[BSD-INDIA] HELP WITH INSTALLING FREEBSD 7.0

[Siju George]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Lt Col Prashant <majorppk at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Dear Mr Siju,
 >               Thanks for the help. I've got the sound and the GUI
 >  working. Infact with the use of kdm I've been able to get the desktop of
 >  my choice. I've however have the following issues unresolved,
 >               At the terminal prompt I cannot use the su command.
 >               I am unable to activate the services from the
 >  administration of gnome.
 >

 Please see if you are in the wheel group.

 See section 14.3.1 Securing the root Account and Staff Accounts
 in the hand book

 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/securing-freebsd.html


 I also am not able to use the DVD, since it is
 >  not detected.
 >

 Please send your dmesg. ie "/var/run/dmesg.boot" file on your system.



 >  I also want to configure the ADSL Modem which is through
 >  the ethernet card.
 >
 >  Can you help.
 >

 you can do it in 2 ways.
 Please tell me how you do it in windows.
 Are you using dhcp with NAT in modem or pppoe or a static IP assigned
 to your system with the DSL modem as a bridge?

 --Siju