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 correctly

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 arden
> From: "Ruben Bloemgarten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Chris Saunders'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:17 PM > Subject: RE: Connecting to internet. > > > > Chris, > > > > http://ww

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 to

Re: Connecting to internet.

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Saunders
have something similar and I was just not finding it. Thanks again. Regards Chris Saunders - Original Message - From: "Ruben Bloemgarten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Chris Saunders'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11

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 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 getti

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 hopi

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 j

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. --