Re: ports on a CD

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:23 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:04 am, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: > > --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On > > Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:59:30AM +0100, Tadimeti > > > > > Keshav wrote:

Re: Disk geometry

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:09 pm, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 "radu.florin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware and Free BSD 5.1 > > on a single physical disk PC ( P133, 16Mo R

Re: Why do you prefer FreeBSD???? Maybe Windows is more comfortable than FBSD?

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 02:05 pm, Denis wrote: > Hi All!!! > > I think that WinXP more popular and more easy than FreeBSD. People > all over the world know what is Windows but don't know what is > FreeBSD. More programs is written work on Windows > Windows more comfortable in wor

Re: advice re mail

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:55 pm, David Bear wrote: > I need to write a program the grabs mail from a standard mail folder > and processes it. > > The trouble is I have no idea what mail file format FreeBSD uses by > default. I am using postfix, and currently postfix is my mta and mda. > I

Re: FreeBSD in Windows.....

2003-09-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 26 September 2003 04:51 pm, Timms, Simon wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:41 PM > To: Adam McLaurin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FreeBSD in Windows. > > >On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:32:40P

Re: Post Installation Questions

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 29 September 2003 09:23 am, Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I installed 4.7 this past weekend. I screwed up a bit when I > did the post install configure and didn't specify the domain name. > Now, I get sendmail messages about not being able to figure > out the fully qualified domain n

Re: burncd freebsd 5.1

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 29 September 2003 11:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > When i tried to burn this iso image i got the following error ( please find > below). > > #used command: > > burncd -f /dev/acd0 -t -v -s 4 data slackware-9.1-install-d1.iso > > iso image is correct (md5 cjhecked). > > #Out

Re: WI-FI stuff ?

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:03 am, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hi > > Is there some Wi-Fi related stuff somewhere > on FreeBSD area ? > > I need to test some HP/compaq notebooks with > integrated WI-FI interfaces with FreeBSD and Linux. > > Thanks a lot. The handbook's always a good place to start:

Re: WI-FI stuff ?

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:08 am, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >Best of luck, > > > >Andrew Gould > > it's working ! ... except I cannot use DHCP for the moment to bootup the > client > but if I enter an IP address manually it works Since I need various wifi configurations on my laptop, I use startu

Re: Firewall problem

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 01:18 pm, Gary wrote: > I have set my firewall to > > firewall_type="open" > firewall_enable="YES" > > and when I want to drop a specific IP, I enter it manually, it accepts it, > but it does not drop the packets.. > > I am getting a lot of virus activity on my SMTP por

Re: ftp recurvisely

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 07:28 pm, Michael Sharp wrote: > Is there a way using the core ftp to mget all files on a site, creating > the directorys and getting the files in the recursively? > > michael I think wget (/usr/ports/ftp/wget/) can do it. Andrew __

Re: KMail export to Outlook

2003-10-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 04 October 2003 09:36 am, Chris wrote: > Is there a way to take my mail (from KMail) and either export it to, or > some other app that will allow me to pull in all the mail into Outlook2000? > > Best regards, > Chris KMail allows you to create mailbox folders in maildi

Re: ATAPI CD-ROM, UNIX"NEW GUY"

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:42:34AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed bsd on an a pentium II machine and using the cd-rom. >> As of now it is no longer working properly I cannot finnish installing > all of the cd's I purchasd. The cd-rom is 40x Delta "I think" model > #OPC-K105/5 ST

Re: libssl

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 11:25 am, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I deleted libssl.so.3 by accident > > Whats the best way to get it back w/o reloading (fetch depends on it...and > I found it fast!) > > Thanks :) Back in the early 1980's, I was cleaning out my files and directories from my father's co

Re: libssl

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 11:36 am, Julien Gabel wrote: > > I deleted libssl.so.3 by accident > > > > Whats the best way to get it back w/o reloading (fetch depends on > > it...and I found it fast!) > > If it is "/usr/lib/libssl.so.3", the following can do the job : > > # cd /usr/src/secure/li

Re: SYN attacks

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 12:01 pm, Spades wrote: > Heya, > > FREEBSD 4.9-STABLE > > Is there anyway to block SYN attacks and prevent it from bring down > my server? > > Its been attacking for sometime. Checkout the link below. There's a series of articles regarding firewalls in FreeBSD: http://

Re: MySQL installation troubles ...

2004-04-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 03:00 pm, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install MySQL server & client from the packages > collection with no success. Being a FreeBSD newbie I will need your > help. Please check the following: > > mazenbsd# pkg_add -r mysql-server > Fetching > ftp://ft

Re: Belkin wireless network card problem

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 08 April 2004 11:04 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I finally got a wireless kit. However, the Belkin card is giving this > error: > > Card "Belkin"("11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook-Network-Adapter") [(null)] [(null)] > matched "Belkin" ("11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook-Network-Adapter") [(null)] >

Re: Belkin wireless network card problem

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 08 April 2004 11:54 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > : Which model number is it? > > Thanks Andrew. > > It's 'PCMCIA wireless' F5D6020 ver 2 > > jm I have the same model except I can't find a version number -- I guess that makes it version 1. I've used it without problems in FreeBSD 4

Re: Portupgrade problem

2004-04-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, Andreas Davour wrote: > Hi! > > I just decided to take a deep breath and cvsup some fresh ports. Now, > having done that I have run 'portupgrade -ar' and constantly found it to > stop some problems. > > Some ports have failed and been flagged as "configure error" o

Re: Fwd: Belkin wireless network card problem

2004-04-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 12 April 2004 11:39 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Hi all, > > I have about 10 days left to return this card if I cannot get it to work. > It's Belkin 'PCMCIA wireless F5D6020 ver 2' > > Here is the output after I plug in the card: > > Card "Belkin"("11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook-Network-Adap

Re: Fwd: Belkin wireless network card problem

2004-04-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 12 April 2004 03:41 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I gave up, bought a NetGear Prism2.5 compatible card, and it worked > flawlessly. I'm up and running, and figuring out when I'm going to return > the other (worthlless) card. > > jm Yeah! ___

Re: lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 01:55 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 14), Peter Leftwich said: > > I thought I would post this as something of a warning. Using FreeBSD > > as a primary, non-dual-boot OS means sacrificing. Here is a partial > > list of sacrifices, as compared to Micro

Re: lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 03:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 14 April, 2004, at 14:55 (-0500) > > Andrew L. Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > * digital cameras > > > > I use Sony Cybershot DSC-P92: > > 1. Plug camera into computer using us

Re: lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 04:33 pm, Radek Kozlowski wrote: > On 2004.04.14 22:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 14 April, 2004, at 14:55 (-0500) > > > > Andrew L. Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>* digital cameras > >> > >>I

Re: thinkpad 600

2004-04-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 April 2004 09:59 am, Rob wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi Please can you tell me how to install freebsd on my thinkpad 600 > >as I have win 98 on it and it is a refurbed unit > >I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an > >everyday enviromen

Re: Internet Problem

2004-04-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 April 2004 08:26 pm, MIchael Alexander wrote: > Quick q. can't seem to get Internet to work in free bsd 5.1. Can ping > to other addresses in intranet, but can't get out to www. Other machines > in intranet work just fine. Also, mouse scroll doesn't work. Mouse is > behind KVM bu

Re: MySQL

2004-04-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:00 am, ilich wrote: > Hello All! > I have small problem. > I installed apache2\php4\mysql. Apache and php work fine, but mysql > doesn't work. When I enter "mysql" to my console it send massage "Can't > connect to local MySQL server through socket 'tmp/mysql.socket'". A

Re: More dependency hell

2004-04-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 09:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to install OpenOffice 1.1.1 on a box with a fresh install of > 5.2.1Release. I get Java to compile and install, however Openoffice > chokes because it starts to update all the Gnome stuff. I cannot get the > update script t

Re: Keeping Ports synchronised with Packages

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 22 April 2004 07:41 am, Richard Bradley wrote: > Hi all, > > I am getting the impression that I am using the ports and packages system > the wrong way, but can't find a good tutorial on how to use them to their > best. I would be quite happy to write one up, but I need to understand it

Re: Keeping Ports synchronised with Packages

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:57 am, Richard Bradley wrote: > On Thursday 22 April 2004 2:29 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Thursday 22 April 2004 07:41 am, Richard Bradley wrote: > > [...] > > > > My problem is that my ports tree is always a couple of minor versions &

Re: Keeping Ports synchronised with Packages

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 22 April 2004 09:50 am, Richard Bradley wrote: > On Thursday 22 April 2004 3:25 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:57 am, Richard Bradley wrote: > > ... > > > > I want to keep my programs up to date, and I want to use precompile

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 23 April 2004 08:01 am, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: > Probably. I'm not too familiar with how the ad-hoc connections work, > but i am certain that for a single client it would work. Just get a > wireless NIC in it, play a little routing magic, maybe look at the dhcpd > port (dhcp server) >

Re: Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router

2004-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:48:02 -0500 John Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD succesfully on my Gateway M500 laptop. The > only problem I have is that my laptop connects to the internet through > a wireless router. My wireless card is working fine on the laptop and > I can s

Re: Mounting CDrom

2004-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 24 May 2004 16:32:26 -0500 Donald Szatkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for considering my question. > > How do I mount my cdrom and make it available to all users? > > I have tried: mount -t cd9669 /dev/acd0/cdrom > > I have tried: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0/mnt > > Not

How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
How can I make a screenshot of what's on my monitor? (I searched the archives unsuccessfully for "screenshot".) I'm running FreeBSD 4.10. Thanks, Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:41:02 +0200 (CEST) Cordula's Web <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I make a screenshot of what's on my monitor? (I searched > > > the archives unsuccessfully for "screenshot".) > > > > Gimp is an image manipulation program similar to Photoshop or > > PaintShopPro,

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:29:41 +0200 Michal Pasternak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew L. Gould [Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:17:10PM -0500]: > > > > I flubbed my first attempt with xwd -- I need to spend more time > > with it's man page. > > Try: > >

Re: [from newbies]: XP + FreeBSD

2004-06-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:59:59 + "clayton rollins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On June 6, 2004, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >This has probably been answered before, but I was unable to find > >explicit confirmation. > > > >The installation guide (2.5.3) states that "You now ha

Re: [OT] What's "QED"? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades)

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:36:47 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Robert Huff wrote: > > > > >Peter Risdon writes: > > > > > >> I suppose what I'm driving at is whether the RELENG_4 branch sees > > >> many commits that are likely to be proble

FYI - Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter recognized in FreeBSD 5.2.1 Release

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
The Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter, model F8T001 (100 meter range), is not in the hardware notes, I thought I'd mention it here: I just installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100. The Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter mentioned above was recognized as ubt0. Also, 'hccontrol -n ubt0hci inquiry' ret

Console and X configuration for laptop display

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100. During bootup and later, at the command line, the usable screen is much smaller than the available display size -- 2 to 3 inch margins on all sides. Does anyone know how I can fix this? In X, a resolution of 1400x1050 fills the display; but ever

Re: Console and X configuration for laptop display

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:09:13 -0500 Eric Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 11 June 2004 18:42, you wrote: > > I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100. During bootup > > and later, at the command line, the usable screen is much smaller > > than the available display size -- 2 t

Re: Help With Selection of Database Application

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:48:21 -0400 Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had extensive experience with MS Access as a user > and would like to port a comparable system into my FreeBSD > box. Can anyone recommend a database application similar to > Access? I've looked through the ports bu

Re: Help With Selection of Database Application

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:13:40 -0400 Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (06/13/04 19:24), Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:24:52 -0500 > > From: "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

FYI - Commercial antivirus software for FreeBSD free for personal use

2005-06-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
FYI - AntiVir Personal Edition Classic is now available for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris. Workstation, Mailgate and Milter versions are available. The Personal Edition Classic version is available free of charge for personal/noncommercial use; although registration is required. http://f

Re: WebCam support in FreeBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:27 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What is the way to use webcam under FreeBSD ? > > > > Under Linux there are many drivers supporting many webcams exposing > > them as device with some standardised access. > > > > Under Windows there's wh

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.3 + FreeBSD + TCP/IP

2005-06-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 03:14 pm, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0500, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm having a difficulty getting PostgreSQL to accept TCP/IP > >> connections on FreeBSD 5.3. I have edited 'postgresql.conf' in my > >> postgre

Re: Sudden need for a wireless card for 5.3

2005-06-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 03:58 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: > I suddenly find myself in need of a wireless card for a 5.3 desktop > box. > > Anyone want to recommend something? > > Thanks, > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PRO

Re: (starbucks) "ssid = tmobile" and 5.x (hit-n-miss)

2005-06-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:07 pm, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > Hello Family, > > Well sometimes I wish I had all the answers... I need some advice. > > When I proudly bring my FreeBSD-5.x laptop(s) into Starbucks, I have > my "wi0" set for "DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf and I never have consistant > handsha

Re: web calendar program recommendation

2005-06-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 16 June 2005 08:38 am, Noah wrote: > FreeBSD-4.11 R3 > > > I am looking for a really nice calendar program that I can run from a > web interface. That has the ability to import my calendar from my > palm. > > horde is nice but I cant import any of my palm calendars. > > neither can web

Re: (starbucks) "ssid = tmobile" and 5.x (hit-n-miss)

2005-06-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 16 June 2005 11:36 pm, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 it looks like Andrew L. Gould composed: > > Try adding "ssid tmobile" to the ifconfig arguments in > > /etc/rc.conf. If adding it to your rc.conf file doesn't work for > > you, try

3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R

2005-06-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used mkisofs to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the mkisofs and growisofs process appeared to finish successfully; but 'ls -alh' shows the resulting file to be -514M in size when the DVD-R is mounted in FreeBSD 4.10.

Re: 3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R

2005-06-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 19 June 2005 07:15 am, Fabian Keil wrote: > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used > > mkisofs to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the > > m

OT: usage of split

2005-06-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Regarding the usage of split to divide files into several parts: 1. Can the split utility be used on binary files? 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file using redirection (>>); but can you do that with

Re: OT: usage of split

2005-06-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 19 June 2005 10:34 pm, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the > > original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file > > using redirection (>>); but can you do that with a binary file? > > I'd say yes, you can cat a binary

Re: Configuring Apache with DynDNS

2005-06-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 19 June 2005 09:07 am, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I am attempting to get Apache to work on my computer. My ISM only > supplies me with a dynamic IP as well as blocking of port 80. I am > using DynDNS to try and circumvent that situation. > > My knowledge of how to accomplish this quite frank

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 10:35 pm, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, /--big snip--/ > > Let me put it this way. A long time ago, we call it now stone age, > the people started to realise that a group of people shows better > results if they specialise. The people better in hunting went > hunting, the p

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 June 2005 01:01 pm, Sam Ip wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, > there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get > through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD > is its ports collection > > 1. Can

Re: firewall on FreeBSD

2005-06-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 25 June 2005 05:19 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > mess-mate wrote: > > I've a firewall/router/proxy with openbsd and think to replace it > > with freebsd 5.4 > > Do you mean freebsd's PF don't support the 'quick' keyword ?? > > Thought PF on freebsd and openbsd was identical, isn't ? > > It

Re: firewall on FreeBSD

2005-06-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 25 June 2005 09:17 am, mess-mate wrote: > Andrew L. Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Saturday 25 June 2005 05:19 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > | > mess-mate wrote: > | > > I've a firewall/router/proxy with openbsd and think to replace > | > >

Re: Apache 2 SSL Error

2005-07-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 11:01 am, Todd Suits wrote: > I set up a FreeBSD 4.11 jail to learn how to setup SSL on Apache 2 > correctly. I installed Apache 2.0.54 from ports. I generated SSL > certs just for testing purposes. I'm not able to get any response at > all from the server on SSL unless I se

Re: Sorry... newbie

2005-07-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:20 pm, Armando Richard wrote: > Hope find at least 1 patient person to answer this... > > I'm used to operate well systems in Linux and "R"windows and trying > from 2 days FreeBSD.. > > I've very very very novice questions and couldn't find any help in > literature i've b

Re: Wireless with Aironet 350 Card Help needed

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 28 July 2005 01:28 pm, Reeves, Brandon wrote: > I have a Freebsd 5.3 Laptop with an Aironet 350 Card. I can get the > card associated with the AP using WEP etc. However, I still can not > ping the outside internet. I had this working while I was initially > toying with the card but for

Re: MySQL - Cannot access as root

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 28 July 2005 04:20 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I have just installed MySQL 5. I can access the program as a regular > user, but not as root. As I regular user I have no privileges. If I > attempt to access as root, I receive this error message. > > ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for u

Re: AMD64 vs. i386

2005-08-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:46:48 -0500 "Joseph Sniderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I install the i386 version of FreeBSD on an AMD64(athelon64) > based computer? > Yes! Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:09:31 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi > > I have wlan card WG311T from Netgear installed on freeBSD 5.4 > > # ifconfig > ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 > inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe26

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:57:44 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Poor signal strength > > no, very good (1 meter distance) > windows installed on the same machine shows 100% > > 2. Improperly configured nameserver information (/etc/resolv.conf) > > it's correct, because with et

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:19:54 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes, but cable is disabled at the moment Do you mean that the cable is unplugged or that you removed the interface configuration? Unplugging the cable does not change or remove the interface configuration. Reconfigure

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:58:03 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi > > I removed the interface conf. from the cable but still doesn't work. > > What's very strange is authmode OPEN: > > # ifconfig > ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 0xff00 broadcast

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 05:58:02 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is the channel correct? > > yes, it is, without wep works well > > Do you have an active firewall that could be blocking the wireless > interface? > > no, I don't have any firewall active > > > authmode OPEN is the

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:56:02 -0400 (EDT) "PK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is your wireless router on open or shared ? > If I set my wireless router on open, then it works without problems > and my ifconfig looks like yours. > > from man ifconfig: > > http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?sect

Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-08-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
e security mode OPEN, then my > windows works as shared too, but the router is still OPEN. > > my connection is working without WEP only, > but this is not what I want. > > without WEP was working before I did this posting. > > I need WEP and I want the connection wit

Re: why my daemon did not start

2005-10-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:34:15 +0800 "Foo JH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to write a simple RC script to run my little Perl > script as a daemon. The script is as follows: > > #!/bin/sh > > portal_enable=${portal_enable-"NO"} > portal_flags=${portal_flags-""} > portal_pidfile="

Re: Please help me !

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:21:30 + "mohammad ajorlou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Dear sir > >I'm Mohammad Ajorlou >I have MCP,MCSA,MCSE 2000 & 2003 certification , but very like > learn FreeBSD Operating System >i know FreeBSD very very stable , reliable and secure but >un

Re: Backing up postgresql data

2005-10-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:02:11 -0600 Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got postgresql 8 running on my system, and want to do nightly > backups of the database. I took a look at the docs, and there are a > few methods of doing backups - pg_dump, file system level, and using > WAL. I just

Re: xorg.conf block my machine

2005-10-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:01:01 -0300 Pablo Allietti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all. i have xorg loading in tty7 at startup. > i change my mouse and i modified the file xorg.conf to mouse0 to > mouse1. > > well the problem is my machine cant start again :( load all system > but when finis

Re: Sharing filesystems between FreeBSD and Windows ...

2005-11-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:42:29 +0100 Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:07 -0500, Nicolas Blais wrote: > > On November 22, 2005 09:59 am, Kiffin Gish wrote: > > > I have a home network running 3 desktop machines with Windows XP > > > Pro, and a webserver, fileserver an

Re: FreeBSD starter machine

2005-12-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:07:44 -0800 (PST) "Matt S. Gann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a few questions about FreeBSD. I am just beginning to get > into UNIX. I know a few line commands, but really want to get > familiar and comfortable with the OS. I have been intrugued by > FreeBSD for

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/14/05, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. > > > Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to > > > be?

Re: next question: dvd-burner.

2005-12-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:04:53 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:14:23PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 > > Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 12/

Re: dvdrecord?

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:56:25 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why there is no dvdrecord in ports? it was available in NetBSD, and i > used it for recording DVD-R? > > or maybe other tool? (but not growisofs that works good with DVD+R > only) ___

Re: dvdrecord?

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:24:46 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> or maybe other tool? (but not growisofs that works good with DVD+R > >> only) ___ > > > > I use growisofs to burn database backup files to DVD-R on a regular > > bas

Re: network card setup?

2004-08-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 13 August 2004 01:13 pm, Laszlo Antal wrote: > Hi, > I forgot to setup my network card during installation on my laptop. > How can I do that on a running system?? > I am really happy after about two weeks of trouble finally I have a > running system on my Toshiba Satelite laptop. > Thank

Re: Frequent crashes with Mozilla and Firefox

2004-08-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 16 August 2004 04:38 pm, Dan Rue wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:31:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:51:36PM -0700, Your Name wrote: > > > In the last few weeks ive started getting a number of crashes > > > using either Mozilla or Firefox. im using t

Re: most commonly used database

2004-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 19 August 2004 12:50 am, Peter Ryan wrote: > Has anyone got any idea what is the most > commonly used database on freeBSD ? > > Is it mySql ? > > I was going to install it but the > CPU utilitisation problems reported > recently are a bit worrying. > > Thanks > Peter Hi Peter, Caveat:

Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current

2004-08-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 19 August 2004 11:27 am, edwinculp wrote: > I've been trying on and off to get an epson stylus c63 to print on > current. I've always used apsprint which has always worked > perfectly. In this case I am afraid that Epson has changed something > and this model isn't supported by ghosts

Re: Extract Email Attachments.....

2004-08-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 20 August 2004 09:51 am, samy lancher wrote: > Hello All, > I have a sendmail Email server on freebsd OS. I would like to know > if there is any way I can extract the attachments that come with > email and store them in a local folder. I do not want to use any MUA. > I will be getting se

Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current

2004-08-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 20 August 2004 12:47 pm, edwinculp wrote: > Malcolm, I want to thank both you and "Andrew L. > Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for the link to > linuxprint. I can now print very well with gimp > but still haven't been able to get it working with > lpd

Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current

2004-08-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 20 August 2004 03:54 pm, edwinculp wrote: > - Mensaje original - > De: "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: Viernes, Agosto 20, 2004 1:03 pm > Asunto: Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current > > > On Friday 20 August 2004 12:

Re: Frequent crashes with Mozilla and Firefox

2004-08-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 16 August 2004 04:55 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Monday 16 August 2004 04:38 pm, Dan Rue wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:31:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:51:36PM -0700, Your Name wrote: > > > > In the last f

Re: Embedded freebsd How to?

2004-08-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 23 August 2004 07:41 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: > Well I've been using FBSD since 3.4, and I would like to > try my hand at trying to put together an embedded FBSD system. > I browsed the -small mailing list, but there doesnt seem to be > any relevant up to date data there (I may be mistake

Re: Embedded freebsd How to?

2004-08-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 23 August 2004 11:21 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Monday 23 August 2004 07:41 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote: > >>Well I've been using FBSD since 3.4, and I would like to > >>try my hand at trying to put together an embedded FBSD

Re: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

2004-08-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 09:36 am, Hugo Silva wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open > source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). > > Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD / > Linux (only adding linux because

Re: FreeBSD architecture

2004-08-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 03:59 pm, Riki wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if FreeBSD could work on my PC. I noticed a lot > of stuff about supported architectures, but that isn't my language > yet and I can't tell if my computer fits into one of them or not. I > would really appreciate you

Re: sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems

2004-08-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:11 pm, Hauan, David wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Jorge Mario G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:21 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems > > > > > > Hi there > > I`ve b

Re: KlamAV on FreeBSD...

2004-08-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:38 am, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 28), Mike Hauber said: > > Actually, it's for a server I've set up at my folks house with SMB > > shares. I'd like for them to be able to scan for viruses every so > > often from the server without having to deal wit

Re: compatible DVD players

2004-08-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 28 August 2004 08:25 am, Robert Huff wrote: > One of my (SCSI) CD-ROM drives is dieing; to replace it, I was > thinking of getting something that handles DVDs as well. > Is anybody doing this (that's a pro forma question) and what > advice do you have? > >

Re: getting off windows

2004-09-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 03 September 2004 10:42 am, David Litster wrote: > I have a windows machine and I am trying to figure out how to replace > the windows with freebsd. how do I do this? If you have free space on the hard drive, you can add FreeBSD to the computer without deleting Windows. If you choose

Re: Unable to write to CD-R

2004-09-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 03 September 2004 03:56 pm, Norm Vilmer wrote: > I am having trouble burning an iso image to a CD-R using FreeBSD > 4.10. I have tried using > burncd , cdrecord, and growifofs, all appear to have basically the > same problem (see details below) > "Operation not permitted". The only thing

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