Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:49:54 +0100 From: Marc =?iso-8859-1?q?L=F6rner?= <marc.loerner@hob.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation. Message-ID: <200703131349.54830.marc.loerner@hob.de> In-Reply-To: <b8c16adc0703130523h6a94466chadd1184d43bbb0d8@mail.gmail.com> References: <b8c16adc0703130523h6a94466chadd1184d43bbb0d8@mail.gmail.com>
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> Hi, > > I've recently installed FreeBSD release 6.2 successfully except that the > following things that i need importantly dont work. How should i do these? > > 1. I am using PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE). I am running FreeBSD on Vmware and > i set the network connection as "Bridged" on Vmware. I configured my > Ethernet device with the correct IP, Gateway, Netmask, DNS but i dont know > how to start my internet on FreeBSD. All i do to connect to the internet on > Windows is give my username and password. I also read the PPPoE chapter on > the FreeBSD manual but of no use. How should i start PPoE on FreeBSD? > dunno > 2. I need Vim. I dont want to use Vi. I searched in my CD-1 and CD-2. But i > could not find the package "vim" inside it. Since i am not able to connect > to the internet is there any other way to install Vim ? maybe you put the vim package from internet on a floppy or cd-iso image then mount this image and tell vmware to use it. > > 3. How should i configure FreeBSD to start in X mode directly. Currently i > have to do startx to start X on my machine. change the entry in /etc/ttys starting with ttyv8... to: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > 4. I want to make "bash" as the default shell instead of "csh". Where is > that configured? in a shell type "chsh" then change the entry starting with "Shell:" according to the shell you want to have. > > 5. Where are the kernel sources located? I need it because i want to do > kernel network programming? Is having kernel sources sufficient or there > are other dependencies also? /usr/src/sys > > 6. How do developers usually keep their kernel sources in sync with the > main Central Kernel source? Do we use CVS or Subversion for this? dunno > > Thanks & Regards, > Ajay. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" HTH, Marc -- Freundliche Gruesse, Marc Lörner Tel.: +49 (0)9103-715-30046 Fax.: +49 (0)9103-715-271 Internet: http://www.hob.de E-Mail: marc.loerner@hob.de HOB GmbH & Co. KG Schwadermühlstraße 3 90556 Cadolzburg Geschaeftsfuehrer Klaus Brandstaetter - Franz Wiedenmann AG Fuerth HRA 5180 Steuer-Nr. 218/163/00107 USt-ID-Nr. DE 132747002 Komplementaerin HOB electronic BeteiligungsGmbH AG Fuerth HRB 3416
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