From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 13:51:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19743 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:51:16 -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 NAA19716 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:51:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trout@net66.com) Received: from trout (track88.grandcentral.net [208.214.226.140]) by winslow.net66.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id PAA21470 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:50:02 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990109155141.00919de0@net66.com> X-Sender: trout@net66.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 15:51:41 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Aaron Parmelee Subject: is minicom installed or not? 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: 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