Missing KDEprint printer choices?

2007-08-01 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I normally can use KDEprint's setup tool, (A) Add printer/class (B) Click "next" on the popup screen and then see scores of printer makes and models to choose from. I see nothing in my FreeBSD-6.2 offerings. I use KDEprint on all my Unix based OS's and KDEprint is fully poplula

Re: Keyspan P/N= USA-19QW (not recognized?)

2007-06-15 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
At Fri, 15 Jun 2007 it looks like Wojciech Puchar composed: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Just plugged in my "Keyspan" 19QW usb-2-serial adapter and not even the USB link light activated... nothing in dmesg? Yes, actually "ugen0" bu

Keyspan P/N= USA-19QW (not recognized?)

2007-06-15 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
Laptop is triple-booted... BRB -- Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." -- Redd Foxx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: laser printer - which one? (Brother HL-2070N)

2007-05-25 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
&topnav=&browse= Shit... it's $40.oo cheaper this week than it was two weeks ago when I bought mine! -- Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." -- Redd Foxx __

Re: A good quiet power supply? (Mad Dog supply?)

2007-04-30 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
At Mon, 30 Apr 2007 it looks like Howard Goldstein composed: Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Just got a new PC at home, it's noisy and was wondering if anyone can share some experience here. I just read about a "fanless" power-supply and then realized I needed some input. If you

Re: A good quiet power supply? (bought one...)

2007-04-30 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
At Mon, 30 Apr 2007 it looks like Chuck Swiger composed: Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Just got a new PC at home, it's noisy and was wondering if anyone can share some experience here. I just read about a "fanless" power-supply and then realized I needed some input. It's pos

A good quiet power supply?

2007-04-29 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
Hello Family, Just got a new PC at home, it's noisy and was wondering if anyone can share some experience here. I just read about a "fanless" power-supply and then realized I needed some input. http://www.xoxide.com/fanlesspsu.html TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft <*>

Re: 6.2 -- Linksys wusb11 wireless supported? (thank-you)

2007-01-27 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
At Sun, 28 Jan 2007 it looks like Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri composed: > On 1/28/07, Bill-Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At Sun, 28 Jan 2007 it looks like Jan Henrik Sylvester composed: > > > > > The only usb wlan driver in FreeBSD is ural

Re: 6.2 -- Linksys wusb11 wireless supported? (oh no!)

2007-01-27 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
FreeBSD's network speed as a comparison test to show my coworkers that Linux and 2000 is not the only option. :( -- Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com ~ "Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to underst

Re: (6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?

2007-01-17 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
At Wed, 17 Jan 2007 it looks like Garrett Cooper composed: > On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: > > >Hello Family, > > > >Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and > >disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear on the instructions

(6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?

2007-01-16 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
t conventions. If you are getting “permission denied” messages from the server, then it is likely that you do not have this enabled properly. # It seems to be written for the time when there was only a single ISO cd. -- Bill Schoolcraf

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
; > after that, focus was lost. > > > > USL v. BSDi happened. I'm not that informed historically and was glad to get this little tidbit a while ago when tracking down the history of Unix/Linux... http://wiliweld.com/history.jpg -- Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com

Re: i finally got wireless working

2006-12-16 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
ories like yours to help me out with wireless issues. I can only speak for myself but I'd love to hear how ya did it. -- Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." --

"dd" mini-iso image to USB pendrive?

2006-12-11 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I'm trying to get my server to boot off my Sandisk "Cruzer" 1-gig pen drive with an ISO image dd'd to the pendrive. It fails and the same ISO image will boot off the USB CDROM with no issues. Is there any specific howto on doing this? TIA -- Bill

Re: clock running too fast

2006-10-30 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
pdate for your hardware; perhaps that might fix the > > bogus clock. > _______ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, s

Is 6.2(beta) running ok? 6.2 realease date ok?

2006-10-11 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
Hello Family, Just wanting to check on how the latest beta of 6.2 is running and if anyone knows of any major delays in the release of 6.2. -- Bill Schoolcraft <*> Unix System Engineer ~ "When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or

Re: how to add flags to ifconfig at boot

2006-09-21 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
--- David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:38:30PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > > > David Kelly writes: > > > > > Or if one needs to ifconfig earlier in the startup process then > put > > > one's script in /etc/start_if.em0 > > > > It is my understanding (and

Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure

2006-09-16 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
opened (-7) ## TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft <<<<*>>>> http://wiliweld.com <*> " If you turn your headlights on while going the speed of light, does anything happen? " ___

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
Yes, I just went to test my bandwidth at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest in order to see their "gauge" for I was told it was nice, but it would not fly, had to switch to another Unix variant to get it to work. -- Bill Schoolcraft <<<<*>>>> http://wiliweld.com

Re: atapicam trouble ()

2006-09-10 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
t get "OUT" on to the Internet... (giggle) If that atapicam attempt on my part did not blow Xorg out of the water and leave me at 800x600 I'd never be painfully beating myself with Solaris-10 now! Downloaded "pkg-get" so things are bearable! (grin) -- Bill Schoolcraft &

Re: atapicam trouble (me too)

2006-09-10 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
quot;perfect" config files with "Xorg -configure" and no matter what, nothing now. Isn't 6.2 coming out soon? > > mvh > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: solaris

2006-09-05 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
hink Solaris-10) install with support, for lets say, what FreeBSD had for 4.2? I mean, all the drivers are available, wouldn't one think that they could at least support what FreeBSD supports in terms of number of devices? -- Bill Schoolcraft <<<<*>>>> http://wiliw

EVDO cards and FreeBSD (verizon or sprint)?

2006-08-03 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I have to get a EVDO card for work purposes and wanted to ask the group if anyone can offer any suggestions to: (A) The card to buy (Unix_Friendly) (B) Verizon or Sprint? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com ~ "Failure is not f

CD/DVD on Promise controller crashes 6.1

2006-07-18 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
what has gone wrong. Once again I know the controller is fine, used it before on other boxes and it's been running fine and I've been using the CD/DVD drive hanging off the controller all last night and today. TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft <<<<*>>>> http://w

6.1; reiserfs works only once, then crashes system :(

2006-07-09 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
ething or is reiserfs (ro) support not really fully there yet. TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft || http://wiliweld.com <> "To be unhappy over what one lacks is to waste what one already possesses." ___ freebs

Re: dd wont work

2006-06-26 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
; 'R$09' > > Removable CD-ROM thats a slave on ide0. What else should I be looking > > at? > > Are you actually copying from cd0, or acd0? > Are you sure the problem isn't with the CD itself? That happens to me too, I have a Plextor DVD-RW/CD-RW drive. I have fol

RE: "linksysmon" Linksys Router logging util?

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Tue, 20 Jun 2006 it looks like Ted Mittelstaedt composed: > > It's easy to build that program by hand on FreeBSD. > > TEd Thanks Ted. -- Bill Schoolcraft || http://wiliweld.com <> "To be unhappy over what one lacks is to wast

"linksysmon" Linksys Router logging util?

2006-06-19 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I spotted a program called "linksysmon" and was wondering if there is anything in "ports" that is similar? It's for accessing the logs of a Linksys router. Thanks -- Bill Schoolcraft || http://wiliweld.com <> " L

Re: MESS (BINGO! /rescue/vi )

2006-05-22 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
escue]-> ldd ./vi ldd: ./vi: not a dynamic executable # -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert."

Re: MESS (statically compiled vi )

2006-05-22 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
eck... I see it need libs in /lib, which I'm sure is not on it's own partition, but I was hoping to get vi statically compiled. ### [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/editors]-> ldd `which vi` /usr/bin/vi: libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libnc

Re: MESS

2006-05-22 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
l' vi(m) from PORTS with it statically compiled? Then we can move it to /bin (?) -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert." ___ freeb

Re: Kids from Indonesia

2006-05-17 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_slc.asp?CatId=564 (Excuse me for being long winded on this, I did tech support for Linuxcare for close to 5 years.) -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be

Re: 6.1 'No kernel found' after install

2006-05-17 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your life

(6.1) KDE starts fine, "no" background(?)

2006-05-13 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
. Finished. But had "NO" background, just the toolbar appeared. The apps work, just nothing but "black" for the background. This is a first for me since FreeBSD-3.4 Thanks -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your life was full of nothing but

Re: bad floppy disks

2006-05-08 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
ey also seemed to be made of flimsier plastic for when I used to fold them in half in disgust it used to take more effort than it does now! -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert." _

Re: cat /proc/cpuinfo ?

2006-03-26 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
virtual > > power management: ts fid vid ttp > > > > ### > > > > (question) > > > > Is there some *BSD port that will give me CPU information like the > > above from the command line? > > > > TI

cat /proc/cpuinfo ?

2006-03-26 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
t: ts fid vid ttp ### (question) Is there some *BSD port that will give me CPU information like the above from the command line? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you

Re: 6.0, allow remote logging?

2006-03-22 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Wed, 22 Mar 2006 it looks like Doug Poland composed: > On 2/5/06, Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've been trying to get 6.0 to allow itself to accept logs. > >> > >> I have a line in /etc/rc.conf that states the remote machine

Re: hosts.allow ?

2006-03-19 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]-> /etc/rc.d/sshd restart ####### -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 13 Mar 2006 it looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] composed: > I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I reccomend it highly. Do you have the wireless working too on that model, the integrated chip? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your

Power adapter question (off topic, sorry)

2006-03-06 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello, I'm hoping I can find a solution. I've lost my Lucent/Orinoco RG-1000 power supply. The Access Point states it needs 9volts-DC @ 1.1amps. All I can find at Radio Shack is 9volts-DC @ 1.0amps. Is there any electricians out there that can advise me on what to do? Thanks

Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD" (5150)

2006-02-24 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
exact same inkling this time but jumped up pre-emptively and again my co-worker came to the rescue. I could write a book of the stuff that I've experienced, maybe call it "From the Shipyards to Silicon Valley" or something The one thing I've learned (besides FreeBSD kic

Re: 6.0, allow remote logging? (correction)

2006-02-05 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sat, 4 Feb 2006 it looks like Bill Schoolcraft composed: > At Sat, 4 Feb 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: > > > Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > > But when I go to check an see if the external port 514/udp is open I >

Re: 6.0, allow remote logging?

2006-02-04 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sat, 4 Feb 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: > Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > But when I go to check an see if the external port 514/udp is open I > > get nothing showing: > > > > # > >

6.0, allow remote logging?

2006-02-03 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
anned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http # So, I was wondering if there is any specific doc's on this setup. I fail to find anything specific on t

Re: (6.0) Firefox error, "Building for atk-1.9.1" ?

2006-01-28 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sat, 28 Jan 2006 it looks like Kent Stewart composed: > On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:58, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > Hello Family, > > > > Well I've read alot of "Firefox" posts and seconds after a > > successful ports update via cvsup I went to bu

(6.0) Firefox error, "Building for atk-1.9.1" ?

2006-01-28 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
ility/atk ===> Building for atk-1.9.1 make: cannot open Makefile. *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/www/firefox]-> uname -r 6.0-RELEASE ###

Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports

2006-01-24 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
while using FreeBSD ports? If no, > How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages? > > thanks, > Sincerely, > Just "cd" into the /usr/ports// and type "make install clean" It will fetch all the needed dependencies, kinda fun to watch if your new t

Re: /dev/eth0 question - prefer reply in next 20mins

2006-01-07 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
the nic of prior settings. Hope that helps. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 "UNIX, A Way of Life." http://billschoolcraft.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

nfs exporting mounted iso files ?

2005-12-13 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I have been trying to export four mounted iso images under /mnt on my FreeBSD-5.4 box via nfs and I can export everything under /mnt but the iso's don't show up on the client, only the directories. First I mounted all the iso's with the following series of commands. mdconfig -a -t

Re: How can I programatically eject a live cd?

2005-11-12 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
SD and then read the manpage and saw to my amazement... # AUTHOR Shunsuke Akiyama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HISTORY The eject command appeared in FreeBSD 2.X FreeBSD 5.4 Sep 24, 2000

Re: How can I programatically eject a live cd?

2005-11-12 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
t: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]-> # -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ "

(6.0) Suspend kills usb CDRW drive :(

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
network device back to life by: ifconfig fxp0 up Ok, with that information, how can I bring the USB /dev/cd0 back from the dead? No longer does "cdrecord -scanbus" show the device like it does after a fresh reboot. TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Franci

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 7 Nov 2005 it looks like Micah composed: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the

Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

2005-10-31 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
ted into pages. Given a few scripts. Plus the *time*. Because I could never write them all that well I used to just browse thru these for some ideas... http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/ -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com

Covert m4p to mp3 (in FreeBSD ?)

2005-10-31 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, Does anyone know how to convert a .m4p file to a .mp3 file? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
- or perhaps ffmpeg-devel - port) also can play WMAs. Regards, Vladimir That was a very nice bit of information my friend, just saw the whole program compile as a result of your help. I thank you. :) -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com

Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
me to "not" expect flash to work on anything, sad as it may seem. I guess it's like the "unix-fonts" in our browsers, you kinda get numb to the whole thing. Thanks for the replies. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billsc

Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :(

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although

Re: Recommended partitioning

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
ter Part Size / 200M /tmp 256M /usr 7G swap 512M /var 2G I found this to be an interesting read on all FreeBSD boxes man hier -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ "You d

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
/ports/audio/xmms-wma Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ "You do best what you

Re: Stored hard drive failure?

2005-10-05 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
ancisco, no rain nor fog. I would imagine that it would affect the drives I have stored in boxes in my house too. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ "You do best what you like most." ___

Re: Flash PLugin for FireFox

2005-10-01 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
ts/www/linux-flashplugin]-> make install ===> linux-flashplugin-5.0r51_3 is only for i386, and you are running amd64. ##### TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com

Re: ATTN: Gary Kline

2005-09-26 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 26 Sep 2005 it looks like Kris Kennaway composed: You are blocking mail from me again: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host ns1.thought.org[216.231.43.140] said: 550 5.0.0 No SPAM (in reply to MAIL FROM command) This has been an issue in the past..unless you can get it under control I'll just

Codeweaver for *BSD software petition, please consider signing.. :)

2005-09-10 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I've used the software by Codeweaver (tarball) to install all the windows software for any proprietary needs, Photoshop, Office, etc. They are willing and we are trying to show them interest. http://www.bsdnexus.com/petition.asp __ D

gaim or aim on 5.4 amd64 ?

2005-08-07 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I'm trying to get either GAIM or AIM to work on my 5.4 "amd64" to no avail. It works on my 5.4 "i386" and I was wondering if anyone can help, here is my "ports" failure message for GAIM. AIM reports only being ported to i386. # [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net

(5.4) gaim available in i386 but not amd64?

2005-07-20 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I was able to build gaim in 5.4 on i386 but it's not available in 5.4 on amd64... Is there any workaround for this? Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

CUPS "test-page" prints fine, nothing else.. (freebsd-5.4)

2005-07-04 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I was wondering if this is a bug somewhere in FreeBSD-5.4 or I've just been getting lucky with CUPS all the time... :) I have a HP 840c and it's connected remotely on my network with a fixed ipaddress and every box on my network can print to it and so can FreeBSD as long as it's fro

psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]

2005-06-25 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, Well, now I just had one more question about the FreeBSD-5.4/amd64 system I'm trying to get the mouse working on. I booted in "verbose" mode and spotted the following in dmesg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]-> dmesg|grep psm0 psm0: current command byte:0047 p

Triple booted, no mouse with in 5.4/amd64 (update..)

2005-06-25 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I forgot to add that this mouse is working fine (at the same time) on FreeBSD-5.4/32bit too via the KVM switch, along with two other OS's. Thanks __ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. C

Re: Triple booted, no mouse with in 5.4 :(

2005-06-25 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Note: forwarded message attached. Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com--- Begin Message --- --- Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I'm wri

Triple booted, no mouse with in 5.4 :(

2005-06-24 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I was totally stoked to get my first 64-bit PC, an AMD/Athlon and it came with Windows-XP Pro, and I did what I always do and that's to then install Linux then FreeBSD. All my machines work great like this with the Linux bootloader doing the booting of WinXP/Linux/FreeBSD. The thin

(starbucks) "ssid = tmobile" and 5.x (hit-n-miss)

2005-06-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, Well sometimes I wish I had all the answers... I need some advice. When I proudly bring my FreeBSD-5.x laptop(s) into Starbucks, I have my "wi0" set for "DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf and I never have consistant handshakes with the server, same coffee shop, same everything. Sometimes I'm

Determining integrated sound card(?)

2005-05-19 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I just got a new box and I'm running 5.4 and it has a generic "PC_Chips" M863G motherboard and all I get from dmesg is: pci0: at device 2.7 (no driver attached) I was wondering how to make an educated guess on what driver to try and load first? ___

5.4 package install woes... :(

2005-05-13 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
quot; once and "disk-2" once and all my package choices are done. I'm anxious to use this version of FreeBSD, been using this OS since the 3.4 and was really bummed out to have to post this email but we are all family and I have no where else to ask this. Namaste -- |<

5.4, switching disks during install...

2005-05-13 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
. In hindsight it would be nice to have all your selected packages taken from disk-1 "then" insert disk-2, then your done. After 19 disk changes I just stopped, now in /usr/ports.. I was wondering if I missed something. Thanks -- |<--"Word-Wrap-At-72-Please"-

Re: 5.4 package install woes.... :(

2005-05-13 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At 13 May 2005 it looks like Lowell Gilbert composed: > Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full > > iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them > > in loopback and offe

Re: 5.4 package install woes.... :(

2005-05-13 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At 13 May 2005 it looks like Lowell Gilbert composed: > Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full > > iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them > > in loopback and offe

5.4 package install woes.... :(

2005-05-12 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, Well, it's been two days now of watching both from work and from home the building of "/usr/ports/x11/kde3" and I started this thinking it would be an hour or two adventure for after about 19 "inserting/reinserting" of disks 1 then 2 then 1 then 2 etc of just trying to do what I've a

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
) will probably be nodding their heads in agreement. NOW, I also totally concur with KIS[s] and the reasons for not getting too heavy into overhead. Hell, I still prefer PINE as my MUA just because it was the first one I ever used on Unix. Namaste -- |<--"Word-Wrap-At

Re: libintl.so.6

2004-12-28 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
ill recur with the next library > you rebuild). > > e.g. portupgrade -fa > > or > > portupgrade -faPP > I also had and error with this particular library when trying to use "ymessenger" after a flawless ports install that had no errors. -- Bill Schoolc

Re: Restarting rc.conf (SOLVED-duh)

2004-11-26 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 it looks like Bill Schoolcraft composed: > At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 it looks like Ruben de Groot composed: > > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:54:39PM +0900, Rob typed: > > > > > This does not work if a service has been changed from YES to NO (or has >

Re: Restarting rc.conf

2004-11-26 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
ipts that > are in /etc/rc.d and what they actually do. Then RTM rcorder(8).) Hello Ruben, I'm running 5.2.1 and don't have a manpage anywhere for "recorder" (man 8 recorder) etc... Is this a 4.x item or am I missing some packages on my 5.2.1 install? Thanks -- Bill Schoolcraf

Re: resolv.conf - hosts

2004-11-18 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
all the Unix based systems I've seen. It comes from Solaris operating systems by origin. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco,CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com "We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart." _

Re: resolv.conf - hosts

2004-11-18 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
ormally done in /etc/nsswitch.conf -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco,CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com "We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart." ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Creating a FAT32 on new drive...

2004-11-17 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
the problem so I jumped it as a "slave" on the Promise card (now it's /dev/ad5) AND LINUX STILL BOOTED IT off the Promise controller Windows 2000 never saw the drive hanging off the Promise controller either. Only FreeBSD was able to tackle the drive successfully. -- Bill School

Creating a FAT32 on new drive...

2004-11-17 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
2 in the "sysinstall" menus of fdisk and was wondering if I can whip this drive into shape via command line. Thanks. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco,CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com "We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a happy heart."

Re: /etc/X11/XF86Config

2004-11-12 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
t;Module" > > # Load "freetype" > # Load "xtt" > Load "extmod" > Load "glx" > Load "dri" > Load "dbe" > Load "record" > Load

Re: Laptops as routers

2004-10-31 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
it to me. So I refer to it as my "brand-new-low-mileage-1962-Ford-Falcon-laptop" I would of course never have it on the net at the same time but kept the CAT5 cables just barely unsnapped at their points of entry to the network (DSL router and switch) so it would only take the time to bo

Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!

2004-10-30 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
video cards attributes as the FreeBSD operating sees it. I did also try Netscape7 and it did the same thing. Only two current browser perform normally without any changes and those are: Opera and Konqueror Thanks. -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box

Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!

2004-10-29 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like epilogue composed: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:59:52 -0700 (PDT) > Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like Volker Eckert composed: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:5

Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors

2004-10-29 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like Volker Eckert composed: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:57:59AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft > wrote: > > ... > > I have run 5.2.1 successfully on many machines and X is > > actually > > working fine except when I use Mozilla as install

Re: photoshop

2004-10-29 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 25 Oct 2004 it looks like Gert Cuykens composed: > What is the best aplication on freebsd for editing pictures ? (A) cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp (B) make install -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely i

Re: 5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!

2004-10-29 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 it looks like Volker Eckert composed: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:57:59AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > ... > > I have run 5.2.1 successfully on many machines and X is actually > > working fine except when I use Mozilla as installed from por

Re: photoshop

2004-10-29 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 25 Oct 2004 it looks like Gert Cuykens composed: > What is the best aplication on freebsd for editing pictures ? GIMP -- Bill Schoolcraft | Life's journey is not to arrive at the PO Box 210076 | grave safely in a well preserved body, San Francisco,

5.2.1, installed Mozilla -- X reverses background colors when used!!

2004-10-29 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello, I have run 5.2.1 successfully on many machines and X is actually working fine except when I use Mozilla as installed from ports. The whole background turns into a "negative" and so does the Mozilla browser. All returns to normal once I exit Mozilla. I have only seen this before with Sola

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hmm, Would using the command: zcat work? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: First time CUPS user, config problems?

2004-07-17 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sat, 17 Jul 2004 it looks like Peter Risdon composed: > Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > At Sat, 17 Jul 2004 it looks like Peter Risdon composed: > > > > > >>Cups installs /usr/local/bin/lp and /usr/local/bin/lpr and leaves > >>/usr/bin/lp and /usr/bin/lpr in

Re: First time CUPS user, config problems?

2004-07-17 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
mv lpq lpq-ORIG Then I create the symlinks so any programs "looking" for the original names, and alot do, find the cups version through the re-direction that occurs via symlinks. ln -s lpr.cups lpr ln -s lprm.cups lprm ln -s lpq.cups lpq Of course this i

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