From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 12:07:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0CA16A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:07:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E29EE43D3F for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:07:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldj1066@fastmail.fm) Received: from unknown (HELO pres7000.mylan.net) (donaldj@ameritech.net@69.211.94.237 with plain) by smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Oct 2004 12:07:39 -0000 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:07:53 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041022045804.29622.qmail@web81210.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041022045804.29622.qmail@web81210.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410220707.53493.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: Internet Access X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:07:41 -0000 On Thursday 21 October 2004 11:58 pm, Li Davis wrote: > Hi, > I am switiching my OS over to FreeBSD. Hopefully, that is. > > My DSL service with SBCYahoo said that they can't integrate with > FreeBSD. I have to find someone in the area I live that will > work before my first 30 days is up with SBC, so I can cancel the > one year contract without big $ penalties. > > It seems like it should work, from what is said about FreeBSD. > Could you please help me with this? Thank you. > Hello Li, It does work. It's easy to setup. I've used it for years. After you install FreeBSD on your computer (while the install is going on, the computer will connect to the Internet with no problems to get information) you'll probably find you can't connect to the Internet. The first thing you need to check is /etc/resolv.conf. It's probably not there. I've always had to put it in. You need the ip's of the SBC DNS nameservers put in it. If you are still using Windows, pullup the command prompt, type nslookup. That will give you the main ip address of the DNS server you are using. Don -- Donald J. O'Neill donaldj1066@fastmail.fm