Help, I killed my machine.

2005-06-23 Thread Ben Timby
I was upgrading from 4.10-STABLE to 5.4-STABLE, following the instructions in the freebsd handbook and something went wrong. I used CVSup to update my sources. I built the world and kernel as follows: cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel I am using the GENERIC config. I had to copy

Re: Help, I killed my machine.

2005-06-23 Thread Ben Timby
Chuck Swiger wrote: Ben Timby wrote: [ ... ] I understand a Signal 12 is a non-existant system call. The half installworld probably caused this. How can I recover from this? The easiest way is probably to perform an upgrade from a 5.4 CD burned from the ISO image. Make sure you don't

Re: firewall for web server

2004-06-29 Thread Ben Timby
Peter, choose your firewall software, with a host firewall (what you are looking for, not a network firewall) the features you need will be limited. Find a howto on using that firewall package. The only difference between what you want and what most howtos provide instructions for is the

DNS + DHCP auto host updates.

2004-06-11 Thread Ben Timby
Hello, does anyone have a good guide for setting up DNS updates using ISC DHCP server? I want hosts on my network to become registered with DNS server when they recieve network configuration. I have not been able to find a guide or more information than what is in the man pages for dhcpd and

Re: Routing question

2004-06-11 Thread Ben Timby
Perhaps if you post more info, we can come up with creative solutions for you. My big question is why? AFAIK, you cannot have more than one default gateway, unless you are using netgraph to balance between network interfaces. However, you could NAT C D to their respective public interfaces.

Re: HTTPtunnel hangs with proxy

2004-06-11 Thread Ben Timby
My suggestion would be to use tcpdump to examine the data flow. Watch what your browser sends to the http proxy, and then watch what htc sends to it. Probably will be different. Obviously htc thinks it is talking directly to hts, and thus is not speaking proper http proxy protocol. While I

Re: Parallel Printer Problem

2004-06-09 Thread Ben Timby
My first thought is to check your BIOS, and try enabling/disabling any auto config features associated with this port. In my experience, ppc0 *just works*. However, I did a google groups search, and I found some threads describing your problem, and providing solutions along these lines.

Re: install ipsec tools

2004-05-25 Thread Ben Timby
Xavier, you should attempt to install the package from the ports tree. FreeBSD uses the ports tree much like mandrake uses RPM files. The difference of course is that RPM files are binary packages while the ports tree simply provides a makefile which will fetch the source, configure and

winmodem

2004-05-06 Thread Ben Timby
Hello list! I have an internal winmodem in my laptop, it is a smartlink modem, and currently works with the linux driver sources provided at smlink.com. I would like to run FreeBSD on my laptop, but I am unsure how to get this winmodem working. One possibility I thought of is to use the new

Linksys WMP55AG (ath) and kernel config.

2004-03-23 Thread Ben Timby
I just upgraded my sources to 5.2.1 using cvsup. This has fetched all the new files, which I have compiled, and installed successfully. uname -a reveals the following: 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 However, I just got a new Linksys wifi card (see subject), and need to enable the ath driver (and ath_hal it

Re: Linksys WMP55AG (ath) and kernel config.

2004-03-23 Thread Ben Timby
OK, I loaded them with kldload, and both returned File already Exists. I don't see device nodes for this driver, any pointers on what to do now? Thanks. Shaun T. Erickson wrote: Ben Timby wrote: I just upgraded my sources to 5.2.1 using cvsup. ... They are modules in /boot/kernel, I believe