fBSD on Duron

2004-12-27 Thread Cristi Tauber
Hello ppl, i'm trying to install 5.3 in a Duron 1600Mhz with 512 Mb Ram and 2x 40gb HDD. I boot from cd but the setup hangs at : npx0: [FAST] I try to boot without ACPI, safe mode ... etc ... but with the same result. What seems to be the problem ??? Thanks ,

Re: Program Backward compatibility for FreeBSD 2.25

2004-12-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 14:34:34 +0700, Twatchai Saelao wrote: Hi I have 1 application develope on FreeBSD 2.2.5 (a long time but still in use). I need to upgrade OS from 2.25 to 5.3 but Application can not run of this version. Message after call application is cannot execute binary

Re: fBSD on Duron

2004-12-27 Thread Cristi Tauber
If i don't make a mistake npx0 is maht (co)processor. My NIC is a 3COM SOHO and i don't have problems with it. Before i try to install BSD, that machine was running winXP smoothly. Cristi Vadim Maksimenko wrote: Hello, I guess, you have to remove (disable) that

write state to swap for multi-os boot

2004-12-27 Thread ctodd
Has anyone considered or accomplished allowing FreeBSD to write it's current state (including window manager, windows, etc) to swap and allowing a subsequent reload of the system to last state? This would be sort of like the sleep mode of a laptop, but would allow the user to boot into another OS

A few questions regarding sound drivers

2004-12-27 Thread Jorn Argelo
Hi all, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 AMD64 a few days ago. However, I am having sound problems. I have an Ensoniq 5880 as specified by lspci and dmesg: 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 13.0 (no driver attached) For example,

Re: portupgrade -P and local changes

2004-12-27 Thread Harlan Stenn
I looked at pkgtools.conf, and I don't see a way to do what I want there. My goal here is to make it *easy* for somebody to update the installed ports on a machine. Even if we could use MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf to try and do this that does not solve the problem I am seeing. (There is a bigger

Emailing: Getting Started with MX Kollection Trial

2004-12-27 Thread john
The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: C:\Documents and Settings\John Haussmann\My Documents\macromedia\Getting Started with MX Kollection Trial.pdf Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving

RE: Program Backward compatibility for FreeBSD 2.25

2004-12-27 Thread Subhro
Recompile the application on the 5.3 box and it should run fine. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nate Lawson wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: I can't find his name or email address anywhere BUT I think I can do one better then that. Here are two ASL's that where uploaded to the ACPI4Linux project:

Re: make buildworld 5.3.0

2004-12-27 Thread Lane
On Sunday 26 December 2004 23:24, jason henson wrote: Finally, start from where you started: cd /usr/src make buildworld make installworld ... etc Make sure you read /usr/src/UPDATING (all the way through) before you restart make buildworld good luck!

Xorg can't start

2004-12-27 Thread Alexandr
Hello. I try to upgrade my xserver: cd /var/db/pkg portupgrade -o devel/imake-6 imake-4* portupgrade -o x11/xorg-libraries XFree86-libraries portupgrade -o x11/xorg-clients XFree86-clients portupgrade -o x11/xorg-manpages XFree86-manuals portupgrade -o

Re: 5.3: want to install XFree86

2004-12-27 Thread Lane
On Sunday 26 December 2004 23:31, Theodore D. Sternberg wrote: I've had it with Xorg and would like to go back to XFree86. Unfortunately, when I go to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and type make, it doesn't do anything; it just gives me this message... === XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of

Re: 1MB ADSL speed dropped (was: I NEED UR HELP !!!)

2004-12-27 Thread Ahmad Zulkarnain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damak Mr wrote: | MY NAME RIDZUAN... | | FOUND YOU ON FREEBSD PAGE. | | PROBLEM: | | MY STREAMYX IS REGISTER FOR 1 Mbps speed. but start yesterday, my | connection speed reduce to 320-380 kbps only. i've checked on modem | page( 192.168.1.1) speed

Xorg: /dev/io mode

2004-12-27 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi, What is the proper way to permantly give group or world rw rights to /dev/io? Or is there a better way to be able to use X as other than root? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Trouble upgrading PHP

2004-12-27 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
Hi, I hope someone can help me here. Today I upgraded Apache to the latest version (apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 - which works fine) and PHP to 4.3.10 (which doesn't). I'm running a few sites on my server that relies on the Apache/PHP and mySQL. Now, only static content seems to be working. I

Re: A few questions regarding sound drivers

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Jorn Argelo wrote: Hi all, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 AMD64 a few days ago. However, I am having sound problems. I have an Ensoniq 5880 as specified by lspci and dmesg: 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 13.0 (no driver attached)

Re: Trouble upgrading PHP

2004-12-27 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:11:34 +0100, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote Hi, I hope someone can help me here. Today I upgraded Apache to the latest version (apache+mod_ssl- 1.3.33+2.8.22 - which works fine) and PHP to 4.3.10 (which doesn't). I'm running a few sites on my server that relies on

Re: fBSD on Duron

2004-12-27 Thread Cristi Tauber
Vadim Maksimenko wrote: Do you get kind of these messages at boot time?: I got just the first line npx0: [FAST] then it stops . Setup hangs with no other error. the CPU in at 1600Mhz and is not overclocked ! Cristi npx0: [FAST] npx0: math

linux-gtk2 fonts problem

2004-12-27 Thread Lorenzo Scano
Hello all, I was wondering if anyone has a clue on how change the fonts behaviour in linux-gtk2 applications (in my case realplayer 10). I'm not able to affect this through .gtkrc-2.0 or /compat/linux/usr/share/themes/* changes! Thanx a lot! -- Lorenzo Scano [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-gtk2 fonts problem

2004-12-27 Thread Mark
Hello all, I was wondering if anyone has a clue on how change the fonts behaviour in linux-gtk2 applications (in my case realplayer 10). I'm not able to affect this through .gtkrc-2.0 or /compat/linux/usr/share/themes/* changes! Thanx a lot! I think you're probably looking for:

cronjob doesn't run???

2004-12-27 Thread Timothy Smith
i have an odd problem with this cronjob, #!/bin/sh cd /home/timothy burncd -f /dev/acd0c blank tar -zcvf ./burning/thunderbird.tar.gz ./.thunderbird/* tar -zcvf ./burning/Projects.tar.gz ./Projects/* tar -zcvf ./burning/cvsd.tar.gz /usr/local/cvsd/* mkisofs -L -l -relaxed-filenames -o tmp.iso

urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread kalin mintchev
PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] upgraded from 4.6 = 4.10 rel network programs are craching the new system: netstat, ping, the qmail tcp server all of them... sshd is running but when accessing from outside it panics too... what is it? can i turn something off in the kernel?! --

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread kalin mintchev
PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] upgraded from 4.6 = 4.10 rel network programs are craching the new system: netstat, ping, the qmail tcp server all of them... sshd is running but when accessing from outside it panics too... what is it? can i turn something off in the kernel?!

Re: write state to swap for multi-os boot

2004-12-27 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone considered or accomplished allowing FreeBSD to write it's current state (including window manager, windows, etc) to swap and allowing a subsequent reload of the system to last state? This would be sort of like the sleep mode of a laptop, but would allow

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
At 09:35 27.12.2004, you wrote: PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] upgraded from 4.6 = 4.10 rel network programs are craching the new system: netstat, ping, the qmail tcp server all of them... sshd is running but when accessing from outside it panics too... what is it? can i turn

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread Bill Moran
kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] upgraded from 4.6 = 4.10 rel network programs are craching the new system: netstat, ping, the qmail tcp server all of them... sshd is running but when accessing from outside it panics too... what is it? can

Re: fBSD on Duron

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Cristi Tauber wrote: Vadim Maksimenko wrote: Do you get kind of these messages at boot time?: I got just the first line npx0: [FAST] then it stops . Setup hangs with no other error. the CPU in at 1600Mhz and is not overclocked ! Cristi I'm

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread kalin mintchev
PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] thank you Bill for rplying... well i did it a few times with the same success. it's not the first time i'm doing it. it's the first time with the 4.x.. i followed the handbook step by step - rebuild devs too.. and then cleaned up obj.. to make it all again -

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:40:34PM +0100, Andreas Wider?e Andersen typed: At 09:35 27.12.2004, you wrote: PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] upgraded from 4.6 = 4.10 rel network programs are craching the new system: netstat, ping, the qmail tcp server all of them... sshd is

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread kalin mintchev
PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:40:34PM +0100, Andreas Wider?e Andersen typed: At 09:35 27.12.2004, you wrote: PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] upgraded from 4.6 = 4.10 rel network programs are craching the new system: netstat, ping, the qmail tcp

how to - source routing

2004-12-27 Thread Perica Veljanovski
Hi all, Is it possible to do source routing in FreeBSD? I want to set up a fBSD box with (3 nic's) 2 internet connections and a private net, and do some source routing. -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to - source routing

2004-12-27 Thread Christian Laursen
Perica Veljanovski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to do source routing in FreeBSD? You can do that with ipfw and fwd rules. -- Christian Laursen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Xorg can't start

2004-12-27 Thread Alexandr
I discavered what i810 drive is broken for X.org in current realize. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD Jails Perl: Reading /proc ...

2004-12-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 24 December 2004 08:17, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to read /proc/*/status, specifically to find what processes belong to what jail ... but, doing 'direct views' on it tends to generate errors since processes come-n-go ... I had the same problem when I was writing JailAdmin

Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports

2004-12-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 25 December 2004 12:29, Jay O'Brien wrote: But it is there, so it will stay. I doesn't *have* to stay, though: 1) Add 'WITHOUT_X11=YES' to /etc/make.conf . 2) Use You can use 'pkg_info -rR xorg-[whatever]' to see which ports depend on a each of the X.org ports. For each dependent

Re: 5.3: want to install XFree86

2004-12-27 Thread RW
On Monday 27 December 2004 05:31, Theodore D. Sternberg wrote: I've had it with Xorg and would like to go back to XFree86. Unfortunately, when I go to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and type make, it doesn't do anything; it just gives me this message... === XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: make buildkernel

2004-12-27 Thread shawley
My Bad In file included from /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter/../../contrib/ipfilter/   netinet/ip_fil.c:109: /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter/../../contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ip_fil.h:501:1: warning: PFIL_HOOKS redefined command line:6:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition

It is a testament ....

2004-12-27 Thread Tom Vilot
to the clean design of BSD that I could screw it up so badly and repair it so easily. (Re: ps, make deinstall) If I'd done this with RedHat (or any other RPM-based Linux distro) I hate to think about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Wine 20041201 on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:17:18AM +, jason henson wrote: On 12/26/04 23:13:19, Matthew Bluestone wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, Xorg 6.8.1 (portupgraded today), and KDE 3.3.3 (portupgraded today). My ports tree was updated yesterday. I am trying to run Wine, and I have the

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: make buildkernel

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:19:52AM -0600, shawley wrote: My Bad In file included from /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter/../../contrib/ipfilter/ ? netinet/ip_fil.c:109: /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter/../../contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ip_fil.h:501:1: warning: PFIL_HOOKS redefined [...]

Re: Xorg: /dev/io mode

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:10:13PM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, What is the proper way to permantly give group or world rw rights to /dev/io? Or is there a better way to be able to use X as other than root? You can set the permissions with devfs (see the manpages), but note that this

Migrate from Qmail to Postfix..

2004-12-27 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Hello, I want a real confirmation that you can copy the Maildir folders and move them to a different box with postfix running with the ability to continue as it was provided that the postfix was configured to use Maildir and also the domains that this mail server should accept for? I have

Re: Migrate from Qmail to Postfix..

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Haulmark, Chris wrote: Hello, I want a real confirmation that you can copy the Maildir folders and move them to a different box with postfix running with the ability to continue as it was provided that the postfix was configured to use Maildir and also the domains that this mail server should

What version

2004-12-27 Thread Dan Thomas
A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It only has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend and would you send me the link to download it. Thanks for your help, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Leon
Hi, I have a BSD5.3 I'm trying to set-up a printer.(Dell AIO A960) I think, that this printer made by Lexmark. They have one looks like what I have(Lexmark X6170) I do not know if BSD support this printer. So if you know, pleas let me know. Thanks, Leon.

Can this be done?

2004-12-27 Thread Charlie Sorsby
Now that I have DSL (256K symetrical), installation via ftp from freebsd.org or a mirror seems feasible. My system is all SCSI with two SCSI cards: an Adaptec 2940 and a TekRam DC-390U2W. The CDROM drive and three disk drives are on the 2940; a fourth disk drive is on the DC-390. What I want to

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Louis LeBlanc
If it's a new printer, my best suggestion would be to return it and get an HP anything. Some newer Lexmark printers do support standard protocols, but I went and spent $80 for a Lexmark color printer several years ago that spent more time working as a doorstop than a printer. They used - and

Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread David Gerard
Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet. Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the practical

RE: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread Mark Beaver
I personally do this with 2 IDE 80Gig drives in a CCD Configuiration with Samba on (better free windows support) a Pentium 2 350 with 512 Megs of RAM with no issues, this serves my: Music, Pictures, movies, and such without issue, and I stream them off of the share just fine, even with

permissions question

2004-12-27 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I don't know if I am having a brainfart, something is different, or if I never had it right to begin with: I need to have a shared directory for apache web content: /usr/local/htmlstuff And a group, htmlguys, and several users will be members of that group. I would like to have the root

Re: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread joseph kacmarcik
Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet. Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the practical

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:25 PM -0500 12/27/04, Leon wrote: Hi, I have a BSD5.3 I'm trying to set-up a printer.(Dell AIO A960) I think, that this printer made by Lexmark. They have one looks like what I have(Lexmark X6170) I do not know if BSD support this printer. So if you know, pleas let me know. I do not know

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Duane Winner
Louis LeBlanc wrote: If it's a new printer, my best suggestion would be to return it and get an HP anything. Some newer Lexmark printers do support standard protocols, but I went and spent $80 for a Lexmark color printer several years ago that spent more time working as a doorstop than a printer.

Re: portupgrade time, xorg ports

2004-12-27 Thread Jay O'Brien
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Saturday 25 December 2004 12:29, Jay O'Brien wrote: But it is there, so it will stay. I doesn't *have* to stay, though: 1) Add 'WITHOUT_X11=YES' to /etc/make.conf . 2) Use You can use 'pkg_info -rR xorg-[whatever]' to see which ports depend on a each of the

Re: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread Andrew P.
David Gerard wrote: Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet. Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the

Minimal system installation (was: What version)

2004-12-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It only has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend and would you send me the link to download it. It's possible to run FreeBSD on a machine like

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 14:25:39 -0500, Leon wrote: Hi, I have a BSD5.3 I'm trying to set-up a printer.(Dell AIO A960) I think, that this printer made by Lexmark. They have one looks like what I have(Lexmark X6170) I do not know if BSD support this printer. Neither, in all

after upgrading xorg / error driver

2004-12-27 Thread gustaaf wijnands
Hello, after portupgrading xorg to 6.8.1, X still works but there seems to be a problem with the drivers. It produces next error: drm0: ATI Radeon RS200 Mobility IGP 340M port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xd0300 000-0xd030,0xd800-0xdfff at device 5.0 on pci1 info: [drm] Initialized radeon

Trouble determining configure options in ports

2004-12-27 Thread Jonathan Reeder
I'm trying to install the samba3 port, and I'm having trouble figuring out whether or not the --with-pam config option is being set. I've looked through the Makefile in /usr/ports/net/samba3, but I have to admit its not making all that much sense to me. I really don't want to install samba from

Re: Create device

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:56:39PM -0500, Leon wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create device by using command MAKEDEV But it does not work. What command can I use? You forgot to mention important details like: * The version of FreeBSD you're running * The exact command you're trying to run * The

Re: Minimal system installation (was: What version)

2004-12-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 16:01:57 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: On Monday, December 27, 2004 3:08 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It only has a floppy drive.

Device busy...

2004-12-27 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list, How do I check what process is using a device to kill/rehup it? I output certain syslog events to an Okidata line printer, and every so often, the printer stops printing, and when I try to output to /dev/lpt0, I get a device busy error. thanks

Re: Device busy...

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:20:48PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, How do I check what process is using a device to kill/rehup it? Try fstat or lsof Kris pgpydOp1gQddV.pgp Description: PGP signature

add a harddrive to an existing system

2004-12-27 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list, Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and how to best optimize this drive. Also, I'm thinking of obtaining an

Re: Device busy...

2004-12-27 Thread Eric F Crist
On Dec 27, 2004, at 4:21 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:20:48PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, How do I check what process is using a device to kill/rehup it? Try fstat or lsof Kris Thanks! That's what I was looking for.

Make tutorial

2004-12-27 Thread Len Zettel
The man page for make refers to Make - A Tutorial. A google search turns up such a beast at http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Make/index.html Is the information there valid for FreeBSD? If not, where can the right turtorial be found? -LenZ- ___

Re: Make tutorial

2004-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Len Zettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The man page for make refers to Make - A Tutorial. A google search turns up such a beast at http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Make/index.html Is the information there valid for FreeBSD? Nearly all of the information there is valid for *any* make variant.

Re: add a harddrive to an existing system

2004-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and how to best optimize this drive. Also, I'm

Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Tom Connolly
Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot manager/loader on the XP drive? I can't risk doing any damage to the XP system

Re: add a harddrive to an existing system

2004-12-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and how to best optimize this

Re: add a harddrive to an existing system

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options mean and how to

Re: It is a testament ....

2004-12-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Tom Vilot wrote: to the clean design of BSD that I could screw it up so badly and repair it so easily. (Re: ps, make deinstall) If I'd done this with RedHat (or any other RPM-based Linux distro) I hate to think about it. Well, it's a testament to the ports system anyway. Which is

Re: add a harddrive to an existing system

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where, in the handbook, can I find where to add a new hard drive to an existing system? I know vaguely that I need to do a newfs and such, as well as an fdisk, but I don't know what all the options

Tcpdump says I'm getting incomplete packets; how to find the culprit?

2004-12-27 Thread Doug Lee
I use FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE as a nat/firewall box. When connected to DSL, I got fast web surfing but many gaps in incoming audio traffic using some audio software. I switched to cable, and now audio works great, but at least when I pop open pages in Lynx right on the FreeBSD box, I often

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Monday 27 December 2004 06:44 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot manager/loader on

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Jud
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:44:28 -0700, Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot

5.3 and HT with SMP

2004-12-27 Thread J.D. Bronson
How stable and successful is HT support via SMP? (I presume it is supported) I have a P4-3.06 with HT support I had a 5.3 machine with an HT/SMP kernel (no other customizations) and the server would randomly reboot. Could be a few hours or could be a week. I setup a new machine (same exact

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-27 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Simon Burke wrote: [snip] 2. If it wasn't for the interesting content and structure of the FreeBSD website, it would be among the less beautiful. Yes, it serves its purpose well by being simple and straight to the point. But a redesign could offer just the same -- simplicity and accuracy --

Re: 5.3 and HT with SMP

2004-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:49:35PM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: How stable and successful is HT support via SMP? (I presume it is supported) I have a P4-3.06 with HT support I had a 5.3 machine with an HT/SMP kernel (no other customizations) and the server would randomly reboot. Could

Re: 5.3 and HT with SMP

2004-12-27 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 06:52 PM 12/27/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: When it did crash, there was no logs and no errors. The servers are on a huge stable UPS. Solaris runs on these machines for months. Anyone see this? anyone have any ideas? Try a BIOS update. Many early revisions of BIOSes with HTT support were

Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Broder Mizzérable
Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs on it but still boot it and download FTP wise .. as you

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Scott Bennett
Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot manager/loader on the XP drive? I

Re: Tcpdump says I'm getting incomplete packets; how to find the culprit?

2004-12-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 27), Doug Lee said: I use FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE as a nat/firewall box. When connected to DSL, I got fast web surfing but many gaps in incoming audio traffic using some audio software. I switched to cable, and now audio works great, but at least when I pop open pages in

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-27 Thread Frank Pawlak
This is one of several issues that have been brought up on an almost periodic basis for the past several years. There have been several attempts by various folks, including a rather ambitious one by this author, and all have died because of severe lack of interest. It has been a few years

NDIS and Dell (Broadcom) WLAN 1450 Dual Band card

2004-12-27 Thread Scott Bennett
I got no responses to my question about existence of a driver for the wireless networking card mentioned in the Subject: line, so I guess I'll try the NDIS route. In section 25.3.3.6.* of the _FreeBSD_Handbook_, the instructions for using NDIS say that I will need the Windows XP driver

Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X?

2004-12-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, when I decided to take advantage of the excellent upgrade guide posted here recently by Richard Bejtlich, and give -STABLE a spin, followed by a portupgrade. Now, it's unclear at what point the breakage happened, because one followed the

Re: Trouble determining configure options in ports

2004-12-27 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Jonathan Reeder thusly... I'm trying to install the samba3 port, and I'm having trouble figuring out whether or not the --with-pam config option is being set. I've looked through the Makefile in /usr/ports/net/samba3, but I have to admit its not making all

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Frank Pawlak wrote: This is one of several issues that have been brought up on an almost periodic basis for the past several years. There have been several attempts by various folks, including a rather ambitious one by this author, and all have died because of severe lack of interest. It has

Re: Printer

2004-12-27 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Louis LeBlanc thusly... Some newer Lexmark printers do support standard protocols, but I went and spent $80 for a Lexmark color printer several years ago that spent more time working as a doorstop than a printer. They used - and still do for some printers

RE: make buildkernel using 4.10 supfile

2004-12-27 Thread shawley
I apologize for the continuing intrusion but if you could be so kind as to cast a little wisdom this way again I would greatly appredicate it. I switched to standard-supfile and used *default host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.org #CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs on it but still boot it and

RE: after upgrading xorg / error driver

2004-12-27 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gustaaf wijnands Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:56 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: after upgrading xorg / error driver Hello, after portupgrading xorg to 6.8.1, X

RE: Trouble determining configure options in ports

2004-12-27 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Reeder Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:01 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble determining configure options in ports I'm trying to install the samba3

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Connolly Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 5:14 To: FreeBSD_Questions Subject: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3 Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Nikolas Britton wrote: Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs on it but

4.10, amd64, and raid

2004-12-27 Thread ctodd
Trying to install 4.10/i386 on an amd64 system with Promise raid controller. The saga Can't use 4.x install disk because kernel doesn't support raid (at least the promise controller). Can boot off of 5.x install disk and switch media, but install fails because it can't find the base

Vanishing RAID?

2004-12-27 Thread Subhro
Hi folks, This is a strange problem. I own a AMD Athlon 64 bit on a Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard. This motherboard has an onboard VIA SATA RAID controller. Two SATA hard drives (120G each) are connected in RAID-0. The already has an installation of Windows XP (32 bit edition) and the RAID works

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Chris wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 7:56 PM -0600 Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did. The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells. Dell's recent catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell

RE: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:08 PM To: Broder Mizzérable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help *fast* Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there.. i'm switching

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