Re: Connecting to the Internet

2005-04-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:07:35PM -0400, Broming plutonium wrote: Hello everyone...for the first time. I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected by so many viruses that my

Re: Connecting to the Internet

2005-04-26 Thread Tomas Quintero
On 4/25/05, Broming plutonium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, by telling the DHCP server to assign a static-IP address to a specific system on the network, what sort of DHCP server are you speaking of. Are you asking about your ISPs DHCP, a Linksys/Dlink/other SOHO DHCP device, or are

Connecting to the Internet

2005-04-25 Thread Broming plutonium
Hello everyone...for the first time. I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected by so many viruses that my computer took a million years to open a program. I've only had 2 days

Re: Connecting to the Internet

2005-04-25 Thread Tomas Quintero
On 4/25/05, Broming plutonium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone...for the first time. I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected by so many viruses that my computer took a

Re: Connecting to the Internet

2005-04-25 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:07:35PM -0400, Broming plutonium wrote: I've only had 2 days of experience with FreeBSD, so I don't know anything about it. How do I connect it to the Internet using Ethernet? My computer seemed to be telling me it had three network interfaces. I'm guessing that

Re: Connecting to the Internet

2005-04-25 Thread Broming plutonium
Firstly, by telling the DHCP server to assign a static-IP address to a specific system on the network, what sort of DHCP server are you speaking of. Are you asking about your ISPs DHCP, a Linksys/Dlink/other SOHO DHCP device, or are you attempting to setup your own internal DHCP server such

Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router

2004-05-24 Thread John Murdock
I have installed FreeBSD succesfully on my Gateway M500 laptop. The only problem I have is that my laptop connects to the internet through a wireless router. My wireless card is working fine on the laptop and I can succesfully ping the router, but when I load up a webbrowser I get a Cannot

Re: Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router

2004-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:48:02 -0500 John Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD succesfully on my Gateway M500 laptop. The only problem I have is that my laptop connects to the internet through a wireless router. My wireless card is working fine on the laptop and I can

Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router

2004-05-24 Thread phest0r
I created the /etc/resolv.conf file and now it works. Amazing how simple that was. Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]