From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 20:11:33 2003 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 7698C16A4D0 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 20:11:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1A643FA3 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 20:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 7 Nov 2003 22:14:16 -0600 Message-ID: <3FAC6CDE.8030907@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 22:11:10 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nickyrock References: <000801c3a58b$a0fdf160$30328818@pc2> In-Reply-To: <000801c3a58b$a0fdf160$30328818@pc2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Nov 2003 04:14:17.0234 (UTC) FILETIME=[C6A8A720:01C3A5AE] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 questions 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: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 04:11:33 -0000 Nickyrock wrote: >Is this where I ask for help configuring my mouse, and sound card, and nic card? I read all documentation before writing this email. I just want to be sure where to direct my questions before asking them. > > >thank you > >Nickyrock >_______________________________________________ > > I suppose the answer is yes. Have you subscribed to the list? It's a good idea, IMHO, to subscribe and try to get a 'feel' for the way a list works before you do many postings. I'll try and give some advice, just in case "Netiquette" wasn't a required subject in whatever school you're from ;-) 1. Some folks still read email with "text only" mailers and at low screen resolutions. So, wrap your lines (ie, hit "enter" key) every 80 characters or so, or someone may complain about your message format. 2. While we're on that subject, your mailer may have the capability to remember that when you send mail to the questions list, it should only use plain text. The afore- mentioned "folks" would appreciate that, also. 3. You mentioned you've read the docs ... that is great!! Do you mean the "Handbook"? It's quite possible to get everything going just with the handbook. How about the man pages? Do you know about 'apropos'??? Also try visiting a good search engine, and doing a site-specific search at www.freebsd.org. (Good Search Engine=google.com! ---so say the masses .... ) 4. Once you've read the docs, try doing what they say, and report any confusion or questions or problems that result, along with: a concise description of the problem actions or changes occuring prior to the problem becoming known what may have created the problem, if known what you've you tried to do to fix the problem 5. Remember that everyone on the list is a volunteer with there own problems (whether computer-related or not) and don't go 'over the top' with what you post.... Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.