Re: How stable is FreeBSD WiFi support?

2008-10-03 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:11 -0700, Yuri wrote: I have FreeBSD-70 machine and Linux Gentoo machines side by side (within 10 feet). Gentoo Linux (with old AirLink101) connects to a particular encrypted WEP network without any problems all the time. FreeBSD (with ral0 device and native

Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?

2008-10-03 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 00:18 +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: Use SFTP (aka SSH file sharing) and mount the folder's using SftpDrive on Windows and various tools are available for doing that under UNIX. Wouldn't an ssl version of webdav do the same sort of thing without all the extra hassle in

Re: mysql rc script failure - correction: most installed rc scripts not running manually

2008-10-02 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:18 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2008 01:59:18 Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 12:53 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:39:47PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: So are you saying I can't start a script manually without

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-10-02 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 12:01 +0200, Popof Popof wrote: I hav a mobo with the same NIC, I use it on a FreeNAS box that's runing a version based on FreeBSD 6.3. In order to make the NIC work i had to compile the drivers from realtek with an other FreeBSD box and load the module on startup. But

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 07:26 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:36:26 -0800 Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent a missive stating: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: mysql rc script failure - correction: most installed rc scripts not running manually

2008-10-01 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 15:40 +1000, Da Rock wrote: Has anyone else had trouble with starting mysql server with the rc script? I've only just installed from ports (as a dependency, mind) and technically it should just start when you run the rc script - it sets up the db dirs and stuff so

Re: mysql rc script failure - correction: most installed rc scripts not running manually

2008-10-01 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 12:57 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 15:40 +1000, Da Rock wrote: Has anyone else had trouble with starting mysql server with the rc script? I've only just installed from ports (as a dependency, mind

Re: mysql rc script failure - correction: most installed rc scripts not running manually

2008-10-01 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 12:53 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:39:47PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 12:57 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 15:40 +1000, Da Rock wrote: Has anyone else had

mysql rc script failure

2008-09-30 Thread Da Rock
Has anyone else had trouble with starting mysql server with the rc script? I've only just installed from ports (as a dependency, mind) and technically it should just start when you run the rc script - it sets up the db dirs and stuff so it can just run. But I can't get it to do the setup stuff

Re: Postfix, maildir's, and writing filters

2008-09-26 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 08:24 -0400, George Fazio wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:53 -0400, George Fazio wrote: Da Rock wrote: Howdy. This may seem simple, but I'm completely green on this: I have a postfix server with a courier-imap client frontend using

Re: Postfix, maildir's, and writing filters

2008-09-23 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 08:24 -0400, George Fazio wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:53 -0400, George Fazio wrote: Da Rock wrote: Howdy. This may seem simple, but I'm completely green on this: I have a postfix server with a courier-imap client frontend using

Re: Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:38 -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for the first time, I enabled linux compatability ... Each build since, I have enabled it ... So not I am at the point of asking myself why? All I run is

Re: ipv6

2008-09-22 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 09:18 +, beni wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2008 23:13:33 David Horn wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:35 AM, beni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a question about IPv6. I installed /net/freenet6 and edited the /usr/local/etc/gw6c.conf file with

Postfix, maildir's, and writing filters

2008-09-22 Thread Da Rock
Howdy. This may seem simple, but I'm completely green on this: I have a postfix server with a courier-imap client frontend using maildir's. I'm using imap for an internal mta, but I need to setup a system which retains copies of sent emails on the network and not on individual workstations (which

Re: Postfix, maildir's, and writing filters

2008-09-22 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:47 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, 2. how does one copy email from one folder to another in maildirs? Is it possible? This is as simple as copying the file, that's the great beauty of maildir. That is just one aspect of this task I have, but if I have postfix

Re: Audio Production

2008-09-22 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:50 +0200, marshc wrote: I've just been following this thread and have remained silent until now, but the linux kernel from my experience is nowhere near as stable or as fast as the freebsd kernel. Another cool feature is you can build your own kernel, stripping

Re: ipv6

2008-09-22 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 08:25 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Da Rock wrote: Excuse me for jumping in on this thread, I'm only just starting to look into IPv6 for myself. My ISP has informed me that it doesn't support IPv6 yet, and won't for some time. I have a DNS server and sites

Re: Postfix, maildir's, and writing filters

2008-09-22 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 19:18 +0200, Mel wrote: On Monday 22 September 2008 10:29:36 Da Rock wrote: Howdy. This may seem simple, but I'm completely green on this: I have a postfix server with a courier-imap client frontend using maildir's. I'm using imap for an internal mta, but I need

Re: Postfix, maildir's, and writing filters

2008-09-22 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:53 -0400, George Fazio wrote: Da Rock wrote: Howdy. This may seem simple, but I'm completely green on this: I have a postfix server with a courier-imap client frontend using maildir's. I'm using imap for an internal mta, but I need to setup a system which retains

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-21 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 09:18 -0700, Sebastian wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to confirm my understanding of current status on this NIC. It seems, based on some searching, the current Realtek driver in FreeBSD doesn't support the 8111C, and

{Filename?} Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-21 Thread Da Rock
Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed Warning: (if_rl.ko). Warning: Please read the comcen_com_au-Attachment-Warning.txt attachment(s) for more information. On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 11:14 -0700, Sebastian wrote: Da Rock wrote: I have used the compiled driver on 6.3

Re: Audio Production

2008-09-21 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 08:21 -0400, marshc wrote: Nash Nipples wrote: m cassar schrieb: Does anyone here use freebsd for serious audio/video production work? or know if there is some kind of community? Didn't try it, but

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-09-19 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:21 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Sebastian wrote: I'd like to confirm my understanding of current status on this NIC. It seems, based on some searching, the current Realtek driver in FreeBSD doesn't support the 8111C, and that although the

Re: NTP authentication using kerberos

2008-09-18 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 08:28 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Da Rock wrote: This may be a stupid question, and/or a chicken and egg conundrum: Is it possible to use kerberos in authentication with an ntp server? Here is my reasoning for this (and please correct any wrong assumptions I

Re: Realtek 8111/8168B and Atheros 5100ABGN

2008-09-18 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:53 -0400, Demian Lessa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC and an Atheros 5100ABGN wireless adapter on my notebook. FreeBSD-7 STABLE cannot configure either card. devinfo shows full

Wifi and wpa_supplicant

2008-09-18 Thread Da Rock
Is it just me or is wpa_supplicant not the best option for auth on wifi? I have now used several systems with wifi and wpa_supplicant and none have been capable of maintaining the network connection. I haven't asked before specifically because I thought it was my aging hardware - but now I've

NTP authentication using kerberos

2008-09-17 Thread Da Rock
This may be a stupid question, and/or a chicken and egg conundrum: Is it possible to use kerberos in authentication with an ntp server? Here is my reasoning for this (and please correct any wrong assumptions I have here): In the handbook regarding kerberos (and nearly every other reliable

CUPS photo printing

2008-05-19 Thread Da Rock
I'm just trying to print some photo's which I haven't done since our total changeover to OSS, not something we get time to do on a regular basis anyway, and I'm testing a Samsung 610ND colour laser printer and a Canon MP750 pixma printer. After some issues with the usb on one laptop (HP - I'd

libavcodec miscompiled - running very slow

2008-05-13 Thread Da Rock
I installed gmencoder on 6.3 recently (and yes, given that I recently posted all my ports are up to date), but when I run it to encode a movie it comes back on the 2nd pass and says that libavcodec was miscompiled and will be slow (sure is- runs forever getting nowhere). It did recommend

Re: Imagemagick port seems broken - jp2.c patch fails

2008-05-12 Thread Da Rock
the work directory? Instead just an empty file named .extract_done.imagemagick._usr_local. I've also looked under /usr/local but I can't find anything there either. On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:53:18AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 17:20 -0700, Johan Dowdy wrote: Did you cvsup

Re: Imagemagick port seems broken - jp2.c patch fails

2008-05-12 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:02 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:46:31AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I may be not thinking straight due to a head cold- in which case just tell me so- but building Imagemagick-6.4.0.7 from ports is failing. It Update your ports tree. The current

Re: Imagemagick port seems broken - jp2.c patch fails

2008-05-12 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:03 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:02 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:46:31AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I may be not thinking straight due to a head cold- in which case just tell me so

Imagemagick port seems broken - jp2.c patch fails

2008-05-11 Thread Da Rock
I may be not thinking straight due to a head cold- in which case just tell me so- but building Imagemagick-6.4.0.7 from ports is failing. It attempts to find Imagemagick folder in the work folder but cannot do so. I ran ls but all it has is .extract.imagemagick._usr_local or the like (the exact

Re: Imagemagick port seems broken - jp2.c patch fails

2008-05-11 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 17:20 -0700, Johan Dowdy wrote: Did you cvsup before attempting the install? -J Do you mean update the ports tree? This is a relatively new install of 6.3 (last week or so) with a minimal distro and no ports tree installed at the time. I run portsnap manually after

Installing Xorg drivers

2008-04-25 Thread Da Rock
I'm working on getting a 7 touchscreen working- I found a uep.ko driver which somebody migrated from netbsd (I know- I'm at the bleeding adge here...) years ago, but I have no idea if there are any updates. For reference the binary page faults, but building the driver seems to work on 6.3. I had

Xorg config

2008-04-23 Thread Da Rock
I could use some more detailed information on setting up Xorg- I have a USB Shintaro wireless keyboard with integrated trackball, and a touch screen which is not cooperating with my setup. I tried Xorg -configure, and running xorgconfig, but it still can't seem to find the devices. Another thing

USB nics

2008-04-20 Thread Da Rock
Hi guys. I have a little usb nic, and I would like to be able to attach it for service purposes from time to time. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any clear instructions on how to do this, and my time is short. The nic is an AXIS 88772 which I think might be covered by drivers. Cheers

Re: CONTACT FEDEX DELIVERY COMPANY LTD.

2008-04-19 Thread Da Rock
Are these guys getting dumber, or are do they think we are? On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 20:25 +1000, FEDEX COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY wrote: Attention, Please be informed that I have Paid for the delivery fee for your Cheque Draft. But the manager of Intercontinental Bank Plc told me that before

RTL8111C driver for FBSD7

2008-04-18 Thread Da Rock
Hey, hey... I made a boo boo and ordered a unit with this nic onboard (truthfully, I never thought I'd have any trouble since I had done this before). Loaded 7 and couldn't find the nic. A little investigation found that the nic was the above, and a little further found that there was no support

Re: RTL8111C driver for FBSD7

2008-04-18 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:11 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: Hey, hey... I made a boo boo and ordered a unit with this nic onboard (truthfully, I never thought I'd have any trouble since I had done this before). Loaded 7 and couldn't find the nic. A little investigation

Re: RTL8111C driver for FBSD7

2008-04-18 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:08 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:11 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: Hey, hey... I made a boo boo and ordered a unit with this nic onboard (truthfully, I never thought I'd have any trouble since I

Re: RTL8111C driver for FBSD7

2008-04-18 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:38 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:08 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:11 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: Hey, hey... I made

Re: RTL8111C driver for FBSD7

2008-04-18 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:18 -1000, Al Plant wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:11 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: Hey, hey... I made a boo boo and ordered a unit with this nic onboard (truthfully, I never thought I'd have

Re: Avermedia 507 TV

2008-04-17 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 00:15 +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 15 April 2008 04:36:26 Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 01:30 +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: On Monday 14 April 2008 12:25:14 Victor M. Blood wrote: On 14.04.2008, Da Rock wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:02 +0400

Re: How can I access video tape under FBSD?

2008-04-17 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 20:28 +0200, Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi, folks! I have bought for myself a taperecorder-to-usb-connector, which I wrote in /etc/usbd.conf as following: Device Video tape Product 0x2821 Vendor 0xeb1a Now I want to move all of my archived video tapes to harddisk/DVD.

[SOLVED] Re: Openldap server install failure - openldap client conflict

2008-04-16 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 11:44 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I sent this to ports but then reconsidered this- I thought ports was for ports errors, but a quick look back and it mostly seems to be just for testing. Anyway, I hope I rectified this sufficiently... I'm trying to install OpenLDAP

Re: Openldap server install failure - openldap client conflict

2008-04-16 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 10:37 -0400, David Robillard wrote: I'm trying to install OpenLDAP as a server to attempt to try it out for our network. The problem is the openldap client is already installed for other apps as php, apache, asterisk, etc. So my question is: is it possible to

Re: Avermedia 507 TV

2008-04-15 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 10:43 +0400, Victor M. Blood wrote: On 15.04.2008, Da Rock wrote: How I can test my tuner? I'm newbee to bsd and can't understan why tuner do not works, than driver loaded without errors Sorry for the diversion. Try sysctl -a and grep for saa- if that fails, check

Openldap server install failure - openldap client conflict

2008-04-15 Thread Da Rock
I sent this to ports but then reconsidered this- I thought ports was for ports errors, but a quick look back and it mostly seems to be just for testing. Anyway, I hope I rectified this sufficiently... I'm trying to install OpenLDAP as a server to attempt to try it out for our network. The problem

Re: DHCP problem.Help please

2008-04-14 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 14:43 +0800, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hello, I hope some one will me on my problem. My friends has and existing DHCP server and squid proxy server running both in freebsd.We purchased a new desktop PC, we gave it a permanent IP using the DHCP server and we edit the config

Re: Avermedia 507 TV

2008-04-14 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:02 +0400, Victor M. Blood wrote: Hi, All. Anyone run tuner on phillips chip 7133/7135 on freebsd, I try to use saa driver, devices saa0, sau0, cii0 is present in /dev/ , kbtv runs, but freeze on begin chanel tunin... How to test tuner and drivers works or not.

Re: Avermedia 507 TV

2008-04-14 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 01:30 +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: On Monday 14 April 2008 12:25:14 Victor M. Blood wrote: On 14.04.2008, Da Rock wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:02 +0400, Victor M. Blood wrote: Hi, All. Anyone run tuner on phillips chip 7133/7135 on freebsd, I try to use

Samsung 610ND printer

2008-04-13 Thread Da Rock
Has anyone had any experience with this printer? Is it easy to setup in CUPS? Print quality? Photo quality? Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Printer getting attached to umass and da

2008-04-12 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 18:33 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:32:25 pm Predrag Punosevac wrote: Steven Friedrich wrote: On Saturday 12 April 2008 04:29:20 pm Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Steven Friedrich wrote: From messages: messages:Apr 12

Re: A silent UPS - (A little OT, I know...)

2008-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 08:24 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 01:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:45 +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: Da Rock wrote: This may sound like a strange question, but is there a way to mute

Re: Adobe Flash Player Petition

2008-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 10:15 +0200, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Volodymyr, I already use swfdec, but the curent port gets old too and doesnt seem to play recent Flash pages. I dont care about the animations, but it is frustrating not being able to enter some websites.. I'd say talking to

Re: A silent UPS - (A little OT, I know...)

2008-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:35 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 08:24 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 01:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:45 +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote

Re: Adobe Flash Player Petition

2008-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 18:01 -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 10:15 +0200, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Volodymyr, I already use swfdec, but the curent port gets old too and doesnt seem to play recent Flash pages. I dont care about the animations

Re: Adobe Flash Player Petition

2008-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:00 -0400, Gerard wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE CONTACT ADOBE. TELL THEM TO RELEASE A FLASH PLUGIN FOR FREEBSD. There are more and more websites you cannot even enter without a running Flash

Re: Adobe Flash Player Petition

2008-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 00:43 +0200, herbert langhans wrote: Thanks to all the input I found a solution what works for me: FreeBSD 7.0 and Firefox 3.0a2 (the firefox-devel port) 1. I deinstalled swfdec. 2. Closed Firefox and renamed .mozilla to .mozilla.backup 3. Started firefox so to

Re: Adobe Flash Player Petition

2008-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 20:15 -0400, Eduardo Cerejo wrote: There's already a MacOS version available: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ That's what I said and support for linux as well: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight It looks like gnash for silverlight, it will always

A silent UPS - (A little OT, I know...)

2008-04-08 Thread Da Rock
This may sound like a strange question, but is there a way to mute the voice box of a UPS? I have a highly specialised application for one- I need a mobile desktop pc (very cheap). I need to setup a pc for my little girl so that she has music, video, and visualisations while she's in her cot-

Re: A silent UPS - (A little OT, I know...)

2008-04-08 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 17:10 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This may sound like a strange question, but is there a way to mute the voice box of a UPS? I have a highly specialised application for one- I need a mobile desktop pc (very cheap). I need

Re: A silent UPS - (A little OT, I know...)

2008-04-08 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:45 +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: Da Rock wrote: This may sound like a strange question, but is there a way to mute the voice box of a UPS? I have a highly specialised application for one- I need a mobile desktop pc (very cheap). I need to setup a pc for my

Re: A silent UPS - (A little OT, I know...)

2008-04-08 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 01:02 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:45 +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: Da Rock wrote: This may sound like a strange question, but is there a way to mute the voice box of a UPS? I have a highly specialised

Re: trying atausb instead of umass, part 2

2008-04-05 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 10:53 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Friday 04 April 2008 09:03:33 am Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 08:16 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2008 04:38:27 am Dieter wrote: [ no replies from -drivers, so added -questions ] I looked

Re: trying atausb instead of umass, part 2

2008-04-04 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 08:16 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2008 04:38:27 am Dieter wrote: [ no replies from -drivers, so added -questions ] I looked at http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and couldn't find a freebsd-drivers list. Perhaps that's why

Way way way OT: Some interesting facts about politics, campaigns, and servers

2008-04-03 Thread Da Rock
I picked this up on fedora list, and of course they were cheering the linux results, but I was rather pleased with the FreeBSD results- particularly on the democrats chart. http://www.douglaskarr.com/2007/06/23/2008-elections-by-server/ ___

[OT] Re: SCSI network

2008-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:41 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: unmanaged switch will work much better :) I'd agree with that 100%- do the bandwidth math (not to mention the ease of setup): gigabit each way compared to a max of 320mb (I could be wrong on the exact figures, but the gigabit

Re: [OT] Re: SCSI network

2008-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:45 +0200, User Wojtek wrote: May I ask how that works? Everything I've read about scsi is that the throughput determines the standard: so 320MB has a throughput of ~320MB. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsi) there is a bit (exactly 8 times) difference between

Re: SCSI network

2008-03-30 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 22:34 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 29), Wojciech Puchar said: i have few Ultra160 SCSI controllers and two Ultra40, cables and few machines that needs fast interconnect. i could use one gigabit card on each machine+switch, but i already have it!

Re: [Fwd: Re: Card readers - Does anyone know where to get help for this?]

2008-03-29 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 21:23 +, Vince wrote: I believe there was a (work in progess) driver for at least one type of these card readers http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2006/09/sdmmc-freebsd-driver-outline.html No idea as to current status. You could ask on freebsd-mobile I guess. (I have a

Re: Card readers - Does anyone know where to get help for this?

2008-03-28 Thread Da Rock
I must be the only one who has this... Can anyone redirect me to a list, resource, whatever that my give me some clue to this problem? Cheers On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:42 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I have mentioned this before in other threads, but it appears it requires a thread of its own. I

Re: Permission to publish article

2008-03-28 Thread Da Rock
Out of sheer curiosity- is this spam? Is there any reference to the paint on FreeBSD? I can't imagine where it would be used... On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 08:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Whom It May Concern: I am executive assistant to Mr. Alan Hess, author of the copyrighted

Re: cursive fonts?

2008-03-28 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 16:52 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is a quick one: how/where can I get a cursive font for abiword? or even OO? gary You can look for urw fonts in the ports - this was the best I could find, anyway. If you find anymore please let

Re: cursive fonts?

2008-03-28 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 22:30 -0500, Mark Kane wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008, at 12:49:40 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 16:52 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is a quick one: how/where can I get a cursive font for abiword? or even OO? gary You

[Fwd: Re: Card readers - Does anyone know where to get help for this?]

2008-03-28 Thread Da Rock
for? And then how would I attach the driver? devd.rules? On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 16:57 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I must be the only one who has this... Can anyone redirect me to a list, resource, whatever that my give me some clue to this problem? Cheers On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:42 +1000, Da Rock wrote: I

DDNS, ISC-DHCPD, and Bind... not working because of strange error messages

2008-03-27 Thread Da Rock
I did actually manage to get this to work, and I can't exactly work out what changed to cause this error. I set this up at the end of last year, and it worked- kind of. The failure was my own by not using a proper FQDN, but it worked unofficially anyway. Records were updating etc: all happy.

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-25 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 13:49 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:19 PM, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:26:23PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would

Re: really dumb question: can I install Linux USB drivers under linux compat?

2008-03-25 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:19 -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Am I crazy? Steve Not really. Check out linux-kmod-compat in ports. However, there is catch ;) I'm just checking into some details now- I'm not sure if you have to build the driver or you can just use one prebuilt in an rpm.

Re: OT: (Way OT) PHP and MySQL concurrency control using MyISAM tables

2008-03-25 Thread Da Rock
documented. It sounds like you're using PDO, please read up on auto-commit mode. Don't reinvent the wheel, especially when the wheel is already built better than you could hack out a replacement for it :) -Patrick On 23/03/2008, Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 19:17

Re: media conversion utilities in the ports

2008-03-23 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 09:41 +0100, Michaël Grünewald wrote: Andrew Falanga a écrit : Hi, A few quick searches on freshports.org didn't turn up much so I'm hoping that the knowledge here will eclipse it. Are there any good, or workable, scriptable WMA to MP3 converter programs in

OT: (Way OT) PHP and MySQL concurrency control using MyISAM tables

2008-03-23 Thread Da Rock
I know this is not quite the list for these things, but I tried the PHP list and got no reply whatsoever. In fact, I don't think anyone's home cause the entire list is silent... I'm trying to setup a system using web apps in PHP using MySQL as the backend database, only this time I need

Re: OT: (Way OT) PHP and MySQL concurrency control using MyISAM tables

2008-03-23 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 19:17 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is not quite the list for these things, but I tried the PHP list and got no reply whatsoever. In fact, I don't think anyone's home cause the entire list is silent... I'm trying to setup

Re: I'd like some help

2008-03-23 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 19:51 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:10:04AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 14:58 -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote: I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to try Free BSD, but i can't figure out how

Mac osX drivers

2008-03-23 Thread Da Rock
I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the drivers be portable? This is all on a current project I'm working on... Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: I'd like some help

2008-03-22 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 14:58 -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote: I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to try Free BSD, but i can't figure out how to download it and the instructions don't make sense. I am running Windows XP OS- can you tell me how to download Free BSD with

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 16:21 +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices

List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the person who posted? Ie reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Curious... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Card readers

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
I have mentioned this before in other threads, but it appears it requires a thread of its own. I have a laptop with a card reader built in which I have never been able to get to work. Everything I have looked up regarding these has to do with usb versions, and other than the laptops my card

Re: List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This may have been suggested or discussed before, but is there a reason why the reply-to on this list isn't the list itself instead of the person who posted? Ie reply

Re: List replies

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 22:38 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On March 22, 2008 1:10:40 PM +1000 Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 02:58 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:35:57AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This may have been suggested or discussed

[Fwd: Re: List replies]

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
---BeginMessage--- On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 23:24 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Da Rock writes: Because many people who ask questions here are not subscribed to the list and thus would not see any answers that were sent only to the list. Well that certainly explains it, but it does

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 23:37 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if possible. Any documents/suggestions that anyone can point me to? I'm not certain that it is

Re: linux emulation

2008-03-20 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 08:50 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I've read the handbook and just about anything on linux compat under freebsd. I am particularly interested in drivers under linux compat. emulation allows execution of normal linux programs, not drivers Ok. So input devices won't

Re: linux emulation

2008-03-20 Thread Da Rock
On 20/03/2008, Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 08:50 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I've read the handbook and just about anything on linux compat under freebsd. I am particularly interested in drivers under linux compat. emulation allows execution

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-20 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 08:43 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-20 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 14:14 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:55:37PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd

removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-19 Thread Da Rock
I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the removal seems to come unstuck. I have some barely literates on my systems, so I do

linux emulation

2008-03-19 Thread Da Rock
I've read the handbook and just about anything on linux compat under freebsd. I am particularly interested in drivers under linux compat. 1. How do I install the drivers for all users under linux compat? 2. Is it possible for freebsd programs to use the linux drivers? 3. Anything I should be

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