Identify installed wi-fi adapter: hostobsd#pciconf -lv |grep Wireless device = ‘Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller (10208086)’ find device in Hardware Notes: [i386, amd64] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG MiniPCI network adapters ( wpi(4) driver) So, wpi is driver for my wi-fi device. Following the instruction wpi(4), going to configure the kernel with options: device wpi device wpifw [...]
Posted on October 23rd, 2010 by admin
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The simplest way to setting up sound on FreeBSD to load universal kernel module kldload: howtobsd# kldload snd_driver snd_driver is driver, that include itself supporting the most popular sound card drivers. But I think better to install kernel with support exactly yours sound card. For this way we have to identify device model: slim# pciconf [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2010 by admin
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Usually hdd for notebooks (and some models for desktop, for example models of WD Caviar Green series) includes function of head parking for powersave. This function parks heads after few seconds of inactivity.A lot of head parkings isn’t good for hdd. You can check your smart data using utility smartmontools: howtobsd# smartctl -a /dev/ad0 | [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2010 by admin
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Openmeetings – is open source video conferencing server on FreeBSD Requirements: Openoffice 3.0 or latest Mysql-Server5 (or PostgreSQL) jdk16 (openjdk6, diablo-jdk1.6.0) swftools ImageMagick I hadn’t had swftools and OpenOffice (and i was really upset the fact that I had to install OpenOffice on FreeBSD server) I couldn’t install it from packages because many ports had [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2010 by admin
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gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/work/PolicyKit-0.9/doc/man’ /usr/local/bin/xsltproc -nonet http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl polkit-auth.xml warning: failed to load external entity “http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl” cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl The solve is: install (or reinstall) /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-xsl with MANPAGES option!
Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin
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