Two questions: WLAN and FBSD Bootloader
Okay, pardon me for doing this folks but rather than have two separate e-mails I figured I might as well place both points in here that I am having trouble with. 1. I run FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop, very nicely I might add. Its on my home network via 802.11b with the router utilising DHCP. Unfortunately, I have to manually control the wireless device every time I boot up and login so that it comes back onto the network, I assume this is because I am doing something wrong that doesn't allow for DHCP. In my rc.conf I have the line: ifconfig_wi0=ssid WLAN This works fine, on boot it is clearly scanning on that WLAN but it just isn't locking onto channel 11 and associating, as it should. So everytime I login I have to type dhclient wi0. Now, I've tried to add something along these lines into the rc.conf, such as: dhclient=wi0 and dhclient_wi0=YES But to no avail. Can anyone point me to where I am going wrong and perhaps show me the light? 2. My second problem, which isn't really a great problem (more of a vanity thing really), is with the FreeBSD boot loader. On boot the loader looks like this: F1 ??? F2 FreeBSD Default: F2 Now thats all fine and dandy, except the other OS on my hard drive is Windows XP Professional. How do I alter the boot loader to reflect F1 as being WinXP? I've read the man-page for boot0cfg and it doesn't appear to offer what I need, moreover I see no point in fiddling with the existing configuration of the slices. As I said, its mainly vanity. I hope that someone will be able to answer my questions, many thanks in advance, Regards, -- Andrew Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux port.....
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 13:51, C. Ulrich wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 00:43, andi payn wrote: 4. While running a similar set of services, FreeBSD may be using less background processing time. Or maybe not. I definitely see significantly lower CPU usage (idling under X, FreeBSD shows about 2-10% CPU, linux about 15-35%). However, this may just be an artifact of linux's notoriously bad reporting, or the fact that I'm using the O(1) kernel and preemptible kernel patches, or maybe something stupid some GNOME applet is doing because I configured it wrong under linux; who knows Check with top to see which processes are using the CPU. For me, 9 times out of 10, it's the X server itself taking up cycles for doing nothing. It won't do it right after a fresh boot, but some program along the way usually triggers the siphoning of the CPU usage. Charles Ulrich I have found this an awful lot whilst running X under Linux. After a fresh boot, with nothing running, it works nicely. Give it a couple open applications, and even when nothing is running except X itself, it will take up extra CPU time and physical memory space until freshly booted again. Regards, -- Andrew Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless (802.11) question
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:31, stan wrote: I'm about to embark on a wireless experiemnt, having never dealt with this technology before. So, I've got a failry basic question. My plan was to put a wireless card in a machine running FreeBSD, and use this machine as a gateway from an existing network to a new subnet that would only exist in the wireless world. Some people are telling me that I can't do that. They are saying I need an access point device for all the various devices to communicate to. Am I on the wrong track here? You can turn a FreeBSD box into a wireless access point: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Hope that helps, mate. Regards, -- Andrew Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
