Re: KERNEL - knowing what programs use/need modules

2012-01-01 Thread Matt Mullins
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Now, I'm wondering why in the world a server would need umass, ums and cam ? My understanding is that ums is the USB mouse, which we're never going to need. Umass would be USB mass storage, which again we're never going to

Re: Single user mode exits unexpectedly

2012-01-01 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:39:41 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:57:04 -0500, Janos Dohanics wrote: I have just rebuilt world and kernel according to the Handbook, installed the new kernel, rebooted, logged in, issued sudo shutdown now - the machine entered

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:03:38 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Mac doesn't support all hardware from what I understand, and the only system with 100% hardware support is Winblows. Given the design philosophy of Winblows, how well written do you think the hardware drivers are coded? For that

Re: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread sykadul
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Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread Da Rock
On 01/01/12 21:42, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:03:38 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Mac doesn't support all hardware from what I understand, and the only system with 100% hardware support is Winblows. Given the design philosophy of Winblows, how well written do you think the hardware

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +1000 Da Rock articulated: On 01/01/12 21:42, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:03:38 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Mac doesn't support all hardware from what I understand, and the only system with 100% hardware support is Winblows. Given the design

Re: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread sykadul
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axe(4) and Plugable USB2-E1000 (or: general USB Ethernet advice)

2012-01-01 Thread Rotate 13
I am looking for a USB ethernet adapter which works with very stable driver in FreeBSD. To effect this end, I went through section 4 man pages, and made list of drivers for USB ethernet chips. The problem is, many are apparently not widely available or in current production - but I found ASIX

Re: sour grapes .. was FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread doug
I wish someone with some FreeBSD weight would make this request, but I think this thread got a little off topic. The main thrust of the FreeBSD project seems to be making the best server OS possible. That I think they do that pretty well. I have long held that to be viable long term in the

Re: sour grapes .. was FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:41 PM, doug d...@fledge.watson.org wrote: I wish someone with some FreeBSD weight would make this request, but I think this thread got a little off topic. Oh buddy... The main thrust of the FreeBSD project seems to be making the best server OS possible. That I

Re: axe(4) and Plugable USB2-E1000 (or: general USB Ethernet advice)

2012-01-01 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Rotate 13 rabg...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a USB ethernet adapter which works with very stable driver in FreeBSD. To effect this end, I went through section 4 man pages, and made list of drivers for USB ethernet chips. The problem is, many are

Re: sour grapes .. was FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:41 PM, doug d...@fledge.watson.org wrote: That said, FreeBSD has a giant disadvantage in the desktop world. In trying to find if there will be any sort for my current laptop I came across a comment from Robert Noland saying that Xorg is becoming more and more Linux

Happy New Year to FreeBSD members...

2012-01-01 Thread Al Plant
Aloha! Wishing all our listers a happy and prosperous new year. Thanks for your help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 395, Issue 10

2012-01-01 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:00 AM, freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.orgwrote: Send freebsd-questions mailing list submissions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Matthew Seaman wrote: Message: 9 Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:34:02 + From: Matthew Seaman

Fwd: DNS

2012-01-01 Thread Daniel Lewis
-- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Lewis innervisionnetw...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:50 PM Subject: DNS To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Im new to freebsd 8.2 and the unix world. How do i setup dns to support my domain www.innervisionnetworks.com??? Registar

Re: DNS

2012-01-01 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Daniel Lewis innervisionnetw...@gmail.comwrote: Im new to freebsd 8.2 and the unix world. How do i setup dns to support my domain Hi Daniel, You probably want to use ISC bind in /usr/ports/dns I recommend you read the O'Reilly book DNS and BIND. Basic

Re: Thinkpad w500 microphone with Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)

2012-01-01 Thread Eric Schuele
On 01/01/2012 15:23, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: I assume you are using Skype with linuxator? In this case, are the sound devices in Skype set to OSS? From the PC-BSD forum, the following got sound working for me, since OSS wasn't showing as an option: hmm. well. thats a good quesiton (with

Re: DNS

2012-01-01 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Walter Alejandro Iglesias writes: Time ago I made the attempt to setup my own DNS in the same machine I had my web server running. DNS was the only thing I was not able to automatically update in the system with my

Re: DNS

2012-01-01 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 05:54:59PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Walter Alejandro Iglesias writes: Time ago I made the attempt to setup my own DNS in the same machine I had my web server running. DNS was the only thing I was not able to automatically update in the system with my

Re: DNS

2012-01-01 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 03:24:59PM -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Walter Alejandro Iglesias writes: Time ago I made the attempt to setup my own DNS in the same machine I had my web server running. DNS was the

Re: DNS

2012-01-01 Thread Waitman Gobble
Sure, like you say, it is possible running BIND and Apache. But, is it possible|convenient that the name server reside in the same machine that host (with apache) the domain names served by it? Perhaps you find stupid my question, but believe me, I am lost :-). Or to simplify the

Re: Thinkpad w500 microphone with Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)

2012-01-01 Thread Eric Schuele
On 01/01/2012 16:45, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: Yes, it does sound like it, as there is no native Skype for FreeBSD, so you are using the linux layer. If you are missing OSS from devices, then it is not installed. Once you install the port, configure it use OSS. For all 3 dropdowns under

Re: Thinkpad w500 microphone with Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)

2012-01-01 Thread Lyubomir Grigorov
Definitely not in my ports tree. I'm running amd64, and my ports tree is old. Either could be the culprit? I'll update and see what I get Well I update on a daily basis, but I am pretty sure this is an older port. In any case, you know # portsnap fetch # portsnap update P.S. I was interested

Re: DNS

2012-01-01 Thread Robert Huff
Walter Alejandro Iglesias writes: Perhaps you find stupid my question, but believe me, I am lost :-). Where you are now, so once were most of us. :-) Sure, like you say, it is possible running BIND and Apache. But, is it possible|convenient that the name server reside in the

Re: Thinkpad w500 microphone with Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)

2012-01-01 Thread Eric Schuele
On 01/01/2012 18:43, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: Definitely not in my ports tree. I'm running amd64, and my ports tree is old. Either could be the culprit? I'll update and see what I get Well I update on a daily basis, but I am pretty sure this is an older port. In any case, you know #

RE: DNS

2012-01-01 Thread Kevin Zheng
Hello, I've been using FreeBSD as a local nameserver (with my own .local domains!) for quite some time. FreeBSD comes with a name server already installed; you don't need to get it from the ports, although I'm not sure what difference it makes. The one that comes with FreeBSD can be enabled with

Re: CPU MHz discrepency

2012-01-01 Thread Marco Steinbach
Dennis Glatting wrote on 31.12.2011 16:52: Curios here. My BIOS reports my CPU at 4,023 MHz but when FreeBSD boots it says 3973.35-MHz. How is this determined? Seems like an off-by-one error somewhere. MB: ASUS Crosshair V FORMULA, latest BIOS, overclocked. dmesg output: Tasha dmesg

Re: buildworld error 8.2-STABLE amd64

2012-01-01 Thread Marco Steinbach
Janos Dohanics wrote on 31.12.2011 19:56: Buildworld stopped with this error (with updated source): [...] cc -O3 -DNEED_SOLARIS_BOOLEAN [...] I have posted the build log at http://wwwp.3dresearch.com/ALMAVIVA2011123101_buildworld Would you please advise? Quoting

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:14:20AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +1000 Da Rock articulated: If you want to verify, then by all means parouse this list and others (even in the linux community) over the past _five_ (thats 5) years. I am not sure what parouse means.