Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:45:36 +0530 From: Arindam <arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com> To: "Joel Adamson" <trashbird1240@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Experience (As promised) Message-ID: <d85a51ff0609180115v5efc96c6p5ca7a92fea2cafcf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060917192245.94856.qmail@web50413.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060917192245.94856.qmail@web50413.mail.yahoo.com>
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> Dear Very Helpful and Informative FreeBSD List, > > I installed FreeBSD on Friday Night and tried very hard to get it all working. My initial X problem actually fixed itself (you can imagine my surprise), however, even with that, our computer is useless as a desktop (or anything else) without an internet connection. My hardware is unsupported and despite my best efforts, I decided it would be better to expedite the process and I installed Mepis Linux. > Which version of FreeBSD did you install. > I would hardly describe it the way another newbie did one week ago. It was a good challenge. I'll wait until I'm a better administrator and there's more support for hardware I might have. > > The only really annoying thing was that I perpetually had trouble mounting my usb flash drive. I think this was a filesystem problem. > What was the problem? I am a newbie too ... my second week on FreeBSD. I could manage mounting my 1G Memorex traveldrive without a bother. The usbd daemon is configured to run on boot. Depending on which USB port I connect it to, I do something like: mount -t msdosfs [-o ro] /dev/da0s1 <my_mount_point> I prefer to use "-o ro" whenever I mount a file system on some directory and I don't want to take any kind of risks. > Thanks for any help you've offered, > Joel > > Joel J. Adamson > Arlington, MA > > Just to share it with you. I had a couple of other fixes to do. I could not get my AMD PcNet 97c79x ethernet card to work with my FreeBSD 6.1 installation, although the device could be detected and configured through sysinstall / ifconfig. My packets just won't get past the LAN card on to the wire. So I swapped it with another card I had on a different PC which dual boots to RHEL and Windows. That is a Realtek card, and it worked fine with FreeBSD. The other issue I faced was with configuring my old 3-button Logitech mouse. But even that works now on X - some configuration changes. I disabled moused by removing moused entries from /etc/rc.conf - I felt it was making the mouse freeze in the X term. Get some of the window managers - they help. Afterstep / XFCE / FVWM are good points to start. Cheers, Andy
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