Re: hard drive errors

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 19:21:13, David Bear wrote: I am receiving the following errors on my hard drive. This appears to affect some file in /var/log. My question is twofold. 1) shouldn't ufs notice this sector as being unuseable and mark it offlimites? 2) if not, is there a way to mark it so manually?

Re: My computer keeps crashing

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 19:06:22, cali wrote: If this is the wrong mailing list, I apologise, suggestions to a more appropriate mailing list will be appreciated. Reasonably recently I upgraded my hardware to the following: Soltek SL-NV400-64 Purple Ray (Socket A) Motherboard AMD Athlon Barton XP3200+ 400FSB

Re: QLogic 2312

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 18:33:04, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: Hello FreeBSD gurus! I have a question for you. We have a small mounster: HP Proliant BL20 two Xeon processors, 2Gb RAM, QLogic SCSI 2312, and some other scary characteristics. Now, I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE almost accidentally. I mean, it

Re: ALTQ support?

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 18:30:23, Brian John wrote: Hello, I am trying to get pf to work on my 5.3 machine. I thought that I had it setup but it says that I don't have ALTQ support? What is that? Can someone help me set it up? Thanks /Brian ___

Re: X11 Monitor Database?

2005-01-19 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/19/05 09:18:56, John wrote: OK, I've been having a good time installing X.org on laptops, now I've got around to a workstation with a traditional monitor. I was spoiled in the past by being able to browse a database of known monitors, where I pretty much always found what I needed. There

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-19 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/19/05 03:17:22, faisal gillani wrote: Well it has been almost a year now since I first tried FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my production server :-) I like playing with danger since then it has been just giving me 110% always forever ... my FreeBSD server is responsible for transferring large media

Re: Detecting CD devices

2005-01-19 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/18/05 18:47:31, Trey Sizemore wrote: I've been working to get my CD-RW and DVD drives seen on my FBSD 5.3-STABLE box and mountable by a normal user account. I've succeeded with a minor glitch or two. I can mount the devices and can play DVDs and burn using k3b, but... I can't use

Re: Difference between CPUTYPE= in /etc/make.conf

2005-01-18 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/18/05 11:01:32, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have tried googling for this information, but without any concrete results. In the '/etc/make.conf' file, what are the advantages between using the following declaration? CPUTYPE=i686 Versus CPUTYPE=p4 In the above scenario, the number following the

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?

2005-01-12 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/12/05 15:12:42, sp0ng3b0b wrote: I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? ___

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?

2005-01-12 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/12/05 15:12:42, sp0ng3b0b wrote: I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? ___

Re: SMP question

2005-01-12 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/12/05 11:11:46, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hi all- I am wondering if it is possible to specify which processor that a process will use, on a multi-processor box. Where can I find this information if it is possible. Thanks, Bob ___

Re: avr-libc 5.2.1

2005-01-09 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/09/05 17:15:40, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! Has anybody an idea where I can fetch: avr-libc-2003.09.09.tar.bz2 or a package for 5.2.1? I have installed avrdude, avr-gcc via pkg_add but I'm not successfull with the libc. make install says: Attempting to fetch from

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS!! Here are my notes

2005-01-05 Thread jason henson
is now found at /usr/ports/net/p5-Net-Rendezvous [Thanks to Jason Henson for pointing this out to me] NEW #1: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mDNSResponder.sh didn't exist, so I copied it from /usr/ports/net/mDNSResponder/files/mDNSResponder.sh. Then I had to manually edit the file. Mine now looks like

Re: rtc wants more hz!

2005-01-04 Thread jason henson
On 01/04/05 15:03:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote: jason henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found this old thread on it: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/026160.html If I raise the hz option in my kernel config will it adversely affect anything else like network

Re: atacontrol during boot ?

2005-01-03 Thread jason henson
On 01/03/05 14:28:02, Hexren wrote: I need to change the mode of ata channel 1 to UDMA33. When the system is up I use atacontrol mode 1 UDMA33 UDMA33 for that. How can I do this during boot, before mounting HDDs (The reason for all this is, that one of my HDDs only likes UDMA33)? Thanks Hexren

Re: installing a linux rpm, wants perl

2005-01-03 Thread jason henson
On 01/04/05 00:24:38, Karl Agee wrote: freebsd 4.11-pre with linux compatibility. I'm trying to install a linux rpm but I am getting the following errer: -su-2.05b# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/ rpm package.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl

Re: buildworld fails with sendmail

2005-01-02 Thread jason henson
I think I got it! Some more searching revealed a comman problem with the standard refuse file having src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc* in it. Hopifully this will solve the problem. Thanks for the help, Keep up the good work. Nope, it still is not working.

Re: buildworld fails with sendmail

2005-01-02 Thread jason henson
On 01/02/05 12:13:31, jason henson wrote: I think I got it! Some more searching revealed a comman problem with the standard refuse file having src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc* in it. Hopifully this will solve the problem. Thanks for the help, Keep up the good work. Nope, it still

rtc wants more hz!

2005-01-02 Thread jason henson
I found this old thread on it: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/026160.html If I raise the hz option in my kernel config will it adversely affect anything else like network performance? ___

buildworld fails with sendmail

2005-01-01 Thread jason henson
BARTON# cd /usr/src/etc make -DNOPROFILE === sendmail make: don't know how to make freebsd.cf. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src/etc. I searched the archives and found where make -n freebsd.cf or make obj, make all would fix it. No good here. I also deleted usr/src/etc and did it

Re: buildworld fails with sendmail

2005-01-01 Thread jason henson
On 01/02/05 01:17:58, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 06:12:29AM +, jason henson wrote: BARTON# cd /usr/src/etc make -DNOPROFILE === sendmail make: don't know how to make freebsd.cf. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src/etc. I searched the archives and found where make

Re: buildworld fails with sendmail

2005-01-01 Thread jason henson
On 01/02/05 01:31:26, jason henson wrote: On 01/02/05 01:17:58, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 06:12:29AM +, jason henson wrote: BARTON# cd /usr/src/etc make -DNOPROFILE === sendmail make: don't know how to make freebsd.cf. Stop *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src/etc. I

Re: iTunes server setup not going well

2004-12-31 Thread jason henson
[did that... I have downloaded Rendezvous.tar.gz and mDNSResponder-58.8.tar.gz to /usr/ports/distfiles/] After doing this, go back to /usr/ports/net/rendezvous (if needed) and type: make install clean BUT... but... there is no /usr/ports/net/rendezvous ! ports/net/p5-Net-Rendezvous I

Re: Networking to WinXP

2004-12-31 Thread jason henson
On 12/31/04 13:51:21, Skylar Thompson wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:56:47AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have used the 'smbclient' from Samba to access my WinXP computers from my FreeBSD computer. I have also used 'sharity-light'. Does anyone know of any other full featured networking

Re: xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems

2004-12-31 Thread jason henson
On 12/30/04 22:18:32, Ned Harrison wrote: The upgrade to 5.3 fixed the Dri build problems. Thanks for the hint, Jason. It is much appreciated. I had to run xorgconfig to make a new config file in order to get the X server going again. My kde desktop keeps crashing but the Windowmaker

Re: NDIS (for Netgear WG311) How-To?

2004-12-30 Thread jason henson
1) Copied the netwg311.sys and wg311v2.inf files frome the Windows 2000 folder from the distribution CD-ROM. 2) Ran ndiscvt -i /home/ecrist/wg311v2.inf -s /home/ecrist/ netwg311.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h as root 3) Copied ndis_driver_data.h to the /usr/src/sys directory. 4) Added the

Re: ndiscvt question

2004-12-29 Thread jason henson
On 12/29/04 08:33:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to freebsd. I have loaded 5.3 on an old IBM thinkpad type 2611-410 with 32mb of ram. Runs just fine. I am trying to bring up an cisco pcm352 wireless interface, but the system doesn't recognize it. I get pccard0 init failed on insertion. I am

Re: NDIS (for Netgear WG311) How-To?

2004-12-29 Thread jason henson
On 12/29/04 21:55:17, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, I'm looking at trying to get a new WG311 Netgear wifi adapter working, and have discovered that the v2 cards use the Texas Instruments chipset. From what I understand, I need to get this working with the NDIS support in FreeBSD 5.3. Is

Re: nvaudio

2004-12-28 Thread jason henson
On 12/28/04 18:12:20, Alexei Stukov wrote: Hi, I am new to FreeBSD's world and I am trying to install the drivers for my audio card (which is on-board, with the nForce 3 150 Pro chipset). I saw the driver in the ports, in the directory of the nvnet driver and tried to make it. But, I get

Re: How to monitor processor temperature from command line?

2004-12-28 Thread jason henson
On 12/28/04 22:52:57, Eric F Crist wrote: How can I monitor my processor temperature from the command line? I'm looking at possibly writing a script that will allow me to average the CPU temps and report them as part of the periodic/daily report. Thanks.

Re: make.conf file CPUTYPE?

2004-12-27 Thread jason henson
On 12/25/04 20:58:12, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:17:00PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: When I ran 'buildkernel' as well as 'buildworld', I used the 'CPUTYPE?=i686' directive in the 'make.conf' file. I was wondering if it is correct to leave it in the 'make.conf' file now

Re: Wine 20041201 on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

2004-12-26 Thread jason henson
On 12/26/04 23:13:19, Matthew Bluestone wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, Xorg 6.8.1 (portupgraded today), and KDE 3.3.3 (portupgraded today). My ports tree was updated yesterday. I am trying to run Wine, and I have the 20041201 port. The release notes say that it now runs under

Re: make buildworld 5.3.0

2004-12-26 Thread jason henson
Finally, start from where you started: cd /usr/src make buildworld make installworld ... etc Make sure you read /usr/src/UPDATING (all the way through) before you restart make buildworld good luck! ___ Maybe he doesn't need to read it all the way

Re: xorg/dri-6.2_1,2 upgrade problems

2004-12-26 Thread jason henson
On 12/26/04 16:16:02, Ned Harrison wrote: I'm currently running Release 5.2.1. which has just reciently been updated to the security branch. I was upgrading xorg to version 6.8.1. with portupgrade when it crashed with an Error Code 1. I traced the crash to failure to upgrade dri-5.0.2,2

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