Have I poisoned something in USB filesystems?

2008-07-21 Thread Charles Bacon
I have 2 mem sticks and several CF cards from a Nikon Coolpix camera. In the past I've freely used these both ways, through USB. My OS is, via uname -a: FreeBSD daisy.local 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-18 Thread Charles Bacon
I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within the next

firefox plugins

2007-08-27 Thread Charles Bacon
I'm unable to find any reference to amd64 on Firefox FAQ and other info sources. I have an EVGA mobo with an AMD64 running FreeBSD 6.2 perfectly, with Firefox. But every attempt at a plugin complains either that it isn't windows or that it's an amd64. I really want to run Flash material. Any

6.1-RELEASE-amd64 portsnap fetch fails

2006-08-25 Thread Charles Bacon
8/25/06 I have tried to use portsnap; it seems like a good way to get my feet wet into the world of incremental updates. Environment: Home LAN fed by DSL service; ISP's dhcp to a Netopia router; fixed 192.168.1/28 on LAN. DAISY is made of the following: EVGA 133-K8-NF41 Socket 939 MoBo with AMD

Re: Getting NTP (ntpd, ntpdate) to work

2006-07-02 Thread Charles Bacon
: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 21:30:55 -0400 (EDT) Charles Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since FreeBSD 4.5-Release, I have been unable to get NTP working on my two FreeBSD computers, one running 5.3Release and the other on 6.1Release. I have done nothing with the GENERIC kernel on either machine. I talk SSH

Getting NTP (ntpd, ntpdate) to work

2006-06-17 Thread Charles Bacon
Since FreeBSD 4.5-Release, I have been unable to get NTP working on my two FreeBSD computers, one running 5.3Release and the other on 6.1Release. I have done nothing with the GENERIC kernel on either machine. I talk SSH between them, and have been running ntpd on both, each naming the other as

in FreeBSD-4.5R: nl_langinfo() - where is it?

2004-03-05 Thread Charles Bacon
I've downloaded the FreeBSD 4.5-version of OpenOffice.org1.1.0 - this is the second version of OpenOffice.org I've tried. Incanting openoffice-1.1 (or any of the symlinks which point to it) results in the message /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/libsal.so.3: