From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 6 11:40:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10876 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:40:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10763 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:40:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26283; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:40:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:40:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Raymond Noel cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDRom Creative Lab; Netscape In-Reply-To: <34FFFCEE.5AF20CC6@videotron.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Raymond Noel wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD on a 486 computer, on a 503 M partition. I > cannot have access to the CDRom, because it is a proprietary make, a > Matsushita/Panasonic from Creative Lab, SoundBlaster Pro, external. Do > you have a patch that would give access to the CDRom? or a means to go > around this difficulty?? Depends on what inteface the driver uses. if it's the Matsushita/Panasonic interface, you might be able to convince the matcd0 device to read it. What model of CDROM do you have? > Does the Netscape Communicator for Linux 2.x work on FreeBSD? Sure does, just make sure you have the linux-lib port installed and the linux emulator enabled in /etc/rc.conf. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message