I spent some time this afternoon trying to setup named (BIND 9.5) within a FreeBSD jail for internal use. I ran into an issue where it was unable to mount devfs and failed on me. After a little bit of digging I found a solution. This is the error that was reported (see link): /etc/rc.d/named:… Read More »
I setup a personal wiki some time ago but it quickly was overrun by spam. Just about the point that I considered abandoning it altogether I figured out how to restrict edit access. This post, more than anything, is a note to myself… but as always it’ll end up on the Google machine and hopefully… Read More »
Why is it that wireless is the “killer-app” of hardware on the *NIX platforms? I remember spending hours and hours getting it working via ndiswrapper on Ubuntu back in the day. Luckily its simple to get working in FreeBSD 7.0, and adding WPA encryption is just a few more steps. Here I’ll outline what I’ve… Read More »
After getting my desktop setup (following these steps) I realized that I didn’t have working sound. It took me a bit of digging around and help from IRC to find out how. I hope to make this a bit easier for others by getting it on the web and into the infinite wisdom of Google.… Read More »
By default FreeBSD sets a ten second delay during the boot process allowing the user to select alternate boot options. Options such as single user mode, recovery, etc. If you’d like to change this boot delay to something more reasonable you can add the following to your /boot/loader.conf: autoboot_delay=X I’ve set mine to two seconds… Read More »
If you’ve used FreeBSD in the past you’re likely familiar with the mascot, Beastie. In the past Beastie was part of the boot menu, but recently he was replaced with a simple FREEBSD text image. To put Beastie back in the menu you can add the following to your /boot/loader.conf: loader_logo=”beastiebw” Next time you reboot… Read More »
Activating the wireless on your Dell Latitude D630 is fairly easy. For whatever reason its not supported in the default generic kernel, but all it takes is adding a few lines to a config file. A added the following lines to the /boot/loader.conf: if_wpi_load=”YES” wlan_load=”YES” wlan_amrr_load=”YES” firmware_load=”YES” wpifw_load=”YES” legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 These steps are also outlined in… Read More »
Last you heard from me I was trying out FreeBSD 7.0 and mentioned that I would try to write down some of the things that I’d learned. For this post I thought I’d outline the steps I took to do my installation, including getting all the goodies working (wireless, sound, etc). This guide is hardware-specific… Read More »
I have the horrible habit of not putting a label on a CD after I’ve burned it. This leads to having a stack of CDs and not knowing which does what. This was my problem recently when installing FreeBSD, so I decided to start using USB based installations where possible. I prefer the multiple-write capability… Read More »