From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 7 10:51:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from intrigue.willinet.net (intrigue.willinet.net [198.49.30.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7ED9F37B41A for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:51:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26222 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 12:51:44 -0600 Received: from ps25sux.willinet.net (HELO lute) (205.163.104.26) by intrigue.willinet.net with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 12:51:44 -0600 Message-ID: <003701c17f58$bbd78d80$1a68a3cd@lute> From: "Lute Mullenix" To: "Haikal Saadh" Cc: References: <000401c17f40$465ba450$38c801ca@warhawk> Subject: Re: It's started Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:52:41 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Spam-Rating: intrigue.willinet.net 1.6.2 0/0/N Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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" > 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