Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:30:09AM -, Graham Bentley wrote: Hi All, I noticed that fetchmail created a file mbox but Mutt creates a 'Mail' directory however the mail seems to download into /var/mail Mutt asks me on exit to copy to mbox format. The Mail directory also has only one folder and on exit is empty. /var/mail still has copies. Can anyone clear up my confusions ; Where should mail be located ? Depends om what softs you are using. I use qmail, procmail and getmail so I use Maildirs How can I configure a 'sent items' for Mutt? I don't know what this means. If you want a copy of all your outgoing then put: set copy=yes in .muttrc How can I create an address book for Mutt? touch a file called .mail_aliases in your homedir and fill it with your addresses, one per line. E.g: alias b FreeBSD UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Put: set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases source .mail_aliases in .muttrc You should then be able to mail freebsd-users UK by putting b in the To: field (it will expand). Or hitting t and then tab will bring up all your aliases to choose from. Once you've got a few addresses in .mail_aliases run it through sort(1) to make it more easily readable. I know this would be better on the Mutt list but I also know there are some big Mutt fans here and asI am trying this on FreeBSD maybe more relevent ? Your best bet is either to join the mutt mailing list or comp.mail.mutt. This is OT for freebsd-questions. snip -- Frank echo f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k | sed 's/ //g' ---PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 11/28/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 November 2006, at 01:34, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. Toshiba is good too, when you compare it's price with ibm, you'll find Toshiba with it's features is better choice. Thank you, -Abdullah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acers may or may not be a good choise. I have a friend who bought one and it was all out of the box. The two latest Acers I touched (one I bought and the other a friend bought it) showed some problems. ACPI implementation is horrible. I think they only tested it with Microsoft Windows. Some parts (ex: DVD drive) can be very poor quality parts and can fail reasonably quickly. Apart this everything works fine. Cheers -- Alexandre Vieira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 16 November 2006, at 01:34, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. A quick search of the archives will bear out the popularity of that opinion. Be prepared first to investigate the hardware on any prospective model, second, evaluate the support with respect to each and every device, and finally, spend time and effort configuring things so things work just right, for increasingly large values of right. I believe the investment in time and effort pays off in all sorts of ways, but chances are you'll end up with a system that you'll consider indispensible and one that you'll know better than your girlfriend, wife, or whatever. I'll leave it to you decide whether that's a good thing. ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) badaboom who can help me ? i'm french and i don't know irc Paladine can't help you with the being french part, you are screwed their mate Phone Voice: +1 251 589 6348 Fax: Call the voice number and ask. Email General chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Large attachments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPS-related stuff: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM AIM: hackmiester1337 Skype: hackmiester31337 YIM: hackm1ester Gtalk: hackmiester MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xfire: hackmiester ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 11/28/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 November 2006, at 01:34, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. Toshiba is good too, when you compare it's price with ibm, you'll find Toshiba with it's features is better choice. Thank you, -Abdullah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:34:18PM -0800, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads. A quick search of the archives will bear out the popularity of that opinion. I also vote for Thinkpads. My trusty T22 has never failed me. The T43 that work gave me ran FreeBSD 6.1 like a champ. The only problem I had with the T43 was the fact it did not have a proper serial port. I was told to use some silly USB connector which never worked right. Yeah, a Thinkpad is expensive but they are worth it in the long run. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. pgp3NE8N0alfr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 11/16/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other two hands down for performance. Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. thanks Geoff I would say Toshiba ;) -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
El día Thursday, November 16, 2006 a las 12:20:44PM +0300, John Smith escribió: On 11/16/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other two hands down for performance. Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. What about http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ ? matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:19:54 -0800
Josef Grosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only problem I had with the
T43 was the fact it did not have a proper serial port. I was told to use
some silly USB connector which never worked right.
a z60m here - same , but my serial-over-usb works really well, a prolific
PL-2303 chip. I have the following in my kernel
device ucom# serial port over USB
device uplcom # Prolific PL-2303 - Comsol's USB-Serial port
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Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:20:44 +0300
John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would say Toshiba ;)
Actually, yes - probably second only to IBMs in quality. #1 for features /
price. I have had more issues with suspend/resume with Tosh than IBMs though.
btw, there's a thread in mobile@ started a few days back on the question. Plus
several over the months, of course :)
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Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Thanks Guys, I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) cheers g ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Hi, On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, gb wrote: Thanks Guys, I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) I am not sure Toshiba is so good any more. Maybe just a coincidence but we use three Ts in our organization. Two have already broken (one mainboard, the other graphic card), the third one works but issues sudden, irregular beeps which Toshiba has been _unable_ to diagnose for 6 months now! They tell us that since it works, then it is nothing serious. I get rather mad when I hear that only because we didn't get a second-hand unit but a brand new one and I would expect it to shut up and work since it is new and T. We're a bit discouraged at the moment with Toshiba. -- Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
I've got myself a Toshiba A100-159. Some issues: No sound, no Wireless (to be honest, i haven't really bothered with trying to fix these two yes). Sometimes i get some weird acpi errors in my daily output. It does have one of those 1400xsomething wide screens, which isn't supported (yet) with the default XORG ati/radeon drivers. So you might want to put that on your check list. (also something i haven't really looked into, since i use an external screen 99.9% of the time). But besides that, it's working quite nicely. Stable, speedy. The internal SATA driver is supported, the burner works nicely, ethernet ok as well. I haven't tried PCMCIA, firewire, but USB works like a charm. Hopes this helps. gb wrote: Thanks Guys, I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) cheers g ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Thursday November 16, 2006 at 06:08:02 (AM) Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I would expect it to shut up and work We have that expectation for a lot of our employees; however, as in your scenario, it has not panned out. -- White Hat I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home. W. C. Fields Sponsored Link Rates near historic lows - $200,000 mortgage for $660/ month - http://yahoo.ratemarketplace.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:58:21 +0300
gb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I can't stay of the booze any longer :)
mate, if your laptop purchases depend on your booze expenditure...you drink
some expensive stuff! (or you have some really low priced hardware
providers...which ones? ;) )
or maybe i dont drink as much as I used to...? :D
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Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hi, On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, gb wrote: Thanks Guys, I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) I am not sure Toshiba is so good any more. Maybe just a coincidence but we use three Ts in our organization. Two have already broken (one mainboard, the other graphic card), the third one works but issues sudden, irregular beeps which Toshiba has been _unable_ to diagnose for 6 months now! They tell us that since it works, then it is nothing serious. I get rather mad when I hear that only because we didn't get a second-hand unit but a brand new one and I would expect it to shut up and work since it is new and T. We're a bit discouraged at the moment with Toshiba. I work for several companies, managing their it assets, dealing with purchasing, configuration, and maintenance - collectively purchasing a few hundred laptops over the passed few years. I've been a FreeBSD since the 2.2.1-RELEASE days, and have always had FreeBSD on my personal laptop - which changes once a year to a new model, (sparing the IBM stinkpads as mentioned below which were completely incapable of booting *BSD due to IBM's lack of judgement/research). Same here - many issues with Toshiba laptops in the lest year or two. Stopped even thinking about the IBM Thinkpads - we call them stinkpads; had so many issues running BSD on them, in particular the M-series a few years back had bios issues as IBM chose *BSD's partition type (165) for their hybernation partition; poor excuses and even poorer support from IBM led us to cease purchasing their products and to seek elsewhere. IBM's official position on the issue, (after months of nagging them), was 'we only support windows 2000 on that particular model'. Don't get me wrong, IBM makes really good laptops - they take top-notch components, piece them all together well - package them up nicely, but then they totally screw up the bios and configuration so-as to be windows-centric. In the end, we moved to Compaq (just before the merger with HP), and have since never been happier. Using mostly the Compaq Presario and HP Pavillion lines now (geared towards home users) we find nothing beats them in terms of price/featureset. I'm writing this now from an HP Pavillion dv8000-series laptop, (AMD Turion 64 processor,1024mb ram, has two hard drives (80gb stock, added 7200rpm 80gb afterwards), 17 widescreen display, ATI graphics/chipset, wireless, dvd-rw, etc...). It dual boots between FreeBSD and Windows Vista 64-bit (for some development stuff), never had a problem with it - works great all-around and came stock with everything I could want for under $1300 Canadian dollars. I have yet to see IBM, Toshiba, or even Dell come close to that offering. Just my two cents - but for what it's worth, I've got the experience and numbers to back it up - only had a single unit sent back for repair in the last year, and even then was returned fixed as promised in two days. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other two hands down for performance. Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. thanks Geoff Hi Geoff, It's not FreeBSD, but may I suggest an Apple PowerBook running MacOS X ? Or the new MacBook line? I use a PowerBook G4 under MacOS X 10.4.8 as an administration system everyday to manage around 50+ FreeBSD servers. I connect to my server's serial consoles via a USB-to-Serial adapter from Keyspan with ZTerm. You also have access to a ports-like environement on MacOS X via http://www.macports.org/ and http://www.darwinports.com/. It works great. My two cents. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 11/15/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other two hands down for performance. Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. one site i would suggest is: http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=dmesgd;SQLIMIT=20 it'll allow you to search dmesg log files from various OS/Hardware combo's. I know i've put a couple thinkpad entries in there. hopefully it'll give you a good idea of the hardware support of various laptops out there. putting laptop as a search string seems to pull up a fair amount of hit's. HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO. The basic stuff works - like the screen, harddisk and keyboard - even mouse/touchpad. But then comes the trouble. - I still have unresolved problems with USB - I still have unresolved problems with ACPI - Intel Wireless works but linkstate goes up and down - Battery does not hold what it says: I have never got more than 1:30 out of it - and they claim more than 3 hours - (I assume with power off) But the screen is really great. So, my conclusion is that it is ok as an advanced DVD player/mail reader. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO. The basic stuff works - like the screen, harddisk and keyboard - even mouse/touchpad. But then comes the trouble. [snip] But the screen is really great. So, my conclusion is that it is ok as an advanced DVD player/mail reader. I can second this and I'm not even using FreebSD (win xp). Avoid the Sony VGN-A790. Yes the screen is awesome. But that's it. Battery life is 52 minutes (brand new, I timed it, doing absoutely *nothing*. no music, no vids, just sitting). And just sitting, the fan kicks on routinely about every 2 minutes and whirs for about a minute then shuts off. Watching a video kicks it on full time. It's horrific. Run away :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:34:18PM -0800, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads. A quick search of the archives will bear out the popularity of that opinion. I second this vote along with the others who favor the ThinkPad. (Also very much appreciate the heads-up on the VAIO below... ) I paid $336 for a 400MHz ThinkPad 600E in '03, including its upgrades, and it has run 24*7 for nearly 40 months. It is a bit slow to bring up the larger suites (like firefox or Abiword); but once in-memory, no complaints. --I'm still at 5.4 but when 6.2 has been running for a few months, I'll upgrade. So: good hardware, best software. That's my dime's worth. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO ... - I still have unresolved problems with ACPI ... - Battery does not hold what it says: I have never got more than 1:30 out of it - and they claim more than 3 hours - (I assume with power off) These are very likely related. It is quite credible for working ACPI to double battery life, esp. under typical one-person usage (lots of idle time, when ACPI can put the CPU into powerdown). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best laptop for Freebsd
Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other two hands down for performance. Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. thanks Geoff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads. A quick search of the archives will bear out the popularity of that opinion. Be prepared first to investigate the hardware on any prospective model, second, evaluate the support with respect to each and every device, and finally, spend time and effort configuring things so things work just right, for increasingly large values of right. I believe the investment in time and effort pays off in all sorts of ways, but chances are you'll end up with a system that you'll consider indispensible and one that you'll know better than your girlfriend, wife, or whatever. I'll leave it to you decide whether that's a good thing. ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop Wireless
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: The OP replied off-list with his output from dmesg. I'm sending it back to the list in the off-chance that someone knows more about this wireless adapter. -Damian - Forwarded message from Rem P Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the process understandable would be much appreciated. Rem Can you post the dmesg? Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. -Damian Thanks for the reply, Damian. Here is the dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #2: Fri Nov 3 08:22:20 PST 2006 rem@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/REMKERNEL Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (432.98-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bfFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX AMD Features=0x8800SYSCALL,3DNow real memory = 201261056 (191 MB) avail memory = 187408384 (178 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers) ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor. cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: AcerLabs M1541 (Aladdin-V) PCI host bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 7 Entries on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Ali M1541 host to AGP bridge mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 pcm0: ESS Solo-1 (unknown vendor) port 0x1080-0x10bf,0x1070-0x107f,0x1060-0x106f,0x10c4 -0x10c7,0x10c0-0x10c3 irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci0 cbb0: TI1211 PCI-CardBus Bridge at device 10.0 on pci0 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 pci0: simple comms at device 15.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: AcerLabs M5229 UDMA33 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfc 90-0xfc9f at device 16.0 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 pci0: bridge at device 17.0 (no driver attached) ohci0: AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller mem 0xfc00-0xfc000fff irq 5 at dev ice 20.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: ISA Option ROMs at iomem 0xc-0xcb7ff,0xdc000-0xd on isa0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 speaker0: PC speaker at port 0x61 on isa0 unknown: PNP0c02 can't assign resources (memory) unknown: PNP0303 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0c02 can't assign resources (memory) psmcpnp0: irq resource info is missing; assuming irq 12 unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0400 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0700 can't assign resources (port) ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 840C, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode Timecounter TSC frequency 432983113 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec cardbus0: CIS pointer is 0! cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000 cardbus0: network
Re: Laptop Wireless
The OP replied off-list with his output from dmesg. I'm sending it back to the list in the off-chance that someone knows more about this wireless adapter. -Damian - Forwarded message from Rem P Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1163208958-311e00bd-Xqh92z X-Barracuda-URL: http://dfspam01.vail:80/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: cprobd02.vailsys.com[63.210.102.130] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1163208958 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:35:54 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061109) To: Damian Wiest [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: Laptop Wireless Subject: Re: Laptop Wireless In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Barracuda-Bayes: INNOCENT GLOBAL 0.5363 1. 0.7500 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at vailsys.com X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 1.25 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=1.25 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=2.8 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=3.5 KILL_LEVEL=7.5 tests=BSF_RULE7568M X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.02, rules version 3.0.25571 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description -- -- 0.50 BSF_RULE7568M BODY: Custom Rule 7568M On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the process understandable would be much appreciated. Rem Can you post the dmesg? Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. -Damian Thanks for the reply, Damian. Here is the dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #2: Fri Nov 3 08:22:20 PST 2006 rem@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/REMKERNEL Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (432.98-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bfFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX AMD Features=0x8800SYSCALL,3DNow real memory = 201261056 (191 MB) avail memory = 187408384 (178 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers) ACPI disabled by blacklist. Contact your BIOS vendor. cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: AcerLabs M1541 (Aladdin-V) PCI host bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 7 Entries on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Ali M1541 host to AGP bridge mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 pcm0: ESS Solo-1 (unknown vendor) port 0x1080-0x10bf,0x1070-0x107f,0x1060-0x106f,0x10c4 -0x10c7,0x10c0-0x10c3 irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci0 cbb0: TI1211 PCI-CardBus Bridge at device 10.0 on pci0 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 pci0: simple comms at device 15.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: AcerLabs M5229 UDMA33 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfc 90-0xfc9f at device 16.0 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 pci0: bridge at device 17.0 (no driver attached) ohci0: AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller mem 0xfc00-0xfc000fff irq 5 at dev ice 20.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: ISA Option ROMs at iomem 0xc-0xcb7ff,0xdc000-0xd on isa0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0
Re: Laptop Wireless
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:56:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the process understandable would be much appreciated. Rem Can you post the dmesg? Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. -Damian http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN This indicates the ed driver works for this card. I don't think so :) There are _no_ Belkin cards listed in the WLAN section of that page. In any case, isn't ed for ethernet nics? -Damian yes my bad :( Posting the dmesg output was a good suggestion. If there is anything useful, the guys on this can help interpert it. If the link to the hardware section does not list your card as I thought the ed driver did, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] man -k wireless will give you at least a partial list of the wireless drivers. If you can match the chipset, you can pick the correct driver. Sometimes the Linux lists are good sources of information because they also use Xorg. As a last resort, I am pretty sure there is a wrapper that will run windows drivers. If you can not get the name from the list archives, the project is hosted on the SourceForge site. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop Wireless
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the process understandable would be much appreciated. Rem Can you post the dmesg? Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop Wireless
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the process understandable would be much appreciated. Rem Can you post the dmesg? Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. -Damian http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN This indicates the ed driver works for this card. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop Wireless
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:56:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the process understandable would be much appreciated. Rem Can you post the dmesg? Assuming that particular device has a working driver, you can probably use ifconfig for most of the wireless settings. -Damian http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN This indicates the ed driver works for this card. I don't think so :) There are _no_ Belkin cards listed in the WLAN section of that page. In any case, isn't ed for ethernet nics? -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laptop Wireless
Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time, and I haven't yet been able to make sense out of it with respect to this laptop and wireless card. Any help in making the process understandable would be much appreciated. Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tracking a stolen laptop?
Jonathan Nichols wrote: I am trying to track down a stolen laptop. My laptop did not have BSD downloaded, but is there any way yet by which I may be able to track my laptop with your help? I would like to get BSD if I get my computer back. Thanks for any help or advice you can offer. The short answer: no. Your laptop doesn't phone home unless you configure it to - if it had windows maybe call Microsoft, I've heard their computers contact M$ on a regular basis. If you before hand had installed some tool that calls home then it would be possible to track it by the ip and possibly routing information it uses when it calls. But that's too late now. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tracking a stolen laptop?
I am trying to track down a stolen laptop. My laptop did not have BSD downloaded, but is there any way yet by which I may be able to track my laptop with your help? I would like to get BSD if I get my computer back. Thanks for any help or advice you can offer. Jonathan Nichols ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tracking a stolen laptop?
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:04:24PM -0400, Jonathan Nichols wrote: I am trying to track down a stolen laptop. My laptop did not have BSD downloaded, but is there any way yet by which I may be able to track my laptop with your help? I would like to get BSD if I get my computer back. Thanks for any help or advice you can offer. It would be difficult. But, do you know the MAC address of the NIC card? That might help if they get on the net with it. jerry Jonathan Nichols ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freeBSD 6.1 how to setup network file sharing on my home network between a win xp box and my BSD Laptop
Install it using ports (read the handbook). On 26 September 2006, at 09:51, Mathew Stahl wrote: Hi, I am a BSD newbie. I have used linux for years from Redhat 7.0 to 9.0 and SuSE 9.1 to 10.1. I was able to setup samba very easily on redhat 9.0 and below but could never get it to work on SuSE and I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my dell laptop and I am wondering if any one has any tips on how to set it up (correctly) so I can share files between my win xp Desktop and my BSD laptop over a wireless network connection. Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance, Mathew Stahl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) svinx yknow when you go to a party, and everyones hooked up except one guy and one girl svinx and so they look at each other like.. do we have to? svinx intel nvidia must be lookin at each other like that right now Phone Voice: +1 251 589 6348 Fax: Call the voice number and ask. Email General chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Large attachments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPS-related stuff: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM AIM: hackmiester1337 Skype: hackmiester31337 YIM: hackm1ester Gtalk: hackmiester MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xfire: hackmiester ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freeBSD 6.1 how to setup network file sharing on my home network between a win xp box and my BSD Laptop
Hi, I am a BSD newbie. I have used linux for years from Redhat 7.0 to 9.0 and SuSE 9.1 to 10.1. I was able to setup samba very easily on redhat 9.0 and below but could never get it to work on SuSE and I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my dell laptop and I am wondering if any one has any tips on how to set it up (correctly) so I can share files between my win xp Desktop and my BSD laptop over a wireless network connection. Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance, Mathew Stahl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Realtek High Definition Audio on Asus A6Q Laptop
Hello: I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release on my Asus A6Q Laptop. There is no built-in driver for Realtek High Definition Audio. OSS (Open Sound System) can drive it, but there were some problems. Gnome's default media player Totem cannot play (device problem). mp3blaster cannot find device. XMMS can play normally, but volume control and balance malfunction. /dev/mixer exists. My head phone plugged had no sound. During the test done by OSS I can hear music from my head phone. It seems to be a problem abount switching output channel. How can I switch it dynamically and easily? THX ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realtek High Definition Audio on Asus A6Q Laptop
Bubbles Bug wrote: Hello: I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release on my Asus A6Q Laptop. There is no built-in driver for Realtek High Definition Audio. OSS (Open Sound System) can drive it, but there were some problems. Gnome's default media player Totem cannot play (device problem). mp3blaster cannot find device. XMMS can play normally, but volume control and balance malfunction. /dev/mixer exists. My head phone plugged had no sound. During the test done by OSS I can hear music from my head phone. It seems to be a problem abount switching output channel. How can I switch it dynamically and easily? the channel switching sounds like an oss problem to me imho... however - some developers currently work on a native driver for HDA which works fine for me. You can fetch it at http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/HDA/ you also might want to have a look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-September/thread.html and you should probably send further questions to the multimedia list -- Armin Pirkovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?
Sorry for using somebody else's reply to reply to OP as I had deleted the OP. in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joel Dahl thusly... On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:38 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week ... Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo 1.83GHz, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g) ... I happen to be currently using Toshiba Satellite A105-40xx (work computer), which cost around $800-900 from Circuit City or Best Buy (US chain stores). After few weeks of usage, the keyboard turns out to be rather crappy. When i type -- my typing speed is around 25 wpm not much of a touch typist -- the keys (more likely the spring) whine as if they need lubrication have become rather loose. On another Toshiba Satellite, about a year old (as overheard from a coworker; I used it for 2-3 months), Fn key has become so ridiculously loose it behaves like a loose leaf paper covering a sauce pan. So, be mindful of Tecra's keyboard. OTOH, two year old IBM Thinkpad T42's ($1600) keyboard is working wonderfully; five old Dell Inspiron 5000e's (a thousand some dollars at the time) keyboard is still better than above mentioned new Toshiba Satellite. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?
From: Ivailo Bonev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: hp or Toshiba laptop? Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:52:44 +0300 On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:14:26 +0300, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for using somebody else's reply to reply to OP as I had deleted the OP. in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joel Dahl thusly... On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:38 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week ... Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo 1.83GHz, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g) ... I happen to be currently using Toshiba Satellite A105-40xx (work computer), which cost around $800-900 from Circuit City or Best Buy (US chain stores). After few weeks of usage, the keyboard turns out to be rather crappy. When i type -- my typing speed is around 25 wpm not much of a touch typist -- the keys (more likely the spring) whine as if they need lubrication have become rather loose. On another Toshiba Satellite, about a year old (as overheard from a coworker; I used it for 2-3 months), Fn key has become so ridiculously loose it behaves like a loose leaf paper covering a sauce pan. So, be mindful of Tecra's keyboard. OTOH, two year old IBM Thinkpad T42's ($1600) keyboard is working wonderfully; five old Dell Inspiron 5000e's (a thousand some dollars at the time) keyboard is still better than above mentioned new Toshiba Satellite. - Parv And my 2-year Toshiba Portege burned. Sorry Toshiba, but thats the truth. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hp or Toshiba laptop?
Hi guys, I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week, due to budget, time and the fact that I'm near the end of civilization right now, I have the following choices: Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo 1.83GHz, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g), Intel PRO/1000 VE 10/100/1000 Base-TX, FastIR, Intel GMA950, Realtek ALC861 Audio, 5-in-1 cardreader, FireWire) or hp nx6320 (Same specs, except Broadcom NetLink Gig-Ethernet (BCM5788M) and ADI1981HD audio, no cardreader). I'll be running 6-Stable on this, with X, Gnome, et al. Has anyone had any experience (positive or negative) with either of these machines? Which wired Ethernet works better with FreeBSD? Is the wireless reliable/unreliable, does it work at all? Audio? Graphics under X? What about IR/FireWire, cardreader? And most importantly, what about power management? -- Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID: 483EA9B6 (+591-705)98290 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:38 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: Hi guys, I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week, due to budget, time and the fact that I'm near the end of civilization right now, I have the following choices: Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo 1.83GHz, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g), Intel PRO/1000 VE 10/100/1000 Base-TX, FastIR, Intel GMA950, Realtek ALC861 Audio, 5-in-1 cardreader, FireWire) or hp nx6320 (Same specs, except Broadcom NetLink Gig-Ethernet (BCM5788M) and ADI1981HD audio, no cardreader). I'd go for the HP. I bought a HP nx7400 2 weeks ago (which has similar specs) and everything except sound and the wireless stuff seems to work. A Beta driver for the sound exists and it works well on my laptop, but it hasn't been committed to current yet. Dunno about the status of wireless support, but I heard rumors about a port of the wpi(4) driver from OpenBSD. -- Joel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dhclient crashes my laptop
If I run dhclient wi0 the lights on the card go out, dhclient reports failure, and usually locks and reboots the machine. I am not sure what information you need, but here is what I have and what I have learned so far. I will gladly collect and post any info that may help. PCMCIA NIC card is a 3com airconnect, came with the access point. Laptop is an IBM ThinkPad 380xd (machine was free, rescued from trash at work to be a FreeBSD project) It is always plugged in when in use because the battery has about 5-10 minutes of life. Installed FreeBSD 6.1. dmesg shows that the wireless card is found and looks like it configures ok. If I enter IP gateway manually it works. Tried using the other card slot, same problem. Tried to start pccardd per the web site, command not found. I found a post that says to run OLDCARD on this machine, but that's not in 6.1 and the card is fine until dhclient tries to help. It's a project and has no significant documents (I think), so wiping it and going to a version with OLDCARD can be done if necessary. After I get this working I may tackle APM so the thing will shut off when I tell it to. Thanks, Matthew Stremcha Technical Applications Analyst Sisu Medical Solutions 218.529.7972 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?
I like to watch movies and clips alot, so a 15.4 is not really and impressive or a great option, therefore, I wanted to be able to plug my laptop to the Samsung TV at home through an S-Video cable in order to watch the movies. However, I was not able to properly configure xorg.conf and I googled for S-Video and xorg but most of the results I found were Linux related (although I doubt it would make a big difference) but none worked with me. My xorg.conf is appended. If I connect my laptop to the TV while my X is running and fn+F5 my TV screen tries to display X but the screen keeps on flickering. I tried shutting down X, connecting and fn+F5 it works fine but after I start X again, it keeps on flickering :( Any help would be really appreciated :) Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 Screen 1 TV RightOf Card0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts_mono FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/AAHS FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/AGA FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/FS FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/Kasr FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/MCS FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kacst_fonts FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/Shmookh FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz-fonts FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/ FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts/ FontPath /home/yraffah/fonts FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts/cmpsfont/type1 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc101 Option XkbLayout us,ar Option XkbOptionsgrp:alt_shift_toggle EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 330 210 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName CPT ModelName138a # Modeline 1280x800 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier TV HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] #Option Dac8Bit # [bool] #Option BusType # [str] #Option CPPIOMode # [bool] #Option CPusecTimeout # i #Option AGPMode # i #Option AGPFastWrite # [bool] #Option AGPSize # i #Option GARTSize # i #Option RingSize # i #Option BufferSize# i #Option EnableDepthMoves # [bool] #Option EnablePageFlip# [bool] #Option NoBackBuffer # [bool] #Option PanelOff # [bool] #Option DDCMode # [bool] #Option MonitorLayout # [str] #Option IgnoreEDID# [bool] #Option UseFBDev # [bool] #Option VideoKey # i #Option MergedFB # [bool] #Option CRT2HSync # [str] #Option CRT2VRefresh # [str] #Option CRT2Position # [str] #Option MetaModes # [str] #Option MergedDPI # [str] #Option NoMergedXinerama # [bool] #Option MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0 # [bool] #Option DisplayPriority # [str] #Option
Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?
On Thursday 03 August 2006 19:46, Yousef Raffah wrote: I like to watch movies and clips alot, so a 15.4 is not really and impressive or a great option, therefore, I wanted to be able to plug my laptop to the Samsung TV at home through an S-Video cable in order to watch the movies. However, I was not able to properly configure xorg.conf and I googled for S-Video and xorg but most of the results I found were Linux related (although I doubt it would make a big difference) but none worked with me. My xorg.conf is appended. If I connect my laptop to the TV while my X is running and fn+F5 my TV screen tries to display X but the screen keeps on flickering. I tried shutting down X, connecting and fn+F5 it works fine but after I start X again, it keeps on flickering :( Take a look at the http://gatos.sf.net Maybe this solve Your problem. -- Best regards, Simon Phoenix (Phoenix Lab.) --- KeyID: 0x2569D30B Fingerprint: 78FC 5C40 07CC D331 148E CC79 84B8 D514 2569 D30B --- pgptX9uNBwFTQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?
Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/08/03 8:46, Yousef Raffah seems to have typed: [snip] Section Monitor Identifier TV HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection [snip] Section Device Identifier TV Driver ati Option MonitorLayout TV,LFP Option TVStandard PAL Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO Option ConnectedMonitor TV Screen 1 EndSection [snip] Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure PAL is 25 fields/sec, which corresponds to 50Hz not 60Hz. I really have no idea, what are you suggesting then? -- Sincerely, Yousef Adnan Raffah The Savola Group --- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?
--- Yousef Raffah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/08/03 8:46, Yousef Raffah seems to have typed: [snip] Section Monitor Identifier TV HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection [snip] Section Device Identifier TV Driver ati Option MonitorLayout TV,LFP Option TVStandard PAL Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO Option ConnectedMonitor TV Screen 1 EndSection [snip] Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure PAL is 25 fields/sec, which corresponds to 50Hz not 60Hz. I really have no idea, what are you suggesting then? -- Sincerely, Yousef Adnan Raffah The Savola Group --- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com As much of a pain as it might sound you should probably google PAL specs for TV output, get a copy of The Complete FreeBSD either on the website or the printed copy in a store, thumb to the X org (free) section and form a proper Modeline statement for the screen by following their instructions and using PAL's spec. Either that or keep googling X org and PAL TV's. I think it is something with the refresh rates though. Also the H-sync should prolly be 50 hertz locked as this seems to be PAL's standard refresh rate. X might be defaulting to the low end which is causing the flicker. It might help to define the resolution you want the screen to have as well. PAL supports a few different ones at different levels of fidelity. Again X might go to the low end of things to be safe which is just causing the interlacing to occur too slowly and flicker on you. good luck -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?
--- Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/08/03 11:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to have typed: Also the H-sync should prolly be 50 hertz locked as this seems to be PAL's standard refresh rate. My replies don't show up on the list for some reason (something about how the freebsd.org servers can't find my server's FQDN), but I'm pretty sure that he needs to set his VertRefresh to 50 for PAL (and I've sent him a message as such). I figured as much, I know TV's aren't monitors and so a range of values didn't seem valid. Ahhh, your servers don't do a reverse domain name lookup properly... If they're your servers then you should be able to fix that. The Complete FreeBSD has some section on it which is reasonably parsable by humans... (I kid, I kid gotta learn how to do a DNS server myself so it's still a little cryptic to me) If its your ISP I would keep sending them Shame on you messages until they fix it. I know that reverse domain lookup is typcially done to help eliminate spam anyway so you can use that as firepower. if they're using Mircosoft servers it probably won't be able to be fixed anytime soon. At least not until Microsoft starts using standards that don't have their trademark on it... Although if Mac.com is your domain then Mac servers would likely be being used, which means its a variant of BSD anyway and should be just a simple configuration change on their end... -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...
Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb ATI radeon 9700... I install it and everything seems to get detected and all... but then... it suddenly crashes... system just shuts down... no error appears on the screen... Well, this has been consistenly happening generally when I'm installing some port... Once it was KDE, other times it was Opera and most recently it was VLC... Once it crashed even when I ran the command find / vimrc. I know the syntax of the comand may not be correct, it was just traversing through all the directories and it crashed (I was tryin to find the default vimrc file). All this when I was running X under window-maker... Also it crashed once when it was in GNOME and the computer was idle for like 30mins or so and it crashed (Gnome installs during the installation process, not the ports way) So, I figure X might be the problem... So the next time I boot, I dont start X and I make VLC and it crashes around the same place I expect it to... Is it the laptop? How can I debug something like this.. get the log files or somethin just before the crash... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...
First of all, ensure that you are not having a temperature issue check the cooler of the laptop, maybe it is crossing to the other world... Ahmed Parkar escribió: Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb ATI radeon 9700... I install it and everything seems to get detected and all... but then... it suddenly crashes... system just shuts down... no error appears on the screen... Well, this has been consistenly happening generally when I'm installing some port... Once it was KDE, other times it was Opera and most recently it was VLC... Once it crashed even when I ran the command find / vimrc. I know the syntax of the comand may not be correct, it was just traversing through all the directories and it crashed (I was tryin to find the default vimrc file). All this when I was running X under window-maker... Also it crashed once when it was in GNOME and the computer was idle for like 30mins or so and it crashed (Gnome installs during the installation process, not the ports way) So, I figure X might be the problem... So the next time I boot, I dont start X and I make VLC and it crashes around the same place I expect it to... Is it the laptop? How can I debug something like this.. get the log files or somethin just before the crash... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...
Are the crashes always with X running? ATI support is not good for X. -Derek At 01:15 AM 7/29/2006, Ahmed Parkar wrote: Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb ATI radeon 9700... I install it and everything seems to get detected and all... but then... it suddenly crashes... system just shuts down... no error appears on the screen... Well, this has been consistenly happening generally when I'm installing some port... Once it was KDE, other times it was Opera and most recently it was VLC... Once it crashed even when I ran the command find / vimrc. I know the syntax of the comand may not be correct, it was just traversing through all the directories and it crashed (I was tryin to find the default vimrc file). All this when I was running X under window-maker... Also it crashed once when it was in GNOME and the computer was idle for like 30mins or so and it crashed (Gnome installs during the installation process, not the ports way) So, I figure X might be the problem... So the next time I boot, I dont start X and I make VLC and it crashes around the same place I expect it to... Is it the laptop? How can I debug something like this.. get the log files or somethin just before the crash... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop
Hello everyone, I booted with acpi disabled, it worked. BUT I checked with HP, they had bios upgrdae, I upgraded my bios and guess what?? It boots normal, and works fine, i donot need to do any additional configuration,the acpi is supported and the tempreture message has gone after bios upgrades, Thanks for all of you, really appreciate it. Marwan Marwan Sultan wrote: thanks for all of you, it was the fbsd boot loader, as eric suggested. now its booting, BUT :( during booting it givis the following error Warning: System tempreture too high shutting down soon! acpi_tz1: Warning current tempreture (0.0c) exceeds safe limits and it shuts down immediatly. i checked my bios setup, you know some bios has tempr. option. but this laptop doesnot have such am option. The boot menu should allow you to boot without the acpi module, try that. if your system does not support acpi - or the system acpi is not supported by freebsd then you might get such errors. If this works then you just gotta figure out making it default. cheers erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 smime.p7s _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop
Marwan Sultan wrote: Well, i have HP laptop dv5178us model. i installed freebsd 6.1, after installation is complete, it will ask you to remove any cd and reboot till here is fine after i reboot, it hangs!! nothing happens! nothing moves!! just blank black dead screen!! I installed fbsd again, and the same...infact after the installation is complete and you remove the cd to restart it wont restart even you have to shutoff the laptop and on again.. Anyone can Advice please? Did you install the boot loader? - which one? Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop
hello, Well, I did what im doing since 7 years on desktops! just inserted the cd, startedup the laptop and asked for installation, then the normal procedures, you know? partitioning..etc.. when the installation done, i removed the cd and restarted, but the laptop freeze..on a black screen, blank, nothing.. Do i have to do any speciall thing during installation, will you help please? I dunt know what loader u ment, just the default one? I wish to run freebsd on my laptop as well its on my desktop since years. Marwan Marwan Sultan wrote: Well, i have HP laptop dv5178us model. i installed freebsd 6.1, after installation is complete, it will ask you to remove any cd and reboot till here is fine after i reboot, it hangs!! nothing happens! nothing moves!! just blank black dead screen!! I installed fbsd again, and the same...infact after the installation is complete and you remove the cd to restart it wont restart even you have to shutoff the laptop and on again.. Anyone can Advice please? Did you install the boot loader? - which one? Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop
Marwan Sultan wrote: Well, I did what im doing since 7 years on desktops! just inserted the cd, startedup the laptop and asked for installation, then the normal procedures, you know? partitioning..etc.. when the installation done, i removed the cd and restarted, but the laptop freeze..on a black screen, blank, nothing.. Do i have to do any speciall thing during installation, will you help please? I dunt know what loader u ment, just the default one? The boot loader is the piece of code that knows where you're OS is. If you didn't install it then your system likely just halts because whatever there is doesn't know how to boot. Some options: You can boot off the install cd and instead of installing specify root device etc. This should enable you to boot up your newly installed system. If that succeeds you can try to reinstall the boot loader - see the handbook and bsdlabel man-page. You can try to get something up running and install a generic boot loader like grub. This should also be possible if you succeed to boot as described above but can't get the boot loader working. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop
Marwan Sultan wrote: hello, Well, I did what im doing since 7 years on desktops! just inserted the cd, startedup the laptop and asked for installation, then the normal procedures, you know? partitioning..etc.. when the installation done, i removed the cd and restarted, but the laptop freeze..on a black screen, blank, nothing.. Do i have to do any speciall thing during installation, will you help please? I dunt know what loader u ment, just the default one? I wish to run freebsd on my laptop as well its on my desktop since years. 'Laptop' is a generic term. Some laptops are built with hardware that is supported by the distribution that you are attempting to install, and some laptops are not supported by the distribution that you are attempting to install... or maybe, if you have a weird laptop, nothing will run on it except Windows XP.g The same is true for desktop machines, but with laptops, it is *much* more difficult (or impossible) to swap in hardware that is compatible with the distribution you are attempting to install. Did you do some Googling, to see if your specific laptop is compatible? -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop
Check your BIOS that you don't have protection of the boot block enabled. If you do, remove that protection and reinstall. Some laptops can get stuck, and you have to pull the battery and AC power then restore the AC power to get them to restart. -Derek At 05:35 PM 7/18/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: Well, i have HP laptop dv5178us model. i installed freebsd 6.1, after installation is complete, it will ask you to remove any cd and reboot till here is fine after i reboot, it hangs!! nothing happens! nothing moves!! just blank black dead screen!! I installed fbsd again, and the same...infact after the installation is complete and you remove the cd to restart it wont restart even you have to shutoff the laptop and on again.. Anyone can Advice please? Marwan. _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop
hey guys! thanks for all of you, it was the fbsd boot loader, as eric suggested. now its booting, BUT :( during booting it givis the following error Warning: System tempreture too high shutting down soon! acpi_tz1: Warning current tempreture (0.0c) exceeds safe limits and it shuts down immediatly. i checked my bios setup, you know some bios has tempr. option. but this laptop doesnot have such am option. - Marwan Check your BIOS that you don't have protection of the boot block enabled. If you do, remove that protection and reinstall. Some laptops can get stuck, and you have to pull the battery and AC power then restore the AC power to get them to restart. -Derek At 05:35 PM 7/18/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: Well, i have HP laptop dv5178us model. i installed freebsd 6.1, after installation is complete, it will ask you to remove any cd and reboot till here is fine after i reboot, it hangs!! nothing happens! nothing moves!! just blank black dead screen!! I installed fbsd again, and the same...infact after the installation is complete and you remove the cd to restart it wont restart even you have to shutoff the laptop and on again.. Anyone can Advice please? Marwan. _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop
Marwan Sultan wrote: hey guys! thanks for all of you, it was the fbsd boot loader, as eric suggested. now its booting, BUT :( during booting it givis the following error Warning: System tempreture too high shutting down soon! acpi_tz1: Warning current tempreture (0.0c) exceeds safe limits and it shuts down immediatly. i checked my bios setup, you know some bios has tempr. option. but this laptop doesnot have such am option. The boot menu should allow you to boot without the acpi module, try that. if your system does not support acpi - or the system acpi is not supported by freebsd then you might get such errors. If this works then you just gotta figure out making it default. cheers erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop
Well, i have HP laptop dv5178us model. i installed freebsd 6.1, after installation is complete, it will ask you to remove any cd and reboot till here is fine after i reboot, it hangs!! nothing happens! nothing moves!! just blank black dead screen!! I installed fbsd again, and the same...infact after the installation is complete and you remove the cd to restart it wont restart even you have to shutoff the laptop and on again.. Anyone can Advice please? Marwan. _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD HP Laptop?
Hello everyone, I recently bought HP laptop dv5178us Media Center It has builtin BlueTooth, wireless network device, lightscribe, and the VGA is nVIDIA GeForce GO 7400 512mb, s-video, some others 2, I'm not sure from motherboard specs, I want to format the XP media center edition and install FreeBSD 6.1R with kde3 I wonder if someone can advice me and tell, if this specifications is compatiable with freebsd or not, or if i will have any problems with any devices drivers? I have a button on my keyboard that if pressed will turn the bluetooth and wireless network on and off, is this will work to with fbsd 6.1? I'm sorry If i will take from someone time to check my specs. Here is a link may help. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocumentcc=usdocname=c00619266lc=enjumpid=reg_R1002_USEN its the specs for the laptop. Thank you so much in advance. Marwan Sultan. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD HP Laptop?
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 06:36 +, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello everyone, I recently bought HP laptop dv5178us Media Center It has builtin BlueTooth, wireless network device, lightscribe, and the VGA is nVIDIA GeForce GO 7400 512mb, s-video, some others 2, I'm not sure from motherboard specs, I want to format the XP media center edition and install FreeBSD 6.1R with kde3 I wonder if someone can advice me and tell, if this specifications is compatiable with freebsd or not, or if i will have any problems with any devices drivers? I have a button on my keyboard that if pressed will turn the bluetooth and wireless network on and off, is this will work to with fbsd 6.1? I'm sorry If i will take from someone time to check my specs. Here is a link may help. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocumentcc=usdocname=c00619266lc=enjumpid=reg_R1002_USEN its the specs for the laptop. Thank you so much in advance. Marwan Sultan. Maybe this gets you started: http://www.zapatec.com/freebsd/laptop/ http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile http://bsdlaptops.org/freebsd/fbsd.php Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.1 laptop with wireless internet
Dear Colleagues, I have a laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 on it and it is working fine. I recently received a card for wireless internet; it is in fact a Verizon Wireless PC5740 card and I am wondering if I can set it up on my FreeBSD laptop. I googled about it and I found [1] mentioning about some configuration in the kernel. I also checked the wireless network section in the Handbook, but I did not make any progress. Could you give me some hints and advice about this? Thank you in advance for your help. Regards Rambius P.S. I verified that the card is really working on a Windows laptop. [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/077555.html -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install FreeBSD on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop
Helllo, I want to Install Linux on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop can anyone tell me is it compatitable? Can I install it? It has following configuration 1) Inspiron E1505, Intel Core Duoprocessor T2300 (2MB/1.66GHz/667MHz) 2) 15.4 Inch Wide-screen WXGA Display for Inspiron 6400/E150 3) 1GB, DDR2, 533MHz 2 Dimm for Inspiron 6400/E1505 4) Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950 GM 5) 80GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive for Inspiron 6400/E1505 6) Integrated 10/100 Network Cardand Modem, for Inspiron 7) Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps), for for Inspiron 6400/E1505 8) Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Module (2.0+EDR) for Inspiron 6400/E1505 9) 8X DVD+/-RW Drive for Inspiron 6400/E1505 10) Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, English without Media, for Inspiron Thanks and Regards, Sadashiv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install FreeBSD on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop
Helllo, I want to Install Linux on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop can anyone tell me is it compatitable? Your Subject said you want to install FreeBSd on the laptop. It should work OK. But, you should know that FreeBSD is not LINUX or related to LINUX. It is a UNIX type Operating System derived from the BSD family of UNIX. LINUX is an OS somewhat related to the SVR4 family of UNIX. FreeBSD is a superior Open Source, Freely available UNIX OS. It is especially suitable for network server work, but it works well in almost all situations needing a high quality UNIX environment. Give it a try. After some early work on learning the system, you will likely find it very rewarding and useful. jerry Can I install it? It has following configuration 1) Inspiron E1505, Intel Core Duoprocessor T2300 (2MB/1.66GHz/667MHz) 2) 15.4 Inch Wide-screen WXGA Display for Inspiron 6400/E150 3) 1GB, DDR2, 533MHz 2 Dimm for Inspiron 6400/E1505 4) Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950 GM 5) 80GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive for Inspiron 6400/E1505 6) Integrated 10/100 Network Cardand Modem, for Inspiron 7) Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps), for for Inspiron 6400/E1505 8) Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Module (2.0+EDR) for Inspiron 6400/E1505 9) 8X DVD+/-RW Drive for Inspiron 6400/E1505 10) Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, English without Media, for Inspiron Thanks and Regards, Sadashiv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install FreeBSD on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop
On Sunday, 21 May 2006 at 17:25:38 -0700, Sadashiv Kulthe wrote: Helllo, I want to Install Linux on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop can anyone tell me is it compatitable? As others have observed, Linux and FreeBSD are two different operating systems. You certainly need to decide which (and if it's Linux, which version of Linux). It has following configuration 1) Inspiron E1505, Intel Core Duoprocessor T2300 (2MB/1.66GHz/667MHz) I've never heard a model number like E1505 before. Is this different from the standard Inspiron 6400? 2) 15.4 Inch Wide-screen WXGA Display for Inspiron 6400/E150 I don't know what WXGA means; my Inspiron 6100 has a 1920x1200 display. 3) 1GB, DDR2, 533MHz 2 Dimm for Inspiron 6400/E1505 4) Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950 GM My machine has an ATI Radeon chipset, and I can install X on it, though I still have trouble with external projectors. I don't expect any particular problems with the Intel chip set. 5) 80GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive for Inspiron 6400/E1505 6) Integrated 10/100 Network Cardand Modem, for Inspiron Probably Broadcom, like the other Inspirons. 7) Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps), for for Inspiron 6400/E1505 Probably the same as on my machine. You'll need to install the iwicontrol port and download the card firmware from the net. I didn't get mine to work properly with older releases than 6.1. 8) Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Module (2.0+EDR) for Inspiron 6400/E1505 I have no experience with this. 9) 8X DVD+/-RW Drive for Inspiron 6400/E1505 10) Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, English without Media, for Inspiron That won't work with FreeBSD or Linux. Basically, you should have no difficulty installing both FreeBSD and Linux on the machine; that's what I've done. Older versions of X, including those delivered with some current Linux distributions, have difficulty recognizing the screen format, though they can be configured to handle it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpZkTnuc6NDu.pgp Description: PGP signature
wlan on lowend laptop
i have a litlle problem with all these wires running here and there in my flat, and as i got a woman living here with me.. i cant stand her complaining about those ugly wires allover the house. One beautiful day, i decided to get involved with wlan. But this one linux-dude said that my p233mmx/64ram couldnt run wlan. I dont know if he ment WAP/WEP-encryption as he couldnt be any spesific and that got me thinking if he even knows anything. My setup these days is following: 1Ghz/256ddr (Desktop mahcine, with ssh Xforwarding) via 10Mbit LAN, and my laptop just happens to get a lot faster when i run all apps on that desktop-pc. My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with standalone X few apps just to survive if my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it gives any advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd as it is my favorite OS that has FreeNX client. Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the wires with wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it out and use IPsec, or ssh instead? Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no one could intrude into my system. If all goes well, my next sted would be to include one windows-pc also.. and that would need firewall for local wlan-crackers but somehow i dont believe that as a minor threat :) Lasse ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wlan on lowend laptop
Lars Udo wrote: My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with standalone X few apps just to survive if my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it gives any advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd as it is my favorite OS that has FreeNX client. Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the wires with wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it out and use IPsec, or ssh instead? Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no one could intrude into my system. FreeNX uses ssh already, and you can enable SSL in it also, so it sounds to me that it's a matter of restricting access from and to your wireless (ip-address/mac-address e.g.) (if you're really paranoid : WEP is cracked already, and certain setups of WPA are also not so secure :-) -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wlan on lowend laptop
Security is no problem to me, but the problem that i'm most worried is my budjet. If my laptop cant run wlan (for some weird reason that linux guy couldnt even name) so all the effort would be worthless. 2006/5/7, albi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lars Udo wrote: My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with standalone X few apps just to survive if my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it gives any advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd as it is my favorite OS that has FreeNX client. Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the wires with wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it out and use IPsec, or ssh instead? Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no one could intrude into my system. FreeNX uses ssh already, and you can enable SSL in it also, so it sounds to me that it's a matter of restricting access from and to your wireless (ip-address/mac-address e.g.) (if you're really paranoid : WEP is cracked already, and certain setups of WPA are also not so secure :-) -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: wlan on lowend laptop
Forgot to reply to list :X Begin forwarded message: From: Hunter Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7 May, 2006 9:08:33 AM GMT To: Lars Udo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wlan on lowend laptop On 07 May 2006, at 9:19 AM, Lars Udo wrote: i have a litlle problem with all these wires running here and there in my flat, and as i got a woman living here with me.. i cant stand her complaining about those ugly wires allover the house. One beautiful day, i decided to get involved with wlan. But this one linux-dude said that my p233mmx/64ram couldnt run wlan. Lies, all lies! My P200/32mB RAM with 6.0-RELEASE acts as an AP or a client with WEP, WPA, etc with no issues. I dont know if he ment WAP/WEP-encryption as he couldnt be any spesific and that got me thinking if he even knows anything. My setup these days is following: 1Ghz/256ddr (Desktop mahcine, with ssh Xforwarding) via 10Mbit LAN, and my laptop just happens to get a lot faster when i run all apps on that desktop-pc. Good idea, does it lag at all? I'm thinking of configuring that. My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with standalone X few apps just to survive if my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it gives any advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd as it is my favorite OS that has FreeNX client. Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the wires with wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it out and use IPsec, or ssh instead? If you're really having issues... then yeah. Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no one could intrude into my system. Depends if you live around people or in the middle of nowhere. The latter is the case for me, so I don't worry about security. If all goes well, my next sted would be to include one windows-pc also.. and that would need firewall for local wlan-crackers but somehow i dont believe that as a minor threat :) It'd be fine, you just need proper firewalls, anti-virus, etc. Lasse ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wlan on lowend laptop
2006/5/7, Hunter Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 07 May 2006, at 9:19 AM, Lars Udo wrote: i have a litlle problem with all these wires running here and there in my flat, and as i got a woman living here with me.. i cant stand her complaining about those ugly wires allover the house. One beautiful day, i decided to get involved with wlan. But this one linux-dude said that my p233mmx/64ram couldnt run wlan. Lies, all lies! My P200/32mB RAM with 6.0-RELEASE acts as an AP or a client with WEP, WPA, etc with no issues. Thanks for your opinion :) I dont know if he ment WAP/WEP-encryption as he couldnt be any spesific and that got me thinking if he even knows anything. My setup these days is following: 1Ghz/256ddr (Desktop mahcine, with ssh Xforwarding) via 10Mbit LAN, and my laptop just happens to get a lot faster when i run all apps on that desktop-pc. Good idea, does it lag at all? I'm thinking of configuring that. Yes it lags a little, but nothing compared for opera running natively on laptop. Normally, websites renders pic by pic.. but with this configuration, it all just jumps on the screen instantly after short period time of 'thinkin' which is about 1sec. I think that 100Mbit would be a great improvement. My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with standalone X few apps just to survive if my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it gives any advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd as it is my favorite OS that has FreeNX client. Is it possible to keep up with this setup with changin all the wires with wireless-future. If WAP/WEP is the problem, couldn i just leave it out and use IPsec, or ssh instead? If you're really having issues... then yeah. Or is WAP/WEP mandatory, or is it just enough if i set tight firewall-rules on both ends of wlan with IPsec, so no one could intrude into my system. Depends if you live around people or in the middle of nowhere. The latter is the case for me, so I don't worry about security. If all goes well, my next sted would be to include one windows-pc also.. and that would need firewall for local wlan-crackers but somehow i dont believe that as a minor threat :) It'd be fine, you just need proper firewalls, anti-virus, etc. Lasse ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Mouse on Laptop
Hi, moused_type=auto works nice on my Toshiba. Well, it does not map all the buttons of my Logitech trackball, but basic functions switches on the fly. Regards, Maris On Wed, 3 May 2006 01:27:18 + Jonathan Herriott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I currently just fixed moused to start up using my laptop's mousepad in /etc/rc.conf using the following options: moused_enable=YES moused_port=/dev/psm0 moused_flags= #This is another problem of mine, I can't get the four extra buttons on my mousepad to work because I don't know what to specify with -z, but this isn't the point of this post moused_type=ps/2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB Mouse on Laptop
Hi!
I currently just fixed moused to start up using my laptop's mousepad in
/etc/rc.conf using the following options:
moused_enable=YES
moused_port=/dev/psm0
moused_flags= #This is another problem of mine, I can't get the four
extra buttons on my mousepad to work because I don't know what to specify
with -z, but this isn't the point of this post
moused_type=ps/2
so after booting and hooking up my USB mouse, I type:
ps -aux | grep moused
root 1019 0.0 0.1 1208 752 ?? Is8:32PM 0:00.00 moused -p
/dev/psm0 -t ps/2
root 1275 0.0 0.2 1208 784 ?? Ss8:54PM
0:00.12/usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/ums0 -t ps/2 -I
/var/run/moused.ums0.pid
So, I can tell that it is using the same defaults that I specified in my
/etc/rc.conf file, but I can't figure out how to differentiate between the
two in /etc/rc.conf. I tried running usbd -vd to figure out what the device
information, so I could enter it into /etc/usbd.conf file:
device Basic Optical Mouse, Microsoft
vendor 0x045e
product 0x0084
release 0x
attach '/usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/${DEVNAME} -t auto -z 4 5 -I
/var/run/moused.${DEVNAME}.pid'
Which when I kill everything and run usbd and attach my device again, I
still get the same output from ps -aux | grep moused. Also, I noticed while
I killed usbd, I can still attach my usb mouse, so where should I be looking
in order to get my usb mouse to attach differently than stated in my
rc.conffile?
Thanks,
Jon
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Re: Which Laptop for FreeBSD
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:30:03 -0400 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question was just covered in great detail last 2 weeks. Check the archives for subject What laptop do you recommend? Secondly, you should first search the archives for answers to your questions before posting to this list. http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ us this url to search archives. it was in the -mobile list : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2006-March/008016.html I sent an update with some details on what I went with a few days ago. Beto (writing this on a Toshiba Tecra A2 laptop) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4440 Cards: Always causes Freeze
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 Sean Murphy wrote: I have finally come up with a way to use the official drivers That's great news Sean, kudos! I would suggest that it's more appropriate to use the x11/nvidia-driver port, e.g.: cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver sudo make install clean Then set your tunables (i.e hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs and hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile) via '/etc/sysctl.conf'. Finally, you would apply the changes to xorg.conf as you recommend. The nvidia readme file for their freebsd driver mentions this in the section titled 'CONFIGURING LOW-LEVEL PARAMETERS'. Regardless, using ports to install things and sysctl.conf to control the low-level parameters is more traditional. Of course the beauty of FLOSS systems is you can solve problems in a way that works best for your particular situation ;-) Just a suggestion, Dino ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4 440 Cards: Always causes Freeze
I have finally come up with a way to use the official drivers from nvidia on Toshiba notebooks with a GeForce4 440 Go (and similar) video card. Normally, using either linux or freebsd and the drivers from nvidia (instead of the default nv driver) would result in a hard freeze as soon as X was started. I gave up trying to fix it, but then came across a solution for Linux last night, which I used as a basis for this FreeBSD solution... First of all, much credit goes to [1]this [2]information from the Ubuntu Document Storage Facility (check out Problem 8 at the bottom). Here's how I applied the same modifications to a FreeBSD system: The first step under Linux was to change some options in the nvidia kernel, which was done in Linux under /etc/modprobe.conf (or /etc/modprobe.d). FreeBSD doesn't use modprobe, which I believe is used for the loading of a kernel module. Instead, we can modify the option in the source for nvidia's drivers, and then compile the nvidia kernel module with this already set the way we want: 1. First, download the [3]latest[4] nvidia source here. Extract (tar zxvf NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-8178.tar.gz) and move into the newly created directory. 2. Edit /src/nvidia_os_registry.c using your fav text editor: Change the values of the following variables: - NVreg_SoftEDIDs = 0 (was 1) - NVreg_Mobile = 1 (was ~0) Save nvidia_os_registry.c and exit. 3. I didn't want linux compatability built into my nvidia kernel module, so I changed the following: Comment out (or undefine) this line: #define NV_SUPPORT_LINUX_COMPAT 4. Under the NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-8178 directory, compile and install the drivers: make install 5. Finally, this part is identical to the linux instructions. We need to make some tweaks to xorg.conf (and tell X to use the nvidia drivers also): Your device directive should have something similar to: Section Device IdentifierNVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] Drivernvidia BusIDPCI:1:0:0 Option RenderAccel true Option AllowGLXWithComposite true OptionIgnoreEDIDtrue OptionIgnoreEdidFreqstrue OptionGenerateRTList0 OptionOverridePolarity1 EndSection That's all! This time when you startx with the real nvidia drivers, it won't crash. This is tested to work on both of my Toshiba laptops. If there are any errors in this howto, feel free to correct it! Now, us toshiba users can have 3d acceleration along with support for OpenGL :). Hope this helps someone! - Murph References 1. http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper 2. http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper 3. http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-8178.html 4. http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-8178.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4 440 Cards: Always causes Freeze
Sorry for the formatting of my solution...a few things got mangled up. For easier reading, check out my post on freebsdforums.org. - Murph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4 440 Cards: Always causes Freeze
On Apr 7, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Sorry for the formatting of my solution...a few things got mangled up. For easier reading, check out my post on freebsdforums.org. - Murph I'm having a conversation with myself here...three posts to get this right :) You can find the post at http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/ showthread.php?t=40336. (freebsd.org was supposed to be a link last message, but didn't work right) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which Laptop for FreeBSD
Hello all, i would like to buy a new Laptop in the very near future, and of course it has to run my favourite OS. I have never searched for a Laptop, and now that i did i am overwhelmed with the confusing variety of different Brands and Models. One of the big Questions i am having is; Should i look for a 64 bit Laptop or better not? I am just not sure wheter or not 64bit will come trough this year on Laptops, and how well is it (and will it be) supported by FreeBSD. I know that there are some Internet Sites which try to maintain some data about linux / unix on laptops, but i found them to be quite outdated. I am looking for a Workstation replacement kind of Laptop, and it must have a DVI out for my Monitor. I kind of would like to go with 64bit, since its supposedly the future, if this isnt quite the time for 64bit Laptops yet, please someone educate me. If there is anyone out there, that can recommend a new Laptop (Price is not an issue) that runs FreeBSD nicely, please let me know, i would most appreciate it. Thanks and best regards, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Which Laptop for FreeBSD
This question was just covered in great detail last 2 weeks. Check the archives for subject What laptop do you recommend? Secondly, you should first search the archives for answers to your questions before posting to this list. http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ us this url to search archives. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Schulz Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:36 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Which Laptop for FreeBSD Hello all, i would like to buy a new Laptop in the very near future, and of course it has to run my favourite OS. I have never searched for a Laptop, and now that i did i am overwhelmed with the confusing variety of different Brands and Models. One of the big Questions i am having is; Should i look for a 64 bit Laptop or better not? I am just not sure wheter or not 64bit will come trough this year on Laptops, and how well is it (and will it be) supported by FreeBSD. I know that there are some Internet Sites which try to maintain some data about linux / unix on laptops, but i found them to be quite outdated. I am looking for a Workstation replacement kind of Laptop, and it must have a DVI out for my Monitor. I kind of would like to go with 64bit, since its supposedly the future, if this isnt quite the time for 64bit Laptops yet, please someone educate me. If there is anyone out there, that can recommend a new Laptop (Price is not an issue) that runs FreeBSD nicely, please let me know, i would most appreciate it. Thanks and best regards, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which Laptop for FreeBSD
On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:35 AM, David Schulz wrote:
If there is anyone out there, that can recommend a new Laptop
(Price is not an issue) that runs FreeBSD nicely, please let me
know, i would most appreciate it.
Apple released Boot Camp for their Intel based machines yesterday. I
don't doubt it will be long before someone tries to install FreeBSD
on Apple's new hardware. Meanwhile with a MacBook Pro you'd have a
commercially supported Unix also too.
I'm rather impressed with my MacBook:
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Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops fully working ? I'm a huge Toshiba fan, and a HUGE fan of the touchpoint/accupoint devices. As of yesterday I replaced my Satellite Pro 6000 with a new M5-S433. Speaking for -current, not -stable, it boots fine, detects the gig ethernet with the em driver, serial port, usb, touchpad (bleh!), etc work fine. The ATA driver is identified as a GENERIC ATA controller and the drive is listed as UDMA33, which is either incorrect (the drive is SATA, I've removed it) or it's just using a SATA-PATA bridge internally. X11 starts up with the nv driver just fine, right now it's humming away beside me installing KDE. The only things that do not work are the builtin wireless, which should have a driver soon, and the sound, which I hope will also have some support soon! I have had a couple of quirks -- several times it has booted up but the ATA driver never saw the HD, but a reboot later it was finding it just fine. I also had trouble getting it to attach to an atheros card I was inserting, but I think that was related to the BIOS setting for device resource allocation rather than a kernel problem. Once i've had it a little longer I'll drop in on the -multimedia list and see if I can spur a little work on the sound. Everything else seems in order. -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:36:43 -0500 (EST) Wesley Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything else seems in order. Thanks for the info Wesley. What about ACPI? btw, what resolution are u running X at? what fps does glxgears report? cheers, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:36:43 -0500 (EST) Wesley Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything else seems in order. Thanks for the info Wesley. What about ACPI? btw, what resolution are u running X at? what fps does glxgears report? I haven't tried any sleep states yet. X runs at the native 1024x768 and glxgears runs at about 760-790 FPS when one of the two cores is occupied with something else and 815 when both are idle. -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:01:04 +1100 David Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mm, well I run a Dell 700m .. the widescreen 12 one with built-in wireless. thx for your time :) B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:32 -0500 From: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems I don't think Thinkpad has [SP]ATA things (yet). From my T43: atapci0: Intel ICH6 SATA150 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x18c0-0x18cf at device 31.2 on pci0 Since the drives are still PATA, I assume it uses a SATA/PATA chip for the internal drives, but it may make SATA available to a docking station. all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Thinkpad T42 is great in that regard, except that the use of dri w/ suspend/resume causes lockup. You would need to pick either dri or suspend/resume. If you can, try to get a laptop either without a 802.11g (so that you can decide which one to buy) or buy one supported by ath driver. I have T42 w/ Intel 2200BG card, and it using w/ iwi driver (net/iwi-firmware port). Here, connected w/ Linksys WRT54G wireless router/switch/AP, iwi interface|driver needs to be reset just about every two hours (when i start getting TKIP ICV mismatch on decrypt message. iwi (and its kin-folk) have been betting heavy work in HEAD over the past week or two and, hopefully, things will improve. OTOH, I have two colleagues using this card with Windows and they complain that it locks up periodically and they have to disable and enable it to get it back, so this may not be just a FreeBSD thing. There is also fairly new firmware out (V3.0) which MAY fix some of these problems. Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. Can't say about Thinkpad on that. I think the only ThinkPads with Core Duo are T60s, although I'm sure other will follow. Don't know if Lenovo will ever go the AMD route, but I sure hope they do. My AMD desktop is one amazing system! From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Boy do those Toshiba's TruBrite screen looked amazing (in a chain store). On almost all the displayed laptops, however, the keyboards are buggered up, mainly on the right side. Keys were shifted around or had really unusual area of key caps. What is amazing about the messed up keyboard layout is that there was much wasted space on the sides (owning to the wider screen) in front of the keyboard. FWIW, I have been amazed at the brightness of my T43. It is MUCH brighter than my trusty T30. What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? People generally advise to get one from business line (used to be Latitude for some time in past; don't know about the present/future), not the home one (Inspiron). Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. T4[0-3]-generation should be affordable by now, around USD1[0-2]00. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Yes, some Dell Inspiron. My wife has not been at all happy with her Latitude. Heavy and still not robust. Unpleasant keyboard and very touchy touchpad. (This is from her as I don't often use it.) I do love the 1600x1200 display, though! For less expensive (and less powerful) ThinkPads, look at the R series. No Core Duos there, but they start at about $800 new. No touchpads (which I consider a plus), but a bit clunky compared to the T series. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:00:31 -0800 Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:32 -0500 From: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems I don't think Thinkpad has [SP]ATA things (yet). From my T43: atapci0: Intel ICH6 SATA150 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x18c0-0x18cf at device 31.2 on pci0 Since the drives are still PATA, I assume it uses a SATA/PATA chip for the internal drives, but it may make SATA available to a docking station. yeah, the T60s (available now @ my provider! ) also come with SATA drives. If you can, try to get a laptop either without a 802.11g (so that you can decide which one to buy) or buy one supported by ath driver. I have T42 w/ Intel 2200BG card, and it using w/ iwi driver (net/iwi-firmware port). Here, connected w/ Linksys WRT54G wireless router/switch/AP, iwi interface|driver needs to be reset just about every two hours (when i start getting TKIP ICV mismatch on decrypt message. iwi (and its kin-folk) have been betting heavy work in HEAD over the past week or two and, hopefully, things will improve. OTOH, I have two colleagues using this card with Windows and they complain that it locks up periodically and they have to disable and enable it to get it back, so this may not be just a FreeBSD thing. There is also fairly new firmware out (V3.0) which MAY fix some of these problems. I have a 2200BG on this tosh A2 - some lockups, but couldn't pinpoint it to the card (again, i've made the habit of ifconfig down before suspend...) . No problems at all while running. Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. Can't say about Thinkpad on that. I think the only ThinkPads with Core Duo are T60s, although I'm sure other will follow. Don't know if Lenovo will ever go the AMD route, but I sure hope they do. My AMD desktop is one amazing system! I know :) What about AMD64 (single or Dual core) cpus for laptops (Turin ? ) : any good experiences there anyone? From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Boy do those Toshiba's TruBrite screen looked amazing (in a chain store). yeah, a colleague has a Tecra A5, bright as a CRT. FWIW, I have been amazed at the brightness of my T43. It is MUCH brighter than my trusty T30. What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? People generally advise to get one from business line (used to be Latitude for some time in past; don't know about the present/future), not the home one (Inspiron). Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. T4[0-3]-generation should be affordable by now, around USD1[0-2]00. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Yes, some Dell Inspiron. My wife has not been at all happy with her Latitude. Heavy and still not robust. Unpleasant keyboard and very touchy touchpad. (This is from her as I don't often use it.) I do love the 1600x1200 display, though! For less expensive (and less powerful) ThinkPads, look at the R series. No Core Duos there, but they start at about $800 new. No touchpads (which I consider a plus), but a bit clunky compared to the T series. yeah i'm running the features vs numbers job atm... Actually thinking of looking into the components of ASUS laptops, as well as those from pioneercomputers.com.au - have heard of some great experiences with those laptops with Linux. BTW, thanks everyone for your help :) will keep asking questions as needed, of course ;) Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What laptop do you recommend?
hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) Best regards, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) Best regards, Beto ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I reccomend it highly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
I've a related question, but my primary constraints are physical. I'm looking for a lightweight and low-profile package, like the fabulous (and wicked prone to hard failure) Sony 505 series of products. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
Hi, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: I've a related question, but my primary constraints are physical. I'm looking for a lightweight and low-profile package, like the fabulous (and wicked prone to hard failure) Sony 505 series of products. take a look at the P-series from Fujitsu. I ran FreeBSD on a P2120. It was pretty good with the exception of battery life. The new P7xxx series used the Pentium M as a CPU which is better supported by FreeBSD. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) I've Thinkpad R50e. Everything works fine and it makes an excellent work tool : http://www.yazzy.org/configs/freebsd/thinkpad/ Price of those thinkpads is yet another pluss. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
At Mon, 13 Mar 2006 it looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] composed: I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I reccomend it highly. Do you have the wireless working too on that model, the integrated chip? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. I have a new Lenovo (IBM) T43 (266875U) that is working well. If you get an integrated A/B/G card, it's Athros based and works very well with FreeBSD and the wpa_supplicant. The internal Winmodem is useless, though. The GE is a Broadcom which works well. Graphics is an ATI Radeon, so you will want to have Radeontool to turn it off. ACPI has no problems and, if you load acpi_ibm, it provides lots of features. Sound is snd_ich and works fine. I disable the touchpad, so I really can't say much about it. If the touchpad is disabled, it has a 3 button mouse. I have not been successful with a suspend/resume cycle while running X. It seems to suspend, but never resumes when in X. If I'm on a vty, it does resume, but the display characters are garbage. vidcontrol mode 80x25 fixes it, though. I can probably stick this into rc.resume. It's only a 2GHz Pentium-M, though. The new T60s are Core Duo systems, but we don't have one, yet. One was just ordered last week, so I hope to get to play with one soon. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:58:29 -0800 Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been successful with a suspend/resume cycle while running X. It seems to suspend, but never resumes when in X. If I'm on a vty, it does resume, but the display characters are garbage. vidcontrol mode 80x25 fixes it, though. I can probably stick this into rc.resume. Thanks for the info. I had a similar issue with suspend/resume from within X (using APM though), using my Toshiba Tecra A2. hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1 fixed it. i get some garbling in some semitransparent aterm windows, but nothing major at all. Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) Best regards, Beto What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops fully working ? thx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Monday 13 March 2006 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I reccomend it highly. I have this notebook as well. It is very nice and works with every OS I've ever tried (Linux Fedora, FreeBSD, BeOS...). I do believe, however, it's been replaced by the R52 model, but it has basically the same hardware. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --hackmiester Walk a mile in my shoes and you will be a mile away in a new pair of shoes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD/yYl3ApzN91C7BcRAoVVAJ97uhjh30nQ4hd9bQ90gJqiwsLEfgCeKSrg bVfqEeJ09WhO6Y51WHEHb6o= =VTUd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: Geek Code v3.1 (PHP) GCS/CM/E/IT d-@ s: a- C++$ UBLS*$ P+ L+++$ E- W++$ !N-- !o+ K-- !w-- !O- M++$ V-- PS@ PE@ Y--? PGP++ !t--- 5--? !X-- !R-- tv-- b+ DI++ D++ G+ e h r+++ z --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Quick contact info: Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Large files/spam: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GTalk:hackmiester/AIM:hackmiester1337/Y!:hackm1ester/IRC:irc.7sinz.net/7sinz pgppsJDTgIzir.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
mm, well I run a Dell 700m .. the widescreen 12 one with built-in wireless. I'm using the fantastic iwi-firmware (so yes, the wireless works), and 855patch to get 1280x800 (the native res of the lcd) working. I have a very quick document on what I did to get that going at http://bratdot.info/cub1cle/projects/700m/ Accelerated graphics have never worked, but I just run Konsoles and Kmail .. so I dont miss it. The winmodem doesnt work, but thats about it. I havent missed anything else that didnt work 'out of the box' on 6. I ran 5.4 on there for a while as well, and the only thing I had to add was UHCI to the generic kernel (so I could do backups before the heat-death of the universe). YMMV, but they are cheap, small and light. -David On 3/14/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) Best regards, Beto What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops fully working ? thx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Dean +61 402 55 6068 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems I don't think Thinkpad has [SP]ATA things (yet). all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Thinkpad T42 is great in that regard, except that the use of dri w/ suspend/resume causes lockup. You would need to pick either dri or suspend/resume. If you can, try to get a laptop either without a 802.11g (so that you can decide which one to buy) or buy one supported by ath driver. I have T42 w/ Intel 2200BG card, and it using w/ iwi driver (net/iwi-firmware port). Here, connected w/ Linksys WRT54G wireless router/switch/AP, iwi interface|driver needs to be reset just about every two hours (when i start getting TKIP ICV mismatch on decrypt message. Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. Can't say about Thinkpad on that. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Boy do those Toshiba's TruBrite screen looked amazing (in a chain store). On almost all the displayed laptops, however, the keyboards are buggered up, mainly on the right side. Keys were shifted around or had really unusual area of key caps. What is amazing about the messed up keyboard layout is that there was much wasted space on the sides (owning to the wider screen) in front of the keyboard. What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? People generally advise to get one from business line (used to be Latitude for some time in past; don't know about the present/future), not the home one (Inspiron). Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. T4[0-3]-generation should be affordable by now, around USD1[0-2]00. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Yes, some Dell Inspiron. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror on a laptop.
On 3/11/06, Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List; I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able. What I want to know is whether this is such an incredibly bad idea I shouldn't even consider it --or-- it seems like a good way to get familiar with gmirror, so go for it. Besides slowing down your I/O, it shouldn't be a huge deal. I don't know that there's a whole lot to learn about gmirror, but in the interest of furthering debate, I've done more than a little bit of learning in those areas thanks to the joys of qemu. It does have the advantage of not trashing your desktop if you should do something horribly silly, as I would admit to being wont. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror on a laptop.
Patrick Bowen wrote: I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able. What I want to know is whether this is such an incredibly bad idea I shouldn't even consider it --or-- it seems like a good way to get familiar with gmirror, so go for it. If you want to do this for the sake of practice, by all means, feel free. However, mirroring onto the same device is going to result in almost no benefit to reliability and will cause a very large performance hit, as well as reducing the usable amount of disk space in half. (In other words, actually leaving the machine set up that way would be an incredibly bad idea.) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
