Re: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?

2005-10-28 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 10/26/05 21:28 Paul Hamilton said the following: Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.11 running nicely on a HP DL-140 (80GB Parallel ATA HD), but is anyone running FreeBSD on a HP DL-140 *G2* (80GB SATA HD)? works with the HP ML110 G2 with the ICH7 SATA RAID controller. i've had to patch sys/dev/ata-p

Re: Dell Poweredge 830 with Intel ICH7 Sata controller not finding drives on install

2005-10-28 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 10/19/05 06:17 Derrick MacPherson said the following: When I type lsdev in the boot loader, it shows the hdd and the partitions that are on it (3 linux). When sysinstall (i've tried with 5.4 and 6.0RC1) starts it says there's no drives, I've done some i duplicated the entries for the ICH6

Re: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?

2005-10-29 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 10/29/05 20:57 Paul Hamilton said the following: Where did you get the patch from? i wrote it. find attached. :) these will add support to the intel ICH7 SATA controller as well as the ITE 8211F and ITE 8212F controllers. i've yet to test the SATA 150 RAID on the intel ICH7, hence the c

Re: filesystem full error

2005-11-07 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/07/05 12:57 Dave Webster said the following: Thanks for the response, I edited the /etc/rc.conf with the clear_tmp_enable="YES" rebooted reran pkg_add -r openoffice you're running out of space on /var, and an openoffice package install takes up a lot in /var/tmp. what you can do, since

Re: build ports without X -- make.conf

2005-11-07 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/08/05 02:16 Dan Mahoney, System Admin said the following: For some reason this is gone in 5.x -- what's the appropriate way to do this now (since WITHOUT_X11 still worked on a couple ports I've tried.) am also not sure if this is related, but an install of 6.0-RELEASE followed by a cvs

Re: 5-STABLE to 6-RELEASE upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/08/05 02:25 J. W. Ballantine said the following: and did a cvsup to get the new bits. I then ran a make world; make buildkernel; and then a make installkernel. This steps fails with: you should be using buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, reboot, installworld with a couple of mer

Re: build ports without X -- make.conf

2005-11-07 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/08/05 02:40 David Kirchner said the following: That's by design. The install stores a default make.conf file in /etc/defaults/make.conf . Local changes should go in a new file named i do know about /etc/default/make.conf, and that's missing as well. -- Regards,

Re: Intel 2200bg wireless lan support in FreeBSD6.0 stable release

2005-11-08 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/09/05 04:24 Sunil Kumar said the following: 1. Is there a document/help site where the steps are documented? http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html 2. If I execute "kldload -v if_iwi" then in the dmesg output, i get a message saying "download firmware". What firmware sho

Re: Firefox + acroread7

2005-11-08 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/09/05 06:12 Eric Schuele said the following: In firefox: Edit -> preferences -> downloads -> plugins disable pdfs go to download a pdf file... tell it to always automatically open with /usr/local/bin/acroread7 i've been following this thread, and the problem persists in mozilla-d

Re: RELENG_6 cvsup returns 6.0-RC1

2005-11-11 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/12/05 07:07 Kris Kennaway said the following: No, that's the release branch. RELENG_6 indeed should work as he expects. Is anyone else able to confirm that this cvsup server is handing out old files? a cvsup against RELENG_6 last saturday has resulted in the following for me, 1. missi

Re: RELENG_6 cvsup returns 6.0-RC1

2005-11-11 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/12/05 15:23 Kris Kennaway said the following: There is no /etc/defaults/make.conf any longer (it's in /usr/share/examples/etc now) ok, understandable. 2. pccardd not being built in a 'make buildworld' due to /usr/src/usr.sbin/pccard/Makefile not having pccardd in the SUBDIR And this

Loading mfsroot read-write on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

2005-11-12 Thread Dinesh Nair
i'm attempting to create a stripped down implementation of FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and have noticed some changes in how the loader loads mfsroot between 4.x and 6.x. /boot/loader.rc has: set console=comconsole set hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" set hw.ata.ata_dma="1" set hw.ata.wc="0" load /kernel load -t

[patch] Re: Loading mfsroot read-write on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

2005-11-12 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/12/05 21:02 Dinesh Nair said the following: how does one specify a read/write mount of mfsroot in 6.0 in the bootloader ? apparently, the behaviour of vfs_mountroot_try() has changed in 6.0. previously, if the root filesystem was mounted from a memory disk, as would be the case with

Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/14/05 07:54 Billy Tallis said the following: I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of ram. 16MB of RAM, that doesnt sound like much. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dog

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Objective C

2005-11-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/14/05 08:50 James Bailie said the following: Try adding -lpthread to the compiler command line? actually -pthread would be better. not the missing el ('l'). -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alpha

Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/14/05 23:56 Billy Tallis said the following: The real problem is that BTX never gets around to loading any kernel. From the information I have found online, BTX does not seem to be as what are the errors you're getting at the btx boot: prompt ? -- Regards, /\

Re: an a version 4 sstem not mount filesystems created by a version 5 system?

2005-11-15 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/15/05 05:32 stan said the following: The subject really says it all. What major feature got added that was worth breaking this? i believe it was called UFS2. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alph

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-15 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/15/05 12:23 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: Hmm - let's see now, where does this extra "wasted" power go? It is turned into heat. Which heats your house. Which means you do not have to run the furnace so much, thus saving energy there. that's a very geocentric view. for most of u

Re: BSD 5.4 fs problem...

2005-11-16 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/17/05 10:36 xinyu zeng said the following: Hi, I have FreeBSD 5.4 installed. I found each time I use ports to install software it always hangs there (i have only SSH to connect it) and there is even no ICMP reply (with ping). are you sure that nothing is happenning ? some ports take

Re: strange msg lines..

2005-11-16 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/17/05 06:56 dick hoogendijk said the following: These are not normal requests to my apache server. But it seems to "listen" to them. Am I 'in danger?' apparently, the nameservers responsible for those domains are returning your IP address to a DNS query. all the sites seem to share the

Re: Solution for retrieving data from hard disk.

2005-11-16 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/17/05 13:26 Aman Yus said the following: I can't mount my hard disk. There's a very very very valuable data inside (family video - holiday trip) that I must recover. Hope you guys can pour all the solutions which i will (surely) try. Zillions of thanks. you may want to start by letting

Re: Which firewall?

2005-11-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/17/05 18:15 Sasa Stupar said the following: Hi! I am about to set up a router with FBSD 5.4 for SOHO network. There will be no servers running, only inet access for the users but I'd like to you could try using m0n0wall, http://m0n0.ch/wall/ it's a freebsd 4.11 based system with a n

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/17/05 20:35 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: In the tropics you are flooded with free energy streaming down on you all day long and your complaining?!?!? Please, search Google for the term "photovoltaic" and be enlightened. photovoltaic arrays and solar energy panels are not as eco

Re: several versions of gcc

2005-11-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/18/05 09:09 Andrew Novikov said the following: Hello, Is there a way to have both gcc34 and gcc40 (and possibly other versions) simultaneously? back on freebsd 4.11, i had the system installed gcc 2.95 and the ports installed gcc 3.4.x running simultaneously. gcc 3.4 was invoked as gc

Re: strange msg lines..

2005-11-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/17/05 22:51 dick hoogendijk said the following: foto-porno-amatoriale.com ; puttane-grandi-tette.com ; video-porno-anale.com ALL resolve to different IP's when checked with "host fotocom" etc.. they come from the nameserver though, so i'm thinking something must be pointing them to

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-19 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/19/05 17:28 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: Absolute total rubbish. Let's take one of these developing countries - China PRC - shall we? right, pick a country which has seen billions in investment flowing in over the last 5 years and use that as an example. shall we consider other

Re: several versions of gcc

2005-11-19 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/19/05 13:30 Andrew Novikov said the following: However I cannot have at the same time lang/gcc34 and lang/gcc40 (or any other two version from ports) because they both install files in the same place somewhere in /usr/local/. Is there a way to specify a different dir, that's going to be

Re: Asterisk on FreeBSD, anyone?

2005-11-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/20/05 00:21 Kiffin Gish said the following: Has anyone had any experience running Asterisk on FreeBSD 5.x ? If so, then which drivers are required and what is the best way to install the system? you can build asterisk, libpri and zaptel from the ports and reports on the asterisk-bsd m

Re: Which firewall?

2005-11-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/17/05 21:21 Sasa Stupar said the following: --On 17. november 2005 18:19 +0800 Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it's a freebsd 4.11 based system with a nice UI. Hmmm, this looks interesting. and there's now an ALPHA release based on freebsd 6.0-RELEASE. one thi

Re: about /usr/src/etc

2005-11-26 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/26/05 20:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following: Hi, I am unable to locate this folder (/usr/src/etc). I mean, it does not exist. I only have sys under /usr/src I also have no more man page but the one associated with newly compiled/installed softwares. seems like you've not installe

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 12/20/05 07:44 Thomas Linton said the following: Besides umount, to keep the FS consistant, I belive it would be necessary to actually turn off the USB stick before you remove it. With Windows and Linux there is also a way to safety remove -power off- a USB stick. i've just unmounted and

Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...

2005-12-27 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 12/27/05 18:22 Kiffin Gish said the following: Since I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0, I cannot for the life of me get the wi0-interface to work at all (real bummer). During boot I get the following error message: "ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now" If

Re: Soekris Net4801 performance

2006-03-29 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 03/30/06 09:28 Mike Tancsa said the following: On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:19:25 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: ftp put is around 3Mbytes/sec and ftp get is around 2Mbytes/sec ifconfig says: They are not the fastest around, but it depends what you want to do with them. On

Re: Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-04-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 02/02/06 22:20 Alejandro Pulver said the following: On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:31:38 +0800 Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 01/19/06 22:11 Alejandro Pulver said the following: Then X will start in the higher resolution it can find in "Modes", to solve this you can

Re: last known 4-.x-RELEASE where PicoBSD can be built

2006-04-15 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 02/16/06 16:07 Nikos Vassiliadis said the following: I tried to build PicoBSD using sources from RELENG_4 on a 4.10-RELEASE-p5 system and it failed. I (think|know) it's working again on RELENG_6, but I want to use 4.x branch. So, which sources should I get to build it? this may come too la

Re: miibus.ko if_aue.ko crash

2004-07-16 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote: > > aue0: flags=8802(BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST) mtu 1500 >tunnel inet --> >ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX >media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) >status: active >vlan: 0 parent interface: >

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-07-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had tried camcontrol rescan 0:0:2 without success and I just tried > camcontrol rescan all without success. on a particular Apacer multi-card reader, i needed to run camcontrol rescan on all devices off that one bus, (0:0:1, 0:0:2, 0:0:3 et al) to

Re: changing card in a reader (revisited)

2004-07-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hp# camcontrol rescan 0:0:0 > Re-scan of 0:0:0 was successful > hp# camcontrol rescan 0:0:1 > Re-scan of 0:0:1 was successful > hp# camcontrol rescan 0:0:2 > Re-scan of 0:0:2 was successful > hp# camcontrol rescan 0:0:3 > Re-scan of 0:0:3 was su

Re: DHCP and the "SIMPLE" option in /etc/rc.firewall

2004-07-30 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, James A. Coulter wrote: > Without a static IP address for my outside interface, how do I set these > options? you could 1. use 'me' (without quotes) to represent the ip address in rc.firewall OR 2. hack up an /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks which grabs the new ip address and

Re: Minimal system installation

2004-12-28 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 28/12/2004 05:08 Greg 'groggy' Lehey said the following: On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It only has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend and would you send me the link to down

Re: Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-01-12 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 01/10/06 23:52 gandalf said the following: Thanks for trying. It does not work for me. I found that xfce4's control panel is able to switch between 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480. (Xfce also resizes the virtual size.) I don't know how it can do it because theoretically the only valid modes a

Re: Wake-on-LAN won't work if FreeBSD/Linux shuts down the system...?

2006-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 01/21/06 02:39 David Kelly said the following: On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:22:55PM +, Martin Tournoy wrote: I'm trying to get WoL working, and actually works quite well as long as windows shuts down the system. However, when FreeBSD or Linux shuts down my system, it won't work, and if I

Re: Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-02-02 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 01/19/06 22:11 Alejandro Pulver said the following: Then X will start in the higher resolution it can find in "Modes", to solve this you can put in .xinitrc the following command (which will change the resolution after X starts): xrandr -s 1024x768 % xrandr Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing

Re: Xorg - how to disable some video modes?

2006-02-03 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 02/02/06 22:20 Alejandro Pulver said the following: It says the extension is enabled, but it seems it hasn't been initialized / loaded. My output has a line (not directly) after it indicating that the extension is initialized. apologies on that, cut-n-paste error. the snippet continues, (

Re: is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible?

2006-02-10 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 02/09/06 06:05 Erik Trulsson said the following: The other option available is of course to make a backup of all data and config files, make a new clean install of 6.x, and then restore files from backup. which is exactly what i did and something i'd recommend for all 4.x to 6.x direct upg

Re: Porting M0n0wall WebGUI to freebsd 5.4 Stable

2005-06-19 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 06/20/05 11:02 RdBSD said the following: I've been tested monowall and it's captive portal. That's nice but missing some feature that i need. Than i've download rootfs from m0n0 to porting webgui into freebsd box. But i have some errors : you may want to start with m0n0wall 1.2b8 which is

Re: enable acpi

2005-03-29 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 03/13/05 03:17 koen de wijs said the following: Hello Could anyone tell me how to enable acpi with FreeBSD 5.3? I read on the FreeBSD that acpi isn't enabled in some cases. When I shutted down with FreeBSD 5.2.1, the power of my pc automaticaly goes down and with 5.3 not. How do I enable acp

Re: Which MySQL version best to use and with/without linux threads?

2005-10-03 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 10/01/05 00:08 Andrew P. said the following: linuxthreads were only important on FreeBSD 4.x. Starting with 5.x we have a more efficient threading model. Extensive testing did not reveal any significant is this definitive, i.e. that on 5.x linuxthreads are worse off than native freebsd thre

Re: Nessus no longer open source

2005-10-11 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 10/07/05 00:04 Gayn Winters said the following: vulnerable, since under the GPL the AUTHOR of the code is not bound by the same restrictions that the users are. I'm not a lawyer, but as I i believe that all licenses allow this, as the author/copyright holder of the code can license it out

Re: Nessus no longer open source

2005-10-11 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 10/07/05 03:57 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: would have been prevented from using it. Almost certainly the research in the vulnerabilities that go into Nessus 3 will trickle into Nessus 2 eventually. So however given that the nessus author(s) said that one main reason was the lack

Re: very lightweight samba installation needed ... help ?

2005-10-11 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 10/10/05 22:34 Kirk Strauser said the following: On Sunday 09 October 2005 21:51, user wrote: However, I now see that "make package" does not actually create a full package with all the necessary dependencies Correct. It only builds the one package. Also, consider the OP may also wan

Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express and FreeBSD 4.10

2005-10-12 Thread Dinesh Nair
has anyone got the above gigabit ethernet working with freebsd 4.10 ? patching sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c and sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h with the device and vendor IDs in the proper places doesnt seem to work, though the entries exist in the same files in the 4.11 sources. a mailing list search shows i

Re: Nessus no longer open source

2005-10-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 10/12/05 01:00 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: The authors, of course. Stand the problem on it's head. Where are the Nessus people going to find customers for Nessus 3? From Nessus 2 users. If they let the Nessus 2 codebase go to pot then people will stop using it, and they lose a va

Re: Problem installing MySQL server 4.1.14

2005-10-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 10/13/05 23:46 Matt Singerman said the following: I am trying to install MySQL server 4.1 on a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE machine, but am getting an error when attempting to do so: sounds like it's not finding the threads library, either the native threads or linuxthreads. linuxthreads is a po

Re: Twitter On FreeBSD

2010-03-09 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 09/03/2010 12:21, Programmer In Training wrote: Seriously, does anyone have a good Twitter client they use? I have very simple requirements (GUI, must be able to pull my feeds for local display, easy to compile (e.g. doesn't require anything from KDE)). may not be a standalone client, but h

Re: Performance issue amd64

2006-08-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 08/10/06 15:24 O. Hartmann said the following: than a 100 minutes, Firefox and/or Thunderbird opens much slower than before and much slower as compared to the i386 box(!). i'd suspect the harddisk. are you building world with pipes, for this would store the intermediae files during compil

Re: hyperthreading CPU and broken scheduling?

2007-11-18 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:29:32 +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > i have machune with intel's CPU with hyperthreading. > > > > it is detected right, but only first thread is ever used. > > > > top shows at least 50% idle no matter what i run! > > > > what's wrong? > To enable

ADMtek USB To LAN Converter and HomePNA

2004-01-07 Thread Dinesh Nair
a +* 10Mbps full/half duplex ethernet PHY with +* NWAY autoneg. However, the HomePNA PHY is +* not recognized, but the 10/100Mbps PHY is +* though. This skips over the 10/100Mbps PHY +* and only activates the 1Mbps HomePNA PHY +* + * Modifi

Re: ifconfig dc0 DCHP gets error

2004-01-09 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote: > Ifconfig dc0 DHCP gives error message 'DHCP bad value' > > I can get it to work from within rc.conf, but not from command line. > What an I doing wrong? on the command line, you should be doing 'dhclient intX' where intX is your interface. Regards,

SOLVED: ADMtek USB To LAN Converter and HomePNA

2004-01-08 Thread Dinesh Nair
_1(sc, AUE_GPIO1, 0x34); /* Grrr. LinkSys has to be different from everyone else. */ if (sc->aue_info->aue_flags & LSYS) { ---CUT HERE --- On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Dinesh Nair wrote: > hey, > > i have one of the above. it's a usb device which connects t

SOLVED: ADMtek USB To LAN Converter and HomePNA

2004-01-08 Thread Dinesh Nair
use the following patch instead of earlier one. earlier patch hardcoded use of HomePNA PHY and disabled Ethernet PHY. this patch corrects this behaviour and allows switching between either PHY thru use of the ifconfig command. this means that the USB dongle can either be used as an Ethernet device

routing to specific network

2004-01-11 Thread Dinesh Nair
hey, i'm on a multihomed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, cvsupped and built to -STABLE as of two weeks ago. the two NICs on the box each go to different ADSL providers. right now, i can switch which provider i use by just manually changing the default route. however, what i'd like to do is to have the defau

Re: routing to specific network

2004-01-12 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, David Miller wrote: > So you want packets for 60.6.* to go out through ISP2? it is amazing that how something which completely stumps you at 4am, suddenly becomes so clear after some sleep and coffee at 11am. i added a route for 60.6/16, but was trying to traceroute 61.6/16.

Re: Trouble getting network card to work

2004-01-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Jared Cheney wrote: > The card is called pcn0 in FreeBSD, and it says that it is sharing IRQ > 10. Running tcpdump for any length of time also shows that 0 packets > were received by the filter. from the pcn(4) man page: pcn%d: chip is in D3 power state -- setting to D0 Thi

Re: Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop

2004-01-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, John wrote: > Despite the fact that the laptop compatibility base has an entry for this > machine that looks good for FreeBSD 5.0, I'm not having the best luck > that one might hope. i've got an Armada M300, which shares a lot of the same underlying hardware as the M700 and

Re: routing to specific network

2004-01-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, David Miller wrote: > Isn't this equivilent to selecting the outbound route? You want to > select 10.a.b.c uf you want the connection routed out ISP 1 and > 192.168.x.y otherwise. yes it is. > There are bizzare cases where it might make sense to try and load > balance two

Re: xmms - problem - how to fix?

2004-01-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:09:21AM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Alex Zivenko wrote: > > > Hi! > > > I have some problem with my xmms mm player. When I'm treing to > > > listen some mp3's it gives me

Re: Loading balancing with more than one ISP.

2004-01-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > I have one ethernet <--> router and one ethernet <--> dsl modem > connections to connect to my ISPs. As you said, you're not sure about > routed... Actually, I did not find anyone who actually make this i've got exactly the same setup as you do, and

Re: Loading balancing with more than one ISP.

2004-01-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > What I'm hoping to do is find a way to route all paquets coming: > - from DMZ to internet, using NET connexion1 > - from LAN to internet, using NET connection2 > > To be more understandable, something like this: > route add from DMZ defaut em0 > rout

Re: cabling problem?

2004-01-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Marwan Sultan wrote: > Why the network cable from Modem router to box directly doesnot > work in the time from Modem router to HUB and from HUB to BSD > box works fine? you need a cross cable to connect the modem router directly to the freebsd box. it's a st

Re: acroread and xpdf problems

2004-01-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:23 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:15:35PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 04:12 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Andrew

Re: Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop

2004-01-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, John wrote: > I get > Jan 11 18:09:55 pearl /kernel: ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded > > I've looked at the sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c code - I wonder if I should > just arbitarily raise the retry count a bit - what's everyone else ok, i don't know if this is documented

Re: Loading balancing with more than one ISP.

2004-01-18 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Chris Knipe wrote: > I have a service set up, some.host IN A A.A.A.x (i.e. in network A and > gateway A). Now, the moment some one from network B connects to the > service I've setup on network A, the FreeBSD Box will route the reply > packets out on network B (because of th

Re: Success with Symantec Ghost 7

2004-01-18 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Gilad Rom wrote: > I'm using dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=16k for my disks (2x20GB, EIDE, > UDMA100), and it takes roughly 28 minutes. i've used dd to ghost two 36GB scsi hard disks on two separate controllers in about 18 minutes. i used 1024k as my block size. using 10240K

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > That's your call. A number of us have good reasons, and that's why many > of us use "bollox". i'm presuming this is an editor of sorts ? :) Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." [EMAIL PROTECTED](0

Re: no more wireless

2004-01-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Kenzo wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Kenzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:29 PM > Subject: Re: no more wireless > > > > > > Is it possible that your pcmcia configurati

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 2:39:58 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > >> That's your call. A number of us have good reasons, a

Re: no more wireless

2004-01-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Kenzo wrote: > No the card doesn't appear in dmesg. I tried other wireless cards and an > old pcmcia modem and nothing. I just get the prompt "card inserted" > "card removed". that's it. Could my laptop be going bad? If so, how come > it works on the windows side. the same ca

Re: no more wireless

2004-01-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Kenzo wrote: > My Pcmcia wireless card used to work on my laptop, now it doesn't. I > can't think of what I might of done to make that happen. The card is a > Cisco Aironet 350. I'm running FBSD4.9. My kernel is confiured with the > "an" option, but nothing happens when I tak

Re: arp problem in /var/log/messages

2004-01-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Mark wrote: > But what causes them ? I get them too. most likely two machines on your LAN who're using the same IP address. note that some implementations of redundancy will do the same. track the machine with the two ethernet addresses. Regards, /

Re: IPFW and Dynamic Rules

2004-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Adam Seniuk wrote: > I keep getting /kernel: Too many dynamic rules, sorry im my log file > several times and i am not sure whats going on I have read some articles > but they are all in 2000 and for FreeBSD 4.0. from the ipfw(4) man page: net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max: 8192

Re: How to mount a FreeBSD-5.1 partition from FreeBSD-4.9

2004-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Just dump(8) it to a tape or other disk, create a new UFS2 file system > where the UFS2 now lives and then restore(8) the dump. i'm sure you meant "create a new UFS1 file system where the UFS2 now lives". :) Regards, /\_/\

Re: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

2004-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote: > So I need a way to test if the ports are blocked or not using an > friends PC and my current IP address. > > What do you recommend? why not just enable sendmail, apache and pop3 on your home box and telnet to ports 25, 80 and 110 respectively from your fri

Re: man question

2004-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Didier Wiroth wrote: > What do I have to do, to be able to use/view those man files, only ME? I > don't want to modif manpath.config (as this is a global configuration > file)? set shell environment variable MANPATH to include your directories. Regards,

Re: wierd errors with USB drive & syslog

2004-01-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brent Bailey wrote: > anywho we are seeing alot of udp packets being dropped due to full > sockets..im worried that im not getting all the logging that i should be > getting. > > udp: > 38123594 datagrams received > 0 with incomplete header > 0 with bad data length fiel

RE: Formatting Zip Drive Disks

2004-01-22 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Gerard Seibert wrote: > Do you have any suggestions? I have tried mounting in various ways, but > they all fail. Formatting via /stand/sysinstall has not corrected the > problem. have you considered making a filesystem on the zip disk ? Regards, /\

RE: sendmail help?

2004-01-22 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote: > I think you are barking up the wrong tree. I don't think you understand > how your ISP works. ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email > servers, they consider it an security risk to their environment. Did are you serious ? i sometimes send mai

RE: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

2004-01-22 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote: > port 25 and 80. In both cases he was not able to connect to my IP > address. This proves that Adelphia cable service is blocking those 2 > ports. has adelphia given you a public ip address or are you behind a NAT box (perhaps on the adelphia network itself

RE: sendmail help?

2004-01-23 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote: > totally different. I believe the original poster was asking about > using sendmail to retrieve email from his ISP's smtp server. And the OP was asking about _outgoing_ smtp. Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." [EMAIL PROTE

Re: upgrading mysql

2004-01-23 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Christer Solskogen wrote: > I was wondering upgrading the mysql ports to 4.x series. should this be > okay? > > gallery-1.4.1 ,p5-Mysql-modules-1.2219, php4-4.3.4_5, phpMyAdmin-2.5.4, > phpSysInfo-2.1 and squirrelmail-1.4.2_1 seems to like mysql-3, and i was > wondering if the

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Roberto Pereyra wrote: > FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf > Set in /etc/rc.conf > fsck_y_enable="YES" all that does is to automatically answer Y whenever fsck asks you a question. it still doesnt make fsck happen in the background as the

Re: totally allocated apache bandwidth in freebsd

2004-01-23 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Didier WIROTH wrote: > How do you handle this throttle limits on Freebsd? Are you using ipfw > dummynet? (may be you have link with sample rules, I've already read man > 8 ipfw) Perhaps other possibilities? dummynet pipes it is. there're examples on the man page. Regards,

Re: Problem With Configuring Name Servers

2004-01-24 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Gerard Seibert wrote: > Everything, including nslookup, etc works fine until I reboot. Then the > files are over written. The resolv.conf file then has the following > entries: the files are overwritten with values provided by you dhcp server. you can refuse a subset of tho

Re: apm device not configured ?!

2004-01-24 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Julian Holley wrote: > Hi all - I'm still having problems persuading my laptop to work with apm > - apparently my machine should work on 4.9 - I have re-compiled with apm > enabled, set rc.conf to enable apm etc, but apmd, apm will not operate > and gives the message :- when

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-27 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, chip wrote: > Okay, I downloaded and installed the .tbz file, moved it to /usr/local > and ran pkg_add. It finished, and the instructions on the screen say to > just run openoffice on the command line and answer a few questions. When > I run the command I get command not foun

Re: Total amount of memory in my system?

2004-01-27 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. I'm running 4.8 on a remote server. I want to know > how much RAM is in the server. 'dmesg -a' doesn't tell me because the you can either look at /var/run/dmesg.boot or check the hw.physmem Regards, /\_/\ "A

Re: Do I really need to rebuilding *everything*

2004-03-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Mark wrote: > file /usr/local/sbin/httpd > /usr/local/sbin/httpd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 > (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped you could use ldd /usr/local/sbin/httpd to find out what it was dynamically linked against. R

Re: passwd

2004-03-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Elvedin wrote: > That resolved it, thank you very much. I really have no clue why this > came up since I haven't changed any permissions at all in /usr/bin or > anything passwd related before this. If only my setuid logs were set to > keep logs from the beginning instead of f

Re: passwd

2004-03-21 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Elvedin wrote: > I've search and came up with nothing really but some things I've tried > is adding the users to the wheel group, remaking the pwd database file > and even setting pwd.db to 777 and still permission was denied. what are the permissions on /usr/bin/passwd ? if