Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
RL wrote: I just got a new USB 2.0 flashdrive that I want to access. It recognizes it fine as da0. I am wondering how I actually mount that. Do I need an entry in /etc/fstab? If not how would I mount it with the mount -t command? Yes, put an entry in /etc/fstab for it. e.g.: /dev/da0

Re: what does rm // delete?

2004-11-30 Thread Gerhard Meier
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:58:16AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: rm -rf /path/to/dir/with/rogue/file Tried it but had no chance. In any case I had to formate that drive new so I finally made it to disappear. You did not try fsck before this radical method? /GM

Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Yes, put an entry in /etc/fstab for it. e.g.: /dev/da0 /flash[1] msdosfs[2] rw Perhaps my card is just unusal, but freeBSD makes a da0s1 node which is the appropriate one to mount. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.

Re: Caching DNS for dialup

2004-11-30 Thread Martin Hepworth
Jonathon presumably all the nameserver is doing is forwarding requests to your ISP, as set in the named.boot file? also I guess you're running bind in which case it will cache automatically. probably best to just have it running on the gateway then it will cache requests from all clients.

three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Alexander Bubnov
Hi! Could you answer my questions, please? 1) When I halt or reboot FreeBSD 5.3 I always receive following: Syncing disks vnodes remaining... 4 3 3 1 1 0 done Is it OK? What does it mean? 2) When I download something from the Internet for a long time (around 9 hours) I always receive 3 strange

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:18:21PM +0300, Alexander Bubnov wrote: Hi! Could you answer my questions, please? 1) When I halt or reboot FreeBSD 5.3 I always receive following: Syncing disks vnodes remaining... 4 3 3 1 1 0 done Is it OK? What does it mean? It is OK (as long as the last

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Hi! Could you answer my questions, please? I'll try. 1) When I halt or reboot FreeBSD 5.3 I always receive following: Syncing disks vnodes remaining... 4 3 3 1 1 0 done Is it OK? What does it mean? This is relatively normal. What it means is that it is syncing your hard disk

Re: Multiple NICs

2004-11-30 Thread Yannack
Now for a 3rd bird to kill in one reply I need to remind Yannack that apparently the *last* dhclient to run sets the default route. Next time dhclient renews the lease on an0 your default route will go the wrong way again until the ISP-issued lease renews on fxp0. I think it would be easiest to

Logo Query

2004-11-30 Thread Dean G. Healy
Hi there, I would like to put together a bit of a collage of FreeBSD's logos from over the years, detailing the change of the look of the logo from one version to the next. This will be used to decorate our offices as we are a small Linux house here in South Africa, and would like our décor to

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Alexander Bubnov wrote: Hi! Could you answer my questions, please? 1) When I halt or reboot FreeBSD 5.3 I always receive following: Syncing disks vnodes remaining... 4 3 3 1 1 0 done Is it OK? What does it mean? Yes, it is okay, and in fact is really necessary. Disk writes

Samba doesn't umount a share

2004-11-30 Thread v . demartino2
Dear All, always fighting with samba 3.0.7! I'm trying to umount an smb share with (/mnt/smb is part of FBSD filesystem): VicBSD# umount /mnt/smb/Utenti umount: /mnt/smb/Utenti : not a file system root directory Samba seems not to be running anymore

CVSUP Routing question

2004-11-30 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Good day! Is it possible to tell cvsup to use another machine's global access in fetching the freebsd source updates?? Here's my office workstation setup: (private ip) (pri/pub ip) (all public) workstation router proxy server---internet mail server

Re: Samba doesn't umount a share

2004-11-30 Thread Peter Risdon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, always fighting with samba 3.0.7! I'm trying to umount an smb share with (/mnt/smb is part of FBSD filesystem): VicBSD# umount /mnt/smb/Utenti umount: /mnt/smb/Utenti : not a file system root directory You're trying to

sio0/sio1 swap

2004-11-30 Thread Richard Williamson
Hello, I've got a network box. The motherboard (adlink 2000) has three com ports (that is what the screen print on the board says: com1, com2, com3. The box I was given for development has com1 wired up to the 9pin port on the back of the housing, helpfully screen printed with 'COM1'. com2 is

Re: Wireless Card and SSID

2004-11-30 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Monday 29 November 2004 23:51, RL wrote: Sending again... I really need to solve this. I have a Netgear WAG511 PC Card and am using the ath driver. In my /etc/rc.conf I have ath0 to use DHCP and also I have: ifconfig_ath0=ssid myssid. Now, I can set this all up manually using ifconfig

Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz

2004-11-30 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello I have been investigating (I have read all freebsd manuals and search on the internet) and my old pentium machine has got the bad CMD 640 disk controller. FreeBSD 5.3 says that it does NOT support it. I think that they have removed support for it in the 5.x versions.

tar fix soon (was: Re: 5.3-RC2 tar breaks operation with (null))

2004-11-30 Thread Andrew Sinclair
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:51:01PM +, Andrew Sinclair wrote: So a PPT and a PNG were garbled. No big deal. Since bsdtar is now the default Tape ARchiver, shouldn't it include the options of its predecessor? I would assert --ignore-zero on plain files and allow

proc filesystem

2004-11-30 Thread Florian Hengstberger
Hi! I mounted the proc-filesystem under /proc but in contrary to Linux no additional information concerning the bus, the cpu etc. is there? Why is this? I like to cat /proc/bus/usb/devices to see if the system took notice of my usb-stick. Thanks a lot Florian

Re: Samba doesn't umount a share

2004-11-30 Thread Vittorio
Thanks for your quick reply VicBSD# umount /mnt/smb/Utenti umount: /mnt/smb/Utenti : not a file system root directory You're trying to unmount from the wrong place. The output of df(1) would help here, but at a guess try umount /mnt/smb You're

Cannot install FreeBSD 5.3 on notebook Toshiba A40-231

2004-11-30 Thread slatvick
Hello People, I have Notebook Toshiba A40-231. I've tried to install FreeBSD 5.3 on it and had failure. CD plays, then I see menu, choose anyone(default, acpi disabled,...) and then after several lines Computer is stopped. Also I've tried to install with disabled acpi and without

Problem while installing FreeBSD 5.3 - ata0-master : FAILURE ATA IDENTIFY

2004-11-30 Thread Julián Herrera
Hello 4 all, I was starting to install FreeBSD 5.3 into 42 computers where I work as workstations when just at first installation i've got this uncommon problem. When kernel is finishing to load some messages like this appears: ata0-master : FAILURE ATA-IDENTIFY timed out After that, the

FTP

2004-11-30 Thread j p
how do i FTP freebsd? do i need some other software? i need step by step. is there some other site i can just download it? thank you JP ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Logo Query

2004-11-30 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Dean G. Healy wrote: Hi there, I would like to put together a bit of a collage of FreeBSD's logos from over the years, detailing the change of the look of the logo from one version to the next. This will be used to decorate our offices as we are a small Linux house here in South Africa, and

FBSD 5.3: path not found error in rc.d scripts

2004-11-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3, I keep getting an error path: not found when rc-scripts are run, this holds both for the base scripts in /etc/rc.d and installed scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d - also, the cron job which runs save-entropy every 11 minutes sends this error. But I

Re: FTP

2004-11-30 Thread Justin Gruenberg
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 04:52:53 -0800 (PST), j p [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i FTP freebsd? do i need some other software? i need step by step. is there some other site i can just download it? thank you JP Unless you need real specific FTP control, just use the included FTP program.

Re: FTP

2004-11-30 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:05:10 +, Justin Gruenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 04:52:53 -0800 (PST), j p [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i FTP freebsd? do i need some other software? i need step by step. is there some other site i can just download it? Unless you need

Re: portupgrade and index

2004-11-30 Thread RW
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 05:58, Kent Stewart wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 09:40 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:27:47PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:57:34 -0800, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at

Re: proc filesystem

2004-11-30 Thread Kees Plonsz
Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I mounted the proc-filesystem under /proc but in contrary to Linux no additional information concerning the bus, the cpu etc. is there? Why is this? I like to cat /proc/bus/usb/devices to see if the system took notice of my usb-stick. Thanks a lot

bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems

2004-11-30 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Hello all, I upgraded 5.2.1 to 5.3 recently and I'm trying to run my cron scripts which use tar utility (which defaults to bsdtar(1) on 5.3) and I can't figure out how to use '--exclude pattern' with it. It seems I'm missing something obvious here or bsdtar(1) is happily ignoring --exclude

Help

2004-11-30 Thread Juan Walker  
Greetings from Colombia, I was installed the last version of FreeBsd 5.3 but there was some problems for detecting all devices. Whem i try mount the floppy disk or cdrom, appear this message # mount /dev/fd /mnt/floppy NO FOUND BLOCK DEVICE also when i run the sistem X appear this

ftp login/password

2004-11-30 Thread customerservice
I'm trying to download freebsd via FTP. What is the login and password? John This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual(s) and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete

Re: ftp login/password

2004-11-30 Thread Kees Plonsz
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 03:17, customerservice wrote: I'm trying to download freebsd via FTP. What is the login and password? John It is a public ftp server with anonymous authentication: user:anonymous password: any e-mail address

Lockup during boot attempting to install FreeBSD5.3 on a Dell Inspiron 2500

2004-11-30 Thread Driver Developer
Attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3 on my company laptop (Dell Inspiron 2500) I am facing a lockup prior to getting to sysinstall. In fact, during the default kernel boot, the system locks up right after printing these lines: cbb0: ... cardbus0: pccard0: I tried booting without ACPI,

Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: Yes, put an entry in /etc/fstab for it. e.g.: /dev/da0 /flash[1] msdosfs[2] rw Perhaps my card is just unusal, but freeBSD makes a da0s1 node which is the appropriate one to mount. You're probably right about that, actually; it's been so long since

Re: portupgrade and index

2004-11-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a box that runs portupgrade to keep the most current ports. I've lately switched to make fetchindex vs. portsdb -uU which goes much faster. My problem is whenever i do a make search for a port the index.5 file is regenerated and that takes an

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: 3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 green. Can I change rate? How to do it? The rate of what? I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this part. Monitor refresh rate would be my guess. Checking setuid files and devices: Checking

some more core dumps (FreeBSD 5.3-R-p1)

2004-11-30 Thread Piotr Gnyp
Unfortunately I wasn.t able to determine a cause of frequent reboot after upgrade from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to 5.3. Even with no loaded modules machines crashes after some time (from 1 hour to nearly 3 days). Ie managed to catch some of the core dumps: http://discordia.pl/~toread/crash.txt

Re: Problem while installing FreeBSD 5.3 - ata0-master : FAILURE ATA IDENTIFY

2004-11-30 Thread Irvin Piraman
This has been an open issue since 5.2.1 and still present on 5.3-RELEASE. It usually works for when I select safe mode during installation. If not try using with ACPI disabled. Once you are finished with the install you'll have to do some workaround.

Re: three questions

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Lars Eighner wrote: 3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 green. Can I change rate? How to do it? I don't know what rate you mean. Refresh rate is a common video parameter that I can think of, and often specified with resolution. Since vidcontrol refers to the

Re: AMD- XP

2004-11-30 Thread Michael
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:25:23 -0800 (PST), j p [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a AMD XP 2200 chip. what version of freebsd i need to download. You want the i386 distribution. The Athlon XP is still only a 32-bit processor, so the amd64 is unusable. I'm thinking about

Re: simple router ?

2004-11-30 Thread Charles Ulrich
Frank Bonnet said: Hi I'm planning to build a simple router with FreeBSD the machine will not support firewalling, it will be a straight router that route between the two interfaces :-) it will be dedicated to this service. What would be the best version of FreeBSD to perform such operation

Re: AMD- XP

2004-11-30 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Michael wrote: Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:25:23 -0800 (PST), j p [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a AMD XP 2200 chip. what version of freebsd i need to download. You want the i386 distribution. The Athlon XP is still only a 32-bit processor, so the amd64 is unusable. I'm

Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Bobowski
Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello I have been investigating (I have read all freebsd manuals and search on the internet) and my old pentium machine has got the bad CMD 640 disk controller. FreeBSD 5.3 says that it does NOT support it. I think that they have removed support for it in the 5.x versions.

Re: proc filesystem

2004-11-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:17:19PM +0100, Florian Hengstberger typed: Hi! I mounted the proc-filesystem under /proc but in contrary to Linux no additional information concerning the bus, the cpu etc. is there? Why is this? I like to cat /proc/bus/usb/devices to see if the system took

Re: Cannot install FreeBSD 5.3 on notebook Toshiba A40-231

2004-11-30 Thread Ramiro Aceves
slatvick wrote: Hello People, I have Notebook Toshiba A40-231. I've tried to install FreeBSD 5.3 on it and had failure. CD plays, then I see menu, choose anyone(default, acpi disabled,...) and then after several lines Computer is stopped. Also I've tried to install with disabled

Re: Is this a hole in my firewall?

2004-11-30 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:14:07PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: : : allow ip from ${INTERNAL_NET} to any keep-state out xmit tun0 : : : : where INTERNAL_NET would be e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 I was checking out the man page, and I'm a little unclear on whether I want 'xmit' or 'via' in this rule.

Re: FTP

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
j p wrote: how do i FTP freebsd? do i need some other software? i need step by step. is there some other site i can just download it? thank you JP Hmm, have you had specific problems with ftp.freebsd.org? If you want to install FreeBSD via FTP, one method is to get the installation floppies

Source tree hierarchy

2004-11-30 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Why are there sometimes 2 levels of the same directory name, one beneath the other? Like sys and i386, for example? jm -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Help

2004-11-30 Thread Alexandr
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:55:38PM -0500, Juan Walker   wrote: Greetings from Colombia, I was installed the last version of FreeBsd 5.3 but there was some problems for detecting all devices. Whem i try mount the floppy disk or cdrom, appear this message # mount /dev/fd /mnt/floppy

Re: Is this a hole in my firewall?

2004-11-30 Thread Kees Plonsz
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 15:37, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:14:07PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: : : allow ip from ${INTERNAL_NET} to any keep-state out xmit tun0 : : : : where INTERNAL_NET would be e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 I was checking out the man page, and I'm a

Re: CVSUP Routing question

2004-11-30 Thread David Landgren
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Good day! Is it possible to tell cvsup to use another machine's global access in fetching the freebsd source updates?? Here's my office workstation setup: (private ip) (pri/pub ip) (all public) workstation router proxy server---internet

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Raul Zighelboim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 29 November 2004 03:21 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: One of the computers I'm having this problem with is a P4 with an Intel chipset Which

Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz

2004-11-30 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Brian Bobowski wrote: Well, salvage any hardware that you can; you never know, you just might find a compatible motherboard without a CPU, and then you'll be able to mix and match. (Speaking as someone who's missed too many scrounging opportunities, here.) Dear Brian: Thanks for answering. I

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Raul Zighelboim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:55 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:35 pm, Raul Zighelboim wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysctl -a | grep -i agp [...] hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled What exactly did you do? Did you do anything

Re: NDIS: no buffer space available

2004-11-30 Thread scott renna
I had a similar issue with the ath0 driver for my Dlink card. I was trying to get the NDISultaor to work to remedy this though. I found a post that you might want to try, can't remember where, search for ping: sendto: No buffer space available on google groups. Deepak Jain responded to set our

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/29/04 05:16 PM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP The xorg.conf card section is: Section Device Identifier NV TwinView VendorName nVidia Corporation Driver nvidia # update this

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Adam Maloney
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Raul Zighelboim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well I don't know then, it doesn't seem to want to work on any of the machines I've tried it on... The only thing those machines have in common is that they use xorg and the latest nvidia driver. I haven't had

Re: USB Flash Drive

2004-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-30 03:13, Brian Bobowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably don't want to dump or check this, nor mount it auto, since it's removable media; if I'm wrong, put in the appropriate options(from man fstab and man mount). I have no dump or fsck options in my /etc/fstab for my USB

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:27, Kenneth Culver wrote: This is almost exactly what I did to use nvidia's agp, yet it still won't work on any of the machine's I've tried it with. Likewise here. I've built custom kernels without agp so that I could try the nvidia AGPGART, and I've tried

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP Wrong. From nvidia's readme: Similar to the NVIDIA Linux Driver Set, the user can decide if the NVIDIA driver should use its internal AGP GART driver or if it should rely on an

RE: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Hauan, David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?) On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth

Re: Source tree hierarchy

2004-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-30 15:32, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are there sometimes 2 levels of the same directory name, one beneath the other? Like sys and i386, for example? They are different things: /usr/src/sysKernel sources (entire source tree). /usr/src/sys/sys

Re: Source tree hierarchy

2004-11-30 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:54:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : On 2004-11-30 15:32, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Why are there sometimes 2 levels of the same directory name, one beneath the : other? : : Like sys and i386, for example? : : They are different things: :

Re: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:49, Kenneth Culver wrote: Are you using xorg or XFree86? xorg. -- Kirk Strauser pgpKNNc0P1McA.pgp Description: PGP signature

/dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot

2004-11-30 Thread xinopher
Hi I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3. Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem: The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape. 5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0 crw--- 1 root operator 232, 0 Nov 30

Re: /dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot

2004-11-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:08:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3. Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem: The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example questioning /dev/ch0 to change the

Re: Source tree hierarchy

2004-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-30 17:01, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:54:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : On 2004-11-30 15:32, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Why are there sometimes 2 levels of the same directory name, one beneath the : other? :

Re: /dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot

2004-11-30 Thread Gerard Samuel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3. Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem: The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape. 5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0 crw--- 1 root

Re: Source tree hierarchy

2004-11-30 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:16:02PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : The /usr/src/sys/i386 directory is AFAIK an `architecture' directory, : : The src/sys/i386/i386 directory is a `machine' related subdirectory. That makes sense. Interesting stuff. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.

RE: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not usingAGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Hauan, David
-Original Message- From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: How about this, then: Has *anyone* successfully used an NVidia card with the most recent x11/nvidia-driver port in AGP (as opposed to PCI)

Re: AMD- XP

2004-11-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:52:59AM -0800, Michael wrote: Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:25:23 -0800 (PST), j p [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a AMD XP 2200 chip. what version of freebsd i need to download. You want the i386 distribution. The Athlon XP is still

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-30 Thread CHris Rich
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:53:11 -0800, Kevin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to mount my windows partition manually by either: mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /windows or by putting an entry in by /dev/fstab that looks like: /dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs ro

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP Wrong. From nvidia's readme: Similar to the NVIDIA Linux Driver Set, the user can decide if the NVIDIA driver should use its internal AGP GART

limiting ssh login attempts by ip

2004-11-30 Thread csnyder
I've noticed a marked increase in dictionary attacks against sshd lately -- tens or even hundreds of connection attempts from the same IP address within a short timespan. I wrote a script that creates firewall rules to drop packets from IPs with more than n login failures over the last 10

Mp3, Ogg Players on 5.3

2004-11-30 Thread Huw Wynn-Jones
Hello, I'm thinking about buying a portable ogg player for xmas but i can't seem to get clear info from the various shop sites. Does anyone know a player which works with FreeBSD 5.3? Can I just buy anyone I want and then transfer files across as if it were usb storage or do these players

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin Smith
Kris K. explained the problem earlier in the thread. The correct entry in your /etc/fstab should be somethig like bellow. I had a 2 in the 6th field (instead of 0 or leave it out); this causes the file system to be checked on bootup which fails with the ntfs file system. If you have this in

Re: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems

2004-11-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I upgraded 5.2.1 to 5.3 recently and I'm trying to run my cron scripts which use tar utility (which defaults to bsdtar(1) on 5.3) and I can't figure out how to use '--exclude pattern' with it. It seems I'm missing something obvious

promise TX2 ata raid utilities?

2004-11-30 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, I'm taking care of a computer now with a promise tx2 controller card and two 40G hard drives as a raid1 array. The machine is running 4.10-PRERELEASE freebsd. I'm wondering if anyone knows if there are utilities to monitor the 'health' of such a raid array? I'm also wondering if there are

ServRAID 5i and DLT

2004-11-30 Thread Alexandre Vasconcelos
Hello All, I've searched for this on google and list archives without success.. I have on IBM xSeries 235, ServRAID 5i adapter, 3 disks on channel 0 and a Benchmark DLT tape on channel 1. The adapter bios shows one logical drive and one other (probably the tape). I've installed FreeBSD 5.3, the

Re: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems

2004-11-30 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Lowell Gilbert wrote: According to the tar(1) manual, the file parameters are supposed to come after all of the option parameters. Ah, of course! I don't know why I wrote it wrong (some months ago probably). Thank you. Be well. Cheers, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot

RE: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not usingAGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Hauan, David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: How about this, then: Has *anyone* successfully used an NVidia card with the most recent x11/nvidia-driver port in

Re: Mp3, Ogg Players on 5.3

2004-11-30 Thread David Gerard
Huw Wynn-Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041201 05:32]: I'm thinking about buying a portable ogg player for xmas but i can't seem to get clear info from the various shop sites. Does anyone know a player which works with FreeBSD 5.3? Can I just buy anyone I want and then transfer files across as

Internet Streaming

2004-11-30 Thread Rem Roberti
Forgive me if that has been asked before (I forgot how to access the archives), but I would appreciated advice on finding a program for listening to audio streaming over the internet. Streaming video is not important. Thank you. Rem ___ [EMAIL

Re: Internet Streaming

2004-11-30 Thread Huw Wynn-Jones
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 21:49, Rem Roberti wrote: Forgive me if that has been asked before (I forgot how to access the archives), but I would appreciated advice on finding a program for listening to audio streaming over the internet. Streaming video is not important. Thank you. Rem

OpenOffice.org-1.1 build failure on NFS client

2004-11-30 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 5.3-STABLE on a laptop connecting to an NFS mounted volume on a 5.3-STABLE server. I've exported /usr/ports from the server and mounted it to /usr/ports on the laptop NFS client. Here's my mount options from fstab: fs:/usr/ports /usr/ports nfs

Re: Caching DNS for dialup

2004-11-30 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:00:03AM +, Martin Hepworth wrote: : Jonathon : : presumably all the nameserver is doing is forwarding requests to your : ISP, as set in the named.boot file? also I guess you're running bind in : which case it will cache automatically. I believe so. I set up a

Re: ftp login/password

2004-11-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:17:15PM -0700, customerservice wrote: I'm trying to download freebsd via FTP. What is the login and password? Anonymous FTP uses 'anonymous' or 'ftp' as a login, with arbitrary password. Kris pgp3uVnwa4uYP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread Michael G.
I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf to correct the simple mistake. Any help would be appreciated. Michael G.

Re: Mp3, Ogg Players on 5.3

2004-11-30 Thread Justin Gruenberg
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:03:14 +1100, David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it (I welcome correction!), iRiver are the only ones whose player does Ogg out the box. Unfortunately, it does not act as a umass device and so requires the funky Windows drivers. See review (disclaimer,

How to capture make installworld error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?

2004-11-30 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, I'm trying to migrate a newly (fresh install from CD-Rom Set) installed 5.1 to 5-Stable, using the migration guide at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html. The previous attempts failed with the same error at step 15: Install the new userland utilities with: #

Re: OpenOffice.org-1.1 build failure on NFS client

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 30), Doug Poland said: The reason I'm building over NFS is I don't have enough diskspace on the laptop to accommodate an OpenOffice build. I've been configuring this laptop for the last couple of days. The *bigger* ports I've built and installed via NFS mount far

Re: Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread David Kelly
I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf to correct the simple mistake. Any help would be appreciated. mount -a to attempt mounting all

Re: Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:22, Michael G. wrote: I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf

mergemaster -i

2004-11-30 Thread Gert Cuykens
can someone make a options i install everything so you don't have to push 58 times i enter i enter i enter i enter :) drives me nuts especially when you sometimes have to do enter enter enter to scroll down the preview and then accidentally do 1 enter to many

Re: erase2 ( xterm

2004-11-30 Thread Vance Shipley
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: } } However, his statement functioning as a backspace doesn't } ring true, because, no such functionality is present (for me) in } any terminal with that key, regardless of the $TERM variable. } } Terminal

ndis driver adapter layer for FreeBSD?

2004-11-30 Thread stan
I've picked up a wireless card cheap, but it appears to have no support under FreeBSD. I was wondering if it was possible to soehow (linux emulation?) use the ndis driver adaper software that exists under Linux to provide a way of using teh windoze drivers for this card? If so, could someone

Re: How to capture make installworld error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:49, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, I'm trying to migrate a newly (fresh install from CD-Rom Set) installed 5.1 to 5-Stable, using the migration guide at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html.

Re: ndis driver adapter layer for FreeBSD?

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 30), stan said: I've picked up a wireless card cheap, but it appears to have no support under FreeBSD. I was wondering if it was possible to soehow (linux emulation?) use the ndis driver adaper software that exists under Linux to provide a way of using teh windoze

Re: erase2 ( xterm

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Vance Shipley wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: } } However, his statement functioning as a backspace doesn't } ring true, because, no such functionality is present (for me) in } any terminal with that key, regardless of the $TERM variable.

Re: mergemaster -i

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Gert Cuykens wrote: can someone make a options i install everything so you don't have to push 58 times i enter i enter i enter i enter :) drives me nuts especially when you sometimes have to do enter enter enter to scroll down the preview and then accidentally do 1 enter to many Well, make a day

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