Re: printing with cups - gnome-office -solved

2004-10-10 Thread hoe-waa
On Wednesday, October 6, 2004 7:44 pm I sent this query prematurely. # Aloha # On this past Sunday(10-3-4) I posted this question to freebsd-gnome. # I have not received any responses. Can anyone on this list help? # Thanks I am having a problem with CUPS and Gnome. I am

moving from 5.2.1 to 5.3Beta?

2004-10-07 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I have a quick question. I am going to upgrade one of my systems from 5.2.1P9 to 5.3Beta7. I have cvsup'd the source and when checking UPDATING I came across this: 20041001: The following libraries had their version number bumped up: /lib/libm.so.2 - libm.so.3

Re: moving from 5.2.1 to 5.3Beta?

2004-10-07 Thread hoe-waa
Thanks, I'll get right on it. Robert On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:10:43PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha I have a quick question. I am going to upgrade one of my systems from 5.2.1P9 to 5.3Beta7. I have cvsup'd the source and when checking UPDATING I came across this: 20041001:

printing with cups - gnome-office

2004-10-06 Thread hoe-waa
# Aloha # On this past Sunday(10-3-4) I posted this question to freebsd-gnome. # I have not received any responses. Can anyone on this list help? # Thanks I am having a problem with CUPS and Gnome. I am running Gnome 2.6.2, Gnome-Office, and Xorg all installed via ports.

Re: Is there a reverse Network Address Translation???

2004-09-30 Thread hoe-waa
On Thursday, September 30, 2004 stheg olloydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke as if he was talking about me. snip Most certainly! I was taking into account the OP's relative newness to the unix world. While it may seem condescending, I find newer users tend to get overwhelmed when more

Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop

2004-08-29 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha Vaughan, Vaughan Moore wrote: I'm a complete newbie and I'm trying to set up X server on a Toshiba Satellite pro 4620dvd laptop. Everytime I run through xf86cfg or xf86cfg -textmode I get the error message The XFree86 configuration process seems to have failed. Would you like to try

Re: Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse and 5.2

2004-08-28 Thread hoe-waa
From: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, August 28, 2004 10:49 am Doh! My mouse (a Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse) worked fine with Knoppix/Linux OS and with XP of course but does NOT work with FreeBSD 5.2! I tried plugging it in as PS/2 but the little light does not come

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-08-23 Thread hoe-waa
From: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, August 23, 2004 7:41 am I started to get this too, and just got an answer on the CURRENT list. What you need to do the rescan the GEOM structure is: cat /dev/null /dev/da0 cat /dev/null /dev/da1 etc... This worked for me. Apparently

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread hoe-waa
From: thrawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:18 am Hi, I have just brought this KVM switch: http://www.level1.com/products3.php?sklop=20id=590430 But Im having major problems with getting the mouse to work under FreeBSD. Even the keyboard does not work sometimes.

Re: Mouse problems with KVM switch

2004-08-19 Thread hoe-waa
From: Mattias Björk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: thrawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:18 am snip Does anybody have a clue or have hade any similar problems and/or who could shine some light on this problem? Mvh Mattias Björk

Changing cards in a reader (new info)

2004-07-29 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I have some additional information regarding this problem. I was reading some of the man pages for the ump-teenth time and I thought I would try something with fdisk. I started with a 128MB card in the reader. hp# mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt/olympus/ hp# ls -l /mnt/olympus/ hp# ls -l

Changing cards in a reader (next step??)

2004-07-26 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I need to know where to go next. I have originated two previous threads regarding this problem. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-June/050819.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-July/053047.html I have followed all suggestions and

Re: Changing cards in a reader (next step??)

2004-07-26 Thread hoe-waa
From: David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 26, 2004 7:47 am On Jul 26, 2004, at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have followed all suggestions and responded with the output of my attemps. The problem remains unresolved. I have also requested that if anyone has this

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-07-22 Thread hoe-waa
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:25 am From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 8:58 am From: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:44 am what does '/sbin/fdisk da2' say ? Regards,

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-07-22 Thread hoe-waa
From: Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:46 am I guess I missed your first post. One thing I don't see in your posts is any mention of whether or not you're running FBSD 4.x or 5.x. My experience with 4.x is that cards of any type either don't work or work

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-07-20 Thread hoe-waa
From: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:39 pm On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had tried camcontrol rescan 0:0:2 without success and I just tried camcontrol rescan all without success. on a particular Apacer multi-card reader, i needed to

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-07-20 Thread hoe-waa
From: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:44 am what does '/sbin/fdisk da2' say ? Regards, Aloha and Mahalo I do get something different displayed with fdisk. insert and mount 8MB card hp# mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt/olympus hp#

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-07-20 Thread hoe-waa
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 8:58 am Subject: Re: changing card in a reader (revisited) From: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:44 am what does '/sbin/fdisk da2' say ? Regards,

changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-07-19 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I had previously started a thread with this problem and although I received several suggestions the problem was never solved. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-June/050819.html Below I have included more information. If I change an 8MB card for another 8MB card

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-07-19 Thread hoe-waa
From: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 19, 2004 2:29 pm On Monday 19 July 2004 05:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha I had previously started a thread with this problem and although I received several suggestions the problem was never solved.

Re: Card reader problems (was: changing card in a reader (revisited))

2004-07-19 Thread hoe-waa
From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 19, 2004 12:10 pm Hi, Sorry to disturb, but do you get panics with your card reader? I see someone posting about such device for the first time here (except me). What kernel are you using? I have a 4-slot reader/writer too and each

Re: changing cards in a reader

2004-06-28 Thread hoe-waa
Scott Mitchell wrote Hi Robert, Weird - that's what works for me, so I don't know how much more help I can offer, but here are a few suggestions that might help us figure out what's going on... Boot with 128MB card installed. hp# ls -l /dev/da* crw-r- 1 root operator4, 20 Jun 26

changing cards in a reader

2004-06-26 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha Hopefully this is a simple question. FreeBSD does not support my Olympus C-3000 Zoom camera so I bought a card reader (usb). It has 4 slots and when I boot or just plug it in I get 4 drives (da0, da1, da2, da3). If I have a SmartMedia card installed I also see da2s1. da2s1 mounts fine

Re: changing cards in a reader

2004-06-26 Thread hoe-waa
On Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:56 pm Scott Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded thusly On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:39:25AM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha Hopefully this is a simple question. FreeBSD does not support my Olympus C-3000 Zoom camera so I bought a card reader (usb).

Re: FreeBSD weakness

2004-06-21 Thread hoe-waa
On 2004-06-21 01:42, Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll repeat this so there is no misunderstanding. The people here have been great in their response to help! But there is also no getting around the fact that I am much older (54) and less able to absorb new ideas as fast ALoha

Re: FreeBSD Commands

2004-06-16 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I am always happy to help. I am a real newbie to FBSD I have been using it for about 6 months. In the early 80's I used cli on Unix V when I worked for the Death Star company. I was then forced to migrate to Dos and then to Windows because all the clients needed any correspondence or

Re: FreeBSD Commands

2004-06-15 Thread hoe-waa
Since Giorgos crossed the line to linux :) here is a site that has all of the man pages at your fingertips. For someone new to *nix, knowing what to ask is harder than asking. http://jamesthornton.com/linux/man/ Welcome to FreeBSD. It is the best. Robert On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:10 am,

Re: Wireless Microsoft USB G adapter drivers

2004-06-03 Thread hoe-waa
For what it's worth, I check with Project Evil and found this bad news. Looks like a AMF-YOYO What doesn't Project Evil do: - Provide support for USB network devices (this would require emulating portions of USBD.SYS and portitions of the Windows I/O model outside of the NDIS API). -

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha This sounds a whole lot like my DHCP problem. It was being discussed on this list earlier last week. I have attached my thread for your perusal. I have the same ethernet card as you. There is a workaround in the attachment that I am using (I also created a script to do it) but if someone

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha Don I am very happy I was able to help. One question for you before I answer yours. I still have to kill dhclient and netstart after a reboot. Did you imply that after wiping out the hostname in rc.conf you can reboot and your dhcp is up? Now for your question. I have not had any

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread hoe-waa
I think I'll leave mine as is until I or someone (hint, hint) comes up with the real fix. I don't reboot this machine very often and my script file seems to work fine. If you are interested, here it is $ cat /root/scripts/start-sk0.sh #! /bin/sh killall -9 dhclient sh /etc/netstart ifconfig

Re: RE: ethernet card not coming up on reboot

2004-05-26 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha Eric and Luke I am aware that sysinstall will append to rc.conf. I went ahead and deleted all of the appends and rebooted. The ethernet did not come up on reboot. I had to use sysinstall to get an ip. And yes, it did append to rc.conf again. I will look into setting a static ip but I

Re: ethernet card not coming up on reboot

2004-05-26 Thread hoe-waa
Subject: Re: ethernet card not coming up on reboot On Tue, 25 May 2004 20:00:12 -1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Aloha Eric and Luke I am aware that sysinstall will append to rc.conf. I went ahead and deleted all of the appends and rebooted. The ethernet did not come up on

Re: RE: ethernet card not coming up on reboot

2004-05-26 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha and Mahalo Okay, that works. I dropped out of gnome and logged ina s root. I deleted all the append data in rc.conf and I deleted /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rc.local. I then rebooted. When I came back up ifconfig showed no ip address. I then did the killall -9 dhclient and the sh

ethernet card not coming up on reboot

2004-05-25 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I have a little annoyance on one of my boxes. The box has an Asus P4P800 mobo with a 2.6GHz P4 and 1GB of DDR-400 Ram. I have FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 loaded on a 120Gig SATA Hard disk. My ouput of uname -a: p4# uname -a FreeBSD p4.hawaii.rr.com 5.2-RC1 FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 #0: Sun Dec 7 22:15:14

Re: can't startx after upgrade

2004-05-24 Thread hoe-waa
Thanks for responding Jason. Yes, I used the script from gnome. This is the 3rd box I have upgraded and the first problem of this nature. Robert - Original Message - From: jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, May 23, 2004 4:55 pm Subject: Re: can't startx after upgrade [EMAIL

can't startx from user after upgrade

2004-05-23 Thread hoe-waa
Hello I have just successfully upgrade gnome 2.4 to gnome 2.6. Well, at least that's the message on the screen after upgrade. :) Before the upgrade all was working well. After the upgrade I have some problems. I cannot startx from a regular user login. When trying, I get the following errors:

Re: can't startx from user after upgrade

2004-05-23 Thread hoe-waa
From: arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] this may sound strange but is your disc full? Ive had similar probs on Linux boxes when the disc is all but full arden Aloha Arden Funny you should ask Here is the output of df bsd-desktop# df Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted

can't startx after upgrade

2004-05-22 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I have just successfully upgrade gnome 2.4 to gnome 2.6. At least that's the message I received after running the upgrade script. :) Before the upgrade all was working well. After the upgrade I have some problems. I cannot startx from a regular user login. When trying, I get the

Re: /usr out of space

2004-05-20 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha Nicholas Thanks for responding. I had just received a hint about growfs and while reading that I found out about newfs. I have indeed performed the newfs and can now mount /dev/da1s4f. Would it be possible to use growfs to add the new slice to /usr? If not, I will follow your instructions

Re: /usr out of space

2004-05-20 Thread hoe-waa
On Thursday 20 May 2004 02:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha Nicholas Thanks for responding. I had just received a hint about growfs and while reading that I found out about newfs. I have indeed performed the newfs and can now mount /dev/da1s4f. Would it be possible to use

Re: /usr out of space - FIXED

2004-05-20 Thread hoe-waa
Mahalo nui loa to all who responded. The solution provided by Nicholas worked. I now have adequate space on /usr. Thanks again. Robert On Thursday 20 May 2004 02:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha Nicholas Thanks for responding. I had just received a hint about growfs and while

/usr out of space

2004-05-19 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I'm looking for a little direction (instructions or reading) that could point me the right way. I have a box with an 18G scsi hd that has win98 loaded on slice 1, FreeBSD 5.2RC loaded on slice 2 and I had a couple of linux distros loaded in extended partitions. I had blown away one of the

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-16 Thread hoe-waa
ALoha Malcolm I apologize, I should of answered yesterday. - Original Message - From: Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:14 pm Subject: Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly On Saturday 15 May 2004 12:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - On Saturday 15 May 2004 08:59,

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-15 Thread hoe-waa
- Original Message - From: Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:18 am Subject: Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly Aloha Mark and thanks for responding. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get back to you sooner. I was in Kawaihae paddling in and outrigger canoe race. Alas, we

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-14 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha Again Okay, I had some time and since I had just installed Slackware, I didn't mind blowing it away. Using cfdisk from the Slackware CD, I re-partitioned slices 3 and up. I now have a fat32 3Gig slice in primary partition/slice ad0s3. I then have four 12 Gig slices (5 - 8) set up as

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-14 Thread hoe-waa
- On Saturday 15 May 2004 08:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha Again Okay, I had some time and since I had just installed Slackware, I didn't mind blowing it away. Using cfdisk from the Slackware CD, I re-partitioned slices 3 and up. I now have a fat32 3Gig slice in primary

mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-12 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 for data sharing between all distros. When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i can mount the win98