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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: novice questions Date: 5 Nov 1995 23:22:42 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <47jdfi$oia@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47hm7s$lgm@crl5.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit S. Paul <caleb@crl.com> wrote: >is there a bsd/freebsd mail list for novice-questions >or additional faq other than the one by ted timar. http://www.freebsd.org/ Look for the handbook. >Very well done and informative, but i can't seem to find info on >transfering files from fd0 (floppy dr) to their various sub directories ??? >I have ordered the 4.4bsd documentation (urm, usd)O'reilly. >also how do i set up a modem for dial up isp service. It's somewhere in the FAQ. You need to start a getty on it, and setup a user entry for /usr/sbin/pppd. >in win95/dos its at irq3 com4 . Make sure you don't assign both sio0 (COM1) and sio2 (COM3) to IRQ 4. The default configuration for sio2 is therefore *not* using IRQ 4. You can rebuild a kernel, or re-configure your driver by booting with option `-c'. > is there a comm test prog ? cu, tip (from the base distribution), kermit, seyon, pcomm (from the ports). >how do i know whether i need to hardware or jumper settings how should we know? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)