Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:25:51PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 Apparently I'm an idiot. the sysctl

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the available CPU frequencies. I get: dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 397/-1 198/-1 Is this something I should

Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Ross Penner
me. Ross -- sig ho! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Ross Penner
On 8/1/07, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 13:34 Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Ross Penner
On 8/1/07, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 16:21 On 8/1/07, *Reid Linnemann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 13:34 Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system

Downgrading from current

2007-07-29 Thread Ross Penner
I recently upgraded my system from stable to current to try and take advantage of some of wireless features offered. Unfortunetly, things didn't work out as well as I'd like to and I want to downgrade. Reading online, it seems that downgrading isn't supported and it's probably best to just

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Ross Penner
On 5/15/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I looked into the matter and discovered

File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Ross Penner
I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as root and I got the following: rosbot# fsck ** /dev/ar0s1a (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on

diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Ross Penner
Hi mailing list. I've been running FreeBSD 6.2 on a computer as a gateway for my (very small) local area network. Every two weeks since I've got it up and running, it will completely lock up, seemingly randomly. I would love to investigate the root of the problem, but I'm not exactly sure where

Natd is not working as expected

2007-01-09 Thread Ross Penner
on where to look to diagnose this issue. the bind9 server is functioning correctly as I'm able to resolve IP address, but no packets seem to be getting through. Thanks ahead of time for any help you can give, Ross Penner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Changing root's shell

2006-08-08 Thread ross
so it seems changed root login's shell to /usr/bin/bash which doesn't exist. now I can't login to root at all. Oh yes, sudo isn't installed. How would you grand masters of FreeBSD fix my embarrasing mistake. Thanks! -- What time is it? Dodgeball Time!

Re: Changing root's shell

2006-08-08 Thread Ross Penner
On 8/8/06, Pete Slagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross Penner wrote: how do you drop to single user mode? I just know how to get there at boot time. Thanks. On 8/8/06, *Pete Slagle* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ross wrote: so it seems changed root

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-12 Thread Ross Lonstein
is written in Flash! [snip] I forwarded this license issue to an engineer I know there. His response was positive. We'll have to see how it goes with their management and legal. - Ross ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Native Opera Spell checker not functioning

2006-04-11 Thread ross
I've been running the native version of Opera (www/opera) for a while now, and the spell check function has never actually functioned. Aspell was compiled when I installed Opera, so it seems like it should function nicely. Anybody have any ideas? I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 and Opera 5.4 --

ports index broken, expat2 is too new for current apache2 on 5.4-STABLE

2006-03-24 Thread Brian Ross
Ok, I got myself into a spot here: As I was trying to install Apache 2.2 from ports, I ran into its expat2 dependency, but it's at a version beyond the version my current version of apache is using. So I decided to just overwrite the old expat2 install not thinking (yes, I know, not

Samba Dameon smbd won't start

2006-03-19 Thread ross
I can't, for the life of me, figure out why. I've tried starting it from the SWAT configuration tool and directly running the script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh. The nmbd always starts but the smbd doesn't. The log is only providing me with this message: [2006/03/19 15:44:13, 0]

Re: connection reset by peer from one location but not another

2006-03-12 Thread Brian Ross
On Mar 10, 2006, at 4:36 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006, Brian Ross wrote: I'm getting a connection reset by peer disconnect after about 10 minutes (or less) when I SSH to my 5.4-STABLE server from my home connection (cable DHCP), but I can stay

connection reset by peer from one location but not another

2006-03-09 Thread Brian Ross
I'm getting a connection reset by peer disconnect after about 10 minutes (or less) when I SSH to my 5.4-STABLE server from my home connection (cable DHCP), but I can stay connected all day long from work (DSL DHCP). I couldn't find any mention of connection reset by peer in the list

Re: suggestions for an ecomomy laser printer

2006-03-08 Thread Ross Lonstein
+ it replaced but good enough for the sub-$300 price. - Ross ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

changeing the port of the ftp server

2006-02-22 Thread ross
I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the port of my ftp server. My (crummy) ISP blocks port 21 and I would like to change the default port of the ftp server in order to give access to the outside world. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Removing Matlab

2006-02-01 Thread ross
I had matlab installed on my computer but I'm no longer in need of it. As it's the only peice of software I have that isn't installed from either the ports or the packages, I'm sort of at a loss on how to uninstall it properly. It takes up too much room in my /usr partition for me to just

Screen Capture

2006-01-30 Thread ross
I can't seem to figure out how to make a screen capture. Is there an ability hidden in X11 or do I need to install a port? I'm running 6.0 and also fluxbox as my window manager. -- What time is it? Dodgeball Time! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Connection refused when trying do download ports

2006-01-30 Thread ross
I've been having a lot of trouble getting ports to work for me. I'm wondering if this is the fault of something I have set up on my end. I've updated the ports tree with portsnap and then I try and install a new port such as ImageMagick and it can't find the source anywhere. For almost all

Re: Connection refused when trying do download ports

2006-01-30 Thread ross
locations with the same error. I then tried to do it manually. ross# fetch -v ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/pav/ImageMagick-6.2.5-5.tar.bz2 looking up ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org connecting to ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org:2100 fetch: ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Ross Lonstein
:) - Ross ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

6.0-RELEASE Thinkpad 600e SMBus IOCTL: Device not configured error apm issues.

2006-01-03 Thread Ross Marchiafava
to have this Laptop working 100%. Thank you. -Ross chm: ioctl: Device not configured IOCTL: Device not configured IOCTL: Device not configured IOCTL: Device not configured IOCTL: Device not configured IOCTL: Device not configured IOCTL: Device not configured

6.0-RELEASE Thinkpad 600e SMBus IOCTL: Device not configured erro apm issues.

2006-01-02 Thread Ross Marchiafava
get these errors: I have listed pciconf, dmesg, loader.conf, device.hints, and kernel config below. I appreciate any help that anyone is able to provide, I would love to have this Laptop working 100%. Thank you. -Ross chm: ioctl: Device not configured IOCTL

flash plugin in 6.0

2005-12-18 Thread Ross Adams Lippert
Where is the latest documentation on this continually vexing problem? Why do I feel like this is the hardest part of any upgrade? (not subbed) -r ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

make buildworld failure

2005-12-13 Thread Dan Ross
I am trying to build a new kernel with smp. I started with make clean and got no errors. I then type make buildworld from /usr/src directory it runs for about an hour then I get: gzip -cn /usr/src/sbin/ip6fw/ip6fw.8 ip6fw.8.gz === sbin/ipf make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop ***

Marvell Yukon Kernel Driver for 6.0

2005-11-22 Thread Lawrence F. Ross
Hey Guys; I've got a system with 4 Marvell Yukon 8053 based NICs I am constructing as a bridging firewall. While Marvell does have a driver for BSD 5.4 which works just fine, 5.4 has lousy bridging support (especially when using pf as your packet filter) So I was wondering, with so many of

ISP blocking specific ports

2005-11-22 Thread ross
Hi, I have a feeling that my isp is blocking remote access to port 80 and 21 of my computer. I have the ftp sever running but I can only connect from a local machine. I'm curious if there is a way I can test this. I'm also wondering in what configuration file do I change the port that ftpd

Re: ISP blocking specific ports

2005-11-22 Thread ross
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:48:20 -0800, Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, ross wrote: Hi, I have a feeling that my isp is blocking remote access to port 80 and 21 of my computer. I have the ftp sever running but I can only connect from a local machine. I'm curious

Error on boot, significant?

2005-11-20 Thread ross
I have recently rebuilt my system up to 6.0. In this process I modified my kernel so that it had the extra lines (taken from NOTES): device tdfx# Enable 3Dfx Voodoo support options TDFX_LINUX # Enable Linuxulator support device drm

Via RAID0 problem

2005-11-20 Thread ross barnes
I am trying to form a RAID0 Array with FreeBSD 6.0 on an Asus A8V motherboard. It seems as if the kernel is not reading the Array properly as my RAID config tells me that I have 68G in my Array, but ar0 only sees what the capacity of one disk. I have an Intel motherboard that worked flawlessly. I

pptp connection to university VPN

2005-11-14 Thread ross
linux guide on the ubc.ca website as a guide and the connection failed. the /var/log/ppp is: Nov 14 08:59:17 ross ppp[2125]: Phase: Using interface: tun0 Nov 14 08:59:17 ross ppp[2125]: Phase: deflink: Created in closed state Nov 14 08:59:20 ross ppp[2125]: Warning: The alias command

Re: pptp connection to university VPN

2005-11-14 Thread ross
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:02:36 -0800, ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to use the resources of my library, I was hoping to connect to it's VPN. The online guide provided is at http://www.itservices.ubc.ca/support/service/vpn.html I also found a diary entry http://www.freebsddiary.org

Changing location of ports tree

2005-11-06 Thread ross
My /usr partition is to small for some of the larger programs (openoffice.org, jdk, etc) and I want to move my ports tree to a harddrive with more space. can I just change the line in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf that says ENV['PORTSDIR'] ||= '/usr/ports' to ENV['PORTSDIR'] ||=

Re: Changing location of ports tree

2005-11-06 Thread ross
On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 13:16:02 -0800, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ross wrote: My /usr partition is to small for some of the larger programs (openoffice.org, jdk, etc) and I want to move my ports tree to a harddrive with more space. can I just change the line in /usr/local/etc

Getting my screen to rotate with my monitor

2005-10-30 Thread ross
I have a fancy dancy LCD screen that can rotate clockwise. It would be nice to be able to use this functionality but I have no idea where to start. Hopefully somebody can tell me if it's even feasible. My video card is a Voodoo 3 running the tdfx driver. -- Using Opera's revolutionary

Re: Getting my screen to rotate with my monitor

2005-10-30 Thread ross
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:10:36 -0800, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, Eric Kjeldergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/05, ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a fancy dancy LCD screen that can rotate clockwise. It would be nice to be able to use this functionality

Re: Making ports in alternative areas

2005-10-23 Thread ross
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:07:12 -0700, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 06:42:36PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: I'm running low on disc space on my /usr partition and I would like to compile a program from the ports that is rather large. I have enough space

Making ports in alternative areas

2005-10-21 Thread ross
I'm running low on disc space on my /usr partition and I would like to compile a program from the ports that is rather large. I have enough space once it's compiled, it's just the work that I don't have enough space for. how can I get the port to do it's work in a different area on a

sftp and escape characters

2005-10-20 Thread ross
is sftp put /mnt/pammy/music/Nadasurf-\ Popular.mp3 /files/upload File /mnt/pammy/music/Nadasurf-\\ not found. Thanks Ross Penner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: sftp and escape characters

2005-10-20 Thread ross
I tried that already and got the error Bad escaped character ' ' On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:21:39 -0700, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/20/05, ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I wanted to upload a file to my friend using sftp. The problem is that the file had a space in the file name

Re: sftp and escape characters

2005-10-20 Thread ross
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:22:14 -0700, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/20/05, ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that already and got the error Bad escaped character ' ' Can you past everything you entered, exactly as it appears? my prompt copy and pasted. sftp put /mnt/pammy

Recommended TV Tuner Capture Card

2005-10-16 Thread ross
I'm looking for a very basic TV tuner for my machine. I don't have a tv right now and I want something I can hook my VCR into. I'm looking to spend the least amount of money so old hardware gotten off e-bay is the idea. Any recomendations? -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client:

Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-24 Thread Gordon Ross
I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being that I could share the one /usr/ports directory amongst my machines and save disc space, and also save having to recompile everything

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-24 Thread Gordon Ross
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Gordon Ross wrote: I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being that I could share the one /usr/ports directory amongst

Re: Sharing /usr/ports

2005-09-24 Thread Gordon Ross
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gordon Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got two FreeBSD 5.4 machines. One is a server, the other is a desktop. I've mounted on the desktop the /usr/ports directory from the server. My idea being that I could share the one /usr/ports directory

Re: undelete in FreeBSD?

2005-07-26 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glenn Dawson wrote: At 10:48 PM 7/25/2005, Xu Qiang wrote: Ross Kendall Axe wrote: Yes. MS-Windows doesn't have anything Unix doesn't in this regard. I take it you're not familiar with the DOS/Windows 'del' command... Hehe, this is a good

Re: undelete in FreeBSD?

2005-07-25 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
worried about accidentally deleting files, he should use KDE or Gnome. They both have a trash can/wastebasket/recycle bin. Ross -Glenn Regards, Xu Qiang -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: howto export kde from freeBSD 5.4 ?

2005-07-24 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
to attach an X client (an application, in this case KDE) to multiple X servers and X isn't really set up for that. VNC, which has it's client/server relationship the other way around, should be able to provide what you want more easily. HTH, Ross BTW, your mail was horribly mangled. I suggest you

Re: join my freebsd box to windows domain?

2005-07-22 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
to be another client on that domain, im right or wrong??? I'm afraid Samba can only act as a BDC to a _Samba_ PDC, so it looks like you're out of luck here. This is also in the Samba HOWTO: http://us5.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/samba-bdc.html#id2549809 Ross -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: First post

2005-07-22 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
$189 QEmu, OTOH, is free. Ross -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC4Y8o9bR4xmappRARAjE6AKC+ct456OBD4NqEK20VqkW1lmKsogCg02EJ T52DRnND4IdgsK7Nvq5rdsY= =1rbt -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-21 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ross Kendall Axe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: ... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition at the start of the drive. Setting

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
in a different way. Turns out the BIOS was disabling LBA because the logical cylinder count was 1024, so mucking about with the geometry fixed it. Still, I'll keep these comments in mind if I ever decide to install FreeBSD on the aforementioned 486 ;-) Ross -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glenn Dawson wrote: At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a separate partition. Not sure about that...I always

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Ross Kendall Axe wrote: I admit, I didn't know the /boot was new in FreeBSD, but then, I am a BSD virgin. As for reasons to support a /boot partition, how about BIOS bugs/quirks? There's no shortage of those. Well, until

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
for. Are you willing to pay shipping? That's a generous offer, but since I've fixed the immediate problem, and I'm only playing for now, it probably isn't worth the effort. In any event, it now looks like a couple of fair sized drives are going to become available here soon anyway. Ross

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-20 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: ... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall is easy enough, but does anyone

/boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
drive to play with and judging the partition sizes down the nearest KB would be... tricky. I have performed this procedure before (many, many times) on Linux using both LILO and GRUB, but I can't seem to get my head around the FreeBSD bootloader. Ross -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to read past 504MB, so I want to place

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 July 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel both want to be in the /boot directory on partition a. I'd love to be proved wrong

Xorg changing modes

2005-07-14 Thread Ross Penner
I've been having trouble getting Xorg to change video modes. I want it to run in 1280x1024 but it drops to 640x480 when I test it. I used the handbook as my guide. My hardware is pretty old. I have a PIII 500 with a voodoo 3 (agp). I've attached my Xorg.conf as well as the log file. hopefully

write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

2005-05-14 Thread Ross Adams Lippert
It was extracting the distribution into / over ftp and said /: write failed, filesystem is full this was after doing a newfs on /. Has anyone run into this problem? I am not subscribed. If I should be tell me. If not, put me in the cc-line. -r

Re: write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

2005-05-14 Thread Ross Adams Lippert
I'm sorry I was not more specific. /var has 256MB /tmp has 256 / has 256 /usr has 4500MB newfs had been run on everything. ftp was passive. Since base is about 46MB of material, it seems it could put it anywhere. This occurs 3% of the way into the extration of base into / via ftp. I did burn

Re: Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE

2005-03-10 Thread Michael Ross
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:13:53 -0300 Giovanni P. Tirloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is the output of top: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 48 processes: 1 running, 47 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0%

[no subject]

2005-03-05 Thread Ross Penner
Hi, I searched the archive to no avail on my problem altough I'm sure it's quite simple. I have an aureal vortex 2 sound card which I would be quite happy to use, BUT, I'm having a hang up when installing the port 'sound/aureal-kmod'. I get the error message: === aureal-kmod-1.5_5 You

Re: About BSD

2004-10-19 Thread Michael Ross
*NONE* wrote: Hi, I was just wondering how did you make BSD, how many people did it take you, and how long it took to make? I want to see if I and a team of programmers has what its got to make an OS one day. Thanks

Re: Diskless setup for 5.3 ?

2004-10-16 Thread Michael Ross
Rob wrote: Michael Collette wrote: After running through a stack of little pitfalls in trying to get a diskless client running from a 5-CURRENT server I'm down to the last nasty here. Help is very much appreciated, because I sensed that help with diskless setup is quite rare on the mailing

Re: options NO_LKM?

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Ross
Omer Faruk Sen wrote: I have seen that NO_LKM option has been removed (a long time ago ) from supported options in kernel config file. I want to disable kernel module loading in my system. Is there a way for that? You can do that with securelevels: see man securelevel 1 Secure mode -

Re: problems with Mutt and esmtp

2004-04-10 Thread Ross A. Beyer
that I didn't set, a peculiarity that I'm not taking into account, or something about FreeBSD or my shell (tcsh) that is intercepting a control character or something? -- Ross ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

problems with Mutt and esmtp

2004-04-08 Thread Ross A. Beyer
, Jose Fonseca, and he isn't aware of this problem, and says that everything works fine for him. Is it something particular to FreeBSD? Any help you can give me would be great, as I'm looking forward to using esmtp and Mutt together. Thank you. -- Ross

fetch/ftp problem

2004-01-13 Thread Ross Lippert
I am having an odd problem with fetch. I cannot fetch an ftp:-type address but I can ftp to it and get the files just fine. This is problematic for ports and downloading via sysinstall. I am running the new 5.2. I am firewalled though (I did try both passsive and active ftpmode's). Any

Re: help, i'm a newbie

2003-11-25 Thread dillon ross
that didn't seem to help much or i'm doing something terribly wrong. i did try to reconfigure x-server and went to xdesktop to choose default desktop (no other config opts.). when i run startx i get blank screen akin. typing afterstep at the command prompt gives the error msg. can't open

fixing motherboard sound

2003-10-12 Thread Ross Lippert
OK, I found one of the problems that the festival app was having playing on my system. Apparently, the authors assumed that a SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC ioctl() was not necessary before a close() because the close() is supposed to sync. I have found, however, that it does make a difference. Is close()

why does motherboard sound suck?

2003-10-09 Thread Ross Lippert
I just got new hardware and I installed 5.1 on it (not tht it matters, because what I am asking about is observed in 4.X). Why is it that so-called the built-in soundcard that my motherboard comes with does work with everything? By that I mean that I can play the usual multimedia stuff without

RE: Problem booting 5.1 install CD

2003-10-06 Thread Ross, Chris
, it looks like 6-CURREWNT will be forked when 5.2-RELEASE is out. I would assume that this means there will be little work done on the 4 branch after 4.9 is released. -Original Message- From: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 11:09 AM To: Ross

Problem booting 5.1 install CD

2003-10-02 Thread Ross, Chris
I am having a problem booting the FreeBSD 5.1 install CD. My machine hangs when it goes to pole agp. Is there a way to disable agp when booting from this CD? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: HARDWARE COMPATABLE

2003-07-27 Thread Ross Tregaskis
install CDs won't boot unless you have Plug And Play OS set to OFF in your BIOS. Maybe it's something to do with that.' -- Ross Tregaskis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

nge and vlans

2003-06-12 Thread Nicolas Ross
/db/text/2003/freebsd-questions/20030413.freebsd-questions Mike Hogsett and Cejka Rudolf seems to have found also this problem. So I wounder if there is a solution to this problem ? Thanks, Nicolas Ross ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Adding a KVM, what should I be aware of?

2003-03-28 Thread Troy Ross
I'm using a IOGEAR MiniView 4 port usb kvmp switch model GCS1714. It is a usb switch that emulates keyboard and mouse connections over usb. It works better than even plugging the usb mouse and keyboard directly into my FreeBSD box. Works with all verstions of windows as well. The only

Re: OT: AGP Pro 8x Slot

2003-03-02 Thread Troy Ross
Brian Henning wrote: Hello- I just bought a new motherboard, the ASUS A7N8X (not deluxe). I want to use it for my new FBSD machine. I actually want to use my old graphics card (AOpen NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64, 32MB, 4x AGP) in that machine for now because i don't want to buy a new graphics card.

umass device incomplete contents

2003-02-18 Thread Ross Lippert
Hi, ever since we upgraded to 5.0 we have had problems with our SDR-31 compact flash reader. No interesting messages come up in dmesg to describe the problem. This is what happens, the device mounts just fine: mount -o ro -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ but while we can see all the files with an

devfs and /dev/fd/3

2003-02-12 Thread Ross Lippert
I just installed freebsd 5.0. One gotcha that got me was in my lpif filter, which used to use a clever set of redirects to send only the outputfile output of gs to stdout while the stdout output of gs was sent to stderr: exec 31 12 /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q

Re: Max. file size for msdos partition

2003-02-10 Thread Troy Ross
Kevin Oberman wrote: How large a file can I create on a FAT32 msdos partition with FreeBSD Stable? I would have expected to be able to create a 4GB-2 file, but seem to be limited to 2GB-1. Is there such a limit and, if not, any idea why I am unable to create a really large file? Is this a

access to files 2GB from NTFS

2003-01-14 Thread Troy Ross
Hello, I have lots of home video type avi files which I captured from a dv camera under windows 2k. I would like to use tools such as mencoder to reencode these files to something like divx or mpeg2. Unfortunately, every time I begin an encoding process for a file larger than 2GB the

Large disk support with Unix

2002-12-03 Thread Carlos Ross
Windows 2000, and QNX, and neither one of those OS's had this problem. I need to resolve this problem soon. Please advice. Carlos Ross _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page

Re: DHCP and an internal web server

2002-11-24 Thread Michael Ross
. otherwise you should be fine. =) Michael Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

DSL, verizon, FreeBSD

2002-11-06 Thread Ross Lippert
Hi. I'm trying to get a verizon DSL service started on my FreeBSD box. I don't have windows running at home, so I cannot run their install software. The nice folks there, have been helpful enough to walk me through the install. I'm happy they are taking a shot at it. They have given me the

mapping ports to packages

2002-11-05 Thread Ross Lippert
I am writing a little utility to help me get an instant-workstation (the instant-workstation port is fine when you have high bandwidth, but not when you are low bandwidth and have CDs with some stuff already, blah blah blah, there are other reasons why I believe this would be a nice thing).

doh! I found my answer

2002-11-05 Thread Ross Lippert
Don't bother to respond to what I just wrote. I have discovered that make -V PKGNAME will do the mapping I want. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Typical times installing from ports via 56k modem?

2002-10-28 Thread Michael Ross
build without needing to download anything else. * when upgrading ports, get a copy of portupgrade, and use portupgrade -raF - this should go through and download the tarballs for the ports you want to upgrade. Then later when your off the net do a portupgrade -ra to build them. Michael Ross

trying to get a fresh install

2002-10-23 Thread Ross Lippert
Hi. I'm trying to make a fresh install on a computer which had 4.6 on it (installing 4.7) and for some reason, although the NEWFS=Y in every row of the disklabel dialog, I am seeing clear signs that sysinstall is reading my old /var/db/pkg info among other things. This indicates to me that the

Re: trying to get a fresh install

2002-10-23 Thread Ross Lippert
I don't have an msdos disk. I have no windows or msdos at home. -r On Wednesday, 23 October 2002 at 20:04:12 -0400, JoeB wrote: Use msdos fdisk, repartition disk and format it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions;FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ross

Re: /usr/share/examples

2002-07-22 Thread Ross Lippert
Some of us never make world. Or rather, there must be an easier way to get this directory populated than having to learn how to make world. make world kind of makes me nervous. If this is a recognized problem, then why isn't it reported in the errata? Is it too much to ask for someone to

Re: MS Dynamic DNS problems

2002-07-18 Thread Ross Lippert
.rkv.ad.celera.com. which may be of interest because it shows the DNS entry being persistent right up until just after FreeBSD's dhclient starts, and then the DNS entry disappears. -r From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ross Lippert [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL

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