From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 0: 5: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392BD15509 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 00:04:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27776; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 00:04:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 00:04:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Kenneth Legg Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: modems and ppp In-Reply-To: <37549D03.597C43F2@mail.wvnet.edu> 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, 1 Jun 1999, Kenneth Legg wrote: > 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 should buy the card. > 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. That's exactly it. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message