freebsd 8.1 amd64 on home desktop with ra73 usb wireless nic aka rum0

# history
1 21:05 df -h
2 21:05 top
3 21:06 which xterm
4 21:06 mv /usr/local/bin/xterm /usr/local/bin/xterm.orig
5 21:06 vi /usr/local/bin/xterm
##[root@ ~]# cat /usr/local/bin/xterm
##/usr/local/bin/xterm.orig -fa 14 -sl 1000 &
6 21:07 chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/xterm
7 21:07 pkg_add -r firefox3
8 21:07 pkg_add -r firefox
9 21:09 pkg_add -r irssi
10 21:10 pkg_add -r wget
11 21:10 pkg_add -r rsync
12 21:10 pkg_add -r python
13 21:10 python -V
14 21:13 pkg_add -r bash
15 21:16 mkdir /usr/ports
16 21:17 portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update install
17 21:23 uname -a
18 21:25 man tzsetup
19 21:26 tzsetup
20 21:26 date
21 21:27 vi /etc/rc.conf
22 21:29 man rc.conf
23 21:30 vi /etc/rc.conf
24 21:34 history
# cat /etc/rc.conf

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Aug 30 13:47:59 2010
# Created: Mon Aug 30 13:47:59 2010
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
moused_enable="NO"
sshd_enable="YES"
ntpd_sync_on_start="1"
wlans_rum0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
# tail /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# configured by disabling workarounds with eap_workaround=0.

# Example blocks:

# Simple case: WPA-PSK, PSK as an ASCII passphrase, allow all valid ciphers
network={
ssid="fats"
psk="SECRET PASSWORD BITCH"
priority=5
}

service netif start

note rum0 is my usb nic

I got xorg going with pkg_add -r xorg
then su -
X -configure
mv xorg.blah to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
vi xorg.conf and add:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
EndSection