From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jun 11 13:42:13 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA18265 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 13:42:13 -0700 Received: from mpp.com ([204.157.201.242]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA18259 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 13:42:10 -0700 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA00339 for doc@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 15:30:58 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199506112030.PAA00339@mpp.com> Subject: PPP FAQ To: doc@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 15:30:43 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1088 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I would like to suggest making the following changes to the PPP FAQ: *** tmp/ppp.FAQ Sun Jun 11 15:05:32 1995 --- ppp.FAQ Sun Jun 11 15:24:39 1995 *************** *** 4,10 **** Before you start setting up PPP on your machine make sure that pppd is located in /usr/sbin and directory /etc/ppp ! exists. pppd can work in two modes: --- 4,19 ---- Before you start setting up PPP on your machine make sure that pppd is located in /usr/sbin and directory /etc/ppp ! exists. Also make sure that PPP is configured into your kernel. ! First, run "ifconfig -a" and see if "ppp0" appears in the ! list of devices. If not, add the following line to your ! kernel configuration file and rebuild and reboot your kernel: ! ! pseudo-device ppp 1 #Point-to-point protocol ! ! If the "pppd" command prints a message stating that "PPP is not ! available on this system", then you have not properly configured ! PPP into your kernel. pppd can work in two modes: -- Mike Pritchard mpp@legarto.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"