From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 20:52:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA07803 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 20:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA07767 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 20:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00371; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 20:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 20:52:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: shegonee@ix.netcom.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960915174428.00676590@popd.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk uOn Sun, 15 Sep 1996 shegonee@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Is there more information about ppp than in the man pages? Where? > > I installed 2.1 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM. The install left > two kernels in / : kernel and kernel.GENERIC. They both seem to > operate identically. > > According to the generic configuration file for building the kernel, > X should not be supported. But, it is working. > What configuration was used to build kernel? > Is there any way to find out exactly what is supported with the > full(exeverything) install from the CD-ROM? Run uname -a. If the identifier is GENERIC, then kernel == kernel.GENERIC. THis also means you haven't built a kernel for yourself, which you should do. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major