The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-10-09 - 2005-10-29

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Re: sound on FreeBSD

On 10/30/05, Jim Pazarena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone have a link where a web page has been created > which explains clearly how to install sound drivers > _and_ test them I.E. play a sound? > > I found on BSDForums.org an explanation which describes > first using kldload to try to det

RE: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY - fsck

>> >> There was recently a power outage in the area, which lasted longer >> than the UPS did. ... >> ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts >> BAD/DUP FILE I=3219136 OWNER=13273856 MODE=103210 >> SIZE=57005967061714584 MTIME=Jun 3 16:08 1970 CLEAR? [yn] yes >> >> pid 22 (fsck), uid 0: exited on

Getting my screen to rotate with my monitor

I have a fancy dancy LCD screen that can rotate clockwise. It would be nice to be able to use this functionality but I have no idea where to start. Hopefully somebody can tell me if it's even feasible. My video card is a Voodoo 3 running the tdfx driver. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mai

Re: Getting my screen to rotate with my monitor

On 10/30/05, ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a fancy dancy LCD screen that can rotate clockwise. It would be > nice to be able to use this functionality but I have no idea where to > start. Hopefully somebody can tell me if it's even feasible. My video card > > is a Voodoo 3 running the td

Re: Unable to perform clean shutdown.

Hans Nieser wrote: Hi list, [...] Does anyone know what causes my system not to be able to perform a clean shutdown anymore? and, does anyone know what the deal with fsck_ext2fs being called with a non-existent -F options is? My apologies, I didn't properly google the subject and missed ht

Re: Mounting an iPod

Hi James, Thanks for your interest. The page you indicate mentions rebuiding the kernel with HFS/HFS+ support. I found a chapter on rebuilding kernels in The Complete FreeBSD and I suppose the handbook also has something to say about it. I'll sort this out first and will come back to you about

tcp services (ssh,ftp) does not work

dear all, i have put sshd_enable="YES" and inetd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. netstat -an also shows that the port numbers 21 and 22 are in listen state ftp is uncommented in /etc/inetd.conf but still the ssh/ftp services does not work. when i ftp from another computer the netstat shows conne

Re: tcp services (ssh,ftp) does not work

try to lookup verbose mode and check /var/log/messages/ On 10/30/05, kamal kc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dear all, > > i have put sshd_enable="YES" > and inetd_enable="YES" > in /etc/rc.conf. > > netstat -an also shows that the port numbers > 21 and 22 are in listen state > > ftp is uncommente

Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

Hello, Is there anywhere on the FreeBSD.org site that has any (even if semi-official) procedure for upgrading a FreeBSD-5Stable machine (i386) to 6.0? Thanks. Regards, Stacey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:28:35AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello, > Is there anywhere on the FreeBSD.org site that has any (even if > semi-official) procedure for upgrading a FreeBSD-5Stable machine (i386) to > 6.0? Chapter 20 of the Handbook details how to update your system with cvs

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

Hello Roland, Thanks for the response. On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:28:35AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there anywhere on the FreeBSD.org site that has any (even if > > semi-official) procedure for upgrading a FreeBSD-5Stable

Re: Getting my screen to rotate with my monitor

On 10/30/05, Eric Kjeldergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/30/05, ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a fancy dancy LCD screen that can rotate clockwise. It would be > > nice to be able to use this functionality but I have no idea where to > > start. Hopefully somebody can tell me if

Re: tcp services (ssh,ftp) does not work

At 02:07 AM 10/30/2005 -0800, kamal kc wrote: | dear all, | | i have put sshd_enable="YES" | and inetd_enable="YES" | in /etc/rc.conf. | | netstat -an also shows that the port numbers | 21 and 22 are in listen state | | ftp is uncommented in /etc/inetd.conf | | but still the ssh/ftp services do

Help: kinit failed

Dear Sirs, When I tried to add my FreeBSD machine as a domain member to ADS domain (with Windows Server 2003 SP1 as a domain controller), the problem with Kerberos authentication arised. I installed heimdal-0.6_3.2 package for Kerberos authentication. I used the following /etc/krb5.conf file: [a

backup strategies

Hi! We plan to set up a backup server. While the basic backup procedure is clear -- use some archiving utility like dump, tar, or cpio and send data to the backup server via ssh or a network mount -- there are many details which are unclear for me. The two biggest problems are: 1) What parts ar

4 GB RAM but can only see 3 GB (HP 380)

Hi! Two different customers have bought a HP 380 server each, both with 4 GB RAM, but FreeBSD can only see three of them. BIOS counts to 4 GB. I've tried PAE, but it doesn't help. Any tips how I can make use of the last 1GB? Both are SMP, dual Xeon CPU's. Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD

Re: Sed howto

I concur. The 20 pages on sed are probably part of what you want. It doesn't answer your "besides..." however. Perhaps someone else can help there. Here's a link to O'Reilly: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf It is a really such a book, that I should read. Not o

Re: Mounting an iPod

I rebuilt the kernel with HFS/HFS+ support and it boots and loads OK. But no luck mounting the iPod on the firewire port. No luck on the USB port either : # mount -t hfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt hfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not supported by device Same happens with /dev/da0s2 and /dev/da0s3 Any ideas ? Ed

Re[2]: tcp services (ssh,ftp) does not work

On Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:23:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tcp services (ssh,ftp) does not work Wrote these words of wisdom: > At 02:07 AM 10/30/2005 -0800, kamal kc wrote: > | dear all, > | > | i have put sshd_enable="YES" > | and inetd_enable="YES" > | in /etc/rc.conf. > | > | nets

Re: tcp services (ssh,ftp) does not work

Le 30/10/2005 à 02:07:49-0800, kamal kc a écrit > dear all, > > i have put sshd_enable="YES" > and inetd_enable="YES" > in /etc/rc.conf. > > netstat -an also shows that the port numbers > 21 and 22 are in listen state > > ftp is uncommented in /etc/inetd.conf > > but still the ssh/ftp services

Re: firewall messages to syslogd

On Oct 29, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: Hello, How can I add firewall log messages to syslogd, I have added the following lines to the syslog.conf: # router +router *.* /var/log/router.log Also, syslogd is running with the flag -a with the ip addr

Installation failure

I am trying to install a FreeBSD on i386 and it hangs on that line ato0: resetting.. - Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Mounting an iPod

On Oct 30, 2005, at 9:03 AM, edward wrote: I rebuilt the kernel with HFS/HFS+ support and it boots and loads OK. But no luck mounting the iPod on the firewire port. No luck on the USB port either : # mount -t hfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt hfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not supported by device Same happen

Installation failure

I am trying to install FreeBsd 5.0 on i386 and it hangs in the middle of installation process with a ata0: resetting devices.. I thought it was a graphic card, i put a diff one, same error I changed alot of stuff in the BIOS setup trying to make it work .. nothing All help would be appreciated

Re: Installation failure

On 10/30/05, some one <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBsd 5.0 on i386 > and it hangs in the middle of installation process > with a > ata0: resetting devices.. > I thought it was a graphic card, i put a diff one, same error > I changed alot of stuff in the BIOS setup trying

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:44:24AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello Roland, > Thanks for the response. > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:28:35AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Is there anywhere on the FreeBSD.org site that

Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...

Jack T wrote: > RE:Performance, it seems to perform fine enough for me. YMMV. On 10/29/05, Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How many machines do you have connected using it? I'm only using Arla as a AFS client to access my company's AFS realm from my desktop BSD machine. As far as I

floppy install problems with strange message

hello, i'm trying a floppy install of the 5.4-RELEASE and whatever ftp site i choose i would get the following message: No such directory: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/5.4-RELEASE please check the URL and try again. i know the snapshot directory doesn't exist (if i ftp direct

Re: Mounting an iPod

If you attach the device as the root user, you should get a console message indicating that a new device was found on such-and-such port. Also, I believe it will be listed in either /var/log/messages or /var/log/all.log. On Oct 30, 2005, at 10:11 AM, edward wrote: It should be. How do I

Re: Mounting an iPod

2005/10/30, edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I rebuilt the kernel with HFS/HFS+ support and it boots and loads OK. > But no luck mounting the iPod on the firewire port. No luck on the USB > port either : > # mount -t hfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt > hfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not supported by device > > Same hap

Re: Can a process be made immune to out-of-swap-space kills?

On 2005-10-30 00:21, Doug Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:59:53AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2005-10-29 16:34, Doug Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sometimes, I accidentally run something that eats up too much > > > memory and causes the pager to run out

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

Hello Roland, On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:44:24AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Hello Roland, > > Thanks for the response. > > > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Roland Smith wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:28:35AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote

Re: backup strategies

Hi On 10/30/05, Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > We plan to set up a backup server. > > While the basic backup procedure is clear -- use some archiving utility > like dump, tar, or cpio and send data to the backup server via ssh or a > network mount -- there are many details which

Re: Getting my screen to rotate with my monitor

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:10:36 -0800, Eric Kjeldergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/30/05, Eric Kjeldergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/30/05, ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a fancy dancy LCD screen that can rotate clockwise. It would be > nice to be able to use this functi

mozilla firefox-1.0.7 on 5.4-STABLE

Has anyone managed to go all the way to install firefox-1.0.7? I get stuck at this error: or -Wno-long-long -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fshort-wchar -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X1 1R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DMOZILLA_CLIENT -include

Re: mozilla firefox-1.0.7 on 5.4-STABLE

Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Has anyone managed to go all the way to install firefox-1.0.7? > I get stuck at this error: > > or -Wno-long-long -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fshort-wchar -pipe > -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X1 > 1R6/include -I/usr/X11

Problems with snortreport when trying to look at summary for an alert(s).

Hi, all Im running snort (ver 2.4 ), snortreport (ver 1.2) with postgresql (postgresql ver 8.0.4), php5 (ver 5.0.5). My webserver is apache version 2.0.55, lates from ports with ssl support, and last on 5.4-RELEASE-p8 machine. I having problem with the webinterface to snort (snortreport). It

Re: backup strategies

Martin Hepworth wrote: Hi On 10/30/05, Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! We plan to set up a backup server. While the basic backup procedure is clear -- use some archiving utility like dump, tar, or cpio and send data to the backup server via ssh or a network mount -- there are many

Re: backup strategies

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:49:02 +0100 Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We plan to set up a backup server. -- cut -- > 1) What parts are to be backed up? If I backup the whole system, the > backup disk will get full soon. incremental backups via a script called from cron sounds good, you might

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 05:55:09PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Okay.., I took the view that following the Handbook was the way to go, > changing "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5" to "*default release=cvs > tag=RELENG_6". > > All went fine, that is, I was able to cvsup sources to upgrade a >

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

Hi Roland! On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 05:55:09PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > > Okay.., I took the view that following the Handbook was the way to go, > > changing "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5" to "*default release=cvs > > tag=RELENG_6". > > > >

Re: firewall messages to syslogd

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:22:39AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: > On Oct 29, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > > > > >Hello, > > > > How can I add firewall log messages to syslogd, I have > >added the following lines to the syslog.conf: > > > ># router > >+router > >*.*

Re: 4 GB RAM but can only see 3 GB (HP 380)

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:21:00PM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi! > > Two different customers have bought a HP 380 server each, both with 4 GB > RAM, but FreeBSD can only see three of them. BIOS counts to 4 GB. I've > tried PAE, but it doesn't help. Any tips how I can make use of the last

Re: compiling chrooted kernel makes drive unbootable

On 10/30/05, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your reply. I've not lost any data yet doing a reinstall > would not be possible at this point. It's a matter of time which i don't > have a lot of. > As i said i've not lost data, on the drive, just the motherboard died, i > t

Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 08:23:20PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > There were some messages about this on the mailing lists recently. > > > > Apparently some options and devices were moved into DEFAULTS (which is > > combined with the chosen kernel configuration by config(8).), so that > > people

Buildworld and Security advisories.

Hello, list. I am new to FreeBSD source upgrading/patching source tree system. After reading the following chapters from the handbook: 14.14 FreeBSD Security Advisories 20 The Cutting Edge (about rebuilding "world") I have some questions. 1) If I install a FreeBSD RELEASE on a machine what do I

RE: An installation on SCSI Drives

Hello, everyone. I’m about to install FreeBSD, and I have two questions. Some background information about this project. I have 25gigs of SCSI HDD’s unformatted to use. My first question is: Other then /root, /swap, /user, and /var, what other partitions are needed for a first go at Free

acd0 Hardware error

Hi Friends. Every time i use my DVD player unit, i get on the kernel messages console, repeated many times, this: acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x03 error=0 What is the mean of this line?. With others Operating Systems, in the same machine, i don't have nothing like this..

laptop firewall rules

Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let all connections out and keep state, but block all incoming from the outside. TIA ___

Debugging options in GENERIC RELENG_6 (was: Re: Canonical upgrade procedure for 6.0?)

Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hi Roland! > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Roland Smith wrote: > > >>On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 05:55:09PM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: >> >> >>>Okay.., I took the view that following the Handbook was the way to go, >>>changing "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5" to "*default relea

Re: tcp services (ssh,ftp) does not work

For future reference, you should not cross post to FreeBSD lists. If you are unsure what the best list will be, start with freebsd-questions. Good luck, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: laptop firewall rules

On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let all connections out and keep state, but block all incoming from t

ghostscript headaches

Hi all, I'm running FBSD 5.4-release-p7. I've had gs-gnu 7.07 installed from when I installed FBSD 5.3. I just installed scribus and it needs a newer gs. I set WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_AFPL=yes, deinstalled gs-gnu, installed gs-afpl, and did a pkgdb -F. Scribus now worked right but cups didn't.

Re: backup strategies

BackupPC http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=backuppc+freebsd On 10/31/05, albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:49:02 +0100 > Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We plan to set up a backup server. > -- cut -- > > 1) What parts are to be backed up?

Re: Buildworld and Security advisories.

On 10/31/05, Grigory O. Ptashko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, list. > > I am new to FreeBSD source upgrading/patching source tree system. > After reading the following chapters from the handbook: > > 14.14 FreeBSD Security Advisories > 20 The Cutting Edge (about rebuilding "world") > > I have

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

On 10/29/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/29/05, John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep > > this from happening again? What can/can't I safely include in cron to > > automate database and index mainten

Re: acd0 Hardware error

On 10/31/05, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Friends. > > Every time i use my DVD player unit, i get on the kernel messages > console, repeated many times, this: > > acd0: FAILURE - READ_CD HARDWARE ERROR asc=0x08 ascq=0x03 error=0 > > What is the mean of this line?. With

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

On 10/31/05, John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/29/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/29/05, John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do to keep > > > this from happening again? What can/can't I

Re: ghostscript headaches

Micah wrote: Hi all, I'm running FBSD 5.4-release-p7. I've had gs-gnu 7.07 installed from when I installed FBSD 5.3. I just installed scribus and it needs a newer gs. I set WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_AFPL=yes, deinstalled gs-gnu, installed gs-afpl, and did a pkgdb -F. Scribus now worked right but

Re: non-English character support

Alex Teslik wrote: > I was also wondering why there is no en_US.UTF8 in /usr/share/locale? Any > guidence is much appreciated. > > I am using FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p5. In FreeBSD 4.x, the UTF-8 locale support files have to be installed from the ports collection. cd /usr/ports/misc/utf8locale make

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

On 10/30/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/31/05, John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/29/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/29/05, John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Needless to say, this process wasn't much fun. What can I do

Re: kernel debug options

On Saturday, 29 October 2005 at 15:47:03 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:36:59AM -0600, Elliot Finley wrote: >> does having: >> >> options KDB >> options DDB >> makeoptions DEBUG=-g >> >> in the kernel make it slower? Or does it just make it t

Re: kernel debug options

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:23:33PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 29 October 2005 at 15:47:03 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:36:59AM -0600, Elliot Finley wrote: > >> does having: > >> > >> options KDB > >> options DDB > >> ma

Re: laptop firewall rules

On 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless > interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use > IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let all connections out and keep state, > but block all incoming

em(4) driver not working with Intel Pro 1000 P (dual port pci express)

Hi, we just bought a bunch of Dell PowerEdge 1850 and Dell PowerEdge 2850. They have 2x1000 mbps nic onboard (intel pro 1000) which works fine with the em(4) kernel module. We also bought a pci express dual port Intel pro 1000 P nic (the chip on it is a 82546GB) We are unable to detect the

qemu Could not initialize SDL - exiting

Is there a trick to geting sdl to initialize? I always get: "Could not initialize SDL - exiting" when trying to start qemu. The only thing I found with google was trying: xhost + and that did not help. Could it b my video hardware? My ports are up to date. If it helps, I have a matrox card, h

Re: laptop firewall rules

in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Vitaly Cherny thusly... > > On 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless > > interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use > > IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I w

em(4) driver not working with Intel Pro 1000 P (dual port pci express)

Hi, we just bought a bunch of Dell PowerEdge 1850 and Dell PowerEdge 2850. They have 2x1000 mbps nic onboard (intel pro 1000) which works fine with the em(4) kernel module. We also bought a pci express dual port Intel pro 1000 P nic (the chip on it is a 82546GB) We are unable to detect the

KDE

Hello, and Please ,,,Somebody nudge me in the right direction, I have a successful install of 6.0 RC1, and when I startx it comes up with three boxes , of xterminals I have Installed all the KDE files off CD, Where I'm stuck is ,is there a config file I need to edit to bring up KDE,?? Or hav

portaudit reports: how to exclude a specific vulnerability

G'day. I am relatively new to FreeBSD, but failed to find an answer to this question in the handbook, manual pages, or other references about portaudit: At the moment, portaudit is reporting one vulnerability on my system, with the 'p5-Crypt-OpenPGP' package. There isn't, apparently, a release

RE: DMA errors

>-Original Message- >From: Mike Jeays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:04 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: DMA errors > > >On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 19:48, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> Try a different disk drive. >> >> What m

Re: dial-up with modem

Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dears, I wanna install package.But it is in the web,I need to dial up modem.So,Am i do compile kernel for supppurting ppp ? No, if I remember correctly PPP is in generic kernel (both "tun" for user-level, and "ppp" for pppd"). If I'm wrong, then you can load modu

Re: Dial-up with RS-232 cable modem

Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dears,If you can connect to the Internet via ppp,Please mail me /etc/ppp directory. Yours,Mohsen You can read about PPP configuration: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html My /etc/ppp is meaningless from you becuase we use

Re: KDE

On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:15, Jack Thompson wrote: > Hello, and Please ,,,Somebody nudge me in the right direction, > I have a successful install of 6.0 RC1, and when I startx it comes up with > three boxes , of xterminals > I have Installed all the KDE files off CD, Where I'm stuck is ,is

Re: portaudit reports: how to exclude a specific vulnerability

On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:45, you wrote: > G'day. I am relatively new to FreeBSD, but failed to find an answer to > this question in the handbook, manual pages, or other references about > portaudit: > > At the moment, portaudit is reporting one vulnerability on my system, > with the 'p5-Crypt-