Re: Sony ebook reader with FreeBSD
Almost every tablet runs ARM, and the chipset isn't standardized as much as x86. I haven't heard of a tablet running FreeBSD, but it would likely require corporate support just to access the documents for the chips. Even Android uses closed binaries for a lot of the core features. On 5/12/2012 2:01 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, It seems that the Sony ebook readers internaly run some kind of Linux (MontaVista Linux). I heared someone saying that there are images for eeprom out there to get access to the Linux system itself. Is there any work in progress to install FreeBSD on this (or any other ebook reader). They have a real nice greyscale display of 600x800 to read epub or PDF, even in daylight sun, and as they now also have Wifi on board, it would be nice to combine this with access to mail by some alpha MUA, for example mutt... Thanks matthias ___ 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
CSH prompt
In cshell I use this prompt: set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[%/] The problem I face now is that if I use this prompt with symbolic links, the presented location is displaying the symbolic link rather than the real directory name. Is there a way of preventin this? thanks, Jos Chrispijn -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity... ___ 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: CSH prompt
On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:56:31 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: In cshell I use this prompt: set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[%/] The problem I face now is that if I use this prompt with symbolic links, the presented location is displaying the symbolic link rather than the real directory name. Is there a way of preventin this? Yes, a very ugly way which I just found out: alias precmd 'set WD=`pwd`; set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[$WD] ' Example: [3:21pm] r56[/] cd /sys [3:21pm] r56[/usr/src/sys] _ It redefines the whole prompt at any command that could affect the current working directory (not only cd can do that). This is needed as any call to `pwd` stored into a variable will only affect $prompt once - this is when it's set, only at this time $WD would be evaluated. So that's why this strange command. :-) Oh, and I just improved it. How about this? alias precmd 'set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[`pwd`] ' Much better. :-) -- Polytropon 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
Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.5.4 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)
Hi, Packages [1] for wine-fbsd64-1.5.4 have been uploaded to mediafire [2]. The packages for FreeBSD 10 use the pkgng* [3] format. There are many reports that wine does not work with a clang compiled world (help in fixing this problem is appreciated as it affects quite a few users). The patch [4] for nVidia users is now included in the package and is run on installation (if the relevant files are accessible). Please read the installation messages for further information. Regards, David [1] MD5 (wine-1.5.x-freebsd8/wine-fbsd64-1.5.4,1.tbz) = 4fe4310bb941cb151c3d9cba719342db MD5 (wine-1.5.x-freebsd9/wine-fbsd64-1.5.4,1.txz) = 6f224419362e1c75ce7fc799e3038b00 MD5 (wine-1.5.x-freebsd10/wine-fbsd64-1.5.4,1.txz) = fdb9db7a3d54daa9c9437d813b01592c [2] http://www.mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64 [3] http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng [4] The patch is located at /usr/local/share/wine/patch-nvidia.sh [*] To install the port first fix the arch tag use the 'fix-arch.sh' script from mediafire [2] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
avrdude and arduino
Has anyone been able to get the Arduino Uno board working with avrdude? I keep getting programmer not responding errors. avrdude: ser_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding This is the command I'm using: %sudo avrdude -F -v -v -v -v -c arduino -p ATMEGA328P -P /dev/cuaU0 -U flash:w:flash.hex Any suggestions would be much appreciated. -- Colin Barnabas ___ 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
Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs
I would like to build FreeBSD to install in two places: regular hard drive and also on a USB stick, probably 8 GB. USB stick install would be for backup, in case something goes awry with a later update, then I have something to fall back on; could also install tools such as gdisk to use on hard drive. I tried make installkernel and make installworld, but those didn't fully work right the second time, with DESTDIR=/mnt (USB stick main partition). /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't say how to update for two DESTDIRs on the same build. Update (from 9.0_RELEASE amd64 to STABLE) was successful on main, hard-drive installation. I had spontaneous reboots at times of inactivity, without cleanly umounting file systems, under the release, but upgrading to STABLE fixed that. I also want to build the same 9.0_STABLE to install on a 16 GB USB stick, which could be used on my older computer, but this would be i386 version; I could also use it on new computer for 32-bit compatibility needed for emulators/wine (but not doscmd, I tried that and didn't like it.). I can't do this on old computer from FreeBSD 8.2 because of shortage of disk space and only 256 MB RAM. I could do that either concurrently (how?) or after the amd64 update. Tom ___ 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
epson all in one
Hi! My got a new Epson WorkForce 545 which I connected through router and it works for her but... Does anyone has experience with Epson ALL IN ONE printers on FreeBSD, please? Thanks in advance. Mitja http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa ___ 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: epson all in one
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun May 13 17:40:24 2012
From: ajtiM lum...@gmail.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 17:38:19 -0500
Subject: epson all in one
Hi!
My got a new Epson WorkForce 545 which I connected through router and it
works
for her but...
Does anyone has experience with Epson ALL IN ONE printers on FreeBSD, please?
Some Epson 'ALL IN ONE' printers, 'just work'. Others don't.
The one you have is, unfortuntely, in the latter category.
It uses a 'new' (apparently invented in 2005) _proprietary_ method for
communicating 'rasterized' images of page content to many of their dumb
'wimprinters', called ESC/P-R. Epson has a list of which of their
printers use this protocol -- I'm not sure if it is _all_ the models they
offer, or not. Given that they published a list (apparently not updated
since 2010), of modelssthat -do- use it, it would seem to be a reasonable
conclusion that _not_ all 'recent' models do.
Epson has a development kit, for writing ESC/P-Rdrivers. see;
http://global.epson.com/innovation/universal_printing/driver_library.html
That page claims the library is portable to Linux in many variations -- so
it should be portable to FreeBSD with relatively minor effort. For 'network'
printing, it just needs the Berkeley 'sockets' API.
The bad news, it requires an NDA to get access to the library,
*AND* it appears you cannot provide what you develop to others -- Quote:
To use the ESC/P-R Library for development, an NDA agreement is necessary.
Epson will provide the ESC/P-R Library free of charge once the agreement
has been finalized.
To use the ESC/P-R Library for actual commercialization, a license
agreement will be necessary.
Reading 'between the lines' on the ESC/P-R library, it is a 'standardized'
means of communicating with many/most of Epson's newer generation of
winprinters. The *host-based* driver has to _rasterize_ (convert from
'text'/PS/PCL to a bitmap image for transmission to the printer) the page
content before sending the bitmap to the printer.
Given that, the 'easiest' way out would be to write a 'device driver'
for Ghostscript, where Ghostscript did all the 'rendering' smarts, and
just called the driver to transmit the bitmap to the winprinter..
When shopping for a printer to use with any sort of a Unix-based (including
Lunix and *BSD) system it is a GOOD IDEA(tm) to make sure that the printer
meets at least one of the following three criteria:
1) supports the H-P developed 'PCL' printer language (And HPGL, the graphics
language that is part of later versions of PCL.
2) Supports Adobe's Postscript language, or a 3rd party 'emulation' thereof.
3) is supported as an output device by the 'ghostscript' PS interpreter.
(The 'ideal' printer supports -both- 1) and 2), _plus_ it will also directly
print PDF files.)
A printer that meets 1) _or_ 2) will work with -any- kind of system with
virtually no effort.
These are things that you need to investigate BEFORE buying a printer.
An entire 30 seconds of online research for {printername/model} specs'
turned up a web page that showed that the -only- 'language' that this
printer speaks is ESC/P-R.
The failure to mention PCL, or PostScript (or an emulation), would have
disqualified it -- for _me_, anyway -- from further onsideration.
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Maximum number of tun pseudo-devices
Everyone: I'm running a busy FreeBSD-based that may handle large numbers of simultaneous connections. I'm currently using software that creates a tun device for each connection. However, after it hits tun127 (128 pseudo-devices), it doesn't seem to want to create any more. What sets the limit on the number of tun devices that can exist in the system, and how can the limit be adjusted? Is there a similar limit on, say, ng devices? --Brett Glass ___ 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: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?
On 05/04/2012 07:51 PM, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: Since the alpha forum for FreeBSD is closed, and there has not been Alpha support since 6.4 I wondered about which OS to install on a alpha server I am getting quite soon. I guess FreeBSD 6.4 is perhaps not the best since it is not maintained and the ports tree likewise ? So I checked the 2 other main contenders and just wanted to ask if anyone here had an opinion what 2 install of the BSDs ? Or perhaps FreeBSD 6.4 is a good choice ( I have not tested Open or Net BSD so FreeBSD is my hometurf) The machine will probably be a server to have fun with and hopefully learn something from. Perhaps some server role in my rig, routing, security etc. Any advise would be nice :) Hi. I don't have experience with Alpha but OpenBSD supports this arch. Take a look: - http://openbsd.org/51.html . The number of pre-built packages is not bad. - http://openbsd.org/alpha.html Cheers. ___ 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: CSH prompt
On 05/13/12 07:25, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:56:31 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
In cshell I use this prompt: set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[%/]
The problem I face now is that if I use this prompt with symbolic links,
the presented location is displaying the symbolic link rather than the
real directory name.
Is there a way of preventin this?
Yes, a very ugly way which I just found out:
alias precmd 'set WD=`pwd`; set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[$WD] '
Example:
[3:21pm] r56[/] cd /sys
[3:21pm] r56[/usr/src/sys] _
It redefines the whole prompt at any command that could
affect the current working directory (not only cd can
do that). This is needed as any call to `pwd` stored into
a variable will only affect $prompt once - this is when
it's set, only at this time $WD would be evaluated. So
that's why this strange command. :-)
Oh, and I just improved it. How about this?
alias precmd 'set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[`pwd`] '
Much better. :-)
I've butchered it further, but thanks for doing the *real* work:
user:
alias precmd 'set prompt = \n%{\033[32m%}%m [%h] [%@]%b%{\033[0m%}
[`pwd`]$ '
root:
alias precmd 'set prompt = \n%{\033[31m%}%m [%h] [%@]%b%{\033[0m%}
[`pwd`]$ '
Regards,
r
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Re: dlink dwl-122g e1 on 9-stable, working only partially? (or not at all?)
-- Message: 11 Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 01:21:30 +0200 From: Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de Subject: Re: dlink dwl-122g e1 on 9-stable, working only partially? (or not at all?) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 20120513012130.64d78...@dijkstra.cruwe.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 12 May 2012 14:49:18 +0200 Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: Currently I am fighting with (against?) a dlink dwl-g122 usb wlan dongle. The casing is claiming the thing to be of H/W-version E1, F/W-version 5.00, which I interpret as hardware and firmware. I am running 9-stable (FreeBSD ritchie.cruwe.de 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #8 r235064: Fri May 11 21:32:52 CEST 2012 c...@ritchie.cruwe.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RITCHIE amd64) and admittedly, dwl-g122 is not included in the hw-compatibility list for 9.0. I am also aware that others have been unsuccessful, though some time back, to get dlw-g122 e running (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=27123). However, I am somewhat successful in getting the dongle recognized by if_run.ko, though not to work as I would like to: dmesg gives then [...] ugen0.3: Ralink at usbus0 run0: Ralink 11g Adapter, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.01, addr 3 on usbus0 run0: MAC/BBP RT3070 (rev 0x0201), RF RT2020 (MIMO 1T1R), address b8:a3:86:97:c1:ec ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_amrr module by hand for now. wlan0: Ethernet address: b8:a3:86:97:c1:ec run0: firmware RT2870 ver. 0.236 loaded ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_amrr module by hand for now. wlan0: Ethernet address: b8:a3:86:97:c1:ec I have no explanation for the multiple occurrences, I have been trying for some time now, though. Was wlan_amrr compiled into kernel? sudo ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev run0 wlanmode hostap sudo ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.3.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid bsdap channel - If you want to use WPA, you need to run # /etc/rc.d/hostapd onestart OK, update on the situation: I can get wlan to work in AP-mode, I must not enable WPA, though. Having enabled hostapd for one time kills my wlan and requires a complete reboot. Did it panic? Can you post back trace? AK ___ 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
