Dear Folks, I had a Mandrake + WinXP dual boot system but somehow was not satisfied with Mandrake distro, though it was really cool, still I was not happy. So when I saw the FreeBSD 6.0 RC1, I thought I will go for it. Right from the installation, I started anticipating the difficulties which were going to come. First the FDISK thing I could not comprehend much, it was easier with Mandrake to partition the hard disk. I feel the F1 keys doesn't give a very comprehensible help and the sysintall interface is cumbersome. Anyways reading some excellent documents on FreeBSD available on the net and my intuition, I could manage the installation. I was not much comfirtable ticking all the programs using ALL package choice, I feel there should be one check box for INSTALL EVERYTHING. Also repeated changing of installation CDs was a cumbersome process (I had to alternate between 2 CD's 10 times) and it gave one error for Scren Saver installaton. But it was worth it and now I have FreeBSD and WinXP with FreeBSD bootloader installed at MBR :). After booting, to enable my sound card, I had to go to /boot/defaults/loader.conf and replace NO with YES at the snd_drv_ich using VI and card worked like magic. The comment in loader.conf file were pretty cool and thus I could figure it myself. Now my problem is that I am not able to install my Wireless Card ( WN825G Motorola ). I tried windows driver with ndisgen tool, but it didn't work. Neither ndiswrapper is getting installed. I also have some problem with java installation, but hopefully I will be able to solve it myself with the help of internet. Kindly help me regarding the wireless card thing, Regards, Animesh
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