From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Mar 28 09:18:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09870 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 09:18:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (root@gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09824 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 09:17:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de) Received: from duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de (surf91.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.91]) by gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA17885; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 18:17:26 +0100 Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:36:29 +0100 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: Confusion and Progress To: "John M. Purser" cc: "Newbies (E-mail)" In-Reply-To: <01BD5A12.DC3C6A60.jpurser@wilcofarmers.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.42] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat 28 Mar, John M. Purser wrote: > Okay folks, > > Apparently there's something else that doesn't work the way I expect about > FreeBSD. I'm not particularly complaining, just trying to feel my way around > here. Hands up all who read the charter before signing ? ;-) > I have managed to make a PPP connection to my ISP. I can't do anything with > it but I connected. What ? If your PPP connection works, you can do everything (ftp/www/mail/news). Can you ping (eg) the www-server of your ISP ? ping name.of.the.www-server.of.your.isp.com.or.whatever Ctrl C to stop cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message