Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted
Danny Beger wrote: I have a small law firm in Adelaide and I am looking to engage someone to build / purchase a new server to replace my current server which runs v6 freebsd. Can you recommend anyone? Regards _ _ Danny Beger | Beger Co Lawyers p: 8362 6400 | f: 8362 3555 www.beger.com.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, I believe Greg Lehey is in Australia. g...@freebsd.org I have seen several others on the list at different times too. AL ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Network Question
Daniel Nang wrote: Aloha, Sounds like an interesting setup. Do you have one machine acting as a gateway? On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net mailto:n...@hdk5.net wrote: Eugene wrote: Hi Daniel, The easiest way is to check the LAN Config (or similar) page of the router. They usually allow one to specify fixed IP and hostname for the DHCP clients based on the MAC addresses. Best wishes Eugene -Original Message- From: Daniel Nang Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:16 PM To: Adam Vande More Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Question That was easier than I thought. My initial approach already looked something like this, except that for the ip address I always put the machine's name as in: machine1# ssh u...@machine2.example.com mailto:u...@machine2.example.com which results in ssh: Could not resolve hostname machine2.example.com http://machine2.example.com: hostname nor servname provided, or not known I think the problem here lies with the /etc/hosts file where machine1 and machine2 have to be registered respectively. The thing here is that the ip isn't static which makes this approach somewhat difficult to realize. Got it. Thanks. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com mailto:amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Nang daniel.nan...@gmail.com mailto:daniel.nan...@gmail.com__wrote: Hello, I have two computers, both running FreeBSD, accessing the web via DHCP from the router. The setup looks like this: Internet | | | machine1.example.com http://machine1.example.com --- Router --- machine.2.example.com http://machine.2.example.com - DHCP - - DHCP - Both computers can access the internet with no problems. So far so good... My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access the net as in the given picture and also let them communicate with each other e.g. via ssh? machine1# ssh `ip of machine2` -- Adam Vande More _ # Aloha, For many years I have 8 Freebsd boxes behind a PF firewall on a static labeled lan. Only one public address feeds the lan. All the boxes can work the internet and can ssh. I found that easier than dhcp. :) ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net mailto:n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol Aloha, I have a gateway separate on an old box running a Freesco floppy disk. I have many old boxes here and they still work. A couple can run Up to FreeBSD 10. No gui needed as they are for firewall and servers and the like. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Network Question
Eugene wrote: Hi Daniel, The easiest way is to check the LAN Config (or similar) page of the router. They usually allow one to specify fixed IP and hostname for the DHCP clients based on the MAC addresses. Best wishes Eugene -Original Message- From: Daniel Nang Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:16 PM To: Adam Vande More Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Question That was easier than I thought. My initial approach already looked something like this, except that for the ip address I always put the machine's name as in: machine1# ssh u...@machine2.example.com which results in ssh: Could not resolve hostname machine2.example.com: hostname nor servname provided, or not known I think the problem here lies with the /etc/hosts file where machine1 and machine2 have to be registered respectively. The thing here is that the ip isn't static which makes this approach somewhat difficult to realize. Got it. Thanks. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Nang daniel.nan...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I have two computers, both running FreeBSD, accessing the web via DHCP from the router. The setup looks like this: Internet | | | machine1.example.com --- Router --- machine.2.example.com - DHCP -- DHCP - Both computers can access the internet with no problems. So far so good... My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access the net as in the given picture and also let them communicate with each other e.g. via ssh? machine1# ssh `ip of machine2` -- Adam Vande More ___ # Aloha, For many years I have 8 Freebsd boxes behind a PF firewall on a static labeled lan. Only one public address feeds the lan. All the boxes can work the internet and can ssh. I found that easier than dhcp. :) ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD
Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Juris Kaminskis wrote: after several trials and errors and reading through FreeBSD handbook I am at dead end on how to proceed further, hope someone can guide me. Are you sure about that model number? I can't find specs for a Laserjet 1120M. There is a Laserjet M1120. It's a Winprinter. The file entries are confusing and use some non-base programs. You may be mixing the base system's lpr/lpd with the CUPS versions of the same names from ports. For plain lpr/lpd, I have this article: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, I, like Warren , think your entry is too comlpicated and I have a very old HP 1100 LaserJet that works on lpr using apsfilter from ports. I have only 5 lines in my printcap file. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Max top end computer for Freebsd to run on
James wrote: Several modest servers applied well will take you further than one big iron—and for less cost. James I agree. I have witnessed the benefit of what you say. Putting your faith in one big server can be a problem if the box fails, especially hardware failure. Keeping a spare server in a rack that can be switched in to service quickly can save you if one dies. Time (waiting for parts), most failures are hardware if your running FreeBSD. Even most Linux boxes. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Test
Ping . Pong ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Witness on FreeBSD 10.*
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:43:51 -1000 Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Aloha, Is there a way of turning off the witness feature on the FreeBSD Current 10.* I want to use a stripped down version as a test firewall with pf. you must take this out of your kernel configuration: options WITNESS # Enable checks to detect deadlocks and cycles options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN# Don't run witness on spinlocks for speed Ok, the formatting is different in the configuration file. Erich Thanks for any help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Erich, Thanks for the information. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Witness on FreeBSD 10.*
Aloha, Is there a way of turning off the witness feature on the FreeBSD Current 10.* I want to use a stripped down version as a test firewall with pf. Thanks for any help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Power switch not working
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:51:58 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I'll be attending to those thing, but for now I'd just like to know why, when I do shutdown -h now and then let the system come down to the point where it says Press any key to reboot pressing the power switch at that point no longer causes the system to actually power down. If fact it does nothing. This is to be expected. When you press the power switch, a signal will be sent to the OS which causes a custom action, which in most cases is to shutdown the system and then power it off. This is what shutdown -p now does. When you use shutdown -h now the system will be shut down. When you _then_ press the button, there's nothing left to act. Your only choice is to hold the button for about 4 seconds which will cause a hardware switch-off. Just a question: Why don't you simply press the button from out of a safe system state (e. g. when you've logged out)? It will cause the ACPI message system to tell the OS to shut down and power off - which you seem to intend. For example, I've programmed Ctrl+Alt+Moon on my Sun USB keyboard to exactly perform that action. But I can press the button at any time to have the same operation performed. I'm guessing that this relates to some BIOS setting that I need to diddle, but which one? Something to do with ACPI? Usually the BIOS settings are okay for the normal case: to send the shutdown + poweroff signal. However, you can select the other variant, immediately power off (forced power off) in the CMOS setup. Pressing the button, even with a running OS, will then switch the machine off, no matter in which state it is. I'm ignorant about this stuff. Guidance would be appreciated. Thanks. In the past, this kind of operation has been performed via APM. When APM has been fully supported, it was abolished and replaced by ACPI. At the time ACPI is fully working, standard-compliant and supported among all the many vendors, it will be obsoleted by something different, probably UEFI, and the fun restarts. :-) P.S. I *did* hook up the case power switch correctly. It does do the Right Thing when I'm just in the BIOS. This is also to be expected: In the BIOS, and _any_ stage prior to loading the OS, there will be only one thing the button can do: power the system off immediately. But running FreeBSD seems to cause it (the case power switch) to be ignored. Check the BIOS settings, the switch should be programmed to something like soft power-off, it's the other thing to whatever caption has been chosen for immediately power off (forced by the 4 second press). When in FreeBSD, pressing the button should shutdown the system and then power it off. Allow this process few seconds to work. You can easily examine if it's working properly when you have a look at the system messages on ttyv0. I cannot remember the correct messages because I'm too lazy to press this switch when Ctrl+Alt+Moon is so much more comfortable - thank you, Sun Microsystems. :-) If this does _not_ happen, the BIOS setting makes the button send the wrong message (maybe sleep or some other strange ACPI stuff). ## Aloha .. Poly and Ron, FYI: I have a box with FreeBSD 10.* on it for testing networks and gateways. It fails to shutdown by pressing the power button after the 4 seconds the screen fills with junk codes and the only way to turn the unit off is by the power switch on the power supply or pulling the plug. With FreeBSD 8 or below on this box you could shutdown from the 4 second power switch function as expected. I wouldn't use this box in a production setting. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Dumb down a Netgear Smart Switch
Aloha, Anybody on our list who can tell me how to set a Netgear GS108T 8 Port Smart Switch (Gigabit) to pass thru to a modem under FreeBSD. I have 2 other (non Smart) ones working with FreeBSD just fine in my rack and need to have the new one connect with a DSL modem on a static address. The instructions they sent me along with the switch that was a replacement for a non smart one at no charge is the type for using a DHCP service on Microsoft. (I cant complain about the up grade but its over kill for my purpose. Any help would be appreciated. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Questions not working again?
Aloha FreeBSD mail list. This is the second month that it questions have stopped working to my mail box. All the other lists are fine that I subscribe to. My firewall spam wall has not been changed. Any way to fix this? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype
ajtiM wrote: On Sunday 18 November 2012 12:57:14 Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Sunday, November 18, 2012 a las 12:45:54PM -0600, ajtiM escribió: When using Skype on FreeBSD (.1-RC3, the call often (every 1-5 minutes) gets disconnected or better I hear but the other side doesn't hear me If I remember correct kern.hz=100 in loader.conf solved this problem before I I had this line but it doesn't help me. I have Skype-2.1.0.81 installed. I know that this does not help much, but I'm using the same Sk in 10-CURRENT very often (also with video), and do not face this problem. Are yo sure that this is caused by FreeBSD or at your end of the call at all? matthias I am sure that is a problem on my side. Mitja , I have noticed that skype drops at irregular intervals from some locations that we reach on a regular basis. We know this is bad lines at the other end. Some small communities may limit or time out certain areas. (My brother in law is a small town official in this specific area and he says everybody complains about it.) If your getting it on all calls you may possibly have bad lines on your side. Check to see if any friends experience the same issues on other OS. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advanced Format Drive ? GPT ?
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Plant wrote: I looked over the GPT sample and have a question. In the fstab entries, something that uses msdosfs, (thumb drive maybe). %%% Can you enter it directly in the fstab after the basic partitions and other /dev have been entered in the initial setup? Short answer: yes, but... Longer answer: most flash drives have an MBR partition setup with one partition filling the whole device. Since it's not GPT, it won't/can't have GPT labels on the partitions. But the GEOM system will create a label for the MSDOS filesystem if it has been given a volume name. That label will appear in /dev/msdosfs/ and can be used in an /etc/fstab entry. ___ Thanks,, For the sage advice. % ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advanced Format Drive ? GPT ?
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I'm looking at the examples section of the gpart(8) man page. May I assume that if I just want to merely ``try out'' GPT... you know... taking it out on the road for a first time test run... that I can just do the first five (5) commands listed under EXAMPLES and then that will be enough to go ahead and try installing FreeBSD into the created freebsd-ufs partition? Even assuming that the answer is yes, I have still more questions... Where are these magic numbers coming from?? I am specifically talking about the number 34 in the -b 34 option and also the number 162 in the -b 162 option. Tha man page just tosses those into the example command lines without saying a word about them. And you can probably guess what it is that is especially troubling to me about them... neither one of them is divisible by 8 (i.e. 4KB/512B). So would the examples in the current gpart(8) man page produce an Epic Fail when and if they were used with a modern Advanced Format drive? -b is the beginning block of a partition. 34 is a magic value, the size of a standard GPT partition table. A good overall reference on GPT is the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table Remember that the man page is a reference, not a tutorial. I wanted more specific notes that followed best practices, and that was the source for this article: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html In general, you create a partition scheme first. This can be MBR, GPT, or others. (But use GPT.) Rather than combine the bootcode with the partition table, GPT just uses a small partition for it. Since the standard GPT allows for up to 128 partitions, there's no reason not to use them. Next come other partitions for UFS or ZFS filesystems or swap. That's it, really. The rest is details the man page can explain, like additional options for alignment. (The creation of the first UFS partition in the article does not use -a because older versions of gpart did unexpected things when -a and -b were combined. The alignment produced is correct.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha Warren, I looked over the GPT sample and have a question. In the fstab entries, something that uses msdosfs, (thumb drive maybe). Can you enter it directly in the fstab after the basic partitions and other /dev have been entered in the initial setup? Thanks. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Burning .iso DVD's
Aloha, I am not able to get a successfull burn of .iso DVD's 9.0 or higher FreeBSD. Chapter 19.7 ... of Handbook says to use growisofs with ATAPI support same as I do for 7.* 8.* FreeBSD etc. I get error of no growisofs ..when I run growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=image.iso What has cdrecord home.iso got to do with this ? It seems that to run growisofs some people say you have to use this now. Not clearly defined in handbook pages I printed. I would like to make a new burner that works on 9.* up. Any help would be great. Thanks. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How to list /etc/fstab in new BFSD label?
Aloha, I cant find any How TO on writing the hardware devices into /etc/fstab to mount and find how the DVD and CD players get connected. (This happens to be with a test box FreeBSD 10.* which has worked fine other than that.) The BSD install I understand is also for FreeBSD 9.* as well. fd0, /floppy, acd0 /cdrom, acd1 DVD, do not come up although they are in /dmesg list. Any help would be appreciated. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Spam and more spam.
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:39:12 +1100 andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: On Wed 2012-10-10 10:16:35 UTC+0200, René Mercier (realmo.merc...@gmail.com) wrote: Bonjour, Je suis sous Debian, mais travaillant dans les réseaux, je souhaiterai passer sur FreeBsd pour sa stabilité et pour sa sécurité,, je vois qu'actuellement il y une 9 rc1, pourriez vous s'il vous plait me dire quelle la prochaine release à venir et sa date de sortie http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html PS. This is an English-speaking mailing list. I wonder how many people did what I did an classified this as spam. Erich ___ Aloha Erich, I'm getting SPAM on the FreeBSD list for a couple of days now. In several languages including Chinese and French as well as English. Doesnt our list have a way to block so much of this? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AAAARRRgghhh-h-h. [[tooo tired]]
Gary Kline wrote: been here the whole day since around 09.00. one question since the guy who did my kvm switch used too-short cablesthey were ~4ft instead of 6. my question: Do any of you know if I can just buy kvm cables... of say 6ft? it's a trendnet TK-409K. #2:: I have no idea how a USB port could burn out, but that's what the tech found. anybody care to reply to either point?? tx very tmuch Aloha Gary, Check pccables.com thats where I got mine. 6 foot. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
usb identity issue
Aloha... I am having problem getting usb plug in /flash drive to come up on FreeBSD * several boxes with different versions of FreeBSB os I have 3 boxes for testing here at my shop. Can anyone point me to any articles on this issue. Is there a command like usbconfig (saw this mentioned in an email question but it doesnt work) to bring this up on screen? Dmesg of the booted units shows da1 mostly but this identity cant be accessed on any of them. Thanks ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: usb identity issue
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I am having problem getting usb plug in /flash drive to come up on FreeBSD * several boxes with different versions of FreeBSB os I have 3 boxes for testing here at my shop. maybe it's late but i cannot really understand what you mean. what problems? Attach kernel output messages please. Woj... The thumb/flash drive is showing in the dmesg as ad1 but it is not available to use. It appears the IRQ is blocked by something else. Either a IOMEGA /zip drive or the fd0. I tried 3 different computers to test and only one works if nothing else (/dev like fd0 or /zip drive is hooked up on the mobo. One of the techs I work with thinks a lot of mobo's have the same problem when you have more than one outside /dev is attached. /Zip and /fd0 work but not /Zip if /flash is attached or plugged in. For example on the last computer I have tried one of 5 on an atm circuit: The dmesg shows only fd0 normal. The USB0 USB1 and USB2 shows 1 USB3 all connected to a hub on the mobo but only a double USB is physically useable and hooked to the board. (no way to read any ad* or da* USB). ad0 is the hd on the box. orm0 shows the IOMEGA as isa0 connected with vpI0 (parallel) da0s4. The other 2 computers I tested on are for hardware bench tests and not on any network. Thanks for your help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: usb identity issue (adds more info)
Adds missing section: Al Plant wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: I am having problem getting usb plug in /flash drive to come up on FreeBSD * several boxes with different versions of FreeBSB os I have 3 boxes for testing here at my shop. maybe it's late but i cannot really understand what you mean. what problems? Attach kernel output messages please. Woj... The thumb/flash drive is showing in the dmesg as ad1 but it is not available to use. It appears the IRQ is blocked by something else. Either a IOMEGA /zip drive or the fd0. I tried 3 different computers to test and only one works if nothing else (/dev like fd0 or /zip drive is hooked up on the mobo. One of the techs I work with thinks a lot of mobo's have the same problem when you have more than one outside /dev is attached. /Zip and /fd0 work but not /Zip if /flash is attached or plugged in. For example on the last computer I have tried one of 5 on an atm circuit: The dmesg shows only fd0 normal. The USB0 USB1 and USB2 shows 1 USB3 all connected to a hub on the mobo but only a double USB is physically useable and hooked to the board. (no way to read any ad* or da* USB). ad0 is the hd on the box. orm0 shows the IOMEGA as isa0 connected with vpI0 (parallel) da0s4. Added: da1 for /flash is posted on dmesg by the computer but you cant read the files on the /flash from the screen as you can from /floppy or from /zip . * The other 2 computers I tested on are for hardware bench tests and not on any network. Thanks for your help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: usb identity issue (adds more info)
Fbsd8 wrote: Al Plant wrote: Adds missing section: Al Plant wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: I am having problem getting usb plug in /flash drive to come up on FreeBSD * several boxes with different versions of FreeBSB os I have 3 boxes for testing here at my shop. maybe it's late but i cannot really understand what you mean. what problems? Attach kernel output messages please. Woj... The thumb/flash drive is showing in the dmesg as ad1 but it is not available to use. It appears the IRQ is blocked by something else. Either a IOMEGA /zip drive or the fd0. I tried 3 different computers to test and only one works if nothing else (/dev like fd0 or /zip drive is hooked up on the mobo. One of the techs I work with thinks a lot of mobo's have the same problem when you have more than one outside /dev is attached. /Zip and /fd0 work but not /Zip if /flash is attached or plugged in. For example on the last computer I have tried one of 5 on an atm circuit: The dmesg shows only fd0 normal. The USB0 USB1 and USB2 shows 1 USB3 all connected to a hub on the mobo but only a double USB is physically useable and hooked to the board. (no way to read any ad* or da* USB). ad0 is the hd on the box. orm0 shows the IOMEGA as isa0 connected with vpI0 (parallel) da0s4. Added: da1 for /flash is posted on dmesg by the computer but you cant read the files on the /flash from the screen as you can from /floppy or from /zip . * The other 2 computers I tested on are for hardware bench tests and not on any network. Thanks for your help. You did not say what release of Freebsd you are running. On one test box is 10 on the other is 9 and on this one is 8 . This is 8. Pick one pc to test on and report results from that one only. Are you saying you have all those devices plugged into individual USB ports at boot time? No. Only HD at boot on any of the test boxes. Then i manually try each. /dev/fd0 /floppy (Irq6) /dev/da0s4 /zip Iomega (vpo Zip drive.) /dev/ad0 WDC (HD) /dev/acd0 /cdrom Are all your USB devices coded in /etc/fstab Yes. What version of USB (1, 2, 3) is your flash drive designed for? doesnt say on this dmesg. Only shows up when you plug in the /flash (SanDisk) Have you tried different manufactures of flash drives? Have tried 2 sandisk /flash different series. Post your /etc/fstab dmesg for usb, output of usbconfig command, The dmesg shows only fd0 normal. The USB0 USB1 and USB2 shows 1 USB3 all connected to a hub on the mobo but only a double USB is physically useable and hooked to the board. draw diagram of your usb device configuration. ??? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*
Thomas Mueller wrote: from Al Plant n...@hdk5.net: Thanks Of the 4 I had to play with one literally fell apart one scsi card is throwing errors. The one I finally got working is an old IDE on a FreeBSD 10 box that I experiment with. This should work fine to archive the Omega disks we found. Again thanks for heading me on the right path. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 What fell apart? Was it the Iomega Zip drive, the disk, or the scsi card? I assume Omega is a typo or memory lapse for what should be Iomega? IDE has given way on modern motherboards in favor of SATA, but current OSes would still have IDE/ATAPI support. You might still be advised to backup or transfer the data on Zip disks to CDs, DVDs or USB sticks or hard drives. Remember, Zip disks are just glorified floppies. Tom ## Aloha, Iomega yes. Button on front of one unit that released the disks played fell inside when pushed and the plastic cover fell off the top. Dried out from age probably. We are going to put the diles on to flash drive and then onto cd's and DVD's as many files are .jpg or artwork video etc. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*
Wojciech Puchar wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! I have 250MB zipdrive and 100MB disks. all works properly over USB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha Woj, How did you get the drive to work with USB? By a hardware adapter? I read there is a USB to ide on the market. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*
Aloha, I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive so it can be seen in dmesg to manually set the id correctly in /etc/fstab Flash drives and floppies show up but not Parallel Omegas. My wifes MS machine has no parallel input and my several FreeBSD boxes do but wont find the hardware. I used to use Omega Zip under FreeBSD 4.11. Thought these had been transferred years ago but they were only found recently. Any suggestions appreciated. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*
Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net mailto:n...@hdk5.net wrote: I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive so it can be seen in dmesg to manually set the id correctly in /etc/fstab Flash drives and floppies show up but not Parallel Omegas. My wifes MS machine has no parallel input and my several FreeBSD boxes do but wont find the hardware. I used to use Omega Zip under FreeBSD 4.11. Thought these had been transferred years ago but they were only found recently. Any suggestions appreciated. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/article.html Also at /boot/kernel/vpo.ko -- Adam Vande More ### Thanks Adam, I read the article and made a clean physical install and I now see the vpo driver and the Omega Zip device in the dmesg as da0. I have it in the /etc/fstab file as da0s4 (which should work) I still can't access the drive or the contents but at least it shows up now. Something to work with. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*
Thomas Mueller wrote: from Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com: I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! Both mine suffered from the click of death some years ago, round about when 4.11 was current. I would get any data off them and onto a CD/DVD as soon as possible. For me, they would make nice museum exhibits, but that's it. I never suffered the click of death as such, but my Zip drives (100 and 250, both SCSI) died in other ways. Zip 100 drive, and also SyQuest SyJet drive, got to where they would just eject the disk a few seconds after insertion. Zip 250 disk remained semi-functional after July 2001, the semi being that the Zip drive would not recognize a change of cartridge except by rebooting the computer, old directories would be kept. This happened with Linux, DOS and OS/2 Warp 4, so it was a hardware issue. I installed FreeDOS to a Zip 250 disk on an old computer (1995): took a bit over five hours because Zip disks are slow: glorified floppies. SCSI was Trantor T130B, apparently supported by NetBSD but not FreeBSD = 3.0. My last chance to try to install NetBSD 4.0.1 on a Zip 250 was stopped when that old computer wouldn't power up, and with other things going/gone bad, that computer was clearly not worth the time, effort and cost of repair. So it went to the cyber waste recycling center, including the Zip drives and disks, and the SyJet drive and disks. I haven't used USB sticks as long as floppies or Iomega Zip, but USB sticks and hard drives look much better so far than Iomega Zip or floppies. If I ever tried to install FreeBSD 8.x by copying the distribution files to floppies, no way would I be able to get enough good floppy copies with no better than 20% probability of success on each diskette image. I believe Iomega discontinued the parallel-port Zip drive, subsequently the SCSI Zip drive, and the USB and ATAPI Zip drives were the last to be discontinued. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org # Thanks Of the 4 I had to play with one literally fell apart one scsi card is throwing errors. The one I finally got working is an old IDE on a FreeBSD 10 box that I experiment with. This should work fine to archive the Omega disks we found. Again thanks for heading me on the right path. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Access to Time Warner cable network
Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 10:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public routable. I know my Freebsd 8.2 box functions because it worked fine under att service which I just left for Time Warner service. MY xp laptop works fine with time warner. I can see that during the connection hand shake they first issue ip addresses 192.168.x.x then end up with real public routable ip address for dns and my ip address. Just the dhcp ip is 10.2.0.1. XP seems to handle this connection hand shake ok. Does any one have any suggestions on how to get Freebsd 8.2 working under TW? Have you got a firewall or something else blocking dhcp from communicating? What does ifconfig say? No firewall running and NIC status is no carrier Actually I asked what the output of ifconfig was, but it looks like your cable is not connected (or wifi- hard to tell without output. It preempts many questions). Try `ifconfig NIC up`, check the cable, etc. FreeBSD should be responding just like Winblows here, but your network isn't connected for whatever reason that will probably be clearer when we know what ifconfig looks like. Hence dhcp will not work in these circumstances, at least until you connect your network... :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, Make sure your connection to Road Runner or TW is set for DHCP. And make sure you can ping your NIC card and like Da Rock says see whats up with iconfig. If there is a switch on the line make sure it is plugged in. I have one customer I work for that lost his signal from TW Roadrunner and they had to come out to replace some link to a failed splitter on the house connection. Here in Hawaii we have a bad corrosion problem from the salt air. TW also needs the electric service to work here as well. Did they come to your location and run a test to their equipment? My neighbor had a recent cable outage of an existing cable on our block that was too low and a moving van hit it. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 9.0 spontaneously reboots
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 12/03/2012 14:07, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: What should I blame now? Is it some programming error or should I continue with testing/changing motherboard and cpu? Instability that appears spontaneously (and especially if it persists across system updates) is almost always caused by hardware problems. So, yes, carry on swapping out components until you can isolate where the problem is. Some common hardware problems which might result in the problems you've seen: * PSU going flakey. If you have the right measuring equipment, this is pretty easy to detect by looking at the output voltages -- if they've drifted out of spec, or if you've got mains frequency jitter leaking through then its no wonder your system crashes. * Similarly, if the crashing is associated with system load, (particularly at startup, when things are happening like disks spinning up) this can indicate a power supply fading under load. That can happen due to age, or because you've been adding extra hardware and haven't considered the power requirements. * The other reason for crashing under load is overheating. Sometimes this can be cured easily by cleaning dust out of vents and heat-sinks. Check too for fans either seized or running slowly. * You may need to clean off any old heat-sink compound and re-apply a fresh layer, especially if you've taken CPU coolers off at some point. * There's also the old capacitor problem: electrolytic capacitors have a failure mode that generates some positive pressure inside them. This is detectable by the end of the capacitor being bowed out, rather than slightly concave. (Generally this means a new motherboard, although I've heard of people being able to solder in replacements successfully.) Other than that, try disconnecting and reconnecting peripherals like disks or DVDs and so forth in various combinations to test if that improves system stability. One faulty component can knock the whole machine over. Cheers, Matthew Aloha, Have seen the problems Matthew is addressing here in Hawaii. And if your equipment is in a non climate controlled room check for corrosion on the board or any plugins. Clean all the cabled and components that can be removed. (No air-con in my systems here in Hawaii and humidity is around 60-70% normally so we have to clean and put teflon on contacts about 2 times a year.) Corrosion is worse if your on the ocean or brackish river. Happy hunting. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What happened to FreeBSD.org DNS earlier today?
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 10/03/2012 23:41, Da Rock wrote: On 03/11/12 07:01, Mark Felder wrote: On 10.03.2012 14:43, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Earlier today, for a period of about 30-45 minutes or so, any attempt to connect to www.freebsd.org was yielding failed hostname lookups. Did anyone else notice this? Any word on what was causing it? I have to admit, it was rather startling at first. Do you have any further details? What are you using for DNS servers, or are you doing lookups yourself? Actually, around the same time others were reporting another site (not fbsd, which I could access easily) was broken. So maybe a dark cloud passed over? ;) No -- you were not imagining things. The DNS for freebsd.org was temporarily broken. It was that most impossible to remove of causes: human error. Cheers, Matthew Aloha, Ah, To Bad Matthew, I was going to ask if it was the pesky Solar flares. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?
Gary Kline wrote: guys, i made the mistake that conrad did when replying. i could make e excuse liked only getting five hours sleep, etc, bujt i wont. here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? or is that illegal, too? gray Aloha, Most Public Radio stations have the programs in podcast form from their websites. I have had TV stations send me dvd's of broadcasts that my Wife has been on here in Hawaii. I think asking the media will get you results. Many of us on the FreeBSD questions list seem to have writing backgrounds and are interested in Joseph Campbell and his developments in writing and storytelling audio and video process. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Some questions about Link Aggregation and Failover
.But when i have done ,the link aggregation only can do Failover .It cann't increase the speed. What is the problem?Detailed configuration as follows in the BSD9.0 /etc/rc.conf hostname=bbc04 ifconfig_bce2=up ifconfig_bce3=up ifconfig_bce4=up ifconfig_bce5=up ifconfig_bce6=up ifconfig_bce7=up cloned_interfaces=lagg0 ifconfig_lagg0=laggproto loadbalance laggport bce2 laggport bce3 laggport bce4 laggport bce5 laggport bce6 laggport bce7 ipv4_addrs_lagg0=172.16.60.64/16 defaultrouter=172.16.0.1 sshd_enable=YES pureftpd_enable=YES # Set dumpdev to AUTO to enable crash dumps, NO to disable dumpdev=NO the Cisco 3750 configure interface range gigabitEthernet 1/0/1-6 channel-proto lacp channel-group 1 mode active interface range gigabitEthernet 1/0/13-18 channel-proto lacp channel-group 2 mode active ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is the list down?
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Friday 17 February 2012 08:49:37 Da Rock wrote: On 02/17/12 11:21, Al Plant wrote: I have not seen any action in 2 days. There's been plenty of action in the last 2 days. Maybe check your mail server logs for errors? I noticed the same thing. The missing mails arrived all meanwhile over night. Mails from other sources have been received normally during this period of time. Things like this happen once in a while. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha Eric, My missing mail finally come down the pipe over night too. Strange but it has happened before. Thanks for your support. Where are you located? Here in Hawaii we have military installations that suck up band with for certain projects that have in the past interfered with email flow.. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Is the list down?
I have not seen any action in 2 days. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable?
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: I accessed the sshd from the new install screen as an option when I loaded it on the test box. I had to set up the lan manually to first get it up. Then you should be able to use ssh. I take it you either arranged for ssh to accept a direct root login, or added a non-root username. Does the new installer do one of these automatically, or is there more manual configuration involved? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, BSD Installer asks if you want to install sshd and click yes. Later you can go to another box on the lan and use the user account to ssh into the new box and su to root. This feature has been on the installs for a while. I used it on sysinstall on 7.*. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive
Waitman Gobble wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I had been running a similar computer with Windows XP with it. The drive was working fine a few moments before I did the install. I have a utility to test hard drives which boots from CD but like I said, when this drive is on a cable connected to any machine, booting is a non-option. I have an old IDE controller but it's ISA and I have not ISA slots on this computer. Looks like I may have to try the USB drive boot option to get on with this rescue. Weirdness.. ok, i was wondering - you said you installed an old drive to check it out, and I was thinking hmm 80gb, maybe setting on the shelf for a decade :) I do recall having a similar issue with a drive, but it was years and years ago- my memory hazed, and not necessarily (probably not) related to FreeBSD install. If you aren't getting POST then it sounds hardware related to me. Good Luck, Waitman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, I had this happen with using [Cable Select] on an 80G ISA drive jumper and after I switched to [Master] it worked fine. In any case it does sound like hardware. Try switching the cable. It may be broken. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable?
Chris wrote: Can't speak for the 64 bit but the I386 does. As for a DVD, look for that at the release. Chris Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 9:23 pm Subject: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable? To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I downloaded FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso and burned the image to CD. However the CD does not boot. Just wanted to confirm that it is supposed to be bootable. Also, is there a DVD version? I don't have many CDs around my house but plenty of DVDs. :) Thanks, Drew ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions Aloha Drew, I made a DVD of i386 10.0 and it works fine too. Haven't tried the 64. Even the new install screen worked the first time for me. Amazing. Da guys did a good job. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable?
Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 1/4/2012 8:01 PM, R Skinner wrote: On 01/05/12 13:23, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I downloaded FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso and burned the image to CD. However the CD does not boot. Just wanted to confirm that it is supposed to be bootable. Also, is there a DVD version? I don't have many CDs around my house but plenty of DVDs. :) Hi Drew, and welcome to FreeBSD. How did you 'burn' the disc? As an iso image (in Windows) you can open any burning program and tell it to burn it as is; you don't need to extract any contents. This is the usual problem if it won't boot. I used the Windows image burning tool on the one that didn't work. However I tried on another PC that had Nero Burning ROM. That one worked. Now I just wish the boot disk had an apparent way to enable ssh so I could install from another PC while browsing the web. [snip] Thanks, Drew I accessed the sshd from the new install screen as an option when I loaded it on the test box. I had to set up the lan manually to first get it up. Then you should be able to use ssh. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
End of: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation
Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: Mainly to Jerry and Chad, but anyone contributing to the flame and OT fest, How I feel whenever I see people argue on the internet http://i.imgur.com/biopQ.gif -- Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Well said Lyubomir, How true. The graphic just keeps on going and no one wins. Aloha, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Happy New Year to FreeBSD members...
Aloha! Wishing all our listers a happy and prosperous new year. Thanks for your help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Printer issue on FreeBSD
Aloha Gurus... I had a a print server power supply burn out and took the HD and motherboard board with it. The box I replaced it with took the install of Manolis 8.0 Release DVD ok for the base and I used portsnap to bring apfilter on board. Thats all there is on it. /etc hosts lists all boxes that were served by the old box (see below) and I am using the same server IP 192.168.1.50. /etc/ hosts.lpd host.hdk5.net 192.168.1.50 host2.intra.net 192.168.1.23 host3.intra .net 192.168.1.35 wireless_host. 192.168.1.2 (linux laptop not on printer but on the lan) The FreeBSD worked fine on the box that burned up. Printer is HP laserjet1100 Settings in /etc/printcap (on the server) lp|ljet4q|ljet4d... :lp/dev/lpt0:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4q:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4q/log:/ :af=/var/spool/lpd/let4q/acct:\ :mx=:#0\ :sh: This all prints ok test from the server using command line lpr -P ljet4q /etc/rc.conf This does not work from any other hosts on the lan as it used to on the old server. (not working from xorg or text from command line on the hosts on the line to be clear.) I can ping from box to box and can use ftp to print from the server by sending a text file to it from the other hosts on the lan. Any help appreciated. Thanks. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How to remove ACPI from boot ?
Aloha, I have a box that wont shut down with ACPI setting activated. Anyone point me to a how to on keeping ACPI from being set to on at boot. Thanks . ## Please copy me directly as I cant get messages on the list for some reason. Any one know who I can email about whats blocking the FreeBSD list? ## ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to remove ACPI from boot ?
Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:11:19 -1000, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net a écrit : Aloha, Bonjour, I have a box that wont shut down with ACPI setting activated. Anyone point me to a how to on keeping ACPI from being set to on at boot. in /boot/loader.conf hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 man acpi (DISABLING ACPI) Regards. Aloha, That worked. Merci ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Is questions mail down?
I havent recieve any FreeBSD questions Sunday Monday tuesday. No nov reminder either. Is the service broken? -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: new to os
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: You might, for example, still have your copy of WP 5 -- I do. But printers that work with the printer drivers are now museum pieces ... With the notable exception of PostScript printers. WP5 probably had a driver for the Apple LaserWriter, and -- while actual LaserWriters from that era are in the museum category -- the output from a LaserWriter driver will usually work on newer PostScript printers. ___ Aloha all: Thanks for the many helpful suggestions for WP5 (was ancestor of WP 7 - 8 I think). I'll have plenty ideas to try. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: new to os
Lars Eighner wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, scott mcclellan wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30 years - on a TRS-80). I know remember extremely little of OS vernacular. The main problem with DOS is lack of applications. If it was not so, I would be running it myself. You might, for example, still have your copy of WP 5 -- I do. But printers that work with the printer drivers are now museum pieces. There are work-arounds for this sort of thing -- including the hobby of maintaining ancient hardware -- but as for a working machine to do anything practical, there are stumbling blocks like this at every turn. Am I biting off more than I can chew, or is there a OS commands for dummies out there, or does FreeBSD have such a critter that one can go through. Of course there are still many old DOS tutorials online in various archives and some games and stuff. But now you are asking about FreeBSD, I think. One of the virtues of all of the unix-like systems (the BSDs and Linuxices) is that there are many maintained command-line applications, and the basic stuff is well-domuented with the online manual (man command). These applications are very similar from one BSD or Linux system to another, and are often compiled from the same source code. They all have true multiprocessing so you can switch from one command line environment (virtual terminal) to another with a keystroke. They are a little short of command-line (launched) graphics programs (viewers, paint, etc.) but they have a choice of GUIs, some of which are very lightweight, when you have to have graphics, and you can switch between the GUI and a command line virtual terminal with a keystroke. I'll pour through the FAQ and got hrough the online manuals for now. But it all seems greek. Can someone point me in a diresction to degreek this stuff for me. No ONE thing comes to mind. There are some web versions of the man command online, which is a good place to start. But the best thing seems to me is to find some disk space and make a small installation. Start by running #man man and go from there. Aloha Lars, You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can read them for transfer to a contemporary program? -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to turn off screen blanking
Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the kernel config and then running xset -dpms Any other ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha Aryeh, In my shed the three generic servers are headless and all will show video on demand using a kvm switch. I had to set the bios show no errors on the boxes to make this work. There are not new by any means but may give you an idea what to try. I believe these are hardware settings. - ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Alternative windowmanagers
Christian Barthel wrote: Hello, I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is a big mistake. And there are also rumors that Gnome will be Linux only. Maybe, we will never see Gnome3 under FreeBSD, but this is not a tragedy :) I am not very interested in eyecandy: I want a stable and fast wm (less memory and cpu, quick access to important places), different workspaces, and it should be configurable with ordinary files. Of course, It must run under FreeBSD. I sniffed into AfterStep, fvwm2 and fluxbox (I don't want to use KDE). I think, fluxbox is a nice wm and for my future, it will be the default wm for me. It's also very fast and easy to configure. Are there any other window manager worth looking? What is your window manager? ### Aloha... I have used xfce3 since it came out years ago and it is sparce and fast with nothing unnecessary that you cant kill off. Very functional and no clutter or eye candy. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD Questions off line?
Aloha, I havent seen any FreeBSD questions on line for 2 days. Any body have any knowledge about this? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: monthly iso snapshot
Subbsd wrote: Hi ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ - i see only February here. Monthly builds is broken? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha: Our University Tech's in Japan are back on line after the outage and have a current selection of daily snapshots for most platforms. Speeds are fine. (at least to here in Hawaii from Japan for download) USE this: ftp://pub.allbsd.org/pub/ ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: allBSD Japan servers ?
Ross Cameron wrote: works just fine here (im in south africa) so maybe a routing issue ??? Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. 2011/3/28 Al Plant n...@hdk5.net Kouichiro Iwao wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:59:19AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, Anybody know what happened to the http; or ftp servers for allbsd.org japan? Did the Tsumnami put them down? allbsd.org is hosted by Tokyo University of Science. Probably, servers are still there but down due to lack of electricity. Numbers of power plants are damaged by earthquake. We provide just a portsnap server, portsnap.club.kyutech.ac.jp. Consider using it instead of allbsd's if you want. Aloha, Thanks for the message. I hope you all have better days soon. Thanks... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha List, Yes: I think the allBSD servers came up the end of last week. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: am i back up....???
Bruce Cran wrote: On 02/04/2011 21:54, David Chanters wrote: You could have just sent yourself an email. But yes, here you are. I was going to suggest Gary should have used the freebsd-test mailing list but then I realised it's been broken since May last year. ##3 Aloha Bruce, Recently I've sent tests to a couple of our subscribers that I know personally since the tests never came back. Thanks for the heads up as to why. Any chance of getting it fixed? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:56:14 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: T: (a deep sigh while rolling his eyes) No, that's not the fuel, that's the tachometer. It is supposed to point at zero if the car is not started. The fuel indicator is usually to the left and smaller that the tachometer, and it should have E written upon it, then a semicircle, then F. And on a VW, it doesn't say E and F -- it says 0/1 and 1/1. That's okay - as long as it doesn't say 1/0 which would cause the operating system of the car to crash, and you have to send the onboard computer unit to VW Germany in order to get it replaced. :-) Aloha Poly, Your replies are the funniest ever on the list. Make me smile. Have a great day. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: allBSD Japan servers ?
Kouichiro Iwao wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:59:19AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, Anybody know what happened to the http; or ftp servers for allbsd.org japan? Did the Tsumnami put them down? allbsd.org is hosted by Tokyo University of Science. Probably, servers are still there but down due to lack of electricity. Numbers of power plants are damaged by earthquake. We provide just a portsnap server, portsnap.club.kyutech.ac.jp. Consider using it instead of allbsd's if you want. Aloha, Thanks for the message. I hope you all have better days soon. Thanks... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
allBSD Japan servers ?
Aloha, Anybody know what happened to the http; or ftp servers for allbsd.org japan? Did the Tsumnami put them down? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: allBSD Japan servers ?
Bruce Cran wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:59:19 -1000 Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Anybody know what happened to the http; or ftp servers for allbsd.org japan? Did the Tsumnami put them down? The machine's there but is refusing connections: ping6 pub.allbsd.org PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1 -- 2001:2f0:104:e001::34 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=0 hlim=48 time=269.213 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=1 hlim=48 time=268.705 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=2 Aloha Bruce, OK. Thats what I got. I have relatives and friends living in Osaka and Tokyo and they tell me things are really a mess. Hope those guys are OK. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Add dhcp wlan on existing static lan
Aloha, I want to add a dhcp NetGear WPN824v3 wireless leg for 2 laptops (1 MS7 and 1 Ubuntu Linux) on my existing static IP lan of 10 desktops and servers (all FreeBSD). I run fixed IP on both segments now using 192.168.1.x addresses but would like to have dhcp segment on the wireless side since the laptops have to be reconfigured every time they come back on my home/office lan. Has anyone on our list had experience with this or knows of a how-to? Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lenovo G550
User Wojtek wrote: anyone knows how to: - make it's touchpad usable? without any special software and used as mouse emulator it is very bad. The problem is that it quite often produces false clicks when you type on keyboard. Tried xf86-input-synaptics but it doesn't recognize the device (protocol psm, device psm0, turned off moused to aboid conflicts) Aloha Woj, I had the same problem with a touchpad on a HP Mini netbook. There was a switch on the top of the touchpad that you can turn off and use a wireless mouse with no issues. (The touch pad is not good to use as it is made to perform click when touched as well as move the mouse.)(really dumb idea IMHO) - make wireless network work. For me it's low priority now, i mostly don't use wifi, but it may be needed. Tried bwi and bwn with every firmware and doesn't work. none1@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x04b514e4 chip=0x431514e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' class = network Everything else works fine, including powerd and it's great laptop. Works 4.5 hour without power when lightly loaded. - lowest priority - what software can make any use of buildin camera. ugen7.2: Lenovo EasyCamera SuYin at usbus7, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zoneedit.com
Jack L. Stone wrote: I have used zoneedit.com's DNS zone service for about 9 years and it handles a number of static IPs for my companies. Now, suddenly they have created a new platform and migrating accounts from the legacy platform to the new. The legacy site doen't work anymore, just confirms account and redirects to the new site. Are there any members here using zoneedit.com and having trouble with their login? I cannot get my login to work and they won't solve the problem. They say they have reset my password but it doesn't work. The legacy web site says my account has been migrated, yet the login doesn't work. The legacy site responds to my normal email address used for the entire 9 years, but the new platform only responds with an error that the email doesn't exist. The service still works, but no access to manage my zones. (Yes, I copy/paste the login so no typos.) I've sent numerous request for help since Jan 12th but only get the robot response with the same information about responding in 24 hours -- but, they never respond. Now, here I sit without access to numerous domain zones I need to edit with any way to access them. This is hurting my biz. So, anyone with this issue out there or know of an alternative company to replace zoneedit? Thanks for any response (no robots pls -- heh, heh) (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha Jack, Yes, I use Zone Edit. I just had to email them at Support: supp...@zoneedit.com and Paul T. sent me this link to the legacy site as they havent migrated all the DNS. http://www.zoneedit.com/auth/ My issue was that I had the older view era monitor on the rack I use to do this and read emails. Their new web face is wide screen and my monitor chopped off the link to the old site to log on so I emailed them and they answered me in a day. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
No resopnse on FreeBSD questions
Is the questions site and the test server off line? -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: UPS question
David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minutes on battery. If full power has not been returned, shut down the server but leave the modem (w/ wireless) and switch running with power for up to 6 hours. A bit of advice: If this is an unattended system, give some thought to how you will boot the server back up if the outage is longer than two minutes but shorter than six hours. Most UPS installations have *some* kind of race condition issue if power comes back after the servers have begun a shutdown, but in your case it's an unusually long window. Meaning that my 2-minute window is unusually long? If the UPS can support the system for 12 minutes, I say give it 20% of the life of the support because our power outages here are usually spikes that kill my current web server (but amazingly *not* my file server). In fact, one of those power fluxes occurred last night. I love storms for the light shows, but hate them for the toll they take on my servers. Nope, 2 minutes is fine, maybe even short depending on how long your system takes to shut down. What I'm asking about is this scenario: 1. Power goes out. 2. Server shuts itself down after 2 minutes. 3. Power comes back on before the UPS batteries are exhausted. The server never sees a power cycle, so it doesn't boot itself back up until someone physically goes and pushes the button. ## I have had these power dips and surges here in Hawaii. I have installed UPS power from two stationary batters that will run the servers for 12 hours. We have experienced extensive outages in the past and this was our only solution. Surges are almost impossible to stop. I have them jump cross a surge protector. I have recently had several UPS Desktop backups fail from a surge and then a drop below 70 v. This caused the UPS to have the charging diodes blow. It was cheaper to replace the UPS 's than to repair them. #3. The motherboard bios can be set to stop a server from self booting from a power outage. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: UPS question
Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Al Plant wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minutes on battery. If full power has not been returned, shut down the server but leave the modem (w/ wireless) and switch running with power for up to 6 hours. A bit of advice: If this is an unattended system, give some thought to how you will boot the server back up if the outage is longer than two minutes but shorter than six hours. Most UPS installations have *some* kind of race condition issue if power comes back after the servers have begun a shutdown, but in your case it's an unusually long window. Meaning that my 2-minute window is unusually long? If the UPS can support the system for 12 minutes, I say give it 20% of the life of the support because our power outages here are usually spikes that kill my current web server (but amazingly *not* my file server). In fact, one of those power fluxes occurred last night. I love storms for the light shows, but hate them for the toll they take on my servers. Nope, 2 minutes is fine, maybe even short depending on how long your system takes to shut down. What I'm asking about is this scenario: 1. Power goes out. 2. Server shuts itself down after 2 minutes. 3. Power comes back on before the UPS batteries are exhausted. The server never sees a power cycle, so it doesn't boot itself back up until someone physically goes and pushes the button. ## I have had these power dips and surges here in Hawaii. I have installed UPS power from two stationary batters that will run the servers for 12 hours. We have experienced extensive outages in the past and this was our only solution. Surges are almost impossible to stop. I have them jump cross a surge protector. I have recently had several UPS Desktop backups fail from a surge and then a drop below 70 v. This caused the UPS to have the charging diodes blow. It was cheaper to replace the UPS 's than to repair them. #3. The motherboard bios can be set to stop a server from self booting from a power outage. Yes. The downside comes from when the BIOS is told to turn on the server at, say, 10pm and the power is still out... it starts the process and runs out of battery mid-way through the boot before it gets the chance to load the UPS controller. #3. Thats why setting the bios not to self boot would work. (Stopping the bios from turning the server on after an outage.) Someone would have to check the power status manually before throwing the switch manually to make it come up after power has been restored. Also turning servers and some desktops off and on is many cases a bad idea. Example: I was called out today to look at a desktop that was turned off while the user went away for a month. It did not survive the turn on. Corrosion took its toll on the mobo and fans. The humidity was the cause. No humidity in the case when the unit is on and fans (3 of them) are working. Hope you can solve your problem. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dell workstation / server Freebsd's compatibility
Olivier GARNIER wrote: Hi, I've got an old workstation wich i use to have FreeBSD server on it (http/samba/ 4 disk on RAID) It's summer time and the old workstation will not work at the end the summer time (too warm for it) So ii wish to change it. I don't need a big server, a tiny workstation will be enough. I wish a inter CPU and dell construction (i'm use to use there work) So herre is the question : If you have dell computer (wich is still sold by dell) and if you're working with FreeBSD on it with no more problem, can you tell me witch computer you have ? (it would be great to have the same list as laptop (*laptop*.bsdgroup.de) For workstation and server ...) Thanks Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org : Aloha Oliver, For what it's worth. Make sure the case has plenty of ventilation and a couple of fans. We just had to replace an older case housing new mobo etc. with case with a front fan as well as the big side one and one on the back. Many of the newer CPU's need more cooling. Both Intel and AMD. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Copy a FreeBSD 8* install to larger HD
Aloha, I am looking for the easiest way to copy a fresh working FreeBSD 8* HD install (Manolis version) to a bigger HD that I found. I plan to have the new HD in the same box for doing this copy. Can I use sysinstall to make the new default slices on the big HD and then move the OS and directories/files to them? What command (utility) do I use? dd or cp or some other to copy the files. Thanks ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lpr 'queue full errorSOLVED
Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I have a network HP Laserjet 1100 printer that has been running with out failure since 2004 on my office lan using aps2 filter on a FreeBSD 4.9 Lpr print server. It became intermittent recently in that it prints files from the command line only. The gui's on the three desktop boxes on the lan (all FreeBSD 8 9) no longer print. The error is queue is full when print job is sent from a gui. It works fine from the command line. Could the aps2 filter have failed? Any suggestions as to what to look for appreciated. Search only showed similar questions no answers. Thanks, Aloha, Problem solved: For the record. I found a lpc command in FreeBSD Unleashed. LPR trouble shooting section. lpc clean all This command used on the client hosts and the server removed a lot of cruft left by the printing processes. It appears to print as it should after this command. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Lpr 'queue full error
Aloha, I have a network HP Laserjet 1100 printer that has been running with out failure since 2004 on my office lan using aps2 filter on a FreeBSD 4.9 Lpr print server. It became intermittent recently in that it prints files from the command line only. The gui's on the three desktop boxes on the lan (all FreeBSD 8 9) no longer print. The error is queue is full when print job is sent from a gui. It works fine from the command line. Could the aps2 filter have failed? Any suggestions as to what to look for appreciated. Search only showed similar questions no answers. Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Driver for Belkin F5D9050 V 4000
Jerry wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:34:29 +0100 Chris utis...@googlemail.com articulated: Do you have to use FreeBSD/amd64 instead of FreeBSD/i386? I'm only asking in case you recently installed, I know it's not an ideal solution. Well, no one is holding a gun to my head if that is what you mean. However, to take advantage of all the memory I have in this system, as well as the improved overall system performance, yes I do have to use the 64bit version. IMHO, 32bit systems are all ready becoming passe. I predict that they will go the way of the dinosaur in 5 years or less. I did have i386 installed on this system briefly because there were no 64bit nVidia drivers available. After switching to 64bit I have noticed a real improvement in overall system performance. ## Aloha, Q: Are the drivers available for 64bit nvidia cards (imbeded in mobo)? I have not found a good how to on line for istalling on FreeBSD 8.* I have an install that works fine on 64 bit amd until the video section for desktop use. Even the DVD Manolis produced doesnt make the video work. It just flashaes on for a few seconds then dies off. Any pointers to a how-to much appreciated. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Driver for Belkin F5D9050 V 4000
Jerry wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:20:39 -1000 Al n...@hdk5.net articulated: Jerry wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:34:29 +0100 Chris utis...@googlemail.com articulated: Do you have to use FreeBSD/amd64 instead of FreeBSD/i386? I'm only asking in case you recently installed, I know it's not an ideal solution. Well, no one is holding a gun to my head if that is what you mean. However, to take advantage of all the memory I have in this system, as well as the improved overall system performance, yes I do have to use the 64bit version. IMHO, 32bit systems are all ready becoming passe. I predict that they will go the way of the dinosaur in 5 years or less. I did have i386 installed on this system briefly because there were no 64bit nVidia drivers available. After switching to 64bit I have noticed a real improvement in overall system performance. ## Aloha, Q: Are the drivers available for 64bit nvidia cards (imbeded in mobo)? I have not found a good how to on line for istalling on FreeBSD 8.* I have an install that works fine on 64 bit amd until the video section for desktop use. Even the DVD Manolis produced doesnt make the video work. It just flashaes on for a few seconds then dies off. Any pointers to a how-to much appreciated. Port: nvidia-driver-195.36.15 Path: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver Info: NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering Port: nvidia-settings-195.36.15 Path: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-settings Info: Display Control Panel for X NVidia driver Port: nvidia-xconfig-195.36.15 Path: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-xconfig Info: Tool to manipulate X configuration files for the NVidia driver quote To use these drivers, make sure that you have loaded the nvidia kernel module, by doing # kldload nvidia or adding nvidia_load=YES to your /boot/loader.conf. If you build this port with WITH_FREEBSD_AGP=yes, make sure you have agp.ko kernel module installed and loaded, since nvidia.ko will depend on it, or have your kernel compiled with device agp. Otherwise the nvidia kernel module will not load. Also, care to specify correct ``Option NvAGP'' in ``Device'' section of your X11 configuration file. When building with Linux compatibility (WITH_LINUX=yes), make sure linux.ko is available as well (or have it compiled in kernel). It can be loaded via /boot/loader.conf (or later in boot process if you add linux_enable=YES to your /etc/rc.conf. Note that this driver does not support PAE-enabled kernels. /quote # Jerry, Many thanks. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Also have a dead box [ WAS: Re: OT: dead box ]
Tim Judd wrote: On 3/23/10, Corey John Bukolt ruinermailchuc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:23:34 + (06:23 CDT) Chris Whitehouse wrote: When you press the power button does the cpu fan or the power supply fan spin for a moment then stop? That's a sign that something on or plugged in to the motherboard has blown. Unplug things and test again. Chris Just a few days ago, I was helping a friend build a system (with all brand new components, I might add) and we had this very problem. After sticking in the CPU and RAM and hooking up and turning on the PSU, the green LED on the motherboard turns on. However, the second the power button is pressed, everything flashes for a second, then turns back off. The green LED on the motherboard also remains on. The only way to get it to flash again is to turn off the PSU, wait, then turn it back on. We tried re-seating everything, to no avail. Reading this thread, someone else mentioned beep codes and that if there were none, it's most likely a fried motherboard. Can anyone else confirm this? ~Corey Best way to confirm a dead board in any case is those POST diagnosis cards. They have a dual-digit LED output that changes depending on the signal on the wire. If at any time those dual-digit LEDs stay permanently on anything OTHER THAN 00 is a failed POST. If it fails before it gets a shot at testing RAM or anything, there may be no beep codes. Always good to have one in a toolkit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, If it shuts off as described check for a power supply that tests ok but is NOT compatible with the motherboard. Many high end mobo's need a power supply that feeds a steady current. The component detection on the better mobos will shut the board down if it is not the quality tolerance it likes. We just experienced this here two weeks ago with all new components and the supplier of the components replaced the brand new Power Supply with a better quality one at their expense and the box works fine now. This was a mother board that was not cheap. My wife needed to upgrade for video editing etc. The supplier said they had this problem with several of the better boards. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OT: dead box
Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using another known working outlet. I checked all the cables and they seem attached. I thought my power supply must have died so I got another, screwed it in and again no joy - no sign of life. Anybody got any ideas what the problem may be? I'm thinking possibly the power on switch but that seems a long shot and there seems no easy way to replace it. I had this happen recently (BTW it was FBSD server ;-) )! I took _everything_ appart, and then assembled it little by little checking at each step. Incredibly it just workd after reseating the CPU, RAM, and re-connecting every single component. Also, I swapped components with a similar machine for testing which will help you test the components on a known-working machine. Good luck, Alejandro Imass My hardware: Antec Sonata case. Gigabyte board. Core 2 duo TIA, Regards, -- Aloha, Like Alejandro did two weeks ago I replaced a mobo that acted the same way. I took the old board apart one device at a time and it remained dead until I removed the CPU and and reseated it and up she came. This desktop is in an un-airconditioned house here in Hawaii and we get cool nights in the Winter months and warm days. Components walk out of the sockets I think from the temperature changes and corrosion from the tropic air. You may want to see if this is the problem. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to use cdrecord
Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:48:22 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: No I do not. how do i do this? If you don't want to compile it into your kernel, load it manually: # kldload atapicam You can automate it using the appropriate line in /boot/loader.conf, I think it's atapicam_load=YES Then you get something like this: % camcontrol devlist SCANNER 2.02at scbus0 target 6 lun 0 (pass0) HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H58N 1.01 at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (cd0,pass1) The scanner is a real SCSI scanner, the DVD recorder is an ATAPI drive. You see it's device number is 2,0,0, and the device node is /dev/cd0. You need access to /dev/pass1, too. (If the scanner wouldn't be present, it would be /dev/pass0.) If you want to burn a data CD, use something like this: % cdrecord dev=2,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -tao -data iso-file For a music CD: % cdrecord dev=2,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -dao -audio track1 track2 ... If you want to combine the mkisofs step with the burning step (instead of first creating the ISO, then burnin it), you can do something like this: % mkisofs -r files | cdrecord dev=2,0,0 speed=16 -v -eject -tao -data - It works similar with DVDs, just you use growisofs from the port dvd+rw-tools here: % growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=$1 The /dev/dvd is a symling that points to /dev/cd0 - again, the ATAPICAM cd driver is used instead of ATAPI's acd. To make this symlink, I have linkacd0cdrom linkcd0 dvd in /etc/devfs.conf. This makes refering to the example in man growisofs more easy. :-) If you don't have this symlink, you must use /dev/cd0 (or the correct device name for the SCSI drive) in the command. You can check this with camcontrol devlist where both numerical and device node are displayed. Additionally, you can do the same with growisofs as I have shown you with cdrecord - combine the building of the ISO with the burning: % growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -r files This should give you a good summary of how to use these tools. You already have gotten useful advices on how to set the correct device permissions - this is important. Additionally, see man cdrecord on how to construct a simple config file so you don't have to put speed= and dev= whenever you want to use the program - it makes things more comfortable. :-) Aloha... Poly is right. I use in #/boot/bootloader the line: atapicam_load=YES # For DVD/CD Burner to work. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups
David Jackson wrote: David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system lockup often for minutes. Performance with accessing USB disks is horrendous,. it took 7 hours to copy a directory that was 200 MB. Any program that accesses the USB disk tend to freeze for minutes, and often the entire system becomes unresponsive for minutes. Overall FreeBSD here is characterized by severe instabilities, ive had better performance from Windows 98 systems. The fact that the entire system freezes up, this should not happen, a well designed system will not lock up the entire OS when accessing disk. Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? Thank you for the reply to my concerns. I have been reading through them carefully. I seem to have also discovered that the lockup problems are not entirely due to USB issues. Many of them were being caused by an apparent problem with the swap system. I have two swaps, a file backed swap and a partition swap on the same disk. Apparently when having two swaps on the disk there are severe performance problems. FreeBSD needs to fix whatever is causing this thrashing problem. So far the lockups have seem to become much less severe since i have disabled the file based swap file. I may disable the partition swap but i do not know if it is possible to have the system boot with a file based swap only. Perhaps i can disable the partition swap after it boots. I am trying to copy a directory on the USB drive however and it does seem to be rather slow still. It started at 5:45 and is still going. I will see how long it takes. Again thanks for the help with these issues ___ I dont think its a good idea to have two swaps on any HD. If you used the default setup under sysinstall for FreeBSD it gives how the setup should look. Is the USB a current 2.0? I cant ever recall having the problems you are describing on a FreeBSD box ever. Maybe you have funky hardware configuration. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: tao suddenly died
Gary Kline wrote: Well, first time this happened since I got my Dell 8200. It suddenly died. I just finished sending an email a few minutes earlier. I'm writing from my only other live non-server. The KVM switch was mis-installed so I can't KVM over to my DNS server. Does this happen often with Dells? What should I be looking for to replace the 8200. thanks for any suggestions. Aloha Gary, Dell sudden death. In my experience means a hardware failure. EG: Two weeks ago I consulted for a friend in IT on a dead Dell server with the removable hard drives. It turned out to be a faulty back plate where the HD's fitted in so all 4 were not working. Dell had to send a replacement backplate to replace the bad one. If you can find anyone on a list with one of your type maybe they can help you. Dell doesnt always use the same hardware in the same model computer btw. Check all the cables and power supply connections and re-seat everything in the box. Something may have walked out of the board. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups
Bruce Cran wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010 16:52:08 David Jackson wrote: Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? You'll probably get a better response by asking on the freebsd-usb mailing list. The following debug nodes for USB in 8.0 are present: sysctl hw.usb | grep debug hw.usb.ehci.debug: 0 hw.usb.ohci.debug: 0 hw.usb.uhci.debug: 0 hw.usb.ctrl.debug: 0 hw.usb.umass.debug: 0 hw.usb.debug: 0 hw.usb.dev.debug: 0 hw.usb.ugen.debug: 0 hw.usb.uhub.debug: 0 hw.usb.proc.debug: 0 hw.usb.ulpt.debug: 0 hw.usb.ucom.debug: 0 hw.usb.uhid.debug: 0 hw.usb.ukbd.debug: 0 hw.usb.ums.debug: 0 Your first step should probably be to get a verbose boot log (boot -v) - one of the USB developers will likely know better than I do which sysctl debug nodes to set to get more details. Aloha, If the node is disappearing for the USB device and it is connected by a cable to the box try replace the cable. We had one here that would not stay listed on the hardware and it was the cable connector gone bad. I have never had a USB device lock up the box though. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions
tedious.
The main disadvantage is - access to all packages :) In the case of X,
you and I, developers and most people here know to hunt for the Xorg
meta-port. But the naive or new installer knows of no such thing, and
could beat around in the huge lists of X software for ages, wondering
what's required and what's not to get a desktop going.
True. So I guess we really need a Your first FreeBSD Desktop article
to point to for first time installers.
X is just tip of the iceberg here, consider these:
- How to setup xorg.conf, hal?
- What packages do I need for {GNOME,KDE,XFCE,You-Name-It-WM}?
- What is .xinitrc? How am I going to setup my login manager?
- Where is bash? Why are my locale settings wrong?
- Got into X finally, why isn't my flash drive automounted?
- ...
All this info and more is available in the Handbook, but it is not
intended to be read as a sequential setup guide. There are far more
discouraging things even after you get X installed.
The previous basic setup menus in sysinstall for X were not only useful;
I suspect that they are virtually essential for someone, say, coming
from Debian or Ubuntu or such, wanting to try FreeBSD on their system,
or the genuine first-time installer of FreeBSD. sysinstall used to
assume as little prior knowledge or need to pre-read the Handbook and/or
FAQ or follow the lists as possible. Now it's seeming much more firmly
targeted at the already experienced user, and I feel that's regressive.
cheers, Ian
Quite frankly, I don't believe sysinstall has gotten any worse. But
there are so many easy installers out there for 5 minute setups, that
more and more users already come with the fixed mindset it will install
in 5 minutes, I won't have to read anything which clearly won't work.
But I believe PC-BSD fills the gap for them and it is getting better all
the time.
Apologies for the long post :)
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Aloha ,
I have used the FreeBSD 7.* cd/dvd since Manolis put up the site for
them. I have had no issues that were not controllable by configuration.
His versions just work. You can also add your favorite wm by selecting
it from ports.
On the other hand with a Ubuntu HP Mini I could not install wireless
automatically the way the GUI tries to do it. I had to make my own
network file to over ride interferrng wireless from the military
installations 1 Km from my house. I think Ubuntu must select the
strongest signals and my netgear wireless didnt show up below strong
military net signal.
Manual settings work fine.
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email: n...@hdk5.net
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Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean ocean_i...@yahoo.it wrote: also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) were you will only put the applications they need to run. An alternative would be IcecWM: Easily configurable menu, good window managing, no bloat. But I can second XFCE, too. Maybe you want to run XFCE 3 which has some look feel of CDE, is easily configurable and very fast. (I use it on a 300 MHz P2 with similar requirements as you mentioned, but without any Flash). There's a nice dock-like application for X which is used by the FreeSBIE live system CD. I've got no FreeSBIE at hand, nor can I remember the application's name, but I think this would be interesting to you, too. Like Poly I too use XFCE 3 on all my FreeBSD desktops. Its light and fast and anyone can learn it quickly. I have Gnome on a Linux HP netbook and it is a lot slower. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD
James Phillips wrote: Hello, After making two coasters with a graphical CD burning program using Ubuntu, I decided to try using FreeBSD: I want to start backing up to DVD anyway. After some searching I learned I missed some details in the handbook on the first and second reads such as: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html The program growisofs(1) will be used to perform DVD recording. This command is part of the dvd+rw-tools utilities (sysutils/dvd+rw-tools). The dvd+rw-tools support all DVD media types. I had hard time finding the non-existent growisofs package! These tools use the SCSI subsystem to access to the devices, therefore the ATAPI/CAM support must be added to your kernel. If your burner uses the USB interface this addition is useless, and you should read the Section 18.5 for more details on USB devices configuration. Using the atapicd driver generated the following error message: :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device After the command: $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0=8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso before you ask: MD5 (8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) = 5336cd827991e4d4cff6d73c4a5ca105 Release announcement: 5336cd827991e4d4cff6d73c4a5ca105 I tried playing with /etc/devfs.conf as suggested by Predrag Punosevac $ id uid=1002(backup) gid=1002(backup) groups=1002(backup),5(operator),1003(Share) $ cat /etc/devfs.conf |sed 's/#.*//g' linkcd0 cdrom linkcd0 dvd linkcd0 rdvd own cdrom root:operator own dvd root:operator own rdvdroot:operator permcd0 0660 permcdrom 0660 permdvd 0660 permrdvd0660 permxpt00660 permpass0 0660 - that sed command was stolen from a script expecting CRlf -originally used device acd0 (until enabling atapicam) $ cat /boot/loader.conf acpi_load=no apm_load=yes atapicam_load=yes #ata_load=yes# enabled by default scbus_load=yes cd_load=yes pass_load=yes atapicd_load=no #hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 # enabled by default With the atapicam driver I was able to somehow get growisofs to go through the motions of burning the DVD, even have a kernel message from GEOM reading the BSD label: $ tail /var/log/messages Dec 3 20:00:00 dusty newsyslog[833]: logfile turned over due to size100K Dec 3 20:00:28 dusty kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0t01 is iso9660/FreeBSD_Install. but can't read the disk to verify it: $ dd if=/dev/cd0 bs=2048 | md5 996592+0 records in 996592+0 records out 2041020416 bytes transferred in 1292.388284 secs (1579263 bytes/sec) 19b087536234b316b64232ba6b1c1799 Umm. Nevermind. I added the block size so nobody would try suggesting it has an effect :P previous error: $ dd if=/dev/cd0 | md5 dd: /dev/cd0: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000721 secs (0 bytes/sec) d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e I noticed that the hash does not match the ISO file. Is that normal for DVDs? For CD images I often get the md5 hash to match. The man page for atapicam(4) warns: atapicam and ATAPI-specific target drivers (acd(4), ast(4), and afd(4)) can be configured in the same kernel. Simultaneous access to the same device through the SCSI generic drivers and the ATAPI-specific drivers may cause problems and is strongly discouraged. Is there anything special I should do to try to disable the atapicd driver? I don't think my 'atapicd_load=no' line in /boot/loader.conf has much of an effect. Regards, James Phillips __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha JP, This is what I use on FreeBSD from the command line to burn DVD's. I have used it on FreeBSD 8* for a while. (Simple and it works.)- ## dvdburner.doc DVD+R burner Setup and operation From sysutils/dvd+rw-tools Intall the DVD port # growisofs ( used the following from all the suggestions and it worked with Manolis DVD p1 7.2) 1st Put hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 in the /boot/loader.conf 2nd Put apticam_load=YES in the /boot/loader.conf (That 2nd 18.7.2 instruction is not clear in the Handbook section and should be added.) Then Run # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z dev/cd0=/usr/home/alp/FreeBSD_7/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso (all on one line) Then Use cd0 as a DVD burner and make the DVD-R I tested the DVD on a spare box and it installed just fine. ## ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol
Where's Snapshots and pub.allbsd.org
Aloha, Anybody on the FreeBSD list know what has happened to the snapshots that have not been available on FreeBSD.org since last Sept.? Also what happened to pub.allbsd.org snapshots? Are there new URL's for current and daily snapshots to test? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hp 10-in mini?
Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:34:04PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Aloha Gary, I have one running Ubuntu Linux on the HD. It works ok on a wired or wireless network with a Fixed IP. The automatic gui for setting up the network failed to work and stay where it was set so I wrote the file myself using a fixed IP etc. I also run FreeBSD 7.2 on it on a plug in flash drive using Manolis DVD copy. I paid $400. with extra battery and memory. I may have-to spring for one of these puppies -- with optical and mouse. At least two medicos are interested in my ideas... [Still, half-price upped my buy_now flag:) Haven't set up the wireless for use with Coffee Shop wan yet. Tech support for the mini is from India and I know more than they do about Linux and haven't used Linux in years. The Mini has had no problems except the touch pad is usless. Touching the pad is a click or several same as the buttons.) I found out that by touching the light above it turns it off so you can use a wireless mouse which works well. HP Tech support did not know how to disable the touchpad. A terminal is brought up by alt/f2. What kind? xterm, konsole, or the gnome flavor? I prefer something with a solid cursor; the Gnome blinks ... and I'm too lazy to dig into the code to see where to off the blinking. this is getting interestinger and interestinger. aloha, al. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol The Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux and is only the base system. I use xterm and the browser and the files we created ourselves for storing info. The GUI is a HP thing and I dont like it. It has too many photo features and other things we dont need since my wife has a dedicated Box she uses for photos and videos. Our mini is for using while traveling and keeping up with finances while were on the go etc. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hp 10-in mini?
Gary Kline wrote: gang, I rarely glance at any come-on advertisement, but I just got one by amazon that has a $380 HP Mini 10 computer for $200. I want to use something about this size for my type-and-speech computer. I'm thinking more of the ASUS 9 notebook. What are people's thoughts on this? (Yes, this is still an attempt to drive sales in a bad downturn. etc. Still, altho these tiny computers many be manufactured in the same plant by the same corporation, it may not make any difference.) anybody on-list who cares to share? gary Aloha Gary, I have one running Ubuntu Linux on the HD. It works ok on a wired or wireless network with a Fixed IP. The automatic gui for setting up the network failed to work and stay where it was set so I wrote the file myself using a fixed IP etc. I also run FreeBSD 7.2 on it on a plug in flash drive using Manolis DVD copy. I paid $400. with extra battery and memory. Haven't set up the wireless for use with Coffee Shop wan yet. Tech support for the mini is from India and I know more than they do about Linux and haven't used Linux in years. The Mini has had no problems except the touch pad is usless. Touching the pad is a click or several same as the buttons.) I found out that by touching the light above it turns it off so you can use a wireless mouse which works well. HP Tech support did not know how to disable the touchpad. A terminal is brought up by alt/f2. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hp 10-in mini?
Doug Poland wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 16:54, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: gang, I rarely glance at any come-on advertisement, but I just got one by amazon that has a $380 HP Mini 10 computer for $200. I want to use something about this size for my type-and-speech computer. I'm thinking more of the ASUS 9 notebook. What are people's thoughts on this? (Yes, this is still an attempt to drive sales in a bad downturn. etc. Still, altho these tiny computers many be manufactured in the same plant by the same corporation, it may not make any difference.) anybody on-list who cares to share? gary My wife has one of these running XP. I've booted and run both 7.1-RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 from external USB. It's a nice little piece of hardware. Unfortunately, the wireless chipset was not recognized. I did not pursue it any further.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, The chipset is a Broadcom and I think there maybe a driver now. BCM4312 is the one in mine. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]
Gary Kline wrote: hey guys, my last e-troubles happened a few months ago, or several weeks ago, when my old KVM unit began flaking out. the one computer buddy i have in the seattle area suggested i order a 4-port iogear. i did and he installed it. it was .LT. sixty bux and next-to-worthless given my disability.[*] altho i did type down the conversation between iogear and my friend, i'll spare you. nutshell: they refused to swap and upgrade for something i could more readily use. --i'll post the entire story on my freebsd pages in time. my new/used dell inspiron-530 is here. it is installed to as far as i can install it. trouble is that i see on the dell screen Keyboard failure and a message to press F2 to setup. the kvm has the old ps2 plugs and no adaptors to USB. i have the dell kybd here, come to think of it, but i'm waaay the hell beyond achy to get down and muck around and test. what's your best guess, folks? the computer parts stores around here have largely shut down ...but if ordering an adaptor or two will fix things, i'll do it. any thoughts on this? i think i would need at least 547 pain meds to get back down there and plug in the kyboard; i might drowse off gary [*] gotta type CTRL-ALT-Shift at just the right keyrate (+/- 0.0001s:) to change ports. Aloha Gary, Radio Shack has a converter from PS2 to usb for stuff like that. I bought a kit of converters from Home Depot her in Honolulu for the same purpose. The KVM switch I have in the server room is PS2 but has little switches on the front that change the mouse , monitor and keyboard with a light pressure. Even a pencil with an eraser on it could be used to change from one of any of eight ports. Send me a picture of the setup you have and I'll see if I can figure out a way to work it for you. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Linux-realplayer missing from ports
Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:16:09PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I am trying to get Linux-RealPlayer to install from updated ports collection on a FreeBSD 9 desktop box. (Xorg and www etc all installed fine on this test box.) Error says it cannot be found in our ports collection. Is there a way to locate the maintainer? This port is missing some components. Or can it be down loaded into distfiles? If so from where? Or has this been replaced by something else to play audio in ports. I would be glad to try any port for playing audio from web or files that is known to work. Thanks /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer on my box. I guess you're using portupgrade; sometimes it can't find ports without using wildcards. Regards, ### Yes Frank, That's what should work. But it doesnt. There is a false old version in the port on the server. This is apparently a known issue as there are two (2) PR's with this issue reported in the last few days. If someone on our list knows the maintainer I think it could be corrected easily. It may be an upgrade that failed to take as the two versions are 2004 and 2007 is what I think should be there now. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Linux-realplayer missing from ports
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:16:09 -1000 Al Plant wrote: I am trying to get Linux-RealPlayer to install from updated ports collection on a FreeBSD 9 desktop box. (Xorg and www etc all installed fine on this test box.) Error says it cannot be found in our ports collection. Please, show the exact command you use and the error you get. Is there a way to locate the maintainer? This port is missing some components. Or can it be down loaded into distfiles? If so from where? Or has this been replaced by something else to play audio in ports. I would be glad to try any port for playing audio from web or files that is known to work. Don't think so: - % whereis linux-realplayer linux-realplayer: /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer - Aloha Boris, The error is not found on server for the 2007 version. The above line is what should work. But it doesnt. There is a false old version in the port list from the update on the server. This is apparently a known issue as there are two (2) PR's with this issue reported in the last few days. If someone on our list knows the maintainer I think it could be corrected easily. It may be an upgrade that failed to take as the two versions are 2004 and 2007. I think 2007 should be there now. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Linux-realplayer missing from ports
Aloha, I am trying to get Linux-RealPlayer to install from updated ports collection on a FreeBSD 9 desktop box. (Xorg and www etc all installed fine on this test box.) Error says it cannot be found in our ports collection. Is there a way to locate the maintainer? This port is missing some components. Or can it be down loaded into distfiles? If so from where? Or has this been replaced by something else to play audio in ports. I would be glad to try any port for playing audio from web or files that is known to work. Thanks ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: breakthru, maybe....
Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:09:50PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:08, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: so: what is the URL to download the 8.0-PRE freebsd? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ wait, i thought the duo core is 64bits. still 32? This: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ is indeed 64bit. Yes! but i bought the *Intel* 2-duo-core or whatever; not the AMD (aDvanced micro Devices) chip. Are these both bit by bit == ?? i mean, exactly--software-wise, the same?? thanks. gary ps i knew the amd was an intel clone on the 32-bit level; not sure about the 64-bit chips... . Intel licensed the AMD64 instruction set and they call it Intel 64 in their chips. Most free UNIX-like systems call the x86_64 releases AMD64 because thats the correct name for the instruction set. Well, I was just a bit behind the times; like four or five years. But thanks to several wiki articles, that's resolved. Nutshell is that I just finished burning the bootonly.iso. Now, if the power holds and I get the 8.0-RC2 running on the Dell, there's hope. And for my next trick: I'm ordering a UPS. It is only for the DNS server and firefall (pfSense). I'll either refurb the current computer or buy a newer 32-bit for the firewall. I'd like suggestions on which UPS to buy. Figuring the Dell Duo and a standard Intel box, would 250w be a good enough SWAG? gary -- Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. Aloha Gary, If that used computer place has UPS get a couple and get new batteries for them if they are not refurbished. I got 2 used free beacuse the batteries were dead and took out the small batteries and installed the standard 100 amp hour batteries to back up 6 servers 2 years ago. I too was having up to 10 hour power outages.Now the backup will go for at least 10 hours with no line power. We had a 6 hour outage last fall and the system kept right on working. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Force installation of dependencies
Warren Liddell wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com mailto:shin...@maydias.com wrote: is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ? Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not using a port managment tools to handling installing and upgrading your applications. Become familar with portmaster or portupgrade, you'll save yourself a lot of headache. -- Adam Vande More i use portupgrade .. but atm im getting no options or solutions to my problem .. so im trying to think of radical ways an means of solving it .. re-installing all dependencies of this pkg im hoping will solve my issue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, I installed: portsnap fetch extract -to get rid of this issue of dependencies. Once you have portsnap installed you can subsequently use: portsnap fetch update. Manolis Kiagias has suggested this to several of us on the list and it works for me. Good luck. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mkisofs error
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote: My data backups to DVD use mkisofs to build ISO9660 DVDs like so: mkisofs -J -joliet-long -r -hide-rr-moved -graft-points dir1 dir2 dir3 and then piped into cdrecord. However, I found a problem with one file that casts some doubt on the whole process. The file is named img_0185-6x4crop.jpg and is 3,309,906 bytes. On the hard drive, it reads fine. The filename is present on the DVD, but the file always gives a read error: # file img_0185-6x4crop.jpg img_0185-6x4crop.jpg: ERROR: cannot read `img_0185-6x4crop.jpg' (Input/output error) It's not a one-time error; every DVD always has the same problem. What is going wrong? A poison filename? Following up: growisofs with the same parameters has no problems with that file. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha Warren, Manolis Kiagias pointed me to growisofs a while ago and I have had no problems making dvd's since from the command line. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
No History after shutdown -h on FBSD 8 or 9
Aloha, Is there a reason the history no longer stays in memory on FreeBSD 8 9? Reko Turja sent me a work around for a reboot: shutdown -r +1 logout or shutdown -h +1 logout Both of the above work to save the history in a tcsh shell. We used to be able to use: shutdown -h now Is this not going to be possible from FreeBSD 8 onward? Thanks... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD FTP server error
Yuri wrote: When I try to log on to FTP I get this error: $ ftp ftp.freebsd.org Trying 204.152.184.73... Connected to ftp.freebsd.org. 500 OOPS: vsftpd: not found: directory given in 'secure_chroot_dir':/usr/local/share/vsftpd/empty Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha Yuri and List, I just tried FTP from Hawaii and the link is dead. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Command line not saving in 8*
Aloha, Anybody have a cure for the root or users not being able to save the command line commands in csh/tcsh over a power off? On two machines I used for testing that have run other versions of FreeBSD with no issues I can't save the history as a user or root tcsh shell if shutdown -h or shutdown -r is used. You can exit the csh and tcsh and log back in and it is saved. This happens with the all 8.0 BETA*. This does not happen with the 7.2 p1 that Manolis distributes. Any Ideas what to look for? There has to be something different done with 8* that kills off the command line history. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/ which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my wife which 'must' ( :-)) run FreeBSD on her laptop. Is there something like this for FreeBSD, and even in Spanish? Thanks matthias ### Aloha Matthias, I have one of the cards for Unix (Generic) I have seen them in Drug (Pharmacia) Stores in several countries I have been to, Canada and Argentina for 2) for all sorts of how to's. Not just computers. I have seen English and Spanish language. The manufacturer of the UNIX one is Bar Charts of Boca Raton Fla, www.quickstudycharts.com ot www.barcharts.com Happy coaching. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
DVD-R recording .iso SOLVED
Aloha, On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . Got this from FreeBSD handbook. Get no such file or directory error. Whats wrong with the syntax? Caveats about anything I say: 1) I'm using 7.2, and b) I'm using +R media. Nothing is wrong with the syntax, although your command above says the ISO file is in a directory called /path. Does the directory exist? Is the ISO in that directory? Permissions OK on everything? Does /dev/cd0 point to your burner? And as Adam said, make sure you have atapicam loaded. I'm also assuming that dot at the end of your line is a period at the end of your sentence, and not part of the command you issued. Is this the correct way to copy an .iso onto a DVD-R for installs? It burns the ISO to the disk as a premastered disk, which is what you want in this situation. If you wanted to just copy the ISO as a file, you'd replace the = sign with a space. Or can I just use burncd like somebody on the BSD forum said they did? I have no idea what somebody on the BSD forum said :^) HTH. Hang loose. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] Aloha, The directory path is /usr/home/alp/FreeBSD_7 that is ok. The = could be what is not proper in the Handbook. *Actually the = is correct, and you do need it for what you're doing. I *just went through this over the weekend. The = looked wrong, so I tried *doing without. What I ended up with was a data DVD with an ISO file on *it - not what I wanted! I would guess the command you need is *growisofs -dvd-compat -Z */dev/cd0=/usr/home/alp/FreeBSD_7/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso *(Probably wrapped in the email, but it needs to be all one line.) It's *simplest if you do this as root, or via su or sudo, which I think *you've been doing. I'll put apticam_load=YES in the /boot/loader.conf /Thats not in the Handbook either. *I noticed that omission too. *Putting that line in /boot/loader.conf makes the module load on the *next boot, but doesn't load it right now. You can see if it's already *loaded by issuing a kldstat command. If you see atapicam.ko in *response, you're good. If not, do a *kldload atapicam.ko *..as root or equivalent, to load the module immediately without a *reboot. Just for completeness, you may want to also * ls /dev | grep ^cd *..to make sure you have a cd0 device, after loading the module. It *might be some number other than 0, depending on your hardware, in which *case change the growisofs command accordingly. Thanks for the help. *It's one of the few questions around here that I know the answer to, so *I'm glad to! Makes me feel useful or something. -- *Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] Aloha, Here's how it worked. From sysutils/dvd+rw-tools I installed the DVD port # growisofs I used the following from all the suggestions and it worked with Manolis DVD p1 7.2 1st I put hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 in the /boot/loader.conf 2nd put apticam_load=YES in the /boot/loader.conf (That 2nd 18.7.2 instruction is not clear in the Handbook section and should be added.) Then I ran # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z dev/cd0=/usr/home/alp/FreeBSD_7/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso (all on one line) Then I was able to use cd0 as a DVD burner and make the DVD-R I tested the DVD on a spare box and it installed just fine. I suggest that the authors of the section 18.7/2 add the sample command line for atapicam as they did for dma=1 to eliminate the confusion. Thanks to all who helped ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Custom ISOs
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Tim Judd wrote: I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but I'm getting 5.0KB/sec for two separate downloads each download speed for both the XFCE and Gnome DVD ISOs. Weird... I am aware that the site is sitting on wikidot.com, and not on dev-urandom.com anymore, I was wondering if there's a better place I can grab them from. I have someone interested in BSD, and was trying to download all options and let him pick. Not really. Only the web pages are on wikidot, the files are still hosted in dev-urandom.com With this download, it'll take ME a day or more to download it, then the time to meet up with this guy. Any light shed on the slow downloads? Don't know, but if it is not resolved I'll ping Glen Barber who owns this space. I can't test the speed right now myself but will do later and report back. I do have some alternate space as well, so if the worse comes to the worst, I could upload one of the ISOs there. It is currently mostly full but I believe I can trash some things. Thanks again, Manolis for ALL your hard work, it is very much appreciated. Thanks Tim, I thoroughly enjoyed creating this stuff. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ## Aloha, Download was fine from here in Hawaii when I have used it in the past. I have a 1.5 DSL circuit down. Hawaii is not the fastest place on the planet usually. I would check Tim's provider side. I know of several mainland friends who have slow cable TV lines. Hope you find the issue and can get it resolved. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall
Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, A quick question - I have a /29 block of IPs that needs to be handled by a firewall I'm setting up. Two addresses are lost to broadcast and network, one is the ISP gateway, so we end up with 5 usable IPs that can be assigned to the external interface. The question is how to do this correctly? I want only one of the addresses assigned to the firewall itself, another will be used as the public nat address for all hosts on the lan. Remaining three addresses will be used as bidirectional nat for servers. Am I correct in assuming that I just need to add four ifconfig_vr0_alias[0-3] lines to rc.conf? What happens if in the future we get a much bigger IP block, is there a more efficient way of accomplishing the same thing? I don't actually want the firewall to consider itself the final destination for any of the additional IPs, it just needs to pass them to pf for nat and filtering. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha Max, What you have sounds like an ATM ( Asynchronous Transfer Mode ) circuit. I have one here that is for three servers a desktop and one spare IP. I got the setup from Michael Paoli at cal.berkely.edu in California. With setup I had to put firewalls (PF) on the three servers facing the internet and the desktop as well. There are 2 references I used for this firewall setup. Absolute FerrBSD - M. Lucas Pg. 273 and bsdly.bet Peter Hansteen. Both are on this list. If you would like to see the three sheets on how I set this up I can fax them to you or email. The setup for more IP's should be scalable but the IP's and default route would change I would think. You could keep using /29 ATM blocks and increase in increments with different IP's most likely with out changing the first ones. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?
Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every other notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pad; unfortunately, it looks as tho my palm would go there. (I *did* see a separate mouse [and other add-ons] for the EEE; that might be a work around.) I sympathize with your desire for a trackpoint (instead of a touchpad), and this is one reason I keep getting ThinkPads for my laptops. Unfortunately, I don't know of any netbooks that come with trackpoints. I hope you get an answer on this list so I'll get one as well (with the obvious preference for FreeBSD, or at least *some* BSD Unix, compatibility). Aloha Gary, The HP Mini 1000 has a pad and it is not good. If I accidentally brush it with a finger it acts as a click same as the mouse buttons do. I think this is a terrible feature. ( No way to kill it either I checked. )I thought it was because I have large hands, but Julie has trouble too so she brought out a USB wireless logitech mouse from her stash of stuff and it works fine. Good Luck... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
DVD-R not recording .iso
Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . Got this from FreeBSD handbook. Get no such file or directory error. Whats wrong with the syntax? Is this the correct way to copy an .iso onto a DVD-R for installs? Or can I just use burncd like somebody on the BSD forum said they did? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:50:01PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every other notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pad; unfortunately, it looks as tho my palm would go there. (I *did* see a separate mouse [and other add-ons] for the EEE; that might be a work around.) I sympathize with your desire for a trackpoint (instead of a touchpad), and this is one reason I keep getting ThinkPads for my laptops. Unfortunately, I don't know of any netbooks that come with trackpoints. I hope you get an answer on this list so I'll get one as well (with the obvious preference for FreeBSD, or at least *some* BSD Unix, compatibility). Aloha Gary, The HP Mini 1000 has a pad and it is not good. If I accidentally brush it with a finger it acts as a click same as the mouse buttons do. I think this is a terrible feature. ( No way to kill it either I checked. )I thought it was because I have large hands, but Julie has trouble too so she brought out a USB wireless logitech mouse from her stash of stuff and it works fine. Aloha Al [and Chad also], I fat-finger any of these mico-telephone keys[!]; it's worse yet if my finger spasms or even twitches. Really, with one hand, my hand has to go smack in the middle of these small computers. Which is where the touch pads are according to the pix. Are you saying that you can use your HP with the wireless mouse and still miss the pad most of the time? I checked out the ASUS extras, including the mouse and optical drive. Anybody on-list know if the EE touchpad can be completely disabled via the hardware setup/config? gary Good Luck... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, I dont use the keypad at all. Keys and Mouse only. The HP Mini touchpad is centered below the keyboard, but the keyboard had regular sized keys which is good. I think if you have a wireless mouse on any of them you could cover the touchpad with something like card stock or plastic so the pressure or proximity of a hand would not set it off. It is really bad that you cant turn off the feature that causes the false clicks etc. Have fun... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hard disk failure - now what?
Gary Gatten wrote: I had a laptop years ago that started to die, but seemed to work OK when first removed from a cold car. After an hour or so it would die. I eventually put it in the freezer long enough to get what I needed off the drive, so in some cases I would agree that cold is good! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:13 PM To: George Davidovich Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard disk failure - now what? On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:13:48 -0700, George Davidovich free...@optimis.net wrote: Probably true. I hesitate to suggest this, but sticking the drive in a freezer (preferrably in a ziplock bag) for a few hours or overnight might help. Stories from people claiming I swear it works! go back years. I heared a similar suggestion from a guy who tried to get the protection code out of a car radio. :-) To the exent it does work, it might give Kelly enough time to attempt recovery. If more time is required, he can try and find a creative workaround for the 5 meter max length for USB cables. 5 meters? I always thought USB is specified for 2 meters only. I've never seen a 5 meters long USB cable, by the way. Aloha, Off Topic but very funny as well as interesting. I have a usb cable that I bought it on line and have used it for a small video camera that is 15 meters long and it works OK. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Desktop Install Option
Sabeeh Baig wrote: So, I've been wondering about something. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system, even though it has historically only heavily been used on servers. Why is it that FreeBSD doesn't provide a desktop installation, something similar to say Debian's option of Standard Desktop? For those who need it, it'd be great. Aloha Manolis Desk Top with XFCE works! Have a look at Manolis Kiagias work at http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/downloads-page I run it on a HP MIni from a San Disk. +++ -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
