Well I installed FreeBSD

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I just installed FreeBSD 7.0 and it is quite fast and seems nice and that I will have to learn quite a lot. I have a few questions,
1. I am running KDE, how can I get it to automout external devices?
2. How do I install (search and remove) packages?
3. My sound is not working, I get an error:

Error while initializing the sound driver:

device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such fle or directory)

how can I fix it?

I know I should ask this on a BSD forum but all the posts on bsdforums.org seem to be related to pornography... thanks anyway
one more thing, what are some cool things i should check out (I am a command line junkie XD)

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I just tried to boot into my archlinux system on the same drive (but of course different partition) but it did not have a section for it, where is the menu.lst equivilant for FreeBSD? Also, for some reason my SCSI drives look like IDE drives (ad4 is the name of my drive in FreeBSD)

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I also realized that my wireless doesnt work and I dont have access to a wired network at the moment (I am using my bros laptop to type this)

[cardinals_fan]

Install packages with pkg_add. The FreeBSD Handbook is great. I recommend booting a Puppy Live CD and running the GRUB install app - it works very well. It might help if you could post some info on your wireless card.

By the way, the BSDnexus forums are pretty good if small: http://forums.bsdnexus.com/.

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well I have an Intel Pro wireless 3945 ABG. I noticed that the driver isnt included in the set of cds and that it is not available for OpenBSD.

[cardinals_fan]

well I have an Intel Pro wireless 3945 ABG. I noticed that the driver isnt included in the set of cds and that it is not available for OpenBSD.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wpi

The wpi driver looks like the one you want. According to the FreeBSD 7.0 release notes, wpi is included:

[amd64, i386] The wpi(4) driver has been added to support the Intel 3945 Wireless LAN Controller.

What are the results of ifconfig wpi0? Read here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SD+7.0-RELEASE

[Iandefor]

I just installed FreeBSD 7.0 and it is quite fast and seems nice and that I will have to learn quite a lot. I have a few questions,
1. I am running KDE, how can I get it to automout external devices?
2. How do I install (search and remove) packages?
3. My sound is not working, I get an error:

how can I fix it?

I know I should ask this on a BSD forum but all the posts on bsdforums.org seem to be related to pornography... thanks anyway
one more thing, what are some cool things i should check out (I am a command line junkie XD)

1. Try poking around in /usr/local/etc/dbus-1. I was having problems with automounting and it turned out dbus by default doesn't grant you permission to send messages to HAL.
2. You can use ports or the pkg_add command (pkg_add -r [name of package] is what you want to remotely fetch the package). Ports will download and compile the software, pkg_add uses FreeBSD's binary packaging system to install it.
3. Check out the relevant section in the FreeBSD Handbook.

I just tried to boot into my archlinux system on the same drive (but of course different partition) but it did not have a section for it, where is the menu.lst equivilant for FreeBSD? Also, for some reason my SCSI drives look like IDE drives (ad4 is the name of my drive in FreeBSD)

I recommend reinstalling GRUB and adding a menu entry for FreeBSD. The archlinux wiki has a useful howto. To add an entry for FreeBSD, you can do something like:

title   FreeBSD
root  (hdsomething,something)
chainloader +1
boot

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thanks for your help, I got grub working, now to get automounting to work.