(Retry with proper formatting) trying to set internet connection and run mplayer with FreeBSD/FreeSBIE

 Sorry my previous messages was not formatted properly
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 Hi *,

 I am more of a Linux dude who wants/needs to use
FreeBSD for various servers and in a multiboot
developer's box.

 I use Linux/Debian/knoppix a whole lot, but I am
having great difficulties trying to set up an internet
connection using FreeSBIE:

 I am trying to do it via "sysinstall" going though
all the conf screens till I get to the "Network
services Menu" and then select "Networking Configure
additional network interfaces"

 then I see my NIC displayed as: "x10 3COM
3c90x/3c90xB PCI ethernet card", click on OK and then
get the following questions prompted:

"Do you want to try IPv6 configuration of the device?"
[No]

"Do you want to try DHCP configuration of the
interface?" [No] 

 then a windows comes on which I enter (or so I think)
the basic internet settings:

 after that my (not functioning) configuration is:
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// __ ifconfig -a
freesbie@freesbie:~# ifconfig -a
xl0:
flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet6 fe80::260:8ff:fec9:b770%xl0 prefixlen 64
scopeid 0x1 
        inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast
255.255.255.255
        ether 00:60:08:c9:b7:70
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
        status: active
fwe0: flags=108802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        ether 02:00:4c:00:3d:1c
        ch 1 dma -1
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
pflog0: flags=0<> mtu 33208
pfsync0: flags=0<> mtu 2020
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu
16384
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 

// __ netstat -rn
freesbie@freesbie:~# netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs   
  Use  Netif Expire
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          0   
   98    lo0

Internet6:
Destination                       Gateway             
         Flags      Netif Expire
::1                               ::1                 
         UH          lo0
fe80::%xl0/64                     link#1              
         UC          xl0
fe80::260:8ff:fec9:b770%xl0       00:60:08:c9:b7:70   
         UHL         lo0
fe80::%lo0/64                     fe80::1%lo0         
         U           lo0
fe80::1%lo0                       link#6              
         UHL         lo0
ff01::/32                         ::1                 
         U           lo0
ff02::%xl0/32                     link#1              
         UC          xl0
ff02::%lo0/32                     ::1                 
         UC          lo0
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 I think there is something wrong somehow, because I
have run tcpdump/ethereal and I can see the whole
internet traffic reaching my NIC, however I can not
get out there, not even ping my gateway. I have tried
that both before and after running sysinstall and
always as root.

 Using Knoppix you could run "netcardconfig" to set up
your internet connection access right away. I could
imagine FreeSBIE uses something similar because the
window used to actually enter the settings does not
look like an ncurses-based one. What is the scrip used
by FreeSBIE to just enter your internet connection
setting at once (without going through all other
settings)?

// __
 also knoppix does not come with mplayer ready on the
CD, so this was one of the first thing that I tried,
but all I got was hassling while trying to run
mplayer. I went:
// __ 1.
freesbie@freesbie:~# mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom;
freesbie@freesbie:~# cd /cdrom
freesbie@freesbie:/cdrom# ls
video_ts

// __ 2.
 Xfce Menu -> Multimedia -> Mplayer
 clicked on the File search icon (underlined triangle
last to the right)
 and after it looked as if the movie was going to
start playing I got:
 
 Error! VobSub: Bad magic in IFO deader

// __ 3.
 I tried then starting with another file and got:

 Error! "Seek failed"
 
// __ then I tried different files (with extensions
".ifo") to have mplayer crash with all kinds of errors

 This DVD I have payed with knoppix (after installing
mplayer on an external drive) and with Windows without
any problems. I have noticed lots of people
complaining about mplayer+FreeBSD.

 I would literally love for the liveDC community
(largely Debian-based knoppix nuts) to have also
FreeBSD alternatives. I could go ahead and start my
wish list headed by a livecd-started/internet based
installation of FreeBSD a la Debian/debootstrap.

 My personal opinion is that FreeSBIE has someway to
go. How fast they get "there" remains to be seen.

 Thanks
 otf


	
		
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