From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 06:44:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291F416A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:44:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8483243D5A for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:44:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reso3w83@verizon.net) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.26.84.7]) by out005.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20050121064420.MFEO28362.out005.verizon.net@ringworm.mechee.com> for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:44:20 -0600 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8BF192CE7CA; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:40:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:40:34 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050121053136.86391.qmail@web53210.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050121053136.86391.qmail@web53210.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501202240.37832.reso3w83@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [4.26.84.7] at Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:44:20 -0600 Subject: Re: Strange problem with DSL modem. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:44:22 -0000 On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:31 pm, Jason Osgerby wrote: > Hello all, > > I am hoping someone on this list can help me out with a very > frustrating issue I am having. I dual boot one of my machines (a Dell > Dimension 2400) with Windows XP Pro, and connect to the Internet via > an Actiontec GT701-WG DSL modem with an inbuilt wireless gateway. > Now, under Windows XP, I can access the Internet just fine, and do > anything that I need to do. Of course, Windows XP is a slow, buggy > memory hog, and I simply hate using it. > > So, I decided to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a separate partition. After > performing a basic system install from CD, I wanted to add several > items from the ports collection, such as Fluxbox-devel, XMMS, > MPlayer, Firefox, ROX-filer, and all the other good stuff that I like > to use. So, I started running the "make install" for Fluxbox, and it > gave the usual message about not being able to find the source in my > local ports directory, and then gave the normal blurb about fetching > it from > http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fluxbox/fluxbox-0.9.10.t >ar.gz. > > The problem is that it is totally unable to download anything at all. > All of the fetch requests to any of these remote servers just time > out after hanging there for about a minute or so. I re-checked that I > had configured the DHCP connection correctly, and no problems there > at all. So, I did a simple ping of Google.com to make sure that I had > a working Internet connection, and the ping responses returned in a > timely fashion as usual. Yet still, the "make install" command just > freezes up when attempting to download anything. > > Obviously, I wrote an email to Actiontec support immediately, asking > for assistance. They responded to say that they don't support > FreeBSD. After a couple of minutes of cursing, I decided the best > thing to do would be to ask you all about this problem. Anyone have > any idea what is going on here, and if there is anyway I can fix > this? I am totally at a loss. > > Thanks! > > Jason. You should post exactly what is on the screen when make install fails. Is it failing to fetch from an ftp site or a http for example? If its an ftp site maybe you are blocking passice ftp with a firewall, anyways you should provide copies of whatever info you have. -Mike