From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 31 20:30:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F09714CC6 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA04752; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:28:54 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:28:54 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: "Rene' Van Horne" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with the Internet In-Reply-To: <003f01bef424$6d6ccf00$b930d3c6@kcomp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Rene' Van Horne wrote: [please wrap to 72 chars] > I just finished installing FreeBSD on my old comp. I had no trouble > installing, and everything works fine, but I can't figure out how to > do one thing: How do I connect to the internet using a dialup? > Everything about unix seems geared toward a direct connection. > > Thanks for any help you can offer. There's user level "ppp". It's got a huge man page, but thankfully theres a example configuration file in /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf that you could probably tweak slightly (the "PAPorCHAPpmdemand" section) and use. Cheers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen | Opportunites are seldom labeled --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message