From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 28 18:39:48 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA18803 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Dec 1994 18:39:48 -0800 Received: from mail04.mail.aol.com (mail04.mail.aol.com [152.163.172.53]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA18797 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 1994 18:39:46 -0800 From: OCGRP@aol.com Received: by mail04.mail.aol.com (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA21552; Wed, 28 Dec 1994 21:36:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 21:36:07 -0500 Message-Id: <941228213605_1147347@aol.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD installing questions Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have just purchased the FreeBSD CD (the new version 2.0) from walnut creek and I have a couple of questions on the installation. I am new to FreeBSD so these will probably be trivial questions for you. 1. I installed the X library (XFree86) but it wont start because it can't find the mouse driver. I used the default /dev/mouse. I am using a Microsoft commmpatable mouse on COM1. I assume that I have to create this device but I don't know how. 2. I have an SMC Ethernet card. How do I install it? I have no other devices in my machine. I tried sticjing it in and on boot-up it gave me a few address conflict messages. 3. Does FreeBSD support streams as in SVR4.2? Thanks for your assistance and for a great UNIX system!! Jay O'Brien ocgrp@aol.com