From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 07:46:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB5437B405 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:46:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A402A43F85 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:46:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h34Fj4g01169; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 01:45:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 01:45:04 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Paul Simon Message-ID: <20030405014504.F88507@welearn.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Sue Blake , Paul Simon , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20030404135143.15976.qmail@qdice.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030404135143.15976.qmail@qdice.com>; from paul@qdice.com on Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:51:43PM +0800 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie install experience X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 15:46:16 -0000 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*-