From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 17:05:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17171 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:05:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17156 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:05:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA02856; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:35:34 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id LAA65297; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:35:33 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:35:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kenneth Richardson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Running X and PPP together (was: I hate to ask this but....) Message-ID: <19990126113533.U36690@freebie.lemis.com> References: <36AD0E04.76B9E1AB@ionet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36AD0E04.76B9E1AB@ionet.net>; from Kenneth Richardson on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:36:20PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 25 January 1999 at 18:36:20 -0600, Kenneth Richardson wrote: > I bought the full BSD ($80) with the big book. I have it up and running. > > I've connected an X2 modem to sio1. I have xwindows and netscape > installed. I can do xinit and start xwindows then in the terminal screen > in xwinows start netscape. It comes up but can't find any address on the > WWW. That's because I haven't made a connection to my ISP. > > I terminate xwindows and netscape Why do you do this? Look at page 366 for the easy way to do it. > and start ppp. I dial into my ISP and login with my username and > password. > > At this point, how can I start xwindows and netscape and browse the web? > > This is probably a stupid question, but I can't figure it out. Any > suggestions? Start it from a different virtual terminal. See page 179. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message