Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 19:27:23 -0500 (EST) From: David Anderson <partek@indecent.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950901144804.12198A-100000@system1.indecent.com> In-Reply-To: <9755.809874573@time.cdrom.com>
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(Sorry if this mail got responded to twice, my mail got messed up) On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Well, it didn't work. I disabled the external BIOS on the EIDE controller > > like a few people had mentioned to me, and that seems to have worked. > > The only problem I had is that it doesn't write the MBR properly. > I'm really not sure what the problem is here. We'll look into it. Another person let me know what the problem was, I just forgot to flag a partition active. It might be a good idea to add something to the sysinstall to check if there's a freebsd partition flagged active for airheads like me who always forget about that stuff. :) > Excuse me? The ppp program is actually a fair bit more ADVANCED than > the kernel ppp! It's hardly archaic. Sorry, I didn't quite mean it the way I said it.. Actually, my use of archaic was a BIT too harsh and I apologize. I'm just used to using pppd. I'm basically just used to using Linux and how it operates things. I can connect with pppd (on linux at least) with just "/usr/lib/ppp/pppd /dev/cua1 38400 crtscts connect '/usr/lib/ppp/chat -v -t 60 -f /scripts/script' defaultroute". Setting up all of those /etc/ppp/ppp.* files just seemed a bit foreign to me. (And not to mention difficult since I don't know all that much about the networking side.) The FreeBSD handbook section on PPP was helpful though. My problems with the iijppd program are probably mostly because I didn't RTFM. It comes down to that if I'm going to use FreeBSD, I'm going to have to learn how a REAL UNIX handles this stuff. :) > > Also, there's a really kewl thing for Linux that I don't think I could > > live without called gpm. If you're not familiar with it, what it does is > We know about this one. We'll do it someday when we find someone with > the requisite amount of free time and ability! :-( I wish I could do it. I've got plenty of time, but I am severely lacking knowledge in the areas of the FreeBSD console mouse support, and most importantly, C. I can usually play around with programs that won't compile here on my Linux system and get them to compile about 70% of the time, but that's about the extent of my programming knowledge. Do you know of any good UNIX C books that would be good for FreeBSD? I REALLY need to learn C.. Thanks for all of the help you've given me on getting FreeBSD working. I really appreciate it. I'm getting to the point where I just want to forget about getting the CD and just FTP the stuff I need to my DOS partition and install it from there. :) The User/X distribution with the kernel sources should fit compressed in about 60 megs, right? And on that, is there anything that tells what the different packages are? Like I know that the bin.* is the base system, manpages.* are (duh) the manpages, and ssys.* is the kernel sources. That'll ALL I know though. Thanks again :) Dave
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