Printer madness...

2001-04-14 Thread Michael O'Henly
Hi... I'm trying to set up printing with FreeBSD 4.2 and an HP LaserJet 4050 connected to the parallel port. I've been following the procedure in the Handbook -- but I'm having some trouble... Here's what I've done so far: 1. Compiled a new kernel with these options: # Parallel port device

Problem setting up printer...

2001-04-14 Thread Michael O'Henly
I'm trying to troubleshoot the difficulty I'm having setting up printing under FreeBSD 4.2. An answer to this question would save me a lot of grief. ;-) I have a native Postscript printer (HP 4050) and I've created a simple Postscript test file using an example from the Handbook. The question

Re: [freebsd-stable] FreeBSD 4.3RC out of buffer space in network operations

2001-04-14 Thread Brad Laue
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Laue) writes: > > > Good thing you have a way out of it - unfortunately my PPPoE connection tunnels > > through ed0, so it's my only public route to the internet :( Hoping this gets > > noticed before -RELEASE > > Are you sure it's a serious problem

RE: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 14-Apr-2001 John Baldwin wrote: > The maestro3 requires a GPL'd header so you have to kldload it's module > separately I think or some such. Yep.. Forgot the PCM module loading stuff was MFC'd, thanks. > > card so far). I haven't played with configuring it either (tips gratefully > > recei

Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 15-Apr-2001 Calvin NG wrote: >My Way: >-- >in /boot/loader.conf, I have a line that says, > snd_pcm_load="YES" >This loads the pcm module way in advance, (before kernel, I think), Yes. >then , I have to edit a file /etc/rc.local (create it if not there), >a

/weekly/310locate truncates db

2001-04-14 Thread psglenn
Hi, my weekly 310.locate script using defaults in /etc/locate.rc produces a database which contains only a few file systems output I'm not yet sure when this stopped working but I wonder if anyone else is seeing this ? Now after reading man locate I know that if directories are not readabl

Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Calvin NG
Greetings, I have a Dell 8000, and I just figured the module part out too and got sound working. My Way: -- in /boot/loader.conf, I have a line that says, snd_pcm_load="YES" This loads the pcm module way in advance, (before kernel, I think), then , I have to edit a file /

major lockup from pccard

2001-04-14 Thread j mckitrick
Maybe this is just me. I am running a world cvsupped Mar 31. I have a Toshiba 4010CDT with the usual Noteworthy PCcard modem. The following sequence causes a complete lockup right in the middle of the message onscreen that the kernel is setting up sio2. shutdown now [return] ctrl-d it skips

Re: Anyone interested in the SVR4 compat module anymore?

2001-04-14 Thread Doug Barton
Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > I'm just now noticing (I so rarely turn it on) that the svr4 ABI > module is broken - you get "link_elf: symbol svr4_stream_get undefined" > when you try to load it. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=26215 -- Perhaps the greatest damage the American syste

Multi-CD Backup Utility (?)

2001-04-14 Thread Randall Hopper
Does anyone have a multi-CD backup utility you use on FreeBSD? I'm looking for something to make the process of backing up partitions larger than 650MB/700MB to CDR/CDRW as painless from possible. Thanks, Randall -- Randall Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: a word of appreciation

2001-04-14 Thread Donn Miller
Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > I've been using FreeBSD since 2.0.5. I've been very pleased with the > quality of the O/S. Yep, same here. Wasn't 2.0.5 from around May '95? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the messa

Re: a word of appreciation

2001-04-14 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Nu gent writes: > > Folks, > > I'm not sure how much you get of this, but I just wanted to say thanks to > all of you working on the freebsd project. You do fine work. I'm not > sure how often you get to hear that, so I'm going to say it now. > > I just

Re: What do you think?

2001-04-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 06:11:20PM -0400, trini0 wrote: > Hey all. This message popped up on the console today. Never had a > problem with this box before. Im running 4.3RC (as of Monday) on a > PPro200 with an Intel VS440FX chipset. I rebuilt the kernel without DMA > support on Thursday, and

4.3-RC2 install freezes on sony vaio c1xd

2001-04-14 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
i have strange things happening when trying to run a freebsd install from boot floppies on my vaio c1xd. the kern.flp will find a loader and load the kernel, then ask me for the mfsroot.flp which also gets read in without a problem (the floppy on the vaio is a y-e flashbuster usb device which has