From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 16 19:40:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 AF04916A424 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:40:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sharma.animesh@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4077443D55 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:40:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sharma.animesh@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so738853nzo for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:40:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:reply-to:from:to:subject:date:organization:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index:x-mimeole; b=N4EoUo4rW8J/ToUwIrEClOEcjg6XhqI7iq8yLBNG3EfeAriNeClAaxQuTGtIG8w5ZxSdpokp6+nZiDx5hz22EeMWVNMOx2ZC88m6uCCjQIj4GlVdKoQX4KTN2TP1re6tJotrCfgEcMA3AqWlcbikP4g8YNXeeo/XfT9sZA7WwQk= Received: by 10.37.15.64 with SMTP id s64mr1664330nzi; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:40:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bhaktiyoga ( [69.76.181.22]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 16sm3890133nzo.2005.10.16.12.40.47; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:40:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Animesh Sharma" To: Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:40:42 -0500 Organization: umkc.edu Message-ID: <003c01c5d289$7ede5660$0202a8c0@bhaktiyoga> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcXSiX5dbp0aNOK5TwyQa1CdFyMgpQ== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: My experiment which FreeBSD, stuck with wireless card. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sharma.animesh@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:40:49 -0000 Dear Folks, I had a Mandrake + WinXP dual boot system but somehow was not satisfied with Mandrake distro, though it was really cool, still I was not happy. So when I saw the FreeBSD 6.0 RC1, I thought I will go for it. Right from the installation, I started anticipating the difficulties which were going to come. First the FDISK thing I could not comprehend much, it was easier with Mandrake to partition the hard disk. I feel the F1 keys doesn't give a very comprehensible help and the sysintall interface is cumbersome. Anyways reading some excellent documents on FreeBSD available on the net and my intuition, I could manage the installation. I was not much comfirtable ticking all the programs using ALL package choice, I feel there should be one check box for INSTALL EVERYTHING. Also repeated changing of installation CDs was a cumbersome process (I had to alternate between 2 CD's 10 times) and it gave one error for Scren Saver installaton. But it was worth it and now I have FreeBSD and WinXP with FreeBSD bootloader installed at MBR :). After booting, to enable my sound card, I had to go to /boot/defaults/loader.conf and replace NO with YES at the snd_drv_ich using VI and card worked like magic. The comment in loader.conf file were pretty cool and thus I could figure it myself. Now my problem is that I am not able to install my Wireless Card ( WN825G Motorola ). I tried windows driver with ndisgen tool, but it didn't work. Neither ndiswrapper is getting installed. I also have some problem with java installation, but hopefully I will be able to solve it myself with the help of internet. Kindly help me regarding the wireless card thing, Regards, Animesh ______________________"The Answer Lies in Genome"______________________ Dr. Animesh Sharma Computational Biologist http://fuzzylife.org/aboutme.html