From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 18:33: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FBE37B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:32:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C74B43E4A for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:32:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from nkinkade by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18bAhB-0007yf-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:32:53 -0800 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:32:53 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about serial connections via nullmodem Message-ID: <20030122023253.GG25795@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Reply-To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030121185033.41557.qmail@web40810.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="64j1qyTOoGvYcHb1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030121185033.41557.qmail@web40810.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --64j1qyTOoGvYcHb1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:50:33AM -0800, Marisa wrote: > Hello! >=20 > I have a FreeBSD3.2 PC connected to a LAN network. I > would like to connect my Win98 notebok to it via a > serial null modem connection in order to have access > to the Lan network. >=20 > I would like to do this with pppd command; I have been > trying to do it but without result. >=20 > It's possible to do so? And how should I do this? > I have readen in the Freebsd handbook something about > it, but it said something about "kermit" and it seemed > to be configurations file to a modem dial-up call, > isn't it? >=20 > Thx in advance for your answer ;) >=20 > Marisa Using SLIP would probably be more simple than PPP over a null modem cable. Take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/slip.html Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --64j1qyTOoGvYcHb1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+LgLVWZYS9EJQoEwRAvLoAKDCWAFtDJTsUvk2sqHpbX6p/vRbgACg5WsN w2M6vM5DOeca4yjiRIpF2c8= =Sybr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --64j1qyTOoGvYcHb1-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message