[kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

[Joe Vender]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 01:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
...
> There is https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55785 on record, your
> description sounds more like you're getting a kernel panic in the
> background though (KPPP is a frontend for pppd and the in-kernel ppp
> driver).

If I want to use KPPP in FreeBSD, do I need to first manually edit any config 
files for pppd, and if so, please elaborate, or does creating the settings in 
the "Configure" sections of KPPP take care of everything needed?

I found this bug report which sounds just like the problem I'm having with 
FreeBSD and KPPP. Is there any intention to address it?
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-i386/2006-May/004089.html

IMHO, setting up a dialup connection in FreeBSD via ppp seems like jumping 
through hoops, even compared to linux. I was told on the freebsd-questions 
mailing list that KPPP uses pppd, and that pppd is known to be very buggy and 
essentially unmaintained in FreeBSD. If this is true, then a very easy-to-use 
feature of KDE, namely KPPP for setting up a dialup connection, is not going 
to be usable. A lot of users are going to be put off FreeBSD if they can't 
use KPPP with a serial modem on dialup. FreeBSD needs a usable KPPP, and 
therefore a working and maintained pppd, if it has any plans to be considered 
a user-friendly desktop alternative to linux, not to mention an alternative 
to Windows.

> You could try using FreeBSD's alternative ppp utility instead and see if
> that works better for you, see
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html