From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 2 05:11:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA21555 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 05:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from radford.i-plus.net (root@Radford.i-Plus.net [206.99.237.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA21550 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 05:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from totally.nutty.net (insane@totally.nutty.net [206.99.237.44]) by radford.i-plus.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA09992; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:07:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199710021207.IAA09992@radford.i-plus.net> Reply-To: "Troy Settle" From: "Troy Settle" To: "Rick Verhaalen" , Subject: Re: dial-up internet access Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:15:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1008.3 X-MimeOle: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.1008.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Windows 95 and IE comes with various setup wizards to simplify the configuration of PPP, but the PPP is seperate from Internet Explorer. With that said, please refer to the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook173.html#404 for instructions on setting up ppp for FreeBSD. You have your choice of ijppp (userland), or pppd (kernel). I prefer pppd because it simplifies the process of maintaining an almost-dedicated connection. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Verhaalen To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, October 01, 1997 3:10 PM Subject: dial-up internet access >I recently installed FreeBSD on my home PC. I want to be able to access >the internet through freebsd. What needs to be set up in order to do so. >For example, in Win95, I can configure Microsoft Explorer to connect to my >ISP. I don't see how to do that with Chimera or Mosiac. Do I need to >configure PPP before I go into my browser? and how? >thanks >