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questions-digest Sunday, 11 February 1996 Volume 01 : Number 502
In this issue:
Re: ISDN devices supported?
Mimaki cutting plotter
FreeBSD Problems on new system login
Sun monitors
ijppp -auto configuration
Re: IP Masquerading
Printing to a HP DeskJet 660Cse
[?] asWedit binary - which one?
Re: need help on freebsd installation
Netscape...tar.gz and .Z
emacs install
Re: ISDN devices supported?
Re: ISDN devices supported?
Re: CAD and word processor
Re: Sun monitors
Re: FreeBSD Problems on new system login
Re: Printing to a HP DeskJet 660Cse
Re: asWedit binary - which one?
Re: Sun monitors
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From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 11:10:06 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported?
>From the keyboard of Terry Lambert:
> Is there a NetWare server ODI CAPI driver for the card?
No.
There does exist a Netware server CAPI specification in the CAPI Version 2.0
specification (pp. 167), where is also a reference to a Novell specification
"Netware CAPI Manager and CAPI Driver Specification". It seems to be an NLM.
I have not seen such an NLM yet, it is normally part of separate products
(like the AVM multiprotocol router).
> How about a 32 bit NDIS CAPI driver for the card?
No.
And no for almost any card i know of. They simply supply you with a CAPI
because almost every (ISDN-aware) application (data/telephone/cept/
X.25/video) speaks CAPI and _not_ NDIS or ODI.
Also available are NDIS interfaces to CAPI, but the CAPI still runs in
real mode.
There are packet driver to CAPI TSR's available, i.e. to let an application
like pcroute or nos talk to an ethernet and an ISDN board.
All this just runs in real mode.
hellmuth
- --
Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg,
Europe
(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD
?
------------------------------
From: alex@tarkhil.redline.ru (Alex Povolotsky)
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 15:34 +0300
Subject: Mimaki cutting plotter
Hello again!
I didn't expect so prompty answers. I must confirm again that free
foundations works much better and faster than large companies selling
expencive software and charging a lot of money fro user support.
I have the last question about FreeBSD: I'll need to use Mimaki cutting
plotter. It seems to be compartible with HP plotters, but it has really
poor docs. Can I use it efficently from FreeBSD's graphics editors?
Thanks in advance,
Alex.
------------------------------
From: "C. W. Hayes" <chaze@twave.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 10:13:22 -0500
Subject: FreeBSD Problems on new system login
Whenever I boot to my new BSD partn I get the Login: prompt.
I have not set any passwords and this is not a Server or anything, just a
personal PC that I put FreeBSD on, just to play with. Any suggestions on
getting this system up and running would be appreciated.
chaze@twave.net
------------------------------
From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 10:37:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Sun monitors
I just got hold of a Sun monitor. It's a _huge_ thing, and I want to
swap out my present MAG-17F for it. I have a couple of problems, and I'm
looking for assistance. One thing is the cable that came with it. One
end is a perfectly normal 15 pin VGA, the other end has been hacked, and
just ends in 5 wires.
The wires are red, green, blue, gray, and black. I've been told that the
red, green, and blue are the RGB video, black is sync, and gray ground.
What I need it the kind of connector that the Sun monitor seems to want,
which is a very strange one: sort of a 25 pin D connector, with several
of the pins being replaced with larger coax connectors. Like a
D-connector on steroids. Does anyone know where I might get one of these
beasts, and maybe how to wire it? I doubt I could even count pins right
on it (unless maybe it comes labeled).
Thanks for any help.
- ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Ch
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questions-digest Sunday, 11 February 1996 Volume 01 : Number 502
In this issue:
Re: ISDN devices supported?
Mimaki cutting plotter
FreeBSD Problems on new system login
Sun monitors
ijppp -auto configuration
Re: IP Masquerading
Printing to a HP DeskJet 660Cse
[?] asWedit binary - which one?
Re: need help on freebsd installation
Netscape...tar.gz and .Z
emacs install
Re: ISDN devices supported?
Re: ISDN devices supported?
Re: CAD and word processor
Re: Sun monitors
Re: FreeBSD Problems on new system login
Re: Printing to a HP DeskJet 660Cse
Re: asWedit binary - which one?
Re: Sun monitors
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 11:10:06 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported?
>From the keyboard of Terry Lambert:
> Is there a NetWare server ODI CAPI driver for the card?
No.
There does exist a Netware server CAPI specification in the CAPI Version 2.0
specification (pp. 167), where is also a reference to a Novell specification
"Netware CAPI Manager and CAPI Driver Specification". It seems to be an NLM.
I have not seen such an NLM yet, it is normally part of separate products
(like the AVM multiprotocol router).
> How about a 32 bit NDIS CAPI driver for the card?
No.
And no for almost any card i know of. They simply supply you with a CAPI
because almost every (ISDN-aware) application (data/telephone/cept/
X.25/video) speaks CAPI and _not_ NDIS or ODI.
Also available are NDIS interfaces to CAPI, but the CAPI still runs in
real mode.
There are packet driver to CAPI TSR's available, i.e. to let an application
like pcroute or nos talk to an ethernet and an ISDN board.
All this just runs in real mode.
hellmuth
- --
Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg,
Europe
(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD
?
------------------------------
From: alex@tarkhil.redline.ru (Alex Povolotsky)
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 15:34 +0300
Subject: Mimaki cutting plotter
Hello again!
I didn't expect so prompty answers. I must confirm again that free
foundations works much better and faster than large companies selling
expencive software and charging a lot of money fro user support.
I have the last question about FreeBSD: I'll need to use Mimaki cutting
plotter. It seems to be compartible with HP plotters, but it has really
poor docs. Can I use it efficently from FreeBSD's graphics editors?
Thanks in advance,
Alex.
------------------------------
From: "C. W. Hayes" <chaze@twave.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 10:13:22 -0500
Subject: FreeBSD Problems on new system login
Whenever I boot to my new BSD partn I get the Login: prompt.
I have not set any passwords and this is not a Server or anything, just a
personal PC that I put FreeBSD on, just to play with. Any suggestions on
getting this system up and running would be appreciated.
chaze@twave.net
------------------------------
From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 10:37:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Sun monitors
I just got hold of a Sun monitor. It's a _huge_ thing, and I want to
swap out my present MAG-17F for it. I have a couple of problems, and I'm
looking for assistance. One thing is the cable that came with it. One
end is a perfectly normal 15 pin VGA, the other end has been hacked, and
just ends in 5 wires.
The wires are red, green, blue, gray, and black. I've been told that the
red, green, and blue are the RGB video, black is sync, and gray ground.
What I need it the kind of connector that the Sun monitor seems to want,
which is a very strange one: sort of a 25 pin D connector, with several
of the pins being replaced with larger coax connectors. Like a
D-connector on steroids. Does anyone know where I might get one of these
beasts, and maybe how to wire it? I doubt I could even count pins right
on it (unless maybe it comes labeled).
Thanks for any help.
- ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data
chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix.
9120 Edmonston Ct #302 |
Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD
(301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN!
- ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
------------------------------
From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 08:11:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: ijppp -auto configuration
Hi gang;
I used ijppp to install freebsd-2.1. This marks the first time
that i have been able to install freebsd sans floppies! WORKED
EXCELLENT!! YOW!
So, obviously, i can hand start ppp and use the term part and
dial up and go.
Once i try to automate this, such that i have a configuration file with
an entry called uw: and try to use "ppp uw" and "dial", i no longer have
net access. weird. I get "dial OK!" and "login OK!" but never anything
about "using Packet mode" or the "~" u get when u type PPP at the remote
command line in "term" mode.
The server i am logging into has dynamic addressing and the
possiblity of using several ip's for both the server and my end. I used
the techniques listed in the man page to specify a requested server and
user ip, and when i type "show ipcp" i get the requested ip's. But none
of my net apps ( telnet, etc ) run. Since i get a hostname lookup failure
and i have the dns in my resolv.conf, i assume i have no net.
so, if anybody out there in questions land has a config file they
are using with a dynamic ip addressing scheme, i would like to see it. I
suspect i am missing some command that starts packet mode from the config
file, but i have not seen anything about that in the /ppp/*sample files
tnx!
*******************************************************************************
John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu
idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
------------------------------
From: Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 16:07:35 +0000 ()
Subject: Re: IP Masquerading
Terry Lambert said:
>
> > Actually, this isn't what he's talking about. The Linux implementation
> > of IPFW includes some kernel mods that let a firewall translate
> > (masquerade) "outgoing" requests, so that the packets have the firewall's
> > IP address, and then retranslates the responses so that they get to the
> > correct machine/port.
>
> It's called "proxy".
>
> It's not "masquerading" because you can't set up incoming FTP requests
> (for instance) to one of the proxied machines.
>
>
> The "correct BSD way" of implementing this would be to provide a packet
> forwarding daemon that used the tunneling device to do it's thing.
>
It seems the latest ip-filter version (3.0.2) comes with NAT to make
something like this ( http://coombs.anu.edu.au/#227#valon/ip-filter.html)
Pedro
------------------------------
From: "Thomas S. Traylor" <tst@titan.cs.mci.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:03:36 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Printing to a HP DeskJet 660Cse
Hey,
Has anyone configured and printed to a HP DeskJet 660Cse successfully
under FreeBSD?
I've tried apsfilter 4.9.3 and ghostscript. No luck. Any ideas or
suggestion are appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom
tst@titan.cs.mci.com
------------------------------
From: Richard Toren <rpt@miles.sso.loral.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 14:23:45 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [?] asWedit binary - which one?
I am looking for a hmtl editor to start playing with composition.
I found a unix beast (asWedit) that comes in the following binaries from the
Univ. of Md.
i386.linux.tar.gz
i386.linux.dyna...
i386.next3...
i386.sco...
i386.sco5...
Do any of these have a chance of working with FBSD 2.1R ? If so how?
====================================================
Rip Toren | The bad news is that C++ is not an object-oriented |
rpt@miles.sso.loral.com | programming language. .... The good news is that |
| C++ supports object-oriented programming. |
| C++ Programming & Fundamental Concepts |
| by Anderson & Heinze |
====================================================
------------------------------
From: lihsin@astro.phys.clemson.edu (Lih-Sin The)
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 14:41:02 -0500
Subject: Re: need help on freebsd installation
Thanks for your respond and accusing me of :)
msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au wrote:
> (lots and lots of details; this is an excellent bugreport!)
> Lih-Sin The stands accused of saying:
> I have tried many times to install FreeBSD 2.1 from Walnut Creek CDROM
> January 1996 to our 486dx2 PC with 8MBRAM, Adaptec 1540CF scsi controller,
> 325MB IDE drive and MICROPOLIS 4110-09NB_Nov189F 1.02GB scsi disk (scsi id
0),
> and NEC scsi cdrom (scsi id 4), but always find trouble during the
> installation. The sequence/procedure of the installation is shown below.
> I'll appreciate very much if you can give me suggestions on how to pass
> through the installation. I might missed some installation procedure.
>> You have a busmastering SCSI controller; it's possible that your
motherboard
>> or CPU doesn't work properly with it. Try turning off all caching in your
>> BIOS (CPU internal cache and motherboard cache) and see if you get the
>> same crash. Your install procedure looks fine.
> 0. in dos, make bootfloppy from cdrom, by typing: makeflp.
> 1. boot freebsd with floppy or from cdrom by typing: install
> 2. then "Welcome to FreeBSD window" appears
> choose: Novice installation
> 3. choose sd0 ScSI disk device with spacebar then carriage return
> 4. a screen show disk name: sd0
> disk geometry: 1002 cyls/64 head/32 sectors
> offset size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags
> 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0
> 32 901088 901119 sd0s1 1 unknown 131
> 901120 124928 1026047 sd0s2 1 unknown 130
> 1026048 1027832 2053879 - 6 unused 0 <-reverse
video
> 5. type C for creating a partition
> with specified size : 1027832
> and the screen look as:
> disk name: sd0
> disk geometry: 1002 cyls/64 head/32 sectors
> offset size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags
> 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0
> 32 901088 901119 sd0s1 1 unknown 131
> 901120 124928 1026047 sd0s2 1 unknown 130
> 1026048 1026048 2052095 sd0s3 3 freebsd 165 <-reverse
video
> 2052096 1784 2053879 - 6 unused 0
> 6. type: S set bootable
> 7. type: Q for quit
> 8. then "install Boot Manager for drive sd0?" screen appears,
> choose: None with arrow and then spacebar
> for Leave the master boot record untouched.
> 9. then "FreeBSD Disklabel Editor" Screen appears.
> choose: A for Auto Defaults for All!
> 10. then the screen looks like:
> FreeBSD Disklabel Editor
> disk: sd0 Partition name: sd0s3 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
> Part Mount Size Newfs
> wd0s1 <none> 325MB DOS
> sd0s3a / 32MB UFS Y
> sd0s3b <none> 27MB SWAP
> sd0s3e /var 30MB UFS Y
> sd0s3f /usr 411MB UFS Y
> 11. then, type: Q finish
> 12. then "Choose Distributions" screen appears,
> choose: X-User
> 13. then "XFree86 3.1.2-S distribution" screen appears,
> choose: Basic and select all components with spacebars
> choose: Server, select SVGA, VGA16, Mono
> choose: Fonts, select all fonts
> choose: Exit
> 14. Finally, choose an installation medium
> Install from a FreeBSD cdrom
> 15. then "User Confirmation Requested" screen appears,
> choose: Yes to confirm continuing installation.
> 16. then Information Dialog scrren appears,
.
>> making a new file system on /dev/rsd0a
>> copying initial device files
>> doing newfs -b 8192 -f 2048 -u 2633 /mnt/dev/rsd0s3f
>> doing newfs -b 8192 -f 2048 -u 4096 /mnt/dev/rsd0s3e
>> copying the boot floppy to /stand on root filesystem
>... this all shows that the SCSI disk works OK and no major problems ...
>> Loading root iamge from: cd0a
>> Extracting bin into / directory ....
>> up to about 19%
>> panic: bad dir
>> syncing disk.... 13 13 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 ........giving up
>> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
>> or at other time gives me Message:
>> Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)
>> Unable to transfer the bin distribution from cd0a.
>> do you want to try to retrieve it again? choose yes
>> This happens many times, and i have not had any success yet.
> I presume it's not always exactly 19% ?
Yes, sometimes it went only to 10% sometimes more than that.
>> This happens many times, and i have not had any success yet.
> Try with caches disabled and let us know how you go.
>
ok, i tried your suggestion shown below in the AMIBIOS 1993 "ADVANCE CMOS
SETUP" :
External Cache Memory : Disabled
Internal Cache Memory : Disabled
and this does not solve the problem above.
>--
after Information Dialog of :
Copying the boot floppy to /stand on root filesystem,
i type alt-f2 to show more complete diagnostic, and it shows:
.
.
warning calculated sectors per cylinder (2633) disagress with
disklabel (2048)
/mnt/dev/rsd0s3f 8142560 sectors in 320 cylinders of 1 tracks,
2633 sectors.
411.4 MB in 20 cylinders (16c/g, 20.57MB/g, 2496 i/g)
superblock backup (for fsck -b #) at
......, 800464,
warning calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with
disklabel (2048).
.
.
/mnt/stand/etc/services
1146 bclosk
/mnt: bad dir ino 2 at offset 256: mangled entry
sometime it went further to
/mnt/dev/rsdos3e: 61446 sectors in 15 cylinders of 1 tracks,
4096 sectors
30.0 MB in 1 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00 MB/g, 3840 i/g)
superblock backup (for fsck -b #) at:
.. 32:
.
.
.
DEBUG: request for bin/bin.tgz from CDROM
.
.
/mnt: bad dir ino 181 at offset 639: mangled entry
panic: bad dir
syncing disk.... 13 13 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 ........giving up
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
my guess it may be related to disk geometry, but i do not know what
disk geometry should be used. during novice installation, disk geometry
shown as: 1002 cyl/64hd/32sect.
When i checked micropolis web site, for hp workstation the disktab
shown 1052 MB 512 bytes/secto, 5400 rpm, ns=93, nt=9, nc=1226
and for SUN workstation, ncyl=1998,nhead=9,nsect=114.
is the problem above due to disk geometry?
cc: questions@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
------------------------------
From: Binh Do <binhdo@binhdo.home.cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 11:39:57 -0800
Subject: Netscape...tar.gz and .Z
Hello. i notice that there are 2 files for each Unix-vesrion Netscape, tar.gz
and .Z. I understand that they are the same, just because of the different
sizes of compress and gzip. Am I correct? Thanks,
Binh.
------------------------------
From: "John A. Booth" <john@ulantris.infinop.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 14:45:03 -0600 (CST)
Subject: emacs install
I just usged pkg_add to install the emacs dist from the 2.1 packages
directory and am receiving this error when I try to execute emacs.
ld.so: emacs: libXaw.so.6.0: Undefined error:0
I don't have the libXaw.* files in /usr/lib--I don't have X installed...I
am running on a 2.1 Snap machine...which actually stays up for once--I
dropped a mud that liked to core often.
Getting rid of the mud took me from 8-12 day uptimes to now currently
at 27 days up....
------------------------------
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:29:16 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported?
> > How about a 32 bit NDIS CAPI driver for the card?
>
> No.
>
> And no for almost any card i know of. They simply supply you with a CAPI
> because almost every (ISDN-aware) application (data/telephone/cept/
> X.25/video) speaks CAPI and _not_ NDIS or ODI.
>
> Also available are NDIS interfaces to CAPI, but the CAPI still runs in
> real mode.
This is disappointing. Don't the card manufacturer's realize the penalty
for running in a VM86() on a modern OS, like WinNT, UNIX, NetWare, or
Win95?
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
- ---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
------------------------------
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:37:18 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported?
> The US Robotics ISDN card support ODI and NDIS (but not ODI CAPI
> or NDIS CAPI - I doubt it very much these things exist).
> . It looks like to me that they are trying to emulate
> an Ethernet card. Where can I locate any info about using
> NDIS/ODI with FreeBSD ? If FreeBSD can work with NDIS/ODI,
> it should work with Packet Driver (PD) with ease.
The ODI driver must be a server-ODI driver. Client-ODI drivers are
real-mode drivers. Server-ODI drivers are drivers to allow the use
of the card in NetWare itself.
The ODI module specification is available from a provoder perspective
on the Novell FTP site. Since the interface is "black box", it's
possible to write an ODI consumer from the specification (I did this
a while ago; it's part of the code that USL claimed when they bought
Novell -- I know, I know, but that's what it felt like). It wouldn't
be too hard to replicate.
Utah State University (usu.edu) has a large NetWare/Novell FTP server
with all sorts of tools, specifications, and object file formats. You's
have to lok around on archie by host to find it; it should take all
of five minutes using the www archie interface.
The most recent Cygnus binutils support ODI object formats; Cygnus was
paid by Novell to build an NLM develeopement environment, and the ODI
drivers are loaded on the server as NLM's.
This would probably be a 2-3 month effort, assuming you had two or more
ethernet cards that had server-ODI drivers. Probably about 80 hours of
work, total.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
- ---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
------------------------------
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:43:32 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: CAD and word processor
> My friend runs a small ad agency, and he's tired from ever-dropping
> Win'95. I promised him to look if there are some toolf for FreeBSD:
>
> - good general-purpose drawing tool like CorelDRAW;
> - convertor from, say, PostScript to CorelDRAW format;
XPaint. There are other packages, including a distribution licensed
full-blown CAD package that you have to license for non-commercial
redistribution from NASA (Ames?). But it works great.
The UNIX version of the Island Graphics programs may in fact run under
IBCS2 ABI.
> - word processor with some MS Word-recognisable output (Word processor
> output, not plain text!)
MS-Word will run under Willows. The current status is "not quite ready
for release" on the FreeBSD port (no, I'm not doing the port, I'm just
watching --- so far all my hacks have been preempted with better hacks
by Sujal or someone else before I even get them cleaned up. 8-)).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
- ---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
------------------------------
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:51:35 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: Sun monitors
> I just got hold of a Sun monitor. It's a _huge_ thing, and I want to
> swap out my present MAG-17F for it. I have a couple of problems, and I'm
> looking for assistance. One thing is the cable that came with it. One
> end is a perfectly normal 15 pin VGA, the other end has been hacked, and
> just ends in 5 wires.
>
> The wires are red, green, blue, gray, and black. I've been told that the
> red, green, and blue are the RGB video, black is sync, and gray ground.
> What I need it the kind of connector that the Sun monitor seems to want,
> which is a very strange one: sort of a 25 pin D connector, with several
> of the pins being replaced with larger coax connectors. Like a
> D-connector on steroids. Does anyone know where I might get one of these
> beasts, and maybe how to wire it? I doubt I could even count pins right
> on it (unless maybe it comes labeled).
I believe the connector is identical to the Amiga 1000 monitor connectors,
if that's any help.
It probably won't be. The monitors are fixed frequency, so it is unlikely
that you will be able to run them in a normal "text mode" without a
special video card.
You need to talk to the XFree86 list on this one.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
- ---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
------------------------------
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:53:08 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Problems on new system login
> Whenever I boot to my new BSD partn I get the Login: prompt.
> I have not set any passwords and this is not a Server or anything, just a
> personal PC that I put FreeBSD on, just to play with. Any suggestions on
> getting this system up and running would be appreciated.
Give the login "root<CR>" and a password of "<CR>".
Omit the quotes, "<CR>" is the return key.
>From there, type "man man" and "man adduser".
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
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From: Sergio de Almeida lenzi <lenzi@bsi.com.br>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 17:58:24 +0000 ()
Subject: Re: Printing to a HP DeskJet 660Cse
On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Thomas S. Traylor wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Has anyone configured and printed to a HP DeskJet 660Cse successfully
> under FreeBSD?
>
> I've tried apsfilter 4.9.3 and ghostscript. No luck. Any ideas or
> suggestion are appreciated.
I have the same problem here I can print on HP850,550,500... but not on a 660
I am getting ghostscript from the net, and compiling it from scratch.
perhaps there is a new driver.....
Best regards,
Sergio Lenzi.
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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 15:03:12 -0600
Subject: Re: asWedit binary - which one?
>I am looking for a hmtl editor to start playing with composition.
>I found a unix beast (asWedit) that comes in the following binaries from the
>Univ. of Md.
>
> i386.linux.tar.gz
> i386.linux.dyna...
> i386.next3...
> i386.sco...
> i386.sco5...
>
>Do any of these have a chance of working with FBSD 2.1R ? If so how?
The SCO version might under ibcs2 emulation. Under FreeBSD-current, the
Linux version should work too.
The people that make asWedit have said they would make a FreeBSD (NetBSD)
version if they had a development platform in-house. You can contact
Andrzej Stochniol (A.Stochniol@ic.ac.uk) if you know anyone willing to
provide a system.
I've built ASHE successfully under FreeBSD, and it works OK. It's pretty
basic (A Simple HTML Editor), but aswedit looks more promising.
Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 16:04:45 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Sun monitors
On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > I just got hold of a Sun monitor. It's a _huge_ thing, and I want to
> > swap out my present MAG-17F for it. I have a couple of problems, and I'm
> > looking for assistance. One thing is the cable that came with it. One
> > end is a perfectly normal 15 pin VGA, the other end has been hacked, and
> > just ends in 5 wires.
> >
> > The wires are red, green, blue, gray, and black. I've been told that the
> > red, green, and blue are the RGB video, black is sync, and gray ground.
> > What I need it the kind of connector that the Sun monitor seems to want,
> > which is a very strange one: sort of a 25 pin D connector, with several
> > of the pins being replaced with larger coax connectors. Like a
> > D-connector on steroids. Does anyone know where I might get one of these
> > beasts, and maybe how to wire it? I doubt I could even count pins right
> > on it (unless maybe it comes labeled).
>
> I believe the connector is identical to the Amiga 1000 monitor connectors,
> if that's any help.
Being an ex-Amiga owner, I can testify it's not so, not nearly. The old
Amiga connector was a 23 pin D connector. The one I'm hassling with has
the outside dimensions of a 25 pin D connector, but enough of the pins
inside have been removed to make way for 3 very small coax connectors. I
have found a vendor of a (hopefully compatible) video card, a Photon
card; they want $250 for a 2M card. Any references to either the wiring
of the connector or a better price on the card are very welcome!
I have a VGA cable with this, but the end that should hold the Sun
connector (I've been told this is a 13W3) ends in wires, not the
connector that hooks into the monster Sun monitor.
BTW, I've had response from 5 people, and they've all been helpful in
getting the info together. Thanks!
>
> It probably won't be. The monitors are fixed frequency, so it is unlikely
> that you will be able to run them in a normal "text mode" without a
> special video card.
>
>
> You need to talk to the XFree86 list on this one.
>
>
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
>
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