Re: Hi

2006-12-15 Thread Bob M.
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 19:14 +0530, prashant chavan wrote: Hi I wanna know how to add system module to FreeBSD. If any clarification reqd plz let me know. Thanks in advance! pcpat You want to load a kernel module, a .ko file? man kldload and man loader.conf It's pretty straightforward.

Re: List Protocol (was: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x)

2006-12-13 Thread Bob M.
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:10 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those people don't comprehend a mailing list. They do web pages and web forums and other clumsy devices. Put it on www.freebsd.org if you want it easily accessible to such people. Those people, are probably future FreeBSD

Re: TCP parameters

2006-11-17 Thread Bob M.
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:17 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Window scaling is enabled by default. I'd assumed that there would be a sysctl to disable it, but I can't seem to find one. fwiw, the net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 sysctl is for window scaling/ high performance extensions. Bob

Re: how to use the freebsd help

2006-10-24 Thread Bob M.
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:21 +0100, shonbir singh tomar wrote: hello, i have installed the freebsd but i dont know how to use it after installation a black scrren comes prompting for login and password after login by root or user a # or $ sign appears its the console mode how i want to

Re: System monitoring

2006-10-19 Thread Bob M.
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 09:17 +0200, riccardo_diago wrote: hi all, I'm newbie w/ freebsd. i'm trying to install freebsd 6.1 to create a server only to monitoring the others. Anybody has experience with cacti and nagios? or if u can suggest me other solution would be great. :-) thanks in

Re: PCI wireless adapter card

2006-10-18 Thread Bob M.
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 01:28 -0600, Tyler Thompson wrote: i need a driver for a Wireless-G PCI adapter card with SpeedBooster, the model number is WMP54GS. and instructions on installing the driver. I am new to BSD. I am running Desktop BSD 1.0 AMD 64. There isn't a native FreeBSD

Re: Flash Plugin not working

2006-10-17 Thread Bob M.
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 18:07 +0530, Subhro wrote: Hello Michael, Thanks for the info. This is just for the help of others. The commands present there helped me and flash is currently working fine for me. Thanks Subhro On 10/16/06, Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed the link

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Bob M.
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 15:26 -0700, William Tracy wrote: I even compiled my own kernel so that I'm all 1337. :-) What does this mean? So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. I would think if you spend enough time

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-06 Thread Bob M.
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 12:05 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, October 06, 2006 08:30:36 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Schmehl writes: Not really. I want X to start *without* requiring a console login and prompt me for a login in the gui, just like my

freebsd compilation of handbooks

2006-09-21 Thread Bob M.
Came across this earlier today, and figured it was a good resource: http://elibrary.fultus.com/technical/index.jsp?topic=/com.fultus.freebsd.books/books/arch-handbook/index.html Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-19 Thread Bob M.
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:13 +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: On 18 Sep 2006, at 19:41, Bob Johnson wrote: You might need to make sure AD support got enabled. In the samba3 port at least, it is off by default (although winbind support is enabled by default). Bob, I think that's done,

Re: nmap route problem

2006-09-19 Thread Bob M.
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 11:55 +0800, musashi miyamoto wrote: is there a way to fix this? i searched google, but i cant find any solution. thanks Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-09-18 20:53 PHT WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-15 Thread Bob M.
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 10:47 +0530, Arindam wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname to this machine for both

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Bob M.
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 14:57 -0700, White Hat wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-15 Thread Bob M.
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:31 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] From the FreeBSD box, can you ping the loopback address: 127.0.0.1, if so, can you ping your ip address: 10.0.0.101. If so, can you ping your gateway? Did you set a gateway in

RE: flash plugin and firefox

2006-09-15 Thread Bob M.
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 12:15 -0500, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I couldn't find the original message in my mail folders, but there was discussion of an English translation of the unixlike.com.br flash+firefox howto. I wrote a translation for

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Bob M.
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 15:21 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but

Re: Newbie Experience #2

2006-09-12 Thread Bob M.
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 08:46 -0400, Bob Walker wrote: Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS products. Regards,

Re: X Configuration Woes

2006-09-12 Thread Bob M.
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 14:28 +0530, Subhro wrote: On 9/12/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. I've found I have to use /dev/sysmouse and Protocol auto instead of PS/2 despite my mouse most definitely being

Re: Flatscreen Monitor Specifications

2006-09-12 Thread Bob M.
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 07:25 -0700, Joel Adamson wrote: Howdy Y'all, I am planning to install FreeBSD this weekend and I am doing a hardware inventory. I have a fairly new computer (bought brand new a year ago: Dell something-or-other 5100C), with a flatscreen monitor and USB everything. I