FreeBSD crossover cable network

2009-09-24 Thread Oliver Mahmoudi
Hi everybody, I am trying to set up a crossover cable network between two computers running FreeBSD 7.0. The network cards are configured and they work, i.e. I pinged myself and it works. However, when booting up the systems I always get the error message that the link status of my network cards

Re: FreeBSD crossover cable network

2009-09-25 Thread Oliver Mahmoudi
24, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > > Oliver Mahmoudi wrote: > >> Hi everybody, > >> > >> I am trying to set up a crossover cable network between two computers > >> running FreeBSD 7.0. > >> The network ca

Re: How to 'cross compile' to produce Linux binaries

2009-11-23 Thread Oliver Mahmoudi
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-emulation/index.html cheers, Oliver On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Lorin Lund wrote: > Could someone point me to what to read to learn about building Linux > executables under FreeBSD? > ___ > freebsd

Re: Sorting a device list

2009-11-29 Thread Oliver Mahmoudi
you can try to delete the /dev/ad10 entry with sed and then just append it to the end manually using the printf(1) utility like so: # ls /dev/ad* | sed s/"\/dev\/ad10"// | grep "/dev/ad" && printf "/dev/ad10\n" Does that help? Oliver On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Peter Steele wrote: >

how does the C pre-processor interface with make?

2009-12-29 Thread Oliver Mahmoudi
Hey folks, I was wondering how the C pre-processor interfaces with make. Let's suppose that I have a little C program, something along the lines of: #include int main() { #ifdef FOO fprintf(stdout, "Hi, my name is foo.\n"); #endif #ifdef BAR fprintf(stdout, "Hi, my name is bar.\n");

Re: I need help on installation

2009-12-30 Thread Oliver Mahmoudi
now that I try to boot from a Free BSD CD (7.2 release) the Intel chip gives me an error message that the system boot failed and asks me to insert a system disk which I do not have - are you sure that you have burned the 1st CD as a bootable ISO image? - have you checked the boot sequence in your