Remote Desktop for Fedora 11 on External Hard Drive
I am currently using FreebSD 7.2 and I have just installed and configured Fedora 11 on an external hard drive so I can do some printing and other things. I was wondering how can I get full access to the Desktop (GUI) on FreeBSD for Fedora 11 on my external hard drive? Any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage
Hello. I have had 3 network outages this week, and everytime it happened, I found that my freebsd8rc1 machine/router was unable to communicate over the WAN interface even after the outages ended. A reboot helps, but that's not an acceptable solution. The symptoms are very weird: even though dhclient successfully receives a dhcp lease and sets up the interface, I am unable to ping the gateway. The ifconfig utility says the interface is up and configured correctly; netstat -arn says routes are set up as they should be; and tcpdump reports random network traffic arriving on the interface (so the network itself is up and running). Taking the interface down and back up doesn't help, reloading ipfw rules doesn't help. I have some more things to test - whether tcpdump reports any attempts at outgoing traffic, and whether disconnecting/reconnecting the network cable will do anything. And maybe reverting ipfw rules to what I've been using before. Other than this, I have no idea what else to do... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: install.cfg scripting issue
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 11:31:39AM -0800, Jason wrote: Hi, I am having a heck of a time getting an automated installation to get a couple of commands done, and was wondering if anyone would be able to offer any assistance. Everything works, but post does not. I know we will more than likely move to a post pkg for configuration, but due to the time-frame to deliver, what follows below will suit needs just fine. command='echo sshd_enable=YES /etc/rc.conf.local' system command=cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime system command=/sbin/reboot system I've tried the first command, and it fails, with a command not found, and I have yet to get past those command to the last commands. I have been using single ticks, and double-quotes, but nothing is seeming to work. In addition to this, I have also escaped the quotes. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Jason I'm not familiar with install.cfg but have you tried using the full path for your command? E.g: command='/bin/echo sshd_enable=\YES\ /etc/rc.conf.local' Ditto with your other commands. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
about Intel 3945 wlan card in Freebsd 8-CURRENT
hi , everyone : some time ago , i use Freebsd7.2 and the wpi driver for my Inter 3945 wlan card .. after that , i upgrade to FreeBSD8-current ,but i find that my wlan is not work . i want to know that is a bug or the driver is not wall on 8-current ??? anyone can tell me ?? thank ! the /boot/loader.conf ; legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 if_wpi_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_amrr_load=YES firmware_load=YES wpifw_load=YES and after the command #/etc/rc.d/netif restart ### bsd# /etc/rc.d/netif restart wpa_supplicant not running? (check /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wpi0.pid). Stopping Network: lo0 wpi0 bge0 plip0. lo0: flags=8048LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3RXCSUM,TXCSUM inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 wpi0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:18:de:bc:31:7b media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier bge0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM ether 00:17:a4:d2:67:b6 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier plip0: flags=8810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 Starting wpa_supplicant. ioctl[SIOCG80211, op 98, len 32]: Invalid argument ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x28407140 user_data=0x2840e040 handler=0x8069f40 /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant Starting Network: lo0 wpi0 bge0. lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3RXCSUM,TXCSUM inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 wpi0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:18:de:bc:31:7b media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier bge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM ether 00:17:a4:d2:67:b6 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier ## ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)
Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the production release. When the installed was performed the release was 7.2 but after doing freebsd-update the release is now 7.2-p4. According to the documentation, I can track CURRENT, STABLE plus other. Which one is the recommended one for a production server. I have not build that many packages that need the sources present so now would be a good time to find out which one I should use. Thank you for your time and patience, -r ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the production release. When the installed was performed the release was 7.2 but after doing freebsd-update the release is now 7.2-p4. According to the documentation, I can track CURRENT, STABLE plus other. Which one is the recommended one for a production server. I have not build that many packages that need the sources present so now would be a good time to find out which one I should use. Thank you for your time and patience, There are three basic branches, CURRENT STABLE RELEASE You want release. You shouldn't run anything else unless you're willing and able to help with testing, debugging, and development. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: about Intel 3945 wlan card in Freebsd 8-CURRENT
PstreeM China wrote: hi , everyone : some time ago , i use Freebsd7.2 and the wpi driver for my Inter 3945 wlan card .. after that , i upgrade to FreeBSD8-current ,but i find that my wlan is not work . i want to know that is a bug or the driver is not wall on 8-current ??? anyone can tell me ?? thank ! 8.x and later uses a different format for the wireless interfaces. See the entry dated 20080420 in /usr/src/UPDATING Vince the /boot/loader.conf ; legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 if_wpi_load=YES wlan_load=YES wlan_amrr_load=YES firmware_load=YES wpifw_load=YES and after the command #/etc/rc.d/netif restart ### bsd# /etc/rc.d/netif restart wpa_supplicant not running? (check /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wpi0.pid). Stopping Network: lo0 wpi0 bge0 plip0. lo0: flags=8048LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3RXCSUM,TXCSUM inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 wpi0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:18:de:bc:31:7b media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier bge0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM ether 00:17:a4:d2:67:b6 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier plip0: flags=8810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 Starting wpa_supplicant. ioctl[SIOCG80211, op 98, len 32]: Invalid argument ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x28407140 user_data=0x2840e040 handler=0x8069f40 /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant Starting Network: lo0 wpi0 bge0. lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3RXCSUM,TXCSUM inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 wpi0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:18:de:bc:31:7b media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier bge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM ether 00:17:a4:d2:67:b6 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier ## ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)
Roger wrote: Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the production release. When the installed was performed the release was 7.2 but after doing freebsd-update the release is now 7.2-p4. A RELEASE such as 7.2 has a maintenance period during which the security team will apply security patches to the OS. Only the patches are applied, the rest of the bulk of /usr/src is untouched. This is what the -p4 means. The security support period for different releases can be located on the web site. Some releases are designated extended support, while others have shorter time frames. According to the documentation, I can track CURRENT, STABLE plus other. Which one is the recommended one for a production server. I have not build that many packages that need the sources present so now would be a good time to find out which one I should use. I don't use the binary freebsd-update myself, but still use the old csup the source in /usr/src and the make buildworld/buildkernel/install dance. So I tend to think in terms of CVS tags. The tag RELENG_7_2_0_RELEASE would fetch the original release bits that never change. The tag RELENG_7_2 would fetch the /usr/src that has the security patches applied. The -p4 you observed means that freebsd-update used binaries built with security patches applied. If there exists any question as to whether your /usr/src is in sync you can simply csup your source with the RELENG_7_2 tag in the supfile. There is also another way to patch, and that is to apply patches manually. Let's say, for example, the built in bind had a file or two that got patched. You could rebuild just this one thing and after installing the bits simply restart the daemon. Sometimes this is preferred when one needs to prevent a security hole but doesn't want to reboot a server. A downside is when you do this it does not register the -p4 like you noticed. For a production server I feel it is best to use production release. IMHO there is one possible cause to consider STABLE for a production server and that is if there is new code Merged From Current that addresses and corrects a very specific problem. Let's say you have a particular NIC in your server that is exhibiting an exact same (and reproducible) condition as described in a bug report. If code which fixes this exact problem becomes available it will be written in CURRENT, and after some testing if deemed to be of sufficient quality it will be merged back to STABLE. Upgrading to STABLE will then pull in this fix. IMHO I wouldn't normally consider this unless there is an exact match between problem and fix. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage
Have you tried restarting routing? /etc/rc.d/routing restart I have found the same symptoms with other outages and not performing the above. I have done /etc/rc.d/netif restart and /etc/rc.d/routing restart. Wtih using these commands, I have found this to be successful in restoring network interfaces communication, without having to reboot. Hope this helps. On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 03:05:40PM +0100, umage thus spake: Hello. I have had 3 network outages this week, and everytime it happened, I found that my freebsd8rc1 machine/router was unable to communicate over the WAN interface even after the outages ended. A reboot helps, but that's not an acceptable solution. The symptoms are very weird: even though dhclient successfully receives a dhcp lease and sets up the interface, I am unable to ping the gateway. The ifconfig utility says the interface is up and configured correctly; netstat -arn says routes are set up as they should be; and tcpdump reports random network traffic arriving on the interface (so the network itself is up and running). Taking the interface down and back up doesn't help, reloading ipfw rules doesn't help. I have some more things to test - whether tcpdump reports any attempts at outgoing traffic, and whether disconnecting/reconnecting the network cable will do anything. And maybe reverting ipfw rules to what I've been using before. Other than this, I have no idea what else to do... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage
On 7. 11. 2009 19:07, Jason wrote: Have you tried restarting routing? /etc/rc.d/routing restart I have found the same symptoms with other outages and not performing the above. I have done /etc/rc.d/netif restart and /etc/rc.d/routing restart. Wtih using these commands, I have found this to be successful in restoring network interfaces communication, without having to reboot. Hope this helps. On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 03:05:40PM +0100, umage thus spake: Hello. I have had 3 network outages this week, and everytime it happened, I found that my freebsd8rc1 machine/router was unable to communicate over the WAN interface even after the outages ended. A reboot helps, but that's not an acceptable solution. The symptoms are very weird: even though dhclient successfully receives a dhcp lease and sets up the interface, I am unable to ping the gateway. The ifconfig utility says the interface is up and configured correctly; netstat -arn says routes are set up as they should be; and tcpdump reports random network traffic arriving on the interface (so the network itself is up and running). Taking the interface down and back up doesn't help, reloading ipfw rules doesn't help. I have some more things to test - whether tcpdump reports any attempts at outgoing traffic, and whether disconnecting/reconnecting the network cable will do anything. And maybe reverting ipfw rules to what I've been using before. Other than this, I have no idea what else to do... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Thank you for the hint, I will try it when this happens again. Note: the output of netstat -r was identical to what it is currently... FYI: I've been using freebsd 6.2 - 7.2 until now, and I never had to intervene - the system resumed networking as usual. It might have something to do with migrating to 8rc1 (most likely not), or that I'm now using DHCP and there's a glitch somewhere (maybe). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage
umage wrote: On 7. 11. 2009 19:07, Jason wrote: Have you tried restarting routing? /etc/rc.d/routing restart I have found the same symptoms with other outages and not performing the above. I have done /etc/rc.d/netif restart and /etc/rc.d/routing restart. [snip] Thank you for the hint, I will try it when this happens again. Note: the output of netstat -r was identical to what it is currently... FYI: I've been using freebsd 6.2 - 7.2 until now, and I never had to intervene - the system resumed networking as usual. It might have something to do with migrating to 8rc1 (most likely not), or that I'm now using DHCP and there's a glitch somewhere (maybe). My configuration is most likely different from yours in that my DSL modem- router is configured for split-bridge. This allows the DSL modem to handle the PPPoE connection and login but passes the WAN IP to my FreeBSD gateway box via DHCP. So the NIC on my gateway is getting it's lease from the DSL modem instead of directly from Verizon. Your DHCP lease is probably coming directly from the ISP I would presume. When the connection goes down and comes back up it will take 5 minutes before my FreeBSD gateway box checks the lease and decides if a renewal is in order. This is automatic. If I am sitting in front of my computer and I want to speed this up I issue /etc/rc.d/netif restart on the gateway and it will come up and be happy in about 10 seconds, rather than waiting out the 5 minute time out. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Hi! a question about log in dmesg
Hi, there, i am a pretty good user in linux and i don't know i am getting some strange info in my dmesg file: at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_addroute: v=(16)10fffe at_addroute: n=(16)10 at_addroute: head=0xc42c1700 treenodes=0xc45b12e8 at_addroute: returns rn=0xc45b12e8 at_addroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_addroute: n=null at_addroute: head=0xc42c1700 treenodes=0xc45b126c at_addroute: returns rn=0xc45b126c at_delroute: v=(16)10ff00 at_delroute: n=(16)10ff80 at_delroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_delroute: returns rn=0xc45b2e88 at_delroute: v=(16)10ff80 at_delroute: n=(16)10ffc0 at_delroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_delroute: returns rn=0xc45b2e0c and calcru: runtime went backwards from 229 usec to 114 usec for pid 690 (devd) calcru: runtime went backwards from 551 usec to 468 usec for pid 376 (dhclient) calcru: runtime went backwards from 1999 usec to 999 usec for pid 360 (dhclient) calcru: runtime went backwards from 39486 usec to 19742 usec for pid 360 (dhclient) calcru: runtime went backwards from 668 usec to 334 usec for pid 146 (adjkerntz) calcru: runtime went backwards from 57078 usec to 47420 usec for pid 51 (sh) calcru: runtime went backwards from 1964549 usec to 1411651 usec for pid 51 (sh) i know there is an issue about acpi and intel chipset or something like that but i have no results about changing things in bios. I have desactivate udma and no results. the firs message about at_matroute and delroute issues i have no idea. Anyone has a clue??? greetings to everyone out there! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:39:41AM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the production release. When the installed was performed the release was 7.2 but after doing freebsd-update the release is now 7.2-p4. According to the documentation, I can track CURRENT, STABLE plus other. Which one is the recommended one for a production server. I have not build that many packages that need the sources present so now would be a good time to find out which one I should use. Thank you for your time and patience, -r You mentioned lsof but there is a utility in base which you probably don't know about called fstat(1), which does a lot of what lsof does. IIRC, the sources for 7.2 should be on the CD (run sysinstall(8) after sticking the CD in). That will save you from downloading all the sources. Then update the sources with csup(1) using the correct tag: RELENG_7_2 There's a supfile, /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile, which you can change the default host and cvs tag of and it should work. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html goes into the details. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hi! a question about log in dmesg
On 11/7/09, Jesús Abidan jabi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, there, i am a pretty good user in linux and i don't know i am getting some strange info in my dmesg file: at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_addroute: v=(16)10fffe at_addroute: n=(16)10 at_addroute: head=0xc42c1700 treenodes=0xc45b12e8 at_addroute: returns rn=0xc45b12e8 at_addroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_addroute: n=null at_addroute: head=0xc42c1700 treenodes=0xc45b126c at_addroute: returns rn=0xc45b126c at_delroute: v=(16)10ff00 at_delroute: n=(16)10ff80 at_delroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_delroute: returns rn=0xc45b2e88 at_delroute: v=(16)10ff80 at_delroute: n=(16)10ffc0 at_delroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_delroute: returns rn=0xc45b2e0c What is your /boot/loader.conf Do you boot with any options? (such as verbose boot, as an example) and calcru: runtime went backwards from 229 usec to 114 usec for pid 690 (devd) calcru: runtime went backwards from 551 usec to 468 usec for pid 376 (dhclient) calcru: runtime went backwards from 1999 usec to 999 usec for pid 360 (dhclient) calcru: runtime went backwards from 39486 usec to 19742 usec for pid 360 (dhclient) calcru: runtime went backwards from 668 usec to 334 usec for pid 146 (adjkerntz) calcru: runtime went backwards from 57078 usec to 47420 usec for pid 51 (sh) calcru: runtime went backwards from 1964549 usec to 1411651 usec for pid 51 (sh) Symtoms like this would indicate you're running this in a virtual machine. The virtual machine's hardware clock and BSD is unable to detect, or USE that clock. So the kern.hz set at 1000 by default is screwing up the virtual machine's hardware clock. i know there is an issue about acpi and intel chipset or something like that but i have no results about changing things in bios. I have desactivate udma and no results. the firs message about at_matroute and delroute issues i have no idea. Anyone has a clue??? greetings to everyone out there! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)
Hi all, I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep /home from my Debian installation. /home on Debian is currently a separate partition in its own right, mounted as RXT3. I only have the one hard disk in my machine. So, questions: 1. Can the installer be told to not touch /home at install time (I appreciate I would have to ensure I mapped the current /dev/hda2 terminology to slices in BSD parlance) 2. Does the fact that this is an EXT3 partition matter? (I have read FreeBSD supports ext2, and ext3 is just ext2 with a journal, so it can be mounted as ext2 if needed). 3. Is it possible/beneficial to convert this to UFS once FreeBSD is installed? Thanks in advance for any help. David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hi! a question about log in dmesg
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:27:26PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: Hi, there, i am a pretty good user in linux and i don't know i am getting some strange info in my dmesg file: at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_addroute: v=(16)10fffe at_addroute: n=(16)10 at_addroute: head=0xc42c1700 treenodes=0xc45b12e8 at_addroute: returns rn=0xc45b12e8 at_addroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_addroute: n=null at_addroute: head=0xc42c1700 treenodes=0xc45b126c at_addroute: returns rn=0xc45b126c at_delroute: v=(16)10ff00 at_delroute: n=(16)10ff80 at_delroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_delroute: returns rn=0xc45b2e88 at_delroute: v=(16)10ff80 at_delroute: n=(16)10ffc0 at_delroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_delroute: returns rn=0xc45b2e0c The above is (far too verbose) information about Appletalk routing. You presumably have the sysutils/netatalk port installed and activated. and calcru: runtime went backwards from 229 usec to 114 usec for pid 690 (devd) calcru: runtime went backwards from 551 usec to 468 usec for pid 376 (dhclient) calcru: runtime went backwards from 1999 usec to 999 usec for pid 360 (dhclient) calcru: runtime went backwards from 39486 usec to 19742 usec for pid 360 (dhclient) calcru: runtime went backwards from 668 usec to 334 usec for pid 146 (adjkerntz) calcru: runtime went backwards from 57078 usec to 47420 usec for pid 51 (sh) calcru: runtime went backwards from 1964549 usec to 1411651 usec for pid 51 (sh) i know there is an issue about acpi and intel chipset or something like that but i have no results about changing things in bios. I have desactivate udma and no results. the firs message about at_matroute and delroute issues i have no idea. Anyone has a clue??? greetings to everyone out there! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:34:48PM +, David Chanters wrote: Hi all, I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep /home from my Debian installation. /home on Debian is currently a separate partition in its own right, mounted as RXT3. I only have the one hard disk in my machine. So, questions: 1. Can the installer be told to not touch /home at install time (I appreciate I would have to ensure I mapped the current /dev/hda2 terminology to slices in BSD parlance) If you have enough other room to install FreeBSD on the disk and that /dev/hda2 partition is not right in the middle of space you need for installing FreeBSD. eg, as long as it is in some ignorable place/space on the disk. 2. Does the fact that this is an EXT3 partition matter? (I have read FreeBSD supports ext2, and ext3 is just ext2 with a journal, so it can be mounted as ext2 if needed). I don't know if ext2 vs ext3 matters. It might. I would be inclined to want to make a backup of everthing on that partition and keep it somewhere you can get back to after FreeBSD is installed. Either tar or rsync it all to somewhere. Dump(8) is sensitive to OS, so it is one circumstance in which I do not recommend dump/restore for this type of backup. Now, providing that ext3 thing is not a problem, you can probably leave that filesystem/partition there if you have plenty of other space to install FreeBSD and set things up. Then you would probably want to copy everything from that old /home to a new one in FreeBSD space. You would just mount the old one as something like /oldhome and copy the stuff from it to whereever you have space in FreeBSD - maybe a new /home filesystem. Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s ext3 is a problem, but I hope the rest is helpful. 3. Is it possible/beneficial to convert this to UFS once FreeBSD is installed? Yes, absolutely - mount it and copy it to a FreeBSD filesystem if you plan to use it any amount. Good luck, jerry Thanks in advance for any help. David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:34:48PM +, David Chanters wrote: Hi all, I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep /home from my Debian installation. /home on Debian is currently a separate partition in its own right, mounted as RXT3. I only have the one hard disk in my machine. So, questions: 1. Can the installer be told to not touch /home at install time (I appreciate I would have to ensure I mapped the current /dev/hda2 terminology to slices in BSD parlance) Yes. Your Linux partitions will be shown when you get to fdisk, IIRC. Don't touch them and just create further slices for your FreeBSD installation. I assume you've got space on your disk to create further slices. If not and your Debian installation takes up your whole disk, you'll have to create space within Debianor buy another disk. 2. Does the fact that this is an EXT3 partition matter? (I have read FreeBSD supports ext2, and ext3 is just ext2 with a journal, so it can be mounted as ext2 if needed). You can mount your ext3 partition as ext2 from within FreeBSD. Have a look at ext2fs(5). 3. Is it possible/beneficial to convert this to UFS once FreeBSD is installed? You can't convert it to UFS without losing your data AFAIK, so your best bet is to mount it somewhere from within FreeBSD and just copy your data over to your FreeBSD /home (/home is symlinked to /usr/home). Thanks in advance for any help. David Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: [snip] Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s ext3 is a problem, but I hope the rest is helpful. No, it's not a problem Jerry. ext3 is basically ext2 + journal, so you can mount it at as ext2 from within FreeBSD (or Linux). The journal sorts itself out when you boot Linux and it mounts the filesystem as ext3. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: dvdauthor can't find fribidi headers?
On Monday 02 November 2009, Dima Panov wrote: On Monday 02 November 2009 13:45:47 Jimmie James wrote: Seems as dvdauthor is broken on 8-rc1...anything I might have done? [st...@fyre /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor]$ sudo make install clean === Building for dvdauthor-0.6.14_4 Making all in doc gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/doc' gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/doc' Making all in src gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src' gmake all-am gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src' if cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DSYSCONFDIR=\/usr/local/etc\ -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/ImageMagick -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/fribidi -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -Wall -DICONV_CONV=yes -MT subreader.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/subreader.Tpo -c -o subreader.o subreader.c; \ then mv -f .deps/subreader.Tpo .deps/subreader.Po; else rm -f .deps/subreader.Tpo; exit 1; fi subreader.c: In function 'sub_read_line_aqt': subreader.c:661: warning: comparison with string literal results in unspecified behaviour subreader.c:661: warning: comparison with string literal results in unspecified behaviour subreader.c: In function 'sub_read_line_subrip09': subreader.c:717: warning: comparison with string literal results in unspecified behaviour subreader.c: In function 'sub_fribidi': subreader.c:1082: error: 'FRIBIDI_TRUE' undeclared (first use in this function) subreader.c:1082: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once subreader.c:1082: error: for each function it appears in.) subreader.c:1083: error: 'FRIBIDI_FALSE' undeclared (first use in this function) subreader.c:1102: warning: passing argument 3 of 'fribidi_log2vis' from incompatible pointer type gmake[2]: *** [subreader.o] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src' gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src' gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 *** Error code 1 dvdauthor-0.6.14/src' gmake all-am gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src' if cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DSYSCONFDIR=\/usr/local/etc\ -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/ImageMagick -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/fribidi -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -Wall -DICONV_CONV=yes -MT subreader.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/subreader.Tpo -c -o subreader.o subreader.c; \ then mv -f .deps/subreader.Tpo .deps/subreader.Po; else rm -f .deps/subreader.Tpo; exit 1; fi subreader.c: In function 'sub_read_line_aqt': subreader.c:661: warning: comparison with string literal results in unspecified behaviour subreader.c:661: warning: comparison with string literal results in unspecified behaviour subreader.c: In function 'sub_read_line_subrip09': subreader.c:717: warning: comparison with string literal results in unspecified behaviour subreader.c: In function 'sub_fribidi': subreader.c:1082: error: 'FRIBIDI_TRUE' undeclared (first use in this function) subreader.c:1082: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once subreader.c:1082: error: for each function it appears in.) subreader.c:1083: error: 'FRIBIDI_FALSE' undeclared (first use in this function) subreader.c:1102: warning: passing argument 3 of 'fribidi_log2vis' from incompatible pointer type gmake[2]: *** [subreader.o] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src' gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src' gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 *** Error code 1 Hate to pop in with a me too, but me too. I've reinstalled all of it's depends, no joy. I've removed them all, along with dvdauthor and no joy. Tried commenting out fribidi from the Makefile, no joy. It always try to use fribidi if it installed on the system, but broken with new fribidi. Based on the above, I just did (as root) : pkg_delete -f fribidi-0.19.2_1 portupgrade dvdauthor portinstall fribidi It worked. Whether dvdauthor might have problems now I don't know, but at least it compiled and installed. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to
Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You mentioned lsof but there is a utility in base which you probably don't know about called fstat(1), which does a lot of what lsof does. Thank you for the tip. I will definitely look into it. IIRC, the sources for 7.2 should be on the CD (run sysinstall(8) after sticking the CD in). That will save you from downloading all the sources. Then update the sources with csup(1) using the correct tag: RELENG_7_2 There's a supfile, /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile, which you can change the default host and cvs tag of and it should work. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html goes into the details. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
math/py-numpy vs. math/atlas-devel
I would like to install science/gnudatalanguage but have been running into various obstacles. Lars Engels very kindly just fixed one of them (devel/lasi) (Thanks, Lars!), so now I'm on to the next one, which may not be a showstopper, but it's at least a nuisance. One of the gnudatalanguage dependencies is math/py-numpy, which, in turn, depends upon math/atlas. However, I have math/atlas-devel installed and do not wish to revert to an older, slower version of the ATLAS library. Adding a -x atlas-\* onto the portmaster command to build math/py-numpy fails to prevent portmaster from trying to build math/atlas. Creating a /var/db/pkg/atlas-3.8.3_1,1/+IGNOREME file in addition doesn't help. How can I force math/py-numpy to accept the already installed math/atlas-devel libraries? Thanks in advance for any help! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army. * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]
hey guys, my last e-troubles happened a few months ago, or several weeks ago, when my old KVM unit began flaking out. the one computer buddy i have in the seattle area suggested i order a 4-port iogear. i did and he installed it. it was .LT. sixty bux and next-to-worthless given my disability.[*] altho i did type down the conversation between iogear and my friend, i'll spare you. nutshell: they refused to swap and upgrade for something i could more readily use. --i'll post the entire story on my freebsd pages in time. my new/used dell inspiron-530 is here. it is installed to as far as i can install it. trouble is that i see on the dell screen Keyboard failure and a message to press F2 to setup. the kvm has the old ps2 plugs and no adaptors to USB. i have the dell kybd here, come to think of it, but i'm waaay the hell beyond achy to get down and muck around and test. what's your best guess, folks? the computer parts stores around here have largely shut down ...but if ordering an adaptor or two will fix things, i'll do it. any thoughts on this? i think i would need at least 547 pain meds to get back down there and plug in the kyboard; i might drowse off gary [*] gotta type CTRL-ALT-Shift at just the right keyrate (+/- 0.0001s:) to change ports. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]
Gary Kline wrote: hey guys, my last e-troubles happened a few months ago, or several weeks ago, when my old KVM unit began flaking out. the one computer buddy i have in the seattle area suggested i order a 4-port iogear. i did and he installed it. it was .LT. sixty bux and next-to-worthless given my disability.[*] altho i did type down the conversation between iogear and my friend, i'll spare you. nutshell: they refused to swap and upgrade for something i could more readily use. --i'll post the entire story on my freebsd pages in time. my new/used dell inspiron-530 is here. it is installed to as far as i can install it. trouble is that i see on the dell screen Keyboard failure and a message to press F2 to setup. the kvm has the old ps2 plugs and no adaptors to USB. i have the dell kybd here, come to think of it, but i'm waaay the hell beyond achy to get down and muck around and test. what's your best guess, folks? the computer parts stores around here have largely shut down ...but if ordering an adaptor or two will fix things, i'll do it. any thoughts on this? i think i would need at least 547 pain meds to get back down there and plug in the kyboard; i might drowse off gary [*] gotta type CTRL-ALT-Shift at just the right keyrate (+/- 0.0001s:) to change ports. Aloha Gary, Radio Shack has a converter from PS2 to usb for stuff like that. I bought a kit of converters from Home Depot her in Honolulu for the same purpose. The KVM switch I have in the server room is PS2 but has little switches on the front that change the mouse , monitor and keyboard with a light pressure. Even a pencil with an eraser on it could be used to change from one of any of eight ports. Send me a picture of the setup you have and I'll see if I can figure out a way to work it for you. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: My second concerned is the ports. In the file ports-supfile there is one option, *default release=cvs tag=.. I believe this specifies which cvs tag to use when pulling files from the ports. At one point I had *default release=cvs tag=RELEASE_7_2_0. When I pulled the ports using the RELEASE_7_2_0 tag and tried to build portsupgrade the installation failed because the ruby version that was going to be installed I believe had a security problem. (I love the fact that I was stopped from installing software that is KNOWN to be vulnerable). I figured that maybe I needed to get the latest version. So I went ahead and changed the cvs tag to . (which I believe means the head version). Don't bother with any of that. Just use portsnap. It's also part of base, and was written by the same person that wrote freebsd-update. It's lovely and much faster, although some people may argue with me on that. I updated the ports and then tried the installation again, this time the installation went further but failed again due to the fact that my libtool (I can't remember the exact name) was older than what the installation required. So that threw me off. I believe that libtool is part of the base system and not the ports, correct? So that made me think that maybe because of using the latest version of the ports I can build certain ports if my base is not concurrent (in terms of what the ports requires and what my system offers) with the port system. So my question is this, if my FreeBSD release is 7.2-RELEASE-p4 which tag should I set for the ports system? Should I put the tag RELEASE_7_2_0 and then wait for a security fix of the particular port (ruby) and then proceed to install? What is the recommended approach if your aim is to have your system up to date and stable? For your system, use freebsd-update. For your ports tree, use portsnap. For installed ports, use portupgrade or portmanager. I'm more fond of portmanager, but it seems portupgrade has many more users. Both portupgrade and portmanager are available in the ports tree, not base. -- randi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: hey guys, my last e-troubles happened a few months ago, or several weeks ago, when my old KVM unit began flaking out. the one computer buddy i have in the seattle area suggested i order a 4-port iogear. i did and he installed it. it was .LT. sixty bux and next-to-worthless given my disability.[*] altho i did type down the conversation between iogear and my friend, i'll spare you. nutshell: they refused to swap and upgrade for something i could more readily use. --i'll post the entire story on my freebsd pages in time. my new/used dell inspiron-530 is here. it is installed to as far as i can install it. trouble is that i see on the dell screen Keyboard failure and a message to press F2 to setup. the kvm has the old ps2 plugs and no adaptors to USB. i have the dell kybd here, come to think of it, but i'm waaay the hell beyond achy to get down and muck around and test. what's your best guess, folks? the computer parts stores around here have largely shut down ...but if ordering an adaptor or two will fix things, i'll do it. any thoughts on this? i think i would need at least 547 pain meds to get back down there and plug in the kyboard; i might drowse off gary [*] gotta type CTRL-ALT-Shift at just the right keyrate (+/- 0.0001s:) to change ports. PS/2 keyboards are still plentiful and cheap... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823201029 I've had varied luck with adapters and since they're about the same price just as easy to keep a ps/2 around. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
KDE4 + FreeBSD-8.0-RC2, no anti aliasing
here is my ~/.fonts.conf ?xml version='1.0'? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd' fontconfig match target=font edit mode=assign name=rgba constrgb/const /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=hinting booltrue/bool /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=hintstyle consthintfull/const /edit /match match target=font edit mode=assign name=antialias booltrue/bool /edit /match /fontconfig fonts look good, just little blurry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:42:34PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: hey guys, my last e-troubles happened a few months ago, or several weeks ago, when my old KVM unit began flaking out. the one computer buddy i have in the seattle area suggested i order a 4-port iogear. i did and he installed it. it was .LT. sixty bux and next-to-worthless given my disability.[*] altho i did type down the conversation between iogear and my friend, i'll spare you. nutshell: they refused to swap and upgrade for something i could more readily use. --i'll post the entire story on my freebsd pages in time. my new/used dell inspiron-530 is here. it is installed to as far as i can install it. trouble is that i see on the dell screen Keyboard failure and a message to press F2 to setup. the kvm has the old ps2 plugs and no adaptors to USB. i have the dell kybd here, come to think of it, but i'm waaay the hell beyond achy to get down and muck around and test. what's your best guess, folks? the computer parts stores around here have largely shut down ...but if ordering an adaptor or two will fix things, i'll do it. any thoughts on this? i think i would need at least 547 pain meds to get back down there and plug in the kyboard; i might drowse off gary [*] gotta type CTRL-ALT-Shift at just the right keyrate (+/- 0.0001s:) to change ports. PS/2 keyboards are still plentiful and cheap... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823201029 I've had varied luck with adapters and since they're about the same price just as easy to keep a ps/2 around. -- Adam Vande More the keybd isn't the problem. it is in the box with a bunch of misc stuff i don't need. problem is that on my KVM switch are only ps2 plugs. on the back of the dell are USB jacks. i need something to convert from the PS2 plug to fit into the USB -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]
Gary Kline writes: the keybd isn't the problem. it is in the box with a bunch of misc stuff i don't need. problem is that on my KVM switch are only ps2 plugs. on the back of the dell are USB jacks. i need something to convert from the PS2 plug to fit into the USB Have you actually tried this elsewhere and had it work? Because I'm certainly no expert on KVMs, but that sounds like a more likely to fail than succeed scenario. (I use a StarTech four port USB KVM, and would be interested in a good model that handles DVI/HDMI as opposed to 15 pin VGA video.) Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
