Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:12:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Kenneth Legg <sce04020@mail.wvnet.edu> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: modems and ppp Message-ID: <199906020612.HAA13639@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 22:54:59 EDT." <37549D03.597C43F2@mail.wvnet.edu>
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> My P.C. has only on serial port and my three button Logitech mouse is
> using it. I just bough a external modem and would like to use it for
> FreeBSD. I have a extra parallel port, can I hook the modem to it, or
> should I buy a serial i/o card?
You need more serial ports I'm afraid.
> How many of the files in the /etc/ppp directory have to be edited to set
> up ppp. How do you edit the files, make a copy and leave off the sample
> at the end file and edit the copy? Example: copy ppp.conf.sample to
> ppp.conf and edit ppp.conf to my specs, leaving the original in tack.
You can do it whatever way you want. There's a section in the man
page on setting up an ISP connection. The latest versions of ppp
only require ppp.conf.
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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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