From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 1 21:26: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail9.wlv.netzero.net (mail9.wlv.netzero.net [209.247.163.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5ABE037B67D for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 21:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwvehrs@netzero.net) Received: (qmail 21207 invoked by uid 0); 2 May 2000 04:25:55 -0000 Received: from pppa17-resalechicagometro9-1r7120.saturn.bbn.com (HELO wildkat) (4.4.240.78) by mail9.wlv.netzero.net with SMTP; 2 May 2000 04:25:55 -0000 Message-ID: <001501bfb3ee$87a3cab0$4ef00404@wildkat> From: "Jeffrey Vehrs" To: "Laurent de Segur" , References: Subject: Re: Newbie question. Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 23:25:41 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Laurent - I have 3.4-Stable running on my laptop, ThinkPad 600. XFree86 3.3.4 and xdm are running as well. No problem there. Cannot boot directly to X? Did you create xsession in your home directory? If not, please do. /etc/pccard.conf.sample should have the list of Xircom cards. And, yes, you can remove all entries that you don't use. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurent de Segur" To: Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 10:56 PM Subject: Newbie question. > Hi, > > Apologies if these are trivial questions but I couldn't get any information > regarding these issues (or couldn't find any): > - I installed FreeBSD 4.0 manually on a Thinkpad 600X. The system boots fine > and I get to the login message. > - I installed and configure XFree86 4.0 and this also works fine. > > However I can not boot directly to X. Which file do I need to modify to > start X after init time (my /etc/defaults/rc.conf correctly included a > local_startup option pointing to rc.d and the file in there contains xdm but > that doesn't work.) > > - I have two ethernet card. A Xircom realport modem + ethernet and a > realport 2 ethernet only. > > I got the complete FreeBSD book and to my amazement the author mentions that > pccard configuration is not discussed in the book. Bummer! > > BTW, the book is not really good. I learn more on line than what I can find > in it. I don't recommend it. > > I tried to setup a /etc/pccard.conf by duplication the pccard.conf.sample. > There are a couple of entries for xircom cards but none seem to be the ones > I own. > > Should I leave the sample file alone or do I need to remove all entries but > the card(s) I insert in there. When I insert the card, there is a message > stating no entry for "")"". And running a verbose on pccardd shows only the > first card in the sample list (Aeronet). > > Are both realport and realport2 supported in FreeBSD 4.0? I read somewhere > that ethernet doesn't work with these cards. If not, is there some hope in > the future? These cards seems to be pretty popular with IBM and DELL > computers. > > Where can I find more info on setting up host and dns and network config for > my ISP? I set up the hostname and a bunch of params as well as a resolv.conf > file because I don't want to run a dns server on my machine. > > I would really appreciate if someone could give me a hint on this. > Thanks in advance, > > > Laurent > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > _____________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message