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<emphasis>-current</emphasis> if you're sure that you're prepared for its
increased volatility (relative to <emphasis>-stable</emphasis>, that is).</para>
  
<para>Releases are only made <link linkend="release-freq">every few months</link>. While many people stay more up-to-date with the
FreeBSD sources (see the questions on <link linkend="current">FreeBSD-current</link> and <link linkend="stable">FreeBSD-stable</link>) than that, doing so is more of a
commitment, as the sources are a moving target.</para>
  
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FreeBSD source tree.</para>
  
<para>However, most non-trivial changes are discussed in advance in the
<link linkend="mailing">mailing lists</link>, and there are no restrictions
on who may take part in the discussion.</para>
  
</answer></qandaentry>


<listitem>
<para><ulink URL="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">4.0 Snapshot</ulink> releases are made once a day for the
<link linkend="current">-current</link> branch, these being of service
purely to bleeding-edge testers and developers.</para>
</listitem>


  
<para>FreeBSD is also available via CDROM, from the following place(s):</para>
  
<para><literallayout>
         Walnut Creek CDROM
         4041 Pike Lane, Suite F
         Concord, CA  94520  USA
         Orders:     +1 800 786-9907
         Questions:  +1 925 674-0783
         FAX:        +1 925 674-0821
         email:      <ulink URL="mailto:orders@cdrom.com">WC Orders address</ulink>
         WWW:        <ulink URL="http://www.cdrom.com/">WC Home page</ulink>
</literallayout></para>
  
<para>In Australia, you may find it at:</para>
  
<para><literallayout>
         Advanced Multimedia Distributors
         Factory 1/1 Ovata Drive
         Tullamarine, Melbourne
         Victoria
         Australia
         Voice: +61 3 9338 6777
</literallayout></para>
  
<para><literallayout>
         CDROM Support BBS
         17 Irvine St
         Peppermint Grove  WA 6011
         Voice: +61 9 385-3793
         Fax:   +61 9 385-2360
</literallayout></para>
  
<para>And in the UK:</para>
  
<para><literallayout>
         The Public Domain &amp; Shareware Library
         Winscombe House, Beacon Rd
         Crowborough
         Sussex. TN6 1UL
         Voice: +44 1892 663-298
         Fax:   +44 1892 667-473
</literallayout></para>
  
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that's supposed to let you *just* make those floppies, but it's not
really gelled yet.</para>
  
<para>To make a custom release, follow the instructions <link linkend="custrel">here</link>.</para>
  
</answer></qandaentry>


That said, it does work on thousands of IDE based systems, so
you'd do well to try it first before simply giving up.</para>
  
<para>If you have a SCSI drive with bad blocks, see <link linkend="awre">this answer</link>.</para>
  
</answer></qandaentry>


      </para></question><answer>

<para>This is classically a case of FreeBSD and DOS or some other OS
conflicting over their ideas of disk <link linkend="geometry">geometry</link>. You will have to reinstall FreeBSD, but obeying the
instructions given above will almost always get you going.</para>
  
</answer></qandaentry>

ISA devices, although one or two broken EISA and VLB devices may
need it as well).</para>
  
<para>Also look at the section on <link linkend="reallybigram">&gt;64M machines</link> if you have that much memory,
or if you're using a Compaq or other BIOS that lies about
the available memory.</para>
  

current versions can generally be obtained by anonymous FTP from
<filename>braae.ru.ac.za</filename>.</para>
  
<para>There is also a <link linkend="mailing">mailing list</link> for the
discussion of non-US encryption software.  For more information, send
an email message with a single line saying ``<emphasis remap=tt>help</emphasis>'' in the body
of your message to</para>
  
<para><email>majordomo@braae.ru.ac.za</email>.</para>
  
</answer></qandaentry>


  
<para>When the mouse daemon is running, access to the mouse needs to be
coordinated between the mouse daemon and other programs such as the
X Window.  Refer to <link linkend="x-and-moused">another section</link> 
on this issue".</para>
  
</answer></qandaentry>

<qandaentry><question>
<para>How do I cut and paste text with mouse in the text console?</para></question><answer>

<para>Once you get the mouse daemon running (see <link linkend="moused">previous section</link>), hold down the button 1 (left button) 
and move the mouse to select a region of
text.  Then, press the button 2 (middle button) or the button 3 (right
button) to paste it at the text cursor.</para>

  
<para>In general this will not cause any problems, but there are
circumstances where you will take a hit, either in performance or
accuracy of the math emulation code (see the section <link linkend="emul">on FP emulation</link>).  In particular, drawing arcs in X will be
VERY slow.  It is highly recommended that you buy a math
co-processor; it's well worth it.</para>
  

to B-C, the default is A-B.</para>
  
<para>The 742a EISA cards never had the ``&gt;16MB'' problem mentioned in
the section <link linkend="bigram">on &gt;16 MB machines</link>. This is a
problem that occurs with the Vesa-Local Buslogic SCSI cards.</para>
  
</answer></qandaentry>

<para>Please take a look at <ulink URL="../ports/">the ports page</ulink> for info on software packages ported to
FreeBSD.  The list currently tops 1800 and is growing daily, so come
back to check often or subscribe to the <emphasis remap=tt>freebsd-announce</emphasis>
<link linkend="mailing">mailing list</link> for periodic updates on new
entries.</para>
  
<para>Most ports should be available for the 2.2, 3.x and 4.0

      </literallayout>
</para>
  
<para>See the section on <link linkend="make-kernel">building a kernel</link>
if you've no experience with building kernels.</para>
  
<para>With this option, there should be less chance of synchronization

<para>Unfortunately there is no workaround for versions 2.0.X and 
2.1.X.  In versions 2.2 through 2.2.5, apply the following patch 
to <filename>/sys/i386/isa/psm.c</filename> and rebuild the kernel.  See the 
section on <link linkend="make-kernel">building a kernel</link>
if you've no experience with building kernels.</para>
  
<para>

tell other systems on your network about your router; FreeBSD
comes with the standard BSD routing daemon 
<ulink URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?routed">routed</ulink>, or for more complex situations you may want to try
<emphasis>GaTeD</emphasis> (available from <ulink URL="http://www.gated.org/"> http://www.gated.org/ </ulink>) which
supports FreeBSD as of 3_5Alpha7.</para>
  
<para>It is our duty to warn you that, even when FreeBSD is configured

<ulink URL="http://www.tis.com/">the TIS firewall toolkit</ulink>
on your FreeBSD box.</para>
  
<para>See also the section on <link linkend="natd">natd</link>.</para>
  
</answer></qandaentry>


trying to resolve a host name.  A lot of the time, 
<ulink URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?sendmail">sendmail</ulink> is the culprit.  You should make sure that you tell
sendmail not to do any DNS lookups in its configuration file.  See
the section on <link linkend="ispmail">Mail Configuration</link> for
details on how to create your own configuration file and what should
go into it.  You may also want to add the following line to your
<filename>.mc</filename> file:</para>

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</chapter>











<chapter
id="serial">
<title>Serial Communications</title>

example.  If these settings aren't right for your system, or if
you've added modem cards or have more serial ports than your
kernel is configured for, just reconfigure your kernel.  See
section <link linkend="make-kernel">about building a kernel</link> for
more details.</para>
  
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      </literallayout>
</para>
  
<para>See the section <link linkend="direct-at">on sending AT commands</link> below for information on how to make these settings
without resorting to an MS-DOS terminal program.</para>
  
<para>Next, make an entry in <ulink URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?ttys">/etc/ttys</ulink> for the

</answer></qandaentry>

<qandaentry><question>
<para>The <emphasis remap=tt><@></emphasis> sign for the pn capability doesn't work!</para></question><answer>

<para>The <emphasis remap=tt><@></emphasis> sign in the phone number capability tells tip to look in
<ulink URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?phones(5)">/etc/phones</ulink> for a phone number.  But the <emphasis remap=tt><@></emphasis> sign is
also a special character in capability files like
<ulink URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?remote">/etc/remote</ulink>.  Escape it with a backslash:</para>
  

and several thousand students trying to use them...</para>
  
<para>Make an entry for your university in <ulink URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?remote">/etc/remote</ulink>
and use <emphasis remap=tt><\@></emphasis> for the <emphasis remap=tt>pn</emphasis> capability:</para>
  
<para>
<literallayout>        big-university:\

number of working ports and packages.
FreeBSD/AXP should be considered BETA quality software at this
time.  For status information, please join the
<email>freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org</email><link linkend="mailing">mailing list</link>.</para>
  
<para>Interest has also been expressed in a port of FreeBSD to
the SPARC architecture, join the <email>freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org</email><link linkend="mailing">mailing list</link> if you are interested
in joining that project.  For general discussion on new architectures,
join the <email>freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.org</email>
<link linkend="mailing">mailing list</link>.</para>
  
</answer></qandaentry>


character major number 32 and block major number 8 have been reserved
specifically for this purpose; please use them.  In any case, we'd
appreciate hearing about your driver on
<email>freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org</email>.</para>
  
</answer></qandaentry>



<para>      
<emphasis>[This section was extracted from a mail written by <ulink URL="mailto:wpaul@FreeBSD.org">Bill Paul</ulink> on the
freebsd-current <link linkend="mailing">mailing list</link> by <ulink URL="mailto:des@FreeBSD.org">Dag-Erling Co&iuml;dan       Sm&oslash;rgrav</ulink>, who fixed a few typos and added the bracketed
comments]</emphasis></para>
  
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