[osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-17 Thread Eko Budhi Suprasetiawan
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 22:16, Gueven Bay wrote: Dear OpenSolaris community, With this post I started the work on Menhir. Menhir is a source based distribution of 4 free operating systems: Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenSolaris. Hi all, is there a site, which positioned for exposure of

[osol-discuss] About JES open source (When, any news)

2007-07-17 Thread Girts Zeltins
Hello, I am sorry maybe this is not right question for this forum, but I want to know if there is any information when Sun Microsystems will or plan to open source Java Enterprise System? Which parts will be open sourced? Regards, Girts This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] FlashPlayer 9 on SXDE on Laptop...It's Been a Long Time Coming!

2007-07-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
However, I am still unable to play video on Foxnews.com. It appears that, to view foxnews.com video, I have to: 1. install the greasemonkey add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 ; and 2. install the FoxNews Friendly Video script:

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop bargain hunting experience and specs write-up

2007-07-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
wound up getting the Compaq Presario T2080 (with Atheros wireless ) at Best Buy. What I did get a chance to do though was download and fire up Nevada b67 via the BeleniX 0.6.1 LiveCD (also, I stuck with Xfce and the Realtek ethernet NIC for now) and everything, including LAN/WAN/DHCP

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Sound System - Dev Mazumdar

2007-07-17 Thread Dev Mazumdar
Yes, I was planning to ask Dev first. I have not had a chance to speak with him yet. Anyone has an idea on how many visitors might turn up to hear Dev if we open it up to everyone? I was thinking of two events - one for BOSUG (smaller and more personal). Second with BLUG which

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting NTFS troublesome?

2007-07-17 Thread Orvar Korvar
bash-3.00# ntfsls /dev/dsk/c1d1p1 Emulators RECYCLER Docs DoNOTshare INCOMING Misc MP3 Music pagefile.sys Programs System Volume Information treeinfo.wc I have tried with root. My problem is the syntax of the command ntfscp. If you could give me an example of the syntax, I would be grateful.

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting NTFS troublesome?

2007-07-17 Thread Orvar Korvar
Ok, I tried to copy large ntfs files ~3GB with Samba, and it worked. Thanx for your solution! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] FlashPlayer 9 on SXDE on Laptop...It's Been a Long Time Coming!

2007-07-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 01:05 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: However, I am still unable to play video on Foxnews.com. It appears that, to view foxnews.com video, I have to: 1. install the greasemonkey add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 ; and 2. install the

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the package managemnet software on solaris?

2007-07-17 Thread UNIX admin
Which leads to the interesting question why OpenSolaris doesn't take pkg-get. Or apt-get. Or rpm. Ok, wrong question. Not invented by SUN engineers ... There are better, more robust and more intelligent software subsystems available than Debian's DPKG or RedHat's RPM format, which makes dpkg

Re: [osol-discuss] FlashPlayer 9 on SXDE on Laptop...It's Been a Long Time Coming!

2007-07-17 Thread Orvar Korvar
However, SXDE comes only on DVD. I have tried 3 different DVD readers and no Solaris version will boot. Several of my students reported the same, Solaris DVD wont boot. We had to resort to Solaris on CD. And, SXDE doesnt exist on CD. There are several old computers that only allows boot from

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the package managemnet software on solaris?

2007-07-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which leads to the interesting question why OpenSolaris doesn't take pkg-get. Or apt-get. Or rpm. Ok, wrong question. Not invented by SUN engineers ... There are better, more robust and more intelligent software subsystems available than Debian's DPKG

Re: [osol-discuss] [nwam-discuss] 2 wireless nics confuses NWAM

2007-07-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
Dick Davies wrote: On 16/07/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dick Davies wrote: 1. Ubuntu on the same machine (and WLANs) presents a list like this: ipw0 (Intel Centrino .) -- Granny Smith (WEP) -- BT Voyager (WPA) -- mywlan (WPA) ath0 (Atheros .) -- Granny

Re: [osol-discuss] NO disk found problem while installing Solaris 10

2007-07-17 Thread Radu Vranceanu
maybe this helps: http://opensolaris.mynoteb00k.com/basics/installation/opensolaris-installation/ This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting NTFS troublesome?

2007-07-17 Thread Orvar Korvar
I can use ntfscp to copy TO ntfs. A file with the file name I want copy to ntfs, must also already reside there on the ntfs. ntfscp merely over writes an existing file on ntfs. I can not create a new file on ntfs. This works fine: bash-3.00# ntfscp /dev/dsk/c1d1p1 /export/home/sean/notes.doc

Re: [osol-discuss] [nwam-discuss] 2 wireless nics confuses NWAM

2007-07-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/07/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dick Davies wrote: Why should an end user actually care what the name of the NIC is ? Because one of the cards might be a) slower or b) non-WPA aware. but do you need to know about the different NICs or do you need NWAM to do the

[osol-discuss] I can't Install SOLARIS 10!!!!!!

2007-07-17 Thread Ignacio Tata
Hello, I have this problem. I boot from the installation DVD and when i select my Video hardware (wich is in the list) everything goes wrong. Is like when you select a resolution that is not supported by the Monitor. Well that happen. The rare thing is that the monitor is in the list and the

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Sound System - Dev Mazumdar

2007-07-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
Hi Joe, I have spoken with Sanjay Pandit and he told me about BOSUG and I would be very honored and happy to talk about audio and Open Sound with the BOSUG. Kindly email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to discuss the agenda and dates. Is there an eta on when OpenSound is going to merge with

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the package managemnet software on solaris?

2007-07-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 04:25 -0700, Nicolas Linkert wrote: Which leads to the interesting question why OpenSolaris doesn't take pkg-get. Or apt-get. Or rpm. Ok, wrong question. Not invented by SUN engineers ... This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] FlashPlayer 9 on SXDE on Laptop...It's Been a Long Time Coming!

2007-07-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 05:14 -0700, Orvar Korvar wrote: However, SXDE comes only on DVD. I have tried 3 different DVD readers and no Solaris version will boot. Several of my students reported the same, Solaris DVD wont boot. We had to resort to Solaris on CD. And, SXDE doesnt exist on CD.

Re: [osol-discuss] [nwam-discuss] 2 wireless nics confuses NWAM

2007-07-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:31 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: Dick Davies wrote: On 16/07/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dick Davies wrote: 1. Ubuntu on the same machine (and WLANs) presents a list like this: ipw0 (Intel Centrino .) -- Granny Smith (WEP) -- BT

Re: [osol-discuss] [nwam-discuss] 2 wireless nics confuses NWAM

2007-07-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: One can ask - if you (no specifically you, as in you) own a laptop and you don't know the basic specs of your laptop, maybe the best location for the laptop is in the original box it came in. I very very very very strongly disagree with that, not all users are techies

Re: [osol-discuss] FlashPlayer 9 on SXDE on Laptop...It's Been a Long Time Coming!

2007-07-17 Thread Orvar Korvar
As I understood it, SXDE contains lots of development tools? Of course I could download all those seperately, but I would save lots of time if all those were installed right away. Configuring all and so on takes time. Figure out the dependencies and so on. Setting it all up correctly. You

Re: [osol-discuss] FlashPlayer 9 on SXDE on Laptop...It's Been a Long Time Coming!

2007-07-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/07/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new power management in B70 should also make it a nice platform for university - I like sitting in the cafe doing some study without seeing my battery drop like a rock. That's interesting - is that the 'frkit/power management' packages

Re: [osol-discuss] Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-17 Thread Gueven Bay
Again I thank everyone for their comments as they helped me to come to the final design of the Menhir distribution project. I have written something like a press release. I want to post it here so you can know in which direction Menhir goes. ***Begin Menhir was started

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting NTFS troublesome?

2007-07-17 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Orvar Korvar wrote: I can use ntfscp to copy TO ntfs. A file with the file name I want copy to ntfs, must also already reside there on the ntfs. ntfscp merely over writes an existing file on ntfs. I can not create a new file on ntfs. This works fine: bash-3.00# ntfscp /dev/dsk/c1d1p1

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the package managemnet software on solaris?

2007-07-17 Thread UNIX admin
pkgadd has been invented by ATT engineers. This is known to me. It still implements a lot of things rpm and dpkg are missing. That is correct. I've recently done some RPM packaging and RPM is pretty kludgy when it comes to it - packaging is not as straightforward and as simple as it is

Re: [osol-discuss] FlashPlayer 9 on SXDE on Laptop...It's Been a Long Time Coming!

2007-07-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:10 +0100, Dick Davies wrote: On 17/07/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new power management in B70 should also make it a nice platform for university - I like sitting in the cafe doing some study without seeing my battery drop like a rock.

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Sound System - Dev Mazumdar

2007-07-17 Thread Freeman Liu
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Hi Joe, I have spoken with Sanjay Pandit and he told me about BOSUG and I would be very honored and happy to talk about audio and Open Sound with the BOSUG. Kindly email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to discuss the agenda and dates. Is there an eta on when

Re: [osol-discuss] [nwam-discuss] 2 wireless nics confuses NWAM

2007-07-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:58 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: One can ask - if you (no specifically you, as in you) own a laptop and you don't know the basic specs of your laptop, maybe the best location for the laptop is in the original box it came in. I very very

[osol-discuss] dladm, aggr1, net-physical error 96 and reboot

2007-07-17 Thread Jeffery Malloch
Hi Folks, I have seen a number of issues with configuring networking and getting the dreaded error 96... Mine appears to be a bit different. From the default.log of net-physical ifconfig is getting an invalid argument from aggr1 like aggr1 is no longer configed after a reboot (it's a V240).

Re: [osol-discuss] Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-17 Thread Gueven Bay
I want to make here a note which is somewhat off-topic but on the other side not: As I posted my press release about Menhir I think you read already this point: * A collection of kernel configuration files for desktops, laptops and servers. You get insight in the structure and building of the

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting NTFS troublesome?

2007-07-17 Thread Orvar Korvar
Ok, thanx for sorting that out! I think I will use mucommander as it seems to work, it seems to catch all files and not only a subset, as bash or midnight commander does. Thanx a lot for your help guys! *file closed* This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] lex flex

2007-07-17 Thread 陶捷 Tao Jie
Dear all: There're two lexical analyzer generator in Solaris/OpenSolaris /usr/ccs/bin/lex /usr/sfw/bin/flex What's the difference between these 2 tools? Are they replaceable? Thanks in advance. p.s. And what about yacc and bison? Regards TJ ___

Re: [osol-discuss] lex flex

2007-07-17 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, ÌÕœÝ Tao Jie wrote: Dear all: There're two lexical analyzer generator in Solaris/OpenSolaris /usr/ccs/bin/lex /usr/sfw/bin/flex What's the difference between these 2 tools? Are they replaceable? http://flex.sourceforge.net/manual/Lex-and-Posix.html#Lex-and-Posix

Re: [osol-discuss] lex flex

2007-07-17 Thread James Carlson
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Re: [osol-discuss] FlashPlayer 9 on SXDE on Laptop...It's Been a Long Time Coming!

2007-07-17 Thread Eric Saxe
Dick Davies wrote: On 17/07/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new power management in B70 should also make it a nice platform for university - I like sitting in the cafe doing some study without seeing my battery drop like a rock. That's interesting - is that the

[osol-discuss] swat

2007-07-17 Thread tarik
Bnjour , j'ai un probléme de swat, le service swat n'existe pas voilà le message que j'obtien Le modèle 'svc:/network/swat/tcp:default' ne correspond à aucune instance merci pour vos aides This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the package managemnet software on solaris?

2007-07-17 Thread David Lloyd
Hmmm... apt-get merely sits ontop of debian packages - nothing stopping anyone (or you for that matter) to implement apt-get for SVR5 pkg's. NexentaOS already has... DSL ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] swat

2007-07-17 Thread Bruce Shaw
lisez cet article http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5106458 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tarik Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:56 PM To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [osol-discuss] swat Bnjour , j'ai un

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Sound System - Dev Mazumdar

2007-07-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 22:45 +0800, Freeman Liu wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Hi Joe, I have spoken with Sanjay Pandit and he told me about BOSUG and I would be very honored and happy to talk about audio and Open Sound with the BOSUG. Kindly email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to discuss the

Re: [osol-discuss] Portable UPnP SDK : build success

2007-07-17 Thread A murillo
Thank so much Doug, I have all my music media inside a sparc machine and it will be nice to have a good media server to serve it. Thanks again, and looking forward to be able to get it soon... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Sound System - Dev Mazumdar

2007-07-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 10:45 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 22:45 +0800, Freeman Liu wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Hi Joe, I have spoken with Sanjay Pandit and he told me about BOSUG and I would be very honored and happy to talk

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-17 Thread Eko Budhi Suprasetiawan
Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? Cheers, On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 10:38, Venky wrote: is there a site, which positioned for exposure of all distros being developed based on OpenSolaris ? So we can have list of them, like Belenix, Menhir etc ... Something like