Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk
Don't know (and I'm to lazy to Google) if there is a FreeBSD live-CD project, sure it has to be... I used FreeSBIE some time ago, and it ran fine (in some situations try disabling ACPI). A current search for FreeBSD live cd-s gives several results: http://www.freesbie.org/ http://livecd.sourceforge.net/ http://www.livebsd.com/ I just couldn't get how does the bus have books on it, but I guess it is not so important. :) Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mount windows xp
I often do this and there are two practical solutions. One is as Garrett mentioned to simply have a small FAT32 partition that suits your needs (remember max file size is 4GB), call it buffer, and mount if from both OS. A better solution may be to use samba. This is much better, but you need an extra server running either pure Windows or some alternative OS with samba server. Then you simply access this server from both OS and it should not be a problem hopefully. Sometimes I am surprised by the wonders an extra smbfs record in fstab can do. It is very very practical, believe me. It has saved me out of sticky situations a number of times. Just remember to put tight security settings on the file server. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mount windows xp
My appologies, you are right. However if ntfs is not loaded then mount_ntfs loads it automatically so he doesn't need to worry about anything - just write mount_ntfs /dev/... ... and ready. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mount windows xp
If you are using a GENERIC kernel, then ntfs is built in the kernel. Otherwise you may try kldload ntfs before compiling the kernel afresh. I have used mount_ntfs and it works perfectly. If I am not mistaken mount_ntfs is even more intelligent - if ntfs is not loaded it dynamically loads it with kldload and mounts the partition. Anyway what is the file system on your Windows XP partition? Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem with wireless card drivers
Are you sure one should use ndiscvt? I mean i tried it the same except for getting pccarddefs.h (which as they say will be used in eventual kernel compiles) and for synchronising the source which I cannot do because no network is available. I have wireless only connection. Most people say that ndisgen is the "better" method as from 6.0. Actually it seems due to unknown reasons the old method is not supported anymore. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem with wireless card drivers
The wireless card is not supported by a native driver. It has a BCM4306 chipset (Broadcom). Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Problem with wireless card drivers
I have been trying to get my wireless card working for the last week. Practically I read almost everything about it in man pages, handbook and some google results. Nothing worked. I just cannot see why it doesn't appear. I am doing the kernel module compilation and loading by the book. My last resort is kernel recompilation. Does anyone have a HP/Compaq nx6110 with a working wireless card? Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem with wireless card drivers
I am quite new to FreeBSD. Could you please explain what do you mean by "recompiled kernel to be sure that the wireless support is included". Do you mean to create a kernel config with ndis and if_ndis statically linked into it? I haven't done this one so far. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ndis problem
Well, even when I load bcmwl5_sys only it loads all three modules, due to references I guess. However no new record appears in ifconfig, no matter in what order or how I load them. I is getting really confusing, because there are people who made it and they even say it works well. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: ndis problem
I am having the same problem. Downloaded a couple of driver sets, but it doesn't work. I tried ndisgen also but nothing changes in ifconfig. It seems that there are people who actually managed to run this kind of card but I have not been able to get in touch with them directly. When you load the kernel module generated say "kldload ndis" and then you "kldstat" does ndis come before if_ndis or in reverse. Some people claim that ndis should always be before if_ndis which should be before bcmwl5_sys. I never managed to order the first two correctly. Also can you rebuild the references with kldxref or it gives you an error like "kldxref: can't read hash table"? If you manage please write back here, and I will do the same. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem with BCM4306 driver
I realised netgen is the way of doing things, yet I do not see the device. I read that in a static build of the kernel with ndis one should include device ndis and device ndisapi. In my current GENERIC build these are not included. Should I recompile or it is not necessary? I also noticed that one should use kldxref however when I try to recompile the references it gives me "kldxref: can't read hash table". Is this normal? How can I fix it and eventually can the problem be due to bad references? I am really getting confused. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem with wireless card drivers
Hi Stefi, I am having trouble getting my wlan card working. My problem is that after I load the kernel modules, I see no adapter with ifconfig. Could you please tell me whether after moving the ko file to /boot/kenel you did something else like kldxref or not. I tried to update the references but it gives me an error "kldxref: can't read hash table". Have you encountered anything of this type? Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Problem with BCM4306 driver
I have a HP nx6110 laptop, and decided to install FreeBSD 6.1. Quite frankly I am surprised by the power and fine design this system has. This is definitely a better server than linux. I am a complete newbie in BSD, so please excuse me if my question sounds very stupid. I am trying to make my integrated wireless card Broadcom 4306 work. Since there are no native drivers I adopted the ndis approach. Howevet there seem to be two ways to do this, one is using ndiscvt and the other with ndisgen. I tried both but none worked: 1. USING ndiscvt I copied the driver to /sys/modules/if_ndis, and then: # ndiscvt -i BCMWL5A.INF -s BCMWL5.SYS -o ndis_driver_data.h # make && make install # kldload ndis && kldload if_ndis However I am not seeing the interface when run ifconfig. It behaves as if nothig is there. I also tried to recompile ndis & if_ndis from their sources in /usr/src/sys/modules but nothing worked. The adapter simple does not appear. However when I run pciconf -lv I see the pci card. 2. USING ndisgen I copied the drivers to the same folder and run ndisgen BCMWL5.INF BCMWL5.SYS. Everything goes ok but I get an error in the last step when I try to compile it. Then I tried to redirect the output if ndisgen to a pipe and it miracolously generated a file BCMWL5_SYS. This I copied to /boot/kernel and loaded ndis, if_ndis, BCMWL5_SYS. However again the adapter does not appear in ifconfig. I cannot see what is going wrong, because I just followed some HOWTOs that appear in the FreeBSD Handbook (of ndiscvt) and some other forum (about ndisgen). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Problem with BCM4306 driver
I have a HP nx6110 laptop, and decided to install FreeBSD 6.1. Quite frankly I am surprised by the power and fine design this system has. This is definitely a better server than linux. I am a complete newbie in BSD, so please excuse me if my question sounds very stupid. I am trying to make my integrated wireless card Broadcom 4306 work. Since there are no native drivers I adopted the ndis approach. Howevet there seem to be two ways to do this, one is using ndiscvt and the other with ndisgen. I tried both but none worked: 1. USING ndiscvt I copied the driver to /sys/modules/if_ndis, and then: # ndiscvt -i BCMWL5A.INF -s BCMWL5.SYS -o ndis_driver_data.h # make && make install # kldload ndis && kldload if_ndis However I am not seeing the interface when run ifconfig. It behaves as if nothig is there. I also tried to recompile ndis & if_ndis from their sources in /usr/src/sys/modules but nothing worked. The adapter simple does not appear. However when I run pciconf -lv I see the pci card. 2. USING ndisgen I copied the drivers to the same folder and run ndisgen BCMWL5.INF BCMWL5.SYS. Everything goes ok but I get an error in the last step when I try to compile it. Then I tried to redirect the output if ndisgen to a pipe and it miracolously generated a file BCMWL5_SYS. This I copied to /boot/kernel and loaded ndis, if_ndis, BCMWL5_SYS. However again the adapter does not appear in ifconfig. I cannot see what is going wrong, because I just followed some HOWTOs that appear in the FreeBSD Handbook (of ndiscvt) and some other forum (about ndisgen). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
