Building amd64

2007-06-24 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I would like to build a computer using a Intel Duo 2 Core processor, my first attempted at finding a compatible motherboard failed. I do not remember having the same difficulties six years ago when I built my last computer. Does any one have any advice. I have looked at the hardware not

CD burning problem

2007-03-15 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am unable to burn cd with my new Sony DVD-RW. I have been fighting with this for month. Sorry for have to post this message for such a basic task, Bellow is the error message that is produced by cdrecord Thank you Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]># cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-

Re: Running X window system

2007-03-04 Thread Aaron Siegel
What is not working? Are you receiving an error? If you are receiving an error post that error. Are booting to console and start X with startx? Is your LCD monitor giving you an out of range error? On Saturday 03 March 2007 8:50 pm, Warwick Sweetnam wrote: > Hi, I am having trouble getting X w

Re: Sony DRU-820A DVD-RW RAM Drive

2007-03-04 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I figured my problem with playing back audio cd's. Amarok need to use /dev/acd0 not /dev/cd0 thank you aaron On Sunday 04 March 2007 11:52 am, Aaron Siegel wrote: > Hello > > I am using various kde applications, Amarok, kaudiocreator, kaffeine... KDE > appears to be th

Re: Sony DRU-820A DVD-RW RAM Drive

2007-03-04 Thread Aaron Siegel
xmms to see if that works and also try a commandline application to play a cd. Thank you Aaron On Sunday 04 March 2007 10:40 am, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Aaron Siegel wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> Cannot > >> read or play a

Sony DRU-820A DVD-RW RAM Drive

2007-03-04 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello Cannot read or play audio cdrom disks. run the Windows install for Win4BSD the install worked worked with a standard cdrom drive Can burn CD-R (with cdrecord dev=1,0,0) burn DVD-RW (with mkisofs) play Movie dvds. read dvd disks read data cdrom disks I am using 6.1 Release. /boot/loade

Atheros Card support

2007-02-09 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am looking for a pci wireless card for my Freebsd router. According to the hardware notes for 6.2 "The ath(4) driver supports all Atheros Cardbus or PCI cards, except those that are based on the AR5005VL chipset." Does the ath driver support include AR5005GS or AR5006XS? It appears th

ipfilter rule will not load

2006-04-25 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I cannot get ipfilter to load any rules. When I type in the iptest command I receive the following output: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]># ipftest no rules loaded I used the example found in the /usr/share/examples directory I am unable to load the firewall. I have tried to load the file though # ip

Re: What about for Palm's and Pocket PC's in FreeBSD?

2005-11-15 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am syncing my T5 with kpilot through the usb cable. It is a bit tricky but it does work. To get the sync to work enter the kpilot in to a shell, press the hotsync button then execute the kpilot. It takes a few tries to get the timing down it has been working for me. Aaron On Tuesday 1

In a bit of a bind - DNS problems and ipfw

2005-11-12 Thread Aaron Siegel
the custom firewall couple years ago and they work fine under 4.11 but after the upgrade I have not been able to get them to work. I sure I am doing something stupid but I am not smart enough to solve it at the moment. Thank you Aaron Siegel Custom firewall rules #Allow DNS $cmd 019 allow

Problems with IPF after upgrading from 4.11 to 5.4

2005-09-29 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am having problems with my gateway after upgrading from 4.11 to 5.4. The firewall rules that worked in 4.11 are not working in 5.4. A am able to access the internet from the gateway but not its clients. The only ruleset I can get to work is the "open" ruleset that is supplied with the

Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4

2005-09-29 Thread Aaron Siegel
Jay Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-steps.html I think I understand your question. Sysinstall's label editor does not obtain the labels from an existing installation, you have to relabel the all of the partitions everytime you run sysinstall. When I perform an upgrade using

Re: osx-fbsd-winxp

2005-09-19 Thread Aaron Siegel
On Sunday 18 September 2005 10:08 am, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On 18 Sep Roland Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:36:14PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > What is the best way to let the winxp machine communicate with the > > > mac/osx? And what about the fbsd machine. Is there a proto

Re: undelete in FreeBSD?

2005-07-23 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello One option I have seen for creating your own restore is to create a script that will move files you want to delete to a temporary directory, a "Trash Bin". Then use your shells aliases to alias the script to the rm command. On Thursday 21 July 2005 1:07 am, Xu Qiang wrote: > Hi, all: > >

SPAM Problem

2005-07-23 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello This message is off topic but I was not sure were else I can go to get help with my problem. For the past week I have been receiving messages from various mail servers which have bounced messages I have not sent but have my email address as the originator of the bounced message. I believ

Re: Sound problem ...

2005-04-04 Thread Aaron Siegel
/loader.conf are not edited in the upgrade process so you will maintain all your configurations. You must create the /boot/loader file and add the appropriate lines to that file. In summary, do not make changes to the files in the defaults directory, /boot/defaults and /etc/defaults. Aaron

Re: Sound problem ...

2005-04-03 Thread Aaron Siegel
ths since I have done this) #kldload snd_driver This will test all the snd drivers. 3. You will now need to configure your /boot/loader.conf so that the driver will load every time you reboot your computer. Add the following lines to your /boot/loader.conf sound_load="YES&quo

Re: Appletalk/Samba?

2005-03-16 Thread Aaron Siegel
I have recently performed that exact operation, I had a lot of trouble with filenames. Created a common shared folder using samba and AppleTalk using netatalk. I did not spend much time configure the share. I was pushed for time and a little lazy. On Wednesday 16 March 2005 07:09, Tim Simmons

configuring php4 and apache2

2005-03-13 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am have problems getting php4 to work with apache2. I have these working on another FreeBSD 4.10 server but I can not get it working on my 5.3 server. When I try to load a php page with my web browser it just ask me if I want to download the php file. Here is what I have done to confi

configuring php4 and apache2

2005-03-13 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am have problems getting php4 to work with apache2. I have these working on another FreeBSD 4.10 server but I can not get it working on my 5.3 server. When I try to load a php page with my web browser it just ask me if I want to download the php file. Here is what I have done to confi

cyrus-imapd22 installation problem

2005-01-28 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I have been trying to install the cyrus-imapd22 port without but I keep receiving the same error. /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -s -m 755 notifyd /usr/local/cyrus/bin /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.2/man/man3/Cyrus::IMAP.3: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 I have searched the p

Re: MacPerl for Freebsd: Convert Macintosh files

2005-01-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
the MacPerl module. On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:18, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Jan 27, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Aaron Siegel wrote: > > Hello > > > > I need to convert the some Macintosh files to a Unix/Windows format. > > Has any > > one been able to in

MacPerl for Freebsd: Convert Macintosh files

2005-01-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I need to convert the some Macintosh files to a Unix/Windows format. Has any one been able to install MacPerl, Mac::Files, or Mac::MoreFiles on their FreeBSD system? Can you recommend another solutions for converting Macintosh files? I have look at Macutils but it did not work. Thank

Redirecting an IP address to

2005-01-25 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I would like to redirect all the local traffic to my public IP address to a private IP. My local ISP require that their customers use their very cheap (disfunctional) modem which will not direct any request from the LAN to the public IP of the modem. So when I type http:// in my web bro

Porting Kolab

2005-01-18 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello After years of watching the Kolab/kgroupware project I have finally decide to give it a try. Unfortunately Kolab is distributed using Openpkg the reason I have put off installing the server. I do not want to use two different package management systems on my computer especially if one of

Re: Gnome Package

2004-10-09 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello On Saturday 09 October 2004 03:50, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: > I installed XFree86 using "pkg_add -r XFree86" and it took a > little longer than when I had installed if from sysinstall, but it > didn't seem like a lot. Then I executed "pkg_add -r gnome2" I have not had much luck insta

Re: GNOME questions

2004-10-07 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello The xterms can be sized using .Xdefaults in your home directory. Read the man page for xterm. This should, but not always, set the size of your xterm independent of the window manger you are running, KDE, Gnome, FVWM,. On Thursday 07 October 2004 01:36, Gary Kline wrote: > To the

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-06 Thread Aaron Siegel
Gimp. On Wednesday 06 October 2004 12:21, stan wrote: > I just got my first set of pictures on CD's (vacation pics), and I wan't to > put them up on my web server. > > What's a good tool to do some really lightweight editeing on them with? > Mostly I just need to rotate the vertical ones, but

Re: FreeBSD hardware specifications

2004-09-30 Thread Aaron Siegel
I would recommend setting up dual boot system with FreeBSD and Linux see which system you like best or suites your needs the best. Get your feet wet first, jump in when you feel comfortable. There are a couple ways of creating such a system, buy a new hard drive or crate a partition on you curre

Re: Which Version of FreeBSD?

2004-09-30 Thread Aaron Siegel
I really believe the choose would depend on your requirements and your experience. If you are new to open source Unix-like environment then you should not use either in version in a production environment unless you can afford the cost associated with learning a new system. Do not under estimate

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-29 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello A simple solution, just to get things working, is to us one hard drive at a time. Set up both drives a the master IDE device and swap between operating systems by swapping the cable between the two drives. If you want to run FreeBSD plug in the 40GB drive and unplug the 80GB. The reverse

Re: IPSEC Problems

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
wfish, des, rijndael ; authentication_algorithm hmac_sha1, hmac_md5 ; compression_algorithm deflate ; } psk.txt 192.168.245.12 Shared Key Sorry for the premature post. Aaron On Friday 27 August 2004 06:19 pm, Aaron Siegel wrote: > Hello > > I am stumped I am try to get a very simple IPSEC tu

IPSEC Problems

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am stumped I am try to get a very simple IPSEC tunnel between my laptops and gateway. I can not seem to get the IKE to authenticate. I have had this working in with my other server which has been moved to a new location. I have a FreeBSD 4.10 Stable server and an 5.2.1 Release. I am a

Re: Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
. http://www.sigsegv.cx/FreeBSD-WIN2K-IPSEC-HOWTO.html I will take a look at mpd Thank you On Friday 27 August 2004 08:40 am, you wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:28:58AM -0600, Aaron Siegel wrote: > > Hello > > I am in the process of setup a similar configuration using poptop to &g

Re: Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am in the process of setup a similar configuration using poptop to create a pptp link between a static server and a roaming computer with an anonymous. There is also l2tpd from what I read it is more secure than pptp but it does not work through a NAT. I will hopefully get this up and

VPN with multiple offices

2004-07-24 Thread Aaron Siegel
am on the right track or there better tools for creating this configurations. Thank you for your time Aaron Siegel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Does FreeBSD sell How to videos?

2004-01-18 Thread Aaron Siegel
FreeBSD is a controlled complete through a console ( command line) interface, I do not believe watching someone typing in commands a the prompt or text editor will be very helpful. It is completely different then the graphical interface of Windows which require the user to navigate the maze of

Re: saving downloaded packages with pkg_add -r

2004-01-18 Thread Aaron Siegel
I not sure were pkg_add -r downloads the packages. I have couple recommendations: 1. buy a full box set or download all four installation cd images. 2. install sysutils/portupgrade. This will automate the download off all packages. You can install the binary version and its dependent packages

Re: Dual Boot WinXP + FreeBSD

2003-12-29 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I would recommend creating a Fat 32 partion for transferring files between FreeBSD and XP. This will work as long as you have not used all (four per drive) of your primary partions. > but when the instalation begun, I realized it couldnĀ“t read mu NTFS drives > so I thought the instalation

Re: windows better than freebsd?

2003-08-16 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello If you have a connection to the internet you can install FreeBSD by retrieving the distribution through ftp interface. If you can find a solution on this mailing try posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good Luck On Thursday 14 August 2003 07:43 pm, zteknofreak wrote: > i've been tryin

Re: quickquestion

2003-08-14 Thread Aaron Siegel
> > >On a larger scale can i am tired of constantly changing dirs to run > >apps. can i adjust an environment variable to run programs from any > >dir i am in, instead searching through everything. I installed a lot > >of port software but can't seem to be able to run or find any of it. > > thats

Re: FreeBSD and Sound

2003-08-14 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello All you need to add support for you sound card is pcm remove the "device opl0 at isa? port 0x388" and try compiling the kernel. On Wednesday 13 August 2003 07:29 pm, David wrote: > I tried adding a driver for my onboard-soundcard Yamaha OPL-3-SAx on > P200mmx, FreeBSD 4.7-Release. > > Afte

Re: burncd

2003-07-31 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello The handbook does a good job cover this topic, please take a look at it http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html On Thursday 31 July 2003 06:25 am, marlon corleone wrote: > how do i burn a directory using burncd > > i did burncd -f /dev/acd1 data mp3z fix

Re: Resolving domain names in KDE apps

2003-07-31 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello Robert I have been using FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE and Konqueror without any noticeable problems with speed or name resolution. The problem I have are related to browser issue: not haveing support for shockwave, scripting problems, and poorly develop sites that do not work well with the KHTM

Freebsd behind a proxy

2003-07-30 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am currently helping a fellow user, Rommel B. Ikeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] He is have problems getting is computer to connect to the internet through a Window 2000 proxy server. I only have experience with NAT. I do not expect someone to solve our problem just point me to the correct docu

Re: Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-29 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello Have you tried to using the XF86Config file from your Linux computer? You will need to disable the dri stuff, make sure all the font paths are the same. On Sunday 27 July 2003 08:39 pm, Karl Agee wrote: > >Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:15:57 -0700 > >To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Newbie's installation of portupgrade fails...

2003-07-29 Thread Aaron Siegel
ed, 10 packets received, 9% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 168.518/173.873/185.511/4.737 ms If you do not receive this response you have a network problem. Reply to this email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck On Tuesday 29 July 2003 01:23 am, Rommel B. Ikeda wrote: > Dear Aar

Re: Lost-Need Help on Ports, Packages, CVSup, and AnonCVS

2003-07-28 Thread Aaron Siegel
On Sunday 27 July 2003 10:26 pm, Rommel B. Ikeda wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I do not know if this is the right place to ask but since I am a Newbie I > thought I should start looking for answers here and maybe move on to > wherever you might be able to guide me... > > I am trying to configure my sy

Weird terminal behavior 5.1-Release

2003-07-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello After working at a terminal for awhile (long enough that the scroll bar becomes really small), xterm and rxvt (I am not sure if it problem occurs at the council) begins to act strangely, I cannot su another user and when I try to use a program that uses standard input (cin) the program

Re: Using spamprobe on a FreeBSD System

2003-07-21 Thread Aaron Siegel
Berkely db is in the ports collection databases/db[2-4,41] and is free. On Monday 21 July 2003 05:30 am, Martin McCormick wrote: > I started to install spamprobe-0.8b and discovered that it > needs something called BerkeleyDB. The instructions tell one to get > it from a place called sleep

Recording raw audio files under 5.0

2003-03-09 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I am trying to record audio input to a raw audio file using the comand: $ cat /dev/dspW > audio.file.raw This produces and error "cannot open /dev/dsp [device busy]" (using dsp, dsp0.0). I tried the command fstat | dsp (as recommended in the hand book), it did not find any applicati

Re: Help! WordPerfect can't find /compat/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.1 !

2002-10-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
If you can not install via rpm you can do it manually this is a safer method. I use Midnight Commander (misc/mc) and select the rpm and copy to the location. (I do not remember if I used rpm or the manual method) sorry for the confusion On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 11:22, Aaron Siegel wrote: > He

Re: Help! WordPerfect can't find /compat/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.1 !

2002-10-27 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello I was able to get older linux binaries to work by install the following rpms from the Red Hat 6.1 distribution: ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm I did this by: # /usr/compat/linux/bin/bash # rpm -ivh ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm # rpm -ivh libc-5.3.12-31.i386.rpm Then you will n