Re: Help With Selection of Database Application

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:48:21 -0400 Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had extensive experience with MS Access as a user and would like to port a comparable system into my FreeBSD box. Can anyone recommend a database application similar to Access? I've looked through the ports but

Re: Help With Selection of Database Application

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:13:40 -0400 Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (06/13/04 19:24), Andrew L. Gould wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:24:52 -0500 From: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help With Selection

FYI - Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter recognized in FreeBSD 5.2.1 Release

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
The Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter, model F8T001 (100 meter range), is not in the hardware notes, I thought I'd mention it here: I just installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100. The Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter mentioned above was recognized as ubt0. Also, 'hccontrol -n ubt0hci inquiry'

Console and X configuration for laptop display

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100. During bootup and later, at the command line, the usable screen is much smaller than the available display size -- 2 to 3 inch margins on all sides. Does anyone know how I can fix this? In X, a resolution of 1400x1050 fills the display; but

Re: Console and X configuration for laptop display

2004-06-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:09:13 -0500 Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 June 2004 18:42, you wrote: I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8100. During bootup and later, at the command line, the usable screen is much smaller than the available display size -- 2 to 3 inch

Re: [OT] What's QED? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades)

2004-06-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:36:47 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Peter Risdon writes: I suppose what I'm driving at is whether the RELENG_4 branch sees many commits that are likely to be problematic. In

Re: [from newbies]: XP + FreeBSD

2004-06-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:59:59 + clayton rollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On June 6, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This has probably been answered before, but I was unable to find explicit confirmation. The installation guide (2.5.3) states that You now have the option to

How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
How can I make a screenshot of what's on my monitor? (I searched the archives unsuccessfully for screenshot.) I'm running FreeBSD 4.10. Thanks, Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:41:02 +0200 (CEST) Cordula's Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I make a screenshot of what's on my monitor? (I searched the archives unsuccessfully for screenshot.) Gimp is an image manipulation program similar to Photoshop or PaintShopPro, which can also

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:29:41 +0200 Michal Pasternak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew L. Gould [Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:17:10PM -0500]: I flubbed my first attempt with xwd -- I need to spend more time with it's man page. Try: xwd | xwdtopnm | pnmtojpeg foo.jpg ... and xli

Re: Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router

2004-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:48:02 -0500 John Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD succesfully on my Gateway M500 laptop. The only problem I have is that my laptop connects to the internet through a wireless router. My wireless card is working fine on the laptop and I can

Re: Mounting CDrom

2004-05-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Mon, 24 May 2004 16:32:26 -0500 Donald Szatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for considering my question. How do I mount my cdrom and make it available to all users? I have tried: mount -t cd9669 /dev/acd0/cdrom I have tried: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0/mnt Nothing! I

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 23 April 2004 08:01 am, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Probably. I'm not too familiar with how the ad-hoc connections work, but i am certain that for a single client it would work. Just get a wireless NIC in it, play a little routing magic, maybe look at the dhcpd port (dhcp server) ~j

Re: Keeping Ports synchronised with Packages

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 22 April 2004 07:41 am, Richard Bradley wrote: Hi all, I am getting the impression that I am using the ports and packages system the wrong way, but can't find a good tutorial on how to use them to their best. I would be quite happy to write one up, but I need to understand it

Re: Keeping Ports synchronised with Packages

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:57 am, Richard Bradley wrote: On Thursday 22 April 2004 2:29 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 22 April 2004 07:41 am, Richard Bradley wrote: [...] My problem is that my ports tree is always a couple of minor versions ahead of the available packages

Re: Keeping Ports synchronised with Packages

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 22 April 2004 09:50 am, Richard Bradley wrote: On Thursday 22 April 2004 3:25 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:57 am, Richard Bradley wrote: ... I want to keep my programs up to date, and I want to use precompiled versions as much as possible because

Re: More dependency hell

2004-04-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 09:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install OpenOffice 1.1.1 on a box with a fresh install of 5.2.1Release. I get Java to compile and install, however Openoffice chokes because it starts to update all the Gnome stuff. I cannot get the update script to

Re: MySQL

2004-04-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:00 am, ilich wrote: Hello All! I have small problem. I installed apache2\php4\mysql. Apache and php work fine, but mysql doesn't work. When I enter mysql to my console it send massage Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'tmp/mysql.socket'. As far

Re: Internet Problem

2004-04-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 April 2004 08:26 pm, MIchael Alexander wrote: Quick q. can't seem to get Internet to work in free bsd 5.1. Can ping to other addresses in intranet, but can't get out to www. Other machines in intranet work just fine. Also, mouse scroll doesn't work. Mouse is behind KVM but

Re: thinkpad 600

2004-04-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 16 April 2004 09:59 am, Rob wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Please can you tell me how to install freebsd on my thinkpad 600 as I have win 98 on it and it is a refurbed unit I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an everyday enviroment and

Re: lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 01:55 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 14), Peter Leftwich said: I thought I would post this as something of a warning. Using FreeBSD as a primary, non-dual-boot OS means sacrificing. Here is a partial list of sacrifices, as compared to Microsoft

Re: lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 03:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 April, 2004, at 14:55 (-0500) Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * digital cameras I use Sony Cybershot DSC-P92: 1. Plug camera into computer using usb, check dmesg for umass device and mount memory card file

Re: lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 04:33 pm, Radek Kozlowski wrote: On 2004.04.14 22:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 April, 2004, at 14:55 (-0500) Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * digital cameras I use Sony Cybershot DSC-P92: 1. Plug camera into computer using usb, check dmesg

Re: Fwd: Belkin wireless network card problem

2004-04-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 12 April 2004 11:39 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I have about 10 days left to return this card if I cannot get it to work. It's Belkin 'PCMCIA wireless F5D6020 ver 2' Here is the output after I plug in the card: Card Belkin(11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook-Network-Adapter)

Re: Fwd: Belkin wireless network card problem

2004-04-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 12 April 2004 03:41 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: I gave up, bought a NetGear Prism2.5 compatible card, and it worked flawlessly. I'm up and running, and figuring out when I'm going to return the other (worthlless) card. jm Yeah! ___

Re: Belkin wireless network card problem

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 08 April 2004 11:04 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: I finally got a wireless kit. However, the Belkin card is giving this error: Card Belkin(11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook-Network-Adapter) [(null)] [(null)] matched Belkin (11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook-Network-Adapter) [(null)] [(null)] wi0

Re: Belkin wireless network card problem

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 08 April 2004 11:54 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : Which model number is it? Thanks Andrew. It's 'PCMCIA wireless' F5D6020 ver 2 jm I have the same model except I can't find a version number -- I guess that makes it version 1. I've used it without problems in FreeBSD 4.9 and

Re: MySQL installation troubles ...

2004-04-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 03:00 pm, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, I am trying to install MySQL server client from the packages collection with no success. Being a FreeBSD newbie I will need your help. Please check the following: mazenbsd# pkg_add -r mysql-server Fetching

Re: ATAPI CD-ROM, UNIXNEW GUY

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:42:34AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed bsd on an a pentium II machine and using the cd-rom. As of now it is no longer working properly I cannot finnish installing all of the cd's I purchasd. The cd-rom is 40x Delta I think model #OPC-K105/5 ST1. I

Re: libssl

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 11:25 am, J.D. Bronson wrote: I deleted libssl.so.3 by accident Whats the best way to get it back w/o reloading (fetch depends on it...and I found it fast!) Thanks :) Back in the early 1980's, I was cleaning out my files and directories from my father's

Re: libssl

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 11:36 am, Julien Gabel wrote: I deleted libssl.so.3 by accident Whats the best way to get it back w/o reloading (fetch depends on it...and I found it fast!) If it is /usr/lib/libssl.so.3, the following can do the job : # cd /usr/src/secure/lib/libssl #

Re: SYN attacks

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 12:01 pm, Spades wrote: Heya, FREEBSD 4.9-STABLE Is there anyway to block SYN attacks and prevent it from bring down my server? Its been attacking for sometime. Checkout the link below. There's a series of articles regarding firewalls in FreeBSD:

Re: libintl.so.5 not found and general ports question

2004-04-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 05 April 2004 01:36 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Monday 05 April 2004 11:27 am, Gerry Freymann wrote: After doing a portupgrade -rf gettext... I went back to trying to install the apsfilter port. It would drop into /print/teTeX and /print/html2ps-letter and stop again with the

Re: libintl.so.5 not found and general ports question

2004-04-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 05 April 2004 02:23 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Monday 05 April 2004 12:13 pm, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-05 12:06]: On Monday 05 April 2004 11:51 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: What would happen if a link called /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.5

Re: libintl.so.5 not found and general ports question

2004-04-05 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 05 April 2004 02:03 pm, Gerry Freymann wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:54:37 -0700 Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |O|FWIW, I thought I had jumped the gun with my comment and installed |O|apsfilter with no options. I didn't have any problems. Yes, worked here fine with only

Re: Deskpro 575 - second try

2004-04-02 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 01 April 2004 12:58 pm, Robert Golovniov wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, I am trying to install 5.2 on an older Deskpro 575 machine. I've changed the BIOS configuration so that it allows me to use a 80GB disk. Fine. Installation complains a bit about the way

Re: ((need help on the server))))

2004-03-30 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 29 March 2004 03:30 pm, stan ask wrote: I am having problems using Apache web server. I installed from the port and it wants to start at bootup. I go to Root and type in my IP address.NOTHING HAPPENS !!! Unfortunately I am using Abyss web server on Port 80 in Root. I tried to

Re: Trouble with atapicam and DVD+RW

2004-03-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:15:33AM -0500, Ed Alley wrote: Andrew Gould wrote; The description of the DVD burner states DVD+RW. Are you sure it can burn DVD-R's? OOPS ;) Andrew also wrote: A couple of us have experienced difficulties with Memorex media. Consider testing

Re: Trouble with atapicam and DVD+RW

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Ed Alley wrote: Ed Alley wrote: Does FreeBSD support ATA DVD writers the same way that it supports CD writers? I have been to SOS's web page, and have looked at hardware support info, but have found no hint at whether ATA DVD writers are

Re: Trouble with atapicam and DVD+RW

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Ed Alley wrote: Ed Alley wrote: Does FreeBSD support ATA DVD writers the same way that it supports CD writers? I have been to SOS's web page, and have looked at hardware support info, but have found no hint at whether ATA DVD writers are

Re: using hyperterminal

2004-03-07 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 07 March 2004 04:06 pm, Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: How is `tip` related to well-known windows' hyperterminal? E.g. can I use hyperterm-to-tip style connection? If they're using different protocols, is there a BSD hyperterminal version? My understanding of terminal emulation and

Re: Video Card Compatibility

2004-03-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 07:06 am, bradford fligor wrote: Thank you to all of you for your recent help on FreeBSD. While on vacation last week, I decided to buy an ATI Radeon 9000 video card thinking it's got to work. Well I can't get it to work and can't find it on the list of cards

Re: Installing software via ports and packages

2004-03-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 01 March 2004 03:05 pm, Lance Earl wrote: I have been evaluating FreeBSD as a possible replacement for my RedHat web server and as a possible desktop. So far I like it except for one issue that drives me nuts. But first, my machine. I installed FreeBSD on a Pentium 250 with 512 megs

hauppauge wintv_usb_fm vs wintv_usb (not fm)

2004-02-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I am running FreeBSD 4.9. The hauppauge wintv_usb_fm is listed in /usr/src/ sys/dev/usb/usbdevs as being supported; but hauppauge wintv_usb (without the fm) is not listed. So, it would be my luck to find the latter, but not the former, in a local store. Does anyone know if hauppauge wintv_usb

Re: procmail

2004-02-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 27 February 2004 03:55 pm, Henning, Brian wrote: I tried removing everything in my recipes file, but that didn't work. Any more thoughts? Thanks, brian -Original Message- From: albi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less...

2004-02-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgot to mention, i already tried a rebuild WITHOUT_XFT=YES. no dice. -- Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:48:55 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mozilla, no running

Re: Does anybody installed DVD Rom on FreeBSD 4.9?

2004-02-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:15 am, Carla Neves wrote: Hi dear FreeBSD users, I would like to install a DVD R+W on my Proliant Ml330 for backups purposes. Before I buy the DVD Rom, I would like to know if someone has done that before with success for FreeBSD 4.9. I checked on

Re: How do I turn this off?

2004-02-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 03:34 pm, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: When I login, I get a UNIX tip by Dru, printed on the screen. I'd like to turn that off, but haven't located where to do that ... TIA. -ste The ~/.login file executes fortune, which extracts a tip from the fortune file,

cardbus configuration from FreeBSD 4.9 to 5.2.1 RC2

2004-02-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I have a Compaq Presario 910US that dual boots Win2K Pro and FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE. I installed 5.2.1 RC2 on a spare hard drive this morning; but can't get it to detect my wireless card (Linksys WPC11 v.3). In FreeBSD 4.9, I got my wireless card working by: 1. Commenting out the irq and io

Re: e-mail notification

2004-02-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 20 February 2004 07:38 am, andrew clarke wrote: Just wondering if anyone knows of a program that will connect to a POP3 mailbox and then send me an e-mail notification when there are new messages in the mailbox (rather than sending me those messages)? Thanks. According to 'man

Re: FreeBSD 5-stable

2004-02-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 19 February 2004 07:49 am, RJ45 wrote: looks like 5.2.1 will be out soon, does it mean that the STABLE branch cycle is going to start also for 5.x ? thanks Rick Currently, I think 5.3 is the planned STABLE release. See:

Re: New

2004-02-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 19 February 2004 09:58 am, Pedro Sam wrote: On Wednesday February 18 2004 20:30, Robert Huff wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: Where is a good place to start? 5.2-RELEASE. Grab the floppies from ftp.freebsd.org and install over the 'Net. If this is

Re: ext2 mount

2004-02-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I mount ext2 under FreeBSD 5.2? I use this command: mount_ext2fs /dev/ad1s3 /mnt and the reply with error: mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad1s3: Operation not supported by device uname -a output: FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD

Re: mail client question...

2004-02-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:57 pm, HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER wrote: mutt + fetchmail is a nice combo too. Felipe Neuwald wrote: You can use pine + fetchmail. On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 15:13, Xpression wrote: Hi list, anyone are using exim as a MUA ??? I can't configure it to send

Re: growisofs

2004-02-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 04:46 pm, Brian H wrote: Greetings: I am looking for growisofs, but I can't find it in the ports. find . -name *growisofs* Any thoughts? Thanks, Brian It's a part of dvd+rw-tools at: /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools Best regards, Andrew Gould

Re: Shutting down system

2004-02-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 16 February 2004 10:33 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 16 February 2004 06:44 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have version 5.2 RC#1 installed. I have not been able to get the shutdown command to power down my computer. I used the following

Re: Administration

2004-02-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 02:08 pm, Derek Burns / Bend-Pak wrote: Is there a way I can administer my FreeBSD web server from my pc? Yes. There are many ways. How you administer the server remotely will depend upon many factors: 1. Are you comfortable on the command line, or do you want a

Re: Video card compatibility

2004-02-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 02:10 pm, bradford fligor wrote: Hello Support ! I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to

Re: Administration

2004-02-17 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 02:58 pm, Derek Burns / Bend-Pak wrote: GUI Windows XP And we are on the same network -Original Message- From: Andrew L. Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:43 PM To: Derek Burns / Bend-Pak; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

is vlc incompatible with atapicam?

2004-02-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I've just noticed that I can't watch dvd movies anymore using vlc. I think the last time I watched a dvd was prior to recompiling my kernel with atapicam to burn dvd's. Is vlc incompatible with atapicam? If any of you are watching dvd movies on a computer that's configured with atapicam,

Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports

2004-02-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:39 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Marty Landman wrote: Any advice on what to do here? # cd ../../mail/fetchmail # make build make install rehash which fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.

Re: How-to get anonymous FTP to use port 6021

2004-02-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:56 pm, JJB wrote: How can I tell the inetd anonymous ftp server to listen on an different port other that 21. I tried adding port 6021 in the /etc/services file but that did not work. Did you restart inetd? I don't know if that's necessary; but it may be worth

Re: FreeBSD on Dell PowerEdge 2500

2004-02-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 16 February 2004 02:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any experience installing FreeBSD on a Dell PowerEdge server? 2500 or any other? I'm looking at having to do so and, having not done it before, I'm just wondering if there are any gotchas I should be aware of or if I

Re: Shutting down system

2004-02-16 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 16 February 2004 06:44 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have version 5.2 RC#1 installed. I have not been able to get the shutdown command to power down my computer. I used the following command: shutdown -p now It simple gets to a point where it says press any key to restart. I never

Re: USB Wireless Adapter support in fbsd 5.1?

2004-02-06 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 06 February 2004 10:47 am, Wang wrote: Hi, I get access to the Internet via a wireless connection to my router in another room. I use a usb wireless adapter (Netgear WG121), which works fine under Winbut I am really not sure how to get this working with FreeBSD 5.1. I have read

console pim? - what to use to track appointments

2004-02-04 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I've been thinking about the combination of tools/applications needed to have PIM functionality at the console. This would allow me to use the same software on my desktop (FreeBSD) and NEC Mobilepro (NetBSD). Syncing - rsync should provide efficient syncing of email if I use the maildir email

Re: Fwd: Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 problem on FreeBSD4.9

2004-02-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 01 February 2004 11:56 am, Yuri Grebenkin wrote: Sorry it seems that my attachments fall in abyss some weird way. But forwarding must work well. Try to find them in this email. --- Forwarded message --- From: Yuri Grebenkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 01 February 2004 09:29 pm, Krikket wrote: I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part of the default package selection) didn't want to install. While I can

Re: DHCP

2004-01-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Does the network administrator know you're adding a computer to the network? Could it be that DHCP is only working with known MAC addresses? Andrew Gould On Wednesday 28 January 2004 08:42 am, Brian H wrote: From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian H

Re: OT: procmail ruleset

2004-01-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 11:25 pm, Jer wrote: Dear all I currently have a /etc/procmailrc file to send all my mail though a filter :0 wf : |/usr/local/sbin/renattach But I have one user that asked me to exclude him from the filtering I was just wondering how I would write that?

Re: showing total/free memory

2004-01-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:58 pm, Chris Pressey wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:26:00 +1100 Rowdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Hunt wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:03:46AM +1100, Rowdy wrote: I am setting up MRTG and at the moment I am parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot and the

Re: MBR

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:10 am, Brian H wrote: Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR? I don't understand much about the MBR; but you

Re: dhcp

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:48 am, Brian H wrote: Greetings: I am trying to get dhclient to work on my laptop, but after a reboot there is an entry in the /var/db/dhclient.leases and ifconfig produces 0.0.0.0 for inet. I took a look at /var/log/messages and there was nothing in there about

Re: DHCP

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Do you, by chance, have DHCP and dhclient on the same machine? On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:02 pm, Brian H wrote: This is the error that I am getting. Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use My /etc/dhcp.conf file is empty. How can I ask the dhcp server for another address? It

Re: DHCP

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Is the DHCP server up? On Tuesday 27 January 2004 02:33 pm, Brian H wrote: no, i don't even have admin access to the dhcp server. From: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian H [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DHCP Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:25

Re: dhcp

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:50 am, Brian H wrote: From: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:48 am, Brian H wrote: Greetings: I am trying to get dhclient to work on my laptop, but after a reboot there is an entry in the /var/db/dhclient.leases

Re: /etc/rc.conf vs /etc/defaults/rc.conf

2004-01-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 12 January 2004 04:18 pm, August Simonelli wrote: Hi all, I've looked in the handbook (and probably missed the explanation) but am still a little confused. What's the difference between these two rc.conf files? Both affect things, but what is best practice for their use? Thank in

Re: viewing sgml documents

2004-01-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 09:23 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 21 January 2004 07:43 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When ports install sgml documents to /usr/local/share/doc/*, what apps

Re: newbie

2004-01-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 26 January 2004 11:53 pm, Tommy wrote: this is very new to me-- I am now a Mac OS X user and extremely happy with it. I am also tinkering with Linux Red Hat for now. I really would like to know more about FreeBSD. Hardware compatibility and such! Here's a link to the hardware

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 23 January 2004 10:40 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than

Re: iso files

2004-01-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 24 January 2004 04:50 am, F.Aydýn DÜNDAR wrote: I downloaded .iso image files release 5.2. But sysinstall not read qt-3.2.1.tbz and arts-1.1.4,1.tbz. How can I make install? Thanks a lot... Use pkg_add to install the packages from the ftp site:

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 24 January 2004 03:26 pm, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Occasion 2.) Got sick of Win 98 SE on my wife's computer, so I decided to give Linux a second chance. This time I WANTED to go with Red Hat, since it's arguably the most popular Linux distro. However, one look at their

network and firewall questions

2004-01-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I'm still very much a newbie regarding networking issues and firewalls; so if I need to be slapped, please be gentle. ;-) Most of my home computers are behind a NAT router with very simple firewalls -- let all requests out, allow established in, deny everything else. I put a test computer in

Re: upgrading mysql

2004-01-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 22 January 2004 10:51 am, Christer Solskogen wrote: It seems like some port i want to install depend on mysql4, but i have some programs that depends on mysql-client-3.23.58_1 ( I also have mysql-server-3.23.58_1 installed) I was wondering upgrading the mysql ports to 4.x series.

Re: viewing sgml documents

2004-01-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 07:43 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When ports install sgml documents to /usr/local/share/doc/*, what apps are used to view them without the markups? Normally a web browser is used to view the html files that are generated

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-21 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:07 am, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:32:42AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: : Can you run a basic X-Windows system on it? Definitely. Then I think you should use your laptop as what

viewing sgml documents

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
When ports install sgml documents to /usr/local/share/doc/*, what apps are used to view them without the markups? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: how to config FBSD pc to work on non-dhcp lan

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 02:27 pm, fbsd_user wrote: Have FBSD gateway connected to internet with private Lan behind it. Manually configured an MS/Windows on Lan. Now trying to add FBSD PC to Lan. Put ifconfig statement in rc.conf to assign PC it's Lan IP address. Loaded resolv.conf with

Re: Netgear WG511 (no driver attached)

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 03:35 pm, Andrew Hall wrote: Greetings, Please forgive the cross post (sent to freebsd-mobile also), but I have not received a reply from -mobile yet. I have Netgear WG511 running on 5.2-CURRENT. If I boot with the card or insert it after boot I get the following

Re: no more wireless

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 03:49 pm, Kenzo wrote: My Pcmcia wireless card used to work on my laptop, now it doesn't. I can't think of what I might of done to make that happen. The card is a Cisco Aironet 350. I'm running FBSD4.9. My kernel is confiured with the an option, but nothing happens

Re: no more wireless

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 04:18 pm, Kenzo wrote: No the card doesn't appear in dmesg. I tried other wireless cards and an old pcmcia modem and nothing. I just get the prompt card inserted card removed. that's it. Could my laptop be going bad? If so, how come it works on the windows side.

Re: problem whith cd-rom

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 11:17 am, golev wrote: I'm having a problem under FreeBSD-5.1 I can't mount cd-rom whith music ! Thanks. You're not supposed to mount music CD's. Your CD-listening application should work fine as long as it knows which device represents the CD. Give it a try. Best

Re: newbie question

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:#

Re: HDD space

2004-01-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 19 January 2004 10:03 am, Quinn Ellis wrote: Hello all. I have a 120gig drive i'm trying to install freeBSD onto the end of. i have two 51gig windows slices, and one unformatted slice of 10gig. FreeBSD is reporting this as only about 5 gig, after it recommends its own settings. I

ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I can't seem to get the ipfw rules right for letting ssh clients access a ssh server. I can use ssh on the server to connect to the client; but if I try to connect from the client to the server, the operation times out. I have my rules in /etc/ipfw.rules. Executing 'ipfw show' displays all of

Re: ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:53 pm, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Monday 19 January 2004 00:47, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I can't seem to get the ipfw rules right for letting ssh clients access a ssh server. I can use ssh on the server to connect to the client; but if I try to connect from

Re: ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Does portmap have to be enabled to connect to sshd? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipfw rules for letting ssh requests in

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:53 pm, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: You forgot the packets in the other direction... This should do the trick : ${fwcmd} add 00300 allow tcp from any to me 22 ${fwcmd} add 00301 allow tcp from me 22 to any grtz, Daan It worked. Thanks, Andrew Gould

ircd recommendations?

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I'd like to experiment with an irc server. The irc server will not be configured to connect to other irc servers. (In fact, I'd like to make it local to the server and have the small number of users use ssh and a local connection.) The port for ircd-hybrid is marked as broken. Does anyone

Re: ircd recommendations?

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 18 January 2004 09:48 pm, Eric F Crist wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 08:08 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: The port for ircd-hybrid is marked as broken. Does anyone have any recommendations regarding other irc servers? I have a server running Unreal 3.2 IRCd. You can download

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