From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 17:09:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 399B916A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 17:09:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563BB43FA3 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2003 17:09:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186])18questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:14:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from Alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAA19keZ054364; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:09:46 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff@Alex.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Alex.lan (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hAA19jA4054363; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:09:45 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:09:45 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20031110010945.GG553@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: james Subject: [freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl: Re: how to modem] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 01:09:43 -0000 Dear James, I've overlooked that you didn't cc questions@freebsd.org. Because if this I forwared my reply to you and the list. I have two reasons for this. 1) Others could also help you. They may need the information you have provided. 2) Other could also learn from this. Alex ----- Forwarded message from Alex de Kruijff ----- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:05:22 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff To: james Subject: Re: how to modem In-Reply-To: <3FAE2D98.6050102@quik.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:05:44AM -0800, james wrote: > Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:41:47AM -0800, james wrote: > > > > > >>I can't find the modem . although I did finally get kde installed > >>are there any simple instructions for finding your modem and > >>hitching up to the internet > >> > >> > > > >What type of modum do you have? (i.e. external/internal, > >plug-n-play/jumpers) > > > >Did you see it in the output of 'dmesg'? > > > im not sure of the name but it is an old internal jumper style with the > tiny switches instead of the pull off style of jumpers > thkns ill try dmesg well I took it out and looked at it it is set to > com 4 and its a rockwell an old one the dmesg didn't seem to know what > it was will try to give more info i am useing a aptiva with 32 megs ram > and the vedio card has 2 mb mem what else there is an maxetor 1 gig hd (Is it ISA or PCI?) I bleave, from what i have read, that you don't requere the port you installed. Leave it for now. What have you done to get it working? (Read documentation, commands entered) You wanna read this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Alex My homepage (dutch) - http://www.kruijff.org/alex/