Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 12:49:20 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Shen Jing <sj@china.pages.com.cn> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A newbie's question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980516124402.5026A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <355D8126.41F7@china.pages.com.cn>
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On Sat, 16 May 1998, Shen Jing wrote: Excellent description of your situation. Thank you. >the problems is : > > First : > at the bootmanager's prompt F? , I just can choose F2 to boot up > with FreeBSD , it choose F1 to boot Dos , the system hangs . Not sure about DOS. > Second : > > when the freebsd boot up , after it config the ed1 ( ethernet card >) >with ifconfig , it shows : > > ed1: device time out ed0 is the first network card. ed1 is the second network card. You should config ed0 and remove ed1 if you have only one network card. > and after I login , I test the internet connection using ping , > > if I ping 127.0.0.1 and 202.96.98.26 (my card's ip address) , it >shows >the connection is fine , but if ping some host on our LAN , it always >shows: > > the host is down Fix ed0 first and then ask this question again if you still have trouble. > The Third problem is : > > when I login and set /usr/X11R6/bin into my path , > I use startx to start X windows , it always tell me can not connect to >server ,and ask me to use (--) to select a server , I do config the >Xfree86 at >the setup procedure and at that time the system show the server start up >successfully , why ? You should start X windows as root. When you do the config, you are root, so it works ok. Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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