From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 19:48:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0480537C17A for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from PhazeCA@aol.com) Received: from PhazeCA@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.12.) id n.dd.786cb57 (4353) for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:48:42 -0400 (EDT) From: PhazeCA@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:48:42 EDT Subject: trouble connecting to the internet To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Right now i'm using another computer that has aol, but anyway, i've been=20 trying to connect to the internet for a long time with bsd. I have no idea=20 what to do, I read all of the faq's at your website and in the book that cam= e=20 with my bsd. I wanted to connect to earthlink with bsd, but i just can't=20 seem to do it. Is there anyway someone can help me, either with a reply to=20 this or if there is a number i can call or whatever, I just need help. =20 Please get back to me as soon as possible, because right now I'm on a very=20 slow computer and i really want to get familiar with unix, thanks for your=20 time. Every time I try to use the PPP Dialup Utility, when I am in xinit, it says=20 "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly." What is the problem? Is there=20 something I need to configure or what? I have been trying to run the ppp dialup utility as root, but it still=20 doesn't work. what do i do? here is how my configuration looks.... Dial Account Name: ELN/username Redial Maximum: 5 Modem Device: /dev/ttyS1 (COM2) Connection Speed: 38400 Modem Initialization: ATZ Phone Numbers # Add 7550028 Remove ------------------------- Authentication PSP/CHAP User Name: ELN/username@earthlink.net Remote Name: ELN/username@earthlink.net Hidden Password Password: ******** ------------------------- Local IP Address =B7Dynamic Static Netmask =B7Dynamic Static Remote IP Address =B7Dynamic Static ----------------------------- DNS (everything is blank) ----------------------------- Script Login Script Recieve ----------------------------- PPP =B7Add Default Route Lock Dialout Device Maximum Transmission Unit: 296 Maximum Recieve Unit: 296 Run Program After Connect Run Program After Disconnect What do you think is wrong? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message