How can i make dial up PPP easy? !!!

sweetleaf sweetleaf at myrealbox.com
Sun Jul 20 03:04:59 PDT 2003


I am trying to setup a friends computer with freebsd 5.1. He has used 
windows for the last 5 years and has never used a unix based 
computer.......so i need to make things as easy and "point and click" as 
possible.
He uses a dial up isp "everyones internet" for internet service and i 
dont have any idea on how to make this easy as i have always used a 
cable modem. What should i use? I have heard that ppp is what most use. 
Whatever solution, I will need it to have a good gui interface so he can 
jut click connect and disconnect etc... and username : password.  Any 
good suggestions.

Also, I cant seem to find the modem showing up in dmesg.  The modem is a 
astec pci - modem,,, here is my dmesg.


dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5 02:55:42 GMT 2003
    root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc08a1000.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/linux.ko" at 0xc08a1244.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/nvidia.ko" at 0xc08a12f0.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc08a139c.
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 1533988143 Hz
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ (1533.99-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x662  Stepping = 2
  
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
  AMD Features=0xc0480000<MP,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
real memory  = 268369920 (255 MB)
avail memory = 251404288 (239 MB)
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: <VIA694 AWRDACPI> on motherboard
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 8 entries at 0xc00fdef0
acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model.
Timecounter "ACPI-fast"  frequency 3579545 Hz
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <thermal zone> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 
0x5000-0x500f,0x4080-0x40ff,0x4000-0x407f,0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <VIA Generic host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at 
device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
nvidia0: <GeForce4 MX 440> mem 
0xd8000000-0xd807ffff,0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff,0xe4000000-0xe4ffffff irq 11 
at device 0.0 on pci1
xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xd000-0xd07f mem 
0xe7010000-0xe701007f irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci0
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:67:10:3a
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus0
xlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 13.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <simple comms> at device 15.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 17.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <VIA 8233A UDMA133 controller> port 0xdc00-0xdc0f at device 
17.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xe000-0xe01f irq 10 at device 
17.2 on pci0
usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xe400-0xe41f irq 10 at device 
17.3 on pci0
usb1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 
0x3f7,0x3f2-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0 port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0
ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: <HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 690C> MLC,PCL,PML
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model MouseMan+, device ID 0
orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xd0000-0xd07ff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 2 steps (100% to 50.0%), currently 100.0%
ad0: 38172MB <MAXTOR 6L040J2> [77557/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA133
acd0: CD-RW <CD-W58E> at ata1-master PIO4
acd1: CDROM <CD-ROM 40X/AKU> at ata1-slave PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a



Thanks in advance.



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