Re: ral(4) not working on 6.0

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

robert wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> i installed 6.0 on my laptop and everything seems to work great except
> for the wireless adapter...
> when i do "ifconfig ral0" it says "status: no carrier"...

assuming you have a wireless access point within range, configuring
wireless interfaces usually takes a few more parameters such as channel,
network name and so forth. 

in a network I visit frequently, it takes two ifconfig commands (my ath0
would be ral0 in your case):

# ifconfig ath0 media autoselect nwid kakemonster nwkey 0x1deadbeef5

after up to a couple of seconds of blinkenlights 'ifconfig ath0'
showa "status: associated", and finally

# dhclient ath0

should get you an IP address, again assuming a DHCP server is within reach. 

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Re: aacPlus audio stream?

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:11:22AM -0500, Michael Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Nov 16, 2005, at 2:01 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:54:28PM -0500, michael johnson wrote:
> >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> >>Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >>
> >>On Nov 15, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:16:16PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>>
>    Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz
>    aacPlus audio?
> 
> >>>
> >>>It should work with faad2; /usr/ports/audio/faad. There are also  
> >>>xmms
> >>>plugins that use faad, but they're not in ports, AFAICT.
> >>
> >>audio/xmms-faad and audio/bmp-faad
> >>
> >
> > I've installed xmms-faad, but don't know which mimetype or
> > suffix to type into the Preferences spaces.  I've googled
> > but can't find anything.
> >
> 
> .m4a .aac .mp4
> 

Ah, that'll help!  thanks muchly.   What about the mime type?
Is it like:  "audio/aac" or "audio/aacplus" or "audio/mp4"
or ???

gary


> 

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Re: aacPlus audio stream?

[Michael Johnson]

On Nov 16, 2005, at 2:01 AM, Gary Kline wrote:


On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:54:28PM -0500, michael johnson wrote:

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1


On Nov 15, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Roland Smith wrote:


On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:16:16PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:


   Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz
   aacPlus audio?



It should work with faad2; /usr/ports/audio/faad. There are also  
xmms

plugins that use faad, but they're not in ports, AFAICT.


audio/xmms-faad and audio/bmp-faad



I've installed xmms-faad, but don't know which mimetype or
suffix to type into the Preferences spaces.  I've googled
but can't find anything.



.m4a .aac .mp4


Does anybody hae this configured with xmms?

gary


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Re: Intresting X Question...

[Eric Murphy]

Malcolm Kay wrote:


On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:31 pm, Eric Murphy wrote:
 


Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my google
searchs and other readings.

My question is this: Lets say your installing BSD on some
workstation, you dont know the hardware specs of the monitor
(Vertical and Horizontal rates ect..) and you need to
configure Xorg. Its my understanding that Xorg runs getconfig,
which determines the video card type and monitor type. Once it
has that information it applys the information gatherd to the
xorg config. Is that how it works? I was going to say, it cant
just test a bunch of differnt monitor rates that could cause
damage to the monitor.

   



Most modern monitors respond to Xorg's enquiry over an I2C bus
as to its capabilities.
If this doesn't work then maybe:
* The monitor is too old.
* The monitor doesn't subscribe to the 'standards'.
* Somehow the I2C bus is not working.
* The monitor manufacturer was overly optermistic when setting
up the information base for reporting over I2C

It is not a trial and error situation.

Malcolm

 


However today in one of our labs I installed bsd on a machine
and was unable to get xorg working properly becuase getconfig
wasnt issueing the correct H and V rates for the monitor, I
didnt know what to do without having to look it up. Anyway if
someone could explain this process I would be much obliged.
Thanks
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If thats the case, why did it work with linux running Xorg?  So I guess 
the main way to do it, if you want to figure out the values, is look at 
the example xorg.conf and see what values it pulled?


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Re: Intresting X Question...

[Malcolm Kay]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:31 pm, Eric Murphy wrote:
> Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my google
> searchs and other readings.
>
> My question is this: Lets say your installing BSD on some
> workstation, you dont know the hardware specs of the monitor
> (Vertical and Horizontal rates ect..) and you need to
> configure Xorg. Its my understanding that Xorg runs getconfig,
> which determines the video card type and monitor type. Once it
> has that information it applys the information gatherd to the
> xorg config. Is that how it works? I was going to say, it cant
> just test a bunch of differnt monitor rates that could cause
> damage to the monitor.
>

Most modern monitors respond to Xorg's enquiry over an I2C bus
as to its capabilities.
If this doesn't work then maybe:
* The monitor is too old.
* The monitor doesn't subscribe to the 'standards'.
* Somehow the I2C bus is not working.
* The monitor manufacturer was overly optermistic when setting
up the information base for reporting over I2C

It is not a trial and error situation.

Malcolm

> However today in one of our labs I installed bsd on a machine
> and was unable to get xorg working properly becuase getconfig
> wasnt issueing the correct H and V rates for the monitor, I
> didnt know what to do without having to look it up. Anyway if
> someone could explain this process I would be much obliged.
> Thanks
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Re: Im trying to find the H and V sync rates for the LCD in

[Eric Murphy]

Malcolm Kay wrote:


On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:45 am, Eric Murphy wrote:
 


A Inspiron 9300, I cant seem to find this info ANYWHERE, and i
want to configuer Xorg :)   Can anyone point me in the right
direction?

   



google-ing 
Inspiron 9300 refresh rate

gives a number of references to 60Hz maximum.

Malcolm
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Yes but that doesnt give me the verticle, which i need both vaules (h 
and v) for X org

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Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

[Dinesh Nair]

On 11/15/05 12:23 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following:

Hmm - let's see now, where does this extra "wasted" power go?  It
is turned into heat.  Which heats your house.  Which means you do
not have to run the furnace so much, thus saving energy there.


that's a very geocentric view. for most of us who live in the tropics or on 
the equator where the ambient temperature is 31degC, the wasted power is 
really wasted twice: once from the PC, and once more thru higher 
airconditioning/cooling devices.


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unsupported file layout

[Ian Lord]

Hi,

I am trying to setup pdflib on a freebsd server running 2x Xeon processors.

The kernel is compiled using AMD64 version of freebsd6.

I downloaded the binairies for freebsd 5.x for the IA32 architecture.

I've copied the 
/usr/local/PDFlib-6.0.2-FreeBSD5/bind/php5/php-503/libpdf_php.so 
into /usr/local/lib/php/20041030 since this is 
the directory used into my extension_dir attribute in my php.ini


When I reload apache, I get an error in my php error log saying:

[16-Nov-2005 01:45:05] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: 
Unable to load dynamic library 
'/usr/local/lib/php/20041030/libpdf_php.so' - /usr/
local/lib/php/20041030/libpdf_php.so: unsupported 
file layout in Unknown on line 0


Does that has anything to do with the fact I 
compiled using my kernel using AMD64 or does it 
have something to do with the fact I am running 
freebsd 5.x binairies on a 6.x version ?


From my understanding, the problem is related to 
the fact that the binairy was compiled for 
freebsd 5 on an intel IA32 architecture and that 
I am running freebsd 6 with AMD64.


Since I compiled my kernel with
options COMPAT_IA32 # Compatible with i386 binaries
options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5

Shouldn't it be working ? or do I need to do 
antything special to "activate" these functions


Thanks

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Re: Im trying to find the H and V sync rates for the LCD in

[Malcolm Kay]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:45 am, Eric Murphy wrote:
> A Inspiron 9300, I cant seem to find this info ANYWHERE, and i
> want to configuer Xorg :)   Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?
>

google-ing 
Inspiron 9300 refresh rate
gives a number of references to 60Hz maximum.

Malcolm
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Re: aacPlus audio stream?

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:54:28PM -0500, michael johnson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 
> On Nov 15, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:16:16PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> >>Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz
> >>aacPlus audio?
> >>
> >
> >It should work with faad2; /usr/ports/audio/faad. There are also xmms
> >plugins that use faad, but they're not in ports, AFAICT.
> 
> audio/xmms-faad and audio/bmp-faad
> 

I've installed xmms-faad, but don't know which mimetype or
suffix to type into the Preferences spaces.  I've googled
but can't find anything.  

Does anybody hae this configured with xmms?

gary


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smp problem

[snnn]

My server is HP DL380,which has 2 Intel Xeox 3.04G x68 CPU,but hw.ncpu=1;

$ sysctl hw.ncpu
hw.ncpu: 1


I've already add "Option SMP" into the kernel configure file and 
recompiled the kernel.


The FreeBSD version is 5.4,just updated from cvsup .

The following is the boot info

Nov 15 11:03:53  syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 
1989, \1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: The Regents of the University of California. 
All r\ights reserved.
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 #1: Tue Nov 15 10:45:33 
CST\ 2005

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNE\L
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (3056.50-MHz 
68\6-class CPU)

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf25  Stepping = 5
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: 
Features=0xbfebf9ff

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: real memory  = 2147459072 (2047 MB)
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: avail memory = 2095996928 (1998 MB)
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: Pentium 4 TCC support enabled, current 
performance\ 100%

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: npx0:  on motherboard
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: acpi0:  on motherboard
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz 
quali\ty 1000
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 
0x\920-0x923 on acpi0

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: cpu0:  on acpi0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pcib0:  on acpi0
ov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pci0:  on pcib0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pci0:  at device 3.0 (no driver 
atta\ched)
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pci0:  at device 4.0 (no 
driver a\ttached)
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pci0:  at device 4.2 (no 
driver a\ttached)

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: isab0:  at device 15.0 on pci0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: isa0:  on isab0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: atapci0:  
por\t 0x2000-0x200f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 15.1 
on pci0

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: ohci0:  mem 
0xf5ef0\000-0xf5ef0fff irq 7 at device 15.2 on pci0

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: usb0:  on ohci0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: usb0: USB revision 1.0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: uhub0: (0x1166) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 
1.00\/1.00, addr 1

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pcib1:  on acpi0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pci1:  on pcib1
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: ciss0:  port 
0x3000-0x30ff \mem 0xf7cf-0xf7cf3fff,0xf7dc-0xf7df irq 10 at 
device 3.0 on pci1

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pcib2:  on acpi0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pci2:  on pcib2
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: bge0: rev\. 0x1002> mem 0xf7ef-0xf7ef irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: miibus0:  on bge0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: brgphy0:  on 
miibus\0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 
100base\TX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: bge0: Ethernet address: 00:11:0a:99:83:ad
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: bge1: rev\. 0x1002> mem 0xf7ee-0xf7ee irq 15 at device 2.0 on pci2

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: miibus1:  on bge1
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: brgphy1:  on 
miibus\1
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: brgphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 
100base\TX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: bge1: Ethernet address: 00:11:0a:99:83:ac
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pcib3:  on acpi0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pci3:  on pcib3
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pcib4:  on acpi0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pci6:  on pcib4
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pci6: controller> a\t device 30.0 (no driver attached)

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: acpi_tz0:  on acpi0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: atkbdc0:  port 
0x64,0\x60 irq 1 on acpi0

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: atkbd0:  irq 1 on atkbdc0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: kbd0 at atkbd0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: psm0:  irq 12 on atkbdc0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: sio0:  port 0x3f8-0x3ff 
irq \4 flags 0x10 on acpi0

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: sio0: type 16550A
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: fdc0:  port 
0x3f2-0\x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: orm0:  at iomem 
0xee000-0xe,0\xcc000-0xcd7ff,0xc8000-0xcbfff,0xc-0xc7fff on isa0

Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: pmtimer0 on isa0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: ppc0: parallel port not found.
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: sc0:  at flags 0x100 on isa0
Nov 15 11:03:53  kernel: sc0: VGA <16 vi

Need help, How to use knobs?

[snnn]

I'm a newbie to Freebsd.
Who can tell me how to set the options used by knob when compile a port?
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Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

[David Kelly]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:13:54PM -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
> Ted
> 
> It would be nice if you could at least get your "facts" straight

Agreed.

> There is no software obsolescence issue.  Besides making it quite  
> easy to port software to OS X Intel for most people, since the  
> underlying OS and libraries is the same, Apple has invested a ton of  
> money into the Rosetta technology which allows PPC software to  
> continue to run on the Intel boxes.  And they are also still  
> introducing PPC machines for a while and will continue to support PPC  
> machines for several years so as to avoid the problem.
> 
> >Once again typical Apple apologizing.  When Apple dumped MacOS
> >Classic in favor of MacOS X, all the Apple proponents who for years
> >were saying that MacOS was the best OS in existence, didn't let the
> >door hit them on the ass on the way out of the mac Classic room.

Before it MacOS X, MacOS 9 was not known as Classic. Classic is MacOS 9
being hosted *under* MacOS X. Contrary to Ted's revisionist view of
Macintosh history, Mac users were pushed to X kicking and screaming in
protest. Much the same as when DOS users were forced to use
subdirectories.

> ?  classic MacOS  (OS 9) was good for the market it was competing  
> in but could not last forever.  Apple has the Classic compatibility  
> in OS X and for a few years after OS X was introduced continued to  
> introduce new machines that support OS 9 natively.  I can still run  
> lots of my System 7 apps on my G5 under Classic today...  no software  
> obsolescence and nothing to worry about hitting me in the ass.

I have an Introl C-11 compiler from 1991 for the 68hc11 family which
still runs under my old 68k version of MPW, under Classic, under MacOS
10.4.3. One OS hosted under another and one CPU doing soft
interpretation of 68k binary code. Generating code for yet a 3rd
CPU. And on my lowly 867 MHz Dual G4 its 30x faster than it ever was on
native 68k.

In real world use my 256MB G4-400 MacOS X 10.4.3 Powerbook is faster
than my 512MB 2GHz WinXP Pro box at work. Thats also no small part of
why I keep a 450 MHz PII FreeBSD system at work. There is too much real
work that needs to be done which is easy in Unix but a pain in Windows.
Am not going to waste *my* perfectly good Macintosh at work.

If this is planned obsolescence then I love it!

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Re: Intresting X Question...

[Rob]

 Eric Murphy wrote:
 > 
 > However today in one of our labs I installed bsd on a machine and was 
 > unable to get xorg working properly becuase getconfig wasnt issueing the 
 > correct H and V rates for the monitor, I didnt know what to do without 
 > having to look it up. Anyway if someone could explain this process I 
 > would be much obliged. Thanks
 
 In that case I would read the brosure of the monitor; if not available, google
 on the monitor type and try to get the monitor specs from the internet.
 Very often you get the Horiz., Vert., and Pixel freq. easily, or at least
 you get a good idea of what they should be by finding similar monitor
 type, or other people's configuration, etc.
 
 Sorry, I don't know how Xorg figures out about the monitor specs.
 
 Rob.
 

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Bypass Lan Card

[Bikrant Neupane]

Hi,

I am looking for a Bypass LAN card that is supported by FreeBSD. I 
would like 
to know if anyone has used such card. Also, please let me know which Watchdog 
programme should I use. 

Thanks to all!

with regards,
Bikrant
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Intresting X Question...

[Eric Murphy]

Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my google searchs 
and other readings.


My question is this: Lets say your installing BSD on some workstation, 
you dont know the hardware specs of the monitor (Vertical and Horizontal 
rates ect..) and you need to configure Xorg. Its my understanding that 
Xorg runs getconfig, which determines the video card type and monitor 
type. Once it has that information it applys the information gatherd to 
the xorg config. Is that how it works? I was going to say, it cant just 
test a bunch of differnt monitor rates that could cause damage to the 
monitor.


However today in one of our labs I installed bsd on a machine and was 
unable to get xorg working properly becuase getconfig wasnt issueing the 
correct H and V rates for the monitor, I didnt know what to do without 
having to look it up. Anyway if someone could explain this process I 
would be much obliged. Thanks

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Re: Inconsistency Running IPF Against FTPs

[Daniel]

On 11/16/05, Robert H. Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> > Robert H. Perry wrote:
> >
> >> I'm running FreeBSD RELEASE 5.4 and recently installed IPF Firewall. I
> >> rarely download files using FTP but have little choice using
> >> portupgrade. Now, during an upgrade, I often see the error message,
> >> "No route to host..."
> >> while connecting with an FTP site.  If I disable the IPF/IPNAT rules
> >> the problem no longer exists.
> >>
> >> I've followed installation instructions in the Handbook paying particular
> >> attention to the section on IPNAT rules.  (I do not claim to entirely
> >> understand
> >> what I read however.)  My immediate question however is how current
> >> are the
> >> instructions?  There is a caveat immediately following the IPF
> >> Firewall Section
> >> title: "This section is work in progress. The contents might not be
> >> accurate at
> >> all times."  If it is accurate and should resolve my FTP problems,
> >> I'll simply re-read
> >> it until I get it right.
> >>
> >> Any other hints are also appreciated.
> >>
> >
> > This would probably fall under your "other hints" category.
> >
> > Your firewall should be allowing extant connections to continue --- IOW,
> > showing
> > stateful behavior.   Some FTP data connections use high-numbered ports, and
> > it sounds as if these are being blocked by your firewall.  YMMV.
> >
> > Note that setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE in your environment might be
> > worth a shot.
> >
> > I am sorry that I'm not an IPF user and can't give more detailed help.
> > Good luck with your issue.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.  Do all other firewalls share the same, or
> similar problems, with FTP data connections?
>
> Bob Perry
>
FTP is the evil protocol when it comes to firewalls.

Below are two pretty pictures on how FTP starts data connections.

For the best solution use a ftp proxy where users on the local net
will access an FTP site normally (no config done on client), the
firewall routes all packets to port 21 to the ftp-proxy on the
firewall and initiates the connection itself and keeps track of the
connection allowing it to work fully.

Another example would be to allow certain high-port ranges.

Or simply to use stateful rules and passive FTP will work, but active
you may have problems on (esp. if you block incoming setup packets).
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Re: if_bridge interface confuses Windows Small Business Server 2000

[Erik Osterholm]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:43:18AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> 
> > FreeBSD 6 came at the perfect time for me.  I've just 
> > switched my primary desktop from Win2k to FreeBSD, and I put 
> > the Windows boot disk in an old machine that was heading for the skip.
> > 
> > I wanted to access the W2k machine (fred) over VNC without 
> > flooding our switch, so I thought let's take advantage of the 
> > new features in REL 6...  I added a second ethernet card to 
> > my FreeBSD box (alfie) and configured a bridge in /etc/rc.conf:
> > 
> > ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
> > ifconfig_rl1="up"
> > cloned_interfaces="bridge0"
> > ifconfig_bridge0="addm rl0 addm rl1 up"
> > gateway_enable="YES"
> > 
> > SBS is configured to give a static DHCP lease of 
> > 192.168.0.181 to alfie; fred is dynamic and is currently 192.168.0.35.
> > 
> > At first everything seemed fine, and fred operates as if it 
> > was plugged straight into the network.  
> > 
> > But...
> > 
> > 1) SBS sees both machines as alfie, even though it correctly 
> > reports the MAC addresses of each machine
> > 
> > 2) On alfie, when I want to make a VNC connection to fred I 
> > have to type "vnc viewer alfie"(!)
> > 
> > 3) On fred, if I ping alfie it returns 192.168.0.35 as the IP 
> > number, not 181 which is the static lease.
> > 
> > 
> > I assume this is a bug in if_bridge, only because I assumed 
> > that bridge 
> > interfaces should be transparent (and act like a physical switch).
> > 
> > When we get some small switches in I'll use one to connect 
> > the two machines 
> > together, but I'd still like to work out what's going on 
> > here.  Am I doing 
> > something wrong?
> 
> I'm a wee bit confused here, but I do understand what you are trying to
> do.
> 
> First, did you compile a new kernel with the following option?:
> 
> options BRIDGE

This should not be necessary with if_bridge.  A kernel module must be
loaded before if_bridge will work, but seems to load automatically
when creating the bridge interface.  Alternatively, if_bridge can be
compiled into the kernel with the following line:

device if_bridge

I've even read where the bridge(4) bridging mode is deprecated.  Does
anyone know if this is accurate?

> Second, try giving both PC's a static IP address, and disconnect the
> FBSD box entirely from the network (so you essentially have a 2 pc
> network), then commence testing.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Steve
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Ashley

Erik
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Freebsd and nagios-plugins

[Brooke Landers]

hello.I'm having problems finding the nagios plugin check_hpjd. A person of 
the nagios mailing list told me that it might not be inculded because it 
needs net-snmp.


|
| check_hpjd:
| - Requires the NET-SNMP package available from
|  http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net
|  The snmpget binary is all that is required.
|
| I'm not sure if your package maintainer choose not to include it as a
| result.
|

can anyone verify this for me and explain how i can install this from ports? 
I realize that i can downbload the source from cvs but i guess there is some 
knowlegde i am missing since i am new to the ports system. i have searched 
the web but can not find a thing. i am running freebsd6 and have installed 
net-snmp and nagios-plugins ports.

thankyou for any help. Brooke

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Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

[Peter Clutton]

Hi everyone, wondering if anybody could help me out. I'm running
FreeBSD 5.4-release on a Sony Vaio, and just about everything worked
right off the bat. However when starting Gnome, i get a message about
how it can't open the sound device, and sound just isn't working for
me.

The sound device listed in Sony's specs says ac97-compatible on board
sound. I tried the open source sound drivers with no luck. Has anybody
else been successful getting this sound device up and running? I know
it's quite a common chip (my desktop, m$, uses it aswell). Is there
perhaps just an option I can add to the kernel? That would be a
no-brainer, i just need to know what to add.

Feel free to ask for more info, I will post exact messages, specs, and
output from any commands that may help you. Thanks in advance.
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problem with linuxpluginwrapper

[andy]

I have just installed Gnome 2.12 on 6.0stable, and then installed
linuxpluginwrapper from the port.  After installation I copied
libmap.conf-FreeBSD6 to /etc/libmap.conf.  However, when I start Mozilla
and goto the plugins page, there is nothing installed.  Any help to fix
this is appreciated.

TIA

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Re: Inconsistency Running IPF Against FTPs

[Robert H. Perry]

Kevin Kinsey wrote:

Robert H. Perry wrote:

I'm running FreeBSD RELEASE 5.4 and recently installed IPF Firewall. I 
rarely download files using FTP but have little choice using 
portupgrade. Now, during an upgrade, I often see the error message, 
"No route to host..."
while connecting with an FTP site.  If I disable the IPF/IPNAT rules 
the problem no longer exists.


I've followed installation instructions in the Handbook paying particular
attention to the section on IPNAT rules.  (I do not claim to entirely 
understand
what I read however.)  My immediate question however is how current 
are the
instructions?  There is a caveat immediately following the IPF 
Firewall Section
title: "This section is work in progress. The contents might not be 
accurate at
all times."  If it is accurate and should resolve my FTP problems, 
I'll simply re-read

it until I get it right.

Any other hints are also appreciated.



This would probably fall under your "other hints" category.

Your firewall should be allowing extant connections to continue --- IOW, 
showing

stateful behavior.   Some FTP data connections use high-numbered ports, and
it sounds as if these are being blocked by your firewall.  YMMV.

Note that setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE in your environment might be
worth a shot.

I am sorry that I'm not an IPF user and can't give more detailed help.
Good luck with your issue.


Thanks for your suggestions.  Do all other firewalls share the same, or 
similar problems, with FTP data connections?


Bob Perry

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Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

Ted

It would be nice if you could at least get your "facts" straight

(continued below)

On Nov 15, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:




On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:


A lot of people wondered how Steve Jobs could dare change over to
Intel
chips.
In Steve Jobs keynote speech announcing the big move Intel chips  
was

just about entirely stated as because of the 'performance per watt
ratio' of Intel CPUs. Check out the picture of the key note speech
and
look at the bottom of the picture with Intel and IBM's PowerPC
processor.
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/tradeshows/2005/WWDC/
perfperwatt.jpg



This is a bunch of whitewashing as anyone in the tech industry  
knows.


Wrong.  WHat jobs said was exactly correct

Jobs changed over to Intel for two reasons.  First, because Intel  
gave

him a better price on the CPU's.


This is also a consideration.  Price always is/

However, the main reason was that the performance they needed at the
wattage they needed (for laptops) was not on the horizon for PPC.
The G5 can compete against the Intel desktop offerings but there was
not a laptop G5 coming any time soon [because of energy dissipation)
and the G4 for laptops was not cutting it.



Rubbish.  They could simply use Intel for laptops until IBM got it
together.
Or signed a letter of intent which would prod IBM.  There is nothing
inherent
in the design of the G5 that makes it so that you cannot make low  
power

and low heat versions of it.


Ted.  Apple did play some games to try and prod IBM.   And your  
assertion that they could use Intel for laptops until IBM got its act  
together is hysterical.  Glad you aren't running Apple or any other  
real company.  You want them to commit to a much more expensive 2- 
architecture strategy indefinitely?  That makes a lot of sense.  IBM  
was not interested in making a G5 caliber chip made for laptops.
There was nothing in their roadmap and nothing technology wise they  
were showing.  Intel has some nice laptop chipsets  and cpus.  It is  
difficult and expensive as is to do a multi year transition and keep  
support of PPC machines for the sveeral years that they will be doing  
so after the transition.


It probably was technically feasible to come up with a G5 caliber  
laptop chip but IBM was not interested for someone as "low volume" as  
Apple.  They are much more interested in XBox 360 , Playstation 3 and  
Nintendo evolution.




Other computer manufacturers have no problems using different CPU's in
their products.


Name one major manufacturer in the same market as Apple that has an  
indefinite long term strategy of multiple CPUs.  I can only think of  
Big Iron like Sun and IBM.





Second because doing this instantly
obsoletes the older power PC macs thus pushing all the Mac users to
fork over money for new software and hardware.


Wrong.  Conspiracy-Ted at it again.



But of course you have no answer to the software obsolescence issue.


There is no software obsolescence issue.  Besides making it quite  
easy to port software to OS X Intel for most people, since the  
underlying OS and libraries is the same, Apple has invested a ton of  
money into the Rosetta technology which allows PPC software to  
continue to run on the Intel boxes.  And they are also still  
introducing PPC machines for a while and will continue to support PPC  
machines for several years so as to avoid the problem.




Once again typical Apple apologizing.  When Apple dumped MacOS Classic
in favor of MacOS X, all the Apple proponents who for years were  
saying
that MacOS was the best OS in existence, didn't let the door hit  
them on

the
ass on the way out of the mac Classic room.


?  classic MacOS  (OS 9) was good for the market it was competing  
in but could not last forever.  Apple has the Classic compatibility  
in OS X and for a few years after OS X was introduced continued to  
introduce new machines that support OS 9 natively.  I can still run  
lots of my System 7 apps on my G5 under Classic today...  no software  
obsolescence and nothing to worry about hitting me in the ass.



When Apple dumped Motorola
in favor of IBM all the Apple people who for years had been  
claiming that
Apples were so much better because they held their value over the  
years
while PC's didn't, conveniently forgot that now the resale value of  
the

68k
Mac was zero.


Dude, you have no idea what you were talking about.  The PPC Mac was  
introduced in late 93 and 68K based Macs still had value (including  
resale) for a long while (I know as I sold one then).  Your good on  
making crap up but bad on facts and history.




What I think is the biggest joke is that you Apple guys worship the
ground
that Jobs walks on like he's Apple's Savior, Jobs can do no wrong  
is the

mantra.


Jobs can do wrong.  But he has been a lot more successful than you or  
most any other industry executive over the last 7 years.  I give the  
guy a break most of th

Re: an a version 4 sstem not mount filesystems created by a version 5 system?

[Dinesh Nair]

On 11/15/05 05:32 stan said the following:

The subject really says it all. What major feature got added that was worth
breaking this?


i believe it was called UFS2.

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Re: aacPlus audio stream?

[michael johnson]

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On Nov 15, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Roland Smith wrote:


On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:16:16PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:


Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz
aacPlus audio?



It should work with faad2; /usr/ports/audio/faad. There are also xmms
plugins that use faad, but they're not in ports, AFAICT.


audio/xmms-faad and audio/bmp-faad




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multiple openvpn daemon startup

[Derrick MacPherson]

I'm wondering if anyone has, or can suggest how to have multiple openvpn
daemons start up from the rc.d/openvpn.sh script?


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Im trying to find the H and V sync rates for the LCD in

[Eric Murphy]

A Inspiron 9300, I cant seem to find this info ANYWHERE, and i want to 
configuer Xorg :)   Can anyone point me in the right direction?



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RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad
>Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
>Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:57 PM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: Free BSD Questions list
>Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems
>
>
>
>On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>>> A lot of people wondered how Steve Jobs could dare change over to
>>> Intel
>>> chips.
>>> In Steve Jobs keynote speech announcing the big move Intel chips was
>>> just about entirely stated as because of the 'performance per watt
>>> ratio' of Intel CPUs. Check out the picture of the key note speech
>>> and
>>> look at the bottom of the picture with Intel and IBM's PowerPC
>>> processor.
>>> http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/tradeshows/2005/WWDC/
>>> perfperwatt.jpg
>>>
>>
>> This is a bunch of whitewashing as anyone in the tech industry knows.
>
>Wrong.  WHat jobs said was exactly correct
>
>> Jobs changed over to Intel for two reasons.  First, because Intel gave
>> him a better price on the CPU's.
>
>This is also a consideration.  Price always is/
>
>However, the main reason was that the performance they needed at the
>wattage they needed (for laptops) was not on the horizon for PPC.
>The G5 can compete against the Intel desktop offerings but there was
>not a laptop G5 coming any time soon [because of energy dissipation)
>and the G4 for laptops was not cutting it.
>

Rubbish.  They could simply use Intel for laptops until IBM got it
together.
Or signed a letter of intent which would prod IBM.  There is nothing
inherent
in the design of the G5 that makes it so that you cannot make low power
and low heat versions of it.

Other computer manufacturers have no problems using different CPU's in
their products.

>> Second because doing this instantly
>> obsoletes the older power PC macs thus pushing all the Mac users to
>> fork over money for new software and hardware.
>
>Wrong.  Conspiracy-Ted at it again.
>

But of course you have no answer to the software obsolescence issue.

Once again typical Apple apologizing.  When Apple dumped MacOS Classic
in favor of MacOS X, all the Apple proponents who for years were saying
that MacOS was the best OS in existence, didn't let the door hit them on
the
ass on the way out of the mac Classic room.  When Apple dumped Motorola
in favor of IBM all the Apple people who for years had been claiming that
Apples were so much better because they held their value over the years
while PC's didn't, conveniently forgot that now the resale value of the
68k
Mac was zero.

What I think is the biggest joke is that you Apple guys worship the
ground
that Jobs walks on like he's Apple's Savior, Jobs can do no wrong is the
mantra.  Yet to the non Apple-colored-eyglasses computer industry, the
guy
is just as money-grubbing profit-grubbing as any other.  This is a guy
that didn't
even know that FreeBSD was one of the bases of MacOSX and was telling
people it was built on -LINUX- for crying out loud.

Jobs switched CPU's to get a whole lot of you guys to dump you "holds its
resale value" hardware in the ashbin, and run out and give a lot of money
to
Apple for the latest and greatest Intel gear, as well as help out all the
software
ISV's writing software for MacOS X by giving them a reason to prod all of
you
into buying software upgrades.  And you can't get enough of it!  Simply
amazing!
Apple is working exactly like Microsoft these days yet you all think it's
still better!

I guess one of these days when General Motors finally gets stick of
propping up
Saturn (Saturn has never turned a profit since it was founded) all the
Saturn
owners who think they are 'different kinna car people' will be saying
that
Chevrolet is a 'different kinna car'   Cast from the same mold you all
are.


Ted

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Re: problem with vim!

[Peter Clutton]

On 11/16/05, Quintin Riis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  The problem is... with my old version of vim, when I edited .php files
> it would auto-indent html elements, so that it looked something like...
>   etc. and it would line up all the closing elements automatically. now
> however... it will not do this when I edit php files! it will do it for html
> files though.
>  So my question is how do I resolve this? In essence, I guess what I would
> like is for .php files to have same indent / color / etc as .html, along
> with also having indents / color / etc for .php files.

http://www.schlitt.info/applications/blog/index.php?/archives/331-Comfortable-PHP-editing-with-VIM-3.html
http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/usr_doc/
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Re: Solaris patches and Solaris Express

[Victor Watkins]

> Do community member find these additional features worth the cost?

No.

We just want to get our patches without jumping through any hoops, or
worrying about if the check made it through the mail, or if Sun FUBAR'ed
our support account info rather than there being a problem with the
Update Manager connecting, etc.

No longer personally worried about it though..I nuked my Solaris install
and have a nice, shiny new FreeBSD 6.0 kit now, and I gotta say, after
Solaris 5.10 x86, the speed difference alone is breathtaking.

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Re: aacPlus audio stream?

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:53:07PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz
> > aacPlus audio?
> 
> aacPlus is a trade name (of the original inventors, I think) for the
> "High Efficiency" AAC format as standardized by the MPEG folks.  So
> you might have more luck looking for "HE-AAC".
> 
> I understand that vlc (multimedia/vlc) supports it, but I haven't
> tried it.  vlc seems to use faac/faad, though, so probably other
> faac-based applications should be able to do it too.


Hey, thanks, you guys.  (I was wondering about wjat the hell
"HE-ACC" meant :-)

ah, life

gary


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RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems

[Chris]

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:



>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Vince


>> While most people aren't using a pentium 1 to run a water sprinkler
>> system, there are a countless amount of people using machines
>> for things
>> that aren't ideally power efficient. A lot of people using old PCs and
>> Internet gateways in their home network and nothing else. This is a 24
>> hour PC running just to provide Internet where a basic Netgear home
>> router 500ma device can do it just as well, (5volts * 0.5amp =
>> 2.5watts), a lot of people use FreeBSD as a server in some way on a
>> network and need to keep it somewhat up to date for security reasons
>> this also means 24 hour running.
>
>
>
> Hmm - let's see now, where does this extra "wasted" power go?  It
> is turned into heat.  Which heats your house.  Which means you do


A lot of it doesn't, it gets lost to the atmosphere at the power station 
and in transmission losses.


> not have to run the furnace so much, thus saving energy there.


If you mean gas fired, almost all the heat is generated inside your house

>
> So you spend more energy to run inefficient PC's and save energy
> in not running your furnace.  Seems to me to be a wash, here.


So the saving of C02 emissions by reducing your gas heating is not as 
great as the extra C02 emissions generated by your PC, by quite a large 
amount I believe.


>
> I should also point out that in many areas power is generated by
> wind.  Here in the Pacific NW you can pay a bit extra on your
> power bill to have all your electricity come from wind if you want.


I wish we could have more commitment to sustainable energy in UK but UK 
governments noise about it _is_ wash sadly.


>> A lot of people on the FreeBSD mailing
>> lists like the idea of getting rid of their clunky old PC routers and
>> still using a good firewall like Packet Filter by using the MIPS based
>> linksys WRT54G router that could run FreeBSD, while there is no
>> port for
>> this on FreeBSD the closest front for this would be NetBSD.
>>
>
>
> At the ISP I work at we USED to recommend Linksys routers.  Then
> we found that without exception they fail after about a year to two
> of continuous use.  Therefore the person goes and buys another router.
> Talk about wasted energy of manufacture and increased use of landfill
> space.


That is indeed a waste but consider that in that year the PC at 150 
watts has consumed 60 times as much power as the router at 2.5 watts. I 
make that 1314kWh for the PC and 21.9kWh for the router 24/7 for a year. 
Anyone know how much power it takes to manufacture and deliver a small 
router? And maybe other routers last a bit longer.


Where this comes back just a little to topic is if an OS such as FreeBSD 
can be made to run as effectively on an older PC as Windows on a new PC 
the new PC doesn't have to be manufactured and the old PC doesn't have 
to go into landfill. And then the FreeBSD project _is_ saving the world.


>
> You need to rethink your views on energy.  The problem in the world
> today is not electrical energy.  We can generate all the electric
> power we could ever need using wind energy, for very little more


There is actually some debate about how much sustainable energy we can 
produce globally, and we also have to think about the world tomorrow 
when low consuming countries convert to consumer societies, eg China.


> than burning fossil fuel - and in many places, at a lower cost than
> fossil-fuel generation if you subtract the initial investment costs.
> (most fossil fuel generating plants have long since paid off their
> initial investments)



In the end I think any discussion which can start us thinking about how 
we individually consume and why and how we should reduce our consumption 
is positive. Ie whether using an old PC or a router, turning it off when 
it is not actually being used is win-win. On that point, I believe the 
ATX power supply should be made illegal - in the UK PC's and monitors 
which are 'shutdown' but not switched off at the wall use up the output 
of a medium sized power station.


Chris

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problem with vim!

[Quintin Riis]

I'm having a major issue with vim. I'm using v6.4 I believe.
 The problem is... with my old version of vim, when I edited .php files
it would auto-indent html elements, so that it looked something like...
 
 
 
  etc. and it would line up all the closing elements automatically. now
however... it will not do this when I edit php files! it will do it for html
files though.
 So my question is how do I resolve this? In essence, I guess what I would
like is for .php files to have same indent / color / etc as .html, along
with also having indents / color / etc for .php files.
 Any help is very much appreciated!
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moused flags behaviour in 6.0 -- regression?

[martinko]

hello,

until freebsd 6.0 (that is to say in 5.3 and 5.4) i used 
moused_flags="-3" in rc.conf and both my mice worked correctly (or as 
desired) -- synaptics touchpad missing 3rd button was emulated while the 
wheel on my USB mouse worked as expected.
now, in 6.0, with the same setting, touchpad 3rd button is emulated but 
USB mouse's wheel doesn't work. if i don't use the flag, USB mouse's 
wheel work but obviously there is no 3rd button on my touchpad. :-(
also, iirc back on 5.x even on wheel mouse the 3rd button could be 
emulated by pressing buttons 1 and 2, which is not possible now with 
wheel being on.


now, i know about moused_ums0_flags="", i'm just wondering why has this 
changed (to worse from my point of view).
also, at first i tried moused_psm0_flags="-3" but that didn't work as 
touchpad is apparently initialised without specifying psm0 device.


i hope i made myself clear (enough).

regards,

martin

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Re: Page fault in kernel mode, 6.0-RELEASE

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:48:15PM +0100, Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
>> I am fairly new at FreeBSD. I installed a 'beastie' server with 
>> 
>> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>> 
>> but it traps immediately after the boot menu with following output
>> immediately after the boot menu:
>> 
>> /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x40c2c data=0x2160+0x1090 \
>> syms=[0x4+0x7810+0x4+0xa292]
>> 
>> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>> fault virtual address   = 0x8
>> fault code  = supervisor read, page not present
>> instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc079abb9
>> stack pointer   = 0x28:0xc0c20d4c
>> frame pointer   = 0x28:0xc0c20d58
>> code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
>> = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
>> processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
>> current process = 0 ()
>> trap number = 12
>> panic: page fault
>> Uptime: 1s
>> 
>> Note that the /boot/kernel/acpi.ko line is absent if I boot with acpi
>> disabled (menu option 2). But the trap info is not affected by slecting
>> that boot option.
>
> Are you using other modules (e.g. nvidia driver)?

No Kris, this is just when booting from the generic release cd's. I
had an old Hercules 3d Prophet card and just used that, without
loading anything special.
>
> Kris

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Re: What about for Palm's and Pocket PC's in FreeBSD?

[Aaron Siegel]

Hello

I am syncing my T5 with kpilot through the usb cable. It is a bit tricky but 
it does work.  To get the sync to work enter the kpilot in to a shell, press 
the hotsync button then execute the kpilot. It takes a few tries to get the 
timing down it has been working for me.

Aaron
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 05:10, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:59:00PM +0200, Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote:
> > Could anyone tell me if there's a good support for Palm's and Pocket
> > PC's in FreeBSD, especially for Bluetooth connectivity? I'm going to
> > buy one and if I learn that Palm is supported much better, It'll be one
> > more it's advantage over MS :) Maybe, someone could point me a some
> > sort of guide? Thanks!
>
> I have browsed the web on my Tungsten T5 using my desktop FreeBSD box
> as router. I haven't tried synchronization due to the fact that I have
> not found a suitable backend on the FreeBSD box that I want to store
> my data in (Evolution is nice but still can't manage my email the way
> mutt can).
>
> --Stijn
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Re: Page fault in kernel mode, 6.0-RELEASE

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:48:15PM +0100, Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
> I am fairly new at FreeBSD. I installed a 'beastie' server with 
> 
> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> 
> but it traps immediately after the boot menu with following output
> immediately after the boot menu:
> 
> /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x40c2c data=0x2160+0x1090 \
> syms=[0x4+0x7810+0x4+0xa292]
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address   = 0x8
> fault code  = supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc079abb9
> stack pointer   = 0x28:0xc0c20d4c
> frame pointer   = 0x28:0xc0c20d58
> code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
> = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process = 0 ()
> trap number = 12
> panic: page fault
> Uptime: 1s
> 
> Note that the /boot/kernel/acpi.ko line is absent if I boot with acpi
> disabled (menu option 2). But the trap info is not affected by slecting
> that boot option.

Are you using other modules (e.g. nvidia driver)?

Kris


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Page fault in kernel mode, 6.0-RELEASE

[Guido Van Hoecke]

I am fairly new at FreeBSD. I installed a 'beastie' server with 

FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

but it traps immediately after the boot menu with following output
immediately after the boot menu:

/boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x40c2c data=0x2160+0x1090 \
syms=[0x4+0x7810+0x4+0xa292]

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address   = 0x8
fault code  = supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc079abb9
stack pointer   = 0x28:0xc0c20d4c
frame pointer   = 0x28:0xc0c20d58
code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process = 0 ()
trap number = 12
panic: page fault
Uptime: 1s

Note that the /boot/kernel/acpi.ko line is absent if I boot with acpi
disabled (menu option 2). But the trap info is not affected by slecting
that boot option.

This is a 1.7 Ghz P4 with 1Gb mry and a fast 250Gb drive fully
dedicated (using normal partition scheme, not 'dangourously
dedicated') to FreeBSD. It has an MSI 845 Pro2 motherboard.

I had this trap during the first install yesterday. So I restarted the
installation and all went fine. After the installation, I rebooted
beastie and had no problems. I was able to work on it locally as well
as over an ssh connection to it.

Some time late at night, beastie trapped as reported above. Since
then, it never got beyond this trap. That's it. Full stop!

I looked into the BIOS setup, trying to change default settings that
might influence the kernel, such as disabling APIC mode. No success.

I booted the machine from a memtest86 CD and had it testing the memory
during several hours. No errors were detected. I ran all test programs
I could find (a.o. using Hiren's boot cd), and didn't find any
problems with the PC.

Still, I am pretty sure there must be a problem with that PC. Booting
from the FreeBSD-6.0-RC1 or FreeBSD-5.4R cd's causes the same trap at
the same point. Well, right now they just reboot after the menu. And
so does FreeSBIE 1.1 (FreeBSD 5.3 Live CD)

I've been further experimenting with the BIOS, I have upgraded it to
the latest version available from MSI.

Bottom line is that now it does not trap anymore. After the boot menu,
it goes a bit furthre. It shows the CopyRight and Release info and
reboots automaticlally without any further info.

Is there anything I can do to get more info about the reason for this
frustrating behaviour?

I do hope that more kernel-knowledgeable people will be able to point
my nose in the proper direction, given the consistant moment where the
error occurs. This is so frustrating, and I almost do feel ashame to
dump this onto the FreeBSD community, but I am desperate to get this
server installed and running!

Guido.


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Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:25:12PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> > 
> > You should verify that /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf has the line 
> > 
> > niash
> > 
> > in it.
> 
> It did exist on my 5.4 machinebut then:
> 
> > You cut put a line like
> > 
> > usb /dev/uscanner0
> > 
> > in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/niash.conf
> 
> Roland, do you know if niash.conf is in, and/or unique to, the 6.x
> release? I do not see it on my 5.4 machine. Since sane is a port, I
> don't think it would be in one release, but not another. It is a new
> sane backend, so perhaps it is not yet in the ports tree, somehow?

Could be. The site for the driver said it had been merged into sane, but
not into which version.


> Is it perhaps sufficient to create the niash.conf file? I wonder,
> because some of the conf files look like they may have aspects that
> are necessary for the correct functioning of the scanner.

I missed something in reading the original mail. The fault occurs in the
FreeBSD driver code, and prevents the creation of a uscanner device.

Maybe the device is USB 2.0 only and needs the ehci driver? Otherwise
building a kernel with 'options USB_DEBUG' might give a clearer picture
of what's happening.

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Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:52:07PM +0100, Blue Raccoon wrote:
> Then I rebooted, plugged the scanner in and got this:

I missed that at first reading. :-/
 
> uscanner0: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x045, rev 1.00/0.00, addr 2

Are you sure about these numbers? The product number should be four
digits. According to /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs, the product number
should be 0x0405.

> uscanner0: setting config no failed
> device_attach: uscanner0 attach returned 6

Reading through the USB code, there are different failures that can
cause this error. The failure originates in the function
usbd_set_config_no (from usb_subr.c) called in uscanner.c. From there on
the possible code paths branch out.

If you could rebuild the kernel with 'options USB_DEBUG' it would
generate more verbose messages, that would make it easier to follow the
code path. 

> uhub0: port 2, set config at addr 2 failed
> uhub0: device problem (STALLED), disabling port 2
> 
> Which is almost identical to the boot-errors I had before (the first line is 
> slightly different). Needless to say SANE still can't find the device.

> What can I say? 
> 'Helaas'?

Inderdaad ;-)

Roland
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Re: Unknown Program

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:18:04PM -0500, Russell Meek wrote:
> Gerard Seibert wrote:
> 
> >I am running FreeBSD 5.4 presently. In my /usr/local/etc/rc.d 
> >directory, I have come across this file: '001slpd.sh'. I cannot seem 
> >to find out what it does or how it got there. It does not appear to be 
> >running; however, employing the 'status' switch produces nothing.
> >
> >I have tried using help, info and man without success. Perhaps someone 
> >can enlighten me as to this programs purpose.
> >
> slpd.sh should be related to OpenSLP, Service Location Protocol.
> 
> Have you opened the slpd.sh file to see if there are any indicators to 
> what it is calling.

Sounds like the startup/shutdown script installed by the relevant
port, which you presumably installed on your system at one time (or
still have installed now).

Kris


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Re: Unknown Program

[Russell Meek]

Gerard Seibert wrote:

I am running FreeBSD 5.4 presently. In my /usr/local/etc/rc.d 
directory, I have come across this file: '001slpd.sh'. I cannot seem 
to find out what it does or how it got there. It does not appear to be 
running; however, employing the 'status' switch produces nothing.


I have tried using help, info and man without success. Perhaps someone 
can enlighten me as to this programs purpose.



slpd.sh should be related to OpenSLP, Service Location Protocol.

Have you opened the slpd.sh file to see if there are any indicators to 
what it is calling.


Russell
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Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

[Joe Altman]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:25:12PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> 
> You should verify that /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf has the line 
> 
> niash
> 
> in it.

It did exist on my 5.4 machinebut then:

> You cut put a line like
> 
> usb /dev/uscanner0
> 
> in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/niash.conf

Roland, do you know if niash.conf is in, and/or unique to, the 6.x
release? I do not see it on my 5.4 machine. Since sane is a port, I
don't think it would be in one release, but not another. It is a new
sane backend, so perhaps it is not yet in the ports tree, somehow?

Here is pkg-plist from sane-backends on 5.4:

etc/sane.d/ma1509.conf
etc/sane.d/matsushita.conf
etc/sane.d/microtek.conf
etc/sane.d/microtek2.conf
etc/sane.d/mustek.conf
etc/sane.d/mustek_usb.conf
etc/sane.d/nec.conf
etc/sane.d/net.conf
etc/sane.d/pie.conf
etc/sane.d/plustek.conf

And the sane page:



From: 

About HP3300c SANE backend

This project is about writing a Linux SANE backend for the HP3300c USB
color scanner. Support for other scanners with very similar chipsets,
like the HP3400c, HP4300c and the Agfa Touch is also planned.

Operating System: All BSD Platforms (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Apple Mac
OS X), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD,
OpenBSD License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Is it perhaps sufficient to create the niash.conf file? I wonder,
because some of the conf files look like they may have aspects that
are necessary for the correct functioning of the scanner.

> > I come straight from Windows XP. Perhaps I bit off a bit more than I can 
> > chew...  Can this be solved by a newbie?

Raccoon...I think it can be solved; but it may depend on whether or
not there is a backend; or, perhaps, if the dll.conf file entry is
sufficient. I do not know which, if either, is the case.

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FreeBSD 6.0 and VmWare 5

[Mário Gamito]

Hi,

Has any one around here tried to run FreeBSD 6.0 in VmWare 5 (Windows) 
with success ?


FreeBSD's install reboots when it comes to package installation.

Any help would be apreciated.

Warm Regards,
Mário Gamito
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Re: aacPlus audio stream?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz
>   aacPlus audio?

aacPlus is a trade name (of the original inventors, I think) for the
"High Efficiency" AAC format as standardized by the MPEG folks.  So
you might have more luck looking for "HE-AAC".

I understand that vlc (multimedia/vlc) supports it, but I haven't
tried it.  vlc seems to use faac/faad, though, so probably other
faac-based applications should be able to do it too.
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Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

[Blue Raccoon]

Roland,

Thanks for your help, but...

> You should verify that /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf has the line
> niash

It does. I removed the addition you suggested earlier.

> You cut put a line like usb /dev/uscanner0
> in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/niash.conf

I did (had to create the file).

> The most simple solution would be to have the following in
> /etc/devfs.rules:
> [devrules=10]
> add path 'uscanner*' mode 0666
> You'll also have to activate the ruleset 'devrules' by putting the
> following line in /etc/rc.conf:
> devfs_system_ruleset="devrules"

I did (had to create devfs.rules).

Then I rebooted, plugged the scanner in and got this:

uscanner0: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x045, rev 1.00/0.00, addr 2
uscanner0: setting config no failed
device_attach: uscanner0 attach returned 6
uhub0: port 2, set config at addr 2 failed
uhub0: device problem (STALLED), disabling port 2

Which is almost identical to the boot-errors I had before (the first line is 
slightly different). Needless to say SANE still can't find the device.

What can I say? 
'Helaas'?

- Jay
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Re: aacPlus audio stream?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Nov 15), Roland Smith said:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:16:16PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz
> > aacPlus audio?
> 
> It should work with faad2; /usr/ports/audio/faad. There are also xmms
> plugins that use faad, but they're not in ports, AFAICT.

audio/xmms-faad is in ports and works fine

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Re: aacPlus audio stream?

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:16:16PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>   Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz
>   aacPlus audio?

It should work with faad2; /usr/ports/audio/faad. There are also xmms
plugins that use faad, but they're not in ports, AFAICT.

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Re: ntpdate

[David Kirchner]

On 11/15/05, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a "ntpdate -b server" rule in my rc.conf before the ntpd daemon
> starts up. I get error msgs that the time server cannot be found.
> Is named run before or after ntpdate?
> Should I change the rule in something like "ntpdate -b ip" ?
> What is the rule of thumb?

Can you ping the server from another host while it's coming up, before
and during the time it is attempting to run the ntpdate command?
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ral(4) not working on 6.0

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aacPlus audio stream?

[Gary Kline]

Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz
aacPlus audio?

gary


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Re: ntpdate

[Björn König]

dick hoogendijk schrieb:

I have a "ntpdate -b server" rule in my rc.conf before the ntpd daemon
starts up. I get error msgs that the time server cannot be found.
Is named run before or after ntpdate?
Should I change the rule in something like "ntpdate -b ip" ?
What is the rule of thumb?


According to "rcorder /etc/rc.d/*" named will be executed before 
ntpdate. Does it work if you use an IP?


Björn

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ntpdate

[dick hoogendijk]

I have a "ntpdate -b server" rule in my rc.conf before the ntpd daemon
starts up. I get error msgs that the time server cannot be found.
Is named run before or after ntpdate?
Should I change the rule in something like "ntpdate -b ip" ?
What is the rule of thumb?

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Re: Printer prints garbage

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:15:50PM +0100, Ron wrote:
> 2005/11/15, James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Ron wrote:
> >
> >  > I am using Cups(I forgot to mention this).
> >
> > I know nothing of CUPS.  The manual is online however,
> > at:
> >
> > http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html#3_7
> >
> > After a quick perusal, it appears one uses "lpstat" to get a job
> > id, and then one invokes "cancel [id]" and  then "lprm [id]" to
> > cancel the job.
> I had this problem two months ago, and someone suggested to do lpstat
> the next time it happened, but lpstat didn't give any output.
> 
> So, in short, the issue remains. Maybe someone else reads this
> sometime and post me the solution.

If you run CUPS, you have to change settings so that CUPS overwrites the
BSD LPR commands (they have the same name for compatibility).

Add CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=true and NO_LPR=true to /etc/make.conf before
installing CUPS.

If that's done, you can give the command 'lprm -' as root to cancel all jobs.

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Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:00:41PM +0100, Blue Raccoon wrote:
> Joe,
> 
> Thanks for your tips.
> 
> On Tuesday 15 November 2005 18:37, Joe Altman wrote:
> > I suggest trying to put this after the "niash" in the dll.conf file:
> >  :/dev/uscanner0
> 
> I did, but it makes no difference.

You should verify that /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf has the line 

niash

in it.

You cut put a line like

usb /dev/uscanner0

in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/niash.conf

> > You will also need to set up device bits, in /etc/devfs.conf:
> > #Scanner
> > permuscanner0   
> 
> Perms I wish to have? I'm afraid that means nothing to me.

SANE communicates with the scanner by reading and writing from a special
file in the /dev directory. Normally, only the root user has write
access to these files. You need to set up /etc/devfs.rules (not
/etc/devfs.conf) for hotpluggable devices like USB.

The most simple solution would be to have the following in
/etc/devfs.rules:

[devrules=10]
add path 'uscanner*' mode 0666

You'll also have to activate the ruleset 'devrules' by putting the
following line in /etc/rc.conf:

devfs_system_ruleset="devrules"

Iy that's done, you should either reboot the machine, or run the command
'/etc/rc.d/devfs restart' as root (with the scanner unplugged).

It that is done, and you plug in the scanner, a device file /dev/uscanner0
should appear that everybody can use.

> They have a patch (source code) that can alter the SANE source to become 
> Scanjet3400c compatible. I may have to look into that, but I also found this 
> in the patch documentation:
> 
> 
> before trying to make your scanner work, call:
> $ less /proc/bus/usb/devices
> if your scanning device is not listed by name, you probably
> have a 3400C or 4300C and difficulties with the kernel-usb.
> The forum will give you information, how to change the
> kernel code, to make your scanner work.
> 
> 
> My /proc/ is totally empty.

This is about the /proc filesystem in Linux.

> Good point, since I have no /dev/uscanner* - but I have no MAKEDEV command 
> either! And there are more lines I simply do not understand:

Again, this is Linux specific. FreeBSD 5.x and 6.0 don't have a MAKEDEV
command anymore, because they make device files automatically when a
device is available.

> I come straight from Windows XP. Perhaps I bit off a bit more than I can 
> chew...  Can this be solved by a newbie?

Try the things I have suggested above, plug in the scanner and run
sane-find-scanner. 

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Re: Printer prints garbage

[Ron]

2005/11/15, James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ron wrote:
>
>  > I am using Cups(I forgot to mention this).
>
> I know nothing of CUPS.  The manual is online however,
> at:
>
> http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html#3_7
>
> After a quick perusal, it appears one uses "lpstat" to get a job
> id, and then one invokes "cancel [id]" and  then "lprm [id]" to
> cancel the job.
I had this problem two months ago, and someone suggested to do lpstat
the next time it happened, but lpstat didn't give any output.

So, in short, the issue remains. Maybe someone else reads this
sometime and post me the solution.

Regards, Ron
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pf synproxy state

[dick hoogendijk]

I have a pf.conf rule:

pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to $server port 80 \
   flags S/SA synproxy state

It should be safer for the webserver (so they say)..

But after a few hours of no connection I began to wonder and changed
the "synproxy state" back to "keep state" (things started to work
again).

I googled and found msgs about a non working synproxy on 5.x, but 6.0
should work (they say).

Has anybody some experience in this matter?
Does synproxy work?
Do I do something wrong? (overlooked something)?

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Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

[Blue Raccoon]

Joe,

Thanks for your tips.

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 18:37, Joe Altman wrote:
> I suggest trying to put this after the "niash" in the dll.conf file:
>  :/dev/uscanner0

I did, but it makes no difference.

> And you know that your USB port works, because you use XP on this
> machine, correct?

Correct.

> You will also need to set up device bits, in /etc/devfs.conf:
> #Scanner
> permuscanner0   

Perms I wish to have? I'm afraid that means nothing to me.

> I suggest here: 
> and here: .

They have a patch (source code) that can alter the SANE source to become 
Scanjet3400c compatible. I may have to look into that, but I also found this 
in the patch documentation:


before trying to make your scanner work, call:
$ less /proc/bus/usb/devices
if your scanning device is not listed by name, you probably
have a 3400C or 4300C and difficulties with the kernel-usb.
The forum will give you information, how to change the
kernel code, to make your scanner work.


My /proc/ is totally empty.
It is not clear what forum they are referring to.
Even more frightening is this, in the SANE documentation:


To get your scanner detected by the uscanner driver, it may be necessary to
add its vendor and device ids to the kernel and recompile. Use MAKEDEV to
generate the /dev/uscanner* files if they are not already there. Use
sane-find-scanner to find your scanner and edit your backend's configuration
file appropriately.
**

Good point, since I have no /dev/uscanner* - but I have no MAKEDEV command 
either! And there are more lines I simply do not understand:

**
If you want to use libusb, your scanner should *not* be claimed by the
uscanner driver. Make sure, that /dev/ugen* and /dev/usb* devices are
available. Use /dev/MAKEDEV to create them, if necessary.
**

I come straight from Windows XP. Perhaps I bit off a bit more than I can 
chew...  Can this be solved by a newbie?

thanks again,

-Jay
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RE: Secure File Copy

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Tuesday, November 15, 2005 06:17:41 -0800 Joshua Lewis 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



I was trying that I did

scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/www
localhost:/Users/joshua/Desktop/FreeBSD

And it prompted me for a password on the server but the root password
would not authenticate.

Most likely this is because remote root logins through ssh are not allowed 
(nor should they ever be.)  Use another username.


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University of Texas at Dallas
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Re: cvsup8.freebsd.org not updating (Re: RELENG_6 cvsup returns 6.0-RC1)

[Ken Smith]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 18:33 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:30:32AM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 06:07:13PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:54:11PM -0800, Frank Jahnke wrote:
> > > > > I just ran a cvsup with a tag of RELENG_6 and rebuilt world/kernel.
> > > > > After installing kernel/world and subsequent reboot, I expected to see
> > > > > a kernel labeled:
> > > > >
> > > > >FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE
> > > > >
> > > > > but am instead seeing:
> > > > >
> > > > >FreeBSD 6.0-RC1
> > > > >
> > > > > I double-checked my supfile and my tag is indeed RELENG_6.
> > > > 
> > > > Set your tag to RELENG_6_0 and all will be well.
> > > 
> > > No, that's the release branch.  RELENG_6 indeed should work as he
> > > expects.  Is anyone else able to confirm that this cvsup server is
> > > handing out old files?
> > 
> > Yes, I just tried the cvsup server he said he was using
> > (cvsup8.us.freebsd.org) and does indeed hand out old files, as if it hasn't
> > been updated in quite a while.
> > 
> > To the OP:  Use another cvsup server.  The one you have been using seem to
> > have problems. 
> 
> Thanks for confirming, I'm forwarding this to hubs@
> 
> Kris

FYI:
- cvsup8.freebsd.org and cvsup8.us.freebsd.org are not the
  same machine... :-)

- cvsup8.us.freebsd.org was having problems with their upstream
  host.  They're now sync-ing from cvsup-master instead.  I
  still need to contact their upstream host to see what the
  problem with them is...

And as part of a different thread...  cvsup10 had a drive blow.  We're
still working on that.  cvsup10 is temporarily pointing to a different
machine.

And just to add to the fun cvsup12 also lost something-or-other and is
down for a couple days.  It also has been temporarily pointed to a
different machine.

Whee...

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ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY time out

[Roberto Nunnari]

ok ok.. fixed it!

Don't know why, but boot_modules was set to /boot/modules
.. set that to /boot/kernel and the system was up again.

Sorry for the noise!

Best regards.

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ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY time out

[Roberto Nunnari]

Hi.

Could any kind soul help me out, please?

Please, also reply to my mailbox as I'm not on the list.

I just upgrade a i386 FreeBSD box from REL-5.3.p15 to
REL-5.3.p23.

after installkernel I could reboot to single usermode
and did installworld, but after that I can no longer
reboot.. rebooting with the old kernel doesn't help.

I believe I did something wrong with mergemaster..
maybe I broke something in /boot/devices.hints..

the error messages:
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (irq)
ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out

I could just make a dump of the various filesystems,
reinstall and restore my data.. but if I could just
fix the problem without reinstalling would be much better.

What happen if I just remove or cut -s0 /boot/devices.hints ?
..or.. what else?

Thank you!

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Re: Linuxpluginwrapper

[Marco Beishuizen]

On stardate Tue, 15 Nov 2005, the wise Hans Nieser entered:


- Install www/linuxpluginwrapper
- Install www/linux-flashplugin7
- Put following in /etc/libmap.conf

 [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so]
 libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2
 libdl.so.2  pluginwrapper/flash7.so
 libz.so.1   libz.so.3
 libm.so.6   libm.so.4
 libc.so.6   pluginwrapper/flash7.so

- Apply the patch at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff to 
/usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c (using "patch < difffile").

- Rebuild rtld-elf:

 cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/
 make clean cleandir
 make clean cleandir
 make obj
 make depend
 make
 make install

- Link the plugin:

 ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so 
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/


I'm also trying to install the flashplugin in Firefox. Also took the 
steps above but it still doesn't work.


Any other hints? :)

Marco

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Re: upgrade to 6.0 question

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:28:52PM -0500, Osmany Guirola cruz wrote:

[...]
> i have two versions of the same libraries , i think that the upgrade
> procces deleted allthe obsoleted libraries but not in my case :-(
> what can i do..

The upgrade *doesn't* remove the obsoleted libraries. If you're sure
you don't need them (ie you don't need or run with compatibility mode
with 5-STABLE), you can just remove them.

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Re: pam_userdb.so not found on FreeBSD

[N.J. Thomas]

* N.J. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-14 20:36:33 -0500]:
> vsftpd uses pam's pam_userdb.so module for this, but I can't find it on
> this machine. Is it called something else now?

To answer my own question, I was just told that pam_userdb.so is part of
Linux-PAM and not part of OpenPAM (which FreeBSD uses).

No virtual users for me I guess...

Thomas

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Re: dhclient.leases grows forever?

[Luke Dean]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Luke Dean wrote:



I've recently upgraded to version 6, and I'm using the new dhclient.
It seems to be working happily, but I've noticed that 
/var/db/dhclient.leases.rl0 just keeps growing and growing, with new leases 
being added to the end.  Leases that expired several hours ago remain in the 
file.


According to the manpage for dhclient.leases, this database is supposed to 
contain only leases that are "still valid", yet the expiration time on many 
of them has long since passed.


Is there a bug, a misconfiguration, or am I responsible for setting up my own 
script for purging this thing?  I can't find any cron-driven script that 
cleans up this file, so I'm wondering if dhclient is supposed to handle this 
itself, and if so, when?


I haven't gotten any replies to this, but now that more time has passed I 
see that dhclient is cycling the contents of the leases file.  There's 
about twenty leases in there all the time.  Some of them have expired and 
some are planned many hours out into the future.  I don't know when it 
cycles the leases or what the meaning of the far-future leases are, but 
it's working and cleaning up after itself somehow, so I'll shut up now.


If somebody would like to explain how dhclient cycles through these leases 
though, I'd appreciate it.  The manpages aren't enough to make me 
understand the process.


I do have one practical reason for wanting to understand this.  When I 
need to take the server down for maintenance, I like to know when my IP 
lease is due to expire.  This lets me know how much time I can be 
offline before I lose my IP address.  With the old dhclient that only had 
one lease in the file, the answer was obvious.

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Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c, from: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 113, Issue 7

[Joe Altman]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:46:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>   20. USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c (Blue Raccoon)
> --
> 
> Message: 20
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:35:53 +0100
> From: Blue Raccoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am VERY new to FreeBSD and am having serious problems setting up my HP 
> Scanjet 3400c. I installed the SANE back-end and it cannot find any
> scanners. 

So I take it the above means that sane-find-scanner returns no
information on your scanner, and scanimage -L will also fail? (BTW:
you may need some sort of frontend AKA GUI; something like the Sane
Project's frontend, or XSane's frontend).

I just checked /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ and there seems to be no backend
for this scanner, IFF the backend for this model of 3400 is
sane-niash[1]. In dll.conf, there is a line for niash; I suggest
trying to put this after the "niash" in the dll.conf file:

 :/dev/uscanner0

so that you have this line:

niash::/dev/uscanner0

then reboot, to see if it works. You can read about it in the man page
for dll.conf, sane-dll.

I think this might work, as there is an entry in /usr/local/lib/sane/:

~ $: grep -i niash /usr/local/lib/sane/*
Binary file /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-niash.so matches
Binary file /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-niash.so.1 matches

But I dont' know, since my HP is a 2200C.

> I don't think SANE is to blame though, because the dmesg command shows (among 
> other things) this:
> 
> uscanner0: Hew product 0x0405, rev 1.00/0.00, addr 2
> uscanner0: setting config no failed
> device_attach: uscanner0 attach returned 6
> uhub0: port 2, set config at addr 2 failed
> uhub0: device problem (STALLED), disabling port 2

And you know that your USB port works, because you use XP on this
machine, correct?

> There is no point in loading the scanner from the command line, because 
> 'kldload uscanner' brings up:
> 
> kldload: can't load uscanner: File exists

You will also need to set up device bits, in /etc/devfs.conf:

#Scanner
permuscanner0   

> I compiled a kernel (just to see if I could), but the GENERIC kernel also 
> chokes on the scanner. I did include 
> 
> device usb
> device uhci
> device ohci
> device uscanner

That should be all you need.

> in my kernel though.
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 6.0 (release) on a 4 year old PC (900 Mhz Pentium).
> And the scanner is fine, by the way (No problems with XP).

I suggest here:  
and here: .


[1] The Sane Project indicates that it is new; so perhaps that backend
has not yet made it into the distribution? I don't know...
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Re: ntp handling in 6.0

[Lowell Gilbert]

Don't top-post, please.

"Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Thanks for your reply. My server box does indeed have ntpd running
> i confirmed it with ps -aux and it does have a pf firewall. The rules
> are:
> 
> # allow UDP requests to port 123 from firewall to exit ext_if_if
> # in order to contact internet ntp servers
> # (keep state on this connection)
> pass out quick on $ext_if inet proto { tcp, udp} from $ext_if to any port 123 
> keep state
> 
> # allow UDP requests to ports 67, 68, and 123 from # in order to perform dhcp 
> and ntp queries on the firewall
> # ( Keep state on this connection)
> pass in quick on $int_if inet proto { tcp,udp } from $int_net to $int_if port 
> { 67, 68, 123 } keep state

There's probably a syntax issue here; I don't use pf, so the fact that
I don't personally see a problem may not mean anthing.  You could try
debugging it by seeing whether the request packets actually get out of
the firewall, and whether responses come back.

> and ntpdc shows me a prompt.

But does it see any peers?
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Re: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

[Andrew P.]

On 11/15/05, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:46:02 +0300
> "Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On 11/15/05, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi Folk
> > >
> > > like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a "junk yard"
> > > of redundant machines
> > >
> > > Ive just been through mine and found could at a push make 5 x86 PCs
> > >
> > > 2x amd 400mhz
> > > 2x via 700mhz
> > > 1x amd duron 1200
> > >
> > > also have lots of spare nic cards
> > >
> > > Ive never looked at clusters before and this is just for fun (must
> > > have way to much time on my hands) :)
> > >
> > > So I need to know would it be possible to build a cluster from
> > > these ? I'm not sure if the nodes need to be matched in any way ?
> > >
> > > dose anyone know where to find an idiots to setting one up ?
> > >
> > > also what would the equivelent power be i.e would i just be making a
> > > 1gig space heater ?
> >
> > It's hard to tell for sure, but one AMD 3000+ should
> > eat them all for lunch. So there's no practical interest
> > in it. But you can learn much from using all these
> > machines together.
> >
> > First, do you need a real-deal cluster with MPI and
> > other industrial protocols? If I were you, I'd call these
> > machines a farm, and would first try some fail-over
> > mechanisms (routing, http, dns, ipsec). We usually
> > get to test fail-over using virtual pc's. Real boxes
> > are somewhat harder to manage, but they are real,
> > and the experience you get is a real hands-on
> > "encounter".
> >
> > Then, some distributed jobs would be fun. I use
> > distcc to compile many large pieces of software.
> > Try it. Then you can try running something like
> > dnetc or boinc and compare the results your
> > farm produce to those your desktop shows.
> >
> > If you have a lot of NIC's, populate the boxes with
> > all of them. Install FreeBSD everywhere and you
> > can emulate _very_ complicated environments with
> > vlans, trunks, OSPF, BGP and what not. Then go
> > and get your CCIE.
> >
> > <...>
> >
> > Take care!
>
> thanks
>
> I'm going to try and make a start on on the installs for this project
> this evening what version of freebsd would be best to use would the
> latest really be the greatest ?

I'd use 6-stable or even 7-current.
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Re: Printer prints garbage

[James Bailie]

Ron wrote:

> I am using Cups(I forgot to mention this).

I know nothing of CUPS.  The manual is online however,
at:

http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html#3_7

After a quick perusal, it appears one uses "lpstat" to get a job
id, and then one invokes "cancel [id]" and  then "lprm [id]" to
cancel the job.

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Re: Printer prints garbage

[Ron]

2005/11/15, James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ron wrote:
>
>  > On restart of the printer, FreeBSD will send it printing
>  > information, but it should *not* do this, since the printer is
>  > out of sync with FreeBSD. The result is garbage pages.
>
> This is perfectly reasonable behavior.  The print daemon does not
> know you are trying to stop it from printing.  It simply stalls
> the print job when the printer stops responding, and then resumes
> it when the printer is available again.  If you wish to stop a
> print job, use "lpq" to determine the job number and then feed
> that to "lprm" to dequeue the job.  Then you reset the printer to
> clear out its own buffer.  There is certainly a better way to do
> this than to yank the plug out of the wall.  One usually presses
> a button to reset a printer.
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Hi,

$lpq
Epson is ready
no entries

Since there are no entries, I also can't do lprm.

I am using Cups(I forgot to mention this).

Regards, Ron
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Re: Printer prints garbage

[James Bailie]

Ron wrote:

> On restart of the printer, FreeBSD will send it printing
> information, but it should *not* do this, since the printer is
> out of sync with FreeBSD. The result is garbage pages.

This is perfectly reasonable behavior.  The print daemon does not
know you are trying to stop it from printing.  It simply stalls
the print job when the printer stops responding, and then resumes
it when the printer is available again.  If you wish to stop a
print job, use "lpq" to determine the job number and then feed
that to "lprm" to dequeue the job.  Then you reset the printer to
clear out its own buffer.  There is certainly a better way to do
this than to yank the plug out of the wall.  One usually presses
a button to reset a printer.

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Re: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Arden wrote:


like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a "junk yard" of
redundant machines 

 

Here's a URL I filed away for a rainy day when I had some spare time 
(yeah, right :-)).  Interesting read if nothing else:


http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/~nordlie/miniwulf/

Google might turn up more stuff.

--Alex

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Printer prints garbage

[Ron]

Hi,

I am experiencing problems with the combination of FreeBSD 5.4 + Epson
Stylus C60 when a job has been canceled by means of cutting the
power(of the printer) while it's printing.

On restart of the printer, FreeBSD will send it printing information,
but it should *not* do this, since the printer is out of sync with
FreeBSD. The result is garbage pages.

A reboot of the computer works around the problem, but that's
inconvenient to do everytime.

It seems logical that there's some command which enables me to delete
all FreeBSD printing buffers (and thus get the system in a state which
is equivalent to when it's just booted w.r.t. printing). The question
is: what is this command? (or are there any other things I can do
about this?)


Regards,
  Ron
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strange log output

[Dave]

Hello,
   Can anyone tell me what these log outputs mean? I'm seeing them in my 
daily security log reports.

Thanks.
Dave.


+cmd mysqld pid 32880 tried to use non-present sched_yield
+cmd mysqld pid 32880 tried to use non-present sched_yield
+cmd cdrecord pid 26176 tried to use non-present sched_get_priority_max
+cmd cdrecord pid 26176 tried to use non-present sched_setscheduler
+cmd cdrecord pid 26177 tried to use non-present sched_get_priority_max
+cmd cdrecord pid 26177 tried to use non-present sched_setscheduler


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Re: readline problems in FreeBSD 5.4/6.0

[James Bailie]

Bryan Maloney wrote:

> ... I first noticed this when I went to portupgrade to the
> 11-10-05 dated readline port in ports - the first shell I
> opened up after the portupgrade completed exhibited this
> problem, as have all bash shells since (without readline
> disabled).

This may be a silly question, but did you use portupgrade to
rebuild the ports which depend on readline?

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Re: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

[Arden]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:46:02 +0300
"Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 11/15/05, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Folk
> >
> > like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a "junk yard"
> > of redundant machines
> >
> > Ive just been through mine and found could at a push make 5 x86 PCs
> >
> > 2x amd 400mhz
> > 2x via 700mhz
> > 1x amd duron 1200
> >
> > also have lots of spare nic cards
> >
> > Ive never looked at clusters before and this is just for fun (must
> > have way to much time on my hands) :)
> >
> > So I need to know would it be possible to build a cluster from
> > these ? I'm not sure if the nodes need to be matched in any way ?
> >
> > dose anyone know where to find an idiots to setting one up ?
> >
> > also what would the equivelent power be i.e would i just be making a
> > 1gig space heater ?
> 
> It's hard to tell for sure, but one AMD 3000+ should
> eat them all for lunch. So there's no practical interest
> in it. But you can learn much from using all these
> machines together.
> 
> First, do you need a real-deal cluster with MPI and
> other industrial protocols? If I were you, I'd call these
> machines a farm, and would first try some fail-over
> mechanisms (routing, http, dns, ipsec). We usually
> get to test fail-over using virtual pc's. Real boxes
> are somewhat harder to manage, but they are real,
> and the experience you get is a real hands-on
> "encounter".
> 
> Then, some distributed jobs would be fun. I use
> distcc to compile many large pieces of software.
> Try it. Then you can try running something like
> dnetc or boinc and compare the results your
> farm produce to those your desktop shows.
> 
> If you have a lot of NIC's, populate the boxes with
> all of them. Install FreeBSD everywhere and you
> can emulate _very_ complicated environments with
> vlans, trunks, OSPF, BGP and what not. Then go
> and get your CCIE.
> 
> <...>
> 
> Take care!

thanks 
 
I'm going to try and make a start on on the installs for this project
this evening what version of freebsd would be best to use would the
latest really be the greatest ?

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RE: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

[Ansar Mohammed]

Ideally you need to define what you mean by a "cluster"
Depending on who you talk to practical clusters are very different.

The most common industry type cluster is called a "shared nothing" cluster.
It is basically two or more physical servers connected to the same storage
subsystem where data only resides. Traditionally the application executables
reside on the servers themselves, facilitating what is known as a rolling
upgrade.
Since you probably don't have a shared disk or SAN you can do this by using
geom on FreeBSD or iSCSI on linux/Windoze. This type of cluster is typical
for database applications. 

The second type of cluster is "load balanced" where multiple machines
"share" a logical IP Address and distribute the load evenly or unevenly
between them. You can use carp for IP sharing and rsync for data synch.
This is typically used for web servers, dns etc.. where data is minimal,
auto replicated(as in DNS) or static. This is practical in your environment
since you can actually put these machines to good use. 

The third type of cluster is the distributed cluster using MPI or PVM etc.
This is typically used for distributing load in computational problems. 





> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arden
> Sent: November 15, 2005 9:16 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: makings of a junk yard cluster ??
> 
> Hi Folk
> 
> like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a "junk yard" of
> redundant machines
> 
> Ive just been through mine and found could at a push make 5 x86 PCs
> 
> 2x amd 400mhz
> 2x via 700mhz
> 1x amd duron 1200
> 
> also have lots of spare nic cards
> 
> Ive never looked at clusters before and this is just for fun (must have
> way to much time on my hands) :)
> 
> So I need to know would it be possible to build a cluster from these ?
> I'm not sure if the nodes need to be matched in any way ?
> 
> dose anyone know where to find an idiots to setting one up ?
> 
> also what would the equivelent power be i.e would i just be making a
> 1gig space heater ?
> 
> Arden
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Re: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

[Andrew P.]

On 11/15/05, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Folk
>
> like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a "junk yard" of
> redundant machines
>
> Ive just been through mine and found could at a push make 5 x86 PCs
>
> 2x amd 400mhz
> 2x via 700mhz
> 1x amd duron 1200
>
> also have lots of spare nic cards
>
> Ive never looked at clusters before and this is just for fun (must have
> way to much time on my hands) :)
>
> So I need to know would it be possible to build a cluster from these ?
> I'm not sure if the nodes need to be matched in any way ?
>
> dose anyone know where to find an idiots to setting one up ?
>
> also what would the equivelent power be i.e would i just be making a
> 1gig space heater ?

It's hard to tell for sure, but one AMD 3000+ should
eat them all for lunch. So there's no practical interest
in it. But you can learn much from using all these
machines together.

First, do you need a real-deal cluster with MPI and
other industrial protocols? If I were you, I'd call these
machines a farm, and would first try some fail-over
mechanisms (routing, http, dns, ipsec). We usually
get to test fail-over using virtual pc's. Real boxes
are somewhat harder to manage, but they are real,
and the experience you get is a real hands-on
"encounter".

Then, some distributed jobs would be fun. I use
distcc to compile many large pieces of software.
Try it. Then you can try running something like
dnetc or boinc and compare the results your
farm produce to those your desktop shows.

If you have a lot of NIC's, populate the boxes with
all of them. Install FreeBSD everywhere and you
can emulate _very_ complicated environments with
vlans, trunks, OSPF, BGP and what not. Then go
and get your CCIE.

<...>

Take care!
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readline problems in FreeBSD 5.4/6.0

[Bryan Maloney]

Hi all,

I'm having some problems with readline on FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0 - my lowercase 
'x' has mysteriously disappeared (meaning it doesn't get read by readline). I 
run bash, mysql client and a couple other sundry utils that use readline, and 
they all exhibit this problem (and I discovered turning off readline use in 
bash with --noediting solves the problem - but readline is otherwise kinda 
handy and I'd like to keep it if I can make it work). I first noticed this when 
I went to portupgrade to the 11-10-05 dated readline port in ports - the first 
shell I opened up after the portupgrade completed exhibited this problem, as 
have all bash shells since (without readline disabled). Since then I haven't 
been able to shake it. I tried to back down the port to the prior version, I 
tried updating and rebuilding userland (am I right in thinking userland has a 
copy of readline all its own? Seems that way from what `find` says), manually 
linking to the older readline edition...I even went ahead with the upgrade to 
6.0 as a desperation move, but nothing's changed. Shells and terminals aren't 
really my strong point so I'm pretty much out of ideas to try now. Any help 
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Bryan
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test

[Arden]

test  
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Replacing FreeBSD boot loader (was: How To Delete BSD)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 14 November 2005 at  4:09:49 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2005, at 1:30 AM, Uncle Deejy-Pooh wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:07:56 -0800, Scharp Ledge wrote:
>>
>>> How do I delete BSD?  Thanks
>>
>> Betcha don't get many replies to this !!!
>
> Did you perhaps mean the FreeBSD bootloader? If so, what do you want
> to use as the bootloader/primary OS then?

FWIW, if you want to dual boot Linux and FreeBSD, you're better off
using GRUB.  That works fine.  For example, put something like this in
your (Linux) /boot/grub/menu.lst:

  # FreeBSD
  title FreeBSD 7-CURRENT
  root  (hd0,2,a)
  kernel/boot/loader

Note that Linux counts partitions differently.  hd0,2,a is
/dev/ad0s3a.

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makings of a junk yard cluster ??

[Arden]

Hi Folk 

like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a "junk yard" of
redundant machines 

Ive just been through mine and found could at a push make 5 x86 PCs 

2x amd 400mhz
2x via 700mhz
1x amd duron 1200 

also have lots of spare nic cards 

Ive never looked at clusters before and this is just for fun (must have
way to much time on my hands) :) 

So I need to know would it be possible to build a cluster from these ?
I'm not sure if the nodes need to be matched in any way ?

dose anyone know where to find an idiots to setting one up ?

also what would the equivelent power be i.e would i just be making a
1gig space heater ?

Arden 
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upgrade to 6.0 question

[Osmany Guirola cruz]

Hi i do a upgrade to 6.0 STABLE without problems but checking the /lib
folder i found this.

libalias.so.4  libcam.so.3libipsec.so.1  libncurses.so.6
libalias.so.5  libcrypt.so.2  libipsec.so.2
libreadline.so.5
libatm.so.2libcrypt.so.3  libipx.so.2
libreadline.so.6
libatm.so.3libcrypto.so.3 libipx.so.3libsbuf.so.2
libbegemot.so.1libcrypto.so.4 libkiconv.so.1 libsbuf.so.3
libbegemot.so.2libdevstat.so.4libkiconv.so.2 libufs.so.2
libbsdxml.so.1 libdevstat.so.5libkvm.so.2libufs.so.3
libbsdxml.so.2 libedit.so.4   libkvm.so.3libutil.so.4
libbsnmp.so.2  libedit.so.5   libm.so.3  libutil.so.5
libbsnmp.so.3  libgeom.so.2   libm.so.4  libz.so.2
libc.so.5  libgeom.so.3   libmd.so.2 libz.so.3
libc.so.6  libgpib.so.0   libmd.so.3
libcam.so.2libgpib.so.1   libncurses.so.5

i have two versions of the same libraries , i think that the upgrade
procces deleted allthe obsoleted libraries but not in my case :-(
what can i do..


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Re: 6.0 Release no /stand/sysinstall ?

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I've just installed a vanila FreeBSD 6.0 Release from CD. As usual I thought
> i might want to add other
> things from /stand/sysinstall but looks like I'm getting "command not found"
> so I cd to the "/" directory
> but there is no "stand" directory in there. Anything I should know about in
> regards of 6.0 ??
> 
> If no change happend, how can i access it or add it ?

Did you try entering:   'which sysinstall'
If that doesn't tell you, maybe you need to update your path settings.

jerry

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USB 2.0 DAT-Drive - no USB 2.0 speed under FreeBSD?

[Ewald Jenisch]

Hi,

I've got a DAT72 (DDS-5) external tape drive (HP C7438A) that connects
via USB (!). However I can't get it to work as USB2.0 drive under
FreeBSD (5.4) :-(

When starting the drive here's what I get in /var/log/messages:

Nov 13 20:06:10 tasty kernel: umass0: Hewlett Packard DAT72 USB Tape,
rev 2.00/30.30, addr 2
Nov 13 20:06:10 tasty kernel: sa0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Nov 13 20:06:10 tasty kernel: sa0:  Removable
Sequential Access SCSI-3 device
Nov 13 20:06:10 tasty kernel: sa0: 1.000MB/s transfers

Sure enough I've got my kernel compiled with "device ehci" as per the
following excerpt from my kernel config file:


# USB support
device  uhci# UHCI PCI->USB interface
device  ohci# OHCI PCI->USB interface
device  ehci# EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0)
device  usb # USB Bus (required)
#device udbp# USB Double Bulk Pipe devices
device  ugen# Generic
device  uhid# "Human Interface Devices"
device  ukbd# Keyboard
device  ulpt# Printer
device  umass   # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus 
device  ums # Mouse
device  urio# Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player
device  uscanner# Scanners



When I try to write to the drive either via dump ("dump 0a -f /dev/sa0
") or plain "dd" the drive runs in start/stop-mode,
i.e. starting and stopping tape movement every few
seconds. Performance is sluggish to say the least (about 1MB/sec)
besides the fact that frequent start/stop is not the best for both
drive and tape.

Please note that this drive works without problems, esp. with full
performance (i.e. USB2.0) under Windows though (same machine), so I
don't assume it has something to do with the drive per se.



So here are my questions:

o) Has anybody out there got the external USB DAT72-Drive vom HP got
working under FreeBSD (5.x) with full USB2.0 performance?  (here's a
link to the specs etc.
http://h23.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodClassId=-1&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=501423)

o) How can I find out whether my drive is actually working as USB1.x
or USB2.0-device (apart from concluding that start/stop-mode must be
because it's working as USB1.x-device).


Thankx much in advance for your help,
-ewald

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Re: Re: Firefox + acroread7

[myfreebsd]

> 
> From: Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2005/11/14 Mon PM 08:31:08 EST
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Firefox + acroread7
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Eric, 
> >  
> > You have the setup right in libmap.conf. You need to create 
> > or copy acroread7 to acroread in /usr/local/bin and make 
> > sure the permissions are correct. This should solve the 
> > problem.  
> >  
> > I don't know why but libmap.conf points to the wrong 
> > location for acrobat. And acroread7 port doesn't install a 
> > shell named acroread. It doesn't seem to make since to name 
> > the script with the version number. 
> >  
> > David 
> > 
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> Excellent!  That did it!
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
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> 
Not a problem. It took me forever to find it out. Only too happy to keep 
someone else from going through the fustration.

David

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USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

[Blue Raccoon]

Hi,

I am VERY new to FreeBSD and am having serious problems setting up my HP 
Scanjet 3400c. I installed the SANE back-end and it cannot find any scanners. 
I don't think SANE is to blame though, because the dmesg command shows (among 
other things) this:

uscanner0: Hew product 0x0405, rev 1.00/0.00, addr 2
uscanner0: setting config no failed
device_attach: uscanner0 attach returned 6
uhub0: port 2, set config at addr 2 failed
uhub0: device problem (STALLED), disabling port 2

There is no point in loading the scanner from the command line, because 
'kldload uscanner' brings up:

kldload: can't load uscanner: File exists

I compiled a kernel (just to see if I could), but the GENERIC kernel also 
chokes on the scanner. I did include 

device usb
device uhci
device ohci
device uscanner

in my kernel though.

I am running FreeBSD 6.0 (release) on a 4 year old PC (900 Mhz Pentium).
And the scanner is fine, by the way (No problems with XP).


I don't have a clue and would appreciate it if someone could help me out here, 
or point me in the right direction.

thanks in advance,

Jay
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Re: Secure File Copy

[Enrique Ayesta Perojo]

El Asteartea, 15 de Azaroa de 2005 15:17, Joshua Lewis escribió:
> I was trying that I did
>
> scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/www
> localhost:/Users/joshua/Desktop/FreeBSD
>
> And it prompted me for a password on the server but the root password would
> not authenticate.

I don't know very much about MacOs but usually the user root is disabled by 
default at the sshd configuration, so you should use a "normal" user account 
to copy the files. If not, take a look at the sshd config file and allow the 
root user to use ssh.
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Re: Secure File Copy

[Mario Hoerich]

# Joshua Lewis:
> I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and I have no way to back up the data. I don't
> have a burner and I can't get one anytime soon. I do however have a burner
> on my wifes G4 laptop. I have enabled SSH on the FreeBSD system and I can
> SSH into the box from the Mac, However I do not know how to copy the files I
> need to back up from the FreeBSD system to the Mac. 

With scp.  From your mac type:

$ scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/remote/path /local/path

which copies the directory /remote/path on the BSD machine to
/local/path on the mac.  There are also graphical frontends
for this, e.g. Fugu http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/>. 

If you need to do this frequently (and your wife doesn't mind
keeping your files on her book) it's probably better to use rsync,
i.e.
$ rsync -vatz --delete [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/remote/path /local/path

(see the man page for details).


 HTH,
Mario
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RE: RAS

[Efren Bravo]

Hi,

>I believe the OP is trying to essentially set up
a small 
>ISP, or an
>access server to the Internet.

Only an access server to the internet, I want to
do it to connect myself from home (winXP pc).

I've made tests but winXP raises this message:   
"error 737: loopback was detected on dialin" and
there I'm stopped.

>OP:, how many clients do you plan on having
access this 
>system? How many
>modems do you expect to need?

Just 2 clients, my boss and me.

>Old (but reliable) analog RAS devices are
relatively 
>inexpensive to
>purchase on eBay. Unless you are going all out,
analog RAS 
>is what you likely want.

>These devices then pass their RADIUS requests to

>pre-configured RADIUS
>servers, in which mine all run FreeBSD,
FreeRADIUS and 
>DialupAdmin.



Efren Bravo.





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Re: Secure File Copy

[Chris]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Enrique Ayesta Perojo wrote:


El Asteartea, 15 de Azaroa de 2005 14:47, Joshua Lewis escribió:

I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and I have no way to back up the data. I don't
have a burner and I can't get one anytime soon. I do however have a burner
on my wifes G4 laptop. I have enabled SSH on the FreeBSD system and I can
SSH into the box from the Mac, However I do not know how to copy the files
I need to back up from the FreeBSD system to the Mac. Thanks ahead of time
for any help.


Take a look at the scp man page, it works very similar to the cp command.
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Also worth considering man sftp


Best regards,
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RE: Secure File Copy

[Joshua Lewis]

I was trying that I did

scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/www
localhost:/Users/joshua/Desktop/FreeBSD

And it prompted me for a password on the server but the root password would
not authenticate.

-Original Message-
From: Enrique Ayesta Perojo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 6:09 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Joshua Lewis
Subject: Re: Secure File Copy


El Asteartea, 15 de Azaroa de 2005 14:47, Joshua Lewis escribió:
> I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and I have no way to back up the data. I 
> don't have a burner and I can't get one anytime soon. I do however 
> have a burner on my wifes G4 laptop. I have enabled SSH on the FreeBSD 
> system and I can SSH into the box from the Mac, However I do not know 
> how to copy the files I need to back up from the FreeBSD system to the 
> Mac. Thanks ahead of time for any help.

Take a look at the scp man page, it works very similar to the cp command.

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Re: Secure File Copy

[albi]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:09:12 +0100
Enrique Ayesta Perojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> El Asteartea, 15 de Azaroa de 2005 14:47, Joshua Lewis escribió:
> > I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and I have no way to back up the data.
> > I don't have a burner and I can't get one anytime soon. I do
> > however have a burner on my wifes G4 laptop. I have enabled SSH on
> > the FreeBSD system and I can SSH into the box from the Mac, However
> > I do not know how to copy the files I need to back up from the
> > FreeBSD system to the Mac. Thanks ahead of time for any help.
> 
> Take a look at the scp man page, it works very similar to the cp
> command.

here's an example :
scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path_to_files/ ~/

(instead of the ~/ in the end you can use a dot)

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make release error

[Maxim Vetrov]

Hi,

I'm running 5.4 and trying to make release of 6.0. While making release, 
I got next error:


...
cvs checkout: Updating doc/zh_TW.Big5/share
cvs checkout: Updating doc/zh_TW.Big5/share/sgml
if [ -d /usr/src/release/../../ports/distfiles/ ]; then  cp -rp 
/usr/src/release/../../ports/distfiles 
/data/RELEASE_60/bin/usr/ports/distfiles;  else  mkdir -p 
/data/RELEASE_60/bin/usr/ports/distfiles;  fi

make: don't know how to make checksum-recursive. Stop
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/src/release.
*** Error code 1
...

What might cause it?

Maxim
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Re: Secure File Copy

[Enrique Ayesta Perojo]

El Asteartea, 15 de Azaroa de 2005 14:47, Joshua Lewis escribió:
> I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and I have no way to back up the data. I don't
> have a burner and I can't get one anytime soon. I do however have a burner
> on my wifes G4 laptop. I have enabled SSH on the FreeBSD system and I can
> SSH into the box from the Mac, However I do not know how to copy the files
> I need to back up from the FreeBSD system to the Mac. Thanks ahead of time
> for any help.

Take a look at the scp man page, it works very similar to the cp command.
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Re: Secure File Copy

[Mike Hernandez]

On  Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:47:55AM -0800, Joshua Lewis wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and I have no way to back up the data. I don't
> have a burner and I can't get one anytime soon. I do however have a burner
> on my wifes G4 laptop. I have enabled SSH on the FreeBSD system and I can
> SSH into the box from the Mac, However I do not know how to copy the files I
> need to back up from the FreeBSD system to the Mac. Thanks ahead of time for
> any help.

You said the easiest way in your subject, just use scp :)

You could also install samba on the bsd box and use mac os x's smb support, or
you can set up nfs.

I suggest scp, it's the easiest since you already have an ssh server running.

quick example: scp local_file.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Good luck :)

Mike H
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RE: RAS

[Steve Bertrand]

> I'm not quite sure what you want to achieve, but for a remote 
> access you can use FreeBSD, as well as for dial-up access point.
> For VPN you can use mpd. Also you should check the FreeBSD 
> handbook and google :)

I believe the OP is trying to essentially set up a small ISP, or an
access server to the Internet.

OP:, how many clients do you plan on having access this system? How many
modems do you expect to need?

Old (but reliable) analog RAS devices are relatively inexpensive to
purchase on eBay. Unless you are going all out, analog RAS is what you
likely want.

These devices then pass their RADIUS requests to pre-configured RADIUS
servers, in which mine all run FreeBSD, FreeRADIUS and DialupAdmin.

Steve

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Secure File Copy

[Joshua Lewis]

I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and I have no way to back up the data. I don't
have a burner and I can't get one anytime soon. I do however have a burner
on my wifes G4 laptop. I have enabled SSH on the FreeBSD system and I can
SSH into the box from the Mac, However I do not know how to copy the files I
need to back up from the FreeBSD system to the Mac. Thanks ahead of time for
any help.
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RE: if_bridge interface confuses Windows Small Business Server 2000

[Steve Bertrand]

> FreeBSD 6 came at the perfect time for me.  I've just 
> switched my primary desktop from Win2k to FreeBSD, and I put 
> the Windows boot disk in an old machine that was heading for the skip.
> 
> I wanted to access the W2k machine (fred) over VNC without 
> flooding our switch, so I thought let's take advantage of the 
> new features in REL 6...  I added a second ethernet card to 
> my FreeBSD box (alfie) and configured a bridge in /etc/rc.conf:
> 
>   ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
>   ifconfig_rl1="up"
>   cloned_interfaces="bridge0"
>   ifconfig_bridge0="addm rl0 addm rl1 up"
>   gateway_enable="YES"
> 
> SBS is configured to give a static DHCP lease of 
> 192.168.0.181 to alfie; fred is dynamic and is currently 192.168.0.35.
> 
> At first everything seemed fine, and fred operates as if it 
> was plugged straight into the network.  
> 
> But...
> 
> 1) SBS sees both machines as alfie, even though it correctly 
> reports the MAC addresses of each machine
> 
> 2) On alfie, when I want to make a VNC connection to fred I 
> have to type "vnc viewer alfie"(!)
> 
> 3) On fred, if I ping alfie it returns 192.168.0.35 as the IP 
> number, not 181 which is the static lease.
> 
> 
> I assume this is a bug in if_bridge, only because I assumed 
> that bridge 
> interfaces should be transparent (and act like a physical switch).
> 
> When we get some small switches in I'll use one to connect 
> the two machines 
> together, but I'd still like to work out what's going on 
> here.  Am I doing 
> something wrong?

I'm a wee bit confused here, but I do understand what you are trying to
do.

First, did you compile a new kernel with the following option?:

options BRIDGE

Second, try giving both PC's a static IP address, and disconnect the
FBSD box entirely from the network (so you essentially have a 2 pc
network), then commence testing.

HTH,

Steve

> 
> 
> Ashley
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