On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:22:52AM -0500, Stephen R. Ceasar wrote:
> Can anybody point me to material related to configuring a serial port for use as a nic? I managed to install 1.2.1 on a laptop w/ 3.7 usable RAM. I am quite a newbie and everything I've read is making my head spin.

You want either ppp or slip. Read the man pages:
ppp(4)
pppd(8)
sl(4)
slip(8)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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