I am using a fast ethernet network card with an external xDSL modem. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sukhbinder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 2:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port/Distribution Installation
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 12:52:53PM +0800, Sukhbinder Singh wrote: > > Finally, I got the /games distribution downloaded to my freebsd. This was > > done through uploading it from my dos partition like I did for my initial > > freebsd installation for the /bin distribution. I am still unable to get a > > network connection up and running. I am not using a dial - up networking > > like I was in the past. Currently, I am using the xDSL modem using a ADSL > > connection to my ISP. Will I still be able to connect to the net via ppp or > > do I need a different method of connection from FreeBSD. Currently, when I > > start ppp on the command prompt, the FreeBSD system takes me to a new window > > and indicates like :- "ppp started on Foo> " all p's in lowercase. Then, > > after a few seconds it says " Warning: the original logon script has > > failed". How can this problem be resolved. Any help will be helpful. > > Is the DSL modem an external or an internal? > The most successful way of connecting FreeBSD via DSL is to use a network > card along with an external modem. That is the way most FreeBSD'ers do it, > but a DSL card -might- work. > > The main thing you have to setup is your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file. > Check out the following, and email with any questions you have; > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html > > Again, I suggest that if you are emailing me, you also post to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I may miss something that others > pickup on. Others may have other things to contribute that will > help -you-, and your learning will be then be on record for others > to learn from. > > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
