From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 28 20:36:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA20791 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA20784 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA02116; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:36:23 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself To: "Adam L. Simpson" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: external USR Modem In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970428221115.0070e9e4@mail.netsonic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Adam L. Simpson wrote: > Hello: > > Is it possible to use an external USR Sportster for someone to dial into > the server it is connected to? > > The modem is connected on com2 on my win95 machine but I want to connect it > to one of the FreeBSD 2.2.1 servers so we can dial into it. > > If this is possible, can someone please explain how to go about doing this? See http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ159.html#159 It should cover everything. You should just hook it up to the first serial port. For general info, DOS com1 is /dev/ttyd0, com2 is /dev/ttyd1, etc. > > I appreciate your help. > > Adam L. Simpson Hope it helps!! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*