Re: Connecting to internet.

Chris Saunders wrote: Just installed FreeBSD and it seems everything went fine. I have also recently installed Slackware Linux and it seems to have automatically set itself up to connect to the internet. I have had a look in the FreeBSD Handbook (not too deeply), but didn't see a section on

Is there a patch for C-Media CMI9739 AC97 with snd_ich module to make the volume mixer work?

Hey everyone, I noticed xmms was either going mute or full blast when I came across this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/062858.html thanks to google. I was just wondering if there are any patches to make the mixer work? Or, if there isn't, where would I

Re: burncd, eject before read

Tobias Fendin wrote: Hi folks. I've just burned an iso to a cd successfully. But before I could mount it, I had to eject the cd-tray and then close it, before I could mount it. I got this error message from mount: cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error I wonder if it's a bug or feature.

Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

. Is that possible? Thanks, Tom Norris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

Hexren wrote: I'll say exim *let the holly wars start* So, should I use vi, emacs, or pico to edit the config files ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

Something else just occured to me. Am I going to need a separate pop3 daemon, or does postfix do that too? Thanks again, Tom Norris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

gnome2 failing build

Hey everyone, sorry to take up time with this question, but I have been going over it for a few hours to no avail :( I'm having problems building gnome2 on a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE GENERIC machine from ports. (/usr/ports/x11/gnome2) I did a cvsup at about 22:00hrs EST. I cvsuped because I found

Re: gnome2 failing build

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: Looks like you need to reinstall devel/libbonobo first. Joe Yep, going into devel/libbonobo and doing a deinstall/clean/make/install made everything work. Thanks a bunch! Now onto the hours of compiling that comes with Gnome.

Is there a daemon/program for FreeBSD that accepts Microsoft RDP connections?

connections? Thanks, Tom Norris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a daemon/program for FreeBSD that accepts Microsoft RDP connections?

Jonathan Horne wrote: WOW!! what an incredibly closed minded person you boss must be! i wonder what he thinks he will do, if he *could* get an rdp session to a freebsd box? (btw, the answer is no, he cannot have a port 3389 terminal services session to a freebsd box... but there are a

Question on roaming VPNs using mpd, NAT, and FreeBSD6

forwarded to the laptop? Thank You for Your Time, Tom Norris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A quick question about X11 and securelevels

I understand the things like not allowing the system clock to change and not allowing formatting of filesystems, but I want to know why you can't run x11 when you have a securelevel greater than or equal to one. there is no _serious_ reason I wish to know, I'm just curious and google keeps

Re: OT: Review of An Illustrated Guide to IPSec?

Parv wrote: To this IPSec ignorant but quite interested in the subject, this seems like a good reference ... http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-ipsec.html To those who are versed in the topic, how does it look? I'm not very versed in the topic of ipsec, but this definately looks like

Are USB-typed wi(4) devices supported on FreeBSD?

Hello Everyone, Are USB-typed wi(4) devices supported on FreeBSD or being worked on at all? I'm just curious because I have a Buffalo WLI-USB-KB11 (Melco product 0x0044 rev 1.10/1.32) and FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE doesn't like it. (Generic kernel, I'm using kldload wi) on my IBM Thinkpad 240

Re: how to convert lower case to uppercase in a word in a line ?

I have heard of INTERCAL and BrainF*ck, but who cares next? What about COW? http://www.bigzaphod.org/cow/ or whitespace? http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ And I DO care.. just not enough to write a to-uppercase function :) -Tom ___

Re: hint.apic.0.disabled

Omer Faruk Sen wrote: line to disable acpi. Which one is the true one? To add to device.hints or loader.conf file. You could always do it to both and see if anything breaks. Sorry I don't have a more insightful comment :( -- Tom ___

Is it possible to mount MSDOS partitions on the 5.4 fixit floppy?

I need to mount a msdos partition on from is FreeBSD 5.4 fixit floppy(this machine doesn't have a CD Drive :\), but when I run the command: mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt/usb-msd I get: mount: exec mount_msdos not found in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory. Where could I go to get this

Re: Password

sulie halim wrote: systems, how can i view all their usernames and passwords? You can't. FreeBSD uses a one way hash to encode the passwords. If you are the administrator you can change the password though: #passwd user-that-forgot-their-password New password: you type in their new