From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 9 5:28:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bbnmg1.cns.hp.com (bbnmg1.net.external.hp.com [192.6.76.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10DF514BE1 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 05:28:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com) Received: from isoit644.bbn.hp.com (isoit644.bbn.hp.com [15.136.88.78]) by bbnmg1.cns.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5btis) with ESMTP id OAA16578 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:28:07 +0200 (METDST) From: MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by isoit644.bbn.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.6 TIS Openmail) with SMTP id OAA26051 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:27:37 +0200 (METDST) X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:27:25 +0200 Message-Id: Subject: RE: ppp setup MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="BDY.TXT" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="BDY.TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cool. Why is stuff like this not part of the standard FreeBSD package? I was fighting with ppp too and had to learn a lot of stuff that is really totally irrelevant. It's really sad that just to become not 'too user friendly' (maybe because it smells too much of M$) great helps like these seem to be frowned upon by the gurus. Michael -----Original Message----- From: mik.thwaite@dial.pipex.com [mailto:mik.thwaite@dial.pipex.com] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 9:54 PM Cc: mik.thwaite@dial.pipex.com; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp setup Yep! I know the ppp frustration too! I can get my old 486 machine to connect to the modem, connect to my ISP but only if I do it all manually. Once I get this down it's off to work out how to do e-mail........... I went looking for the file below but couldn't find it. I did find it here http://www.jps.net/fozzyb/FreeBSD.html however. but it you are like me and just want to get the thing working with minimum of hocus pocus / witchcraft / other arcane involvement ...... go to ftp://flag.blackenet.net/freebsd/ppp_script.sh and download the setup script file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message