Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:52:41 -0800 From: "Lute Mullenix" <lute@willinet.net> To: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: It's started Message-ID: <003701c17f58$bbd78d80$1a68a3cd@lute> References: <000401c17f40$465ba450$38c801ca@warhawk>
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Thanks for the info, will let you know how I'm progressing. Oh, and I did find a ppp.conf in /etc/ppp already, figure that must have been set up when that utility(?) ran at startup. Anyway hopfully you will be getting a mutt message in the very near future. Lute ----- Original Message ----- From: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> > 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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