Re: programs...

2009-01-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:43:09AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. And a wish-list

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-10 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
perhaps, I need to deinstall and reinstall nvidia-driver after having changed boot/loader.conf? g. On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/9/09, Giuseppe Pagnoni gpagn...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Giuseppe Pagnoni

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-10 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in the process of sync'ing up my system with source . . . but, in the meantime I'm wondering about the choice of Broadcom driver. Is it really a matter of trying different ones? It was for me. It took me 3

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-10 Thread Glen Barber
Neal Hogan wrote: Well, it took me all day, but I did synch-up the source with the kernel. However, being new to the ways of fBSD I (accidentally) ended up building the -CURRENT source and kernel (8.0). I tried ndisgen on the latest driver and it didn't work . . . I'll tell you why in a

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC? You mean ACPI? No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you can do that without compiling a special kernel for it, so it may not be worth

Re: kernel panic

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kamlesh Patel shilp.ka...@yahoo.com writes: Hi there, I changed the following file of FreeBSD 7.0: sys/boot/forth/beastie.4th variable rebootkey variable mykey (added line) I built and installed kernel, then i reboot the system, it gives me the following error:

Re: 7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr writes: I've installed 7.1 onto our mail exchager (MX) then it suddendly stopped to work last night with the following message watchdog bge0 timeout The machine is a HP pc which was doing the same service at 6.3 without that kind of trouble Could be

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-10 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/10/09, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC? You mean ACPI? No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you can do

FreeBSD 7.1 and ftpd

2009-01-10 Thread Alexander Panyushkin
Hi. I update FreeBSD 7.0 -- FreeBSD 7.1 ftp for local user not work, but anonymous - permit to login. # uname -srp FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p1 i386 # ps aux | grep ftpd | grep -v grep root 1922 0,0 0,1 3444 1380 ?? Is 15:58 0:00,00 /usr/libexec/ftpd -D -l -U #tail

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-10 Thread stan
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 04:57:45PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: stan wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:33:46AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: stan wrote: I'll describe the test setup that I used within a VM to configure things inline. The software does not necessarily match the version

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-10 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:22:36AM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:03:32PM -0500, stan wrote: I am trying to get the ampcache port working on a 7.1 machine. Just wondering if you've resolved the problems you had with this. No, I had a bust week at work, and am

Portsnap problem: gunzip: unknown compression format

2009-01-10 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
I've been getting this for the last three days even though there where no changes at all in my system. r...@inferna:~ # portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done.

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread gpeel
Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. I ahve been to the windows recovery console many times and ran the Fixboot, Fixmbr commands, being very meticulous about the paramaters etc. I ahve also tried reinstalling the FreeBSD boot

wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread gpeel
Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). -Grant ___

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:36:33AM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:46:54PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 2:09 PM -0800 1/4/09, David Christensen wrote: I have changed the root shell to Bash on another machine I use as a CVS server and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I've been wondering if I'm setting myself up for

Re: wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:55:41PM -0500, gpeel wrote: Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Yes. jerry

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:52:07PM -0500, gpeel wrote: Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. I ahve been to the windows recovery console many times and ran the Fixboot, Fixmbr commands, being very meticulous about the

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry, Maybe true. When this all started I used the ISO disk from the Symantec site to remove GoBack. I assumed in doing so ('unhooking GoBack from the MBR), that it would replace the original windows one. It may also be worth noting that this disk -had- a recovery partition on it once upon

Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Hi. I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting basic ethernet connectivity working. I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old virus software called 'Vista' on that connection. The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine

Re: wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
gpeel gp...@thenetnow.com writes: When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Assuming you mean /dev/zero, yes. -- Lowell

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com writes: freebsd-questions: I'm building a fresh Amanda server using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=miscportname=amand a-server Most of my software background is GNU/Linux. I would prefer using

[Re: wiping a drive with dd]

2009-01-10 Thread Derek Funk
I would use System Rescue boot disk from www.sysresccd.org It has gparted which I would use to delete all partitions and create new. Thats considering you have a functioning pc to access the net and burn an iso with. Derek Original Message Subject:wiping a drive with

Re: wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1m (or at least 64k for block size, unless you have too much time. Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
William Gordon Rutherdale will.rutherd...@utoronto.ca writes: I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting basic ethernet connectivity working. I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old virus software called 'Vista' on that

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/10/09, William Gordon Rutherdale will.rutherd...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hi. I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting basic ethernet connectivity working. I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old virus software called 'Vista' on

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
RW wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good idea. Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its

freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Franck Royer
Hi, I tried to upgrade my system from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE. I first do a 'freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE' without any problem. Then I do 'freebsd-update update' and I have this output : r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not

Re[2]: Best torrent client/server available for FreeBSD?

2009-01-10 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Justin. Вы писали 8 января 2009 г., 5:54:14: I have found myself to like rtorrent, which is a very powerful console torrent client. JJ I've been using transmission-daemon recently and I'm getting JJ comfortable with it. I like the fact that it can be controlled via a JJ web

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Franck
Yes, it is, I will try Like you say. Thank you Franck 2009/1/10 Toni Schmidbauer t...@stderror.at: At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:24:30 +0100, Franck Royer wrote: r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not supported i think i had the same

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:24:30 +0100, Franck Royer wrote: r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not supported i think i had the same problem updating one machine from 7.0 to 7.1-BETA2. any chance that this file is on an zfs filesystem? if

kernel: WARNING

2009-01-10 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Questions. Jan 10 22:26:13 kes kernel: WARNING: attempt to net_add_domain(netgraph) after domainfinalize() Does this messages harmfull or not? How to solve this warning? -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Saturday 10 January 2009 21:20:26 Toni Schmidbauer wrote: At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:24:30 +0100, Franck Royer wrote: r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not supported i think i had the same problem updating one machine from 7.0 to

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:18:57 +, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: If you are using version 13 of ZFS - you just need to run zfs upgrade -a thanks for the hint, i think you mean 'zpool upgrade'. as far as i can tell fbsd 7.1 only supports version 6, this is what 'zpool upgrade -v' tells me. if i

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Tore Lund
gpeel wrote: Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. [snip] I know it won't help you now, but for the general case: It is a very good idea to save MBRs. Restoring an MBR is a quick and painless way to bring back a former state of

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Franck Royer
Toni Schmidbauer a écrit : At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:18:57 +, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: If you are using version 13 of ZFS - you just need to run zfs upgrade -a thanks for the hint, i think you mean 'zpool upgrade'. as far as i can tell fbsd 7.1 only supports version 6, this is

does IPI_PREEMPTION in the kernel config do anything

2009-01-10 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
For the last year I have been using IPI_PREEMPTION in my kernel config and I know back then it helped quite a bit on the performence of my dual core... now I am setting a 4 core machine using 7.1pl1 (i386) [on the dual core I {and will continue} to use -current] and was just wondering if

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-12-21 - 2009-01-10

2009-01-10 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: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look relevant to the problem. I had to write them down on

Odd behavior after upgrading to 7.0-p7

2009-01-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I installed 7.0 i386 and all was working great. I upgraded to p7 and now when I end my X session, I have kdm loading, it doesn't bring me to a login prompt. It dumps me on console 0 and I have to kill the kdm-bin process to return to a kdm login. This didn't happen before upgrading to

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread RW
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:57 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file size) but it's very cross platform. ntfs is much more robust than fat32, if you crash windows or pull the plug, you are more likely to lose data

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Michael Powell
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look relevant to the

Pre-idea question.

2009-01-10 Thread Gary Kline
people, first, the idea i have that could earn some cash very likely is not new; it is text-to-speech, but in a certain way. here's my question since recently i heard a computerized voice speaking so very normally, at first i thought it was human. thus: how advanced are some of these commercial

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine recognises something called fwe0 with an ethernet address of 02:1e:8c:9a:3b:96. However dmesg tells me this is a 'Fake Ethernet' address. fwe is firewire emulated ethernet - you may connect 2 computers using firewire cable. it's wrong

gname

2009-01-10 Thread Grant Peel
Wow, After a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.4, (with Xorg) I tried installing Gnome, and I get a stop during build, Filesystem Full! Is Gname really that big? or did I miss doing something? Doing a du -h -d1 on /usr shows ... 7.0G ports. 1.8G local df -h shows: ... /dev/ad8s1e 9.7G(total)