Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-23 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I don't know why you shout. (?) Not shouting, just making my inserted comments visible within the old post as in different from bottom or top posting. Ok, writing in capitals is normally treated as shouting (see netiquette) or only allowed when

Strange network issue in freebsd 8

2010-01-23 Thread Sherin George
Hello, i am facing some sort of strange network issue in a freebsd server occasionally. OS: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE - amd64 The servers loses network connection once in a few days. I logged into console and verified that network is up. I even restarted network service using following command.

portsnap - broken metadata

2010-01-23 Thread Angelin Lalev
Greetings, I believe I have broken the metainformation folders of portsnap. How to fix them? ironholm# rm -rf /var/db/portsnap/ ironholm# mkdir /var/db/portsnap ironholm# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching public key from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org...

Problem with GnuPG

2010-01-23 Thread Jerry
I posted this recently on the GnuPG forum; however, no one had ever seen it before. FreeBSD-7.2 gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14 libgcrypt 1.4.4 gpa 0.9.0 I honestly have no idea what the problem is here. I recently installed GnuPG on my system. Everything appeared to go fine. For some reason, I have

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Re: FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon?

2010-01-23 Thread Ivan Voras
On 23 January 2010 01:14, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: There probably are some. If you are only interested in FreeBSD ports, you can make a list of which ports you need and then inspect their Makefiles to see if there's a flag disabling them on the amd64 architecture. OK thanks.  

Re: pf rules

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
Doug Hardie wrote: This is quite interesting. I can't figure out the rules on my system. Maybe try to simplify, clean up and structure your rules :) Here is the pf.conf file with all comments removed: table blackhole persist file /etc/blackhole table spamd persist table spamd-white

What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi I have a 120gb SATA disk with the following eco# fdisk ad4 *** Working on device /dev/ad4 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=232581 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be

Re: Drive errors in raidz array

2010-01-23 Thread krad
On 22 January 2010 21:31, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: I have a system with 24 drives in raidz2. Congrats, you answered your own question within the first sentance :) ANSWER: As per the ZFS documentation, don't do raidz/raidz2 vdev groups bigger than 9 vdevs per group or bad

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Dale Scott writes: I don't have a solution but can report I regularily login to my fbsd 7 and 8 boxes from an Ubuntu laptop using ssh in Terminal and run sysinstall. I've never encountered this problem though. Thank you for responding. If you type echo $TERM or just the command env Is

FreeBSD 8-STABLE - wpi monitor mode

2010-01-23 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
Hi After I bring all n/w interfaces down (/etc/rc.d/netif stop) and then create an virtual interface over wpi0 in monitor mode (ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 wlanmode monitor), the system crashes. Is there any error in the command I am using? This system was updated to 8-STABLE a couple of

Thunderbird language should be Swedish but it's not!

2010-01-23 Thread Leslie Jensen
When I install Thunderbird3 thunderbird-3.0.1 thunderbird-dictionaries-20060220_4 thunderbird3-i18n-3.0.1 It does not adapt to what I have in /etc/make.conf # Firefox-i18n FIREFOX_I18N=sv-SE # Thunderbird-i18n THUNDERBIRD_I18N=sv-SE Firefox instals xpi-quick-locale-switcher-1.7 set to

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:01:41AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: Dale Scott writes: I don't have a solution but can report I regularily login to my fbsd 7 and 8 boxes from an Ubuntu laptop using ssh in Terminal and run sysinstall. I've never encountered this problem though. Thank you

Re: FreeBSD 8-STABLE - wpi monitor mode

2010-01-23 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Gautham Ganapathy gaut...@lisphacker.org wrote: Hi After I bring all n/w interfaces down (/etc/rc.d/netif stop) and then create an virtual interface over wpi0 in monitor mode (ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 wlanmode monitor), the system crashes. Is there

Re: What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: ... That makes me think ad4p2 is HFS or HFS+ so I installed hfsexplorer (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html) and it tells me ad4p2 is an invalid HFS type. So try a few other things eco# mount /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount: /dev/ad4p2 : Invalid

Error after booting for second time

2010-01-23 Thread macondo
I installed fbsd8 and after booting for the second time, got this error message: acd1: FAILURE-unknown CMD (0x03) ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x20 asq=0x00 It won't allow me to continue booting... Any ideas? Thanks. ___

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: Now that I've actually gotten the new system to boot, I need to figure out how I'm going to migrate everything - users, data, MySQL, NAT, firewall, apache, DHCP, gateway

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:19:34AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: Now that I've actually gotten the new system to boot, I need to figure out how I'm going to migrate

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-23 Thread Michael Powell
insecur...@malandrines.net wrote: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! help me please See my reply to message: SunFire x2100 fails -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Backward compatibility libraries?

2010-01-23 Thread John
The GENERIC 8.0 kernel and the kernel I built for my new FreeBSD 8.0 system both contain options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 yet, when I try to run a program compiled on the FreeBSD 4.3 system on the new system, I get /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object

Re: Backward compatibility libraries?

2010-01-23 Thread Morgan Wesström
John wrote: The GENERIC 8.0 kernel and the kernel I built for my new FreeBSD 8.0 system both contain options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 yet, when I try to run a program compiled on the FreeBSD 4.3 system on the new system, I get /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:

Re: Backward compatibility libraries?

2010-01-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:14:01PM -0600, John wrote: The GENERIC 8.0 kernel and the kernel I built for my new FreeBSD 8.0 system both contain options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 yet, when I try to run a program compiled on the FreeBSD 4.3 system on the new

RE: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-23 Thread Dale Scott
Using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and GNOME Terminal 2.28.1, $TERM is Xterm. $ echo $TERM Xterm $ The only thing I'd change about the mapping is that I'd rather flash the screen instead of ringing the bell. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org

Re: pf rules

2010-01-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 January 2010, at 04:18, Erik Norgaard wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: This is quite interesting. I can't figure out the rules on my system. Maybe try to simplify, clean up and structure your rules :) Here is the pf.conf file with all comments removed: table blackhole persist file

Re: Error after booting for second time

2010-01-23 Thread David Rawling
On 24/01/2010 2:35 AM, macondo wrote: I installed fbsd8 and after booting for the second time, got this error message: acd1: FAILURE-unknown CMD (0x03) ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x20 asq=0x00 It won't allow me to continue booting... Any ideas? Thanks. I see that message or similar messages if

Re: Backward compatibility libraries?

2010-01-23 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:25:02PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:14:01PM -0600, John wrote: The GENERIC 8.0 kernel and the kernel I built for my new FreeBSD 8.0 system both contain options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 yet, when I

Re: What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: ... That makes me think ad4p2 is HFS or HFS+ so I installed hfsexplorer (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html) and it tells me ad4p2 is an invalid HFS type. So try a few other things eco# mount /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount:

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-23 Thread vigol
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! $ grep ad /var/run/dmesg.boot you had installed slice/part by sysinstall, so 1- by default b partitions are dedicated to swap part. 2- you haven't a swap partition in ad0s1 3- /var/run/dmesg.boot won't show you any

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 00:19:34 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: 1) Create a migrate account in Wheel with home as /var/migrate so that I can do a dump/restore on home without messing

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 01:08:27 John wrote: doing this on a new machine! And I don't need any migration storage, because, well, gosh - it's tcp, people! ;) I just did the first transfer of home, and it went swell: how did you handle the strange group IDs? 10:56AM up 492 days, 13:57,

Re: Strange network issue in freebsd 8

2010-01-23 Thread Sherin George
Hello, Thanks for the reply. Please see the result of netstat -rn command. myserver# netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire defaultXXX.XXX.XXX.241 UGS62 209247em0 127.0.0.1

Re: Strange network issue in freebsd 8

2010-01-23 Thread Sherin George
Hello, Thanks for the reply. Please see the rc.conf file given below. === myserver# cat /etc/rc.conf defaultrouter=XXX.XXX.XXX.241 hostname=myserver.net ifconfig_em0=inet XXX.XXX.XXX.242 netmask 255.255.255.248 nfs_client_enable=YES nfs_server_enable=YES rpcbind_enable=YES

Re: Strange network issue in freebsd 8

2010-01-23 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Sherin George l...@sheringeorge.co.ccwrote: Hello, Thanks for the reply. Please see the rc.conf file given below. === myserver# cat /etc/rc.conf defaultrouter=XXX.XXX.XXX.241 hostname=myserver.net ifconfig_em0=inet XXX.XXX.XXX.242 netmask

Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Programmer In Training
This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your forgiveness. I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet, unsure of chipset currently) and realized, I'm not sure what package I would need for that. I didn't set

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Glen Barber
Programmer In Training wrote: This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your forgiveness. Nope, this is the right place. I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet, unsure of chipset currently) and

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Glen Barber
Glen Barber wrote: What is listed with ifconfig(8)? That will help determine the driver (if it is supported). Oops... Meant to say dmesg; perhaps ifconfig will help as well, though. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/23/2010 10:05 PM, Glen Barber wrote: Programmer In Training wrote: This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your forgiveness. Nope, this is the right place. Awesome I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking for drivers for my winWiFi

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/23/2010 10:07 PM, Glen Barber wrote: Glen Barber wrote: What is listed with ifconfig(8)? That will help determine the driver (if it is supported). Oops... Meant to say dmesg; perhaps ifconfig will help as well, though. Regards, I hope ifconfig will help more then dmesg as I

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/23/2010 10:26 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: snip #ifconfig rl0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU ether 00:40:ca:35:6c:09 media: ethernet autoselect status: no carrier plip0: flags=8810POINTTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Glen Barber
Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/23/2010 10:05 PM, Glen Barber wrote: [huge snip] Should I assume that rl0 is the wireless? I'm not sure what plip0 is and I know lo0 is my wired nic. rl0 is your physical NIC, lo0 is the loopback. From your other reply, I think you already noticed that.

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:26:33 -0600, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: [...] set up eth0 (wired NIC, realtek) as that would mean lugging my box halfway across the house into a room with no room in it for me and my [...] [...] #ifconfig rl0:

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Glen Barber
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:26:33 -0600, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: [...] set up eth0 (wired NIC, realtek) as that would mean lugging my box halfway across the house into a room with no room in it for me and my [...] [...] You've already

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:35:32 -0600, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I hope ifconfig will help more then dmesg as I have no way of getting files (like dmesg.log that I created) off the box (floppy drive isn't even hooked up, IIRC) and rl0 is my wired NIC, non-internal.

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:45:38 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the intent is to use the integrated wireless chipset, not the ethernet. I see, I just wanted to point out a Linuxism that could lead to misunderstandings, as well as to mention FreeBSD's excellent

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, John wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:34:10PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 19 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:35:21 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: [..] OK! Well! Good news! After a sort. I

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Programmer In Training wrote: This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your forgiveness. I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet, unsure of chipset currently) and realized, I'm not

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread John
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:55:14AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 01:08:27 John wrote: doing this on a new machine! And I don't need any migration storage, because, well, gosh - it's tcp, people! ;) I just did the first transfer of home, and it went swell:

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 January 2010, at 22:42, John wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:55:14AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 01:08:27 John wrote: doing this on a new machine! And I don't need any migration storage, because, well, gosh - it's tcp, people! ;) I just did the