Re: Wireless Inspiron 6400 anyone?

2006-10-22 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:06:36 -0500 Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lane wrote: Hello, I've a new inspiron 6400 running FreeBSD 6.1 and I can't get Wireless to work. It works on WXP using the Dell WLAN drivers at http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R115321.EXE I've followed the

[FreeBSD-Q] Creating .so libraries on FreeBSD?

2006-10-22 Thread Dan Bikle
Beastie People, I'm working with some ruby software called scrAPI. I got scrAPI working on my Mac so that's good. FreeBSD is different story. My beastie box is tripping over tidy. I think it wants a tidy.so library. When I installed scrAPI on my Mac; it came with the Mac shared library

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-10-01 - 2006-10-21

2006-10-22 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: Question

2006-10-22 Thread COKYAZICI
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all dear in freebsd project Default FreeBSD kernel not support any ability and compile kernel take any time. I need some help for make freeBSD boot CD whit my custom KERNEL. how make own FreeBSD bootabel cd ? You could try using an ISO editing program to

secure dynamic DNS

2006-10-22 Thread Noah
Hi there, I had to rebuild my gateway router which is now an ubuntu server. I am trying to figure out why secure dynamic DNS is not working all that well. Nothing was changed on the DNS server side, but i will include the configuration just in case. Please help me figure out what I have

RRIP without PX field? when mounting DVD+RW

2006-10-22 Thread Jan Lentfer
Hi list, I am using FreeBSD 6.1 and bacula with DVD-writing for a short time now. Today bacula refused to write to the DVD anymore. When I manually mount the DVD I get the abve mentioned message in dmesg, in /var/log/messages I get Oct 22 09:32:53 epia kernel: RRIP without PX field? Oct 22

Re: binary blobs in freebsd

2006-10-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
I think it's only device drivers, I've not heard of anything else in anywhere, other than 3rd party programs that might be in the ports, that do this. Ted - Original Message - From: Antonios Anastasiadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:30 PM

Re: Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version)

2006-10-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
It happens, most common is using non-compaq disk drives in these systems. Pull the disk set in the running system and put it in the non-running system and see if it boots, if it does, try putting the disks that came out of the non-running system into the running system and seeing if you can

Re: [FreeBSD-Q] Creating .so libraries on FreeBSD?

2006-10-22 Thread Dan Bikle
Hi again, I got scrAPI working on my beastie box. It turns out the tidy I was using was from my /usr/ports directory rather than from sourceforge. I had to struggle a bit with the sourceforge tidy. My beastie box was missing a bunch of the gnu tools like libtoolize, autoconf, automake...

Re: increasing transmit speeds in WAN setting?

2006-10-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Moses Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:35 AM Subject: Re: increasing transmit speeds in WAN setting? On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Until you

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-22 Thread Laurens Timmermans
Kent Stewart schreef: Well copy will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have /a and /b to force one type or the other. Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I think a drag and drop does will also prefer to copy as binary. Kent I tried the following: bsdlabel -B ad0s3

problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Matthew Pope
Hello, I have a bit of grey hair, but I've been blessed with working with FreeBSD gurus so much that I am struggling to run my own domain and webserver. That is I have have been co-dependant upon FreeBSD gurus in the past, so I was lazy. I'm now on my own and finding that administering a UNIX

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

2006-10-22 Thread Gerard
On Saturday October 21, 2006 at 08:10:02 (PM) Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE Clamav-milter 0.88.5 Postfix-2.4-20061006 I have been trying to get postfix to work with clamav-milter. I added this to my main.cf file:

Re: portupgrade question

2006-10-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday October 21, 2006 at 08:29:05 (PM) Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi people, I just did the portupgrade -rf pkg-config\* to upgrade the apps, but i think some of the upgrades went wrong so there are a whole bunch ports skipped. I noticed glib20 has some compilation error, and probably is

Re: Sound a bit garbled after awhile

2006-10-22 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:11:53 +0200 (CEST) Bobby Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have this problem that after awhile, sometimes a rather long while, the sound starts to suck. It is noticeable by the base which gets that typical broken sound. The sound gets restored after I reload the

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Matthew Pope
Added to my original problem description the full list of WARNING messages from boot: BTW, my FreeBSD 5.5 is running on a Pentium 4/2.4 GHz, 512 M RAM, Asus mother board, oodles of disk Matthew Pope wrote: Hello, I have a bit of grey hair, but I've been blessed with working with FreeBSD

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread albi albinootje
On 10/22/06, Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bit of grey hair, but I've been blessed with working with FreeBSD gurus so much that I am struggling to run my own domain and webserver. -- cut -- My rc.conf includes: routed_enable=YES router=/sbin/routed defaultrouter=10.1.1.1 I

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

2006-10-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday October 21, 2006 at 08:17:51 (PM) Bill Campbell wrote: On Sat, Oct 21, 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE Clamav-milter 0.88.5 Postfix-2.4-20061006 I have been trying to get postfix to work with clamav-milter. I added this to my main.cf file: Any reason you're

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

2006-10-22 Thread albi albinootje
On 10/22/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason you're not using postfix/amavisd-new/clamav? It works quite nicely. Yes actually. Reading the Postfix forum, it seems that people are having problems with it everyday. I just want to keep it as simple as possible, Amavisd

Re: setfacl(1) Recursively?

2006-10-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Atom Powers wrote: On 10/21/06, David Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm simply trying to set ACLs on a few directories but don't see an option to recursively apply this to the whole directory's contents. Does applying the ACL to a directory inherently apply it to all

Re: Wireless Inspiron 6400 anyone?

2006-10-22 Thread Lane
On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:21, Scott Bennett wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:06:36 -0500 Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lane wrote: Hello, I've a new inspiron 6400 running FreeBSD 6.1 and I can't get Wireless to work. It works on WXP using the Dell WLAN drivers at

Re: binary blobs in freebsd

2006-10-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I think it's only device drivers, I've not heard of anything else in anywhere, other than 3rd party programs that might be in the ports, that do this. In the base system, binary parts definitely only for device drivers. A quick find for .uu

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:41, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Kent Stewart schreef: Well copy will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have /a and /b to force one type or the other. Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I think a drag and drop does will also prefer to copy as

Re: binary blobs in freebsd

2006-10-22 Thread Antonios Anastasiadis
Thanks. The reason I asked is that I want to avoid accidentally buying hardware that runs through a binary blob, plus I want to be able to use it without installing extra ports and/or firmwares. You've been most helpful. ___

Re: BTX Halted on 6.1 but not 5.4

2006-10-22 Thread Chris
My question is, is there a good probability that if I install 5.4 and cvsup to RELENG_6 that it will work. I didn't see anything that actually gave a clear definition of the BTX Halted error and am wondering if I put in 5 or 6 hours on this box, does the BTX Halted error provide any

Re: Dualboot Ntloader invalid slice

2006-10-22 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 22 October 2006 05:45, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:41, Laurens Timmermans wrote: Kent Stewart schreef: Well copy will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have /a and /b to force one type or the other. Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I

Re: Flash player 9 Beta is Live

2006-10-22 Thread Derrick Edwards
On Thursday 19 October 2006 13:34, Mark Kane wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006, at 13:08:50 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:32:14PM +0300, Dimiter Ivanov wrote: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html I have downloaded the stand alone player and

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

2006-10-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday October 22, 2006 at 08:09:50 (AM) albi albinootje wrote: On 10/22/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason you're not using postfix/amavisd-new/clamav? It works quite nicely. Yes actually. Reading the Postfix forum, it seems that people are having problems

FreeBSD 6.0/AMD64 server crash

2006-10-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Sleeping thread (tid 100168, pid 56693) owns a non-sleepable lock panic: sleeping thread Uptime: 23h56m57s Sleeping thread (tid 100168, pid 56693) owns a non-sleepable lock panic: sleeping thread Uptime: 23h56m57s kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel

icu

2006-10-22 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, got a icu compilation problem, it's icu3.6. ... Errors in total: 1. TestOtherAPI NewResourceBundleTest utility any idea?? thanks!! p.s. icu2 is good TFC

Re: Howto recompile libgnome-keyring with -fPIC

2006-10-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Klaus Friis Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get this error when trying to install Firefox: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnome-keyring.a(gnome-keyring.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/X11R6/lib/libgnome-keyring.a:

Re: non-ATA66 cable?

2006-10-22 Thread David Kelly
On Oct 21, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Josh Paetzel wrote: Lite-On says Supported transfer mode : PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 and Ultra DMA mode 2, so is there something I should do to my FreeBSD to make this device happier? Try a different cable? It's not going to come up faster than UDMA33and even

Re: where to set SSL compile time cipher string ?

2006-10-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure I understood this correctly but at http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html I've read something about cipher list and defaults etc. And I would like to tell my system to build SSL with ``high'' encryption cipher suites. Where can I set

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) $ipfs_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5)

Backing up SOHO server

2006-10-22 Thread esavage
All, I have freebsd 6.1 installed running Samba authenticating my home users and pc's and home shares for each user. This also serves as a web development box for my internal network. Because there is a login script that runs to map drives on the remote pc's all users are accustomed to dumping

YAVSQ (yet another vmware server question)

2006-10-22 Thread Jonathan Horne
well its been discuessed many times that vmware server will likely not work in freebsd any time soon. what about just the management console (linux client)? im considering migrating my dual xeon 2.66/3GB of ram box from windowsXP/VS 2005 to suse/vmware server, and having access to the console

mixer strangeness?

2006-10-22 Thread mal content
Hi. I have a (crappy) old Soundblaster Live PCI card in this machine, using the snd_emu10k driver. I'm trying to work out whether this is the fault of the driver or some strange userland mixer settings. Essentially mixer shows: Mixer vol is currently set to 0:0 Mixer pcm is

Re: Flash player 9 Beta is Live

2006-10-22 Thread Mark Kane
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006, at 09:46:45 -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote: I am not able to get this to work. I downloaded, unpacked, changed the permissions of the flash player and executed it. All I get is the adobe flashplayer dialog box. I tried to input an URL in the dialog box and it does

Re: Flash player 9 Beta is Live

2006-10-22 Thread lveax . m
On 10/19/06, Dimiter Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html I have downloaded the stand alone player and it works out of the box. Anyone having expirience with the browser plugin ? i download the plugin and put in ~/.mozilla/plugins. it

Re: Backing up SOHO server

2006-10-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
Hmm, not familiar with dump or restore, but what I would suggest, is when you can get some down time, boot from a live cd, and using a dd/bzip2/split combo (or any other method of your choice), make a backup image of the drive as well, If you get a new drive with the same size/etc, it'll

Re: mixer strangeness?

2006-10-22 Thread mal content
Sorry, let me try that one again. I've just re-read it and it's totally incoherent. I believe it can be reduced to: How do I set the volume of my Creative Soundblaster Live card using mixer(8)? The output of mixer shows all zeroes and yet I'm still getting a full signal: Mixer vol is

IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-10-22 Thread GeistTeufel
Hi, I want to use FreeBSD on Server Production My goal is to use IBM DB2 database server (C-Express is give in tgz, with a java installer ... so) Does any one can report a success on this product under freebsd ? It's as fast as on linux box ?

Re: IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-10-22 Thread Matt Emmerton
Hi, I want to use FreeBSD on Server Production My goal is to use IBM DB2 database server (C-Express is give in tgz, with a java installer ... so) Does any one can report a success on this product under freebsd ? It's as fast as on linux box ? DB2 on Linux makes extensive use of Linux-isms

Re: IBM DB2 on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-10-22 Thread IOnut
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:01:20 -0400 Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to use FreeBSD on Server Production My goal is to use IBM DB2 database server (C-Express is give in tgz, with a java installer ... so) Does any one can report a success on this product under freebsd

Re: PCI Wireless Card?

2006-10-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:48:17 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to buy a PCI Wireless Card for my computer, I'm running FBSD 6.1 release, from what I understand there are only two drivers ath and wi what about ralink ? man 4 ral i'm sure there are other wireless drivers

PCI Wireless Card?

2006-10-22 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Hello, I'm looking to buy a PCI Wireless Card for my computer, I'm running FBSD 6.1 release, from what I understand there are only two drivers ath and wi. The list is very limited on the man page for ath. I'm looking to spend up to $30.00 on this card. Are there any other choices than those

Re: Backing up SOHO server

2006-10-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Just plan to do complete dumps with the script below once a week which is good for me due to the fact of how the box is used. If a total drive crash happens I will just reinstall from cd then use restore to recover the dump. I am backing up to a usb drive connected to the server. I have

Re: Backing up SOHO server

2006-10-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hmm, not familiar with dump or restore, but what I would suggest, i am. very good tools, maybe except restore slowly processes directory listings when 10 millions file are in backup. but restores fine anyway :) dump is always fast, -L is very useful things, but manual mksnap+dump may be

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

2006-10-22 Thread albi albinootje
On 10/22/06, NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clamsmtp sounds like what I need. What do you use for a spam rejector? I have this same issue as Gerard that I want to resolv on a new mail server. Keep it simple and as spam free as virus free as possible. i like the keep-it-simple

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Matthew Pope
Matthew Pope wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) $ipfs_enable

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Matthew Pope
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5) $ipfs_enable is not set properly

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: mr mapserver maintainer..]

2006-10-22 Thread jason
hey folks, im trying to install this from ports on a 4.11 box and get the dreaded message about configure: error: !!! You PHP was compiled with PHP's bundled regex library. !!! !!! In this case MapServer and PHP MapScript must also be compiled !!! !!! using the same copy of

Re: Postfix + clamav-milter

2006-10-22 Thread jan gestre
On 10/22/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday October 21, 2006 at 08:17:51 (PM) Bill Campbell wrote: Yes actually. Reading the Postfix forum, it seems that people are having problems with it everyday. I just want to keep it as simple as possible, Amavisd requires mucking

Re: problems after rebuild of 5.5 stable

2006-10-22 Thread Matthew Pope
Matthew Pope wrote: Matthew Pope wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] for temp file for many of the prompts. Now my 5.5 kernel boots, but there are a number of messages of the form: source_rc_confs: not found $ipnat_enable is not set properly - see

pkg_add/delete questions

2006-10-22 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, I have several questions: 1. If I install a particular package, its dependencies will be installed as well. Now if I remove it later using pkg_delete, only that package will be removed and not the dependencies. The reason I guess is because some other packages may be dependent on those

Re: pkg_add/delete questions

2006-10-22 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 22 October 2006 20:52, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, I have several questions: 1. If I install a particular package, its dependencies will be installed as well. Now if I remove it later using pkg_delete, only that package will be removed and not the dependencies. The reason I

Re: Backing up SOHO server

2006-10-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:44:13 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: incremental dumps are most important to me, nothing else really works that way, while gtar is said to ;) Other alternatives: - use Bacula for a full fledged backup solution, - taking the image of the drives

Re: non-ATA66 cable?

2006-10-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:15 PM -0500 10/21/06, David Kelly wrote: Dell PowerEdge 400SC, 6.2-PRERELEASE (altho this is an old issue) dmesg says: acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S/BS0K at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers The controller is

Re: non-ATA66 cable?

2006-10-22 Thread Juha Saarinen
Assuming you have the right cable, make sure you have it connected correctly. I had a problem like this once, and it turned out that I had put the cable on backwards. I had connected the end of the cable meant for the motherboard to the device (a disk, iirc), and visa-versa. I switched the

Re: traffic analysis tools

2006-10-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey people, I'd like something to look at traffic use through my gateway, so I know how much of my upload bandwidth and download bandwidth is in use at any time. Ideally it'll tell me from where, so I can look at internal abusers, or get an idea of where hits are

general VM / KMEM tunables question

2006-10-22 Thread Jim Keller
Trying to tune a new system (FreeBSD 6.1) for the best performance (moderately busy webserver, but nothing over the top). However, I'm having a lot of trouble finding documentation on VM sysctl tunables. I have run into the (somewhat common) issue before of running out of PV_Entries due to