Date: 18 Apr 2002 15:26:40 -0700 From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> To: Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hello from a newbie: Mark Filipak Message-ID: <87hem84p9b.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> In-Reply-To: <3CBF3231.9EB3E4A5@earthlink.net> References: <3CBF3231.9EB3E4A5@earthlink.net>
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Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> writes: | I'm a 55 year old electronics engineer in Mansfield, Ohio, but until last | year, a resident of San Jose, California. Welcome to the FreeBSD camp, Mark. | 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. Woo. You may be asking a bit much; FreeBSD 3.3 was released in September of 1999. Hard to get good support when we're up to FreeBSD 4.5+. I don't even see 3.3 in the ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ directory anymore. I do see from the 3.3 release notes, though, that the D-Link DFE530TX was supported under the VIA Technologies Rhine I/II driver. But that still doesn't help work out your issue. It may well be the "vr" driver you mention, in which case, you'll probably have to modify your kernel configuration file to include it (see /sys/i386/conf/ on your system, and Chapter 9 of the Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html even though you're running stuff that's rather out of date. However, I would gently recommend that you toss aside your intimidation, and install FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE. I can guarantee that it will come with all the tools you need, and it's not overly difficult to configure into a gateway or firewall or any sort of server you desire. Plus it'll be easier for us to support. We'll even walk you though configuring the kernel (though the handbook chapter mentioned above has complete instructions). As far as installation of 4.5-RELEASE, you can look at Chapter 2: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html which should explain the process. And of course, we're always here to help. | 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.) Well, hm. Rather than rehashing all the stuff in the Handbook, take a look through that first. | Second: Can anyone clue me into tool usage sufficient to build a kernel? An editor, make, and the standard compilers that come with FreeBSD. You'll also need to know something about the hardware you have installed. Take a look through /sys/i386/conf/LINT for a full explanation of all the kernel options. Best of luck, Mark. And again, welcome. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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