Re: Contents, bootable, etc...

IgnesAndros wrote: Is the boot-only CD simply for installing? If it functions as a live CD, does it include httpd and webmin? If not to either, can you help me find a BSD-based distro that does? Well, you can do some stuff from the boot-only CD, but not too much... Take a look at FreeSBIE

Re: Configuring sound

Michał Masłowski wrote: Mixer rec is currently set to 0:0 maybe you should change rec's value to something bigger.. -tobbe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: where are the missing libraries from the kernel source code

Alexandru Gabor wrote: [snip] Iwdent HOSSU [snip] #device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) [snip] The Iwdent seems misspelled. And the comment for ppbus says it's required, so I guess you should not remove it. -tobbe

Re: change mediaopt of NIC to full-duplex

Gavin McDougall wrote: Hi there, I need to set my network cards (Intel Pro 1000) to full-duplex. I tried using ifconfig with the mediaopt option which worked, but only temporarily. I then downloaded mii-tool 'cos it wasn't in the ports collection but it just gives me critical errors when I

Re: pppOe 1000baseTX config

Lane wrote: Notice that bge0 media is 10baseT/UTP and re0 is 100baseTX What kind of network cables are you using? UTP stands for unshielded twisted pair, which doesn't work so well with higher bandwidths. I think 1000baseTX requiers CAT6 cables. -Tobias

Re: pppOe 1000baseTX config

albi wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:24:44PM -0500, Chris Haulmark wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:30 -0500, Lane wrote: I think 1000baseTX requiers CAT6 cables. Cat5e supports gigabit speeds. a few days ago i bought a crosslink cat 5e cable saying shielded RJ45 10-100MBPS, (and it

Re: password expire

Joe Stuart wrote: I have a whole group of users with weak passwords. Is there a way that I can force a password change at next login? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: password expire

Gayn Winters wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tobias Fendin Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:31 AM To: Joe Stuart Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password expire Joe Stuart wrote: I have a whole group of users

Re: sysctl

fbsd_user wrote: Please do your home work and read the man sysctl page before just posting messages. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sadashiv Kulthe Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:15 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sysctl

Dell Latitude C640, very hot!

Hi I've got a Dell Latitude C640, with FreeBSD 5.4 stable. It works well, except for this: After a cuple of hours up and running it gets really hot. My fingers almost gets burned when I touch the harddirve, memory etc! According to `sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature` the cpu-temperature

burncd, eject before read

Hi folks. I've just burned an iso to a cd successfully. But before I could mount it, I had to eject the cd-tray and then close it, before I could mount it. I got this error message from mount: cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error I wonder if it's a bug or feature. - Tobias

Re: ftp server frustrating

Vizion wrote: Hi When I need to log on to ftp.freebsd.org manually 15 seconds (the allowed login time) is insufficient (especially when I am using my tablet) -- and I sometimes get logged out if I have a long file name to get. This seems to happen when there is a long file name to enter.

Re: procfs in 5.4

Chris Radlinski wrote: I should have procfs. However, my /proc directory is empty. What gives? You have to mount it. Add this line to /etc/fstab: proc/proc procfs rw 0 0 And then run: mount /proc You might also check out the man-page: procfs(9) //Tobias

Re: Working X - Anyone?

Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, I had been trying to get Xorg 6.8.2 working on a 5.4-STABLE installation. I had compiled Xoeg from an updated ports tree. But while running Xorg -configure it complains that the module pcidata is missing. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Xorg but without any

Re: hostname problem on a local network

tell me what I'm doing wrong? Bill Though it shouldn't be needed, you could try to set Sambas netbios name. See smb.conf(5) for more details. // Tobias Fendin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: DHCP using ifconfig doesn't work ...

Kiffin Gish wrote: I want to use DHCP for my wireless connection by placing the following lines in my /etc/rc.conf file: ifconfig_wi0=DHCP ifconfig_wi0=ssid GISH mode auto wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 I have also tried running sysinstall again and reconfiguring my wireless connection by