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From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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On Sat, 16 May 1998, Shen Jing wrote:

Excellent description of your situation. Thank you.

>the problems is :
>
>  First :  
>     at the bootmanager's prompt F? , I just can choose F2 to boot up 
>  with FreeBSD , it choose F1 to boot Dos , the system hangs .

Not sure about DOS.

>   Second :
>
>     when the freebsd boot up , after it  config the ed1 ( ethernet card
>)
>with ifconfig , it shows  :
>
>    ed1: device time out 

ed0 is the first network card. ed1 is the second network card. You should
config ed0 and remove ed1 if you have only one network card.

>    and after I login , I test the internet connection using ping , 
>
>    if I ping 127.0.0.1 and  202.96.98.26 (my card's ip address) , it
>shows
>the connection is fine , but if ping some host on our LAN , it always
>shows:
>
>    the host is down 

Fix ed0 first and then ask this question again if you still have trouble.

>  The Third problem is :
>
>     when I login and set /usr/X11R6/bin into my path , 
>  I use startx to start X windows , it always tell me can not connect to 
>server ,and ask me to use (--) to select a server , I do config the
>Xfree86 at
>the setup procedure and at that time the system show the server start up
>successfully , why ?

You should start X windows as root. When you do the config, you are root,
so it works ok.

Thank you,       | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at.
Jason Wells	 | http://www.freebsd.org/


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