From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 18: 9:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB4B37B422 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:09:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8C19VJ91434; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:39:31 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:39:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: S Zaveloff Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: Setting Up Communications in Gnome Message-ID: <20000912103931.B88615@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200009111619.LAA18583@smtp.onr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200009111619.LAA18583@smtp.onr.com>; from zaveloff@onr.com on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:50:31AM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 11 September 2000 at 10:50:31 -0500, S Zaveloff wrote: > I installed FreeBSD with the Gnome Elightenment desktop (FreeBSD > 4.1). Looking through the Gnome menus, I do not see any applications > or applets to set up a PPP connection to my ISP like there is in > Linux. How do I do this? Well, I don't know why the Gnome desktop should be different, but you really don't want to run system services from a desktop. They serve different purposes. We have two good PPP implementations, but they need setup first. (Usaer mode) ppp is probably the more popular one. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message