Re: D-Link wireless LAN card not working in 5.3-R

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, N Deepak wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE on IBM ThinkPad R40e. I have compiled a custom kernel. I have a D-Link wireless LAN card: DWL-G650+ IIRC it has never worked. I had one and tried with ndis, but I never got it working so eventually I threw it away and

Re: chm file conversion?

> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 12:51:43 +0400, > "Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 10/9/05, Sandy Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Colin, >> >> On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 you wrote: >> >> > Vizion wrote: >> >> As per subject - does anyone know of any utils for converting microsof

fsck question

I am running the beta 5 of 6.0 and was wondering if anyone could help me figure out why fsck is not happy... At boot time: (forced fsck - things look fine) Oct 14 06:50:16 shadow kernel: ** /dev/ad0s1d Oct 14 06:50:16 shadow kernel: ** Last Mounted on /usr Oct 14 06:50:16 shadow kernel: ** Phase

Re: D-Link wireless LAN card not working in 5.3-R

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:50:41PM -0700, N Deepak wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE on IBM ThinkPad R40e. I have > compiled a custom kernel. > I have a D-Link wireless LAN card: DWL-G650+ I have the same card working fine on 5.4; do you have ath enabled in the kernel? There are multipl

Re: fsck question

On Friday 14 October 2005 13:56, J.D. Bronson wrote: > shadow# fsck -f /dev/ad0s1d > ** /dev/ad0s1d (NO WRITE) > ** Last Mounted on /usr > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes > ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames > ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity > ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts > UNREF FILE I=106039

Re: fsck question

At 07:14 AM 10/14/2005, Bernhard Fischer wrote: > UNREF FILE I=1060395 OWNER=root MODE=100644 > SIZE=0 MTIME=Oct 14 06:50 2005 > CLEAR? no > > ..how can I find *this* file its not happy about? The option -i of ls shows you the inode number of the files. So you could make an ls -lRi >tmpfile a

Hardware Support (USB)

Hi, My name is WIlliam and I recently started a small foundation and decided to install FreeBSD as main server the problem is when I try to install my mouse, My mouse is a USB mouse, optical from the Gateway house, well none of the drivers supports it I was wandering if its posible to configure the

Re: NIS on FreeBSD 5.4/4.11

Michael Jeung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good evening all, > > I am desperately trying to get NIS working in my FreeBSD 5.4 and 4.11 > environment - specifically, I'm trying to get NIS set up such that a > NIS client is able to change the password for an account. > > Like a good little rabbit

Re: SSH Port Forwarding Specific IP

John Do <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you have a FreeBSD computer with multiple IP > addresses and you want an outside client to tunnel how > can you force the tunnel to use a certain IP? Isn't the -b option for exactly that? ___ freebsd-questions@fr

New Message in 'Daily Output'

Using FreeBSD 5.4, the following has suddenly started appearing in the 'Daily Output' results> This was today: Local network system status: seibercom down 21:35 Yesterdays: Local network system status: seibercom down 1+21:34 Previously, the messages had all indicated how long the netwo

Cron Runs Script Twice - Once With Error and Once Without?

I have a script that runs from cron. The script mounts an smbfs share on another machine, copies some files from it, and then unmounts the share. The script is run from a 4.11 machine. It's connecting to a 5.4 box running Samba 3.0.20. I'm trying to figure out why it runs twice. Once with

Virtual Computer - Jail

I was thinking about having some sort of virtual computer or operating system to test stuff in. The point being that i can just to a rm -rf on it and start over if i mess something upp really bad, all without affecting my regular workstation. Is jail a good sulotion for this? Is there any other

New Desktop Manager

I became aware of a desktop manager for Mac OS X recently. The url is . This thing is really cool. You can set it up in the preferences so that when you switch between desktops they appear to be on the sides of a cube that rotates to the desktop you want to

Problem Installing native jdk1.5.0 on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

Objective - I'm trying to install native jdk 1.5.0 on a box running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. Problem --- When I run "make install clean", I'm getting a message telling me that I should mount LINPROCFS before starting to build jdk 1.5.0 and that the commands "kldload linprocfs" and "mou

Re: Virtual Computer - Jail

Niclas Zeising wrote: I was thinking about having some sort of virtual computer or operating system to test stuff in. The point being that i can just to a rm -rf on it and start over if i mess something upp really bad, all without affecting my regular workstation. Is jail a good sulotion for th

Re: Virtual Computer - Jail

Niclas Zeising wrote: I was thinking about having some sort of virtual computer or operating system to test stuff in. The point being that i can just to a rm -rf on it and start over if i mess something upp really bad, all without affecting my regular workstation. Is jail a good sulotion for th

Re: sh Scripting - String Manipulation

On 10/13/2005 9:03 PM Paul Schmehl wrote: --On October 13, 2005 4:04:45 PM -0700 Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm working on a script that reads a directory using 'find' and its '-exec' primary to create a symlink to the file. So for example, I have the following command: find

Re: sh Scripting - String Manipulation

On 10/13/2005 6:43 PM Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 13 October 2005 06:04 pm, Drew Tomlinson wrote: What I'd like to is get '-exec' to run this command: ln -s "/multimedia/Pictures/2005 Kimberly & Rich/IMG_1210.JPG" "2005 Kimberly & Rich/IMG_1210.JPG" The easiest way I've found i

su - does not ask for password

I've added myself to the wheel group and can successfully su - into root. I'm wondering though, where I make the configuration to ask for a password when su - is called. Teo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

problem with /dev/ttypX and samba

Hi, I'm trying to configure unix passwd sync on samba. Unfortunately, when it tries to launch my script, samba complains that it can't open any ttyp. Looking at the code implied, I see that samba lists all files matching "/dev/ttyp*" and tries to open them in a while loop. The problem is t

Re: su - does not ask for password

Am Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 17:48 CEST schrieb Teo De Las Heras: > I've added myself to the wheel group and can successfully su - into > root. I'm wondering though, where I make the configuration to ask for a > password when su - is called. You have to assign the superuser a password first. su wi

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

On Thursday 13 October 2005 00:36, Gary Kline wrote: > Second question: as its default, firefox uses mplayer for > both real and windows audio streams. Why and can I chance at > least the Real Audio to use /usr/local/bin/realplay? I use an extension for firefox which let me c

Re: New Desktop Manager

Try /usr/ports/x11/3ddesktop Mike =) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

TSC Timer "Quality" ?

Intel pentium cpu timer tsc: 'Timecounter "TSC" frequency X Hz quality Y' (from dmesg) What is the definition of "quality" ..? I have looked briefly in the /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/tsc.c sourcefile and the intel-celeron datasheet. Without finding anything useful. (Btw, Crystals are often defin

Re: sh Scripting - String Manipulation

--On Friday, October 14, 2005 08:39:04 -0700 Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's a good idea (and something else I never thought of) if I wanted all the files, not just the *.jpg files. And as I'll explain below, I intend to expand this script to work with additional directories w

Re: Virtual Computer - Jail

On 10/14/05, Niclas Zeising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking about having some sort of virtual computer or operating > system to test stuff in. The point being that i can just to a rm -rf on > it and start over if i mess something upp really bad, all without > affecting my regular workst

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that a

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The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?

I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as opposed to native installation) for FreeBSD so most of the answers I found online weren't really applicable for me. I simply wanted a high resolution FreeBSD console PTYs running under VMWare. It was surprisingly more complex than

Re: sh Scripting - String Manipulation

On 10/14/2005 9:27 AM Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, October 14, 2005 08:39:04 -0700 Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's a good idea (and something else I never thought of) if I wanted all the files, not just the *.jpg files. And as I'll explain below, I intend to expand thi

problem with ksh finding console columns and lines

Hi guys, I am having problem with finding $COLUMNS and $LINES from ksh. Couldn't find any workable example on google. Any help or direction will be appreciated. Thanks a lot. Lei ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Fwd: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?

-- Forwarded message -- From: Teo De Las Heras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 14, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: Re: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image? To: Jared Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> yeah...you'll need to install the vmware tools for FreeBSD. Here's

Fwd: su - does not ask for password

-- Forwarded message -- From: Teo De Las Heras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 14, 2005 1:45 PM Subject: Re: su - does not ask for password To: Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My account has a password and when I "su -" I go right in as root without a password prompt. What changed

Natmonitor on FreeBSD

Hi There. There is any one who using Natmonitor ? the only Nat Monitor that i find on the net is https://sourceforge.net/projects/natmonitor/ The only one that show me bandwidth usage on any PC that you have. i have a FreeBSD 5.3 Gateway on 486 PC with 64 Ram. a small Hub and 4 PC's 1. FreeBSD 5.4

Re: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?

I looked over the link but I don't think it's related to the solution I'm looking for. I don't have any problems with high resolution X console. I'm talking about the regular text console when you first boot the machine. Jared >yeah...you'll need to install the vmware tools for FreeBSD. >Here's

Re: Natmonitor on FreeBSD

ZorroBSD skrev: Hi There. There is any one who using Natmonitor ? the only Nat Monitor that i find on the net is https://sourceforge.net/projects/natmonitor/ I'm using /usr/ports/net-mgmt/bandwidthd "bandwidthd tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds HTML files with graphs to displ

Re: su - does not ask for password

> My account has a password and when > I "su -" I go right in as root without a > password prompt. What changed? > > Teo > % su # passwd Changing local password for root New Password: Retype New Password: # Now you're done. ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

X-Drive Type Opensource Project?

I'd like to give my users the ability to upload/download/share files via a web interface much like what X-Drive used to do. Can anyone recommend an opensource project that does such a thing that runs on freeBSD? Thanks! Sean ___ freebsd-questions@f

Contact Management Software

Hi everyone. I have a co-worker who wants to get away from Windows as much as possible. I've told him about free and open source alternatives for everything else he needs to do, but contact management is something I'm having problems with. The good thing is he doesn't already have years of dat

Help With Find Syntax

I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in ".jpg" or ".gif" but I can't seem to get the find syntax right. My basic command lines are: find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.gif" -print OR find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.jpg" -print Both of these work perfectly.

Re: Help With Find Syntax

Drew Tomlinson said the following on 10/14/2005 2:53 PM: > I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in > ".jpg" or ".gif" but I can't seem to get the find syntax right. My > basic command lines are: > > find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.gif" -print > > OR > > find /mul

Re: Help With Find Syntax

On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: $ find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.gif" -or "*.jpg" -print find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression] I've tried various placement of quotes, parenthesis, etc. but can't seem to find the right way to do th

Re: Help With Find Syntax

On 10/14/2005 12:05 PM Glenn Sieb wrote: Drew Tomlinson said the following on 10/14/2005 2:53 PM: I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in ".jpg" or ".gif" but I can't seem to get the find syntax right. My basic command lines are: find /multimedia/Pictures -in

RE: Help With Find Syntax

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Tomlinson > Sent: 10/14/2005 12:54 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Help With Find Syntax > > I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in ".jpg" or ".gif" but I can't s

Re: TSC Timer "Quality" ?

Peter B schrieb: Intel pentium cpu timer tsc: 'Timecounter "TSC" frequency X Hz quality Y' (from dmesg) What is the definition of "quality" ..? I have looked briefly in the /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/tsc.c sourcefile and the intel-celeron datasheet. Without finding anything useful. From s

Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup

My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution for our largely FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, so I was hoping for some enlightend pointers from the list. We need the following features: 20GB+ capacity USB 2.0 External < $600CDN Unfortunately, I

Re: Help With Find Syntax

Drew Tomlinson said the following on 10/14/2005 3:13 PM: > OK, duh. I get it now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Quite welcome! Enjoy!! Best, --Glenn -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: D-Link wireless LAN card not working in 5.3-R

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:57:58AM -0700, N Deepak wrote: > Thanks. A search for 'ath' in the configuration file gave no > matches. There is no such .ko in my /boot/kernel either. Look for ath_hal.ko after you've compiled your kernel. > Do I have to add a: > deviceath > line in my conf

Help With 'for' Loop

Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a for loop. To test, I've written the following: for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.jpg" -or -iname "*.gif" -print` do echo -e "\n$i" done The first line 'find' returns is "/multimedia/Pict

Re: D-Link wireless LAN card not working in 5.3-R

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:33:29 -0500 Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:57:58AM -0700, N Deepak wrote: > > Thanks. A search for 'ath' in the configuration file gave no > > matches. There is no such .ko in my /boot/kernel either. > > Look for ath_hal.ko after you've

Re: Help With 'for' Loop

Drew Tomlinson wrote: Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a for loop. To test, I've written the following: for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.jpg" -or -iname "*.gif" -print` do echo -e "\n$i" done The first line 'find' retur

Re: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup

> > My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution for our largely > FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, so I was hoping > for some enlightend pointers from the list. > > We need the following features: > 20GB+ capacity > USB 2.0 > External > < $600

Re: Help With 'for' Loop

On 10/14/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a > for loop. To test, I've written the following: > > for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.jpg" -or -iname > "*.gif" -print` > do > echo

Re: Help With 'for' Loop

Drew Tomlinson wrote: Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a for loop. To test, I've written the following: for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.jpg" -or -iname "*.gif" -print` do echo -e "\n$i" done The first line 'find' retur

Re: Help With 'for' Loop

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:33:07PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: [...] > Yet 'echo $i' only returns "/multimedia/Pictures/1998", stopping > at the first space. Is it possible to get 'i' to represent the > whole string that 'find' returns? If so, how? Bourne-style for loops use as the delimiter b

Re: TSC Timer "Quality" ?

> >Intel pentium cpu timer tsc: > 'Timecounter "TSC" frequency X Hz quality Y' (from dmesg) > >What is the definition of "quality" ..? > > >I have looked briefly in the /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/tsc.c sourcefile and >the intel-celeron datasheet. Without finding anything useful. > > From src/sys/sys

Re: Help With 'for' Loop

On 10/14/2005 12:52 PM David Kirchner wrote: On 10/14/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a for loop. To test, I've written the following: for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.jpg" -or -iname "

Re: Help With 'for' Loop

On 10/14/2005 1:05 PM Will Maier wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:33:07PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: [...] Yet 'echo $i' only returns "/multimedia/Pictures/1998", stopping at the first space. Is it possible to get 'i' to represent the whole string that 'find' returns? If so, how?

Re: Contact Management Software

On 10/14/05, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to get suggestions or input on > what you all use for your contact management and sales software. > > Thanks very much in advance! > > -Mark I've found that kde's pim suite (kontact) works fine for me. I haven't had to do expense report

Installing Opera 8

How do I install Opera 8 on FBSD 5.4? I lost my Opera key for 7.54, which may not have worked for the ported build. Regards, James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

RE: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of daniel > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:20 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup > > > My boss has asked me to try to find a

Re: Installing Opera 8

On 10/14/05, James S Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I install Opera 8 on FBSD 5.4? I lost my Opera key for 7.54, > which may not have worked for the ported build. I believe Opera is now free without advertising. I installed Opera 8 by just doing a portinstall. - Bob ___

Re: Installing Opera 8

That's what I did, but it installed Opera 7.54. I lost my key for 7.54, and want Opera 8, but am not sure how to install it. Did I get the old ver because I installed from disk maybe? ~James On 10/14/05, Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/14/05, James S Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED

squid-cahe authentication

Hi, Is there a way to authenticate client users in squid-cache with freeBSD's users/passwd? I'm using freeBSD 5.4 STABLE version. Thanks... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Use of the ppc->pps device for time keeping ?

I am not currently subscribed to this list so please include me in any response ... thanks !! I have an HP lp1000r server that I just loaded the 5.4 Production code onto ... everything works great other than I cannot get a /dev/pps0 to appear. At boot, I can see: ppc0: parallel port found at

Re: Installing Opera 8

On 10/14/05, James S Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/14/05, Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/14/05, James S Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do I install Opera 8 on FBSD 5.4? I lost my Opera key for 7.54, > > > which may not have worked for the ported

Burning DVDs

Hi all, My DVD drive read and mounts CDs and DVDs properly, but K3B refuses to burn : "K3B did not find a suitable writer. You will only be able to create an image". Gut feeling is that there probably is something wrong in the drive's read/write permission. I checked the /etc/fstab file for rea

Help Understanding While Loop

OK, I've been working on an sh script and I'm almost there. In the script, I created a 'while read' loop that is doing what I want. Now I want to keep track of how many times the loop executes. Thus I included this line between the 'while read' and 'done' statements: count = $(( count + 1 )

Re: Burning DVDs

edward wrote: Hi all, My DVD drive read and mounts CDs and DVDs properly, but K3B refuses to burn : "K3B did not find a suitable writer. You will only be able to create an image". Gut feeling is that there probably is something wrong in the drive's read/write permission. I checked the /etc/fsta

Re: Help Understanding While Loop

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:48:19PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > OK, I've been working on an sh script and I'm almost there. In > the script, I created a 'while read' loop that is doing what I > want. Now I want to keep track of how many times the loop > executes. Thus I included this line betw

Re: Burning DVDs

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:50:34 +0200 edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > My DVD drive read and mounts CDs and DVDs properly, but K3B refuses to > burn : "K3B did not find a suitable writer. You will only be able to > create an image". Gut feeling is that there probably is something > wron

Re: Help Understanding While Loop

On 10/14/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I've been working on an sh script and I'm almost there. In the > script, I created a 'while read' loop that is doing what I want. Now I > want to keep track of how many times the loop executes. Thus I included > this line between the '

Re: Installing Opera 8

> Yes, if you installed from disk, you got what was on the disk. You > need to cvsup your ports collection, then install Opera from the port. > If you aren't familiar with that, read Chapter 4 of the FreeBSD > handbook. See > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.

Re: Installing Opera 8

Ah, nevermind, I got it. Thank you for your help, I appreciate it very much! Best regards, James On 10/14/05, James S Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, if you installed from disk, you got what was on the disk. You > > need to cvsup your ports collection, then install Opera from th

FreeBSD routing

Hello! I'm new to FreeBSD (5.3) and trying to make the transition from Linux. One thing that has me stumped is a routing question... it must be something really simple because I can do it all the time in Linux. I just want to add an arbitrary machine (eg. with IP 192.168.2.214) to my home network

Re: sh Scripting - String Manipulation

On 2005-10-14 10:47, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/14/2005 9:27 AM Paul Schmehl wrote: > >for files in /my/dir/for/files/*.jpg > >do > >NEWFILES=`$files | cut -d'/' -f 6` > >ln -s $files /new/dir/for/pics/$NEWFILES > >done > > But there is still one problem. This won't search r

help with making a release

Hello everyone, I was trying to make a release from src but for some reason it failed. Not sure if i missed something. Here is the log file of my build /R/stage/trees/base/usr/share/man/cat3/uu_lock.3.gz -> /R/stage/trees/base/usr/share/man/cat3/uucplock.3.gz /R/stage/trees/base/usr/share/man/cat

Re: Burning DVDs

Hi Edward I found this document very useful recently for burning CD's and DVD's. It's CLI only (no GUI's), but is quite straight forward when you get the hang of it: http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Unix/FreeBSD-Burning.php Paul Robert Marella writes: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:50:3

Re: su - does not ask for password

That worked! I thought I remembered giving root a password!? So, if you don't have a password set, one is not asked for? Teo On 10/14/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My account has a password and when > > I "su -" I go right in as root without a > > password prompt. What changed? >

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

On 10/12/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights, > > First, both environments do work on my 400Mhz ThinkPad > (with almost 300M/SDRAM). KDE has a nicer feel for my tastes > but the response in beyond crummy even wit

Re: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?

On 10/14/05, Jared Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as opposed > to native installation) for FreeBSD so most of the answers I found online > weren't really applicable for me. > > I simply wanted a high resolution FreeBSD console PTYs

Re: TSC Timer "Quality" ?

Peter B schrieb: Btw, avoid html encoded email pls. I'm really sorry. :-( Normally I disapprove HTML mails. I forgot to check that because this is not my PC. Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: D-Link wireless LAN card not working in 5.3-R

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:41:59PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > Don't forget about: > > device ath_hal > > in the kernel configuration file. > Thanks. I already found one ath_hal.ko in /boot/kernel, and I could kldload it successfully. But when I inserted my DWL-G650+, I got the same

Re: FreeBSD routing

Bob Hepple wrote: [...] I just want to add an arbitrary machine (eg. with IP 192.168.2.214) to my home network 192.168.254.0/24. Under Linux I just do a route add -host 192.168.2.214 eth0 and I can ping it. On FreeBSD I tried both route add -host 192.168.2.214 192.168.254.24

Re: Hardware Support (USB)

On 10/14/05, T3chn0Phr34k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My mouse is a USB mouse, optical from the Gateway > house, well none of the drivers supports it I was wandering if its > posible to configure the kernel before starting the installation, Well everything doesn't need to be stopped because of it,

Re: FreeBSD routing

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 05:59:53 +0200 Björn König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Hepple wrote: > > [...] > > I just want to add an arbitrary machine (eg. with IP 192.168.2.214) to my > > home network 192.168.254.0/24. Under Linux I just do a > > > > route add -host 192.168.2.214 eth0 > > > >