vmware / vmplayer on freebsd?

2006-07-19 Thread Erin Sharmahd
I'm trying to find some info on google on using vmware server or vmplayer on freebsd. In essence, one of my classes is expecting us to do some windows work, and i'd like to do it in vmware or something similar so that I don't have to actually install windows Is it even possible currently to

flash / pandora.com / google video

2006-07-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
I've been working on trying to get flash working on my freebsd 6.1 system, and have had a bit of luck, but not quite as much as I'd like to have. After recovering from some less-successful attempts, I followed the instructions at http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html, and can now get most flash website

cdrecord on Thinkpad T43

2006-04-08 Thread Erin Sharmahd
I've been having some problems getting cdrecord to work on my thinkpad. http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/ibm/index.php says: "To burn CDs with cdrecord don't forget to enable atapicam during kernel configuration." In his kernel config, he used this with "device atapicd", so I ran: [

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
> It's definitely worth a try. People have reported exactly this issue > with both recent iPods, and PNY Attache devices. In the case of the > iPods, removing the stall-clearing code was reported to fix the > problem, but I don't know whether it will help with the thumb drive. And, we've got a win

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
> Unfortunately a number of Apple iPod devices don't work with 6.0 > release. FreeBSD sends a command to the device that causes the iPod > USB interface to get confused and it stops responding. This was > fixed in 6-stable, so you'll need to upgrade or patch the kernel > to get it to work. > > You

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
> I think you're probably getting to the right problem, but I'm still > having a few issues. Here's what kldstat shows: > > [amon-re conf] kldstat > Id Refs AddressSize Name > 1 13 0xc040 63070c kernel > 21 0xc0a31000 57c8 snd_ich.ko > 32 0xc0a37000 1d408sound.ko

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
> try kldstat and see if da.ko is listed. if it isn't, try kldload da > the problem is that while the machine see the usb device attached, it hasn't > loaded the driver for the disk, hence the absense of anything in dmesg about > da0... > > good luck. oh, the module might not be called da.ko exactl

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Erin Sharmahd
> I believe you need this entry in you kernel config > file > > device pass It's in there already. I just didn't know that it was related... :) Thanks, ~Erin -- http://www.tuxgirl.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-10 Thread Erin Sharmahd
I'm a bit of a newbie, but I've done a good bit of research, and some asking around on this issue, and haven't been able to resolve it yet. I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE with the GENERIC kernel. (from what i can tell, it has all of the necessary pieces to allow usb drives). When I plug my ipod i