Re: FreeBSD maximum password length

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:35 AM, takCoder  wrote:
> Thank you, Mark, for your helpful answer :)
>
> yes, i am aware of the max username length of 16characters.. I just wanted
> to become sure about password max length, cause i need to moderate it in my
> self-built user interface..
>
> Thank you again :)
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Mark Felder  wrote:
>
>> There isn't a max password length as far as I'm aware, but there is a max
>> username length that drive me insane sometimes. I should really file a PR
>> about that...

Perhaps your PR is unnecessary:

$ svn log -v -r243023 /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h

r243023 | bapt | 2012-11-14 04:58:12 -0600 (Wed, 14 Nov 2012) | 8 lines
Changed paths:
   M /head/sys/sys/param.h

Allow usernames up to 32 chars

PR: kern/161091 [1],
misc/133926 [2]
Submitted by:   Stephane Lapie  [1],
Chris Dillon  [2]
Reviewed by:cognet, kib



The above would have saved me a few local diffs as well a few years ago...

-Brandon
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Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

[Brandon Gooch]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:01 AM, O. Hartmann
 wrote:
> I have a USB drive/stick, Lexar USB Flash drive as reported by FreeBSD
> shown below.
> When first used, I was able to put approx. 30 GB of data on it - it was
> visible to FreeBSD 9 and 10 as expected.
> A Linux system at the lab was also capable of recognizing it. After
> that, I tried to operate on the stick on a Notebook, FreeBSD 9, and
> another station, FreeBSD 10. But FreeBSD didn't recognize the USB drive
> anymore - sometimes, but this seems to be a gambling issue :-(
>
> Trying Linux on different hardware platforms and even those machines
> prior not recognizing the USB drive do recognize the drive as Lexar USB
> Flash drive with 64GB. That is Suse Linux (some 12.XX), that is Ubuntu
> 12.04, that is Windows 7 Pro/x64. I can format the drive, I can push and
> pull data from it.
>
> So, since the USB drive won't work with three different FreeBSD boxes
> (one running 9-STABLE, two 10-CURRENT, all systems most recent sources
> and buildworld from a day ago).
> I suspect either a weird configuration issue I use on all platforms in
> questions in common triggering the weird beviour - or FreeBSD is simply
> incapable of handling the 64GB drive. I do not have issues with USB
> drives with capacities of 32, 8 or 4 GB of different brands.
>
> As shown in the portion of the dmesg below, the USB drive is recognized
> physically. It doesn't matter whether USB port I use (I tried all
> available on all boxes and in most cases I use a Dell UltraSharp powered
> in-screen HUB). Since other OSes handle the drive as expected, I exclude
> hardware issues.
>
> All FreeBSD in common is the fact I use the new device ahaci/device ata
> CAM/ATA scheme with devcie scbus in the kernel (I use custom kernels!).
>
> Apart from trying a GENERIC kernel (which is next I will do this
> weekend), does anyone have similar experiences and probably solutions?
>
> Regards,
> oh
>
> ugen7.6:  at usbus7
> umass1:  on usbus7
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 0 0 0 24 0
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 0 0 0 24 0
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 0 0 0 24 0
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 0 0 0 24 0
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Retrying command
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 0 0 0 24 0
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted
>

I see similar behavior and output on my Dell M6500 notebook running
CURRENT, but only on two ports which are some type of hybrid USB
2.0/3.0 (configurable via BIOS setting).

If I use either of these ports with a USB 2.0 device while running the
ports in USB 3.0 mode (using xhci(4)), I can't reliably get a device
to properly attach. I say reliably, because every once in a while, I
can plug a device in and it works fine, even multiple times and after
reboots.

If I configure these ports to run in USB 2.0 mode (using ehci(4)), all
of my USB 2.0 devices seem to work without fail. However, USB 3.0
devices do not attach on these ports when they are configured as USB
2.0 ports.

So, at least on my notebook, these ports must be configured at either
2.0 or 3.0, depending on which device I plan on using :(

I have one other port on this same system that is USB 2.0-only, and it
works all of the time :)

I'll have to try and add a hub into the mix to see if perhaps it is a
power issue (although with a recent Linux kernel and Windows 7, all is
well no matter what configuration I provide). It may be that FreeBSD's
USB subsystem lacks some extra bit of code required to configure the
ports properly in regard to power.

-Brandon
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Re: OpenLDAP + CARP

[Brandon Gooch]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Rafael NAVAZA  wrote:
>
> Thank you for the reply Matthew.
>
> I'm indeed using the built in
> failover capability of LDAP clients. It works just fine when the first
> LDAP server is powered off, but it does not work that well when slapd
> becomes a zombi ( because the clients take about 1 min to try the second
>  LDAP server, for each request, every time ... )
> It is for that reason I'm interested in building a HA cluster for OpenLDAP.
>
> I'm
>  currently using the single-master replication and I will certainly move
>  to a mirrormode or a n-way multimaster replication schema (as long as
> the multimaster is used with CARP, this mode is equivalent to a
> mirrormode with more than 2 replicas, isn't it ?).
>
> As far as I
> know CARP will not check if the slapd is running correctly; that could
> be a problem if the CARP Master has a failing slapd. Do I have to
> monitor slapd with a third party software (like Monit) ? Can I configure
>  CARP and OpenLDAP to watch each other more closely ?
>
> Rafael.
>

Could this help in your situation?

http://www.liquidx.net/blog/2006/04/03/nss_ldap-undocumented-nss_reconnect_tries/

-Brandon
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Re: BHyve

[Brandon Gooch]

On Aug 19, 2011 10:29 AM, "Net Warrior"  wrote:
>
> Hi
> Does anyone know if there is any progress on this project or how can I
track/test it?
>
> Thanks you-
> Regards
>

I'm interested in this as well, and I'm hoping that after 9.0 is out the
door that we might see a concerted effort (or at least some interest) from
developers to push forward with this.

-Brandon
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Re: Where to download latest FreeBSD snapshots

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Hiroki Sato  wrote:
> Pan Tsu  wrote
>  in <864o3dtsey@gmail.com>:
>
> in> Hiroki Sato  writes:
> in>
> in> > Hello,
> in> >
> in> > dave jones  wrote
> in> >   in :
> in> >
> in> > s.> It seems that allbsd.org is up, but I can't find the HEAD snapshots,
> in> > s.> only RELENG.
> in> > s.> Would you like to build HEAD snapshots? Thank you very much.
> in> >
> in> >  Building snapshots of HEAD and RELENG_[67] are temporarily disabled
> in> >  because a maintenance work is now in progress.  They will be back on
> in> >  the page in the next week.
> in>
> in> Are there more places for *daily* HEAD snapshots? I used them a few
> in> times to report regressions with a clean environment.
>
>  The HEAD snapshot build is finally getting recovered (currently for
>  amd64 and i386 only, though).  Some hardware failure prevented the
>  build cluster from working.
>
> -- Hiroki
>

Thank you so much for providing this service Hiroki!

-Brandon
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Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

[Brandon Gooch]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mark Moellering  wrote:
> I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc.  I
> was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list
> if;
> A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else.
> B) If I am headed in the right direction, what is the best book / resource
> to use?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mark Moellering

You should check this out, from our friends at Apple:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/OpenSource/Conceptual/ShellScripting/

I haven't gone through it, but I've perused it, and it looks like a
good place to start learning.

-Brandon
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Re: OpenNMS under FreeBSD?

[Brandon Gooch]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Dennis Glatting  wrote:
> I am looking at OpenNMS under FreeBSD but it isn't in the ports tree
> although there are various discussions of OpenNMS under FreeBSD.
>
> Is there a reason why OpenNMS isn't in the ports tree, such as it doesn't
> port, no one is willing to step up as a maintainer, or there are licensing
> issues?
>

There is a port here, created by Sevan Janiyan:

http://www.geeklan.co.uk/files/opennms/

I don't know whether or not it's been submitted to ports yet, but I'd
be interested to see if you get it up and running. Report back with
your findings!

-Brandon
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Re: finding kernel 'r' number

[Brandon Gooch]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Robert Huff  wrote:
>
>        For some time now, people have been referring to what build
> they're using by the 'r' number, which I believe to be part of svn.
>        How would one go about determining this value for the installed
> kernel?
>
>
>                                        Robert Huff

That would be uname(1):

$ uname -v
FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r223017: Sun Jun 12 13:55:34 CDT 2011
root@m6500.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

where r223017 is the current svn revision number from which my
system is compiled (kernel and userland).

For more options, see `man uname`.

-Brandon
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Re: installing freebsd on a thinkpad x300

[Brandon Gooch]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Alokat  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my x300 but I have some driver
> problems.
>
> Does someone know how to figure out which driver I need for the sound and
> the wlan card?

The sound card should be snd_hda(4):

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_hda&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE&format=html

Here's a document detailing sound configuration:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html

The wireless device driver should be iwn(4):

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE&format=html

Please refer to the handbook for configuration instructions:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

> And the second point is: does someone know a GUI network manager I can use
> for xfce4?

There are (at least) a couple from ports you can try:

http://www.freshports.org/net/pcbsd-netmanager
http://www.freshports.org/net/wpa_gui/

I remember at one time testing a GTK-based utility, but I can't seem
to dredge up the name of it from memory ATM...

> Regards,
> alokat

Good luck,

-Brandon
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Re: optical driver with ahci bios mode but ata(4) driver

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mar 6, 2011, at 2:14 AM, David Demelier  wrote:

> On 05/03/2011 21:22, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:31 PM, David Demelier
>>   wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> My bios can be set to use IDE emulation or ahci mode, I prefere the ahci
>>> mode because it's a bit faster.
>>> 
>>> It's probably stupid to stay with ata(4) driver with the ahci mode, isn't
>>> it? But with ahci(4) driver you can't burn with burncd(8) and cdrecord just
>>> fail and break an blank cd for nothing.
>>> 
>>> I guess this is the correct behavior when trying to use burncd(8) /
>>> cdcontrol(1) :
>>> 
>>> markand@Melon ~ $ burncd msinfo
>>> burncd: ioctl(CDIOREADTOCHEADER): Input/output error
>>> 
>>> markand@Melon ~ $ cdcontrol info
>>> cdcontrol: getting toc header: Input/output error
>>> cdcontrol: Input/output error
>>> 
>>> But why the optical drive is only affected? If I use ata(4) driver even with
>>> ahci mode set in the bios, why the hard drive works pretty well?
>> 
>> Are you using atapicam module?
> 
> No I was only using ata, atapicd. I would like to use ahci + cdrecord but it 
> fails to burn too :(
> 
> -- 
> David Demelier

Have you tried burning using the -tao option?

Also, mav@ has a set of patches to get cd burning working with CAM, just search 
the mailing list archives -- I seem to recall that you may have previously been 
a part of a discussion concerning this situation?

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Re: Question about nethack and setgid

[Brandon Gooch]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:51 PM, David Demelier  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't understand how nethack can store the score in
> /usr/local/lib/nethack/logfile.
>
> the real binary is here /usr/local/lib/nethack/nethack
>
> And the mode is
>
> -rwxr-sr-x  1 games  games  1793635 25 Jan 2011
> /usr/local/lib/nethack/nethack
>
> So that means people in games group will run nethack as games user (owner of
> file) but I'm not in games group ! and I can save the file located in
>
> /usr/local/lib/nethack/logfile which mode is -rw-rw-r--  games  games
>
> I'm writing a game that will store file too, because I can't make it works
> like nethack I was planning using the setuid mode but I don't like much this
> ..
>
> What am I misunderstanding?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> David Demelier

Take a look at:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/permissions.html#AEN4027

I believe that it will demystify the behavior you're seeing.

-Brandon
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Re: Can't burn with ahci(4) and cdrecord

[Brandon Gooch]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:36 PM, David Demelier  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to burn a little iso with ahci(4) instead of old ata drivers and it
> fails to burn with :
>
> markand@Melon ~ $ sudo cdrecord downloads/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso
> cdrecord: No write mode specified.
> cdrecord: Assuming -sao mode.
> cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao.
> cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent
> defaults.
> Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (amd64-unknown-freebsd8.2) Copyright (C)
> 1995-2010 Jörg Schilling
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
> No target specified, trying to find one...
> Using dev=1,0,0.
> Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> Version        : 0
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities   :
> Vendor_info    : 'hp      '
> Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GT20L    '
> Revision       : 'DC05'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
> Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
> LAYER_JUMP
> Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 24 in real SAO mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
> Turning BURN-Free off
> cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
> cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB:  2A 00 FF FF FF 6A 00 00 20 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x [], Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x00 (no additional sense information) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> resid: 65536
> cmd finished after 13.147s timeout 200s
> write track pad data: error after 0 bytes
> BFree: 597 K BSize: 597 K
> cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x [], Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x00 Qual 0x00 (no additional sense information) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> resid: 65536
> cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s
> write track data: error after 0 bytes
> cdrecord: A write error occured.
> cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
>
> This is happening on my HP Probook 4510s with 8.2-RC2 amd64.

Are you on 8.x or 9? I think this is due to a known issue [1].

Alexander Motin has patches for 9-CURRENT [2] that fix the issue for
me (and others). He hasn't had time to clean up the patches for
committal to the tree, and the patches may no longer cleanly apply --
I haven't re-patched since my last few updates.

Let us know if the patches work for you.

-Brandon

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-November/020944.html
[2] http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/sense/
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Re: Ettercap segmentation fault....

[Brandon Gooch]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Axel Barnabas  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have compiles ettercap from ports without incident. However, when I attempt 
> to run ettercap in any way, after a short while the program crashes and I am 
> presented with an error message which is as follows:
>
>
> Ooops ! This shouldn't happen...
> Segmentation Fault...
>
> Please recompile in debug mode, reproduce the bug and send a bugreport
>
>
> I have deinstalled and recompiled to program twice, yielding no results.
> Some additional information which may be useful-
>
> #pkg_info | grep ettercap
> ettercap-gtk2-0.7.3_10,1 A network sniffer/interceptor/injector/logger for 
> switched
>
> #uname -a
> FreeBSD  8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009     
> r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> If anyone wishes me to recompile in debug mode, you will have to tell me how; 
> I am not familiar with the process.
>
> Axel

Try this:

Before building the port (if you're starting from scratch), run:

Code:

# cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/ettercap
# make fetch
# make extract

In the file 
"/usr/ports/net-mgmt/ettercap/work/ettercap-NG-0.7.3/src/protocols/ec_tcp.c"
on line 119, change the following line from:

Code:

opt_end = (u_char *)((int)tcp + tcp->off * 4);

To:

Code:

opt_end = (u_char *)(tcp + tcp->off * 4);

...using your favorite text editor.

Then, run the typical:

Code:

# make config
# make build
# make install

After all of that, give the program a run or two, and see if it's working.

Let us all know.

-Brandon

[Refer to FreeBSD Forum Thread:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15719]
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Re: FBSD Realtime

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Da Rock
 wrote:
> In light of the significant spam of late, it occurs to me that my former
> subject line may have been a little sparse... :)
>
> On 12/19/10 14:32, Da Rock wrote:
>>
>> I can't seem to get my head on straight with the realtime scheduling in
>> FBSD despite all my googling. Can someone give me a pointer to the latest
>> info? As far as I can tell FBSD has it, but only root(?) can use it?
>>
>> I'm interested in who can use it, and how to allow a user to obtain the
>> realtime access.

There's an ongoing discussion/debate between two very knowledgeable
and talented developers (plus a supporting cast) regarding the
real-time support in FreeBSD; it's happening on freebsd-arch@:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2010-December/010835.html

I suggest giving it a read if you are planning on deploying some
real-time process (or are interested in reading about FreeBSD
internals from some very knowledgeable people).

-Brandon
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Re: Problem building netdisco 1.0 from ports on FreeBSD

[Brandon Gooch]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Kurt Buff  wrote:
> Working on 7.1 Release. Ports tree up to date, and a portupgrade -a
> done yesterday was successful.
>
> I did the following:
>
> # cd  /usr/ports/net-mgmt/netdisco
> # make install
>
> It bombs out with the below errors - I think it's an error in libXaw,
> but can't quite be sure. Any thoughts?
>
> Kurt
>
> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xaw7.pc in
> /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/libXaw
> ===>  Building for libXaw-1.0.7,1
> make  all-recursive
> Making all in include
> Making all in src
>  CC     libXaw6_la-Actions.lo
> Actions.c:38:28: error: X11/IntrinsicP.h: No such file or directory
> Actions.c:39:28: error: X11/StringDefs.h: No such file or directory
> Actions.c:40:23: error: X11/CoreP.h: No such file or directory
> Actions.c:41:28: error: X11/Constraint.h: No such file or directory
> Actions.c:42:29: error: X11/Xmu/CharSet.h: No such file or directory
> Actions.c:43:29: error: X11/Xmu/SysUtil.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from Actions.c:45:
> Private.h:149: error: expected ')' before '*' token

[SNIP]

It seems that the header files can't be found. Have you checked
/usr/local/include/X11 to verify their existence?

If not, perhaps you should (re)install libX11 (I thinks that's where
the header files above are found).

-Brandon

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Re: ssh-agent and ssh-add on FreeBSD

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:40 AM, bluethundr  wrote:
> Hey list
>
>  On my CentOS machines I usually keep track of my rsa key with
> ssh-agent, ssh-add and keychain
>
>  I would like to know
>
> a) how to install keychain under FreeBSD
> and
> b) how to fix this error:
>
> [bluethu...@lbsd2:~]#ssh sum1
> Enter passphrase for key '/home/bluethundr/.ssh/id_rsa':
> [bluethu...@lbsd2:~]#exec ssh-agent bash
> [bluethu...@lbsd2:~]#ssh-add
> Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.a
>
>
> Whenever I try to ssh to another box on the network (with a homedir
> shared amongst all centos  and FreeBSD machines) it prompts me for my
> passphrase. Usually on the CentOS boxes exec ssh-agent bash does the
> trick. Anyone have any idea why this isn't working on the FreeBSD box?
>
> thanks!!

The man page for ssh-agent is very informative:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1

I read it recently when setting up my system to do as you're trying to do.

Of course, don't hesitate to refer to the EXCELLENT FreeBSD Handbook,
it is absolutely one of the best references I've ever seen for any
software:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/openssh.html

Good luck!

-Brandon
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Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Henry Olyer  wrote:
> The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this
> going.  But I know it does.  And I don't blame the FreeBSD team.
>
> I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists.  ie., we should
> have scripts that describe every aspect of a computer, so that such scripts
> can be mechanically read and a configuration built.
>
> We do ./configure for software we install.  Same thing, but for all aspects
> of the hardware.  The present "configure" logic covers the OS and the
> installed software, we need to do this for hardware.
>
> I notice that freeBSD download's and installs trails Linux.  That's okay.
> FreeBSD is so much better, and in so many ways, too.
>
> Nothing I've seen in Linux lands comes close to the "sysinstall" command or
> the plainly superior organization of FreeBSD.  What I'm trying to encourage
> is that we, as a group, work on our infra-structures, like strengthing the
> already high level of organization we have in sysinstall.
>
> How about a query program that examines a machine.  Is this practical?
> Something like the automated X-install process that makes it unnecessary to
> set the horizontal and vertical frequencies ourselves (which we used to have
> to do.)  But not for X, for the sound card, for as much as possible.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Michael D. Norwick > wrote:
>
>> Good Day;
>>
>> It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an
>> operative workstation with a custom kernel and world,  Xorg 1.7.5,
>> KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as Firefox3,
>> and Thunderbird 3.1.5.  The machine is an older Dell GX270 P4 2.4 GHz PC
>> with 3G of ram and an ATI Radeon video adapter.
>> This install has not been without it's trials.
>> 4 weeks ago I backed up all my data and reformatted from Debian 'lenny' to
>> GPT/ZFS/8.1-RELEASE.  The next two weeks did not go so well.  While I tried
>> hard to get ZFS formatted drives to work reliably, intermittent unexplained
>> core dumps with reboots gave me cause for concern.  I finally reinstalled
>> msdos boot records and formatted the drives UFS.  That install has lasted 2
>> more weeks.  I liked ZFS v14 and would like to try it again when I get more
>> current hardware with more ram and SATA drives.
>> My next challenge was building KDE4, Firefox, and Thunderbird from ports.
>>  KDE4 and friends (QT4) took days on this machine to build, install and
>> setup.  I initially installed the ports tree using portsnap but was having
>> so much trouble building the mozilla stuff from ports I moved to cvsup and
>> portupgrade.  This is also what I used to install the kernel and base source
>> tree.  Several iterations of make - clean and deinstall/reinstall along with
>> cvsup'ing ports a couple of times finally got me to a working browser and
>> mail client.
>> I have had a time getting Flash working with Firefox.  I have not yet got
>> the plugin working in Firefox but Opera, using linux-f10 allows my kids view
>> their on-line home school lessons.  Audio was somewhat of a challenge to get
>> sound from an AC97 on-board audio chipset.  snd_hda was the module that
>> eventually provided the needed audio driver for this chipset.  I think I
>> forgot what configuring this stuff was like during my 'hamm', 'bo', and
>> 'slink', debian days.
>>
>> My thanks to the entire FreeBSD/KDE development team on allowing me to
>> experience the fruit of their efforts.  I still like turning the knobs
>> myself.  I'll keep reading the manuals.  :)
>>
>> Michael

Have either of you had a look at PC-BSD?

http://www.pcbsd.org/

It's getting better with each release...oh, and it's based on FreeBSD too :)

-Brandon
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Re: UDP packet spoofed LAN source address?

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Nerius Landys  wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Maybe, is there a simple 10 line C program that I can run and compile to
>> > check if this scenario is possible on _my_ server?
>>
>> 'netcat' has the capability built in.
>>
>>
> root# echo "hi" | nc -u -w 1 -p 30002 -s 64.156.193.115 daffy 30001
> nc: bind failed: Can't assign requested address
>
> I don't seem to be able to spoof a source address using netcat, unless I'm
> missing something in the man page.

I think you need to have the IP address you wish to spoof bound to an interface.

-Brandon
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Re: Which OS for notebook

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Arvid Warnecke
 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote:
>> Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ?
>> Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc..
>>
> Right now I use Mac OSX on my MacBook Pro and FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE on my
> IBM/Lenovo T60 Notebook.
>
> The only issue I have with FreeBSD is the configuration for
> suspend/resume and battery lifetime (the big battery lasts for ca. 3,5
> hours).
> Everything else works fine.

Have you taken a look at this?

http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption

Additionally, the new timer infrastructure has and will allow for even
more power saving (especially when the "tickless" functionality is
implemented):

http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=209371
http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=212541

Regarding the suspend/resume; it took me a while to get my Lenovo X300
to reliably (99.9% of the time) resume. I have to kldunload the USB
stack to have the ports function on resume, and I still get the
occasional VGA reinit lock-up, but mostly it works :)

Things have been better since I moved to 9-CURRENT...

> I have been thinking about FreeBSD on the Macbook Pro dual booting (I
> need Mac OSX for photography software), but I am not sure if the
> hardware will be supported that well.

Here's an excellent place to start your research:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook

Good luck!

-Brandon
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Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

[Brandon Gooch]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
 wrote:
[SNIP]
>
> Or a third alternative... use the ACPI implementation from OpenBSD,
> which doesn't have such a restriction.

Port it! I'll test it for you (on 9-CURRENT and, if possible, a
backport to 8-STABLE).

In your opinion, how long will it take, and how difficult will the process be?

-Brandon
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Re: OT: fdisk

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Robert  wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:09:27 -0600 (MDT)
> Warren Block  wrote:
>
>
>> It's weird that da1 can be mounted, but da1s1 can't.  Maybe a problem
>> with the filesystem.  Might be repairable, although probably it would
>> need proprietary programs.  Don't experiment with the original drive,
>> make a copy with dd for experimenting.
>
> Warren
>
> I should have mentioned that before. dd was the first thing I tried.
> I had an unused drive setup as UFS. Then did
>
> dd if=/dev/da1s1 of=/dev/ad12s1d bs=1m count=2000

I believe that the above 'if' operand to dd should instead be /dev/da1
(without the 's1' slice). Also, the operand 'of' will need to point to
a device, such as /dev/ad12, or a file on a mounted file system, such
as /mnt/my_disk_image.img

-Brandon
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Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Thomas Mueller
 wrote:
> How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being 
> interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports?  Idea 
> is to let it run unattended such as when I might run it starting just before 
> bedtime.  Doing "make config" ahead of time also gives the chance to recover 
> from a typo at the configuration screen (high risk).
>
> Best thing I can think of is, using multimedia/ffmpeg as an example, is doing 
> a dry run
>
> portupgrade -Rn multimedia/ffmpeg |& tee -a wouldbe.log
>
> This would show what other packages would need to be portupgraded and avoid 
> reconfiguring up-to-date dependencies.  Then I would go to each of those 
> directories in the ports tree and run "make config".
>
> Running "make config-recursive" in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg would produce 
> configuration screens for all dependencies, including those that are 
> up-to-date.
>
> I tried
>
> portupgrade -RCn multimedia/ffmpeg |& tee -a wouldbe.log
>
> but then I got all dependency configuration screens, including those that 
> were up-to-date, and also the interface didn't work right: I got garbage when 
> trying to respond; it didn't write to the configuration screen but produced 
> non-color garbage to the background.
>
> Running "make config-recursive" in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg would 
> configure all dependencies, including those that are up-to-date and therefore 
> not in need of portupgrading, though "make config-recursive" seems 
> appropriate for a first build/install of a port.
>
> But I think there is no perfect way to be sure of doing all "make config"s in 
> advance, since selectable options could require additional dependencies.
>
> If you try to portupgrade perl to 5.12 and everything that depends on it, as 
> advised in UPDATING file, date 20100715, you will likely get a lot of 
> configuration dialog screens: I speak from experience, would surely like a 
> way to do all these "make config"s at the beginning.
>
> Tom

Well, I'm not using portupgrade, but instead ports-mgmt/portmaster:

# portmaster --force-config --no-confirm [...] lang/perl5.12

Gets all of the config menus out of the way (--force-config), and
doesn't sit waiting for confirmation to proceed with install
(--no-confirm). I do this only the first time I build a port, or if I
need to change a config option and reinstall.

Works for me!

-Brandon
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Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:20 AM,   wrote:
> Adam Vande More  wrote:
[SNIP]
> The question is, how do I go about partitioning gm0 from Fixit?
> I've seen nothing so far that describes how to go about creating
> multiple partitions on a gmirror (or on anything else, for that
> matter) without either using sysinstall or having to understand
> gpart.

I've used something like this from the Fixit console (using /dev/ad0
as an example):

Fixit# kldload /dist/boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko
Fixit# gmirror -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0
Fixit# fdisk -v -B -I /dev/mirror/gm0
Fixit# bsdlabel -w -B /dev/mirror/gm0s1

Partition with:
# bsdlabel -e /dev/mirror/gm0s1

Create a UFS file system (with Soft Updates):
Fixit# newfs -U /dev/mirror/gm0s1a

Mount the newly created file system:
Fixit# mount /dev/mirror/gm0s1a /mnt

...then follow one of the procedures for doing a "manual" install from
fixit, e.g.

 Fixit# cd /dist/8.1-*
 Fixit# export DESTDIR=/mnt
 Fixit# for dir in base catpages dict doc games info lib32 manpages ports; \
  do (cd $dir ; ./install.sh) ; done
 Fixit# cd src ; ./install.sh all
 Fixit# cd ../kernels ; ./install.sh generic
 Fixit# cd /mnt/boot ; cp -Rlp GENERIC/* /mnt/boot/kernel/

[taken from http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror]

> OK, given the system's age I will presume that it is not, thus
> (I suppose) no reason to deal with gpart.

I've used GPT partitioning on all of my machines, ranging from a
circa-2000 Toshiba Pentium 3 junker to a new i7 Quad Core beast. No
problem so far, and it is a lot more logical (IMHO) than the
fdisk/bsdlabel method. Also, the "manual" installation method
demonstrated above hasn't failed me yet.

Having stated all of this, I will say that I spent time reading the
handbook, quite a few man pages, and a a wiki article here and there
-- and I still feel only slightly more comfortable than I did after my
first successful attempt! It is starting to "come together" for me
now, finally :)

Well, I hope this helps you get unstuck...

Good Luck!

-Brandon
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Re: (no subject)

[Brandon Gooch]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Bruce Cran  wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:23:36 +0200
> claudiu vasadi  wrote:
>
>> what s-ata1 controller would you recommend in this case ?
>
> I don't know, I've just heard that the Sil adapters have a bad
> reputation, including for data corruption. Things may have improved in
> the 5 years since though.

I can chime in here -- I've gone through two SiI 3114s (Rosewill
RC-209s). Fortunately for me, the system wasn't critical and the cards
failed at reboots -- and I had spares :)

The upside is, if you're using ZFS, data corruption may not be an
issue. Also, did we mention that the cards are CHEAP? Like, bottled
water cheap.

On the other hand, I've read of "higher end" Rosewill (presumably also
SiI) cards performing admirably, and for extended periods. Luck of the
draw, I suppose...

2 cents,

Brandon
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Re: virtualbox

[Brandon Gooch]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:17 PM, kalin m  wrote:
>
>
> awesome...  i will.  i'm basically intending to use it for production
> servers. i'll give it try...
>
> was reading something about not supporting usb...  how about serial ports?

Unfortunately, the OSE edition of VirtualBox doesn't support USB
pass-through, and that is the only edition available on FreeBSD ATM.

As for serial ports, I've only used the "virtual" type connected to a
guest VM; I set things up according to the VirtualBox manual...

> i was reading the documentation. not much there...  how about management,
> data backup and recovery? real time vm swaps?
>

I use the machine snapshot feature frequently. Although for machine
backup, I'm currently using software that installs on the guest
itself. I'm interested in hearing about other users' methods as
well...

VirtualBox supports a form of live migration which they call
"Teleportation", but again, I haven't any experience using it :(

-Brandon
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Re: virtualbox

[Brandon Gooch]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, kalin m  wrote:
>
>
> hi all..
>
> just wondering how mature is virtualbox to be used with freebsd - either as
> host or as guest. is viable to be used in production environment?
>

>From my experience (running the latest 3.2.6 on 8.1-RELEASE, 8-STABLE,
and 9-CURRENT) as both host and guest systems, YES.

I'm also using 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux guests; performance
and stability are very, very good.

Please try VirtualBox for yourself -- I think you will be pleased with
the effort that's been put in to the port by the developers :)

-Brandon
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Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on

[Brandon Gooch]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Bruce Cran  wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 07:18:18 -0400
> Jerry  wrote:
>
>> I also ran out of space. I decided that a minimum of 2GB was the
>> safest choice. It would be nice if the authors changed the default
>> settings in the soon to be released 8.1 version so as to nullify this
>> phenomena.
>
> I've just committed the fix to head/-current, but considering 8.1-RC2
> has been released I'm not even going to ask for permission to get it in
> for 8.1-RELEASE - it's just too late.
>
> --
> Bruce Cran

Thanks Bruce. This is a welcome update despite not making it in to the
8.1-RELEASE.

-Brandon
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Re: OT

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Gary Kline  wrote:
> happy father's day to every dad stateside.
>
> same wishes to all dads of course.  my view is that both mother's and
> father's day should be held internationally.  it well may be for all i
> know.  AFAIC, fatherhood is the kind of trip that beats even
> programming in C.  on the best OS on earth.

My sentiments exactly.

Happy Father's Day to All the Dads!

Thanks Gary :)

-Brandon, Ava's Dad
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Re: freebsd - for the win

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Charlie Kester  wrote:
> On Sat 12 Jun 2010 at 18:17:22 PDT Michelle Konzack wrote:
>>
>> Hello Charlie Kester,
>>
>> Am 2010-06-12 15:51:32, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
>>>
>>> I worked at Microsoft Developer Support in a previous life, beginning at
>>> the time that Visual C++ and MFC were first introduced.
>>
>> Hahaha, you where Killed by a Microsoft Customer...
>>
>> And when you knoked at the door of god, he sent you back to earth to do
>> it better using now FreeBSD...  ;-)
>
> Yeah, something like that.  I'm doing the Lord's work now.  :)

Ha ha :) Well, theological debate aside for now, I've always thought
of the BSD license as a sort of "ultimate expression" of Free Will in
computing...

-Brandon
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Re: .sh & getopts

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Aiza  wrote:
> Robert Bonomi wrote:
>>>
>>> Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:51:28 +0800
>>> From: Aiza 
>>> To: Robert Bonomi 
>>> Subject: Re: .sh & getopts
>>>
>>> Robert Bonomi wrote:


>
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Thu Jun  3 23:36:28 2010
> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:35:56 +0800
> From: Aiza 
> To: "questi...@freebsd.org" 
> Cc: Subject: .sh & getopts
>
> Have this code
>
> shift; while getopts :ugr: arg; do case ${arg} in
>    u) action="freebsd-update";;
>    g) action="freebsd-upgrade";;
>    r) action="freebsd-rollback";;
>    ?) exerr ${cmd_usage};;
> esac; done; shift $(( ${OPTION} -1 ))
>
>
> Command being executed looks like this, cmd action -flags  
>
> Only a single -flag in allowed on the command.
>
> $# gives a count of parms ie:  . in this example a count of 2.
>
> I am looking for something to check that holds the number of flags on
> the command. so I can code. if flag_count gt 1 = error
>
> Is there such a thing created by getopts?

 Why bother??

  flag_count=0
  shift; while getopts :ugr: arg
   if flag_count = 1; then
     exerr ${cmd_usage}
   fi    flag_count=1;
   do case ${arg} in
   {{blah-blah}}

>>> nope dont work.
>>
>> Yup.  I was in a hurry, got the code mechanics wrong.  it needs to be:
>>     flag_count=0
>>     shift;      while getopts :ugr: arg ; do
>>       if flag_count = 1; then
>>         exerr ${cmd_usage}
>>       fi        flag_count=1;
>>       case ${arg} in
>>         {{blah-blah}}
>>       ecas
>>     done
>>
>>
>>
> I think I see what your are saying. so to adapt it to my code
>
>
> flag_count=0
> shift; while getopts :ugr: arg; do
>  flag_count + 1;
>  case ${arg} in
>     u) action="freebsd-update";;
>     g) action="freebsd-upgrade";;
>     r) action="freebsd-rollback";;
>     ?) exerr ${cmd_usage};;
>  esac; done; shift $(( ${OPTION} -1 ))
>
>
>  if flag_count gt 3; then
>    exerr ${cmd_usage}
>  fi
>
>
> I think I got the concept correct, but the flag_count + 1 is not correct. I
> get "flag_count: not found" when I run it this way.

You could use:

flag_count=`expr $flag_count + 1`

or...

...anyone else?

These types of open-ended questions are always fun :)

-Brandon
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Re: devel/gojbect-introspection fails due to not finding libintl

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Eitan Adler  wrote:
> Here is the output of $make install
> env LPATH=.libs  env PYTHONPATH=..:..
> UNINSTALLED_INTROSPECTION_SRCDIR=..
> UNINSTALLED_INTROSPECTION_BUILDDIR=.. ../tools/g-ir-scanner -v
> --add-include-path=../gir --add-include-path=. -v
> --add-include-path=../gir --add-include-path=. --namespace=Everything
> --nsversion=1.0 --libtool="/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/libtool"
> --library=libgirepository-everything-1.0.la --pkg=gobject-2.0
> --pkg=cairo --pkg=gio-2.0 --include=GObject-2.0 --include=cairo-1.0
> --include=Gio-2.0   ./everything.h ./everything.c --output
> Everything-1.0.gir
>
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required
> by "libgirepository-1.0.so.0"
>
> Command 
> '['/dta/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.11/gir/tmp-introspectLatOlI/Everything-1.0',
> '--introspect-dump=/dta/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.11/gir/tmp-introspectLatOlI/types.txt,/dta/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.11/gir/tmp-introspectLatOlI/dump.xml']'
> returned non-zero exit status 1
> gmake[2]: *** [Everything-1.0.gir] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> `/dta/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.11/gir'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/dta/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.11'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> *** Error code 1

Please take a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING:

20100530:
  AFFECTS: users of devel/gettext (i.e.: YOU)
  AUTHOR: a...@freebsd.org

  Another version of gettext (0.18), and another shlib version bump
  (from intl.8 to intl.9)

  All ports that have an identifiable known direct dependency on gettext
  have had their PORTREVISIONs bumped.  If after upgrading:

# portupgrade -rf gettext
# portmaster -r gettext

  there are still ports on your system that are looking for libintl.so.8
  (either in ${LOCALBASE}/lib/compat/pkg, or non-existent), _please_ file
  a PR so that a correct direct dependency can be added.
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Re: FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE: property 'jailed' not supported on FreeBSD: permission denied

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek  wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 03:55:59PM +0400, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> The command "zfs set jailed=on tank/s1" is failed with the message "
>> property 'jailed' not supported on FreeBSD: permission denied".
>>
>> Output of "zfs get jailed tank/s1" shows me that the property "jailed" is
>> still exists:
>> NAME     PROPERTY  VALUE    SOURCE
>> tank/s1  jailed    off      default
>>
>> How can I change its value?
>
> It was accidentally marked as OpenSolaris-specific.
>
> Should be fixed as of r208684 in HEAD and I plan to merge it to stable/8
> in few days.
>
> Thanks for the report!

I discovered this just last night (May 30, 2010) -- will it be able to
be pushed into 8.1-RELEASE? It's important in my ezjail setups...

-Brandon
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Re: "real time" files mirroring ?

[Brandon Gooch]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Frank Bonnet  wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm searching for a software that could perform some kind of real time
> mirroring between two (or more) freebsd servers.
>
> My meaning is to keep up to date some files ( flat and db maps ) used by
> Postfix on our MX servers and propagate every change of one or more
> files to all the others.

Back in 2008, Ivan Voras wrote a rather simple daemon that fits this need:

http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/06/08/weekend-hack-adfsd-a-kqueue-assisted-rsync-tool/

http://ivoras.sharanet.org/stuff/adfs.tgz

I'm not sure about the status of the code (in regard to compiling and
working with 8.x or HEAD), but it's worth a shot. I remember trying it
out last year and it worked well for the small-ish project I had
going.

Ivan may have an informed comment or two to provide as well...

-Brandon
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Re: ml110 g6

[Brandon Gooch]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:49 AM, captainhastings captainhastings
 wrote:
> Hello I have bought an intel 110 g6 server with intel quad core cpu. It is a
> 64bit machine. Do I use the amd64 iso even though its intel ?

Quick answer: Sure.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-processors.html

Longer answer:

FreeBSD has excellent documentation:

http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html

A good place to start is the Handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

Please don't hesitate to read it as you attempt to install and
configure FreeBSD and all of the wonderful additional software
available in the ports system. After you've successfully completed the
install, read it again -- and review :)

There is much to learn, but the journey is well worth it. Plus, I
believe you'll have a lot of FUN along the way...

Also, you probably want to check out the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
mailing list, it's a great place to get information and answers
regarding "general" FreeBSD items and issues.

Good Luck!

-Brandon
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Re: pf suggestions for paced attack

[Brandon Gooch]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:55 AM, A. Wright  wrote:
>
> I wrote:
>>>
>>> If anyone is interested, I can send (or I suppose post) the scripts.
>
> Balázs Mátéffy wrote:
>
>> Would you be so kind to share those scripts?
>
> No problem; the scripts are below.
>

[SNIP APOLOGY]

I've been meaning to write something similar myself for...well, quite
a while now :)

Thank you.

-Brandon
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Re: Postfix signal 11

[Brandon Gooch]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Ron  wrote:
> After I did a big portupgrade on the April 25th, I am now getting a lot 
> these...
>
> +pid 53508 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
> +pid 28553 (smtp), uid 125: exited on signal 11
> +pid 28569 (smtp), uid 125: exited on signal 11
> +pid 28657 (smtp), uid 125: exited on signal 11
>
> ..in my logs.  I've tried forcing a rebuild of postfix and all dependency to 
> no avail.  I don't seem to be loosing any email.
>
> I'm assuming it's postfix (I don't use sendmail), but I could be wrong.  
> Anyone know what this is or where I should start looking?  Did I not upgrade 
> something correctly after the big changes?
>
> Thanks

Signal 11, or SIGSEGV, is a segmentation violation. It occurs when a
program makes an invalid memory reference. The program exits (crashes)
and leaves a dump of it's memory image on the file system somewhere.

The memory image, a .core file, is somewhere on your file system and
will allow the application (I assume Postfix) to be debugged (using
gdb).

-Brandon
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Re: geom, glabel, and related terminology

[Brandon Gooch]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Eitan Adler  wrote:
> I'm a little bit confused about some of the file system terminology.
>
> What exactly is a GEOM label?  What does it mean to have one or for
> one to be stopped?
> What is a GEOM provider?
> What is the difference between a bsd label and a geom label?
>
> If you could provide a high level overview the terminology it would
> help me immensely.

$ man 4 geom

It's on my reading list as well ;)

-Brandon
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Re: Building for polkit-0.96_1 fails

[Brandon Gooch]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Michel Seliverstoff
 wrote:
> Hello, I'm having difficulties updating polkit. I read the ports/updating
> and did  portupgrade -f  policykit first. unfortunatelly it didn't help.
> Would anyone have a tip to share.
> Thanks,
> Michel
>
> gmake[4]: Entering directory
> `/usr/ports/sysutils/polkit/work/polkit-0.96/src/polkit'
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitenumtypes.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitactiondescription.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitauthorityfeatures.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitdetails.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitauthority.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkiterror.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitsubject.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitunixprocess.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitunixsession.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitsystembusname.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitidentity.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitunixuser.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitunixgroup.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitauthorizationresult.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitcheckauthorizationflags.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkitimplicitauthorization.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_gobject_1_la-polkittemporaryauthorization.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitactiondescription.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitauthenticationagent.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitauthority.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitauthorizationresult.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitbindings.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitbindingsmarshal.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitcheckauthorizationflags.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkiterror.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitidentity.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitimplicitauthorization.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitsubject.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkittemporaryauthorization.lo
>  CC     libpolkit_private_la-_polkitauthorityfeatures.lo
>  CCLD   libpolkit-private.la
>  CCLD   libpolkit-gobject-1.la
> /usr/local/bin/g-ir-scanner -v                                  \
>               --namespace Polkit                              \
>               --nsversion=1.0                                 \
>               --include=Gio-2.0                               \
>               --library=polkit-gobject-1                      \
>               --output Polkit-1.0.gir
>   \
>               --pkg=glib-2.0                                  \
>               --pkg=gobject-2.0                               \
>               --pkg=gio-2.0                                   \
>               --libtool=../../libtool         \
>               -I/usr/local/include/eggdbus-1 -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0
> -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include                                  \
>               -I../../src                             \
>               -D_POLKIT_COMPILATION                           \
>               -DEGG_DBUS_I_KNOW_API_IS_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE      \
>               ./polkit.h                              \
>               ./polkittypes.h                         \
>               ./polkitactiondescription.h             \
>               ./polkitauthority.h                     \
>               ./polkitauthorizationresult.h           \
>               ./polkitcheckauthorizationflags.h       \
>               ./polkitdetails.h                       \
>               ./polkitenumtypes.h                     \
>               ./polkiterror.h                         \
>               ./polkitidentity.h                      \
>               ./polkitimplicitauthorization.h         \
>               ./polkitsubject.h                       \
>               ./polkitsystembusname.h                 \
>               ./polkittemporaryauthorization.h        \
>               ./polkitunixgroup.h                     \
>               ./polkitunixprocess.h                   \
>               ./polkitunixsession.h                   \
>               ./polkitunixuser.h                      \
>
> gmake[4]: *** [Polkit-1.0.gir] Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/sysutils/polkit/work/polkit-0.96/src/polkit'
> gmake[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/sysutils/polkit/work/polkit-0.96/src/polkit'
> gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/sysutils/polkit/work/polkit-0.96/src'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/polkit/work/polkit-0.96'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/polkit.
> ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
> /tmp/portupgrade20100406-94674-18chul8-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade
> UPGRADE_PORT=polkit-0.95_3 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=0.95_3 make
> ** Fix the problem and try again.

I don't remember the exact error I saw, but I recently ran i

Re: Interrupt ptr 12h?

[Brandon Gooch]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Axel Schmalowsky  wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> sometimes my system freezes, and I cannot figure out why.
>
> What I do know is that everytime I try to build openoffice, it freezes
> during the build process.
> Last time my system froze, the kernel "spat out" the following message:
> "kerneltrap with interrupt ptr 12h disabled".
>
> What does this mean, exactly?
>
> please help.
>
> -axel

Usually there is more to the message than the above when a kernel
experiences a "panic". When this panic occurs again, try to capture as
much of the text from the console as possible (I often take a snapshot
with a digital camera, and jot down notes on paper). The more detail
you can provide the developers, the better.

And, if (when) you're brave enough:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html

Also, I think it may be appropriate at this point to test your
computer's RAM (using a "memtest"-type utility); doing large,
intensive tasks such as building OpenOffice is bound to uncover issues
with your computer's hardware -- I know this from experience :)

-Brandon
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Re: FreeBSD 8 New USB Stack Issues

[Brandon Gooch]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Marcel Grandemange
 wrote:
>>Marcel Grandemange wrote:
>> Good Day.
>>
>> I am really hopeing someone can assist me here.
>>
>> I have a E620 Huawei PCMCIA 3G card in a PCMCIA-TO-PCI Converter in a
>> Freebsd server for a sms server i run.
>>
>> Now it used to run without issues, however since the change over from 7.2
> to
>> 8.0REL it no longer works and there are no entries under /dev/cuaux and so
>> forth.
>>
>> Regards
>> Marcel Grandemange
>>
>
>
>>> From the 8.0 release notes is the following
>>>http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html
>
>>>[amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port
>>>devices in
>>>favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have been renamed
>>>with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN.
>
> Yes but the devices don't actually attach
>
> Eg..
>
>
>
> ugen0.2:  at usbus0
>
> uipaq0:  on usbus0
>
> device_attach: uipaq0 attach returned 6
>
> uipaq0:  on usbus0
>
> device_attach: uipaq0 attach returned 6
>
>
> As can be seen by the "attach returned 6"
>
> And
>
>
>
> ohci1:  mem 0xde7ad000-0xde7adfff irq 18 at
> device 0.1 on cardbus0
> ohci1: [ITHREAD]
> usbus8: reset timeout
> ohci1: USB init failed
> device_attach: ohci1 attach returned 6
>
> And Here again. Many devices Suffer Of this.

Would it be possible for you to try a recent build of 8-STABLE or even
9-CURRENT?

If I'm not mistaken, it seems you've also tried the forums:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12988

If you'd like this device to work properly again in FreeBSD, would you
mind filing a PR with all pertinent information regarding your
situation?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html

then:

http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

Thanks!

-Brandon
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Re: detachable x session (X11 application that acts like sysutils/screen)

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Jim  wrote:
> Has anyone done anything with a program that acts like sysutils/screen
> but with an X11 screen instead of a terminal? x2x and xnest both look
> like they have some promise. Basically I work on projects located on
> one of two systems, but I may bounce between another set of
> workstations where I am physically located. If I am handling something
> that I can work on console-only without trouble, I use
> sysutils/screen, however some times I either need X, or X would be a
> bit more effective for me. I'd like to be able to leave a xsession
> running somewhere and be able to detach it and reattach to it between
> login sessions.
>
> Has anyone had experience doing this? What programs do you use?
>
> Thanks,
> -Jim Stapleton

I'm not sure if it's coming to FreeBSD or not:

http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra

It may be what you're looking for though...

-Brandon
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Re: what does "boot in safe mode" enable / disable?

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Henrik Hudson  wrote:
> I emailed a few days back, to -stable,  about having issues running 8-STABLE 
> in a
> Xen environment. I solved this, sort of. However, I didn't get any
> bites over there.
>
> I have a XEN HVM environment and it was given to me running 8-REL-p2
> and it was working fine. I moved up to -STABLE and GENERIC wouldn't
> boot. After some fiddling, etc.. I tried booting it in "safe mode"
> and viola it boots fine.
>
> The system doesn't show any errors it just stops on "trying to mount
> disk: /dev/". Enabling "logging mode" doesn't show any
> difference between the stable kernel and the rel kernel when
> booting.
>
> So, I'm guessing there was some sort of regression, but I'm trying
> to isolate this. What does "booting in safe mode" enable / disable
> that would allow the system to boot successfully?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Henrik
> --
> Henrik Hudson
> li...@rhavenn.net

I've wondered this myself, having never actually booted into "safe
mode". Here is a snippet from a reply to a related question from the
archives:

"Safe mode forces PIO mode (disabling the use of DMA) and disables write
caching for all IDE hard drives and CD ROM drives, disables the probing
of EISA slots (as very few systems have them), and in i386 it also
disables the use of ACPI and the APICs."

from "What is FreeBSD 5.3 Safe Mode?"
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-February/046882.html

-Brandon
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Re: Porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
 wrote:
> Em Sáb, 2010-04-17 às 10:13 +0200, David DEMELIER escreveu:
>
>> 2010/4/16 Jerry :
>> > Has there been any movement on porting NetworkManager
>> >  to FreeBSD? I read
>> > something awhile ago, I don't remember where, that it was planned for
>> > the 8.0 release (I think). I have seen it in use on a friends PC, and
>> > it is really awesome.
>> >
>>
>> Do you really like NM ? Each time I use it it bugs, sometimes it
>> connects and sometime not. Of course it's great for people who wants
>> something easy to manage but NM needs the users to connect the X
>> session.
>>
>> wpa_supplicant is really great, it scans access points available and
>> try to connect them (you can add many networks in your
>> wpa_supplicant.conf) and then it starts connecting even if you're not
>> in your X session.
>>
>> About the NM port in freebsd I guess we can wait a long time.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>
>
> Laptops needs NM badly..  Linux have it, Opensolaris have it... I cannot
> use
> FreeBSD 8.0 in my laptops (8 persons in my company) because there is no
> NM.
>
> All the Laptops runs Arch linux...  it is a good OS but does not
> compares to FBSD.
>
> That is a thing that is missing...
>
> I agree that wpa supplicat is great... so if one can only make a GUI for
> it... it would
> make all of us happy too
>
> Sergio

Check out net-mgmt/wifimgr, available in ports. It's a graphical
front-end for wpa_supplicant.

-Brandon
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Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around

[Brandon Gooch]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Yuri  wrote:
> Sometimes after some flash object is displayed firefox gets frozen for many
> few seconds,maybe ~20sec.
> Do you see the same? Is there anyfix for this?
>
> In additions I have 54 processes like this one
> 50006  ??  I      0:00.00
> /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin
> /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection
> hanging around even after firefox process exits.
>
> linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r45
> nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5
> firefox-3.5.8,1
>
> Yuri
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I map a key to `killall npviewer.bin` -- crude and hack-ish, but it's
all that seems to work. I just refresh the browser page(s) containing
any other flash objects that I WANT to use or view (sometimes the
refresh happens automagically).

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Re: Measuring Free memory

[Brandon Gooch]

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Mario Lobo  wrote:


On Wednesday 17 March 2010 19:03:03 Lowell Gilbert wrote:
First, you'll need a precise definition of what you mean by "free  
memory".


Free physical memory available.



Add the "-H" flag to get that value more precise.  I suspect,  
however,

that precision isn't really the right term for what you're after.


I caught the -H flag right after I wrote the mail. The result has to  
be

multiplied by 1024.

It's possible you're right but what I am trying to do is to monitor  
the amount

of free physical memory still on the system.

To make a long story short, I am in a long stretch in trying to find  
out why
8-STABLE amd64+VBox+nvidia driver is freezing my system to power  
button point.




I'm also seeing something similar although perhaps not related to  
(lack of) free memory. Are you able to enable debugging in the kernel  
and maybe get a (text)dump?



Have you seen:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM
and
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FREE-MEMOR
Y-AMOUNT by any chance?



Those were nice, Thanks.

--
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winfoes  
FREE)

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I've sent a couple of textdumps to one of the FreeBSD VirtualBox devs  
but haven't heard back just yet.


-Brandon 
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Re: Wireless setup iwn

[Brandon Gooch]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Marwan Sultan  wrote:
>
> Hello List,
>
>
>
>  well im sure its a small mistake here or there.
>
>  I know driver works with PCBS perfectly, but i cannot manualy configure it.
>
>  something missing..
>
>
>
>  its iwn wireless driver, here are the settings :
>
>
>
> /boot/loader.conf
>
>
>
> legal.intel_iwn.license_ack=1
>
> if_iwn_load="YES"
>
> wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
> wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
> wlan_wep_load="YES"
> wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
> wlan_tkip_load="YES"
>
>
> /etc/rc.conf
>
>
>
> wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
>
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>
>
>
> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
>
>
> network={
>
>
>        ssid="SSID"
>        wep_key1="PASSWORD"
>        }
>
>
>
> -
>
>
>
> Its Associated but no ip, its always 0.0.0.0 and sometimes an error of
>
> multicast call back..
>
>
>
> I tried to add in /etc/rc.conf inet 192.168.0.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 
> instead of DHCP
>
> but same results.
>
>
>
> Any hints please?
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> Marwan
>
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Are you running 8.0-RELEASE? You may be better off running the
8-STABLE, as Bernhard Schmidt (and others) have committed several
major updates to the driver.

-Brandon
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Re: Maximum Static NAT sessions under FreeBSD

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:18 PM,   wrote:
>
>   Hello,
>
>   I was wondering if anyone could t ell me what is the maximum number
>   of static IP NAT sessions FreeBSD can sup port and what are the
>   limiting factors (memory, bus speed, software release , forks, etc)?
>
>   Kind regards,
>
>   < div>
>
>   David Bennett

I'm statically NAT-ting 1024 addresses using the in-kernel NAT via
ipfw. I increased NAT_BUF_LEN in sys/netinet/ip_fw.h from 1024 to
65536 to accommodate the number of rules.

Performance is good; I'm also using dummynet to throttle bandwidth for
each IP. I don't know enough about FreeBSD's internals to give you
info on performance or limiting factors, although I suppose you want a
reasonably powerful CPU (especially if you're using dummynet), but
memory doesn't seem to be a problem:

last pid: 42109;  load averages:  0.97,  0.98,  0.84   up 163+06:11:06 20:33:51
32 processes:  1 running, 31 sleeping
CPU:  0.2% user,  0.0% nice, 50.4% system, 21.6% interrupt, 27.8% idle
Mem: 45M Active, 662M Inact, 203M Wired, 5152K Cache, 111M Buf, 81M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free

It's on a 45 Mbit DS3 (symmetric). The top(1) output above is at about
10 Mbits Rx and 6 Mbits Tx on the box.

-Brandon
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Re: using leds on laptop

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Eitan Adler  wrote:
> I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the "pure LED", but as
>
>> you mentioned that it is labelled "wireless", it is in
>> relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a
>> device driver functionality that activates the LED when
>> the WLAN device is active?
>>
>
> Might be - but I don't have windows so I have no way of testing
>
>
>> Do you use the laptop's WLAN, and does the LED correspond
>> to any state (like activated, connected, scanning etc.) of
>> the WLAN?
>>
> I do use WLAN but it does not correspond to any specific state. Nor does the
> physical switch change anything
>
>>
>> Anyway, I would predict that you won't find an easy way
>> to utilize this LED except you're writing a driver for it
>> with specifications the laptop's manufacturer will sell to
>> you if you put enough money onto the table. :-)
>>
>  It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the
> specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver -
> *wonders*
>
>>
>> Otherwise, it's completely useless.
>> --
>> Polytropon
>> Magdeburg, Germany
>> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
>> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>>
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If it's and Intel card (iwi(4), ipw(4), iwn(4)), it's a matter of
knowing what command to send to the firmware.

What device do you have in the laptop?

Check the dmesg(8) output...

-Brandon
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Re: iwi and wlan-cloning

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Torgeir Hoffmann  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After installing 8.0-release I followed all the howtos on cloning my iwi0
> device to wlan0 to setup
> the wireless.
>
> The manual configuration:
>
> ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 && wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant
> -i wlan0 & dhclient wlan0
>
> works well.
>
> However, trying to get this done automatically seems not to work:
>
> wlans_iwi0: not found
> ifconfig_wlan0: not found
>
> if I have rc.conf entries:
>
> wlans_iwi0 = "wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0 = "WPA DHCP"
> wpa_supplicant_enable="YES"
>

Do you actually have spaces between the names and values?

Try

wlans_iwi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

I don't think this is required due to the 'WPA' in the ifconfig parameters:

wpa_supplicant_enable="YES"

-Brandon
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Re: iwn driver on 7.1

[Brandon Gooch]

The kernel panic was due to a NULL pointer dereference in the module.
The code that was commented out created a situation in which the array
of structs (line 2412):

static const struct iwn_chan_band iwn_bands[]

contained only 2 items. The code following the struct array that
obtained the list of authorized channels:

/* read the list of authorized channels */
for (i = 0; i < N(iwn_bands)-2; i++)
iwn_read_eeprom_band(sc, &iwn_bands[i]);

didn't actually get a list of anything, since N(iwn_bands)-2 evaluates
to zero in this case.

The NULL pointer part comes in when the call to
ieee80211_sort_channels() on line 2436 sends a list of no items with a
value of 0 for ic->ic_nchans. The backported insertion sort code from
8.0-CURRENT's 802.11 stack fails somewhere because of this value, due
to access of some memory address in the chancompar() or swap(?) -- I
didn't really dig that far into it.

I guess the purpose of commenting out the A channels in the
iwn_bands[] was to keep the driver from potentially using them, but
honestly, I'm not sure if that's the appropriate way to do that (I'm
just getting into this stuff). I'm sure the MFC'd VAP stuff that Sam
Leffler is working on will alleviate all of this, but I wanted a
working iwn(4) for now ;)

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester  wrote:
> Da Rock wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 14:17 -0600, Brandon Gooch wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a working driver for the Intel 4965, aka iwn(4), loaded on my
>>> Lenovo X300 running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE (amd64).
>>>
>>> This driver is a slightly-modified version of the iwn(4) driver
>>> backported from 8.0-CURRENT by Gavin Atkinson:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=221758+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2008/freebsd-stable/20080928.freebsd-stable
>>>
>>> I was seeing the same symptoms described in these threads (among others):
>>>
>>>
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/045264.html
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1334322+1338147+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090118.freebsd-questions
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1418632+1421765+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090118.freebsd-questions
>>>
>>> ...so I debugged and modified Gavin's driver for my system.
>>>
>>> The driver and the source tree diff can be downloaded here for any
>>> brave souls wanting to test it out:
>>>
>>> http://sites.google.com/site/bsdgooch/files
>>>
>>> I'm using the driver now to send this e-mail over a link to my TP-LINK
>>> TL-WR941ND access point (with WPA2). Feedback and bug reports would be
>>> useful.
>>>
>>> -brandon
>>
>> Sounds like you got to it before I did- thank god! :)
>>
>> Question though: have you got it figured for a channels yet?
>>
>> I'll test it for you and keep you updated with my results.
>
> Thanks for working on the driver!
>
> The only difference to the version of gavin that I could see is that the
> bands in iwn_bands that got commented out were brought back. Or did I miss
> something? Do you know why they were commented out and it was unnecessary?
> Or was it just to fix the crash?
>
> I did a few test runs: It does not crash immediately as the version from
> gavin, but the error I had with the perforce version
>  iwn0: error, INTR=8200 STATUS=0x1
>  iwn0: iwn_config: could not set power mode, error 35
> is there -- in 3 out of 3 tries. So nothing improved there. (I hit that
> error on first use in about 50% of the cases before.)
>
> Moreover, at 3 out of 4 tries to 'kldunload if_iwn' after hitting the error
> (after '/etc/rc.d/netif stop iwn0' and 'ifconfig iwn0 down'), there was a
> crash: 2 page faults and 1 freeze. I have not had that with the perforce
> version. (Maybe once long ago, but I think I forgot to stop iwn0 at that
> time.)
>
> The one time I actually got the (WPA2) connection up, I was able to transfer
> with a similar speed as with the perforce version.
>
> Thus, for me, there are no improvement over the (old) perforce version.
> Probably by chance, but I had more crashes.
>
> I think the thread on stable@ should rather be continued than the one on
> questions@, but since Da Rock answered on questions@, I reinclude both.
>
> Cheers,
> Jan Henrik
>
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iwn driver on 7.1

[Brandon Gooch]

I have a working driver for the Intel 4965, aka iwn(4), loaded on my
Lenovo X300 running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE (amd64).

This driver is a slightly-modified version of the iwn(4) driver
backported from 8.0-CURRENT by Gavin Atkinson:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=221758+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2008/freebsd-stable/20080928.freebsd-stable

I was seeing the same symptoms described in these threads (among others):

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/045264.html

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1334322+1338147+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090118.freebsd-questions

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1418632+1421765+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090118.freebsd-questions

...so I debugged and modified Gavin's driver for my system.

The driver and the source tree diff can be downloaded here for any
brave souls wanting to test it out:

http://sites.google.com/site/bsdgooch/files

I'm using the driver now to send this e-mail over a link to my TP-LINK
TL-WR941ND access point (with WPA2). Feedback and bug reports would be
useful.

-brandon
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