Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:53:05 -0400 From: Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Hello from a newbie: Mark Filipak Message-ID: <3CBF3231.9EB3E4A5@earthlink.net>
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Hello All! Thanks for having me over. I'm a 55 year old electronics engineer in Mansfield, Ohio, but until last year, a resident of San Jose, California. I've used UNIX systems in the past but to be honest, I wasn't too keen for them. I have a problem that Julian Elischer (of freebsd-net) has graciously helped me with and I'm hoping that some kind person here will also help me over the worst bumps. I promise to get up to speed as quickly as possible and to then help other folks. I know I'm taking my first steps down a long road. So here's a wave and a 'Hello' from me to you folks who are so far up the road that I can barely see you. Here's my situation: I just installed GallantWEB. It is a pre-configured version of FreeBSD 3.3 that acts as a gateway/firewall/server. It is up and running but doesn't recognize my D-Link DFE-530TX+ ethernet cards. What I have to work with ======================== I have the full FreeBSD 3.3 distribution -- thankfully, the same version that GallantWEB uses -- plus supplements (total of 10 discs) from Walnut Creek. I have Greg Lehey's book: "The Complete FreeBSD". I also have instructions from Julian on how to tease a D-Link DFE-530TX+ ethernet card driver from a module named "vr" (whatever that is). Do I need to modify the makefile? I also have the basic full FreeBSD 4.0 distribution (4 discs) from Walnut Creek, but I don't want to tackle that right now and would like to get 3.3 fully functional first -- GallantWEB being pre-configured really helped and I figure I can use that as a template for a future 4.+ system, but I have to understand it first. (BTW, my previous attempt to install 3.3, two years ago, ended in total failure.) What I need =========== The GallantWEB installed with *no* tools -- no C compiler or linker, no LINT, not even man, no shell processors or GUI. I need to extract and copy into place in the running system, the tools I am going to need for day-to-day use, for help with UNIX commands, and for building a new kernel. (I'm scared to death...) I don't have much of a clue what I'll need, where to find them on the Walnut Creek CDs, how to extract them -- do I need gunzip? -- or where to 'put' them once I've extracted them. Lehey's book is wonderful as far as it goes, but it doesn't seem to provide an overview of the sort of things I will need to know and do -- please point me in the right direction if you know otherwise. I don't write C, but I do write Java and Javascript, which are obviously very similar to C. I also write a bunch of other HLLs, plus assembler for various microcontrollers. So I'm not totally clueless. I'm simply in raw mode vis-a-vis UNIX. First: Can anyone give me a map of what should be found in the average, well behaved and user friendly system? (I don't know a /usr from a /var.) Second: Can anyone clue me into tool usage sufficient to build a kernel? -- Lehey does provide some help with this, but I'm sure those who have had to do this can probably relate some informative war stories. Thanks in advance, and if anyone is into electronic music I can show my further thanks by way of some CDRs of music that you won't find in stores -- wink, wink, nudge, nudge -- all perfectly legal. Ciao -- Mark -- See my resume: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/resume/ See my music trade pages: http://home.earthlink.net/~filipak/music/ Last updated: 14 April 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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