FreeBSD console weirdness when booting from usb stick

2009-12-05 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I'm booting FreeBSD 8 from an USB stick, but when I do so, the console no longer works. They USB keyboard seems to do nothing, and during the boot process when the daemons are starting it seems like there is another keyboard attached on which the ENTER key is stuck. That is, while the

FreeBSD as USB joystick

2009-05-22 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I'm wondering if I can turn my FreeBSD into a (very expensive ;-)) joystick. That is, I have a PS2 and want to be able to control it via my laptop. This would amount to connecting a USB cable between my PS2 and my laptop, and getting the PS2 to detect it as a joystick with the right

Re: FreeBSD as USB joystick

2009-05-22 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Wojciech Puchar wrote: That is, I have a PS2 and want to be able to control it via my laptop. This would amount to connecting a USB cable between my PS2 and my laptop, and getting the PS2 to detect it as a joystick with the right identifier string, and being able to send button presses

Re: CARP bridge

2009-05-01 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but unfortunately the carp device never leaves the INIT state when I put the ip on the bridge. :-( I did find some similar problem here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=125816 I just

CARP bridge

2009-04-29 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I have a bridged OpenVPN setup where the OpenVPN tap0 driver is bridged (via bridge0) to the physical em1 interface, which has a VIP via a carp1 interface: em1: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500

Re: CARP bridge

2009-04-29 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Julien Cigar wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:37 +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Hi, I have a bridged OpenVPN setup where the OpenVPN tap0 driver is bridged (via bridge0) to the physical em1 interface, which has a VIP via a carp1 interface: em1: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC

Re: CARP bridge

2009-04-29 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Julien Cigar wrote: Maybe you've to do ARP Proxy on one side ? Try to add an ARP entry in the ARP table with arp (arp -s 1.2.3.4 MAC foo) .. Thanks for the suggestion. Ok, static arp works: that is, if I take the carp1 mac address

esxi and freebsd vlans

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
addresses don't work. I've tried setting the vlan id on the vSwitch to none and to 22, but in neither of the two cases does it work. Does anybody have FreeBSD vlan's working on ESXi or know how to get it working? Many thanks, Sebastiaan van Erk smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: esxi and freebsd vlans

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Thanks for your response! :-) Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello Sebastian: Hi, I ran into the ESXi limit of 4 NICs per VM, so I figured I would work around this using FreeBSD's vlan devices. I made 2 test installs with the following interface configuration: test1:

Re: esxi and freebsd vlans

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello Sebastian: Hi, I ran into the ESXi limit of 4 NICs per VM, so I figured I would work around this using FreeBSD's vlan devices. I made 2 test installs with the following interface configuration: test1: ifconfig em0 inet 10.10.10.1 netmask

Re: Problem setting up PPTP server

2006-11-10 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
that in mpd. Does anybody know a way to require MPPE in mpd? Regards, Sebastiaan Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up mpd (3.18) on a FreeBSD server to allow windows and linux clients to connect. Currently I've only been trying to make the linux connection succeed (Ubuntu with ppp-2.4.4

Problem setting up PPTP server

2006-11-09 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I'm trying to set up mpd (3.18) on a FreeBSD server to allow windows and linux clients to connect. Currently I've only been trying to make the linux connection succeed (Ubuntu with ppp-2.4.4), but I get the following output from linux pppd: CHAP authentication succeeded sent [CCP ConfReq

Re: XFree86, Anti-aliasing, Truetype, Freetype

2002-11-05 Thread erk!
for most regular apps working OK, but not gtk apps. Like I said, OO is just kinda wonky with font handling (imo). You might try installing a small port that doesn't use gtk to see if you notice any noticeable changes between the three. - erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: XFree86, Anti-aliasing, Truetype, Freetype

2002-11-04 Thread erk!
to mozilla, there have been some recent discussions regarding messed up fonts. you might take a look back in the recent mailing list archives. - erk, who tossed out *office, and went with abiword. all is good once again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Window/File Manager

2002-11-03 Thread erk!
much about appearances, i've heard that ratpoison is more than adequate : i've never used it myself, but if you just want a really plain x session, and the ability to view multiple terminals simultaneously, it should be fine. - erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Max Email Users

2002-10-29 Thread erk!
*bsd on a 486, and still being able to handle hundreds of users. in particular, i read about a firewall box running openbsd awhile back that received hundreds of hack attempts over a week-long period, and never skipped a beat. the same appears to be true for mail servers, too. - erk To Unsubscribe

Re: root-tail question

2002-10-28 Thread erk!
, it always stays behind everything. - erk! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: DHCP

2002-10-28 Thread erk!
' on that, and you're good to go. it actually won't matter whether or not your main line is through your winxp box. freebsd will detect settings via dhcp regardless of whether or not it's there. - erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: limewire and fluxbox?

2002-10-28 Thread erk!
on the box, and it should pop-up the main window. - erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: divxplayer

2002-10-28 Thread erk!
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 1:40:34 -0500 Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rehash doesn't re-read rc.conf AFAIK i'm pretty sure it does..i could be wrong, though, but i seem to recall it working fine when i added 'linux_enable=YES' awhile back. - erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Netiquette (was Re: linux compatibility in 4.7)

2002-10-26 Thread erk!
was so important to express to me, i needed to read it no less than 4 times. - erk! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Netiquette (was Re: linux compatibility in 4.7)

2002-10-25 Thread erk!
reader anymore, and i still find this to be incredibly rude. a good rule of thumb: if the text you're quoting is larger than your reply, rethink it or don't post it. - erk Dear John, I'm not sure, but my guess is that linux_base-6.1_3 isn't necessary and got installed by some form of minor

Re: random reboots

2002-10-22 Thread erk!
i've actually had this problem also..however, it turned out to be a BIOS issue. i don't recall the specific setting name that i had to change, but there should be some kind of performance toggle or speed toggle between normal and turbo. switching it back to normal stopped the spontaneous reboots

Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD

2002-10-10 Thread erk
I'll give a good nod to my current board, a Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus! VIA KT266A 100/133 FSB. It has onboard sound and LAN, but both are well supported, and can be put aside with a simple change under BIOS. It was a really good option for me, initially, because when I built this box, I was

qt30 png_write_chunk errors during make

2002-10-08 Thread erk
I'm just finishing up installing FreeBSD on a 3rd machine here at my apartment, but i'm noticing a slight problem with qt30. any time i try to build a port that relies on qt30, the build breaks with a series of messages seemingly related to png. this is trimmed down considerably, but a small

Re: 4.7

2002-10-03 Thread erk
glad to see someone posted about this. i was kind of anxious for this release, but more stability is infinitely preferable to a quick-and-dirty release. i'd also second a vote for some kind of notification/updates on the main page. this is the first info i've seen about any of it, and i'm

Re: atapi cd-r/cd-rw drives?

2002-09-18 Thread erk
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:48:16 -0400 Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 18 September 2002 07:18 am, erk wrote: | searches on google haven't turned up much, other than linux-oriented | changes. most of them note something about scsi-adapter emulation, | though