Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-26 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/26/2012 01:57 AM, Da Rock wrote: Despite having similar hardware, you're only real best bet is to suck it and see. Try installing and seeing what you can get to work (dmesg, pciconf -lv, usbconfig, kldload modules, questions here, etc). I've had mixed success with laptops (they're just

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 ICH8M trouble, no HDD found, unable to install.

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Powell
Jasper Valentijn wrote: L.S., I'm not able to install FreeBSD on a Sony Vaio vgn-cr31s. The problem seems to be related to PR kern/153440, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=153440cat=. The FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img was used to try the install and extraction of the

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

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Powell
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: 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

Re: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed

2012-01-26 Thread Anonymous
At this stage, your options appear to be: illumos/OpenIndiana Not being developed on SPARC Linux, AFAIK Gentoo, Funtoo, Debian are the only supporting distros and you will need to check if sun4v and your machine are supported NetBSD Not recommended, sorry to say or OpenBSD. Highly

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-26 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:08:07 -0600 Doug Poland articulated: 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

Old Bug or not?

2012-01-26 Thread Jerry
There seems to be an old BUG, http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-bugs/2006-04/msg00309.html that has recently been noted on the Postfix forums. Was this bug ever actually addressed? In other words, is this an actual bug or is it working as intended? If it is a bug, and since it is apparently nearly 5

Re: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed

2012-01-26 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Anonymous wrote: NetBSD Not recommended, sorry to say Why? -- Rares Aioanei ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 ICH8M trouble, no HDD found, unable to install.

2012-01-26 Thread Jasper Valentijn
Mike wrote: I do not have this hardware, so these are just a couple of wild guessses from the blue on my part.  I am also looking only at 64 bit platforms here, so if there is any signifigant difference with 32 bit I can't look/see. Just to be on the safe side I've also tried the 9.0 amd64

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 18:54, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: 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 Done, although kldload u3g tells me that file already exists! Perhaps because

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/26/2012 10:58 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi, kldload u3g kldload umodem Done, although kldload u3g tells me that file already exists! Perhaps because I booted up with my Huawei dongle plugged in. kldstat | grep u3g shows me nothing though. Looks like

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 19:12, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: On 1/26/2012 10:58 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi, kldload u3g kldload umodem Done, although kldload u3g tells me that file already exists! Perhaps because I booted up with my Huawei

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 18:54, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: 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 Done, although kldload u3g

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/26/2012 12:00 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi Mike, I guess the internet.com http://internet.com in AT+CGDCONT=1,\\\IP\\\,\\\internet.com http://internet.com/\\\ OK \ refer to the APN? I know I need to read ppp.conf again soon :) Hi, Yes, thats the APN. Your APN seems to

Re: what are the top python books?

2012-01-26 Thread Boris
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ Pick the format you want. HTH. B. On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: 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

IPv6 VM

2012-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all! I've been away for some time, but I'm now getting back into the full swing of things. I'm wondering if there is anyone out there who can let me temporarily borrow a CLI-only clean install FBSD virtual machine with a publicly facing IPv4 and native IPv6 address. It will be extremely

Re: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed

2012-01-26 Thread Fritz Wuehler
You wrote: On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Anonymous wrote: NetBSD Not recommended, sorry to say Why? Net has support for less sparc64 platforms than OpenBSD or FreeBSD and NetBSD reliability has gone downhill. I am sad to say it but I think Net's best days are behind us. I hope I have to eat

Re: Old Bug or not?

2012-01-26 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:48:18AM -0500, Jerry wrote: There seems to be an old BUG, http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-bugs/2006-04/msg00309.html that has recently been noted on the Postfix forums. 403 Forbidden Was this bug ever actually addressed? In other words, is this an actual bug or is it

Re: IPv6 VM

2012-01-26 Thread Robert Boyer
I can probably arrange for a tunneled v6 address - should be the same thing at the end of the day…. how much time/mem you need? RB On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all! I've been away for some time, but I'm now getting back into the full swing of things. I'm

XFCE keyboard layout tab missing

2012-01-26 Thread Neil Munro
Hi all, first I apologise if this is a known issue, I have been searching but can't seem to find an answer. I am looking to switch to FreeBSD full time and this is the only thing holding me back I want to run XFCE and I know the 4.8 release has some issues with mounting devices which used to use

OFF Topic. FreeBSD SAP Oracle Financials.

2012-01-26 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. I am sorry if this is OFF Topic. I am looking for help from more experienced people in these areas. I am looking for a job and one company is looking for people to create a test team (part of the quality assurance team). Their projects is based on SAP and Oracle Financials