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To: schilling <schilling@home.se>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion
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schilling wrote:
> 
> It feels like i'm missing something ...
> For exampel : i can't find any doc that says
> how to bring up your ethernet card ?!
> Nor how to set the IP, route and netmask etc etc
> I see these thing like vital things ...
> Can't you put up a "step by step" thing ?!
> Like first you learn the commands; syntax, why using them etc etc
> and then exampels on how to use the commands...
> My biggest problem is that i can't get my NIC to work
> And i think this is the most important on a freebsd machine ?!
> In the begging of the installation i walked through the
> "kernel settings" (almost the beginning of the inst.) where
> I could choose NIC and set the port of the NIC ....
> I was never able to get back to that setting-page so I
> had to reinstall over and over and over again ....
> That's all .... (i'm a really newbie to unix ... i know :))
> 
> /schilling
> 
Here is a good start on the starting point:

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html

and another good place:

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html

and another good place:

http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.html

and another good place:

http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/

as you can see, they all have one thing in common http://www.freebsd.org


Good luck


Scott


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