Error writing disk when using fdisk from sysinstall

2003-07-13 Thread Nick Triantos
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a modern (~8mo old) PC. I am trying to add a new Western Digital 200GB IDE drive to my system (through a Promise Ultra DMA100 controller), and when I try to (W)rite changes to the disk, I get an error dialog box saying ERROR: Unable to write to disk ad4!,

jdk15 without having to install X Windows?

2005-10-24 Thread Nick Triantos
Hi, I'm trying to install JDK15 (from ports: java/jdk15) on a server that does not have X Windows installed. It appears from the Makefile that Java is dependent upon OpenMotif, which in turn is dependent upon a bunch of X client libs. Does anyone have experience with installing Java

Answering machine / voicemail -- email?

2006-01-29 Thread Nick Triantos
Hi all, I'm running a decently fast server with FreeBSD 5.4. I'd like to set up a way that the box can act as a voicemail server, and turn the messages into emails. I see Asterisk as a possible solution, but it seems awfully heavyweight for what I want. Are there any lighter-weight ways

Java without Motif/X?

2006-01-31 Thread Nick Triantos
Greetings, Has anyone successfully gotten Java (1.4 or 1.5) running on FreeBSD without Motif/X? I'd like to run a gui-less Java app on my server, and would strongly prefer to not install all of X + Motif, and all its potential security issues, just to get Java running. Thanks in advance,

Re: Java without Motif/X?

2006-02-03 Thread Nick Triantos
OK, thanks very much. I'm going to look for a different tool that doesn't pull in all of Java. you've all been a great help. best, -Nick Hello Michael, On 02/02/06 Nikolas Britton said: Is it possible to replace Motif with QT, GTK, etc? Not with the swing bindings, I don't think so.

Support for Alviso (Intel i915) chipset networking?

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Triantos
Hi, I just bought a Sony VGN-S380 laptop, which is based on Intel's Sonoma platform. This includes the Intel i915 chipset. I'm looking for ethernet (not wireless) drivers for it, the fxp driver reluctantly loads, but doesn't recognize that there's a compatible card in my system. I'm running

Re: Support for Alviso (Intel i915) chipset networking?

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Triantos
Kinsey wrote: Nick Triantos wrote: Hi, I just bought a Sony VGN-S380 laptop, which is based on Intel's Sonoma platform. This includes the Intel i915 chipset. I'm looking for ethernet (not wireless) drivers for it, the fxp driver reluctantly loads, but doesn't recognize that there's a compatible

Re: Support for Alviso (Intel i915) chipset networking?

2005-05-03 Thread Nick Triantos
Anyone have any ideas? I'm still a bit stumped as to why the stock 5.3 fxp driver does not work with my Sonoma-based laptop. thanks all, -Nick Nick Triantos wrote: D'oh, you're right, the i915 is the graphics chip (I think, technically, it's the whole northbridge. Intel is damn unclear about