From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 12:53: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from digitalinet.com (digitalinet.com [216.65.124.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4E7637B422 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:52:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yarddog@sleeping-giants.com) Received: (qmail 71611 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2001 19:54:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO thempas1) (12.39.137.148) by host131.digitalinet.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2001 19:54:44 -0000 Message-ID: <011401c0cb66$3f2891e0$9489270c@flafstaff.npg.ispchannel.com> Reply-To: "yarddog" From: "yarddog" To: Cc: References: <00ce01c0cb5f$6411e580$9489270c@flafstaff.npg.ispchannel.com> <3AE3326E.6ADE801D@urx.com> Subject: Re: tech help Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:55:56 -0700 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Stewart" To: "yarddog" Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 12:35 PM Subject: Re: tech help > > > 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. That is fine but that can use a lot of bandwidth. > > 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. The source is the CD. I cannot do a thing with the kernel until I get it installed. > > 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. I cannot install so I cannot type "dmesg." > > 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. The X version is the one that comes with the 4.2 install from the Power Pak. The install offers no version choices. > > 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 I am lost here. Jim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message