From owner-freebsd-net Mon Apr 5 22:45:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703AF14C12; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 22:45:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.37]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19255; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 23:43:26 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <37099037.B4643579@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 22:40:23 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Wayne, Ken" Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP Dialup References: <1D4CF651E2DBD211A34F00805F31EA72@SCHNEIDER.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Wayne, Ken" wrote: > > Excuse me if I am not doing this correctly, it's my first time sending to > this list. You're fine. Questions about how to setup and use FreeBSD will probably get more response from the freebsd-questions mailing list, even if they are about networking. That's the general "how do I?" mailing list. > I am trying to setup my FreeBSD box to answer incoming calls and establish a > PPP connection. I've followed the manual to the best of my knowledge but at > this point can't even get the modem to pick up the phone line. I've done > this many times with '95 and NT and (although by default I don't have it > setup to do this)I can dial out from my BSD box with the same modem if I want > , so I don't think it has anything to do with my phone lines or hardware. > > Any suggestions, or pointers to any "how to's" would be greatly appreciated. Have you read http://www.daemonnews.org/199901/freeras.html yet? It's not exactly a tutorial, but might give you some good ideas as to where to look for more help. I might be somewhat biased about how helpful it is, though. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message