[PC-BSD Testing] PBI's and re0

[Bill Leeper]

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Firefox did build and run properly from ports for me. I did not  
install ports from the old disk 2 CD of Edison, rather did a clean  
fetch after installing the Alpha. I also installed the KDE3 game  
pack. All work and no play makes Bill a dull little geek.   :-) Has  
anyone else been having the disappearing and reappearing task bar?

On May 25, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Gary B. Corell wrote:

> Yall:
>  I thought my problem with PBIs  was just my own problem but  
> apparently not.
> I have installed A05092008 and had problems with several of them  
> most notably
> firefox and thunderbird including the Linux one with the wine  
> support. Like
> Bill Leeper I got  a good many errors on most of the ones I tried  
> and they
> just wouldnt install.
>  A couple of them however did install but give me funny responses  
> which,
> unfortunatly I havent captured yet to display here, but they do  
> work. the
> ones that have succeeded are Skype 2.0 and Putty 0.6. Opera 9 went  
> in ok but
> at first time to try after a boot up, it reported an error but it  
> does work
> ok now. so the list of successes is now 1. Opera, 2. putty, 3.  
> Skype 2.0, &
> 4. PDFedit.
>  One last thing on this subject, the add/remove programs did  
> succeed in
> removing the flakey PBIs with no problem.
>   From ports collection I have installed TeamSpeak2 client and  
> several of the
> KDE packages not otherwise installed at beginning. Thunderbird,  
> seamonkey,
> and firefox would not build from ports.
>
>  Before installing that Alpha I tried 05132008 but did not try the  
> PBIs
> because it would not start the re0 ethernet interface even after  
> rebooting to
> PCBSD 1.5 and even XP ( please dont hold that against me:). I also  
> tried to
> use sysinstall to start it and had rebooted several times before  
> giving up on
> it. What I forgot to do was to try to kldload the if_re0.ko module.
>
>  Gary B. Corell
>
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