Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Fbsd1
Antonio Olivares wrote: On 4/8/10, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up to listen on my FreeBSD box I have absolutely nothing but

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread perryh
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: ... they are only attached for power purposes ... Input power: DC 5V 500mA Any chance these speakers need a USB 2.0 port, and all the ports on your FreeBSD box are 1.x? I don't remember the USB power spec offhand, but 2.5W may exceed

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-09 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 305, Issue 9, Message: 1 On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:10:34 -0400 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Adam Vande More writes: If compiled into the kernel, there's a set of optional settings (VERBOSE, LOG_LINIT, DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT, etc) that can be

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Alejandro == Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org writes: Alejandro did you mean unless? ;-) Did you read this: Augh.  I hit send just as I realized that's backwards.  Need more caffiene.  Swap the true and false blocks there. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

SSL / SSH choosing hardware accelerator first

2010-04-09 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
Hello group, I am currently running FreeBSD 9-Current AMD64. I have a Hifn crypto accelerator installed in the machine. I have noticed that when I connect to the machine using SSH, it does not use the crypto hardware. There was a patch that someone made that forced SSL to use

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: ... they are only attached for power purposes ... Input power: DC 5V 500mA Any chance these speakers need a USB 2.0 port, and all the ports on your FreeBSD box are 1.x? I don't

Re: gdm background picture missing

2010-04-09 Thread Jian Jun Wang
this solution worked, although it took me a lot of time to download packages, thank you so much. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jian Jun Wang wangjian...@gmail.comwrote: Any suggestion on stepsto solve the

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-09 Thread Robert Huff
Ian Smith writes: So ... double-checking I'm doing this right: 1) in /boot/loader.conf: ipfw_load=YES ipdivert_load=YES I thought from your earlier mail that you wanted to use in-kernel NAT? I want whatever works. :-) Beyond that ... all other

Re: Adding a Disk and Changing Mountpoints

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 00:48, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:38:03 -0500, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: Saturday I'll be adding a second 40GB and a tertiary 6GB disk to the system (in favor of adding a CD-RW to a system that already has a DVD super multi-format

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 02:17, Fbsd1 wrote: Antonio Olivares wrote: On 4/8/10, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up to listen on my FreeBSD box

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 02:51, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: ... they are only attached for power purposes ... Input power: DC 5V 500mA Any chance these speakers need a USB 2.0 port, and all the ports The expansion card is 2.0 on your FreeBSD

Re: Adding a Disk and Changing Mountpoints

2010-04-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:44:34 -0500, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: Thank you for the detailed response. Without knowing any of that, I would have totally messed up. I'll be printing out the email so I have it handy on Saturday. I made a mistake. Please check and

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 06:25, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: ... they are only attached for power purposes ... Input power: DC 5V 500mA Any chance these speakers need a USB 2.0 port, and all the ports on

sendmail /etc/resolv.conf modified by DHCP

2010-04-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, At home I have my WLAN as 192.168.2.0/24. After moving to my office and rebooting there, I encounter that sendmail receives messages (via fetchmail) terrible slow. I digged into this and see that the sendmail issues wrong DNS requests as (for example): 08:51:18.753491 IP

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-09 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Alejandro == Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org writes: Alejandro did you mean unless? ;-) Did you read this: Augh.  I hit send just as I realized that's backwards.  Need more caffiene.  Swap the true and false

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Robert Huff wrote: Ian Smith writes: So ... double-checking I'm doing this right: 1) in /boot/loader.conf: ipfw_load=YES ipdivert_load=YES I thought from your earlier mail that you wanted to use in-kernel NAT?

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 10:15, Brodey Dover wrote: Apr 8 22:30:16 heaven kernel: usb_alloc_device:1624: getting device descriptor at addr 3 failed, USB_ERR_IOERROR! exactly! That is what is causing the issues. From what I can see, it is like it was explained before. The OS has chosen to play nice and

wdm doesn't start windowing manager.

2010-04-09 Thread Neil Short
Has anybody had this problem and fixed it? wdm runs my ~/.xsession file; but no X-applications run. It just runs past them and returns to the wdm login screen. Currently I am running xdm; but it's kind of bland and spicing it up requires a very steep learning curve. == What did you do?

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-09 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 9:04 AM -0400 4/6/10, Tom Ierna wrote: Hi, Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support instead of Linux. I've been using them for a few

Re: wdm doesn't start windowing manager.

2010-04-09 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: Has anybody had this problem and fixed it? wdm runs my ~/.xsession file; but no X-applications run. It just runs past them and returns to the wdm login screen. Currently I am running xdm; but it's kind of bland and spicing

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/09/10 10:15, Brodey Dover wrote: Apr 8 22:30:16 heaven kernel: usb_alloc_device:1624: getting device descriptor at addr 3 failed, USB_ERR_IOERROR! exactly! That is what is causing the issues. From what I can see, it is like it was

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 15:24, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/09/10 10:15, Brodey Dover wrote: Apr 8 22:30:16 heaven kernel: usb_alloc_device:1624: getting device descriptor at addr 3 failed, USB_ERR_IOERROR! exactly! That is what is causing the issues.

perl links

2010-04-09 Thread Aiza
When installing perl i see 2 links between /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. Is this still required or is it something left over from when perl was part of the base system? symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl5

Re: perl links

2010-04-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 9, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Aiza wrote: When installing perl i see 2 links between /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. Is this still required or is it something left over from when perl was part of the base system? symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl symlinking

Re: perl links

2010-04-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:14:48AM +0800, Aiza wrote: When installing perl i see 2 links between /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. Is this still required or is it something left over from when perl was part of the base system? symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 and /usr/bin/perl symlinking

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Programmer In Training wrote: I really don't know where to look for this. I've never even heard of USB powered speakers until I got these (no, I don't pay much attention to what's available unless I have a great need for it). I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 18:31, Chris Whitehouse wrote: snip Unless you insist on an operating system solution what you are really after is a 5 volt supply. What about buying a mains USB charger of the right capacity, or if you are handy with bits of wire have a look I wouldn't know where to look for one.

LSI MegaRAID SAS 9211-8i on FreeBSD 8/9?

2010-04-09 Thread O. Hartmann
I'd like to build a new Workstation based on Intels 'Gulftown' for some numerical modelling purposes. Since I realised that on our Dell Poweredge Server with built-in Fusion MPT RAID/JBOD controller even attached SATA 3 GB hard disks seem to be 'faster' than on most Intel ICH9/ICH10 machines

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread mikel king
On Apr 9, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/09/10 18:31, Chris Whitehouse wrote: snip Unless you insist on an operating system solution what you are really after is a 5 volt supply. What about buying a mains USB charger of the right capacity, or if you are handy with

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 19:58, mikel king wrote: snip Out of curiosity, have you tried an active USB 2.0 HUB to buffer the speakers from the computer's USB ports? Or even a AC to USB adapter? snip I don't have one of either of those items. I only have a passive 2.0 HUB (at least I think it's 2.0). Either

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-09 Thread perryh
Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html rant This is absolutely the worst section of an otherwise great handbook ... Nothing short of a rewrite from scratch could fix it ... As always, I'm sure a patch -- to provide that rewrite --

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread perryh
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ... If speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins doesn't work, you might want to try a power adapter

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 21:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ... If speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins