Hey all, I've been working for past several months on improving the FAQ. At the moment there are 31 unreviewed questions. Can you all help out by commenting on the yellow questions here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ - once the review stage is done we could continue fixing the red ones! -- Eitan Adler
Cherry-picking a few: [install-PLIP] Has anyone used PLIP successfully on a currently-supported version of FreeBSD? (or any version since 4.x?) The last I remember hearing about it was Julian Stacey saying it didn't work in 2007. JHB has made http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-June/020820.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-December/081123.html I think I still have a laplink cable but I don't think I've used it since the 90's. That said, it was a nice feature, especially before CD's, USB and standard (or any) Ethernet interfaces were ubiquitous on laptops. If it works at all the FAQ should be fine; if it doesn't the docs should be updated to either remove the FAQ or include a caveat. [win95-connection] This is a bit dated but fine. The natd Handbook page could maybe reference other ways of doing NAT besides natd--e.g. using pf or ipfw. The IPFW Handbook page could be updated and simplified to include e.g. "firewall_nat_enable" instead of using divert/natd. [nfs-linux] Looks fine. Possibly less of an issue than it used to be but I do remember encountering that issue. [bpf-not-configured] Looks fine. [icmp-response-bw-limit] Looks fine, the sysctls haven't changed. JN On Jan 26, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:> Hey all, > > I've been working for past several months on improving the FAQ. At > the moment there are 31 unreviewed questions. > > Can you all help out by commenting on the yellow questions here: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ - once the review stage is done > we could continue fixing the red ones! > > -- > Eitan Adler > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" >
Eitan In the section for "need-to-run" there should be a mention about setting kern.cam.ctl.disable=1 in /boot/loader.conf , for systems with less then 256M of ram . Also I wonder if there are more low memory tunings that need an mention here. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-December/thread.html#71334 On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:> Hey all, > > I've been working for past several months on improving the FAQ. At > the moment there are 31 unreviewed questions. > > Can you all help out by commenting on the yellow questions here: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ - once the review stage is done > we could continue fixing the red ones! > > -- > Eitan Adler > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" >-- mark saad | nonesuch at longcount.org
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:00:28 -0500 Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:> Hey all, > > I've been working for past several months on improving the FAQ. At > the moment there are 31 unreviewed questions. > > Can you all help out by commenting on the yellow questions here: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ - once the review stage is done > we could continue fixing the red ones![3.9. I booted from my ATAPI CD-ROM, but the install program says no CD-ROM is found. Where did it go?] I think this can stay in as its essentially correct; it should probably be rephrased: "[...] CD-ROM/DVD drive. The ATAPI specification does not allow for a CD-ROM/DVD drive to be connected as a slave device with no master device on the same IDE channel. Reconfigure your system so that the CD-ROM/DVD is either the master device on the IDE controller it is attached to, or make sure that it is the slave on an IDE controller that also has a master device. Note that this FAQ only refers to ATAPI CD-ROM/DVD drives, not to SATA ones." This could probably be phrased better, English is not my first language. Bye, Marc
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:00:28 -0500 Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:> Hey all, > > I've been working for past several months on improving the FAQ. At > the moment there are 31 unreviewed questions. > > Can you all help out by commenting on the yellow questions here: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ - once the review stage is done > we could continue fixing the red ones![8.21. How do I mount a multi-session CD?] Nothing wrong with that one, as far as I can see - if you still have an multisession cd lying around somewhere :-) Bye Marc