Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card

2002-09-17 Thread erk
a drivers have been provided. nonetheless, when/if it actually happens, it's a good step for nvidia. whether or not it will be beneficial in the short-term remains to be seen, but the long-term benefits could be pretty nice, if developers are able to take advantage of them. - erk! To Unsubscri

atapi cd-r/cd-rw drives?

2002-09-18 Thread erk
searches on google haven't turned up much, other than linux-oriented changes. most of them note something about scsi-adapter emulation, though.. does freebsd have support for something like this, or could i possibly create a symlink from a scsi device to something like acd0c or acd1c? failin

Re: atapi cd-r/cd-rw drives?

2002-09-18 Thread erk
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:48:16 -0400 "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 18 September 2002 07:18 am, erk wrote: > | searches on google haven't turned up much, other than linux-oriented > | changes. most of them note

Re: atapi cd-r/cd-rw drives?

2002-09-18 Thread erk
mooth and good. this is a questions list, is it not? i shouldn't have to go into intimate detail of my life and schedule, just to justify *why* i'm asking a question. sheesh. - erk On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:15:26 -0400 "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: Again: There must be a better way

2002-09-28 Thread erk
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 01:45:09 + "mufassa bendover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Listen Guys >As a girl...I dont want to deal with that hard stuff. But also if I > install windows in my box, I will have to fix it probably at the end > of the month (girls hate fixing things). as another

Re: How to get audio CDs working?

2002-09-29 Thread erk
being root, so attempts to do it as a regular user will just hit a brick wall. - erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: 4.7

2002-10-03 Thread erk
glad to see someone posted about this. i was kind of anxious for this release, but more stability is infinitely preferable to a quick-and-dirty release. i'd also second a vote for some kind of notification/updates on the main page. this is the first info i've seen about any of it, and i'm sur

qt30 "png_write_chunk" errors during make

2002-10-08 Thread erk
I'm just finishing up installing FreeBSD on a 3rd machine here at my apartment, but i'm noticing a slight problem with qt30. any time i try to build a port that relies on qt30, the build breaks with a series of messages seemingly related to png. this is trimmed down considerably, but a small po

Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD

2002-10-10 Thread erk
I'll give a good nod to my current board, a Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus! VIA KT266A 100/133 FSB. It has onboard sound and LAN, but both are well supported, and can be put aside with a simple change under BIOS. It was a really good option for me, initially, because when I built this box, I was somewh

Netiquette (was Re: linux compatibility in 4.7)

2002-10-25 Thread erk!
a console-only mail reader anymore, and i still find this to be incredibly rude. a good rule of thumb: if the text you're quoting is larger than your reply, rethink it or don't post it. - erk > Dear John, > > I'm not sure, but my guess is that linux_base-6.1_3 isn

Re: Netiquette (was Re: linux compatibility in 4.7)

2002-10-26 Thread erk!
e copies of each email i was sent, particularly from "daleco", who felt his/her point was so important to express to me, i needed to read it no less than 4 times. - erk! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: random reboots

2002-10-22 Thread erk!
i've actually had this problem also..however, it turned out to be a BIOS issue. i don't recall the specific setting name that i had to change, but there should be some kind of performance toggle or speed toggle between "normal" and "turbo". switching it back to "normal" stopped the spontaneous re

Re: root-tail question

2002-10-28 Thread erk!
traightforward and covers all your questions in detail. also to note: it doesn't cover the toolbar. afaik, it always stays behind everything. - erk! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: DHCP

2002-10-28 Thread erk!
things via ipv6..select 'no' on that one, at which point it will ask if you want to detect settings via DHCP. select 'yes' on that, and you're good to go. it actually won't matter whether or not your main line is through your winxp box. freebsd will detect settings vi

Re: limewire and fluxbox?

2002-10-28 Thread erk!
lf into the taskbar. really, really lame, imo. i think you can just double-click on the box, and it should pop-up the main window. - erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: divxplayer

2002-10-28 Thread erk!
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 1:40:34 -0500 Steve Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rehash doesn't re-read rc.conf AFAIK i'm pretty sure it does..i could be wrong, though, but i seem to recall it working fine when i added 'linux_enable="YES"' awhile back. - e

Re: Max Email Users

2002-10-29 Thread erk!
oad. just to add to this, i've even heard of people running *bsd on a 486, and still being able to handle hundreds of users. in particular, i read about a firewall box running openbsd awhile back that received hundreds of hack attempts over a week-long period, and never skipped a beat. the

Re: Window/File Manager

2002-11-03 Thread erk!
ou want *really* minimal, and don't care much about appearances, i've heard that ratpoison is more than adequate :> i've never used it myself, but if you just want a really plain x session, and the ability to view multiple terminals simultaneously, it should be fine. - erk

Re: XFree86, Anti-aliasing, Truetype, Freetype

2002-11-04 Thread erk!
nd ms windows. same thing for staroffice. also, if this extends to mozilla, there have been some recent discussions regarding messed up fonts. you might take a look back in the recent mailing list archives. - erk, who tossed out *office, and went with abiword. all is good once again. To Unsu

Re: XFree86, Anti-aliasing, Truetype, Freetype

2002-11-05 Thread erk!
toss my an email and i'll try to get you up and running a bit more. So far, it basically sounds like you've got anti-aliasing for most regular apps working OK, but not gtk apps. Like I said, OO is just kinda wonky with font handling (imo). You might try installing a small port that d

FreeBSD console weirdness when booting from usb stick

2009-12-05 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I'm booting FreeBSD 8 from an USB stick, but when I do so, the console no longer works. They USB keyboard seems to do nothing, and during the boot process when the daemons are starting it seems like there is another keyboard attached on which the ENTER key is stuck. That is, while the dae

Problem setting up PPTP server

2006-11-09 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I'm trying to set up mpd (3.18) on a FreeBSD server to allow windows and linux clients to connect. Currently I've only been trying to make the linux connection succeed (Ubuntu with ppp-2.4.4), but I get the following output from linux pppd: CHAP authentication succeeded sent [CCP ConfReq id=

Re: Problem setting up PPTP server

2006-11-10 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
"require-mppe-128" or "set bundle enable comp-reqd" or something like that in mpd. Does anybody know a way to require MPPE in mpd? Regards, Sebastiaan Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up mpd (3.18) on a FreeBSD server to allow windows and linux clients to conne

esxi and freebsd vlans

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
8.1.x addresses don't work. I've tried setting the vlan id on the vSwitch to none and to 22, but in neither of the two cases does it work. Does anybody have FreeBSD vlan's working on ESXi or know how to get it working? Many thanks, Sebastiaan van Erk smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: esxi and freebsd vlans

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Thanks for your response! :-) Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello Sebastian: Hi, I ran into the ESXi limit of 4 NICs per VM, so I figured I would work around this using FreeBSD's vlan devices. I made 2 test installs with the following interface configuration: test1: ifconf

Re: esxi and freebsd vlans

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello Sebastian: Hi, I ran into the ESXi limit of 4 NICs per VM, so I figured I would work around this using FreeBSD's vlan devices. I made 2 test installs with the following interface configuration: test1: ifconfig em0 inet 10.10.10.1 netmask

CARP & bridge

2009-04-29 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I have a bridged OpenVPN setup where the OpenVPN tap0 driver is bridged (via bridge0) to the physical em1 interface, which has a VIP via a carp1 interface: em1: flags=8943 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=98 ether 00:0c:29:61:2a:55 inet 10.0.80.77 netmask 0xff00 bro

Re: CARP & bridge

2009-04-29 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Julien Cigar wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:37 +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Hi, I have a bridged OpenVPN setup where the OpenVPN tap0 driver is bridged (via bridge0) to the physical em1 interface, which has a VIP via a carp1 interface: em1: flags=8943 metric 0 mtu 1500

Re: CARP & bridge

2009-04-29 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Julien Cigar wrote: Maybe you've to do ARP Proxy on one side ? Try to add an ARP entry in the ARP table with arp (arp -s 1.2.3.4 MAC foo) .. Thanks for the suggestion. Ok, static arp works: that is, if I take the carp1 mac addres

Re: CARP & bridge

2009-05-01 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but unfortunately the carp device never leaves the INIT state when I put the ip on the bridge. :-( I did find some similar problem here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=125816 I just

FreeBSD as USB joystick

2009-05-22 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I'm wondering if I can turn my FreeBSD into a (very expensive ;-)) joystick. That is, I have a PS2 and want to be able to control it via my laptop. This would amount to connecting a USB cable between my PS2 and my laptop, and getting the PS2 to detect it as a joystick with the right ident

Re: FreeBSD as USB joystick

2009-05-22 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Wojciech Puchar wrote: That is, I have a PS2 and want to be able to control it via my laptop. This would amount to connecting a USB cable between my PS2 and my laptop, and getting the PS2 to detect it as a joystick with the right identifier string, and being able to send button presses e