Re: usb 5.1

2003-12-15 Thread JacobRhoden
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Re: Canon A70 w/ FreeBSD

2003-12-07 Thread JacobRhoden
your card in and plug it into the usb port, and your able to mount it like a hard disk. (: I find this method much simpler and more convenient. Otherwise you might want to checkout the gphoto port. Regards, Jacob __ JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au

Re: Canon A70 w/ FreeBSD

2003-12-07 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:58 am, Will Yardley wrote: Otherwise you might want to checkout the gphoto port. Yeah - I've checked that out (and installed it from ports), and it does look like it supports that model. Is the other driver still needed, or will this Just Work (TM), assuming that the

usb/sound on a Gigabyte 7s748 Motherboard

2003-12-07 Thread JacobRhoden
Hey People, Was wondering if any of you out there are using this motherboard and have usb working? (sound is a niceity). Motherboard chipset: Sis748 (listed as supported on freebsd.org) (yes usbd is running) Regards, Jacob Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 4478 ITS Division

Why would drive run at UDMA33? (Segate 80GB)

2003-12-07 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, I have just purchased a new 80GB drive, howerver i noticed it is running significantly slower than my current 80gb drive. Dmesg says this: ad0: 76319MB ST380021A [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad2: 76319MB ST380011A [155061/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 Why is one running at

Re: Why would drive run at UDMA33? (Segate 80GB)

2003-12-07 Thread JacobRhoden
JacobRhoden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just purchased a new 80GB drive, howerver i noticed it is running significantly slower than my current 80gb drive. On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 04:38 pm, Jarrod wrote: Try 'man atacontrol' I typed 'man atacontrol' and it didnt seem to help! (grin

Re: ejecting a Zip disk using eject(1)

2003-12-01 Thread JacobRhoden
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:13 am, DG wrote: # eject afd0 eject: No such file or directory I dont know the syntax expected but you probably should be doing: eject /dev/afd0 Regards, Jacob _ JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au

Re: 5.x downgrade recommendation

2003-11-27 Thread JacobRhoden
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Re: Multiple CPU Performance

2003-11-27 Thread JacobRhoden
. In general I have found that the bottleneck in older computers tends to be the hard drive, not the CPU. Regards, Jacob JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Where is autologout set?

2003-11-26 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:48 pm, Brett Glass wrote: I'm logging into a headless FreeBSD box via a serial port (which I don't normally do) and am finding that the autologout variable is being set to 60 minutes in the shell. I can't find where the variable is being set; it's not in /etc/csh.* or in

Re: Upload site question...

2003-11-25 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:23 am, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Hi list, I've a server running FreeBSD-4.8 with Apache-2.0.48, I've a site hosted and many user who develop their sites wants to upload and update their sites without my assist...Anyone knows any method to upload the files

Re: Block IP

2003-11-25 Thread JacobRhoden
hardware firewall device. (no firewall installed currently). That would be the best thing to do, you should probably have a firewall installed already anyway *grin* Regards Jacob _ JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au

Re: USB disks on FreeBSD 4.7

2003-11-24 Thread JacobRhoden
a new one in camcontrol start -- after inserting a new cf card, do this to make it mountable Make sure you umount your device before you do the camcontro eject or you might loose some data. Regards, Jacob ___ JacobRhoden

sis0 / sis1 dont play nice together

2003-11-24 Thread JacobRhoden
Hey, I have 3 network cards, and no matter what combination of two of them being plugged in, (Two are netgear, one is 3com) they dont work together. Is there something I am missing? Do I need to do anything special to get them both working at the same time. - They are always both recognised

Re: usb digital camera

2003-11-23 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:02 am, Kent Hauser wrote: usbdevs sees the camera, as does gphoto2 --auto-detect. However, I'm unable to access the camera data with gphoto2 --auto-detect --summary (or via digikam or via konquerer). I used to use gphoto to read my photos, but these days I just have a

Re: USB disks on FreeBSD 4.7

2003-11-23 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:56 pm, Mike Jeays wrote: I have a 4.7 system, and have trouble with an Apacer Flash Memory 64 MB disk. I can read and write the FAT system on it if it is plugged in at boot time, but I cannot remount it if I unmount it, unplug it, and then plug it in again. Is this a

Re: DNS/Webhosting question

2003-11-16 Thread JacobRhoden
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Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-13 Thread JacobRhoden
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 02:37 pm, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Matthew Hunt wrote: The man page for grep says to use -r to recurse, yet when I try something like grep -r -li string *.c I get no files. However, if I go into one of the subdirectories and do a plain

Re: Installation FreeBSD 5,1 release

2003-10-28 Thread JacobRhoden
it that way. Out of curiosity, did you create your boot disks from the images on the CD or drectly from the freebsd site (I have only had this problem with the disk images off the cd) - jacob __ JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au

5.1 mfsroot floppy broken?

2003-10-23 Thread JacobRhoden
partion/floppies as the media, you receive the following error: Error mounting /dev/xxx on /dist: No such file for directory (2) (Just replace xxx with the media you have selected) ___ JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au

/dist directory missing on 5.1 mfsroot disk??

2003-10-21 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, I am having a peculiar problem with installing 5.1, has anyone successfully used the floppies (made from the ISO image) to boot and install from a CD or DOS partion? When I try I get the following error: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: No such file or directory (2) My cd rom appears to

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-21 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:37 am, Nicole wrote: An example of how spliting BSD into BSD server and BSD desktop could be a benefit. Hrmmm. /stand/sysinstall /stand/desktopinstall Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 4478 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne

Re: weird KDE alt-tab problem

2003-10-20 Thread JacobRhoden
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Re: freeBsd

2003-10-14 Thread JacobRhoden
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:45 pm, ral sitaro wrote: can you tell me what a FreeBsd is and what i can do whit it? Read the first paragraph at http://www.freebsd.org/ It tells you what it is. To find out more, just browse the freebsd web site. ___ JacobRhoden -- http

Re: I dont have the sources in /usr/src ..how do i get the sources from Net .

2003-10-08 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 02:45 pm, Shrikant wrote nothing either install the source through /stand/sysinstall or use the cvsup program available as a port or a package. Regards, Jacob ___ JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au

Re: barcode reader, card swiper

2003-10-06 Thread JacobRhoden
keypresses (acts like a keyboard). If your worried, ask the retailer if you can return it if it doesnt work with your system (most places I buy stuff for FreeBSD from, are happy for me to return if it doesnt work). _ JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-02 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:32 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: both freeBSD and linux distros (most of them at least) give you choice what you install. Just because it's on CD does not mean it's Yes, but RedHat installs piles more junk which you dont use (At least last time I did an install about a

Re: update confusion 4.8-STABLE to STABLE = 4.9-PRERELEASE !?

2003-10-02 Thread JacobRhoden
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Re: update confusion 4.8-STABLE to STABLE = 4.9-PRERELEASE !?

2003-10-02 Thread JacobRhoden
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port for batch image manipulation?

2003-10-02 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, Does anyone know of a good port which will simply resize a directory of jpg's to a specified (proportional) size? Thanks, Jacob Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 4478 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386

Re: Newbi Question - Good console replacement for mail program?

2003-10-01 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one install, and what are some, good console based mail clients for the console style mail program? Horde is my favourite one (: _ JacobRhoden -- http://rhoden.id.au

Re: mount an ftp or ssh filesystem

2003-09-25 Thread JacobRhoden
i'd like to mount remote ftp and ssh dirs into my local dir-tree, however This would be really really nice wouldnt it, I looked into it and didnt find anything at all. One day I may learn how to code it and do it myself. (I dont know enough about how write devices to do it yet). I would happy

Re: Fast Image Library for Thumbnailing?

2003-09-23 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:12 am, Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster wrote: Can anyone recommend an image library that can resize large images (~ 2048x1600) down to thumbnails incredibly fast. I used qp for a while (in ports) im not sure how it compares in speed, it only resizes to /12/ 1/4 and 1/8 I think but

Re: USB storage dongles and umass driver

2003-09-21 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:13 am, Tom Parquette wrote: The question I have is, are these devices generic enough that other manufacturer's devices will work with the umass driver? I have tried a few, my own one is an Apacer which works great, I have used some others, but they did not have brand

read FFS within windows 98?

2003-09-21 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, Does anyone know of any method of reading FFS file systems from windows? I have a windows machine which has a small (non bootable) FFS file system which I need to get some files off before overwriting it with 5.1 any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks

Re: Where is 4.5, 4.6, etc. on the FTP sites ?

2003-09-18 Thread JacobRhoden
date you like, or any 4.x you like (: _ JacobRhoden - http://rhoden.id.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

2003-09-18 Thread JacobRhoden
to browse my photos, this is soo much better. __ JacobRhoden - http://rhoden.id.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WINE

2003-09-14 Thread JacobRhoden
configuration settings to make it work properly, which you learn by trial and error, or searching on google. Good luck! (: - Jacob JacobRhoden - http://rhoden.id.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: usb monitoring

2003-08-19 Thread JacobRhoden
in your /etc/rc.conf file, and you want to look in the file /etc/usbd.conf which has examples of how to do this. - Jacob JacobRhoden - http://rhoden.id.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP

2003-07-31 Thread JacobRhoden
ugly, but at least the XP partion on boot time wouldnt appear as '??'. (: JacobRhoden - http://rhoden.id.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: sendto: No buffer space available

2003-07-30 Thread JacobRhoden
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Re: Newbie question

2003-07-29 Thread JacobRhoden
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Re: Apache 4.8 Stable

2003-07-09 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:37 pm, DanB wrote: Is Apache software built in like sendmail? How do you start it? No, but its very easy to install, just download the package, and install it using the pkg_add command. Regards, Jacob Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 4478 ITS Division

usbd not recognising any device :/

2003-06-18 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, When I attach a usb device to my machine, they dont get recognised (4.8-CURRENTish). Is there something I am missing? I have usbd running with debug and verbose, and it tells me the following. Any help greatly appreciated! Thanks, Jacob %/usr/sbin/usbd -d -v -v -v usbd: opened /dev/usb0

Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address

2003-06-17 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:52 am, Alfonso Romero wrote: Is it possible to have two DNS servers with only one public IP address? I have a FreeBSD gateway connected to the Internet with a DSL modem, using natd to connect the other PCs on my LAN, and was wondering if I could have two DNS servers to

5.1-RELEASE with swap partion as first partion is bad

2003-06-12 Thread JacobRhoden
hi, I dont know if this has always been the case, but someone in our office (new to FreeBSD) was trying to install 5.1 with the swap partion first. He tried very hard for hours, but he couldnt get it to work (even after I told him try having the swap partion second instead). Is it documented

Re: OpenOffice broken???

2003-04-03 Thread JacobRhoden
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:17 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: I've been running into a different problem than that one: === Add wrapper scripts sed: illegal option -- i usage: sed script [-Ean] [file ...] sed [-an] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...] *** Error code 1 [EMAIL

Re: good compact flash/smart card readers?

2003-03-12 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:46AM +1100, JacobRhoden wrote: Im about to buy a usb cf card reader (i want to be able to write to cf cards) does anyone here have one they would reccomend which works well in FreeBSD? For future archive sake, I could not find any of the reccomended readers

good compact flash/smart card readers?

2003-03-11 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, Im about to buy a usb cf card reader (i want to be able to write to cf cards) does anyone here have one they would reccomend which works well in FreeBSD? Thanks, Jacob Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne University

usb not working on intel motherboard

2003-03-11 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, Hi, It seems that no matter what I do I can not get usb devices to even be recognised. (Yes usbd is running). Relevant DMESG and usbd error messages below. Does anyone have any ideas? (I have tried usb mouse, keyboard, and camera). Thanks, Jacob FreeBSD elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au

Re: Screen Shots

2003-03-09 Thread JacobRhoden
On Friday 07 March 2003 14:06, Gerard Samuel wrote: For the life of me, I cannot remember the command line program to take screen shots. Its been a while. If someone could remind me with a man page would be great. If you are going to need to edit the screenshot later, you could simply create

Re:

2003-02-27 Thread JacobRhoden
On Saturday 01 March 2003 11:41, Pete C wrote: unsubscribe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message Is it just me, or is having this unsubscribe message more annoying than it is useful? (it just annoys people who already

/kernel: uhub1: device problem, disabling port 2

2003-02-24 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, Whenever I attempt to attach my digital camera on my work computer, I get the afformetioned error, this error occurs when I plug my device into any usb port on my computer: Feb 21 15:02:46 elkanah /kernel: uhub1: device problem, disabling port 2 Has anyone else ever had this problem, how

Re: Giant top

2003-02-23 Thread JacobRhoden
On Monday 24 February 2003 14:41, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: What does mean Giant in the following output of 'top'? It is not documented in the man. giant n. A person or thing of great size. adj. Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power. Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344

Re:

2003-02-20 Thread JacobRhoden
On Friday 21 February 2003 10:18, root wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 22:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im on a pI 233mhz mmx with 64mb of ram what do u recommend me to install GNOME or KDE I was running KDE on a 200 mhz computer. Had no problems, everything went smooth. I would be

Re: email and cvs opinion?

2003-02-18 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 09:43, Brian Henning wrote: i think i want to save my mailbox to a repoitory, check it out when i am reading it, and write it back when i am done... ummm... one must ask the question... why? i dont know what you are trying to do, but because I have several

Re: quotas not staying updates

2003-02-16 Thread JacobRhoden
From fstab(5) If the options ``userquota'' and/or ``groupquota'' are specified, the filesystem is automatically processed by the quotacheck(8) command, and user and/or group disk quotas are enabled with quotaon(8). By default, Your /etc/fstab file probably needs to specify the

Re: Procmail site-wide recipe's

2003-02-10 Thread JacobRhoden
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:52, BSD Freak wrote: I am running a 4.7-R/sendmail mail server. I currently use procmail on a few email accounts using a .forward in each home directory. Does anyone know how I can make a procmail recipe apply to all users on the mail server? I had no idea until

Re: Determining Ram

2003-02-02 Thread JacobRhoden
On Monday 03 February 2003 10:35, Dragoncrest wrote: I've got a rather odd question, but I'm looking for the easiest way to determin how much ram I have on a given system without rebooting it. I'm sure that there is some kind of console command that tells me that info, but I have no idea

Re: error during mysql323-server installation, how to configure hostname command.

2003-01-22 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thursday 23 January 2003 11:22, Mantas Kriauciunas wrote: Sorry, the host 'mntkz' could not be looked up. Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname. If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script with the --force option The other option would be

Re: recover overwritten file

2003-01-22 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thursday 23 January 2003 15:16, george donnelly wrote: i just overwrote a critical file, can anyone andvise me on how to recover it? The only way i could forsee you doing this is paying an extrordinate amount of money to a professional data retrieval company which (may) be able to retrieve

OT: tutorials for writing x programs?

2003-01-09 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, Does anyone here know of any web pages which show how to make an x application (apart from the couple I found which allow you to print hello world or draw a line in a blank window)? Thanks, Jacob Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL

Re: web write-up

2003-01-08 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thursday 09 January 2003 12:09, Shaun Dwyer wrote: is they probably didn't make seperate slices for /, /var and /usr. What difference does it make as to wether these partions are seperate. I realise if you have more than one ide drive then having them on seperate drives is alot better. On

Re: attaching a umass device?

2003-01-08 Thread JacobRhoden
On Thursday 09 January 2003 13:13, David Gerard wrote: This is probably really simple, but I couldn't see it in the handbook ... I've plugged a umass device (a camera) into a USB port. What do I do now to get access to the data? There is a port called gphoto2 which supports many cameras,

Re: buildworld problem on cyrix 166

2002-12-17 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:23, Ken Kroel wrote: i am trying to update an old pc and have run into a problem with the make CPU: Cyrix 6x86 (486-class CPU) Origin = CyrixInstead DIR=0x2231 Stepping=2 Revision=2 I had the exact same problem with the exact same machine you appear to have. This

Re: Questions

2002-12-16 Thread JacobRhoden
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:47, Alvaro Rosales R. wrote: Hi fellows, I am using a freeBSD box with Gnome+Enligthment, I would like to know which applications should I install to administer my users, Does not gnome already come with utilities to administrate users? I have seen someone with a

Re: Questions 2

2002-12-16 Thread JacobRhoden
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:46, Alvaro Rosales R. wrote: Thanks all for your answers. When I installed Gnome+Enligthment in a FreBSD4.4 Box I found a nice application named gnome control center , now in this freeBSD 4.7 box I don't find it , Where can I find it? go to

Re: Mail Reader Clients

2002-12-01 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 02:33, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: I'm looking for a good graphical mail reader client (to handle appx 3000 mails per day) kmail is definatly the best 'gui' email client i have seen so far, its vuagely similar to eudora... but it does mean you must have kde installed. if you

Re: what are my options? lost password.

2002-11-25 Thread JacobRhoden
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:27, CDG. wrote: i moved over a month ago and i'm just getting everything set back up. i tried to login to my freebsd machine with what i thought was my password and i can't login. can someone tell me what todo? will i need to reinstall? =( if you go to

enabling finger - why not?

2002-11-21 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, I have a machine which has a number of users, and its a 'possibility' that they could do something they shouldnt. What are the reasons which I may not want finger enabled? (The machine has sendmail and httpd, so a DoS through the finger port is probably not an issue) Regards, Jacob

playing realaudio files

2002-11-20 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, I have searched the ports collection and can only find a realaudio server. How do you guys normally play real audio files. This is one that google wasnt to helpful on. Regards, Jacob Rhoden Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]