Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 14:47:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@fledge.watson.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: question re: ISDN and screen Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950917143742.28251N-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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1) We're considering hooking up an Ethernet to Internet via an ISDN line as a contract job and were wondering if anyone had any particular advice concerning setting this up -- we'd be using ppp and so on. The idea is to get a 64kbps connection as opposed to the existing 28.8 hookup. 2) I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my personal system (fledge, which I'm sending this email from.) It's a Pentium 120 w/32 megs of ram, and running under XFree86. I advised a user on the system to use screen this morning, only to discover that it coredumps with a segmentation fault whenever used here. It is the screen from the packages directory, and instaled using pkg_manage. Is there anything I should know? ;) also, I was wondering if anyone had recompiled the olvwm clients at some point so that cmdtool and shelltool didn't dump either. BTW, I thought I might include a quick thanks and such -- FreeBSD is running pretty much flawlessly on my pentium with great performance, and is serving my Windows system using Samba very very nicely. I'm also running a web server off of it, and while contracting for the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Human Genome Research installed several workstations there with FreeBSD and XFree86 dfor WWW development work to supplement their existing Sparcstations/server setup. I'm going to continue advising customers that FreeBSD is the way to go for a cheap but very reliable net setup for pretty much any purpose. And a quick word about the FAQ -- you might want to add a line about plug-n-play ethernet cards under FreeBSD machines -- disabling PnP tends to help a lot. we installed Windows 95 and FreeBSD on two machines and found that in each case we had problems until we disabled PnP and hard configured the ethernet cards. Then it worked fine ;). The SMC EzEthercard I was using gave a variety of errors and failures as windows 95 wuld reconfigure it every boot, and one couldn't reliably predict the configuration at boottime to add to the kernel config. Thanks, Robert Watson rwatson@fledge.watson.org
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