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    EEEPC - wpa_supplicant

    I have recently set up my notebook successfully with wifi. Did you follow the guide in the FreeBSD handbook? /etc/rc.conf: # Wireless configuration wlans_iwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" where iwn0 is your wireless ethernet as seen in ifconfig. $ ifconfig iwn0...
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    Toshiba Notebook Thermal Fan Control

    Model: Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 (Intel Core2Duo) I believe I may be having issues with thermal management, or lack thereof. The fan does not spin up to the rate I expect it to, as compared with Microsoft Windows or Linux. I noticed that after four hours of full CPU utilization, the system...
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    wpa_supplicant and PSK - How do I escape characters?

    I am not sure, I found this GUI to help with the configuration of wpa_supplicant.conf: http://opal.com/freebsd/ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr/ Hope that helps.
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    How to turn off the screen of my laptop?

    In FreeBSD I have set my screen to used #sysinstall Configure>Console>Saver>Green as well as set a desired time out in the Saver options.
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    Thermal Management Issues with Laptop (Toshiba Satellite C650d)

    I am running FreeBSD 9.0 on an Intel desktop as well as an Intel Toshiba satellite pro, obviously power saving, especially for heat management, is more of a concern for us mobile users. I have powerd running with "low" flag set for AC power, however my greatest reduction in heat resulted from...
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    FreeBSD router, ppp, 1 ethernet, squid caching plausible?

    Thank you for your information, I will hopefully comment on the finished setup once I am able to do so.
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    FreeBSD router, ppp, 1 ethernet, squid caching plausible?

    The ideal setup: DSL Router --> eth1 --> FreeBSD --> eth0 --> Local Network The ideal setup which I've researched which seems common, where FreeBSD acts as a firewall between the internet and local network, which I believe that it is possible to have squid running a transparent proxy for...
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    XFCE4 Port Distfiles Size?

    Thank you, I ran the command and it brought up all the dependencies.
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    XFCE4 Port Distfiles Size?

    Hello, I have constrained internet bandwidth available to me at this given time. Therefore I would like to know approximately how much data would it require to download the distfiles before starting the download. This is a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.0 XFCE 4.8 from the FreeBSD ports collection...
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