Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted

2013-09-21 Thread Al Plant
-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Aloha, I believe Greg Lehey is in Australia. g...@freebsd.org I have seen several others on the list at different times too. AL ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net

Re: Network Question

2013-09-14 Thread Al Plant
Daniel Nang wrote: Aloha, Sounds like an interesting setup. Do you have one machine acting as a gateway? On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Al Plant <mailto:n...@hdk5.net>> wrote: Eugene wrote: Hi Daniel, The easiest way is to check the LAN Config (or similar

Re: Network Question

2013-09-13 Thread Al Plant
f machine2` -- Adam Vande More ___ # Aloha, For many years I have 8 Freebsd boxes behind a PF firewall on a static labeled lan. Only one public address feeds the lan. All the boxes can work the internet and can ssh. I found that easier than dhcp

Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD

2013-08-09 Thread Al Plant
, think your entry is too comlpicated and I have a very old HP 1100 LaserJet that works on lpr using apsfilter from ports. I have only 5 lines in my printcap file. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net -

Re: Max top end computer for Freebsd to run on

2013-06-02 Thread Al Plant
server in a rack that can be switched in to service quickly can save you if one dies. Time (waiting for parts), most failures are hardware if your running FreeBSD. Even most Linux boxes. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org

Test

2013-06-01 Thread Al Plant
Ping . Pong ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others

Re: Witness on FreeBSD 10.*

2013-04-30 Thread Al Plant
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:43:51 -1000 Al Plant wrote: Aloha, Is there a way of turning off the witness feature on the FreeBSD Current 10.* I want to use a stripped down version as a test firewall with pf. you must take this out of your kernel configuration

Witness on FreeBSD 10.*

2013-04-29 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, Is there a way of turning off the witness feature on the FreeBSD Current 10.* I want to use a stripped down version as a test firewall with pf. Thanks for any help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http

Re: Power switch not working

2013-04-07 Thread Al Plant
4 seconds the screen fills with junk codes and the only way to turn the unit off is by the power switch on the power supply or pulling the plug. With FreeBSD 8 or below on this box you could shutdown from the 4 second power switch function as expected. I wouldn't use this box in a p

Dumb down a Netgear Smart Switch

2013-03-19 Thread Al Plant
. The instructions they sent me along with the switch that was a replacement for a non smart one at no charge is the type for using a DHCP service on Microsoft. (I cant complain about the up grade but its over kill for my purpose. Any help would be appreciated. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-05 Thread Al Plant
nts Monday and did so successfully. The only problem I had was that the "Log In" box for accounts wasnt showing on my monitor properly top left. It was wrapped. I was able to log in and click the tab and it worked OK. Some of the page was cropped however. I dont know if My FreeBSD bo

Questions not working again?

2012-12-07 Thread Al Plant
Aloha FreeBSD mail list. This is the second month that it questions have stopped working to my mail box. All the other lists are fine that I subscribe to. My firewall spam wall has not been changed. Any way to fix this? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http

Re: skype

2012-11-19 Thread Al Plant
rience the same issues on other OS. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing

Re: Advanced Format Drive ? GPT ?

2012-11-16 Thread Al Plant
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Plant wrote: I looked over the GPT sample and have a question. In the fstab entries, something that uses msdosfs, (thumb drive maybe). %%%>> Can you enter it directly in the fstab after the basic partitions and other /dev hav

Re: Advanced Format Drive ? GPT ?

2012-11-15 Thread Al Plant
uestions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Aloha Warren, I looked over the GPT sample and have a question. In the fstab entries, something that uses msdosfs, (thumb drive maybe). Can you enter it directly in the fstab after the basic part

Testing for false email freebsd.org

2012-11-02 Thread Al Plant
Test -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others

Burning .iso DVD's

2012-11-02 Thread Al Plant
What has cdrecord home.iso got to do with this ? It seems that to run growisofs some people say you have to use this now. Not clearly defined in handbook pages I printed. I would like to make a new burner that works on 9.* up. Any help would be great. Thanks. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii -

How to list /etc/fstab in new BFSD label?

2012-10-21 Thread Al Plant
. fd0, /floppy, acd0 /cdrom, acd1 DVD, do not come up although they are in /dmesg list. Any help would be appreciated. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9

Re: Spam and more spam.

2012-10-10 Thread Al Plant
t I did an classified this as spam. Erich ___ Aloha Erich, I'm getting SPAM on the FreeBSD list for a couple of days now. In several languages including Chinese and French as well as English. Doesnt our list have a way to block so much of t

Re: AAAARRRgghhh-h-h. [[tooo tired]]

2012-08-24 Thread Al Plant
a how a USB port could burn out, but that's what the tech found. anybody care to reply to either point?? tx very tmuch Aloha Gary, Check pccables.com thats where I got mine. 6 foot. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org

Re: usb identity issue (adds more info)

2012-07-23 Thread Al Plant
Fbsd8 wrote: Al Plant wrote: Adds missing section: Al Plant wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: I am having problem getting usb plug in /flash drive to come up on FreeBSD * several boxes with different versions of FreeBSB os I have 3 boxes for testing here at my shop. maybe it's late

Re: usb identity issue (adds more info)

2012-07-23 Thread Al Plant
Adds missing section: Al Plant wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: I am having problem getting usb plug in /flash drive to come up on FreeBSD * several boxes with different versions of FreeBSB os I have 3 boxes for testing here at my shop. maybe it's late but i cannot really understand wha

Re: usb identity issue

2012-07-23 Thread Al Plant
ted with vpI0 (parallel) da0s4. The other 2 computers I tested on are for hardware bench tests and not on any network. Thanks for your help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeB

usb identity issue

2012-07-23 Thread Al Plant
an email question but it doesnt work) to bring this up on screen? Dmesg of the booted units shows da1 mostly but this identity cant be accessed on any of them. Thanks ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Al Plant
hardware adapter? I read there is a USB to ide on the market. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Al Plant
Thomas Mueller wrote: from Al Plant : Thanks Of the 4 I had to play with one literally fell apart one scsi card is throwing errors. The one I finally got working is an old IDE on a FreeBSD 10 box that I experiment with. This should work fine to archive the Omega disks we found

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Al Plant
This should work fine to archive the Omega disks we found. Again thanks for heading me on the right path. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email:

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Al Plant
Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant <mailto:n...@hdk5.net>> wrote: I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive

Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Al Plant
but not Parallel Omegas. My wifes MS machine has no parallel input and my several FreeBSD boxes do but wont find the hardware. I used to use Omega Zip under FreeBSD 4.11. Thought these had been transferred years ago but they were only found recently. Any suggestions appreciated. ~Al Plant

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-24 Thread Al Plant
quot;word" or "text" to my wifes Windows box for her to use as needed. abiword translates to the MS format if you daughter has to turn in a file for an assignment. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + htt

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Al Plant
e in Hawaii we have a bad corrosion problem from the salt air. TW also needs the electric service to work here as well. Did they come to your location and run a test to their equipment? My neighbor had a recent cable outage of an existing cable on our block that was too low and a moving

Re: 9.0 spontaneously reboots

2012-03-12 Thread Al Plant
ir-con in my systems here in Hawaii and humidity is around 60-70% normally so we have to clean and put teflon on contacts about 2 times a year.) Corrosion is worse if your on the ocean or brackish river. Happy hunting. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-11 Thread Al Plant
ounds and are interested in Joseph Campbell and his developments in writing and storytelling audio and video process. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + &l

Re: What happened to FreeBSD.org DNS earlier today?

2012-03-11 Thread Al Plant
going to ask if it was the pesky Solar flares. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing i

Re: Some questions about Link Aggregation and Failover

2012-03-07 Thread Al Plant
-group 2 mode active ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii -

Re: Is the list down?

2012-02-18 Thread Al Plant
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Friday 17 February 2012 08:49:37 Da Rock wrote: On 02/17/12 11:21, Al Plant wrote: I have not seen any action in 2 days. There's been plenty of action in the last 2 days. Maybe check your mail server logs for errors? I noticed the same thing. The missing

Is the list down?

2012-02-16 Thread Al Plant
I have not seen any action in 2 days. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing i

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Al Plant
# Aloha, I had this happen with using [Cable Select] on an 80G ISA drive jumper and after I switched to [Master] it worked fine. In any case it does sound like hardware. Try switching the cable. It may be broken. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://haw

Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable?

2012-01-06 Thread Al Plant
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Al Plant wrote: I accessed the sshd from the new install screen as an option when I loaded it on the test box. I had to set up the lan manually to first get it up. Then you should be able to use ssh. I take it you either arranged for ssh to accept a direct root

Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable?

2012-01-05 Thread Al Plant
first get it up. Then you should be able to use ssh. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really

Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable?

2012-01-05 Thread Al Plant
GES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions Aloha Drew, I made a DVD of i386 10.0 and it works fine too. Haven't tried the 64. Even the new install screen worked the first time for m

End of: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Al Plant
@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Well said Lyubomir, How true. The graphic just keeps on going and no one wins. Aloha, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 80

Happy New Year to FreeBSD members...

2012-01-01 Thread Al Plant
Aloha! Wishing all our listers a happy and prosperous new year. Thanks for your help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net >

Printer issue on FreeBSD

2011-12-10 Thread Al Plant
and can use ftp to print from the server by sending a text file to it from the other hosts on the lan. Any help appreciated. Thanks. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2

Re: How to remove ACPI from boot ?

2011-11-02 Thread Al Plant
Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:11:19 -1000, Al Plant a écrit : Aloha, Bonjour, I have a box that wont shut down with ACPI setting activated. Anyone point me to a how to on keeping ACPI from being set to on at boot. in /boot/loader.conf hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 man acpi

How to remove ACPI from boot ?

2011-11-02 Thread Al Plant
FreeBSD list? ## ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others

Is questions mail down?

2011-11-01 Thread Al Plant
I havent recieve any FreeBSD questions Sunday Monday tuesday. No nov reminder either. Is the service broken? -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < em

Re: new to os

2011-08-19 Thread Al Plant
think). I'll have plenty ideas to try. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Al Plant
disks that were created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can read them for transfer to a contemporary program? -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-11 Thread Al Plant
e hardware settings. - ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Al Plant
king? What is your window manager? ### Aloha... I have used xfce3 since it came out years ago and it is sparce and fast with nothing unnecessary that you cant kill off. Very functional and no clutter or eye candy. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://haw

Re: Long Day's Journey into

2011-06-09 Thread Al Plant
d like Chad says... I have had an 1000/100 Linksys, and a less than year old Netgear 1000/000 switch die in my shed in the last year. No one could kick them in a rack out there and Netgear replaced the dead one no questions asked. So Now I have 2 Netgear units working. AND I NOW HAVE A SPARE.

FreeBSD Questions off line?

2011-06-02 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, I havent seen any FreeBSD questions on line for 2 days. Any body have any knowledge about this? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email

Re: monthly iso snapshot

2011-04-07 Thread Al Plant
.allbsd.org/pub/ ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what w

Re: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-04-04 Thread Al Plant
nogram and motion pictures. 2011/3/28 Al Plant Kouichiro Iwao wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:59:19AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, Anybody know what happened to the http; or ftp servers for allbsd.org japan? Did the Tsumnami put them down? allbsd.org is hosted by Tokyo University

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-03 Thread Al Plant
Bruce, Recently I've sent tests to a couple of our subscribers that I know personally since the tests never came back. Thanks for the heads up as to why. Any chance of getting it fixed? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Al Plant
;t say "1/0" which would cause the operating system of the car to crash, and you have to send the onboard computer unit to VW Germany in order to get it replaced. :-) Aloha Poly, Your replies are the funniest ever on the list. Make me smile. Have a great day. -- ~Al Plant -

Re: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-03-27 Thread Al Plant
Kouichiro Iwao wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:59:19AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: >> Aloha, >> >> Anybody know what happened to the http; or ftp servers for allbsd.org >> japan? Did the Tsumnami put them down? > > allbsd.org is hosted by Tokyo University of

Re: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-03-25 Thread Al Plant
Bruce Cran wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:59:19 -1000 Al Plant wrote: Anybody know what happened to the http; or ftp servers for allbsd.org japan? Did the Tsumnami put them down? The machine's there but is refusing connections: ping6 pub.allbsd.org PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2a01:348

allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-03-25 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, Anybody know what happened to the http; or ftp servers for allbsd.org japan? Did the Tsumnami put them down? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9

Add dhcp wlan on existing static lan

2011-02-12 Thread Al Plant
since the laptops have to be reconfigured every time they come back on my home/office lan. Has anyone on our list had experience with this or knows of a how-to? Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50

Re: Lenovo G550

2011-01-16 Thread Al Plant
an/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9*

Re: zoneedit.com

2011-01-13 Thread Al Plant
nt me this link to the legacy site as they havent migrated all the DNS. > http://www.zoneedit.com/auth/ My issue was that I had the older view era monitor on the rack I use to do this and read emails. Their new web face is wide screen and my monitor chopped off the link to the old site to log

No resopnse on FreeBSD questions

2010-12-01 Thread Al Plant
Is the questions site and the test server off line? -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really wor

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread Al Plant
Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Al Plant wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread Al Plant
ve the charging diodes blow. It was cheaper to replace the UPS 's than to repair them. #3. The motherboard bios can be set to stop a server from self booting from a power outage. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org +

Re: Dell workstation / server Freebsd's compatibility

2010-06-26 Thread Al Plant
g side one and one on the back. Many of the "newer" CPU's need more cooling. Both Intel and AMD. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + <

Copy a FreeBSD 8* install to larger HD

2010-06-22 Thread Al Plant
directories/files to them? What command (utility) do I use? dd or cp or some other to copy the files. Thanks ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email

Re: Lpr 'queue full" error

2010-06-14 Thread Al Plant
Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I have a network HP Laserjet 1100 printer that has been running with out failure since 2004 on my office lan using aps2 filter on a FreeBSD 4.9 Lpr print server. It became intermittent recently in that it prints files from the command line only. The gui's on the

Lpr 'queue full" error

2010-06-13 Thread Al Plant
o answers. Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is wh

Re: Driver for Belkin F5D9050 V 4000

2010-04-29 Thread Al Plant
d via /boot/loader.conf (or later in boot process if you add linux_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf. Note that this driver does not support PAE-enabled kernels. # Jerry, Many thanks. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://

Re: Driver for Belkin F5D9050 V 4000

2010-04-29 Thread Al Plant
n line for istalling on FreeBSD 8.* I have an install that works fine on 64 bit amd until the video section for desktop use. Even the DVD Manolis produced doesnt make the video work. It just flashaes on for a few seconds then dies off. Any pointers to a how-to much appreciated. ~Al Plant - Honolu

Re: Also have a dead box [ WAS: Re: OT: dead box ]

2010-03-23 Thread Al Plant
e components replaced the brand new Power Supply with a better quality one at their expense and the box works fine now. This was a mother board that was not cheap. My wife needed to upgrade for video editing etc. The supplier said they had this problem with several of the better boards. ~Al

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Al Plant
s and corrosion from the tropic air. You may want to see if this is the problem. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "A

Re: how to use cdrecord

2010-03-14 Thread Al Plant
orrect device permissions - this is important. Additionally, see "man cdrecord" on how to construct a simple config file so you don't have to put speed= and dev= whenever you want to use the program - it makes things more comfortable. :-) Aloha... Poly is right. I use in #/boot/b

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-11 Thread Al Plant
good idea to have two swaps on any HD. If you used the default setup under sysinstall for FreeBSD it gives how the setup should look. Is the USB a current 2.0? I cant ever recall having the problems you are describing on a FreeBSD box ever. Maybe you have funky hardware configuration. ~Al

Re: "tao" suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Al Plant
er btw. Check all the cables and power supply connections and re-seat everything in the box. Something may have walked out of the board. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Al Plant
ck up the box though. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for o

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Al Plant
On the other hand with a Ubuntu HP Mini I could not install wireless automatically the way the GUI tries to do it. I had to make my own network file to over ride interferrng wireless from the military installations 1 Km from my house. I think Ubuntu must select the strongest sig

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

2009-12-08 Thread Al Plant
eresting to you, too. Like Poly I too use XFCE 3 on all my FreeBSD desktops. Its light and fast and anyone can learn it quickly. I have Gnome on a Linux HP netbook and it is a lot slower. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo

Where's Snapshots and pub.allbsd.org

2009-12-04 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, Anybody on the FreeBSD list know what has happened to the snapshots that have not been available on FreeBSD.org since last Sept.? Also what happened to pub.allbsd.org snapshots? Are there new URL's for current and daily snapshots to test? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone:

Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD

2009-12-04 Thread Al Plant
hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" in the /boot/loader.conf 2nd> Put apticam_load="YES" in the /boot/loader.conf (That 2nd 18.7.2 instruction is not clear in the Handbook section and should be added.) Then> Run # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z dev/cd0=/usr/home/alp/FreeBSD_7/7.2-RELEASE-p

Re: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-24 Thread Al Plant
Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:34:04PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Aloha Gary, I have one running Ubuntu Linux on the HD. It works ok on a wired or wireless network with a Fixed IP. The automatic gui for setting up the network failed to work and stay where it was

Re: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-23 Thread Al Plant
ybe a driver now. BCM4312 is the one in mine. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's rea

Re: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-23 Thread Al Plant
id not know how to disable the touchpad. A terminal is brought up by alt/f2. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All th

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

2009-11-07 Thread Al Plant
that change the mouse , monitor and keyboard with a light pressure. Even a pencil with an eraser on it could be used to change from one of any of eight ports. Send me a picture of the setup you have and I'll see if I can figure out a way to work it for you. ~Al Plant - Honolulu,

Re: Linux-realplayer missing from ports

2009-11-04 Thread Al Plant
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:16:09 -1000 Al Plant wrote: I am trying to get Linux-RealPlayer to install from updated ports collection on a FreeBSD 9 desktop box. (Xorg and www etc all installed fine on this test box.) Error says it cannot be found in our ports collection

Re: Linux-realplayer missing from ports

2009-11-04 Thread Al Plant
Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:16:09PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I am trying to get Linux-RealPlayer to install from updated ports collection on a FreeBSD 9 desktop box. (Xorg and www etc all installed fine on this test box.) Error says it cannot be found in our ports

Linux-realplayer missing from ports

2009-11-03 Thread Al Plant
components. Or can it be down loaded into distfiles? If so from where? Or has this been replaced by something else to play audio in ports. I would be glad to try any port for playing audio from web or files that is known to work. Thanks ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-29 Thread Al Plant
s to back up 6 servers 2 years ago. I too was having up to 10 hour power outages.Now the backup will go for at least 10 hours with no line power. We had a 6 hour outage last fall and the system kept right on working. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaii

Re: Force installation of dependencies

2009-10-21 Thread Al Plant
update. Manolis Kiagias has suggested this to several of us on the list and it works for me. Good luck. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n.

Re: mkisofs error

2009-10-14 Thread Al Plant
roblems making dvd's since from the command line. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really wort

No History after shutdown -h on FBSD 8 or 9

2009-09-26 Thread Al Plant
this not going to be possible from FreeBSD 8 onward? Thanks... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really

Command line not saving in 8*

2009-09-20 Thread Al Plant
line history. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for o

Re: FreeBSD FTP server error

2009-09-20 Thread Al Plant
ty Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Aloha Yuri and List, I just tried FTP from Hawaii and the link is dead. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, H

DVD-R recording .iso SOLVED

2009-09-11 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: > Chris Hill wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: >> >>> Aloha, >>> >>> on FreeBSD 8 Current >>> >>> I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i

Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

2009-09-11 Thread Al Plant
ll sorts of how to's. Not just computers. I have seen English and Spanish language. The manufacturer of the UNIX one is Bar Charts of Boca Raton Fla, www.quickstudycharts.com ot www.barcharts.com Happy coaching. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://haw

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Al Plant
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:50:01PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad

DVD-R not recording .iso

2009-09-09 Thread Al Plant
? Is this the correct way to copy an .iso onto a DVD-R for installs? Or can I just use burncd like somebody on the BSD forum said they did? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Al Plant
use from her stash of stuff and it works fine. Good Luck... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really w

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