Re: add DVD Burner and file system setup?

2006-05-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just added a DVD burner to my system and am trying to figure out how > to setup the fstab. > > The device is showing up on acd1 but what file system type should be > specified? cd9660. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP si

Re: gcc "doesn't work" (was:(no subject))

2006-05-03 Thread Fabian Keil
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My version of gcc doesn't work (reports errors in code that > compiles elsewhere). Where can I go to download a later version of > GNU code for gcc & gdb suitable for a FreeBSD system? I went to > the GNU site but all I found ther

Re: playing a dvd

2006-04-30 Thread Fabian Keil
eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabian Keil wrote: > > eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs > >> but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd. > >> I have t

Re: playing a dvd

2006-04-30 Thread Fabian Keil
eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs > but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd. > I have tried totem, kmplayer and finally mplayer from terminal. > $mplayer dvd://1 > gives me: > > libdvdread: Could not open device with libd

Re: ssid broadcast

2006-04-29 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to have a wifi card in hostap mode NOT to broadcast its > ssid (like most routers can)? > I have one in one of my hosts and this is not secure (as I understand). > Mimimal security would be not to broadcast and have wep on. man ifconfig:

Re: adapter question

2006-04-22 Thread Fabian Keil
nawcom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> top posted: > On 4/21/06, Jose Jesus Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have freeBSD-6.0 RELEASE, my D-Link ethernet card works fine with > > internet but I have a Linksys Wireless B Notebook Adapter. When I add the > > card to the computer is displays: "cardbus

Re: build audit kernel

2006-04-22 Thread Fabian Keil
"Natalie Sugako" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use audit events on FreeBSD6.1-BETA4. > I read that I must build kernel with option: > optionsAUDIT (FreeBSD handbook). > But config (/usr/sbin/config) find next error: > unknown option "AUDIT" FreeBSD 6.1 doesn't support AUDIT, you need

Re: if_bridge with ndis0+rl0

2006-04-22 Thread Fabian Keil
William Michael Grim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My ndis0 card is a TNET1130 (ACX111 chipset) and can be put into > promiscuous mode. > > I was wondering if if_bridge can be used to bridge this ndis0 and my rl0? > I have tried to do it using these commands: > # ifconfig bridge0 create > # if

Re: how to eliminate an unused interface?

2006-04-20 Thread Fabian Keil
"Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > removing firewire from the kernel would work, but then i would not > beable to plug in a firewire drive down the road. i just want to > eliminate the firewire networking interface support. You could remove "device fwe" without disabling "device firew

Re: wrired-wireless if_bridge question

2006-04-20 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 Apr Fabian Keil wrote: > > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After adding the WiFi card this whould be: > > > defaultrouter="82.74.2.1" > > > hostname="lot

Re: changing a nic's mac address, freebsd6

2006-04-19 Thread Fabian Keil
"Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got an rl0 nic on a freebsd6 machine that i need to change > it's mac address on a tempoary basis. I will want to change it back > when my testing is complete. I read this was feasible with opbnbsd, > and was wondering if the capability was available in

Re: wrired-wireless if_bridge question

2006-04-18 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The situation: > A server with two wired Ethernet cards > rl0 to the outside (ISP) > rl1 to the local network (192.168.11.1) > The server does routing NAT and DHCP; pf is enabled (quite a normal > situation ;-) > > The NEW situation (802.11-to-ethernet

Re: sudo port

2006-04-17 Thread Fabian Keil
eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabian Keil wrote: > > eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I have installed sudo from ports, and the docs say that the allowed list > >> of users is located in: > >> /etc/sudoers > > >

Re: sudo port

2006-04-17 Thread Fabian Keil
eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed sudo from ports, and the docs say that the allowed list > of users is located in: > /etc/sudoers Docs coming with the port or docs on the web? > However i cannot locate this file in /etc/ or anywhere else for that > matter. What file or wher

Re: /etc/hosts isn't being read

2006-04-13 Thread Fabian Keil
Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a stock 6.0-RELEASE box that doesn't seem to be > reading /etc/hosts > > In /etc/hosts I have: > > 192.168.1.101 example example.example.org > > /etc/nsswitch.conf is stock: > > group: compat > group_compat: nis > hosts: files dns > networks: f

Re: make install problems

2006-04-13 Thread Fabian Keil
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've encontered a problem when I tried to make install xfce4 from > ports collection. When pango was installing the error occured > "libexpat.so.5 needed by /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so not found. > Error code 1" > I've tried to locate and give the path through -rp

Re: Setting hw.intr_storm_threshold

2006-04-13 Thread Fabian Keil
Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 08 April 2006 04:22, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was printing with native Firefox 1.5.0.1 (FreeBSD 6.0) with > > > CUPS, which Firefox sees and recogniz

Re: [freebsd-questions] ndis setup

2006-04-11 Thread Fabian Keil
hernan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Quoting adjusted, please don't top post.] > On 4/9/06, Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hernan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hey folks. I'm setting up FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and I'm having

Re: DS WiFi fbsd6

2006-04-09 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08 Apr Pgold wrote: > > I don't know about compatibility with FreeBSD, but the Nintendo DS > > Wi-Fi Adapter only works with the DS, and costs 50USD. For the same > > 50USD you can buy a simple Wi-Fi router. If the DS Wi-Fi adapter > > won't work wit

Re: [freebsd-questions] ndis setup

2006-04-09 Thread Fabian Keil
hernan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks. I'm setting up FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and I'm having a little > trouble getting my wireless NIC recognized. The card is a Linksys > WMP64G and I'm trying to set things up to run with the FreeBSD > NDISulator as described in the FreeBSD handbook > (http

Re: cdrecord on Thinkpad T43

2006-04-08 Thread Fabian Keil
"Erin Sharmahd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having some problems getting cdrecord to work on my > thinkpad. > > http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/ibm/index.php says: > "To burn CDs with cdrecord don't forget to enable atapicam during > kernel configuration." > > In his ke

Re: help with tcpdump cmd syntax

2006-04-08 Thread Fabian Keil
"fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried >tcpdump -i rl0 src host 218.166.163.180 -w /usr/tcpdump.data >tcpdump -i rl0 host 218.166.163.180 -w /usr/tcpdump.data >tcpdump -i rl0 src ip 218.166.163.180 -w /usr/tcpdump.data > > but got syntax error msg with no hint of what was

Re: printing on firefox results in irq storm on printer port

2006-04-08 Thread Fabian Keil
Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was printing with native Firefox 1.5.0.1 (FreeBSD 6.0) with CUPS, > which Firefox sees and recognizes. The printer (Xerox N17, local, > parallel port) started cycling through waiting-processing-waiting > messages. Rebooting, I saw a message about an IR

Re: Starting privoxy at startup

2006-03-31 Thread Fabian Keil
Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to drag this out, but I still have not got this to work. I've > looked at the permissions of the files involved but nothing untoward > shows up. I think. There is just the conf file and the stuff > in /var/log, right? How should their permissions l

Re: what is the process for migrating a pre-built kernel to a new machine?

2006-03-26 Thread Fabian Keil
"Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if when you say "copy the kernel", do you just mean the contents > of the /boot/kernel directory, and that's as plain as it is? Or is > there more to it? You should make sure that userland and the new kernel are in sync. > The reason I'm asking,

Re: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread Fabian Keil
Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Last night I plugged in a 300GB Maxtor USB drive into my FreeBSD 6.0 > > server (with a fat filesystem), and it told me it was too big!! > > > Haha,

Re: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread Fabian Keil
"Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last night I plugged in a 300GB Maxtor USB drive into my FreeBSD 6.0 > server (with a fat filesystem), and it told me it was too big!! > Haha, its full of my backups from my previous operating system > (fedora) and now im going to have a fun time gett

Re: xset dpms during X startup?

2006-03-20 Thread Fabian Keil
"Darren Spruell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to configure xset(1) DPMS settings in a ~/.xsession > file for when a login session starts? > > I have the following ~/.xsession file: > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -b > /usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms 1800 7200 14400 > /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensav

Re: kldload if_ndis file exists

2006-03-18 Thread Fabian Keil
Darrel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - install ZyAIR G-302 > - login to FreeBSD Prerelease 6.1, amd64 > - 'su' to root > - 'ifconfig -a' and 'dmesg -a | less' Was the card detected? Does it show up in pciconf -lv? > # cp t1130_XP.sys /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/ > # cp TNET1130.INF /usr/src/sy

Re: Help with WEP keys on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-03-15 Thread Fabian Keil
Warren Toomey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With WEP enabled on the WRT54G, I run these commands on FreeBSD: > > ifconfig iwi0 10.10.2.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 channel 6 ssid fred > ifconfig iwi0 wepmode on wepkey 0x3f352a2149646c675e5e2abcde > > and ifconfig iwi0 then shows: > > iwi0: flags=884

Re: ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel

2006-03-12 Thread Fabian Keil
Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've update my src directory, but keep getting the following error > (see below). > > Yes I understand what it is saying, but how can I fix it?! I ran > cvsup a couple of times, but it doesn't seem to help. > > # cat cvs-supfile > *default host=cvsup3.nl.

Trouble with if_bridge and wlan nic in infrastructure mode

2006-03-11 Thread Fabian Keil
I have a problem with if_bridge if one of the members is a wlan nic in infrastructure mode. Bridges between the following device combinations work: em0 and tap0; em0 and wi0 in hostap mode; em0 and ath0 in hostap mode; rl0 and re0 (different system); Bridges between the following don't: em0 and

Re: wireless question

2006-03-02 Thread Fabian Keil
Lorin Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WiFi works for Windows XP on my dual-boot Toshiba notebook. But with > FreeBSD it is doing nothing. > I have PCCard enabled in rc.conf. > I added the recommended line to loader.conf (per wi0 man page) that > didn't seem to make any difference Looks like yo

Re: NDIS problems with D-Link DSL-200B1 driver

2006-03-02 Thread Fabian Keil
Андрей Перминов <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using D-Link DSL-200 B1 ADSL modem and wished to make it work > under my FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. My ISP uses RFC 2684 IPoATM Bridged LLC > Encapsulation (LAN driver mode) so eciadsl won't help me. > I have glausb.in_, glausb.sys and mon_ac_w.bin drive

Re: VPN & Jail(s) ...

2006-02-26 Thread Fabian Keil
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Igor Robul wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:03:26PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> > >> I asked this a little while ago, and had alot of good answers ... > >> but, after doing some thinking, I'm wondering if there mi

Re: Why doesn't burn cdrdao BIN/CUE on 6.0-R ?

2006-02-26 Thread Fabian Keil
"Robert Eckardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after trying for some hours now to burn a videocd with cdrdao > under 6.0-R, I reverted to nero on XP. :-( > 18:45 gluon: roberte/CD-Stuff/tmp 0%# cdrdao write --device 0,1,0 > --driver generic-mmc-raw --speed 16 Video1.cue Did the same command work

Re: wireless question

2006-02-25 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Up 'till now all my (home) netwrok computers are cabled. > My FreeBSD-6.1PR is hidden in the closet (I want no noise!) > > The problem is my new notebook -- it's wireless. so now I have to > learn how to deal with this. > > I don't want my server leav

Re: Converting a Regex into plain text

2006-02-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there any pkg avilable that'll convert a regex into plain txt ? What do you mean? What would the plain text translation of <(div|p)[^>]*(id|class)=\"(Ad.*|Logo|SidebarAds|Tips|Item)\" be? Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Descr

Re: trouble finding burner (k3b)

2006-02-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter wrote: > > This k3b program is great but it I find it very picky. Currently it > > cannot detect my DVD/CD burner (/dev/acd1) anymore. It can find my CDROM > > (/dev/acd0) allright but it claims the permissions may be wrong on the > > burner. I ch

Re: Automatically changing modes on the DVD writer for K3b

2006-02-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Donald T Hayford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To get K3b to work I need to change the mode of the following devices to > 664 (or 666) from 644. > > /dev/xpt0 > /dev/cd0 and /dev/cd1 > /dev/pass0 and /dev/pass1 > > Is there a way to do this automatically on boot-up? Now I do it using a > scrip

Re: Cool listing script (needs a fix)

2006-02-21 Thread Fabian Keil
Kristian Vaaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When running this: > > -- > > #!/usr/local/bin/bash > # > # Print a structured file and folder list. > # $ARBA: tree.sh,v 1.0 2007/11/11 15:05:09 vaaf Exp $ > # > # Include files: -a, --all > # > > argument="-type d" > > case $1 in -a | --all) a

Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2006-02-17 Thread Fabian Keil
"V.I.Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been > reporting: > > Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > LBA=2701279 > Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > LBA=2701279

Re: newly built kernel fails to boot

2006-02-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just had a go at configuring and rebuilding a kernel for my > desktop machine. I read the section in handbook, and skimmed over > NOTES and the GENERIC config. I then copied GENERIC to NETVISTA and > commented out drivers/devices that I didn't think were re

Re: Concerns about wording of man blackhole

2006-02-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabian Keil wrote: > >> Most people use a firewall because they are running services (and > >> thus have open ports) which they do not want the rest of the > >> Internet to be able to connect to. > > >

Re: need help with pcmcia wireless network card

2006-02-13 Thread Fabian Keil
Teemu Korhonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a laptop with freebsd-6.0 and I've got everything working > except my Buffalo WLI-CB-G54S wireless network card. > When I insert the card I get following message "cardbus0: > at device 0.0 (no driver attached)" > > I found two pages that seems t

Re: ifconfig wepkey on 6.0

2006-02-12 Thread Fabian Keil
"kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > according to the man page of ifconfig in 6.0 the wepkey should be 5 > or 13 characters. the wep key i always had is way longer than 13 > characters 128 bit - one key only.. so when i try to set it up to > the wi0 i get: > > # ifconfig wi0 wepkey 1:

Re: Thunderbird vs Evolution...

2006-02-11 Thread Fabian Keil
Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone has preferences on one or the other for heavy use of email? > Stability on Thunderbird 1.5 has been **shocking** lately (running > with enigmail 0.94.0, Remove duplicate msgs 0.1.02, Notary 0.2, > Signature switch 1.02) , so right now is my main

Re: enlightenment-0.16.999.023 does not build on 4.X

2006-02-11 Thread Fabian Keil
"RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this port broken ?? or am i just to tired to make it work right The port requires FreeBSD 5.x or later. From the Makefile: .if ${OSVERSION} < 50 IGNORE= does not build on 4.X .endif Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature

Re: k3b hardware detection

2006-02-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tryed installing k3b and I did follow all the instruction from > pkg-message5. > The problem now is that my burner is detected as a cd-rom read only > device. > > First of all: > > _ I'm using FreeBSD 6-STABLE; I followed the instruction for

Re: D-Link DWL-630 wireless

2006-02-02 Thread Fabian Keil
Philip Juels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone able to get a D-Link DWL-630 wireless PCMCIA card working > under FreeBSD 6.0? What's the correct driver? (under linux it's > listed as ath0, if that's any clue) Try kldload if_ath. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description

Re: How many IP address aliases can practically be used on one physical Ethernet interface?

2006-01-31 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am implementing and using a test bed simulating a huge amount of IP > clients, each preferable having a unique IP address. There is no, no > way to have an individual physical interface for each simulated > client so I use IP aliases. Currently it runs on Linux and

Re: WLAN not detected on Acer TM 292ECLi

2006-01-31 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > anyone having WLAN working on an Acer Travelmate 290E? It doesn't > seem to be detected at all on my laptop, which is a model 292ECli. As > a Centrino laptop, it should have a Intel PRO Wireless 2200BG built > in. You could check it with pciconf -lv. > I installed iwi

Re: ARP CACHE

2006-01-28 Thread Fabian Keil
KRISTA BALL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My systems arp cache needs cleaning, how do I go about it? arp -ad Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: VPN / Bridge

2006-01-27 Thread Fabian Keil
Bob Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25-jan-2006, at 11:57, Fabian Keil wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig gif0 tunnel 1.2.3.4 5.6.7.8 up > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bridge0 create > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig bridge0 addm ndis0 add

Re: VPN / Bridge

2006-01-26 Thread Fabian Keil
Bob Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ATM I don't use a VPN therefore I can't give you a known to work > > step-by-step solution. However I couldn't reproduce your problem > > on 6.0 with the following commands: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ #ifconfig gif0 tunnel 1.2.3.4 5.6.7.8 up > > [EMAIL

Re: VPN / Bridge

2006-01-25 Thread Fabian Keil
CC'd to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org again. Bob Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24-jan-2006, at 17:28, Fabian Keil wrote: > > >> What I want to achieve is what I believe a bridge between both > >> networks. The entire network A should be on the same

Re: VPN / Bridge

2006-01-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Bob Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to create a tunnel/bridge between two networks > which both reside behind a FreeBSD router using NAT. I've achieved it > using the handbook example in chapter 14.10. Clients on network A are > able to ping clients on network B and clients o

Re: Problem with if_bridge?

2006-01-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Dan Swartzendruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This has got to be something silly I'm doing, but the man pages don't > tell me what. I've googled a fair amount and likewise nothing. > Anyway... > > I've got a box running 6.0-RELEASE-p3. Two network cards present, an > intel pro/100 (fxp0) a

Re: atapicam load question

2006-01-21 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I "kldload atapicam" the permissions in /etc/devfs.conf for cd0 > are _not_ honored. (I want cd0 to have 0666) > When I put atapicam_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf the permissions > are set the way I want them. > > I would like to make the choice

Re: NIC

2006-01-19 Thread Fabian Keil
Please don't top post and don't forget to CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Vitalie Apostu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It will work if I do ifconfig up or restart. Why do not do > automatically? > > -----Original Message- > From: Fabian Keil [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: NIC

2006-01-19 Thread Fabian Keil
"Vitalie Apostu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I unplug UTP cable from NIC card and plug it back the system > cannot ping any host in network. > Does anybody know how to fix it? Did you try ifconfig $nic_device up? Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signat

Re: Why I haven't device /dev/cd0

2006-01-18 Thread Fabian Keil
cblasius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use DVD+RW. I looked in handbook and I saw there: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html > > >>16.7.5 Using a DVD+RW > >> > >>Unlike CD-RW, a virgin DVD+RW needs to be formatted before first > >>use. The g

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-17 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the essential difference > between FreeBSD and Linux (Fedora for instance)? > Where can I find any list of differences? > What/Where are the advantages of FreeBSD vs Linux? http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php Fabian -- http://ww

Re: Boot with ACPI

2006-01-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Crispy Beef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I boot my laptop running 6.0-RELEASE I need to boot with ACPI as > otherwise it crashes. Was wondering how to make booting with ACPI > the default? > > To be honest I'm not bothered about the boot menu at all as I'm quite > happy with the system boo

Re: dvdwriter - icybox - usb problem

2006-01-15 Thread Fabian Keil
Guido Van Hoecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to connect my Plextor PX-716A dvd-writer via an external > IDE-to-USB/1394 Icybox (IB-550UE-B-BL) to my freebsd-6.0-RELEASE pc. > This pc is an IBuddy Desknote A928 without room for internal extra > devices. So I bought an Icybox enclosure, p

Re: wicontrol -L output (was: field description)

2006-01-14 Thread Fabian Keil
Imran Imtiaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when i do w > wicontrol ath0 -L > it shows me the aps that are currently running i am pasting the output [...] > can anyone tell me what does Capinfo field means e.g; ess = ?? priv > = ?? shpr = ?? shst = ?? My guess is "Extended Service Set", "Privacy",

Re: Problems reading CDRW after writing

2006-01-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Marc Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your suggestion. I have managed to get camcontrol to > function, which implies to me that the atapicam module is > functioning. However, I am not succeeding at getting the readcd > command to work: > > # camcontrol devlist >at scb

Re: Problems reading CDRW after writing

2006-01-03 Thread Fabian Keil
Marc Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE as of Dec-15-2005 on a P4 system. I > have a CDRW drive attached, which identifies as follows: > > acd0: CDRW at ata1-slave UDMA33 > > I wish to use this device to produce CDRW backup disks periodically. > I use the

Anybody using wep encryption with ndis on a recent FreeBSD 5.4?

2006-01-03 Thread Fabian Keil
Since about a month ago I can no longer use wep encryption with up to date ndis. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $uname -a FreeBSD TP51.local 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #28: Mon Jan 2 12:37:11 CET 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THINKPAD i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root #ifconfig ndis0 wepke

Re: need help setting up wireless on my computer

2006-01-02 Thread Fabian Keil
Brian John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI wireless > card. I was able to install it using the windows drivers at ndis0 > (see output from ifconfig below). > > The problem I'm having is I seem to be able to connect, but can't > talk to an

Re: FBSD 6.0 - Canyon WF-511 Wireless card setup

2006-01-02 Thread Fabian Keil
"Keith McKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a problem trying to setup the above box with the above > wireless card to my home network. I have a Dlink DL-624+ wireless > router which has two wired WINXP boxes and a wireless WINXP laptop > connected to it all of which work seemlessly. T

Re: dlink wireless adapter

2005-12-28 Thread Fabian Keil
"Martin P. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Imran Imtiaz wrote: > > how can i make my dlink DWL-G122 wireless usb adapter work with > > freebsd? > > I can't find it in the list of native supported devices (the wi(4) > and ath(4) drivers). You might try your luck with the

Re: Wireless NIC in FreeBSD 6.0 ?

2005-12-25 Thread Fabian Keil
Yuan Jue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody success to use wireless NIC in FreeBSD6.0 in HP NC6000? > Back to FreeBSD 5.4, my wireless card just works, but not in FreeBSD > 6.0. > > I use the following steps to try to use my wireless card: > 1.change to root, then "kldload if_ath" > after

Re: Applying short cable fix (reg=ee)

2005-12-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Thiago Esteves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm from Brazil. My ethernet interface is a "sis". During boot > it sends the message: > >sis0: Applying short cable fix (reg=ee) > > > What's it ? Help me ! Excerpt from /usr/src/sys/pci/if_sis.c: /* * Some DP838

Re: nfs exporting mounted iso files ?

2005-12-14 Thread Fabian Keil
Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to export four mounted iso images under /mnt on my > FreeBSD-5.4 box via nfs and I can export everything under /mnt but the > iso's don't show up on the client, only the directories. > ###

Re: web content filtering with 6.0

2005-12-08 Thread Fabian Keil
"Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a 6.0 box running squid as a transparent proxy. I want > to implement web content filtering, popup blocking, add blocking, > porn site blocking and selective filtering etc. I've read some howtos > on a package called dansguardian and another squidgu

Re: Detecting new hardware

2005-12-07 Thread Fabian Keil
"Keith Bottner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any kind of a utility that I can run to detect a new network > card that I just installed into an existing FreeBSD 5.4 box? pciconf -lv Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: mkisofs on 5.4

2005-12-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Jonathan Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Do you see the problem if you only use mkisofs? > > Yes. I just tried it and got the same problem with an iso image using > mkisofs. This is starting to look like a timezone issue. The > date/time difference between the date displayed via ISO and

Re: mkisofs on 5.4

2005-12-03 Thread Fabian Keil
Incoming Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running FBSD 5.4 and notice that the date/time stamps on files > burned to DVD using growisofs() are being reported incorrectly after > mounting the DVD and using ls() or stat(). > > On Dec 2, 2005 at about 10:30am, I used growisofs() to burn a

Re: Problem with burning CD-DAs

2005-12-01 Thread Fabian Keil
Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 14:25 schrieb Fabian Keil: > > Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fabian Keil schrieb: > > > > Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>

Re: Problem with burning CD-DAs

2005-12-01 Thread Fabian Keil
Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabian Keil schrieb: > > > Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Fabian Keil schrieb: > >> > >>>Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>I can rip without p

Re: Problem with burning CD-DAs

2005-11-29 Thread Fabian Keil
Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabian Keil schrieb: > > Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I can rip without problems a CD-DA to a wav-file (cdda2wav). I > >>played this file in a wav-player without problems. Wh

Re: args to `make` within the ports tree

2005-11-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There appears to be so many arguments to `make` when compiling > applications fro the ports tree. > What beats me is where they are documented ;) man ports shows the global ones. For the rest you have to look in the Makefile of the port you're int

Re: A question on ndis with FreeBSD 6.0

2005-11-21 Thread Fabian Keil
Zeng Nan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading to FreeBSD 6.0, I don't know how to compile ndis > drivers. With 5.4, I just create ndis_driver_data.h under if_ndis > dir, but now, this file is not referenced in any codes. ndis.ko and > if_ndis.ko are generated by default but they don't wor

Re: cannot erase cd-rw

2005-11-21 Thread Fabian Keil
Brian John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason, I can't erase cd-rws. I have tried K3b, cdrecord > and burncd. Below is the output from cdrecord, can someone please > help out? > > sudo cdrecord -v blank=all dev=1,1,0 > Password: > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.4) Copyrigh

Re: How can I programatically eject a live cd?

2005-11-12 Thread Fabian Keil
Sean Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking for an answer to this question. Since my CD is actually > the running file system(is mounted), I cannnot eject it while the > system is running. > > So is there a way to do this that y'all have found, or do I have to > change my CD to run fro

Re: (6.0) Suspend kills usb CDRW drive :(

2005-11-10 Thread Fabian Keil
Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 6.0-REL running fine on my T21 Thinkpad and have a USB > (Memorex) CD+RW drive hooked up to it. > > Now for the USB CD+RW, dmesg saw it as /dev/cd0 so I read a > little and edited /etc/devfs.conf to show /dev/cd0 and it was at > that point, aft

Re: CD burning no longer working

2005-11-05 Thread Fabian Keil
David Fleck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > System: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p11 > > dmesg: > acd0: CD-RW drive at ata1 as master > acd0: read 689KB/s (6032KB/s) write 344KB/s (8273KB/s), 2048KB > buffer, PIO4 acd0: Reads: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA stream, packet > acd0: Writes: CD-R, CD-RW, test write, burnpr

Re: suspend works, but resume doesn't on Dell desktop

2005-11-05 Thread Fabian Keil
Mohan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Dell Dimension 4700, dual booting XP and FreeBSD 5.4. Windows > can hibernate and stand-by fine. I'm trying to do the same (or at > least standby) from FreeBSD. > > As I understand it Windows standby == FreeBSD suspend (zzz). > > As root, when I

Re: How-to rebuild /modules...

2005-11-05 Thread Fabian Keil
Bernt Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without rebuilding world and such things? > This machine has been up for a long time and nobody realy know's what > they have done to it. When i looked at / today i've noticed that > /modules was missing. It worked very nice until a sudden reboot, and >

Re: Quick Routing Question

2005-11-01 Thread Fabian Keil
Jason Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:24:59AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > And again, tcpdump is a very good tool. The -i switch tells it what > > interface to listen on, so if the wireless side of the router works > > but you can't ping across to the cabled si

Re: Quick Routing Question

2005-11-01 Thread Fabian Keil
Jason Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am setting up a wireless subnet and, while the gateway (FreeBSD > system) is communicating fine with the wireless router, my other > subnet is not able to connect to the wireless router. Here is a > diagram of my network, I think it's fairly typical. >

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 17, 2005, at 2:19 AM, Thomas Linton wrote: > > > mplayer works (beside the sound, but this is a different problem). > > xine, > > ogle and totem are not working on my box. If I boot winXP and look > > at the properties of the DVD Drive it says

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Fabian Keil
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil > >Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DV

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Fabian Keil
"Alastair G. Hogge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, > > just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region > > coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD.

Re: Overburned DVD data recovery

2005-10-11 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a cron job that backs up a FreeBSD server's files to DVD+RW > media each evening using growisofs from the dvd+rw-tools port. There > are some files that I need to recover, but the problem is, the last 2 > weeks of backups were a few hundred megabytes too large, an

Re: DPMS on laptop not working

2005-09-27 Thread Fabian Keil
"Paul Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Freebsd on a Dell Latitude C600 with 14" SXGA screen. It > needs to be on all the time so I need a way of turning the screen off. > I want to get DPMS working so I can do "xset dpms force off" but it doesn't > work. Nothing happens a

Re: touchpad's scrolling feature

2005-09-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Sebastien Chassot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to configure internal mouse on a inspiron 9300. Is there any > way to configure horizontal/vertical touchpad's scrolling (right and > lower side of the touchpad). > > All my dreams are coming true this feature is my last wish. > > actual

Re: Port for html manipulating proxy

2005-09-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Jacob Rhoden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to find some sort of proxy server for my own machine, that > allows me to manipulate/strip things (ie strip adverts and fix css on my > commonly used pages). Is there a port for this? I use /usr/ports/www/privoxy. You can manipulate

Re: Thinkpad Accelerometer driver new Version 0.5

2005-09-13 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > anyone who is interested can download the source at > > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=138242&package_id=160977 > > Use at your own risk! > > I've tested it on my T42 M1G with FreeBSD 7.0-Current (Aug 10) only. > > It now provides a mouse like

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