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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.
 
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