Wireless networking with DHCP tickets

2004-02-26 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
Hello-- I'm trying to use a hotel wireless network effectively. I can connect perfectly, and surf/do email, and so forth. However, I have to re-authenticate to the server every 2 minutes (the length of DHCP lease handed out). According to Orange WiFi, this is because the DHCP server sends some

Re: Wireless networking with DHCP tickets

2004-02-26 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
Dirk-Willem van Gulik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Feb 26, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote: According to Orange WiFi, this is because the DHCP server sends some kind of a keep-alive ticket to the client every 2 minutes, and if the client does not respond, the lease is revoked

Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible

2003-08-20 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unfortunately, i don't have an *.raw files to try so i simply tried to cat somefile.wav /dev/dsp (and also to /dev/audio) both produce sound a screeching sound reminiscent of japanese noise bands :) That's good sign! It shows the device is configured. Do any

Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible

2003-08-19 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Tiarnan, Thanks for your input. I had already turned off the PNPBIOS option. I tried your suggestion of recompiling with: options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES Judging by dmesg, it made no difference. It also did not allow any of the software to

Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible

2003-08-18 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
Hello, try recompiling your kernel with options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES set. This sorted out my problems with that card. Hope this helps Tiarnan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: /dev/dsp inaccessible

2003-08-18 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
Hi, apologies for replying to my own message, but an additional point... turn off PNPBIOS, and make sure that your BIOS is set to non PNP operating system. T ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Automount from a Solaris NIS server possible?

2002-12-03 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
Hello-- I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE and have managed (after some difficulty), to get it to bind to a Solaris NIS server we have here. All NIS users can log on now, but I can't figure out how to get home directories automounted when users do log in. I tried a couple of things on the web, an