Creating a CUPS printer instance from web interface?

2008-11-20 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I would like to create named instances for an Epson printer. We are printing invoices on normal A4, photos on glossy photo paper, and draft papers (with draft quality). E.g. the paper size, margins and print quality changes from time to time. I have two problems. First, I do not see any way

Warning: Can't find .....

2008-11-20 Thread Brent Clark
Hi I would like to install man on my machine But using sysintall I get Warning: Can't find the `7.0-RELEASE-p5 . Googling says I must check Options via Sysinstall and run sysinstall releaseName=7.0-RELEASE-p5 configPackages MY first question is, what does this do and / or fix. When I

Re: Running X without a videocard

2008-11-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:58:40PM -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: X windows has client/server built into the protocol: you can run an X application on a machine that has no video card and display the result on another machine that has video facility and an X display (called an X server).

Re: smbfs 2 GB file size limit

2008-11-20 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:50 PM 11/18/2008, David Horn wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:23 AM 11/18/2008, David Horn wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have FreeBSD 7.0 Release and if I mount_smbfs a network NTFS

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:55:35 +0100, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD do not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh** windows say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ). Hi Albert, If you can

Re: Apology

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:10:13 -0500, Gary Hartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry group I just realized I've been sending HTML emails to the group. Plain text now set. Stupid Outlook. It's not a *huge* deal, but _thanks_ for fixing that :D ___

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:40:09 +0100, Manfred Usselmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a small example, how limited Windows really is: Even today it is not possible to configure the standard interface of Windows XP (Luna) in any other color than blue, olive green and silver. LOL. Not to mention

Re: Free usenet nntp servers

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:33:48 +0800, Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past (alt.binaries.warez) contained monthly posts of a list of Free usenet nntp servers. I dont have access to a nntp server so I can't search foe the list. Does any one here know of a Free usenet nntp server I can

Re: smbfs 2 GB file size limit

2008-11-20 Thread David Horn
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:50 PM 11/18/2008, David Horn wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:23 AM 11/18/2008, David Horn wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Warning: Can't find .....

2008-11-20 Thread matt donovan
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Brent Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi I would like to install man on my machine But using sysintall I get Warning: Can't find the `7.0-RELEASE-p5 . Googling says I must check Options via Sysinstall and run sysinstall releaseName=7.0-RELEASE-p5

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-20 Thread twelcome
(Forgive the top-posting) Your assertion that linux is both low end unix and low end windows replacement is factually wrong: As a high end unix I think it's earned it's stripes, currently dominating the top 500 supercomputer systems in the world, some no other unix has managed to accomplish

ZFS Recovery Tools

2008-11-20 Thread Marcel Grandemange
Good Day. I have just managed to get myself a 1.5tb Seagate drive and after reading all the input from various users I assume zfs would be the file system of choice for such large volumes? Are there limitations or downsides using UFS on such a large volume? And if I do go with ZFS how do I

Re: smbfs 2 GB file size limit

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 20, 2008, at 7:21 AM, David Horn wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Derek Ragona No error message, it just stopped writing at 1 Gb. I was doing this using scp. Whoa, hopefully you just made a few typos here, or we are going down the wrong path of investigation. Did you

Re: ZFS Recovery Tools

2008-11-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
all the input from various users I assume zfs would be the file system of choice for such large volumes? Are there limitations or downsides using UFS on such a large volume? no, unless you will create it with default options. use -i big-power-of-two simply to have enough inodes for your

rdesktop disappears into the background, related to upgrade

2008-11-20 Thread Tyson Boellstorff
I have two machines running FreeBSD -- a desktop running 6.2-RELEASE synced and built January 2007 and a laptop running 7.0-STABLE. On the desktop, I can run rdesktop over the vpn attached to 127.0.1.10:33890. Works great. On the laptop, I can start rdesktop, but it disappears into the

Re: ZFS Recovery Tools

2008-11-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UFS performs excellent on large drives/volumes. not in theory but in practice, i use it every place, on volumes up to 3GB NO PROBLEMS. Do you mean 3TB instead? yes. sorry

Re: ZFS Recovery Tools

2008-11-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I was just reading stuff about ZFS, and wonder if it would be beneficial for me to use it. I store a lots of multimedia files in my HD, they usually have the size of 1GB (e.g. 1.2, 1.7 or even bigger), and my system is running UFS. so can I buy a new HD, say 500GB, and format it ZFS style

RE: ZFS Recovery Tools

2008-11-20 Thread Marcel Grandemange
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 3628 (20081120) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: ZFS Recovery Tools

2008-11-20 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UFS performs excellent on large drives/volumes. not in theory but in practice, i use it every place, on volumes up to 3GB NO PROBLEMS. Do you mean 3TB instead? ___

Re: ZFS Recovery Tools

2008-11-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi, I was just reading stuff about ZFS, and wonder if it would be beneficial for me to use it. I store a lots of multimedia files in my HD, they usually have the size of 1GB (e.g. 1.2, 1.7 or even bigger), and my system is running UFS. simply use UFS with big blocks (-b 65536 -f 8192) will

Milter compile problem [OT]

2008-11-20 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I cant compile my filter, the error is: /usr/home/efrenba/C_Plus/mpolice/src/mpolice.cpp:63: undefined reference to `smfi_setconn' Im working with PC-BSD 1.41 (FreeBSD pcbsd 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #2) and KDevelop. I checked the #include libmilter/mfapi.h and I think that

Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Niyi Christ
Hi,   I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the

Hello just looking for info

2008-11-20 Thread Robert Anthony
Hello dear Sir/ Madam; I have recently started work on a business plan for a small computer manufacturing plant. I have decided that I want to distribute my computers with a non windows OS such as Linux or free BSD or something of this nature. I am contacting you because I am looking for some

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Steven Susbauer
Niyi Christ wrote: Hi, I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:02:40PM -0800, Niyi Christ wrote: Hi,   I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when

Re: Hello just looking for info

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:38:23PM -0330, Robert Anthony wrote: Hello dear Sir/ Madam; I have recently started work on a business plan for a small computer manufacturing plant. I have decided that I want to distribute my computers with a non windows OS such as Linux or free BSD or something

Asus eeepc, Freebsd-head, problem with ath/wifi driver

2008-11-20 Thread Ole Vole
Hello maillist! I trying setup FreeBSD according Wiki notes http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee and get system without ath Wi-Fi devices (Fn+f2/Bios settings for Wifi: Enabled) buildin/install kernel/world from 20081120 snapshot FreeBSD-CURRENT with/or patching from madwifi.org-project ( http

Re: Asus eeepc, Freebsd-head, problem with ath/wifi driver

2008-11-20 Thread Dan
Ole Vole([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.20 22:08:41 +0300: Hello maillist! Also, trying to test http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20081028.tgz but ifconfig show only LAN ale0 Ethernet interface. On the list pciconf i see Ralink Technology, Corp devices but iy without drivers. You

Re: Asus eeepc, Freebsd-head, problem with ath/wifi driver

2008-11-20 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:08:41PM +0300, Ole Vole wrote: Hello maillist! I trying setup FreeBSD according Wiki notes http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee and get system without ath Wi-Fi devices (Fn+f2/Bios settings for Wifi: Enabled) buildin/install kernel/world from 20081120 snapshot

Jails and common ports

2008-11-20 Thread Marcus I. Ryan
Cross-posting this to freebsd-ports because it's mostly about the ports infrastructure and how I might (ab)use it... I'm looking into setting up jails, and was hoping I was onto something with using ports to maintain application software but I hit a snag and I'm hoping someone can either

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Nerius Landys
I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the kernel

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:35:19PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever

Re: Asus eeepc, Freebsd-head, problem with ath/wifi driver

2008-11-20 Thread Octavian Ionescu
system without ath Wi-Fi devices (Fn+f2/Bios settings for Wifi: Enabled) buildin/install kernel/world from 20081120 snapshot FreeBSD-CURRENT with/or patching from madwifi.org-project ( http://snapshots.madwifi- project.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3875-20081105.tar.gz ) (old

CURSOS GRATUITOS TIC DEL INEM CON INSERCION LABORAL

2008-11-20 Thread Fundacion Infored
Publicidad [in=] [mi=] [IN=]    =    [fo=] AVISO Ú= LTIMAS PLAZAS: CONVOCATORIA ÚLTIMAS PLAZ= AS DE CURSOS TIC GRATUITOS DEL INEM PARA DESEMPLEADOS CON COMPROMISO DE INSERCIÓN LABORAL = nbsp;  

install gamin in stead of fam

2008-11-20 Thread Dino Vliet
Dear Freebsd list, How would you solve the following task at hand? I would like to install gamin on my amd64 system running freebsd 6.3 in stead of fam, I've been using the latter since installing openoffice (on the net I found a guide saying I should put WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=fam in my

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Albert Shih
Le 20/11/2008 à 11:35:20+0200, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit Hi, First thanks you for you help In fact I make the wifi run by using wpi driver. If you can find a PC-CARD (or `PCMCIA') that uses one of the supported chipsets, then just go for it. To see if the internal network interface card

Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure

2008-11-20 Thread Vinny
Hi, A friend of mine is trying out FreeBSD and ran into a booting problem. Here is his message: Well, that's discouraging. I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I figured would be respectable. Downloaded the

do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD?

2008-11-20 Thread Gary Kline
Are there are grammer-checkers [ or ones that offer suggestions ] for FreeBSD? If there is one with OOo-3, I haven't been able to build it yet gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Albert Shih
Le 21/11/2008 à 01:43:29+0100, Albert Shih a écrit Le 20/11/2008 à 11:35:20+0200, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit After some google I find the patch http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ for the sound problem. Find drivers but not running : sound. I got

CURSOS GRATUITOS TIC DEL INEM CON INSERCION LABORAL

2008-11-20 Thread Fundacion Infored
Publicidad [in=] [mi=] [IN=]    =    [fo=] AVISO Ú= LTIMAS PLAZAS: CONVOCATORIA ÚLTIMAS PLAZ= AS DE CURSOS TIC GRATUITOS DEL INEM PARA DESEMPLEADOS CON COMPROMISO DE INSERCIÓN LABORAL = nbsp;  

Re: Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Vinny wrote: Hi, A friend of mine is trying out FreeBSD and ran into a booting problem. Here is his message: Well, that's discouraging. I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I

Re: Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure

2008-11-20 Thread Fbsd1
Vinny wrote: Hi, A friend of mine is trying out FreeBSD and ran into a booting problem. Here is his message: Well, that's discouraging. I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I figured would be respectable.

Using diff

2008-11-20 Thread Fbsd1
Trying to use diff program to create a patch. Output gos to console and does not create the patch file. If it do diff original updated patch.file The patch.file does not look like a normal patch file. What am I doing wrong here? ___

Re: Using diff

2008-11-20 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, Fbsd1 wrote: Trying to use diff program to create a patch. Output gos to console and does not create the patch file. If it do diff original updated patch.file The patch.file does not look like a normal patch file. What am I doing wrong here? Try ``diff -u original

Re: install gamin in stead of fam

2008-11-20 Thread Thomas Abthorpe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 20, 2008 06:28:21 pm Dino Vliet wrote: snip The approaches I can think of are: 1) get rid of fam and everything that requires it with pkg_deinstall -R fam* , then adjust /etc/make.conf to have WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin and reinstall all

Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-20 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
Hi All, I have just subscribed to freebsd-questions and I have a question about ppp -nat. I have 2 computers. One is running FreeBSD-7.0R, the other is running WinXP. The host running FBSD7.0R has been connecting to the outside world using user-ppp without any problem for very long. Now I

Re: Jails and common ports

2008-11-20 Thread Mel
On Thursday 20 November 2008 23:33:30 Marcus I. Ryan wrote: However, I started hitting issues with libtool and friends. The children would not find them, and would go ahead and start installing their own local copies of those ports. Turns out quite a few tools are defined in /usr/ports/Mk/*

Re: Warning: Can't find .....

2008-11-20 Thread Brent Clark
matt donovan wrote: Well you didn't install man pages since minimal install does not install them. To get the man pages you have to change 7.0-RELEASE-p5 to just 7.0-RELEASE Hi Thanks for this, I actually did realise my mistake after the post. Mans installed :) What does make me wonder is

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: Hi All, I have just subscribed to freebsd-questions and I have a question about ppp -nat. I have 2 computers. One is running FreeBSD-7.0R, the other is running WinXP. The host running FBSD7.0R has been connecting to the outside world using user-ppp without any

Re: Problems with Xfce console

2008-11-20 Thread Bernt Hansson
Nikola Lečić said the following on 2008-11-16 14:10: On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:35:32 +0100 Bernt Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lečić said the following on 2008-11-15 17:13: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:43:06 +0100 Bernt Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me it's just xfce with option

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:43:29 +0100, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First thanks you for you help In fact I make the wifi run by using wpi driver. That's nice, yes. The wpi(4) driver seems to support the chipset of your wlan adapter :) Running wihtout problem:

Re: ZFS Recovery Tools

2008-11-20 Thread Valentin Bud
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was just reading stuff about ZFS, and wonder if it would be beneficial for me to use it. I store a lots of multimedia files in my HD, they usually have the size of 1GB (e.g. 1.2, 1.7 or even bigger), and my