Re: programs...
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:43:09AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've going to give away what I think could be at least a multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. And a wish-list for a program that does not, AFAIK, exist. Its called iTunes. First, the wish-for:: given all the kinds of video and audio programs that are now on the web, how difficult would it be to have a GUI [interface] program pop up a screen with date of airing, and/or date of podcast? Not to exceed several hours worth of recorded podcasts... or live recording. iTunes will suck them down and has settings for when (if ever) to delete old podcasts. I can only give examples of thing I watch, but this will give you some idea. And bear in mind that at least FreeBSD cannot capture some programs. Like FRONTLINE on PBS. But for the sake of argument, let's say that firefox or whatever browser or kmplayer or another player did have the proper codecs. This GUI app would find, fetch, and store in /usr/local/tmp FRONTLINE, NOVA, In Our Time and Everyday Ethics [BBC], and Marketplace, Weekend, 10jan09. iTunes stores in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/ Music/audio only, or video too? When these programs were safely in /usr/local/tmp/Pods, the program would send mail or otherwise inform the user. Script from cron to detect presence of a new file in the above, send notification. There are FreeBSD ports for subscribing to podcasts that could do the same thing. How doable is this...? and, yes, i know that many of these audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts. I have several on my Google page. Get A Mac! Ha! Well, I stand to inherit my daughter's MacBook in a few years. Okay, so if Apple has this, can I use it? I mean for-free, not having to sub to some monthly deal or whatever? This is an idea I thought up a couple years ago when all the audio podcasts began appearing. At any rate, seems to me that the open-* community could do at least as well as our brother hackers at Apple. Just a thought. Come Monday, OZ-time, I'll let everybody know my major idea. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org First update of http://transfinite.thought.org/ab/ in seven months. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT
perhaps, I need to deinstall and reinstall nvidia-driver after having changed boot/loader.conf? g. On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/9/09, Giuseppe Pagnoni gpagn...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Giuseppe Pagnoni gpagn...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT To: Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl Dear Pieter, thanks for the information. Unfortunately, putting the line hw.physmem=3G in /boot/loader.conf as you suggested does not prevent the system from crashing when starting X (even using 2G), while You rebooted after that change? taking physically out the 2G memory bank from the motherboard does. That's a pity because this being a dual boot system, I could have left the 4 GB of RAM in when using the other OS Is there any other option that you would be aware of? thanks again giuseppe On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl wrote: How much memory do you have? Freebsd/Nvidia doesn't work with 4Gigs of memory OR PAE enabled kernels. Nvidia's forums have lots more information regarding this. I'm not sure of the internals exactly, but the amount of onboard memory plus the memory that comes with the card can't exceed 4G. (I could be wrong, but I think this is accurate). In this case, assuming you have a 512M card or similar then 3 Gigs of memory should work. I have seen reports of 2Gigs of memory working (i386) and am sure that works without problems. amd64 doesn't work at all, as you have already stated. If you have a requirement to use the nvidia based graphics driver, then you really don't have an alternative at this time, then to remove system memory from your main board. ~Paul Putting hw.physmem=3G in /boot/loader.conf might also work. -- Pieter de Goeje -- Giuseppe Pagnoni Dip. Scienze Biomediche Sezione Fisiologia Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia Via Campi 287 I-41100 Modena, Italy Tel: +39-059-205-5742 Fax: +39-059-205-5363 -- Giuseppe Pagnoni Dip. Scienze Biomediche Sezione Fisiologia Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia Via Campi 287 I-41100 Modena, Italy Tel: +39-059-205-5742 Fax: +39-059-205-5363 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Paul -- Giuseppe Pagnoni Dip. Scienze Biomediche Sezione Fisiologia Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia Via Campi 287 I-41100 Modena, Italy Tel: +39-059-205-5742 Fax: +39-059-205-5363 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in the process of sync'ing up my system with source . . . but, in the meantime I'm wondering about the choice of Broadcom driver. Is it really a matter of trying different ones? It was for me. It took me 3 tries before I found one that 'worked'. I updated the driver this morning to a new version. Is that not the driver that I'll use for the ndiswrapper? Should an older version, perhaps the one that was originally installed? If I remember correctly, the version I use is 3 versions back from the latest update. I apologize if these questions are rather simple and naiive. Not at all. Broadcom is difficult sometimes. This is one of those times. -- Glen Barber 570.328.0318 Well, it took me all day, but I did synch-up the source with the kernel. However, being new to the ways of fBSD I (accidentally) ended up building the -CURRENT source and kernel (8.0). I tried ndisgen on the latest driver and it didn't work . . . I'll tell you why in a second. I'm a bit uncomfortable dealing with current. I'd rather go back to the 7.1-RELEASE, which claims to have better ndis support. FYI - I've dual booted fBSD, and am merely experimenting with it. So, while it may seem odd that I continue to move between versions, I do have access to other machines that have more familiar environments (oBSD and XP). Now, the *ndisgen path/to/inf path/to/sys* didn't work because it said that the .inf file was in a different format than it expected. So, I attempted to convert it to ascii using *iconv -c -f utf-16 -t ascii path/to/inf .inf.ascii* and use the new file as the .inf. Again, it said it was the wrong format. That's when I bailed. So as not to waste my time with 8.0, because I wish to pursue expermenting on 7.1. Anyway . . . at this time, I have one more question regarding the driver that will end up being successfull (hopefully there is one). Should I have to manipulate the .inf file? There is the wrong format issue, mentioned above, and when setting up ndis in the panicky situation, ndisgen claimed that the last line of the .inf file was bad (I forget the actual teminology used). So, I deleted that line and it successfully generated the .ko file. It seems odd to me that I would have to manipulate the driver information so much and that it may the source of some of my ndis problems. Another way of asking this question . . . will the successful driver just work (i.e., not need such manipulations)? Thanks for you patience. -- www.nealhogan.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot
Neal Hogan wrote: Well, it took me all day, but I did synch-up the source with the kernel. However, being new to the ways of fBSD I (accidentally) ended up building the -CURRENT source and kernel (8.0). I tried ndisgen on the latest driver and it didn't work . . . I'll tell you why in a second. Lesson learned, I suppose. I'm a bit uncomfortable dealing with current. I'd rather go back to the 7.1-RELEASE, which claims to have better ndis support. FYI - I've dual booted fBSD, and am merely experimenting with it. So, while it may seem odd that I continue to move between versions, I do have access to other machines that have more familiar environments (oBSD and XP). Well, if you are going back to 7.X, I'd start from scratch. If you haven't gotten WiFi working yet, I assume you haven't gotten much else configured on the system. Doing a fresh install will alleviate some headaches, in my opinion. Now, the *ndisgen path/to/inf path/to/sys* didn't work because it said that the .inf file was in a different format than it expected. So, I attempted to convert it to ascii using *iconv -c -f utf-16 -t ascii path/to/inf .inf.ascii* and use the new file as the .inf. Again, it said it was the wrong format. That's when I bailed. So as not to waste my time with 8.0, because I wish to pursue expermenting on 7.1. Anyway . This could be due to something in -CURRENT. I'm not sure. . . at this time, I have one more question regarding the driver that will end up being successfull (hopefully there is one). Should I have to manipulate the .inf file? There is the wrong format issue, mentioned above, and when setting up ndis in the panicky situation, ndisgen claimed that the last line of the .inf file was bad (I forget the actual teminology used). So, I deleted that line and it Besides `iconv' if needed, no, you shouldn't have to edit anything in the .INF and .SYS files. If they don't work, something else is wrong. successfully generated the .ko file. It seems odd to me that I would have to manipulate the driver information so much and that it may the source of some of my ndis problems. Another way of asking this question . . . will the successful driver just work (i.e., not need such manipulations)? Ideally, yes, it should 'just work'. Thanks for you patience. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?
Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC? You mean ACPI? No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you can do that without compiling a special kernel for it, so it may not be worth trying. You mean ACPI? When the PC boots, I got a menu looks alike this one: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install/boot-loader-menu.png except my 2nd choice was with ACPI enabled instead of ACPI disabled. I chose 2, result was the same (irq at 11) Sorry, I seem to be beyond my knowledge of PC hardware here. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kernel panic
Kamlesh Patel shilp.ka...@yahoo.com writes: Hi there, I changed the following file of FreeBSD 7.0: sys/boot/forth/beastie.4th variable rebootkey variable mykey (added line) I built and installed kernel, then i reboot the system, it gives me the following error: --- panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x6e104 from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:959 -- Press a key on the console to reboot -- How do i recover the system from this error. I can't reload the loader.old Could anyone please help me? Can you boot from a CD to fix things up? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?
Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr writes: I've installed 7.1 onto our mail exchager (MX) then it suddendly stopped to work last night with the following message watchdog bge0 timeout The machine is a HP pc which was doing the same service at 6.3 without that kind of trouble Could be hardware trouble, I suppose. The whole point of a watchdog is to let the driver recover after the hardware has locked up. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?
On 1/10/09, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC? You mean ACPI? No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you can do that without compiling a special kernel for it, so it may not be worth trying. FYI, hint.apic.0.disabled=YES in loader.conf or type it in loader prompt. -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 7.1 and ftpd
Hi. I update FreeBSD 7.0 -- FreeBSD 7.1 ftp for local user not work, but anonymous - permit to login. # uname -srp FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p1 i386 # ps aux | grep ftpd | grep -v grep root 1922 0,0 0,1 3444 1380 ?? Is 15:58 0:00,00 /usr/libexec/ftpd -D -l -U #tail /var/log/xferlog Jan 10 15:31:21 sa ftpd[1644]: connection from sapadm (10.10.9.150) Jan 10 15:31:21 sa ftpd[1644]: FTP LOGIN REFUSED FROM sapadm, alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PHP setup question
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 04:57:45PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: stan wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:33:46AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: stan wrote: I'll describe the test setup that I used within a VM to configure things inline. The software does not necessarily match the version number exactly to yours. Thanks for puting in all this effort!! No problem. $ ls -l /usr/local/www/ampache/config total 24 -r--r--r-- 1 www www 19352 Jan 5 16:38 ampache.cfg.php.dist -r--r--r-- 1 www www141 Aug 31 02:20 motd.php.dist -r--r--r-- 1 www www 96 Aug 31 02:20 registration_agreement.php.dist $ Does this look corect? No. You did not put the downloaded ampache.cfg.php file in the ampache/config directory. Your /usr/local/www/ampache/config should look like this: testweb# ll /usr/local/www/ampache/config/ total 46 -r--r--r-- 2 www www 14 Aug 31 02:20 .htaccess -rw-r--r-- 1 www www 19366 Jan 7 09:23 ampache.cfg.php -r--r--r-- 2 www www 19352 Jan 7 09:19 ampache.cfg.php.dist -r--r--r-- 2 www www141 Aug 31 02:20 motd.php.dist -r--r--r-- 2 www www 96 Aug 31 02:20 registration_agreement.php Note the ampache.cfg.php file. It is the one that I downloaded during install to my local workstation. I then uploaded it back to the server, and put it in the config directory per the documentation. Right, I had not done that, this time yet. It's there now: -rw-r--r-- 1 root www 19363 Jan 8 05:57 ampache.cfg.php I had a busy week at work, and am just now getting back to this. If you want to see what I have, It's reachable at http://beachcave/net/ampache/ As it stnads, it is pretty much exactly the way the ports tree installed it except that I have put the double quotes around the rss variables in the /usr/local/www/ampacahe/config/ampache.conf.dst file. I think I must be missing something importnat about the configuration steps that are required using the web installer. I know that I am confused about the 3 different user levels (system Mysql, and Ampache, right?) If you have any helpful sugestions, they would be greatly appreciated. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PHP setup question
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:22:36AM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:03:32PM -0500, stan wrote: I am trying to get the ampcache port working on a 7.1 machine. Just wondering if you've resolved the problems you had with this. No, I had a bust week at work, and am really just starting to look at it again. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Portsnap problem: gunzip: unknown compression format
I've been getting this for the last three days even though there where no changes at all in my system. r...@inferna:~ # portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Wed Jan 7 17:20:01 ARST 2009 to Sat Jan 10 13:26:38 ARST 2009. Fetching 3 metadata patches.. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 0 metadata files... done. Fetching 258 patches.102030405060708090100110120130140150160170180190200210220230240250 done. Applying patches... done. Fetching 29 new ports or files... gunzip: unknown compression format snapshot is corrupt. r...@inferna:~ # which gunzip /usr/bin/gunzip r...@inferna:~ # Is anyone getting the same message? Any hints on what could be the mos likely cause? Thanks in advanced. -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. I ahve been to the windows recovery console many times and ran the Fixboot, Fixmbr commands, being very meticulous about the paramaters etc. I ahve also tried reinstalling the FreeBSD boot manager, and rerunning the Norton GoBack unhook. When I run the recovery console, and do the fixmbr, I get messages about the current MBR not being standard, and that if I install a new one, I may loose the partitions. So far, that is not true. The windows partition is still there, but not being used to boot. Fortuneatley, I can see my windows partition in KNoppix, so I am in the process of getting the data moved to a backup drive. Indeed, I am writting this email through Konquerer! Thank god for live file systems. -Grant On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:53 -0500, Michael Copeland wrote Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? Maybe.But, MS software is notorious for not recognizing any other OSen nor being able to boot them So, use the FreeBSD fdisk which will plant the FreeBSD MBR. jerry has this issue been resolved? what route did you choose to accomplish your task? -Grant - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box. In that machine, there is one SATA drive. On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it. During the install, I opted to use the Free BSD boot manage. The install went flawlessly. The problem is, when I boot up I get: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 F2, is obviously, the new installation of FreeBSD 6.4, which boots perfectly. F5 is a spare SCSI disk connected to an Initio controller. F1 is the probelem. Windose no longer boots. When I select F2, I simply get the cursor on a new line, and nothing happens. Like this: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 _ Any idea what I might need to do to make windows work again? It may be worth mentioning, I had Norton GoBack running on the disk before I installed FreeBSD, although I am not aware if it does anything to the booting system. All suggestions welcome, -Grant www.bootdisk.com Find a bootable floppy image there that includes a DOS fdisk, and write it out to a floppy disk. Boot your machine with that floppy, and at the DOS prompt, type 'fdisk /mbr' - it will write a standard boot sector, and Windows should boot again. Of course, this will not allow you to boot to your new FreeBSD installation, but with other folks' help, you can probably overcome that - probably with GRUB, or another boot manager. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
wiping a drive with dd
Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mounting /c
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:36:33AM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good idea. I didn't need anything ntfs provided and it was convenient rather than further dividing the disk to have a write area. jerry According to the man page, some limited writing can be done, but the list of limitations is long and they are not all immediately straightforward. You should be able to write to ntfs if you use the fuse version sysutils/fusefs-ntfs - it just works in my experience. The last time I checked it required some (well-documented) adjustment to make it mount from fstab as FreeBSD uses a hard-coded list of mount_* commands rather than simply converting mount -t foo to mount_foo. I'm not sure if this is fixed in 7.1 - but it's about time it was. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:46:54PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 2:09 PM -0800 1/4/09, David Christensen wrote: I have changed the root shell to Bash on another machine I use as a CVS server and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I've been wondering if I'm setting myself up for problems by doing so. Does anybody know if it's okay to change the root shell on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386? Why do that? Just create your own root account, put what you want for a shell on that account and use it. Use vipw. Copy the root line and then change the _second_ one to be your own root id- say, Rgad - and make a loging in directory for it. Change the directory part of the pw entry to be that and the the shell to be what you want. Then change the password to be what you want or use some pwvault utility or whatever. Just make sure you specify the second root account (Rgad) when doing so or it will change the real root's password. jerry What I do is add the following lines to /root/.login : if ($?prompt) then if ( -x /usr/local/bin/bash ) then # echo Switching to bash setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash exec /usr/local/bin/bash -login endif endif I've been doing this for at least 10 years. I haven't had any problems with it, but Your Mileage Might Vary. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= g...@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or g...@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor dro...@rpi.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: wiping a drive with dd
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:55:41PM -0500, gpeel wrote: Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Yes. jerry -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:52:07PM -0500, gpeel wrote: Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. I ahve been to the windows recovery console many times and ran the Fixboot, Fixmbr commands, being very meticulous about the paramaters etc. I ahve also tried reinstalling the FreeBSD boot manager, and rerunning the Norton GoBack unhook. If you read through my post on this, note the scenario I narrated. It is quite possible that every time you run that GoBack thing, it is putting back the wrong MBR from its corrupted stash. jerry When I run the recovery console, and do the fixmbr, I get messages about the current MBR not being standard, and that if I install a new one, I may loose the partitions. So far, that is not true. The windows partition is still there, but not being used to boot. Fortuneatley, I can see my windows partition in KNoppix, so I am in the process of getting the data moved to a backup drive. Indeed, I am writting this email through Konquerer! Thank god for live file systems. -Grant On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:53 -0500, Michael Copeland wrote Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? Maybe.But, MS software is notorious for not recognizing any other OSen nor being able to boot them So, use the FreeBSD fdisk which will plant the FreeBSD MBR. jerry has this issue been resolved? what route did you choose to accomplish your task? -Grant - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box. In that machine, there is one SATA drive. On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it. During the install, I opted to use the Free BSD boot manage. The install went flawlessly. The problem is, when I boot up I get: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 F2, is obviously, the new installation of FreeBSD 6.4, which boots perfectly. F5 is a spare SCSI disk connected to an Initio controller. F1 is the probelem. Windose no longer boots. When I select F2, I simply get the cursor on a new line, and nothing happens. Like this: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 _ Any idea what I might need to do to make windows work again? It may be worth mentioning, I had Norton GoBack running on the disk before I installed FreeBSD, although I am not aware if it does anything to the booting system. All suggestions welcome, -Grant www.bootdisk.com Find a bootable floppy image there that includes a DOS fdisk, and write it out to a floppy disk. Boot your machine with that floppy, and at the DOS prompt, type 'fdisk /mbr' - it will write a standard boot sector, and Windows should boot again. Of course, this will not allow you to boot to your new FreeBSD installation, but with other folks' help, you can probably overcome that - probably with GRUB, or another boot manager. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
Jerry,
Maybe true. When this all started I used the ISO disk from the Symantec site
to remove GoBack. I assumed in doing so ('unhooking GoBack from the MBR),
that it would replace the original windows one.
It may also be worth noting that this disk -had- a recovery partition on it
once upon a time. I have not idea weather this plays a parts in the latest
woes.
Either way, I need to save the data (as I mentioed \I am doing), dd the disk
to clear everything, and reinstall.
No biggies since I have not lost any data :-)
Thanks for all the help and I ideas though, this has been a learning safari!
-Grant
- Original Message -
From: Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu
To: gpeel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu; Michael Copeland
michael.copel...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:52:07PM -0500, gpeel wrote:
Hi all,
Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and
Windows boot back.
I ahve been to the windows recovery console many times and ran the
Fixboot,
Fixmbr commands, being very meticulous about the paramaters etc.
I ahve also tried reinstalling the FreeBSD boot manager, and rerunning
the
Norton GoBack unhook.
If you read through my post on this, note the scenario I narrated.
It is quite possible that every time you run that GoBack thing, it
is putting back the wrong MBR from its corrupted stash.
jerry
When I run the recovery console, and do the fixmbr, I get messages about
the
current MBR not being standard, and that if I install a new one, I may
loose
the partitions. So far, that is not true. The windows partition is still
there, but not being used to boot.
Fortuneatley, I can see my windows partition in KNoppix, so I am in the
process of getting the data moved to a backup drive. Indeed, I am
writting
this email through Konquerer!
Thank god for live file systems.
-Grant
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:53 -0500, Michael Copeland wrote
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote:
Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ?
Maybe.But, MS software is notorious for not recognizing any
other OSen nor being able to boot them So, use the FreeBSD fdisk
which will plant the FreeBSD MBR.
jerry
has this issue been resolved? what route did you choose to
accomplish your task?
-Grant
- Original Message -
From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com
To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
wrote:
Hi all,
I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with
FreeBSD
6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box.
In that machine, there is one SATA drive.
On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided
to
try
putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it.
During the install, I opted to use the Free BSD boot manage. The
install
went flawlessly.
The problem is, when I boot up I get:
F1 ??
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Disk1
F2, is obviously, the new installation of FreeBSD 6.4, which boots
perfectly.
F5 is a spare SCSI disk connected to an Initio controller.
F1 is the probelem. Windose no longer boots. When I select F2, I
simply
get the cursor on a new line, and nothing happens.
Like this:
F1 ??
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Disk1
_
Any idea what I might need to do to make windows work again?
It may be worth mentioning, I had Norton GoBack running on the
disk
before I installed FreeBSD, although I am not aware if it does
anything
to the booting system.
All suggestions welcome,
-Grant
www.bootdisk.com
Find a bootable floppy image there that includes a DOS fdisk, and
write it out to a floppy disk.
Boot your machine with that floppy, and at the DOS prompt, type
'fdisk
/mbr' - it will write a standard boot sector, and Windows should
boot
again.
Of course, this will not allow you to boot to your new FreeBSD
installation, but with other folks' help, you can probably overcome
that - probably with GRUB, or another boot manager.
Kurt
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Cannot get ethernet off the ground
Hi. I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting basic ethernet connectivity working. I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old virus software called 'Vista' on that connection. The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine recognises something called fwe0 with an ethernet address of 02:1e:8c:9a:3b:96. However dmesg tells me this is a 'Fake Ethernet' address. I used ifconfig (as root) to set the ip address and netmask for fwe0, but am unable to ping another machine on the network. I have not tried installing FreeBSD before but have installed other operating systems in the past including various versions of Linux. Is it possible that FreeBSD is not recognising the ethernet device properly at boot time, and giving it the wrong driver? Or is there a simpler step I missed? What steps can I take to get this interface working? -Will ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: wiping a drive with dd
gpeel gp...@thenetnow.com writes: When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Assuming you mean /dev/zero, yes. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?
David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com writes: freebsd-questions: I'm building a fresh Amanda server using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=miscportname=amand a-server Most of my software background is GNU/Linux. I would prefer using the Bash shell, but the default FreeBSD shell for root appears to be the C shell: p3450# echo $SHELL /bin/csh I have changed the root shell to Bash on another machine I use as a CVS server and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I've been wondering if I'm setting myself up for problems by doing so. Does anybody know if it's okay to change the root shell on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386? Assuming you build the shell statically linked, and put it in the root partition, you're unlikely to have any trouble. However: - that is what the toor user is for - in my own opinion, anyone who cares what shell root runs is probably spending too much time running as root -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
[Re: wiping a drive with dd]
I would use System Rescue boot disk from www.sysresccd.org It has gparted which I would use to delete all partitions and create new. Thats considering you have a functioning pc to access the net and burn an iso with. Derek Original Message Subject:wiping a drive with dd Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:55:41 -0500 From: gpeel gp...@thenetnow.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: wiping a drive with dd
Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1m (or at least 64k for block size, unless you have too much time. Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). yes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
William Gordon Rutherdale will.rutherd...@utoronto.ca writes: I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting basic ethernet connectivity working. I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old virus software called 'Vista' on that connection. The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine recognises something called fwe0 with an ethernet address of 02:1e:8c:9a:3b:96. However dmesg tells me this is a 'Fake Ethernet' address. I used ifconfig (as root) to set the ip address and netmask for fwe0, but am unable to ping another machine on the network. I have not tried installing FreeBSD before but have installed other operating systems in the past including various versions of Linux. Is it possible that FreeBSD is not recognising the ethernet device properly at boot time, and giving it the wrong driver? Or is there a simpler step I missed? What steps can I take to get this interface working? fwe is for Ethernet-over-Firewire, which is probably not what you want. What kind of Ethernet interface do you have (i.e., chipset if you know it), and is there any reference to an Ethernet adapter in the boot-time messages? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
On 1/10/09, William Gordon Rutherdale will.rutherd...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hi. I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting basic ethernet connectivity working. I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old virus software called 'Vista' on that connection. The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine recognises something called fwe0 with an ethernet address of 02:1e:8c:9a:3b:96. However dmesg tells me this is a 'Fake Ethernet' address. I used ifconfig (as root) to set the ip address and netmask for fwe0, but am unable to ping another machine on the network. I have not tried installing FreeBSD before but have installed other operating systems in the past including various versions of Linux. Is it possible that FreeBSD is not recognising the ethernet device properly at boot time, and giving it the wrong driver? Or is there a simpler step I missed? What steps can I take to get this interface working? -Will ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org fwe is ethernet emulation driver for firewire. post output of pciconf -lv. -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mounting /c
RW wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good idea. Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file size) but it's very cross platform. According to the man page, some limited writing can be done, but the list of limitations is long and they are not all immediately straightforward. You should be able to write to ntfs if you use the fuse version sysutils/fusefs-ntfs - it just works in my experience. I would suggest lots of testing, I did by copying bunches of files from UFS to ntfs then md5-ing the originals and the copies and there were plenty of differences. I decided I wasn't ready to trust it yet. Chris The last time I checked it required some (well-documented) adjustment to make it mount from fstab as FreeBSD uses a hard-coded list of mount_* commands rather than simply converting mount -t foo to mount_foo. I'm not sure if this is fixed in 7.1 - but it's about time it was. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freebsd-update install
Hi, I tried to upgrade my system from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE. I first do a 'freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE' without any problem. Then I do 'freebsd-update update' and I have this output : r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not supported What can I do for this ? Thank. Franck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re[2]: Best torrent client/server available for FreeBSD?
Здравствуйте, Justin. Вы писали 8 января 2009 г., 5:54:14: I have found myself to like rtorrent, which is a very powerful console torrent client. JJ I've been using transmission-daemon recently and I'm getting JJ comfortable with it. I like the fact that it can be controlled via a JJ web browser. Can be controlled from the CLI with transmission-remote JJ too. I use torrent flux -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update install
Yes, it is, I will try Like you say. Thank you Franck 2009/1/10 Toni Schmidbauer t...@stderror.at: At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:24:30 +0100, Franck Royer wrote: r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not supported i think i had the same problem updating one machine from 7.0 to 7.1-BETA2. any chance that this file is on an zfs filesystem? if yes, i solved this issue by commenting out the chflags calls in freebsd-update. maybe someone with more insight into zfs and freebsd-update can elaborate on this issue. toni -- Don't forget, there is no security | toni at stderror dot at -- Wulfgar | Toni Schmidbauer -- Franck Royer Student of Manchester University in Msc of Advanced Computer Science Etudiant Ingénieur de l'ENSIIE (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise) e-mail/jabber: royer.fra...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update install
At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:24:30 +0100, Franck Royer wrote: r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not supported i think i had the same problem updating one machine from 7.0 to 7.1-BETA2. any chance that this file is on an zfs filesystem? if yes, i solved this issue by commenting out the chflags calls in freebsd-update. maybe someone with more insight into zfs and freebsd-update can elaborate on this issue. toni -- Don't forget, there is no security | toni at stderror dot at -- Wulfgar | Toni Schmidbauer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
kernel: WARNING
Здравствуйте, Questions. Jan 10 22:26:13 kes kernel: WARNING: attempt to net_add_domain(netgraph) after domainfinalize() Does this messages harmfull or not? How to solve this warning? -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update install
On Saturday 10 January 2009 21:20:26 Toni Schmidbauer wrote: At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:24:30 +0100, Franck Royer wrote: r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not supported i think i had the same problem updating one machine from 7.0 to 7.1-BETA2. any chance that this file is on an zfs filesystem? if yes, i solved this issue by commenting out the chflags calls in freebsd-update. maybe someone with more insight into zfs and freebsd-update can elaborate on this issue. toni If you are using version 13 of ZFS - you just need to run zfs upgrade -a ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update install
At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:18:57 +, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: If you are using version 13 of ZFS - you just need to run zfs upgrade -a thanks for the hint, i think you mean 'zpool upgrade'. as far as i can tell fbsd 7.1 only supports version 6, this is what 'zpool upgrade -v' tells me. if i recall correctly there was an update to version 13 in fbsd-current. see also http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=185029: - chflags(2) Not all the flags are supported. This still needs work. toni -- Don't forget, there is no security | toni at stderror dot at -- Wulfgar | Toni Schmidbauer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
gpeel wrote: Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. [snip] I know it won't help you now, but for the general case: It is a very good idea to save MBRs. Restoring an MBR is a quick and painless way to bring back a former state of affairs. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update install
Toni Schmidbauer a écrit : At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:18:57 +, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: If you are using version 13 of ZFS - you just need to run zfs upgrade -a thanks for the hint, i think you mean 'zpool upgrade'. as far as i can tell fbsd 7.1 only supports version 6, this is what 'zpool upgrade -v' tells me. if i recall correctly there was an update to version 13 in fbsd-current. see also http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=185029: - chflags(2) Not all the flags are supported. This still needs work. toni Thanks for all this infos. I have another question about the zfs kernel module : is it still in the GENERIC kernel in the release 7.1 ? Or do I need to include it and recompile the kernel before the first reboot ? Franck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
does IPI_PREEMPTION in the kernel config do anything
For the last year I have been using IPI_PREEMPTION in my kernel config
and I know back then it helped quite a bit on the performence of my dual
core... now I am setting a 4 core machine using 7.1pl1 (i386) [on the
dual core I {and will continue} to use -current] and was just wondering
if IPI_PREEMPTION actually maeans anything anymore
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Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look relevant to the problem. I had to write them down on paper and walk over to this room to type them. Please pardon any typos: no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x2abf103c chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL 8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass= ethernet fwoh...@pci:1:5:0: class=0x0c0010 card=0x2a6f103c chip=0x58c1 rev=0x70 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Lucent/Agere Systems (Was: ATT MicroElectronics)' device = 'FW322 1394A PCI PHY/Link Open Host Ctrlr I/F' class = serial bus subclass= FireWire It sounds like I have both an ethernet adapter and firewire. Some part of FreeBSD recognises both. However the network configuration recognises the firewire and not the ethernet adapter as available for networking. This is despite the network adapter actually being connected by CAT5 to a live network. Question 0. Is there a way to get ifconfig to recognise the ethernet adapter? Question 1. Is it possible that FreeBSD 7.1 would do a better job? Question 2. How can I mount and write stuff to my memory stick on this OS? -Will Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 1/10/09, William Gordon Rutherdale will.rutherd...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hi. I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting basic ethernet connectivity working. I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old virus software called 'Vista' on that connection. The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine recognises something called fwe0 with an ethernet address of 02:1e:8c:9a:3b:96. However dmesg tells me this is a 'Fake Ethernet' address. I used ifconfig (as root) to set the ip address and netmask for fwe0, but am unable to ping another machine on the network. I have not tried installing FreeBSD before but have installed other operating systems in the past including various versions of Linux. Is it possible that FreeBSD is not recognising the ethernet device properly at boot time, and giving it the wrong driver? Or is there a simpler step I missed? What steps can I take to get this interface working? -Will ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org fwe is ethernet emulation driver for firewire. post output of pciconf -lv. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Odd behavior after upgrading to 7.0-p7
Hi, I installed 7.0 i386 and all was working great. I upgraded to p7 and now when I end my X session, I have kdm loading, it doesn't bring me to a login prompt. It dumps me on console 0 and I have to kill the kdm-bin process to return to a kdm login. This didn't happen before upgrading to p7. What would have changed that would not prevent this? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mounting /c
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:57 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file size) but it's very cross platform. ntfs is much more robust than fat32, if you crash windows or pull the plug, you are more likely to lose data with fat32. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look relevant to the problem. I had to write them down on paper and walk over to this room to type them. Please pardon any typos: no...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x2abf103c chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL 8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' class = network subclass= ethernet This may be supported by the re driver. Run your ifconfig setup commands against re0 and see what happens. This should be present in the GENERIC kernel, if you have a custom kernel with it removed just kldload the module. You should also be able to grep re out from your dmesg. [snip] Question 1. Is it possible that FreeBSD 7.1 would do a better job? Sometimes with these adapters not every chipID makes it into the driver code. Usually this takes care of itself as time goes on, eg newer is better. If you are just starting out with a new machine and a fresh install you might want to consider 7.1-RELEASE. [snip] fwe is ethernet emulation driver for firewire. post output of pciconf -lv. [snip] -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Pre-idea question.
people, first, the idea i have that could earn some cash very likely is not new; it is text-to-speech, but in a certain way. here's my question since recently i heard a computerized voice speaking so very normally, at first i thought it was human. thus: how advanced are some of these commercial apps? i used ktts/lttsd to read me lon sci/tech articles, and even my own stff. ktts is about 60-65% of the way there, but next to the pay-for applications, ktts is in the dark ages. anybody know? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org First update of http://transfinite.thought.org/ab/ in seven months. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground
The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine recognises something called fwe0 with an ethernet address of 02:1e:8c:9a:3b:96. However dmesg tells me this is a 'Fake Ethernet' address. fwe is firewire emulated ethernet - you may connect 2 computers using firewire cable. it's wrong interface, if there are no others - your ethernet card is not detected ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
gname
Wow, After a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.4, (with Xorg) I tried installing Gnome, and I get a stop during build, Filesystem Full! Is Gname really that big? or did I miss doing something? Doing a du -h -d1 on /usr shows ... 7.0G ports. 1.8G local df -h shows: ... /dev/ad8s1e 9.7G(total) 9.6G(used) ... 108% (usr) ... Again, is gname really that big? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
