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Just got the DSL working on FreeBSD, and thought I would visit LWD with Lynx to see how different it looks than a graphic Browser.

Now to get the rest of the stuff I have been putting off Smile

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:19 am Post subject:

Cool.. Could you share with us the process you folowed in order to run your ADSL on a FreeBSD box?

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:32 pm Post subject:

This is the ppp.conf located in /etc/ppp , see below

Then as Root type:

ppp -ddial name_of_the_provider #name of the provider gotten from below

Then I logged into another Virtual Terminal, any user will do, but mine had SuperUser privileges. Didnt need to use them but they were there. Then surfed away....

The next step is to set it so it will login at startup, and redial when it's lost. Got to love FreeBSD Docs, and I also bought a book, The Complete FreeBSD. All of which helped..

Some useful links

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html
http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/freebsd/pppoe/

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#################################################################


# PPP  Sample Configuration File


# Originally written by Toshiharu OHNO


# Simplified 5/14/1999 by wself@cdrom.com


#


# See /usr/share/examples/ppp/ for some examples


#


# $FreeBSD: src/etc/ppp/ppp.conf,v 1.8 2001/06/21 15:42:26 brian Exp $


#################################################################





default:


 set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command


 ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE)





 # Ensure that "device" references the correct serial port


 # for your modem. (cuaa0 = COM1, cuaa1 = COM2)


 #


# set device /dev/cuaa1





#added by wade 4-7-2005


name_of_the_provider:


 set device PPPoE:vr0       #vr0 was the address of my ethernet card, see below


 set authname XXXXXXX  #get this from your ISP


 set authkey XXXXXXXX   #get this from your ISP


 set dial


 set login


 enable dns


 add default HISADDR





# set speed 115200


# set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \


#           \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"


# set timeout 180         # 3 minute idle timer (the default)


# enable dns            # request DNS info (for resolv.conf)





papchap:


 #


 # edit the next three lines and replace the items in caps with


 # the values which have been assigned by your ISP.


 #





# set phone PHONE_NUM


# set authname XXXXXXX


# set authkey XXXXXXX





 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0


# add default HISADDR         # Add a (sticky) default route

to get the address of the ethernet card type this:

dmesg | grep address

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:07 am Post subject:

ethernet for ADSL? ... how is this?

what if i have an ADSL modem using USB.. i think i need a driver for this.. am i right?

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:43 am Post subject:

Your tapping the limit of my knowledge here, but Ill give it a try. I looked through some DOC's and through the book I have. THis is what I have come up with so far.

You do this at install or later by typing /stand/sysinstall

Quote:
If you have USB peripherals, select usbd to enable the usb daemon, which recognizes when USB devices are added or removed

Now as far as the ADSL Modem, it may have a driver already there for it, if not you will have to check the FreeBSD web site to see if it is supported. I know all of my stuff has been so far. But then again I dont have any out of the ordinary stuff running here.

I would say just give it a try and see what happens. Do you have FreeBSD installed now?

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:20 am Post subject:

I was thinking about this alittle more and came to the conclusion that PPPoe isnt what you want. You PROBIBLY want just straight up PPP with the device name in the ppp.conf file named for your usb device. I hope Im making sense here..

Anyway, this might work. Im not really sure, never tryed it.

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name_of_the_provider: 


 set device /dev/ugen0     # first generic usb device


                           # you may have to get rid of the /dev/ but Im not sure.


                           # For some reason I think that you need it. Thats why I put it there.


 set authname XXXXXXX  #get this from your ISP 


 set authkey XXXXXXXX   #get this from your ISP 


 set dial 


 set login 


 enable dns 


 add default HISADDR

Device names and usage:
ugen0 = first generic usb device
ukbd0 = first usb keyboard
ulpt0 = first usb printer
umass0 = first usb mass storage device
ums0 = first usb mouse
uscanner0 = first usb scanner

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:05 am Post subject:

heh you're using lynx we use lynx to run out abbott cell-dynn 4000 hematology instrument at work. I did notice that many to most laboratory insturments use unix/linux for the operating systems

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:05 am Post subject:

and the device name can not appear unless i install its driver?.

i hope your ADSL works fine

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:37 pm Post subject:

eech55 wrote:
and the device name can not appear unless i install its driver?.

i hope your ADSL works fine

It should appear if you have the USB daemon running. The system should see the device and assign it an address, well really more of a device name. The driver may already be there, if that is the case, the system will load it for you. Of course you could compile it into the kernal later if you wanted to gain alittle performance edge.

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject:

skildude wrote:
heh you're using lynx we use lynx to run out abbott cell-dynn 4000 hematology instrument at work. I did notice that many to most laboratory insturments use unix/linux for the operating systems

Cool. I should ask a bead friend of mine if they use Linux/unix in the lab she works in down in the cities. She is some kind of lab tech, not really sure what, you would think I would know since I have known her for a couple of years now.