From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 16:22: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADFE37B502 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds97-123.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.123.97] with ESMTP id BAA28461 (8.8.5/1.13); Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:22:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA01200; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:22:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:22:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: "Lynn, Tun" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: modem thing In-Reply-To: <64030E3AB1D4D211B37C0008C75D9E6606799629@001-expo10-d.allstate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you bought internal modems, return them and get an external. Only with an external modem can you be sure it is not a "Winmodem". This type of modems needs a Windows software driver to function, and do not work under non_win OS's. External modems also have the benefit that you can see the diagnostic LEDs. Check out "man ppp" and the example configuration file. Everything is very understandable and more like a tutorial. If there would be an Oscar or Emmy award for man pages, I would nominate this one. ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Lynn, Tun wrote: > > Hi, > I bought FreeBSD and install it on my PC. All I want to do is use it to > connect to the internet through ISP (just like you would normally do in > Windows environment), through modem. problem is, I don't know how to set it > up. Because of that, I end up buying 2,3 modems and several unixes including > Solaris. It should not be so difficult. I admit that I am not a guru, just > Unix lover wanting to use Unix to down load C compilers, Perls and stuff > like that. > Can you help me out here ??? > > Unix Lover > > ps. If you guys can make that easy on the PC platform, you can beat Windows > any time!!! > > pps. please, please, please... > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message