From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 17:21:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 217131520F for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:21:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA73530; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:50:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:50:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: frustrating laptop issues Message-ID: <19990927095031.U46202@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from J McKitrick on Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 03:38:00PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 26 September 1999 at 15:38:00 +0100, J McKitrick wrote: > Hi everyone, > let me start off by saying i'm a newbie to FreeBSD but not linux. And i > did RTFM. > I compiled a new kernel with APM support and enabled it through the > sysinstall menu. I also enable pcmcia cards. Neither works properly. > This is a Toshiba Satellite 4010. > APM says it is running, but it won't shutdown after HALTing. Sorry, I can't help you on this one. > KPPP cannot find the PCMCIA modem. Is this the KDE tool? That's a port, not part of FreeBSD. I'd recommend you install the supported versions, which work well and are easier to use. > Other issues: i'm having trouble getting ports to install. I type make > install for midnight commander, it says all went well, but mc doesn't > work. A 'find' comes up dry as well. Do you have /usr/local/bin in your PATH? > I want bash to be my default shell, and after setting this is > master.passwd, it still comes up with the default. This looks like pilot error. Try changing it with chsh instead. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message