Remote Desktop for Fedora 11 on External Hard Drive

2009-11-07 Thread Bryan Cassidy
I am currently using FreebSD 7.2 and I have just installed and configured Fedora 11 on an external hard drive so I can do some printing and other things. I was wondering how can I get full access to the Desktop (GUI) on FreeBSD for Fedora 11 on my external hard drive? Any ideas?

networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage

2009-11-07 Thread umage
Hello. I have had 3 network outages this week, and everytime it happened, I found that my freebsd8rc1 machine/router was unable to communicate over the WAN interface even after the outages ended. A reboot helps, but that's not an acceptable solution. The symptoms are very weird: even though

Re: install.cfg scripting issue

2009-11-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 11:31:39AM -0800, Jason wrote: Hi, I am having a heck of a time getting an automated installation to get a couple of commands done, and was wondering if anyone would be able to offer any assistance. Everything works, but post does not. I know we will more than

about Intel 3945 wlan card in Freebsd 8-CURRENT

2009-11-07 Thread PstreeM China
hi , everyone : some time ago , i use Freebsd7.2 and the wpi driver for my Inter 3945 wlan card .. after that , i upgrade to FreeBSD8-current ,but i find that my wlan is not work . i want to know that is a bug or the driver is not wall on 8-current ??? anyone can tell me ??

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Roger
Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the production release. When the installed was performed the release was 7.2 but

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the

Re: about Intel 3945 wlan card in Freebsd 8-CURRENT

2009-11-07 Thread Vincent Hoffman
PstreeM China wrote: hi , everyone : some time ago , i use Freebsd7.2 and the wpi driver for my Inter 3945 wlan card .. after that , i upgrade to FreeBSD8-current ,but i find that my wlan is not work . i want to know that is a bug or the driver is not wall on 8-current ???

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Powell
Roger wrote: Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the production release. When the installed was performed the

Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage

2009-11-07 Thread Jason
Have you tried restarting routing? /etc/rc.d/routing restart I have found the same symptoms with other outages and not performing the above. I have done /etc/rc.d/netif restart and /etc/rc.d/routing restart. Wtih using these commands, I have found this to be successful in restoring network

Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage

2009-11-07 Thread umage
On 7. 11. 2009 19:07, Jason wrote: Have you tried restarting routing? /etc/rc.d/routing restart I have found the same symptoms with other outages and not performing the above. I have done /etc/rc.d/netif restart and /etc/rc.d/routing restart. Wtih using these commands, I have found this to

Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Powell
umage wrote: On 7. 11. 2009 19:07, Jason wrote: Have you tried restarting routing? /etc/rc.d/routing restart I have found the same symptoms with other outages and not performing the above. I have done /etc/rc.d/netif restart and /etc/rc.d/routing restart. [snip] Thank you for the

Hi! a question about log in dmesg

2009-11-07 Thread Jesús Abidan
Hi, there, i am a pretty good user in linux and i don't know i am getting some strange info in my dmesg file: at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute:

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:39:41AM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the production

Re: Hi! a question about log in dmesg

2009-11-07 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/7/09, Jesús Abidan jabi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, there, i am a pretty good user in linux and i don't know i am getting some strange info in my dmesg file: at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute:

Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-07 Thread David Chanters
Hi all, I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep /home from my Debian installation. /home on Debian is currently a separate partition in its own right, mounted as RXT3. I only have the one hard disk in my

Re: Hi! a question about log in dmesg

2009-11-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:27:26PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: Hi, there, i am a pretty good user in linux and i don't know i am getting some strange info in my dmesg file: at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:34:48PM +, David Chanters wrote: Hi all, I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep /home from my Debian installation. /home on Debian is currently a separate partition

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:34:48PM +, David Chanters wrote: Hi all, I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep /home from my Debian installation. /home on Debian is currently a separate partition

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: [snip] Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s ext3 is a problem, but I hope the rest is helpful. No, it's not a problem Jerry. ext3 is basically ext2 + journal, so you can mount it at as ext2

Re: dvdauthor can't find fribidi headers?

2009-11-07 Thread dgmm
On Monday 02 November 2009, Dima Panov wrote: On Monday 02 November 2009 13:45:47 Jimmie James wrote: Seems as dvdauthor is broken on 8-rc1...anything I might have done? [st...@fyre /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor]$ sudo make install clean === Building for dvdauthor-0.6.14_4

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Roger
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You mentioned lsof but there is a utility in base which you probably don't know about called fstat(1), which does a lot of what lsof does. Thank you for the tip. I will definitely look into it. IIRC, the sources for 7.2

math/py-numpy vs. math/atlas-devel

2009-11-07 Thread Scott Bennett
I would like to install science/gnudatalanguage but have been running into various obstacles. Lars Engels very kindly just fixed one of them (devel/lasi) (Thanks, Lars!), so now I'm on to the next one, which may not be a showstopper, but it's at least a nuisance. One of the gnudatalanguage

stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]

2009-11-07 Thread Gary Kline
hey guys, my last e-troubles happened a few months ago, or several weeks ago, when my old KVM unit began flaking out. the one computer buddy i have in the seattle area suggested i order a 4-port iogear. i did and he installed it. it was .LT. sixty bux

Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]

2009-11-07 Thread Al Plant
Gary Kline wrote: hey guys, my last e-troubles happened a few months ago, or several weeks ago, when my old KVM unit began flaking out. the one computer buddy i have in the seattle area suggested i order a 4-port iogear. i did and he installed it. it

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: My second concerned is the ports. In the file ports-supfile there is one option, *default release=cvs tag=.. I believe this specifies which cvs tag to use when pulling files from the ports. At one point I had *default release=cvs

Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]

2009-11-07 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: hey guys, my last e-troubles happened a few months ago, or several weeks ago, when my old KVM unit began flaking out. the one computer buddy i have in the seattle area suggested i order a 4-port

KDE4 + FreeBSD-8.0-RC2, no anti aliasing

2009-11-07 Thread Masoom Shaikh
here is my ~/.fonts.conf ?xml version='1.0'? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd' fontconfig match target=font edit mode=assign name=rgba constrgb/const /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=hinting booltrue/bool /edit /match match target=font edit

Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]

2009-11-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:42:34PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: hey guys, my last e-troubles happened a few months ago, or several weeks ago, when my old KVM unit began flaking out. the one

Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]

2009-11-07 Thread Robert Huff
Gary Kline writes: the keybd isn't the problem. it is in the box with a bunch of misc stuff i don't need. problem is that on my KVM switch are only ps2 plugs. on the back of the dell are USB jacks. i need something to convert from the PS2 plug to fit into the