From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 28 14: 9:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from operamail.com (operamail.infinite.com [199.29.68.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3793737B41F for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:09:32 -0800 (PST) X-WM-Posted-At: operamail.com; Fri, 28 Dec 01 17:09:28 -0500 X-WebMail-UserID: leegold Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:09:28 -0500 From: leegold To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00000000 Subject: ppp.conf Message-ID: <3C2D7276@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.62 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 Thanks, I've read this page. It's from version 2.2 and seems to be for chap authentication. Erols my ISP does not use chap anymore. I think the documentation for as essential a thing as connecting to an ISP that does not use pap/chap is not good. Thank god for this Linux book by Hofler I have. It's helped me more than anything else. Maybe I should try Debian. I just don't see why this all has to be such a hack. Millions of people use Rcn/starpower/erols, why can't FreeBSd say "Lets have config. for the 20 major ISPs", you update the scripts like ports. Who cares. I'll figure it out this weekend thanks for the assistance >===== Original Message From Scott Corey ===== >This is a link for a step by step howto on ppp. I found it by going to >the FreeBSD home page, looking under "For Newbies" (which is on the left >column) then going into the documentation link. Took three clicks of my >mouse. > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ppp-primer/index.html > >Scott > > >leegold wrote: >> >> I only see a ppp.conf sample file. I do not see a ppp.options >> file. >> >> I thought ppp.options was used for kernel ppp >> when not using pap/chap. >> >> I am confused since I see about 10 different >> ways and scripts for ppp. I have not found one >> cogent explanantion in any freebsd document. >> For example the handbook say something about >> kernel ppp for a cisco hub(?) >> >> I want to connect to my ISP THAT"S ALL. >> And it's bewildering. FreeBSD is not easy >> for someone with average intelligence like me. >> >> YEs, I will keep hacking until I can connect, >> I will keep hacking untill I can get an X windows >> where I can be even remotely as productive as the GUI >> on win2k. It's all a hack - I still can't find step by step >> documention with technical side bars. >> >> I rarely get anything out of man pages. They seem like >> they are written in another language not english. >> >> Another eg. I try blackbox wm, I get a pitchblack screen >> and a staic task bar of some kind. No usability. I try >> gwm, I get a real color fest here again I'll spend weeks >> hacking it until I get productive. Fonts? I got all the fonts >> again, at least a day figuring the fonts. >> >> ppp-on, ppp-off, what's ppp.conf.sample? Print it out and spend >> a couple hrs figuring it out - is there a doc. that will take me thru >> it line by line? Wwould be a real help for people of average intelligence. >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message