[buug] FreeBSD 4.5 problems

[Robert Dorman]

I am a relative newbie to UNIX systems.  I have installed FreeBSD 4.5 on my 
Dell Dimension L800r, separate internal 30GB disk.  Windows XP and Me are 
on a different HD.

1) After installation, including XFree86 (which subsequently wouldn't load, 
but that's another issue I will deal with later), and rebooting, and 
logging in as root, I repeatedly get the on-screen message:

"getty [2**]: login tty /dev/console operation not supported by device"
where ** keeps incrementing with each line.  After awhile I get:
"init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/console, sleeping 30 sec."
then the first line mentioned starts repeating again.  It interrupts 
anything else I try to do, like editing a file.  (I have a 30 sec. time 
window to work before the damn thing wakes up again!)
Even switching to a different console using ,<ctrl>D or <alt>F2, F3, or F4 
and re-logging in still produced the problem.  I let this go on for 24 
hours once before shutting everything down.  Back when I was smarter (a 
couple of years ago) I had this same problem and fixed it on a different 
computer.  Now I forgot how I did it!  I think it had to do with a 
configuration file and the overly large number of terminal logins permitted 
in it.

2) I have wireless DSL, which works just fine with Windows XP and 
Me.  Sometimes I get over 1000kbps.  I uses and Orinoco PCI card plugged 
into an adapter that plugs into my USB port.  Now Orinoco supposedly has 
Linux drivers, but I have no idea how to get this working with 
FreeBSD.  The drivers might only be for the PCI card hardware version 
rather than the USB version.

Any help with these problems would certainly be appreciated.