From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 11:11:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA00541 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA00523 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:11:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA04027; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:11:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:11:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew Perry cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: a few questions In-Reply-To: <32DAF836.3B03@shoal.net.au> 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 Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Andrew Perry wrote: > i've managed to get iijppp (user ppp) working after a fashion, however > if for any reason the line drops out and i dial again, i get a > connection ok, ppp changes to PPP, but i get an error > SIOCAIFADDR: file exists, and i can't ping or telnet from another > session. Any clues? Don't ifconfig tun0 in sysconfig. ppp will do it for you. > also what web browsers do people use from XFree86? i've installed mosaic > but would like netscape, however i'm having a few problems. i downloaded > the port, did make GOLD=yes and it downloaded for ages and then said > invalid checksum and wouldn't actually install it. is there a better way > of getting netscape (ie: is there a package anywhere i can grab?) Netscape. Just download the i386-unknown-bsd directly from them, and extract in /usr/X11R6/bin. It comes prebuilt. This is the standard version, I can't say for gold. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major