On 9/4/06, Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Perry Hutchison wrote:
> Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1?
> AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build.
There is a commercial program, textmaker (www.softmaker.com), which I
have found much bett
On 12/12/05, psiinformatique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> #I'm looking for school of freebsd in montreal and i dont find any. Im
> #not realy good in BSD, i start to use last year. I use as my main os
> #on my laptop to become a normal user, but more i get into it,
There is Marketbridge Technolog
On 9/5/05, Yance Kowara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am looking for a good article or collection of
> howtos or something similar to Ted's FreeBSD Corporate
> Networker's Guide.
>
> A book similar to Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook
> (http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?XmlId=0
On 5/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I`m trying to install my HP laserjet 5p on freebsd 5.3.
> The printer doesn`t understand postscript.
> I`ve read the handbook and installed ghostscript and
> lpd.
> I changed rc.conf to start lpd for each system boot.
>
> dmesg p
On 5/7/05, Chris Hodgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are interested in Unix and FreeBSD this is a good choice:
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0201702452/reviews/026-9762435-1924466
>
Thank you Chris:
The problem is I don't know what semaphores, mutex
Hi:
I was thinking of getting one of these two books. I want to learn
more about how UNIX and in particular, FreeBSD work. Has anyone read
either of these books?
UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers
by Uresh Vahalia
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131019082/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/104-69
5.4-STABLE #0: Sun Apr 24 08:30:32 MDT 2005
Hi:
I am having trouble with a .SUFFIXES based Makefile. If I use this
Makefile containing .out:
INCLUDES= -Wall -I/usr/local/include
LINK= -L/usr/local/lib
LIBS= -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm
.SUFFIXES : .c .o .out
.o.out:
${CC} ${LINK} -o $@ $< ${
On 4/29/05, Lars Eighner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know what all I did to get my (different) hp printer
> working, but everything got much better after I installed
> foomatic.
That fixed it Lars:
I installed /usr/ports/print/foomatic-filters. Then I went to
/usr/local/etc/rc.d
and di
5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Sun Apr 24
Ports I have installed:
cups-base-1.1.23.0_3
cups-lpr-1.1.23.0
cups-pstoraster-7.07_3
cups-lpr-1.1.23.0
hpijs-1.7.1
Printer: HP Deskjet 3740
Hi:
I can't get my HP3740 Deskjet to print using CUPS. I installed cups
from ports. I also installed print /
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:41:16 +0100, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What shell file manager do you like or x file manager ?
>
Xfm (ports/x11-fm/xfm) is good and easy to use
http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag/xfm/
ROX (ports/x11-fm/rox) is quite fast
http://rox.sourceforge.ne
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:32:43 +0200, NetAdmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, FreeBSD support team,
>
> I have a server with Novell Netware 5.1.
> How I can mount Novell drives in FreeBSD?
>
I have never done it but I see that there is a man page for it:
MOUNT_NWFS(8) FreeBSD Syste
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:12:38 +0100, Anthony Atkielski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
>
> > For one thing you can just stop with the site licensing fees.
>
> Licensing fees aren't necessarily the largest or even a significant
> expense for a business.
Ted and others:
This
Ale:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:55:59 -0300, Alejandro Pulver
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to handle numeric variables (addition, multiplication, etc.)
> in 'sh' (or throught an external command)?
Here is a good short "HowTo" on calling bc:
---
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:10:58 -0600, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Look closely at the Linux community and you'll find its mostly
> ex-Windows users focused on what Microsoft is doing. The desire is to
> one-up Microsoft at Microsoft's own game. Their definition of
> "computer" and "human
Hi:
What does sbwait mean in top? Is it related to a sysctl setting? I
have looked in the man page for top, at William LeFebvres site (
http://www.groupsys.com/top ), in Evi Nemeth's "UNIX System
Administration Handbook" and Googled in general. Does anyone know of
a URL that gives an explanation
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:57:12 -0500, Derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a 5.3-STABLE SMP machine, with a promise RAID controller,
> RAID1, with snd_emu10k1.ko, and I get the same results... Re-nicing
> xmms doesn't help either...
Derek:
You may want to up the buffering. See
http://www.sc
Ali:
The ltmdm port may work:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/comms/ltmdm/pkg-descr
I have a feeling Matthew Seamen is right though. You may have to use
an external modem. See this e-mail:
Help: Tip on Buying External modem
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-May/
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:05:41 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you seen my book and website?
>
> http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com
>
> It is out of print now but still available on Amazon.
Ted;
Will you do an updated version of the book some day ? I see it has 4
an
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:24:49 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I select some text with the mouse in Emacs, i can copy it into
> another X window application, but I cannot copy it in a Win2K
> application.
>
> When I select some text in any other X Window application, I
Hi:
This section of the handbook gives very good instructions on how to
save files to CD:
16.6 Creating and Using Optical Media (CDs)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:45:01 +0100, mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
Hi Bill:
Sorry you had such a miserable time with this. You may want to get
either of these two books, as helps in installing and configuring
FreeBSD.
FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer,
by Annelise Anderson
Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD
by Michael
It appears that you should use the C82 driver. From:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C84
Parallel and USB ports.
With Gimp-Print 4.2.2 or newer it will work (except full-bleed) when
choosing the Epson Stylus C82 as printer model, with older Gimp-Print
versions whe
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:59:23 GMT, Emon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Second, I did create a new user, but I wasn't sure wich group to
> put it in, so I kept the GROUP field blank. Now I can't su to
> root cos it say that I am not in the right goup(wheel). So what
> does it mean & how do I solve this
Hello Cubicool:
The only thing I can think of is this book on WiFi security:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/80211security/desc.html
You might want to look at /usr/ports/net-mgmt/bsd-airtools
The home page is here
http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/bsd-airtools.html
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:55:10
Hello Anton:
I would suggest going to the SANE website:
http://www.sane-project.org/
I have an E640U USB scanner working under FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2
CURRENT. That one works very well.
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:46:17 +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please, if any of you has con
Hello Dan:
This may be of help:
Understanding Shell Prompts
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/20/FreeBSD_Basics.html
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:29:30 -, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where and how do you set the prompt to show what user name that your on IE ROOT or
> user johndoe.
>
Hello Maksym:
You need to have the proper hostnames in /etc/hosts:
::1 localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net
where notebook is my hostname.
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:24:21 +0200, Maksym Marchenko <[
Gimp ver 2.0 (prerelease)
FreeSBIE 1.0 and FreeBSD 5 CURRENT
Hi:
I tried to use the GIMP's (ver. 2.0) intelligent scissors to crop
around a complicated image and I could not figure out how to get it to
work. I and another co-worker googled for some tutorials but none of
the ones we came across
Hello Joseph:
I don't know about the jails part but you might want to inquire with
http://www.liquidneon.com/
I use them for hosting and they are very good. They are an all FreeBSD
hosting company.
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:16:26 -0500, Joseph Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Regardless of whi
Hi Mark:
The Epson Stylus C20UX is fully supported according to LinuxPrinting.org:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C20UX
Use the gimp print drivre they suggest at that URL.
That means that you can use CUPS and Gimp Print in FreeBSD.
1) Install cups and gimp p
Hello Earl:
Linux Printing Org does not show your particular printer:
All Compaq printers
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Compaq
Linux Printing Org lists the availability of CUPS drivers.
You may be able to get it working with CUPS. I have a short tutorial
here for NetBSD. I
Hello Josh:
I use a Proxim Harmony 8430 card that works well (wi0).
I would suggets looking in the PCMCIA section of The FreeBSD Laptop
Compatibility List:
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
There are some Cisco Aironet 350 cards listed here:
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/in
>From the Ximian Evolution support knowledge base:
http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=yOj4eYfh&p_lva=&p_faqid=59&p_created=995655179&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTg1JnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9JnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPTImcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=
How do I import my Outlook .p
Hi:
You can follow the instructions here:
http://www.silbsd.org/cvsup_instructions2.html
However in step B change:
#
src-all tag=RELENG_4_8
#
to:
#
src-all tag=RELENG_4_9
#
I also urge you to read Section 9 of the FreeBSD handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kern
Hi:
Sed is useful for this. Here are some good tutorials on it:
Common threads: Sed by example:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed1.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed2.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed3.html
On Sun
Hello Chintan:
In addition to Chris' advice I heartily recommend the tutorials at
FreeBSD basics:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15
I also find Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" to be a very good
reference book.
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:03:14 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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