Re: Problem(s) resolving names with natd/ipfw.

2003-09-14 Thread chael
1. I would try enabling named on the FreeBSD gateway and set it as a forwarder to the DNS of my ISP. Then set all the clients' primary DNS to that of the internal IP of your gateway. 2. I would also not use OPEN firewall type. I would not be comfortable with it. 3. I would also take out the lines

Dual VGA out on Radeon 8500

2003-09-14 Thread David L
Just want to know if anyone here has gotten dual head working on a Ati Radeon 8500 Le graphics card. If so, can you tell me how you get the PCI bus ID of the DVI port, I beleive you need that to set it in the XFree86 config file. when I do pciconf -v -l it only shows [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:

The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-08-24 - 2003-09-13

2003-09-14 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list

OpenGL software rendering

2003-09-14 Thread Phillip Neiswanger
Hello, Has anyone tried OpenGL software rendering with Nate Robins tutorial programs located here: http://www.xmission.com/~nate/tutors/tutors.zip I get a black background and the menus seem to be working, but that's it. Sometimes the programs produce areas of randomly colored pixels.

Sound problem

2003-09-14 Thread Ricardo Britto
Greetings, I have a Ensoniq sound card (es1370). I have compiled my kernel with that directive (device pcm) it seems that worked (KDE doesn't anoy like before). I have FreeBSD 5.1, so the command # sh MAKEDEV snd0 does'nt work (there's now devfs - I don't know how to use it). I saw the

mergemaster: schg flag for temproot/var/emtpy ??

2003-09-14 Thread Rob Lahaye
Hi, I am trying to learn the buildworld and mergemaster process from the Handbook. The handbook says: [...] To begin simply type mergemaster at your prompt, and watch it start going. [..] SO I did type mergemaster and all went well. Decided then to remove the temproot directory, but failed!

firewall

2003-09-14 Thread Robert Storey
Dear All, I'm having a hard time configuring a firewall. I ALMOST understand it, but I've run into one problem. I think I don't actually have my /etc/rc.firewall set up properly. Maybe I don't really understand what the ip setting should be, and I've made it the same as my net setting. Anyway,

Re: Problems Compiling Apache with Mod_Perl and Mod_SSL

2003-09-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 05:11:07PM -0500, Jason L. Schwab wrote: Heya Folks; System Specs: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE OpenSSL 0.9.7a (OS Installed) Apache 1.3.27 Mod_Perl 1.28 Mod_SSL 1.3.28 / 2.8.15 Perl 5.8.0 (ports/lang/perl58 installed)

Replacement for WinRar?

2003-09-14 Thread Dragoncrest
I know that there's a list out there that states xx nix app will replace yy windows app (got the bookmark to it. hehe) but one thing the list doesn't tell me is what is a good replacement in nix that does everything winrar does. I love winrar cause it takes all the power of rar and

Re: mergemaster: schg flag for temproot/var/emtpy ??

2003-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:08:57PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: Is there any reason why it is like that? Yes, it's used to chroot into, and must not be writable. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: samba PDC vs IBM T21 keyboard

2003-09-14 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 03:48, Micheal Patterson wrote: - Original Message - From: Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 9:25 PM Subject: samba PDC vs IBM T21 keyboard Hello, I've got a strange

[5.1] Xfree86 in state 'rdnrel'??

2003-09-14 Thread Jacques Beigbeder
Configuration: . FreeBSD 5.1, GENERIC kernel; Pentium P4, Hyperthreading . XFree86: Version 4.3.0, 27 February 2003 . graphic hardware: ATI Technologies Inc, Radeon R200 QH [Radeon 8500] . sample of syslog output: drm0: ATI Radeon QH FireGL 8x00 ... [drm] AGP at 0xe800 128MB

Re: SHELL scripts..... HOW TO START LEARN????

2003-09-14 Thread Mark Terribile
Denis, Do you happen to know where is some helpful information about SHELL programming??? Others have posted some fine references; I'd like to belabor you with a piece of experience: There is a difference between writing shell scripts and writing shell programs. o A script is a

ringtones..mp3 in browser

2003-09-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I can't get mp3 files to work in mozilla. I have plugger-4.0 installed and the plugins state that mp3 files should be played. ## stream, preload: mpg123 -q -b 1024 - Mpg123 is of course installed ;-)) No matter what I try, even installing helper programs within mozilla itself; nothing works.

Re: COM ports

2003-09-14 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:29:44AM -0700, Claudiu Bichir wrote: Hy folks ! I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on my computer and I wanted to know how can I enable the COM3 COM4 ports. The ports are disabled by default in 5.0. I tried to modify /boot/device.hints but with no hope . I commented

Re: How to read CF card via USB with umass on 4.7-STABLE?

2003-09-14 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 06:52:13PM -0400, Chris Shenton wrote: I have an old digital camera which has a 64MB CF card in it. A friend loaned me a USB card reader to extract the images. I don't seem to be able to mount it on FreeBSD-4.7-STABLE per the umass man page. After plugging in the

procmail filtering replacement w/ cyrus

2003-09-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
Hi, I used to run procmail as my local mailer (w/ sendmail as MTU). The .procmailrc filters the incoming mail into separate folders. Now I've changed to cyrus-imapd and no longer use procmail. Cyrus has it's own local mailer (cyrdeliver). That's fine with me, bu now all mail is droped into

Re: Replacement for WinRar?

2003-09-14 Thread David L
Unfortunately this wont answer your question, I use the cli zip tar programs. However I was wondering what the site is that states what replaces what? I know that there's a list out there that states xx nix app will replace yy windows app (got the bookmark to it. hehe) but one thing

Q: mergemaster 'm'-merge option results in empty file

2003-09-14 Thread Rob Lahaye
Hi, I'm trying to get grip of mergemaster. Either my logic is up-side-down or mergemaster is not so intuitive, but learning mergemaster seems a tough process for me. My problem now: # mergemaster -v This does some things, and then presents me a list of files that are only in my installed

Soft shutdown when using power button with ACPI ...

2003-09-14 Thread Damien Touraine
Hello, my computer is running FreeBSD 5.1 and I would like to know how to configure FreeBSD to recognize when I press the power button to do a software shutdown. Actually, this computer was previously configured with Linux and under Linux, and there was a daemon that was listening for the

ldap and schema for user classes

2003-09-14 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HI ! I set up a FreeBSD-5.1 test server with LDAP centralized authentication (with pam_ldap and nss_ldap). It works well, but now I would like to be able to set user classes for my users (set in /etc/login.conf). How can I achieve this ? Is there a

Egypt Support Center

2003-09-14 Thread Walaa Waguih
Dear Sirs , me and some of my freinds that use and adore FreeBSD OS was thinking about opening something like branch for FreeBSD here in Egypt . and we was wondering is it posible or not .. and what will be needed to do something like that ?? and we are ready for what ever needed to be official

Re: HOW TO USE C-R-O-N?????

2003-09-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 02:58:21AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:09:12PM +0400, Denis wrote: Hi All!!! Does anybody can show me how i can use Cron??? For example, I want to start: /usr/bin/perl /usr/scripts/my.pl every 30 seconds. Can i to do it?

Re: mail server setup

2003-09-14 Thread Technical Director
Aaron, First question you might want to answer is can I solve the relaying problem on the system I have now? Certainly SCO Unix is ugly to me, but if it is working and your time is as limited as the rest you might be best to upgrade to the lastest version of Sendmail. It not only fixes the

how long is installation time

2003-09-14 Thread radu.florin
Hello, I am a newbie, using Windows, a Mandrake Linux and a Slackware installed on my Athlon PC. So I intended to test FreeBSD on my old PC: Pentium, 133MHz, 16 Mo memory. I used floppies as indicated ( I had to use the drivers one equally for my CD reader to be detected ). The base has been

Re: Replacement for WinRar?

2003-09-14 Thread David Fleck
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Dragoncrest wrote: ...but one thing the list doesn't tell me is what is a good replacement in nix that does everything winrar does. What exactly does WinRar do that you want to replicate? 'Everything' is pretty broad. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dd to duplicate a disk.

2003-09-14 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm trying to setup a vinum mirrored root fs. I've not got very far (although I have some excellent help once I get past this stage ;) -- I'm trying to duplicate my disk. Right now I have /dev/ad0s1(n) and I'd like an exactly copy of that slice on /dev/ad2s1. I've been trying to use dd

Re: usb mouse probs

2003-09-14 Thread Lee Harr
I looked at the hand book played with rc.conf and all the stuff i need in the kerel is there there is a /dev/ums0 too dmesg says it found my micrsoft wirless optical usb mouse but i can not seem to get it to work What does the mouse section of /etc/X11/XF86Config look like?

Re: mldonkey which name?

2003-09-14 Thread Benjamin Kohler
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:49:56 +0200 Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I run when I want a P2P session under X? mlguistart ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Xterm-color

2003-09-14 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 02:24:41AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:43:24PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:22:29PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: Probably a no-brainer, but how can I make my xterm start as xterm-color? If I want color ls, I have to

Re: Sound problem

2003-09-14 Thread Lee Harr
Greetings, ^M Hmm... sounds ok to me. Except for that little hiccup at the end. Looks more like a windows problem though :o) _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Re: firewall

2003-09-14 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:27:15PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: Dear All, I'm having a hard time configuring a firewall. I ALMOST understand it, but I've run into one problem. I think I don't actually have my /etc/rc.firewall set up properly. Maybe I don't really understand what the ip

?IRC -newbie?

2003-09-14 Thread Alex Zivenko
I need to learn more about IRC. What that thing? You can give me channels about FreeBSD, hack humor. Somebody help you can give me link to ftp docs, but not to http. Our firewall get's me out when I'm going to the WWW. Thank's all. ___ [EMAIL

Re: procmail filtering replacement w/ cyrus

2003-09-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 01:32:33PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: Hi, I used to run procmail as my local mailer (w/ sendmail as MTU). The .procmailrc filters the incoming mail into separate folders. Now I've changed to cyrus-imapd and no longer use procmail. Cyrus has it's own local

Re: ?IRC -newbie?

2003-09-14 Thread Guilmot Mike
Alex Zivenko wrote: I need to learn more about IRC. What that thing? You can give me channels about FreeBSD, hack humor. Somebody help you can give me link to ftp docs, but not to http. Our firewall get's me out when I'm going to the WWW. Thank's all. irc.freenode.net , #FreeBSD I

Re: how long is installation time

2003-09-14 Thread David L
16mb of ram and you want to run KDE? I dont think that all that good an idea. Try a light weight window manager this site http://www.plig.org/xwinman/others.html has a list of heaps of different windows manager and desktops, try something labelled as minimalistic eg. fvwm or xfce maybe. As

Bus-error hardware or software?

2003-09-14 Thread Mark
Every once in a while, an httpd (Apache 3.28) child exits with a seg-fault of sorts. I hope someone can tell me whether or not this is hardware-related: asarian-host.net kernel log messages: 9 10/100BaseTX port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xda00-0xdaff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 pid 15369

486SX, 100MB HDD - need FreeBSD, how?

2003-09-14 Thread Alex Zivenko
How to install freebsd on this machine? (Intel486SX-25Mhz, 8 Mb Memory, 100Mb HDD). There isn't cdrom. Maby I can setup it from other system, the recompile kernel for that processor, or what? Without x, witout any cool programs. I just need to do it log-server. Thank's all!

Re: mergemaster: schg flag for temproot/var/emtpy ??

2003-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I am trying to learn the buildworld and mergemaster process from the Handbook. The handbook says: [...] To begin simply type mergemaster at your prompt, and watch it start going. [..] SO I did type mergemaster and all went well. Decided then to remove the temproot

Re: PCI and PCIX Fiber SCSI host adapters (HBAs) [was: EMCsq/SAN]

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Kizer
Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on freebsd-hackers: Any experiance with EMCsq./SAN? I know FreeBSD is not on their list, but was wondering if it works even without the 'qualified' stamp. If not, then is there some recomendation for any other SAN? I'm following up in

Re: Q: mergemaster 'm'-merge option results in empty file

2003-09-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:46:52PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: What is left and right in the mergemaster context??? 'man sdiff' doesn't seem to help out here. I've tried a bit (I typed 'v' and 'q'), but then found /etc/hosts totally empty!! Any idea where I went wrong? 'sdiff' does a

Re: Replacement for WinRar?

2003-09-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:57:44AM -0700, Dragoncrest wrote: I know that there's a list out there that states xx nix app will replace yy windows app (got the bookmark to it. hehe) but one thing the list doesn't tell me is what is a good replacement in nix that does everything

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 and a USB pen drive

2003-09-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Richard Dymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've googled and Usenet-ed high and low for info on this, but to no avail. I've got one of those handy 256MB USB pen drives that I'd like to get working with FreeBSD 5.1. As a long-time linux user I'm used to plugging the device in, loading the

Re: Problem(s) resolving names with natd/ipfw.

2003-09-14 Thread Jose Albores
Just enabling named solved the problem. I only added two or three named_... entries from /etc/default/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf, changing NO for YES and nothing else. Even without modifying de default config files (named.conf and any other, eventually) the FreeBSD gateway began to forward

Gnome2 Logout

2003-09-14 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
hi, another newbie question :) i am running freebsd 5.1 release. each time i want to use the logout menuitem of the gnome menu the gnome panel hangs. i searched the web and found several infos about it but no solution. any gnome2 user here having solved the probem ? thx seb ps:

RE: firewall

2003-09-14 Thread fbsd_user
Your problem is that you are using the sample rules file provided by IPFW. You are correct, you do not understand what you are doing. You are suppose to edit the sample rules file to create your own rules file. That sample is only there as a starting point for you to build your own rules. You

Backup router, new hard drive.

2003-09-14 Thread DanB
How do I copy the whole harddrive to a larger drive than the one being copied? This is an router that cant go down for more than a few minutes. I want to replace whole system to the new harddirve old one has noisy bearings. I have no backup at all. Dan

Problems trying to boot from an 80GB Seagate

2003-09-14 Thread Sean A Reith
I'm trying to get my first FreeBSD (4.8-RELEASE) installation working, and I am having trouble getting a system which boots, primarily due to what appear to be disk geometry issues (but this is a complete newbie guess). The hardware: Gigabyte GA-6BXC motherboard

Re: dd to duplicate a disk.

2003-09-14 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
Am Son, 2003-09-14 um 16.31 schrieb Lewis Thompson: Hi, I'm trying to setup a vinum mirrored root fs. I've not got very far (although I have some excellent help once I get past this stage ;) -- I'm trying to duplicate my disk. why do u want to double ur disk ? i have no knowledge about

Re: 486SX, 100MB HDD - need FreeBSD, how?

2003-09-14 Thread Technical Director
Alex, If your 486SX has a floppy that works then you are okay. FreeBSD will install from 2 floppies, takes a little longer but still works. This IS based upon the assumption that you either have: a) A CD-ROM on your 486SX and a FreeBSD CD-ROM. b) A network card (or similar device eg: ppp)

Re: Problems trying to boot from an 80GB Seagate

2003-09-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 14 September 2003 12:06 pm, Sean A Reith wrote: I'm trying to get my first FreeBSD (4.8-RELEASE) installation working, and I am having trouble getting a system which boots, primarily due to what appear to be disk geometry issues (but this is a complete newbie guess). The hardware:

PEAP (wireless authentication) support

2003-09-14 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, here at my workplace they're installing a wireless network. Since this is all new to me, I was asking around a bit and discovered that they're using the PEAP protocol for authentication on the network. Unfortunately my search for network software that supports this on FreeBSD has turned up no

Re: how long is installation time

2003-09-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
That is odd. It should not take that long. I've been bored enought to see how long KDE takes to start on a 486dx4, before... it takes just a little while to install and 15 minutes or so for it to start... I why not just put that drive in the amd system and use it there? If you are looking to

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 5 September 2003 at 17:55:14 +0200, Hans Vledder wrote: All, I am considering building a 802.11g FreeBSD access point. I've read that I will need a network adapter that supports hostap (access point mode). Does anyone known a brand/model (PCI) that's being supported by FreeBSD ?

SSH: failed password after fresh install

2003-09-14 Thread Bryn Dyment
I've installed two FreeBSD boxes on my LAN. On the first box, the only thing I did after the install process was edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config, setting PermitRootLogin to yes, then issuing killall -1 sshd. After this change, I could successfully connect to this box via my SSH client. I did the same

Re: color in Xwindows

2003-09-14 Thread Gerald S Stoller
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:54:16 + Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:03:19PM -0400, Gerald S Stoller wrote: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386

OpenOffice

2003-09-14 Thread Todd Stephens
I am installing this from ports. Considering everything else that is getting installed along with it (gcc 3.2.3 among others), how long should I expect this to take? Anyone have any experience with this? Running a K6-2 500Mhz (FBSD 4.8) -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves

Re: color in Xwindows

2003-09-14 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 14 September 2003 01:23 pm, Gerald S Stoller wrote: I tried it, still the same output, no color. This may be related to my question regarding using xterm-color. Try typing this at your command line: $ TERM=xterm-color Then try ls -G and see if you get color or not. -- Todd

Re: OpenOffice

2003-09-14 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 02:06:38PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: I am installing this from ports. Considering everything else that is getting installed along with it (gcc 3.2.3 among others), how long should I expect this to take? Anyone have any experience with this? Running a K6-2 500Mhz

Re: OpenOffice

2003-09-14 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 14 September 2003 02:20 pm, you wrote: I installed it on a 533MHz Celeron and it took about 24 hours. Give or take. Make sure you have lots of disk space for it. Oh, and I think it was 4.7-RELEASE I used, so not gcc3. Wow! Thanks for the speedy response. My original message

CHAT ON LAN WITH WIN MACHINES?

2003-09-14 Thread Alex Zivenko
Hi again! Are there Programs to chat on LAN on FreeBSD ports, (clients may be on WIN). And what does I need? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

No networking on 4.9-PRERELEASE

2003-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer
I updated (via source) to 4.9-prerelease. No, I *tried* to update to 4.9-prerelease as of Sep 13th. The problem is that networking seems to be failing in the 4.9-prerelease kernel. I build on one system and test on a second system, installing via nfs. Following the nsame steps I always follow to

Office 2000 Pro

2003-09-14 Thread Martin Rubenstein
My question for you is simply; Will FreeBSD support windows Office 2000 Pro?My wife _must_ use MS Office for work at home in order to be compatible with her work in the office. Powerpoint, Word, Access, Excel Outlook. Thank You, Martin --

Re: firewall

2003-09-14 Thread Scott Ballantyne
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that the FBSD handbook gives the reader the impression that IPFW is the only firewall available to FBSD, but that is a false impression. FBSD has IPFILTER which is also a built in firewall. PF is also in ports, which is interesting. That's appealing

Re: Office 2000 Pro

2003-09-14 Thread paul beard
Martin Rubenstein wrote: My question for you is simply; Will FreeBSD support windows Office 2000 Pro?My wife _must_ use MS Office for work at home in order to be compatible with her work in the office. Powerpoint, Word, Access, Excel Outlook. The question might be better phrased as will

Re: CHAT ON LAN WITH WIN MACHINES?

2003-09-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
I would just throw a ircd on the FreeBSD box... that way all that is needed is a irc client on the others. On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:33:18 +0300 Alex Zivenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again! Are there Programs to chat on LAN on FreeBSD ports, (clients may be on WIN). And what does I need?

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-14 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Greg Lehey wrote: On Friday, 5 September 2003 at 17:55:14 +0200, Hans Vledder wrote: All, I am considering building a 802.11g FreeBSD access point. I've read that I will need a network adapter that supports hostap (access point mode). Does anyone known a

Re: another newbie struggling with ppp/modem issues - still struggling

2003-09-14 Thread Alex
Thanks to all who responded. I think I've narrowed this down to a problem recognizing the port (rather than a hardware problem), but this still doesn't have me much closer to success. The actual modem is a US Robotics Performance Pro (not a Winmodem), so I doubt that's the source of my troubles.

D-Link DFE-530TX NIC not recognized...

2003-09-14 Thread ngin
Hello, I have a D-Link DFE-530TX Ethernet NIC installed in a FreeBSD 4.6.2 box. Looking at: freebsd.org/releases/4.6.2R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET I see my card is supported: RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet NICs ( rl(4) driver) D-Link DFE-530TX+, DFE-538TX But when kernel boots I see no sign

Re: CHAT ON LAN WITH WIN MACHINES?

2003-09-14 Thread Simon Barner
Are there Programs to chat on LAN on FreeBSD ports, (clients may be on WIN). And what does I need? You could use LinPopup (ports/linpopup) and Samba to send and recieve smb messages. For the windows clients, there is something like winmessenger AFAIR) (or use `net send'). Regards, Simon

Re: Office 2000 Pro

2003-09-14 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:48:10PM -0600, Martin Rubenstein wrote: My question for you is simply; Will FreeBSD support windows Office 2000 Pro?My wife _must_ use MS Office for work at home in order to be compatible with her work in the office. Powerpoint, Word, Access, Excel Outlook.

RE: mergemaster: schg flag for temproot/var/emtpy ??

2003-09-14 Thread Charles Howse
SO I did type mergemaster and all went well. Decided then to remove the temproot directory, but failed! # rm -rf /var/tmp/temproot rm: /var/tmp/temproot/var/empty: Operation not permitted rm: /var/tmp/temproot/var: Directory not empty rm: /var/tmp/temproot/: Directory not empty

ipfw2 loss of feature ?

2003-09-14 Thread Bruce Campbell
With ipfw1 on 4.8 I use this: ipfw add 10 check-state ipfw add 20 allow tcp from xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24 to any keep-state limit src-addr 10 to provide stateful firewalling, and limit the number of simultaneous tcp sessions to 10 per client. Seems to work great. On 4.8 I tried ipfw2 (kernel with

FreeBSD 5.x and bind 9.x

2003-09-14 Thread alexus
Hello I'm using following: OS: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE Bind: bind-9.2.2 both, release/stable version not a development and I'm expereincing two major problem with bind (also I didn't had that problem while using same bind on FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE/RELEASE ) anyway here is what's going on I run bind

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX NIC not recognized...

2003-09-14 Thread Don Croyle
ngin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a D-Link DFE-530TX Ethernet NIC installed in a FreeBSD 4.6.2 box. Looking at: freebsd.org/releases/4.6.2R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET I see my card is supported: RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet NICs ( rl(4) driver) D-Link DFE-530TX+, DFE-538TX But

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX NIC not recognized...

2003-09-14 Thread yo _
The DFE-530TX and DFE-530TX+ use different ethernet chipsets. The D-Link website has information about the older model and what chipset it uses, it's not RealTek 8139, i forget what it actually is though. I remember being concerned with this when i got my 530TX+ though. Good Luck! -rian From:

Re: mergemaster: schg flag for temproot/var/emtpy ??

2003-09-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:26:43PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: SO I did type mergemaster and all went well. Decided then to remove the temproot directory, but failed! # rm -rf /var/tmp/temproot rm: /var/tmp/temproot/var/empty: Operation not permitted rm:

Re: Backup router, new hard drive.

2003-09-14 Thread Sitting Bear
Le 14.09.03, à 17:09, DanB s'est exclamé : How do I copy the whole harddrive to a larger drive than the one being copied? This is an router that cant go down for more than a few minutes. I want to replace whole system to the new harddirve old one has noisy bearings. I have no backup at all.

WINE

2003-09-14 Thread Haris Kazic
- Original Message - From: Haris Kazic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:26 AM Subject: WINE Does anyone have a nice and simple tutorial on how to install/configure/run wine on FreeBSD 4.8? Greets, Haris

Re: CHAT ON LAN WITH WIN MACHINES?

2003-09-14 Thread otterr
Alex, If it was just Unix operating systems, I'd suggest talk/ytalk between two people. Since you say some maybe Windows clients, and the thought crossed my mind that it may be several people, consider setting up a local ircd server. Some may want to use IM clients. Most, if not all, of those

Fwd: Re: FreeBSD CDROM Installation

2003-09-14 Thread David Nobles
Per David's suggestion, I'm redirecting this question to this list. My FreeBSD CDs are for 3.2. Not sure what additional information might be helpful. My old hard drive with Win98 died and I just got a new 40GB for my laptop so I decided to install FreeBSD instead . Woo hoo! I created the

WINE

2003-09-14 Thread Haris Kazic
Does anyone have a nice and simple tutorial on how to install/configure/run wine on FreeBSD 4.8? Greets, Haris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Egypt Support Center

2003-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 01:06:07PM +, Walaa Waguih wrote: Dear Sirs , me and some of my freinds that use and adore FreeBSD OS was thinking about opening something like branch for FreeBSD here in Egypt . and we was wondering is it posible or not .. and what will be needed to do something

FTP EMAIL response

2003-09-14 Thread ftpmail
FTP EMAIL response - Due to the heavy load of the server, please restrict your request to research and academic sites only. This helps the server live longer. -

Re: How to read CF card via USB with umass on 4.7-STABLE?

2003-09-14 Thread Chris Shenton
Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A photo disk is most likely not ufs - it's msdosfs. msdosfs is not is normaly not used on the whole device (exeptions are floppies), so you want using the correct slice. E.g. mount -t msdos /dev/da1s1 /mnt Yeah, I tried msdos as well (man page is wrong

Odd vmware / vnconfig (?) configuration.

2003-09-14 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, This is quite a complicated setup, I think. I've got a single 80GB disk in my machine, which currently has Windows XP and FreeBSD installed. Since I only use WinXP from time-to-time I would like to be able to boot it from VMware3 WS (which is installed and working). FreeBSD is

Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy ?

2003-09-14 Thread Rob Lahaye
Hi, How can I find out which app. keeps /dev/dsp busy? Without any other sound application running, I got this message when starting mplayer or realaudio. Somehow the system got muddled up. After some random trial and error, I finally discovered that everything came back to normal when I

Netware Client for FreeBSD

2003-09-14 Thread James Leone
I have access to a Netware IV server and am trying to connect to it from my FreeBSD 5.1-Current desktop. My goal is to figure out how it works in FreeBSD, so I can add support for FreeBSD to the Netwhere client for Linux: http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?nwcunix It took me a

Re: No networking on 4.9-PRERELEASE

2003-09-14 Thread chael
Dude, same here! Although mine's not an xl but an rl. I have posted it under subject sendto: buffer space not available. I tried several times with that 4.9-PRERELEASE. But after every 12hrs, I get the buffer space error. Now I brought it back to 4.8-RELEASE-p4 via cvsup and everything seems to

Re: WINE

2003-09-14 Thread Dan Strick
Does anyone have a nice and simple tutorial on how to install/configure/run wine on FreeBSD 4.8? No. (This is the most direct and accurate answer to the question you asked.) In order to get the most out of Wine, you have to be an expert in both Microsoft Windows and Wine. However, you may

Re: 486SX, 100MB HDD - need FreeBSD, how?

2003-09-14 Thread Technical Director
Alex, If you are really desperate or have a just gonna do this for fun attitude you could do the following: 1) If you have more than 1 computer, steal the Floppy Drive for the time it takes you to install. 2) If you have a laplink or even a parallel port xover cable you can use that to install.

Ideas To Save Failing System?

2003-09-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have system running 4.8 that seems to be losing a hard drive. I have many entries such as these in /var/log/messages: Sep 14 17:44:43 blacksheep /kernel: ad0s1a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 131265 of 65600-65615 (ad0s1 bn 131265; cn 10 tn 93 sn 36) status=51 error=ff Sep 14 17:44:43

4.8 Install for Web Server

2003-09-14 Thread Chris
Any pointers or suggestions on a fresh install of 4.8, when the box will be used for a web server running in a handful of jails? It has 80gig HD, so one of the issues I'm inquiring about is a good partitioning scheme. Thanks, Chris ___ [EMAIL

Re: WINE

2003-09-14 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:57 am, Haris Kazic wrote: Does anyone have a nice and simple tutorial on how to install/configure/run wine on FreeBSD 4.8? Greets, Haris Wine is not a simple program, once it is installed, only some windows can run. Each program often needs a special set of wine

Re: Problems trying to boot from an 80GB

2003-09-14 Thread Mark Terribile
Sean and Andrew, I'm no expert, but two things strike me as odd. Perhaps some greater Guru can tell us whether or not they represent a problem. I'm trying to get my first FreeBSD (4.8-RELEASE) installation working, ... Next, I created a NTFS partition on the drive with an XP install CD,

OK w/ 4.8R: sendto: buffer space not available

2003-09-14 Thread chael
IMO, I think this area of dev should be revisited before 4.9-RELEASE. Because when I brought it down to 4.8-RELEASE via cvsup, it has not failed yet. It usually fails around 12 hrs from boot. And it has been 14+ hours now running very fine. One thing I noticed though... it seems that over time,

having trouble mounting cd rom

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie
not sure why but when i run the command mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c /cdrom it gives me this error message cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Replacement for WinRar?

2003-09-14 Thread Dragoncrest
This one to be precise. http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/ I'm using it as a guide while we're moving all our windows systems over to Freebsd. :) It came courtesy of one of the mailing list members. At 09:31 PM 9/14/03 +1000, David L wrote: Unfortunately

Re: Replacement for WinRar?

2003-09-14 Thread Dragoncrest
Well, file splitting (breaking up a rar file by user selected byte size), simple GUI interface, right click and archive, double click extract, file preview, tunable compression ratios. Those are just for starters. It's one of the reasons I use WinRar on windows cause of all the stuff

Re: having trouble mounting cd rom

2003-09-14 Thread jason
Charlie wrote: not sure why but when i run the command mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c /cdrom it gives me this error message cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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