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FreeBSD the next step update 1

finndo — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:34:55 +0000

Although I was away for a week, I managed to get a few things accomplished over the weekend. I’ll go ahead and relist my list of things to do now and then add some comments about them below…

install VirtualBox (done but not running/needs configuration) install [...]

FreeBSD 8.0 and KDE, the next step

finndo — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:46:41 +0000

Ok, so my FreeBSD box boots, I have the beastie to welcome me to my system, KDE launches when I type startx, my mouse and KB both work from the console [...]

BSD update…

finndo — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:26:41 +0000

So, I have gone through all my drivers for my wireless network card with the Realtek rtl8190p chipset, all but the windows XP driver will convert with ndisgen and all the ones that convert will load; however I never get a wlan0 or a ndis0 network interface in ifconfig. [...]

just a couple of random thoughts…

finndo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:26:37 +0000

First, I went with Occam’s razor on my ATI driver issue. after reading close to 20 web pages (mostly forum posts, but some blogs too) and came up with

Ok, so first, sorry I have not posted in a while. First I was out of the continental united states for a couple of weeks in December, then had some pet problems in early January, followed up with breaking the crap out of my leg January 16th. I cracked [...]