From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 11:58:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilderness.dyn.dhs.org (host-209-214-121-46.bna.bellsouth.net [209.214.121.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3938637B403 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wilderness.dyn.dhs.org (colossus.cotharyus.net [192.168.1.6]) by wilderness.dyn.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879D393406; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:18:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3BD9B2D2.2070602@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:00:34 -0500 From: Drew Sanford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RnldFreud@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bellsouth.net freebsd adsl help References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You will still use ppp to make the connection, but you will need to compile a kernel with PPPoE support as well. This is covered thoughly in the handbook on www.freebsd.org, and in the ppp docs. RnldFreud@aol.com wrote: > freebsd appears to recognize my alcatel modem. how do i log into > bellsouth.net which is my provider? do i still set up a ppp connection > for log in or is there something else i need to do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message