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I have problems with open source. I have a Dell Inspiron 537 n series which came with Ubuntu 9.04 installed. The ethernet adaptor is a Realtek 8169/8169S/8110S based PCI adapter (re). I have been unable to download
Desktop BSD, PC BSD, and every livecd that I have attempted including Gparted. I have been able to download OpenBSD 4.6 and FreeBSD 8.0, but I can't make them work either. With OpenBSD I used dhcp for my cable modem and it got results, but I could not get anywhere with the ethernet card. When it was loaded, I could ping websites, but I could not get into the ftp site to obtain packages (not found). As for FreeBSD, I could not find a combination of addresses that would get me to the internet. Rtfm? I have, and have read much of, three books on UNIX, five books on FreeBSD, two books on BSD, and one book on OpenBSD. Any help out there? I also have a suggestion for a new category for the forum to consider. Troubleshooting. When a person has a problem, he could post in Troubleshooting. Anyone who wants to help, but without a verbose explanation, could suggest page number and chapter number in a book or the Handbook or FAQ. Thanks for your consideration. |
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The OpenBSD installation procedure is described in http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html
Where did you get stuck? Re: troubleshooting section Nearly all forums sections are about troubleshooting, so IMHO no special section for that purpose is needed
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Slow progress
Thanks for the advice on ifconfig. Below is the result for Ubuntu and the addresses for eth1 are the same as those for OpenBSD 4.6.
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:64:04:50:e9 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:253 Base address:0xa000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:0e:c5:d0:e3 inet addr:67........ Bcast:67......... Mask:255......... inet6 addr: fe80::208:eff:fec5:d0e3/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:18804 (18.8 KB) TX bytes:5280 (5.2 KB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:480 (480.0 B) TX bytes:480 (480.0 B) Code:
re0 flags=8843<up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast> mtu 1500 lladder all0 media: ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier inet 67........ Mask:hex Bcast:67......... cdce0 flags=8843<up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast> mtu 1500 groups: dhcp egress inet 67........ Mask:hex(different than re0) Bcast:67......... but I could not get into the OpenBSD ftp site to obtain packages (not found). But with both of the above mentioned loading methods I could get into a FreeBSD site. I was connected to moss.cse.buffaloedu. This is one reason I didn't include the above information completely. I forgot to enter echo $pkg_path. To get to this forum I have to reload Ubuntu. Tanks again. Last edited by Carpetsmoker; 2nd May 2010 at 04:45 PM. Reason: Add [code] tags |
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Here is what I entered: "//ftp.openbsd.org/pub/openbsd/4.6/packages/" and "pkg_add
-v ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/openbsd/4.6/packages/i386/<package>". However, when I entered "ftp -a ftp2.freebsd.org" I was connected to "moss.cse.buffalo.edu". I have an openbsd 4.6 disc I downloaded from the internet. And no, I did not do a checksum. That's beyond my capabilies presently. |
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