Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted
Hi Greg questions@ etc That's massively out of date. Mike left Adelaide in 1998, and has been working for Apple in Cupertino for about 10 years. OK deleted. Greg Lehey in Echunga +61 8 83888286 That's out of date too. I left Adelaide over 6 years ago. Up-to-date information at http://www.lemis.com/grog/ . OK Updated. Both are well know in FreeBSD community :-) I've cc'd them both Thanks. Danny did in fact contact me directly, and I think we've found somebody for him. Good :-) PS for other consultants: If you want to be added to geographic indexed table just email me a pre-prepared HTML table enty See: http://www.berklix.com/consultants/ It would certainly be a good idea for more eyes to go through this list and help you get it up to date. Updates welcome, preferably in format diff -c Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with . Send plain text. No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, multipart/alternative. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted
Hi, Reference: From: Danny Beger da...@beger.com.au Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:30:57 +0930 Danny Beger wrote: I have a small law firm in Adelaide and I am looking to engage someone to build / purchase a new server to replace my current server which runs v6 freebsd. Can you recommend anyone? Happily, http://www.berklix.com/consultants/table.html shows Mike Smith in Adelaide +61 8 8267 3493 Greg Lehey in Echunga +61 8 83888286 Both are well know in FreeBSD community :-) I've cc'd them both PS for other consultants: If you want to be added to geographic indexed table just email me a pre-prepared HTML table enty See: http://www.berklix.com/consultants/ Regards _ _ Danny Beger | Beger Co Lawyers p: 8362 6400 | f: 8362 3555 www.beger.com.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with . Send plain text. No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, multipart/alternative. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted
Danny Beger wrote: I have a small law firm in Adelaide and I am looking to engage someone to build / purchase a new server to replace my current server which runs v6 freebsd. Can you recommend anyone? Regards _ _ Danny Beger | Beger Co Lawyers p: 8362 6400 | f: 8362 3555 www.beger.com.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, I believe Greg Lehey is in Australia. g...@freebsd.org I have seen several others on the list at different times too. AL ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd support in Adelaide wanted
I considered dropping FreeBSD-questions from this reply, but since it contains out-of-date contact details, I'm leaving them in. On Saturday, 21 September 2013 at 17:17:07 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From:Danny Beger da...@beger.com.au Date:Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:30:57 +0930 Danny Beger wrote: I have a small law firm in Adelaide and I am looking to engage someone to build / purchase a new server to replace my current server which runs v6 freebsd. Can you recommend anyone? Happily, http://www.berklix.com/consultants/table.html shows Mike Smith in Adelaide +61 8 8267 3493 That's massively out of date. Mike left Adelaide in 1998, and has been working for Apple in Cupertino for about 10 years. Greg Lehey in Echunga +61 8 83888286 That's out of date too. I left Adelaide over 6 years ago. Up-to-date information at http://www.lemis.com/grog/ . Both are well know in FreeBSD community :-) I've cc'd them both Thanks. Danny did in fact contact me directly, and I think we've found somebody for him. PS for other consultants: If you want to be added to geographic indexed table just email me a pre-prepared HTML table enty See: http://www.berklix.com/consultants/ It would certainly be a good idea for more eyes to go through this list and help you get it up to date. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger g...@freebsd.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua pgpq8FhBNt4Hc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: software support
On 26-03-2013, Tue [10:10:46], Oblitey, Edmund wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD on a E7520/6300ESB chipset. Program freezes during probing devices. It always restart when it gets to the atkbd0. Want to know if u can help me on it. Sometimes it helps to disable ACPI support in the loader menu, and enable debugging. You could also try to reset your system's BIOS settings, if you know what you're doing of course. ;) -- Dmitry Sarkisov -\ Powered by ---o -/ FreeBSD ___ 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: software support
On 26/03/2013 14:10, Oblitey, Edmund wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD on a E7520/6300ESB chipset. Program freezes during probing devices. It always restart when it gets to the atkbd0. Want to know if u can help me on it. Sounds like there's something on-board that either isn't supported or that doesn't get the right driver bound to it. Or that might possibly be defective. What version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? Can you definitely run other OSes without problems on this same hardware? Can you try disconnecting as many non-essential peripherals as possible and see if that allows FreeBSD to boot? Cheers, Matthew ___ 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: TRIM support on SSD via ata(4)
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:13:46PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: Unfortunately, I cannot use ahci(4) and limited to atacontrol(8), which does not have identify command like camcontrol(8). Shall I recompile the kernel with ATA_CAM option? I've switched to ATA_CAM and removed atadisk from /boot/loader.conf. CAM driver reported flags 0x896, which includes ADA_FLAG_CAN_TRIM (0x080). In adaregister() of /sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c, this is enough to in turn enable DISKFLAG_CANDELETE disk flag: if ((softc-flags ADA_FLAG_CAN_TRIM) || ((softc-flags ADA_FLAG_CAN_CFA) !(softc-flags ADA_FLAG_CAN_48BIT))) softc-disk-d_flags |= DISKFLAG_CANDELETE; In /sys/dev/ata/ata-disk.c, this check is different: if ((atadev-param.support.command2 ATA_SUPPORT_CFA) || atadev-param.config == ATA_PROTO_CFA) adp-disk-d_flags |= DISKFLAG_CANDELETE; Since this disk evidently does not support CFA, ata(4) was not raising DISKFLAG_CANDELETE flag. With CAM_ATA, I can now use camcontrol(8) to talk to my disks: # camcontrol identify ada0 | egrep TRIM\|Feature Feature Support Enabled Value Vendor data set management (TRIM) yes TRIM on fs but drive does not have it warning is gone. I wonder why legacy ata(4) did not enable TRIM though. ./danfe ___ 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: wifi support?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/19/12 9:59 AM, Thuban wrote: Hello, I would like to try freebsd, but I need to know if my wifi card will be usable. A lspci under debian returns : 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) Can you tell me where I can find if this card is supported or not? Thank you. Hi there, According to this posting, it doesn't look like that card is supported on FreeBSD yet: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/RTL8188CE-wireless-card-td5628611.html Regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDR3UYACgkQ0sRouByUApDHjACgwV3FQZP/FVLvOhjvNvOYU8RV 6ewAoMpMTn3Z76OcmvwY5EkjH3oJMNlG =YeRx -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: wifi support?
On 12/19/12 08:59, Thuban wrote: Hello, I would like to try freebsd, but I need to know if my wifi card will be usable. A lspci under debian returns : 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) Can you tell me where I can find if this card is supported or not? Thank you. RealTek wifi support is nil in 9.x (I have a RealTek wireless and wired in my laptop and only the wired works). You'll have to use ndistulator to get RealTek wifi under FreeBSD (its how its done in Linux afaik). -- Yours in Christ, Joseph A Nagy Jr Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid. -- Proverbs 12:1 Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 9.0 support for RealTek NIC - re0 driver
On 08/29/12 18:14, d...@safeport.com wrote: This card is on a Dell Inspiron. It works perfectly on 8.x. Dmesg on 8.2 reports it as: re0: RealTek 8101E/8102E/8102EL/8103E PCIe 10/100baseTX pciconf: re0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x04341028 chip=0x813610ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'Realtek 10/100/1000 PCI-E NIC Family all in one NDIS Driver v5.728.0604.2009 06/04/2009 (Rtl8023)' class = network subclass = ethernet On 9.0 I got it to work once or twice out of a couple of dozen tries. 9.0 dmesg reports: re0: RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S PCI ... The release docs imply the card is supported. I did not see a PR. Anyone else with similiar issues? Is the MAC changing? Give dmesg some message about it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 9.0 support for RealTek NIC - re0 driver
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, lokada...@gmx.de wrote: On 08/29/12 18:14, d...@safeport.com wrote: This card is on a Dell Inspiron. It works perfectly on 8.x. Dmesg on 8.2 reports it as: re0: RealTek 8101E/8102E/8102EL/8103E PCIe 10/100baseTX pciconf: re0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x04341028 chip=0x813610ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'Realtek 10/100/1000 PCI-E NIC Family all in one NDIS Driver v5.728.0604.2009 06/04/2009 (Rtl8023)' class = network subclass = ethernet On 9.0 I got it to work once or twice out of a couple of dozen tries. 9.0 dmesg reports: re0: RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S PCI ... The release docs imply the card is supported. I did not see a PR. Anyone else with similiar issues? Is the MAC changing? Give dmesg some message about it? Not currently in the same city as my Dell. I installed 8.2 to make sure I did not have a hardware issue. I will [re]install 9.0 Sunday and report back. _ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com d...@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277 ___ 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: LRO support for IPv6
On 23. May 2012, at 08:22 , Venkat Duvvuru wrote: Folks, Can somebody please explain me why tcp checsum calculation is mandated in the freebsd network stack (tcp_input---in6_cksum) albeit the card supports it? Probably Steve is the right person who can answer this. Just for public reference; we talked offline. The code simply was never done and let's see how much of it I can get into the tree the next 48 hours. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! ___ 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: LRO support for IPv6
Folks, Can somebody please explain me why tcp checsum calculation is mandated in the freebsd network stack (tcp_input---in6_cksum) albeit the card supports it? Probably Steve is the right person who can answer this. /Venkat On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Venkat Duvvuru venkatduvvuru...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. I found the reason for the throughput drop in case of IPv6. Reason is that the tcp check sum calculation is mandated in case of IPv6 irrespective of whether the card is doing it or not (checksum offload). Is there a reason why freebsd is doing it that way? /Venkat On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: LRO is a huge win for 10G (as is TSO on the TX side), so odds are good its behind the drop, in any case you'll be able to test that soon :) Jack On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Venkat Duvvuru venkatduvvuru...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the response. I observed that there is a significant performance drop in case of IPv6 on the rx side. While I'm able to hit line rate ~9.5 Gbps on a 10gb NIC for IPv4..I could only get ~6 Gbps on the rx front for IPv6...However tx for IPv6 is on par with IPv4 hitting almost line rates. Could this be because of lack of LRO6?? Note: hwpmc profiling shows that most of the time is spent in the IPv6 stack code /Venkat On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb b...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 22. May 2012, at 17:04 , Jack Vogel wrote: Oh, that's right, distracted with other projects and I forgot, now we just need to have an LRO that works with forwarding eh :) That's a 6 line bainaid commit afterwards, basically returning form the LRO queuing function in case forwarding is turned on for that address family; a proper solution for long term can than be done whenever we feel like it. The above we should have done years ago;) You ROCK bz :) Jack On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb b...@freebsd.org wrote: On 22. May 2012, at 16:50 , Jack Vogel wrote: The LRO code as it stands right now is IPV4 specific, it would be nice to extend it, one of many improvements that may get done at some point. I am about to commit it to HEAD. Bear another few days with me; I know I am running late but committing new code had less prio than some other real life things currently. I'll also bring TSO6, etc... -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! ___ 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: LRO support for IPv6
The LRO code as it stands right now is IPV4 specific, it would be nice to extend it, one of many improvements that may get done at some point. Jack On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Venkat Duvvuru venkatduvvuru...@gmail.comwrote: Folks, Could somebody please tell about the base Freebsd version which has LRO support for IPv6? I'm using 9.0-RELEASE and I see that tcp_lro_rx is failing. Please confirm. /Venkat ___ freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: LRO support for IPv6
On 22. May 2012, at 16:50 , Jack Vogel wrote: The LRO code as it stands right now is IPV4 specific, it would be nice to extend it, one of many improvements that may get done at some point. I am about to commit it to HEAD. Bear another few days with me; I know I am running late but committing new code had less prio than some other real life things currently. I'll also bring TSO6, etc... /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! ___ 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: LRO support for IPv6
Oh, that's right, distracted with other projects and I forgot, now we just need to have an LRO that works with forwarding eh :) You ROCK bz :) Jack On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb b...@freebsd.org wrote: On 22. May 2012, at 16:50 , Jack Vogel wrote: The LRO code as it stands right now is IPV4 specific, it would be nice to extend it, one of many improvements that may get done at some point. I am about to commit it to HEAD. Bear another few days with me; I know I am running late but committing new code had less prio than some other real life things currently. I'll also bring TSO6, etc... /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! ___ 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: LRO support for IPv6
On 22. May 2012, at 17:04 , Jack Vogel wrote: Oh, that's right, distracted with other projects and I forgot, now we just need to have an LRO that works with forwarding eh :) That's a 6 line bainaid commit afterwards, basically returning form the LRO queuing function in case forwarding is turned on for that address family; a proper solution for long term can than be done whenever we feel like it. The above we should have done years ago;) You ROCK bz :) Jack On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb b...@freebsd.org wrote: On 22. May 2012, at 16:50 , Jack Vogel wrote: The LRO code as it stands right now is IPV4 specific, it would be nice to extend it, one of many improvements that may get done at some point. I am about to commit it to HEAD. Bear another few days with me; I know I am running late but committing new code had less prio than some other real life things currently. I'll also bring TSO6, etc... -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! ___ 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: LRO support for IPv6
Thanks for the response. I observed that there is a significant performance drop in case of IPv6 on the rx side. While I'm able to hit line rate ~9.5 Gbps on a 10gb NIC for IPv4..I could only get ~6 Gbps on the rx front for IPv6...However tx for IPv6 is on par with IPv4 hitting almost line rates. Could this be because of lack of LRO6?? Note: hwpmc profiling shows that most of the time is spent in the IPv6 stack code /Venkat On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb b...@freebsd.org wrote: On 22. May 2012, at 17:04 , Jack Vogel wrote: Oh, that's right, distracted with other projects and I forgot, now we just need to have an LRO that works with forwarding eh :) That's a 6 line bainaid commit afterwards, basically returning form the LRO queuing function in case forwarding is turned on for that address family; a proper solution for long term can than be done whenever we feel like it. The above we should have done years ago;) You ROCK bz :) Jack On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb b...@freebsd.org wrote: On 22. May 2012, at 16:50 , Jack Vogel wrote: The LRO code as it stands right now is IPV4 specific, it would be nice to extend it, one of many improvements that may get done at some point. I am about to commit it to HEAD. Bear another few days with me; I know I am running late but committing new code had less prio than some other real life things currently. I'll also bring TSO6, etc... -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! ___ 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: LRO support for IPv6
LRO is a huge win for 10G (as is TSO on the TX side), so odds are good its behind the drop, in any case you'll be able to test that soon :) Jack On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Venkat Duvvuru venkatduvvuru...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the response. I observed that there is a significant performance drop in case of IPv6 on the rx side. While I'm able to hit line rate ~9.5 Gbps on a 10gb NIC for IPv4..I could only get ~6 Gbps on the rx front for IPv6...However tx for IPv6 is on par with IPv4 hitting almost line rates. Could this be because of lack of LRO6?? Note: hwpmc profiling shows that most of the time is spent in the IPv6 stack code /Venkat On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb b...@freebsd.org wrote: On 22. May 2012, at 17:04 , Jack Vogel wrote: Oh, that's right, distracted with other projects and I forgot, now we just need to have an LRO that works with forwarding eh :) That's a 6 line bainaid commit afterwards, basically returning form the LRO queuing function in case forwarding is turned on for that address family; a proper solution for long term can than be done whenever we feel like it. The above we should have done years ago;) You ROCK bz :) Jack On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb b...@freebsd.org wrote: On 22. May 2012, at 16:50 , Jack Vogel wrote: The LRO code as it stands right now is IPV4 specific, it would be nice to extend it, one of many improvements that may get done at some point. I am about to commit it to HEAD. Bear another few days with me; I know I am running late but committing new code had less prio than some other real life things currently. I'll also bring TSO6, etc... -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! ___ 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: LRO support for IPv6
Ok. I found the reason for the throughput drop in case of IPv6. Reason is that the tcp check sum calculation is mandated in case of IPv6 irrespective of whether the card is doing it or not (checksum offload). Is there a reason why freebsd is doing it that way? /Venkat On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: LRO is a huge win for 10G (as is TSO on the TX side), so odds are good its behind the drop, in any case you'll be able to test that soon :) Jack On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Venkat Duvvuru venkatduvvuru...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the response. I observed that there is a significant performance drop in case of IPv6 on the rx side. While I'm able to hit line rate ~9.5 Gbps on a 10gb NIC for IPv4..I could only get ~6 Gbps on the rx front for IPv6...However tx for IPv6 is on par with IPv4 hitting almost line rates. Could this be because of lack of LRO6?? Note: hwpmc profiling shows that most of the time is spent in the IPv6 stack code /Venkat On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb b...@freebsd.org wrote: On 22. May 2012, at 17:04 , Jack Vogel wrote: Oh, that's right, distracted with other projects and I forgot, now we just need to have an LRO that works with forwarding eh :) That's a 6 line bainaid commit afterwards, basically returning form the LRO queuing function in case forwarding is turned on for that address family; a proper solution for long term can than be done whenever we feel like it. The above we should have done years ago;) You ROCK bz :) Jack On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb b...@freebsd.org wrote: On 22. May 2012, at 16:50 , Jack Vogel wrote: The LRO code as it stands right now is IPV4 specific, it would be nice to extend it, one of many improvements that may get done at some point. I am about to commit it to HEAD. Bear another few days with me; I know I am running late but committing new code had less prio than some other real life things currently. I'll also bring TSO6, etc... -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! ___ 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: netmap support in default kernel
On 20/02/2012 23:00, Tim Stewart wrote: I just heard about netmap http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2103536today and it seems like it's not baked into the default FreeBSD kernel at the moment. Are there plans to integrate netmap into the default FreeBSD kernel? If so, what is an estimated time line for its inclusion in the default kernel? Given the performance figures quoted in that article, I certainly hope so. Actually, looking at the system sources: worm:/usr/src:% find . -iname '*netmap*' ./sys/net/netmap_user.h ./sys/net/netmap.h ./sys/dev/netmap ./sys/dev/netmap/ixgbe_netmap.h ./sys/dev/netmap/if_em_netmap.h ./sys/dev/netmap/netmap.c ./sys/dev/netmap/if_igb_netmap.h ./sys/dev/netmap/netmap_kern.h ./sys/dev/netmap/if_lem_netmap.h ./sys/dev/netmap/if_re_netmap.h ./tools/tools/netmap ./share/man/man4/netmap.4 Looks like it's already available in stable/9, but not in versions earlier than 9.x. Closer inspection shows that would have to be compiled into a custom kernel in order to be used. Note that each different network adaptor needs special coding in order to support netmap, so judging by the above, you'ld need any of ixgbe(4), em(4), igb(4) or re(4). Or whatever lem is -- doesn't have a man page, but it seems to be some sort of variant on em(4). On your specific question of when it might become part of a default kernel, I can't say. However, you might get a more knowledgeable answer if you ask on freebsd-hackers@... or freebsd-net@... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Technical Support Question
Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. If you don't mind losing everything currently on the drive, overwriting the MBR -- and the backup GPT at the end of the drive, if the BIOS supports GPT/UEFI -- would surely keep it from booting into Windows. You'd probably have to take the drive out, and connect it to a different machine (since this one's BIOS seems hardwired to boot only from the hard drive). Another possibility would be to clear the machine's CMOS, if there's a way to do that. Desktop mainboards usually have a jumper for the purpose; dunno about Samsung laptops but removing the CMOS battery and giving it a few minutes for the stray capacitance to discharge should suffice. (Getting to the CMOS battery may involve taking the case apart.) ___ 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
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Thanks interesting possibilities. One thought I had is creating an operating system independent BIOS where the appropriate machine code is inserted into the events that lead to an override of the processes that is forcing into windows. Maybe burned to a CD or USB, from another computer and tie the low level to a keyboard function, Like pressing F2 etc, at boot to access new BIOS functionality. Is this possible? On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:26 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. If you don't mind losing everything currently on the drive, overwriting the MBR -- and the backup GPT at the end of the drive, if the BIOS supports GPT/UEFI -- would surely keep it from booting into Windows. You'd probably have to take the drive out, and connect it to a different machine (since this one's BIOS seems hardwired to boot only from the hard drive). Another possibility would be to clear the machine's CMOS, if there's a way to do that. Desktop mainboards usually have a jumper for the purpose; dunno about Samsung laptops but removing the CMOS battery and giving it a few minutes for the stray capacitance to discharge should suffice. (Getting to the CMOS battery may involve taking the case apart.) -- Any attachments (WAV. MP3, PDF) files etc, contain copyrighted material that is protected under intellectual property law in the USA and internationally through the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Messages are for the intended recipients only and usually contain confidential information as well. If you received this message or any previous messages in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any files or emails that may be in question. Thanks for your consideration. ___ 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
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On 02/17/12 19:58, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks interesting possibilities. One thought I had is creating an operating system independent BIOS where the appropriate machine code is inserted into the events that lead to an override of the processes that is forcing into windows. Maybe burned to a CD or USB, from another computer and tie the low level to a keyboard function, Like pressing F2 etc, at boot to access new BIOS functionality. Is this possible? I don't believe so. Its not really that hardwired to windows, not in my experience; it is a real PITA though. If you play your cards right and you know enough about BIOS you will get it. With the new laptops they really try hard to stick windows like shit on your laptop. But they can't _make_ you use it. New HP laptops (like the ones I use), can take a few goes to get it to install. Asus are about the same. Just watch your boot ordering and you will be fine. I keep reiterating using USB to install because it really does simplify matters. In the BIOS you usually find about 3 entries to set the boot order. One is to set the boot order (removable, hdd, or network), one for which removable (cdrom, usb cdrom, usb floppy, etc), and one for hdd priority (here is where your usb disk will show up, and you _will_ have to set it as boot every time, but it will boot). Set the boot order for removable, hdd, network (or disable if you like). Set the removable to cdrom. Set the hdd (temporarily because as I said it _will_ change) to the usb disk. Voila! it will start the install. I have found the cdrom to be fickle on the new laptops for booting, I'm not sure exactly why but I suspect the confusion of removable drives in the BIOS. I'm not a samsung expert, but most laptop BIOS are very similar (at least ones in the same era). #1 Get a BIOS expert to help if you can't get this figured. They will be able to show you exactly what to do in front of you in about 5-10 mins. Easier to understand if its visually shown to you rather than described. Once you jump this hurdle you will do just fine. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:26 AM,per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chip Oakleysilverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. If you don't mind losing everything currently on the drive, overwriting the MBR -- and the backup GPT at the end of the drive, if the BIOS supports GPT/UEFI -- would surely keep it from booting into Windows. You'd probably have to take the drive out, and connect it to a different machine (since this one's BIOS seems hardwired to boot only from the hard drive). Another possibility would be to clear the machine's CMOS, if there's a way to do that. Desktop mainboards usually have a jumper for the purpose; dunno about Samsung laptops but removing the CMOS battery and giving it a few minutes for the stray capacitance to discharge should suffice. (Getting to the CMOS battery may involve taking the case apart.) ___ 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: Technical Support Question
Chip Oakley wrote: Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. There's 2 types of PC boot CDs I believe, FreeBSD changed to the newer method in last year or so I think (maybe just for 8.* ?), so if yours is an older PC it might be looking for the other sort. You could try a few years old (eg 6.* or probably 7.*) FreeBSD CDROM for interest to see if that boots. Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD Question not clear. You can access to read execute all files from CDROM, by using the LIVEFS (live file system) option. To access files on the MS partition[s], If fdisk shows the MS still present you can also mount the MS file systems from BSD (regardless whether BSD is booted running from CD or hard disk) For that you would need either mount -t msdosfs . if its an older FS or mount -t ntfs -r . if its a newer NTFS it only support read only mode, That mount command calls eg /sbin/mount_msdosfs /sbin/mount_ntfs Thats where they are on a hard disc. If FreeBSD hasnt installed yet, you'll find them I recall under something like /mnt2/sbin/mount_msdosfs (I think the cd is already mounted) If you want to write individual files on an MS NTFS you need ntfs-3g which is partly broken (one error noted in my http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/shrink/ a lot easier to run from a hard disk working system. and overwrite windows for my BSD installation? Well if you just wanted to trash the MS not recover data ? that's easy, the fdisk within BSD install should do it, but you could always try something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1000 DO NOT TRY THAT ON ANY SYSTEM WITH ANY DATA YOU VALUE Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ 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
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Hi, Please keep on list so others can help you too. Forwarded from: Julian Stacey j...@berklix.com http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message From silverskymus...@gmail.com Thu Feb 16 16:20:10 2012 To: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015173fe456d90a2504b9164537 Hi Julian and thanks for you reply. - - Well if you just wanted to trash the MS not recover data ? that's easy, the fdisk within BSD install should do it, but you could always try something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1000 DO NOT TRY THAT ON ANY SYSTEM WITH ANY DATA YOU VALUE - This is what I would like to do, but windows restored to an older version where i do not remember login pswd, as mentioned. So automatically boots to the security layer and overrides the reordering in the BIOS I have phoenix BIOS to set to CD boot first I am not advanced enough to know what you mean by the if then statements. please enlighten. I will try using an older version per your suggestion and let you know how it goes Thanks again On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Chip Oakley wrote: Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. There's 2 types of PC boot CDs I believe, FreeBSD changed to the newer method in last year or so I think (maybe just for 8.* ?), so if yours is an older PC it might be looking for the other sort. You could try a few years old (eg 6.* or probably 7.*) FreeBSD CDROM for interest to see if that boots. Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD Question not clear. You can access to read execute all files from CDROM, by using the LIVEFS (live file system) option. To access files on the MS partition[s], If fdisk shows the MS still present you can also mount the MS file systems from BSD (regardless whether BSD is booted running from CD or hard disk) For that you would need either mount -t msdosfs . if its an older FS or mount -t ntfs -r . if its a newer NTFS it only support read only mode, That mount command calls eg /sbin/mount_msdosfs /sbin/mount_ntfs Thats where they are on a hard disc. If FreeBSD hasnt installed yet, you'll find them I recall under something like /mnt2/sbin/mount_msdosfs (I think the cd is already mounted) If you want to write individual files on an MS NTFS you need ntfs-3g which is partly broken (one error noted in my http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/shrink/ a lot easier to run from a hard disk working system. and overwrite windows for my BSD installation? Well if you just wanted to trash the MS not recover data ? that's easy, the fdisk within BSD install should do it, but you could always try something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1000 DO NOT TRY THAT ON ANY SYSTEM WITH ANY DATA YOU VALUE Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ - -- Any attachments (WAV. MP3, PDF) files etc, contain copyrighted material that is protected under intellectual property law in the USA and internationally through the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Messages are for the intended recipients only and usually contain confidential information as well. If you received this message or any previous messages in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any files or emails that may be in question. Thanks for your consideration. - --0015173fe456d90a2504b9164537 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Julian and thanks for you reply.brbrbr= - -brWe= ll if you just wanted to trash the MS amp; not recover data ?br that#39;s easy, the fdisk within BSD install should do it,br but you could always try something likebr =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 count=3D1000br DO NOT TRY THAT ON ANY SYSTEM WITH ANY DATA YOU VALUEbr--= - ---= - ---brfont color=3D#99This is what I would like to do,= but windows
Re: Technical Support Question
You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. Good point Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com Please first make sure you are subscribed to this list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as I see you have fallen off cc list. BTW a delayed archive of this other lists in on the web. Next check the MD5 checksum of your boot media. Next also realise some drives cant read what other drives had written, sometimes that maybe alignement or dirt on the optics, someties it simply cos eg some old drives cant read those half see through RW media, sometime some old drives cant read an RW media. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ 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
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Thanks for your reply. The boot CD will boot on the other machine, but not on the computer for my intended install of BSD. I set the boot order to boot first from CD ROM in phoenix BIOS. It is a Samsung Laptop it is windows 7 home edition I called Samsung and they have no information on overriding a windows password only restoring to an older version which got my here in the first place. There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. Pressing any key only leads to that same screen in windows asking for the password, except for the function keys that lead to BIOS configuration. Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. Cant imagine there is not a fix somewhere. Any other ideas? Regards On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. Good point Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com Please first make sure you are subscribed to this list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as I see you have fallen off cc list. BTW a delayed archive of this other lists in on the web. Next check the MD5 checksum of your boot media. Next also realise some drives cant read what other drives had written, sometimes that maybe alignement or dirt on the optics, someties it simply cos eg some old drives cant read those half see through RW media, sometime some old drives cant read an RW media. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ -- Any attachments (WAV. MP3, PDF) files etc, contain copyrighted material that is protected under intellectual property law in the USA and internationally through the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Messages are for the intended recipients only and usually contain confidential information as well. If you received this message or any previous messages in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any files or emails that may be in question. Thanks for your consideration. ___ 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
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.comwrote: There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. This message usually originates from a Windows boot CD, not a FreeBSD one. Is there more than one CDROM in the system? -- Adam Vande More ___ 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
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No, unfort. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.comwrote: There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. This message usually originates from a Windows boot CD, not a FreeBSD one. Is there more than one CDROM in the system? -- Adam Vande More -- Any attachments (WAV. MP3, PDF) files etc, contain copyrighted material that is protected under intellectual property law in the USA and internationally through the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Messages are for the intended recipients only and usually contain confidential information as well. If you received this message or any previous messages in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any files or emails that may be in question. Thanks for your consideration. ___ 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
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Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. I suggest temporarily disconnect data cable of old disc, (no need to unscrew it replace with another hard disc yet), Then push reset, see if the raw PC + BIOS is capable of reading booting the FreeBSD CD with No hard disc. If PC still cant boot the FreeBSD CD, see if PC can boot some/any other bootable CD eg another BSD Linux MS whatever, any CD been proved bootable on other machines. Take it small step by step, decouple the questions can that PC read any cdroms can that PC read that particular cdrom can that PC boot from cdroms can that PC boot from that particular cdroms does the BIOS correctly use the specified boot order or ignore it. Some BIOSES are weird, / cussid. I think I met one where if one didnt tell it to boot off floppy it would not boot off cd either, or similar.) I certainly met one where PC just wouldnt work right after I reviewed set every damn option on every page. Then I reset to boot defaults (slow) then to defaults optimised, then I reset every option as I wanted it, then the PC worked fine. What that told me is that BIOS in its default reset, was resetting some values that it then never l;ater displayed in its menus. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ 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
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Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your reply. The boot CD will boot on the other machine, but not on the computer for my intended install of BSD. I set the boot order to boot first from CD ROM in phoenix BIOS. It is a Samsung Laptop it is windows 7 home edition I called Samsung and they have no information on overriding a windows password only restoring to an older version which got my here in the first place. There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. Pressing any key only leads to that same screen in windows asking for the password, except for the function keys that lead to BIOS configuration. Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. Cant imagine there is not a fix somewhere. First things first. 1) DOUBLE CHECK the CD you're trying to boot from. Make sure it boots in the other machine, *and* what O/S it boots into. 2) Go into the BIOS settings on the Samsung -- look at _all_ the settings. especially for the 'boot device' list. Make sure you are *not* trying to boot from a 'recovery partition', or 'installation disk' choice. Better yet, tell us _exactly_ how all the boot device options read, IN the order they are displayed. 3) IF you can, _remove_ the hard disk from the list of boot devices. If not, *disable* the IDE device probing/disk type for the disks, but leave the CD drive active.. 4) now try booting -without- a CD in the drive. The 'desired outcome' is a '*failure* to boot' message -- with a fair chance that it will ask you to insert a bootable disk and retry. 5) If it gives a retry option, put the CD in the drive and do what it says to retry. If no retry option, put the CD in the drive, and give it the well known three-finger salute. ___ 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
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On 02/17/12 05:11, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks for your reply. The boot CD will boot on the other machine, but not on the computer for my intended install of BSD. I set the boot order to boot first from CD ROM in phoenix BIOS. It is a Samsung Laptop it is windows 7 home edition I called Samsung and they have no information on overriding a windows password only restoring to an older version which got my here in the first place. There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. Pressing any key only leads to that same screen in windows asking for the password, except for the function keys that lead to BIOS configuration. Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. Cant imagine there is not a fix somewhere. Any other ideas? Look, these new laptop BIOS' can be most frustrating. Try a USB install using the memstick img - thats how I installed finally. I got jack of the messing about with the security measures they take on laptops these days. For reference, the boot settings in BIOS are pretty dynamic on the laptops now, so if you set the boot order it may change the next time you reboot from whatever you're doing. It _should_ let you do what you want once you exit BIOS though. And make sure of the boot order, it may be confusing. If you know someone who knows BIOS better, use them to help. Also look for a boot order key when you do boot up, this will do for a temp measure but you will have to be quick. You should probably make a decision about what you're going to do with the restore partition as well. You can make the disks on CD/DVD if you want so you can restore later, then dump it. Be aware (in this decision) that manufacturers can be real shits about *not* having Windows installed when you warranty repair. You may not want to have the fights like I have. Their policies _are_ illegal, but sometimes you may not want to have that particular argument... :) Regards On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Julian H. Staceyj...@berklix.com wrote: You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. Good point Chip Oakleysilverskymus...@gmail.com Please first make sure you are subscribed to this list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as I see you have fallen off cc list. BTW a delayed archive of this other lists in on the web. Next check the MD5 checksum of your boot media. Next also realise some drives cant read what other drives had written, sometimes that maybe alignement or dirt on the optics, someties it simply cos eg some old drives cant read those half see through RW media, sometime some old drives cant read an RW media. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ 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: Technical Support Question
On 02/17/12 05:11, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks for your reply. The boot CD will boot on the other machine, but not on the computer for my intended install of BSD. I set the boot order to boot first from CD ROM in phoenix BIOS. It is a Samsung Laptop it is windows 7 home edition I called Samsung and they have no information on overriding a windows password only restoring to an older version which got my here in the first place. There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. Pressing any key only leads to that same screen in windows asking for the password, except for the function keys that lead to BIOS configuration. Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. Cant imagine there is not a fix somewhere. Any other ideas? Look, these new laptop BIOS' can be most frustrating. Try a USB install using the memstick img - thats how I installed finally. I got jack of the messing about with the security measures they take on laptops these days. For reference, the boot settings in BIOS are pretty dynamic on the laptops now, so if you set the boot order it may change the next time you reboot from whatever you're doing. It _should_ let you do what you want once you exit BIOS though. And make sure of the boot order, it may be confusing. If you know someone who knows BIOS better, use them to help. Also look for a boot order key at boot up, this will change the boot order temporarily but you will have to be quick. You should probably make a decision about what you're going to do with the restore partition as well. You can make the disks on CD/DVD if you want so you can restore later, then dump it. Be aware (in this decision) that manufacturers can be real shits about *not* having Windows installed when you warranty repair. You may not want to have the fights like I have. Their policies _are_ illegal, but sometimes you may not want to have that particular argument... :) Regards On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Julian H. Staceyj...@berklix.com wrote: You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. Good point Chip Oakleysilverskymus...@gmail.com Please first make sure you are subscribed to this list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as I see you have fallen off cc list. BTW a delayed archive of this other lists in on the web. Next check the MD5 checksum of your boot media. Next also realise some drives cant read what other drives had written, sometimes that maybe alignement or dirt on the optics, someties it simply cos eg some old drives cant read those half see through RW media, sometime some old drives cant read an RW media. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix.http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ 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: Technical Support Question
On 02/16/12 06:14, Chip Oakley wrote: Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD and overwrite windows for my BSD installation? Welcome to FreeBSD! FreeBSD and Windows are completely incompatible, I'm afraid. Can you boot from usb? You can download a memstick img from the same place you got your cd iso. More cost effective too - no old releases floating around for years; you just reuse the same old memstick! ;) If you try a memstick, make sure its big enough. Most of the smallest usb sticks you can buy are about 4G anyway, so it will work. You need about 1.5G. And I believe you can use SD or other memory cards as well. ___ 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
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: If you try a memstick, make sure its big enough. Most of the smallest usb sticks you can buy are about 4G anyway, so it will work. You need about 1.5G. And I believe you can use SD or other memory cards as well. The 9.0-RELEASE memstick is less than 654M, and I believe all are made to fit in 1G. The DVD image is larger, 2.2G. ___ 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: Technical Support Question
On 02/16/12 10:07, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: If you try a memstick, make sure its big enough. Most of the smallest usb sticks you can buy are about 4G anyway, so it will work. You need about 1.5G. And I believe you can use SD or other memory cards as well. The 9.0-RELEASE memstick is less than 654M, and I believe all are made to fit in 1G. The DVD image is larger, 2.2G. Didn't fit on 1G when I tried, but maybe that was just RC3. ___ 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: Technical Support Question
Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. There are at least two possibilities to explain 'to no avail' -- which utterly fails to describe what actually happened. 1) the CD you made -- by unspecified means -- is not actually bootable, and the BIOS proceeds to the 'next' available boot device (the hard-disk) and boots Windows -- which wants the password you hve forgotten. 2) there is a *BIOS* password that you must supply before being able to boot _anything_ Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD and overwrite windows for my BSD installation? Probably. _IF_ the CD is 'bootable'. _IF_ the CD does not have read errors in the boot code. _IF_ the CD _drive_ is working properly, and is properly aligned. _IF_ the machine will boot from CD. _IF_ the machine BIOS is set to try to boot from the CD before other devices. You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. ___ 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: OCI support in PHP is dead
On 14.07.2011 11:43, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/07/2011 07:16, Victor Sudakov wrote: The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8 is marked as vulnerable. Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now. Now, the only options for getting more up to date support are -- persuading Oracle to release eg. an Oracle Instant Client package for FreeBSD -- somehow being able to use the Linux client software under emulation. I've no idea what Oracle's response to the first option would be, but I suspect their response might well be that they won't get enough return to justify the cost of producing a FreeBSD native client. I suspect getting oracle to create such a client would cost (per user) about half a cent less than replacing the oracle DB would. They're (in)famous for such calculations. The second option looks pretty difficult to me -- making a PHP shared object that links to a Linux shlib but that is itself linked into various PHP applications. This one might be a bit cheaper. The future looks Postgresql shaped to me. Or any other non-yacht-sponsoring DB. //Svein p.s. I've had the pleasure of having dealt with Oracle on several occasions. -- +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | sv...@stillbilde.net ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | svein-listm...@stillbilde.net Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +---+--- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |sv...@jernhuset.no | RIPE handle:SS16503-RIPE +---+--- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: OCI support in PHP is dead
Matthew Seaman wrote: The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8 is marked as vulnerable. Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now. Now, the only options for getting more up to date support are -- persuading Oracle to release eg. an Oracle Instant Client package for FreeBSD -- somehow being able to use the Linux client software under emulation. I've no idea what Oracle's response to the first option would be, but I suspect their response might well be that they won't get enough return to justify the cost of producing a FreeBSD native client. The second option looks pretty difficult to me -- making a PHP shared object that links to a Linux shlib but that is itself linked into various PHP applications. I suspected that databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-basic is virtually useless. The future looks Postgresql shaped to me. I don't believe so. Our in-house sites use Postgres, but sometimes they have to interact with commercial systems (ERP, NetID etc) and I don't envision commercial vendors moving from Oracle to Postgres any time soon. I even considered running sqlplus via ssh but this is too ugly and not compatible with PHP frameworks. Seems that FreeBSD has lost yet another niche in our company. Which is a real pity because Linux is a pain in the ass and Solaris is not free. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru ___ 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: gpu support for modern systems
On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much faster than cpus, like number crunching or encoding/decoding multimedia contents. anybody who is using mplayer(1) in combination with nvidia cards and vdpau has probably experienced how much faster and less cpu intensive things can work out when decoding HD video stuff e.g. since opencl/cuda isn't available under freebsd, it doesn't seem possible to somehow hook the nvidia gpu into the every day freebsd workload that easily. PathScale has HMPP and partial CUDA support on FreeBSD now. Some caveats to this 1) Non-free (We could possibly make the tools free for FreeBSD community, but I'd have to get approval for it) 2) CUDA support isn't complete (Basic core is there and HMPP C/Fortran works) 3) Tesla 20xx series only We offer real support for FreeBSD and it's not using any linux emulator hacks. Let me know if anyone is interested. (If we get enough positive feedback I'll pursue some resolution to #1) i'd really love to see this stuff being made available to the community. i think this could pose a huge advantage to all kinds of audiences: home users, servers people, etc. basically every modern computer comes with a gpu that performs much better at certain tasks than the installed CPU. not making use of the gpu is a huge waste of ressources. i think microsoft had a video on their channel 9 platform demonstrating the huge advantages that one can get when offloading certain tasks onto the gpu. just think of gimp being able to perform 10 times faster! ..or being able to compile world 10 times faster...or...or... ;) cheers. alex ./C ___ 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: gpu support for modern systems
On 06/25/11 05:45 PM, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much faster than cpus, like number crunching or encoding/decoding multimedia contents. anybody who is using mplayer(1) in combination with nvidia cards and vdpau has probably experienced how much faster and less cpu intensive things can work out when decoding HD video stuff e.g. since opencl/cuda isn't available under freebsd, it doesn't seem possible to somehow hook the nvidia gpu into the every day freebsd workload that easily. PathScale has HMPP and partial CUDA support on FreeBSD now. Some caveats to this 1) Non-free (We could possibly make the tools free for FreeBSD community, but I'd have to get approval for it) 2) CUDA support isn't complete (Basic core is there and HMPP C/Fortran works) 3) Tesla 20xx series only We offer real support for FreeBSD and it's not using any linux emulator hacks. Let me know if anyone is interested. (If we get enough positive feedback I'll pursue some resolution to #1) i'd really love to see this stuff being made available to the community. i think this could pose a huge advantage to all kinds of audiences: home users, servers people, etc. basically every modern computer comes with a gpu that performs much better at certain tasks than the installed CPU. not making use of the gpu is a huge waste of ressources. i think microsoft had a video on their channel 9 platform demonstrating the huge advantages that one can get when offloading certain tasks onto the gpu. just think of gimp being able to perform 10 times faster! ..or being able to compile world 10 times faster...or...or... ;) You missed the part where I said it's *Tesla* only. This is really only useful for HPC/life sciences/financial/server market. This isn't to say we're not excited about it, but I'm still unsure who if anyone is using FreeBSD in those areas. ___ 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: gpu support for modern systems
On Sat Jun 25 11, C. Bergström wrote: On 06/25/11 05:45 PM, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much faster than cpus, like number crunching or encoding/decoding multimedia contents. anybody who is using mplayer(1) in combination with nvidia cards and vdpau has probably experienced how much faster and less cpu intensive things can work out when decoding HD video stuff e.g. since opencl/cuda isn't available under freebsd, it doesn't seem possible to somehow hook the nvidia gpu into the every day freebsd workload that easily. PathScale has HMPP and partial CUDA support on FreeBSD now. Some caveats to this 1) Non-free (We could possibly make the tools free for FreeBSD community, but I'd have to get approval for it) 2) CUDA support isn't complete (Basic core is there and HMPP C/Fortran works) 3) Tesla 20xx series only We offer real support for FreeBSD and it's not using any linux emulator hacks. Let me know if anyone is interested. (If we get enough positive feedback I'll pursue some resolution to #1) i'd really love to see this stuff being made available to the community. i think this could pose a huge advantage to all kinds of audiences: home users, servers people, etc. basically every modern computer comes with a gpu that performs much better at certain tasks than the installed CPU. not making use of the gpu is a huge waste of ressources. i think microsoft had a video on their channel 9 platform demonstrating the huge advantages that one can get when offloading certain tasks onto the gpu. just think of gimp being able to perform 10 times faster! ..or being able to compile world 10 times faster...or...or... ;) You missed the part where I said it's *Tesla* only. This is really only useful for HPC/life sciences/financial/server market. This isn't to say we're not excited about it, but I'm still unsure who if anyone is using FreeBSD in those areas. ...but is the CUDA api for tesla so much different than the CUDA geforce api? ___ 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: gpu support for modern systems
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much faster than cpus, like number crunching or encoding/decoding multimedia contents. anybody who is using mplayer(1) in combination with nvidia cards and vdpau has probably experienced how much faster and less cpu intensive things can work out when decoding HD video stuff e.g. since opencl/cuda isn't available under freebsd, it doesn't seem possible to somehow hook the nvidia gpu into the every day freebsd workload that easily. PathScale has HMPP and partial CUDA support on FreeBSD now. Some caveats to this 1) Non-free (We could possibly make the tools free for FreeBSD community, but I'd have to get approval for it) 2) CUDA support isn't complete (Basic core is there and HMPP C/Fortran works) 3) Tesla 20xx series only We offer real support for FreeBSD and it's not using any linux emulator hacks. Let me know if anyone is interested. (If we get enough positive feedback I'll pursue some resolution to #1) ./C ___ 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: java support in FBSD Firefox 4
In article 4d948902.6000...@wallnet.com you write: Before I attempt to (re)invent the java wheel in Firefox 4... Is there any documentation about how to enable java support already written or available. If there isn't, does anyone have any hints? It's unchanged from 3.6, or at least, when I upgraded from 3.6 to 4 Java kept working. This link explains it pretty well: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21010 R's, John ___ 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: java support in FBSD Firefox 4
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com wrote: Before I attempt to (re)invent the java wheel in Firefox 4... Is there any documentation about how to enable java support already written or available. If there isn't, does anyone have any hints? As always, the FreeBSD Handbook is what you should consult first which gives a 3 command installation instructions to achieve your goal. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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: java support in FBSD Firefox 4
On 03/31/11 11:06, John Levine wrote: In article4d948902.6000...@wallnet.com you write: Before I attempt to (re)invent the java wheel in Firefox 4... Is there any documentation about how to enable java support already written or available. If there isn't, does anyone have any hints? It's unchanged from 3.6, or at least, when I upgraded from 3.6 to 4 Java kept working. This link explains it pretty well: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21010 R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Thanks. Someplace between Firefox 3.5 and 4.0 I changed from diablo to openjdk. That: ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/ was the missing step for me. Tim Kellers ___ 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: java support in FBSD Firefox 4
This link explains it pretty well: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21010 Someplace between Firefox 3.5 and 4.0 I changed from diablo to openjdk. It was 3.6. Check the archives for considerable gnashing of teeth as we tried to figure out how to get Java working again. ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/ was the missing step for me. Free bonus: if you use Chromium, it works there, too: ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so /usr/local/share/chromium/ Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly ___ 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: java support in FBSD Firefox 4
Tim Kellers writes: Someplace between Firefox 3.5 and 4.0 I changed from diablo to openjdk. That: ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/ was the missing step for me. I tried this, and discovered that - at least for SeaMonkey - I had to go to the plugins manager and explicitly enable it before it would show up in about:plugins. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FBSD support for Intel mini-itx board w. realtek 8111D nic
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Erik Nørgaard wrote: I'm looking at the D945GSEJT which has a realtek 8111DL nic. Which driver is used for this nic? re(4). Some forum users have had recent problems with certain versions (maybe newer) of the 8111. My older 8111C onboard versions have always worked fine.___ 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: BSDPAN support for Module::Build?
Thanks; I have that installed. I'm wondering if there is some way to get BSDPAN to register a Module::Build installation as a package. Right now, it seems to require a perl package built using ExtUtils::MakeMaker. I'm trying to create an installation package for an application, not just a module, and I need to be able to install files in locations other than the standard Perl library directories. Using App::Build, I can do that, but then I don't get the creation of a package in /var/db/pkg, and can't use pkg_delete etc. to uninstall. Thanks, Ricky On Mar 14, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On March 14, 2011 3:07:01 PM -0400 Richard Morse remo...@partners.org wrote: Hi! Is there any BSDPAN support for Module::Build? Is there a package I can install that will add it? Documentation on the web for BSDPAN is remarkably limited... cd to /usr/ports type make search name=Module-Build /usr/ports/devel/p5-Module-Build -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. ___ 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: BSDPAN support for Module::Build?
--On March 14, 2011 3:07:01 PM -0400 Richard Morse remo...@partners.org wrote: Hi! Is there any BSDPAN support for Module::Build? Is there a package I can install that will add it? Documentation on the web for BSDPAN is remarkably limited... cd to /usr/ports type make search name=Module-Build /usr/ports/devel/p5-Module-Build -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell ___ 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: Hardware support for Shuttle SX38P2 Pro
On Sunday 21 November 2010 17:19:05, Ben Quick wrote: I don't really know what either of them are. I'm assuming the Matrix Storage is the RAID controller. Is this supported? If not, I'll just use gmirror, but will obviously have to be able to access the disks in the first instance. AFAIK this matrix storage is supported by ataraid driver. I think using gmirror or zfs is better than ataraid. From the Shuttle spec sheet, I can't tell what video card is installed. Does anybody know? Is it supported? Initially, I'll be using only one monitor, but would intend to have both outputs in use in the longer term. From the pic: http://www.shuttle.eu/press/image-resources/sx38p2- pro/b5ebb3b485/?tx_chgallery_pi1%5Bsingle%5D=2 It looks there is no onboard graphics card. You need to buy it separately. Maciej ___ 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: Hardware support for Shuttle SX38P2 Pro
On 21/11/2010 17:25, Maciej Milewski wrote: On Sunday 21 November 2010 17:19:05, Ben Quick wrote: I don't really know what either of them are. I'm assuming the Matrix Storage is the RAID controller. Is this supported? If not, I'll just use gmirror, but will obviously have to be able to access the disks in the first instance. AFAIK this matrix storage is supported by ataraid driver. I think using gmirror or zfs is better than ataraid. Nice one, thank you From the Shuttle spec sheet, I can't tell what video card is installed. Does anybody know? Is it supported? Initially, I'll be using only one monitor, but would intend to have both outputs in use in the longer term. From the pic: http://www.shuttle.eu/press/image-resources/sx38p2- pro/b5ebb3b485/?tx_chgallery_pi1%5Bsingle%5D=2 It looks there is no onboard graphics card. You need to buy it separately. My mistake, sorry for the noise Thanks Ben Maciej ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg support for adding a graphics card
doug wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, doug wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:08:23 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com d...@safeport.com articulated: When I slid froward from FreeBSD 7.2 and Xorg (whatever) to 8.0 and xorg-7.4_4 I lost the ability to use the graphics card I had added to my Dell PE300 built in the last century. I was told the ability to have two cards in one box was lost due to int10 provided by libpciaccess. Is this still the case? The BIOS on the PE300 does not allow the on-board card to 'disappear'. I can not find any information to suggest things have changed. Isn't there a jumper on the motherboard that can be used to disable the on board card? Not all motherboards had one but it is worth a check anyway, assuming you have not done so all ready. I was not aware of the possibility - thanks The PE300 has no documented jumpers on the mother board effecting the VGA. Am I correct in my understanding that this is a FreeBSD issue that makes Xorg a 'victim'? ___ 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 Check the motherboard bios setup to disable the on motherboard vga port. ___ 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: Xorg support for adding a graphics card
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Fbsd8 wrote: doug wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, doug wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:08:23 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com d...@safeport.com articulated: When I slid froward from FreeBSD 7.2 and Xorg (whatever) to 8.0 and xorg-7.4_4 I lost the ability to use the graphics card I had added to my Dell PE300 built in the last century. I was told the ability to have two cards in one box was lost due to int10 provided by libpciaccess. Is this still the case? The BIOS on the PE300 does not allow the on-board card to 'disappear'. I can not find any information to suggest things have changed. Isn't there a jumper on the motherboard that can be used to disable the on board card? Not all motherboards had one but it is worth a check anyway, assuming you have not done so all ready. I was not aware of the possibility - thanks The PE300 has no documented jumpers on the mother board effecting the VGA. Am I correct in my understanding that this is a FreeBSD issue that makes Xorg a 'victim'? ___ Check the motherboard bios setup to disable the on motherboard vga port. Thanks. The [latest] BIOS has one VGA option: Video DAC Snoop Controls how VGA and graphics devices on the PCI or AGP bus respond to palette register accesses. * On - forces VGA and graphics devices to snoop VGA palette register accesses and forward them to the ISA bus. * Off - (the default) forces VGA and graphics devices to respond positively to palette register accesses. There is no hardware relief for the Dell PE300 that does not involve modifying the mother, assuming that is possible. I have [mostly] covered the fact that I have 1152x864 as the screen resolution by making things smaller in KDE and setting fonts in xterm. This system was made less useful by upgrading to FreeBSD 8. I am trying to find out if support for multiple VGA cards is in the works and what needs to change for that to happen. _ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com d...@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277 ___ 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: Xorg support for adding a graphics card
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, d...@safeport.com wrote: Thanks. The [latest] BIOS has one VGA option: Video DAC Snoop Controls how VGA and graphics devices on the PCI or AGP bus respond to palette register accesses. * On - forces VGA and graphics devices to snoop VGA palette register accesses and forward them to the ISA bus. * Off - (the default) forces VGA and graphics devices to respond positively to palette register accesses. Is there a Init Graphics Card First that can be set to AGP/PCI? That would let the preferred card be seen first. Still only one card. I don't know what's needed for multi-card xorg support on FreeBSD, but I suspect it won't happen soon. ___ 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: Xorg support for adding a graphics card
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, d...@safeport.com wrote: Thanks. The [latest] BIOS has one VGA option: Video DAC Snoop Controls how VGA and graphics devices on the PCI or AGP bus respond to palette register accesses. * On - forces VGA and graphics devices to snoop VGA palette register accesses and forward them to the ISA bus. * Off - (the default) forces VGA and graphics devices to respond positively to palette register accesses. Is there a Init Graphics Card First that can be set to AGP/PCI? That would let the preferred card be seen first. Still only one card. I don't know what's needed for multi-card xorg support on FreeBSD, but I suspect it won't happen soon. No such option. I would go back to 7.3 except I did not save various packages and it would take several months to compile what I have :) thanks for the thought. _ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com d...@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277 ___ 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: Xorg support for adding a graphics card
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, doug wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:08:23 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com d...@safeport.com articulated: When I slid froward from FreeBSD 7.2 and Xorg (whatever) to 8.0 and xorg-7.4_4 I lost the ability to use the graphics card I had added to my Dell PE300 built in the last century. I was told the ability to have two cards in one box was lost due to int10 provided by libpciaccess. Is this still the case? The BIOS on the PE300 does not allow the on-board card to 'disappear'. I can not find any information to suggest things have changed. Isn't there a jumper on the motherboard that can be used to disable the on board card? Not all motherboards had one but it is worth a check anyway, assuming you have not done so all ready. I was not aware of the possibility - thanks The PE300 has no documented jumpers on the mother board effecting the VGA. Am I correct in my understanding that this is a FreeBSD issue that makes Xorg a 'victim'? ___ 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: Xorg support for adding a graphics card
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:08:23 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com d...@safeport.com articulated: When I slid froward from FreeBSD 7.2 and Xorg (whatever) to 8.0 and xorg-7.4_4 I lost the ability to use the graphics card I had added to my Dell PE300 built in the last century. I was told the ability to have two cards in one box was lost due to int10 provided by libpciaccess. Is this still the case? The BIOS on the PE300 does not allow the on-board card to 'disappear'. I can not find any information to suggest things have changed. Isn't there a jumper on the motherboard that can be used to disable the on board card? Not all motherboards had one but it is worth a check anyway, assuming you have not done so all ready. -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ Every dog has its day, but the nights belong to the pussycats. ___ 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: Xorg support for adding a graphics card
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:08:23 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com d...@safeport.com articulated: When I slid froward from FreeBSD 7.2 and Xorg (whatever) to 8.0 and xorg-7.4_4 I lost the ability to use the graphics card I had added to my Dell PE300 built in the last century. I was told the ability to have two cards in one box was lost due to int10 provided by libpciaccess. Is this still the case? The BIOS on the PE300 does not allow the on-board card to 'disappear'. I can not find any information to suggest things have changed. Isn't there a jumper on the motherboard that can be used to disable the on board card? Not all motherboards had one but it is worth a check anyway, assuming you have not done so all ready. I was not aware of the possibility - thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 03:06:03PM -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: isp(4) mpt(4) Hrmm, I guess I should phrase the question this way: I have installed a Fibre Channel card into a new FreeBSD 8.x box. I have both isp(4) and mpt(4) are loaded and the device still doesn't appear in /dev. pciconf shows: no...@pci0:8:1:0: class=0x0c0400 card=0x656c1242 chip=0x15601242 rev=0xb2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Jaycor Networks Inc' device = 'Dual Channel 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel-PCI-X (JNIC-1560)' class= serial bus subclass = Fibre Channel So I'm guessing that this device is unsupported. So, what I was trying to ascertain from my original question is: does anyone have any FreeBSD experience with a Fibre Channel card that they like under FreeBSD that I can replace this one with? Basically I'm asking for a recommendation along the lines of I have card X and it works beautifully. :) I have X card and it workd beautifully. On ia64 -current I have: i...@pci0:192:1:0: class=0x0c0400 card=0x12d6103c chip=0x24221077 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'QLogic Corporation' device = 'QLogic PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter for QLA2460 (ISP2422)' class = serial bus subclass = Fibre Channel which gives: da1 at isp0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 1 da1: COMPAQ MSA1000 VOLUME 4.32 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device da1: 200.000MB/s transfers WWNN 0x500805f3000ec220 WWPN 0x500805f3000ec221 PortID 0x1 da1: Command Queueing enabled da1: 69460MB (142255575 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8855C) da2 at isp0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 2 da2: COMPAQ MSA1000 VOLUME 4.32 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device da2: 200.000MB/s transfers WWNN 0x500805f3000ec220 WWPN 0x500805f3000ec221 PortID 0x1 da2: Command Queueing enabled da2: 69460MB (142255575 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8855C) As you can see my disk array is Compaq MSA1000. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices
On 12/07/2010 22:49:51, Tim Gustafson wrote: Can anyone recommend a FreeBSD-compatible fibre channel board to connect a FreeBSD 8.0 server to a Sun 3500 disk array? isp(4) mpt(4) ... which is basically what shows up on doing 'man -k fibre' Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices
isp(4) mpt(4) Hrmm, I guess I should phrase the question this way: I have installed a Fibre Channel card into a new FreeBSD 8.x box. I have both isp(4) and mpt(4) are loaded and the device still doesn't appear in /dev. pciconf shows: no...@pci0:8:1:0: class=0x0c0400 card=0x656c1242 chip=0x15601242 rev=0xb2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Jaycor Networks Inc' device = 'Dual Channel 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel-PCI-X (JNIC-1560)' class= serial bus subclass = Fibre Channel So I'm guessing that this device is unsupported. So, what I was trying to ascertain from my original question is: does anyone have any FreeBSD experience with a Fibre Channel card that they like under FreeBSD that I can replace this one with? Basically I'm asking for a recommendation along the lines of I have card X and it works beautifully. :) Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ___ 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: BSD support for latest hardware
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/05/2010 05:18:35, chip_bai...@dell.com wrote: I'm interested in finding out if the latest version of freebsd supports the latest processors from AMD (Magny-Cours) Intel Nehalem EP(Westmere) EX? Yes, sure it does. How many cpu cores are supported in a single server? Max memory? I think the formal limit is more than you could sensibly expect to use. Practically speaking, FreeBSD will perform well on a machine with 8 or 16 cores given an appropriate multi-threaded workload. Maximum RAM is always determined by the capacity of the motherboard (assuming a 64bit machine). You want 768GB RAM? No problem. The release notes seem to reference old hardware (not a bad thing) but I'm focused on latest architectures. Thanks for any input or pointers to where I can find this information. Asking whether *processors* are supported is really the wrong question. Processors are by their nature code-compatible with older models, so, yes, the OS will run on those CPUs[*]. You want to look at the motherboard chipsets and peripherals such as SAS/SATA controllers as the limiting factors. Unfortunately in this case, you won't find a great deal of information about what is supported at the leading edge -- motherboard manufacturers seem to think that testing against Windows and Linux is sufficient. FreeBSD tends to list support by the model name and number of the specific components in question, rather than the whole hardware platform. See, for example the man pages for eg. amr(4) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=amrapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASEformat=html The FreeBSD project does target the hardware produced by big-name vendors such as HP, Dell, Intel. Probably none of those will officially support FreeBSD (not that hardware vendor support of an OS is really that critical when making purchasing decisions) -- but find the right bod in their support departments, and they will tell you off the record if FreeBSD works or not. Commodity H/W manufacturers like Asus, Tyan, Supermicro are a different matter -- there are more or less formal arrangements for getting sample kit into the hands of FreeBSD developers from some of these, but it's all a bit ad hoc. If you can, try firing up a live CD on the hardware before you put your money down. You will generally be pleasantly surprised: most server grade kit is pretty well supported. Cheers, Matthew [*] Support for the very latest code features and CPU specific optimizations does take some time to percolate through to RELEASE versions; exacerbated at the moment by the incompatibility of the GPLv3 license and hence the ongoing project to shift from gcc to llvm/clang as the system compiler. - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkv/fswACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxDhgCeOuHoJDn507zmtGYnyLKE8bab 46EAoISQtZ25cMlp9CSVV5BAWzyhgLMR =wEIS -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: IT Support And services
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Streamlyn Technologies a...@stechnologies.co.za wrote: Since its establishment in 2005 Streamlyn Technologies has actively and successfully been helping small to medium companies deal with: Computer hardware and software hassles and needs by providing WTF? LoL whaaay to go stechnologies.co.za!!! Thanks for making all of South Africa look like idiots lol hehehehehehehehehe we really appreciate it! -- Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. ___ 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: IT Support And services
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Streamlyn Technologies a...@stechnologies.co.za wrote: Since its establishment in 2005 Streamlyn Technologies has actively and successfully been helping small to medium companies deal with: Computer hardware and software hassles and needs by providing WTF? ___ 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: Unicode support in Free bsd.
On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? UFS/UFS2 supports 8-bit chars (except NULL), so UTF8 representation for Unicode filenames ought to work OK. Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? Yes. for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). You can't use USC-2 / UTF-16 widechars. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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: Unicode support in Free bsd.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). If so how to activate it. Is there any kind of environment variable that we need to set for it? In Unix you can create file names containing any arbitrary sequence of characters except for NULL (marks the end of a string in C) or '/' (the directory separator) All of the variants on open(2) and similar functions will accept any sequence of bytes conforming to that as a filename. The tricky bit is getting the user-interface to interpret those names as Unicode (or whatever) and show you the appropriate sequence of glyphs in whatever character set you prefer. In general you need to set various locale related environment variables plus you may need to run specialized terminal emulator software to enable means for entering non-roman characters via your keyboard. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku+OxUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwN0wCeO9QlEcsHkjpyaTPEeXRj+luT F18An0n1tqLRE6nD2Mrw/XKOGoWfYoxh =1s6j -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: Unicode support in Free bsd.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). [...] The tricky bit is getting the user-interface to interpret those names as Unicode (or whatever) and show you the appropriate sequence of glyphs in whatever character set you prefer. In general you need to set various locale related environment variables plus you may need to run specialized terminal emulator software to enable means for entering non-roman characters via your keyboard. I find this thread interesting because I had similar problems in FBSD with UTF-8. The virtual terminals will not support multi-byte characters nor several other things. Nevertheless, if you have Gnome (and I guess KDE as well) you can configure _that_ environment quite easily to support UTF-8. Just add: gdm_lang=en_US.UTF-8 or whatever other locale you want in your rc.conf and that's it. You can also customize this on a per-user basis. I haven't got the languages list to work yet in GDM, but all I needed was UTF-8 anyway. If anyone knows how to get multi-locales to work with GDM it would be awesome. I searched several threads but noone seemed to have an aswer. Anyway, hope this helps. Alejandro Imass See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku+OxUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwN0wCeO9QlEcsHkjpyaTPEeXRj+luT F18An0n1tqLRE6nD2Mrw/XKOGoWfYoxh =1s6j -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unicode support in Free bsd.
UTF8 works grate here in irssi and tcsh over putty, same goes for filenames. Had no problem with it what so ever, just needed to set in .cshrc: setenv LC_CTYPE he_IL.UTF-8 never checked any X applications though. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). [...] The tricky bit is getting the user-interface to interpret those names as Unicode (or whatever) and show you the appropriate sequence of glyphs in whatever character set you prefer. In general you need to set various locale related environment variables plus you may need to run specialized terminal emulator software to enable means for entering non-roman characters via your keyboard. I find this thread interesting because I had similar problems in FBSD with UTF-8. The virtual terminals will not support multi-byte characters nor several other things. Nevertheless, if you have Gnome (and I guess KDE as well) you can configure _that_ environment quite easily to support UTF-8. Just add: gdm_lang=en_US.UTF-8 or whatever other locale you want in your rc.conf and that's it. You can also customize this on a per-user basis. I haven't got the languages list to work yet in GDM, but all I needed was UTF-8 anyway. If anyone knows how to get multi-locales to work with GDM it would be awesome. I searched several threads but noone seemed to have an aswer. Anyway, hope this helps. Alejandro Imass See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku+OxUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwN0wCeO9QlEcsHkjpyaTPEeXRj+luT F18An0n1tqLRE6nD2Mrw/XKOGoWfYoxh =1s6j -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Support Cycle
mailinglist wrote: I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS storage for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, amd64 variety. What is the expected EOS EOL dates (end of support/end of life) for FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure if the EOL question matters for an open source OS, but basically I'm just asking at what point in time would there no longer be security updates and bug fixes made to the OS? http://security.freebsd.org/#sup Of course, possibly subject to change or update. Usually any new additions of changes are reported in various @announce mailing lists. The security announce list will report on specifically the secure patch support question. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Support Cycle
On 08/03/2010 15:39, mailinglist wrote: I'm possibly considering building a FreeBSD based NAS to provide NFS storage for vSphere in a production environment. I would use FreeBSD-8, amd64 variety. What is the expected EOS EOL dates (end of support/end of life) for FreeBSD 8? I'm not sure if the EOL question matters for an open source OS, but basically I'm just asking at what point in time would there no longer be security updates and bug fixes made to the OS?___ 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 Have a look at http://security.freebsd.org/#sup. ___ 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: 802.11QinQ support
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Ross Cameron ross.came...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: Hi there all Does anyone know off hand if FreeBSD 8.0 or -CURRENT supports 802.1QinQ aka netsted VLans? I don't believe FreeBSD supports QinQ yet, however it apparently has always been possible to do nested vlans with netgraph. My trouble with netgraph has always been that there was never a sufficient amount of examples on the web to be able to do anything useful with it. I've also read that netgraph can apparently do QinQ, but I can only get normal VLan's working :( -- Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. ___ 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: 802.11QinQ support
Hi there all Does anyone know off hand if FreeBSD 8.0 or -CURRENT supports 802.1QinQ aka netsted VLans? If so, how do I configure it as I've tried the usual ifconfig vlan? create and tried stipulating that the secondary VLan's parent interface it the primary VLan interface. But this doesn't seem to work :( Regards,... Ross Cameron -- Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. ___ 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: 802.11QinQ support
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Ross Cameron ross.came...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: Hi there all Does anyone know off hand if FreeBSD 8.0 or -CURRENT supports 802.1QinQ aka netsted VLans? I don't believe FreeBSD supports QinQ yet, however it apparently has always been possible to do nested vlans with netgraph. My trouble with netgraph has always been that there was never a sufficient amount of examples on the web to be able to do anything useful with it. Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD support for 64-bit x86 systems
2009/7/2 Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Daniel Underwooddjuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Does FreeBSD currently support 64-bit x86 systems? amd64 supports both amd and intel 64bit CPU's right now the big limitation for me is you can not have a Nvidia binary graphics driver on amd64 progress has been made on this front in the last month. Really? Can I have a link please?? I really want to migrate... Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD support for 64-bit x86 systems
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Daniel Underwooddjuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Does FreeBSD currently support 64-bit x86 systems? I've been here, but my knowledge of hardware terminology is too limited to confidently draw conclusions: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ amd64 -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD support for 64-bit x86 systems
amd64 Ah-hah. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD support for 64-bit x86 systems
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Daniel Underwooddjuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Does FreeBSD currently support 64-bit x86 systems? amd64 supports both amd and intel 64bit CPU's right now the big limitation for me is you can not have a Nvidia binary graphics driver on amd64 progress has been made on this front in the last month. Sam Fourman Jr ___ 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: Webcam support in FreeBSD?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:09:42 -0700 From: y...@rawbw.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Webcam support in FreeBSD? There are three Linux drivers supported under emulation code: devel/linux-kmod-compat http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat/, multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod/, multimedia/linux-ov511-kmod http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/linux-ov511-kmod/. I couldn't find hardware compatibility list for FreeBSD. There is one for Linux ov511 driver here: http://ovcam.org/ov511/cameras.html. Are any cameras really working under FreeBSD? Can they be used from Linux Skype on FreeBSD? Maybe you could check out: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/usb-cameras.html That seems to me a place to start... (if you find out something, please share!! I have the same concern) Thanks, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org _ ¿Querés saber cómo va a estar el clima mañana? Ingresá ahora a MSN http://tiempo.ar.msn.com/___ 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: Motherboard support
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome I'm not sure about the NIC, but I don't think the native ide or sata control matters in terms of zfs (I could be wrong, and please correct me if so experts). The sata controller should recognize the disks with or without raid, which freebsd should recognize then install on. I use sata in this mode on my systems, and freebsd works fine. Any software raid wouldn't care then as long as freebsd itself recognizes the drives. HTH ___ 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: Motherboard support
Well I spent a little more time having a look in the bios Here are the results from various settings and a potential solution. SATA controller in Native IDE mode All drives show as IDE at the POST summary screen on boot In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-3 The disks show SATA Ports 45 No disks show Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113 at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata5-master SATA300 SATA Controller in AHCI Mode All drives show up on RAID Controller POST summary screen In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-5 now show disks connected Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113 at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata6-master SATA300 ad14: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata7-master SATA300 I have read there have been problems with the realtek 8169/8111c NIC card on some systems with under FreeBSD, but I cant seem to find a solution to this. Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: Da Rock [mailto:rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au] Sent: 21 January 2009 10:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard support On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome I'm not sure about the NIC, but I don't think the native ide or sata control matters in terms of zfs (I could be wrong, and please correct me if so experts). The sata controller should recognize the disks with or without raid, which freebsd should recognize then install on. I use sata in this mode on my systems, and freebsd works fine. Any software raid wouldn't care then as long as freebsd itself recognizes the drives. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Motherboard support
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 13:37 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Well I spent a little more time having a look in the bios Here are the results from various settings and a potential solution. SATA controller in Native IDE mode All drives show as IDE at the POST summary screen on boot In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-3 The disks show SATA Ports 45 No disks show Only the first four are recognized as ide, the controller is translating them as a second and third ide channel but in doing so will ignore the rest, making any other sata channels pretty much useless. I'm probably only stating the obvious here, but I think pretty much any platform will respond like FreeBSD with this scenario. Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113 at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata5-master SATA300 SATA Controller in AHCI Mode All drives show up on RAID Controller POST summary screen In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-5 now show disks connected Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113 at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata6-master SATA300 ad14: 476940MB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA at ata7-master SATA300 Some MB's have several different modes of sata for different scenarios, mine has an auto, combined, ide, sata mode. But then it also has 2 controllers - this mode changes only 4 of the sata ports. Using the sata mode in your case will give you access to all of the drives (with no raid mode defined on the controller) and then you can define the raid in software on FreeBSD with no muss, no fuss. Depends on what you like I guess. I have read there have been problems with the realtek 8169/8111c NIC card on some systems with under FreeBSD, but I cant seem to find a solution to this. I'm not sure of the differences between the c and e types of rtl8111, but the e has third party drivers which can be built on 6.x. As to whether there are third party drivers for c I'm not sure. Look for whatever version FreeBSD you have (They may have 7.x drivers now, not when I last looked about a year ago) and that may get you out of trouble in the short term- or stick another known NIC in. Then you can keep track of whatever is going on in regards to the native drivers for your card. HTH and good luck! Regards Graeme -Original Message- From: Da Rock [mailto:rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au] Sent: 21 January 2009 10:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard support On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome I'm not sure about the NIC, but I don't think the native ide or sata control matters in terms of zfs (I could be wrong, and please correct me if so experts). The sata controller should recognize the disks with or without raid, which freebsd should recognize then install on. I use sata in this mode on my systems, and freebsd works fine. Any software raid wouldn't care then as long as freebsd itself recognizes the drives. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ 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: iSCSI support
Jeff Chen - PTT 陳龍焜 wrote: Hi, My company is a storage RAID system company. There is one customer ask iSCSI solution with my production of my company with FreeBSD 6.1. But I found some information in the Internet, the iSCSI full support on FreeBSD is 7.0. Is it mean FreeBSD 6.1 can’t support iSCSI? Yes, the iSCSI initiator is in FreeBSD 7.x. Soon, FreeBSD 7.1 will be released. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: iSCSI support
can't be iSCSI client, but iscsi-target is userlevel app, you may run on any FreeBSD (most probably under any unix). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPT Support on Freebsd
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 06:20:15 pm Franck wrote: 2008/10/29 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 29 October 2008 05:39:27 pm Franck wrote: Hi, Thank you for help. I provide you the maximum information about my partitions. Before, I watch the kernel configuration. When I fetch the kernel sources, I can see 2 differents configuration files : DEFAULTS and GENERIC. and the line : options GEOM_PART_GPT is present only in GENERIC. If I use my knowledge in linux systems, I would say that my actual kernel was compiled with the DEFAULTS conf, which doesn't enable the support of GPT for GEOM. Maybe I'm wrong, my knew kernel is compiling... The install kernel from the CD is GENERIC. So only if you've built a custom I apologize, I didn't watch in the handbook for this kernel would you not have GPT support. It seems that the kernel does find the GPT table, but gets confused by it. Can you get the output of 'fdisk ad0' and 'gpt show ad0'? fdisk ad0 : *** Working on device /dev/ad0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=387621 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=387621 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 238 (0xee),(EFI GPT) start 1, size 409639 (200 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 175 (0xaf),(HFS+) start 409640, size 37486592 (18304 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native) start 37897335, size 401625 (196 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 38298960, size 38908800 (18998 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 107/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 818/ head 15/ sector 63 Ok, so it's not a PMBR. My understanding is that a GPT requires the MBR to be a PMBR (only one partition in the 4th slot with a special type of 0xee that covers the whole disk). What this box is doing is trying to make the MBR match the first 4 partitions in the GPT. I'm not sure if you will be able to get FreeBSD's GPT stuff to recognize that reliably. Marcel (cc'd) might have some ideas. If you can get FreeBSD's GPT support to handle this disk it will mean that you will have to use only GPT device names (so /dev/ad0p4a instead of /dev/ad0s4a). You will also need to make sure the GPT partition for FreeBSD has the right UUID since your partition contains a BSD label. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo gpt show ad0 gpt show: unable to open device 'ad0': Operation not permitted Normally with GPT you don't put a BSD label inside a GPT partition, so you wouldn't have /dev/ad0p4a, but instead would use a separate GPT partition for each filesystem/swap/etc. The fstab from my laptop (not a macbook) looks like this: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0p3 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0p2 / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0p5 /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0p6 /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0p4 /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Are you booting using boot camp or parallels or some such? Yes, I think It's the problem. Actually I have a Leopard Mac OS X System. And it seems to automatically switch on the bootcamp feature when I tried to install pcbsd. That's weird because I haven't any problems to see the gpt table when I boot from a ubuntu cd for example. If I well remember, I was obliged to install pcbsd in one of the four first parititions. I'll reboot on the pcbsd cd to see if I can access to all the partitions. I realize that's must be efi/refit/bootcamp which mess up all. And I don't how to fix that. Thank you, Franck On Freebsd : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/Dante]$ ls /dev/|grep ^ad ad0 ad0s2 ad0s3 ad0s4 ad0s4a ad0s4b ad0s4c my dmesg : http://pastebin.com/m7b5f130e On Gentoo : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % LANG=C sudo parted /dev/sda GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: ATA ST9200420ASG (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 200GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End
Re: iSCSI support
Jeff Chen - PTT 陳龍焜 wrote: Hi, My company is a storage RAID system company. There is one customer ask iSCSI solution with my production of my company with FreeBSD 6.1. But I found some information in the Internet, the iSCSI full support on FreeBSD is 7.0. Is it mean FreeBSD 6.1 can’t support iSCSI? BR, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are some patches around to run it on 6.2 (maybe all of 6.x) but the performance isn't very good. I used this on 6.2 and it did work: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-2.0.92.tar.gz This looks like a more recent version (tho no guarantee it will work on 6.x): ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-2.1.tar.gz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPT Support on Freebsd
On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:36 AM, John Baldwin wrote: Ok, so it's not a PMBR. My understanding is that a GPT requires the MBR to be a PMBR (only one partition in the 4th slot with a special type of 0xee that covers the whole disk). What this box is doing is trying to make the MBR match the first 4 partitions in the GPT. I'm not sure if you will be able to get FreeBSD's GPT stuff to recognize that reliably. Marcel (cc'd) might have some ideas. In FreeBSD 6, the kernel checks explicitly for a PMBR when it checks for a GPT. Besides being part of the specification, it also avoids conflicts. In the GEOM framework, there's no a priori support for having one GEOM control another. When there's a valid MBR as well as a valid GPT, it's undeterministic which one will be used, unless they both cooperate. They don't. This is where GPart helps out. In FreeBSD 7 and up, GPart supports multiple partitioning schemes, including MBR and GPT. The kernel will not enforce a PMBR in front of a GPT, because upon detecting both a MBR and a GPT, the GPT will be used. However, this only applies when the kernel is configured with GEOM_PART_MBR and not with GEOM_MBR. At this time GEOM_MBR is still the default. So, to make it work for you, you need at least FreeBSD 7.1 (to be released shortly) or use next month's snapshot and build a custom kernel without GEOM_MBR and with GEOM_PART_MBR. In FreeBSD 8 and up GPart is the default and you won't have to make a custom kernel in that case. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPT Support on Freebsd
Franck Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How can I access to my fifth partition ? John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on GPT support, but it's still reported to be a work in progress. It works as far as recognizing disks over 16TB. It also gets picked up by the geom framework. I'm not sure about booting, although there are tantalizing hints in the manual pages. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPT Support on Freebsd
John Baldwin a écrit : On Wednesday 29 October 2008 07:42:18 am Lowell Gilbert wrote: Franck Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How can I access to my fifth partition ? John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on GPT support, but it's still reported to be a work in progress. It works as far as recognizing disks over 16TB. It also gets picked up by the geom framework. I'm not sure about booting, although there are tantalizing hints in the manual pages. GPT booting works just fine on 6.x and later. Using the gpt(8) utility you basically do: # gpt create foo0 # gpt boot foo0 The second command creates a special boot partition in /dev/foo0p1. You can then add partitions: # gpt add -t ufs other params like size if needed foo0 # newfs /dev/foo0p2 gpart(8) in HEAD works similarly. The one thing lacking is that sysinstall/libdisk doesn't handle GPT, so there isn't a nice way to do it during installation. Ok thank you. But actually, it's not what I'm looking for. I use freebsd on a macbook. On this macbook, I already have a gpt, refit, mac os x and some linux partitions. The problem is freebsd, which doesn't recognize partitions after the fourth one (but my gentoo linux see them). Then, I suppose freebsd use the mbr partition table (synchronized from the gpt one using refit) to populate the /dev, but partitions after the fourth, which are those I want to use, are only indexed in the gpt. Finally, I want to force freebsd to use the gpt on my hard drive to allow it to see others partitions. I don't want to destroy my actual gpt, maybe one day, but no right now. Tell me if my english is too bad to be understood. I just want to precise that I use pcvbsd 7.0, so the kernel configuration might be different than the freebsd generic one. Thank you for your answers. Franck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPT Support on Freebsd
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 07:42:18 am Lowell Gilbert wrote: Franck Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How can I access to my fifth partition ? John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on GPT support, but it's still reported to be a work in progress. It works as far as recognizing disks over 16TB. It also gets picked up by the geom framework. I'm not sure about booting, although there are tantalizing hints in the manual pages. GPT booting works just fine on 6.x and later. Using the gpt(8) utility you basically do: # gpt create foo0 # gpt boot foo0 The second command creates a special boot partition in /dev/foo0p1. You can then add partitions: # gpt add -t ufs other params like size if needed foo0 # newfs /dev/foo0p2 gpart(8) in HEAD works similarly. The one thing lacking is that sysinstall/libdisk doesn't handle GPT, so there isn't a nice way to do it during installation. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPT Support on Freebsd
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 11:52:19 am Franck Royer wrote: John Baldwin a écrit : On Wednesday 29 October 2008 07:42:18 am Lowell Gilbert wrote: Franck Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How can I access to my fifth partition ? John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on GPT support, but it's still reported to be a work in progress. It works as far as recognizing disks over 16TB. It also gets picked up by the geom framework. I'm not sure about booting, although there are tantalizing hints in the manual pages. GPT booting works just fine on 6.x and later. Using the gpt(8) utility you basically do: # gpt create foo0 # gpt boot foo0 The second command creates a special boot partition in /dev/foo0p1. You can then add partitions: # gpt add -t ufs other params like size if needed foo0 # newfs /dev/foo0p2 gpart(8) in HEAD works similarly. The one thing lacking is that sysinstall/libdisk doesn't handle GPT, so there isn't a nice way to do it during installation. Ok thank you. But actually, it's not what I'm looking for. I use freebsd on a macbook. On this macbook, I already have a gpt, refit, mac os x and some linux partitions. The problem is freebsd, which doesn't recognize partitions after the fourth one (but my gentoo linux see them). Then, I suppose freebsd use the mbr partition table (synchronized from the gpt one using refit) to populate the /dev, but partitions after the fourth, which are those I want to use, are only indexed in the gpt. Finally, I want to force freebsd to use the gpt on my hard drive to allow it to see others partitions. I don't want to destroy my actual gpt, maybe one day, but no right now. Tell me if my english is too bad to be understood. I just want to precise that I use pcvbsd 7.0, so the kernel configuration might be different than the freebsd generic one. What device entries do you see in /dev? -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPT Support on Freebsd
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:40:33 +, Franck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I use my knowledge in linux systems, I would say that my actual kernel was compiled with the DEFAULTS conf, which doesn't enable the support of GPT for GEOM. Maybe I'm wrong, my knew kernel is compiling... Without setting KERNCONF, the GENERIC kernel configuration file will be used to build a kernel, if I remember the handbook correctly. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPT Support on Freebsd
2008/10/29 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 29 October 2008 05:39:27 pm Franck wrote: Hi, Thank you for help. I provide you the maximum information about my partitions. Before, I watch the kernel configuration. When I fetch the kernel sources, I can see 2 differents configuration files : DEFAULTS and GENERIC. and the line : options GEOM_PART_GPT is present only in GENERIC. If I use my knowledge in linux systems, I would say that my actual kernel was compiled with the DEFAULTS conf, which doesn't enable the support of GPT for GEOM. Maybe I'm wrong, my knew kernel is compiling... The install kernel from the CD is GENERIC. So only if you've built a custom I apologize, I didn't watch in the handbook for this kernel would you not have GPT support. It seems that the kernel does find the GPT table, but gets confused by it. Can you get the output of 'fdisk ad0' and 'gpt show ad0'? fdisk ad0 : *** Working on device /dev/ad0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=387621 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=387621 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 238 (0xee),(EFI GPT) start 1, size 409639 (200 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 175 (0xaf),(HFS+) start 409640, size 37486592 (18304 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native) start 37897335, size 401625 (196 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 38298960, size 38908800 (18998 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 107/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 818/ head 15/ sector 63 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo gpt show ad0 gpt show: unable to open device 'ad0': Operation not permitted Normally with GPT you don't put a BSD label inside a GPT partition, so you wouldn't have /dev/ad0p4a, but instead would use a separate GPT partition for each filesystem/swap/etc. The fstab from my laptop (not a macbook) looks like this: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad0p3 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0p2 / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0p5 /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0p6 /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0p4 /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Are you booting using boot camp or parallels or some such? Yes, I think It's the problem. Actually I have a Leopard Mac OS X System. And it seems to automatically switch on the bootcamp feature when I tried to install pcbsd. That's weird because I haven't any problems to see the gpt table when I boot from a ubuntu cd for example. If I well remember, I was obliged to install pcbsd in one of the four first parititions. I'll reboot on the pcbsd cd to see if I can access to all the partitions. I realize that's must be efi/refit/bootcamp which mess up all. And I don't how to fix that. Thank you, Franck On Freebsd : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/Dante]$ ls /dev/|grep ^ad ad0 ad0s2 ad0s3 ad0s4 ad0s4a ad0s4b ad0s4c my dmesg : http://pastebin.com/m7b5f130e On Gentoo : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % LANG=C sudo parted /dev/sda GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: ATA ST9200420ASG (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 200GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End SizeFile system Name Flags 1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB fat32EFI System Partition boot 2 210MB 19.4GB 19.2GB hfs+ MacOSX 3 19.4GB 19.6GB 206MB ext2 4 19.6GB 39.5GB 19.9GB 6 39.5GB 42.7GB 3142MB linux-swap 5 42.7GB 58.4GB 15.7GB ext3 Gentoo 7 58.4GB 74.1GB 15.7GB ext3 9 89.9GB 200GB 110GB ext3 The 4 is my ufs partition. UFS is not recognize on my gentoo system. The partition 7 is my home, the one that I want to mount under freebsd. Again, thank you for your help Franck 2008/10/29 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 29 October 2008 11:52:19 am Franck Royer wrote: John Baldwin a écrit : On Wednesday 29 October 2008 07:42:18 am Lowell Gilbert wrote: Franck Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Re: GPT Support on Freebsd
More news : 1) Boot from the livecd pcbsd - Like I remember, pcbsd shows me only the first four partitions in the installation wizard. That's correspond to the partitions which are synchronised from the gpt by refit. - When I boot to emergency mode, I am able to access to all my partitions ! and a gpt show ad0 works fine. But, still from the emergency mode, I chroot in my pcbsd root partition, I can't see the gpt anymore. Pretty weird... 2) New kernel Like I said, I recompile a kernel from the generic with two more lines : options GEOM_PART_MBR options EXT2FS When I booted on it, I had a problem : ad0 became ad5. So the mountroot asked me to enter the name of my root partition and Miracle ! it show me ALL my gpt partitions, include my Home in ext2. Then I enter ad5s4a which is my pcbsd root partition. After the boot, I thought all was fixed but no, I still can only see the 4 first partitions in the /dev and gpt show ad5 still returns an error. It's pretty weird because before the mount of the root partition, i was able to see all my gpt partitions, then after, the problem remains. I don't enough know the freebsd boot process to understand by myself. Any Ideas ? Franck Hi, Thank you for help. I provide you the maximum information about my partitions. Before, I watch the kernel configuration. When I fetch the kernel sources, I can see 2 differents configuration files : DEFAULTS and GENERIC. and the line : options GEOM_PART_GPT is present only in GENERIC. If I use my knowledge in linux systems, I would say that my actual kernel was compiled with the DEFAULTS conf, which doesn't enable the support of GPT for GEOM. Maybe I'm wrong, my knew kernel is compiling... On Freebsd : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/Dante]$ ls /dev/|grep ^ad ad0 ad0s2 ad0s3 ad0s4 ad0s4a ad0s4b ad0s4c my dmesg : http://pastebin.com/m7b5f130e On Gentoo : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % LANG=C sudo parted /dev/sda GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: ATA ST9200420ASG (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 200GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End SizeFile system Name Flags 1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB fat32EFI System Partition boot 2 210MB 19.4GB 19.2GB hfs+ MacOSX 3 19.4GB 19.6GB 206MB ext2 4 19.6GB 39.5GB 19.9GB 6 39.5GB 42.7GB 3142MB linux-swap 5 42.7GB 58.4GB 15.7GB ext3 Gentoo 7 58.4GB 74.1GB 15.7GB ext3 9 89.9GB 200GB 110GB ext3 The 4 is my ufs partition. UFS is not recognize on my gentoo system. The partition 7 is my home, the one that I want to mount under freebsd. Again, thank you for your help Franck 2008/10/29 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 29 October 2008 11:52:19 am Franck Royer wrote: John Baldwin a écrit : On Wednesday 29 October 2008 07:42:18 am Lowell Gilbert wrote: Franck Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How can I access to my fifth partition ? John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on GPT support, but it's still reported to be a work in progress. It works as far as recognizing disks over 16TB. It also gets picked up by the geom framework. I'm not sure about booting, although there are tantalizing hints in the manual pages. GPT booting works just fine on 6.x and later. Using the gpt(8) utility you basically do: # gpt create foo0 # gpt boot foo0 The second command creates a special boot partition in /dev/foo0p1. You can then add partitions: # gpt add -t ufs other params like size if needed foo0 # newfs /dev/foo0p2 gpart(8) in HEAD works similarly. The one thing lacking is that sysinstall/libdisk doesn't handle GPT, so there isn't a nice way to do it during installation. Ok thank you. But actually, it's not what I'm looking for. I use freebsd on a macbook. On this macbook, I already have a gpt, refit, mac os x and some linux partitions. The problem is freebsd, which doesn't recognize partitions after the fourth one (but my gentoo linux see them). Then, I suppose freebsd use the mbr partition table (synchronized from the gpt one using refit) to populate the /dev, but partitions after the fourth, which are those I want to use, are only indexed in the gpt. Finally, I want to force freebsd to use the gpt on my hard drive to allow it to see others partitions. I don't want to destroy my actual gpt, maybe one day, but no right now. Tell me if my english is too bad to be understood. I just want to precise that I use pcvbsd 7.0, so the kernel configuration might be different than the freebsd generic one. What device entries do you see in /dev? -- John Baldwin -- Franck Royer
Re: FreeBSD support for HP DL180/G5
Quoting Josef Grosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x on an HP DL180/G5? The company I work for is looking to get a number of these to be put in production. Your general impressions would be a good start. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. Josef, I run freebsd 7.0 on a DL 380 G3 - A Pentium 4, 6G RAM, x86 with out issue. Old machines but they run fine. David This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD support for HP DL180/G5
HP produces pretty good boxes and historically I have been able to get them working without any troubles. However I would say DL180 is a pretty non customizable box. The hardware works perfectly with FreeBSD 7.0. I didnt try it with 6.3, so cant comment on that. However I would say DL380 is a better off. The main advantage of DL3xx boxes are there is a lot of room to play with add-on cards. Also not all the latest and greatest processors are available with DL1xx family of servers. Also make sure that you go for an external RAID controller like 3ware or Areca. I prefer Areca more :-D. The HP RAID controller cant take the beating I give to it. Thanks Subhro On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Josef Grosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x on an HP DL180/G5? The company I work for is looking to get a number of these to be put in production. Your general impressions would be a good start. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PAE support using freebsd-update procedure
Adding some infos to the issue, plus partial answer… Main answer still needed !! Le 1 juil. 08 à 18:53, bsd a écrit : Hello folks, I have just baught brand new servers with an 8Gb memory attached to each of these server. I generaly use the freebsd-update procedure to update and apply patches to the system. Problem is the default kernel provided with freebsd-update does not seem to have the PAE support enabled by default. My question is: --- --- What will be the best way to upgrade smoothly my system and have my PAE support enabled? PAE seems to disable kld module used for example if you have a firewal such as ipf (and haven't compiled it in the kernel). --- Wouldn't It be better to run amd64 instead of i386? I have seen that this will allow to take full capacity of the memory - on the other hand there seems to have restriction on the ports Can anyone let me know if these restrictions will apply to: - postfix - postgreSQL - amavisd-new - dovecot --- What procedure would you suggest to do that properly and on regular basis (every time a patch is issued). Thanks for your answer(s). Sincerly yours. Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PAE support using freebsd-update procedure
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:39:12PM +0200, bsd wrote: --- Wouldn't It be better to run amd64 instead of i386? I have seen that this will allow to take full capacity of the memory - on the other hand there seems to have restriction on the ports Can anyone let me know if these restrictions will apply to: - postfix - postgreSQL - amavisd-new - dovecot I think all of those will work just fine. You can check by inspecting the respective ports' Makefiles. If a port won't build on a particular platform, the Makefile will have that knowledge - there will be a flag called ONLY_FOR_ARCHS whose value will be set to a list of the platforms the port works on. lang/ezm3 is a good illustrative example: ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= alpha amd64 i386 sparc64 If you try to build the port on an unsupported platform, you'll get an error message and the build will halt. I don't use FreeBSD/AMD64, but I would think by now that most ports will work on it, particularly the type of things you mention above. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpv5jlWj6JD4.pgp Description: PGP signature
