Re: Manual routing
Celso Viana wrote: I have 2 machines (A and B) interconnected by a cable network crossover; added the following addresses on the network card: Machine A: 192.168.1.1/24 Machine B: 10.10.1.1/24 Question: How would for these machines to communicate, adding routes manually? The easiest would be to configure them for the same subnet, there is no point in having them on separate subnets and the same physical network. Cheers, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818 http://www.locolomo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanner Compatibility
Michaël Grünewald wrote: Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use Epson Perfection 1670 and it works like a charm. Unfortunately it does require binary blob which might be something you want to avoid. What is that binary blob stuff? Do you mean by this a binary image that should be loaded in kernel --- after being correctly wrapped just like some wifi card drivers? If this is the case, there is no chance to make the blob work under amd64, is there? Ok, Let me clarify firstly some things. Firmware is a binary file which you extract in this case from the M$ .cab file supplied to you by scanner manufacturer. You place this file on proper file /usr/local/share/sane/snapscan. (So it is different than a kernel module for Wi drivers that you kldload into your kernel) I have never bothered to understand scanning as much as I tried to understand Unix printing but I believe that this file is used by sane to speak proprietary language of your particular scanner. In essence your scanner uses this file to explain the Sane the page layout and graphics. So it is not a driver! I am not sure if there is such thing as Command Scanner Language (you are probably familiar with Command Printer Language) and something equivalent to Postscript language in world of printers. Anyhow, if you are serious about security you should never use any type of binaries supported by hardware vendors. (I sound if I have been using too much OpenBSD lately :-) ) I see no reason why should sane-backhands work any different on amd64. On another hand if you are using amd64 that tells me that you are running serious production servers so why would you want to attach a scanner to such machine is not really clear to me. You may attach a scanner to a workstation running i386 and possibly make scanning available on the local network but never to serious production server. If you need step by step instructions how to install scanner you might contact me via private mail. I am very interested in this kind of technical information, since I do foreplan to buy a scanner. If you really think[1] this discussion would be a nuisance for the list, would you be kind enough to CC me? [1] One can consider that even if the discussion topic does not hit most of its members, it can be useful to contribute here these technical details because they will be archived and could then be referenced in future discussions, searched, etc. As I said before the handbook is excellent but here is my quick and dirty step by step how to for scanners. For the purposes of this how to I will assume that your scanner is attached via USB to your workstation. (You can read the handbook about SCSI scanners) Step 1 Make sure your kernel contains the following (Generic Kernel will contain it!!!) device usb device uhci device ohci device uscanner Step 2 Edit /etc/devfs.conf with the permissions perm ugen* 0666 perm uscanner* 0666 This is of course huge security risk and there are much better ways to give access to sane-backhands and common users to device nodes. Step 3 Reboot the computer Step 4 Type $ scanimage -L as a common user to get a list of detected scanners. You should get something as [pedja@ /usr/home/Pedja]$ scanimage -L device `snapscan:/dev/uscanner0' is a EPSON EPSON Scanner flatbed scanner Step 5 Type $ scanimage -T as a common user to test the installation. You should get something like this if your scanner does not need binary blob. [pedja@ /usr/home/Pedja]$ scanimage -T scanimage: scanning image of size 2552x3507 pixels at 24 bits/pixel scanimage: acquiring RGB frame, 8 bits/sample scanimage: reading one scanline, 7656 bytes... PASS scanimage: reading one byte... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 2 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 4 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 8 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 16 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 32 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 64 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 128 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 256 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 512 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 1024 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 2048 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 4096 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 8192 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 8191 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 4095 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 2047 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 1023 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 511 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 255 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 127 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 63 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 31 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 15 bytes...PASS scanimage: stepped read, 7 bytes... PASS scanimage: stepped read, 3 bytes... PASS Note: All of the above is very well explained in man scanimage Step 6 Read
Manual routing
Hi All, I have 2 machines (A and B) interconnected by a cable network crossover; added the following addresses on the network card: Machine A: 192.168.1.1/24 Machine B: 10.10.1.1/24 Question: How would for these machines to communicate, adding routes manually? Thanks -- Celso Vianna BSD User: 51318 http://www.bsdcounter.org 63 8404-8559 Palmas/TO ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Manual routing
For example you can try using 192.168.1.1/24 on A and 192.168.1.2/24 on B and it will work! - Original Message From: Celso Viana [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2007 9:03:03 AM Subject: Manual routing Hi All, I have 2 machines (A and B) interconnected by a cable network crossover; added the following addresses on the network card: Machine A: 192.168.1.1/24 Machine B: 10.10.1.1/24 Question: How would for these machines to communicate, adding routes manually? Thanks -- Celso Vianna BSD User: 51318 http://www.bsdcounter.org 63 8404-8559 Palmas/TO ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Manual routing
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:03:03AM -0300, Celso Viana wrote: Hi All, I have 2 machines (A and B) interconnected by a cable network crossover; added the following addresses on the network card: Machine A: 192.168.1.1/24 Machine B: 10.10.1.1/24 Question: How would for these machines to communicate, adding routes manually? Thanks -- Celso Vianna BSD User: 51318 http://www.bsdcounter.org 63 8404-8559 Palmas/TO ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There shouldn't need to be any changes to the routing tables needed if they are directly connected. If they do need to be on seperate subnets, then you can add aliases to each interface so that they see each other as on the same subnet. On machine A: # ifconfig interface alias 10.10.1.2 255.255.255.0 (Any number that isn't 0, 1, or 255 ought to work for the interface address but we'll use 2 for simplicity) On machine B: # ifconfig interface alias 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0 Hopefully this helps you. -- David Michael Curry (Dave) [EMAIL PROTECTED] () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanner Compatibility
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Micha?l Gr?newald wrote: Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use Epson Perfection 1670 and it works like a charm. Unfortunately it does require binary blob which might be something you want to avoid. What is that binary blob stuff? Do you mean by this a binary image that should be loaded in kernel --- after being correctly wrapped just like some wifi card drivers? If this is the case, there is no chance to make the blob work under amd64, is there? Some scanners have no built-in firmware. The driver downloads the firmware to the scanner on initialization. The best way to avoid problems with a firmware download is to avoid equipment that uses it. The SANE documentation should help you identify scanners that require a firmware download; my Epson 1640SU doesn't, for example. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data
I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am worried about the slowness of ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs (90% of the time I am in FreeBSD and have several things going that need decent disk performence [bit torrents]). Any ideas? BTW an added plus would be some way to automatically have one or all the OS's maintain archival copies for backup purposes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanner Compatibility
Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me clarify firstly some things. Thank you very much for this very detailed answer, it's very nice from you! [SNIP] In essence your scanner uses this file to explain the Sane the page layout and graphics. So it is not a driver! If I do understand, this seems a close analogue of PPL files in the printing world, right? [SNAP] I see no reason why should sane-backhands work any different on amd64. Now you made clear that these binary blobs consist of data (and not of a cpu program), I do not see either. I will soon be able to tell :) On another hand if you are using amd64 that tells me that you are running serious production servers so why would you want to attach a scanner to such machine is not really clear to me. In fact, I have no serious reason to run amd64 since I use my amd64 computer as a ``user workstation'' and the main benefit from running amd64 is to manage huge amounts of RAM --- as far as I can tell from the various docs I have read. My reasons to run amd64 are mainly geeky or childish :) As I said before the handbook is excellent but here is my quick and dirty step by step how to for scanners. [SNIP] Thanks a lot for this con tribution, -- Cheers, Michaël ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data
Frank Staals wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am worried about the slowness of ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs (90% of the time I am in FreeBSD and have several things going that need decent disk performence [bit torrents]). Any ideas? BTW an added plus would be some way to automatically have one or all the OS's maintain archival copies for backup purposes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For my dual-booting laptop ( FreeBSD , WinXP ) I'm using ext2 for my data partiton. Works like a charm for me ( Using http://www.fs-driver.org/ for WinXP and sysutils/e2fsprogs ) Only thing that can be anoying is when FreeBSD crashes and I have to fsck my entire data partiton which can take a while. But possibly this can be avoided by using ext3 instead of ext2 (But the utilities are the same ). If that is the program I am thinking of I tried it on vista and it doesn't work (I tried a fair number of things that claimed to support extX FS's and all of them where a) non-funcitonal on vista [even in compat mode], b) didn't allow for direct mounting in windows, c) where reasonable priced [less then $50]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am worried about the slowness of ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs (90% of the time I am in FreeBSD and have several things going that need decent disk performence [bit torrents]). Any ideas? BTW an added plus would be some way to automatically have one or all the OS's maintain archival copies for backup purposes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For my dual-booting laptop ( FreeBSD , WinXP ) I'm using ext2 for my data partiton. Works like a charm for me ( Using http://www.fs-driver.org/ for WinXP and sysutils/e2fsprogs ) Only thing that can be anoying is when FreeBSD crashes and I have to fsck my entire data partiton which can take a while. But possibly this can be avoided by using ext3 instead of ext2 (But the utilities are the same ). Good luck, -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
relay host in sendmail?
Hello: I am using Absolute BSD, Second Ed. and am looking in the section on Sendmail. I cannot find where to specify a relay host. I have a hosts that originate mail to remote recipients but use a mail hub (Postfix) on another machine on local network to relay this mail to the outside. It is not spam. These messages will be used to verify web client supplied e-mail addresses. Thank you in advance; Jeff K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +, Michael Doyle wrote: On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give some specific error messages? I start a new Virtual Machine, select FreeBSD as the OS, FreeBSD 6 the specific version (from the VM Ware Fusion menus) Then insert a FreeBSD 6.2 install disk in the drive and run through the setup process. Select use entire disk, no boot manager, install the Developer package, no additional packages... the install runs to completion. However, when, after installing the OS, I let the virtual machine reboot, it hangs after the POST without displaying the FreeBSD hardware probe messages. No errors, nothing. It doesn't even get as far as the menu where you select normal, or acpi disabled, etc. I downloaded an image created by someone else of a VMWare Workstation image, and that runs on my Mac under VMWare Fusion, but I am unable to compile and install VMWare Tools (make all succeeded, but make install failed with a file not found error...) If you like I can copy/paste those errors in a seperate email. I don't understand why I cannot create my own bootable VMWare image though ? That is strange. For testing, I just built a new VM using, VMWare Fusion v1.0 (51384) Mac OS X 10.5.1 PC-BSD 1.4 All went as expected. VMWare Fusion even survived the OS migration from 10.4 to 10.5. My only suggestions at this point would be... * Try another OS as a guest, see if you get similar results * Re-install VMWare Fusion * Check the VMWare forums for similar issues. * Purchase the latest Fusion version Hope that helps... -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +, Michael Doyle wrote: On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give some specific error messages? I start a new Virtual Machine, select FreeBSD as the OS, FreeBSD 6 as the specific version (from the VM Ware Fusion menus) Then insert a FreeBSD 6.2 install disk in the drive and run through the setup process. Select use entire disk, no boot manager, install the Developer package, no additional packages... the install runs to completion. However, when, after installing the OS, I let the virtual machine reboot, it hangs after the POST without displaying the FreeBSD hardware probe messages. No errors, nothing. It doesn't even get as far as the menu where you select normal, or acpi disabled, etc. I downloaded an image created by someone else of a VMWare Workstation image, and that runs on my Mac under VMWare Fusion, but I am unable to compile and install VMWare Tools (make all succeeded, but make install failed with a file not found error...) If you like I can copy/paste those errors in a seperate email. I don't understand why I cannot create my own bootable VMWare image though ? That is strange. For testing, I just built a new VM using, VMWare Fusion v1.0 (51384) Mac OS X 10.5.1 PC-BSD 1.4 All went as expected. VMWare Fusion even survived the OS mirgration from 10.4 to 10.5. My only suggestions at this point would be... * Try another OS as a guest, see if you get similar results * Re-install VMWare Fusion * Check the VMWare forums for similar issues. * Purchage the latest Fusion version Hope that helps... -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Manual routing
I have 2 machines (A and B) interconnected by a cable network crossover; added the following addresses on the network card: Machine A: 192.168.1.1/24 Machine B: 10.10.1.1/24 Question: How would for these machines to communicate, adding routes manually? no way. select same subnet Thanks -- Celso Vianna BSD User: 51318 http://www.bsdcounter.org 63 8404-8559 Palmas/TO ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There shouldn't need to be any changes to the routing tables needed if they are directly connected. If they do need to be on seperate subnets, then you can add aliases to each interface so that they see each other as on the same subnet. On machine A: # ifconfig interface alias 10.10.1.2 255.255.255.0 (Any number that isn't 0, 1, or 255 ought to work for the interface address but we'll use 2 for simplicity) On machine B: # ifconfig interface alias 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0 Hopefully this helps you. -- David Michael Curry (Dave) [EMAIL PROTECTED] () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD's and FreeBSD
no problems yo play anything that is video with mplayer - including DVDs. On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Gary Kline wrote: Update: Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, but kmplayer works --altho with fewer control flow options. And after compiling in device atapicam into my KERNCONF, k3b still chokes. So. For toys, Linux; for superior [unbeatable] stability, FreeBSD is still first rate. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Peter Schuller wrote: My understanding from the reading I have done is that in a situation like this where power outages are a danger (and presuably having the UPS signal the server to shut down gracefully is not practical), you need to make the file system as robust as possible in the first place, rather than rely on fsck -y after the event. Doesn't fsck -y rather sweep potential problems under the carpet? fsck is not sweeping potential problems under the carpet, as long as nothing unexpected goes wrong (software bug, hardware problem). The reason fsck works to begin with, is that it is designed to fix specific inconsistencies in the file system that are expected. The file system (takling about UFS here, and other non-journaled file systems that care about this stuff) is designed very carefully such that certain correctable inconsistencies happen, while preventing those that are not correctable. That is, under fully expected circumstances, UFS is intended to require fsck on reboot. But it is NOT intended that fsck find unexpected inconcistencies and ask for operator intervention. Exactly, which is why I thought that just bypassing all those interventions with -y was 'brushing under the carpet'. No? What happens in the event of write caching + power failure, software bug or hardware bugs, is that you end up with semi-random inconsistencies. fsck *may* be able to patch the situation enough for the file system to be usable, but fundamentally all bets are off. First step surely is to *disable* write caching if you have drives that are doing it? For UFS/reiserfs/xfs/jfs/ext3fs/ext2fs, yes. Then consider mounting the file system synchronously. Mind you, I don't know what the scale of the performance loss would be, and whether anyone does this nowadays! Synchronous mounting is not required for consistency (except perhaps for ext2fs; not sure). It is enough that the system does not break the file system's ability to guarantee ordering of certain critical operations, which is why write caching causes a problem (the drive re-orders writes for performance and you end up with B happening before A, but consistency depended on B happening AFTER A). I realise it would normally be excessively cautious to go for synchronous mounting, but what about for environments where power supply is such a major problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReiserFS and /etc/fstab: rw or ro?
Hi all. I just installed Ubuntu on a second hard drive. (Got fed up waiting for things like VMware Player 2.) I've booted into FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE and I'm looking at my /etc/fstab. Is it safe to specify rw for my ReiserFS partitions, or should I stick with ro for now? (I have Googled this, but can't find anything recent on FBSD and ReiserFS.) TiA, Adam J Richardson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:46:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am worried about the slowness of ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs (90% of the time I am in FreeBSD and have several things going that need decent disk performence [bit torrents]). Any ideas? BTW an added plus would be some way to automatically have one or all the OS's maintain archival copies for backup purposes Make a FAT32 primary partition if you want FreeBSD to be able to write as well as read the space. Remember that only 4 primary partitions / slices can be made and each thing will require one of them eg maybe Slice 1 = MS, 2 = FAT32, Linux = 3, FreeBSD = 4 might work. I have never done any testing writing/reading FAT32 from FreeBSD. It seems not to have any delays. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using wpa_supplicant with ipw on 6.2
I am using a ThinkPad, T42p which has an Intel PRO/1000 wireless interface built in. This does not seem to work with WPA. I was told that this may have been fixed in 6.3 but can not find that in the release notes. Can anyone confirm or deny this. I am reluctant to upgrade my laptop 3,000 miles from home, especially for no benefit. Thanks for any feedback. I can see this is almost surely fixed in 7.0 _ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanner Compatibility
Michaël Grünewald wrote: Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me clarify firstly some things. Thank you very much for this very detailed answer, it's very nice from you! [SNIP] In essence your scanner uses this file to explain the Sane the page layout and graphics. So it is not a driver! If I do understand, this seems a close analogue of PPL files in the printing world, right? [SNAP] You meant PPD files? (Of course there is subtitle difference between CUPS-PPD files and generic PPD files used by LPD). My hunch is yes but I have not read enough documentation to say yes or no. I would really like to hear from some Sane developers or IT professional who works on scanners who will give us more explanation. So far my understanding is following. The kernel recognizes your scanning device using the uscanner0 driver and usb daemon as it is attached to USB. Sane-backhands and Sane-fronthands is a collection of drivers that speak scanner language. As a mater of fact it used to be that you need one driver per application per scanner (like printing in old times) but I think that one of chef achievements of Sane project is to automatize writing drivers so that you need to write one driver per application and then hack it to work on all supported scanners. Firmware is dictionary which teach sane backhand to speak proprietary language of a particular scanner. So it is something like this scanner--- uscanner0sane-backhands Xsane ^ | firmware I see no reason why should sane-backhands work any different on amd64. Now you made clear that these binary blobs consist of data (and not of a cpu program), I do not see either. I will soon be able to tell :) Does the generic kernel on for amd64 contains the same drivers as for i386? Also kernel driver like uscanner and even usb daemon might be on the different level of the development than in i386 as they really need to interact to different amd64 kernel. A kernel developer could easily clarify this for us. On another hand if you are using amd64 that tells me that you are running serious production servers so why would you want to attach a scanner to such machine is not really clear to me. In fact, I have no serious reason to run amd64 since I use my amd64 computer as a ``user workstation'' and the main benefit from running amd64 is to manage huge amounts of RAM --- as far as I can tell from the various docs I have read. My reasons to run amd64 are mainly geeky or childish :) I hope you do not have 32 Gb of RAM as my neighbor who is a gamer and passionately in love with Windows Vista:-) On another hand those gamers are the reason that I can go to junk yard and get a PIII with 512 Mb of RAM and 10Gb Hard-drive for $5. I am a happy camper! As I said before the handbook is excellent but here is my quick and dirty step by step how to for scanners. [SNIP] Thanks a lot for this con tribution, I realized that Handbook article about scanner could be appended but there are people on this mailing lists who are qualified to do so unlike me. Cheers, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: relay host in sendmail?
Hi, On 08/12/2007, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I am using Absolute BSD, Second Ed. and am looking in the section on Sendmail. I cannot find where to specify a relay host. I have a hosts that originate mail to remote recipients but use a mail hub (Postfix) on another machine on local network to relay this mail to the outside. It is not spam. These messages will be used to verify web client supplied e-mail addresses. Thank you in advance; Jeff K you can specify a smart host in sendmail.mc (or the mc-file created for your host). The macro you need is already in there, you just need to uncomment it. It's something like: dnl Dialup users should uncomment and define this appropriately define(`SMART_HOST', `your.relay.host') where your.relay.host is the hostname of your relay, respectively. There's an alternative called the nullhost, which just sends mail to a relay. The host won't be able to receive mails, though: FEATURE(`nullclient',`your.relay.host') HTH Christian PS: There are some ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SANE Network Daemon question
I was just looking at the documentation on SANE web-site about network scanning and I noticed that /etc/services on my i386 does not include line like sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon which is used by saned (Sane Network Daemon to enable scanning over the network). The /etc/inetd.conf file is also missing line (of course should be commented by default) sane-port stream tcp nowait saned.saned /usr/local/sbin/saned saned The handbook is also mute about the scanning over the network. Is anybody using scanners on the network on FreeBSD? Handbook article should also be appended. I might try to play with it and see how it goes. I could contribute the documentation if the community has interest in it. Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
Folks, IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things CD and DVD actually working has been a study in persseverancce. That said, first,if there is a website for total dweebs, please post it; or send it privately. I just bought some Memorex DVD+RW ; I want to record a 117 minute commercial DVD. On the back on the DVDs is says these are only good for 60 minutes in great qualty; it is good up to 120 minutes, and so on. Nutshell: how good will k3b and my Pioneer burner do on dubbing this professioally recorded disc? Also, Does thw RW mean tthat I can re-tape over this with another edu DVD? gary PS: I much prefer analogue cassettes; I've been taping stuff since I taped American Bandstand off the TV :-) -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LPRng question and printing in general
I would like to ask people who use LPRng spooling system on FreeBSD to clarify something for me. I have been playing with all available spooling systems on FreeBSD (LPD, LPRng, CUPS , PDQ) as well as HPLIP in order to document their behavior and write simple howtos for each of the systems. However I kept getting into the trouble with LPRng. Namely, I could not get past the following message [EMAIL PROTECTED] -cannot open connection - No such file or directory Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol Is that the famous conflict with the native LPD supporting RFC1179 printing. How do people resolve this conflict in practice? I also noticed that PDQ project is completely abandoned by its creator. Also LPRng was abandoned by its creator in 2005 and then picked by somebody else. I wander what is the state of ifhp filter which is used by default by LPRng. As it is a hardware based project and there are so many printers that were manufactured in the mean time I wander if the system is still usable in real life. Is FreeBSD printing essentially reduced to LPD+apsfilter for small to medium print networks and CUPS for very complex printing networks or LPRng is alive and well. I tried to get into LPRng mailing lists but they seems are not active any more. Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
Gary Kline wrote: Folks, IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things CD and DVD actually working has been a study in persseverancce. That said, first,if there is a website for total dweebs, please post it; or send it privately. I just bought some Memorex DVD+RW ; I want to record a 117 minute commercial DVD. On the back on the DVDs is says these are only good for 60 minutes in great qualty; it is good up to 120 minutes, and so on. Nutshell: how good will k3b and my Pioneer burner do on dubbing this professioally recorded disc? Also, Does thw RW mean tthat I can re-tape over this with another edu DVD? gary PS: I much prefer analogue cassettes; I've been taping stuff since I taped American Bandstand off the TV :-) I wrote K3b how to http://www.bsd-srbija.org/dokumentacija/doku.php/rezanje_cd_i_dvd_diskova_pomo%C4%87u_k3b but you will need little bit of Serbian language to read it. Actually probably you could follow article even if you do not speak Serbian as the language is generic and there are only three important steps you need to do. Step 1 Editing your /boot/loader.conf file with atapicam_load=YES hw.ata.ata_dma=1 hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 since FreeBSD is using atapicam device to write DVD Step 2 Edit your /etc/devfs.conf with various permission. Most of those are needed for a work station anyway perm /dev/acd0 0666 perm /dev/cd00666 # Commonly used by many ports link cd0 cdrom link cd0 dvd link cd0 rdvd link acd0 cdrom link acd0 dvd link acd0 rdvd # Misc other devices permcdrom 0666 permdvd 0666 permrdvd0666 permxpt00666 permpass0 0666 Step 3 Edit your /etc/fstab file if you want to use K3b as a normal user since the disk has to be mounted on the mount point which belong to you [pedja@ /usr/home/Pedja]$ more /etc/fstab #These are my options /dev/cd0 /usr/home/Pedja/mnt/cdrom cd9660 rw, noauto 0 0 /dev/acd0/usr/home/Pedja/mnt/cdrom cd9660 rw, noauto 0 0 You do not need HAL for things to work but is not going to heart. Also read make showinfo /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: relay host in sendmail?
On Dec 8, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 08/12/2007, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I am using Absolute BSD, Second Ed. and am looking in the section on Sendmail. I cannot find where to specify a relay host. I have a hosts that originate mail to remote recipients but use a mail hub (Postfix) on another machine on local network to relay this mail to the outside. It is not spam. These messages will be used to verify web client supplied e-mail addresses. Thank you in advance; Jeff K you can specify a smart host in sendmail.mc (or the mc-file created for your host). The macro you need is already in there, you just need to uncomment it. It's something like: dnl Dialup users should uncomment and define this appropriately define(`SMART_HOST', `your.relay.host') This looks like it is for dial up modem connection to an isp's mail servers. But I do not see why it would not work for a relay host on the local network. I have static ip addresses on DSL service. I will have to refresh my memory on what is a smart host. This relay host would also relay the response to an email verification message back to the originating host. And I am guessing that would be a virtual domain alias in the relay host. I am learning as I go along. Thank you for your help. Much appreciated Jeff K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SANE Network Daemon question
On Saturday 08 December 2007 20:39:06 Predrag Punosevac wrote: I was just looking at the documentation on SANE web-site about network scanning and I noticed that /etc/services on my i386 does not include line like sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon which is used by saned (Sane Network Daemon to enable scanning over the network). The /etc/inetd.conf file is also missing line (of course should be commented by default) sane-port stream tcp nowait saned.saned /usr/local/sbin/saned saned The handbook is also mute about the scanning over the network. Is anybody using scanners on the network on FreeBSD? Handbook article should also be appended. I might try to play with it and see how it goes. I could contribute the documentation if the community has interest in it. I wanted to do this but I could not find a package for it. In Linux, I use sane-utils to do this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ReiserFS and /etc/fstab: rw or ro?
Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed Ubuntu on a second hard drive. (Got fed up waiting for things like VMware Player 2.) I've booted into FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE and I'm looking at my /etc/fstab. Is it safe to specify rw for my ReiserFS partitions, or should I stick with ro for now? (I have Googled this, but can't find anything recent on FBSD and ReiserFS.) Try man mount_reiserfs. I'm surprised that didn't come up when you Googled, but you should have it on your system as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Exactly, which is why I thought that just bypassing all those interventions with -y was 'brushing under the carpet'. No? Ah I see. Yes. Given that all bets are off, it's hoping for the best ;) I realise it would normally be excessively cautious to go for synchronous mounting, but what about for environments where power supply is such a major problem? If write caching is disabled (and confirmed to truly be disabled), it should not be needed. So as an added step beyond disabling write caching, it doesn't feel particularly useful. If write caching is still enabled, synchronous writes won't help except perhaps to lower the statistical probability of running into problems (that's just a guess). -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2
On Dec 7, 2007 9:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but when loading the ucom/ubsa stuff before umass, the device will not be recognised as /dev/cdX and show up as a communication device (ucom). I've had success at getting ucom to pickup the serial by connecting and disconnecting the modem several times. Since I don't currently use it in FreeBSD I left it at that. I know it's not the solution but it can be better than nothing. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
Gary Kline wrote: IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. K3b certainly works to burn CDs and DVDs under FreeBSD. I have used it many times on several burners. Of course you need to kldload atapicam for that. What does not work on any of my burners is burncd. By the way if you want to copy 8 Gigs DVD on 4 Gigs DVD, i can recommend you k9copy, which is fantastic. Does as well as dvdshrink, and very fast. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7.0BETA4 cannot install. acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (1 retry left)
On Saturday 08 December 2007 01:11:49 pm Robert Gray wrote: I've tried to install both 7.0-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso and 7.0-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso on a Dell Optiplex 745, Model# DCTR with acd0: CDROM TSSTcorp CD-ROM TS-L162C/DE05 at ata3-master UDMA33 The booting doesn't get past the acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying error. 6.2 installs fine. Any ideas on what to try? Thanks robert md5sum matched on the downloaded 7.0 .iso file? -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
setxkbmap dosn't work (with KDE)
I am trying to enable some key combination to switch between keyboard layouts. Command 'setxkbmap -option grp:alts_toggle' is supposed to enable layout switching by both alts. But alts don't do anything after it. Same with 'setxkbmap -option grp:caps_toggle'. setxkbmap is from setxkbmap-1.0.4. This must be a bug somewhere. Anyone also experiences this problem? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP
Anish Mistry writes: So if the PSC attaches as umass, I'm hosed, but if it attaches as ugen I win. You can probably hack the umass driver to prevent it from attaching to the printer. On attaching, I get: ugen1: Hewlett-Packard PSC 750xi, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 6 on uhub4 So it looks like I'm good. Now we'll see if HPLIP can do its job. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP
Robert Huff writes: So it looks like I'm good. Now we'll see if HPLIP can do its job. So close, and yet so far. Ran hp-setup. Everything worked OK except for: 1) didn't automatically find the correct driver (is it supposed to?) 2) found the device when I checked discover all, but not when I checked only scan to PC. However, the real obstacle is: Dec 8 19:50:17 jerusalem PSC_750xi?serial=MY22KD1108WB: io/hpmud/musb.c 1003: unable to open hp:/usb/PSC_750xi?serial=MY22KD1108WB I'm assuming this is because I haven't rebooted and the devfs rules haven't changed. Is there an approved way to get the appropriate party to re-read and implement? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to find out when a package is installed?
Hi, Is there a command that can help find out when a package is installed/compiled? Or what options should I give to pkg_info to find out installation date? Simon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SANE Network Daemon question
Pollywog wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2007 20:39:06 Predrag Punosevac wrote: I was just looking at the documentation on SANE web-site about network scanning and I noticed that /etc/services on my i386 does not include line like sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon which is used by saned (Sane Network Daemon to enable scanning over the network). The /etc/inetd.conf file is also missing line (of course should be commented by default) sane-port stream tcp nowait saned.saned /usr/local/sbin/saned saned The handbook is also mute about the scanning over the network. Is anybody using scanners on the network on FreeBSD? Handbook article should also be appended. I might try to play with it and see how it goes. I could contribute the documentation if the community has interest in it. I wanted to do this but I could not find a package for it. In Linux, I use sane-utils to do this. Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the Debian web-site and seems it is just idiotic GUI. I have to go very carefully through sane documentation and all files that come with the sane-backhands. My hunch would be that one needs to do at least following steps for network scanning. For the purposes of this example I will assume that scanner already works properly on a machine which we will refer as server. Our goal is to make this scanner usable to other machines which we call clients on our local network. The following scenario looks likely. We have a small computer lab of 10 machines running FreeBSD, 2 printers and a scanner. We want people who use these work stations to be able to use any of these two printers and the scanner regardless of the fact if the printer or a scanner is physically attached to a particular workstation. Step 1 Edit /etc/services with (probably both on server and on the client machine) sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon Step 2 Edit /etc/inetd.conf as(on the server and on the client machine) sane-port stream tcp nowait saned.saned /usr/local/sbin/saned saned Step 3 Edit /etc/rc.conf with (on the server and on the client machine) inetd_enable=YES saned_enable=YES Step 4 One probably also needs to edit /etc/hosts to add the host server to which sane is attached. (this is probably only on the client machine) Step 5 Edit file /usr/local/etc/sane.d/net.conf which as default looks like # This is the net config file. Each line names a host to attach to. # If you list localhost then your backends can be accessed either # directly or through the net backend. Going through the net backend # may be necessary to access devices that need special privileges. # localhost on the client side. Maybe on the server side too. Step 6 Edit file /usr/local/etc/sane.d/saned.conf which as default looks like # # saned.conf # # The contents of the saned.conf file is a list of host names, IP # addresses or IP subnets (CIDR notation) that are permitted to use local # SANE devices. IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in brackets, and should # always be specified in their compressed form. # # The hostname matching is not case-sensitive. # #scan-client.somedomain.firm #192.168.0.1 #192.168.0.1/29 #[2001:7a8:185e::42:12] #[2001:7a8:185e::42:12]/64 # # NOTE: /etc/inetd.conf (or /etc/xinetd.conf) and # /etc/services must also be properly configured to start # the saned daemon as documented in saned(8), services(4) # and inetd.conf(4) (or xinetd.conf(5)). probably both on local and server side. I probably skipped some steps both on the client and on the server side. Step 7 Reboot server and clients for daemons to start. I do not know of the web configuration utility to do this like the one for Samba (which also uses inetd) and it will probably make system administration just less transparent. I do not fully understand the security implication of the running daemon. It looks to me that the daemon is running around as a supper user and that might be very serious thing. Probably above should be tried only behind the PF but how to configure the PF so that the daemon is invisible to anybody who is outside of our local network? I have more questions at this point than the answers and I just thought of this for half an hour. I will play with my local network after the Christmas holidays and report on the results. Cheers, Predrag freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:18:25PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Folks, IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things CD and DVD actually working has been a study in persseverancce. That said, first,if there is a website for total dweebs, please post it; or send it privately. I just bought some Memorex DVD+RW ; I want to record a 117 minute commercial DVD. On the back on the DVDs is says these are only good for 60 minutes in great qualty; it is good up to 120 minutes, and so on. Nutshell: how good will k3b and my Pioneer burner do on dubbing this professioally recorded disc? Also, Does thw RW mean tthat I can re-tape over this with another edu DVD? gary PS: I much prefer analogue cassettes; I've been taping stuff since I taped American Bandstand off the TV :-) I wrote K3b how to http://www.bsd-srbija.org/dokumentacija/doku.php/rezanje_cd_i_dvd_diskova_pomo%C4%87u_k3b but you will need little bit of Serbian language to read it. Actually, my best friend for 30 years comes from [ what was ] Yugoslavia; so he could surely help me with the translation. I think I have the k3b stuff actually workinng. As of late FFriday night, k3b ran thru all of its tests.That wasn't my question. I want to know more about what DVD blanks are good,better,best, and whether it is worth wasting a blank DVD in trying to copy a DVD that I borrowed from the library. I've googled arouund, tryiiing to get some kind of specs that an EE can understand ... even if he kknows nothing about figital video. I think that duplicating DVDs works like a charm on FreeBSD but I think there is a better software in ports for that of K3b which is kind a all in one generic GUI application. This is also a useful link http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html if you are trying to understand DVD business. There are definitely people on this mailing list or on OpenBSD mailing list (I do not remember any more as I am on both mailing lists) who have fantastic knowledge of DVD writable medias, proprietary Video Formats and various issues that come with that including the issues of regional coding and by that I do not mean just USA vs Europe or Asia. Even inside of U. S. where I have being g living for the past 12 years there are many different regional formats. I am clueless about it. As a mathematician I am probably much less capable of understanding DVD technical issues than you. To be perfectly honest as a professional mathematician I am very concern with the status of TeX port and the fact that two years after teTeX was abolished by TeX community in favor of TeXLive there are no even indication that the TeXLive will be ported to FreeBSD. Even in the most crude form (4 packages) as it is done in OpenBSD would be better than noting. Of course the Debian way (30 or so packages) would be my preferable way as TeXLive is developing really rapidly in some areas. My knowledge of porting is unfortunately inadequate to be able to help with such a major project. Cheers, Predrag thanks for your email; it was one of the postings that helped me get atapicam stuff *working* :-) gary Actually probably you could follow article even if you do not speak Serbian as the language is generic and there are only three important steps you need to do. Step 1 Editing your /boot/loader.conf file with atapicam_load=YES hw.ata.ata_dma=1 hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 since FreeBSD is using atapicam device to write DVD Step 2 Edit your /etc/devfs.conf with various permission. Most of those are needed for a work station anyway perm /dev/acd0 0666 perm /dev/cd00666 # Commonly used by many ports link cd0 cdrom link cd0 dvd link cd0 rdvd link acd0 cdrom link acd0 dvd link acd0 rdvd # Misc other devices permcdrom 0666 permdvd 0666 permrdvd0666 permxpt00666 permpass0 0666 Step 3 Edit your /etc/fstab file if you want to use K3b as a normal user since the disk has to be mounted on the mount point which belong to you [pedja@ /usr/home/Pedja]$ more /etc/fstab #These are my options /dev/cd0 /usr/home/Pedja/mnt/cdrom cd9660 rw, noauto 0 0 /dev/acd0/usr/home/Pedja/mnt/cdrom cd9660 rw, noauto 0 0 You do not need HAL for things to work but is not going to heart. Also read make showinfo /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail
Re: SANE Network Daemon question
On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:17:21 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the Debian web-site and seems it is just idiotic GUI. I was using Debian and I now use Ubuntu and FreeBSD. The sane-utils package contains files that I edit in order to have the ability to scan from any machine on my LAN that runs Linux. The files are /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and also saned.conf and net.conf in the same directory. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SANE Network Daemon question
Pollywog wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:17:21 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the Debian web-site and seems it is just idiotic GUI. I was using Debian and I now use Ubuntu and FreeBSD. The sane-utils package contains files that I edit in order to have the ability to scan from any machine on my LAN that runs Linux. The files are /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and also saned.conf and net.conf in the same directory. Then look the /usr/local/etc/sane.d You already have all files you need to have. Debian is known for fine grinding of packages so I would not be surprised that they divided generic sane-backhand package in several part. That is a very good practice but unfortunately FreeBSD does not have that man power and the user base to do the same. Would you be so kind than to write how to for network scanning. It would be very good if you could append Handbook article about scanning. I have no clue whom you should contact with the offer to contribute the article for Handbook. Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I use my USB microphone and motherboard audio out?
I want to use the audacity port to record sound and play it back. I don't have a mini-jack microphone, but I have a USB microphone. The system tries to record from the motherboard sound card (which does not have a microphone attached). If I run this command: sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1 audacity will not start because my dsp1 does not have any out. here is the output of /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: NVidia MCP51 High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xfe024000 irq 21 kld snd_hda [20071129_0050] [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) pcm1: USB Audio at ? kld snd_uaudio [GIANT] (0p:0v/1r:1v channels) mode 1:(input) 1ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 8000,11025,22050,44100,48000Hz I am using: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 For other with a similar situation: this command: kldload snd_uaudio get FreeBSD to recognize your Logitech USB microphone (from the Playstation). - RUdy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 07:33 am, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things CD and DVD actually working has been a study in persseverancce. I don't use k3b so what capability it has is not known to me. That said, first,if there is a website for total dweebs, please post it; or send it privately. I just bought some Memorex DVD+RW ; I want to record a 117 minute commercial DVD. On the back on the DVDs is says these are only good for 60 minutes in great qualty; it is good up to 120 minutes, and so on. The nominal capacity of the single sided DVD is 120 minutes but some 32 different definitions are recognised including: EP -- extended play - 360 minutes LP -- long play - 240 minutes SP -- standard play - 120 minutes FINE - 60 minutes But how are you getting your source? What definition is it in? Nutshell: how good will k3b and my Pioneer burner do on dubbing this professioally recorded disc? As I've already said I know little of k3b but you'll probably need some sort of authoring/editing software and possibly another package for compression/definition conversion. Also, Does thw RW mean tthat I can re-tape over this with another edu DVD? Yes, it means that the total disk can be rewritten -- but the ability to edit without rewriting all can be quite limited. And RW disks can have a rather limited rewrite life -- some 10s of times. gary PS: I much prefer analogue cassettes; I've been taping stuff since I taped American Bandstand off the TV :-) EP or LP modes with 6 or 4 hour capacity would probably both cater for a better quality than your analogue cassettes. Malcolm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SANE Network Daemon question
On Sunday 09 December 2007 03:26:19 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Then look the /usr/local/etc/sane.d You already have all files you need to have. Debian is known for fine grinding of packages so I would not be surprised that they divided generic sane-backhand package in several part. That is a very good practice but unfortunately FreeBSD does not have that man power and the user base to do the same. Would you be so kind than to write how to for network scanning. It would be very good if you could append Handbook article about scanning. I have no clue whom you should contact with the offer to contribute the article for Handbook. I have not done this in FreeBSD, only Linux. I have a printer that requires HPOJ, which I don't believe is available for FreeBSD. My printer is a Hewlett-Packard PSC 2110 All-in-one and it is a USB printer. Someone told me that HPLIP is what I should use but I was unable to get it to work with my printer. I believe I used instructions I found at Marcel Gagne's website to get network scanning working in Linux. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find out when a package is installed?
I have used this: ls -l /var/db/pkg/PORT_NAME/+DESC replace PORT_NAME with the correct directory name... RUdy Simon Gao wrote: Hi, Is there a command that can help find out when a package is installed/compiled? Or what options should I give to pkg_info to find out installation date? Simon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find out when a package is installed?
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:44:00PM -0800, Simon Gao wrote: Hi, Is there a command that can help find out when a package is installed/compiled? Or what options should I give to pkg_info to find out installation date? I don't think there is such a command - I've never come across it, in any event. However, you might be able to something useful by inspecting the mtimes of +COMMENTS and +DESC files in /var/db/pkg/*/ Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgp0TqCEw2SD3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SANE Network Daemon question
On Sunday 09 December 2007 03:26:19 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Pollywog wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:17:21 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the Debian web-site and seems it is just idiotic GUI. I was using Debian and I now use Ubuntu and FreeBSD. The sane-utils package contains files that I edit in order to have the ability to scan from any machine on my LAN that runs Linux. The files are /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and also saned.conf and net.conf in the same directory. Then look the /usr/local/etc/sane.d You already have all files you need to have. Debian is known for fine grinding of packages so I would not be surprised that they divided generic sane-backhand package in several part. That is a very good practice but unfortunately FreeBSD does not have that man power and the user base to do the same. Would you be so kind than to write how to for network scanning. It would be very good if you could append Handbook article about scanning. I have no clue whom you should contact with the offer to contribute the article for Handbook. Since it has been some time since I tried to get HPLIP to work with my computer, I am going to attempt it again. If I am successful, I will post something about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SANE Network Daemon question
Pollywog wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2007 03:26:19 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Pollywog wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:17:21 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the Debian web-site and seems it is just idiotic GUI. I was using Debian and I now use Ubuntu and FreeBSD. The sane-utils package contains files that I edit in order to have the ability to scan from any machine on my LAN that runs Linux. The files are /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and also saned.conf and net.conf in the same directory. Then look the /usr/local/etc/sane.d You already have all files you need to have. Debian is known for fine grinding of packages so I would not be surprised that they divided generic sane-backhand package in several part. That is a very good practice but unfortunately FreeBSD does not have that man power and the user base to do the same. Would you be so kind than to write how to for network scanning. It would be very good if you could append Handbook article about scanning. I have no clue whom you should contact with the offer to contribute the article for Handbook. Since it has been some time since I tried to get HPLIP to work with my computer, I am going to attempt it again. If I am successful, I will post something about it. HPLIP works like a charm on FreeBSD http://dsteinbrook.googlepages.com/hpliponfreebsd I thought we were discussing sane-backhands and network scanning. Best, Predrag ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SANE Network Daemon question
On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:06:29 Predrag Punosevac wrote: I thought we were discussing sane-backhands and network scanning. Don't I need HPLIP in order to get my printer (scanning) to work? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SANE Network Daemon question
On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:06:29 Predrag Punosevac wrote: HPLIP works like a charm on FreeBSD http://dsteinbrook.googlepages.com/hpliponfreebsd Thanks for that, unfortunately it indicates that this is going to be more difficult for me than I thought, because I will need to recompile my kernel and I have not done this in FreeBSD yet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: How do I use my USB microphone and motherboard audio out?
After reading some more man pages, I am still stumped but can better phrase my question: how do I set dsp0.0 as the default OUPUT and dsp1.1 as the default INPUT? Rudy here is the output of /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: NVidia MCP51 High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xfe024000 irq 21 kld snd_hda [20071129_0050] [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) pcm1: USB Audio at ? kld snd_uaudio [GIANT] (0p:0v/1r:1v channels) mode 1:(input) 1ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 8000,11025,22050,44100,48000Hz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LPRng question and printing in general
At 2:07 PM -0700 12/8/07, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I would like to ask people who use LPRng spooling system on FreeBSD to clarify something for me. I have never used LPRng in production, although I know the guys in our (RPI) CS department used to use it for their printing world. I also noticed that PDQ project is completely abandoned by its creator. Also LPRng was abandoned by its creator in 2005 and then picked by somebody else. Hmm. I haven't used LPRng in awhile, but I used to pay attention to the mailing list. The web site: http://www.lprng.com/ seems relevant, and talks about Patrick Powell as the author, and according to that web page the most recent update is 12 Sep 2007 (for LPRng-3.8.32). I'm pretty sure that Patrick has always been the driving force behind LPRng. Perhaps it is the FreeBSD port for building LPRng which has seen someone new pick it up? Patrick wouldn't be responsible for our OS-specific port. Is FreeBSD printing essentially reduced to LPD+apsfilter for small to medium print networks and CUPS for very complex printing networks or LPRng is alive and well. Heh. Well, I run a pretty complicated printing environment here at RPI, based on FreeBSD's lpr and a bunch of custom changes to CAP. Works well for us, but it probably wouldn't work well for most people. Hopefully I'll get back to merging some of RPI changes back into FreeBSD's lpr. I tried to get into LPRng mailing lists but they seems are not active any more. I'm not sure what happened to those. I used to be on them, but every once-in-awhile the mailing list software would complain that our (RPI) mail hub was rejecting mail, and would drop me from the mailing list. After the fourth or fifth time this happened, I stopped adding myself back onto the list. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:18:25 -0700 Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Folks, IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things CD and DVD actually working has been a study in persseverancce. [..] I wrote K3b how to http://www.bsd-srbija.org/dokumentacija/doku.php/rezanje_cd_i_dvd_diskova_pomo%C4%87u_k3b but you will need little bit of Serbian language to read it. Actually probably you could follow article even if you do not speak Serbian as the language is generic and there are only three important steps you need to do. Step 1 Editing your /boot/loader.conf file with atapicam_load=YES hw.ata.ata_dma=1 hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 since FreeBSD is using atapicam device to write DVD Step 2 Edit your /etc/devfs.conf with various permission. Most of those are needed for a work station anyway perm /dev/acd0 0666 perm /dev/cd00666 I'm more comfortable with putting users in a group (operator, burner, whatever) and setting perms to 660 .. but anyway .. # Commonly used by many ports link cd0 cdrom link cd0 dvd link cd0 rdvd link acd0 cdrom link acd0 dvd link acd0 rdvd All good stuff, but just one point that Roland Smith picked up on in another incarnation of this topic recently .. 'link' in devfs makes a symlink in /dev, and you can't make two symlinks with the same name. On my 5.5-S system I'd long had in devfs.conf: linkacd0cdrom linkcd0 cdrom but ls -l /dev/cdrom shows lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Nov 28 01:27 /dev/cdrom - acd0 so it seems the first link is made and any subsequent silently ignored (or at least, I haven't spotted any console messages complaining of it) # Misc other devices permcdrom 0666 permdvd 0666 permrdvd0666 permxpt00666 permpass0 0666 Step 3 Edit your /etc/fstab file if you want to use K3b as a normal user since the disk has to be mounted on the mount point which belong to you [pedja@ /usr/home/Pedja]$ more /etc/fstab #These are my options /dev/cd0 /usr/home/Pedja/mnt/cdrom cd9660 rw, noauto 0 0 /dev/acd0/usr/home/Pedja/mnt/cdrom cd9660 rw, noauto 0 0 You do not need HAL for things to work but is not going to heart. Also read make showinfo /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b If I ever get a DVD writer and want to try k3b, I'll start here thanks. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
