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i just installed FreeBSD 4.7 on my laptop, when i log in as root, i can startx no problem at all but when i try to start it as a user, i can't. otiginally it told me i needed to be a member of the group 'wheel' to do startx, no problem, added myself in /etc/group, but for some reason i... (1 Reply)
i'm following the, "How to setup and secure Snort, MySQL and Acid on FreeBSD 4.6 Release" off of the snort.org website.
in the documentation it says snort should be installed through the following:
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make -DWITH_MYSQL -DWITH_FLEXRESP ; make install
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later it says to do the... (13 Replies)
I have been using Linux for 3 years now, and I think I am getting enough knowledge (and confidence) to try some more 'traditional' unix variants. I installed FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. I have a couple of questions for the time being:
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(1) Cable Internet (Adelphia)
(2) Modem -> Cat5
(3) Cat5 -> D-Link Router
(4) D-Link Router -> Cat5
(5) Cat5 -> D-Link 10/100 Ethernet/USB Adapter
On boot it says it sees... (1 Reply)
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All,
I am a bit of a BSD newbie and haven't really played with it for years, but I have had a recent situation whereby someone attempted to load a custom kernel module and ended up breaking my BSD server.
I managed to fix it by doing the following:
Booting into loader mode:
unload
set... (3 Replies)
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IP.Board Version: v3.0.2
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I wrote a script to batch-create directories with .htaccess and .htpasswd files.
I am using the following line to create the .htpasswd file:
htpasswd -cb .htpasswd $USER $PASS
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Usage: htpasswd passwordfile username
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Hi!
I have a major issue with FreeBSD 7.1 i386.
We did a change in our Unix env where we exchanged home storage from a NetAPP running udp to a NetAPP running tcp.
Now I cant mount homedirs since NFS/AMD seem to fallback to udp :(
Trying to force it with amd options nfs_proto=tcp and so on.
... (0 Replies)
(1) Hi, Am working on FreeBSD 7.4/i386 and installed Opera 11.01 through ports collection manually... But when I run first time am getting "opera: cannot connect X server. Error: Unknown error: 0" What is this error all about???? Please help me to sort out this issue!!!
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
urtw
URTW(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual URTW(4)NAME
urtw -- Realtek RTL8187B/L USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
urtw* at uhub? port ?
DESCRIPTION
The urtw driver supports USB 802.11b/g wireless adapters based on the Realtek RTL8187B/L.
urtw supports station and monitor mode operation. Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. For more information on config-
uring this device, see ifconfig(8).
HARDWARE
The urtw driver supports Realtek RTL8187B/L based wireless network devices, including:
Card Radio Bus
Belkin F5D7050E RTL8225 USB
Linksys WUSB54GCv2 RTL8225 USB
Netgear WG111v2 RTL8225 USB
Netgear WG111v3 RTL8225 USB
Safehome WLG-1500SMA5 RTL8225 USB
Shuttle XPC Accessory PN20 RTL8225 USB
Sitecom WL168v1 RTL8225 USB
Sitecom WL168v4 RTL8225 USB
SureCom EP-9001-g(2A) RTL8225 USB
TRENDnet TEW-424UB V3.xR RTL8225 USB
EXAMPLES ifconfig.if(5) example configures urtw0 to join whatever network is available on boot, using WEP key ``0x1deadbeef1'', channel 11, obtaining
an IP address using DHCP:
nwkey 0x1deadbeef1 chan 11
dhcp
Configure urtw0 to join network ``my_net'' using WPA with passphrase ``my_passphrase'':
# ifconfig urtw0 nwid my_net wpakey my_passphrase
Join an existing BSS network, ``my_net'':
# ifconfig urtw0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net
SEE ALSO arp(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig.if(5), wpa_supplicant.conf(5), ifconfig(8), wpa_supplicant(8)
Realtek, http://www.realtek.com.tw.
HISTORY
The urtw device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.
AUTHORS
The urtw driver was written by Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>.
BSD October 17, 2009 BSD