Re: WD External Disc Drive

Rob Hurle wrote: Dear All, This may sound like a Windows problem, but please read on. I made a mistake and bought a WD "My Passport" external 350GB disc drive for use on several Windows machines, on some of which I don't have admin access, and a couple of FreeBSD systems. On first use on W

Video Capture Cards

Searched in the mailing list but no luck. Has anyone set up a MythTV backend? Any does anyone know of issues with the WinTV-PVR-350 on FreeBSD? Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

RE: Video Capture Cards(correction)

Original Message Subject:Video Capture Cards Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:38:32 -0500 From: Derek Funk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Searched in the mailing list but no luck. Has anyone set up a MythTV backend? Any does anyone know of issues with the

wlan setup

I followed the handbook and searched online but yet still unable to get a wireless connection to an access point. I have in my rc.conf file: wlans_ath0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" and in the wpa_supplicant.conf: network={ ssid="myssid" psk="mypassword" } It associates but does not get

Re: wlan setup

On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:00 -0500, Derek Funk wrote: > I followed the handbook and searched online but yet still unable to get > a wireless connection to an access point. > > I have in my rc.conf file: > wlans_ath0="wlan0" > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" > &g

Re: wlan setup

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 23:20 -0400, Chris Hill wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Derek Funk wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:00 -0500, Derek Funk wrote: > > [ ... ] > > Drivers are loaded and I tried using SYNCDHCP instead of just DHCP in > > rc.conf. > > I

Re: wlan setup

I have tried what the handbook says and a custom entry to devd.conf as one forum showed. wlan0 associates with the access point but does not get an IP. Drivers are loaded. No error messages in /var/log for wpa_supplicant. I have even tried using background_dhclient in rc.conf. This is an issue

Re: ECCN Number

On 11/3/2010 5:08 PM, Siebenaler, Joshua D wrote: Hello- My name is Joshua Siebenaler, I am a procurement agent with the Boeing Company in Kent, WA. I had a request come across my desk recently inquirying about FreeBsD's V7.3 software. What is the ECCN number associated with this product?

Re: GPT Question

On 11/10/2010 9:34 PM, Mark Caudill wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Firstly, hello list. This is my first post here and while I'm a long time Linux user, I'm a recent FreeBSD convert so please bear with me. Yesterday I installed an extra hard drive that used to be in a Windo

Re: FreeBSD as an Access Point

Not familiar with it my self but soekris are embedded systems with BSD in mind. On 12/21/2012 3:12 PM, dweim

custom kernel

I am trying to find how to install a custom kernel at installation. I have found an option in sysinstall to select a kernel. How do I add my own to the options so I can select it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: custom kernel

On 2/13/2010 5:31 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: On 13/02/10 04:08, Derek Funk wrote: I am trying to find how to install a custom kernel at installation. I have found an option in sysinstall to select a kernel. How do I add my own to the options so I can select it? I think the standard procedure is

wireless setup

I am trying to setup a wireless nic on a machine I just installed pcbsd 8.0 on. Its not going well. output from ifconfig -a is: re0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=389b ether 00:1e:33:99:a1:a3 inet6

Re: wireless setup

need "ifconfig wlan0 up" & either "ifconfig wlan0 w.x.y.z" or "dhclient wlan0". +++ Derek Funk [28/02/10 12:51 -0600]: I am trying to setup a wireless nic on a machine I just installed pcbsd 8.0 on. Its not going well. output from ifconfig -a is:

cups&samba jailed

Attempting to setup cups and samba into a jail. How do you mount/add device node /dev/ulpt0 within a jail. Essentially I would like to know, how to add device nodes within jail /dev for specifically the devices I want? I have read man pages and tutorials on setting up jails but none show example

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

From the point the message below, I would set up freebsd to give me a graphical gui so I can use gparted to unflag the bsd partition as boot and flag the windows as boot. Before restarting, I would copy /boot/boot1 to somewhere accessible by windows named something like freebsd.boot. Then I'd

[Re: wiping a drive with dd]

I would use System Rescue boot disk from www.sysresccd.org It has gparted which I would use to delete all partitions and create new. Thats considering you have a functioning pc to access the net and burn an iso with. Derek Original Message Subject:wiping a drive with

closing X

I have setup PCBSD and a Standard Freebsd with gui. and kbunto. They do not close X completely. I get a flashing screen. I can still type commands while the screen flashes. I have done a google search but nothing seems to match my problem. I installed opensolaris and it doesn't do this but I

Re: closing X

On 6/13/2010 7:12 PM, Glen Barber wrote: Hi Derek, On 6/13/10 10:51 AM, Derek Funk wrote: I have setup PCBSD and a Standard Freebsd with gui. and kbunto. They do not close X completely. I get a flashing screen. I can still type commands while the screen flashes. I have done a google search but

Re: FreeBSD and UDF DVD/CDrom

On 6/24/2010 5:06 AM, M. Vale wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Windows 7 on Virtualbox for testing, but the W7 is a DVD in UDF format. On this computer booting gentoo and ubuntu I can mount the DVD without any problem, but on FreeBSD 8.0 after kldloading udf and trying to mount udf using: mount

jail date and time

how do i change the date and time within a jail? Host date and time are correct why isn't the jails? date yymmddhhmm returns date: settimeofday (timeval): Operation not permitted Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

On 9/17/2010 2:14 AM, Peter wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:45:54 +0100 Chabane HEMDANI wrote: I've search, read, learn, follow instructions about nearly all the web-documentation about installing a new printer to work under cups without any success. I've an HP Laser Jet 1018 printer and tools

Filesystems

There was a post some time ago someone was complaining that FreeBSD still uses and archaic filesystem and not a new FS like ext4. Some replied, seeming like a code contributor, with a very sounded reply. What is that reply? Derek ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Filesystems

On 9/25/2010 2:45 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/09/2010 08:32:58, Peter Boosten wrote: On 24-9-2010 23:13, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/09/2010 21:05:45, Derek Funk wrote: There was a post some time ago someone was complaining that FreeBSD still uses and archaic filesystem