Re: FreeBSD 8.2 as wifi client

2013-07-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Laszlo Danielisz wrote: > Yesterday I've received a usb wifi card. > I've successfully connected to my home network with wpa-psk but I couldn't > make it to connect via boot. [...] > I've also added the following lines to my rc.conf: > > wlans_run0="wlan0" > wpa_supplicant_enable="YES" > ifconf

Re: Attaching GELI device on boot

2013-03-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Stephan Schindel wrote: > i've got a problem attaching a geli device on boot. My setup: > > ada0 and ada1 full geli setup (no partition schemes). ZFS on both. ada0 > is my root device. I can boot into the system there is no problem with > it. But now I want to attach ada1 on boot as well using a

Re: growisofs does not burn folders correctly all files are flat on the disk no folders

2013-03-11 Thread Fabian Keil
CeDeROM wrote: > I have problem with growisofs - I get all files flat on the disk there > are no directories as on the source drive :-( I had this once with BD > and once with DVD disk on my new 9.1-RELEASE machine. > > growisofs -Z/dev/cd2 -dvd-compat -R -J -iso-level 3 -udf * > > % growisofs

Re: Was I Sourced?

2013-02-12 Thread Fabian Keil
"Teske, Devin" wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > > Is there a way for script to determine whether is was sourced > > or forked off as a subprocess when it was invoked? > > > > Not that I'm aware of. sysutils/zogftw, which has to find and parse itself to generate the verbos

Re: vfs.root.mountfrom with geli

2013-02-05 Thread Fabian Keil
mhca12 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Fabian Keil wrote: > > mhca12 wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Fabian Keil wrote: > >> > mhca12 wrote: > >> > > >> >> I followed the guide on dan.me.uk to install Free

Re: vfs.root.mountfrom with geli

2013-02-04 Thread Fabian Keil
mhca12 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Fabian Keil wrote: > > mhca12 wrote: > > > >> I followed the guide on dan.me.uk to install FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 > >> but I get always stuck because the kernel doesn't ask me for the > >> passphrase and

Re: vfs.root.mountfrom with geli

2013-02-04 Thread Fabian Keil
mhca12 wrote: > I followed the guide on dan.me.uk to install FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 > but I get always stuck because the kernel doesn't ask me for the > passphrase and doesn't find the /dev/gpt/enc.eli where enc is the > label I gave to the root partition. I also tried with /dev/ada0p3.eli > without s

Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD

2013-01-19 Thread Fabian Keil
Xavier wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Hi Fabian, > > > Xavier wrote: > > > > > Is there any way to control the on and off the fan on a laptop using > > > FreeBSD? > > > > It depends on the l

Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD

2013-01-19 Thread Fabian Keil
Xavier wrote: > Is there any way to control the on and off the fan on a laptop using FreeBSD? It depends on the laptop. On mine it works: fk@r500 ~ $sysctl -ad | grep fan dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: Fan speed dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: Fan level dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: Fan enable Fabian signature.a

Re: absurd I/O perf with ZFS: hangs on zfs->cv)

2013-01-18 Thread Fabian Keil
Eitan Adler wrote: > On 17 January 2013 07:52, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Eitan Adler wrote: > > I don't think there are any laptops with "large amounts of RAM" > > as far as ZFS is concerned. > > Haha okay: 8GB of RAM. > > >> It is taking

Re: absurd I/O perf with ZFS: hangs on zfs->cv)

2013-01-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Eitan Adler wrote: > On 15 January 2013 23:57, Eitan Adler wrote: > > Running FreeBSD 9.1-Release, I am seeing some absurd hangs (10 minutes > > or more to open a file) with SIGINFO informing me that the process is > > stuck on zio->io_cv. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions for what I wan

Re: urxvt mouse selection / links troubles

2013-01-11 Thread Fabian Keil
David Demelier wrote: > I use rxvt-unicode for years, but these days I'm having trouble when > selecting link texts, what does not work anymore : > > o clicking on the text to open the browser, using URxvt*urlLauncher: firefox > o trouble when selecting text (sometimes it does not copy to clipbo

Re: 9.1 won't install - GEOM/GRAID issues

2013-01-02 Thread Fabian Keil
"Mike." wrote: > My FreeBSD server had been running fine, no issues. This evening I > tried to update it to 9.1. I don't "update in place", I update by > wiping the prior version and letting the new version have its way with > the disk. > > Well, 9.1 has issues with my system (dmesg is at the

Re: GELI Swap password on boot

2012-11-08 Thread Fabian Keil
Mike Barnard wrote: > On 8 November 2012 03:30, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Mike Barnard > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE and I am experiencing some strange > > > behaviour with GELI. > > > > > > Every time I boot up my compute

Re: dd zero on the wrong disk. ZFS over GELI on that disk, recover possible?

2012-10-08 Thread Fabian Keil
el/recovery-test /dev/label/recovery-test fk@r500 ~ $zogftw import 2012-10-08 13:49:57 zogftw: recovery-test's location isn't registered yet! 2012-10-08 13:49:57 zogftw: No pool name specified. Trying all unattached labels: recovery-test 2012-10-08 13:49:57 zogftw: No geli keyfile found at

Re: DVD OPC errors with growisofs

2012-10-08 Thread Fabian Keil
Warren Block wrote: > I'm using growisofs to write DVDs of backup files. Some combinations of > older drives and newer media give ":-( unable to PERFORM OPC: > Input/output error". If you are concerned about this, you could try cdrecord to see if it makes a difference. > Can limiting write

Re: how restore an unencrypted dump on an encrypted file system?

2012-09-29 Thread Fabian Keil
s m wrote: > I backed up my freeBSD 8.2 box by dump command and now want to restore > this dump file on an encrypted file system (i used geli to encrypt my > file system) but do not know how to do that. > > is there any way or command to restore an unencrypted dump on an > encrypted file system?

Re: Kernel asks only for the first GELI passphrase

2012-09-29 Thread Fabian Keil
Martin Laabs wrote: > I have two partitions encrypted with GELI: ada0s2 and ada0s3. The loader > (located at an unencrypted part of the harddisk) loads the kernel and the > kernel asks me for the passphrase for ada0s2 to attach it afterwards. > However - my root file system is not at ada0s2.eli

Re: geli - selecting cipher

2012-07-27 Thread Fabian Keil
RW wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:47:10 +0200 > Ivan Voras wrote: > > > On 26/07/2012 04:14, RW wrote: > > > > > I asked a similar questions to the OPs in the geom list and didn't > > > get an answer. Geli doesn't need or isn't using any advantages of > > > XTS. And CBC in geli is actually equ

Re: geli - selecting cipher

2012-07-26 Thread Fabian Keil
RW wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:52:39 -0500 (CDT) > Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jul 25 14:00:27 2012 > > > Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:57:30 +0200 (CEST) > > > From: Wojciech Puchar > > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: geli - sel

Re: Locally modifying ports

2012-07-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Chris Ross wrote: > So, I've been a NetBSD user for many years, and am looking more > at FreeBSD now. Trying to build myself a system, I find that I have a > long-held delta to a package on my NetBSD system, and I keep it > in a patch-local-* file in NetBSD pkgsrc. > > I can't figure out if

Re: mod_rewrite problem with tilde

2012-07-13 Thread Fabian Keil
David Banning wrote: > I am migrating to a new server location which right now > has no domain name, so the ip address is being used. > The ISP gives an address for the apache directory like so; > > http://184.154.230.2/~smartst2/ > > A simple redirect works, such as this one which directs to a

Re: zpool creation on geli failed with FreeBSD-9.0

2012-04-12 Thread Fabian Keil
"Christopher J. Ruwe" wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:13:36 +1000 > Da Rock wrote: > > > On 04/10/12 02:07, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > > > I was trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 using a geli encrypted disk and > > > ZFS on my ThinkPad R500 this weekend. I failed. > > > > > > Having sucessfully i

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-09 Thread Fabian Keil
Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 14:40:12 +0200, Tony wrote: > > As much as I love FreeBSD, I'm a bit alarmed by its webdesign / corporate > > identity. > > What's wrong with it? It's very accessible (especially for > blind users) and it presents the availabe information in a > structured

Re: Geom Gate usage and perf

2011-11-18 Thread Fabian Keil
Jerome Herman wrote: > Just wondering if anyone is using geom gate and could help me with huge > perf issue I am having. > Right now the set up is such : 3 drives on the same machine A, exported > through geom gate and connected to machine B. > On machine B I format the drives as freebsd-vinum

Re: trying to learn systems programming, fear I have not understood and thus messed up

2011-10-22 Thread Fabian Keil
"Christopher J. Ruwe" wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:45:08 +0200 > Fabian Keil wrote: > > > "Christopher J. Ruwe" wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:53:33 +0200 > > > "Christopher J. Ruwe" wrote: > > >

Re: trying to learn systems programming, fear I have not understood and thus messed up

2011-10-22 Thread Fabian Keil
"Christopher J. Ruwe" wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:53:33 +0200 > "Christopher J. Ruwe" wrote: > > > [...] > > > > I have tried to follow the suggestion from the comment by modifiying > > the else-statement thus: > > > > } else { > > struct passwd *trgpwd; > > if (!(trgpwd = GETPWNAM(ar

Re: c++: invalid conversion from 'int' to 'const char*'

2009-09-12 Thread Fabian Keil
Boris Samorodov wrote: > I'm porting a c++ application to FreeBSD. I've got an error: > - > ~/work/src/FileChannel.cpp: In member function 'QString > FileChannel::errorString()': > ~/work/src/FileChannel.cpp:251: error: invalid conversion from 'int' to > 'const char*' > ~/work/src/FileChann

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:35:56PM -0500, Dan Nelson typed: > > In the last episode (Jun 22), Ruben de Groot said: > > > > > > My main concern here is if applying the trivial patch I posted would > > > break anything in the http protocol layer. And if not, why isn't the >

Re: www.freebsd.org problems (was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-28 Thread Fabian Keil
Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:00:56PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > > > 3. Drafts for a possible redesign of your project's website > > > > > > > current webpage is excellent - no

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Fabian Keil
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > 3. Drafts for a possible redesign of your project's website > > > current webpage is excellent - no need to :) Most important - it works in > every browser. Actually it's known to render poorly in a lot of browser configurations: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/que

Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?

2009-05-12 Thread Fabian Keil
Peter Steele wrote: > Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD > system? If yes, what NICs did you need to use to get this to work? Yes, with CURRENT and re(4): f...@africanqueen ~ $pciconf -lv | grep -A 4 re0 r...@pci0:0:9:0: class=0x02 card=0x816910ec ch

Re: "High Noonn" DVD??

2008-11-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Nikola Lečić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:08:27 +0100 > Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nikola Lečić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:46:00 +0100 > > > Roland Smith <[EMA

Re: "High Noonn" DVD??

2008-11-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Nikola Lečić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:23:05 +0100 > cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:41:21AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:23:23PM +0100, Nikol

Re: "High Noonn" DVD??

2008-11-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:37:26PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on > > > my > > > computers? I've tried every

Re: "High Noonn" DVD??

2008-11-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Nikola Lečić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:46:00 +0100 > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK, that's nice to know. All the DVDs that I have play fine with > > mplayer, but they're probably all region 2 disks. So I should be able > > to play region 1 disks with m

Re: "High Noonn" DVD??

2008-11-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:47:14PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:37:26 +0100, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > &g

Re: "High Noonn" DVD??

2008-11-15 Thread Fabian Keil
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:37:26 +0100, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on > > my > > computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I

Re: tangoGPS && FreeBSD 7.0

2008-11-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El día Thursday, October 30, 2008 a las 07:51:05PM +0100, Fabian Keil > escribió: > > > Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is anybody aware of a port of tangoGPS > > > http://www.ta

Re: copying 'holey' files ...

2008-11-03 Thread Fabian Keil
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to > how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it > needs > ... but, if I run a simple 'cp' on the file, it goes from: > > image: debian.img >

Re: tangoGPS && FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-30 Thread Fabian Keil
Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anybody aware of a port of tangoGPS > http://www.tangogps.org/gps/cat/About to FreeBSD 7.0? It runs it in my > Linux based cellphone Openmoko FreeRunner and it would be nice to have > it as well in my eeePC (just for having better capacity for cached

Re: geli and soft-updates

2008-09-22 Thread Fabian Keil
Oliver Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 09:45:29PM -0400, Vinny wrote: > > ... > > >> P.S. Anyone running ZFS on multiple geli providers? > > > > > > as above. > > > > Does that mean you are/aren't or have/haven't run > > ZFS on top of, say, 3 geli encrypted disks? I'm

Re: Howto get k3b to detect my Burner

2008-06-28 Thread Fabian Keil
Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warren Liddell wrote: > >> Ok, it should be working. If you have an iso file and an empty CD at > >> hand try something like this: > >> > >> cdrecord -v -dao speed=24 driveropts=burnfree dev=3,0,0 mytest.iso > >> > >> and see if it actually records it.

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Fabian Keil
"Christian Walther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/8 Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "Anders Häggström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > Just in case you assume that ZFS on OpenSolaris 2008.05 > > wou

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Fabian Keil
"Anders Häggström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I plan to install a web server for production use and ZFS looks very > interesting, especially since it has built-in support for RAID and > checksum. > > The hardware is already purchased, a 1U-casis with a PhemonX4 9550 > CPU, 4GB ECC RAM @ 800MHz

Re: SOS failure on mkisofs on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64

2007-10-18 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Trying to make a bootable CD, I did the following according to > FreeBSD doc: Where does one find this "FreeBSD doc"? >#mkisofs -R -no-emul-boot -b /boot/cdboot -o /home/user/0S to > be burned /home/user/cdboot > > >And I got the message: "uh,

Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

2007-10-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Lisandro Grullon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After troubleshooting from all angles this problem i have run out of > imagination/sense. I loaded a machine with Windows Vista a work and try > accessing the www.freebsd.org website. The web site didn't load, yet I > try again in 10 other machines to

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Fabian Keil
Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI > > encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. > > You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt

Re: xmms crashing at startup (Solved)

2007-10-05 Thread Fabian Keil
Robert Marella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:52:41 -1000 > Robert Marella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> xmms > > Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > > serial 1463 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0 > > > > All ports are up t

Re: USB disk cryptographied with GELI and fsck

2007-07-13 Thread Fabian Keil
"DSA - JCR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem with an USB disk that I cryptographied with GELI. > It says that I must run fsck when I try to mount it. > > I used the command > > cat key1 key2 | geli -k - attach /dev/da1 > > when I try to mount it > > mount /dev/da1.eli /usb2 > > I

Re: ports updates

2007-05-17 Thread Fabian Keil
[CC'ing freebsd-questions@ again] Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:06:20AM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: > > "Paul V. Belyakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Why ports updates recently occur so seldom? >

Re: ports updates

2007-05-16 Thread Fabian Keil
"Paul V. Belyakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why ports updates recently occur so seldom? Because of the ongoing tests for the xorg 7.2 integration. For details see: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg or the ports@ archive. Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeMat 3.0 doesn't call functions and help

2007-04-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Il Sunday 22 April 2007 21:38:12 Thierry Thomas ha scritto: > > Le Jeu 19 avr 07 à 1:00:38 +0200, Vittorio De Martino > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > écrivait : > > > > I have just upgraded FreeMAT to 3.1, which fixes the inv() problem, and > > >

Re: binary patches?

2007-03-14 Thread Fabian Keil
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regarding most (or many) of the port changes--say, upgrading > > foo-2.1.9_5 to foo-2.1.9_6, if the upgrade could be done by > > downloading a binary diff file, could the resulting > > /usr/local/bin/foo-2.1.9_6 be achieved by downloa

Re: Proxy question

2007-03-05 Thread Fabian Keil
Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are currently running Squid and SquidGuard on FreeBSD for > monitoring/proxying web browsing activity at our workplace. The > problem is that some users figured out how to use a specific type of > proxy to bypass protections...specifically, t

Re: pf and chgrp squid /dev/pf

2007-02-12 Thread Fabian Keil
dharam paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The changes made to the group of squid with the > command' chgrp squid /dev/pf' on freebsd 6.2 is not > permanent. When the system is restarted the groups > revert back to 'root wheel'. > What is the purpose of this command ' chgrp squid > /dev/pf'? Is the

Re: What Happens When /proc is not Mounted in FreeBSD5.4?

2007-02-01 Thread Fabian Keil
Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made a startling discovery when using strace to > trouble-shoot a different problem on a freeBSD5.4 system that has > been running since last October. Both it and another new 5.4 > system had a /proc mount point but no process files. If I rem

Re: ps oddity

2007-02-01 Thread Fabian Keil
"Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of months ago I wrote a daemon process that opens up connections on > TCP and listens for incoming data (that ultimately ends up in a database). > Now, when I was writing it, I was debugging and what not under my own user > id. However, the p

Re: [ot] can I have an account on your host? (so that I can edit wikipedia)

2006-12-22 Thread Fabian Keil
Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:59:59AM +0800, ? wrote: > > Hello. I am from China and I'd like to contribute to wikipedia, but > > this is not easy / possible because we cannot access wikipedia from > > inland (the great firewall) and my usual

Re: managing traffic from localhost with pf

2006-12-20 Thread Fabian Keil
"[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using pf for NAT and redirecting traffic from my home network into a > transparent proxy (squid26). I'd also like to send traffic from > localhost into the proxy, but everyone I ask "thinks" it's not possible. > Direct http and ftp access is blocked

Re: How safe is encrypted disks? (data integrity)

2006-12-15 Thread Fabian Keil
"Chad Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/14/06, Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have been thinking to make /home on my laptop encrypted - seems like a > > &g

Re: How safe is encrypted disks? (data integrity)

2006-12-14 Thread Fabian Keil
Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been thinking to make /home on my laptop encrypted - seems like a > good idea if it gets stolen. Now, how safe is this? Not in terms of the > strength of the encryption algorithm, but in terms of integrity. I have no insight on the code, but as

Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

2006-12-08 Thread Fabian Keil
张韡武 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great > firewall of China: > > 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; > 2) I run this command on my desktop: > $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; > 3) everybody in the office edit /e

Re: Is GNATS down?

2006-11-23 Thread Fabian Keil
"Vlad Galu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I submitted a PR a few days ago and haven't heard anything related > to the matter ever since. I was supposed to get a confirmation email > once the PR had been filed. I'm also still waiting for the confirmation mail of a PR (update for www/privoxy) I f

Re: streaming content on fbsd

2006-11-12 Thread Fabian Keil
Randy Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:49:45 +0100 > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have the latest ports. I run freebsd-6.1 > > I compiled almost every option / dataformat into mplayer. > > Still no streaming media. Although about:plugin states the fo

Re: pfstat error

2006-10-18 Thread Fabian Keil
Stas Khromoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after upgrading to FreeBSD 6.1 > pfstat runs with the following error > > pfstat: ioctl(DIOCGETSTATUS): Operation not supported by device Did you _not_ use the port? You will get the error message you quoted on FreeBSD, if you don't apply /usr/ports/sys

Re: Commercial Software

2006-08-26 Thread Fabian Keil
"shankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a software writer, my website is http://www.shankar-software.org > I want to port my business software to other operating systems. Linux > seemed > the obvious first choice. After studying it for the past one month I am > completely > vexed by the gnu

Re: Accessing device files over the network

2006-08-19 Thread Fabian Keil
Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to make a USB flash stick. But I have USB ports > only on my linux box. Whereas I would have to run > bsdlabel from my FreeBSD box connected over the > Ethernet. > > Any way out for me? :-) Prepare a file backed "disk" with the size of the

Re: cdrecord

2006-08-17 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Installed cdrecord from ports. > This version does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. > Cdrecord-porDVD is needed. > I want to burn DVD-R's. > Can this be done with FreeBSD? Do I need cdrecord-devel for this? Yes and yes, if you want to stick wit

Re: Questions inregards to NATD

2006-08-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Tyler Brincheski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on P1 Super Socket 7 system (533 > mhz.) I have installed 2 Adaptec Ana-6944 cards, these cards have 4 > ports on each. I have a seperate D Link card, that is supported. My > question is, all the online documentation

Re: how to panic FreeBSD

2006-07-30 Thread Fabian Keil
"Only OpenSource" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to learn kernel debugging and one of the approaches I > have come up with is to introduce situations in the sys code by which > the compiled kernel is buggy > and will panic. > > My query is what are the typical bugs that I can introduce

Re: qemu with tap networking on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-29 Thread Fabian Keil
"mal content" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/07/06, Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally I prefer to use NAT to connect qemu > > (and jails) with the world outside. This way you can > > use pfctl -ss -r to see which connections co

Re: qemu with tap networking on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-28 Thread Fabian Keil
"mal content" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Followed instructions from various places and ended up with > the following procedure: > > # kldload bridge.ko > # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=fxp0,tap0 > # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1 I don't think it's part of your problem, but on FreeB

Re: checksum

2006-07-28 Thread Fabian Keil
justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem with the checksum in /usr/ports/net /cvsup. > It stop installing because of the checksum not working. > How can i disable the checksum?? Are you sure your ports tree is up to date? It works for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net/cvsup $make

Re: geli problem: /dev/da2 not found

2006-07-22 Thread Fabian Keil
Tian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to try this wonderful geli encryption, but can't > find /dev/da2 . I did put geom_eli_load="YES" in loader.conf so the > module is loaded: > > # kldstat -m g_eli > Id Refs Name > 4 1 g_eli > > Did I miss something? /dev/da2 is just used as example disk i

Re: building new kernel failed

2006-07-15 Thread Fabian Keil
"mr thooL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here is my conf file: > # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code. > # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs! This comment exists for a reason ... > #device miibus # MII bus

Re: What is wrong in my conf file?

2006-07-15 Thread Fabian Keil
"mr thooL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a attached my kernel configuration file, can you find the problem, please? > > "config" command went OK > "make depend" - error code 1 I only had a quick look at your kernel configuration, one problem is that you disabled "device wlan" but kept "device ur

Re: home encrypted from install (freebsd 6.1)

2006-07-14 Thread Fabian Keil
"Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm about to do a 6.1 install on a new box. I'm separating /home in the > filesystem so it's a system of it's own. During the install maybe after the > install, but before the reboot i'd like to encrypt /home so that any data > written to it after reboot

Re: "Mounting a drive"

2006-07-10 Thread Fabian Keil
rs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone explain exactly what is meant by "mounting" a disk. I > understand that it is making a disk available for use, but would like > to understand the implications of the term and what abilities it > confers.

Re: Belkin Wireless G notebook card

2006-07-10 Thread Fabian Keil
Scott Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get a Belkin Wireless G notebook card running on a Sony > VAIO laptop, FreeBSD 6.1. > > I followed the advice in the handbook and copied the following files > from the Belkin CD to the if_ndis directory: > > rt61.inf and rt61.sys

Re: unable to mount VCD's

2006-07-07 Thread Fabian Keil
"Arun G Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am unable to mount VCD's on freebsd 6.1. I have a custom kernel. > When trying to mount it says input/output error. Am trying to copy a > VCD as i can't play the last part of any vcd. Mplayer always says > broken frame when it reaches the end. :( I can

Re: Interrupt using all the CPU

2006-07-03 Thread Fabian Keil
nocturnal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a few problems with a webserver. Today the idle was at 0.0 > and it's still like this. It doesn't look like it's affecting web > services but it looks weird and i'm afraid that the CPU is working > it's ass off with something. Of course nothing s

Re: ripping "enhanced" audio CDs

2006-06-15 Thread Fabian Keil
Mikhail Goriachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabian Keil wrote: > >> This is an anti-piracy feature included on some discs. Nowadays > >> there are more and more protected discs around. Some of them even > >> crash computers when loading. How silly is that? P

Re: ripping "enhanced" audio CDs

2006-06-15 Thread Fabian Keil
Mikhail Goriachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mac Newbold wrote: > > I'm on a 5-STABLE box, currently 5.5-PRERELEASE. I use cdparanoia > > and lame (via abcde) to rip my CDs to MP3. (This has happened to me > > with other rippers, like cdda2wav, IIRC, also.) Whenever I try to > > rip an "enhance

Re: Hardware

2006-06-02 Thread Fabian Keil
"horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whether it will be installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and whether after > will work on a computer: > Proc: Pentium 75 MHz > Menory: 16 MB RAM > HDD: 1.2 Gb ? I tried to install FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE on a Pentium 90 with 16 MB RAM a few weeks ago. The BIOS wasn't ab

Re: ndis problem

2006-05-30 Thread Fabian Keil
Lorin Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running 6.1-RELEASE i386. Generic kernel. > The wireless 'card' is a built-in Broadcom 802.11 b/g > My PC is a Compaq V2607CL Turion based notebook > > I downloaded a driver kit from HP. It created > c:\SWSetup\SP32158A\ > In that folder I found >

Re: What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ?

2006-05-29 Thread Fabian Keil
"Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/28/06, Hans Lambermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ? > > > > System : 5.4-RELEASE-p6 > > Command used : growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -l -J -r burn/ > > In burn/ I have a backup file of size 4166629386 bytes an

Re: CD Burning Not Working

2006-05-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Jacob Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, everyone, I am running FreeBSD 6.0-stable and LOVING every > second of it. However, my CD burning capabilities have been stymied > by an unknown problem which I cannot fix, let alone diagnose. I am > attempting to burn a cd using SCSI-emulation, w

Re: ndis with USB wifi dongle - no joy

2006-05-24 Thread Fabian Keil
Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running PC-BSD, with FreeBSD 6 under the hood. The device is a > Netgear MA111, with Prism 2.5 chipset, which dmesg shows as > > ugen1: vendor 0x0846 product 0x4110, rev 1.10/1.32 > > This is what I've done so far: > > - Installed the kernel source in /us

Re: Best Practices - interrupt storm

2006-05-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Charles Howse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, cups-1.1.23.0_1, HP 1100 LaserJet > > I've found quite a bit of information about how to deal with: > "Interrupt storm detected in "irq7:"; throttling interrupt source" > > Problem is, it's a little confusing. > From what I've gath

Re: Proxy server.

2006-05-23 Thread Fabian Keil
Efren Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does somebody know a proxy distinct to Squid that > works with a parent proxy? Privoxy. You find the port in www/privoxy, and minor improvements at: . Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Des

Re: Intel PRO/Wireless 3495

2006-05-19 Thread Fabian Keil
"Matt Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would someone be able to direct me to a good FAQ or howto on using ndis. I'm not aware of any. > Apparently, I need to use ndisulator to be able to use my Intel 3495 because > neither the iwi or ipw drivers seem to work with it. Most of the time it's

Re: NDISulator vs Linksys WMP54G BCM4306

2006-05-15 Thread Fabian Keil
"Joao Barros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/15/06, Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Joao Barros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was trying NDISulator for the first time and it didn't go well, I > &

Re: NDISulator vs Linksys WMP54G BCM4306

2006-05-15 Thread Fabian Keil
"Joao Barros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was trying NDISulator for the first time and it didn't go well, I > can't get the driver to detect the card. > > pciconf -l -v : > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00131737 chip=0x432014e4 > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Broadcom Cor

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Fabian Keil
"Maan Jee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory > located? > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ > devfs 1 1 0

Re: New FreeBSD Logo

2006-05-14 Thread Fabian Keil
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil > >"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> >---

Re: Issue setting SSID

2006-05-12 Thread Fabian Keil
Adrian Pavone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure on the etiquette of reposting, however, this post is now 23 > pages down my screen, so I doubt anyone would see the original. This > possibly means no-one knows, but if that is the case, would anyone be > able to point me in the right dire

Re: New FreeBSD Logo

2006-05-11 Thread Fabian Keil
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Axel S. Gruner > >Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:46 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: RE: New FreeBSD Logo > > > > > >Am Mittwoch, den 10

Re: i/o error OOo-2.0.2 NFS

2006-05-05 Thread Fabian Keil
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday I installed OpenOffice-2.0.2 from (the most recent) ports. It > runs very well, but I have an error that I don't understand. > > Opening a file on my local machine is OK, but when I try to open one on > a NFS mounted directory I get an I/O ge

Re: add DVD Burner and file system setup?

2006-05-05 Thread Fabian Keil
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Kelly wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:54:37PM -0400, Sean wrote: > >> I just added a DVD burner to my system and am trying to figure out how > >> to setup the fstab. > >> > >> The device is showing up on acd1 but what file system type should be > >>

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