Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-03 Thread Robert Hall
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Paul B. Maholone...@gmail.com wrote: $ ifconfig ral0 list scan SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS livingroom      00:13:10:b9:e7:d6    6   54M -93:-95  100 E 93 is too low. Paul, I really appreciate your help. I'm obviously not an

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-03 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/3/09, Robert Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Paul B. Maholone...@gmail.com wrote: $ ifconfig ral0 list scan SSIDBSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS livingroom 00:13:10:b9:e7:d66 54M -93:-95 100 E 93 is too low. Paul, I

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Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've never had a problem to adjust the volume with audio apps like mplayer or mpd. recently however i'm experiencing this strange behaviour. the app's volume doesn't match the volume that `mixer` reports. here's an example: `mpc`: J.R.R. Tolkien - [playing] #2/19 1:54/3:06 (61%)

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:28:01 -0600, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: That and Linux seems to only ever get the abridged version of manual pages. When you compare manual pages for an equivalent commands between FreeBSD and most Linux flavors, it really shows. I noticed this when I went from

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:14:12 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:07:08 +0200, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: I was wondering if there were any other Slackers out there! Of course we are still `out there'. I started using a

Re: gmirror per partition

2009-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:48:41PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: # gmirror label -vb round-robin root /dev/da0p2 gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/da0p2: Operation not permitted. isn't that partition accessed by other process or mounted? should it not be mounted? yes it should

Re: gmirror per partition

2009-07-03 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Jul 3, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: now to mirror root partition. My problem is that root is mounted and cannot (?) be unmounted, unlike /efi, on the live system. # gpart add -b 819234 -s 1048576 -t freebsd-ufs da1 da1p2 added # # gmirror label -vb round-robin root

Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/3/09, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: hi there, i've never had a problem to adjust the volume with audio apps like mplayer or mpd. recently however i'm experiencing this strange behaviour. the app's volume doesn't match the volume that `mixer` reports. here's an

Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Alexander Best
wow. thanks a bunch. this new feature of having each app use it's own volume setting is pretty cool. however i think i'd like to preserve the volume setting for each application and rather not have it reset. because i think this feature takes the pid of the app and preserves the volume for the

Re: portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 03/07/09 Michael P. Soulier said: For weeks now my usual portupgrade test has returned the same thing. Actually, I'm not sure cvsup is updating my ports tree properly... Connected to cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org Updating collection ports-all/cvs Finished successfully Normally there's a lot more

portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
For weeks now my usual portupgrade test has returned the same thing. msoul...@kanga:~$ sudo portupgrade -na Password: --- Session started at: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:01:30 -0400 ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. ** Package 'p5-Text-ParseWords' has been

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
My preferences for Linux: I have used FreeBSD fairly regularly since 2.x and various flavors of Linux since around that time as well. As I was writing the first pass at this, I realized that many or most of the problems I have with Linuxes are endemic to Linux (whatever that is) and not

Re: portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Michael P. Souliermsoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: Actually, I'm not sure cvsup is updating my ports tree properly... Connected to cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org Updating collection ports-all/cvs Finished successfully I just changed to cvsup1.freebsd.org and the

Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:12:07 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: [...] shouldn't it be: hw.snd.vpc_autoreset (default=1, enabled) 0=disable, 1=enable Notes: By default, channel volume will be reset to 0db

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Doug Poland
Daniel Underwood wrote: QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you prefer? and why? I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux distributions from FreeBSD fans. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1 and I implement and support FreeBSD whenever I can.

Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/3/09, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: wow. thanks a bunch. this new feature of having each app use it's own volume setting is pretty cool. however i think i'd like to preserve the volume setting for each application and rather not have it reset. because i think this

Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Sorry for the poor subject. Thanks for reading. I'm using this page as a guide but am at the console so I'm just using the Fix It CD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/installation.html I'm attempting to install FBSD 7.2 64bit on a fresh machine. The machine has 3

Re: scripting tip needed

2009-07-03 Thread Evuraan
good thing you found the answer. I am glad you did, and oh, I am more glad that you found your solution on ksh itself and not on advanced scripting language, like Perl or Python.'' Guys, I eventually found it with lots of rtfm on variable substitution and such.. [...@dada~]$ z=0

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Fred C
On Jul 3, 2009, at 6:01 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:28:01 -0600, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: That and Linux seems to only ever get the abridged version of manual pages. When you compare manual pages for an equivalent commands between FreeBSD and most Linux flavors, it

Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Underwood
Whenever I run the particular Linux MATLAB installation I have access to, it must be run from the command-line. Consequently, I have the MATLAB gui and an open terminal window (which only gets in the way). Is there a way to hide this terminal window completely? If I close it, MATLAB closes. I

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Underwood
Are most of these shortcomings primarily due to the fact that FreeBSD has a single structured line of development? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Next I used bsdlabel and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 ad8). ^ There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:57:13 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Whenever I run the particular Linux MATLAB installation I have access to, it must be run from the command-line. Consequently, I have the MATLAB gui and an open terminal window (which only gets in the way). Is

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:59:26 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Are most of these shortcomings primarily due to the fact that FreeBSD has a single structured line of development? In opposite to Linux, FreeBSD has the concept of a centrally maintained operating system (the OS)

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:04:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Next I used bsdlabel and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 ad8). ^ There is no colon after the partition

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/3/09, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Whenever I run the particular Linux MATLAB installation I have access to, it must be run from the command-line. Consequently, I have the MATLAB gui and an open terminal window (which only gets in the way). Is there a way to hide this

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do the get them to show after I've labeled? If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a slice on those disks, instead you created

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: Whenever I run the particular Linux MATLAB installation I have access to, it must be run from the command-line. Why? More specifically, can't it be started from the XFCE menu with Run Program or right-click the desktop and Create Launcher?

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Underwood
Why?  More specifically, can't it be started from the XFCE menu with Run Program or right-click the desktop and Create Launcher? I don't know, honestly. Whenever I try to run it from a Launcher or via Run Program, it will display the splash screen, but then terminate. This also happens on all

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Next I used bsdlabel and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 ad8). ^ There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon is used to refer (or

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Wojciech Puchar wrote: However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do the get them to show after I've labeled? If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a slice on those

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: Why?  More specifically, can't it be started from the XFCE menu with Run Program or right-click the desktop and Create Launcher? I don't know, honestly. Whenever I try to run it from a Launcher or via Run Program, it will display the splash screen,

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:45 -0700, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Next I used bsdlabel and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 ad8).

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:21:58 -0400 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Why?  More specifically, can't it be started from the XFCE menu with Run Program or right-click the desktop and Create Launcher? I don't know, honestly. Whenever I try to run it from a Launcher or via Run

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:28:29 -0400, Randy Pratt bsd-u...@embarqmail.com wrote: I'm not familar with MATLAB but you may find ports/sysutils/screen helpful. See http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ for more information. I use it for starting some programs in a detached mode but they can be

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Underwood
Some searching suggests matlab -desktop may be what is needed. Yep, that did it! Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

SUCCESS: Re: gmirror per partition

2009-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:18:28PM +0200, Alban Hertroys wrote: On Jul 3, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: now to mirror root partition. My problem is that root is mounted and cannot (?) be unmounted, unlike /efi, on the live system. # gpart add -b 819234 -s 1048576

can't get atheros ar2413 to connect under freebsd 7.2

2009-07-03 Thread Atheer Elobadi
hello, I've been trying to set my wireless card under Freebsd 7.2-RELEASE, but no success (it worked fine on 7.0).. would appreciate some advice in /boot/loader.conf: if_ath_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES wlan_scan_ap_load=YES wlan_scan_sta_load=YES in: /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf: network={

FreeBSD 7.2 o/s on a flash stick

2009-07-03 Thread Al Plant
Aloha Gurus. All the gogle-ing I did does not give a current status on or how-to on installing FreeBSD 7.2 on a flash stick on one slice with the default partions. I want to boot from it on a mini lap top ( no CD ) and use it like the hd inside. I see plenty of how-to's on loading Flash

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread doug
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do the get them to show after I've labeled? If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 o/s on a flash stick

2009-07-03 Thread Fbsd1
Al Plant wrote: Aloha Gurus. All the gogle-ing I did does not give a current status on or how-to on installing FreeBSD 7.2 on a flash stick on one slice with the default partions. I want to boot from it on a mini lap top ( no CD ) and use it like the hd inside. I see plenty of how-to's on

VT100 FreeBSD spreadsheet with data manipulation connections

2009-07-03 Thread Kelly Jones
I'm looking for a command-line (VT100) FreeBSD spreadsheet that has data manipulation connections. That is: other applications can edit the spreadsheet (via some API), and the spreadsheet can run commands when cells are edited. My goal: create a VT100 spreadsheet-like interface to sqlite3 (and