Re: Identifying disk activity

2011-08-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:54:32 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Polytropon wrote: Since I have installed my new system (FreeBSD/i386 8.2-STABLE), I have found some kind of disk activity I've never had before on my home system. As this PC is a very cheap product, it

Re: Identifying disk activity

2011-08-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I am not sure this is related to a program, but I'd like to find it out. As FreeBSD's I/O subsystem does not work in real-time, I cannot conclude from actual program file I/O to physical disk I/O. Is there a way to force

Re: bridged wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread perryh
Paul Beard paulbe...@gmail.com wrote: After some more head scratching, it sounds like what I want is a bridge. Reading if_bridge(4), the first example looks a lot like what I am trying to do. ... Did I misread this? Does sending packets between two physical interfaces require a bridge? It

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-28 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-08-27 13:18, Antonio Olivares skrev: I succeeded in updating like 5 packages out of 21, but now gnome-mount does not compile :( gnome-mount.c:44:30: error: libnotify/notify.h: No such file or directory You don't seem to have libnotify installed which will get you notify.h.

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: 2011-08-27 13:18, Antonio Olivares skrev: I succeeded in updating like 5 packages out of 21, but now gnome-mount does not compile :( gnome-mount.c:44:30: error: libnotify/notify.h: No such file or directory You

Scritping sysinstall and custom iso

2011-08-28 Thread Amitabh Kant
Hello I am trying to create a custom FreeBSD iso which will automate most of the steps asked in a standard installation using sysinstall. While make release is available, I was trying to modify disc1 iso, as it seems that I only need to have install.cfg for automating sysinstall. I downloaded

portmaster -a -B -d

2011-08-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
A few days back I did a portmaster -a -B -d but later on I found out that one port (www/eAccelerator) complained about being compiled for another version of PHP (which by then was updated by portmaster). I expected portmaster to take care of these kind of dependencies. Where am I wrong in this

Re: Scritping sysinstall and custom iso

2011-08-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:20:34 +0530, Amitabh Kant wrote: All the commands run fine and I am able to generate an iso. Now, couple of questions that have confused me: a) Where do I place install.cfg file for sysinstall to read without any user intervention? In the root directory of the disc1

Re: Identifying disk activity

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:54:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: Identifying disk activity Is there a way to force synchronous disk activity? Turning off soft updates will help, but not make disk writes totally synchronous. 'mount -o sync' does, however.

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-28 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-08-28 13:13, Antonio Olivares skrev: On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Bernt Hanssonb...@bananmonarki.se wrote: 2011-08-27 13:18, Antonio Olivares skrev: I succeeded in updating like 5 packages out of 21, but now gnome-mount does not compile :( gnome-mount.c:44:30: error:

Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.3.27 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2011-08-28 Thread David Naylor
Hi, Packages [1] for wine-fbsd64-1.3.27 have been uploaded to mediafire [2]. This does contain XInput2 support. There are still reports of sound problems. To date there has been 920 (+62) downloads from mediafire. nVidia uses should rerun patch-wine-nvidia.sh after updating wine.

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
You don't seem to have libnotify installed which will get you notify.h. It was there, but something could have been wrong?  I cd'd to /usr/ports/devel/libnotify and ran make install clean, and it told me that it was already installed and that I should run make deinstall  reintstall again.  

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 08/27/2011 11:08 PM, Paul Beard wrote: On Aug 27, 2011, at 8:48 PM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: tcpdump(1) is your friend; it seems cryptic and obtuse at first glance, but it will help immensely I wasn't sure there was any reason to use that yet: I can't even ping it from another host.

Re: portmaster -a -B -d

2011-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/08/2011 13:38, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: A few days back I did a portmaster -a -B -d but later on I found out that one port (www/eAccelerator) complained about being compiled for another version of PHP (which by then was updated by portmaster). I expected portmaster to take care of these

Re: Identifying disk activity

2011-08-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Polytropon wrote: Is there a way to force synchronous disk activity? Turning off soft updates will help, but not make disk writes totally synchronous. Can this be done easily (e. g. tunefs -n disable devices in SUM to the unmounted partitions), without data loss? I have

Re: System hanging, error messages with USB drive on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-08-28 Thread Brett Glass
At 11:43 PM 8/27/2011, Polytropon wrote: I'm not sure if this will help you, but I also had similar problems with a Kingston USB stick (normal storage stick, no removable microSD card). It didn't work on any of my FreeBSD systems. So I finally returned it to the shop and got a Sony USB stick

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Saturday, 27 August 2011: I've decided to provide the professional response Evan claims to crave: Dear Evan, We appreciate your feedback on the quality, scope, and focus of our

Re: System hanging, error messages with USB drive on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 8/28/2011 11:20 AM, Brett Glass wrote: At 11:43 PM 8/27/2011, Polytropon wrote: I'm not sure if this will help you, but I also had similar problems with a Kingston USB stick (normal storage stick, no removable microSD card). It didn't work on any of my FreeBSD systems. So I finally

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-28 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 28, 2011 9:10:34 AM -0600, Chad Perrin is alleged to have said: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Saturday, 27 August 2011: I've decided to provide the professional response Evan claims to crave: Dear Evan, We

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:04 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: It is especially useful when you cannot ping, as it can tell you if the packets are even arriving. The no route to host result makes me think the packets aren't going far ;-) The new device and the wired interface are at adjacent numeric

Re: portmaster -a -B -d

2011-08-28 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 28-8-2011 16:27, Matthew Seaman schreef: Ideally ports committers should bump the eaccelerator PORTREVISION to make ports management tools do that automatically, but if not, you're going to have to remember to do it by hand. Thank you for your explanation. I enjoyed reading it and learned a

Support for AR8151

2011-08-28 Thread José Manuel Iniesta Bernal
Hi! I've installed Freenas 8 in my computer, but Atheros AR8151 is not supported. Perhaps in the future? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Atheros AR8151 support

2011-08-28 Thread José Manuel Iniesta Bernal
Hi! I've installed Freenas 8 in my computer, but Atheros AR8151 is not supported. Perhaps in the future? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Support for AR8151

2011-08-28 Thread Daniel Henschel
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 06:53:16PM +0200, José Manuel Iniesta Bernal wrote: Hi! I've installed Freenas 8 in my computer, but Atheros AR8151 is not supported. Perhaps in the future? Thanks! ALC(4) states that it is included in 8.2-RELEASE. In 8.1-RELEASE it's not included. Please ask at

Closed [was Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2]

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
On Aug 28, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: I did this to have the experience with it and to have a backup to my Netgear wireless router. The trouble was the Netgear wireless AP device works so well and is plenty fast, unlike what I was getting with my FreeBSD server. The Netgear

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:21:06PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: What do you mean? All you need is some random link to a random survey URL. The fact that the survey doesn't mention anything about the product in question, the type of issue addressed, what type of response he was given, or

Hi

2011-08-28 Thread Spencer Thompson
Dear FreeBSD.org, I would like to order a CD with FreeBSD for an IBM Thinkpad. What is the best package to get? Will it work perfectly? I want a package with the manual, man-pages and how to use FreeBSD perfectly in books. What does Free in FreeBSD mean? Does it mean Free as in Free of

Re: Hi

2011-08-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Spencer Thompson spencer.s.thomp...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FreeBSD.org, I would like to order a CD with FreeBSD for an IBM Thinkpad. What is the best package to get? Will it work perfectly? I want a package with the manual, man-pages and how to use FreeBSD

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Paul Beard wrote: One thing that has seemed opaque to me is that both ath0 and wlan0 display when I run ifconfig and look very similar: makes me think they might be stepping on each other. Or it's just one more thing I don't understand :-( In 8.x, a virtual wlan0 device

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Warren Block wrote: In 8.x, a virtual wlan0 device is created to speak to the actual device, ath0 in this case. It's normal. Maybe I'm just confused by normality. I guess what would help in the Handbook, if nowhere else, is the *full* output of ifconfig(8)

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Paul Beard paulbe...@gmail.com To: Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 12:22 PM Subject: Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2 On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:04 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: It is especially useful when you cannot

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Paul Beard wrote: On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Warren Block wrote: In 8.x, a virtual wlan0 device is created to speak to the actual device, ath0 in this case. It's normal. Maybe I'm just confused by normality. I guess what would help in the Handbook, if nowhere

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Beard
On Aug 28, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Warren Block wrote: IMO, the wireless section is already so stuffed full of detail that it obscures the basics. In fairness, it's a complicated topic. But I'd much rather see a simple setup for the 80% use case followed by another section with all the grimy

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Aug 28 20:41:41 2011 From: Paul Beard paulbe...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:39:41 -0700 To: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD