Re: switch Radio on in order to use iwi0?

2006-07-07 Thread Bryan Brake
Andreas Burghardt wrote: Hello everyone, I want to use my wireless card and everything seems to be well configured except one thing: how to switch Radio on? I have a "Joybook 5200G (Benq)" and if I want to switch Radio on by using the keyboard it isnt working! Perhaps this is a very noob-questio

Re: OpenOffice with JRE or without?

2006-05-12 Thread Bryan Brake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In investigating what's needed to install & configure OpenOffice, I see on their Website that I have the choice of downloading it with or without the JRE. Remembering some of traffic here discussing the issues of installing/compiling Java 1.5, how stable is the Linux

Re: Errors with FAT32 disk

2006-04-06 Thread Bryan Brake
> The disk on /mnt/files is FAT32. No other directories have this problem. The disk was in a Linux box previously and I could see the files fine. Any way I can "recover" the data? I didn't know OpenBSD had support for FAT 32. I have been only using FAT on my thumbdrive... What is the forma

Re: Problem with DHCP (or bce?) on 3.8

2006-04-04 Thread Bryan Brake
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/04/04 14:01, Tomas Bodzar wrote: But worst thing is that my Broadcom 440x isn't running. It's possible that support for your NIC was added between 3.8 and 3.9; you could try booting from the install kernel (bsd.rd) for a -current snapshot and see if it behaves.

Re: how do I make the history file created by ksh readable?

2006-03-24 Thread Bryan Brake
Adam wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:44:26 -0800 Bryan Brake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to configure ksh to make the commands display one command per line, or will I have to edit it manually. Just type "history" and it will display it nicely for you. Adam Man

how do I make the history file created by ksh readable?

2006-03-24 Thread Bryan Brake
I am taking an "Intro to UNIX" class at school. The teacher has asked that we send him a copy of our .history files to show what steps we used to complete certain assignments. I was able to setup the history in my .profile by reading ksh(1), but after I rebooted and issued a few commands, I

Re: IDS solution

2006-03-21 Thread Bryan Brake
Hutger H. wrote: Hi folks, I've been looking for a consolidated IDS solution that I can deploy in my network. Snort is really a good option but currently it seems that they are charging for updates, it that true? I'd like to find out a free of charge Linux, or BSD, solution that can works as goo

Re: Dell Precision M70 experiences

2006-03-21 Thread Bryan Brake
Steve Shockley wrote: It just so happens I got one to toy with here for a little bit. I threw on the last 3.9-beta snapshot (Generic #617), I'll get a dmesg off of it this weekend. Didn't recognize wireless, I think it was some kind of Broadcom. Saw Ethernet as bge. I was able to start X

Re: home VPN

2006-03-13 Thread Bryan Brake
I wanted to be able to access the web and surf without the Nazi admin checking the firewall logs to see what I am doing. Oh, nice. Figure out how to bypass company security policy and put them all at risk. Then call the guy who's job it is to keep it all working a Nazi. Mmm, impressive. Hope

Re: home VPN

2006-03-13 Thread Bryan Brake
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:03:21PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: Dear folks, i live in brazil, and it is a common practice for local corporation/institutions to monitor our phone calls, internet access and personal email. I would like to be able to access Internet by means

Re: OpenBSD has bad security

2006-03-06 Thread Bryan Brake
x27;s serious folks Bryan Brake

what is next? 3.10 or 4.0???

2006-03-03 Thread Bryan Brake
if the x.x.x versioning is followed 4.0 would mean there is a major upgrade to the OS, while 3.10 is minor updates. Just thinking about all the goodies that a 4.x OS would mean. Bryan

BOINC distributed computing project

2006-03-01 Thread Bryan Brake
I've downloaded the BOINC client for windows and am running it with no issues, I was wondering if anyone has tried using the OpenBSD version. It can be found here... http://www.lb.shuttle.de/apastron/boincDown.shtml#opbsd Does anyone do this? I am sure there is, I just wanted to find out h

Re: error mounting cd0c on -current [SOLVED]

2006-02-28 Thread Bryan Brake
can only hope this will help someone else someday... Best regards... Bryan Brake

Re: error mounting cd0c on -current

2006-02-28 Thread Bryan Brake
Darrin Chandler wrote: Have a good look at your dmesg. It'll tell you of it's supported. Also, look at the FAQ about sound, as there are some good things to try if it *is* supported. Quick answer: $ cat some-file > /dev/audio If you hear something then you have sound. If you get "device not

Re: error mounting cd0c on -current

2006-02-28 Thread Bryan Brake
Matthias Kilian wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:23:00PM -0800, Bryan Brake wrote: Okay, your question leads me to believe that I've done something stupid. I need to research how I can play audio CD's cdio(1) Ciao, Kili yes, I found cdio and attempted to use it to p

Re: error mounting cd0c on -current

2006-02-28 Thread Bryan Brake
Why are you trying to mount an audio cd? Okay, your question leads me to believe that I've done something stupid. I need to research how I can play audio CD's **UPDATE: I tried using a CD with some .mp3's on them, and it mounts like a charm.** Many thanks... I now just have an issue wit

error mounting cd0c on -current

2006-02-28 Thread Bryan Brake
work. The "mount" man page has what I first put in to get this error. This is why I am sending out for a little assistance. Any help is appreciated. Dmesg is below... Bryan Brake OpenBSD 3.9-beta (GENERIC) #610: Sun Feb 26 15:48:26 MST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/

Re: Workaround if your broadcom nic "timed out when disabling ethernet mac"

2006-02-21 Thread Bryan Brake
Wow... you are correct... I am having the very same issue. This is EXACTLY what is going on. A gentleman named "Brad" has offered me a diff to check and see if that solves the problem. I am currently CVSing the latest source and am going to attempt to break my cherry by building a boot

Workaround if your broadcom nic "timed out when disabling ethernet mac"

2006-02-17 Thread Bryan Brake
This annoyance started when I bought a brand-new Dell Inspiron 9300. It comes with a Broadcom 4401 Ethernet NIC. The NIC appeared to initialize, but when I tried to set the interface to "UP", the following error message occurs: bce0: timed out when disabling ethernet mac bce0: timed out writ

Re: Atheros issues?

2006-02-16 Thread Bryan Brake
Damien Miller wrote: I had a very similar problem... the 1 minute hang, prior to returning results... except that my issue did work on the Internet... with a 60 second hang, before returning results. This is almost always a DNS problem. -d Could this be the issue... I knew I remembered se

Re: iwi broken in 3.8-current?

2006-01-26 Thread Bryan Brake
Gregory Steuck wrote: "jarett" == jarett stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jarett> I'm receiving an error in 3.8-current using the iwi driver. jarett> When configuring the interface (iwi0) with a standard jarett> ifconfig command, the following error immediately appears on jar

bce0: timed out disabling ethernet mac

2006-01-26 Thread Bryan Brake
I go through the 3.8 -stable, using the FAQ, and when I get to the portion about adding my network information, I get the following error right after I put in my netmask... bce0: timed out disabling ethernet mac bce0: timed out writing pkt filter ctl I restarted