From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 14:32:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480A637B423 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 14:32:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust250.tnt5.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.20.93.250]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16332; Sat, 12 May 2001 14:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA01976; Sat, 12 May 2001 17:32:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105122132.RAA01976@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: Moused,/boot/kernel.conf, and ppp -auto In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010511083040.00aa8a38@63.94.12.188> from Jason Stewart at "May 11, 2001 08:38:24 am" To: jstewart@rtl.org (Jason Stewart) Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 17:31:42 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, I'll try and answer all three. 1. Do you mean how long before the screen blanks when the machine is not in use? If so, see vidcontrol. 2. You are correct. You can delete everything in this file and the messages will go away(that file being kernel.conf). I believe there is an option to disable the reading of this file also, but right now I can't remember what it is. 3. Here is a copy of my ppp.conf. I use Earthlink for dialup. default: set log Chat Phase Connect set device /dev/cuaa1 set speed 115200 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT \ OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" allow users ipt ISP: set phone 8576020|8430480|8403800 set authname ********** set authkey ********** set timeout 0 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR enable dns Copy and use this as it applies to your ISP. Check /usr/share/examples/ppp for a skeleton file to use. Ian Greetings, > > I have been using linux for about 4 years, and recently tried FreeBSD (and > ahd fun with it!). A couple of questions... > > 1. How do I set the blank time in moused. (I'm used to the Linux GPM). > > 2. I've built a new kernel to include sound drivers, and in Dmesg, I get > some obscure messages about a di command. I looked around and found that > these commands were in my /boot/kernel.conf file. I looked at the man > pages, and the handbook, but couldnt find out what these commands did ( I > assume that they were placed there from my install of my generic kernel, > when I disabled certain drivers). Does anyone > know what these commands do? Where can I find more info on them? > > 3. I can run ppp and dial my ISP from my terminal interface. ('dial ISP'), > but when I try to do ppp -auto ISP, I get a message about the interface not > being configured correctly. My ISP does not give me a default gateway, and > I suspect that I need one to use auto ppp. I've tried using 0.0.0.0 to no > avail. Is there any way to fix this? > > Thanks alot, > Jason Stewart > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message