Your operating system

Ok.  Before I begin, please understand that I deeply respect the work you
are doing.  If money wasn't tight I would financially support your
endeavors.
However, learning about this operating system has to be the most frustrating
and infuriating undertaking I have ever experienced, being that I can't
find any information beyond a couple of books and the man pages.  Don't get
me wrong, the man pages are indeed informative, but (big "but") they
are written for people who possess degree level knowledge of your operating
system.  I get the impression that the available information is an
insurmountable wall and judging from some things I have read in books and on
the internet, there seems to be some hostility toward those of us
who are new (nOObs) to OpenBSD.  I have been trying since version 3.6 to set
up a box as a router.  I try, my brain swells, I get angry and frustrated
and I give up for a few weeks and come back for more senseless torture.  I
usually have no trouble learning new things IT related, and I am quite adept
at teaching myself new things, but sometimes when I am following the
instructions found in a man page and something goes wrong, I have no means
to find out why.  For example, right now I can't configure a single ethernet
card that is compatable with OpenBSD (I know, I checked) using a
hostname.* file, and  Netstart just simply will not do anything.  I follow
the man pages but nothing.  I look and look on the internet, and nothing.
I check the OpenBSD books and UNIX books that I have, but nothing, and I can
find no one who can break this down a bit so that I can troubleshoot
at my level of knowledge.  I know I can't give up, because that would be
giving in.  I am tired of the headaches though and right now the old
computer
I'm using does nothing more than eat up more electricity while I develop an
aneurysm.  Can you point me somewhere that I can get help, (not the man
pages please, if you have any decency at all).  I imagine there are legions
of nOObs out there, like me, who want to learn, who are willing to do the
reading, but we need to take it one step at a time, and not take on Mount
OpenBSD in a single bound.

Just one more thing.  There are some things that are quite easy, such as the
install process.  I have never had a problem with that, and UNIX seems no
more difficult to learn than DOS.  I look forward to using this operating
system one day.