From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 22 17:34:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A2537B402 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4BC08782D0; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:04:23 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:04:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Anthony Campbell Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to give up I fear Message-ID: <20020123120423.F62266@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020122112829.GA2161@debian.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020122112829.GA2161@debian.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 22 January 2002 at 11:28:29 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I rather fear I've reached the point of no return with FreeBSD. Please > understand this isn't a flame in any sense; the problems are probably a > reflection of my own ignorance, but after a lot of work and lots of help > from users I'm still unable to communicate with my modem, either on my > laptop or my desktop. Neither tip nor ppp works for me. I have no > problems with either on Linux so it can hardly be a hardware or BIOS > problem. I haven't seen you posting any questions on the FreeBSD-questions list. You shouldn't expect technical help on -newbies; that's not what the list is for, and most of the people who could help you aren't subscribed to it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message