Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi everyone, > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work > WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: > > ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) > PATA / SATA with no problems > all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, > touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course > > Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. > > >From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do > >DELLs > (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, > but I don't think they are so well supported. > > Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) I've Thinkpad R50e. Everything works fine and it makes an excellent work tool : http://www.yazzy.org/configs/freebsd/thinkpad/ Price of those thinkpads is yet another pluss. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: dhclient in 6.0
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:02:41 +0100 Frank Altpeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > kalin mintchev wrote on 2006-02-03 at 13:55:01 CET: > > > 2006/2/3, make stuff up <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> thank you... does that mean back to 5.4 for now? > > > > > > Try install /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-client/ > > > > without a connection? > > try to manually ifconfig your fxp0 - this should work. Son't be silly. What if you dont know what IP you will get from the lease? That's what working implementation of DHCP is for... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: dhclient in 6.0
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 06:10:18 -0500 (EST) "make stuff up" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all... again... > > i sent this message to general questions but nobody got excited > about it. > > i just installed 6 on my t30 laptop. brand new. when trying > dhclient i get: > > DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 > > this trys 6 times then this shows up: > > No DHCPOFFERS received. > No working leases in present database - sleeping. > > i run a tcpdump while requesting a lease and for every DHCPDISCOVER i > get this line: > 2. 13 IP 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: UDP, length 300 > > then a line of: > > mac.number > mac.number, Unknown Ethertype (0xb20e), length 61: > > i'm typing this because i can't get the machine on line... > > restarted tha laptop many times and the dhcp server too. the dhclinet > on another older laptop works fine with the same server... > > i really need this solved soon... never seen it before... there > is nothing much on line about it. the same t30 laptop was working > fine with 5.4... There was a change in DHCP between FreeBSD 5.x and 6. I noticed the same behaviour with a couple of hw broadband routers. AFAIR this was also reported back to the list, still no fix was provided. Cheers, Marcin. PS. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and freebsd-questions@freebsd.org is the same list. The first one has this name becouse of compatibility with former setup of mailing list names. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firewall or not ...
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:05:36 +0200 Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 using WiFi to > access the Internet. > > My question is what are the pros and cons of running a firewall on my > client, e.g. is it really necessary. > > I mean it's not like I am running Windows and have to bloat it with all > McAfee, Zonealarm ad infinitum -- or do I? > > Thanks alot in advance. The thumb rule is to disallow everything else than the services you want to be able to access from the outside. FreeBSD makes it easy with 3 firewalling systems avaliable and pretty decent scripts. Read /etc/defaults/rc.conf to find out more about the options to put to your /etc/rc.conf to enable and quickly configure your firewall. Cheers, Marcin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
HighPoint Rocket 133 on > 4.4
Hi. I have a HighPoint Rocket 133 U-ATA/133 device. I have tried to make it work with the ata(4) driver and the driver avaliable on http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ . My card is not recognized. I tried 4.6.2 and 4.7-PRERELEASE. I wondered if any of you have succeeded to make it work with FreeBSD > 4.4 The original driver is ment to work with 4.4 but then i dont see why it shouldnt work with FreeBSD newer then that. And I dont think downgrading my system from 4.7 to 4.4 is a good idea... Thanks a bunch in advance. YazzY To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
