Re: SMP Version of tar

2012-10-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Oct 2, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Yamagi Burmeister li...@yamagi.org wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 22:16:53 -0700 Tim Kientzle t...@kientzle.com wrote: There are a few different parallel command-line compressors and decompressors in ports; experiment a lot (with large files being read from and/or

Re: LED support for ALIX 2/3 series

2010-12-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Dec 15, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Michael Reifenberger wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Emanuel Haupt wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:38:23 +0100 From: Emanuel Haupt eha...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: LED support for ALIX 2/3 series Is anyone interested in porting

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Jul 13, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: On 07/13/10 06:15, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Have fun, it would be great if you could report how it works on fancy devices (iphone, ipad, androids...) For what it's worth, it doesn't work at all on Android :) (and the layout is messed up) The front

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Frank Mayhar wrote: My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh, so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I know everyone doesn't read -mobile). I haven't played

Re: nvidia working?

2008-01-14 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia hardware, some way I can absolutely prove that I

Re: Verizon Wireless Card v620 (Novatel Wireless)

2007-09-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 01 September 2007, Anthrax De Oracle wrote: Success ... on device from ugen1 to ucom0 ucom0: Novatel Wireless Inc. Novatel Wireless Merlin CDMA, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2 ..I have successfully gotten my device to detect as ucom.. (ucom0: Novatel Wireless

Re: iSCSI boot mussings

2007-03-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 16 March 2007 07:34, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, Now that I have my hands on a server that can boot iSCSI, I started to look into it. After figuring out what magic is needed in the dhcpd.conf (just add option root-path iscsi:target-iptarget-name) I can boot FreeBSD to the

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

2007-02-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 12:41, David Gilbert wrote: I have 734 ports installed on my laptop right now. I'm pretty sure, at times, I've had over 1000 ports on my laptop. On machine with moderate numbers of ports (most servers seem to have 50 to 200 ports), portupgrade takes a moderate

Best practices for using gjournal with gmirror?

2007-01-10 Thread John Nielsen
I have a few questions for pjd (or anyone else) about using gjournal, particularly when used with gmirror. 1) I'm running 6-STABLE and plan to test with gjournal6_20061030.patch (from the mailing list; updated version of 20061024 that applies cleanly). Is there a better/newer version for

Re: iSCSI disconnects dilema

2007-01-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 02:06, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, While I think I have almost solved the problem of network disconnects, It downed on me a major problem: When a 'local' disk crashes, the kernel will probably hang/panic/crash. if i don't try to recover, then there is no change in the

Re: iSCSI disconnects dilema

2007-01-09 Thread John Nielsen
Forwarding a relevant comment from a parallel discussion on -questions. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: iSCSI Date: Tuesday 09 January 2007 11:35 From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Free BSD Questions list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In the

Re: Intel 945GM chipset support

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:34, Vladimir Terziev wrote: This doesn't sound good :( As i found in XOrg's documentation, i945 graphics chip is supported by i810 XOrg driver, but i suppose the apg support must be provided by the kernel ?! I suspect that you will have agp support if

Re: increasing dd disk to disk transfer rate

2006-01-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 13 January 2006 08:29 am, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:23:37PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: written by phk) that is designed to do disk-to-disk recovery - it copys data in big slabs until it gets an error and then works around the faulty area block

Re: sata

2005-10-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 13 October 2005 01:29, rusel wrote: Hello, does any FreeBSD relase supports Intel`s SATA Controller? 1) You should have been able to find this out on your own. Specifically here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html (which is linked to from the Release

Re: kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab

2005-09-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 05 September 2005 04:56 am, Matthew West wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:47:30AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Friday 02 September 2005 08:35, Donatas wrote: wonder how could I decompress $subj filesthey doesn't seems to be in tar or gzip formats. files are taken

Re: kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab

2005-09-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 05 September 2005 07:58 pm, John Nielsen wrote: On Monday 05 September 2005 04:56 am, Matthew West wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:47:30AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Friday 02 September 2005 08:35, Donatas wrote: wonder how could I decompress $subj filesthey doesn't

Re: kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab

2005-09-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 02 September 2005 08:35, Donatas wrote: wonder how could I decompress $subj filesthey doesn't seems to be in tar or gzip formats. files are taken from kern1.flp nad kern2.flp on 5.4-RELEASE/floppies cat kernel.gz.aa kernel.gz.ab kernel.gz gunzip kernel.gz JN

Re: Locating obsolete ports distfiles

2005-08-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 22 August 2005 12:43 am, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I currently have just over 8GB is /usr/ports/distfiles. Some of these files are more than 10 years old and long obsolete. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to identify

Re: nForce3 NIC on 5.3 (i386)

2005-01-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 12:29 am, Sven Ahtama wrote: Anyone here who have managed to get the nForce3 MCP NIC to work with FreeBSD 5.3 on i386 platform? FWIW, I've had pretty much the same experience, although you were more thorough than I was. I installed 5.3-R on a new motherboard with

Re: FreeBSD and MySQL - mysqld eats CPU alive

2004-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 31 July 2004 21:08, adp wrote: I recently posted the following message to MySQL discussion list. The response there, and the one I keep finding on Google, is that this is a long-standing issue betweeen FreeBSD and MySQL. For me this has been happening since FreeBSD 4.4. I don't

Re: USB support for new HP printers?

2002-12-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 02 December 2002 05:13, Bernd Walter wrote: On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 11:36:15PM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: Are there plans to add USB support for HP's newer printers to FreeBSD? Specificially, the OfficeJets and the LaserJet 1200? They use a new/different/broken USB interface so

Re: Arp and Route Commands

2002-11-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 17 November 2002 13:53, Karl Timmermann wrote: I'm new to the list and was hoping maybe someone could help me. These commands work in Linux (and in this order), but not in FreeBSD/Mac OS X as the arp and route commands are different: arp -s 10.10.10.0 00:00:ca:13:4b:54 -i eth1 arp

Re: USB support for new HP printers?

2002-08-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 26 August 2002 02:51, Marco Molteni wrote: On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:36:15 -0600, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there plans to add USB support for HP's newer printers to FreeBSD? Specificially, the OfficeJets and the LaserJet 1200? They use a new/different/broken

USB support for new HP printers?

2002-08-25 Thread John Nielsen
Are there plans to add USB support for HP's newer printers to FreeBSD? Specificially, the OfficeJets and the LaserJet 1200? They use a new/different/broken USB interface so they're just recognized as ugen devices at the moment.. JN To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

2002-07-08 Thread John Nielsen
Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my FreeBSD development boxes had a hernia last week when it lost power while writing to disk. The drive wrote out garbage to a track. I want to reformat the drive, (low level) but the bios doesn't have any support to do this (In the past That

Re: multi-link 802.11b through netgraph yields poor performance.

2002-07-07 Thread John Nielsen
John Kozubik wrote: Julian, Archie, et al, I have experimented with a multi-link 802.11b connection between two laptops. Both are 4.5-RELEASE, one has two aironet LMC352 cards, and one has two Lucent gold cards. I have successfully used ng_one2many, etc., to establish a working

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x ISO images.

2002-06-23 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: Jefferson Harlough [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:19 PM Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.x ISO images. Where might I find ISO images for the FreeBSD 2.2.x releases? Do such files exist? I have an older system with a non-IDE

Re: I Volunteer

2002-06-18 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: Evan Dower [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:35 PM Subject: I Volunteer I don't know who might have use of my services (or what my services might be for that matter), but I hereby offer them up. I'm a student at the

Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem

2002-06-14 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:31 AM Subject: Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem I have this working fine. On the BSD machine behind NAT the tunnel looks like it's between

gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem

2002-06-11 Thread John Nielsen
Hi folks, I tried this on -questions without any luck, so I'm hoping for a better response here . :) I remotely administer a FreeBSD 4.5 machine that is connected to the internet through and MSN DSL modem. This modem does NAT (for a single client) rather than bridging the connection. So the

Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem

2002-06-11 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:13 PM Subject: Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem John Nielsen wrote: [excerpts from rc.conf on far (DSL) end] # Private interface

Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible?

2002-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: Gary Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:47 PM Subject: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible? Is it possible to split the load of IP traffic with 2 ethernet cards on a 4.x machine? I'm new to load balancing in a

Re: firewall and ports

2002-03-13 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: Martin Vana [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:55 PM Subject: firewall and ports hi, I sit behind a tough firewall, and none of the ports in port collection is able to fetch files need for install. How could I overcome