Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 01:45:04 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Paul Simon <paul@qdice.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie install experience Message-ID: <20030405014504.F88507@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030404135143.15976.qmail@qdice.com>; from paul@qdice.com on Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:51:43PM %2B0800 References: <20030404135143.15976.qmail@qdice.com>
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:51:43PM +0800, Paul Simon wrote:
>
> I now have FreeBSD 4.8 on two boxes. However, the Netgear FA310-TX is
> still not recognized. Could somebody point me in a direction to begin
> to trouble shoot this? Should I be posting to another list?
Regarding that last question, I hope I can reply helpfully.
Because you want help with FreeBSD, you should be posting to
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. Anyone who wants to reply to you
should also be replying to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (not here),
as well as sending a cc to you directly.
Freebsd-questions is the technical support mailing list, no matter
how simple or difficult the question is. Freebsd-newbies (this one)
is for all the other chat, moral support, and for finding out about
using the FreeBSD mailing lists, i.e., for the other stuff that newbies
want to say that is too noisy for freebsd-questions. Therefore
you should only need to search in the freebsd-questions list archive
to find out if someone had ever asked the same question before.
I'm glad you've had such a good experience with FreeBSD so far.
I was running it on an old Optiplex and it works well apart from
the occasional puzzle with the i810 chip and the ancient XFree86.
The mailing list search page on the FreeBSD web site brought up lots of
items when I searched for "i810", which solved most problems without
having to ask. Recent versions of X handle the i810 well, but you could
try researching your current problem in a similar way.
When you write to FreeBSD-questions, if you tell them what you've
done already (e.g. searched the mailing lists, read the foo man page)
you'll get an extra enthusiastic response from the support volunteers.
It also helps a lot if you can keep your email line lengths to no
more than about 75 characters so that every kind of mail reader can
read it easily.
We'll be looking forward to hearing about your success, but if you
get frustrated you can come back here to let off steam too :-)
This is also the only list where people get away with off topic stuff,
even the occasional Microsoft problem if it's essential to using FreeBSD.
Ahem... I didn't say it's allowed, just that nobody here seems to mind :-)
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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