From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 22:50:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.jodeit.com (mail.jodeit.com [207.10.131.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDA237B400 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdennyj [207.10.131.111] by mail.jodeit.com (SMTPD32-6.06) id ABBCB2A0116; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 01:48:28 -0500 Message-ID: <012d01c1c4db$9d47b9d0$6f830acf@gdennyj> From: "Denny Jodeit" To: "David Herman" , References: <15492.31410.219242.379055@guru.mired.org> <20020306061548.A307237B400@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I'm kinda happy (wasI bought your system and am not so happy!) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 01:53:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam. 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 > For example - I'm still searching the documentation for information which > will help me to get my internal ISA modem (hardware based "NOT" win modem) > working. > So far the best I've found is "recompile your kernel". I find it hard to > believe that I need to recompile my kernel as the first thing I do after > installing the OS. > > dh The beauty is, you CAN recompile the kernel. And, I know it looks like a daunting task at this stage, but it really isn't. Important part is backing up the original kernel should something go awry. Don't be afraid to ask questions. I was kinda flamed for my post to the original thread, for my attitude, but....I can guarantee that 98% of all successful installations of FreeBSD were preceded by a measure of study and research. FreeBSD, by nature, is NOT an off-the-shelf OS, nor was it ever intended to be. Personally, I hope FreeBSD never hits the mainstream. Is it just me, or does RedHat look more and more like Microsoft and Windows everyday ? .........get my drift ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message