Re: re-attaching STDOUT

2006-04-05 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
Can I re-direct the output of a given command so a specific ttyv on the machine itself from a remote command; ie redirect stdout for a given command to ttyv2 ? sysutils/screen in the ports collection is very convenient for this sort of thing. Sincerely, -Jan Christian Meyer

Re: sshd

2005-03-02 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
[...] I can not close myself out with a firewall. I need the access to my system over the internet. Am I right that in this case, only a good password is protecting me? If you have a way of transporting a private key file to wherever you need to log in from (removable media, one last password

Re: fdisk/bsdlabel: cannot write to disk

2005-01-25 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Norbert Koch wrote: Sysinstall reported that it cannot write to the hard disk. Next I only tried to create a new partition inside an existing slice. The same again. I tried the same manually with fdisk/bsdlabel and the same happens. I tried it in single user mode and even

Re: RTL8139 Carbus Card fails to activate

2004-12-10 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
Greetings! I have a 10/100 fast ethernet carbus card that uses the realtek 8139 chipset that I'd like to use with FreeBSD. I have 5.3-RELEASE installed on a PIII Celeron in a Compaq Presario Laptop. The card is reconized and the rl driver seems to load, but fails to map the card's memory or

Re: RTL8139 Cardbus Card fails to activate

2004-12-10 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jan Christian Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded my laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook C4355) to 5.3 this week, and had the same problem. My card started working when i disabled ACPI. I don't have a sufficiently pointy hat to tell you _why_

Re: problems with 'burncd'

2004-11-29 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED],com wrote: If anyone knows how I can get 'mkisofs', please reply. You can install it from the ports tree. It's under /usr/ports/sysutils/mkisofs. Cheers, -Jan Christian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: ad0: WRITE command timeout...

2004-11-04 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:10:42 +0100 (CET), Are Bryne wrote: After upgrading a computer from FreeBSD 4.8-something to 4.10-RELEASE-p3, I'm getting lots of the following: ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices ..

Re: Winmodem (was: no subject)

2004-10-20 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, metallarch wrote: I have win modem on my comp. can i use it with freebsd, maybe i have to download some driver? It depends on the chipset of your modem. If it's using a Lucent chip, you may get it working by installing the /usr/ports/comms/ltmdm port. Cheers, -Jan

Re: Sound problem, help.

2004-09-17 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
? Also, what happens if you try to run artsd from a shell? Sincerely, -Jan Christian Meyer ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Terminal Display Size?

2004-09-10 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
[...] I now have a wide screen display, What tool can be used to change the number of characters wide and the number of lines high the terminal will display? Run 'man vidcontrol', be enlightened. Is there also a way to have this new setting to be the default terminal display for all virtual

Re: keyboard history buffer setting

2004-08-18 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
It doesn't work for me when placed in rc.conf, with either a direct command or attempting to use allscreens_flags. I run 5.2.1 myself, but if anything I write is incorrect for 4.10 someone will surely correct me shortly. It looks to me like you've been putting your parameter in the wrong string;

Re: Lucent LT modem under FreeBSD

2004-07-10 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
I've read that the proper drivers are in the ports collection, but there's one big problem. The only way I'd be able to access the ports collection is with an internet connection, and to have an internet connection I need the Lucent winmodem drivers for FreeBSD. Someone can probably suggest

Re: kernel

2004-05-12 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
MYKERNEL is name of the custom kernel. If you want to build a new kernel, you must give it some name, for example MYKERNEL. In handbook you are advised to create a kernel MYKERNEL as a copy of kernel GENERIC: # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC MYKERNEL Then you should edit MYKERNEL

Re: MIDI (and audio) on freeBSD

2004-05-03 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
Thanks a lot for answering my question. I tried to instruct KDE to look for some other devices (audio0.0? dsp0.0, 0.1,0.2? There is a lot...). Nothing happened as you have foreseen. The weird thing is that it seems that GNOME sounds: it starts playing some chords, and sounds are associated

Re: MIDI (and audio) on freeBSD

2004-04-23 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
After some troubles, and a Kernel recompilation with the option device pcm, I found in /dev directory lots of devices related to sound. KDE still does not sound at all: it looks for a /dev/dsp device that does not exists; a /dev/dsp0.0 exists instead, but I haven't found the way to instruct

Re: 5.2.1 can't find sound card

2004-04-21 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
snd_emu10kx.ko has copied to /boot/kernel. Next we rebooted and tried to load the module with kldload snd_emu10kx but it says there is no such file, even though we can see it in /boot/kernel So now what? That should have been kldload /boot/kernel/snd_emu10kx.ko, I imagine... Cheers, -Jan