Re: Hi
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 19:14 +0530, prashant chavan wrote: Hi I wanna know how to add system module to FreeBSD. If any clarification reqd plz let me know. Thanks in advance! pcpat You want to load a kernel module, a .ko file? man kldload and man loader.conf It's pretty straightforward. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Protocol (was: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x)
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:10 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those people don't comprehend a mailing list. They do web pages and web forums and other clumsy devices. Put it on www.freebsd.org if you want it easily accessible to such people. Those people, are probably future FreeBSD user's, and sysadmins. You don't know their age, or anything about them. They could be in college, or high school for all you know. They could be in their 30's in the middle of a career change. They may just not know any better. It would be wise to try to guide those people, as they too count when it comes to supporting FreeBSD and the community that surrounds it. I think the point is that we are not all born sophisticated user's of FreeBSD. Exactly what would you put on the homepage? A big banner stating that all newbies and clueless people in general should...? A message board, since that's what such people are used to? That's my .02 as someone who's been there, done that in probably the most clumsy way possible. :-) Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TCP parameters
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:17 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Window scaling is enabled by default. I'd assumed that there would be a sysctl to disable it, but I can't seem to find one. fwiw, the net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 sysctl is for window scaling/ high performance extensions. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to use the freebsd help
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:21 +0100, shonbir singh tomar wrote: hello, i have installed the freebsd but i dont know how to use it after installation a black scrren comes prompting for login and password after login by root or user a # or $ sign appears its the console mode how i want to use window mode how can i use it plz help me i am a new user to bsd i will be very thankful to u if u help me plz... contact me as soon as possible plz... Hi Shonbir, Welcome, the handbook is your friend: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ specifically this section if you're looking for a workstation: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System monitoring
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 09:17 +0200, riccardo_diago wrote: hi all, I'm newbie w/ freebsd. i'm trying to install freebsd 6.1 to create a server only to monitoring the others. Anybody has experience with cacti and nagios? or if u can suggest me other solution would be great. :-) thanks in advance Rik There's a lot of good stuff in /usr/ports/net-mgmt. If you read the long descriptions for them, that may help: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/net-mgmt.html Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCI wireless adapter card
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 01:28 -0600, Tyler Thompson wrote: i need a driver for a Wireless-G PCI adapter card with SpeedBooster, the model number is WMP54GS. and instructions on installing the driver. I am new to BSD. I am running Desktop BSD 1.0 AMD 64. There isn't a native FreeBSD driver, so you'll have to convert the windows driver using ndisgen. It's an interactive script that walks you through the process, pretty straightforward. Check the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html see the man page as well: man ndisgen You'll need the .inf and .sys files from wmp54gs. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash Plugin not working
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 18:07 +0530, Subhro wrote: Hello Michael, Thanks for the info. This is just for the help of others. The commands present there helped me and flash is currently working fine for me. Thanks Subhro On 10/16/06, Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed the link below (just executed the commands, I can't read Portuguese) and everything worked fine. http://www.unixlike.com.br/?p=%2081 --- Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on i386 hardware. I have installed linux-firefox and linux-flashplugin from the ports collection. The same is iterated by pkg_info. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pkg_info | grep flash linux-flashplugin-7.0r68 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ linux-firefox [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pkg_info | grep firefox firefox-1.5.0.7,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla linux-firefox-1.5.0.7 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla However when I am trying to open any sites from linux-firefox, the embedded flash applications are not displayed. Also the browser complains about missing plugin. I have checked the installed plugins by typing about:plugins. But there is no flash plugin displayed there either. Where am I going wrong? Thanks and Best Regards Subhro I think it was Chris Hobbs who was nice enough to translate to english: http://altbit.org/pseudorandom/unixlike_translation.txt fwiw, Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 15:26 -0700, William Tracy wrote: I even compiled my own kernel so that I'm all 1337. :-) What does this mean? So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. I would think if you spend enough time with it, these questions may be answered by yourself. I'm assuming you would know your likes/dislikes/opinions about Linux based on what you do with it. So, do the same things with FreeBSD and ask yourself if you feel compelled to keep using it or not. To ask us to wow you like some bizarre circus act is a little presumptuous on your part, no? Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange X problem
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 12:05 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, October 06, 2006 08:30:36 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Schmehl writes: Not really. I want X to start *without* requiring a console login and prompt me for a login in the gui, just like my workstation does. The traditional answer is to put an entry in /etc/ttys. (See the man page for details.) Therein lies the problem. There *is* an entry in /etc/ttys: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure Guess I'll just start double-checking everything. Maybe there's a typo somewhere. Is your path to kdm correct? I've never used KDE, so I don't know for sure, but that entry in /etc/ttys is all you should need. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd compilation of handbooks
Came across this earlier today, and figured it was a good resource: http://elibrary.fultus.com/technical/index.jsp?topic=/com.fultus.freebsd.books/books/arch-handbook/index.html Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:13 +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: On 18 Sep 2006, at 19:41, Bob Johnson wrote: You might need to make sure AD support got enabled. In the samba3 port at least, it is off by default (although winbind support is enabled by default). Bob, I think that's done, judging by the output of make config. Unfortunately all the feedback I've got is Done that that's the easy bit, its all set up and it should be working just its returning invalid users all the time which is not really precise enough to expect a response from the list :) I think I will have to look at this myself. I just wanted to sanity check that it was possible more than anything. Ashley It's absolutely possible Ashley. We have samba 2.x running on a few solaris 8 through 10 servers, one might be 3.x. One of our solaris admins made the mistake of making one of them a domain controller and it was authenticating users in an AD domain. I've run samba at home on various releases of FreeBSD over the past few years. You're just looking to setup file shares with permissions, right? Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nmap route problem
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 11:55 +0800, musashi miyamoto wrote: is there a way to fix this? i searched google, but i cant find any solution. thanks Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-09-18 20:53 PHT WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 210.5.70.102 nexthost: failed to determine route FreeBSD mori.ranmaru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 5 02:09:57 PHT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SHOGUN i386 Nmap version 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default210.5.70.102 UGS 1 885 tun0 mori mori UH 1 5989lo0 210.5.70.102 210.213.79.23 UH 10 tun0 = 210.5.70.102/32210.213.79.23 UGS 00 tun0 Internet6: DestinationGatewayFlags Netif Expire localhost.ranmaru localhost.ranmaru UH lo0 fe80::%lo0 fe80::1%lo0U lo0 fe80::1%lo0fe80::1%lo0UHL lo0 fe80::e876:5a8d:ea link#2 UHL lo0 ff01:1:: localhost.ranmaru UC lo0 ff02::%lo0 localhost.ranmaru UC lo0 What happens if you use -e [interface], like: nmap -e xl0 -vv -sS google.com where xl0 is the nic I want to probe from. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 10:47 +0530, Arindam wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL installations. While my RHEL installation is running, I am able to communicate with the FC2 installation over the network. When FreeBSD is running, all pings from either side fail. I have no clue if I need to look at some special configuration, or is it a problem with the basics. Wond'ring what to do. Cheers, Andy -- /sbin/ifconfig output? Also, do you happen to have a firewall in your FreeBSD OS setup :)? 1. No firewall running. 2. Here is the output: pcn0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::260:b0ff:fe87:42ca%pcn0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 10.0.0.101 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 ether 00:60:b0:87:42:ca media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 What I have noticed is that when I ping from the other machine (FC2) then at least the two lights corresponding to these two machines blink. When I ping from my FreeBSD to the FC2 box, then the switch lights do not blink. This leads me to suspect that the packets from the BSD host are never making it to the network cable - is my network card supported I wonder. What I have seen is that this same network card works when I boot to RHEL4.3 which is the other OS on this box and it does ping alright between the two boxes. On FreeBSD, this NIC is detected as AMD 79c79x - I could do ifconfig to set the IP and netmask - no errors were reported. However it does not look like I am at all getting on the network with this. Cheers, Andy From the FreeBSD box, can you ping the loopback address: 127.0.0.1, if so, can you ping your ip address: 10.0.0.101. If so, can you ping your gateway? Did you set a gateway in /etc/rc.conf? defaultrouter=your gateway ip address # Set to default gateway (or NO). Since you set it statically, is your netmask correct? From the FreeBSD box, when you boot to linux, is the duplex setting for you network card the same as when you boot FreeBSD? This is strange, needless to say. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 14:57 -0700, White Hat wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it out. How else can I get flash to work so I can perhaps persuade them to try FBSD? I have KDE and Firefox installed obviously. I tried loading a few of the flash packages available in the ports, but they did not not seem to work. Thanks! This works for me, make sure you have the src tree under /usr/src. http://www.unixlike.com.br/?p=%2081 There's an english translation somewhere, but if you just follow the commands you'll be ok. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:31 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] From the FreeBSD box, can you ping the loopback address: 127.0.0.1, if so, can you ping your ip address: 10.0.0.101. If so, can you ping your gateway? Did you set a gateway in /etc/rc.conf? loopback: Yes I can ping it. 10.0.0.101: Yes again I can ping it. But I set this as the gateway. I just got two home PCs connected to each other over a 5-port switch with. 10.0.0.100 and 10.0.0.101 (this one). I set this as the gateway because a while later when I hook this to the web, this will be the box. And I might add a couple of more boxes to this network at best. Don't do that. It may be the cause of your problem -- in any case, it's incorrect. Leave the system without a gateway if you don't have one. I did not set a gateway in /etc/rc.conf. I configured the whole thing using sysinstall and a couple of times after that using ifconfig (ip addr and netmask). If you did it via sysinstall, then it was written to rc.conf. defaultrouter=your gateway ip address # Set to default gateway (or NO). But I guess whatever the method, such an entry would have been written to rc.conf. Yes. The output of ifconfig shows the duplex setting, you're set to 100 full right now. Can you set the switch port to 100 full, if it's not already. We have issues with our cisco switches being set to auto, they have to be forced to 100 full or we get 0 connectivity between broadcom cards and cisco 4500's. Trying a different card is a good idea if you have one. Helps rule some things out at least. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: flash plugin and firefox
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 12:15 -0500, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I couldn't find the original message in my mail folders, but there was discussion of an English translation of the unixlike.com.br flash+firefox howto. I wrote a translation for it some time back, it can be found here: http://altbit.org/?p=111 cmh - -- Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fortune in English or Spanish
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 15:21 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune itself. If there is a Spanish one a pointer would be nice too. Thx Fortune is part of the base system. Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see it: $ uname -r 6.0-RELEASE $ fortune fortune: not found $ man -k fort f77(1), g77(1) - GNU project Fortran 77 compiler snd_fm801(4) - Forte Media FM801 bridge device driver g77-33(1), g77(1)- GNU project Fortran 77 compiler tk_menuBar(n), tk_bindForTraversal(n) - Obsolete support for menu bars gtranslator(1) - -- a comfortable gettext po file editor with many bells and whistles matthias I know I'm stupid, and I get: # fortune fortune: not found # man fortune No manual entry for fortune # uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.njdol.ad.dol 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Thu May 25 13:44:07 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WORKSTATION i386 Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Experience #2
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 08:46 -0400, Bob Walker wrote: Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS products. Regards, Bob Walker Sounded like you were frustrated and venting to me. I cringed when you said you took a few production workstations to install to. Take one box, and some free time, no pressure, start with the handbook from scratch: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html You'll be pleased with your efforts when you're finished, and it only gets better from there. As other's have said, it's a community of people and we've all been there before at one time or another. Post your questions and you'll get answers, and probably in a more timely manner than you may expect. Don't give up. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Configuration Woes
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 14:28 +0530, Subhro wrote: On 9/12/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems protocol. I've found I have to use /dev/sysmouse and Protocol auto instead of PS/2 despite my mouse most definitely being PS/2. You already have moused_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf as well? Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flatscreen Monitor Specifications
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 07:25 -0700, Joel Adamson wrote: Howdy Y'all, I am planning to install FreeBSD this weekend and I am doing a hardware inventory. I have a fairly new computer (bought brand new a year ago: Dell something-or-other 5100C), with a flatscreen monitor and USB everything. I looked for my monitor specifications last night and have found nothing resembling the 35Hz, 800x600 stuff that is discussed in the handbook. this would make sense, of course,... All I've found in Windows Device Manager is something like Intel 42985G Chipset. Whenever I've tried liveCDs (FreesBie, various linuces), they have all picked out the monitor just fine (and most everything else). I just want to cover my bases, in case I end up with a flickering screen, I want to be able to do something about it. Do you have any suggestions for where I should look for any monitor specifications? What do I enter when I do my X configuration? Thanks, Joel Joel J. Adamson Arlington, MA Assuming you have a dell monitor, have you tried looking it up on http://support.dell.com ? Most likely, you could even google it. My DELL 1901FP, came up when I googled it. Just worry about the horizontal and vertical synch/refresh rates for now, if they're wrong you can fry it. This is mine: Section Monitor Identifier DELL 1901FP HorizSync 30-80 VertRefresh 56-76 ModeLine 1024x768i 45 1024 1048 1208 1264 768 776 784 817 Interlace EndSection That's the minimum for monitor, I believe, mine works great anyway. This is my Screen section for that monitor: Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device i810 Monitor DELL 1901FP DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 Option rgb bits 8 Visual StaticColor EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 EndSubSection EndSection Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
