Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 15:51:41 -0600 From: Aaron Parmelee <trout@net66.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: is minicom installed or not? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990109155141.00919de0@net66.com>
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hello out there: i have just installed freebsd 3.0 on my machine, from the walnut creek cdrom. everything seems to work fine so far. now, i don't recall installing minicom when i installed freebsd, but there is a minicom directory, which looks like this: CVS Makefile README.html files patches pkg scripts does this mean that minicom is there? nothing happens when i type "minicom," and when i enter in the full pathname, i get "permission denied." (i assume because minicom is the name of a dir, not a file) now, a little background: i am new to this. i have never installed anything, port or otherwise on freebsd, or any other flavor of unix. i have never used minicom before, but today i was trying to set things up to use my modem. i went through the handbook (webpages) on setting up ppp, and am now to the point where i would run kermit or minicom and try to establish a connection. (i don't really know if i have set up ppp right, but this is how i plan to find out) incidently, is there anyway to check and see if the modem is recognized by freebsd? something like ping? (the modem is a us robotics 56k external (not a winmodem, or at least it better not be) at dev/cuaa0) any advice would be 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
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