Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 January 2010, at 22:42, John wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:55:14AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 24 January 2010 am 01:08:27 John wrote: >>> doing this on a new machine! And I don't need any "migration" >>> storage, because, well, gosh - it's tcp, people! ;) I just

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread John
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:55:14AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On 24 January 2010 am 01:08:27 John wrote: > > doing this on a new machine! And I don't need any "migration" > > storage, because, well, gosh - it's tcp, people! ;) I just > > did the first transfer of home, and it went

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Programmer In Training wrote: This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your forgiveness. I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet, unsure of chipset currently) and realized, I'm not su

Re: "Invalid partition table" after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, John wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:34:10PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 19 > > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:35:21 -0600 John wrote: > > [..] > > > > > OK! Well! Good news! After a sort. > > > > > > > > > > I

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:45:38 -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > I believe the intent is to use the integrated wireless chipset, not the > ethernet. I see, I just wanted to point out a "Linuxism" that could lead to misunderstandings, as well as to mention FreeBSD's excellent documentation in this context

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:35:32 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > I hope ifconfig will help more then dmesg as I have no way of getting > files (like dmesg.log that I created) off the box (floppy drive isn't > even hooked up, IIRC) and rl0 is my wired NIC, non-internal. The ifconfig program (o

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Glen Barber
Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:26:33 -0600, Programmer In Training > wrote: > > >> [...] > > >> set up eth0 (wired NIC, realtek) as that would mean lugging my box > > >> halfway across the house into a room with no room in it for me and my > > >> [...] [...] > > You've already given

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:26:33 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > >> [...] > >> set up eth0 (wired NIC, realtek) as that would mean lugging my box > >> halfway across the house into a room with no room in it for me and my > >> [...] > [...] > #ifconfig > rl0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 >

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Glen Barber
Programmer In Training wrote: > On 1/23/2010 10:05 PM, Glen Barber wrote: [huge snip] > > Should I assume that rl0 is the wireless? I'm not sure what plip0 is and > I know lo0 is my wired nic. rl0 is your physical NIC, lo0 is the loopback. >From your other reply, I think you already noticed th

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/23/2010 10:26 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: > #ifconfig > rl0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=8 > ether 00:40:ca:35:6c:09 > media: ethernet autoselect > status: no carrier > plip0: flags=8810 metric 0 mtu 1500 > lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 > op

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/23/2010 10:07 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: >> What is listed with ifconfig(8)? That will help determine the driver (if >> it is supported). >> > > Oops... Meant to say dmesg; perhaps ifconfig will help as well, though. > > Regards, > I hope ifconfig will help more then dme

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/23/2010 10:05 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > Programmer In Training wrote: >> This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your >> forgiveness. >> > > Nope, this is the right place. Awesome >> I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking >> for drivers fo

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Glen Barber
Glen Barber wrote: > What is listed with ifconfig(8)? That will help determine the driver (if > it is supported). > Oops... Meant to say dmesg; perhaps ifconfig will help as well, though. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Glen Barber
Programmer In Training wrote: > This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your > forgiveness. > Nope, this is the right place. > I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking > for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet, unsure of chipset currently) > an

Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

2010-01-23 Thread Programmer In Training
This is probably the wrong place to ask, and if it is I ask your forgiveness. I'm browsing the FTP server for FreeBSD-8.0 packages[0] and am looking for drivers for my winWiFi card (zonenet, unsure of chipset currently) and realized, I'm not sure what package I would need for that. I didn't set up

Re: Strange network issue in freebsd 8

2010-01-23 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Sherin George wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for the reply. > > Please see the rc.conf file given below. > > === > myserver# cat /etc/rc.conf > > defaultrouter="XXX.XXX.XXX.241" > hostname="myserver.net" > ifconfig_em0="inet XXX.XXX.XXX.242 netmask 255.255.25

Re: Strange network issue in freebsd 8

2010-01-23 Thread Sherin George
Hello, Thanks for the reply. Please see the rc.conf file given below. === myserver# cat /etc/rc.conf defaultrouter="XXX.XXX.XXX.241" hostname="myserver.net" ifconfig_em0="inet XXX.XXX.XXX.242 netmask 255.255.255.248" nfs_client_enable="YES" nfs_server_enable="YES" rpcbind_enable="YES"

Re: Strange network issue in freebsd 8

2010-01-23 Thread Sherin George
Hello, Thanks for the reply. Please see the result of "netstat -rn" command. myserver# netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire defaultXXX.XXX.XXX.241 UGS62 209247em0 127.0.0.1

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 01:08:27 John wrote: > doing this on a new machine! And I don't need any "migration" > storage, because, well, gosh - it's tcp, people! ;) I just > did the first transfer of home, and it went swell: > how did you handle the strange group IDs? > > 10:56AM up 492 days,

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 00:19:34 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: > > > 1) Create a "migrate" account in Wheel with home as > > > /var/migrate so that I can do a dump/restore on "home" > > >

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-23 Thread vigol
Kevin Kinsey wrote: > >> Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! >>>$ grep ad /var/run/dmesg.boot > you had installed slice/part by sysinstall, so 1- by default b partitions are dedicated to swap part. 2- you haven't a swap partition in ad0s1 3- /var/run/dmesg.boot won't show you a

Re: What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: ... That makes me think ad4p2 is HFS or HFS+ so I installed hfsexplorer (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html) and it tells me ad4p2 is an invalid HFS type. So try a few other things eco# mount /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount: /d

Re: Backward compatibility libraries?

2010-01-23 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:25:02PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:14:01PM -0600, John wrote: > > The GENERIC 8.0 kernel and the kernel I built for my new FreeBSD 8.0 > > system both contain > > options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 > > > > yet,

Re: Error after booting for second time

2010-01-23 Thread David Rawling
On 24/01/2010 2:35 AM, macondo wrote: I installed fbsd8 and after booting for the second time, got this error message: "acd1: FAILURE-unknown CMD (0x03) ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x20 asq=0x00" It won't allow me to continue booting... Any ideas? Thanks. I see that message or similar messages if

Re: pf rules

2010-01-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 January 2010, at 04:18, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Doug Hardie wrote: > >> This is quite interesting. I can't figure out the rules on my system. > > Maybe try to simplify, clean up and structure your rules :) > >> Here is the pf.conf file with all comments removed: >> table persist file "

RE: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-23 Thread Dale Scott
Using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and GNOME Terminal 2.28.1, $TERM is Xterm. $ echo $TERM Xterm $ The only thing I'd change about the mapping is that I'd rather flash the screen instead of ringing the bell. > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-fr

Re: Backward compatibility libraries?

2010-01-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:14:01PM -0600, John wrote: > The GENERIC 8.0 kernel and the kernel I built for my new FreeBSD 8.0 > system both contain > options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 > > yet, when I try to run a program compiled on the FreeBSD 4.3 system on > the n

Re: Backward compatibility libraries?

2010-01-23 Thread Morgan Wesström
John wrote: > The GENERIC 8.0 kernel and the kernel I built for my new FreeBSD 8.0 > system both contain > options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 > > yet, when I try to run a program compiled on the FreeBSD 4.3 system on > the new system, I get > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.

Backward compatibility libraries?

2010-01-23 Thread John
The GENERIC 8.0 kernel and the kernel I built for my new FreeBSD 8.0 system both contain options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 yet, when I try to run a program compiled on the FreeBSD 4.3 system on the new system, I get /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

2010-01-23 Thread Michael Powell
insecur...@malandrines.net wrote: > Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! > > help me please See my reply to message: "SunFire x2100 fails" -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:19:34AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: > > > Now that I've actually gotten the new system to boot, I need to > > > figure out how I'm going to

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: > > Now that I've actually gotten the new system to boot, I need to > > figure out how I'm going to migrate everything - users, data, > > MySQL, NAT, firewall, apache, DHCP, gatew

Error after booting for second time

2010-01-23 Thread macondo
I installed fbsd8 and after booting for the second time, got this error message: "acd1: FAILURE-unknown CMD (0x03) ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x20 asq=0x00" It won't allow me to continue booting... Any ideas? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: ... That makes me think ad4p2 is HFS or HFS+ so I installed hfsexplorer (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html) and it tells me ad4p2 is an invalid HFS type. So try a few other things eco# mount /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount: /dev/ad4p2 : Invalid ar

Re: FreeBSD 8-STABLE - wpi monitor mode

2010-01-23 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > Hi > > After I bring all n/w interfaces down (/etc/rc.d/netif stop) and then > create an virtual interface over wpi0 in monitor mode (ifconfig wlan0 > create wlandev wpi0 wlanmode monitor), the system crashes. Is there > any error in the

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:01:41AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > Dale Scott writes: > > I don't have a solution but can report I regularily login to my fbsd 7 > > and 8 boxes from an Ubuntu laptop using ssh in > > Terminal and run sysinstall. I've never encountered this problem though. > > Tha

Thunderbird language should be Swedish but it's not!

2010-01-23 Thread Leslie Jensen
When I install Thunderbird3 thunderbird-3.0.1 thunderbird-dictionaries-20060220_4 thunderbird3-i18n-3.0.1 It does not adapt to what I have in /etc/make.conf # Firefox-i18n FIREFOX_I18N=sv-SE # Thunderbird-i18n THUNDERBIRD_I18N=sv-SE Firefox instals xpi-quick-locale-switcher-1.7 set to Swedis

FreeBSD 8-STABLE - wpi monitor mode

2010-01-23 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
Hi After I bring all n/w interfaces down (/etc/rc.d/netif stop) and then create an virtual interface over wpi0 in monitor mode (ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 wlanmode monitor), the system crashes. Is there any error in the command I am using? This system was updated to 8-STABLE a couple of we

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Dale Scott writes: > I don't have a solution but can report I regularily login to my fbsd 7 > and 8 boxes from an Ubuntu laptop using ssh in > Terminal and run sysinstall. I've never encountered this problem though. Thank you for responding. If you type echo $TERM or just the command env I

Re: Drive errors in raidz array

2010-01-23 Thread krad
On 22 January 2010 21:31, Dan Naumov wrote: > >> I have a system with 24 drives in raidz2. > > Congrats, you answered your own question within the first sentance :) > > ANSWER: As per the ZFS documentation, don't do raidz/raidz2 vdev > groups bigger than 9 vdevs per group or bad things (tm) will

What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi I have a 120gb SATA disk with the following> eco# fdisk ad4 *** Working on device /dev/ad4 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=232581 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be u

Re: pf rules

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
Doug Hardie wrote: This is quite interesting. I can't figure out the rules on my system. Maybe try to simplify, clean up and structure your rules :) Here is the pf.conf file with all comments removed: table persist file "/etc/blackhole" table persist table persist table persist file "/

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon?

2010-01-23 Thread Ivan Voras
On 23 January 2010 01:14, Nerius Landys wrote: >> There probably are some. If you are only interested in FreeBSD ports, you >> can make a list of which ports you need and then inspect their Makefiles to >> see if there's a flag disabling them on the amd64 architecture. > > OK thanks.  Could you gi

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2010-01-23 Thread Tiscali Ads
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Problem with GnuPG

2010-01-23 Thread Jerry
I posted this recently on the GnuPG forum; however, no one had ever seen it before. FreeBSD-7.2 gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14 libgcrypt 1.4.4 gpa 0.9.0 I honestly have no idea what the problem is here. I recently installed GnuPG on my system. Everything appeared to go fine. For some reason, I have numero

portsnap - broken metadata

2010-01-23 Thread Angelin Lalev
Greetings, I believe I have broken the metainformation folders of portsnap. How to fix them? ironholm# rm -rf /var/db/portsnap/ ironholm# mkdir /var/db/portsnap ironholm# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching public key from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... do

Strange network issue in freebsd 8

2010-01-23 Thread Sherin George
Hello, i am facing some sort of strange network issue in a freebsd server occasionally. OS: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE - amd64 The servers loses network connection once in a few days. I logged into console and verified that network is up. I even restarted network service using following command. /etc/

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-23 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I don't know why you shout. (?) Not shouting, just making my inserted comments visible within the old post as in different from bottom or top posting. Ok, writing in capitals is normally treated as shouting (see "netiquette") or only allowed when s