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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!Gamma.RU!srcc!demos!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: newbie ?'s Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 14:22:17 -0800 Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 51 Message-ID: <32A20519.41C67EA6@best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsampley.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Before I ask my question, I want to take a minute to say thanks to everyone who has helped me in the past with my newbie questions for FBSD. I really value this resource and without it I doubt I would have been able to completely switch from Mickey$soft based OS to a real OS (FBSD). 1st ?: I installed FBSD 2.1.5 from the WC CDROM release (8/96). I installed emacs and xemacs from the packages section to the install program (/stand/sysinstall). When I attempt to run emacs I keep getting the following error: bash$ emacs ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libgcc.so.261.0" bash$ I've looked in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib and I can't find this file. I'm assuming it does exist on my system, but I don't know where it is. I've tried using the command which to locate it, but this is the result I get: bash$ which libgcc.so.261.0 bash$ When I attempt to run xemacs from an xterm window I get the following error: bash$ xemacs ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXm.so.2.0" bash$ I tried a similar seach, but had the same luck. Any suggestions? 2nd ?: I configured my ppp files following the directioens/suggestions in the on-line handbook. The ppp.conf file didn't work, so I cp'ed the sample and modified for my ISP. I'm able to connect and surf, however I've run into a problem that I did not experience under Winbloze95; whenever the connection is 'inactive' for a short period of time (ie; the time it takes me to type this posting ) the connection drops and I have to reconnect before I can send this. This problem occurs with all the software I use on the net, ie knews, Netscape, Mosaic, etc. I don't know if his helps, but my ISP also uses FBSD as their OS, but they don't support or help users attempting to login using FBSD. Any suggestion on where to start looking for this problem? Thanks in advance for your help Burton Sampley (bsampley@best.com)