From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 21:23:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03298 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:23:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from madcow.borg.com (madcow.borg.com [205.217.206.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03293 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@borg.com) Received: from mail.borg.com (mail.borg.com [205.217.206.192]) by madcow.borg.com (8.9.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25579; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:23:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from borg.com (ip19b.borg.com [208.3.181.19]) by mail.borg.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA28969; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:23:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36AD51F1.967A1293@borg.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:26:09 -0500 From: "Mark S. Reichman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Richardson CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I hate to ask this but.... References: <36AD0E04.76B9E1AB@ionet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do not exit xwindows. You need two xterm sessions. Type ppp at one xterm and get it going. ppp will tie up this xterm while you are surfing. It will not give the prompt back. In the second xterm after getting a connection to your ISP type "netscap &" <--- no quotes. This will launch netscape and dissassociate it from the xterm giving your prompt back. You can start two xterms two ways. add: xterm & xterm & to your .xinitrc file if using startx or .xsession if using xdm or when in xwindows if you already have and xterm up just type "xterm &" at the prompt. Read up on all of xterm switches you may want to add later after you get this part figured. later 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 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? > > Kenny > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- \|/ (@ @) +----------oOO----(_)-----------------+ | Mark S. Reichman | | mark@borg.com | | | | ASCII a stupid question, | | get a stupid ANSI | +----------------------oOO------------+ |__|__| || || ooO Ooo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message