Asking the experts. . .

2005-08-13 Thread Bryan Maynard
I'm setting up a web/mail/source coude server for my open source project and am using FreeBSD. My first concern is security. I read through the appropriate area of the Handbook and really enjoyed it. However, I do not know what suid, guid, and the like are. I've look up the man pages, but am

Re: 5.4-release install problem

2005-08-04 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:33 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I downloaded the 5.4-release iso images from the freebsd website. I used my windows machine and Nero to burn the iso images to cd's. I have an old machine that I am trying to install 5.4-release on. It is a PII 333, SCSI with 30GB

Re: 5.4-release install problem

2005-08-04 Thread Bryan Maynard
[Deleted] Well, I went and tried to look at the scrolling text. It had several columsn with in err ef1 cip. Their is a line that says: BTX Halted. ss:esp= I'm pretty sure this is not the normal boot process. I'll look at the handbook as suggested. -Darryl I found this when I Googled BTX

Apache problems

2005-08-04 Thread Bryan Maynard
I know this isn't directly freebsd related, but this list has been good to me before. I am running 5-STABLE. I installed Apache 2.1.4 using make install clean after updating my ports collection. Everything seemed to go fine. I then installed mod_php5 via make install clean. I added

Re: package database corruption

2005-08-02 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 07:36 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:44:05PM -0400, dave wrote: Hello, I've got a 5.4 box, that was working fine until it somehow lost it's correct date. A port upgrade was atempted while in this state then when it failed, it was handed off to

Re: hard drive not properly dismounted

2005-08-02 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 08:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a second hard drive in my docking station that gets mounted at each boot as /hd2. For the past few weeks, everytime I boot, I get the message /hd2 not properly dismounted I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that

Re: Backup kernel - confirmation

2005-07-28 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:10 pm, Norberto Meijome wrote: quick question - I have a remote box with SMP/HTT disabled, but I'd like to see how it works with it. If I make a copy of my current kernel to /kernel_orig, I should be able to install the SMP one as /kernel, and if hell breaks lose, I

Re: huh?

2005-07-28 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Thursday 28 July 2005 06:55 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Wednesday 27 July 2005 10:39, Chris wrote: Do you have curses like cisco rhce msce CCNA , maybe for free ? YOU - are an idiot... Read the list name... FreeBSD Questions... I think he meant to ask, are there FreeBSD

Re: help

2005-07-19 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 10:14 am, Rommi Alvian (MTHK/EDP) wrote: I am deeply interested with freeBSD. currently, i am a windows expert then i am trying to move into freeBSD. The problem is no one can teach me. i have read xxxguide but it can't help me. does freeBSD support GUI interface? How

cdrom mount question

2005-07-08 Thread Bryan Maynard
I am not sure which list to post this to, I'll start here. :-) I am trying to play a CD through amaroK in KDE, but when I try to mount the disc I get the following error: cd9660: /dev/acdo: Operation not permitted I am not running as root when trying to access the device and I'm sure this is

Re: Kernel question

2005-07-08 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Friday 01 July 2005 11:02 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/1/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read through your kernel - very nice comments, thanks a lot! I compiled the kernel and boot-up is noticably faster, thanks again! I would like to investigate transfering all

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Bryan Maynard
I just want to note: it tokk all of five minutes to get an answer to this question. I know not all questions are, or can be, answered this quickly. I just think it's worth noting that Open Source Software does have excellent user support. . . Just my .02 :-) On Wednesday 06 July 2005 07:45

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 ndis support

2005-07-05 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 08:25 am, Tobias Tom wrote: Anyway, there is a utility in 5.4 (I think that's that's where it showed up) called ndisgen. Running ndisgen steps you through a wonderful little script that asks for for the location of your INF and SYS files, generates you .h file and

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 ndis support

2005-07-03 Thread Bryan Maynard
I've been having issues with ndis myself. However, I got some help and things are going good for me, except that i haven't gotten DHCP to work for the card. . . Anyway, there is a utility in 5.4 (I think that's that's where it showed up) called ndisgen. Running ndisgen steps you through a

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread Bryan Maynard
Pardon my newness, but what is top posting? Thanks, Bryan On Friday 01 July 2005 06:56 pm, Lane wrote: On Friday 01 July 2005 13:30, Robert Marella wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post before you actually post a

Re: Kernel question

2005-07-01 Thread Bryan Maynard
, thanks a lot for the new kernel, it works like a charm! Bryan On Friday 01 July 2005 05:58 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/30/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I checked out the man pages you listed, thanks for the help! I didn't understand everything in all of them, but they did help me

Re: Kernel question

2005-06-30 Thread Bryan Maynard
June 2005 06:47 am, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/29/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey helpful friends! :-D I would like to conduct an experiment: down the road (a couple years maybe) I'd like to start building and selling PCs. I'd like these PCs to run FreeBSD - because it's

Kernel question

2005-06-29 Thread Bryan Maynard
Hey helpful friends! :-D I would like to conduct an experiment: down the road (a couple years maybe) I'd like to start building and selling PCs. I'd like these PCs to run FreeBSD - because it's the best ;-). These machines will be a slightly different from the current crop in that they will be

Possibly silly question. . .

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Maynard
Hey all, I was just looking through the ports collection to portinstall Kopete, but I couldn't find it! I checked the spelling and capitalization to make sure I was entering my search correct, and I was. I know Kopete is availible - I've used it in a previous install. It's just been a while

Re: Possibly silly question. . .

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Maynard
I'm portinstalling kdenetwork-3.4.0 right now, thanks a lot! Bryan On Tuesday 28 June 2005 04:56 pm, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 6/28/2005 03:49, Bryan Maynard seems to have typed: I know Kopete is availible - I've used it in a previous install. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports

ndis0 dhcp question

2005-06-25 Thread Bryan Maynard
Hello all! :-D I have a Linksys WPC11 ver.4 wireless NIC. I got it setup using ndisgen (very cool tool by the way). Now when kldload /root/rtl8180_sys.ko (the location of my wireless kernel object) dmesg shows this: ndis0: Realtek RTL8180 Wireless LAN (Mini-)PCI NIC port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x88