Re: Connecting to internet.

2005-12-22 Thread arden
there was a program called adsl-setup that I used to get connected. I thought FreeBSD would have something similar and I was just not finding it. Thanks again. Regards Chris Saunders how is the internet connecting to your machine? usb or ethernet ? Im guessing since you are using usb as far as I

Re: Connecting to internet.

2005-12-22 Thread h p
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

Re: Connecting to internet.

2005-12-22 Thread Chris Saunders
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

Connecting to internet.

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Saunders
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 getting connected. I'm

Re: Connecting to internet.

2005-12-21 Thread Tom Norris
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

RE: Connecting to internet.

2005-12-21 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
, Ruben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Saunders Sent: December 22, 2005 4:18 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Connecting to internet. Just installed FreeBSD and it seems everything went fine. I have also recently

Re: Connecting to internet.

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Saunders
: 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

Re: Connecting to internet.

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Hill
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

RE: Connecting to Internet

2005-04-27 Thread Broming plutonium
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.

Re: Connecting to Internet

2005-04-27 Thread Benjamin Rossen
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