Hi all,
I am using FBSD 7.1R on PC. But yesterday (8 Mar 09) my hard disk was
physically broken. My machine is very old anyway. So I want to buy a
new laptop (notebook). I have some questions.
1. Previously I use ADSL but now I go back to 56k serial modem. The
problem is new laptops do not provid
Hi,
Thanks for your response.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:13 AM, wrote:
> Some laptops do come with COM ports still. Usually they are the
> business models. For example, the Dell Latitude 820's have them.
Actually I don't want to adhere with such thing.
I think laptop with COM port will be exti
Hi All,
Last week my harddisk was broken and wiped out the slice of FreeBSD 7.1R.
I decided to bring back my old harddisk with 3 partitions i.e.
Windows ME, Windows 2000 and a free partition.
It has a menu for selecting which Windows to boot and I have tested
booting them.
Then I installed FreeBSD
Hi all,
I have been using FBSD since 5.4 until now 8.0.
Mostly, I use it as a server and coding C (as my hobby).
All the time I stay in console without fancy of any GUI.
For GUI applications, I mostly use Windows.
Now I want to use only FBSD for web browsing and don't want to use Windows.
I insta
* Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote:
> Do you have compat7x installed?
No I don't.
> If you already updated to OS 8.0,
> you should update your ports tree, too, and
> use the current ports.
I always csup the SELECTED port tree but not all.
> Just installing isn't enough, there's some configurat
* daniele (gl...@live.com) wrote:
> HI !
>
> I tested the process of installing firefox/opera and flash plugin.
> Everything run on my system FreeBSD 8, even though I did not stress
> browser & plugin.
>
> Here's all the step that I took to make the flash plugin work for
> firefox and opera (basica
* daniele (gl...@live.com) wrote:
> hmmm... :-/
>
> is at least now the web browser opera working ?
Yes it is working.
Thanks for your prompt response.
Pongthep
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* daniele (gl...@live.com) wrote:
> hmmm... :-/
>
> is at least now the web browser opera working ?
[edit]Yes, it is working but without flash. [/edit]
Thanks for your prompt response.
Pongthep
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* C. P. Ghost (cpgh...@cordula.ws) wrote:
> If you csup, you update only /usr/src (or /usr/ports). Have you actually
> updated the system and the ports as well?
% uname -a
FreeBSD bsdhost.localdomain 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Tue Dec 1
19:12:37 ICT 2009 r...@bsdhost.localdomain:/usr/o
* Warren Block (wbl...@wonkity.com) wrote:
> When you upgrade from 7.x to 8.x, it's necessary to rebuild *all* ports.
Thanks for your suggestion, but it does not seem likely.
All operating systems can always distinguish the system and packages.
For instance, gcc is tightly coupled with the system
* daniele (gl...@live.com) wrote:
> Dont worry I wanted to try to help for what I can. I installed the
> plugin this morning and I was curious.
Thank you again for your kind.
> It's strange though. The plugin is there. I dont know if there's a kind
> of log somewhere to see if it "sees" it.
I al
* C. P. Ghost (cpgh...@cordula.ws) wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Pongthep Kulkrisada
> wrote:
> > % uname -a
> > FreeBSD bsdhost.localdomain 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Tue Dec 1
> > 19:12:37 ICT 2009 r...@bsdhost.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GE
* Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) wrote:
> Yes, it's not enough.
>
> When you upgrade the base OS to a new major version (ie, going from
> 7.x to 8.x), the system libraries get bumped to a new version, but any
> libraries coming from ports are still linked against the older version
> of the f
Hi Polytropon,
Firstly, thanks for your suggestion.
* Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote:
> You can consider using "pkgadd -r" to install binary packages.
> Those are quite synchon with the ports tree (as they are
> centrally built from the ports tree).
I checked /var/db/pkg; I have 464 ports in
Hi Folk,
Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list,
I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch.
I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ...
# freebsd-update fetch
Lookin up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found
Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org
Hi Folk,
Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list,
I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch.
I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ...
# freebsd-update fetch
Lookin up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found
Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org
* Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) wrote:
> If you track RELENG_8, you get -STABLE system from a build cycle. If you
> track RELENG_8_0, you are tracking the security branch and get your own
> "official" -RELEASE system from the build cycle.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/security/ says:
>
> "Supported
* RW (rwmailli...@googlemail.com) wrote:
> that should be RELENG_8_0
Sorry for typo, but actually I only appended to the existing supfile.
Thing goes well.
> Stable is a stable development branch, if you want to use
> freebsd-update you need to use a proper release security branch.
Does that mea
Hi All,
I have just subscribed to freebsd-questions and I have a question about ppp
-nat.
I have 2 computers. One is running FreeBSD-7.0R, the other is running WinXP.
The host running FBSD7.0R has been connecting to the outside world using
user-ppp without any problem for very long. Now I want
Hi All,
Firstly, I'm sorry for late reply. For simplicity to your responses, I shall
ask question by question...
* Manolis Kiagias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> There are at least two ways that I know of to achieve this. One uses the
> ipfw firewall, the other the pf firewall.
> For the ipfw sol
Hi all,
Firstly many thanks to all your help! And sorry for late reply...
> > With these settings, My FBSD host can NOT even dial out to ISP. :-(
> > Please anybody tell me, what I do wrong here.
>
> > At this time I must go back to the original setting in order to dial ISP.
> > And lastly I
Hi all,
> I didn't touch /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, which has been working for 5 years
> since FBSD5.0R. Even if I go back to GENERIC kernel. I could not dial out
> to ISP in any ways. I didn't know what I do wrong even if
> I did read many docs.
I tried exactly what being described in the handbook. But a
Hi all,
> set log phase chat connect carrier link ipcp ccp ID0 TUN command
I still can't dial using this configuration...
# ppp -background isp
Loading /lib/libalias_cuseeme.so
Loading /lib/libalias_ftp.so
Loading /lib/libalias_irc.so
Loading /lib/libalias_nbt.so
Loading /lib/libalias_pptp.so
Loa
> > # ppp -background isp
> > Loading /lib/libalias_cuseeme.so
> > Loading /lib/libalias_ftp.so
> > Loading /lib/libalias_irc.so
> > Loading /lib/libalias_nbt.so
> > Loading /lib/libalias_pptp.so
> > Loading /lib/libalias_skinny.so
> > Loading /lib/libalias_smedia.so
>
> I'm surprised ppp
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