Tun" <TLynn@allstate.com>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: modem thing Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010021626430.22077-100000@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010030104160.1113-100000@parmenides.utp.net>
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I totaly second this. The ppp man page is the best man page I've ever seen really. External modems rule not only for being sure it's not a winmodem but you can actualy see the lights on the things which I've found very helpfull in troubleshooting scripting problems and connections. Best way to start is just fire up ppp and do a manual connection. Then you can script it. The /etc/ppp files for some reason confused me more than anything. A simple expect script can automate a manual dial pretty easily. Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm <for better or worse> My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Janko van Roosmalen wrote: > If you bought internal modems, return them and get an external. Only > with an external modem can you be sure it is not a "Winmodem". This type > of modems needs a Windows software driver to function, and do not work > under non_win OS's. > External modems also have the benefit that you can see the diagnostic > LEDs. > > Check out "man ppp" and the example configuration file. Everything is > very understandable and more like a tutorial. If there would be an Oscar > or Emmy award for man pages, I would nominate this one. > > > ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== > > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Lynn, Tun wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > I bought FreeBSD and install it on my PC. All I want to do is use it to > > connect to the internet through ISP (just like you would normally do in > > Windows environment), through modem. problem is, I don't know how to set it > > up. Because of that, I end up buying 2,3 modems and several unixes including > > Solaris. It should not be so difficult. I admit that I am not a guru, just > > Unix lover wanting to use Unix to down load C compilers, Perls and stuff > > like that. > > Can you help me out here ??? > > > > Unix Lover > > > > ps. If you guys can make that easy on the PC platform, you can beat Windows > > any time!!! > > > > pps. please, please, please... > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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