Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 21:51:44 -0600 From: Larry Hawk <larryhawk@sprintmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Getting on the internet w/FreeBSD Message-ID: <367C7450.E1FDD92B@sprintmail.com>
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--------------3BCB09B6987D334E71DC2957 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently became quite interested in UNIX (FreeBSD to be specific), and I have spent a lot of time trying to learn the ins-and-outs of it. I come from a strictly Microsoft background so needless to say, I have had to un-learn alot of things that I "thought" I knew. But over the course of the last 6 months (which is about how long I've been trying to figure this out), I have yet to be able to decipher how to do certain tasks. I purchased the CD-Rom/Book set of FreeBSD 2.2.5 from Walnut Creek and have studied it religiously, but there are parts of the book that seem very informative to the new-UNIX user while the very next section is totally cryptic. I am a network administrator for a multimedia production firm with about 30 PCs (running a mixture of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0). I know my way around a computer. Could you please explain to me, in painful detail, how to access the internet on a computer running FreeBSD 2.2.5 with a 56k US Robotics modem? I am using KDE 1.0 as my desktop environment and I've think I done well to figure this out all on my own (No one I know knows anything about UNIX, so I ain't getting no help....) If you can explain this to me (under both XWindows and/or the command-line), I would greatly appreciate it. As I stated earlier. I come from a MS background so I am used to a GUI. Command-line stuff is somewhat alien to me (I can use it but I VERY MUCH prefer GUI's). I'm totally frustrated and ready to say the hell with UNIX. I am aware of many of the shortcomings of MS Window, which is part of the reason for my interest in FreeBSD. But if simple things like getting on-line are this hard to figure out, then maybe UNIX (i.e. FreeBSD, Linux, etc) just isn't for me. Please help. I don't want Windows 98 to be my only option for an OS (It really sucks...). :-) Larry Hawk larryhawk@sprintmail.com or Hawk_Larry@mail.aera.com --------------3BCB09B6987D334E71DC2957 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> I recently became quite interested in UNIX (FreeBSD to be specific), and I have spent a lot of time trying to learn the ins-and-outs of it. I come from a strictly Microsoft background so needless to say, I have had to un-learn alot of things that I "thought" I knew. But over the course of the last 6 months (which is about how long I've been trying to figure this out), I have yet to be able to decipher how to do certain tasks. I purchased the CD-Rom/Book set of FreeBSD 2.2.5 from Walnut Creek and have studied it religiously, but there are parts of the book that seem very informative to the new-UNIX user while the very next section is totally cryptic. I am a network administrator for a multimedia production firm with about 30 PCs (running a mixture of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0). I know my way around a computer. <b>Could you please explain to me, in painful detail, how to access the internet on a computer running FreeBSD 2.2.5 with a 56k US Robotics modem?</b> I am using KDE 1.0 as my desktop environment and I've think I done well to figure this out all on my own (No one I know knows anything about UNIX, so I ain't getting no help....) If you can explain this to me (under both XWindows and/or the command-line), I would greatly appreciate it. As I stated earlier. I come from a MS background so I am used to a GUI. Command-line stuff is somewhat alien to me (I can use it but I VERY MUCH prefer GUI's). I'm totally frustrated and ready to say the hell with UNIX. I am aware of many of the shortcomings of MS Window, which is part of the reason for my interest in FreeBSD. But if simple things like getting on-line are this hard to figure out, then maybe UNIX (i.e. FreeBSD, Linux, etc) just isn't for me. Please help. I don't want Windows 98 to be my only option for an OS (It really sucks...). :-) <p>Larry Hawk <br>larryhawk@sprintmail.com <br>or <br>Hawk_Larry@mail.aera.com</html> --------------3BCB09B6987D334E71DC2957-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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