From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 26 14:34:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darkstar.qx.net (darkstar.qx.net [208.235.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05EC437B52D for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:34:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: from mail2.qx.net (mail.qx.net [208.235.88.233]) by darkstar.qx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA30985 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:34:23 -0500 Received: from zw9js ([208.200.110.238]) by mail2.qx.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA5604; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:33:02 -0500 Message-ID: <010701bf80a9$dcc52840$ee6ec8d0@lexmark.com> From: "Jim Freeze" To: Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <00a401bf806f$e2365540$956ec8d0@lexmark.com> <00022614565500.00300@mymachine.imag.net> Subject: Re: How do I connect to my ISP via a modem Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:36:01 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks Mark for the info. Currently I have the afterstep desktop. Do I need to uninstall this before installing KDE? Also, what is the best source for KDE. I remember trying to install it originally, but ran up again some road block...hence the reason I installed afterstep-it seemed easier at the time. Thanks again. Jim P.S. That's "Dr Freeze" to you. 8>) > Well, "Mr Freeze", for a newbie like you, I would recommend KDE as your > desktop environment. Not only does it offer a Windoze-like look-and-feel, > more importantly for you, it comes with kppp, a dial-up program that is > much easier to set up than the ppp program that comes standard with > FreeBSD. > > You should be able to find everything you need to know in the handbook > that comes as part of the FreeBSD distribution "/usr/share/doc/handbook/" > However, as I said, if you go with KDE and use kppp, you can pretty much > skip the handbook. > > Mark Hendriks > markh@lon.imag.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message