From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 26 23:31:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22562 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:31:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22556 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:31:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA12411; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:31:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:31:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "James P. Brewster" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix In-Reply-To: <344C5C97.BA094A0D@virtual-net.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, James P. Brewster wrote: > I have free/bsd installed on my laptop, but I cannot access the internet > because free/bsd does not come with any compatible drivers for my modem. > I have a U.S Robotics/Megahertz XJ1560 56k. modem. If you have any > suggestions please let me know?? Install the PAO distribution from http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO. > Also I can only use a generic driver for my video card, it is a Neo > Magic possibly made by Yamaha? If you have any suggestions for that > also please notify me!! As mentioned previously, NeoMagic has not chosen to release the programming specs for it's cards, so an accelerated X server is only available commercially. Luckily, it's from XI Graphics, a long time FreeBSD supporter. I think AccelX is ~$100 and is a great package. See http://www.xig.com/ for info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major