From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 1 23:13: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6EB715179 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:12:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA01088; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 07:12:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA13639; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 07:12:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199906020612.HAA13639@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Kenneth Legg Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: modems and ppp In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 22:54:59 EDT." <37549D03.597C43F2@mail.wvnet.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:12:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message