Re: FreeBSD t-shirt

2007-05-25 Thread K. Greenwood
--- Kávássy Dániel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I know it's a bit off. I've seen FreeBSD t-shirts
 (probably drafts) with 
 the new logo:
 http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/640-1.png
 
http://www.bsdmall.com/sport.html perhaps?

 If there were any, I'd happily buy one.
 
 Daniel


  

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Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread K. Greenwood


--- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said:
  On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:

snipped swap space not decreasing, and revelation
that a process may still exist

  Makes sense.
  Any way to find out which process is using the
 swap?
 
 None that I know of.  Another one of those Junior
 Kernel Hacker
 proejcts :)

snipped

Perhaps /sysutils/lsof?  Desc. as follows.

+++
Lsof (LiSt Open Files) lists information about files
that are open by the running processes.  An open file
may be a regular file, a directory, a block special
file, a character special file, an executing text
reference, a library, a stream or a network file
(Internet socket, NFS file or Unix domain socket).

See also fstat(1) in the base system.

WWW: http://people.freebsd.org/~abe/
+++

I have only recently installed it, not a clue as to
how to use it, however.

BTW, if Mr. Nelson is considered Junior Kernel
Hacker, I qualify as Senior Keyboard Drooler.

AKA, take my advice with a grain of salt.



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Re: copy configuraton to another box

2005-06-06 Thread K. Greenwood
--- Angelo Munez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Bros,..
 
 I need a little help... i have an existing freebsd
 box., im a newbie. the thing is i wnat to build
 another box and i just wnat to copy all
 configuration
 regardless of comilation of the kernel.. is there
 anyway i can do that,, to copy the firewall
 configutaion and all the rules of ipfw? thnks more
 power guys

Considering no one else has responded, I may as well
give an attempt.  The following page should be worth a
read.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK

That being said however, you have failed to inform us
what version you currently have/will be upgrading to. 
That little variable could cause consternation.  I
assume that you know best whether you will upgrade
your system or not.

Good luck



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Re: WIFI DHCP

2005-05-23 Thread K. Greenwood
--- Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Roland Smith wrote:
  On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Beecher
 Rintoul wrote:
  
  
 I would like to use a wireless card as my primary
 internet connection.
 I have read the manual and see nothing mentioned
 about setting up the
 card to use DHCP. 
  
  
  Then you've looked in the wrong place. :-)
  
  
 I do not have a static ip on the access point I'm
 connecting to. How do I set the card to use DHCP?
  
  
  Look at section 23.5 (Automatic Network
 Configuration). In short:
  - make sure that device bpf is in the kernel (it
 is in GENERIC)
  - edit /etc/rc.conf to put the interface in DHCP:
 'ifconfig_XXX=DHCP'
where XXX is the name of your wireless card.
 
 Additionally... you should man dhclient,
 dhclient.conf, and 
 dhclient.leases.  IMHO: `ifconfig_XXX=DHCP` is
 only part of the equation.
 
 You may have to craft a dhclient.conf file to help
 your card associate 
 with its access point.  The dhclient.conf file will
 help you specify 
 things like the SSID, weptxkey, wepmode, mode (11a,
 11b, or 11g), 
 wepkey, etc

Mr. Schuele was *very* helpful in the following post.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/059938.html

Once I got a chipset that was supported by Project
Evil (aka Mr. Paul's NDISulator) all was well.  FYI,
broadcom sucks... Intersil rules. 

*pciconf -vl* tells much.

Good luck.



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Re: NOCOL users mail list?

2005-05-06 Thread K. Greenwood

--- Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi there,
 
 
 is there a fairly active NOCOL users mail list out
 there somewhere?  Please
 send along the subscribe details if there is.
 
 cheers,
 
 Noah

The reason that your first inquiry may not have
received a response was that FreeBSD is not directly
associated to NOCOL.  It is only a ported application.
 See the following:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/net-mgmt/nocol/pkg-descr

Clearly the official site is

http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/nocol/

FreeBSD is really not the environment for NOCOL
specific queries.  FAQ's are located at 

http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/nocol/faq.html

Good luck.



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RE: Does FreeBSD support Intel E7210 Chipsets

2005-01-18 Thread K. Greenwood

--- Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Gary,
 Maybe if you offered solutions instead of whining
 and bashing all the
 time people would be interested in what you have to
 say. All we've ever
 seen you do is throw out insults and complain. If
 FreeBSD is so bad, use
 another OS. 
 I'm sure Microsoft would be more than happy to have
 you shell out the
 money for their products, and you'd get the sort of
 support you want
 -er, well, sort of. That's all I'm going to say on
 the matter.
 
 
 Thad

snipped

 
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:15 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support Intel E7210
 Chipsets
 
 too bad, because I know the answer. Cheers.

snipped

Considering the response this illicited, I refuse to
consider even responding to a message that makes a
personal slander against anothers surname.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And from where do you get that I think FreeBSD is
bad? FreeBSD 4.x
is great. I just wish they'd support it instead of
calling 5.x a 
production
release before its even close to 4.x performance
standards.

I do not know if you are aware, but somebody else has
already had this idea.  The website is
www.dragonflybsd.org.

But please, learn how to be calm in the face of
adversity, and not resort to name calling (just try to
generally be civil) before contributing to their
cause.

I'm sure that the DragonFly BSD group would appreciate
it.

Consider this my last message sent on this topic
(unless constructive, and appropriate).



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Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

2004-11-02 Thread K. Greenwood

--- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Richard Cotrina wrote:
 
 Perhaps this is an old news, but it's interesting
 to post it to the list.
 
 A recent study made by MI2G, an UK company focused
 in data risk
 security, shows that *BSD and MacOS X were the less
 breached OS in a
 sample of more that 200K computers permanently
 connected to the internet.
 

http://mi2g.net/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//mi2g.net/cgi/mi2g/press/021104.php
 

 Someone write-up a slashdot story and submit it...
 It's always fun to 
 prod are linux comrades. :-)
 
 http://slashdot.org/submit.pl
 

Hm.  I've always been curious to know how long it took
for a message to be accepted, and the background check
undergone.  Clearly not long, nor extensive,
considering the following.

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/21/142239.shtml



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Re: out of i-nodes?

2004-10-10 Thread K. Greenwood

--- Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 -- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  
  Don't wrap machine generated output, it makes your
  email a PITA to decipher.
 
 As long as we're on the subject of ettiquette, don't
 include your replies on top of messages like a
 dumbshmuck n00b.
 
 Question still stands; I apologize for text wrapping
 of some email clients.


Well... that was somewhat inappropriate.  Nonetheless,
this may be of some assistance.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/03/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html






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Re: NDISulator (aka. Project Evil) wmp54gs w. bcm4306

2004-10-03 Thread K. Greenwood

--- Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Friday 01 October 2004 03:46 pm, K. Greenwood
 wrote:
  Quick question.  Where do queries regarding Bill
  Paul's NDISulator go?  I have seen some to
 current,
  hardware, mobile.
 
  Or even better, a howto (the best I have seen thus
 far
  is:)
 

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-January/01948
 6.html
 
   Google:
 FreeBSD NDIS
   You'll get some good returns.
 
   Here are the two best 'HowTo's' I've found:
  

http://tweakbsd.homeunix.org/guides/windoof-ndis-drivers.php
   http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/ndis.txt
 
   Here is my HowTo:  (i.e. that which worked for me,
 constructed from 
 the sites referenced above)

===
 wLAN (TrueMobile 1300)

===
   Download and build NDIS wrapper for Windows wLAN
 drivers
 # cd /usr
 # cvs -d
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs co
 src/sys/
 modules/ndis src/sys/modules/if_ndis
 src/usr.sbin/ndiscvt src/sys/
 compat/ndis src/sys/dev/if_ndis
 # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/ndiscvt/  make  make
 install
 # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis  make  make
 install
 # make load
 # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis
 # cp /path/to/windows_driver.sys
 # cp /path/to/windows_driver.inf
 # rename old
 /usr/src/sys/dev/pccard/pccarddevs.h 
 # ndiscvt -i windows_driver.inf -s
 windows_driver.sys -o 
 pccarddevs.h
 # ndiscvt -i windows_driver.inf -s
 windows_driver.sys -o 
 ndis_driver_data.h
 # make install
 # re-rename old
 /usr/src/sys/dev/pccard/pccarddevs.h (needed for 
 future kernel builds)
 
 NOTE: It appears that if you later rebuild your
 kernel...
   you must _rebuild_ the above as well.
 Maybe just re-install?
 
   Add to /etc/rc.conf
 ifconfig_ndis0=DHCP
 hostname=yourhostname
 
   Add to /boot/loader.conf
 ndis_load=YES
 if_ndis_load=YES
 
   Edit /etc/dhclient.conf
 timeout 10;
 retry 10;
 reboot 10;
 select-timeout 5;
 initial-interval 2;
 
 interface ndis0 {
   send dhcp-client-identifier
 unx.unxlaptop.org;
   media ssid Your_SSID channel 1 wepmode on
 wepkey 
 0x57065YourWepKey753B5;
   request subnet-mask, broadcast-address,
 routers, 
 domain-name-servers, domain-n;
 
 }
 
 
 HTH
 

snipped

Sorry for taking so long to respond.  I went through
your steps, and everything compiles, the kld's load
(ndis  if_ndis), but the ndis0 device is not created.

Clearly I have more reading to do.  Thanks for the
info and the sites.




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NDISulator (aka. Project Evil) wmp54gs w. bcm4306

2004-10-01 Thread K. Greenwood
Quick question.  Where do queries regarding Bill
Paul's NDISulator go?  I have seen some to current,
hardware, mobile.  

Or even better, a howto (the best I have seen thus far
is:)
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-January/019486.html





The following is extraneous info, if someone here can
clue me in.

I have a PCI Linksys WMP54GS (pciconf -vl as follows):

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0  class=0x028000 card=0x00151737
chip=0x432014e4 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00

vendor  =  'Broadcom Corporation'
device  =  'BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller'
class   =  network


FreeBSD type (uname -a) as follows:

FreeBSD workstation.domain.org 5.3-BETA6 FreeBSD
5.3BETA6 #0: Sat Sep 25 19:41:14 UTC 2004  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
i386


The only device that I can find that looks like it is
listed as

pci0: network at device 8.0 (no driver attached)


I copied over the win32exe from the linksys site, used
a windows system and got the required files
(BCMWL5.inf  bcmwl5.sys).  Address follows.

http://www.linksys.com/download/driver.asp?dlid=132osid=6

And attempted the following, as per Mr. Paul's
message.

# cp foo.sys foo.inf /sys/modules/if_ndis
# cd /sys/modules/ndis
# make; make load
# cd /sys/modules/if_ndis
# ndiscvt -i foo.inf -s foo.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
# make; make load

When I attempt to 'make load' the following message is
displayed.

ndis0: Linksys Wireless-G PCI Adapter with
SpeedBooster mem 0xffef6000-0xffef7fff irq 11 at
device 8.0 on pci 0
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
ndis0: NDIS ERROR: c0001389 (unknown error)
ndis0: NDIS NUMERRORS: 1
ndis0: argptr: 0xc
ndis0: init handler failed
device_attach: ndis0 attach returned 6

And kldstat lists the following:

Id  Refs  Address  SizeName
1   6 0xc040   5b6c5c  kernel
2   1 0xc14f1000   53000   if_ndis.ko
3   1 0xc1544000   d000ndis.ko


I have even attempted to enter ndis_load=YES in the
loader.conf, but to no avail.  Also, I have hand typed
these in, so any mistakes are likely due to me typing
in this message.

If you have gotten to this point, thanks for your
patience.  If you have a suggestion, even better!  But
please, type slowly and use small words.  I have the
capacity of an ill trained carp.



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Re: Status telnet/tn3270 [was I have some questions...]

2004-09-14 Thread K. Greenwood
Painfully long subject line:

I have some questions about
telnet/telnetd/libtelnet/tn3270 and why FreeBSD is
different than other BSDs in this regard

--- Phil Helms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Any luck with fixing tn3270 yet?

Well, no one else has responded (on list) so here's
the pertainent link regarding a long discussion on
it's status

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-March/039418.html

So it has a new maintainer... good, but the
conversation somewhat stagnates.  When we go to the
cvsweb to note the last updates here:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/tn3270/

It does not look like any radical changes have
occurred, so my guess would be nope.  Nobody has
bothered to get around to it.

Good luck



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Re: SATA drive bootable ???

2004-08-17 Thread K. Greenwood

--- Peter Ulrich Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi!
 
 I just started playing around with my new SATA disk
 (with SATA 
 150 TX2plus controller on -CURRENT). I can mount and
 format it 
 all-right.
 
 Is it generally posssible to boot from such a disk
 (different 
 question would be if it made sense to do so)?
 My SATA drive is recognized as ata2-master.

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Well, I was kinda hoping someone else would come up
with an answer.  I kinda prefer to lurk (something
about opening one's mouth and removing doubt...).

In the past, I have forgotten to set external
controller's to be bootable.  Perhaps you need to set
either scsi or mass storage device bootable before
hd/cd/floppy/whatever.

Good luck.





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Re: freebsd's gallery

2004-08-16 Thread K. Greenwood

--- Paulo Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 What happened to it? I couldn't find it...
 

While I certainly do not mean it to be as abrasive as
the site proclaims (I am not saying that you are
either an idiot, nor stupid)... google is good.

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search?query=galleryas_sitesearch=freebsd.org

Good luck.




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Re: freebsd's gallery

2004-08-16 Thread K. Greenwood

--- Aaron Myles Landwehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 K. Greenwood wrote:
 
 While I certainly do not mean it to be as abrasive
 as
   
 
 the site proclaims (I am not saying that you are
 either an idiot, nor stupid)... google is good.
 

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search?query=galleryas_sitesearch=freebsd.org
 
 Good luck.
   
 
 If you are going post on the list then please
 refrain from attempting to 
 insult others; otherwise, don't post.
 -aaron myles landwehr

Aaron.  I appreciate your concern... and I certainly
intended no offense as stated prior, by the following:

While I certainly do not mean it to be as abrasive as
the site proclaims (I am not saying that you are
either an idiot, nor stupid)... google is good.

Paulo... if I did not emphasize that enough, and you
were offended, I am sorry.  

I did not mean to imply that you are either dumb,
an idiot, or stupid.  Once again, if you took
offense, I do apologise.





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Re: 4.10 Install failure.

2004-08-16 Thread K. Greenwood

--- Tyler Parrott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Yeah, right after I sent that email I read about the
 image already
 being bootable.  I supposed I should do my homework
 before making my
 posts:)
 
 Anyways, the image is burnt correctly, so I'm back
 to where I started
 with no idea how to move forward...

snipped stuff ensuring good cd burn, and system
unable to boot from cd

First off, I have never pretended to know what I am
talking about... I am just a random subscriber.  Take
what I say with a grain of salt.

That being out of the way, a quick little comment.

You previously mentioned you had a compaq evo (?). 
Have you tried making bootable floppies and trying
them?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES

Also, have you tried experimenting with your bios
settings?  Perhaps Advanced, Device options? 
Specifically the ACPI settings... (I kinda doubt this
will have any effect, however).

Was the error similar to the following? (after loading
bootstrap loader)


|
int=000d  err=  efl=00030246  eip=3034
eax=205d  ebx=0004  ecx=2000  edx=288c
esi=08d5  edi=0006290c  ebp=1538  esp=1502
cs=f000  ds=ee00  es=ee00  fs=  gs=  ss=ee00
cs:eip=0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75
   08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75
ss:esp=0c 29 06 00 d5 08 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00
   04 00 00 00 8c 28 00 00-04 00 00 00 5d 28 00 00
BTX halted


Hopefully someone who knows more than I (accounts for 
pretty much everyone on this list...) comprehends what
this means.  I'm without clue.

Hth, and good luck.




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Re: iSCSI support in FreeBSD?

2004-06-21 Thread K. Greenwood
--- Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Is there planned iSCSI support in FreeBSD 4 or
 5.

Well... no one else has responded.  Considering I have
nil experience, all I can do is offer links.

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040405125530.14f97d7a

And you can navigate to...

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi

for an updated man entry regarding ISP (specific to
your chosen version of FreeBSD).  Good luck.

K. Greenwood



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Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread K. Greenwood
Please realize that I am not an official
representative of FreeBSD, nor any organization
associated to it.

--- Edward Hendrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? 

Daemon...

 From a marketing perspective, 

Blasphemy...

 you are shooting yourselves in the
 foot.  There are many people
 of various religious backgrounds who will be
 dissuaded from trying FreeBSD
 because they have religious objections to a product
 that is promoted by a
 devil.

Again... daemon.

As well they may, that type of individual is not the
target demographic.  FreeBSD is typically a *nix
type OS that makes an ideal Internet or Intranet
server.  

If a person will make a critical judgement on their OS
not by quality of code and system stability, but by
what animated mascot is on a website, frankly (and I
mean this in the kindest, most pleasant manner, also
NOT a representative of FreeBSD) I don't feel that the
FreeBSD community wants/needs such an individual. 

 You may think that is a small issue, but when
 you are trying to create
 market awareness you need a mascot that evokes
 simplicity and goodwill, not
 one that evokes evil and deception.

Once again, marketing awareness is not necessarily the
primary goal.  The gifted individuals (whom I hold in
the utmost reverance) who actually code the OS, and
make a solid, stable OS for us mear leaches who
benifit from their good will.  If you wish to
influence the community, become a committer, get into
the core group, and then you will be in a powerful
position to voice your concerns.  Shouldn't take too
long I expect.

Again... a daemon (day-mon) (pre-Christian influence)
is intended as follows (from dictionary.com).

A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place
between men and deities in pagan mythology.

A spirit running errands/a program carrying out
commands.  No evil and deception intended.  

 Look at how MSN is marketing its ISP.  They use
 characters dressed in
 harmless butterfly costumes.  

Harmless?  I think not!

http://www4.tomshardware.com/business/20030110/ces2003_day1-03.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20021025.html

 Linux, has done the same with its pudgy cute
 penguin.  You might want to rethink your mascot.

Yes, Tux is cute.  As is beastie... it's all a matter
of personal preference.  Cuteness, as is beauty, is in
the eye of the beholder.

Here's a suggestion.  I'm sure the OpenBSD
(www.openbsd.org) mailing list would love to hear from
you.  Their mascot is a cute little, non-offensive
blowfish.  What could go wrong there?
 
 Edward Hendrie

Note: the previous paragraph I typed in jest. 
Stereotypically, the OpenBSD mailing list tends to be
somewhat hostile to off topic subjects, brought about
by newbies such as myself.




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Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD)

2004-06-14 Thread K. Greenwood

--- Jon Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snipped stuff

 The (main) problem -
 
  My network connectivity is ridiculously slow...  I
 had OpenSSH timeout set to 
 the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said
 the connections (on the same 
 100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before
 authentication (password).  I went 
 in and doubled the timeout, and after a long wait (I
 didnt check the time) I 
 could get a password prompt...  at first I thought
 this was just a SSH problem, 
 but it is the same if I use telnet (or any other
 network service).  I have 
 several devices on my Lan including 2 (eww) Windows
 XP laptops, and a PS2 and a 
 XP workstation.  I have 3 public IPs, (Speakeasy is
 the ISP) The laptops use a 
 LinkSys 54G Wireless Hub and one public IP (its
 plugged into a NetGear 4 port 
 hub), I split another IP with the Desktop and PS2,
 and the FreeBSD box will 
 have its own IP, of course the final port is the
 uplink.  There are absolutly 
 no connectivity problems with the other machines. 
 The FreeBSD box cannot 
 connect to the dns servers (on three different
 networks) or much of anything 
 else.

Considering the only response you have received thus
far has been regarding IPFW, I may as well give a
ham-handed attempt.

My first guess is /etc/rc.conf.  Is there a
defaultrouter=x.x.x.x line?  If you do an ifconfig
-a are you getting an IP actually assigned?

Perhaps your resolv.conf is not right?  Should be
similar to:

domain nosuchdomainhere.net
nameserver 1.2.3.4

where there are two entries for nameserver that jive
with the ISP assigned DNS servers.

Considering that you are manually setting your rl0,
(not using DHCP), perhaps these are missing?  

Have you tried using rl0=DHCP?  Perhaps the chance
of finding a problem, is less of a pain then if your
ISP changes something on you.  Good luck.


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Re: Demande de conseille

2004-03-18 Thread K. Greenwood
Bonjour... from an anglophone... excuse the
pronuciation

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Bonjour
 Je voulais savoir quel version de freebsd me
 conseillez vous pour un pentium 1 233 64 Mb vive ?
 
 Merci d'avance
-snipped-

en francais from babelfish
N'importe quelle version de FreeBSD devrait
fonctionner avec ce type d'ordinateur. Cependant, si
vous souhaitez courir les x-fenêtres (xfree86) vous
pouvez courir dans quelques issues d'exécution.
Certainement KDE causera l'issue.

Il dépend vraiment de ce que vous voulez faire avec
lui. Quelque chose sur la ligne de commande devrait
fonctionner assez bien.

Bonne chance.

http://www.freebsd-fr.org/
Non english mailing lists...
http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list


translated from babelfish to english
I wanted to know which version of freebsd advise me
for a sharp pentium 1 233 64 Mb

Any version of FreeBSD should work with that type of
computer.  However, if you wish to run x-windows
(xfree86) you may run into some performance issues. 
Certainly KDE will cause issue.

It really depends on what you want to do with it. 
Anything on the command line should function well
enough.

Good luck...

BTW, sorry (mailing list) if this is not wrapped at 72
char's... I think it's set up properly, however.

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