Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:56:01 -0500 From: jimmy fix <jim_fix@operamail.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>, Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: rpm on freebsd - beginner Message-ID: <3AB7CD4F@operamail.com>
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hi, thank u all for the help. im just reading ppp primer now and hopefully ill sort it out. the cd i have is not original, i burn it at work where there is cd writer thats why it doesnt have ports... i was just hoping to avoid setting the ppp conf by hand as im very new to freebsd and have to admit ive got a bit baffled... at the moment, when i tell ppp to dial i see the lights of the modem comming up but the connection is droped (it doesnt diad). in ms-windows, i specify not to detect dial-tone. this is because my phone dont have a constant dial tone as in many countries... i'm 99% sure that if i find out how to conf so it doesnt try to detect dial-tone it'll be ok. i got 2 isps, one being a university dial-up that someone gave me the pass. dont know if it uses pap, chap, what is the dns etc... the other i can find out. it is nt server, if thats relevant. for the second isp to work, in ms-windows,apart from not detect dial-tone, i also have to add an additional string in the advanced settings of the modem: "x3". i know this stuff may be simple i one uses freebsd for a while but if u are complete newbie it doesnt look very encouraging... any suggestions are wellcome... thanx again... >===== Original Message From Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> ===== >On Monday January 22, 2001 15:01, Jonathan Chen wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:45:17PM -0500, jimmy fix wrote: >> > basically i wanna change the window manager and put KDE so i can >> > configure ppp (its easier from there) >> >> Installing a KDE ppp configuration tool for Linux will *NOT* work for >> FreeBSD, since Linux configuration file locations are different >> enough from FreeBSD that it won't find anything to work against. > >I didn't reallize that, but either way, kppp should get him a working >script and then he could use that to put the right info in the right >files. You'll have to read the ppp primers, as I have a cable modem >and don't worry about ppp anymore. > >> Configuring PPP is usually as simple as editing /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, >> editing the "set device ...", "set phone ...", "set authname ..." and >> "set authkey ..." lines. And then running the ppp(1) program to see >> what happens. >> >> If you've got the ports system installed (and you've got Internet >> connectivity), you can build KDE by: > >right, but if he doesn't have ppp working, that won't be so easy. >If you have an installation cd, kde should be on it. From root type >/stand/sysinstall to get back into the installation/config program use >it to install the kde packages that are on the CD. Or you can do it >manually by cd'ing into the packages directory on the CD after mounting >it. Installing the package from cd-rom will work without an internet >connection. > > Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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