Re: installing freebsd on windows
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: For testing purposes I've used Suns VirtualBox under Windows, it runs under Linux as well. (Free)BSD installs well and it can give you a first impression on how it works. There are some settings that you must keep in mind, disk size can't be dynamic. You can use the VirtualBox forums for more information. /Leslie VirtualBox is really great for no-hassles virtualisation for newbies. I rely on it too. But, I haven't had a good experience with FreeBSD 7.0 on VirtualBox, too many kernel panics. And it's not just me there are lots of people who have had the same problem with no evident solution. I am not discouraging this solution but informing of a problem that I have faced. If there's a work around for that, I'd be happy to try it myself. -- Am I SHOPLIFTING? ___ 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: installing ports xorg
Tim, Looks like perhaps your ports tree is bad, I suggest you install the full ports tree and try and build from source k - Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 14:00 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Tim Judd wrote: I'm getting ZERO feedback when I install the xorg metaport, updated ports tree today. # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg # make install # So what am i missing? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-install.html tells me to install this port. I even deleted /var/db/pkg/* and /var/db/ports/* to try to hook it to install... Retrying the above install every time. Nothing works. What to do? Thanks it will take many many hours to compile. If you read more in handbook it also says you can install the package version which should only take 30 minutes. pkg_add -r xorg that doesn't answer my original question. I'm not interested in your solution here, I want to build from source. And I can take the many hours, i'm setting up a machine before it's necessity and need to use it isn't now... Again, why doesn't the port install correctly? ___ 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: xorg-server-1.5.3_7, /usr/ports/UPDATING, mouse
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 03:45 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:29:35 -0600, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: So I don't think the hal has the concept of joining the keyboard and mouse together to a single usb device. The pair works beautifully in the console... so I'm not sure if this is a bug worthy of reporting, or if I should research it more and try to discover the solution with a logitech pair that is known to work in the console to work in hal. s/single usb device/single usb plug/ Does the combination result in two devices (ukbd0, ums0)? Maybe it's possible to instruct HAL to use the devices explicitely, by hard coding them into some configuration file? Yes, FreeBSD/devd/devfs had created a kbd0 and ums0 HAL just didn't seem to recognize ums0 being listed too.. maybe because before it setup kbd0, ums0 appeared and it just got left behind? maybe because it already linked kbd0 to the plug/jack it was plugged into, it ignored the second device (this case, the mouse)? I even tried (by of course powerdown first) the USB+Mouse PS2 plug (both as original plug onto the Logitech pair) in case it might have picked up the PS2 and let it run with that --- it didn't find the PS2 mouse (by found I mean Xorg adding/enabling that device so the cursor moves). I was more concerned today (@work) to get my desktop operational. I can try later to diagnose, pick apart, etc etc the flaws of dbus and/or hal to submit a report. I felt it was necessary to announce this shortcoming, in case the OP was trying to use the same kind of device. ___ 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: installing ports xorg - Unknown solution
Heh, there were too many factors as possible culprits in the system. Glen Barber's command started to run, until I cancelled it when my laptop battery died... :D I'm not 100% sure what the problem was, but here's what I did... . The PC has a msk ethernet device, which I wasn't 100% sold I'd use it, . It's also behind a Linux-based firewall (corporate purchase) that ... doesn't always want to work, . I re-csup'd ports, it updated some stuff, but nothing in x11/ . I forgot it for the weekend, went into work, slapped it onto our other network (which isn't behind the Linux firewall), and initiated an install.. it started . Keeping it on the other network, I finished xorg, then installed kde4 with repeated fetch timeouts on both installs. . Remembered I had a broadcom ethernet card... installed it. . Finished installing everything, and is now my primary desktop at work. So, either the bad csup, odd msk ethernet, or the (VERY fustrating) Linux firewall was at fault. Not sure what, but all is working now. --Tim ___ 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
ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp (CURRENT) failes on make install
Hi, # cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp # cvs update ? work cvs update: Updating . cvs update: Updating files cvs update: Updating patches.aout # make install ... installing sysv.h in /usr/local/include/net-snmp/system installing ultrix4.h in /usr/local/include/net-snmp/system installing dragonfly.h in /usr/local/include/net-snmp/system creating directory /usr/local/include/net-snmp/machine installing generic.h in /usr/local/include/net-snmp/machine making installlibs in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1/snmplib /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile cc -I../include -I. -I../snmplib -DNETSNMP_ENABLE_IPV6 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Ufreebsd8 -Dfreebsd8=freebsd8 -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/BSDPAN -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach/CORE -c -o mib.lo mib.c cc -I../include -I. -I../snmplib -DNETSNMP_ENABLE_IPV6 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Ufreebsd8 -Dfreebsd8=freebsd8 -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/BSDPAN -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach/CORE -c mib.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/mib.o ../include/net-snmp/library/data_list.h:75: error: nested function 'netsnmp_get_list_node' declared but never defined ../include/net-snmp/library/data_list.h:60: error: nested function 'netsnmp_create_data_list' declared but never defined *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1/snmplib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp. Any ideas? matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e matthias.ap...@oclc.org - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ ___ 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: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
Hello. ! used to make wireless links too and my best experiences are: ADSL-MODEM (bridge mode) ==|switch| === Freebsd with pppoe,nat,ipfw || || wireless (--10km-) wireless switch |||||| users... Freebsd is a small machine (celeron, P2, P3) 256mb memory, 4gb or more disk 1 ethernet Software on FreeBSD ppp using bridge mode (I supose your adsl is pppoe) man ppp the adsl mode is configured to work in bridge mode and as you see , is connect in the switch together with the freebsd and the wireless bridge Wireless bridge. this is the trick point of the project... After searching and testing various radios/swithes.. I deciced for the airlive 5460 ap2 http://www.airlive.com configure both ap in bridge with WDS enable and 21db of output power Antennas: the radios must use a small pigtail and be as near as possible to the antenna... I build the antennas using a project canantenna http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html the two points must be visual, that is: in one point you must see the other, beware with water (lakes, flat fields...) between the points stay away from trees... put the antennas at about 6m from the soil... 10km... You must try, I have one link in 7km here... with good performance.. in severel clients (10 clients)... about 3mbits... the radios costs about 45 dollars each, the pigtail is 5dollars, the antenna is about 5 dollars each the swithes is about 20 dollars each... Should work. Hope I could help... Sergio ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:30:31AM +0530, Mehul Ved typed: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: For testing purposes I've used Suns VirtualBox under Windows, it runs under Linux as well. (Free)BSD installs well and it can give you a first impression on how it works. There are some settings that you must keep in mind, disk size can't be dynamic. You can use the VirtualBox forums for more information. /Leslie VirtualBox is really great for no-hassles virtualisation for newbies. I rely on it too. But, I haven't had a good experience with FreeBSD 7.0 on VirtualBox, too many kernel panics. And it's not just me there are lots of people who have had the same problem with no evident solution. I am not discouraging this solution but informing of a problem that I have faced. If there's a work around for that, I'd be happy to try it myself. What worked for me was enabling VT-x/AMD-V in Virtualbox. No more panics since. Ruben ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: What worked for me was enabling VT-x/AMD-V in Virtualbox. No more panics since. If I am correct, that requires hardware with virtualisation support. That's not the case with my old P4. -- Am I SHOPLIFTING? ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Bruce Anthony Grobler br...@yoafrica.com wrote: As long as you have enough ram ( I'd say at least a gig) try VMware Server 1.1/2.0. I have production machines (including two freebsd 7.1 vm's) running on a VMware Server 2.0 working very well with the host having 3 gigs of ram, I do have 1.5GB of RAM. Will consider trying it on VMWare or maybe if I can get less lazy, nothing like installing it on hard disk. -- Am I SHOPLIFTING? ___ 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
mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system
I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices on that HD. ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
install on windows like ubuntu does. FreeBSD is separate independent OS. it simply doesn't make sense. I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to choose what I what a problem to create partition for FreeBSD? ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
Or does freebsd offer a choice to install without messing anything up. It's a professional operating system, of course it does. :-) (FreeBSD exactly does what you tell it to do, nothing more and nothing less.) maybe that's why it's told to be so difficult for most people ;) ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
PC-BSD === http://www.pcbsd.org/ DesktopBSD === http://www.desktopbsd.net/ And PC-BSD even provides an installer (PBI) that makes Windows users feel at home: Download something from the web manually, then click next, next, next, finish and have an application installed. :-) even more - it's even as slow and messy as windows. no idea about stability - possibly it's better. personally - i've tried once PC-BSD, removed it one hour after installing. ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:39 -0400 Harold Hartley wheelie...@gwi.net wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to choose what I want to boot into, such as windows or unbuntu and maybe a freebsd choice. I don't always want to boot into windows, except for the 3 apps I have to use windows for. I do boot into ubuntu 90% of the time and enjoy it so much, but I have read about freebsd and researched it fully and I wish I could be able to run freebsd as with all the apps freebsd has to offer. I would love to be able to install freebsd under windows so I could choose freebsd to boot into when I want. I hope to hear from freebsd about my request, and by the way, I'm not a linux expert so I don't know everything about linux, but I'm always learning. If you are interested in using a virtual machine, these two URLs might prove useful. http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/default.mspx?WT.mc_id=13E48F94-882A-43DB-9ED5-BBC184D75FC7WT.srch=1mode=1CR_ID=-1CR_TC=9OSUHTJXBB2LNZC http://vpc.visualwin.com/index.aspx FreeBSD is fully supported according to the documentation. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. R. S. Barton signature.asc Description: PGP signature
3ware 8006-2lp hang with ACPI enabled on fbsd-6.4
Hello! I have something strange here. I had a pretty old (5 y.o) network server with mirror raid on 3WARE 8006-2LP running FreeBSD 5.3. memory or mb started to fail periodically, so the server was upgraded to Asus P5Q MB. Everything was fine. Then i decided to upgrade to 6.4-STABLE. After upgrade the machines just locked up after kernel boot is complete and daemons started to load. I have tried many times: sometimes i see PCI parity error from twe driver. Something i don't see any message at all, the machines just freezes. I tried changing pci slot, playing with BIOS settings - no luck. Then i just booted with ACPI disables and everything worked fine! I tried disabling parts of ACPI with debug.acpi loader options, but if i disable bus and pci the loader cannot load the kernel and all other options do not help. The firmware on the raid controller is the latest available (dec 2007). Can anyone explain, why everything worked fine on 5.4 and locks up on 6.4? I am upgrading the box to 7.1-STABLE now via cvs. -- Regards, Artem ___ 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: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system
Fbsd1 wrote: I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices on that HD. ___ 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 Read up http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html, namely entries 9.1 and 9.2. Very detailed and helpful stuff. ___ 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: 3ware 8006-2lp hang with ACPI enabled on fbsd-6.4
Can anyone explain, why everything worked fine on 5.4 and locks up on 6.4? I am upgrading the box to 7.1-STABLE now via cvs. and it will probably fix your problems as ACPI support is constantly improved == more workarounds are added for buggy ACPI bioses -- Regards, Artem ___ 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: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
10km... You must try, I have one link in 7km here... with good performance.. in severel clients (10 clients)... about 3mbits... the radios costs about 45 dollars each, the pigtail is 5dollars, the antenna is about 5 dollars each it's really worth to spent at least 50$ for each antenna to be sure it will be stable at 10km with huge margins ___ 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: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:55:50 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? Thinking mount /dev/ad1 /mnt but un-sure how this handles the 6.1 slices on that HD. You need to mount the bsd partition[s] not the whole disk. Probably something like /dev/ad1s1d I'd suggest you re-label it and put a new filesytem on it if you can. ___ 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: ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp (CURRENT) failes on make install
Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hi, # cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp # cvs update ? work cvs update: Updating . cvs update: Updating files cvs update: Updating patches.aout # make install ... installing sysv.h in /usr/local/include/net-snmp/system installing ultrix4.h in /usr/local/include/net-snmp/system installing dragonfly.h in /usr/local/include/net-snmp/system creating directory /usr/local/include/net-snmp/machine installing generic.h in /usr/local/include/net-snmp/machine making installlibs in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1/snmplib /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile cc -I../include -I. -I../snmplib -DNETSNMP_ENABLE_IPV6 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Ufreebsd8 -Dfreebsd8=freebsd8 -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/BSDPAN -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach/CORE -c -o mib.lo mib.c cc -I../include -I. -I../snmplib -DNETSNMP_ENABLE_IPV6 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Ufreebsd8 -Dfreebsd8=freebsd8 -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/BSDPAN -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach/CORE -c mib.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/mib.o ../include/net-snmp/library/data_list.h:75: error: nested function 'netsnmp_get_list_node' declared but never defined ../include/net-snmp/library/data_list.h:60: error: nested function 'netsnmp_create_data_list' declared but never defined *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1/snmplib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp. Any ideas? I guess you are running 8.0-CURRENT, a fix was commited about this issue, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2009-March/006931.html Hope this helps matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e matthias.ap...@oclc.org - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ ___ 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 Regards. -- There's this old saying: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life. ___ 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: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
Em Qua, 2009-03-25 às 13:32 +0100, Wojciech Puchar escreveu: it's really worth to spent at least 50$ for each antenna to be sure it will be stable at 10km with huge margins I agree with you... but here (in Brazil) the 24dbi antennas are so bad that using a can seems to work better... a 24db antenna here costs 24 dollars... a good USA made antenna costs 200 dollars each.. and is difficult to find... I agree with you that wireless success id a matter of anntennas.. the better the antennas and positioning the better success you have in the small budgjet project... By the way Mr Puchar, what are the radios you recommend or use?? ___ 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
WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63?
I've created a GEOM mirrored file system and everything seems to be working, but I get the warning WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63 when the mirror is being created. What is this referring to? ___ 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: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
I agree with you... but here (in Brazil) the 24dbi antennas are so bad that using a can seems to work better... a 24db antenna here costs 24 dollars... looks like bad joke. you can make antenna from few copper wires and expanded polystyrene - getting 12-14dB isn't hard (i mean yagi). By the way Mr Puchar, what are the radios you recommend or use?? for a long time i don't use radios so i can recommend NOW. anyway - it's less important than antennas - the one that have best distance with builtin 1dB antennas will be best with antennas on long distance. and make sure they have bridge mode not only AP or AP-client - it always make a difference. ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Harold Hartley wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. I don't know what Ubuntu does. But, you can install FreeBSD on a machine that also runs MS-Win. The traditional way is to 'dual-boot' the machine. But, you can also install some virtual machine software and run both under that. You can also install wine and run MS-Win stuff on FreeBSD. There are some limits to that I think, but people do it. I run a dual (or triple) boot. It is documented in the handbook and works just fine. I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to choose what I want to boot into, such as windows or unbuntu and maybe a freebsd choice. I don't always want to boot into windows, except for the 3 apps I have to use windows for. Basically, that is what I do. Mostly I boot FreeBSD and use it for my desktop. But, sometimes I need to use Photoshop which I have on the MS-Win side and printing labels seems to work better with Word than Openoffice, so I boot MS-Win for those. jerry I do boot into ubuntu 90% of the time and enjoy it so much, but I have read about freebsd and researched it fully and I wish I could be able to run freebsd as with all the apps freebsd has to offer. I would love to be able to install freebsd under windows so I could choose freebsd to boot into when I want. I hope to hear from freebsd about my request, and by the way, I'm not a linux expert so I don't know everything about linux, but I'm always learning. Thanks Harold Hartley 158 Russell Street Lewiston, Maine 04240 wheelie...@gwi.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 ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: I don't know what Ubuntu does. What ubuntu does is 1) Install ubuntu as a windows program 2) Run the ubuntu installer as any other win32 installer 3) Ubuntu is installed on a clean NTFS partition 4) Use windows bootloader So, you install and uninstall ubuntu from within windows. But, to switch between windows and ubuntu you have to reboot. This is what I have gathered from other people. I haven't used it myself. Probably the wubi[1] page would have more information on this. 1. http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php#internals -- Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing. -- Walt Kelly ___ 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
Flash 9
Is there now a cleaner way to install flash on FreeBSD, or do we still have to wade through this: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=51075+0+archive/2008/freebsd-emulation/20081102.freebsd-emulation Thanks, Chris ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:22:31PM +0530, Mehul Ved wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: I don't know what Ubuntu does. What ubuntu does is 1) Install ubuntu as a windows program 2) Run the ubuntu installer as any other win32 installer 3) Ubuntu is installed on a clean NTFS partition 4) Use windows bootloader So, you install and uninstall ubuntu from within windows. But, to switch between windows and ubuntu you have to reboot. This is what I have gathered from other people. I haven't used it myself. Probably the wubi[1] page would have more information on this. 1. http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php#internals Thanks for the explanation. I would rather have FreeBSD installed on a good UFS2 slice than an NTFS partition. I would much rather have it cleanly separate from MS-Win - not even booting it.I don't want my FreeBSD system dragged down by MS baggage. jerry -- Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing. -- Walt Kelly ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: No affence here but if you want to just click, click, next, finish, stick to mtfk ubuntu we dnt need u No offence. But please read before sending the email. -- Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing. -- Walt Kelly ___ 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
how to configure xbiff
FreeBSD 7/KDE 3.5, /usr/local/bin/bash in /etc/passwd as login shell I used to have xbiff (displays a mailbox icon with flag) on Solaris, which notified me whenever a new mail arrived in my mailbox /var/mail/USERNAME, via a beep and the flag in the mailbox icon being raised. What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this does the same thing on FreeBSD/KDE3.5 ? ___ 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: installing freebsd on windows
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Harold Hartley wrote: I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to install on windows like ubuntu does. I don't know what Ubuntu does. But, you can install FreeBSD on a machine that also runs MS-Win. The traditional way is to 'dual-boot' the machine. But, you can also install some virtual machine software and run both under that. its worth noting that you can install freebsd to the same HD as windows under vmware on windows. its not very complicated. also worth noting is that the proper version of XP will run under vmware/native with only a hardware profile. effectively you can run windows from freebsd, and vice versa. and yes, the vmware version 3 on freebsd. You can also install wine and run MS-Win stuff on FreeBSD. There are some limits to that I think, but people do it. I run a dual (or triple) boot. It is documented in the handbook and works just fine. I'm just a person that can't afford more than one computer cause I live in a nursing home and I would like to be able to use one computer to choose what I want to boot into, such as windows or unbuntu and maybe a freebsd choice. I don't always want to boot into windows, except for the 3 apps I have to use windows for. Basically, that is what I do. Mostly I boot FreeBSD and use it for my desktop. But, sometimes I need to use Photoshop which I have on the MS-Win side and printing labels seems to work better with Word than Openoffice, so I boot MS-Win for those. jerry I do boot into ubuntu 90% of the time and enjoy it so much, but I have read about freebsd and researched it fully and I wish I could be able to run freebsd as with all the apps freebsd has to offer. I would love to be able to install freebsd under windows so I could choose freebsd to boot into when I want. I hope to hear from freebsd about my request, and by the way, I'm not a linux expert so I don't know everything about linux, but I'm always learning. Thanks Harold Hartley 158 Russell Street Lewiston, Maine 04240 wheelie...@gwi.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 ___ 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: Flash 9
Chris Maness wrote: Is there now a cleaner way to install flash on FreeBSD, or do we still have to wade through this: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=51075+0+archive/2008/freebsd-emulation/20081102.freebsd-emulation http://crnl.org/blog/2008/11/01/flash-9-for-freebsd-71 this works fine. michael ___ 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
USB to Serial - Prolific Adapter
Hi Everyone, I just tried my usb to serial adapter on FreeBSD 7.1 (GENERIC), now here's is my problem : dmesg: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0 /var/log/messages: Mar 25 19:26:29 valhalla root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523 bus uhub0 Mar 25 19:26:29 valhalla kernel: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0 Now I'm pretty sure it's a Prolific 2303, as it works with the windows driver for the pl2303, I looked in the kernel config and there is a prolific 2303 module and it is being loaded. I can't tell you much about it as I found it lying around, its a little black box about the size of a match box with no writing on it at all. Please if anyone can help your assistance will be most appreciated. Regards, Bruce Grobler Network Engineer Yo!Africa ___ 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: USB to Serial - Prolific Adapter
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Bruce Anthony Grobler br...@yoafrica.comwrote: Hi Everyone, I just tried my usb to serial adapter on FreeBSD 7.1 (GENERIC), now here's is my problem : dmesg: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0 /var/log/messages: Mar 25 19:26:29 valhalla root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523 bus uhub0 Mar 25 19:26:29 valhalla kernel: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0 Now I'm pretty sure it's a Prolific 2303, as it works with the windows driver for the pl2303, I looked in the kernel config and there is a prolific 2303 module and it is being loaded. I can't tell you much about it as I found it lying around, its a little black box about the size of a match box with no writing on it at all. Please if anyone can help your assistance will be most appreciated. Regards, Bruce Grobler Network Engineer Yo!Africa I doubt it's the PL2303. The 2303 has a device ID of 2303 I've got a few of the 2303's -- and it showed up as a ucom device when I plugged it in. don't know what else to say -- it'd give you a ucom if it was truly a 2303. Good luck ___ 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: Flash 9
michael skrev: Chris Maness wrote: Is there now a cleaner way to install flash on FreeBSD, or do we still have to wade through this: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=51075+0+archive/2008/freebsd-emulation/20081102.freebsd-emulation http://crnl.org/blog/2008/11/01/flash-9-for-freebsd-71 this works fine. michael http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html /Leslie ___ 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: Flash 9
Is this an Open Source alternative? Chris ___ 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
Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed
I was trying to burn a DVD KV_BSD# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device KV_BSD# I have had this problem before, but since then I believe I have a new HD that runs KV_BSD% uname -a FreeBSD KV_BSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Mar 24 20:09:28 PDT 2009 r...@kv_bsd:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KAYVE_KERN i386 KV_BSD% The fact that I am running KAYVE_KERN now is slightly confusing to me because I thought the build failed. I am attaching a file called makesplat.log which is my personal convention for a typescript that records everything spit (splatted) out by the make command. My laptop is an ASUS M6800N http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/dmesg/PB12001901.vhtml here is the dmesg for the DVD burner KV_BSD# dmesg | grep DVD acd0: DVDR TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L532A/TC51 at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L532A TC51 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device KV_BSD# *--* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.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 can't see OpenBSD slice
Hi: I installed OpenBSD 3.5 in a 25GB slice on a 160GB SATA HDD. Now when i power up the system and boot into a FreeBSD instalation CD (8.x 200902 snapshot), the Fdisk partition editor shows the entire disk as unused. Are slices created with OpenBSD tools not seen in FreeBSD ? thanks Saifi. ___ 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: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, I have been tasked with getting a DSL connection across about 10km of no-man's-land to a rural location without internet access. Ideally, all traffic inbetween the two directional antennas would be encrypted. (Nice, but not entirely required.) 3Mb/s would be great! Something like: LAN-BSDrouter-modem-Antenna~~air~~Antenna-modem-DSL I'm looking for general pointers of both hardware and software to achieve this. I'd like to employ FreeBSD as much as is feasible. This is my first WAN network project, so even newbie pointers and general references would be much appreciated. (Hardware suggestions, books to read, etc.) Reliability is of mild concern, simply because I don't want to drive 10km at 3:00am when something breaks. Tips? References? Advice? May be you should use two embedded hardware (to acomplish yours BSDRouter) like this: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d0.htm or like this: http://www.soekris.com/net4526.htm The second one is more expensive than the firts one. Attaching one poweful mini-pci Atheros wireless card on each hardware embedded you might could get large distance. you ought to use one mini-pci wireless card like this: http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_34products_id=694 it's a very expensive wireless card but it's very powerful card too, it work with 1watt of power when work in IEEE802.11g/b modes also you need to use two good directional antennas may be like this: http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?products_id=395 I had used the embedded hardware http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d0.htm with NanoBSD and I got good results but i never need getting large distances like you. -- Linux is for people who hate Windows, BSD is for people who love UNIX. Social Engineer - Because there is no patch for human stupidity The Unix Guru's View of Sex unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep. Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. ___ 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: WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63?
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: I've created a GEOM mirrored file system and everything seems to be working, but I get the warning WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63 when the mirror is being created. What is this referring to? Are you gmirror'ing the BSD slice? Wrong: /dev/ad0s1 /dev/ad2s1 Right: /dev/ad0 /dev/ad2 That's what it sounds like to me. ___ 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: Flash 9
Chris Maness wrote: Is this an Open Source alternative? Chris ___ 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 No, it is the adobe linux plugin + wrapper for FBSD. /usr/ports/graphics/gnash is one such open source project. It used to work for me on youtube, but since youtube launched HD and other changes, only a few video work now using it. Most other content also doesn't work correctly with it. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ 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: Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed
Kayven Riese wrote: I was trying to burn a DVD KV_BSD# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device KV_BSD# I have had this problem before, but since then I believe I have a new HD that runs KV_BSD% uname -a FreeBSD KV_BSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Mar 24 20:09:28 PDT 2009 r...@kv_bsd:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KAYVE_KERN i386 KV_BSD% The fact that I am running KAYVE_KERN now is slightly confusing to me because I thought the build failed. I am attaching a file called makesplat.log which is my personal convention for a typescript that records everything spit (splatted) out by the make command. My laptop is an ASUS M6800N http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/dmesg/PB12001901.vhtml here is the dmesg for the DVD burner KV_BSD# dmesg | grep DVD acd0: DVDR TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L532A/TC51 at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L532A TC51 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device KV_BSD# *--* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *--* Maybe easier for you to add atapicam_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf and reboot. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ 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: Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed
Kayven Riese wrote: I was trying to burn a DVD KV_BSD# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device KV_BSD# I have had this problem before, but since then I believe I have a new HD that runs KV_BSD% uname -a FreeBSD KV_BSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Mar 24 20:09:28 PDT 2009 r...@kv_bsd:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KAYVE_KERN i386 KV_BSD% The fact that I am running KAYVE_KERN now is slightly confusing to me because I thought the build failed. I am attaching a file called makesplat.log which is my personal convention for a typescript that records everything spit (splatted) out by the make command. My laptop is an ASUS M6800N http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/dmesg/PB12001901.vhtml here is the dmesg for the DVD burner KV_BSD# dmesg | grep DVD acd0: DVDR TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L532A/TC51 at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L532A TC51 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device KV_BSD# *--* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *--* Also a little tip on dmesg stuff. Generally it's a bit easier for the list to read it in text format so it's a couple ways for you to get it in that format easily. A command like dmesg | mail -s dmesg output y...@example.com with email you the output of dmesg provided basics like internet connectivity and sendmail are working. A command like dmesg ~/dmesg.log will dump dmesg output to a file called dmesg.log in your home directory. You can attach it to an email, or transfer to somewhere you can via sneakernet, internet, or *net. Might save you a bit of time. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ 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: USB to Serial - Prolific Adapter
Ok does anybody know what this device might require to work? On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:40 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Bruce Anthony Grobler br...@yoafrica.comwrote: Hi Everyone, I just tried my usb to serial adapter on FreeBSD 7.1 (GENERIC), now here's is my problem : dmesg: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0 /var/log/messages: Mar 25 19:26:29 valhalla root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523 bus uhub0 Mar 25 19:26:29 valhalla kernel: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0 Now I'm pretty sure it's a Prolific 2303, as it works with the windows driver for the pl2303, I looked in the kernel config and there is a prolific 2303 module and it is being loaded. I can't tell you much about it as I found it lying around, its a little black box about the size of a match box with no writing on it at all. Please if anyone can help your assistance will be most appreciated. Regards, Bruce Grobler Network Engineer Yo!Africa I doubt it's the PL2303. The 2303 has a device ID of 2303 I've got a few of the 2303's -- and it showed up as a ucom device when I plugged it in. don't know what else to say -- it'd give you a ucom if it was truly a 2303. Good luck ___ 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: Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed
Kayven Riese wrote: I was trying to burn a DVD KV_BSD# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device KV_BSD# I have had this problem before, but since then I believe I have a new HD that runs KV_BSD% uname -a FreeBSD KV_BSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Mar 24 20:09:28 PDT 2009 r...@kv_bsd:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KAYVE_KERN i386 KV_BSD% The fact that I am running KAYVE_KERN now is slightly confusing to me because I thought the build failed. I am attaching a file called makesplat.log which is my personal convention for a typescript that records everything spit (splatted) out by the make command. My laptop is an ASUS M6800N http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/dmesg/PB12001901.vhtml here is the dmesg for the DVD burner KV_BSD# dmesg | grep DVD acd0: DVDR TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L532A/TC51 at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L532A TC51 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device KV_BSD# *--* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *--* Ok, sry for the repeated list spam but I see your error now. You ignore my first mesg since I do see now that it picks up the dev on cd0. Your syntax is wrong. should be: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R disk1 not growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ 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: how to configure xbiff
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this does the same thing on FreeBSD/KDE3.5 ? I have the following line in my ~/.xinitrc: xbiff -geometry 50x50+0+998 This is for the lower left corner of a 1400x1050 21 CRT. If you think you need further options, consult man xbiff. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Rebuild of Kernel to burn DVD failed
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:35:54 -0700, Kayven Riese kay...@gmail.com wrote: I was trying to burn a DVD KV_BSD# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/acd0 -J -R disk1 :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device You cannot use growiso with the acd driver, you need the cd driver which is provided by atapicam facility. You can simply load it via the kldload command if you don't want to rebuild your kernel. here is the dmesg for the DVD burner KV_BSD# dmesg | grep DVD acd0: DVDR TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L532A/TC51 at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L532A TC51 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device Oh, it seems that you already have the atapicam / cd setting in your kernel running. Fine! Just change the command: # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R disk1 This should work. I have a symlink set via /etc/devfs.conf as /dev/dvd@ - cd0 so I can use the command % growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=foo.iso as presented in growisofs's manpage. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
Atheros 5424/2424 problem with scan
Hi Just got my wireless card recognised (Atheros 5424/2424 ), dmesg: ath0: Atheros 5424/2424 mem 0xf600-0xf600 irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: Ethernet address: 00:1f:e1:6a:98:4f ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2 though when I do a ifconfig ath0 up scan it hangs, here are my configs/versions: uname -a FreeBSD valhalla.bollocks.co.zw 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #1: Wed Mar 25 21:48:04 CAT 2009 sy...@valhalla.bollocks.co.zw:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VALHALLA-KERNEL i386 from my kernel config: # Wireless NIC cards devicewlan# 802.11 support devicewlan_wep# 802.11 WEP support devicewlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support devicewlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support devicewlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm devicewlan_scan_ap# 802.11 AP mode scanning devicewlan_scan_sta # 802.11 STA mode scanning #device an # Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs. deviceath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's deviceath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer) deviceath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath #device awi # BayStack 660 and others #device ral # Ralink Technology RT2500 wireless NICs. #device wi # WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs. kldstat: 49 ath_hal 50 ath_rate 51 cardbus/if_ath 52 pci/if_ath 188 wlan_amrr 189 wlan_ccmp 190 wlan_tkip 191 wlan_wep 192 wlan 193 wlan_scan_ap 194 wlan_scan_sta any ideas? Regards, Bruce Grobler ___ 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
Repairing a defective UFS 2 partition with another BSD's fsck
Dear -fs list, last night I had an idea how I could have a chance to repair my defective UFS partition. To remember, this is the whole story: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-fs/2008/11/2/3894714 Repairing a defective UFS 2 partition with fsck_ffs (or other means) I thought about the following: As far as I know, UFS isn't only used by FreeBSD, but also by OpenBSD and NetBSD. Variations should be less than, let's say, with Solaris UFS. So it may be that I can use the fsck utility of OpenBSD or NetBSD to check and repair the UFS dd duplicate where FreeBSD's fsck fails with fsck_ffs: bad inode number 306176 to nextinode To use with NetBSD, I've got a NetBSD Live! 2007 live system CD here. For OpenBSD... well, I don't know if they offer any live file system? The only commands I'd need are mount and fsck (both for UFS only). The system should be bootable via CD. Then I would need a shell to do something like this: # mkdir /temp # mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/wd1s1c /temp # cd /temp/rescue # fsck -t ufs -yf ad1s1f.dd In case NetBSD's or OpenBSD's fsck can't operate on the bare file, I'd think about something like: # mkdir /temp # mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/wd1s1c /temp # cd /temp/rescue # mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 10 -f ad1s1f.dd # fsck -t ufs -yf /dev/md10 What do you think, is this even possible? Should I try it? Please keep me CC because I'm on the questions@ list only. Thanks! I'll cross-post it to questions@ in case someone there as an idea for this really strange problem - remember, I'm the second (!) being on this planet having encountered this particular problem. I hope that's an acceptable behaviour. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Atheros 5424/2424 problem with scan
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Bruce Anthony Grobler br...@yoafrica.com wrote: Hi Just got my wireless card recognised (Atheros 5424/2424 ), dmesg: ath0: Atheros 5424/2424 mem 0xf600-0xf600 irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: Ethernet address: 00:1f:e1:6a:98:4f ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2 though when I do a ifconfig ath0 up scan it hangs, You could try with: # ath0 up list scan -- Linux is for people who hate Windows, BSD is for people who love UNIX. Social Engineer - Because there is no patch for human stupidity The Unix Guru's View of Sex unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep. Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. ___ 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: WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63?
Are you gmirror'ing the BSD slice? Wrong: /dev/ad0s1 /dev/ad2s1 Right: /dev/ad0 /dev/ad2 That's what it sounds like to me. I don't think that's the issue. I read many articles on how to mirror slices, including the BSD slice, and in earlier tests I never saw this error. Something in my latest incarnation appears to be wrong though. This is one of the links I've modeled my work after: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ ___ 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: Clicking on Terminal crashes XFCE4 - GIVING UP
Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Manish Jain wrote: Warren Block wrote: Install /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 to fill out the rest of the requirements, then do startxfce4. I installed /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 too. The results are exactly the same. Interestingly, I can run gnome-terminal in xfce without any hiccup. Even more interestingly, I can xfce's Terminal from Gnome pretty well. There are a few warnings though : (Terminal:20866): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'stock_terminal-newtab'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. That seems pretty compelling. Install /usr/ports/misc/hicolor-icon-theme. How you got the xfce4 installed without it is a question. portupgrade's pkgdb can you help you with missing dependencies like this. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Hi Warren/Everyone else, I have done everything possible to rectify the problem : make deinstall clean install clean (in xfce4) make install clean (in hicolor-theme) portupgrade xfce4 pkgdb -aF The problem continues. Pasted below is the relevant output. I am not attaching the complete logfile (27 kb), since I am not sure the forum rules permit this. If anyone is interested, please send me a separate mail. The X crash is not such a severe problem for me as I was just trying out xfce4 for fun (and I had plenty of it). Maybe the xfce developers might be more perturbed. -- Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting The application 'xfce4-session' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'xfwm4' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'xfce4-panel' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'Thunar' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'xfdesktop' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. xinit: connection to X server lost. The application 'xfce4-settings-helper' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'Terminal' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 ___ 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
Upgrade mysql50-server - mysql51-server
Hello all, I currently have mysql50-server installed on my machine. I want to to upgrade it to mysql51-server. What is the best way to do this? I normally use portmanager, and I'm a novice to FreeBSD. Thanks in advance, Titus -- Titus Barik (ti...@barik.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: USB to Serial - Prolific Adapter
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Bruce Anthony Grobler wrote: I just tried my usb to serial adapter on FreeBSD 7.1 (GENERIC), now here's is my problem : dmesg: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0 grep 0x4348 /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/* /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs:vendor WCH 0x4348 QinHeng Electronics grep 0x5523 /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/* /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs:product WCH CH341SER 0x5523 CH341/CH340 USB-Serial Bridge But it appears to only be defined, not used in any code. /var/log/messages: Mar 25 19:26:29 valhalla root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523 bus uhub0 Mar 25 19:26:29 valhalla kernel: ugen1: vendor 0x4348 product 0x5523, class 255/0, rev 1.10/2.50, addr 2 on uhub0 Now I'm pretty sure it's a Prolific 2303, as it works with the windows driver for the pl2303, I looked in the kernel config and there is a prolific 2303 module and it is being loaded. I can't tell you much about it as I found it lying around, its a little black box about the size of a match box with no writing on it at all. My PL2303 has to be connected after the kernel module (uplcom) is loaded (it's not part of my kernel). kldload uplcom attach USB end of PL2303 use /dev/cuaU0 -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ 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: Clicking on Terminal crashes XFCE4 - GIVING UP
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Manish Jain wrote:
I have done everything possible to rectify the problem :
make deinstall clean install clean (in xfce4)
make install clean (in hicolor-theme)
portupgrade xfce4
pkgdb -aF
The problem continues. Pasted below is the relevant output.
It's a different problem now, an xorg crash. If you've got time, it
might be easiest to delete all your ports (pkg_delete), update your
ports tree, and start again.
If you're convinced your xorg install is good, you could selectively
force-delete all the xfce ports ('pkg_info | grep xfce' along with
Terminal, Thunar, some other stuff). The make rmconfig-recursive in
xfce4 and start again.
Otherwise, it's hard to tell where the problem lies, but you may need to
rebuild xorg and then build xfce.
I am not
attaching the complete logfile (27 kb), since I am not sure the forum rules
permit this. If anyone is interested, please send me a separate mail.
The X crash is not such a severe problem for me as I was just trying out
xfce4 for fun (and I had plenty of it). Maybe the xfce developers might be
more perturbed.
-- Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
The application 'xfce4-session' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
The application 'xfwm4' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: how to configure xbiff
Hi, I used to have xbiff (displays a mailbox icon with flag) on Solaris, which notified me whenever a new mail arrived in my mailbox /var/mail/USERNAME, via a beep and the flag in the mailbox icon being raised. What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this does the same thing on FreeBSD/KDE3.5 ? Provided that you installed xbiff (from /usr/ports/x11/xbiff) the command will be exactely the same as it was on Solaris. Olivier ___ 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
nmap as user works, root doesn't
Can anyone make sense of this? Straight DSL connection, no router. using -e [any interface] results in the same errors nmap-4.76 As root: #nmap -v -v google.ca Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT Warning: Hostname google.ca resolves to 3 IPs. Using 64.233.161.104. WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 64.230.197.58 nexthost: failed to determine route to 64.233.161.104 QUITTING! As user: ~nmap -v -v google.ca Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT Warning: Hostname google.ca resolves to 3 IPs. Using 64.233.187.104. Initiating Ping Scan at 22:35 Scanning 64.233.187.104 [1 port] Completed Ping Scan at 22:35, 0.08s elapsed (1 total hosts) Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 22:35 Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 22:35, 0.06s elapsed Initiating Connect Scan at 22:35 Scanning jc-in-f104.google.com (64.233.187.104) [1000 ports] #nmap -iflist Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT INTERFACES DEV (SHORT) IP/MASK TYPEUP MAC fxp0 (fxp0) 192.168.2.100/24 ethernetup 00:11:D8:11:B7:4E rl0 (rl0) 172.16.0.1/24ethernetup 00:E0:29:51:C7:61 xl0 (xl0) 10.10.10.2/24ethernetup 00:04:75:C7:27:DA lo0 (lo0) 127.0.0.1/8 loopbackup tun0 (tun0) 76.71.17.226/24 point2point up WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 64.230.197.58 **ROUTES** DST/MASK DEV GATEWAY 64.230.197.58/32 tun0 76.71.17.226 127.0.0.1/32 lo0 127.0.0.1 Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default64.230.197.58 UGS 0 832901 tun0 10.10.10.0/24 link#3 UC 00xl0 10.10.10.3 02:01:02:7b:3c:72 UHLW157249xl0 1004 64.230.197.58 76.71.17.226 UGH 12 tun0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 303lo0 172.16.0.0/24 link#2 UC 00rl0 172.16.0.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 1 18rl0 192.168.2.0/24 link#1 UC 00 fxp0 192.168.2.100:0b:23:9c:f9:0c UHLW11 fxp0448 #ifconfig fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU ether 00:11:d8:11:b7:4e inet6 fe80::211:d8ff:fe11:b74e%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.2.100 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU ether 00:e0:29:51:c7:61 inet6 fe80::2e0:29ff:fe51:c761%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier xl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU ether 00:04:75:c7:27:da inet6 fe80::204:75ff:fec7:27da%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 10.10.10.2 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492 inet 76.71.17.226 -- 64.230.197.58 netmask 0xff00 Opened by PID 13443 -- Over the years I've come to regard you as people I've met. ___ 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: nmap as user works, root doesn't
Try compiling your kernel with bpf enabled. I had the same or at least a similar problem to what you're having and enabling device bpf in the kernel fixed the problem. On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone make sense of this? Straight DSL connection, no router. using -e [any interface] results in the same errors nmap-4.76 As root: #nmap -v -v google.ca Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT Warning: Hostname google.ca resolves to 3 IPs. Using 64.233.161.104. WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 64.230.197.58 nexthost: failed to determine route to 64.233.161.104 QUITTING! As user: ~nmap -v -v google.ca Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT Warning: Hostname google.ca resolves to 3 IPs. Using 64.233.187.104. Initiating Ping Scan at 22:35 Scanning 64.233.187.104 [1 port] Completed Ping Scan at 22:35, 0.08s elapsed (1 total hosts) Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 22:35 Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 22:35, 0.06s elapsed Initiating Connect Scan at 22:35 Scanning jc-in-f104.google.com (64.233.187.104) [1000 ports] #nmap -iflist Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT INTERFACES DEV (SHORT) IP/MASK TYPEUP MAC fxp0 (fxp0) 192.168.2.100/24 ethernetup 00:11:D8:11:B7:4E rl0 (rl0) 172.16.0.1/24ethernetup 00:E0:29:51:C7:61 xl0 (xl0) 10.10.10.2/24ethernetup 00:04:75:C7:27:DA lo0 (lo0) 127.0.0.1/8 loopbackup tun0 (tun0) 76.71.17.226/24 point2point up WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to 64.230.197.58 **ROUTES** DST/MASK DEV GATEWAY 64.230.197.58/32 tun0 76.71.17.226 127.0.0.1/32 lo0 127.0.0.1 Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default64.230.197.58 UGS 0 832901 tun0 10.10.10.0/24 link#3 UC 00xl0 10.10.10.3 02:01:02:7b:3c:72 UHLW157249xl0 1004 64.230.197.58 76.71.17.226 UGH 12 tun0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 303lo0 172.16.0.0/24 link#2 UC 00rl0 172.16.0.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 1 18rl0 192.168.2.0/24 link#1 UC 00 fxp0 192.168.2.100:0b:23:9c:f9:0c UHLW11 fxp0448 #ifconfig fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU ether 00:11:d8:11:b7:4e inet6 fe80::211:d8ff:fe11:b74e%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.2.100 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU ether 00:e0:29:51:c7:61 inet6 fe80::2e0:29ff:fe51:c761%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier xl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU ether 00:04:75:c7:27:da inet6 fe80::204:75ff:fec7:27da%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 10.10.10.2 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492 inet 76.71.17.226 -- 64.230.197.58 netmask 0xff00 Opened by PID 13443 -- Over the years I've come to regard you as people I've met. ___ 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: nmap as user works, root doesn't
sorry about the top post. wish i could go back and fix it. ___ 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
Desktop environments
I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting. The primary purpose for this is to gain complete functionality over the system utilizing all possible tools and also to evaluate the different environments to determine which one works best for me. Lastly, i am wondering how Compiz-fusion would interact in this case because to my knowledge Compiz is essentially an add on to the KDE and Gnome environments and i am wondering as to how it would function if i were to switch desktops constantly. Thank you for your time, Jesse Feinman ___ 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: Desktop environments
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Jesse Feinman jesse.fein...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting. Restarting the computer or restarting the desktop environment? You don't need to restart the computer to switch between KDE and GNOME, for example. Not clear on what you mean here. The primary purpose for this is to gain complete functionality over the system utilizing all possible tools and also to evaluate the different environments to determine which one works best for me. Fantastic. Give Fluxbox a shot. :) Lastly, i am wondering how Compiz-fusion would interact in this case because to my knowledge Compiz is essentially an add on to the KDE and Gnome environments and i am wondering as to how it would function if i were to switch desktops constantly. Why wouldn't you be able to? -- 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: Desktop environments
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:17:51 -0400, Jesse Feinman jesse.fein...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting. That's no problem. First of all, install the desktop environments and window managers that you want. As far as I know, the big two, KDE and Gnome, come with a means to select what DE / WM to use at login time through their kdm and gdm. Additionally, wdm offers you to choose the DE / WM at login time. This simply requires a login / logout procedure, no restarting of the computer. You can even have it more simple: Don't start X along with the system, login at the console. Modify the exec DE or WM statement in your ~/.xinitrc and type startx to perform the DE / WM startup you have in this file (you can put comment signs infront of those you don't like, enabling the one you want to run). Or you could have several aliases / commands to start X with the DE / WM you want, each with a specific ~/.xinitrc file to fit your needs. The primary purpose for this is to gain complete functionality over the system utilizing all possible tools [...] In principle it's not required to run a specific DE in order to run a program that comes with this DE. For example, you can perfectly run K3B within WindowMaker, as long as all the dependencies of K3B are installed on your system. You can run Gmplayer without Gnome, you can run Koffice in XFCE and so forth... [...] and also to evaluate the different environments to determine which one works best for me. Then, if you won't change the DE / WM every five minutes, you can go with the ~/.xinitrc approach. Short example: #!/bin/sh [ -f ~/.xmodmaprc ] xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc xsetroot -solid rgb:3b/4c/7a xset b 100 1000 15 xset r rate 250 30 xset s off xset -dpms #exec gnome-ession #exec fvwm #exec startkde #exec xfwm exec wmaker This will start WindowMaker. Lastly, i am wondering how Compiz-fusion would interact in this case because to my knowledge Compiz is essentially an add on to the KDE and Gnome environments and i am wondering as to how it would function if i were to switch desktops constantly. It would be no problem, as far as I know. I'm not very familiar with Compiz because I'm already tired of eye-candy. :-) You can even use Compiz with XFCE, or use its own compositing functionalities. As far as I understood, Compiz is an addition to the respective DE / WM, and while the DE / WM will run happily without Compiz, those that don't utilize it won't have problems. If Compiz needs specific settings in ~/.xinitrc, you can put some kind of conditional into this file, loading Compiz only with the DE / WM you want. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Desktop environments
Jesse Feinman wrote: I am planning on using FreeBSD on a new computer i am building but i would like to know if there is a way that i can install multiple desktop environments and easily switch between them, preferably without restarting. The primary purpose for this is to gain complete functionality over the system utilizing all possible tools and also to evaluate the different environments to determine which one works best for me. Lastly, i am wondering how Compiz-fusion would interact in this case because to my knowledge Compiz is essentially an add on to the KDE and Gnome environments and i am wondering as to how it would function if i were to switch desktops constantly. Thank you for your time, Jesse Feinman ___ 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 First part is pretty easy to do using kdm in fact it's essentially as simple as making sure your X and WM's work, then enabling kdm. Not too sure the answer on the rest. I would guess it wouldn't be a problem though provided no config diffs between the two. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ 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
