From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 21 12:28:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11911 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 12:28:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wi.net (adquestinc.com [204.95.193.252] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11899 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 12:28:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from laufen@wi.net) Received: from chardonnay.wi.net (204.95.193.95) by wi.net with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.0.1); Sat, 21 Feb 1998 14:28:51 -0600 Message-ID: <34EF395A.7A19@wi.net> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 14:30:18 -0600 From: Derek Laufenberg Reply-To: laufen@wi.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Myron CC: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: configuring my kernel References: <34EE013B.FFC34246@hsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Myron wrote: > > hi. now I installed freebsd but duing the installation I didn't > configure my kernel for networking. I don't know why, but I didn't. now > I want to use "PPPD" and it says "your kernel lacks support for > networking" or something like that. then it tells me to read the > README.bsd and follow the directions there. but I don't have README.bsd > and if I do, I don't know where it is. So will you please either tell me > how to get my kernel working with ppp or at least send me README.bsd. > thanks. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Try user mode ppp. The generic kernel is configured with a tun device which is required by ppp. If you really must use pppd, you must recompile the kernel and add the ppp device. Try 'man ppp'. BTW: I had a lot off trouble getting ppp to work with what was on the 2.2.5 cdroms. I ended up getting the ppp source code from http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/ppp-980218.src.tar.gz and recompiling it. I hope this helps. Derek Laufenberg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message