How to setup DVD, CD and Floppy Drives

2005-01-18 Thread Brian John
Hello, I have a DVD writer, a CD writer and a floppy drive in my PC. Since I don't know what file system that a media will use until I put it in the drive, how do I set it up in fstab? This is what it looks like right now for these devices: /dev/acd0 /cdrom auto

Can I set priorities for file transfers

2005-01-18 Thread Brian John
Hello, I have (I think) kind of a unique question. I leave my home computer on all day and transfer and share files via a P2P application. However, sometimes I like to ssh in from work and transfer files between my work PC and my home PC via scp. Right now it is really slow because it is

Re: Can I set priorities for file transfers

2005-01-19 Thread Brian John
Miguel Mendez wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:23:58 -0600 (CST) Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hello, I have (I think) kind of a unique question. I leave my home computer on all day and transfer and share files via a P2P application. However, sometimes I like to ssh in from work

ALTQ support?

2005-01-20 Thread Brian John
Hello, I am trying to get pf to work on my 5.3 machine. I thought that I had it setup but it says that I don't have ALTQ support? What is that? Can someone help me set it up? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

which bittorrent client

2005-01-24 Thread Brian John
Hello, I would like some advice on which Bittorrent client to use. I really like Azureus, but I always get OutOfMemoryException's and it takes up like 300 MB of memory sometimes. Is there a more lightweight client that has the main features of Azureus (priorities, auto-resuming)? What does

way to run application as root in fluxbox menu

2005-02-01 Thread Brian John
Hello, I want to be able to add k3b to my menu in fluxbox. However, it has to be run as root and I'm not sure how to do that. Is there a way that I could get k3b to automatically run as root in fluxbox? It is ok if I have to enter my root password every time that I run it. Thanks /Brian

problems running k3b in fluxbox with sudo

2005-02-01 Thread Brian John
When I try to run k3b in fluxbox with sudo, I get this error message: 'Unable to find growisofs executable'. Any clue what would cause this? I can't burn DVDs until I get it resolved... Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: problems running k3b in fluxbox with sudo

2005-02-01 Thread Brian John
Thomas Foster wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools Hope this helps.. T - Original Message - From: Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:30 PM Subject: problems running k3b in fluxbox with sudo When I try to run k3b in fluxbox

Java 1.5 and FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-02 Thread Brian John
Is it possible at all to get Java 1.5 running on FreeBSD 5.3? If so, how can I do it? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

dvd-burning/alternative to k3b?

2005-02-03 Thread Brian John
Hello, I was using k3b for burning but now that I am using fluxbox it looks like I can't use it anymore. Is there a close alternative? What is everyone using for cd and dvd burning? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

trouble mounting partition on hard drive

2005-02-05 Thread Brian John
Hello, I am unable to mount one of my ntfs partitions. When I try to mount it I get this: # mount /hd2_4 fstab: /etc/fstab:12: Inappropriate file type or format fstab: /etc/fstab:12: Inappropriate file type or format mount: /hd2_4: unknown special file or file system Here is my fstab file: #

How to compile linux apps?

2005-02-05 Thread Brian John
Hello, I'm trying to compile the 'allin1' dockapp for fluxbox. When I type 'make', I get the following errors: n# make gcc -ggdb -Wall -O2 -c allin1.c allin1.c:32:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory In file included from allin1.c:34: dockhelper.h:86: error: syntax error before '*' token

Re: How to compile linux apps?

2005-02-05 Thread Brian John
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:00 pm, Brian John wrote: Hello, I'm trying to compile the 'allin1' dockapp for fluxbox. When I type 'make', I get the following errors: n# make gcc -ggdb -Wall -O2 -c allin1.c allin1.c:32:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory In file

problem with realplayer

2005-02-05 Thread Brian John
Hello, whenever I try to run realplayer I get the following: $ realplay (realplay.bin:94093): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory Failed to load pixbuf file: /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/share/realplay/icon.png:

Re: problem with realplayer

2005-02-07 Thread Brian John
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:41:35AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Hello, whenever I try to run realplayer I get the following: $ realplay (realplay.bin:94093): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file

Re: problem with realplayer

2005-02-08 Thread Brian John
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:37:58PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:41:35AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Hello, whenever I try to run realplayer I get the following: $ realplay (realplay.bin:94093): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can

Re: problem with realplayer

2005-02-12 Thread Brian John
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:33:25PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:37:58PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:41:35AM -0600, Brian John wrote: snip snip

Re: problem with realplayer

2005-02-13 Thread Brian John
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:33:25PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:37:58PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M

Re: problem with realplayer

2005-02-13 Thread Brian John
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:11:29PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Brian John wrote: snip Well, I tried that and now I can't run realplayer at all. This is what happens: $ realplay /usr

sudo never requires a password?

2005-02-13 Thread Brian John
How come whenever I do a 'sudo' command I never have to enter a password? I have tried it several times and it is like I have root access but don't need a root password by just using sudo. I think this could be pretty dangerous. I've never setup sudo before, at least not myself. Could

trouble printing

2005-02-14 Thread Brian John
Hello, I tried this question on the newbies list first but didn't get a response so I'm trying here. I am having trouble printing from my HP Deskjet 710C printer. It is hooked up via parallel port and I can print fine with it from Windows. However, I can't get it to work in FreeBSD. I followed

Re: trouble printing

2005-02-14 Thread Brian John
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:06:06AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Hello, I tried this question on the newbies list first but didn't get a response so I'm trying here. This is the right list for questions. I am having trouble printing from my HP Deskjet 710C printer

Error in port upgrade (was Re: portmanager hosed)

2005-02-15 Thread Brian John
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:15 am, Brian John wrote: When I try to upgrade my ports I just get error messages. Can someone help me out? I'll paste the output below. Thanks /Brian su-2.05b# portmanager -u portmanager 0.2.6_5 info: executing rm -f /usr/local/share

Re: Error in port upgrade (was Re: portmanager hosed)

2005-02-15 Thread Brian John
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:05 pm, you wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:15 am, Brian John wrote: When I try to upgrade my ports I just get error messages. Can someone help me out? I'll paste the output below. Thanks /Brian

Re: Error in port upgrade (was Re: portmanager hosed)

2005-02-16 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - Ignore my last message! change assert(0); to break; not continue; # On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:52 pm, Brian John wrote: Brian, I can't send this to you as a patch because it would conflict

Re: Error in port upgrade (was Re: portmanager hosed)

2005-02-16 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:50 am, Brian John wrote: - Original Message - Ignore my last message! change assert(0); to break; not continue; # On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:52 pm

How can I start a GUI application through SSH

2005-02-21 Thread Brian John
Hello, I would like to be able to start an X application through ssh. I want the app to actually run on my local box (meaning I want the window to pop up on the box that I am ssh-ing to), but I just want to be able to start it remotely. Can someone help me figure out how to do this? Thanks

Re: How can I start a GUI application through SSH

2005-02-21 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - On February 21, 2005 03:25 pm, Brian John wrote: Hello, I would like to be able to start an X application through ssh. I want the app to actually run on my local box (meaning I want the window to pop up on the box that I am ssh-ing to), but I just want

best way to remove kde and related apps

2005-02-21 Thread Brian John
Hello, When I first installed FreeBSD I decided that I wanted to run KDE so I installed it and all of the stuff that comes with it (KDM for example). After realizing how poorly it performes I have been using fluxbox, which I like much better. What is the best way to remove kde and all of the

Re: trouble printing

2005-02-21 Thread Brian John
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:40:19PM -0600, Brian John wrote: Ok, I installed apsfilter and pnm2ppa. I've been looking on the net and I'm starting to get overwhelmed in documentation. Could you at least help me get started setting this up? Is there any hope that I

java applications taking up too much memory

2005-02-22 Thread Brian John
Hello, It seems that my java applications are taking up a ton of memory. Even one small jar that I start at startup takes up almost 200 MB! I start it like this: java -Xms4m -Xmx8m -jar /home/brian/serverWatcher/serverwatcher.jar and it looks like this in top: 76750 brian 200 159M

getting sylpheed-claws to view html mail

2005-03-04 Thread Brian John
Hello, I installed the sylpheed-claws port with the WITH_ALL=YES option. I also loaded the 'dillo-viewer' plugin. However, it still is not using dillo to read HTML mail. Is there something else that I need to do? Thanks /Brian ___

Installed new kernel and then make buildworld and now no internet?

2005-03-05 Thread Brian John
Hello. I just added a couple of config attributes to my make.conf, namely this (I think this is close): CPU-TYPE = athlon-xp CFLAGS = -0 -pipe COPTFLAGS = -0 -pipe Then I did a make buildkernel and make installkernel. I then rebooted into single user mode and did a make buildworld. Then I

Re: Installed new kernel and then make buildworld and now no internet?

2005-03-05 Thread Brian John
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:40:26AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Then I did a make buildkernel and make installkernel. I then rebooted into single user mode and did a make buildworld. Then I restarted and now I have no internet. I can't get any pages to come up in firefox

Re: Installed new kernel and then make buildworld and now no internet?

2005-03-05 Thread Brian John
Kent Stewart wrote: On Saturday 05 March 2005 12:40 am, Brian John wrote: Hello. I just added a couple of config attributes to my make.conf, namely this (I think this is close): CPU-TYPE = athlon-xp CFLAGS = -0 -pipe COPTFLAGS = -0 -pipe Then I did a make buildkernel and make installkernel. I

Re: Installed new kernel and then make buildworld and now no internet?

2005-03-05 Thread Brian John
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:40:26AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Hello. I just added a couple of config attributes to my make.conf, namely this (I think this is close): CPU-TYPE = athlon-xp CFLAGS = -0 -pipe COPTFLAGS = -0 -pipe That should be '-O', not '-0

Re: Installed new kernel and then make buildworld and now no internet?

2005-03-05 Thread Brian John
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:09:56 + Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:08:54AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:40:26AM -0600, Brian John wrote: Then I did a make buildkernel and make installkernel. I

changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-10 Thread Brian John
Hello, I just switched my computer to a new case yesterday and now it won't boot. However, Windows boots fine (I dual boot). Here are some of the messages that FreeBSD has while it is starting up: ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name

Re: RE: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-10 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - -Original Message- ... ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 ... mountroot I'm far from being the expert... But is it possible

Re: Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-11 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - Brian John wrote: ad1: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying) ...and I can't boot into FreeBSD. It just puts me in single user mode. It almost appears as if my hard drives somehow were damaged when I switched cases. However, Windows works just fine

Re: Re: Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-13 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - Brian John wrote: ad1: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying) ...and I can't boot into FreeBSD. It just puts me in single user mode. It almost appears as if my hard drives somehow were damaged when I switched cases. However, Windows works

permissions on partition?

2005-03-14 Thread Brian John
Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf: own ad0s3 brian:operator permad0s3

permissions on partition?

2005-03-14 Thread Brian John
Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf: own ad0s3 brian:operator permad0s3

permissions on partition?

2005-03-14 Thread Brian John
Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf: own ad0s3 brian:operator permad0s3

permissions on partition?

2005-03-14 Thread Brian John
Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf: own ad0s3 brian:operator permad0s3

Re: Re: permissions on partition?

2005-03-14 Thread Brian John
Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf

bad CRC in rar file

2005-03-14 Thread Brian John
Hello, I have a collection of rar files that all hold together one .iso file. One of the rar files has a bad CRC so rar fails to extract the ISO image. Does anyone know if there is a different application that can extract this image even though there are crc errors? I looked at the rar manpage

Re: Re: Is this a good or a bad idea to delete all off this ?

2005-03-15 Thread Brian John
Gert Cuykens wrote: can i do controle C when i want to go to sleep while upgrading ? A cleaner solution, regardless of whatever you're running that you'd like to ^c, is to just let it run inside a screen session and reattach to the screen session later to see how it went.

cannot build openoffice

2005-03-16 Thread Brian John
Hello, When I try to build openoffice I get the following error: ./unxfbsd.pro/misc/FREEBSDGCCIruntime/libprldap50.so \ echo /dev/null cp: ./unxfbsd.pro/misc/build/mozilla/dist/bin/libnss3.so: No such file or directory dmake: Error code 1, while making

Simple bash script to grep files for bad keywords

2005-03-23 Thread Brian John
Hello, I am trying to write a simple bash script that will grep all files in a directory (except ones that start with 00) for certain bad keywords. Here is what I have so far: #!/bin/bash # This is a simple script to check all sql scripts for bad keywords BAD_KEYWORDS='spool echo timing commit

Re: Simple bash script to grep files for bad keywords

2005-03-23 Thread Brian John
On 2005-03-23 12:29, Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to write a simple bash script that will grep all files in a directory (except ones that start with 00) for certain bad keywords. Here is what I have so far: #!/bin/bash # This is a simple script to check

how to find files less than a day old?

2005-03-29 Thread Brian John
Hello, I'm trying to write a script to concatenate a bunch of files. Basically I want to grab a bunch of files out of a directory that are less than an hour or so old and put them in one file. This is what I am using so far: find . -mtime -1 -type f | xargs cat temp.txt However, this only

Re: how to find files less than a day old?

2005-03-29 Thread Brian John
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:02:37 -0600 (CST), Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to write a script to concatenate a bunch of files. Basically I want to grab a bunch of files out of a directory that are less than an hour or so old and put them in one file. This is what

Re: how to find files less than a day old?

2005-03-29 Thread Brian John
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:11:45 -0600 (CST), Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:02:37 -0600 (CST), Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to write a script to concatenate a bunch of files. Basically I want to grab a bunch of files out

Re: how to find files less than a day old?

2005-03-30 Thread Brian John
FreeBSD box that I am connected to. I think it may be a Solaris 9 box. Is there any way to get this to work in Solaris? Maybe the solaris find command supports the -newer option. I think -newer is more widely supported, and likely to be available on Solaris. If

just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-03 Thread Brian John
Hello, I just got an xDSL system. In Windows I can browse the internet and do whatever I want just fine. However, in FreeBSD the only things that work are my p2p programs. Azureus and amule work fine, they both connect and download. However, when I try to use dillo, Firefox or Thunderbird they

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-03 Thread Brian John
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-04-03, Brian John scribbled these curious markings: Hello, I just got an xDSL system. In Windows I can browse the internet and do whatever I want just fine. However, in FreeBSD the only things that work are my p2p programs

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-03 Thread Brian John
Brian John writes: Hello, I just got an xDSL system. In Windows I can browse the internet and do whatever I want just fine. However, in FreeBSD the only things that work are my p2p programs. Azureus and amule work fine, they both connect and download. However, when I try to use dillo

RE: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-03 Thread Brian John
the config files you used to accomplish this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian John Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 4:52 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail Hello, I just got an xDSL system

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-03 Thread Brian John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:51:47 -0500 (CDT) Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just got an xDSL system. In Windows I can browse the internet and do whatever I want just fine. However, in FreeBSD the only things that work are my p2p programs. Azureus and amule

help with pf

2005-04-03 Thread Brian John
Hello, I read the manpage on pf and constructed a basic set of rules and macros. However, when I start pf it gives me errors about the syntax of my file. Basically all I want to accomplish is I don't want my p2p programs to be able to hog the traffic away from me if I'm trying to surf. When

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-04 Thread Brian John
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:06:16PM -0500, Brian John wrote: [...] Ok, I think you may have pointed me to the source of the problem. Here is what my resolv.conf looks like after every time I reboot my compuer: search domain.actdsltmp nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 205.171.3.65

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-04 Thread Brian John
On Apr 3, 2005 9:12 PM, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One you've changed resolv.conf, it should stay that way permanently across boots, unless you change it again. dhclient will overwrite /etc/resolv.conf on boot How can I keep dhclient from doing this? /Brian

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-04 Thread Brian John
On Monday 04 April 2005 07:40 am, Brian John wrote: On Apr 3, 2005 9:12 PM, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One you've changed resolv.conf, it should stay that way permanently across boots, unless you change it again. dhclient will overwrite /etc/resolv.conf

cannot erase cd-rw

2005-11-20 Thread Brian John
For some reason, I can't erase cd-rws. I have tried K3b, cdrecord and burncd. Below is the output from cdrecord, can someone please help out? sudo cdrecord -v blank=all dev=1,1,0 Password: Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.4) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 =

Re: cannot erase cd-rw

2005-11-21 Thread Brian John
How can I forcibly erase a disk? So far I have been unable to get this to work... Thanks /Brian - Original Message - On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:16:35PM -0600, Brian John wrote: For some reason, I can't erase cd-rws. I have tried K3b, cdrecord and burncd. Below is the output

mouse scroll not working

2006-04-27 Thread Brian John
Hi everyone, I just updated my ports and now when I move my mouse scroll up and down it thinks that I'm scrolling horizontally instead of vertically. I am running on 5.4. Any ideas? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

video players broken

2006-04-27 Thread Brian John
Hi, I just upgraded my ports and now all of my video players either won't install, or they won't start up. I've tried 4 different ones, here is what happens with each: vlc: won't install /usr/local/lib/libmatroska.so: undefined reference to `libebml::CodedSizeLength(unsigned long long,

Re: video players broken

2006-04-27 Thread Brian John
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Brian John wrote: Hi, I just upgraded my ports and now all of my video players either won't install, or they won't start up. I've tried 4 different ones, here is what happens with each: vlc: won't install /usr/local/lib

Azureus Window Massive

2006-04-27 Thread Brian John
Hi, I am running fluxbox on FreeBSD 5.4. For some reason for the past several months my Azureus window has been steadily growing in size. It's now so big that I can't even re-size it. Vertically the bottom of the Window extends way off the screen. I searched and can't find anyone with a

Re: video players broken

2006-05-01 Thread Brian John
Gerard Seibert wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:22:45PM -0500, Brian John wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Brian John wrote: Hi, I just upgraded my ports and now all of my video players either won't install

need help setting up wireless on my computer

2006-01-02 Thread Brian John
Hello, I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI wireless card. I was able to install it using the windows drivers at ndis0 (see output from ifconfig below). The problem I'm having is I seem to be able to connect, but can't talk to anything. I am using WEP encryption and

Re: need help setting up wireless on my computer

2006-01-02 Thread Brian John
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:17:17 -0600 Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI wireless card. I was able to install it using the windows drivers at ndis0 (see output from ifconfig below). The problem I'm having is I seem

Re: need help setting up wireless on my computer

2006-01-02 Thread Brian John
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:23:30 -0600 (CST) Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:17:17 -0600 Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI wireless card. I was able to install it using the windows

Re: need help setting up wireless on my computer

2006-01-02 Thread Brian John
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:23:30 -0600 (CST) Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:17:17 -0600 Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI wireless card. I was able to install it using

Re: need help setting up wireless on my computer [SOLVED]

2006-01-02 Thread Brian John
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:23:30 -0600 (CST) Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:17:17 -0600 Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI wireless card. I was able to install

script to monitor internet connection

2006-01-06 Thread Brian John
Hello, I would like to write a script to monitor my internet connection status. My home connection goes down fairly often and I would like to get an idea for just how often it goes down and if possible how long it goes down for. Could someone help me write a script that will check my connection

RE: script to monitor internet connection

2006-01-09 Thread Brian John
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian John Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 5:23 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: script to monitor internet connection Hello, I would like to write a script to monitor my internet connection status. My home connection goes down fairly

Re: script to monitor internet connection

2006-01-10 Thread Brian John
Rowdy wrote: Brian John wrote: this is dsl. Sorry, I should have specified that in the beginning. Periodically my dsl modem will lose it's signal, I want to see just how often this is happening. If your DSL uses PPPoE then the ppp.linkup and ppp.linkdown scripts will be triggered when

utility that will dump a web page to std out?

2005-06-20 Thread Brian John
Hello, Does anyone know of a utility that will get a webpage and dump the output to standard out? I was going to use wget, but it dumps the output to a file. Any ideas? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-14 Thread Brian John
Hello, I can't use cvsup for some reason. I just tried upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4. When I try to use cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cvsup /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXaw.so.8 not found, required by cvsup And if I try to re-add cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup/

Re: Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-14 Thread Brian John
already installed So I'm kind of stuck. Does anyone know what I can do from here? Thanks /Brian - Original Message - Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: And if I try to re-add cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup/ su-2.05b# make install make: don't know

Re: Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-16 Thread Brian John
Igor Robul wrote: Brian John wrote: Hello, I can't use cvsup for some reason. I just tried upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4. When I try to use cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cvsup /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXaw.so.8 not found, required by cvsup If you dont have X11 on this machine

Re: Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-16 Thread Brian John
Brian John wrote: Igor Robul wrote: Brian John wrote: Hello, I can't use cvsup for some reason. I just tried upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4. When I try to use cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cvsup /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXaw.so.8 not found, required by cvsup If you dont have

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-11 Thread Brian John
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Apr 3, 2005 9:12 PM, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One you've changed resolv.conf, it should stay that way permanently across boots, unless you change it again. dhclient will overwrite /etc

Re: just got DSL, can't surf or get mail

2005-04-11 Thread Brian John
Brian John wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Apr 3, 2005 9:12 PM, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One you've changed resolv.conf, it should stay that way permanently across boots, unless you change it again. dhclient will overwrite

lightweight bittorrent client that does queueing

2005-04-14 Thread Brian John
Hello, I am looking for a lightweight bittorrent client that does download queueing. I know this is somewhat of a difficult thing to ask for, but I think it is possible. I've tried ctorrent, bittorrent and azureus. Obviously ctorrent and bittorrrent didn't work for me (because they don't do

problems with pf

2005-04-22 Thread Brian John
Hello, I have read the manpage on pf but I am still stumped. I get some error messages when starting up that say something like 'rule expands to no possible valid combination' or something to that effect. If someone can tell me how I can find out what the error messages are when I boot I

cannot start k3b

2005-04-23 Thread Brian John
Hello, k3b stopped working on me when I upgraded my ports. This is what it says when I try to start it up: Could not start process Unknown protocol 'file'.. Could not find mime type application/octet-stream Any clue what might cause this? I'm not sure where to even start looking... Thanks!

cannot mount dvd

2005-05-24 Thread Brian John
Hello, For some reason I can't mount a dvd in my dvd drive. It is a normal data dvd that I burned using k3b. This is what happens: -bash-2.05b$ sudo mount /dvd cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument I also try this: -bash-2.05b$ sudo mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /dvd cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid

moving everything except a directory

2005-08-30 Thread Brian John
Say I am at ~ and I have 10 directories inside named 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. What command can I use to move everything but directory 2? What if I wanted to move everything but directories 2 and 7? I'm not sure how to use the mv command to do this in 1 comand. Thanks /Brian

dockapp virtual desktop switcher

2005-09-26 Thread Brian John
Hello, I am running fluxbox and I don't like the method of using the scrollbar and/or hotkeys to switch desktops (even though it is easy). On my windows box at work I have an app called 'goscreen' installed. It allows me to see a preview of what is on each desktop and click on whichever one

totem and vlc don't work after upgrading ports

2005-10-02 Thread Brian John
Hello, I just upgraded all of my ports and now I can't watch any movies. I used to just use totem, but once that broke I decided to try vlc, only to find that it was broken as well. Here are the errors that I get: vlc: $ vlc VLC media player 0.8.2 Janus Bus error totem: The Application

Re: xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

2005-10-04 Thread Brian John
I think I'm having a similar problem with totem (which uses xine) and vlc. Can you try installing /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc and see what that does? If that gives a bus error as well then I think we might have the same issue. I haven't been able to find a solution to this yet... /Brian -

5.4 reboots when I plug in a flash drive?

2005-10-04 Thread Brian John
Hello, I just got a 128MB USB flash drive. When I plug it in in FreeBSD, the box promptly reboots! What would cause this? I dual boot Windows XP and the drive works fine there. I seem to remember hearing something about this in the past but can't find any info on it. Can someone point me in

Re: 5.4 reboots when I plug in a flash drive?

2005-10-04 Thread Brian John
Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] , wrote Brian John thusly... I just got a 128MB USB flash drive. When I plug it in in FreeBSD, the box promptly reboots! What would cause this? I don't know the cause. Have you tried booting FreeBSD from power-off state w/ the flash drive

Re: xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

2005-10-04 Thread Brian John
David Kirchner wrote: On 10/4/05, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 October 2005 00:44, Brian John wrote: I think I'm having a similar problem with totem (which uses xine) and vlc. Can you try installing /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc and see what that does? If that gives

Re: 5.4 reboots when I plug in a flash drive?

2005-10-04 Thread Brian John
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] , wrote Brian John thusly... I just got a 128MB USB flash drive. When I plug it in in FreeBSD, the box promptly reboots! What would cause this? I don't know

Re: xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

2005-10-04 Thread Brian John
David Kirchner wrote: On 10/4/05, Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It probably is. However, I'm not sure how to go about figuring out which one of these dependencies it is, let alone how to fix it. Could you help us troubleshoot this? BTW, I used portmanager to upgrade my ports

Re: xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

2005-10-04 Thread Brian John
Brian John wrote: David Kirchner wrote: On 10/4/05, Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It probably is. However, I'm not sure how to go about figuring out which one of these dependencies it is, let alone how to fix it. Could you help us troubleshoot this? BTW, I used portmanager

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