How to have two active network interfaces on a laptop

2009-04-12 Thread Leslie Jensen
I'm wondering how I should handle my laptops network interfaces. I'm often forced to wait for bsdstats, ntpd and sshd to time out if I'm not connected. Even if I am connected on one interface the default gateway is assigned to the interface that is not connected. I've found some information

Re: Multiple instances of MySQL

2009-04-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 09 April 2009 21:43:36 Brent Bloxam wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: Any reason a jail can't be used? This would allow sharing the binary using null or union fs, little overhead, yet seperated from host install and no maintenance of port installed files, like rc.d/mysql-server.

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/12 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :(( Thanks Chris

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Chris On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead

Cant get Java working with FireFox

2009-04-12 Thread Warren Liddell
im running FreeBSD7.1-STABLE portupgrade//world//kernel done today an still even from following a few howto's on the BSD site i cant get java to work or show up in the plugins .. anyone got any ideas on whats going on and/or how to fix this annoying problem ?

Re: Cant get Java working with FireFox

2009-04-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: im running FreeBSD7.1-STABLE portupgrade//world//kernel done today an still even from following a few howto's on the BSD site i cant get java to work or show up in the plugins .. anyone got any ideas on whats going on and/or how to fix this annoying problem ? Assuming

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/12 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :((

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Chris On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly

MPlayer experiment not working out well

2009-04-12 Thread Manish Jain
Robert Huff wrote: Erik Gustafson writes: Have you tried the ports multimedia/mplayer or multimedia/vlc? I can't live without mplayer on my desktop and it usually just works on everything i try to play. I use mplayer too, but (as far as I know) the list of supported codecs

Re: Cant get Java working with FireFox

2009-04-12 Thread Warren Liddell
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Warren Liddell wrote: im running FreeBSD7.1-STABLE portupgrade//world//kernel done today an still even from following a few howto's on the BSD site i cant get java to work or show up in the plugins .. anyone got any ideas on whats going on and/or how to fix this

ifconfig ndis0 up scan doesn't find my ap

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Franks
Hi, I get this behavior on 2 completely different laptops, one on 7.0-release, and the other on 7-stable. ndio0 [broadcom :( ] comes right up in dmesg, and ifconfig(), but it won't find any AP's - is this known? - because I can google people with lots of different ndis0 problems (mostly on 5.x

'bwi' module question

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Franks
Anyone have experience building if_bwi (broadcom 43x)? Found a tgz on a freesd.org site, so I presume it's legit, but it's a bit short on instructions, and I get a object directory not changed from origonal /mnt/flash/bwi.01/ @- /usr/src/sys warning, and an ln: @: Operation not supported error,

the 'make' command in the ports tree

2009-04-12 Thread dede
Hello, I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the fonction of make). I found this, interesting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html, but some interogations persist. I search a

Re: Can I resume the perl upgrade?

2009-04-12 Thread David Southwell
On Saturday 11 April 2009 17:20:56 Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/11 David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net: On Friday 10 April 2009 11:43:33 kime...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, April 10, 2009 11:17:00 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: According to

Re: MPlayer experiment not working out well

2009-04-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 05:04:52PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: The mplayer installation went pretty smoothly - no problems with that. And the gui is more than acceptable - I don't need the gnome-mplayer add-on. But the application has failed to play any file/CD/DVD for me so far. The

change in kernel config file

2009-04-12 Thread Robert Huff
[posted here because could affect people who don't read curr...@] I'm about to update a -CURRENT box, and came across this in src/UPDATING: GEOM_PART has become the default partition slicer for storage devices, replacing GEOM_MBR, GEOM_BSD, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_GPT

Re: make in the port tree: where can I find documentation?

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Powell
sebovick wrote: Hello, I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the fonction of make). I found this, interesting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html, but some interogations

Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?

2009-04-12 Thread Yuri
I have FreeBSD-71 running with USB controller: uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xa800-0xa81f irq 21 at device 16.0 on pci0 I connected to it Toshiba USB hard drive HDDR500E03X: umass0: Toshiba External USB HDD, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 2 on uhub4 da0: Toshiba External USB HDD

Re: the 'make' command in the ports tree

2009-04-12 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Sunday 12 April 2009, dede wrote: I search a command that list all availables variables that afect program installation, and all arguments I can give to the /usr/port/Makefile (I know about 'make search key= and name=' is there another?). Could anyone give me some cool addresses to learn

Re: the 'make' command in the ports tree

2009-04-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:08:21 +0200, dede sserre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the fonction of make). Did you try % man ports Don't miss % man

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Sure. I'll do a test run with XFCE and we can discuss details afterwards. That's great, look forward to the results Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Tim Judd
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Chris On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop

Re: Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?

2009-04-12 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Yuri wrote: I have FreeBSD-71 running with USB controller: uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xa800-0xa81f irq 21 at device 16.0 on pci0 I connected to it Toshiba USB hard drive HDDR500E03X: umass0: Toshiba External USB HDD, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 2 on uhub4 da0: Toshiba

Re: Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?

2009-04-12 Thread Yuri
Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I get around the same speeds if I do it that way. But if I add 'bs=1m', speeds go up to 27MB/sec. Do you also have VIA 83C572? I was leaning towards a direction that VIA 83C572 is probably USB-1.X only and only has speeds up to 12 Mb/s. But I can't find

Re: /usr/bin/calendar in cgi script

2009-04-12 Thread Modulok
I don't know what program you're using for your CGI stuff, but basically all that is needed is the 'pre/pre' tags. Here is an example which uses PHP to call the system 'calendar' command: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN html head meta http-equiv=content-type

Re: Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?

2009-04-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 12), Yuri said: I have FreeBSD-71 running with USB controller: uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xa800-0xa81f irq 21 at device 16.0 on pci0 I connected to it Toshiba USB hard drive HDDR500E03X: umass0: Toshiba External USB HDD, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 2

Re: /usr/bin/calendar in cgi script

2009-04-12 Thread Charles Howse
Yes, I was reminded of the pre /pre tags, and that solved it. Thanks! On Apr 12, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Modulok wrote: I don't know what program you're using for your CGI stuff, but basically all that is needed is the 'pre/pre' tags. Here is an example which uses PHP to call the system 'calendar'

Re: Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?

2009-04-12 Thread Yuri
Dan Nelson wrote: Increase your blocksize. dd's default is 512 bytes. Try bs=64k This works, I am getting 25-27 MB/s. Still lower than this device supports (~50MB/s). I guess because this VIA controller is very old. Yuri ___

Re: the 'make' command in the ports tree

2009-04-12 Thread Adam Vande More
dede wrote: Hello, I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the fonction of make). I found this, interesting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html, but some interogations persist.

Re: change in kernel config file

2009-04-12 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/12 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com:        With respect to the changes in the USB stack:        The old system was built in early February, before the new code went in.  The config file has: device          uhci device          ohci device          ehci device          usb device  

make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi Is there a make target which will give a list of _all_ dependencies recursively not just next level up? Or a port? I tried ports-mgmt/pkg_tree but it only seems to work with installed ports. I don't care if I get duplicates as long as every dependency is listed at least once. Thanks

RE: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Tim Judd [mailto:taj...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 April 2009 21:38 To: Chris Whitehouse Cc: Glen Barber; User Questions Subject: Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Glen

Re: Perl upgrade and bsdpan into pkgdb

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On April 12, 2009 2:05:50 PM -0500 David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: I hope it is not too far off topic but: It is, so note the change of subject Can anyone tell me how to fix this one: Stale dependency: bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 - perl-5.8.9_2 (lang/perl5.8): can't

Re: Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?

2009-04-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 02:53:42PM -0700, Yuri wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: Increase your blocksize. dd's default is 512 bytes. Try bs=64k This works, I am getting 25-27 MB/s. Still lower than this device supports (~50MB/s). I guess because this VIA controller is very old. Although

Creating a custom install disk for Freebsd?

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Lake
Hi all. I'm looking at trying to create a custom install disk for Freebsd based off an existing install to make reinstallation quick and painless, similar to how apt-on-cd works for Linux. The reason behind this is I'm looking at going overseas for a couple years and will be leaving a

java using 100% CPU

2009-04-12 Thread Warren Liddell
After finally managing to get java working with FF i find when i goto use it now, it uses 100% of my CPU ... how can i fix this annoyinng issue ? Running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-12 Thread Tim Judd
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Hi Is there a make target which will give a list of _all_ dependencies recursively not just next level up? Or a port? I tried ports-mgmt/pkg_tree but it only seems to work with installed ports. I don't care if I get

Re: Creating a custom install disk for Freebsd?

2009-04-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:45:11 -0400, Steve Lake steve.l...@raiden.net wrote: So I want to leave behind a cd that's setup in such a way that all he has to do is pop it in, boot it up, and maybe answer a couple questions prior to install. After that the cd does the rest. And when it's

Out of office autoreply.

2009-04-12 Thread Patricia Dahl
I will be away from the office until 14-Apr-09. If your message requires urgent attention, please forward it to danielademarzi...@cooperbrosgroup.com Estaré fuera de la oficina hasta el 14-Abr-09. Si su mensaje requiere atención urgente, favor re-transmitirlo a

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libcairo.so.2: Undefined symbol pixman_region32_init

2009-04-12 Thread firm...@gmail.com
Hi, After installing Freebsd 7.1 with this as my uname -a: 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0 And then updating the ports, and doing the following: pkg_add -r xorg pkg_add -r blackbox pkg_add -r firefox3 I can start blackbox fine, but when I try to launch, say, firefox I get this:

Re: Creating a custom install disk for Freebsd?

2009-04-12 Thread Charles Howse
On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Steve Lake wrote: Hi all. I'm looking at trying to create a custom install disk for Freebsd based off an existing install to make reinstallation quick and painless Hi Steve, FreeBSD's install can be scripted... Quoted from BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne

Re: Creating a custom install disk for Freebsd?

2009-04-12 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Steve Lake steve.l...@raiden.net wrote: Hi all. I'm looking at trying to create a custom install disk for Freebsd based off an existing install to make reinstallation quick and painless, similar to how apt-on-cd works for Linux. The reason behind this