From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 13 13:20:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826FA16A403 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc.loerner@hob.de) Received: from mailgate.hob.de (mailgate.hob.de [212.185.199.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B85013C4BA for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:20:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc.loerner@hob.de) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate.hob.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0C527901 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:49:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailgate.hob.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgate.hob.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24569-10 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:49:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from imap.hob.de (mail2.hob.de [172.25.1.102]) by mailgate.hob.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C0C27930 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:49:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from linux03.hob.de (linux03.hob.de [172.22.0.190]) by imap.hob.de (Postfix on SuSE eMail Server 2.0) with ESMTP id 9EB7B2BBC for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:49:49 +0100 (CET) From: Marc =?iso-8859-1?q?L=F6rner?= Organization: hob To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:49:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200703131349.54830.marc.loerner@hob.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at hob.de Subject: Re: i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:20:56 -0000 > 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