Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:35:10 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: yarddog <yarddog@sleeping-giants.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tech help Message-ID: <3AE3326E.6ADE801D@urx.com> References: <00ce01c0cb5f$6411e580$9489270c@flafstaff.npg.ispchannel.com>
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yarddog wrote: > > Hello, I am completely new to FBSD. I am having a lot of problems installing > it. I bought the Power Pak yesterday with 10 CDs and a book. But, I cannot > get past installation. Is there a tech support phone number to call? I need > step by step help with this. I have a HP Pavilion 6635 with a Celeron 533, a > SMC EZ 10/1000 1211TX network card that the install won't recognize, a HP > M70 monitor that install won't recognize. I cannot get the network card to > work or the X configuration for the monitor to work. I am stuck. I have > tried to install this at least 11 times and even reinstalled Win98SE and > tried to install again. I have made BIOS changes. I think I tried every > thing. This is a very common computer and the hardware is mainstream so I > don't know if the hardware is the problem or not. I hope not. > > Any ideas? I cannot get to step one. There isn't any free telephone help. You really don't need it. The problem is figuring out how to ask the right question. People spend their personal time trying to help each other here on FreeBSD-questions. You need to install the system source. That was one of the options during the install. Sooner or later, you will want to build a new kernel. If your system will boot, you don't have to reinstall. There are somethings that you do have to do to get networking and x-windows running. When you type "dmesg", do you see your network card being recognized. If you do, there are some things that you have to do. There is a series of tutorials at http://www.freebsd.org/. The purpose is getting you off dead zero. It doesn't take much motion to do significant things. You can download some such as the handbood as .pdf files with Win 98. You can mount your Win98 drive in FreeBSD and use the pdf file from FreeBSD. This is handy until you figure out how to dial out and etc. X-windows is a different problem. What version of x-windows did you install? The way you configure XFree86-3.3.6 is different than version 4.0.x. I use 3.3.6 and use XF86Setup to do the configuration. I have 3 or 4 different video cards and they all use the SVGA x-server. FreeBSD doesn't depend on x-windows but x sure makes using FreeBSD a lot easier. X-windows is an application and not part of FreeBSD. The choice of X-server and video card can be seen at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html. The same information but looked at in a different way is at http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status.html Kent > > Thanks. > > Jim. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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