Re: concerning flash under freebsd
Quoting Chris Whitehouse : Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Polytropon : On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: That's a no-go, I have it on good authority that h.264 was chosen over Theora. That along with mpeg-la having put out a press release saying it won't charge royalties for "free" uses of some of it's patents several months ago[0], while I would love for Theora to have won out as the standard, once again corporate interest (this time a big push from Apple, from what I understand) has won out. And Mozilla won't use H264. Also add into the mix that Google has just bought VP8 and open sourced it. Mozilla supports VP8 but Apple is already dissing it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/20/apple-steve-jobs-vp8-patent So I think we have a very long way to go before we can stop using flash for web based video. Entirely my point. (According to wikipedia Theora is a fork of VP3 which the developer On2 released some time ago. VP6 made into macromedia flash codec. So On2's codecs have a long history of video on the web.) That would seem to be supported by the Theora website[0]. won't support it. But that's all irregardless to the OPs question of bugginess on FreeBSD. If the Linux emulation isn't enough and there is no option but to switch to an entirely different platform, why even provide such an option? Linux emulation takes up a lot of resources (space wise on the drive). Flash video works absolutely fine here and there is a lot of great content and interesting and entertaining material out there. I'm really grateful to the FreeBSD developers for getting it working so well :) FreeBSD muji2.config 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 11:51:43 GMT 2010 r...@muji2.config:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 firefox-3.5.8,1 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 flashblock 1.5.13 # This may be a critical feature of a successful flash intallation. Aside from npviewer not killing itself on exit and some sync issues, I've not had any problems, either. The need for Linux emulation, though, still stinks (mostly from a disk space pov). [0]: http://www.theora.org/faq/#VP3 -- Yours in Christ, PIT All original content (C) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Theora vs h.264 [Was Re: concerning flash under freebsd]
Quoting RW : On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:51:40 -0600 Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Polytropon : > > That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are > moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and > open standards for their videos so they can access a bigger That's a no-go, I have it on good authority that h.264 was chosen over Theora. That along with mpeg-la having put out a press release saying it won't charge royalties for "free" uses of some of it's patents several months ago[0], while I would love for Theora to have won out as the standard, once again corporate interest (this time a big push from Apple, from what I understand) has won out. As I understand it, originally Ogg Theora was going to be the standard, but it's now been left open instead due to uncertainty about Theora infringing patents. Some sites are using Theora, but most seem to be going with h.264. I presume that this is due to IE support for h.264. It's quite possible if the h.264 patents are really as extensive and broad as mpeg-la claims (also, if they are so overly broad, they need to be invalidated as patents are for specific inventions). I believe Google are going with h.264 and a newer BSD licensed codec they are sponsoring themselves as an open-source, patent-free alternative. I thought Google was going with VP8 (as was mentioned earlier)? I have a friend or two on the HTML5WG mailing list as the source of a good deal of my info. -- Yours in Christ, PIT All original content (C) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: concerning flash under freebsd
Quoting Polytropon : As much as I am now a no-user of "Flash", allow me the following comments. On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net which my church uses). That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and open standards for their videos so they can access a bigger That's a no-go, I have it on good authority that h.264 was chosen over Theora. That along with mpeg-la having put out a press release saying it won't charge royalties for "free" uses of some of it's patents several months ago[0], while I would love for Theora to have won out as the standard, once again corporate interest (this time a big push from Apple, from what I understand) has won out. audience. Keeping things in "Flash" is a no-go. A main problem of "Flash" is that is isn't compatible with the upcoming trend to move to portable devices. Only HTML5 and compliant browsers will be present on those platforms, and those who keep their sites in "Flash" will be out of scope soon. I've only seen some examples of HTML5 sites. My own reluctance to start coding with it is the fact that it's still open to tons of change. HTML5 will be the future; "Flash" already is the past. Soon, it won't be important anymore. Conforming to standards will be the key to all those new platforms that customers are interested in. You mean the ones who don't mind being told what's best for them (think iPad)? Flash is buggy, I'll give you that, but "Don't install it." is not an option for a lot of people. I had been using "Flash" in the past (on FreeBSD). It was so annoying that I finally completely removed it. It has become *the* choice of "professional web developers" to make their sites unusable and finally unaccessible, as well as a big annoyance of users, primarily due to its sheer overuse for advertising purposes. I never use flash where I'm able to avoid it. I have one client wanting to use it for a simple transition (with affects) on one spot in the front page. I personally won't use the stuff for website development and disallow those sorts of ads. Until HTML5 support is universal in all browser ports (there was mention of that not being the case) talk of HTML5 video verges on the pointless. Yes, Flash is old news and has been for a while. Yes, Flash is not portable because Adobe is a jerk and many mobile/portable device makers won't support it. But that's all irregardless to the OPs question of bugginess on FreeBSD. If the Linux emulation isn't enough and there is no option but to switch to an entirely different platform, why even provide such an option? Linux emulation takes up a lot of resources (space wise on the drive). -- Yours in Christ, PIT All original content (C) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: concerning flash under freebsd
Quoting Chuck Swiger : Please see last line of sig. On Jun 15, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Chuck Swiger : Adobe supports Windows, MacOSX, Linux, and Solaris (from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions ). If it is important to you that Flash works well, you should either persuade Adobe to provide a FreeBSD version, or you should switch to using one of the platforms on which Flash is supported. I had little of the problems described in the original post (aside from needing an alias for killing flash, I never actually thought of making one until now). It doesn't change the fact that "Don't install it." isn't a valid option. Evidently so, for some people. I also take issue with the "well use a supported OS" schtick. I'm not sure that last word means what you think it means. Try reading Adobe's EULA: "3.1 General Use. You may install and Use one copy of the Software on your Compatible Computer. See Section 4 for important restrictions on the Use of the Software. 3.2 Server Use. This agreement does not permit you to install or Use the Software on a computer file server. For information on Use of Software on a computer file server please refer to [ ... ] 4.1 Adobe Runtime Restrictions. You will not Use any Adobe Runtime on any non-PC device or with any embedded or device version of any operating system. For the avoidance of doubt, and by example only, you may not Use an Adobe Runtime on any (a) mobile device, set top box (STB), handheld, phone, game console, TV, DVD player, media center (other than with Windows XP Media Center Edition and its successors), electronic billboard or other digital signage, Internet appliance or other Internet-connected device, PDA, medical device, ATM, telematic device, gaming machine, home automation system, kiosk, remote control device, or any other consumer electronics device, (b) operator-based mobile, cable, satellite, or television system or (c) other closed system device. No right or license to Use any Adobe Runtime is granted for such prohibited uses." Are you running Samba or NFS filesharing? Or is your machine a mini-ITX box which might be considered an "Internet-connected device" rather than a normal PC? There's a reason why the FreeBSD precompiled packages can't include Flash-- the project is forbidden from redistributing it. That's actually fairly restrictive (and retarded). Why does it have official Linux support, though? You can run Samaba or NFS filesharing on any of those (and hey, what about file-sharing amongst Windows computers?). Stupid Adobe. -- Yours in Christ, PIT All original content (C) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: concerning flash under freebsd
Quoting Chuck Swiger : On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Programmer in Training wrote: [ ... ] While that may be, try telling that to your 4 yr old nephew who likes to play those flash based games on PBS Kids. Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net which my church uses). Flash is buggy, I'll give you that, but "Don't install it." is not an option for a lot of people. Adobe supports Windows, MacOSX, Linux, and Solaris (from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions ). If it is important to you that Flash works well, you should either persuade Adobe to provide a FreeBSD version, or you should switch to using one of the platforms on which Flash is supported. Regards, -- -Chuck I had little of the problems described in the original post (aside from needing an alias for killing flash, I never actually thought of making one until now). It doesn't change the fact that "Don't install it." isn't a valid option. I also take issue with the "well use a supported OS" schtick. I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it would be nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going right now to do so. Who's with me? -- Yours in Christ, PIT All original content (C) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: concerning flash under freebsd
Quoting Chip Camden : My alias for killflash is "Don't install it." Flash is buggy software on any platform. While that may be, try telling that to your 4 yr old nephew who likes to play those flash based games on PBS Kids. Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net which my church uses). Flash is buggy, I'll give you that, but "Don't install it." is not an option for a lot of people. -- Yours in Christ, PIT All original content (C) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Mixer Settings For Audacity
On 04/11/10 06:00, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:54:40 -0500, Programmer In Training > wrote: >> Same thing, barely any pickup by the mic. > > Is the microphone working, and is it compatible with Yes > the connector (condenser / dynamic)? Does it provide Yes > a sufficient output level, maybe to be tested with Yes > other equipment? Just an idea - because I recently Was on a Windoze box with an Audigy 2 sound card, worked like a dream. > had a similar problem with a partially defective > microphone. :-) I'm using the builtin C-Media sound card (for some reason FreeBSD doesn't want to detect my SB Audigy even with the km loaded for it) The mic is a Creative boom mic (I call them boom mics, just your standard desktop fair). Audacity (and Skype) both picked up the mic very, very well using mic as rec source on my parents Windoze box (XP SP3). I'd like to keep everything on here (though the latest version of Audacity (1.3.x) supports flac output while what's in ports (1.2.4b4. I updated ports like two days ago) doesn't so I just might use their computer if I can't get my mic working here). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Mixer Settings For Audacity
On 04/11/10 01:36, Dima Panov wrote: >>>>>>> G'day, Programmer In Training! >>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 20:58:46 -0500, You wrote: > >> OK, I've read the mixer man page, the mic is set as recording source, >> yet even with mic playback and (apparent) sensitivity to max, I barely >> get anything recorded using Audacity. Am I missing something? Do I need >> to use mixer -s =rec mic (I set it with mixer -S =rec, though it seems >> either one does the same thing). > Try to use monitor as record source. (mixer =rec monitor) > At least for my laptops it's required to provide my microphone to skype. Same thing, barely any pickup by the mic. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [NOT RESOLVED][RESOLVED, for now] Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/11/10 05:06, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > It's probably too late to suggest it now but it did occur to me a very > cheap and easy way to get around the original problem might be to > replace the keyboard with a PS/2 keyboard :P (if your computer has a > PS/2 port). PS/2 ports do not work at all, otherwise I wouldn't bother with USB. Also, problem resurfaced after about 2 hours of listening to music. I wound up having to shut down PC all night because no matter what I did, keyboard would go wonky on me. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[RESOLVED, for now] Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/09/10 21:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Programmer In Training wrote: > >> I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand >> new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ... > > If "speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins" doesn't Despite the steadily degrading nature of the builtins, they are working for the keyboard with speakers on the card and so far (aside from some initial issues) they seem to be working just fine. For now. I'm still getting a new pair of speakers. Now I'm not so keen on getting some of those USB gadgets from ThinkGeek. ): -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Mixer Settings For Audacity
OK, I've read the mixer man page, the mic is set as recording source, yet even with mic playback and (apparent) sensitivity to max, I barely get anything recorded using Audacity. Am I missing something? Do I need to use mixer -s =rec mic (I set it with mixer -S =rec, though it seems either one does the same thing). Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100 Mixer bass is currently set to 100:100 Mixer treble is currently set to 100:100 Mixer synthis currently set to 100:100 Mixer pcm is currently set to 100:100 Mixer speaker is currently set to 100:100 Mixer line is currently set to 100:100 Mixer mic is currently set to 100:100 Mixer cd is currently set to 100:100 Mixer igainis currently set to 100:100 Mixer ogainis currently set to 100:100 Mixer monitor is currently set to 100:100 Recording source: mic The above is my playback options for the mixer. I'd like to adjust the sensitivity for the mic when recording and not just for playback (ideally I'd like playback to be zero - or as close to it as possible - and recording be at max). I've found a few posts on the subject[0][1] but nothing really dealing with my problem (the closest they get is Audacity, but both are written from a Windoze POV), though I did get some good ideas from the first one (setting up a project with some default tags and the like). I'll record, with the mic at 100% for playback, a sample and toss it up on my website[2] in wav format so you folks can hear what I'm dealing with. Any suggestions would be appreciated (I'm sure it's something rather obvious I'm missing, it usually is (I've got my snakebite kit ready, jic)). The recording was made with the mic right in front of the mouth, with me talking at normal volume (which is pretty loud according to most folks I know) and playback sensitivity at max. The audio was recorded at 44100Hz, 32-bit floating point and straight-exported as a wav. Reported size (by web server) is 1.5MB (YMMV). [0]: http://brainwagon.org/2004/09/27/howto-produce-your-own-audioblog/ [1]: http://www.jakeludington.com/podcasting/20050222_recording_a_podcast.html [2]: http://www.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us/audio/test-01.wav -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/09/10 21:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Programmer In Training wrote: > >> I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand >> new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ... > > If "speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins" doesn't What I don't get is that the speakers work no matter what I hook it up to. 1.x builtins (they were recognized as 1.x by Windows, I assume they still are seeing as how they cannot be upgraded) or 2.0 card. And no matter what I hook up the speakers too, it messes with the keyboard, though I had not tried to put the keyboard and mouse back on the 1.x builtins (don't really need 2.0 speed for such devices) as they were starting to act up on them. > work, you might want to try a power adapter that has a USB host > connector. (I've seen such at Fry's, intended for devices like > iPods that were designed to recharge their internal batteries > from a USB port.) This would effectively convert your current > set to wall-powered, which might be less costly than a new set. Perhaps, but I've been wanting a new set for a while now. The set I had before this one was old when I got them. Last new set I had was from Creative. Two full range satellites with a 6 1/2" omni-directional sub-woofer for about $80; unfortunately that was ages ago. I miss them (the satellite's died before the sub). > WRT the suggestion to hack something together, I wouldn't suggest > attempting it unless you're quite sure of what would be involved. I'm fairly certain solder (rosin-core as acid-core would corrode the contacts), electrical tape and a few prayers that I avoid the below stated consequences (seriously, there is a +5 and +12 on my motherboard? man I am seriously under-utilizing this thing). > It wouldn't be exactly difficult, but getting something backwards > -- or connecting to the +12 instead of the +5 supply -- would at > least let all the magic blue smoke out of the speakers :) -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/09/10 19:58, mikel king wrote: > Out of curiosity, have you tried an active USB 2.0 HUB to buffer the > speakers from the computer's USB ports? Or even a AC to USB adapter? I don't have one of either of those items. I only have a passive 2.0 HUB (at least I think it's 2.0). Either way, looks as if there is a trip to the store and/or the website for my mobo manufacturer and a trip into the shed to find my EET books. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/09/10 18:31, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Unless you insist on an operating system solution what you are really > after is a 5 volt supply. What about buying a mains USB charger of the > right capacity, or if you are handy with bits of wire have a look I wouldn't know where to look for one. > through all those old power supplies for a 5 volt one? Or even use the 5 > volt supply from inside your computer (if it is a desktop not laptop) > > Chris It is a desktop. There is a 5V supply in there?! -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/09/10 15:24, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Programmer In Training wrote: > >> On 04/09/10 10:15, Brodey Dover wrote: >>> "Apr 8 22:30:16 heaven kernel: usb_alloc_device:1624: getting device >>> descriptor at addr 3 failed, USB_ERR_IOERROR!" >>> >>> exactly! That is what is causing the issues. From what I can see, it >>> is like it was explained before. The OS has chosen to play nice and >>> request that the speakers are disabled. >>> >>> The power requirements will not affect the system until the speakers >>> are producing sound. In other words, the system will only draw UP to >>> the power input rating while in operation. At idle, I'd wager they may >>> only use 1/10 of its power rating for the idle ICs and a power LED. > > Just to add: > > When you plug in a USB device, it is a "low power" device (single unit > load, 100 mA) by default. > > If that device wants to draw more power, it has to request high power (5 > unit loads) from the hub. The hub can provide that power, or shut down > the port. I never knew that about USB ports. >> Only it's not the speakers that have their operation interrupted, JUST >> the keyboard (not even the mouse is affected). > > Guesses: > > Total power budget (but FIFO?). I don't get that. Do you mean total power allocated to USB? > Speaker/keyboard USB ports are on the same internal hub. I'm not sure what you mean here. I've put the speakers on the internal, builtin USB ports (1.x) and they work fine except keyboard starts flaking out. I put them on the USB expansion card (which mouse and keyboard are on because they were starting to flake out on the builtins) with the same exact behavior. > High-power OLED keyboard (my eyes!). Keyboard label (if it is to be believed) is +5V 100mA. It's just a standard keyboard with some extra multimedia keys that aren't active (a pity, too). > Speakers labelled 500 mA but really only a low-power USB device. Than they shouldn't be messing with the keyboard, right? It usually takes about an hour or so for the keyboard to settle down to a usable state (until then, I'm doing a lot of mousing as the keyboard is near useless). I really don't know where to look for this. I've never even heard of USB powered speakers until I got these (no, I don't pay much attention to what's available unless I have a great need for it). I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it (they put out decent sound). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/09/10 10:15, Brodey Dover wrote: > "Apr 8 22:30:16 heaven kernel: usb_alloc_device:1624: getting device > descriptor at addr 3 failed, USB_ERR_IOERROR!" > > exactly! That is what is causing the issues. From what I can see, it > is like it was explained before. The OS has chosen to play nice and > request that the speakers are disabled. > > The power requirements will not affect the system until the speakers > are producing sound. In other words, the system will only draw UP to > the power input rating while in operation. At idle, I'd wager they may > only use 1/10 of its power rating for the idle ICs and a power LED. Only it's not the speakers that have their operation interrupted, JUST the keyboard (not even the mouse is affected). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/09/10 06:25, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > >> Programmer In Training wrote: >> >>> ... they are only attached for power purposes ... >> >>> Input power: DC 5V 500mA >> >> Any chance these speakers need a USB 2.0 port, and all the ports >> on your FreeBSD box are 1.x? I don't remember the USB power spec >> offhand, but 2.5W may exceed what a USB 1.x port can supply -- >> a limit that applies regardless of the system's overall power >> provisioning. > > 500 mA is 5 unit loads for USB 2.0, or powered hub territory. The > device has to request that high power mode, and the system can say no > and disable the port. That should show in /var/log/messages. The following messages so far haven't shown up today. Apr 8 22:30:01 heaven root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x046e product 0x5542 bus uhub4 Apr 8 22:30:01 heaven kernel: uhid0: on usbus4 Apr 8 22:30:01 heaven kernel: uhub_explore:611: illegal enable change, port 3 Apr 8 22:30:15 heaven kernel: ugen4.3: at usbus4 (disconnected) Apr 8 22:30:15 heaven kernel: ukbd0: at uhub4, port 3, addr 3 (disconnected) Apr 8 22:30:15 heaven kernel: uhid0: at uhub4, port 3, addr 3 (disconnected) Apr 8 22:30:16 heaven kernel: usb_alloc_device:1586: set address 3 failed (USB_ERR_IOERROR, ignored) Apr 8 22:30:16 heaven kernel: usb_alloc_device:1624: getting device descriptor at addr 3 failed, USB_ERR_IOERROR! -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/09/10 02:51, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Programmer In Training wrote: > >> ... they are only attached for power purposes ... > >> Input power: DC 5V 500mA > > Any chance these speakers need a USB 2.0 port, and all the ports The expansion card is 2.0 > on your FreeBSD box are 1.x? I don't remember the USB power spec > offhand, but 2.5W may exceed what a USB 1.x port can supply -- > a limit that applies regardless of the system's overall power > provisioning. That would explain why the sound was so small on my parents computer. All they have is 1.x -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/09/10 02:17, Fbsd1 wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: >> On 4/8/10, Programmer In Training wrote: >>> I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents >>> XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up >>> to listen on my FreeBSD box I have absolutely nothing but problems with >>> the speakers (even when turned off but still plugged in) interrupting >>> the normal operation of my keyboard (basically it seems that power is >>> cut to my keyboard at random). I have a beefy power supply (650W) so I >>> really shouldn't be having any power distribution issues. >>> >>> I've tried the speakers in both the on-board USB ports and the USB >>> expansion card (PCI) with the same results. >>> >>> Any ideas? > > You really need to explain in detail the problem. That's as much detail, except for the question below, that I have. > Without these new speakers plugged in does wall powered speakers work? Yeah, normal wall speakers work, but I gave those to my mom since these speakers, even at full blast, only put out a tiny sound on her computer (normal volume on mine). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Adding a Disk and Changing Mountpoints
On 04/09/10 00:48, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:38:03 -0500, Programmer In Training > wrote: >> Saturday I'll be adding a second 40GB and a tertiary 6GB disk to the >> system (in favor of adding a CD-RW to a system that already has a DVD >> super multi-format drive). I'd like to rearrange my mount points a bit. > > Here we go. :-) Thank you for the detailed response. Without knowing any of that, I would have totally messed up. I'll be printing out the email so I have it handy on Saturday. Again, thank you! -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/08/10 23:23, Brodey Dover wrote: > Now that I think about it and have more context as to how things are > working. lshal output could be useful here as well. > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Brodey Dover wrote: >> Can you provide some dmesg output please? http://www.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us/stuff/dmesg.out (64KB) http://www.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us/stuff/lshal.out (80KB) I couldn't find nothing in it referring to the speakers. Again, they are only attached for power purposes (I didn't buy the speakers, they came with a computer I bought from a friend). I don't see why they'd have any sort of id attached to them. Full info from the back of the speakers: FLC Presario Speaker System Input power: DC 5V 500mA Also, that link for gphoto on FreeBSD 8 didn't have anything useful to my situation. It dealt exclusively with digital cameras. I didn't see anything that would apply to my situation, thanks for the link though as I do have a digicam I eventually want to be able to pull pictures off of from my computer instead of my parents. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/08/10 21:34, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Is your keyboard a usb keyboard? Sorry, yes. > Could be a permissions problem? I don't know what could be the problem. I have a USB mouse, keyboard, and web cam all plugged into the same USB PCI card and I've not had any problems until I plugged in the speakers. > see 4.3.8. USB ports on FreeBSD > > http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html > > Hope this helps in some way. It's given me a place to look, at least, though it's a lot of technical information that is hurting my eyes just to look at, hehe. (: -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: USB Powered Speakers
On 04/08/10 21:29, Brodey Dover wrote: > I believe a call to iostat (there is something similar) you should see > a large amount of interrupts to your USB keyboard driver, at least > that is my assumption. That is my assumption, too. > Unfortunately, I do not have USB powered speakers for me to test with. > That said, the way FreeBSD does sound is similar to Linux and even > Windows... though as you will see Windows does hacky stuff to make > poorly designed hardware work. The sound goes through the sound card, just the power plug is a USB cable and not an adapter. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
USB Powered Speakers
I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up to listen on my FreeBSD box I have absolutely nothing but problems with the speakers (even when turned off but still plugged in) interrupting the normal operation of my keyboard (basically it seems that power is cut to my keyboard at random). I have a beefy power supply (650W) so I really shouldn't be having any power distribution issues. I've tried the speakers in both the on-board USB ports and the USB expansion card (PCI) with the same results. Any ideas? -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Adding a Disk and Changing Mountpoints
Saturday I'll be adding a second 40GB and a tertiary 6GB disk to the system (in favor of adding a CD-RW to a system that already has a DVD super multi-format drive). I'd like to rearrange my mount points a bit. Here is my current fstab. # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1e /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1d /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /mnt/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 Specifically I would like to move /usr/home to the 40GB drive and possibly move /var to the 6GB drive (depending on how the drive behaves). I know it should be as easy as moving the relevant directories to the new drives once the file systems have been finalized. I'm just curious as to any issues I might need to be on the watch for (obviously I'll be editing fstab before moving the directories, then issuing the mount command as appropriate). I'm doing this move specifically for space issues. My current drive (40GB) is nearly full (I only have 2.5GB left on /usr). I wish I wouldn't have deleted this mornings reports so I can give a run down on specifically how much is left everywhere, but it's getting pretty full. Once I've moved /var and /usr/home to their own disks, how can I reclaim what has already been allocated for them? Or will that happen automatically? Any specific concerns about that? Or would gparted and not fdisk be my friend here? By the way, the above is the default configuration for my system. I did nothing to modify the default values calculated when I did the install (I also plan on attacking my problem with jpeg that day too, running ldd left me with a 40+KB file to sort through). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: ftp giving url but i want the IP address
On 04/05/10 10:08, Walter wrote: > I want to parse ftp error messages in auth.log and use the > ip address in inserting a block into ipfw. It works, except > when ftpd spits out the host-specific url rather than the ip. > Adding "-h" to the ftpd command in inet.conf didn't help. > Can someone tell me how to do this, or point me to code > (C) to convert it? > > Thanks. I'm off-list so please reply directly. > > Walter Would it be possible to wrapper everything in a script that uses a single ping (ping -c 1) to pull the resulting IP address from the output? For example: ping -c 1 google.com PING google.com (74.125.47.103): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 74.125.47.103: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=111.391 ms --- google.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 111.391/111.391/111.391/0.000 ms seeing how that's the standard output for ping, couldn't you use grep and a regex to grab the IP either from the parenthesis or that first line? Of course there might be an easier way and/or better tool than ping to do this. CCing the list to get a discussion going as I imagine such a script could have other uses. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: skype webcam no device found
On 04/02/10 22:41, Paul Procacci wrote: > > > I'm in the same boat as you. I just finished installing video4bsd + webcamd + > skype, and skype isn't able to detect the webcam, while pwcview works fine. > > Anyone have any thoughts on the matter? > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > Wait, you just finished installing Skype? From where? The port is broken because the package isn't retrievable. Do you have a copy you'd be willing to share (you can send it directly to my email address, I have no (known) limits and no box quotas). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Enough Is Enough
On 03/28/10 09:46, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: > this scripts outputs the commands needed to fix the system I'm having some problems with the script. > watch out > == > #!/bin/sh > > endp() { > rm -f $t > exit $1 > } > > t=/tmp/$$ > > if [ $# -ne 1 ] > then > echo use $0 library > endp 1 > fi > > lib=$1 > > find /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib -name -type f | \ Is the 'f' a typo? I had to remove it because find kept on erroring on it. > while read x > do > grep $lib $x | \ > awk '{print $3}' | \ > while read y > do > pkg_info -W $y >> $t > done > done > awk '{print $NF}' $t | sort -u > /tmp/buildpkglist > echo nice portmaster -Bdg `cat /tmp/buildpkglist` > endp 0 The final output (after removing the stray 'f'): ./portmaster-script jpeg awk: can't open file /tmp/42352 source line number 1 nice portmaster -Bdg ran as regular user and root to no different affect. I switched out all instances of awk for grep with the following result: ./portmaster-script jpeg grep: /tmp/42436: No such file or directory nice portmaster -Bdg Thanks for the suggestion, but this script doesn't seem to work on my system and I can't seem to figure out what exactly is causing it to fail. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Enough Is Enough
On 03/28/10 09:46, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: > this scripts outputs the commands needed to fix the system Thanks! I'll give it a whirl tomorrow. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Enough Is Enough
On 03/27/10 13:06, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > In /usr/ports/UPDATING look for the 20100205 entry for "users of Qt 3 > and KDE 3". Pointless in as far as that does not address the underlying problem of rebuilding EVERYTHING that needs to link against the jpeg library. GIMP and gegl failed because a dependency for it is linked against jpeg-7 and not jpeg-8. If I cannot basically reinstall the entire system via portupgrade -a I'm reduced to fixing the problem ad-hoc and that is unacceptable because eventually I'll have to deal with programs that link to whatever just got rebuilt. In essence, this is a problem that is not easily solved just by reading /usr/ports/UPDATING for Qt because it involves more than Qt (by the way, thanks for the hat tip on Qt, but it's not high on my priority list for being fixed right now, GIMP, Scribus and possibly a few other apps that I'm currently unaware of there being an issue with ARE). When jpeg-x (not a typo) is built, the port needs to be automatically looking forward to see what all depends on it (and if anything depends on that) and possibly asking the user if they want to upgrade all those programs to ensure they link to the proper version of jpeg at all times. Or they could all statically compile in jpeg support (as I assume FF does because I can still see jpegs in the file upload preview pane) so this is never an issue at all. I am currently able to manipulate any jpeg at all (and now unable to use an increasing number of apps) which is crippling my ability to edit images for any use. I'm really loving FreeBSD, but I can no longer use The GIMP to open JPEG's (and this is really the biggest issue I'm having as I need to be able to edit jpeg's so I can continue on with designing the site on my box, otherwise I will have to move back over to another computer (and right now the only one available is running WinXP, something I'd rather avoid using if I can), I cannot even launch Scribus (and a few other apps whose names escape me at the moment). Other apps open but have loads of errors regarding jpeg. I'm unable (as of about a month ago) to install Filezilla because of this (it stopped launching when I upgraded jpeg, so I uninstalled and reinstalled thinking that would work). Every time I think I've tracked down the one other library or whatever that something links against and needs jpeg, something new crops up and stops me from building. Again. Anyway, time I got off the comp. I'll be back later this evening to finish this discussion. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Enough Is Enough
Ever since I installed jpeg-8 I have had nothing but problems. I ran portupgrade -a hoping to take care of all those problems, well no such luck. Let's start with the first error I caught: libqt /usr/bin/ld: warning: libjpeg.so.10, needed by /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_start_decompr...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_resync_to_rest...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_read_scanli...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_start_compr...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_finish_compr...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_finish_decompr...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_createcompr...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_set_defau...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_read_hea...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_createdecompr...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_std_er...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_destroy_compr...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_destroy_decompr...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_write_scanli...@libjpeg_7.0' /usr/local/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `jpeg_set_qual...@libjpeg_7.0' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/tools/designer/uic. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/tools/designer/uic. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/tools/designer. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.8/tools. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.8. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20100324-4351-6tihzj-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=qt-copy-3.3.8_10 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=3.3.8_10 make ** Fix the problem and try again. The next error was for OOo (for which I need to follow the directions and email the maintainer). After portupgrade -a reaches the end (apparently, as it exits): ---> Skipping 'editors/openoffice.org-3' (openoffice.org-3.1.1) because it has already failed ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - textproc/docbook-xml-440 (docbook-xml-4.4_1) - textproc/docbook-sk (docbook-sk-4.1.2_4) ! x11-toolkits/qt33 (qt-copy-3.3.8_10) (linker error) * audio/arts (arts-1.5.10_2,1) * devel/sdl12 (sdl-1.2.14,2) * graphics/sdl_image (sdl_image-1.2.10) - textproc/docbook-xml-430 (docbook-xml-4.3) * multimedia/ffmpeg (ffmpeg-0.5_2,1) * multimedia/vlc (vlc-1.0.5,3) * graphics/gegl (gegl-0.0.22_6) * graphics/gimp-app (gimp-app-2.6.8,1) * graphics/py-gimp (py26-gimp-app-2.6.8) * print/gimp-gutenprint (gimp-gutenprint-5.2.4) * print/scribus (scribus-1.3.3.13_1) * security/pinentry (pinentry-0.7.6_2) * sysutils/k3b (k3b-1.0.5_2) * multimedia/libxine (libxine-1.1.16.3_2) * multimedia/phonon-xine (phonon-xine-4.3.1_3) * games/gcompris (gcompris-8.4.12_3) ! editors/openoffice.org-3 (en-openoffice.org-US-3.1.1) (configure error) * editors/openoffice.org-3 (openoffice.org-3.1.1) A good deal of these (including Scribus and GIMP and a few others I believe) are from errors with my upgrading from jpeg-7 to jpeg-8. I was ready for many, many days of compiling (mainly because of OOo). Instead I'm lucky to go 36 hours total. Why has upgrading my jpeg library completely BROKEN so many apps? I cannot even start scribus now. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libjpeg.so.10" not found, required by "scribus" Enough is enough. I've been trying to fix this problem on my own and I cannot. It is not from a lack of trying or looking to solve this issue. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[RESOLVED] Re: More ZIP Problems
On 03/16/10 12:13, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Programmer In Training writes: >> That did it! Thanks (: Never had to run that command before when >> formatting a disk (granted all I've ever formatted was a floppy disk on >> a Linux box). > > Good! > > This is covered in the "Adding disks" section of the "Storage" chapter > of the FreeBSD Handbook. > I didn't look there because, again, I was treating this just like a floppy disk and though the "Adding disks" section was just talking about permanent disks and not removable media. Next time less assumption and more reading. (: -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: More ZIP Problems
On 03/16/10 10:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Programmer In Training writes: > >> OK, so I got the disk mounted as it was. Then I used fdisk to reformat >> it (probably not the best tool to do so, but it worked) to the default >> FreeBSD fs as I have no plans on using it on a Windows box, ever. > > Just checking: you did do a newfs(8), right? > That did it! Thanks (: Never had to run that command before when formatting a disk (granted all I've ever formatted was a floppy disk on a Linux box). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: More ZIP Problems
On 03/16/10 10:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Programmer In Training writes: > >> OK, so I got the disk mounted as it was. Then I used fdisk to reformat >> it (probably not the best tool to do so, but it worked) to the default >> FreeBSD fs as I have no plans on using it on a Windows box, ever. > > Just checking: you did do a newfs(8), right? > A what? Reading the man page now. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
More ZIP Problems
OK, so I got the disk mounted as it was. Then I used fdisk to reformat it (probably not the best tool to do so, but it worked) to the default FreeBSD fs as I have no plans on using it on a Windows box, ever. [r...@heaven]mount /dev/afd0s1 /mnt/zip mount: /dev/afd0s1 : Invalid argument [r...@heaven]fdisk /dev/afd0 *** Working on device /dev/afd0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=195 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=195 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 196497 (95 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 194/ head 15/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: A quick check of the devices shows us: [r...@heaven]ls /dev/afd* /dev/afd0/dev/afd0s1 so I am trying to mount the right part. The only results I got back from startpage involve Minix[0] and Debian[1] (and my previous posts on getting the drive mounted earlier, when it still had a Windows fs). And Poly, I don't believe my drive has that issue you mentioned (aka click of death). Though this is actually the first time I've had it hooked up and running since I've owned the drive (and I don't remember where I got it from). I have 4 ZIP disks so if I lose one to finding out the drive is junk, no biggie. There was nothing on this one anyway. [0]: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/other-nix-55/minix-mount-cant-mount-devfd0-on-floppy-invalid-argument-481879/ The last post in that discussion tells the user to access the hardware directly. I always figured using the /dev/whatever /was/ access the hardware directly. Eh. [1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/01/msg01302.html Not really relevant but including it for completeness. All the other results are junk. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: jpeg2swf segfaults
On 03/14/10 19:19, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Programmer In Training writes: > >> Ever since I updated from jpeg-7 to jpeg-8 and recompiled swftools to >> link against it (FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE-p2), jpeg2swf segfaults with >> jpeg2swf -q 100 -o test.swf *.jpg (at most 12 jpegs). > > Doesn't crash for me. My guess is that you failed to update some other > library that also links to jpeg. > Possibly. I've been tracking this problem (with other apps) forever. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
jpeg2swf segfaults
Ever since I updated from jpeg-7 to jpeg-8 and recompiled swftools to link against it (FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE-p2), jpeg2swf segfaults with jpeg2swf -q 100 -o test.swf *.jpg (at most 12 jpegs). Running gdb jpeg2swf jpeg2swf.core reveals the following: GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)... Core was generated by `jpeg2swf'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libglut.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libglut.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libGLU.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libGLU.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libGL.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libGL.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libungif.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libungif.so.5 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.11...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.11 Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.5 Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.5 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.7...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.7 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXmu.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXmu.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXt.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXt.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXi.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXi.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXdamage.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXdamage.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXfixes.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXfixes.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libxcb-glx.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libxcb-glx.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libdrm.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libdrm.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libthr.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libthr.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libXdmcp.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpthread-stubs.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libpthread-stubs.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.5
Re: how to use cdrecord
On 03/14/10 08:17, Jerry wrote: > Add this to your /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC file: (or what ever you > have named it) > > device atapicam > > You then have to rebuild your kernel. You would probably be best > served by reading up on how to update FreeBSD. Starting at this URL > would be a good idea: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html > > Post back here if you need further information. > > Rebuilding the kernel is not always an option, and it seems to me the OP and I are at the same point of knowledge about FreeBSD (not far enough along to be comfortable building/rebuilding the kernel). kldload atapicam works just fine for me (as I'm sure it does the OP), it even gives me info about my internal ZIP 100 drive. Problem solved, at least for me, no kernel rebuild necessary. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: how to use cdrecord
On 03/13/10 21:35, Chris Hill wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Aiza wrote: > > [snip] >> tried cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=acd0 blank=fast >> gives this error "Open by devname not supported on this OS. >> >> What device am i to use? > > cdrecord wants to see your ATA burner as a SCSI device, so you'd use > cdrecord dev=1,0,0 ... > The numbers after dev= depend on where your burner is; find it using > cdrecord -scanbus > > HTH. I started following as I'll be burning cd's here soon myself, following your suggestion: [r...@heaven]cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd8.0) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J�g Schilling cdrecord: Invalid argument. CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl failed. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. So I did this: [r...@heaven]dmesg -a | grep acd acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable acd0: DVDR at ata1-master UDMA33 Thoughts? -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: ntpdate problem
On 03/13/10 13:08, RW wrote: > ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" > you can run ntpdate at boot with > >ntpdate_enable=YES > > the rc script gets the servers from ntp.conf Can you have both in rc.conf without abusing the ntp server(s) or should it just be one or the other? I'd like my clock to be as accurate as possible when I start up the system. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: ntpdate problem
While not having been part of this discussion I just want to say thanks for the tips. I've used them to cease using ntpdate as well and am already synced with a time server I know to be constantly reliable. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
gpodder fails after install
I just freshly installed gpodder from ports (which I updated on Tuesday), but I get the following errors thrown at me when I try to start it: gpodder Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/gpodder", line 162, in from gpodder import gui File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gpodder/gui.py", line 71, in from gpodder import my File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gpodder/my.py", line 45, in from mygpoclient import api File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mygpoclient/api.py", line 21, in from mygpoclient import simple File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mygpoclient/simple.py", line 21, in from mygpoclient import json File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mygpoclient/json.py", line 20, in import simplejson as json ImportError: No module named simplejson Everything it depended on (including mplayer support and video support) compiled and installed without any apparent error (as did gpodder). That's with gpodder run as a regular user. Trying to run it as the root user throws out the following: gpodder Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/gpodder", line 138, in session_bus = dbus.SessionBus() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 219, in __new__ mainloop=mainloop) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 108, in __new__ bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 125, in __new__ bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/local/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. Ideas? -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
avahi-libdns and mDNSResponder
Why oh why are there projects that provide the same functionality and files in the same locations? These two ports, avahi-libdns and mDNSresponder, have given me nothing but PROBLEMS when using portmaster to upgrade (or any other tool to install something else, such as KDE4). Those two ports, along with the issues with having upgraded from jpeg-7 to jpeg-8, are proving to be a huge headache. I'm doing my very best to work around these issues, but I just don't know how to anymore. Right now I'm trying to run portmaster -it graphics/gimp so I can rebuild gimp to link against the latest jpeg (which is now jpeg-8_1 but I'm not upgrading jpeg again, at least not yet) and make sure everything else that depends on jpeg can link against the new one. Either I allow gimp dependencies to build, or I encounter issues like libwebkit being linked against jpeg-7 (what? I thought I took care of all those issues, grrr). Or I allow all the dependencies to be rebuilt/upgraded and then watch it fail because of needing mDNSresponder which conflicts with the currently installed avahi-libdns (because mDNSrepsonder and avahi-libdns apparently provide the /same exact thing/). I cannot be the only person having problems like this. To make this marginally on-topic, here is how the build process from portmaster -i graphics/gimp errors out. For simplicities sake, I'm answering y to all questions regarding upgrading relevant ports: ===>>> The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed: Install graphics/gimp Upgrade gimp-app-2.6.8,1 to gimp-app-2.6.8_1,1 Upgrade gnome-vfs-2.24.2 to gnome-vfs-2.24.2_1 Upgrade shared-mime-info-0.70 to shared-mime-info-0.71 Upgrade samba-libsmbclient-3.0.37 to samba34-libsmbclient-3.4.5 Upgrade samba-3.3.9 to samba-3.3.10 Upgrade mDNSResponder-108 to mDNSResponder-214 Upgrade openssl-0.9.8l_4 to openssl-0.9.8m Upgrade gvfs-1.4.3 to gvfs-1.4.3_1 Upgrade libsoup-2.28.2 to libsoup-2.28.2_1 Upgrade gnome-keyring-2.28.2 to gnome-keyring-2.28.2_1 Upgrade gnome-mount-0.8_3 to gnome-mount-0.8_4 Upgrade libnotify-0.4.5_1 to libnotify-0.4.5_2 Upgrade policykit-gnome-0.9.2_2 to policykit-gnome-0.9.2_3 Upgrade libgsf-1.14.16 to libgsf-1.14.17 Upgrade gegl-0.0.22_6 to gegl-0.0.22_8 Upgrade sdl-1.2.14,2 to sdl-1.2.14_1,2 Upgrade arts-1.5.10_2,1 to arts-1.5.10_3,1 Upgrade qt-copy-3.3.8_10 to qt-copy-3.3.8_11 Upgrade jpeg-8 to jpeg-8_1 Upgrade png-1.2.42 to png-1.2.43 Install graphics/graphviz Upgrade librsvg2-2.26.0_2 to librsvg2-2.26.0_3 Upgrade libxul-1.9.0.17 to libxul-1.9.0.17_1 Upgrade libopenraw-0.0.8_1 to libopenraw-0.0.8_2 Upgrade ffmpeg-0.5_2,1 to ffmpeg-0.5.1,1 Upgrade imlib2-1.4.1.000_2,2 to imlib2-1.4.1.000_3,2 Upgrade openjpeg-1.3_1 to openjpeg-1.3_2 Upgrade x264-0.0.20081218 to x264-0.0.20090119_1 Install print/enscript-a4 Upgrade lcms-1.19,1 to lcms-1.19_1,1 Upgrade libwmf-0.2.8.4_4 to libwmf-0.2.8.4_5 Upgrade poppler-gtk-0.12.3 to poppler-gtk-0.12.3_1 Upgrade poppler-0.12.3 to poppler-0.12.3_1 Upgrade webkit-gtk2-1.1.15.4_1 to webkit-gtk2-1.1.15.4_2 Upgrade py26-gimp-app-2.6.8 to py26-gimp-app-2.6.8_1 Upgrade gimp-gutenprint-5.2.4 to gimp-gutenprint-5.2.4_1 Upgrade gutenprint-base-5.2.4 to gutenprint-base-5.2.4_1 Upgrade gutenprint-5.2.4 to gutenprint-5.2.4_1 Upgrade gutenprint-cups-5.2.4 to gutenprint-cups-5.2.4_1 Upgrade cups-base-1.3.10_4 to cups-base-1.4.2_4 Upgrade cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_4 to cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_5 Upgrade gutenprint-ijs-5.2.4 to gutenprint-ijs-5.2.4_1 ===>>> Proceed? y/n [y] ===>>> Starting build for graphics/gimp <<<=== ===>>> Starting check for build dependencies ===>>> Gathering dependency list for graphics/gimp from ports ===>>> No dependencies for graphics/gimp ===> Cleaning for gimp-2.6.8_1,2 ===> Found saved configuration for gimp-2.6.8_1,2 ===> Extracting for gimp-2.6.8_1,2 ===> Patching for gimp-2.6.8_1,2 ===> Configuring for gimp-2.6.8_1,2 ===>>> Starting check for runtime dependencies ===>>> Gathering dependency list for graphics/gimp from ports ===>>> Starting dependency check ===>>> Launching child to update gimp-app-2.6.8,1 to gimp-app-2.6.8_1,1 graphics/gimp >> gimp-app-2.6.8,1 ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app ===>>> Starting check for build dependencies ===>>> Gathering dependency list for graphics/gimp-app from ports ===>>> Starting dependency check ===>>> Launching child to update gnome-vfs-2.24.2 to gnome-vfs-2.24.2_1 graphics/gimp >> gimp-app-2.6.8,1 >> gnome-vfs-2.24.2 ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/devel/gnome-vfs ===>>> Starting check for build dependencies ===>>> Gathering dependency list for devel/gnome-vfs from ports ===>>> Starting dependency check
Re: Downloading issue!
On 03/09/10 08:58, Emmanuel Opio wrote: > Hi, > Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our > server administrators blocked "ftp" and filtered out images, so we can not > download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems. > I was just requesting then if there is a HTTP site with zipped freeBSD > image files ready for download. It would really help a number of us out > here. > Thanks abundantly, > > Yours sincerely, > > Emmanuel I could set up a place on one of my websites for this purpose. Just tell me which image you want and I'll get to work on it. I'll keep the image up for a month or two (or until my host complains about it) so I'll provide a link for others in similar situations. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Twitter On FreeBSD
On 03/09/10 01:14, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > I wonder if this can be done in FreeBSD? > > http://www.technixupdate.com/install-tweetdeck-on-ubuntu-linux/ I've been working on that, but AIR chokes for one reason or another (see previous emails in this thread). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Twitter On FreeBSD
Now it's not detecting gnome-keyring (it's a requirement, and it is installed). Seriously, does anyone have a good Twitter client they use? I have very simple requirements (GUI, must be able to pull my feeds for local display, easy to compile (e.g. doesn't require anything from KDE)). If not, does anyone know anything about Pino? I've found it in one of my many searches of the web for something I can use that actually works. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Twitter On FreeBSD
On 03/08/10 21:31, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > Programmer In Training wrote: > [snip] > >> >> ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin >> Error loading the runtime (libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: >> No such file or directory) > > Have you tried the textproc/linux-libxml2 port? > > Regards, > To be honest I never even thought to look. I really should look for Linux ports (something I'm very much not used to). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Twitter On FreeBSD
Yes, I'm still having issues. qwit is a joke. I can post just fine but it will not retrieve my feeds for local display. Kind of makes it useless. Twitux won't connect. The others seem to be command line clients (the Pidgin Twitter plugin doesn't work, either) which I am not looking for. Does anyone have a good, GUI (preferably GTK based but that is flexible) client they use on a regular basis? I'd use Tweetdeck but AIR chokes because the libxml2 version it needs isn't found (though I do believe I have it installed, couldn't find AIR in ports so this is a Linux binary downloaded from Adobe's site (figured I'd give it a whirl), they do not provide Linux support): ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Error loading the runtime (libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) Please help. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[ANSWERED] Re: Java in FF3.6
On 03/06/10 16:57, Jerry wrote: > Please check out this URL: > > http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/firefox_newplugin.xml > > I believer that the FreeBSD version of Java is several versions behind > that. Therefore, it would appear to be a FreeBSD problem. > I'll just wait for FreeBSD to update their Java. I'm not recompiling everything currently linked against the Java I have installed (to include OOo, which I would just upgrade to 3.2 from what I have). Too much hassle. Thanks (that link needs to go into UPDATING with the FF3.6 entry). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Java in FF3.6
According to /usr/ports/UPDATING the Java plugin does not work in FF3.6. Is this a Java issue, a FireFox issue or a FreeBSD issue? I just noticed this today as I was going through looking through it because of the thread about upgrading from perl5.8 to perl5.10 (the instructions in UPDATING don't seem to be working for me, but that's not a concern as I'm not looking to upgrade to 5.10, yet). I didn't know if this question belongs here or on the -ports mailing list, but I am not x-posting. I'll just start a discussion there depending on how I'm informed here. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: xorg, xdm, desktop env
On 03/05/10 08:46, Frank Shute wrote: > If you read the manpage for xdm(1) you will see that the script that > is run on login is ~/.xsession > > Try putting "exec wmaker" in there. > > To run xdm from boot, you have to edit /etc/ttys and then: > > # kill -HUP 1 > > Look at this: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html > > > Regards, > Thank you kind sir. Now to figure out how to set the ~/.xsession file up automatically upon account creation (not an issue now, but might be later). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Thousands of ssh probes
On 03/05/10 06:54, John wrote: > My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes > in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually > "feel" it in my network performance. Other than changing ssh to > a non-standard port - is there a way to deal with these? Every > day, they originate from several different IP addresses, so I can't > just put in a static firewall rule. Is there a way to get ssh > to quit responding to a port or a way to generate a dynamic pf > rule in cases like this? Can you not deny all ssh attempts and then allow only from certain, trusted IPs? -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
8.0-RELEASE-p2 Isn't There?
I did manage to get freebsd-update to run, after a sort. Now my system identifies as FreeBSD heaven 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Jan 5 16:02:27 UTC 2010 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 When I go to the ftp server to do any sort of updates (like using sysinstall to install the kernel source so I can install pwcbsd via ports), it tells me that 8.0-RELEASE-p2 isn't on the server (doesn't matter which one I choose). Will there be any issues if, via sysinstall, I set the release to "any" (as suggested in the dialog box in sysinstall when it fails to find an FTP server with the proper release)? freebsd-update also has issues retrieving the proper stuff (it updated the release, grabbed some files and then errors out): freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE-p2 upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.0-RELEASE from update4.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic world/base world/dict world/doc world/games world/manpages The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: src/base src/bin src/cddl src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin src/usbin world/catpages world/info world/proflibs Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 8.0-RELEASE-p2 from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 8.0-RELEASE-p2 from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 8.0-RELEASE-p2 from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: xorg, xdm, desktop env
On 03/04/10 17:43, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Polytropon wrote: >> As far as I know, earlier X installations came with the >> tab window manager - twm. This doesn't seem to be the case >> anymore. > > twm is still enabled by default as part of the x11/xorg-apps port. I can confirm that, and I too have problems with XDM despite having 'exec wmaker' in my .xinitrc in my home directory (sometimes XDM will kick me out to the login, sometimes it will just take me to a blank session wherein I can do nothing). I'd like to use XDM and have it start on boot so I'm interested in the outcome of this. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?
On 03/03/10 16:15, Aaron Lewis wrote: > Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX > Drivers .. ) > > Well , i'm on ThinkPad R400 , ATI Mobile HD 3400 and an integrated Video > Card , > FBSD doesn't boot when i switched to ATI Video card. Is this only true of more recent ATI devices, or is this only affecting laptops with ATI cards? I only ask because I'm running an ATI card for my desktop with no problems. If this is true for more recent ATI cards only, this puts a crimp in my plans for my "super"-computer. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: spreculative: /bin2 & /usr/bin2 and alternative package/ports trees?
On 03/02/10 11:35, Chris Rees wrote: > Why does it make a difference with the prefix on where you put them? > You shouldn't manually delete ports, anyway. You should deinstall them > using the port... > > Chris I think he's talking about how with Debian and apt you can specify different repositories to install from without messing up the base system. My problem with that is that dependency resolution quickly breaks if you have one of the repositories out of sync with the others. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Mouse Issues
I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes ago my mouse locked up and stopped responding, eventually forcing me to reboot because I couldn't get it to start responding again. I even had to unplug it from the USB port (it is a USB mouse) and plug it back in because it lost power for some reason. I tried restarting hald and dbus, figuring that was the problem, I also tried using sysinstall to configure the mouse to no luck. I have use of my mouse again, but my scroll wheel is no longer being recognized. I've once again tried using sysinstall and restarting hald and dbus to no avail. It's a fairly old (about 6-8 years) Logitech optical mouse (if I'm not mistaken, this is one with force feedback, but I'm not concerned about that feature). The applications I had running at the time were: OOo 3.1.1 WindowMaker FF 3.6 TB 3.0.1 Pidgin 2.6.5 Gkrellm2 with weather plugin I was actually on the phone talking with someone while trying to check up on some messages I had received via FaceBook when the mouse went out. At first I had thought that my computer had locked because nothing seemed to be responding, but a quick check showed me I could still alt+1-5 through my workspaces (keyboard is also USB and apparently suffered no such interruption). Both mouse and kb are on a PCI USB 2.0 expansion port because the builtins at the back of the box are on their way out (mobo is about as old as the mouse). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Mouse Issues
Resent: Originally sent over one hour ago. I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes ago my mouse locked up and stopped responding, eventually forcing me to reboot because I couldn't get it to start responding again. I even had to unplug it from the USB port (it is a USB mouse) and plug it back in because it lost power for some reason. I tried restarting hald and dbus, figuring that was the problem, I also tried using sysinstall to configure the mouse to no luck. I have use of my mouse again, but my scroll wheel is no longer being recognized. I've once again tried using sysinstall and restarting hald and dbus to no avail. It's a fairly old (about 6-8 years) Logitech optical mouse (if I'm not mistaken, this is one with force feedback, but I'm not concerned about that feature). The applications I had running at the time were: OOo 3.1.1 WindowMaker FF 3.6 TB 3.0.1 Pidgin 2.6.5 Gkrellm2 with weather plugin I was actually on the phone talking with someone while trying to check up on some messages I had received via FaceBook when the mouse went out. At first I had thought that my computer had locked because nothing seemed to be responding, but a quick check showed me I could still alt+1-5 through my workspaces (keyboard is also USB and apparently suffered no such interruption). Both mouse and kb are on a PCI USB 2.0 expansion port because the builtins at the back of the box are on their way out (mobo is about as old as the mouse). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Mouse Issues
Resend: Sorry if this has appeared twice before. First time sent at 11:13 CST, sent a second time at 12:43 CST. Sending this one at approximately 21:37 CST, CCing owner because this (posting new mails to the list) is an on going problem I'm having. I would like to know what the problem is so I can have some hand in trying to solve it. Now on to the problem at hand. I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes (more like several hours) ago my mouse locked up and stopped responding, eventually forcing me to reboot because I couldn't get it to start responding again. I even had to unplug it from the USB port (it is a USB mouse) and plug it back in because it lost power for some reason. I tried restarting hald and dbus, figuring that was the problem, I also tried using sysinstall to configure the mouse to no luck. I have use of my mouse again, but my scroll wheel is no longer being recognized. I've once again tried using sysinstall and restarting hald and dbus to no avail. It's a fairly old (about 6-8 years) Logitech optical mouse (if I'm not mistaken, this is one with force feedback, but I'm not concerned about that feature). I was actually on the phone talking with someone while trying to check up on some messages I had received via FaceBook when the mouse went out. At first I had thought that my computer had locked because nothing seemed to be responding, but a quick check showed me I could still alt+1-5 through my workspaces (keyboard is also USB and apparently suffered no such interruption). Both mouse and kb are on a PCI USB 2.0 expansion port because the builtins at the back of the box are on their way out (mobo is about as old as the mouse). Any ideas? -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: selling freebsd cd for profit
On 02/27/10 12:22, Jon Radel wrote: > On 2/27/10 2:58 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 27/02/2010 24:50:54, Citra Cool wrote: >>> can i selling free bsd for my profit?? >>> is it legal?? >> >> In a word, yes -- sure you can. >> >> All you have to do is abide by the terms of the licensing. > > You sure that this applies in a couple countries where they have > rather draconian laws about selling software that supports any > type of encryption? It's a big world out there, with many > interesting laws. > That would be for the interested party to find out on their own, since we cannot possibly know the laws for each and every country out there. I find it hard enough to keep up with the laws in my own. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[SOLVED]Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management
On 02/19/10 15:34, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Programmer In Training < > p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote: > >> Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just >> fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but >> that errors out, too. >> >> You have to run portsnap fetch update (assuming you've run a portsnap > extract earlier) > > freebsd-update will do you no go here. > > Probably not, but that's an issue I do need to get resolved. Also, flash is installed. Thanks for the help. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management
On 02/19/10 15:27, Adam Vande More wrote: > > Better yet, update your ports tree and install the current version > Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but that errors out, too. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Mozilla Updates
On 02/25/10 17:31, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:18:21 -0600 Programmer In Training wrote: > >> As of the last time I updated ports (the 22nd) I was prevented from >> installing Firefox because of the vulnerabilities. > > You may be looking at the wrong place. Please, take a look at > /usr/ports/UPDATING, entry "20100207: AFFECTS: users of > www/firefox". > Thank you, that was pointed out to me off-list several hours ago as well (well, not the UPDATING file specifically, though I need to learn to look there). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management
On 02/19/10 14:48, Frank Wißmann wrote: > Hello! > > Programmer In Training schrieb: >> On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training >>> wrote: >>>> It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and >>>> reinstall, making sure to opt for linux emulation from the get go. >>> It is not needed to reinstall the whole OS just because you > >> [r...@heaven]pkg_add linux_base-fc10 >> pkg_add: can't stat package file 'linux_base-fc10' > > Well, here you have to pass the "-r"-flag to "pkg_add". Don't forget > this, or are you installing from a local FS? > > Greetings Frank > I did forget that but I grabbed it from ports instead. Teeny-tiny install. Even with all dependencies (I went ahead and installed nspluginwrapper since linux_base-f10 is a dependency) and it took less then 15 minutes. Thanks. (: -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management
On 02/19/10 14:26, Programmer In Training wrote: > On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote: >> And don't miss the documentation about getting "Flash" >> stuff running: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html That all worked except for the last command: nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Even directly symlinking to /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so Isn't helping (it's not showing up in about plugins). Creating the directory ~/.mozilla/plugins and symlinking the file there (or running nspluginwrapper -v -a -i) doesn't help, either. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
IDE ZIP100 Drive
OK, after some searching (while not the best search engine around, Startpage comes up a winner more often than not if there is anything relevant to be found) I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1]. Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with the external drive (either USB or parallel port). I've not seen anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages that would indicate that the device is being detected by anything on boot aside from the BIOS. I'm not sure of the pin selector on the drive but it is cabled as the secondary master (the primary master being my hard drive, of course). I did try "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad1s4 /mnt/zip" (zip added by me after creating the appropriate directory in /mnt) but came up with "mount_msdosfs: /dev/adls4: No such file or directory" (there is a disk currently loaded). Does anyone else have any experience with these drives? Are there any docs I'm missing (aside from the FreeBSD Handbook, which is silent about this under-appreciated (and unfortunately over-priced) device[2])? [0]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/ [1]: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=734560+0+archive/1997/freebsd-questions/19970518.freebsd-questions [2]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks.html -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Using webcam Windows driver
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber > wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. >> >> Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported. > > Personally, I always avoided Logitech because their webcams > really seem to be incompatible. I had better luck with a > model from Aiptek (AEG inside). Anybody have any luck with Gateway branded web cams? It's fairly old (not sure if that will make a difference) and works pretty decently without any additional drivers under Windows (I'm assuming a generic adapter under FreeBSD would work here, too?). I've not tried it before on Linux (not had a reason too, as before Skype there really weren't any widely used video conferencing apps). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
On 02/19/10 03:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 18/02/2010 21:26, Programmer In Training wrote: >> Possibly not the most secure permissions but I don't remember the >> default (I think it's 644). > > Nope. For directories it's 755. You need the x permission on a > directory to chdir to it. I figured as much, but the normal files (like text files, images and the like) when created don't show up red with an asterisk when I ls the directory as they do now (new files still don't) but I guess it really isn't an issue. >> Apache runs as user:group deamon:daemon > > The default is www:www but I guess you know your own configuration. I know the default is www:www but for some reason, when Apache installed it defaulted to daemon:daemon with nothing being set on my part. >> Trying to su in from root as daemon returns the following: > >> su - daemon >> This account is currently not available. > > Yep. That's because it (correctly) doesn't have a usable login shell. Try: > >su -m daemon Didn't think of that, thanks. > If you're getting 403 permission denied errors trying to access I am (did I forget to mention that, if so my apologies to the list). > userdirs, then the problem lies within the apache configuration. > What you need to do is configure the permissions based on the home > directory path returned from getpwent() -- by default under FreeBSD > that's /home/user1/ Nevermind that much of the time /home is a symlink > to /usr/home -- it's the path returned from the passwd file that apache > uses for comparison, long before trying to resolve any symlinks and open > anything on the hard-drive. That's entirely confusing (not your explanation, just the why). Will change it back to the default and see where it goes from there. Well, I just changed everything referring to the userdir's in http-userdir.conf to the way you suggested. Works just fine. I'd just like to thank everyone that helped me. Much appreciated! Now I can do some ports based virtual hosts so I can put all my websites to their own root. I believe I can handle it from here. (: Once again, a big thank you to everyone who helped. (: Also, to those who asked, I believe Apache 2.2 now compiles in with some of the most common modules by default but I reinstalled with the userdir mod as a dso, just in case. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Using webcam Windows driver
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber > wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. >> >> Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported. > > Personally, I always avoided Logitech because their webcams > really seem to be incompatible. I had better luck with a > model from Aiptek (AEG inside). Anybody have any luck with Gateway branded web cams? It's fairly old (not sure if that will make a difference) and works pretty decently without any additional drivers under Windows (I'm assuming a generic adapter under FreeBSD would work here, too?). I've not tried it before on Linux (not had a reason too, as before Skype there really weren't any widely used video conferencing apps). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Mozilla Updates
On 02/25/10 15:09, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Programmer In Training writes: > >> Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates >> for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be >> made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)? Should I >> deinstall the ports version and go ahead and compile from source >> available at Mozilla's sites? > > I'm not sure what you're asking. Firefox 3.6 has been available from > ports for over two weeks. Thunderbird hasn't been updated yet, but > 3.0.2 has only been out for a few hours. As of the last time I updated ports (the 22nd) I was prevented from installing Firefox because of the vulnerabilities. I'm grabbing and extracting for today right now. Also, did not realize that 3.0.2 has only been out for a few hours. I only check Mozilla site every so often (and the CERT site even less so). > I would recommend that if you want updates faster than the maintainers > check them in, you go ahead and build them yourself, but think carefully > about how to do it. If you build without the ports system, it can be > difficult to remove the program again when you next wish to update. If That's why I'm seeking advice. I'm content to wait for the maintainers to check them in (for the most part). > you don't have the skills to update the port skeleton to a new version, > you probably won't find it any easier to build the program from scratch. > I do, though I'm having some weird issues with freebsd-update. If I can't resolve them myself within the next few days I'll be back here to ask. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Using webcam Windows driver
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber > wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. >> >> Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported. > > Personally, I always avoided Logitech because their webcams > really seem to be incompatible. I had better luck with a > model from Aiptek (AEG inside). Sent to -owners because this is the third time I've sent this mail (first time was at 12:47 CST, second was at 14:11 CST, this one is being sent at approximately 14:47 CST). If I'm bouncing, I need to know so I can contact my web/mail host and figure out what's going on. Anybody have any luck with Gateway branded web cams? It's fairly old (not sure if that will make a difference) and works pretty decently without any additional drivers under Windows (I'm assuming a generic adapter under FreeBSD would work here, too?). I've not tried it before on Linux (not had a reason too, as before Skype there really weren't any widely used video conferencing apps). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[SOLVED] Re: IDE ZIP100 Drive
On 02/23/10 11:42, Tim Judd wrote: > Could be due to that the zip disks have a partition defined. > ls /dev/afd0* > > file -s /dev/afd0 > That did it. I didn't know how to define the partition. Now to format it. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: IDE ZIP100 Drive
On 02/22/10 14:32, Programmer In Training wrote: > Second attempt to post this to the list. Please bear with me as I'm > having issues with my posts to the list not always making it through. > > OK, after some searching I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1]. > Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with > the external drive (either USB or parallel port). I've not seen anything > in dmesg or /var/log/messages that would indicate that the device is > being detected by anything on boot aside from the BIOS. I'm not sure of OK, upon a second reboot (for something unrelated), the device is detected (but I think only because I had the disk in the drive at the time). Now I'm having mount issues. First, it's entry in dmesg: afd0: 95MB at ata0-slave PIO0 I'm issuing the following command with the following results: mount_msdosfs /dev/afd0 /mnt/zip mount_msdosfs: /dev/afd0: Invalid argument The man page for mount and mount_msdosfs gives no clue on why that's an invalid argument. When executed, the drive is accessed, then a moment later it errors out as above. I've tried afd1 through afd4, I just get no such file or directory errors. I'd like to use the zip drive to back up my private keys from GnuPG and other important data. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
IDE ZIP100 Drive
Second attempt to post this to the list. Please bear with me as I'm having issues with my posts to the list not always making it through. OK, after some searching I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1]. Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with the external drive (either USB or parallel port). I've not seen anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages that would indicate that the device is being detected by anything on boot aside from the BIOS. I'm not sure of the pin selector on the drive but it is cabled as the secondary master (the primary master being my hard drive, of course). I did try "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad1s4 /mnt/zip" (zip added by me after creating the appropriate directory in /mnt) but came up with "mount_msdosfs: /dev/adls4: No such file or directory" (there is a disk currently loaded). Does anyone else have any experience with these drives? Are there any docs I'm missing (aside from the FreeBSD Handbook, which is silent about this under-appreciated (and unfortunately over-priced) device[2])? [0]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/ [1]: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=734560+0+archive/1997/freebsd-questions/19970518.freebsd-questions [2]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks.html -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Problems With K3b
On 02/21/10 03:58, Polytropon wrote: > I've often been told that portmaster would be a good choice. > I've used portinstall / portupgrade in the past, but have to > say that I honestly prefer pkg_add -r for simplicity. :-) I'm running portmaster right now to check for new packages and (recursively) dependencies and to upgrade anything that needs upgrading (if I'm reading the man page right I believe I issued the right command). I'm hoping this will take care of my k3b issue as well. Either way, I've decided to not worry about k3b, though I do want to resolve this if for no other reason than for if someone else runs into this problem, the archive will have the solution. I'd give you the output of pkg_add -rvn k3b but it'd be pointless because at some point I think I might have forced its install. pkgdb -f (to handle the stale dependency for mDNSResponder-108) flakes out on mDNSResponder, I think. I have more important issues right now than k3b (such as searching out docs for accessing my internal IOmega ZIP100 drive, seeing as the handbook only deals with USB, Optical (CD and DVD) and Floppy drives). I'll keep the list updated with my progress in getting k3b working (right now I get the following: [us...@hostname]k3b /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libkparts.so.3" not found, required by "k3b" which I'm hoping portmaster will fix). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Problems With K3b
I'm trying to install k3b from ports so I might use my DVD super multi format drive (an HP 1040i; I've already added the necessary line to /boot/default/loader.conf for enabling dma) with either the gui or cli but during the install of libthai (which is a dependency of kimproxy which is a dependency of k3b) the configure script infinitely loops. Is anyone else having this issue? I was able to add it via pkg_add -r but encountered other problems. Apparently I hadn't compiled Qt with thread support and another required part of kdelibs failed on that part, so I deinstalled qt33 and began recompiling it with the intention of enabling thread support. The compile of Qt than proceeded to fail (I've long since closed the window but could retry it to get the specific messages if needed). I need Qt back because I have quite a few apps that require Qt installed (though I'm wanting to get rid of qwit, if anyone can recommend a /good/ Twitter client for FreeBSD, I'd appreciate a private mail with the recommendation). Using pkg_add for k3b isn't working because I'm using a newer version of some of it's dependencies and that apparently is causing problems (I should have never installed Xv, I had to upgrade jpeg from jpeg-7 to jpeg-8 and that upgrade has caused nothing but problems). I can really do without k3b since I do have the cli tools, but I'd like to resolve these issues (when I asked for help with flash, I was able to update my ports collection so I have the latest available as of yesterday) so that they aren't problems further on down the road. I realize now that I'm going to have to learn to use the port management tools to help prevent problems like this in the future and that's ok. This install is supposed to be a learning experience (even if this box has become my primary machine, unlike I had intended) and I am trying to learn. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[SOLVED]Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
Sorry this hasn't been made clear, seems that the list is dropping some of my emails, but this issue has been solved. I'll post the answer here and hopefully the list will pick it up this time (or at least deliver it to me so I know it's been delivered): > On 02/19/10 03:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> If you're getting 403 permission denied errors trying to access >> userdirs, then the problem lies within the apache configuration. >> What you need to do is configure the permissions based on the home >> directory path returned from getpwent() -- by default under FreeBSD >> that's /home/user1/ Nevermind that much of the time /home is a symlink >> to /usr/home -- it's the path returned from the passwd file that apache >> uses for comparison, long before trying to resolve any symlinks and open >> anything on the hard-drive. I had defined the path as since I knew that /home was a symlink to /usr/home and did not want to take the chance of Apache having problems following the symlink. I didn't realize that Apache takes the path from getpwent(). I now have Apache configured and working properly. As for the user:group setting, that was something Apache set itself when installed (non-ports version, since the ports version wouldn't start for me with even just the default httpd.conf and no edits at all). I can change that and most likely will if it's very bad to have Apache running as daemon:daemon In case no one saw before, I would like once again to thank everyone for their help. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management
On 02/19/10 14:50, Programmer In Training wrote: > That all worked except for the last command: > > nspluginwrapper -v -a -i > > Even directly symlinking to > > /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so > > Isn't helping (it's not showing up in about plugins). > > Creating the directory ~/.mozilla/plugins and symlinking the file there > (or running nspluginwrapper -v -a -i) doesn't help, either. Of course I did forget to install www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 BUT, it doesn't matter that I forgot it. [r...@heaven]make install clean ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found => install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/10.0r42. => Attempting to fetch from http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/. fetch: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz: size mismatch: expected 4050308, actual 4050435 => Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/10.0r42/. fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/10.0r42/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/10.0r42 and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10. [r...@heaven] Using Filezilla I ftp'd in and tried to retrieve it manually but ftp.freebsd.org/usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/ is an empty directory Anybody have this port in their local distfiles that I could download? -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management
On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training > wrote: >> It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and >> reinstall, making sure to opt for linux emulation from the get go. > > It is not needed to reinstall the whole OS just because you > accidentally forgot to install an additional package. We're > not in MICROS~1 land here. :-) I know, but it seems almost easier to do it then instead of later. >> So >> I'm attempting to use sysinstall to install it on my present system. >> Every time I run it, though, I get the following error message during >> the download: > > Your message is: > > Add of package linux_base-fc6-6_6 aborted, > error code 1 > > That's why it would be helpful to know which version of > FreeBSD you're installing. In case you want "Flash" and > "Skype", going with fc10 is highly recommended. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE [r...@heaven]portsnap update Ports tree is already up to date. Should I just fetch and extract anyway? >> This is run from an xterm session. (uxterm -sb -rv) > > That should not be the problem. Just trying to be as helpful as possible. Figured someone would know where the "debug window" is. >> Any clues or alternate ways of getting this done? > > You could try to > > a) install linux_base-fc10 via pkg_add [r...@heaven]pkg_add linux_base-fc10 pkg_add: can't stat package file 'linux_base-fc10' > or > > b) install it through the port; > in this case you should update system and > ports tree before compiling. [r...@heaven]cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc10 /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc10: No such file or directory. Figured out from the below linked page it's linux_base-f10, no problems. I'm good on my way. Thanks! > And don't miss the documentation about getting "Flash" > stuff running: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html > > It is 6.2.3/4. Is that the most recent flash version available for linux via Adobe? From another email: > On 02/19/10 13:58, Erik Norgaard wrote: >> On 19/02/10 20:42, Programmer In Training wrote: >> >>> Any clues or alternate ways of getting this done? >> >> IIRC you first need to load the linux and linprocfs kernel modules and >> mount linproc. >> >> BR, Erik >> Just did that, thanks for the heads up. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Sysinstall Post-install System Management
During installation I didn't realize I would need linux emulation to get decent flash support or Skype (didn't even realize Skype was available for linux). It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and reinstall, making sure to opt for linux emulation from the get go. So I'm attempting to use sysinstall to install it on my present system. Every time I run it, though, I get the following error message during the download: http://www.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us/images/error-msgs/sysinstall-error.png This is run from an xterm session. (uxterm -sb -rv) Any clues or alternate ways of getting this done? -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
On 02/18/10 14:54, Craig Whipp wrote: > What are the permissions for your $HOME and $HOME/public_html? The user > that apache is running as must be able read from these directories. > > - Craig drwxr-xr-x 49 user1 user1 1536 Feb 18 14:31 user1/ drwxr-xr-x 18 user1 user1 2560 Feb 14 09:25 public_html/ Possibly not the most secure permissions but I don't remember the default (I think it's 644). Apache runs as user:group deamon:daemon Trying to su in from root as daemon returns the following: su - daemon This account is currently not available. user and group do exist (quadruple verified). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
On 02/18/10 13:46, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Whether the path to user home directories is honored or whether > Apache goes somewhere else for HTTP requests for /~user/foo.html > depends on what you set UserDir to: > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_userdir.html > > It's possible that using: > > UserDir /usr/home/*/public_html > > will do better, if that is the actual path being used. That's what I have it set to and it isn't honoring that. That's part of what is bothering me (and what I suspect the issue might be). >> See, now that's helpful. Thank you. No one suggested that. Will add >> it and see if that changes anything. > > I suspect you already have it, according to what you'd shown in the > prior mail. Using FollowSymLinks instead might be necessary > depending on what you do with UserDir. I did, but now I have both in the httpd-userdir.conf to no avail, same with main conf. >> I rolled my own because I couldn't even get Apache from ports to >> start with the default http.conf file provided. > > Hmm, unexpected. What did apachectl configtest say? I don't remember, but I was so frustrated I wasn't really paying that much attention (it's been a month since I tried ports Apache). Alright, here is the errors I'm getting (I set the loglevel to debug instead of just warn): [Thu Feb 18 14:01:01 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Feb 18 14:01:01 2010] [info] Server built: Feb 13 2010 06:46:20 [Thu Feb 18 14:01:01 2010] [debug] prefork.c(1013): AcceptMutex: flock (default: flock) <--- not sure what that is all about [Thu Feb 18 14:01:08 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /home/user1/public_html [Thu Feb 18 14:01:10 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /home/user1/public_html UserDir file configuration: UserDir disabled UserDir enabled user1 user2 ^<--- Those options as per the UserDir section in the manual, just added them not two minutes before typing this out UserDir public_html # # Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example # for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only. # AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options MultiViews Indexes FollowSymlinks SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec Order allow,deny Allow from all Order deny,allow Deny from all This really stinks. Is Apache 1.13 available? I don't remember having these problems with it. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
On 02/18/10 13:21, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Apache is going to look up the home directories specified in > /etc/passwd via getpwent() or similar. If allowed, it would chase a Then it shouldn't even bother with having a setting for specifying the path to user directories (or at least that behavior should be documented). > symlink from /home to under /usr/home, but SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is > likely to matter here. See, now that's helpful. Thank you. No one suggested that. Will add it and see if that changes anything. > You should be getting more useful information in the Apache error > log...perhaps /var/log/httpd-error.log, depending on whether you used > the Apache from ports or rolled your own. > > Regards, I rolled my own because I couldn't even get Apache from ports to start with the default http.conf file provided. I think the log level is set to warn, I'll chase that down, too. More useful information is good. Thank you so much for the help. This has been bothering me for almost a two weeks now. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
I am using the non-ports version of Apache. I downloaded 2.2.14 from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache22 just a little while ago. I compiled, installed, got it running with minimal fuss. The issue is with my user directories (e.g. $HOME/public_html ). I uncommented the line to include the userdir conf file in the main configuration and started apache. I get the "It Works" from 127.0.0.1 (this is purely for local testing). When I go to 127.0.0.1/~username/ I get 403 Forbidden. I've adjusted some of the settings in the userdir conf (instead of it pointing to /home/*/public_html as is the default I switched it to /usr/home/*/public_html) and I still get the same message. I returned the userdir.conf file to it's default settings (except for the path to user dirs) with no luck. Included below is the default setup that was installed with Apache (I enabled the settings to install the local manual and that pulls up just fine, nothing in it points to a solution to this issue) for the userdir conf file. AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec Order allow,deny Allow from all Order deny,allow Deny from all Am I just having a case of the stupids here? It has been a few years since I've managed Apache even for local testing. I've also adjusted the permissions for that directory with no change. Also, the log files show Apache going to /home/*/public_html instead of /usr/home/*/public_html, basically ignoring the settings I gave it. I've posted to the Apache mailing list with absolutely no help (and the claim that I changed the location of $HOME) -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Xorg Not Finding AGP Card
On 1/29/2010 4:30 PM, Charlie Kester wrote: > I'm not sure why Xorg isn't seeing your video card. Do you see a device > named "agpgart" in /dev? If not, it probably means the agp module > couldn't identify your card when you last booted the machine. What's > the make and model of your card, and what version of FreeBSD are you > running? ATI Radeon 9200 (might be just a 9K, I forget exactly), FreeBSD-8.0RELEASE. What would have changed between first install and this one? Yes, agpgart is there. > You're not supposed to start hald or dbus from the commandline like > that. Instead add the following lines to your /etc/rc.conf file: > > hald_enable="YES" > dbus_enable="YES" Already there, just seems like last time I was able to start dbus from the cli. > Then run the following commands from the command line: > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start which is probably how I did it before. Heh. I've already rebooted since adding the hald and dbus lines to rc.conf -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Xorg Not Finding AGP Card
First time I installed FreeBSD (yes, there was a first time, I managed to hose the root account and had to start over again) I was asked something about whether or not my vid card was PCI or AGP. I answered AGP (as that is all I have that is halfway decent). I had Xorg up and running with minimum fuss (aside from it's choice of default wm even when I had wmaker already installed), I had no such prompt this time, which I didn't think of until now. I've got the latest Xorg installed from ports (I think it's 7.4_2). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html #Xorg -configure No devices to configure. Configuration failed. Which is a pile of malarky, obviously. It also says it cannot find fbdev. hald and dbus are installed (although I get "no such command" when I try to start dbus from the cli (despite it being a requirement for like 50 million different packages (yes, I can nest parenthesis and use hyperbole all day long), half of which are probably installed by now)). I am /not/ reinstalling for this relatively minor problem, though my patience (mainly with my lack of apparent ability) is wearing thin. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Migrating Thunderbird 3 Email Archives from XP Pro SP3 to FreeBSD 8.0
On 1/27/2010 9:42 PM, Randy Woy wrote: > I made the same migration in the opposite direction. It's a straight > copy from one system to the other. I copied my FreeBSD Thunderbird > archives to Windows 7 Thunderbird on a dual boot system using a USB > memory key. > > Copy the contents of > C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\.default\Mail\Local > Folders\ to > /usr/home//.thunderbird/.default/Mail/Local Folders/ > > That's it. > > Randy > That is completely awesome to know. Thanks for alleviating my fears and concerns. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Migrating Thunderbird 3 Email Archives from XP Pro SP3 to FreeBSD 8.0
I've done some searching on the Thunderbird (TB) website and have posted the question at one of their support forums, but I felt I should ask here, too, just in case someone else has confronted this. I only use POP3 to retrieve email (the merits of POP3 vs IMAP not withstanding) and store locally so I have easy and offline access to it. For about two years now I've been using XP to retrieve and check my email, upgrading through various versions of TB without a problem. Now I'm confronted with an issue I've not faced before (or attempted to confront). Transferring archives from one computer to another. I know where they are kept on the XP machine, I /think/ I know where they are kept on my FreeBSD box (nothing a little ls -a won't help me find). My question is if this even possible since Mozilla Foundation went to using binary archives for the email. I think it might be, but I'm not really wanting to waste the time to only be frustrated in the end. Has anyone attempted such a migration? Did you need any special tools? If not, was it as simple as copy/pasting into the appropriate directory structure? Or do I need to set up the accounts in TB on my FreeBSD box /first/ then copy/paste? TIA for reading and especially for helping (if you can)! (: -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card
On 1/24/2010 12:00 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Programmer In Training wrote: > >> This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your >> forgiveness. >> >> I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking >> for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet, unsure of chipset currently) >> and realized, I'm not sure what package I would need for that. > > Post the model number of the Zonet card. Is it PCI or USB? > > You could try just loading all of the wireless kernel modules and seeing > if any of them find the hardware. There's a list of those in the See > Also section for wlan(4). > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA I'm going to have to do that because the one provided by the company that put out the card are for FreeBSD 7.0. I tried using it anyway and the moment I went to load the kernel, it caused my computer to reboot without warning. It's PCI and I have no clue as to the model number anymore. -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card
On 1/24/2010 9:55 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: > On 1/24/2010 6:35 PM, Polytropon wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:13:05 -0600, Programmer In Training >> wrote: >>> I'll post here later on today, after >>> I've burned the file to disc (no floppy drive on either computer). >> >> No possibility to transfer the file via wired network? Your >> RealTek NIC works out of the box. Or maybe use an USB stick? Forgot to mention, I don't own a USB Stick (yet). I intend to get about two dozen 4GB models when I can (so I can start distributing my PGP Pub Key in person with others so I can say I fully trust them and that key and vice-versa, important for taking steps in doing other verification for products like the Pidgin plugin, OTR (Off-the-Record)). -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card
On 1/24/2010 6:35 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:13:05 -0600, Programmer In Training > wrote: >> I'll post here later on today, after >> I've burned the file to disc (no floppy drive on either computer). > > No possibility to transfer the file via wired network? Your > RealTek NIC works out of the box. Or maybe use an USB stick? > > > No. Right now I'd have to move the box halfway across the house into a room that's already too crammed for what's in there. I have considered just running the cable, but I'd have to do so on a day my 3 year old nephew isn't home (one home, 8 people, don't ask) or risk all sorts of problems (nephew tripping and hurting self (biggest concern), nephew tripping and ripping out the cable from the connector, nephew tripping and damaging the router (which would kill entire home network), dogs doing same thing). No floppy disk drive, so only safe option is to burn a CD. IF I can do the run-to-router-with-CAT5 option, that would be ideal (and then there would be no issue, I'd be installing ports like mad until I had the system set up the way I want). -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card
On 1/24/2010 6:27 AM, Programmer In Training wrote: > Do not CC me. I am subscribed to the list. There is no need. THANK YOU. > > On 1/24/2010 6:22 AM, Roland Smith wrote: > >> zgrep Libertas /usr/share/man/man4/* >> /usr/share/man/man4/if_malo.4.gz:.Nd "Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g >> wireless network driver" >> >> So go and read if_malo(4). It looks like your card is supported, but you >> need to >> download a firmware package. This driver was added in 7.1, according to the >> manpage. >> >> Roland > > Thanks. > Thanks for the help folks. I've found everything I need, I believe, now to just do what needs to be done. I'll post here later on today, after I've burned the file to disc (no floppy drive on either computer). -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card
Do not CC me. I am subscribed to the list. There is no need. THANK YOU. On 1/24/2010 6:22 AM, Roland Smith wrote: > zgrep Libertas /usr/share/man/man4/* > /usr/share/man/man4/if_malo.4.gz:.Nd "Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g > wireless network driver" > > So go and read if_malo(4). It looks like your card is supported, but you need > to > download a firmware package. This driver was added in 7.1, according to the > manpage. > > Roland Thanks. -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card
On 1/23/2010 10:51 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:35:32 -0600, Programmer In Training > wrote: >> I hope ifconfig will help more then dmesg as I have no way of getting >> files (like dmesg.log that I created) off the box (floppy drive isn't >> even hooked up, IIRC) and rl0 is my wired NIC, non-internal. > > The ifconfig program (often used as "ifconfig -a") tells > you only about NICs that are already connected to a driver. > Most wireless NICs require loading a specific kernel module > (which is not in the GENERIC kernel), and therefore it's > helpful to know what exact model it is, so you can load the > correct driver. There are of course programs that help you > with this: "pciconf -lv" and "usbdevs -v" are common tools Thanks, this probably wouldn't be such an issue if I hadn't thrown away the box two-three weeks ago (at least, I think I threw it out; I've had the card for about a two years). no...@pci0:2:2:0: class 0x2 card=0x1faa11ab chip=0x00351033 rev=0x43 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology LLC)' device = 'Marvell Libertas 02.llb/g Wireless (8335)' class = network subclass = ethernet I can't find any wlan modules in /boot/kernel that aren't already loaded. P.S.: I'm subscribed to the list, no need to CC me. -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card
On 1/23/2010 10:26 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: > #ifconfig > rl0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=8 > ether 00:40:ca:35:6c:09 > media: ethernet autoselect > status: no carrier > plip0: flags=8810 metric 0 mtu 1500 > lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 > options=3 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 [I am absolutely sure that > percent sign is correct] > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 > > Should I assume that rl0 is the wireless? I'm not sure what plip0 is and > I know lo0 is my wired nic. > Haha, assumptions rock. Not. rl0 is my wired NIC. -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card
On 1/23/2010 10:07 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: >> What is listed with ifconfig(8)? That will help determine the driver (if >> it is supported). >> > > Oops... Meant to say dmesg; perhaps ifconfig will help as well, though. > > Regards, > I hope ifconfig will help more then dmesg as I have no way of getting files (like dmesg.log that I created) off the box (floppy drive isn't even hooked up, IIRC) and rl0 is my wired NIC, non-internal. -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card
On 1/23/2010 10:05 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > Programmer In Training wrote: >> This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your >> forgiveness. >> > > Nope, this is the right place. Awesome >> I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking >> for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet, unsure of chipset currently) >> and realized, I'm not sure what package I would need for that. I didn't >> set up eth0 (wired NIC, realtek) as that would mean lugging my box >> halfway across the house into a room with no room in it for me and my >> box. I figured I could just set my wireless card up after install, not >> thinking I wouldn't have a clue as to what I'm doing. >> > > That is the wrong place. :) Which is OK. At least I only downloaded a dozen files. ;) > > What is listed with ifconfig(8)? That will help determine the driver (if > it is supported). (this is all typed out so please excuse typos) #ifconfig rl0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8 ether 00:40:ca:35:6c:09 media: ethernet autoselect status: no carrier plip0: flags=8810 metric 0 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 [I am absolutely sure that percent sign is correct] inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 Should I assume that rl0 is the wireless? I'm not sure what plip0 is and I know lo0 is my wired nic. -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card
This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your forgiveness. I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet, unsure of chipset currently) and realized, I'm not sure what package I would need for that. I didn't set up eth0 (wired NIC, realtek) as that would mean lugging my box halfway across the house into a room with no room in it for me and my box. I figured I could just set my wireless card up after install, not thinking I wouldn't have a clue as to what I'm doing. Any clues as to what part of the FTP server I should be looking in? I'm looking at the packages under net/ but looking at them they all seem to be for someone with a working connection (icecast, nbd-server, etc). Thoughts? [0]: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/ -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Failed to Load Kernel
The issue was in my BIOS, of all places. I was going to see if I could do install from a Gentoo LiveCD from April 2k8, and it kept on hanging near the beginning and lighting up all the lights on my keyboard (caps, num and scroll lock). So I went into the BIOS, loaded optimized defaults, changed a few things I really needed (usb keyboard on startup, for one) and viola! I was able to install. Now I'm getting the same irksome message as the other gentleman about an invalid partition. Going to delete all the partitions I created, recreate and install bootmgr instead of just a normal MBR. Thanks for all the help. (: -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Failed to Load Kernel
On 1/5/2010 1:30 AM, Programmer In Training wrote: > The message I'm getting (wish I could just screen cap and put it up on > the web): > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu, Sat Nov 21 14:05:36 UTC 2009) > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x88d680 > readin failed > > elf32_loadimage: read failed > Unable to lad a kernel! > / > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... > can't load 'kernel' OK, update time. Swapped out all optical drives for one older, plain jane CD-ROM. Still fail. Swapped out 6GB Western Digital drive for 41GB Maxtor. Still fail. Swapped out IDE cable going to optical drive. Still fail. When I get to the line where it tells me to hit enter to boot or type in a command etc. I type ? get a list of commands. I try (OK is the prompt) OK boot can't load 'kernel' no bootable kernel OK boot-conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x88d680 readin failed elf32_loadimage: read failed can't find 'kernel' OK Yet, as I've said before. Loads up fine on my mom's laptop. I get to the main installation screen (the one with all the initial options). I'm thinking of swapping out the IDE cable for the hdd but I'm fairly certain that won't change anything. I'm ~6h away from having 7.2 to burn to disc and try that way. If anyone has any suggestions (short of actual voodoo), please please please let me know. -- PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature