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Old 11th April 2010
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Will receive freeBSD 8 install cd in the mail any day now. Moving from ubuntu karmic. I'm comfortable getting pppconfig setup. My question is, is there something similar in freeBSD I need to configure?

Essentially, I would like to configure freeBSD for dialup? Please advise; ie, what files do I need to edit.

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You can use ppp(8) or pppd(8).

Also take a look at the FreeBSD handbook Chapter 27: PPP and SLIP
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Old 13th April 2010
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Thank you.
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Oh my,

I need help. Can you offer 'real' help and not just suggest I go and read a manual. I'm new at this and need someone to walk me through this. Too much to process coming from a different o/s. 1) I need to configure dialup. 2) I don't see "startx" at all. I installed freeBSD from the cd, logged in as root.
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Old 15th April 2010
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/etc/ppp/ppp.conf
If you are lucky you can google your ISP and find a
ppp.conf already set up, edit the entries in it
(as well as name,pasword as necc.)
(change the log level to "local" might help, error messages
go onscreen rather than just to a file).
to point to the FreeBSD serial device (may vary
depending upon BSD version), make sure a
firewall is in place, and test it.
In v5 bsd, I had that set up in about two weeks.
in tty0, after issuing "at" commands at the ppp
prompt, "ath ... " "dial..." etc, the ppp.conf would
work in the background
The prompt would change
ppp
ppP
pPP
PPP
the last three would mean a connection.
then I would switch to another terminal
(alt-f2)
and be online.
(That is how I remember it anyway).
(That isp, before the "world wide web", no longer
is an isp for dialup AFAIK in the same manner.)
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Will try. Thanks.
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2) I don't see "startx" at all. I installed freeBSD from the cd, logged in as root.
You will need to install Xorg, and youw will probably also want to install a Window manager or Desktop environment.

The "fast way" to do this would be using pkg_add -r, this will fetch all the needed packages from the internet and install them, for example:
Code:
# pkg_add -r gnome2
# pkg_add -r kde4
# pkg_add -r xfce4
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Please advise. After editing configuration files, per your instruction; I received a:
child failed (errdead) logon error.

Not sure if I've selected (/dev/cuaa0, cuaa1) the right modem. As root, I tried ppp to logon and received the above error. So, unable to configure xorg and/or add any pkgs until I'm online.

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First of all, the 8.0 release has dropped support for pppd more commonly called kernal-ppp and slip. They have been removed from the 8.0 system. It takes time for changes like this to filter down through the handbook. So you will still see them documented in the handbook, which is in error.

What you want to use is user-ppp.

Now the second problem. In 8.0 the driver for the serial port has changes from sio to uart. This is documented in only one place, The release notes.


From the 8.0 release notes is the following
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html

[amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN.

Your device value of (/dev/cuaa0, cuaa1) should now be (/dev/cuau0, cuau1).

A more user-friendly explanation of configuring user-ppp is in the Install guide. Be aware that it has not been updated to the uart device names yet.
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