Re: Hi

2011-08-30 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/30/2011 01:06 AM, Daniel Staal wrote: FreeBSD may not be for you at this time. I did not dare, but I agree with you for Spencer's case. -- RMA. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-30 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/24/2011 09:34 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: I am from Linux (Debian Ubuntu) and I will have to intensively use FreeBSD on servers (DNS, Database, Routing...) I would like to install a FreeBSD on my laptop (Dell Inspiron, or some Asus not defined yet) and then virtualize a lot (KVM

Re: wlan setup

2011-08-30 Thread PstreeM China
Did you load the drivers about wlancard? Make kernel yourself or edited /boot/loader.conf to load drivers. On Aug 30, 2011 9:36 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Derek Funk wrote: I followed the handbook and searched online but yet still unable to get a wireless

editors/zim

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, I have a problem with Zim which I wrote to the author about he replied and said; I'm afraid version 0.29 is no longer supported. This was the last version in the Perl branch, since we moved to Python there have been already 10 more releases. So please try the latest version (0.52). Are

mini pci e wireless card

2011-08-30 Thread George Vagner
I am wondering what mini pci express (little tiny card) is the best, highest power and best supported overall For hostap mode. I need to replace my rl3090 in my acer revo cause I don't see it as supported and its Not detected in my dmesg (8.2r) that I can see, I want to use it as an

Re: missing ORIGIN

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/30/2011 1:26 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 30/08/2011 06:24, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 30/08/2011 06:18, Chris Brennan wrote: As you could imagine, it's pretty damned annoying, what can I do to make it go away (without uninstalling the HPT utilities?) touch +IGNOREME

Re: mini pci e wireless card

2011-08-30 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, George Vagner wrote: I am wondering what mini pci express (little tiny card) is the best, highest power and best supported overall For hostap mode. Atheros b/g only is probably the best supported. Recent post:

Re: wlan setup

2011-08-30 Thread Derek Funk
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:00 -0500, Derek Funk wrote: I followed the handbook and searched online but yet still unable to get a wireless connection to an access point. I have in my rc.conf file: wlans_ath0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=WPA DHCP and in the wpa_supplicant.conf: network={

random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Michael
Hello, When adding a new user it is possible to assign a random generated password. But is it possible to assign a random password for already existing users? Preferably in a non-interactive and scriptable way. Is it possible with the base system tools? Michael

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 8/30/2011 2:16 PM, Michael wrote: Hello, When adding a new user it is possible to assign a random generated password. But is it possible to assign a random password for already existing users? 0(ich10)# pw useradd testuser1 -w random Password for 'testuser1' is: oFPw9BPe 0(ich10)#

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
Presumably you're doing this to prevent direct login? chpass allows root to set the encrypted password directly chpass -p '$1$123456789$your-random-chars-here' On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Michael mlmichae...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, When adding a new user it is possible to assign a

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c [:alnum:] '0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-a-z0-9A-Za-z' will give you the right kind of characters to use, for example. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: Presumably you're doing this to prevent direct login? chpass allows

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
Sorry, typo in cut-and-paste. # dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c [:alnum:] '0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z' ; echo

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Michael == Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com writes: Michael dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c [:alnum:] Michael '0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-a-z0-9A-Za-z' Michael will give you the right kind of characters to use, for example. I prefer openssl rand -base64 6 to get an 8-char password from a

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 07:16:00PM +0100, Michael wrote: Hello, When adding a new user it is possible to assign a random generated password. But is it possible to assign a random password for already existing users? Preferably in a non-interactive and scriptable way. Is it possible with

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
That occurred to me, but it's a smaller alphabet. Probably doesn't matter if the purpose is to make login unusable. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Michael == Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com writes: Michael dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
If the purpose is to make login unusable, starring the password is the only 100% safe way... On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: That occurred to me, but it's a smaller alphabet.  Probably doesn't matter if the purpose is to make login unusable. On Tue,

Re: Tablet Digitizer

2011-08-30 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Gary Dunn wrote: I have studied that and the source to what seems to be a driver, fujitsu-usb-touchscreen. This may be what you already have: http://spareinfo.blogspot.com/2010/10/linux-on-fujitsu-u810-p1620-t1010.html Whether it's trustworthy, compiles on FreeBSD, or

Re: wlan setup

2011-08-30 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Derek Funk wrote: Drivers are loaded and I tried using SYNCDHCP instead of just DHCP in rc.conf. I even tried my own entry in devd.conf as shown in a google search. But still it links to the access point but does not get an IP. Check /var/log/messages for errors reported

vpn using pptpclient in FreeBSD

2011-08-30 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Hi, I'm trying to set up a vpn connection to the university library by using pptpclient. In other OS's this takes around 10 seconds, but in FreeBSD this seems very difficult to do, and I've no idea why. It looks like there is a connection made, but after a minute or two it just disconnects

editors/zim

2011-08-30 Thread perryh
Forwarding to ports@, which seems more likely to yield an answer to this particular inquiry than questions@ Please keep the OP, who is probably not subscribed to ports@, in the Cc: list. Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:52:12 +0100

Is there way to get filename for specific LBA?

2011-08-30 Thread Ross
Aug 31 05:13:24 da kernel: ad6: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=107491647 # dd if=/dev/ad6 of=/dev/null bs=1m seek=107491647 count=1 dd: /dev/null: Inappropriate ioctl for device Another question: why does it fail? # dd if=/dev/ad6 of=/var/tmp/ bs=1m

Re: wlan setup

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Derek Funk wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:00 -0500, Derek Funk wrote: [ ... ] Drivers are loaded and I tried using SYNCDHCP instead of just DHCP in rc.conf. I even tried my own entry in devd.conf as shown in a google search. But still it links to the access point but