Re: acpi laptop fan control

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Laursen
epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm hoping that someone here might have a suggestion for a longstanding > and nagging little problem - my laptop fan /never/ shuts off. > > the machine is a Compal N30W, which is the OEM version of the Dell > Inspiron 5000. i'm running 5.3 and have the late

acpi laptop fan control

2004-11-30 Thread epilogue
hello all, i'm hoping that someone here might have a suggestion for a longstanding and nagging little problem - my laptop fan /never/ shuts off. the machine is a Compal N30W, which is the OEM version of the Dell Inspiron 5000. i'm running 5.3 and have the latest BIOS. from what i've read, it is

RE: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz

2004-11-30 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ramiro Aceves > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz > > am a boy that likes to solve the problems till

Re: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems

2004-11-30 Thread Tim Kientzle
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: According to the tar(1) manual, the file parameters are supposed to come after all of the option parameters. Ah, of course! I don't know why I wrote it wrong (some months ago probably). Thank you. gtar and bsdtar do parse options a little differently,

FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE kernel boot problems

2004-11-30 Thread Mike Brown
First the system specs: * Motherboard: SuperMicro 370SED (manuf. in 2000; see [1]) * CPU: Intel Pentium III 933 MHz * RAM: 384 MB (128 MB PC100; 256 MB PC133) * network: * Linksys LNE100TX Etherfast 10/100 (device dc0) * Linksys LNE100TX Etherfast 10/100 (device dc1; unused for now)

Re: How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?

2004-11-30 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello Christain, - Original Message - From: "Christian Hiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" To: To [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 01 Dec, 2004 05:40 GMT Subject: Re: How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable? > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/30/04 01:22 PM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: > Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: > >> Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> > > > I'll post the result tonight. > > > > Thanks for s

Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-30 19:29, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a follow-up, I have had good success with putting a UFS on flash > drives. HEH :-) So, I'm not the only one who uses UFS on his USB flash drives. Nice! > They then make a great backup device, and you can keep all the file > permiss

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-30 10:31, Kevin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kris K. explained the problem earlier in the thread. > > The correct entry in your /etc/fstab should be somethig like bellow. I > had a "2" in the 6th field (instead of "0" or leave it out); this causes > the file system to be checked on

Re: How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 December 2004 02:12, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Okay.., I've just scripted the output from "make installworld" at step 15 > of the migration guide, and its failed as before. > > I've got the output redirected to a file: /var/tmp/installwor

FreeBSD bridge + filtering, BIG problem

2004-11-30 Thread Clément MOULIN
Hi, I'm afraid about having find a freebsd 5X security issue. We have recently upgraded one gateway from 4.10 to 5.3... Following network used: [ISP]--xl1--[FW01]-xl0--em0--[SR01] | |--fxp0--em0--[SR02] On fw01, we have one jail. So fw01 is configu

mustek scanner Bearpaw 1200TA : Operation not supported

2004-11-30 Thread Lin Tzu-yau
I have tried for days ,but still not working 1. dmesg message uscanner0: Mustek Systems USB Scanner, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 2. proper firmware /usr/local/share/sane/gt68xx -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8118 12 1 11:46 A1fw.usb 3. test scannerscanimage -L device `gt68xx:/dev/uscanner0' is a Mustek B

Re: Can 10M Buffer Ceiling be lowere?

2004-11-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:27:11AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A technical question: > > I have an old NEC computer (c. 1997) running 5.3-RELEASE with > 48M of RAM. Getting a new computer isn't an option right now, but > I would like to get as much out of my memory as possible. >

Re: ndis driver adapter layer for FreeBSD?

2004-11-30 Thread stan
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:29:52PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 30), stan said: > > I've picked up a wireless card cheap, but it appears to have no > > support under FreeBSD. > > > > I was wondering if it was possible to soehow (linux emulation?) use > > the ndis driver adap

Can 10M Buffer Ceiling be lowere?

2004-11-30 Thread r . p . demarco
A technical question: I have an old NEC computer (c. 1997) running 5.3-RELEASE with 48M of RAM. Getting a new computer isn't an option right now, but I would like to get as much out of my memory as possible. My /boot/kernel/kernel file is about 3M, and from the initial boot:

Re: realplayer - rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm

2004-11-30 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Kevin Smith wrote: does anyone know where i can download rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm from the real.com site ? currently, they only have cs1 on their legacy page. This has just been answered in the ports list and apparently is the archives. Go to the url given in the Makefil

lexar usb media failure to attach

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Langille
I purchased a USB memory device last night. It looks like it won't work with FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Sun Jul 25 00:53:29 EDT 2004 Nov 30 22:03:05 laptop /kernel: umass0: LEXAR MEDIA JUMPDRIVE ELITE, rev 2.00/20.00, addr Nov 30 22:09:20 laptop /kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): got CAM status 0x4

Re: proc filesystem

2004-11-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:35:45AM +0900, Rob wrote: > Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > >/proc is considered (and has demonstrated to be) a security > >risk and has therefore been disabled by default in FreeBSD 5.x > > What security risks? > Same with linproc (mounted as /compat/linux/proc)? See any n

realplayer - rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin Smith
does anyone know where i can download rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm from the real.com site ? currently, they only have cs1 on their legacy page. -K ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: Correct Way to Update the Ports

2004-11-30 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Alec Berryman thusly... > > begin quotation of Gerard Seibert on 2004-11-30 19:33:32 -0500: > > You should run 'make fetchindex' before 'portsdb -Uu'; Unless there has been a drastic change in portupgrade port, above -- make fetchindex ; portsdb -Uu -- as i

using growfs

2004-11-30 Thread Karl Agee
FreeBSD 4.10-stable. I want to "grow" a filesystem that is at the end of the partition. Reading the man pages for disklabel(8) and fdisk(8) I am still not sure how to make the slice larger before using growfs. Any tips appreciated! --Karl _

Problems logging w/ IPF on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE

2004-11-30 Thread FMorales
Hello all i recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 and am so far extremely pleased with it. I read the section in the handbook that discussed setting up IPF w/ FreeBSD 5.x, and also how to turn on logging and such. Well IPF works perfectly, however my logging is NOT going where it's supposed to. I used the

Re: writable file system for windows

2004-11-30 Thread Irvin Piraman
Here's my setup: I have two HDDs (40 GB + 30 GB). 40 GB is split in two NTFS for WinXP system files and FAT32 for my data files. FreeBSD is installed on the other hdd. This allows me to create a a back-up of my data files on my FreeBSD partition and have r/w access to the FAT32 on the other drive.

Re: proc filesystem

2004-11-30 Thread Rob
Ruben de Groot wrote: /proc is considered (and has demonstrated to be) a security risk and has therefore been disabled by default in FreeBSD 5.x What security risks? Same with linproc (mounted as /compat/linux/proc)? Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

XFCE4 Build problem with Pango

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin Coles
Hello, I am trying to install xfce4 on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine, and it keeps stopping when it tries to install Pango. I have done cvsup and tried to install pango by itself, however it doesn't seem to work. This was the error mesage... -- ===>Verifying install

Re: How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?

2004-11-30 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi, - Original Message - From: "Christian Hiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" To: To [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Nov, 2004 23:23 GMT Subject: Re: How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable? > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 3

DES password hashes and 5.3

2004-11-30 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
Hey all. I've got a 5.3-BETA7 box here that is acting as a NIS master, supporting a mixture of clients. Lowest common denominator, as usual, is DES. Steps I took: o Enabled the 'des_users' class in login.conf. o Ran cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf. o Changed the login class for the use

Re: how to (automatically) start MySQL server?

2004-11-30 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter -- > Hi all, > > after successfully compiling & installing MySQL server 4.0 I wanted to > start it ... but there is no mysql.sh (or similar) in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ > > So I have some questions: > - what's the FreeBSD (4.10) way to start MySQL

how to (automatically) start MySQL server?

2004-11-30 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, after successfully compiling & installing MySQL server 4.0 I wanted to start it ... but there is no mysql.sh (or similar) in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ So I have some questions: - what's the FreeBSD (4.10) way to start MySQL server? - how to setup initial "mysql" database under FreeBSD? - h

Re: OpenOffice.org-1.1 build failure on NFS client

2004-11-30 Thread Doug Poland
> In the last episode (Nov 30), Doug Poland said: >> >> Here's the error I get from portinstall editors/openoffice-1.1 (with >> some context): >> >> ===> Configuring for openoffice-1.1.3_1 >> autom4te259: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2 >> (perhaps you are running make -j on a lame

Re: Correct Way to Update the Ports

2004-11-30 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Gerard Seibert on 2004-11-30 19:33:32 -0500: > I am still not sure that I understand this entire ports concept. I, > like others I would assume, have found the time that 'portsdb -Uu' > takes to run to completion unacceptable. You should run 'make fetchindex' before 'portsdb -

Re: Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:04:03 -0600 (CST), "David Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and > > inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file > > system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf to > > co

Correct Way to Update the Ports

2004-11-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am still not sure that I understand this entire ports concept. I, like others I would assume, have found the time that 'portsdb -Uu' takes to run to completion unacceptable. Would I be correct in assuming that I could therefore use the following combination of commands and attain the same results

Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:24, Brian Bobowski wrote: > Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > >>Yes, put an entry in /etc/fstab for it. e.g.: > >> > >>/dev/da0 /flash[1] msdosfs[2] rw > >> > >> > >> > > > >Perhaps my card is just unusal, but freeBSD makes a da0s1 node which > >is the appro

Re: mergemaster -i

2004-11-30 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:09:13 +0100, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can someone make a options i install everything so you don't have to > push 58 times i enter i enter i enter i enter :) drives me nuts > especially when you sometimes have to do enter enter enter to scroll > down the prev

Re: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems

2004-11-30 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 08:31, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Hello all, > > I upgraded 5.2.1 to 5.3 recently and I'm trying to run my cron scripts > which use tar utility (which defaults to bsdtar(1) on 5.3) and I can't > figure out how to use '--exclude pattern' with it. It seems I'm > missing somethi

Re: AMD- XP

2004-11-30 Thread Chris
j p wrote: i have a AMD XP 2200 chip. what version of freebsd i need to download. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Is your PC Intell based?

Re: mergemaster -i

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Gert Cuykens wrote: can someone make a options i install everything so you don't have to push 58 times i enter i enter i enter i enter :) drives me nuts especially when you sometimes have to do enter enter enter to scroll down the preview and then accidentally do 1 enter to many Well, make a day of

Re: erase2 ( xterm

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Vance Shipley wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: } } However, his statement "functioning as a backspace" doesn't } ring true, because, no such functionality is present (for me) in } any terminal with that key, regardless of the $TERM variable.

Re: ndis driver adapter layer for FreeBSD?

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 30), stan said: > I've picked up a wireless card cheap, but it appears to have no > support under FreeBSD. > > I was wondering if it was possible to soehow (linux emulation?) use > the ndis driver adaper software that exists under Linux to provide a > way of using teh wind

Re: How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:49, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to migrate a newly (fresh install from CD-Rom Set) > installed 5.1 to 5-Stable, using the migration guide at > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html

ndis driver adapter layer for FreeBSD?

2004-11-30 Thread stan
I've picked up a wireless card cheap, but it appears to have no support under FreeBSD. I was wondering if it was possible to soehow (linux emulation?) use the ndis driver adaper software that exists under Linux to provide a way of using teh windoze drivers for this card? If so, could someone poin

Re: erase2 ( xterm

2004-11-30 Thread Vance Shipley
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: } } However, his statement "functioning as a backspace" doesn't } ring true, because, no such functionality is present (for me) in } any terminal with that key, regardless of the $TERM variable. } } Terminal emu

mergemaster -i

2004-11-30 Thread Gert Cuykens
can someone make a options i install everything so you don't have to push 58 times i enter i enter i enter i enter :) drives me nuts especially when you sometimes have to do enter enter enter to scroll down the preview and then accidentally do 1 enter to many ___

Re: Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:22, Michael G. wrote: > I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and > inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file > system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf

Re: Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread David Kelly
> I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and > inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file > system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf to correct > the simple mistake. Any help would be appreciated. "mount -a" to attempt mounting al

Re: OpenOffice.org-1.1 build failure on NFS client

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 30), Doug Poland said: > The reason I'm building over NFS is I don't have enough diskspace on > the laptop to accommodate an OpenOffice build. I've been configuring > this laptop for the last couple of days. The *bigger* ports I've > built and installed via NFS mount far

How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?

2004-11-30 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, I'm trying to migrate a newly (fresh install from CD-Rom Set) installed 5.1 to 5-Stable, using the migration guide at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html. The previous attempts failed with the same error at step 15: Install the new userland utilities with: # cd

Re: Mp3, Ogg Players on 5.3

2004-11-30 Thread Justin Gruenberg
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:03:14 +1100, David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I understand it (I welcome correction!), iRiver are the only ones whose > player does Ogg out the box. Unfortunately, it does not act as a umass > device and so requires the funky Windows drivers. See review (disclaimer

Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread Michael G.
I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf to correct the simple mistake. Any help would be appreciated. Michael G. ___

Re: ftp login/password

2004-11-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:17:15PM -0700, customerservice wrote: > I'm trying to download freebsd via FTP. What is the login and password? Anonymous FTP uses 'anonymous' or 'ftp' as a login, with arbitrary password. Kris pgp3uVnwa4uYP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Caching DNS for dialup

2004-11-30 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:00:03AM +, Martin Hepworth wrote: : Jonathon : : presumably all the nameserver is doing is forwarding requests to your : ISP, as set in the named.boot file? also I guess you're running bind in : which case it will cache automatically. I believe so. I set up a c

OpenOffice.org-1.1 build failure on NFS client

2004-11-30 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 5.3-STABLE on a laptop connecting to an NFS mounted volume on a 5.3-STABLE server. I've exported /usr/ports from the server and mounted it to /usr/ports on the laptop NFS client. Here's my mount options from fstab: fs:/usr/ports /usr/ports nfs -3,-R=3,-b,-i,-s,-r=32768,-w=

Re: Internet Streaming

2004-11-30 Thread Huw Wynn-Jones
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 21:49, Rem Roberti wrote: > Forgive me if that has been asked before (I forgot how to access > the archives), but I would appreciated advice on finding a program > for listening to audio streaming over the internet. Streaming > video is not important. > > Thank you. > >

Internet Streaming

2004-11-30 Thread Rem Roberti
Forgive me if that has been asked before (I forgot how to access the archives), but I would appreciated advice on finding a program for listening to audio streaming over the internet. Streaming video is not important. Thank you. Rem ___ [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Mp3, Ogg Players on 5.3

2004-11-30 Thread David Gerard
Huw Wynn-Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041201 05:32]: > I'm thinking about buying a portable ogg player for xmas but i can't > seem to get clear info from the various shop sites. > Does anyone know a player which works with FreeBSD 5.3? Can I just buy > anyone I want and then transfer files across

RE: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not usingAGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting "Hauan, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> -Original Message- >> From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: >> >> How about this, then: >> >> Has *anyone* successfully used an NVidia card with the most recent >> x11

Re: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems

2004-11-30 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > According to the tar(1) manual, the file parameters are supposed to > come after all of the option parameters. Ah, of course! I don't know why I wrote it wrong (some months ago probably). Thank you. > Be well. Cheers, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski __

ServRAID 5i and DLT

2004-11-30 Thread Alexandre Vasconcelos
Hello All, I've searched for this on google and list archives without success.. I have on IBM xSeries 235, ServRAID 5i adapter, 3 disks on channel 0 and a Benchmark DLT tape on channel 1. The adapter bios shows one logical drive and one "other" (probably the tape). I've installed FreeBSD 5.3, the G

promise TX2 ata raid utilities?

2004-11-30 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, I'm taking care of a computer now with a promise tx2 controller card and two 40G hard drives as a raid1 array. The machine is running 4.10-PRERELEASE freebsd. I'm wondering if anyone knows if there are utilities to monitor the 'health' of such a raid array? I'm also wondering if there are

Re: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems

2004-11-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Karol Kwiatkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > I upgraded 5.2.1 to 5.3 recently and I'm trying to run my cron scripts > which use tar utility (which defaults to bsdtar(1) on 5.3) and I can't > figure out how to use '--exclude pattern' with it. It seems I'm > missing something obvi

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin Smith
Kris K. explained the problem earlier in the thread. The correct entry in your /etc/fstab should be somethig like bellow. I had a "2" in the 6th field (instead of "0" or leave it out); this causes the file system to be checked on bootup which fails with the ntfs file system. If you have this in

Mp3, Ogg Players on 5.3

2004-11-30 Thread Huw Wynn-Jones
Hello, I'm thinking about buying a portable ogg player for xmas but i can't seem to get clear info from the various shop sites. Does anyone know a player which works with FreeBSD 5.3? Can I just buy anyone I want and then transfer files across as if it were usb storage or do these players have

limiting ssh login attempts by ip

2004-11-30 Thread csnyder
I've noticed a marked increase in dictionary attacks against sshd lately -- tens or even hundreds of connection attempts from the same IP address within a short timespan. I wrote a script that creates firewall rules to drop packets from IPs with more than n login failures over the last 10 minutes,

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wrong. From nvidia's readme: Similar to the NVIDIA Linux Driver Set, the user can decide if the NVIDIA driver should use its internal AGP GART d

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-30 Thread CHris Rich
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:53:11 -0800, Kevin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am able to mount my windows partition manually by either: > > > mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /windows > > or by putting an entry in by /dev/fstab that looks like: > > /dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs ro

Re: AMD- XP

2004-11-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:52:59AM -0800, Michael wrote: > Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > >On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:25:23 -0800 (PST), j p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > > > > > >>i have a AMD XP 2200 chip. what version of freebsd i need to download. > > > > > >You want the i386 distribution. The A

RE: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not usingAGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Hauan, David
> > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: > >> > >> How about this, then: > >> > >> Has *anyone* successfully used an NVidia card with the most recent > >> x11/nvidia-driver port

Re: Source tree hierarchy

2004-11-30 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:16:02PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : The /usr/src/sys/i386 directory is AFAIK an `architecture' directory, : : The src/sys/i386/i386 directory is a `machine' related subdirectory. That makes sense. Interesting stuff. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box. _

Re: /dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot

2004-11-30 Thread Gerard Samuel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3. Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem: The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape. 5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0 crw--- 1 root operato

Re: Source tree hierarchy

2004-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-30 17:01, Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:54:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > : On 2004-11-30 15:32, Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > Why are there sometimes 2 levels of the same directory name, one beneath > the > : >

Re: /dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot

2004-11-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:08:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3. > > Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem: > > The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example > questioning /dev/ch0 to chan

/dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot

2004-11-30 Thread xinopher
Hi I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3. Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem: The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape. 5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0 crw--- 1 root operator 232, 0 Nov 30 14

Re: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:49, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Are you using xorg or XFree86? xorg. -- Kirk Strauser pgpKNNc0P1McA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Source tree hierarchy

2004-11-30 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:54:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : On 2004-11-30 15:32, Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > : > Why are there sometimes 2 levels of the same directory name, one beneath the : > other? : > : > Like sys and i386, for example? : : They are different thi

Re: Source tree hierarchy

2004-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-30 15:32, Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why are there sometimes 2 levels of the same directory name, one beneath the > other? > > Like sys and i386, for example? They are different things: /usr/src/sysKernel sources (entire source tree). /usr/src/sys/sy

RE: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting "Hauan, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -Original Message- From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?) On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Cu

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: > Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Wrong. From nvidia's readme: > Similar to the NVIDIA Linux Driver Set, the user can decide if the NVIDIA > driver should use its internal AGP GART driver or if it should rely

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:27, Kenneth Culver wrote: > This is almost exactly what I did to use nvidia's agp, yet it still won't > work on any of the machine's I've tried it with. Likewise here. I've built custom kernels without agp so that I could try the nvidia AGPGART, and I've tried usi

Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-30 03:13, Brian Bobowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You probably don't want to dump or check this, nor mount it auto, > since it's removable media; if I'm wrong, put in the appropriate > options(from man fstab and man mount). I have no dump or fsck options in my /etc/fstab for my USB

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Adam Maloney
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Raul Zighelboim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Well I don't know then, it doesn't seem to want to work on any of the machines I've tried it on... The only thing those machines have in common is that they use xorg and the latest nvidia driver. I haven't had

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/29/04 05:16 PM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The xorg.conf card section is: > Section "Device" > Identifier "NV TwinView" > VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > Driver "nvidia" > # up

Re: NDIS: no buffer space available

2004-11-30 Thread scott renna
I had a similar issue with the ath0 driver for my Dlink card. I was trying to get the NDISultaor to work to remedy this though. I found a post that you might want to try, can't remember where, search for ping: sendto: No buffer space available on google groups. Deepak Jain responded to set our k

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Raul Zighelboim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:55 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:35 pm, Raul Zighelboim wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sysctl -a | grep -i agp > [...] > hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled What exactly did you do? Did you do anythin

Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz

2004-11-30 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Brian Bobowski wrote: > Well, salvage any hardware that you can; you never know, you just >might find a compatible motherboard without a CPU, and then you'll be >able to mix and match. (Speaking as someone who's missed too many >scrounging opportunities, here.) Dear Brian: Thanks for answering.

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Raul Zighelboim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 29 November 2004 03:21 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: >> One of the computers I'm having this problem with is a P4 with an Intel >> chipset > > W

Re: CVSUP Routing question

2004-11-30 Thread David Landgren
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Good day! Is it possible to tell cvsup to use another machine's global access in fetching the freebsd source updates?? Here's my office workstation setup: (private ip) (pri/pub ip) (all public) workstation > router >proxy server--->internet

Re: Is this a hole in my firewall?

2004-11-30 Thread Kees Plonsz
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 15:37, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:14:07PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > : > : allow ip from ${INTERNAL_NET} to any keep-state out xmit tun0 > : > : > : > : where INTERNAL_NET would be e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 > > I was checking out the man page, a

Re: Help

2004-11-30 Thread Alexandr
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:55:38PM -0500, Juan Walker   wrote: > > Greetings from Colombia, I was installed the last version of FreeBsd > 5.3 but > there was some problems for detecting all devices. > Whem i try mount the floppy disk or cdrom, appear this message > # mount /dev/fd /mnt/f

Source tree hierarchy

2004-11-30 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Why are there sometimes 2 levels of the same directory name, one beneath the other? Like sys and i386, for example? jm -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: FTP

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
j p wrote: how do i FTP freebsd? do i need some other software? i need step by step. is there some other site i can just download it? thank you JP Hmm, have you had specific problems with ftp.freebsd.org? If you want to install FreeBSD via FTP, one method is to get the installation floppies fr

Re: Is this a hole in my firewall?

2004-11-30 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:14:07PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: : > : allow ip from ${INTERNAL_NET} to any keep-state out xmit tun0 : > : : > : where INTERNAL_NET would be e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 I was checking out the man page, and I'm a little unclear on whether I want 'xmit' or 'via' in this rule.

Re: Cannot install FreeBSD 5.3 on notebook Toshiba A40-231

2004-11-30 Thread Ramiro Aceves
slatvick wrote: Hello People, I have Notebook Toshiba A40-231. I've tried to install FreeBSD 5.3 on it and had failure. CD plays, then I see menu, choose anyone(default, acpi disabled,...) and then after several lines Computer is stopped. Also I've tried to install with disabled acpi

Re: proc filesystem

2004-11-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:17:19PM +0100, Florian Hengstberger typed: > Hi! > > I mounted the proc-filesystem under /proc but in contrary > to Linux no additional information concerning the bus, > the cpu etc. is there? > Why is this? I like to > > cat /proc/bus/usb/devices > > to see if the sys

Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello I have been investigating (I have read all freebsd manuals and search on the internet) and my old pentium machine has got the bad CMD 640 disk controller. FreeBSD 5.3 says that it does NOT support it. I think that they have removed support for it in the 5.x versions. I

Re: AMD- XP

2004-11-30 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Michael wrote: Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:25:23 -0800 (PST), j p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have a AMD XP 2200 chip. what version of freebsd i need to download. You want the i386 distribution. The Athlon XP is still only a 32-bit processor, so the amd64 is unusable. I'm t

Re: simple router ?

2004-11-30 Thread Charles Ulrich
Frank Bonnet said: > Hi > > I'm planning to build a simple router with FreeBSD the machine will not > support firewalling, it will be a straight router that route between the > two interfaces :-) it will be dedicated to this service. > What would be the best version of FreeBSD to perform such oper

Re: AMD- XP

2004-11-30 Thread Michael
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:25:23 -0800 (PST), j p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have a AMD XP 2200 chip. what version of freebsd i need to download. You want the i386 distribution. The Athlon XP is still only a 32-bit processor, so the amd64 is unusable. I'm thinking about i

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Lars Eighner wrote: 3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 green. Can I change rate? How to do it? I don't know what rate you mean. Refresh rate is a common video parameter that I can think of, and often specified with resolution. Since vidcontrol refers to the

Re: Problem while installing FreeBSD 5.3 - ata0-master : FAILURE ATA IDENTIFY

2004-11-30 Thread Irvin Piraman
This has been an open issue since 5.2.1 and still present on 5.3-RELEASE. It usually works for when I select safe mode during installation. If not try using with ACPI disabled. Once you are finished with the install you'll have to do some workaround. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/errata.h

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