sysinstall, ftp & proxy

2005-06-27 Thread vdm . fbsd
I run freebsd 5.4. At office I compile my ports of interest smoothly, like a charme with a mere "make install clean" from behind a proxy which I have once and for all defined in /etc/make.conf as in these 2 lines: FETCH_ENV = HTTP_PROXY=http://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080 FETCH_ENV = FTP_PROXY=ht

How to use libchk

2005-07-06 Thread vdm . fbsd
Running libchk I find for instance Unresolvable link(s) found in: /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/components/libjar50.so libnspr4.so libplc4.so libplds4.so libxpcom.so What should I do? Delete /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/components/libjar50.so ? Delete the 4 cited *.so files?

usb mass storage failure

2005-07-20 Thread vdm . fbsd
Context: freebsd 5.4 Dear All, My brand-new usb mp3 reader, even though is seen as a flash disk by the OS, cannot be used because: (/var/log/message extract) umass0: vendor 0x10d6 USB 2.0(FS) FLASH DISK, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access

Problems with booting & MBR

2005-07-28 Thread vdm . fbsd
In the first disk ad0 (master) of a computer at office I had installed linux to be used as a postgresql server. Later I installed FreeBSD 5.4 (just to have a go at it) on a partition of the second disk ad1 (slave) to be a postgrresql server too. Linux lilo was the boot loader, booting linux by de

Re: Problems with booting & MBR

2005-08-01 Thread vdm . fbsd
Dear Glenn, even though a bit late here you are the info you suggested to check (still absolutely obscure to me!!): Yes, the / directory for booting is /dev/ad1s2a as in the fstab file. >From dmesg: ad0: 9541MB [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad1: 9541MB [19386/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA33

BAD SU

2005-05-10 Thread vdm . fbsd
While fetching a package during the installation of a port (but I don't think this really matters!) FreeBSD 5.4 keep saying "BAD SU victor to root on /dev/ttyp1" What does it mean and how can I avoid that? Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: BAD SU

2005-05-10 Thread vdm . fbsd
But user "victor" it's me! I mean I have only root and a user victor (belonging to the group wheel too!) with no special privileges... Could the cause of that warning be the fact that - in view of the long time required for the compilation - I opened a new console as user 'victor' and then failed

Re: Epson Stylus C86 Printer

2005-05-17 Thread vdm . fbsd
>-- Messaggio originale -- >Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 23:02:56 +0100 >From: Chris Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Epson Stylus C86 Printer >Reply-To: Chris Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ..

Ping and DUP!s

2005-05-17 Thread vdm . fbsd
I have a simple home lan made of three networked FreeBSD PCs and a dsl router, all connected to a hub. The PCs (all pointing at the router as a gateway) have fixed IP address 192.168.10.1, 192.168.10.2, and 192.168.10.3 and the router 192.168.10.100. Now it happens that if I ping form one PC to t

Articles, Tutorials & hardware setting in loader.conf

2005-05-24 Thread vdm . fbsd
As a newbye I just need a pointer, a hint to the following two subjects: 1) Where can I find a clear explanationt on how to use the many, multilingual articles, books, tutorials and documentation coming with a standard 5.4 version (in sgml format). In a nutshell, how can I obtain a "readable" arti

Mouse problems booting & rebooting

2005-05-26 Thread vdm . fbsd
I have a laptop with a touchpad which is seen by FreeBSD 5.4 as a ps/2 mouse. I configured moused and xorg.conf where the mouse has protocol "Auto" and device "/dev/sysmouse". now, 1) if I turn ON the pc and boot the mouse works flawlessly as expected. Specifically I mean, among other things, that