From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 11:11:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E61437B405 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:11:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from x14.quik.com (x14.quik.com [216.176.28.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD94B43F43 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:11:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jimwatts@quik.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by x14.quik.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id h14JBfBa023868 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG.qbigmail; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:11:41 -0800 Received: from quik.com (dialup-ras1-225.pdx.or.uspops.net [216.239.165.225]) (authenticated bits=0) by x14.quik.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h14JBecf023846 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:11:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3E400EA2.1060707@quik.com> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:04:02 -0800 From: jim Reply-To: jimwatts@quik.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: I 'm learning Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got two very good responces to a question I asked here even though I didn't really know what I wanted so. I will atempt to be more specific I am trying to setup bsd on an old machine .aptiva IBM from 1995 32megs of ram 133 mghtz proccessor 1.5gig maxtor hd. I have been running linux mandrake as a stand alone system for four years and in the last year I have tried several others mostly linux, however I want to try learning different ones. I want to be able to set them up to do the things a user wants to do. So far I have not been able to get freebsd to play a game surf the net or any other aplication what so ever. I am not descouraged I have gotten windowmaker to come up at least. I don't care what destop; gnome ,kde, windowmaker,icewm,fwm,afterstep, I end up useing I just want to be able to learn to have it read my jvc digital video camera stills and do email and surf the web.inter chat rooms and the like . If there are freebsd aplications that are easier for someone like me to set up and run I need to know what step to take to get bsd running the best way possible. well on my free time that is how do i get it to dial up iv read the pppdeamon thing and can't sortit out from the ethernet networking which I know is simalar but I have no intreat in hitching the machines together i just want to get the modem to dail up the internet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message