BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Andy Sjostrom
To whom this may concern, H-E-L-P! LOL! I've been online since 1992( the windows 3.1 days for me.) I'm 48 yrs.old. and also a windows XP user. Because of recent issue I have had with Mr. William Gates and his product. about every 6 months I have had to overhaul my windows XP. during the last up

Ipfilter upgrade

2005-12-24 Thread mike.unixway
Has anybody tried to upgrade from the 3r branch of Ipfilter to 4th in FreeBSD 5.4? The procedure described in official document isn't correct - my kernel don't compile with ipfilter - couldn't create needed dependencies. Has anybody encountered such problem?

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Robert Slade
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 08:10, Andy Sjostrom wrote: To whom this may concern, H-E-L-P! LOL! I've been online since 1992( the windows 3.1 days for me.) I'm 48 yrs.old. and also a windows XP user. Because of recent issue I have had with Mr. William Gates and his product. about every 6

Re: Cannot start X

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: Hi: I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a P4 HT, and I cannot start X. Actually I want to start KDE; the .xinitrc is in place, but I couldn't start it before I wrote it, either. As I cannot copy and paste, I do not give you my xorg.conf file, but I need the i810 driver for

USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to work. The OS broadly supports serial mice and hardly PS/2 mice, both almost out of

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Frank Staals
Teilhard Knight wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to work. The OS broadly supports serial mice and hardly PS/2

Re: HP Scanner:: zilch

2005-12-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:57:57PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Gary Kline wrote: My Epson requires this line in epson.conf: usb /dev/uscanner0 The hp.conf file kind of implies something similar, but I can't tell whether it would want the line above or this:

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to work. The OS broadly supports serial mice and hardly PS/2

Re: ipnat and ping problem.

2005-12-24 Thread Michal Mertl
Maślanka Wojciech píše v pá 23. 12. 2005 v 23:07 +0100: This is my network: Internet---[rl0, 192.168.0.50_10.0.0.1 ,rl1]--[10.0.0.2] On 10.0.0.2 machine I cant ping any host in internet. I can ping only 10.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.50. :( Whats wrong??

Re: what am i doing wrong?!

2005-12-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:07:21PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Gary Kline wrote: Do I need to have the device for USB 2.0 perhaps?? Only in the unlikely event that it's a USB 2 scanner. But I thought you were kldloading the uscanner module, and here you have it built

umass detected, but da is never created

2005-12-24 Thread Philip Lykke Carlsen
I have this external harddisk kit, and when I plug it in, the system correctly recognizes it as a umass.. but afterwards, the da device is never created.. this is what I get from the console: umass0: vendor 0x05e3 USB TO IDE, rev 2.00/0.33, addr 2 umass0: BBB reset failed, TIMEOUT umass0: BBB

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Robert Slade
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 10:15, Teilhard Knight wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse

acpi: throttle state in 6.0

2005-12-24 Thread Niklas Nielsen
First of all - Merry Christmas :) I am new on the list (and dane) - so please bare with me. I noticed, when upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 - that hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_statedon't appear in 6.0. I have a IBM ThinkPad T40 with a centrino CPU. Is there another way to throttle down the CPU in 6.0? Best

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
On 12/24/05, Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to

Re: Best Scanner recs, please?

2005-12-24 Thread Martin P. Hansen
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Gary Kline wrote: Thanks; this model is on my list. Do you have USB 2.0 defined (uncommented) in your KERNEL config file (and thus built into your kernel)?? I'm trying to figure out howto create /dev/uscanner0. I have the ehci device defined,

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to work. The OS broadly supports serial mice and hardly PS/2 mice,

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
http://www.edimax.com/html/english/products/PRI582.htm ...Performs Outbound load balancing by session, weight round robin or traffic... Note that they say by SESSION not by PACKET. It's marketingspeak. They are simply using the term load balancing for a device that doesen't actually load

Re: acpi: throttle state in 6.0

2005-12-24 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Saturday 24 December 2005 20:01, Niklas Nielsen wrote: First of all - Merry Christmas :) I am new on the list (and dane) - so please bare with me. I noticed, when upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 - that hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_statedon't appear in 6.0. I have a IBM ThinkPad T40 with a centrino

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
On 12/24/05, Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-24 Thread Yance Kowara
Ted, you have to think outside the box. Life is more than one connection. While you can't increase the throughput of a single connection, you can increase the throughput of your network, which is usually the point. Throughput in this context is capacity. Throughput is not only what you can

Fwd: ipnat and ping problem.

2005-12-24 Thread Maślanka Wojciech
Im affraid that this solution dont work. :( Any other idea?? Regards! -- Forwarded message -- From: Michal Mertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005-12-24 11:20 Subject: Re: ipnat and ping problem. To: Maślanka Wojciech [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Freebsd-questions

Re: HP Scanner:: zilch

2005-12-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Gary Kline wrote: Hm, this is strange. I have two hp files in sane.d, both sseem oriented toward Linux. There is an entry for the 4100c in hp.conf, but it wants to create /dev/scanner. That line tells sane which device to use. In FreeBSD, that's

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to work. The OS

Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? Teilhard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Daniel A.
Hi Andy, I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP. I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD really is not targeted at people who want to use graphical user interfaces. The linux developers really have been trying to make a valuable replacement for Windows, as they somehow have

Re: umass detected, but da is never created

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:48:10AM +0100, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: I have this external harddisk kit, and when I plug it in, the system correctly recognizes it as a umass.. but afterwards, the da device is never created.. this is what I get from the console: umass0: vendor 0x05e3 USB

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:51:13AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? If you're referring to dot files, then the following will show them: ls -a If that is too tedious, then an alias in your shell's RC file can sort

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:51, Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? Teilhard. 1) ls -A(see man ls) 2) if you use the standard csh shell try ll (see .cshrc) -Mike ___

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Martin P. Hansen
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? Assuming you use ls(1) to display your files the command would be ``ls -a'' as explained in the the manual page. Depending on your shell you can create an alias for the

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote: Hi Andy, I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP. I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD really is not targeted at people who want to use graphical user interfaces. In a few key areas FreeBSD is a better desktop OS than

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
- Original Message - From: Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 8:43 AM Subject: Re: USB mice On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new

Re: umass detected, but da is never created

2005-12-24 Thread rod person
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:52:21 +0800 Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:48:10AM +0100, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: I have this external harddisk kit, and when I plug it in, the system correctly recognizes it as a umass.. but afterwards, the da device is never

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote: Hi Andy, I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP. I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD really is not targeted at people who want to use graphical user

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:19 -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote: Hi Andy, I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP. I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD really is not targeted at people who want to use graphical user

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Yance Kowara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted, you have to think outside the box. Life is more than one connection. While you can't increase the throughput of a single connection, you can increase the throughput of your network, which is usually the point. Throughput in this

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Micah
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote: Hi Andy, I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP. I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD really is not targeted at people who want to use graphical user interfaces. In a few key areas FreeBSD

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:34, Danial Thom wrote: --- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote: Hi Andy, I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP. I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Yance Kowara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted, you have to think outside the box. Life is more than one connection. While you can't increase the throughput of a single connection, you can increase the throughput of your

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.edimax.com/html/english/products/PRI582.htm ...Performs Outbound load balancing by session, weight round robin or traffic... Note that they say by SESSION not by PACKET. It's marketingspeak. They are simply using the term

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Micah
Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? Teilhard. You should specify if you mean at the command line or in knoqueror (which you mentioned in another post). From the command line use ls -a or la in the default csh install. In

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday, December 24, 2005 10:34:12 AM Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BSD Question's. Wrote these words of wisdom: When you try to be everything to everyone and you don't have the resources of a MS, then you end up with mediocre results. Decide what you want to be, and be the

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 24 December 2005 08:02, Daniel A. wrote: Hi Mike, On 12/24/05, Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote: Hi Andy, I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP. I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD

CAPI over TCP

2005-12-24 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello out there. I want a PC acting like a CAPI device attached to a local network via TCP. Therefor, I would like to have a CAPI over TCP driver. On WindowsXP there is such o facility, but is there a similar project on FreeBSD? At sourceforge.org I found a still-in-progress project (I forgot the

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Miguel Saturnino
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial Thom wrote: --- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote: Hi Andy, I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP. I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD really

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? Teilhard. Micah's response is correct, but just an additional comment. In FreeBSD UNIX, there are really no 'hidden' files. They are all just files with names in a specific style

Re: umass detected, but da is never created

2005-12-24 Thread David Gerard
rod person wrote: I had this problem with an iPod also. When I switch to using firewire for the iPod it then worked fine. I've read that there is some problem with Apples usb2 code. The Mac OS X code is certainly not the *BSD code, at least on the computer end. I have a camera (Premier

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:51, Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? Teilhard. 1) ls -A (see man ls) 2) if you use the standard csh shell try ll (see .cshrc) -Mike Thanks. Teilhard

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Miguel Saturnino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial Thom wrote: --- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote: Hi Andy, I am sorry for the trouble you have had with

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread David Gerard
Daniel A. wrote: One Linux distribution in particular that I think you might like, is Ubuntu. You can download it at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/, or order a CD (Free shipping, free CD, you pay nothing). Seconded. I put Ubuntu on my laptop after FreeBSD 5 wouldn't behave. It's Debian-based,

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:51:13AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? If you're referring to dot files, then the following will show them: ls -a If that is too tedious, then an alias in your shell's RC file can sort

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? Assuming you use ls(1) to display your files the command would be ``ls -a'' as explained in the the manual page. Depending on your shell you can create an alias for

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? Teilhard. You should specify if you mean at the command line or in knoqueror (which you mentioned in another post). From the command line use ls -a or la in the default csh install. In

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? Teilhard. Micah's response is correct, but just an additional comment. In FreeBSD UNIX, there are really no 'hidden' files. They are all just files with names in a specific style - in

Re: Two simple questions

2005-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 24 December 2005 08:37, Teilhard Knight wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:51, Teilhard Knight wrote: What is the command to see the hidden files and folders? And how to unhide them? Teilhard. 1) ls -A (see man ls) 2) if you use the standard csh shell try ll (see

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:34, Danial Thom wrote: --- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote: Hi Andy, I am sorry for the trouble you have had with

IPv6: routing on the local LAN

2005-12-24 Thread Dan Langille
Gidday folks, I have an IPv6 routing problem within my LAN behind the gateway. I have an IPv6 tunnel supplied by Hurricane Electric. The tunnel is setup and working. From my gateway I can access various IPv6 websites (e.g http://www.kame.net). I have enabled rtadvd(8) on my gateway. For

BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Andy Sjostrom
Hi I would like to thank all of you for your help. From what you have told me Free BSD would not be the way for me to go. I'm of to have a look at the info on Ubuntu it is nice to see that I'm not alone in my opinions of ol'Willie Gates. Although I do have plans and a fantasy of the torture

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Don Hinton
Hi Danial: On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:44, Danial Thom wrote: --- Miguel Saturnino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial Thom wrote: --- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A.

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Mike Jeays
It is not clear to me who said this; whoever did gets my vote for cheapest trick of the year. This is the same kind of response I got when I asked for screen alternatives. My grind is against Linux. Honestly, I hate linux. I dont have any real reasons for hating it, I just do, because Linux

Re: IPv6: routing on the local LAN

2005-12-24 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:37:56 -0500 Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gidday folks, I have an IPv6 routing problem within my LAN behind the gateway. I have an IPv6 tunnel supplied by Hurricane Electric. The tunnel is setup and working. From my gateway I can access various IPv6

Forth include ?

2005-12-24 Thread Leonard Zettel
This undoubtedly is of no importance whatsoever, natheless this inquiring mind would like to know. The FreeBSD boot loader is written in Forth, which I happen to be able to read (sort of, anyway). EXCEPT the word include occurs in a number of places. I grant it is fair to middling obvious what it

Using Sendmail to add headers to mail

2005-12-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am not sure if this is possible or not. Is it possible to add custom 'X-' headers to mail using Sendmail? For instance, suppose I wanted to add the Habeas Headers http://www.habeas.com/ to all my outgoing email. Is it possible to do via Sendmail, or can this only be accomplished via my MUA?

Start X hangs the computer

2005-12-24 Thread Javier Matos
Hello, I was searching about my problem in a lot off forums but I don´t find a solution... . I Install FreeBSD 6.0 in my box (I have 2 boxes and FreeBSD was installed in both). The first one work fine with all the configuration that I make but the second (boxes are different) have problems

Re: BSD Question's

2005-12-24 Thread Frank Jahnke
One good alternative that no one has mentioned is PC-BSD. It is FreeBSD that makes it very easy to set up a KDE desktop and install software. It works very well indeed. Yes, it has issues with some of the plugins at the moment (like FreeBSD) and java still has to be compiled. But the

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Danial: On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:44, Danial Thom wrote: --- Miguel Saturnino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial Thom wrote: --- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread rod person
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST) Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't expect you to care, but saying you prefer FreeBSD and saying FreeBSD is better are different animals. I just wanted to know what you could do with FreeBSD that you can't do with Windows. I already know

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- rod person [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST) Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't expect you to care, but saying you prefer FreeBSD and saying FreeBSD is better are different animals. I just wanted to know what you could do with FreeBSD

pthread problems and ports on fresh 6.0 install

2005-12-24 Thread Micah
I wrote in a few days ago about gpgme not compiling. It had an error about several pthread_* functions. I got around it by installing from packages. Now I can't compile multimedia/gstreamer from ports for the same reason. (Error below). I'm not sure what to do, or even what the problem

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:24 pm, rod person wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST) Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't expect you to care, but saying you prefer FreeBSD and saying FreeBSD is better are different animals. I just wanted to know what you could do

Re: umass detected, but da is never created

2005-12-24 Thread Rowdy
Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: I have this external harddisk kit, and when I plug it in, the system correctly recognizes it as a umass.. but afterwards, the da device is never created.. this is what I get from the console: umass0: vendor 0x05e3 USB TO IDE, rev 2.00/0.33, addr 2 umass0: BBB reset

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-24 07:34, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just tell the truth, which is that Windows XP is the best that you can do for the desktop, and that there is no perfect solution that works perfectly in every scenario? Because it's not the truth.

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-24 09:16, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:34, Danial Thom wrote: FreeBSD and Linux *should* focus on server functions, because that is where MS is weak and that is where its needed. There will likely

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: - Original Message - From: Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 8:43 AM Subject: Re: USB mice On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-24 14:01, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, FreeBSD is about twice as fast/easy to install/configure, and infinitely cheaper. Considering that WinXP usually comes on the computer, I don't see how installing and configuring FreeBSD

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:57 pm, Danial Thom wrote: --- rod person [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST) Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't expect you to care, but saying you prefer FreeBSD and saying FreeBSD is better are different

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-25 09:13, Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new

Re: USB mice

2005-12-24 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 04:01:00AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-12-25 09:13, Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: Russell J. Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:36:28AM -0600, Teilhard Knight

Re: IPv6: routing on the local LAN

2005-12-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 25 Dec 2005 at 2:59, Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:37:56 -0500 Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gidday folks, I have an IPv6 routing problem within my LAN behind the gateway. I have an IPv6 tunnel supplied by Hurricane Electric. The tunnel is setup and

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Andy Sjostrom
People please, I did not come in search of a debate as to which OS was better. I came in Search of a newer or if you will, another choice in an OS. Two OS's which have been pointed out to me and look very promising are. 1. PC BSD 2. ALinux Both offer a lot, and I know as many people do

gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm not available

2005-12-24 Thread Your Name
Greetings - I was attempting to load a few ports over the past couple of days and kept running into this problem with gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm. (Running FBSD 5.4) Earlier today, I tried loading the pips-sc60s driver. (/usr/ports/print/pips-sc60s) This driver (if I had been succesful

USB/multi-wheel mice conf files if anyone wants them

2005-12-24 Thread Your Name
In case it is of any help to anyone, I recently got two of my mice running on FreeBSD 5.4 with Xorg, and I could post the Xorg conf files I ended up using. One of the mice is an A4Tech Optical GreatEye, which has two mice wheels. One is for up-and -down, the other wheel is for

Re: USB/multi-wheel mice conf files if anyone wants them

2005-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 24, 2005 9:50:58 PM -0500 Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case it is of any help to anyone, I recently got two of my mice running on FreeBSD 5.4 with Xorg, and I could post the Xorg conf files I ended up using. It will help. Please post them. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL

Linux and .tbz

2005-12-24 Thread Howard
Is there a package install utility for FreeBSD's .tbz files that can be use on a Linux platform? And, can FreeBSD package apps run on Linux platforms? Sincerely Yours, Howard $4.95/mo. National Dialup, Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, 5mb personal web space. 5x faster dialup for only $9.95/mo. No

BSD Question's.

2005-12-24 Thread Frank Jahnke
I didn't see the first few emails in this thread so excuse me if you have answered this, but what can you do on Windows that you can't do on FreeBSD. Other than play the latest and greatest games. I'm just wondering. Schwab Streetsmart Accounting Software (CA) I don't know these, so I

Re: Linux and .tbz

2005-12-24 Thread Carlos A. Carnero Delgado
Hi, On 12/24/05, Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a package install utility for FreeBSD's .tbz files that can be use on a Linux platform? well, you can expand that package file with bunzip2 and tar (is nothing more than a bzipped tarball.) And, can FreeBSD package apps run on Linux

DTS decode with mplayer?

2005-12-24 Thread Yuan Jue
hello, all does anybody knows how to configure mplayer to decode DTS soundtrack while playing a DVDRip movie? recently more and more movies seem to use XViD+DTS technology. Any suggestion will be appreciated. thanks -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___

Re: IPv6: routing on the local LAN

2005-12-24 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:22:20 -0500 Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25 Dec 2005 at 2:59, Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:37:56 -0500 Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gidday folks, I have an IPv6 routing problem within my LAN behind the gateway. I

Wireless NIC in FreeBSD 6.0 ?

2005-12-24 Thread Yuan Jue
Hello, all 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 this, I can use kldstat to see this: Id

Re: gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm not available

2005-12-24 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 02:44, Your Name wrote: Greetings - I was attempting to load a few ports over the past couple of days and kept running into this problem with gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm. (Running FBSD 5.4) Earlier today, I tried loading the pips-sc60s driver.