From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 17:07:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29398 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:07:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hopper.unh.edu (dkf@hopper.unh.edu [132.177.137.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29360 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:06:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkf@hopper.unh.edu) Received: from localhost (dkf@localhost) by hopper.unh.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA21056 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:06:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:06:44 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel K Fry To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: slip or ppp Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk hi i am trying to connect my freebsd machine to the internet via my hardwired connection here at school. we are going to have ethernet in our rooms next year, but for now the connection hooks to the serial port. i just use trumpet winsock with my win95 machine. so, i was figuring i would have to use slattach is this the right tool to use? keep in mind that i dont have to use a modem. i tried setting it up according to the SLIP instructions in the handbook and then skipped the part about dialing and just ran slattach slattach -h -c -s 19200 /dev/cuaa0 i get SIGHUP on /dev/cuaa0 (s1-1); exiting so do i need to use a different device name? please help -daniel fry university of new hampshire