From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 8 17:57:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20147 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20124 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:56:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA18877; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:48:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199804082348.AAA18877@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Michael P. Sale" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie ppp question. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:10:45 PDT." <01bd61b9$9c3672e0$3206bccc@708644668> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 00:48:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello all, > > I am new to freebsd and most of unix. > > I am trying to get ppp (IPCP) dialout working on a newly installed > PII 233 with freebsd 2.2.5 (CD-Rom set). I have set up both ppp.conf and > ppp.linkup in the /etc/ppp directory. They are included below in case they > may be the problem. When I type in ppp from root ( I know using root is > bad, but I can't yet figure out why I don't have access to anything even > though my user is part of wheel ), I get the following: > > User Process PPP. Written by Toshiharu OHNO. > > According to the book, I should see considerably more here. :-) > > At this point the box hangs until I do a CTL-C. How strange :-| Are you using the GENERIC kernel ? You could try upgrading ppp to the version on http://www.FreeBSD.org/~brian... [.....] > impulse: > set phone 1234567 > set openmode passive > set authname login_name > set authkey passwd > set login "TIMEOUT 5 login:\\r-login: login_name word: passwd" > set timeout 120 > # Take care of extra stuff > # set up for dynamic ip (ipcp) > set ifaddr 0 0 > # set up for default routing > add 0 0 HISADDR Hmm, I hope these lines are indented :-) [.....] > Michael P. Sale > MerchantsNet.Com > mike@merchantsnet.com > www.merchantsnet.com > ---------------------------------------------- > "Humility has no equal in the > battle for knowledge" -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message