Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

2005-01-06 Thread John Birrell
thing I really like about it is being able to set the bios to boot via the ethernet port. That makes net-booting FreeBSD for driver development a breeze. I run RELENG_5 installed on the hard disk and net-boot to CURRENT. If I remember correctly, it

Re: Enabling Dell Inspiron 1150 touch pad?

2005-01-19 Thread John Birrell
t; > hint.sc.0.at="isa" > hint.sc.0.flags="0x100" I'm a bit slow off the mark. Yep. Add them flags! I do it in /etc/rc.conf with: moused_flags="-3" It's not the same value, I know, but the touchpad works for me on the 1150 with that setting. Y

Re: Logging and IPFW

2003-09-09 Thread John Birrell
. Have you added the 'log' keyword to your rules? e.g: # Reject&Log all setup of incoming connections from the outside ${fwcmd} add deny log tcp from any to any in via ${oif} setup The log entries will be written to /var/log/s

Re: Logging and IPFW

2003-09-09 Thread John Birrell
og). You will soon find that logging can create huge files and that it is best use sparingly. -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: make installworld in single user mode

2003-09-11 Thread John Birrell
message > make: not found. > > Under multi-user mode, I found "make " in /usr/bin, in this case, when I > come to single user mode, I should change the default shell of "/bin/sh " to > /usr/bin", and then issue command "make installworld", will th

Re: Windows Media (blech!)

2003-10-13 Thread John Birrell
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:52:15PM -0700, Evan Dower wrote: > Is there a way to watch Windows Media files on FreeBSD? I noticed NetShow, > but it seems to be defunct/missing. Try mplayer. -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: [OT] What's "QED"? (was Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades)

2004-06-09 Thread John Birrell
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:10:46AM +0100, Richard P. Williamson wrote: > Theory: Windoze installations are unreliable. > Proof: > I turned it on. > It was hacked into an open proxy. > It contracted several hundred worms. > It crashed. > QED. W^5 (Which was what

Re: Single Board Computers for FreeBSD

2004-09-27 Thread John Birrell
://www.compulab.co.il/586core.htm>. The Compulab support people are responsive. -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: IBM 120 G IDE -- problems

2003-09-07 Thread John Birrell
with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. I add these sysctl values to /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.ata_dma="0" hw.ata.atapi_dma="0" You can also interrupt the boot loader and type: set hw.ata.ata_dma="0" set hw.ata.atapi_dma="0" boot -- John Birrell ___

Re: IBM 120 G IDE -- problems

2003-09-07 Thread John Birrell
things to follow up, but there are so many other things that I have to get through first. One day... 8-) -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: New FreeBSD logo

2006-05-14 Thread John Birrell
BSD. So people can "huff and puff and try to blow the house down" in this thread, but the only thing that makes any difference is what the people who have earned a vote think. -- John Birrell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: picture?

2004-03-07 Thread John Birrell
usr/ports/x11/wdm/pkg-plist > > Kindly advise where the picture can be located. You will need to do a 'make extract' from /usr/ports/x11/wdm to get the distribution file and unpack it. -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing