Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 21:57:30 +0500 From: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: "'Lute Mullenix'" <lute@willinet.net> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: It's started Message-ID: <000401c17f40$465ba450$38c801ca@warhawk> In-Reply-To: <003601c17f2f$41a66960$1868a3cd@lute>
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Cool..sounds like youre getting things done..a look at the ppp section of the handbook helps if you get stuck. After you dial, to see if it's working, you can try pinging a host on the internet, like www.freebsd.org... Just type 'ping www.freebsd.org' at your prompt. The place where you 'dial' can be reached by just typing 'ppp' at the prompt. Look at the ppp man page for info on how to get it to do background dialing, auto dialing and so on. Oh, and one gotcha that I'd like to mention is that non-root users who wish to use ppp must also be in the 'network' group. > -----Original Message----- > From: Lute Mullenix [mailto:lute@willinet.net] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:55 PM > To: Haikal Saadh > Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: It's started > > > Ok, I will check into the ppp.conf.sample. On install I went > through the network dialup ppp connection box, and when I > typed in "dial" it connected to my ISP, however at the time > there was nothing set up to try the connection with, so I > don't know if it was working properly or not. Also do not > know how to shut it down, so ended up leaving it connected > till the system reboot, and now I don't know how to get back > to the place where I type "dial" to get it up again, figure > it must be some where in the book, or online handbook, just > have not gotten that far yet. Am kind of chomping at the bit > to get at least e-mail up and running. > > Now the reason I'm wondering about recompiling the kernel for > X is on the XFree86 web site it mentions that for the i810 > server to work AGP GART kernel support is required, and I > don't know if the generic version is set up that way. Besides > the fact that I'm looking forward to cooking up a kernel of > my own. This is for version 4.0.x (3 I think) that came with > the distro. When I tried to fire up 3.3.6 it errored out with > /dev/agpgart not configured, so figured it must have > something to do with it. > > I have set up X and PPP on Debian Linux, however not on this > box, and I know that FreeBSD does things differently, so > pretty confident that I will be able to get the job done, > just a matter of finding the where and how of it all. > > Thanks for your input, and as mentioned, will look into the > ppp thing you mentioned. > > Lute > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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