From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 05:53:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA11925 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 05:53:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from VNET.IBM.COM (vnet.ibm.com [199.171.26.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA11920 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 05:53:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from RCHLAND by VNET.IBM.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 5080; Wed, 17 Jan 96 08:52:32 EST Reply-To: "Jai Goradia" Received: by po1 (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.7) id for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 07:52:59 -0600 Received: via switchmail; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 07:52:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from tigger.rchland.ibm.com via qmail ID ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 07:52:53 -0600 (CST) Received: from tigger.rchland.ibm.com via qmail ID ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 07:52:52 -0600 (CST) Received: from Messages.8.5.N.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.tigger.rchland.ibm.com.rs.aix32 via MS.5.6.tigger.rchland.ibm.com.rs_aix32; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 07:52:52 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 07:52:52 -0600 (CST) From: Jai Goradia To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: question on how to set up a 28.8 USR modem for freebsd ... Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I just installed freebsd v2.1 OS on my PC at home. Its a Pentium 120Mhz from Micron Electronics. I am running Boot Manager and Windows95, OS2 and now FreeBSD in 3 different partitions on my hard drive 1.275 M Conner Peripherals drive. I would like to dialout to my Internet Service Provider from home via modem using a PPP connection. I do not know what files need to be edited and what needs to be done for FreeBSD to recognize my 28.8 US robotics Sportster Internal Modem. And how do i dialout (commands? etc) . Do i have to recompile the kernel? or since i now have it installed how do i get it to dial out to my ISP. Where do you give it the modem speed and the phone number and other parameters so that with some commands (what commands?) issued from the shell prompt I can set up a PPP connection to my ISP and get on to WWW from freebsd. I have installed Xwindows on my box. And I think I have the PPP part taken care of though not sure if i have things done right to configure PPP. I will greatly appreciate if you could give me a step by step run down on configuring PPP and everything needed to be done for freebsd to recognize my modem and to be able to dialout from my PC to outside internet connnections. I am assuming that only then will i able to do telnet, ftp, gopher etc.??? I am a novice at all this and would like some help in this regard. Thanx in advance. Please send mail with detailed instructions to goradia@vanilla.r.umn.edu or goradia@millcomm.com - Jai Goradia