On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:31 pm, Jason Osgerby wrote: > Hello all, > > I am hoping someone on this list can help me out with a very > frustrating issue I am having. I dual boot one of my machines (a Dell > Dimension 2400) with Windows XP Pro, and connect to the Internet via > an Actiontec GT701-WG DSL modem with an inbuilt wireless gateway. > Now, under Windows XP, I can access the Internet just fine, and do > anything that I need to do. Of course, Windows XP is a slow, buggy > memory hog, and I simply hate using it. > > So, I decided to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a separate partition. After > performing a basic system install from CD, I wanted to add several > items from the ports collection, such as Fluxbox-devel, XMMS, > MPlayer, Firefox, ROX-filer, and all the other good stuff that I like > to use. So, I started running the "make install" for Fluxbox, and it > gave the usual message about not being able to find the source in my > local ports directory, and then gave the normal blurb about fetching > it from > http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fluxbox/fluxbox-0.9.10.t >ar.gz. > > The problem is that it is totally unable to download anything at all. > All of the fetch requests to any of these remote servers just time > out after hanging there for about a minute or so. I re-checked that I > had configured the DHCP connection correctly, and no problems there > at all. So, I did a simple ping of Google.com to make sure that I had > a working Internet connection, and the ping responses returned in a > timely fashion as usual. Yet still, the "make install" command just > freezes up when attempting to download anything. > > Obviously, I wrote an email to Actiontec support immediately, asking > for assistance. They responded to say that they don't support > FreeBSD. After a couple of minutes of cursing, I decided the best > thing to do would be to ask you all about this problem. Anyone have > any idea what is going on here, and if there is anyway I can fix > this? I am totally at a loss. > > Thanks! > > Jason.
You should post exactly what is on the screen when make install fails. Is it failing to fetch from an ftp site or a http for example? If its an ftp site maybe you are blocking passice ftp with a firewall, anyways you should provide copies of whatever info you have. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"