Vince wrote:
there are some patches I missed?
Entirely possible, I'm running these versions
Thanks Vince, I'll check it out tomorrow (as well as gathering debug info
for the rum driver, btw), as it's getting quite late now.
At the moment, I have FreeBSD on my laptop but I can't do much wit
Vince wrote:
under 7-current
Just noted the -current thingy. I'm running 7-release, with or without a
patch by Andrew (2 kernels available). If it works with 7-current, perhaps
there are some patches I missed?
Alphons
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Vince wrote:
Not true. under 7-current for me wpa works on my wpi adapter.
Care to elaborate on what you did? Because in my and some other people's cases
we can't get wpi to work with wpa_supplicant no matter what we try.
Alphons (as can be seen in some previous threads)
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Sam Leffler wrote:
I am aware only of issues with USB adapters being removed while
wpa_supplicant is running.
Actually, there's more I'm afraid.
iwi: Don't know because I don't use that one. But it's a "cousin" of wpi and
if I'm not mistaken it was the same person who initiated developme
Matthias Apitz wrote:
the main difference between home and work is: WEP at home and WPA2 at
work;
Which WiFi board are you using? Several drivers are known to cause panics when
used with WPA.
Alphons
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Can somebody please help me with the following:
I'm connecting to the Internet using a (Cisco) Linksys WUSB54GC wireless USB
adapter with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE and its rum driver.
The device gets recognized, wpa_supplicant can associate to the WLAN, DHCP
obtains an IP address, all works fine. I ca
John Nielsen wrote:
I think OpenVPN is great and use it regularly, but as far as I know it
only interoperates with OpenVPN, and I'd be surprised if your university
were using it.
Well, it seems like OpenVPN works for the Linux guys here... But anyway,
I'll go ask around about the exact setup.
Howdy people,
I need to setup a VPN connection to the university's network. Now, there's a
chapter in the handbook about "VPN over IPsec" and there seems to be this
thing called OpenVPN in the ports collection. Which is the better way to go?
All I need is to obtain an IP address within the univer
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
Can I only change/overwrite the /etc
/usr, etc but leave /home intact??
Depends. If your /home is a seperate partition AND you don't need to
repartition (relabel) the disk, you should be ok. In disklabel, you'll find
a newfs toggle. If you set this to N for a certain parti
Kris Kennaway wrote:
Do you have any idea the FreeBSD 7.0 when will come out?
In a couple of hours.
This may sound like a stupid joke, but it's actually true. As I'm writing
this there's no announcement on http://www.freebsd.org yet, but I checked
the Dutch FTP site and 7.0-RELEASE is there
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to reformat and start over, but I don´t know how. As I wrote
earlier, I keep getting the below-mentioned loop.
All I want to do is rebuild the silly FBSD! Again, I fell into this silly
loop when I tried to rebuild:
-- Select Drive
-- FDISK Partition E
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
something goes wrong while using adduser with bcrypt password hashes on
FreeBSD 7.0-RC3:
I assume bcrypt means the blowfish cypher?
In any case, thanks for the alert!
Alphons
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jaxtr wrote:
Congratulations, Sunil! Your phone link is now active:
So everybody on the list can now call eachother for free? Cool :-)
Alphons (btw: Sunil is a Dutch dishwasher detergent brand...)
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Okay, so here goes:
SYNOPSIS
Wireless network gets detected, but has "no carrier". So I can't connect.
PROMPT
All prompts are indicated as $ to avoid confusion with #-comment lines, but
in reality most things are done by root.
THE NETWORK
SSID: SpeedTouch1EC5E8
radio type: 11g
security type:
Mel wrote:
If it's not wep you're using, now would be a good time to mention what you
are using :)
Okay. I was hoping that the "no carrier" thing indicated some trivial
mistake on my part but since it's WPA2 I'm using I'll post a more elaborate
message. It may take a while to gather all the da
Howdy,
I've been trying to connect my laptop, running 7.0-RC3, to my wireless
network but It Isn't Working.
Wpa_supplicant can find the network ok and ifconfig shows the correct SSID,
authentication mode, protocol, BSSID etc. However, it also says "no carrier".
So needless to say DHCP cries "no
David Alanis wrote:
Got it. Sorry I am not trying to offend anyone. I will no longer reply all.
Thanks. By the way, I'm not sure what language that was, but becuase it
seemd like Spanish or Portuguese, I'd like to point out that there's
probably a FreeBSD mailing list in that language, see
htt
Karthick Jayaraman wrote:
I would like to get the FreeBSD 5.2.1 iso image for PowerPC. Please let
me know where I can get them.
Are you sure that 5.2.1 even exists for the PowerPC?
The FTP-archive starts with 6.0 and according to the release announcement
back then (http://www.freebsd.org/rele
Grant Peel wrote:
Is the a way through ssh to force a logout of the root user?
Can't you login (over SSH) as a mortal user (must be in wheel), su to root
and kill the offending login session?
Alphons
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Matthias Apitz wrote:
$ ls -l npviewer.bin.core
-rw--- 1 guru wheel 12320768 19 feb 15:09 npviewer.bin.core
[snip]
# find /usr -name npviewer.bin -print
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin
Is it worth to file a bug report or just remove it by cron job?
I would fi
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Just check his original post, you might can help him.
Actually, I've read the post. But just like the person who's trying to help
now, I can only guess because I don't use KDE and don't know much about it.
I just found it kinda disturbing how some people were being smar
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
first of all, you used that bad letter. Just call it X. Never add an s
at the end of the other word. Some people are real allergic to this.
no allergic, just matter of proper naming. X Window System is not a kind
of windows.
KDE is not a kind of X Window System too..
Wojciech Puchar cut a corner:
but there are sites that you can't do anything without flash, as even
navigation requires this.
True.
this is just example of crap-design,
I agree. Although I don't think everybody will.
and i simply don't view them..
I'm afraid it's not that simple. Count
Andreas Davour wrote:
I have begin to find it annoying that when I have a Firefox running with
a page with a youtube link it it, I can't at the same time play a mp3
file with mplayer. When I try I get an error saying that /dev/dsp is
busy. Is there a way to make it play me some music anyway?
Johan Hendriks wrote:
You are using amd64 now, there is no option VESA support for amd64.
Out of curiosity: is this going to be in 7.0, or at least in development
for a later release?
Alphons
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Andreas Davour wrote:
I just tried to compile my kernel with 'options VESA' and 'device vga',
according to the instructions from 'man 4 vga'.
When I did it with 6.2 it worked, but now 'make buildkernel' tells me
VESA is an unrecognized option. How come?
I built a kernel with that for 6.3-RE
Hi,
I'm trying to dial in to my phone provider for internet access using my
cellphone (Samsung D900i) connected to a USB port of my computer.
At boot, FreeBSD recognizes the phone as a USB modem:
ugen: Samsung Mobile USB Modem, rev. 2.00/1.00, addr 2
I've modified /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to use the d
E. J. Cerejo wrote:
Is there a tutorial on how to configure compiz fusion on FBSD 6.3 /
gnome or fluxbox.
1. Use the port/package.
2. Every now and then I see messages fly by in which you can find
exactly which flags/options to use.
3. You are right, there should be documentation...
Alphon
Oren Almog wrote:
I am looking for an easy way to shutdown kde. If I ctrl-alt-backspace, the
xserver and kdm restart automatically. Is there a way to make it quit
directly to console?
There's probably a line in /etc/ttys starting kdm. No need to delete it,
just turn it off.
HTH,
Alphons
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Rob Messick wrote:
When I plug it in:
umass0: Apple Inc. iPod, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 7583MB (1941441 4096 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 120C)
I have another MP3 player, not an Ipod. Bu
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
[ in dhclient.conf ]
interface "ath0" {
prepend domain-name-servers 196.168.1.1;
}
Neat. I used another workaround (don't remember exactly what) back then,
but this sure looks tidier.
Something to remember...
Alphons
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Jerry McAllister wrote:
[/etc/resolv.conf]
I think DHCP makes it if you do dynamic
It did so in 6.1-RELEASE and it's not likely that this has changed.
In fact, I had to explicitly config DHCP to not overwrite my resolv.conf
(because I wanted my own DNS server to be queried before the ISP's).
Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote:
ok the local LAN ping works now
At the risk of being obvious: please be so smart as to write down
the settings (and try to understand exactly why they are the way they
are) so you don't have to reinvent the wheel next time around.
Alphons
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Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote:
I did an ifconfig em0 1.1.1.2 yday.should this be done everytime I restart
my application, is it some kind of a temporary address assignment, bcos
whatever I assigned was not visible today when I re-booted and I had to do
it again, probably I should set this in the
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
I use rxvt-unicode8.9+oxim, want to vi a text document in
tradictional chinese.
Pffft. I have used Japanese with FreeBSD years ago (I was in love
with a Japanese woman at the time, don't ask). If I can find how I
got everything working back then, I'll let you know.
I d
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
what's up?
Now that's some seriously weird shit.
I've been toying around with it for a while, but so far I've been
unable to reproduce the problem.
Alphons
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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
No offense, but when installing from scratch using sysinstall, do you
actually have a command line available in that phase of the install?
you have to choose rescue disk from menu and CD/DVD.
Ah, ok.
Not a logical choice for a fresh install though...
Alphons (still
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR
overwrite Vista MBR and I lost my Vista.
Oh, btw: 6.3-RELEASE did the same for me,
Using straight fdisk from the command line should avoid this.
No offense, but when installing from scratch using sy
Oleksandr Rudyk wrote:
During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR overwrite
Vista MBR and I lost my Vista.
Have you reported this yet? It might not be too late to fix it in
7.0-RELEASE.
Oh, btw: 6.3-RELEASE did the same for me, but because I had tried the
other trick I m
D G Teed wrote:
Oh, so there is no MX involved? It just arrives from an external MX?
Or not? Or are they using Cyrus? Or not? 20 users? 15,000 users?
Should it be on a storage system capable of future expansion?
See what I mean?
What I do see is that there are relevant and irrelevant que
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
I guess this one those ink blot tests.
Nah. It's the Texas office of the FBI, trying to figure out if there
really isn't anything satanical about FreeBSD...
Alphons
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Siraj Shaikh wrote:
How do I go about installing FreeBSD (6.3) on it now? Anyone has done
this already please?
I had the exact same problem just a few days ago and two solutions were
quickly posted here:
1: http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/FreeBSD_%26_Windows_Vista
2: When installing FreeBSD a
D G Teed wrote:
What sort of server is it - MX, apache, database server,
Actually, it IS in the OP...
OP has (or wants to have) a mail server and asks for suggestions regarding
the mail spool size. Simple as that. Apache has nothing to do with it.
Whether or not to have a seperate /usr/local
Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote:
I do use BSD make and not GNU make, but your examples gave me a hint
what I should search on google and I found the exact syntax:
Glad I could help, be it in a roundabout way.
Alphons
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Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote:
I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell
command from it and assign its output to a variable.
If you're using GNU make (called gmake on BSD systems), you can do
VAR := $(shell command)
or, as a concrete example,
CFILES := $(shell ls *.c)
N
Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote:
I was only unsure how to proceed with the users backup.
If users are the only thing you wish to back up:
/home
/etc/group
/etc/master.passwd
You can backup system files (/etc, /usr/local/etc, /var) if you want but
that's another topic.
Some hints:
1. Check if
Gerard wrote:
There have been several articles written describing how to install Vista
after installing another OS. You could start with this one, or Google
for others.
http://apcmag.com/5045/how_to_dual_boot_vista_with_linux
That probably works with the retail versions of Vista, but
Gerard wrote:
Come to think of it, does sysinstall keep a copy of the MBR as it was
before the installation?
I checked and it doesn't seem to be the case. Might be worth a PR?
No OS, irregardless of whether it is a *.nix *.BSD or Microsoft Windows
should overwrite or disable another OS or it
Chuck Swiger wrote:
[Bootloader overwrites Vista's "UID" in the MBR]
This has been informative-- perhaps someone ought to file a PR about
having the installer try to preserve this UID in the MBR...?
Or perhaps send a message to -hackers.
I have been using FreeBSD for a long time so I wanted
Okay,
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE just got installed on the Toshiba laptop. But for some
reason, I don't seem able to change the console video mode.
The VESA module has of course been loaded and I did a "vidmode -i mode"
but pretty much every mode I tried either turned the entire screen red
(and complet
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
then download and install the EasyBCD
That too seems a solution worth considering.
I'll think about it. Thanks!
Alphons
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Ghirai wrote:
This article might help:
http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/FreeBSD_%26_Windows_Vista
Okay, thanks for the link. I was not aware of that.
However, I do think there's more to it than that. After all, Slackware was
able to install LILO without any problems whatsoever. Both Vista and
Hi,
I have a recent model Toshiba laptop here, dual-booting Windows Vista and
Slackware Linux (not my call, so no flames please). When I got the
go-ahead to replace Linux with FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, the following
happened:
The partitioner complained that the found geometry 232581/16/63 is invali
Gerard wrote:
While that may seem slightly harsh, at least for a first offense, it
does point up the fact that people like Ritz are a blight upon the
legitimate computer users community.
Agreed. But upon looking at something like this...
4. Ritz frequently accomplished his access to Sierra's
Gerard wrote:
It is not the 'tool' that is being addressed here; but rather, what the
> individual did with it.
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
1. Ritz's behavior in conducting a zone transfer was unauthorized within
the meaning of the North Dakota Computer Crime Law.
Alphons
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Bill Moran wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but this whole thing kinda feels like somebody
walking around the house naked and then suing an innocent passer-by
for seeing them naked.
no it is EXACTLY like that!
Not quite. Seeing somebody naked because they're stupid enough to run
around the house
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Orwell should just change title from "1984" to "2010-15"
Maybe it's just me, but this whole thing kinda feels like somebody
walking around the house naked and then suing an innocent passer-by
for seeing them naked.
Oh my, this is so ridiculous...
Alphons
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Bruce Evans wrote:
I also want a cheap PCI/e NIC that works well with drivers back to
FreeBSD-4 like my plain PCI bge and em NICs do. I doubt that any
popular motherboard will have anything better than a cheap PCI/e NIC.
Finding a modern main board of which the builtin NIC works with 4.X seem
ivan dimitrov wrote:
ACPI-0501: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned
AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
[snip]
my question is - what they means and how to stop them ?
I'm no expert on laptops, but it seems to me that you have either
misconfigured ACPI or a laptop that doesn't support ACP
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