Installation problem

2007-07-29 Thread Terrence Wilson
I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for FreeBSD. My problem comes once I "commit" to the installation of FreeBSD. I get the following message, after which installation aborts: "Unable to find de

how to access dvdrom drive

2007-09-03 Thread Terrence Wilson
I have just installed free bsd and trying to access my dvdrom drive. I issued the command: "mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom" but I got a message stating "incorrect super block." What is the correct method for accessing the files on my dvd rom. ___ freebsd-quest

troubling configuring wireless nic

2007-09-04 Thread Terrence Wilson
This is my first time experimenting with FreeBSD and UNIX-based systems in general. I am trying to configure a wireless nic on my laptop, which is a windows-free bsd dual boot system. At home, I can access the internet in Windows through a router which also connects my destop (a windows xp mac

errors after running make

2007-09-05 Thread Terrence Wilson
I'm trying to install ndiswrapper from a .tar.gz file. I'm running make for the first time, so I am unfamiliar with it. But I have read instructions for installing ndiswrapper. I keep getting errors, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here's what I did. I copied the ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz

need help using ndis and inconv

2007-09-07 Thread Terrence Wilson
I need whatever help I can get to use ndis to converter wireless nic card so I can use it on my laptop. it seems that I don't have iconv working properly. I go into the ndisgen program by typing the command: # ndisgen The program opens and gives a list of options. I choose option 3: Convert dr

Re: need help using ndis and inconv

2007-09-08 Thread Terrence Wilson
t; is in the /usr/local/lib/ directory. At this point I am totally lost. What else can I do to get iconv and ndis running? Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: > >On 08-Sep-07, at 5:17 AM, Terrence Wilson wrote: > >> I need whatever help I can get to use ndis to converter wireless nic >&g