I'm afraid I don't know.  I took that picture in my garden, in
    Berkeley, California.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

Well, I will find out. It is almost certainly a Darter (Sympetrum) -
although you Americans call them Meadowhawks.

I grew up calling them mosquito-hawks. I know the term "dragonfly" obviously, but I've never head of the term meadowhawk.

B

According to wikipedia, mosquito-hawk can apply to dragonflies,
damselflies or craneflies.

Meadowhawk is much more specific - it is a member of the genus
Sympetrum - in England we call these Darters.
Sympetrum is part of the family libelludiae -
(perchers/skimmmers/darters/chasers are various English names) - the
most advanced (and relatively recent - the earliest dragonfly
ancestors were 320 million years old) dragonfly family.

I have received confirmation from Kathy Briggs - a prolific
Californian author of books on dragonflies - but not the BSD variety -
that Fred is indeed a Cardinal Meadowhawk (shes says a fairly young
male). This confirms that Fred is one of the most technologically
sophisticated of all dragonflies - the equivalent of an SIS.

Meanwhile, I have managed to install 1.12 in a virtual machine on my
Linux 64-bit quad core box. I didn't attempt to configure the network
when I did the installation, thinking that as I was running under KVM,
I would not need to (that was the case when I set up FreeBSD 6.3 last
weekend). However I can't ping 10.0.2.2 (which is the virtual DHCP
server that KVM provides to the guest), so I guess I should have done
it.

But I don't know what command to type to bring up those configuration
menus again - I can't find it mentioned in the DragonFly handbook
(flight manual?).
Please help.

I guess that kvm provides a DHCP client?  In this just add a line
ifconfig_XXX0="DHCP" to /etc/rc.conf.

XXX stands for the interface name, you can get an overview by typing 
"ifconfig".

If you need to configure a fixed address, use
ifconfig_XXX0="inet 10.0.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up".

More details can be found in rc.conf(5) and the handbook, available on the 
wiki.

cheers
   simon

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Thanks Simon,

DHCP works.

It's hard to be certain, but it looks like Sympetrum Illotum (Cardinal
Meadowhawk).
See http://southwestdragonflies.net/swanisoptera.html#Meadowhawks for pictures.