Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Where to start?
References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0003040307420.24089-100000@zippy.shellyeah.org> <38C20E1E.E441685F@clara.net>
From: Mark Gray <markgray@iago.nac.net>
Date: 05 Mar 2000 04:08:19 -0500
Message-ID: <6sr9dpu6m4.fsf@iago.nac.net>
Lines: 44
X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4
NNTP-Posting-Host: iago.nac.net
X-Trace: 5 Mar 2000 04:08:19 -0500, iago.nac.net
Path: news.adfa.oz.au!clarion.carno.net.au!news0.optus.net.au!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newshub1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au!newshub3.home.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!newshub.northeast.verio.net!verio!netnews.com!newspeer1.nac.net!nntp2.nac.net!iago.nac.net
Xref: news.adfa.oz.au comp.os.minix:34806

Robin Kay <kaypictures@clara.net> writes:

> To my knowledge standard minix (or any minix?) does not have support for
> establishing SLIP or PPP (Dial-Up) connections using a modem.

No longer true, from the latest minix news:

minix ppp is available at:

ftp://minix1.hampshire.edu/pub/contrib/ppp1.2.txt
ftp://minix1.hampshire.edu/pub/contrib/ppp1.2.tar.Z

Mirrored at:

ftp://thompson.oit.umass.edu/pub/minix.2.0/2.0.2ppp/

> Minix is a bare-bones UNIX OS designed as an educational
> tool. You'll quickly find that this and (many) other (simpler)
> things have been left as an exercise to the reader.

This is still quite true for other things :-)


[snip]
>> You don't have to answer my question in detail unless you feel like it,
>> which of course is welcome.  Here's ALL I want to do:  Connect to my ISP
>> via the 2400 baud internal modem that's installed on the laptop, and get
>> my mail.  That's it!  That's all I want to do.  But for me this is a
>> tremendous undertaking.  I just need the major steps and I'll try to break
>> them down myself.  I'm quite capable of reading man pages and doing
>> research, I just need to know WHICH ones to read and where to start.

For more info see:

MINIX INFORMATION SHEET
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html

http://www.minix.org/
http://harmless.rrnet.com/Minix/FTP_Sites.html
http://barnyard.syr.edu/software.shtml
http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/minix-l.html
http://minix1.hampshire.edu/faq/faqfaq.html

Hope this helps.
