kppp setup has no U. S. country locality

Date: 28 Jun 2003 22:19:08 -0700
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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I'm using a 5.1-release installation and trying to get online with it. Unfortunately, when trying to setup KPPP I see that that there is no
'United States' locality (a rather short list of countries, actually,
is presented). It says that you can bypass the selection of a
country, but in fact you can't. So, I'm left selecting a non-U.S.
country and a connection is made, but it doesn't work. After
selecting a country, you have to select an ISP in that country from a
list and it locks out features like default routes and this apparently
causes the connection that it makes to be faulty. One of the clues is
that the IP address info as listed in the 'details' screen of KPPP is
different than what is seen via the ifconfig command - which I've
never seen before in the use of KPPP. I've setup the /etc/ppp/options
file as required, so I'm not sure where I could be going wrong.
Wanting to use pppd as an alternative, I issued the pppd command alone
and this doesn't even dial the modem. All I get back from using this
command is a prompt and no message from the shell.
My modem is a serial Creative ModemBlaster (definitely not a
winmodem).
Thanks for any help!