From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 17 17:41:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12073 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 17:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from winslow.net66.net (winslow.net66.net [206.139.80.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12068 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 17:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trout@net66.com) Received: from trout (track121.grandcentral.net [208.214.226.175]) by winslow.net66.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id TAA23944 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:41:36 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990117194306.00eb66b0@net66.com> X-Sender: trout@net66.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:43:06 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Aaron Parmelee Subject: getting ppp going Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello out there: recently i have been trying to connect to my ISP using ppp. now, i know nothing about ppp, so i looked around the web, which, to my untrained eye, gave several different versions for the ppp.conf file. so far, i have succeeded in getting the modem to dial, and thats about it. i got it to do this by typing this: ppp term at atdt when the ISP answers the phone, a variety of noises are made, followed by a steady annoying beep that ends after about 20 to 30 seconds or so. then, nothing. now, a number of those ppp.conf files look like they dial the phone number for you, precluding the commands that i used above. ppp.conf also contains entries for CHAP, which is what my ISP uses. this file is not being looked at. how do i get ppp to look the ppp.conf file? any help is appreciated --aaron "Disgruntled? Hell, they're all disgruntled. I ain't runnin no daisy farm. My motto is do it my way or watch your butt." -Nathan Arizona, Raising Arizona To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message