From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 21:56:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2CF2B7CA for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMAIL5.netenterprise.net (imail5.netenterprise.net [64.29.90.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D572380 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mohawk7.intra.net [66.180.149.18] by IMAIL5.netenterprise.net with ESMTP (SMTPD-12.3.0.100) id d85200013f873df6; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:32:37 -1000 Message-ID: <53A9EE88.7030701@hdk5.net> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:32:56 -1000 From: Al Plant Reply-To: noc@hdk5.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: Mount Linux ext2fs partition on /home? References: <265745.24475.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <265745.24475.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:56:56 -0000 Thomas Mueller wrote: > Is there anything wrong in using a Linux ext2fs or ext3fs partition for /home? > > Reason is to have read-write ability of FreeBSD /home partition from Linux, and from what I am told, also Haiku, so I can share FreeBSD mail directories with Linux and Haiku, and not be so slowed down when FreeBSD wi-fi stops working. > > FreeBSD wi-fi is a crapshoot on starting up, and another crapshoot how long it will stay up. I feel like Cinderella, except she knew her coach would turn back to a pumpkin at exactly midnight, while I have no idea, no warning, when the virtual midnight will come. > > Motherboard is MSI Z77 MPOWER. (Free, Open and DragonFly)BSD recognize Realtek (re) Ethernet but fail to connect. > > Only open-source OSes that work with this Ethernet, so far as I have seen, are NetBSD, Linux and Haiku. > > With NetBSD, some other things don't work; now startx won't start, can't find display. Too much of a crapshoot, and I don't want to mess with preconfigured device nodes any more, such as Linux and FreeBSD had many years ago, and NetBSD and OpenBSD still have. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > ?Question: Why is your FreeBSD WiFi not starting or dropping off? That sounds like it is a hardware issue not FreeBSD. Or bios setting maybe? Startx could be bad connection? Realtech nics can be a problem. I live in the mountains of Hawaii and we have humidity issues that cause corrosion and as a result I HAVE TO CLEAN ALL MO BOARD AND NETWORK CONNECTIONS EVERY 6 MONTHS. I also have experienced outside interference caused by military equipment or neighbors with HAM radios also interferring with WiFi. I would not blame FreeBSD. I have Linux Unix and MS equipment here on WiFi and all os's will go down if there is interference. :) ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol