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Forum: Installation Topic: Ndisgen Wireless drivers ..32bit ok ..64bit not |
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:44 pm
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Quote: What I've heard about Broadcom chipsets is that sometimes they are not working even if they must. Intel chipsets are much better.
That is a really curious statement..  |
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Forum: Installation Topic: Ndisgen Wireless drivers ..32bit ok ..64bit not |
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:08 am
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| In LINUX 32bit and amd64 I only am successful with the 32 bit firmware driver bcmwl5.sys. In BSD 32bit only bcmwl5.sys / bcmwl5.inf work(which are 32 bit ). Nothing works with BSD 64bit. Not for me anyway. I have even used Ubuntu and had the OS Hardware Tool download the firmware. The used the apsta... |
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Forum: Installation Topic: Ndisgen Wireless drivers ..32bit ok ..64bit not |
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:10 pm
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| I have been experimenting over the past year with PCBSD and DesktopBSD. On each I have problems with my Broadcom 43xx Wireless driver. The problem is they are not recognized. The solution is to use the Windows Drivers bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys with ndisgen and generate a bcmwl5_sys.ko BSD driver. Th... |
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Forum: General Questions Topic: installing gcc and other things |
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:19 pm
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| OK, I am going to have to start a Wifi / Ndisgen thread and look for some answers. As I said on this 64bit Inspiron 1501 the install went great/smooth. Everything working HiDef video, sound, NIC etc and is dual booting with LINUX as BSD sits on the 2nd Slice. However as I posted no wifi so I took th... |
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Forum: General Questions Topic: installing gcc and other things |
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:29 am
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| Ok,,, :) I had up until now only installed DesktopBSD on a 32bit machine. I downloaded DesktopBSD 1.6 64bit and burned a DVD. I used a Dell Inspiron 1501 amd64 dual core as my guinea pig. Specs Dual Core 800mhz x2 = 1.6 mhz Ram = 1 gb Video = ATI Raedon 128mb HD = 80 gb / 3.9 gb swap. DVD burner/pla... |
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Forum: General Questions Topic: installing gcc and other things |
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:54 pm
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Replies: 12
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Quote: To save a crushed soul: Welcome to the DesktopBSD community, sqlbsd
Ok!
I can once again proudly hold my head up in the community...  |
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Forum: General Questions Topic: installing gcc and other things |
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:35 pm
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| its slow overall, the copy, paste, move. the graphical rendering of the window moving, basically everything (its attrully slower the vista Everyone's mileage will vary but.......... I have to comment that one of the virtues of version 1.6 that really impressed me was it's Speed. And that includes r... |
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Forum: General Questions Topic: installing gcc and other things |
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:04 pm
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A question and an observation.
Question: Can't gcc be installed via the DesktopBSD Package Manager" ?
Observation: Peter never welcomed me! 
.................The story of my life. I'm Crushed. |
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Forum: Problems Topic: Deleted directory by mistake |
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:04 pm
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| Managed to delete wget 1.10.2 with pkg_deinstall. So have you deleted the contents of /usr/ports/ftp/wget or what is the exact path of the directory deleted? dellboy My bad in my haste I did not note that you had emptied the dir w/o putting the source back. :oops: So you can't make what you don't h... |
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Forum: Problems Topic: Deleted directory by mistake |
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:43 am
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Replies: 12
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Some type of build problem.
Just type Code: make
See what errors you get to narrow down the problem.
I don't want to say this but............
if you had reinstalled a week ago you would be done with this....  |
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Forum: Problems Topic: Wireless seems dead |
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:12 pm
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Replies: 5
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| If the built in driver is not working you can always try to generate one with ndisgen using your Windows Wifi wireless drivers. ....These are some instructions I posted in PCBSD Basically use your Win wifi drivers in this example bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys. Code: su cd to the drivers directory ndisge... |
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Forum: Problems Topic: Deleted directory by mistake |
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:57 pm
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See if this is of any help.
I am not on BSD at the moment to check this......
FreeBSD uses fetch instead of wget, which some applications expect to find. To install wget, run this:
Code: # cd /usr/ports/ftp/wget
# make install clean
# rehash |
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Forum: Problems Topic: Deleted directory by mistake |
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:04 pm
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Replies: 12
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| ,so a reinstall is the only cure in my case No, I just was saying that is sometimes the shortest route timewise. You can try purging the pkg with pkg_delete which runs the pkg_deinstall script and then adding it back again with pkg_add perhaps that will clear things up depending on what is damaged.... |
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Forum: Problems Topic: Deleted directory by mistake |
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:08 am
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Replies: 12
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| This why backup so important! Even a quick and dirty backup of the /home dir periodically to a USB key will do. Anyway to my knowledge, deleted items are generally those first reused in a UNIX system. If you can't seemed to get wget corrected and Unless this is an old system backup /home and reinsta... |
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Forum: Experiences Topic: New DBSD install |
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:13 am
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Replies: 1
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