Re: serial connection

2012-12-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:43:43 -0600 Jonathan P chavode...@hotmail.com wrote: hello everyone, i need to establish a connection between 2 freebsd systems, but i have to this over a serial line, any advices? thank you all so much! It's been a long time - but this should help.

Re: aclocal-1.12: error: 'configure.ac'

2012-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/12/2012 07:13, Michael Powell wrote: With that said, the ports tree usually lives under /usr/ports. No idea why it would show up under /opt, except as some carry over Linuxism. You probably need to wipe the Linuxism and start over as a FreeBSD user. It's unorthodox, but you should

Re: aclocal-1.12: error: 'configure.ac'

2012-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/12/2012 06:51, Oleg simonoff wrote: Want to to ask the unix community about my problem. Don`t know what to do. racking my brain over ... The system freeBSD 8.2 Got some trouble with compilation portupgrade-2.4.9.9,2 /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade sudo make install

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:00:51 -0500 Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql,

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 05:35 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: I'm running amd64 and it seems rock-solid and well supported. I had a similar question. I wanted to know if there are issues for audio, when using 64 bit and got this reply: If you do not have a _specific_ requirement for 32 bit, use

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 18:45 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: flash For Linux there are no issues with the proprietary 64 bit flash, but there will be no new versions of Flash any more for Linux. If FreeBSD should use the Linux version, than Flash in the near future either way won't work any more.

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:05:47 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 18:45 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: flash For Linux there are no issues with the proprietary 64 bit flash, but there will be no new versions of Flash any more for Linux. If FreeBSD should use the Linux version,

Re: aclocal-1.12: error: 'configure.ac'

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:13:52 -0500, Michael Powell wrote: Oleg simonoff wrote: Hi to all! Want to to ask the unix community about my problem. Don`t know what to do. racking my brain over ... The system freeBSD 8.2 Got some trouble with compilation portupgrade-2.4.9.9,2

Re[4]: can not build FreeRadius 2.2.0

2012-12-16 Thread Eugen Konkov
Здравствуйте, Fajar. Вы писали 16 декабря 2012 г., 14:28:34: FAN On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Eugen Konkov kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: AD Eugen Konkov wrote: Building freeradiusd on # uname -a FreeBSD aki 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Jun 13 13:46:00 EEST 2012

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 05:35 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: I'm running amd64 and it seems rock-solid and well supported. I had a similar question. I wanted to know if there are issues for audio, when using 64 bit and got this reply: If you do not

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:48:40 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Specific requirements _could_ be wine and nVidia's proprietary GPU driver, as far as I know. - Polytropon (Btw. thank you Polytropon :) I'm using amd64 on an Atom/ION box here, the Nvidia binary drivers

Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Manish Jain
Hello All, This is not a question strictly on FreeBSD. But since freebsd-questions is a lot quicker with its dependable responses, I decided to post my question here. Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to

Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:52:05 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the vice versa - tell make

Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/12/2012 17:22, Manish Jain wrote: Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the vice versa - tell make to link to the

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Arthur Chance
On 12/16/12 11:00, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql, apache22, flash, cups, devel/aegis, devel/cook,

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Gary Aitken
On 12/16/12 04:00, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql, apache22, flash, cups, devel/aegis, devel/cook,

Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Manish Jain
On 16-Dec-12 23:12, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 16/12/2012 17:22, Manish Jain wrote: Under /lib I have both versions - shared (libxyz.so.1) as well as static (libxyz.a) - of a library. How do I tell make to link to the static version, not the shared one ? The next obvious question is how to do the

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:13:36 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: On 12/16/12 07:08, Polytropon wrote: And if you're using Firefox, there are plugins available that allow you to download video content instead of dealing with the Flash player the site wants you to use. and the recommended one is?

Re: IPv6in4 tunnel with only one /64 prefix

2012-12-16 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Following-up on myself... Of course Steve's suggestion was not what I wanted to hear, as I wanted to do stuff myself :) The take-away is that my plan works. I have a full write up in French at http://tar-jx.bz/notes/tunnels-ipv6.html ; I can translate into English if people are interested.

Re: aclocal-1.12: error: 'configure.ac'

2012-12-16 Thread Michael Powell
Polytropon wrote: [snip] Stop in /opt/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade. ^^ Don't know if this matters, never tried it that way - this is FreeBSD, not Linux. FreeBSD is not some kind of Linux. With setting $PORTSDIR it should be possible to have a valid (!)

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:00:51 -0500 Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 ... nvidia-kmod are the minimal ones I need]) the main reason for asking is PAE seems to be broken now The last I heard the nvidia driver wasn't

Boot of 9.1 under qemu-kvm 1.3 hangs at pci probing

2012-12-16 Thread Bruce Cran
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 in a Proxmox KVM, using qemu-kvm 1.3, but the boot process is hanging: pbib0: matched entry for 0.1 INTA pbib0: slot 1 INTA hardwired to IRQ 9 ioapic0: Changing polarity for pin 9 to low found - vendor=0x1013, dev=0x00b8, revid=0x00 domain=0,

mfiutil stating battery not present after installing battery

2012-12-16 Thread Gary Newcombe
I have a ServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA Controller in a server and have just put an M5000 Series Battery directly onto the card. I was just expecting the battery to charge and be able to see it, but no joy after a few days and a restart. As far as I am aware, the battery should just be detected. What

Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Since partitioning didn't work with FreeBSD 9.0 64bit, I tried PC-BSD 8.2 64bit and partitioning worked. I had PC-BSD installed on ada0s1, this was the fstab: /dev/label/rootfs0 / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 /dev/label/swap0none

PS: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Screenshots from Linux's GParted: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install FreeBSD on /dev/sda1. I guess a swap and / is enough, but swap, /,

Re: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I startet the FreeBSD installer, chose the shell and then run: # mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt # cd /mnt # rm -r * # rm -r .* That worked? I can hardly understand why /dev/ad0s1 is mountable (except it's /dev/ad0s1c, i. e. you've

Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:54:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Screenshots from Linux's GParted: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Judging from the screenshots, /dev/sda1 = /dev/ad0s1, a DOS primary partition,

Re: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: ada0 298 GB MBR ada0s1 57 GB freebsd ada0s2 240 GB EBR [snip] gpart show also doesn't display the 3 ufs and the swap any more. Did it previously show them? Yes, they

Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
... On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 02:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:54:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Screenshots from Linux's GParted: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Judging from

Re: PS: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Screenshots from Linux's GParted: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-012707am.php http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-12172012-014310am.php Perhaps somebody can exactly write the steps I have to do, to install FreeBSD on /dev/sda1.

Re: Partitioning - please not that again

2012-12-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:05:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I startet the FreeBSD installer, chose the shell and then run: # mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt # cd /mnt # rm -r * # rm -r .* That worked? I can hardly understand why /dev/ad0s1 is mountable