Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:44:57 -0600 From: "E. Alan Wilson" <alan.wilson@ualberta.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FEC from www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/fec/xxx/fec/tar/gz Message-ID: <3B86A0A9.CAA51AC3@ualberta.ca>
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Hello I have been directed to this code by several sources to enable my Intel dual port server card. I got it. Now what? Does anyone know how frustrating it is for the newly arrived to run into this *complete* lack of even the most BASIC instructions? I desperately what to use and promote Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD (anything but MS) but the approach to everything UNIX'y is nearly impossible for new users. It's not that I am _completely_ new to this. I have already recompiled the kernel to enable SMP, learned how to install the packages from the ports collection (WAY better than the rpm thing on RedHat!) and have been administering Linux on other machines for a while now. But every time I change OS's (there is always something about new hardware that won't work on what you're already familiar with) I am faced with a new set of 'old boy speak'. Stuff that's taken for granted. Documentation that is supplied is only for the easiest stuff and then it is too detailed. It is the difficult things that need addressing and they are never written down. I am **SO** frustrated!!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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