I am getting this message, and unable to download work. My communictions is deferred for 24 hours.

Wed 29 Apr 2015 09:44:28 PM ADT | SETI@home | Message from server: This project doesn't support computers of type x86_64-pc-freebsd

What does that mean?

This is what SETI@HOME actually thinks my machine is, which it is:

amd64
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ [] [sse sse2 pni 3dnow 3dnowext mmx]
(2 processors)

So can I not use this machine to do SETI crunching?

Thanks in advance.

I guess I should have added I have other 64-bit Intel and AMD machines running on FreeBSD that work fine. What's makes this one so different?

To be able to do work through BOINC means that the project must have a science application built for your operating system. Seti has a Linux application for Astropulse, but none for Multibeam. It has no FreeBSD applications at all for either.

So if you want to work on the project, you'll have to get the source code for the Seti applications and build them yourself for your version of FreeBSD, or look around on the net for third party applications. These must both be v7, all previous versions of the Seti app available no longer work.

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Thanks ageless. Yes I am well aware of that and mentioned earlier that I already have SETI up and running on other FreeBSD machines.

Anyhow I tried kicking the can a 2nd time. I remove both 'ports' and reinstalled them. Not exactly sure how I did em wrong, but I got it working now. Machine is now crunching data.

Thanks for your support.

In FreeBSD, the repos have boinc, setiathome, and astropulse. So they should work using FreeBSD's ports or through pkg.