From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 19:43:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4392F37B66C for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 90643 invoked by uid 100); 3 Oct 2000 02:43:17 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14809.18373.251465.801724@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:43:17 -0500 (CDT) To: "Lynn, Tun" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modem thing In-Reply-To: <45977014@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lynn, Tun writes: > 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 ??? Are you buy any chance buying cheap internal PCI modems? If so, you're probably out of luck. If you've got an external serial modem, read through /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. Setting that up might well work (depends on the ISP).