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Questions and Answers

Amy Rich

Q Does FreeBSD have support for 802.11g? I just purchased a new Apple Base Station Extreme, and I'd like to run everything as 802.11g so I'm pushing bits across the wire faster. Unfortunately, I have a number of FreeBSD laptops as well as the Apple laptops to worry about.

A The ath driver, which provides support for wireless adapters based on the Atheros AR5210, AR5211, and AR5212 chips, was committed to FreeBSD-current in June. The R5212-based devices support 802.11g, so that may be something to work with. FreeBSD-current may not be stable enough for your environment, though, so you may want to set up two separate networks -- one for your 802.11b users and one for your 802.11g users.

Q I'm trying to set up mailman on a Solaris 8 box running Apache 1.3.26. I've successfully done the mailman install, and I've added the following line to httpd.conf:

ScriptAlias     /mailman/       "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"
Running apachectl configtest shows that the syntax is good. However, when I try to go to http://www.my.domain/mailman/create, I get garbage. The first line has a bunch of empty boxes and the word ELF. Later it shows some HTML:

Content-type: text/html
<head>
<title>Mailman CGI error!!!</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Mailman CGI error!!!</h1>
The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error.
This entry is being stored in your syslog:
<pre>
</pre>
--with-cgi-gid
web
CGI
--with-mail-gid
mail
Failure to find group name %s.  Try adding this group
to your system, or re-run configure, providing an
existing group name with the command line option %s.


				  



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