From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 9 19:15:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05928 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05915 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrG-15.aei.ca [206.186.205.65]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA21728; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 22:15:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35F7362F.CB5F5374@aei.ca> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 22:15:11 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rocky Hurley CC: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: PPP question..... With an Observation References: <001201bddc64$bbb3b940$17dc94cd@uymfdlvk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rocky Hurley wrote: > > 1st! Flames | /dev/null > > > --------- > > > # PPP > > > /usr/sbin/pppd > > > --------- > > > > > > Any suggestions for me would be appreciated. > > > > RTFM. This is why it's been written. > > > > > -------------------------------------- > > > William Woods > > Observation: Since I have become "enlightened" to FreeBSD/UNIX. I have > lurked in this list. I have asked *one* question. Never got and answer. No > Problem, finally discovered a partial answer in the archives. Still > waiting on the software author for some help. I have saved tons of > messages that *will* pertain to my needs in the near future. These > messages were very informative and most included the reprimand of looking > in the archives and FAQ and Manual. I have searched and read, currently in > 3 store bought books at this time trying to scratch every bit of info and > help I can. I was wondering why I never see any books on FreeBSD on the > store shelves but the same shelves 2 or more have books on Linux and one > on ATT and Solaris. Nothing on BSD. I think I know now. The above > statement. I have now installed 2.2.7 37 times, yes, *thirty seven* times > since Saturday on this laptop and I still have to come to microsuk$ to > write this message. Why? > Because of this kind of Crap. I have come to the conclusion that FreeBSD > is the best OS out there, cause even when it will not install completely, > I can still access it and do simple stuff in it. > Amazing!!! You can't do that in Linux or Windoze or DOS or OS/2 or > probably just about anything else. But! Your Manual is poor, your FAQ lite > weight, and the support on here terrible. It took me to go through the > other OS's to appreciate the power and capabilities of UNIX only to find > snobs that are far worse than those in Fidonet and Windoze. Gee! Imagine > That! I know I am probably not winning over any support for this, thats > fine, I can always go to a platform that is better supported by its users, > OS/2 or Linux. I stood FreeBSD because my friend convinced me to choose > this platform as the best even though I have more friends on Linux. > > Something to remember, those of us that do not bleed unix when we are cut, > may not always know what to ask for when we search. If this forum is for > those who *ONLY* bleed unix, then I think this forum should be renamed > FreeBSD-Bleeding_Unix-Forum. Thank you for your impatience. > -- > Rocky Hurley > KR4PZ > Web Page: > www.cudenver.edu/~rhurley/bbq.html > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Well, I finded this list of *great* help. Maybe you have some problem on how to ask your question(bad subject or thing like that), or some other kind of problems. Re-ask it. It's a *free* help service. Try: http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/how-to-ask-en.html Maybe it will help. -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message