Re: webcamd startup problems

2012-01-25 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
Hi,   Webcamd is started by devd. In rc.conf, try:   devd_enable=YES   --HPS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: portmaster best practices

2012-01-25 Thread Victor Sudakov
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: [dd] NO_BACKUP means don't create a temporary package when deleting something. This is unsuitable for me as /usr/ports in my network is distributed via NFS ro. I also share /usr/ports via NFS ro, but I have defined PACKAGES=/var/tmp/packages in portmaster.rc to

RE: Makeopts DEBUG=-g kernel option

2012-01-25 Thread Dirk Kotze
Hi again Just some feedback - it seems that I have isolated the problem below with the help of a 2005 post by John Nielsen to freebsd-questions (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2005-August/003423.html). I have isolated the problem as being caused by the compiler

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 19:37, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: On 1/24/2012 10:56 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I am Google-ing for a recent definitive HOWTO use my 3G modem with FreeBSD/PC-BSD and what I get seem rather old. Someone can point me to a recent document detailing the

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 21:48, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: I am Google-ing for a recent definitive HOWTO use my 3G modem with FreeBSD/PC-BSD and what I get seem rather old. Which one? You need to

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:23, Ivan Frosty ivanfro...@gmail.com wrote: The FreeBSD u3g driver ¶¶ Introduction ¶¶ This driver supports 3G (UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA) cards that provide access to one or more serial ports through a USB interface, providing PPP and AT command channels

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, January 24, 2012 a las 10:23:18PM -0800, Ivan Frosty escribió: The FreeBSD u3g driver ¶¶ Introduction ¶¶ This driver supports 3G (UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA) cards that provide access to one or more serial ports through a USB interface, providing PPP and AT command channels

UPDATING 20120116 -- x11/xcb-util -- instructions not working

2012-01-25 Thread Mark Felder
For the life of me I can't work around this xcb-util issue. This is a pretty fresh install and I have not made any workaround symlinks. I ran: # portmaster -R -r xcb-util-0 And the problem persists. It didn't even complete all the packages because some were still erroring on missing xcb

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/25/2012 5:43 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I have a Huawei E1820 I will also try RTFM. Hi, kldload u3g kldload umodem plug in the modem Show the output of usbconfig then sysctl -a dev.u3g and ls -l /dev/cuaU* and dmesg On some 3g sticks, you have to send a

py-kaa-metadata build fails.

2012-01-25 Thread Mark
Anyone know of a fix for this error? creating build/temp.freebsd-8.2-RELEASE-p3-i386-2.6/src/image cc -DNDEBUG -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -pipe -I/usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/local/include/python2.6 -c src/image/exiv2.cpp -o bu

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-25 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: [...] You know, sometimes all this process is what makes people shy off of *BSD. I am a diehard lover of FreeBSD, but the few times I have installed Linux on my laptop, this whole process was a breeze... well,

Re: zpool detach pool device

2012-01-25 Thread Matt Mullins
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Fritz Wuehler fr...@spamexpire-201201.rodent.frell.theremailer.net wrote: Just use dd and avoid the hassle of downloading and burning a cd that does dd. dban is nice if you have to do a garage full of machines or are a Windows victim but if you know your way

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:39:37 -0500, robert perry wrote: In the past, I remember visiting certain websites that provided links to drivers but have forgotten the address. Could someone refresh my memory or provide an address that could help? Maybe you're thinking about linuxprinting.org which

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 05:39, robert perry wrote: I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating systems. Early research indicates that few printer manufacturers formally support the FreeBSD or Unix operating systems but imply

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 08:08, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm trying port some shell scripts to FreeBSD that were originally written on Darwin (OS X). The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 25, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Doug Poland wrote: The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains some bashisms. On FreeBSD I have bash in /usr/local/bin/bash. Is there an easy/best way

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Robert Bonomi
robert perry rperry1...@verizon.net wrote; I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating systems. Early research indicates that few printer manufacturers formally support the FreeBSD or Unix operating systems but

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Doug Poland wrote: I'm trying port some shell scripts to FreeBSD that were originally written on Darwin (OS X). The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains some

FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-25 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I discovered this thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25539 and am wondering what will and won't work on my Lenovo X220 I'm currently in the process in deciding between FreeBSD 9 and Fedora 15/16. I love FreeBSD on servers but unfortunately I haven't had much luck

Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 11:50, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I discovered this thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25539 and am wondering what will and won't work on my Lenovo X220 I'm currently in the process in deciding between FreeBSD 9 and Fedora 15/16. I love FreeBSD on servers but

Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-25 Thread John Levine
I'm running 8.2 on an X200. For the most part everything works. My main complaint is that the sound is very quiet, and I haven't found the setting to fix that. Video and wifi work fine. The kernel sees the camera and the thumb reader but I haven't looked for applications that use them. R's,

Re: UPDATING 20120116 -- x11/xcb-util -- instructions not working

2012-01-25 Thread Mark Felder
On 25.01.2012 09:52, Mark wrote: I got stuck in this hell the other day, I had to do this. portmaster --check-depends to see if anything is missing then portmaster -a -f I want to report back that this did end up working pretty darn well. :-) THANKS!

Re: SV: php5 port seems broken

2012-01-25 Thread Tim Dunphy
yes I did.I put these lines into httpd.conf AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps and that did the trick. Thanks again list! tim - Original Message - From: Hasse Hansson ha...@thorshammare.org To: Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com,

Re: UPDATING 20120116 -- x11/xcb-util -- instructions not working

2012-01-25 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:53:39 -0600 Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: For the life of me I can't work around this xcb-util issue. This is a pretty fresh install and I have not made any workaround symlinks. I ran: # portmaster -R -r xcb-util-0 And the problem persists. It didn't even

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Doug Poland
On Jan 25, 2012, at 18:04 , Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 25, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Doug Poland wrote: The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains some bashisms. On FreeBSD I have bash in

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Da Rock
On 01/26/12 12:55, Doug Poland wrote: On Jan 25, 2012, at 18:04 , Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 25, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Doug Poland wrote: The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains some

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread robert perry
- Original Message - From: robert perry rperry1...@verizon.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:39 PM Subject: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, copier) and return

what are the top python books?

2012-01-25 Thread Gary Kline
guys, sorry if this is a re-request and a bit OT, but, it's seriously time i got myself in gear and bought or borrowed a book or CD // DVD that teaches python. i honestly do prefer ink+paper, but with one hand MIA, i need paperweights! so if there are books that can be popped into the

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 25, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Da Rock wrote: On 01/26/12 12:55, Doug Poland wrote: This gets me closer, but the scripts behave differently now on OS X. For example, printf's don't output the same. Try searching on google and find out exactly what sh MacOSX is using. Then you'd have

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread mikel king
On Jan 25, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm trying port some shell scripts to FreeBSD that were originally written on Darwin (OS X). The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jan 25, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Da Rock wrote: On 01/26/12 12:55, Doug Poland wrote: This gets me closer, but the scripts behave differently now on OS X. For example, printf's don't output the same. Try searching on google and find

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Karl Vogel
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:08:07 -0600, Doug Poland d...@polands.org said: D I'm trying port some shell scripts to FreeBSD that were originally D written on Darwin (OS X). The issue I'm having is the shebang line of D the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an D instance

Re: what are the top python books?

2012-01-25 Thread Modulok
sorry if this is a re-request and a bit OT, but, it's seriously time i got myself in gear and bought or borrowed a book or CD // DVD that teaches python. If you want to learn python, first subscribe to the python tutor mailing list. It's pretty much just like the FreeBSD list. In fact, I

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, robert perry wrote: = From Da Rock: Maybe try openprint.org? Thank you all for your suggestions. I was able to review each and I think they'll be helpful. I almost forgot how much fun this could be. That should be

Re: what are the top python books?

2012-01-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:39:40PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: guys, sorry if this is a re-request and a bit OT, but, it's seriously time i got myself in gear and bought or borrowed a book or CD // DVD that teaches python. i honestly do prefer ink+paper, but with one hand MIA, i need