From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 22:16: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F1237B5D4 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 22:15:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from calebwalker@netzero.net) Received: from netzero.net (1Cust94.tnt14.lax3.da.uu.net [63.23.91.94]) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA29068; Fri, 26 May 2000 22:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <392F5929.99F49FE9@netzero.net> Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 22:12:09 -0700 From: Caleb Walker Organization: PowerCom Energy & Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Good Cc: Sue Blake , Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It looks like I can just edit the ppp.conf file and it will all be all right but how do I know what device my modem is connected to? Thomas Good wrote: > On Fri, 26 May 2000, Sue Blake wrote: > > > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 06:23:04PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: > > > I have no Idea. What I have done is out of a book and I dont think it is > > > even touching the icing on the cake. I have in KPPP all cuaaX's but i think > > > > > > my modem is tun0, but it is not configured either. I dont seem to have good > > > info on making modems work. I am not very good at UNIX yet, but I am > > > getting better. > > Actually your modem is a device like /dev/cuaa0 (an unfortunate name)... > tun0 is tunnel-zero, another unfortunate name - this time for user ppp. > > All you need do is edit /etc/ppp/ppp.conf as root and add in your values. > I just got this happening and would be happy to send my ppp.conf if you > need a working model to compare with the distribution file (which I found > a bit obtuse.) > > Once the file is happening you start ppp with: # ppp -background > > Documentation is available in Greg's book (on the cd as book.txt), however, > I like two forms of docs: One that begins with 'remove the shrinkwrap, > take a break...' or a working example. I prefer the latter. > > If such an example is of value, let me know. > > Cheers, > Tom > > > It is too early to blame yourself, or the modem! I've seen a few people > > people ditch kppp, read 'man ppp' and do what it says, and have the > > thing up in a moment or two with no dramas. If you will try that, let us > > know how it works out. > > ------- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center ------- > > Thomas Good MIS Coordinator > Vital Signs: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org > Phone: 718-354-5528 > Fax: 718-354-5056 > > /* Member: Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message