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osh@freebsd:~ $ ifconfig
em0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=4e504bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,LRO,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG>
ether 9c:7b:ef:ad:17:54
inet 192.168.0.56 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::9e7b:efff:fead:1754%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet6 2600:8800:97:1600:9e7b:efff:fead:1754 prefixlen 64 autoconf pltime 300 vltime 300
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
lo0: flags=1008049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
groups: lo
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
 
jnalli said:
But I can't go to some websites.
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About that, there's a few threads that I remember seeing on these Forums, they talk about being unable to visit a few specific web sites. That has to with a browser-specific UserAgent string. Firefox is your best bet under FreeBSD. Konqueror is a KDE/QT-native browser. If you wanna get into browser wars, they are a very different animal than BSDs and text editors, they have their own collection of details to pay attention to. For example, Firefox has a 'Developer Console', and that term threw a LOT of people off when troubleshooting. Some people tried to figure out how to use XTerm to troubleshoot - until I pointed out (with a screenshot) that 'Developer Console' is a feature that's actually built into Firefox, and everybody in the thread was looking in the wrong place altogether!
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jnalli said:
It works for some sites and for other's it crashes. FreeBSD.org works okay but not Youtube or Bing. Is that weird?
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Youtube works fine under Firefox for me. As proof - see my profile comments, I use Spectacle to take screenshots of Youtube livestreams of erupting volcanoes (provided by USGS).

I did see the results of your ifconfig, it looks fine.

As for which browser - there should be something like Help->About...
 
I am using Firefox and it's fine. It made an account call Charlie & I and I can't delete it for some reason and I don't know the password for it.

Now I have can't the sound to work. It sees several different devices for sound but none of them work.

I am getting there little by little. Thanks for all your help.
 
This is going to sound counterintuitive, because you come from a world where graphical interface does everything seamlessly, but (and somebody else already suggested it) it will be a lot easier for you if, for a time, you do not launch gnome or xorg, and do the first things from the shell command line. Once you do everything you need to do there, you will be ready for more. Think of them as one by one tasks that you need to accomplish. They are surprisingly easy if taken in this modular, small bites way.

Tasks (with the aid of the handbook and manpages):

1. Set up root account and user account with passwords. Add user account to wheel, operator and video groups.

2. Set up ethernet and/or wireless interface, installing drivers as needed.

3. Install a console editor that is not included, such as vim or emacs, just to learn to use pkg.

4. I can't think of anything pressing, though there probably is. But maybe 4 is that now you are ready for Xorg. Right now, all the problems you are having have to do with not having mastered the previously mentioned steps, which will be very hard to do with a graphical user interface like gnome, but very simple from a shell console.
 
I installed KDE to try a different window manager and when I rebooted the login screen screen came up in Spanish. I put my password in anyway but it didn't take. Why wouldn't it take? It's the same whether in Spanish or English. I removed KDE and now my Gnome login is also in Spanish. Now I don't know how to get back to the English login screen.
 
jnalli said:
How do I install firefox?
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jnalli said:
Did you see the results of my ifconfig? Does that look okay?
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jnalli said:
contrl + alt + 1 doesn't take me to a terminal. Should I use a usb stick and go live?
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jnalli said:
It made an account call Charlie & I and I can't delete it for some reason and I don't know the password for it.
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jnalli said:
Now I have can't the sound to work.
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You still don't get the hang of it, and you still are missing core basic fundamentals.
Dude, you still did not read the handbook. (Guess, how I know that.😁)

You are concerned about youtube videos, yet not knowing how to install a package.
Some of those posts read like "Now I have the vacuum cleaner freed from the cupboard ["'freed'? What did he/she mean with 'freed'? What did she/he do? Is the cupboard alright?"], but when I hit the button it ain't working. Where I find the sciccors to cut the cable? Do I shall add water to the boiling oil in the deep fryer?" :eek: Ho! Slow down!
You are doing dozens of things at the same time, going a mile a minute at each, but still don't know nothing about electricity, nor NEVER pour water into hot oil... :what:

Going like this this thread will be at page 200 before your machine is finally set up. And then you still don't know how to use it properly, because you learned too less, or you give up before the end, because you realize this way it's pointless.

You will not succeed in learning to drive a car by asking: "What's this round thing in front of me? What's the red button with the triangle for? Shall I now hit the gas pedal?"

FreeBSD ain't no turn-key Linux distro you dealt with so far. Everything needs to be set up step by step.
Downside: You need to learn, what there is, learn what you need, decide, pick, learn how to realize it, and then do every single step yourself.
Benefit: You get your individually tailored machine(s) (you may think of it as your very own, personal selfmade "distro"), knowing better as you ever experienced any machine before, you can have full control over.
And over the years it will become even more your machine, become better, become very powerful, and very, very productive.
But that's not coming automatically by itself.
There is an unchangeable law of nature:
You either have convenience, so less work to do. But for that you have to live with a limited prechosen selection of options, less flexibility, and less power.
Or you want individualism, flexibility, and power. For that effort on learning, and doing work yourself is needed.
What you pick is up to you. But you cannot have both.

My tip - if you really wanna get into FreeBSD (It's worth it):
Switch off the machine you are doing installations on, stop any installation. At least for a day.
And just read.
Start with the FAQ. That will take you 10 minutes (don't need to read every single word - but at least the headlines, and take a closer peek into the topics that interest you). This gives you a very good overall idea what you are dealing with.
Then get yourself a cup of cocoa, tea, coffee, or what you like, and start to read The Handbook
Beginning at the Abstract, then the Preface, then Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc. - at least until the middle of Chapter 5. At least skim through Chapters 7,8, and 9, perhaps 20, 21, and 22, but for sure read Chapter 26.
Then switch on your machine again, and get on with your FreeBSD installation.

Frankly, otherwise I don't see you will get to any satisfying result.
 
Maturin said:
Dude, you still did not read the handbook. (Guess, how I know that.😁)
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I have read it. It's the only documentation I have. I was able to fix most of the those questions but reading the handbook. I removed Gnome, KDE, and Xorg so I can just learn the shell first. I don't know why it booted me into a Spanish login screen. I couldn't find anything in the handbook about that. I am reading the handbook and the manual and also asking questions.
 
jnalli said:
I don't know why it booted me into a Spanish login screen.
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Because somewhere you set your machine to be a spanish speaking one.
Check HB's chapter about "Localization"
(And I wouldn't deal with such large DE environments like KDE, or Gnome - at least not for the start. Get something more lightweight: stay with twm, or chose LXDE, of XFCE - It's a bit more comfortable to use the shell in a WM's window.)
 
Hi jnalli - You should think of FreeBSD as a long term investment and not something that will be completed for awhile, but hopefully you will have fun and learn stuff over time. FreeBSD (can be a lot) different than what you get from a Linux distro install where 10,000 things/packages/applications are automatically installed for you all at once during the initial install process.

FreeBSD installs start out minimalist (aka with the "least amount of things installed" and then YOU add what YOU want to your FreeBSD). Some day when you have everything set up you should consider a "backup" strategy and "follow it" so you can recover all the hard work you have done up to that point.

If you are interested in installing a simple X Window Manager you can take a look at one of my recent posts about installing XFCE. Follow the instructions in the handbook for installing your graphic card, XORG, and XFCE and then you can start "building" a great desktop for yourself.

See this link: Window Manager for FreeBSD

There are also (MANY) other X window managers mentioned in this post as well.

Best path is... go slowly :). It's all good, and it's probably going to take awhile. But in the end running/using/programming? on a *BSD operating system is a lot of fun -- Would it be any fun if it were easy?
 
Also consider purchasing a few books to read about FreeBSD. A few on my shelf are:
  1. Absolute FreeBSD - Amazon
  2. various FreeBSD books authored by Michael W Lucas - I would get more "specific on that" by there are a lot of different book topics and you need to decide what interests you - Amazon
 
CShell said:
Also consider purchasing a few books to read about FreeBSD. A few on my shelf are:
  1. Absolute FreeBSD - Amazon
  2. various FreeBSD books authored by Michael W Lucas - I would get more "specific on that" by there are a lot of different book topics and you need to decide what interests you - Amazon
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Okay, I remember seeing these in the FAQ
 
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