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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:17 PM
Subject: RE: Connecting to internet.
Chris,
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-set
up.html
and
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-confi
Thanks for the reply Ruben (and others). I did see these sections
when having a cursory look at the docs but was hoping for something
simpler. On some older versions of Linux that I have installed there
was a program called adsl-setup that I used to get connected.
Sounds like you're on a
Thanks so much Helge. Tried this and everything is working
fine now.
Regards
Chris Saunders
Works very simple: In sysinstall, when you configure your network card,
you simply answer 'yes' to the question whether you want to use DHCP. In
my case, that sets the gateway to the internet
Chris Saunders wrote:
Just installed FreeBSD and it seems everything went fine.
I have also recently installed Slackware Linux and it seems
to have automatically set itself up to connect to the internet.
I have had a look in the FreeBSD Handbook (not too deeply),
but didn't see a section on
Chris,
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-set
up.html
and
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-confi
gfiles.html
Do try to take a *slightly* closer look next time, preferably before you
post a question. Thanks.
Regards,
: Connecting to internet.
Chris,
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-set
up.html
and
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-confi
gfiles.html
Do try to take a *slightly* closer look next time, preferably before you
post a question
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Chris Saunders wrote:
Thanks for the reply Ruben (and others). I did see these sections
when having a cursory look at the docs but was hoping for something
simpler. On some older versions of Linux that I have installed there
was a program called adsl-setup that I used
Never mind. Yesterday, the second hardware problem failed the display driver on
the FreeBSD computer, and I have no choice but to throw out the old computer.
I'll stick with Windows for the moment, because it is user-friendly. I just
have to be more careful on the Internet.
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 17:59, Broming plutonium wrote:
Never mind. Yesterday, the second hardware problem failed the display
driver on the FreeBSD computer, and I have no choice but to throw out
the old computer. I'll stick with Windows for the moment, because it
is user-friendly. I just
