Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:41:47 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg Message-ID: <mma2ve$off$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <F28EE24B-85F1-4164-A304-E2F5A288E169@yahoo.com>
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john.haraden--- via freebsd-questions wrote: > (1). I have a work station with two Xeon processors. > (2) I have installed FreeBSD 10.1 > (3). I have no internet connection. > (4) When I tried to use pkg to make my system fully functional, the > system declared pkg was not in the base system, I would need to fetch it > over the Internet. That is impossible since I do not have internet > capability. [snip] > > Sent from my iPhone Not trying to sound rude here, but can you utilize your iPhone to read the appropriate sections of the Handbook that deal with network configuration? If not, possibly we may be able to help - depending upon circumstantial variables. pkg is not needed to configure networking within the base system, with the possible exceptions being some ndis wrapper stuff and other firmwares. iirc there is even a place during the installation which allows for most basic networking configuration. Whether or not there is support in the base system will depend upon what hardware you are trying to use. If your hardware is not supported by FreeBSD at all installing pkg will not fix that. Bottom line is you more than likely *can* have Internet connectivity with what you have currently installed; it just needs to be configured. Then you can move on to whatever. -Mike
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