Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Fernando Pinguelo wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports installed and that some other

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Joao Barros
On 6/30/06, Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports installed

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with FreeBSD. This rather sounds like a typical MS whiner, who hasn't really got around to actually understand what he is doing. In some

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Bob Johnson
On 6/29/06, Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports installed

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Joao Barros
On 6/30/06, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with FreeBSD. This rather sounds like a typical MS whiner, who hasn't really got around

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Rico Secada wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with FreeBSD. This rather sounds like a typical MS whiner, who hasn't really got around to actually understand what

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:45:02 +0100, Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:09 +0100 Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:09 +0100 Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread vayu
On Jun 30, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Rico Secada wrote: On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:40:09 +0100 Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
Rico Secada wrote: I do talk for the comunity by stating nobody cares. This list is about helping. Not venting! Nobody from the comunity cares about that! No you don't. You do not talk for me. Until I give you my proxy, neither you nor anyone else talks for me. If others want to let you speak

Frustration

2006-06-29 Thread Fernando Pinguelo
I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports installed and that some other dependencies were also missing. I

Re: Frustration

2006-06-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Thursday, 29 June 2006 at 22:51:00 -0400, Fernando Pinguelo wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I

Re: Frustration

2006-06-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/29/06, Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports

[OT] X+mga frustration

2005-10-16 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Sorry for the littering but I am so frustrated trying to make a Matrox G550 work with DVI output. The G550 has dual head capability and both the VGA and the DVI output works from the console, but only VGA from X. Tried 4.11, 6.0-RC1 with both Xfree86-4 and xorg. If there is anyone out there

Re: [OT] X+mga frustration

2005-10-16 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:39:03 +0200 Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is anyone out there who successfully configured this card to use DVI only output under X please, please, how did you do it? Port: mga_hal-4.1 Path: /usr/ports/x11-servers/mga_hal Info: Module for

Re: [OT] X+mga frustration

2005-10-16 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
You need this for DVI, DualHead and such things installed and loaded. Works fine with my G450-DVI and Xorg. fixed it. Thanks a lot! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Shell script frustration

2005-07-28 Thread martin
At 11:14 PM +0100 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: echo ldapdelete -W -D $binddn \cn=$1, $group_base\ ldapdelete -W -D $binddn \cn=$1, $group_base\ when run ('./rmgroup users') it outputs - ldapdelete -W -D cn=Manager,dc=orbweavers,dc=co,dc=uk cn=users, ou=groups,dc=orbweavers,dc=co,dc=uk

Re: Shell script frustration

2005-07-28 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:10 AM +0100 7/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garance wrote: What I do in this cases is create a script called list_args.sh: #!/bin/sh printf \nlist_args.sh at `date +%H:%M:%S` with \$# = $#\n # Process all parameters. N=0 while test $# != 0 ; do N=$(($N+1)) printf

Shell script frustration

2005-07-27 Thread martin
Hi, I am making big progress in writing the ldap tools I mentioned earlier, but I have come across a completly frustrating problem I can't crack. Most likely it is something simple to do with the shell scripting, but I can't figure it out at all - script is binddn=`awk '/rootdn/ {print $2}'

Re: Shell script frustration

2005-07-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:14 PM +0100 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: echo ldapdelete -W -D $binddn \cn=$1, $group_base\ ldapdelete -W -D $binddn \cn=$1, $group_base\ when run ('./rmgroup users') it outputs - ldapdelete -W -D cn=Manager,dc=orbweavers,dc=co,dc=uk cn=users, ou=groups,dc=orbweavers,dc=co,dc=uk

Frustration

2004-11-13 Thread Paul A. Sprague
I've done a successful 4.9 standard install of FreeBSD aand it is performing as a file server for my mac. I've never been able to install xfree86 wich is no problem, but whenever I've tried to do installs of daapd and its dependencies, I've had a variety of failures, Recently i tried

Re: Frustration

2004-11-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-13 12:24, Paul A. Sprague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done a successful 4.9 standard install of FreeBSD aand it is performing as a file server for my mac. I've never been able to install xfree86 wich is no problem, but whenever I've tried to do installs of daapd and its

Re: Frustration: the only thing mounting with NFS client :-)

2004-09-21 Thread Nagilum
Hi, I don't know what the problem in your case is, but just a few thoughts: - make sure your linux box isn't providing NFSv4, as FreeBSD does only support for v2 and 3, - to test and whether the nfs server is receiving you use showmount -e lg, it's quicker - yes, you need a portmapper running

Frustration: the only thing mounting with NFS client :-)

2004-09-19 Thread lost gweilo
Hi there, I am trying to access an NFS server (Debian Linux, host name lg) from my FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE system (host name gw) on my LAN. My basic system info: gw# uname -mnprs FreeBSD gw 4.10-STABLE i386 i386 It doesn't seem to work: gw# mount -v -t nfs lg:/mnt/tt/music /root/uu

PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.

2004-04-06 Thread R J Sharp
hi i was wondering if u could help me. When i type ipconfig/release [adapter] in msprompt it says dhcp not enabled for that adapter. it is a ppp adapter. I have managed to enble dhcp for my lan but not my internet connection. Can u help me out? Mike

Re: frustration (freeBSD ports system)

2003-12-17 Thread Steve D
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 05:52 pm, richard michael bagstad wrote: i find this frustrating. on your website (page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports- using.html) the following tells me that 'from cd' and 'from internet' are exactly the same... it does not tell

Re: frustration

2003-12-16 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, richard michael bagstad wrote: i find this frustrating. on your website (page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports- using.html) the following tells me that 'from cd' and 'from internet' are exactly the same... it does not tell me the

Re: frustration

2003-12-16 Thread Scott W
richard michael bagstad wrote: i find this frustrating. on your website (page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports- using.html) the following tells me that 'from cd' and 'from internet' are exactly the same... it does not tell me the directory of (ie.) lsof.

PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Vondung
Hello! This is my third month with FreeBSD, and while so far everything worked mostly fine, I think I now hit a wall. Hard. Please note that I lack Unix and networking background, so expect me to sound embarrassingly amateurish. The current situation: Over the past few weeks I used a network

Re: PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.

2003-09-02 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 07:37, Michael Vondung wrote: Hello! Morning :) - I get a dynamic IP address whenever I connect to the ISP and I don't know this address before I connect. This is fine, unless of course you were planning on running a mailserver/webserver/someserver for the

RE: PPP, LAN and Newbie Frustration.

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Vondung
Henrik wrote: Not a lot of detailed help..sorry...I haven't setup a PPP connection in a LONG time. The good news is that in a year I'll relocate to an area where ADSL is available. Until then I'm stuck in a beautiful but telecommunication-wise terribly medieval area. I received an e-mail from