line lengths in /etc/hosts
Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but characters beyond the first 660 or so seem to be ignored. To answer the inevitable followup why would anyone need such a long line in /etc/hosts: With this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns I can easily suppress access to unwanted web sites by adding names to the localhost line in /etc/hosts, like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain bad1.com bad2.com ... My version of that line has gotten rather long :) ___ 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: line lengths in /etc/hosts
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:57:48 -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: I can easily suppress access to unwanted web sites by adding names to the localhost line in /etc/hosts, like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain bad1.com bad2.com ... My version of that line has gotten rather long :) Without actually havint tested this, but have you considered using the \ continuation character (linebreak escape) to avoid the problem? Also I think there's not a generic limit to the /etc/hosts file itself, but maybe to the input buffers of the programs that read this file... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: line lengths in /etc/hosts
On 27 Mar 2013, at 09:57, per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote: Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but characters beyond the first 660 or so seem to be ignored. To answer the inevitable followup why would anyone need such a long line in /etc/hosts: With this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns I can easily suppress access to unwanted web sites by adding names to the localhost line in /etc/hosts, like this: 127.0.0.1localhost localhost.my.domain bad1.com bad2.com ... My version of that line has gotten rather long :) AFAIK you can have multiple lines. BR ___ 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: line lengths in /etc/hosts
Hi, On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:09:29 +0100 Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 27 Mar 2013, at 09:57, per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote: Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but characters beyond the first 660 or so seem to be ignored. To answer the inevitable followup why would anyone need such a long line in /etc/hosts: With this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns I can easily suppress access to unwanted web sites by adding names to the localhost line in /etc/hosts, like this: 127.0.0.1localhost localhost.my.domain bad1.com bad2.com ... My version of that line has gotten rather long :) AFAIK you can have multiple lines. yes, I have hundreds or even thousands of lines and never ran into any problems. Erich ___ 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
OT: The future of USENET?
Hello, This is a bit OT, but maybe some of you FreeBSD folks are as well affected like me and/or have any answer or comments... In the past I've used a lot the so called newsgroups, even running my own inn news server for our company and nn as the newsreader. I liked to post there technical (and other) questions and answers, or I've google'ed for solutions. Nowadays there is a big silence :-( Where have all the people gone? Is USENET coming to its end? matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards ___ 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: OT: The future of USENET?
Is USENET coming to its end? Yes, for better or worse. It's been a slow downward spiral since the late 90's. I can't speak for other countries, but in the US the majority of ISPs started dropping access as a cost cutting measure since your average layman didn't really understand or use it. Younger generations in turn never knew it existed and ended up reinventing most of the functionality with web forums. Not helping matters is that, due to a couple isolated cases, the news media ignorantly view usenet as a haven for child porn and pirate movies, so there's increasing clamor to shut it down. There were a few 3rd party companies here and there that offered dedicated access, but most of them have closed up shop by this point due to social/political pressure. __ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal ___ 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: OT: The future of USENET?
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:49:25 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: Where have all the people gone? They're using wibbly wobbly web wonder services, unless they've been placed in a retirement castle. :-) Is USENET coming to its end? I think it's just changing audiences. A common means of USENET today seems to be binary groups for sharing warez. There are few newsgroups considered old-fashioned, greybeard and elitist grounds. The common means of communication probably has moved to other services, generic ones such as mailing lists, and more service- oriented ones like the many web-based platforms. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: OT: The future of USENET?
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote: Younger generations In my experience, few people under the age of 30 have used usenet, and no one under the age of 20 has even heard of it. It's interesting to see all the re-inventions that occur all the time. It's basically the same stuff, just re-invented for a wider audience, lowering the barrier of entry in some cases and in others just plain stupidity and ignorance. Many times these re-inventions happen without even prior knowledge of what exists and other times are simplified forks, or robbed ideas that wind up being the same or worse than their original counterparts. Examples are in all areas of technology, and in society in general. For example, chat and instant messaging have always been avail for IRC users since the late eighties but have been re-invented in the late nineties with a bunch of incompatible and overlapping IM protocols. Blogs and forums are also re-inventions of older and in many cases more robust and versatile technologies like USENET and mailing lists. In many cases what I find that is a shame is that these re-inventions don't build on top of mature technologies but rather start out as simple things and then evolve to overly complex things without any elegance and that (as stated above) wind up being even more complex and generally much less elegant than their older counterparts. A good example is Windows and perhaps most of MS technology in general, with a few counted exceptions. In some cases the prior art in known quite well, take for example PHP which was originally written in Perl, then forked to a new language for whatever reasons, and the evolves to be as complex or worse than Perl itself, and after all these years it's still not a full-fledged and decent programming language. In some cases, the evolutionary line is actually positive, take for example Ruby. Yet in this case, Perl has continued to evolve quite well, as Larry Wall well put it: The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. (On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.). One could go on forever with thousands of example, but it's all about evolution and you can only evaluate these things with time. Who knows, maybe USENET, IRC. etc. will continue to evolve and survive in niches, or someday make a great comeback when other options have run their course and have gone extinct. Best, -- Alejandro ___ 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: OT: The future of USENET?
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, This is a bit OT, but maybe some of you FreeBSD folks are as well affected like me and/or have any answer or comments... In the past I've used a lot the so called newsgroups, even running my own inn news server for our company and nn as the newsreader. I liked to post there technical (and other) questions and answers, or I've google'ed for solutions. Nowadays there is a big silence :-( Where have all the people gone? Is USENET coming to its end? Well, the public Usenet forums are dwindling, but still there, and some of them are still quite active. Usenet is also still doing well in closed communities which can afford to run a newsserver (e.g. some Universities). I wouldn't write off Usenet yet; neither as a technology nor as a real network. -cpghost. matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards ___ 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 -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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: OT: The future of USENET?
On 3/27/2013 6:55, Quartz wrote: Younger generations In my experience, few people under the age of 30 have used usenet, and no one under the age of 20 has even heard of it. 19 year old usenet subscriber reporting in! I subscribe to ASR and c.p.t.ntp which are the only decent newsgroups that I have found, I've tried a few others but they seem to be dead and filled with spam. Anyone got any recommendations for newsgroups to subscribe to? :) -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. ___ 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
Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
Hi ! I'm trying to update devel/py-setuptools which has been replaced by devel/py-distribute. As mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING I did portupgrade -fo devel/py-distribute devel/py-setuptools since I'm using ports, but nothing happens. Output of pkg_version -vIL= : py27-setuptools-0.6c11_3 succeeds index (index has 0.6.35) I already tried to fix the package registry using pkgdb -F. I've been trying to fix this for days, but still can't find a solution. Any idea ? Thanks. Loic ___ 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: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:22:19 +0100 Loic Capdeville articulated: I'm trying to update devel/py-setuptools which has been replaced by devel/py-distribute. As mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING I did portupgrade -fo devel/py-distribute devel/py-setuptools since I'm using ports, but nothing happens. Output of pkg_version -vIL= : py27-setuptools-0.6c11_3 succeeds index (index has 0.6.35) I already tried to fix the package registry using pkgdb -F. I've been trying to fix this for days, but still can't find a solution. I have the same problem. However, since everything is apparently working I just chose to ignore it. It probably should get corrected though. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
2013-03-27 14:22, Loic Capdeville wrote: Hi ! I'm trying to update devel/py-setuptools which has been replaced by devel/py-distribute. As mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING I did portupgrade -fo devel/py-distribute devel/py-setuptools since I'm using ports, but nothing happens. Output of pkg_version -vIL= : py27-setuptools-0.6c11_3 succeeds index (index has 0.6.35) I already tried to fix the package registry using pkgdb -F. I've been trying to fix this for days, but still can't find a solution. Any idea ? Can you post contents of /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth* files? -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ 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: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
On 27/03/2013 13:50, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 2013-03-27 14:22, Loic Capdeville wrote: Hi ! I'm trying to update devel/py-setuptools which has been replaced by devel/py-distribute. As mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING I did portupgrade -fo devel/py-distribute devel/py-setuptools since I'm using ports, but nothing happens. Output of pkg_version -vIL= : py27-setuptools-0.6c11_3 succeeds index (index has 0.6.35) I already tried to fix the package registry using pkgdb -F. I've been trying to fix this for days, but still can't find a solution. Any idea ? Can you post contents of /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth* files? Thanks for your quick response. Here is what you requested: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 395 Mar 13 04:50 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 215 Dec 30 15:04 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth.dist ___ 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: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
On 27/03/2013 14:00, Loic Capdeville wrote: On 27/03/2013 13:50, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 2013-03-27 14:22, Loic Capdeville wrote: Hi ! I'm trying to update devel/py-setuptools which has been replaced by devel/py-distribute. As mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING I did portupgrade -fo devel/py-distribute devel/py-setuptools since I'm using ports, but nothing happens. Output of pkg_version -vIL= : py27-setuptools-0.6c11_3 succeeds index (index has 0.6.35) I already tried to fix the package registry using pkgdb -F. I've been trying to fix this for days, but still can't find a solution. Any idea ? Can you post contents of /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth* files? Thanks for your quick response. Here is what you requested: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 395 Mar 13 04:50 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 215 Dec 30 15:04 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth.dist ___ 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 ... and the files content: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ./setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg ./Pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg ./Babel-0.9.6-py2.7.egg ./MarkupSafe-0.15-py2.7-freebsd-9.0-RELEASE-amd64.egg ./Jinja2-2.6-py2.7.egg ./Sphinx-1.1.3-py2.7.egg ./virtualenv-1.9.1-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth.dist: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ./setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) ___ 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: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
2013-03-27 15:06, Loic Capdeville wrote: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ../setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg ../Pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg ../Babel-0.9.6-py2.7.egg ../MarkupSafe-0.15-py2.7-freebsd-9.0-RELEASE-amd64.egg ../Jinja2-2.6-py2.7.egg ../Sphinx-1.1.3-py2.7.egg ../virtualenv-1.9.1-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth.dist: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ../setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) Looks like py-distribute is not installed at all. what was the outcome of portupgrade -fo devel/py-distribute devel/py-setuptools? Can you try running that again? -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ 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
Release 9.1 and 3G usb Modem
Hello all. I have a latitude e6400 with FreeBSD Release 9.1. And i can't get the USB modem working. I tried with umodem, u3g but no luck :( -- Dmesg root@:/root # dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: Tue Dec 4 06:55:39 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz (2261.05-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x1067a Family = 6 Model = 17 Stepping = 10 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x408e3fdSSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,XSAVE AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB) avail memory = 1967104000 (1875 MB) Event timer LAPIC quality 400 ACPI APIC Table: DELL M09 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 kqemu version 0x00010400 kqemu: KQEMU installed, max_locked_mem=980872kB. acpi0: DELL M09 on motherboard Timecounter HPET frequency 14318180 Hz quality 950 Event timer HPET frequency 14318180 Hz quality 450 Event timer HPET1 frequency 14318180 Hz quality 440 Event timer HPET2 frequency 14318180 Hz quality 440 Event timer HPET3 frequency 14318180 Hz quality 440 acpi0: reservation of 0, 9f000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 78f4d400 (3) failed cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 cpu1: ACPI CPU on acpi0 atrtc0: AT realtime clock port 0x70-0x71,0x72-0x77 irq 8 on acpi0 Event timer RTC frequency 32768 Hz quality 0 attimer0: AT timer port 0x40-0x43,0x50-0x53 irq 2 on acpi0 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 Event timer i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x11 port 0x930,0x934 on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0xef70-0xef77 mem 0xf6c0-0xf6ff,0xe000-0xefff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: Intel GM45 SVGA controller on vgapci0 agp0: aperture size is 256M, detected 32764k stolen memory vgapci1: VGA-compatible display mem 0xf6b0-0xf6bf at device 2.1 on pci0 pci0: simple comms at device 3.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: Intel ATA controller port 0xef78-0xef7f,0xef68-0xef6b,0xef80-0xef87,0xef6c-0xef6f,0xef90-0xef9f irq 18 at device 3.2 on pci0 ata2: ATA channel at channel 0 on atapci0 ata3: ATA channel at channel 1 on atapci0 pci0: simple comms, UART at device 3.3 (no driver attached) em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.3.2 port 0xefe0-0xefff mem 0xf6ae-0xf6af,0xf6adb000-0xf6adbfff irq 22 at device 25.0 on pci0 em0: Using an MSI interrupt em0: Ethernet address: 00:1e:c9:25:e8:07 uhci0: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller port 0x6f60-0x6f7f irq 20 at device 26.0 on pci0 uhci0: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus0 on uhci0 uhci1: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller port 0x6f80-0x6f9f irq 21 at device 26.1 on pci0 uhci1: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus1 on uhci1 uhci2: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller port 0x6fa0-0x6fbf irq 22 at device 26.2 on pci0 uhci2: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus2 on uhci2 ehci0: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB 2.0 controller mem 0xfed1c400-0xfed1c7ff irq 22 at device 26.7 on pci0 usbus3: EHCI version 1.0 usbus3 on ehci0 hdac0: Intel 82801I HDA Controller mem 0xf6adc000-0xf6ad irq 21 at device 27.0 on pci0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 28.0 on pci0 pci11: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 28.1 on pci0 pci12: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 iwn0: Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 mem 0xf69fe000-0xf69f irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci12 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 28.2 on pci0 pci13: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 uhci3: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller port 0x6f00-0x6f1f irq 20 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci3: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus4 on uhci3 uhci4: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller port 0x6f20-0x6f3f irq 21 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci4: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus5 on uhci4 uhci5: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB controller port 0x6f40-0x6f5f irq 22 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci5: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus6 on uhci5 ehci1: Intel 82801I (ICH9) USB 2.0 controller mem 0xfed1c000-0xfed1c3ff irq 20 at device 29.7 on pci0 usbus7: EHCI version 1.0 usbus7 on ehci1 pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4 cbb0: RF5C476 PCI-CardBus Bridge irq 19 at device 1.0 on pci3 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit
Re: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
On 27/03/2013 14:27, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 2013-03-27 15:06, Loic Capdeville wrote: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ../setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg ../Pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg ../Babel-0.9.6-py2.7.egg ../MarkupSafe-0.15-py2.7-freebsd-9.0-RELEASE-amd64.egg ../Jinja2-2.6-py2.7.egg ../Sphinx-1.1.3-py2.7.egg ../virtualenv-1.9.1-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth.dist: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ../setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) Looks like py-distribute is not installed at all. what was the outcome of portupgrade -fo devel/py-distribute devel/py-setuptools? Can you try running that again? It hasn't printed anything since the first time I tried to run it... and still print nothing. ___ 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
icedtea plugin alongside linux-sun-jdk
I have linux-sun-jdk16 installed on my workstation at my workplace due to certain linux-based software that I need to be able to run. This works flawlessly, however I'm wondering what caveats I'll run into by now installing the icedtea web browser plugin, since it seems to depend on FreeBSD's openjdk. Is it possible to run these two alongside each other? -- Andre Goree an...@drenet.info ___ 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
/etc/sudoers
I have been moving this file forward since about release 5.0. Today is tried the do a man sudoers and got no page found. The su man page does not reference it. Has the file been removed? Does it maybe belong to some port? Any ideas? Thanks ___ 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: /etc/sudoers
On Mar 27, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Joe fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I have been moving this file forward since about release 5.0. Today is tried the do a man sudoers and got no page found. The su man page does not reference it. Has the file been removed? Does it maybe belong to some port? Any ideas? Thanks The file is actually /usr/loal/etc/sudoers and is tied to /usr/ports/security/sudo Install sudo from there and you automagically get the man page. ___ 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: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org
budsz bud...@gmail.com writes: I want ask about error in `dmesg` output remove Bump sched buckets to 64 (was 0) in FreeBSD 8.3 STABLE version. Where's the code lines should be remove (safety)? That message isn't in RELENG_9, so I can't give you details. It's probably resizing a dummynet queue, so it's likely to be in one of the c files in /usr/src/sys/netpfil/ipfw/. Removing the print statment is *probably* safe, but will leave you with less information if something actually goes wrong with allocating buckets the next time you add a new queue. Or you could update to something more recent, where that specific message isn't present at all. ___ 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
any 9.1-RELEASE-p1 to 10.0-CURRENT howtos?
Dear folks, On one of my machines I cannot get it to update ports, most fail with gettext. I tried some options like disabling Native Language Support in binutils, but it still fails. I deleted all the ports and am looking at starting from scratch again, but this time move to CLANG and build world and install world and not USE gcc and GNU anymore (on the machine which gettext fails). Is there a nice howto as to how to do this? How can it be done in easy steps and then try to track current? I am aware that I would be on my own if I track current, but I want to test many programs to see if they would build without GCC and with CLANG only and report back to the developers and let them know of issues. Thanks, Antonio ___ 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: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
2013-03-27 15:33, Loic Capdeville wrote: On 27/03/2013 14:27, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 2013-03-27 15:06, Loic Capdeville wrote: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ../setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg ../Pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg ../Babel-0.9.6-py2.7.egg ../MarkupSafe-0.15-py2.7-freebsd-9.0-RELEASE-amd64.egg ../Jinja2-2.6-py2.7.egg ../Sphinx-1.1.3-py2.7.egg ../virtualenv-1.9.1-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth.dist: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ../setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) Looks like py-distribute is not installed at all. what was the outcome of portupgrade -fo devel/py-distribute devel/py-setuptools? Can you try running that again? It hasn't printed anything since the first time I tried to run it... and still print nothing. So here is a main problem. If it prints nothing it doesn't work. Do you have portupgrade or portmaster installed? Did it yield at least one line? Some errors? If it doesn't that's surely a sign that something is going wrong. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ 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: Release 9.1 and 3G usb Modem
On 27 March 2013 16:29, Leonardo Santagostini lsantagost...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all. I have a latitude e6400 with FreeBSD Release 9.1. And i can't get the USB modem working. I tried with umodem, u3g but no luck :( [snip] ugen7.2: HUAWEI at usbus7 ugen7.2: HUAWEI at usbus7 (disconnected) ugen7.2: HUAWEI at usbus7 umodem0: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umodem0: data interface 0, has no CM over data, has no break umodem1: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umodem1: data interface 1, has no CM over data, has no break umodem2: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umodem2: data interface 2, has no CM over data, has no break umass0: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:9:0:-1: Attached to scbus9 cd1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus9 target 0 lun 0 cd1: HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd1: 40.000MB/s transfers cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present umass1: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umass1: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass1:10:1:-1: Attached to scbus10 da0 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus10 target 0 lun 0 da0: HUAWEI SD Storage 2.31 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present [snip] Huawei modem, as I can see. That should be easy. Connect to the modem through HyperTerminal or Putty on a different machine Issue the command: AT^U2DIAG=0 That should disable the virtual CD-ROM and FreeBSD will see the modem. Here are some commands you'll need to know about: Do you have a Windows PC near you? If you plug the device into it and the virtualCD pops up, then it means command was not successful. The fact that fake CD still shows means command did not succeed! AT^u2diag=0 (all off) AT^u2diag=1 (CD on, SD off) AT^u2diag=256 (CD off, SD is on) AT^u2diag=255 (all on - including SD Card) AT^u2diag=276 (Factory Reset) A+CLAC - Display all available commands. However it does not tell you how to use them And here is a working ppp.conf - but you need to change the *bolded* values to match your end of the environment:) u3g: set device */dev/cuaU0.0* set server /var/run/3g-internet 0177 set speed 921600 set timeout 0 set authname *saf* set authkey *data* set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sTIMEOUT 2 \ \\ \ AT OK-AT-OK \ AT+CFUN=1 OK-AT-OK \ AT+CMEE=2 OK-AT-OK \ AT+CSQ OK \ AT+CGDCONT=1,\\\IP\\\,\\\*APN*\\\ OK \ ATD**99#* CONNECT set crtscts on disable vjcomp disable acfcomp disable deflate disable deflate24 disable pred1 disable protocomp disable mppe disable ipv6cp disable lqr disable echo #nat enable yes enable dns resolv writable set dns 8.8.8.8 set ifaddr 10.1.0.2/0 10.1.0.1/0 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR # See ppp.link* Lemme know if you get stuck. Also, always give details about modem - manufacturer, model... -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. ___ 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: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
On 27/03/2013 17:30, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 2013-03-27 15:33, Loic Capdeville wrote: On 27/03/2013 14:27, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 2013-03-27 15:06, Loic Capdeville wrote: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ../setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg ../Pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg ../Babel-0.9.6-py2.7.egg ../MarkupSafe-0.15-py2.7-freebsd-9.0-RELEASE-amd64.egg ../Jinja2-2.6-py2.7.egg ../Sphinx-1.1.3-py2.7.egg ../virtualenv-1.9.1-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth.dist: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ../setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) Looks like py-distribute is not installed at all. what was the outcome of portupgrade -fo devel/py-distribute devel/py-setuptools? Can you try running that again? It hasn't printed anything since the first time I tried to run it... and still print nothing. So here is a main problem. If it prints nothing it doesn't work. Do you have portupgrade or portmaster installed? Did it yield at least one line? Some errors? If it doesn't that's surely a sign that something is going wrong. I use portupgrade regularly to upgrade my ports, and usually everything goes right. If fails only with that particular operation (or these portupgrade options) Do I have to install devel/py-distribute separately, or should the portupgrade -fo command do everything itself (uninstall py-setuptools and install py-distribute) ? ___ 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: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
2013-03-27 18:37, Loic Capdeville wrote: import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) ../setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new) Looks like py-distribute is not installed at all. what was the outcome of portupgrade -fo devel/py-distribute devel/py-setuptools? Can you try running that again? It hasn't printed anything since the first time I tried to run it... and still print nothing. So here is a main problem. If it prints nothing it doesn't work. Do you have portupgrade or portmaster installed? Did it yield at least one line? Some errors? If it doesn't that's surely a sign that something is going wrong. I use portupgrade regularly to upgrade my ports, and usually everything goes right. If fails only with that particular operation (or these portupgrade options) Do I have to install devel/py-distribute separately, or should the portupgrade -fo command do everything itself (uninstall py-setuptools and install py-distribute) ? This command should forcefully deintsall second package and replace it with first one. I'm not using portupgrade, I switched to portmaster long time ago so I can't help you with it. If you want to make the switch by hand I think you should: pkg_delete -f py27-setuptools-0.6c11_3 # now write down the whole list of dependent packages cd /usr/ports/devel/py-distribute ; make install clean portupgrade -f ..list of packages that require setuptools.. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ 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: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools
On 27-3-2013 17:37, Loic Capdeville wrote: I use portupgrade regularly to upgrade my ports, and usually everything goes right. If fails only with that particular operation (or these portupgrade options) Do I have to install devel/py-distribute separately, or should the portupgrade -fo command do everything itself (uninstall py-setuptools and install py-distribute) ? I had some problems with this one as well. I eventually ended up by pkg_deleting -f the package, delete manually some file portinstall complaints about, and after that it worked. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org - Geen virus gevonden in dit bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 2013.0.2904 / Virusdatabase: 2641/6206 - datum van uitgifte: 03/26/13 ___ 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: line lengths in /etc/hosts
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:57:48 -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but characters beyond the first 660 or so seem to be ignored. To answer the inevitable followup why would anyone need such a long line in /etc/hosts: With this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns I can easily suppress access to unwanted web sites by adding names to the localhost line in /etc/hosts, like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain bad1.com bad2.com ... My version of that line has gotten rather long :) $ tail -20 /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 r1.zedo.com 127.0.0.1 simg.zedo.com 127.0.0.1 ss1.zedo.com 127.0.0.1 ss2.zedo.com 127.0.0.1 ss7.zedo.com 127.0.0.1 xads.zedo.com 127.0.0.1 yads.zedo.com 127.0.0.1 www.zedo.com #[Adware.RaxSearch] 127.0.0.1 c1.zxxds.net #[g1.panthercdn.com] 127.0.0.1 c7.zxxds.net # [Zero Lag][AS20093][67.201.0.0 - 67.201.63.255] 127.0.0.1 ads.namiflow.com 127.0.0.1 adunit.namiflow.com # [Zero Lag][AS20093][68.71.240.0 - 68.71.255.255] 127.0.0.1 rt.udmserve.net # [Zero Lag][AS20093][72.37.216.0 - 72.37.217.255] 127.0.0.1 www.stickylogic.com 127.0.0.1 www.winadiscount.com #[Dr.Web.Adware.Xbarre] 127.0.0.1 www.winaproduct.com # [end of entries generated by MVPS HOSTS] $ ___ 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
OT: The future of USENET?
Usenet was great. 'Was' because it really isn't there anymore. Servers used to be widespread, you could use your ISP, your school, your work, and failing that plenty of free ones even if for the asking, even some public/open ones. Now there are very few, if any, free servers and likely none are public/open for obvious reasons. Post 2000 Web 2.0 and those eyeballs destroyed usenet. They are the idiot mass and they demanded to only see the world through their browser window. And when usenet died off, so did the long running text only archive servers, taking decades of human knowledge with them. Vanished. Just the same as web forums do when they vanish. Google's 'group' archive doesn't count, they're a corporation, they wrapped it in web 2.0, they don't care, it will die. The bandwidth cost, piracy and porn was just as damning as web 2.0. The former caused the formal ISP/school/work support to die. The latter stole the eyeballs. Back then you had to have brains to be on the net, now everyone is web 2.0, and they're satisfied with ridiculous web forums. Any brains today are all but forced to use them because the population is so slim anywhere else. Usenet has suffered its generational penalty. Usenet is still viable long term as a free/donation service, as is irc, if operators do not carry the binary groups. Its new hope lies with the opensource, hackerspace, anonymous, and related communities of all sorts. As a giant distributed mailing list, it's an awesome service that these communities really should look at more closely. Its future is up to you... will you run a server and list it as a communication method (even primary) for your project, or not? Will you donate a server to the public, or not? FreeBSD related... it would be really nice if someone would shim the FreeBSD forum to cause every post to be copied out to a set of FreeBSD mailing lists. So the efficient/interested among us could at least read, search and archive them without being forced to waste time with the web interface. ___ 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: Release 9.1 and 3G usb Modem
Hello Odhiambo . The 3G model is Huawei E173 with Movistar Argentina. Ive tried but i cant see in windows de USB port to have a serial link :( Saludos / Regards Leonardo Santagostini 2013/3/27 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com On 27 March 2013 16:29, Leonardo Santagostini lsantagost...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all. I have a latitude e6400 with FreeBSD Release 9.1. And i can't get the USB modem working. I tried with umodem, u3g but no luck :( [snip] ugen7.2: HUAWEI at usbus7 ugen7.2: HUAWEI at usbus7 (disconnected) ugen7.2: HUAWEI at usbus7 umodem0: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umodem0: data interface 0, has no CM over data, has no break umodem1: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umodem1: data interface 1, has no CM over data, has no break umodem2: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umodem2: data interface 2, has no CM over data, has no break umass0: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:9:0:-1: Attached to scbus9 cd1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus9 target 0 lun 0 cd1: HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd1: 40.000MB/s transfers cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present umass1: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umass1: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass1:10:1:-1: Attached to scbus10 da0 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus10 target 0 lun 0 da0: HUAWEI SD Storage 2.31 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present [snip] Huawei modem, as I can see. That should be easy. Connect to the modem through HyperTerminal or Putty on a different machine Issue the command: AT^U2DIAG=0 That should disable the virtual CD-ROM and FreeBSD will see the modem. Here are some commands you'll need to know about: Do you have a Windows PC near you? If you plug the device into it and the virtualCD pops up, then it means command was not successful. The fact that fake CD still shows means command did not succeed! AT^u2diag=0 (all off) AT^u2diag=1 (CD on, SD off) AT^u2diag=256 (CD off, SD is on) AT^u2diag=255 (all on - including SD Card) AT^u2diag=276 (Factory Reset) A+CLAC - Display all available commands. However it does not tell you how to use them And here is a working ppp.conf - but you need to change the *bolded* values to match your end of the environment:) u3g: set device */dev/cuaU0.0* set server /var/run/3g-internet 0177 set speed 921600 set timeout 0 set authname *saf* set authkey *data* set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sTIMEOUT 2 \ \\ \ AT OK-AT-OK \ AT+CFUN=1 OK-AT-OK \ AT+CMEE=2 OK-AT-OK \ AT+CSQ OK \ AT+CGDCONT=1,\\\IP\\\,\\\*APN*\\\ OK \ ATD**99#* CONNECT set crtscts on disable vjcomp disable acfcomp disable deflate disable deflate24 disable pred1 disable protocomp disable mppe disable ipv6cp disable lqr disable echo #nat enable yes enable dns resolv writable set dns 8.8.8.8 set ifaddr 10.1.0.2/0 10.1.0.1/0 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR # See ppp.link* Lemme know if you get stuck. Also, always give details about modem - manufacturer, model... -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. ___ 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: Release 9.1 and 3G usb Modem
On Windows, install the modem drivers and make it usable. Then connect to the port on which it is installed using putty or HyperTerminal. I am hoping you know how to do that. Then type the commands: at^u2diag=0 ENTER atz ENTER Disconnect modem and connect to FreeBSD. You will see the modem correctly identified and connected to a port. On Windows, when you go to Hardware-Device Manager, look at the Serial ports available. One of them MUST be the one the modem is using! On 27 March 2013 23:09, Leonardo Santagostini lsantagost...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Odhiambo . The 3G model is Huawei E173 with Movistar Argentina. Ive tried but i cant see in windows de USB port to have a serial link :( Saludos / Regards Leonardo Santagostini 2013/3/27 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com On 27 March 2013 16:29, Leonardo Santagostini lsantagost...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all. I have a latitude e6400 with FreeBSD Release 9.1. And i can't get the USB modem working. I tried with umodem, u3g but no luck :( [snip] ugen7.2: HUAWEI at usbus7 ugen7.2: HUAWEI at usbus7 (disconnected) ugen7.2: HUAWEI at usbus7 umodem0: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umodem0: data interface 0, has no CM over data, has no break umodem1: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umodem1: data interface 1, has no CM over data, has no break umodem2: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umodem2: data interface 2, has no CM over data, has no break umass0: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:9:0:-1: Attached to scbus9 cd1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus9 target 0 lun 0 cd1: HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd1: 40.000MB/s transfers cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present umass1: HUAWEI HUAWEI Mobile, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2 on usbus7 umass1: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass1:10:1:-1: Attached to scbus10 da0 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus10 target 0 lun 0 da0: HUAWEI SD Storage 2.31 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present [snip] Huawei modem, as I can see. That should be easy. Connect to the modem through HyperTerminal or Putty on a different machine Issue the command: AT^U2DIAG=0 That should disable the virtual CD-ROM and FreeBSD will see the modem. Here are some commands you'll need to know about: Do you have a Windows PC near you? If you plug the device into it and the virtualCD pops up, then it means command was not successful. The fact that fake CD still shows means command did not succeed! AT^u2diag=0 (all off) AT^u2diag=1 (CD on, SD off) AT^u2diag=256 (CD off, SD is on) AT^u2diag=255 (all on - including SD Card) AT^u2diag=276 (Factory Reset) A+CLAC - Display all available commands. However it does not tell you how to use them And here is a working ppp.conf - but you need to change the *bolded* values to match your end of the environment:) u3g: set device */dev/cuaU0.0* set server /var/run/3g-internet 0177 set speed 921600 set timeout 0 set authname *saf* set authkey *data* set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sTIMEOUT 2 \ \\ \ AT OK-AT-OK \ AT+CFUN=1 OK-AT-OK \ AT+CMEE=2 OK-AT-OK \ AT+CSQ OK \ AT+CGDCONT=1,\\\IP\\\,\\\*APN*\\\ OK \ ATD**99#* CONNECT set crtscts on disable vjcomp disable acfcomp disable deflate disable deflate24 disable pred1 disable protocomp disable mppe disable ipv6cp disable lqr disable echo #nat enable yes enable dns resolv writable set dns 8.8.8.8 set ifaddr 10.1.0.2/0 10.1.0.1/0 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR # See ppp.link* Lemme know if you get stuck. Also, always give details about modem - manufacturer, model... -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. ___ 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: OT: The future of USENET?
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote: Now there are very few, if any, free servers There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet, nevertheless I prefer the free one as it's faster and more reliable. ___ 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: Release 9.1 and 3G usb Modem
El día Wednesday, March 27, 2013 a las 05:09:22PM -0300, Leonardo Santagostini escribió: Hello Odhiambo . The 3G model is Huawei E173 with Movistar Argentina. Ive tried but i cant see in windows de USB port to have a serial link :( Saludos / Regards Leonardo Santagostini Hi, Pls check if this E173 card is supported by the /sys/dev/usb/serial/u3g.c driver; figure out the vendorID and productID of this card and check if it is in the driver to attach to; I own an E220 and an E1750 Huawei card, both are just working fine without any tricks. matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | - Never being an iSlave WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments, no HTML/RTF in E-mail phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards ___ 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: OT: The future of USENET?
On 3/27/2013 3:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote: Now there are very few, if any, free servers There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet, nevertheless I prefer the free one as it's faster and more reliable. The last ISP I knew had usenet complained about the bandwidth and storage required. They had a dedicated satellite instead of using their backbone, and only cached a couple days. All the porn and warez has the side affect of wiping out the cost benefit. ___ 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: any 9.1-RELEASE-p1 to 10.0-CURRENT howtos?
Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com writes: On one of my machines I cannot get it to update ports, most fail with gettext. I tried some options like disabling Native Language Support in binutils, but it still fails. I deleted all the ports and am looking at starting from scratch again, but this time move to CLANG and build world and install world and not USE gcc and GNU anymore (on the machine which gettext fails). Is there a nice howto as to how to do this? How can it be done in easy steps and then try to track current? Current isn't necessary, although it often has slightly newer versions of the related tools. Clang will work fine on recent 9.x (I don't know when it was imported, so it may need something more recent than 9.1). Furthermore, it will support building the world and ports, as detailed in: https://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang I am aware that I would be on my own if I track current, but I want to test many programs to see if they would build without GCC and with CLANG only and report back to the developers and let them know of issues. You are not entirely on your own with current, but you are expected to more of the heavy lifting when a problem comes up that doesn't happen for other people. You actually have a number of choices that should work for you. You can run current, which probably won't be very difficult (but nobody's going to guarantee that). You can run RELENG_9 using clang as the default compiler. Or you could use a jail to build with clang when the host system builds with gcc. And I've most likely overlooked other possibilities. If you are really starting from scratch on a particular machine, then a clean install is worth considering; it guarantees that you're not bringing along the effects of mistakes made previously on the system. If the system is also needed stable for other purposes, then doing your experiments in a jail may be your easiest path (a jail may even be overkill; a chroot will handle it for some purposes). Good luck. ___ 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
Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
I've never used any FreeBSD memstick image before, but now I have reason to do so. I'm reading the instructions for creating a bootable memstick that are located on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html which include the following example of how to perform the copy: # dd if=FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync Question: Why exactly is conv=sync is there? Also, in practice what does it actually do? (I've used dd plenty in my lifetime, but never found any reason to use conv= at all. I always thought that it was... mostly... just an archaic leftover from the days when some big iron used EBCDIC that needed to get converted to ASCII or vise versa.) The dd man page describes the sync type of conversion thusly: Pad every input block to the input buffer size. Spaces are used for pad bytes if a block oriented conversion value is specified, otherwise NUL bytes are used. Ummm... ok. WTF is a block oriented conversion value? How would I know if I had specified one? Question: Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 do just as well? Regards, rfg ___ 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: OT: The future of USENET?
El día Wednesday, March 27, 2013 a las 03:37:43PM -0500, Joshua Isom escribió: The last ISP I knew had usenet complained about the bandwidth and storage required. They had a dedicated satellite instead of using their backbone, and only cached a couple days. All the porn and warez has the side affect of wiping out the cost benefit. I'm using since some years http://www.aioe.org/ which has no binary groups (i.e. no porn or warez) and a cache of 25 days. Just works. matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | - Never being an iSlave WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments, no HTML/RTF in E-mail phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards ___ 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: Release 9.1 and 3G usb Modem
Hello Matthias, thanks for your response, Odhiambo was helping me with this modem with no luck. Tomorrow we will continuing trying to get this modem running. Thanks all, and thanks Odhiambo for all the support he is giving to get this piece working :) I really apreciate it !!! Saludos / Regards Leonardo Santagostini 2013/3/27 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de El día Wednesday, March 27, 2013 a las 05:09:22PM -0300, Leonardo Santagostini escribió: Hello Odhiambo . The 3G model is Huawei E173 with Movistar Argentina. Ive tried but i cant see in windows de USB port to have a serial link :( Saludos / Regards Leonardo Santagostini Hi, Pls check if this E173 card is supported by the /sys/dev/usb/serial/u3g.c driver; figure out the vendorID and productID of this card and check if it is in the driver to attach to; I own an E220 and an E1750 Huawei card, both are just working fine without any tricks. matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | - Never being an iSlave WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments, no HTML/RTF in E-mail phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
In the last episode (Mar 27), Ronald F. Guilmette said: I've never used any FreeBSD memstick image before, but now I have reason to do so. I'm reading the instructions for creating a bootable memstick that are located on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html which include the following example of how to perform the copy: # dd if=FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync Question: Why exactly is conv=sync is there? Question: Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 do just as well? It looks like someone just copied a dd commandline from somewhere else, maybe something to do with tar files (since tar defaults to a 10k blocksize when writing to tape). conv=sync isn't needed since the source file is already a multiple of the target device blocksize (512 bytes), and bs=64k would be much faster when writing to cheap flash devices like USB sticks since they don't have a write cache and individual writes are slowish. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
On 28/03/2013 8:10 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Question: Why exactly is conv=sync is there? I found this on http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/dd.1.asp If you specified conv=sync and this input block is smaller than the specified input block size, dd pads it to the specified size with null bytes. When you also specify a block or unblock conversion, dd uses spaces instead of null bytes. So the last block of output gets padded with 0x00 at the end to fill the input block size (from bs=...) Question: Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 do just as well? It would, but then you would have FILESIZE/512 reads and writes instead of FILESIZE/10240 reads and writes - 20 times more. The end result is the same, but the large bs makes the operation go faster. I routinely use bs=655360 simply because it is a big number divisible by 512, which I can easily remember. 512000 would do just as well, though... Danny ___ 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: OT: The future of USENET?
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:37:43 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: On 3/27/2013 3:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote: Now there are very few, if any, free servers There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet, nevertheless I prefer the free one as it's faster and more reliable. The last ISP I knew had usenet complained about the bandwidth and storage required. They had a dedicated satellite instead of using their backbone, and only cached a couple days. All the porn and warez has the side affect of wiping out the cost benefit. I have no idea whether my usenet provider includes porn or warez groups, since I am interested in neither, so have not checked. All I know is that I use their service because it is free, reliable and fast. Actually, I read this list via the usenet group gmane.os.freebsd.questions, since I find that convenient. ___ 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: OT: The future of USENET?
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/27/2013 3:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote: Now there are very few, if any, free servers There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet, nevertheless I prefer the free one as it's faster and more reliable. The last ISP I knew had usenet complained about the bandwidth and storage required. If they carried alt.binaries.*, then yes: it was a legitimate concern. To carry those groups requires enormous bandwidth, and bandwidth costs money, a lot of money. Storage isn't really an issue though.., even with smallish retention periods of 60 days or so. That's what commercial Usenet providers a la Giganews are for: they have some very big pipes and the necessary storage infrastructure for many-years retention, and can pay for all this through their subscribers fees. I see no problems that regular ISPs dropped Usenet as part of their standard offering, as long as alternatives such as those Usenet providers are available for a couple of bucks per month to those who need them. They had a dedicated satellite instead of using their backbone, and only cached a couple days. All the porn and warez has the side affect of wiping out the cost benefit. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive
Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512 do just as well? Modern systems can read and write far more than 512 bytes per operation. Sticking with 512 would work perfectly fine, but you'd be imposing an unnecessary bottleneck and the copy would be a lot slower overall. Whether 10K is optimal or not depends on the exact hardware you're messing with (it looks pretty low to me, I'd suggest more like 1M). __ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal ___ 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
