From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 25 15:34:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28169 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28157 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:34:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #3) id 0zXZfH-000149-00; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 23:33:39 +0000 Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 23:33:39 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Ghulam Dastgir Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuring PPP Message-ID: <19981025233339.A3938@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <01bdfe28$80cb5c80$0f91a6c3@signup> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <01bdfe28$80cb5c80$0f91a6c3@signup> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ghulam Dastgir wrote: > I have FBSD 2.2.6 and I'm trying to get Internet access on this > system. I've added various bits to /etc/ppp.conf. But when I type ppp, > I get lb.so: can't find some shared library. Let me guess: it can't find libdes ? This is explained somewhere, I forget where. Briefly: download the ppp sources and rebuild it, it shouldn't need DES after that. (There'll be a link on www.awfulhak.org to the ppp sources, I'm sure.) (It's actually /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and ld.so, but I won't mention those now... damn, too late) > I know this email is v. sketchy but I'm not sure as this email will > reach anyone on my newly installed email account on another O/S we > won't mention! You don't want windows. Windows is crap, anything by Microsoft is crap, delete it. Use FreeBSD for everything. ahem, sorry Anyway, your email seems to be working fine. Get it working under FreeBSD and ditch that Microsoft crap now :-) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message