Re: Firefox only runs as root--help!

2007-03-06 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM
On 3/2/07, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a resend of something i sent to the freebsd-gnome list a few days ago, but there wer no answers and i think its a real problem, so i hope no one minds. I have a new install of FreeBSD 6.2, and installed Gnome 2.16 and other

Re: FDISK output question -- OT

2007-02-28 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM
On 2/28/07, Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:09 am, DAK GHATIKACHALAM wrote: Hi Freebsd Question about FDISK Do you have an idea what does that '+' means in Blocks columns as seen below it is 419425019+ Does it signify anything , because for certain disks

Re: Wireless card not being detected

2007-02-27 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM
On 2/27/07, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/24/07, DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder why these fraudulent scam artists/spammers abusing our freebsd lists. They are in wrong place with wrong people. I am not buying your idea anyway. dude, you chose

FDISK output question

2007-02-26 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM
Hi Freebsd Question about FDISK Do you have an idea what does that '+' means in Blocks columns as seen below it is 419425019+ Does it signify anything , because for certain disks I do not see that '+' as the end of blocks? Thanks Dak [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk /dev/sdk The number of

Fwd: Wireless card not being detected

2007-02-24 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM
, 2007 2:48 PM Subject: Re: Wireless card not being detected To: DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I want to know if you can sent a Message by Bank Coded Fax or MT Series Swift. I am desperate in need of it as soon as possible, you can as well link me with someone who can do

card Allocation failure, what could be the reason

2007-02-22 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM
What could be the reason fo this issue I have made changes to /usr/src/sys/dev/pccard/pccard_quirks.c file added a static struct static struct pccard_function pccard_sierra_860_func0 = { 6, /* function number */ PCCARD_FUNCTION_SERIAL, 0x0006,

Wireless card not being detected

2007-02-18 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM
Hi Freebsd I have an issue with new card I need to make it work with freebsd, on /var/log/messages I get Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0: unknown card (manufacturer=0x0192, produc t=0x0710, function_type=6) at function 0 Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0:CIS info: Sierra Wireless,

Re: CUPS printing problem

2007-02-18 Thread DAK GHATIKACHALAM
On 2/19/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: AN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 18, 2007 5:04 PM Subject: CUPS printing problem To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I am having a problem printing from CUPS. I did a fresh install on 6.2

Re: Ksh Shell script security question.( SOLVED)

2007-02-15 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/15/07, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Feb 15), Thomas Dickey said: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:57:12PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 14), Dak Ghatikachalam said: I am am puzzled how to secure this code when this shell script is being

Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-15 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/15/07, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for any suggestion on using the right tool that I can use to perform the encryption/decryption for flat files. We have a requirement to encrypt 15 flat files and be dumped on tape and be stored in remote site facility

Re: NEED HELP

2007-02-14 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/14/07, Ata ur Rehman Alvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HELLO I NEED YOUR HELP REGARDING INSTALLING FREE BSD ON MY NEWLY BOUGHT PC. MY PC SPECS ARE P4 D 3.4GHZ, 1024MB DDR2 667 RAM, GIGABYTE MOTHER BOARD 945PL-S3, NX7300GT-TD256EH VIDEO CARD, SATA 250GB, 7200 RPM ( I DONT KNOW ITS SATA

RAID 10-LUN Question

2007-02-14 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Freebsd We have DELL/EMC CX-300 storage array hardware , Navisphere. , which consist of 15 Disks 320GB, I am planning to use this for Oracle( Linux) + SQL server(M$) purpose. We need to get that redundancy using RAID 10 and striple for the best performance. My thoughts are take most

Ksh Shell script security question.

2007-02-14 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Freebsd I am am puzzled how to secure this code when this shell script is being executed. ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus -s EOF | tee -a ${RESTOREFILE} connect system/ugo8990d set heading off set feedback off set pagesize 500 select 'SCN_TO_USE |

Re: Any way to probe snd card?

2007-02-14 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/14/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty stunned at how well gnome2 works on my antique 400MHz backup system. [[ gnome2-lite wouldn't go, for some reason [?] ]] Anyway, I do have a sound card in this one, but which *.ko I load or compile

Re: RAID 10-LUN Question

2007-02-14 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
At 02:54 PM 2/14/2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: Hi Freebsd We have DELL/EMC CX-300 storage array hardware , Navisphere. , which consist of 15 Disks 320GB, I am planning to use this for Oracle( Linux) + SQL server(M$) purpose. We need to get that redundancy using RAID 10 and striple

Re: Poll: What's the best audio player

2007-02-13 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/13/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best audio (MP3/OGG/Etc) to use under Gnome? I felt that the mplayer is best it has so much of options, that works in KDE, may be GNOME too, and command line for sure. Regards Dak -- Best regards, Chris Nothing is ever

Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/6/07, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...snip!...] Thanks a lot , but we are on Oracle9i database, the Oracle secure backup they are talking would be nice on 10G onwards Well, not according to the FAQ. Here is what

OT: Your comments about this web site is appreciated, if you got few minutes.

2007-02-08 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi All http://www.domesticonservation.kk5.org/ A buddy of mine who did is in his 9th grade, this is his school project along with 2 others Please leave your honest opinion on this web site, content, presentation etc whatever you think is relevant. Please click on the message board and click

Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-06 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/6/07, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot, Our current backup system is veritas netbackup, and changing that to entire bacula is best thing for me, May I ask why you would prefer Bacula over NetBackup? I'm just curious, because having worked with both, I personally

Re: Question:encryption tool

2007-02-06 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/5/07, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 18:21:18 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Thanks a lot, Our current backup system is veritas netbackup, and changing that to entire bacula is best thing for me, But the making the decision about switching

Re: Question:encryption tool

2007-02-06 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/6/07, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Smith writes: I am looking for any suggestion on using the right tool that I can use to perform the encryption/decryption for flat files. You can encrypt files with AES using ccrypt. http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/ Both

Question:encryption tool

2007-02-05 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi freebsd ers I am looking for any suggestion on using the right tool that I can use to perform the encryption/decryption for flat files. We have a requirement to encrypt 15 flat files and be dumped on tape and be stored in remote site facility for later business resumption. or in the

Re: Question:encryption tool

2007-02-05 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/5/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi freebsd ers I am looking for any suggestion on using the right tool that I can use to perform the encryption/decryption for flat files. We have a requirement to encrypt 15 flat files

Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-02-02 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/31/07, kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:27:24PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: Thanks a lot , I test ran it. This is great No problem. I should add that if this is to be part of a long running script, you should close the co-process (the while-loop running cat

Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-02-02 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/31/07, kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:27:24PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: Thanks a lot , I test ran it. This is great No problem. I should add that if this is to be part of a long running script, you should close the co-process (the while-loop running cat

Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-02-02 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/2/07, Kris Maglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:10:02AM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: { while cat /tmp/availspace.$$; do false; done } | exec 5p cat /tmp/reprocesses.$$|awk '/DATAFILE/ { print $0 }'|tr -d ' '| while read file_b do read -u5 file_a

Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-02-01 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/27/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto

Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-02-01 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 2/1/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/27/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED

Korn shell script Question

2007-01-31 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Dear Freebsd'ers I have a an issue to address. in Korn Shell I have file_1 containing 1 2 3 4 and I have another file_2 containing A B C D E F G H I I have use these file_1 and file_2 and generate a file file_3 containing. A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 1 F 2 G 3 H 4 I 1 I tried with several

Re: Korn shell script Question

2007-01-31 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/31/07, Kris Maglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:43:28PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: I tried with several looping for some reason I dont seem to get in right in Korn shell Any ideas on Ksh would be great, You can use any standard unix utilities to achieve

Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-28 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/28/07, Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, FreeBSD WickerBill wrote: How about it now? http://www.freshports.org/www/linuxpluginwrapper/ Just installed the new linuxpluginwrapper and cp'd the new libmap.confto /etc and everything works as before. That is,

OT: Function not recognized while calling a function from awk

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Dear Freebsd I have something strange problem happening any input would be great for some reason the Korn shell is not detecting the function that I am calling from awk Actual code excerpt is function dogdied { echo Why the hell did you die in $1 } export dogdied

Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/26/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Halid Faith wrote: I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without any problem? Could you advise a useful site about that ? After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system be ? people seem to like my instruction

Re: firefox performance on Freebsd

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: Hi All I am noticing singnificant performance degradation in firefox in Freebsd , I would say right from the beginning, I have other partition where I run XP. for comparison purpose I notice the same page when I load on Freebsd partition it is slow

Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/26/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Halid Faith wrote: I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without any problem? Could you advise a useful

Firefox and flash

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Has anyone had success in making work the flash and firefox, I downloaded and install the linux flashplugin 9 Even then flash does not seem to work, Apart from make install of this flash 9 , Are there any configuration stuff that we need to perform on firefox for the firefox to detect the

cvsup file info needed please advise

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi world I am working on performing the kernel upgrade using cvsup , my file cvsup-standard file is looking like *default host=cvsup2.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1 *default delete use-rel-suffix *.default compress src-all I

Re: cvsup file info needed please advise

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/27/07, Joe Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: Hi world I am working on performing the kernel upgrade using cvsup , my file cvsup-standard file is looking like *default host=cvsup2.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
I write shells script extensively , I have noticed ~ - gets a subsitution for $HOME ~userid - gets you the $HOME for that user meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want to run some script on oracle home even though you logged in as root you can simplly

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/26/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I write shells script extensively , I have noticed ~ - gets a subsitution for $HOME ~userid - gets you the $HOME for that user meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want to run some script on oracle home even

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/26/07, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: I write shells script extensively , I have noticed ~ - gets a subsitution for $HOME ~userid - gets you the $HOME for that user meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want

Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?

2007-01-25 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you everyone for the responses. It has been quite educating :). One other question though.. is ksh like the swiss army knife of all shells? Seems kind of odd that it supports both bourne shell constructs and (t)csh constructs. Yes

Re: Remote Desktop Connection

2007-01-24 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/24/07, Grzegorz Pluta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Id like to asj you guys if you used any remote desktops with freebsd? Which client/server would you recommend, and why? Witch wich desktop env have you been using it? Cheers, GregZX I am made vpnc( to connect into VPN ntwork of my

What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by top-posting do I pickup the last thread from that email thread and reply ? is that right ? What if someone is emailing from a thread while I am replying at the same time, would that not happen ? Would I be getting

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
SO This is TOP-POSTING -- Actually this is normal behavior of my google mail On 1/17/07, Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by top-posting Top-posting is when

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/17/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by top-posting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting Thanks a lot Wiki information Rocks, Wow I learnt more about

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/17/07, Michael M. Press [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The flash plugin works great with linux-firefox; but how do you get the java plugin to work with it? . I don't know if there is a way to get a FreeBSD version of the Java plugin to work. If you have a Linux version of it sitting around:

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/17/07, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 15:48, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by top-posting do I pickup the last thread from that email thread and reply ? is that right ? What

firefox performance on Freebsd

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi All I am noticing singnificant performance degradation in firefox in Freebsd , I would say right from the beginning, I have other partition where I run XP. for comparison purpose I notice the same page when I load on Freebsd partition it is slow on Windows XP it loads real quick. Is

Re: Problem upgrading from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-17 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
I would like to perform the same update , but I would like to know how to rollback if this has failed as it happened here. We should be able to rollback to exact current state. Do you have an idea Thanks Dak On 1/17/07, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I run 6.1-RELEASE, and

Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Freebsd My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins, I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well. Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave plugins I went ahead and did everything per the instructions in

Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
It really amazes me how this FreeBSD is turning out tide in the Chinese market , which shuns W and L. The major OS that Chinese market is based on is Freebsd based. there is going to be 1.3 billion population out there going to be in FreeBSD On 1/16/07, Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
: On 1/16/07, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins, I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well. Because several other news websites were expecting

Is it possible to have Diskless workstation in freebsd

2007-01-15 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Freebsd I have a need to setup 3 workstations to boot remotely without any ( OS) on local disks, What are ways to go about achieving that, I want the users to have all their utilities and files stores all back stored in the remote server. But confusion how the OS going to detect the

Re: Is it possible to have Diskless workstation in freebsd

2007-01-15 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
wow, this is great place to start, I will update again later Thanks a lot Dak On 1/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:18:21 +0500, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a need to setup 3 workstations to boot remotely without any ( OS

kernel messages question

2007-01-15 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Freebsd When there is messages in /var/log/messages as seen below # bzip2 -d -c messages.0.bz2|grep sio4 Jan 12 22:32:42 DAK kernel: sio4: Sierra Wireless AC860 at port 0x3e8-0x3ee irq 22 function 0 config 32 on pccard0 Jan 12 22:32:42 DAK kernel: sio4: type 8250 or not responding Jan 12

Re: Sound Card Problem

2007-01-13 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Derrick For most of the sound problems, I have got fixed reading the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html may give you enough insigt to fix most problems Best regards DAk On 1/13/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: vpnc problem

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
I am successfully using vpnc that came with freebsd 6.1able to connect into cisco 3000 concentrator all i had was vpnc.conf file On 1/11/07, Jeremie Le Hen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vishal, First of all you should avoid cross-posting. Additionaly, I don't think this is a question for

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
this is a funny thread. On 1/10/07, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: help

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
just your devices attached for power management module is not responding, this may not bring down anything. On 1/11/07, lekshmanan prabhakaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi my name is lekshman i did a fresh installation of FreeBSD 6.1 on my Travelmate laptop 2420, the installation was fine but

Re: Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
afaik, branching off for the minor changes would be thest way to go. so you could merge back these changes into main line easily. that is the way normal devel cycle or you could establish minor and major and merge them upon completion. On 1/11/07, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi FreeBSD I am looking to know how to use perform the dialup using the chatscript for the wireless card Ac850. Is t this right place to ask this question. Wow this is longest thread I have seen in my entire life about 73 people replying about same topic and nearly he the same email. over

Re: Sierra Wireless Card AC860 or any Sierra Wireless card ! Any help there?

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Freebsd I have been trying to get this card working, reading at the ppp log out put appears my card and ports are responding and the carrier is established, appears I am not dialing it with right chat scripts, I need some help how to write use and execute the chat scripts Do we need

Re: Sierra Wireless Card AC860 or any Sierra Wireless card ! Any help there?

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Asking this over and over because I am really tired of Bicrosoft Windoze crashing on me in BaMicromacrosoft Wokred and Extecel, I want move all and in complete to FreeBSD I want to wean myself off from that piece of junk. Thanks Dak On 1/10/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
How about running top. do sysctl -a|grep shm or grep sem or all memory related configs and look into /etc/sysctl.conf may be something in configs is stealing away your 4G Apologies if you already knew this and if I am stating the obvious. regards Dak On 1/10/07, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
if you calculate the 32bit addressing capability 2^32 -1 = 4294967296 - 1 = 4GB -1 you could counter I/O space, IRQ space for all the devices attached. I have heard something like parity interleave(I may be misspelling that word, but sounds close), you can knock off some more memory for

Re: Porting Acrobat 9 to FBSD Mozilla / Opera and OT: installer promotion (was Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?)

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
I think it is about time that FREEBSD OS gets the act together by integrating all the plugins for firefox. I have been trying to make these plugins work, not sure what more we need countering all plugins for firefox which could make work all, right now I could only view the video in

Re: Shell recommendations

2007-01-09 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/01/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Freebsd I am using ksh93 shell as my login shell each and everytime I do set -o vi and perform some commands it simply dumps ksh93.core file and crashed whole terminal session, I have been having

Sierra Wireless Card AC860 how to get the working in freebsd.

2007-01-08 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Freebsd I have been breaking my head intermittently over this for months, so far I had no success getting this Sierra Wireless card , to Cingular ISP This card is 3G card works on my other winXP partition, I have become very uneasy to continue to use this only in windows because of

Re: a bit OT - VPN+Windows

2007-01-08 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
I am using a vpnc which came along with freebsd6.1 which is using IPSEC and Xauth I found using the vpnc along with rdesktop to access remote windows servers is real fast. vpnc is no frills, straight command line and just a single config file. On 1/8/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Shell recommendations

2007-01-08 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Freebsd I am using ksh93 shell as my login shell each and everytime I do set -o vi and perform some commands it simply dumps ksh93.core file and crashed whole terminal session, I have been having this problem everrsince I changed my login shell from /bin/sh to /bin/ksh which is symbolic

Re: Stuck on win32-codecs compilation.

2007-01-06 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
of the sound issue. (does anyone know how automatically download the current specific port, I know portupgrade -a runs, but it runs endlessly forever) Thanks Dak On 1/4/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/4/07, Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to reset /dev/dsp ?

2007-01-03 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
I am on same freebsd 6.1 I had the similar off kernel sound server , which it was pointing to null device I did this # kldload snd_ich and I had put the same entry /boot/loader.conf snd_ich_load=YES but I did not really compile the sound into the kernel, it still worked for me. I have to

Stuck on win32-codecs compilation.

2007-01-03 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Dear Freebsd I was trying to make mplayer and it spat me on error, win32 -codecs, and went on trying the clean up the win32-codecs and try to make the codecs, it still errored out Has anyone faced the same issue, Please share your thoughts. I am scratching my head, what I should doing