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I had backed up my FreeBSD root partition with dump, generated an ISO, and was about to burn it to a DVD... But cdrecord -scanbus (as root) gave me this: # cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (i386-unknown-freebsd9.0) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jörg Schilling cdrecord...

I believe so. Though if it works for you then I probably messed up. :P

It is, isn't it? Linux is nice in some ways, but it lacks a coherent vision, let alone coherent development and maintenance. The BSDs have both. Shame that GNU/Linux is the more popular OS; I think that, if more people knew about *BSD, the popular opinion of free software and its quality might...

Thanks. :D Printing now works, wifi works, and though the KDE power manager tray icon doesn't work, apm -z does... So I think I am all set.

I tried installing it twice; both times, one of the files (the same one) failed to decompress, resulting the the package not being installed (though its dependencies were).

I tried again and it worked perfectly! I must have selected the wrong device last time. This time I just had devd change the permissions of lpt0, ulpt0, and unlpt0, and it printed. Looks like my Linux days are over!

Thanks again... I tried the CUPS setup earlier with only ulpt0 permissions altered, and got a permission denied error when trying to print. It looks like the usb/X.Y.Z node associated with the printer must in fact be altered. I will try again though, I might have done something wrong.

Thanks for the link re converting Postscript to PLC BTW. Unfortunately that does not work for me at all; Ghostscript appears to produce some kind of runtime error, fragments of which are then printed.

Non-office end-user-oriented inkjet printers. :D The kind that require special drivers on Windows, and don't work at all on current Linux distros because CUPS and usblp don't like each other. More specifically, my printer at home is an HP Deskjet 842C. It's generally the one I use, but there...

I was having much trouble getting LPD to work right, so I decided to try CUPS instead. But the instructions in the online documentation tell me to make devd change the permissions for the specific device node used by the printer (i.e. /dev/usb/X.Y.Z as opposed to /dev/usb/ulpt0 or whatever)...

I think this version is (finally) the end of my long, sordid affair with Linux and my occasional flings with Windows. Exhibit A: My wifi and ethernet work! And so does my ACPI! At the same time, too! Exhibit B: Both KDE 3 and Firefox 10 are available in the package repos. Exhibit C...

That didn't work, but # umount /media/iso9660/[name of drive] worked. D'oh. :stud Thanks.

Sorry if this comes across as completely dense, but how do I unmount a volume that was mounted by amd via the automounter package? E.g. I plug in my thumb drive, and it mounts automatically to a directory in /media/dev. But if I run umount on it as user or root, I get this: # umount /dev/da0...

Not true. There was a bug in a development version of the Linux kernel, not long ago, which could corrupt the firmware of certain Intel ethernet controllers and render them unusable. However, that's not the case here... It turns out that I was leaving out one factor - my ethernet switch. :r...

I decided to test out 8.1 today on my EeePC 1005HAB. According to some Eee wiki stuff I read, the 1005HA and HAB are supported as of 8.1, though the ethernet is still a little dodgy. Exactly how dodgy, I clearly did not anticipate. I installed. I tried to set up the network... And failed (no...

Hello again... I'm experimenting with FreeBSD 8 right now and I like what I see; it is extremely light and fast. However, I've got an issue with ACPI vs. networking. Due to my laptop's buggy BIOS, I have to disable ACPI in order for my ethernet card to work. That's all well and good, at...

OMG... Duh! *smacks self on forehead*

Yum, it restarts anyway with halt -p... It says this: The system has halted Press any key to reboot. And pressing any key does indeed reboot. It seems that the only way I can get a clean shutdown is by pressing the power key with ACPI enabled... And I can't use that method, because enabling...

Sorry for this rather stupid question, but... Is there a way to make the system power down when the "halt" command is issued, instead of restarting? By default it seems to restart no matter what I do.

Hey, anyone know how to force enable APM? Supposedly my laptop has an APM BIOS (different sources say different things), but FreeBSD doesn't seem to see it. (Failing that, is there some way to use APM with an ACPI BIOS?)