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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.Stanford.EDU!andrsn.stanford.edu!andrsn From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: setting up for use with an ISP Date: 19 Jan 1997 07:07:39 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5bsh7r$23i@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <5bpabh$7q@news.istar.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961126] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34012 firesign <firesign@istar.ca> wrote: > Well, I'm finally doing it- learning yer UNIX type stuff. So far I'm > impressed with BSD, the package and the lots-o-love received from the > BSD community at large. very promising. > But... I'm as confused as all hell. I got the basics down (ie... finding > my way around, editing, mounting, recompiling the kernel). > But I can't seem to find any coherent source that would tell me once BSD > is installed, what to install/setup/run so as I can dial in and get > e-mail/news/web service. > So far, I've managed to edit (maybe the wrong word to use) the kernel to > take care of the internal modem used. After that, I'm lost. > So... Is there an idiots guide to this ? Maybe if I ever get this done, > I'll be the one to write it... > P.s. Thanx in advance, folks. You have the option of slip or ppp to connect to an ISP and be able to run, say, Netscape from X-Windows on your FreeBSD machine. There's lots of stuff in the manual on setting up ppp--the user variety or the kernel variety. If you do kernel ppp you need to compile the appropriate device into the kernel (slip and user ppp use the tun device which is already there, probably). Does the ISP provide ppp? If you just want to dial in to your ISP and run programs from your shell on the ISP, then you just have to use a dialer like kermit. But kermit has to be downloaded over the Internet. Sort of a catch-22. Annelise