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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:44:10 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jai Goradia <goradia@VNET.IBM.COM>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: question on how to set up a 28.8 USR modem for freebsd ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960117104101.736C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <QkzDwoE91G5kNEyEFr@rchland.ibm.com>

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On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Jai Goradia wrote:

> 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.  

And you have some space leftover?  :-)  

> 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.  

Start at the ppp man page.  that should give you a good start.  Also look 
at the files in /etc/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. 

Sounds like we need to have something put in the handbook for this.

I would but I don't have time right now.  

> goradia@vanilla.r.umn.edu  or goradia@millcomm.com 

Look at the old questions in the questions archive, I've done this about 
three times now :)  

Write me back and I'll lead you through it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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