From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 30 21:57:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA19335 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:57:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA19319 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00750; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:56:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Vorchak, Alan" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP install trouble In-Reply-To: <19970828164052147.AAA236@avorchak> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Vorchak, Alan wrote: > The system then gets to the dialog where I must switch over to the Terminal > Emulator by pressing Alt-F3, go into the system, type *term* > > The system then returns: "Press ~? for help" > I press ~? and a few commands are allowed: help, log up, log down, quit > program, and one or two more. > > Ok, this is where I am stuck, what do I need to do to configure the system > to recognize my modem and dialup my ISP? You're talking directly to your modem now, so you need to issue the dial command, which is `ATDT 555-5555', where 5's are the number for your ISP. You want to log in enough to start a PPP session (some ISPs do it automatically) then wait for ppp> to become PPP>. Then you can jump back by ALT-F1 to the main screen and continue. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo