Re: Cleaning data off a remote machine
On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:23, Chris Hastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to give up a FreeBSD dedicated server and would like to make sure I don't inadvertantly leave any bits of sensitive data on it. What is the best way to remove all data from the hard drive? I have no problem if this removes the OS along the way, but ideally I would like to be able to do what ever I do from an SSH session. If there's no alternative I can arange KVMoIP console access. Thanks -- Chris Hastie Is there anyone onsite that you could trust to run DBAN (Derik's Boot And Nuke)? Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free BSD on Macintosh OS 10.3.9 ?
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:14:17 +0100 elisabet lundvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, can I use free BSD in my mac? I have Panther in my iBook, but there is no BSD in it. I tryed once to get it from the CD OS 10.2.3, but since it was older than my updated system OS 10.3.9 the system crashed! I need the BSD to try out the Adobe program Indesign. Do you know what I should do? Yours Elisabet Lundvall Hi Elisabet, Adobe InDesign neither needs nor supports BSD. InDesign supports Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 3), Windows XP and Mac OS X versions 10.2.8 - 10.4.1. The full system requirements can be found using the link below. http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/systemreqs.html Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burners
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:41:54 + dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 21:05, Mike Jeays wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:36 -0500, Sean wrote: I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with FreeBSD? With so many formats I am trying to decide which one will be my best option. Thanks Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an LG DVD burner, which has worked perfectly with FreeBSD from the day it was installed. There isn't a model number on the front, but the dmesg output may help identify it. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B/A300 at ata1-master UDMA33 Ditto on a similar model. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B/A104 at ata1-master UDMA33 -- Dave -- Dave I've good luck with Lite-On: acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S/BS0C at ata1-master UDMA33 Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blocking an individual email address
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:27:40 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Csoka wrote: No...I ran make maps, as well as make install for the blacklist feature, and make restart. However, here is something interesting. When I access my corporate email via openwebmail, it functions as I would expectyou cannot send or receive to the given address. However, when using Outlook Express (internal mail client at work), you can still send mail to the address I am trying to block. Why should this be so? Are you sure Outlook Express is configured to use your FreeBSD server for SMTP? Send an email to yourself using Outlook Express then look at the message source and check the headers to verify which SMTP server is sending the message. -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc. Yes, I'm sure. It is the incoming and outgoing SMTP server. It's the only one we have. -Jim ___ Yes that may be the only one you have, but that does not stop the user from configuring their outlook express from using their personal email account at their ISP. To stop this you can add firewall rules to deny all LAN traffic out to ports 25 110 by coding the private LAN ip address range in the rule from option. Since your SMTP service is on the gateway box where the firewall is your outbound port 25 will pass because your using the public ip address or if that is not the case then just add a rule before the deny rule to pass your SMTP LAN ip address. Understood. However, most everyone here in my office (a mortgage company of about 25 people) can barely even spell the word computer much less use one effectively. And, aside from that, I am running these tests from my windows client, so I can verify that it is configured correctly for the purpose of running these tests. Although I wish it were as simple as someone using a different SMTP serverit would make my life easier :P ** Have you physically used this offending persons work PC during off hours and investigated just how they have their outlook explorer configured??? At what point does this stop being an IS issue and start being a Human Resources issue? (I realize that a company of 25 people probably does not have a Human Resources Department.) A mortgage company handles a lot of private information. The employees need to be trustworthy; and the information needs to be protected. However, the responsibility for protecting company information does not fall solely upon IS. If an employee is sending sensitive information home against company policy, the policy needs to be enforced. The employee should be counseled/educated/corrected and, if necessary, fired. Whereas I think there should be strong IS policies in place, and I applaud the original poster's diligence, a defacto policy of playing cat-and-mouse can be horribly inefficient. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting data DVDs?
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:38:45 -0800 Ronald F. Guilmette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that I'm very late to the party, but I just recently bought and installed my first ever DVD burner. The burner is installed on a system that I have set up to dual boot to either FreeBSD 5.2.1 (yea, I know, that's ancient) or else to Windoze ME. So anyway, yesterday I followed all of the instructions located at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html in order to create and install a fresh kernel that would have all of the required stuff in it to be able to burn data DVDs. I then burned my first ever data DVD... made from some data I had that I wanted to make a backup of. All went smoothly. So far, so good. The tricky part came when I then went to _mount_ my freshly burned DVD onto FreeBSD. (I wanted to do this just in order to verify that the data had in fact successfully been burned onto the DVD.) Unfortunately, try as I might, I couldn't fingure out how to just simply mount the burned DVD onto the FreeBSD system. I tried both: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt which yielded only the error message: cd9660: /dev/cd0: Device not configured and I also tried: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt which yielded the error: cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error OK, so what am I doing wrong? Note that I have attached the relevant portion of my dmesg output at the end of this message... just in case that might be useful in diagnosing this problem. The REALLY funny thing about all this is that I am 100% sure that the DVD in question *did* get properly burned, because I can reboot this same system into Windows ME, and then, Windows ME has no trouble at all seeing either the DVD or all of the files that I burned onto it. So basically, I can _burn_ a DVD under FreeBSD... I just can't figure out how to use it on FreeBSD, once it has been successfully burned. Sound I just ungrade to something a bit fresher than 5.2.1, or does that make any difference at all? Any help appreciated. dmesg stuff: == ... ata1-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S at ata1-master UDMA33 GEOM: create disk cd0 dp=0xc2d81e00 cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S JS05 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you mount CD's? If so, pretend it's a CD. If you have an entry in /etc/fstab to mount a CD to /cdrom, then execute: mount /cdrom Best of luck, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:19:38 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you say to the people who want to do some research before putting the time into installing it? Ted http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.freebsddiary.org/topics.php http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/ http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/index.php? http://www.ixsystems.com/cgi-bin/store/bsdlive.html http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=freebsdbtnG=Google+Search and don't forget: Have Fun! Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with Cisco (Atheros) Wireless PCI card on IBM Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:02:47 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (The Maya Land) Am having problems installing FreeBSD in my University under IBM Thinkcentre MT-M-8183-T1S boxes. I can´t detect the Wireless Cisco (Atheros) PCI lan card. Linux and Windows have no problems recognizing the card but i have problems with FreeBSD 6.0 Here are my dmesg (with and with out ACPI). I don´t know if this is a known issue, but any pointers will be greatly appreciated. I think that the pci3 line shows something but not sure about that. Lic. Eric De La Cruz Lugo. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. The Maya Land. Hello Eric, It appears that you are still running the FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE kernel. The atheros drivers are not compiled into the kernel by default. Folks on this list have expressed mixed results in loading the kernel modules, so you should probably add the following lines to your kernel configuration file and recompile your kernel: device ath device ath_hal device ath_rate_onoe device wlan #This line should be already be in the configuration file. You can find more information in the online handbook. Wireless Networking: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Ath driver: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=athsektion=4 Configuring the kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
A FreeBSD vs Linux anecdote: I've read several articles over the years talking about how Linux can breathe new life into old computers. After the last couple of weeks, I don't buy it. After combining the hardware from 2 old computers (circa 1996 and 1998 -- anyone remember ISA cards, serial mice and AT cases?) I went through the process of finding a good operating system for it. The computer has a Pentium II 333MHz chip and 384MB RAM; so it's definitely worth keeping. I was unable to successfully install Fedora Core 4, SUSE Linux Professional 9.3, or Ubuntu 5.10. I was given the advice to try old versions of Linux; but how, then, does one deal with security issues? FreeBSD 6.0 and NetBSD 3.0 installed without any problems. The onboard sound chip was dead; so I swapped out the ISA modem for an ISA sound card, which was supported by both *BSD's. The onboard video is supported by both XFree86 and xorg. There are 3 PCI slots, so I added a D-Link Atheros wireless card and a USB2 card to get around most of the motherboard's limitations. For example, the hard drives connected via IDE are limited to ~8GB partitions; however, the computer seems to deal with a 60GB external, USB2 hard drive without problems. The computer is currently without keyboard, mouse or monitor. I am adding applications to the computer via ssh while I work. As soon as I get openbox and tightvnc installed, I'll switch to tightvnc so I can disconnect without disrupting jobs. (Hmm, I wonder if I'll have to add a mouse or keyboard at that point.) Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:57:04 -0700 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Danial Thom wrote: No, thats ridiculous. Linux has multiple distributions that use the same kernel. The fact that freebsd only has one distribution doesn't make it any more complete. Actually it is spot on. Linux is a kernel. The various distributions add a ueserland and tools to it but if you go look at the actual definition of Linux you will find it is just a kernel. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net I think the kernel vs OS difference is very important. Linux has a reputation of being very stable. If you survey the many (many, many) Linux distributions, however, I don't think you can justify one reputation for all of them. Advising someone to switch to Linux is dangerous because the advice is horribly incomplete. The advice needs to include information about specific distributions. Linux distributions can differ significantly. At this point, the decision process becomes much more complicated. This also explains why experienced Linux users are tired of hearing newbies ask Which Linux is best? Which distribution should I use? I enjoyed my time using Linux. There are still days when I miss Caldera's eDesktop 2.4. (What other OS let you play pacman _during_ the OS installation?!) I still try Linux distros every now and then for driver support; but greener grass seems to come with taller weeds. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:32:30 -0800 (PST) Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The computer is currently without keyboard, mouse or monitor. I am adding applications to the computer via ssh while I work. As soon as I get openbox and tightvnc installed, I'll switch to tightvnc so I can disconnect without disrupting jobs. (Hmm, I wonder if I'll have to add a mouse or keyboard at that point.) /usr/ports/sysutils/screen Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g. insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets). There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows moving text regions between windows. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
php5 and apache2?
I just finished upgrading via portupgrade and found that I now have both apache13 and apache2 installed. Upon examination of the php5 port, I've found that the WITH_APACHE2=YES option is no longer available. I'd like to stick with apache2 since I had everything working nicely (php5, webdav, ssl, etc). Any advice? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php5 and apache2? -- Resolved
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:59:48 + Crispy Beef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the same problem before. I suppose you used portupgrade to install binary packages, right? The php5 package depends on apache13, this is why portupgrade installed apache13. You should deinstall php5 and apache13. Then refresh your ports tree. Finally, reinstall php5 from the ports: cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 make make install cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions make make install Might also be a good idea to delete the php5 options file first too. It's located here: /var/db/ports/php5/options There's one for php5-extensions too. Normally the settings in these files are taken from doing a 'make config' so if you want to start totally from scratch you probably want to ditch those too. Hope this helps a little. -- Paul I rebooted and deleted the php options file. The packages for php5, php5-extensions and apache13 have been deleted. Apache2 is still installed. When I go to /usr/ports/lang/php5 and do 'make config', there is not an option for using apache2. When I do 'make', the port begins to make the apache13 port. The php5 MAKEFILE includes the line: USE_APACHE= 1.3+ Changing the 13+ in that line to 2+ breaks the MAKEFILE. Changing the line to 2.0+ works; but the port started building the version of apache2 that was already installed. I stopped the process, deleted the installed apache2 and executed the make install clean process in php5 again. Php5 and apache2 are now installed without apache13. I am now installing the extensions. Thanks for the help. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cups at bootup
After a complete system and port upgrade, cups does not start at
bootup. During bootup, I see the following line:
Usage: cups {reload|restart|start|status|stop}
The command 'ps ax | grep cups' returns nothing. If I start cups as
root manually ('/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start'), the cupsd
scheduler is started successfully and I can print.
Where should I look for the problem during bootup?
Thanks,
Andrew Gould
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Re: cups at bootup
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:30:01 +
Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:00, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
After a complete system and port upgrade, cups does not start at
bootup. During bootup, I see the following line:
Usage: cups {reload|restart|start|status|stop}
The command 'ps ax | grep cups' returns nothing. If I start cups as
root manually ('/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start'), the cupsd
scheduler is started successfully and I can print.
Where should I look for the problem during bootup?
Thanks,
Andrew Gould
Check the cups entry in /etc/rc.conf
Rob
Okay, I have 'cupsd_enable=YES' in /etc/rc.conf, and cups starts at
bootup; but in addition to cups: started scheduler, I still get the
message mentioned above.
The cups: started scheduler message appears after Local package
initialization:.
The Usage: cups {reload|restart|start|status|stop} message appears
after Starting usbd. and Starting ddclient., but prior to Local
package initialization:.
'Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice'
Andrew Gould
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Re: cups at bootup
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:55:50 +
Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 16:03, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:30:01 +
Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:00, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
After a complete system and port upgrade, cups does not start at
bootup. During bootup, I see the following line:
Usage: cups {reload|restart|start|status|stop}
The command 'ps ax | grep cups' returns nothing. If I start
cups as root manually ('/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start'),
the cupsd scheduler is started successfully and I can print.
Where should I look for the problem during bootup?
Thanks,
Andrew Gould
Check the cups entry in /etc/rc.conf
Rob
Okay, I have 'cupsd_enable=YES' in /etc/rc.conf, and cups starts
at bootup; but in addition to cups: started scheduler, I still
get the message mentioned above.
The cups: started scheduler message appears after Local package
initialization:.
The Usage: cups {reload|restart|start|status|stop} message appears
after Starting usbd. and Starting ddclient., but prior to Local
package initialization:.
'Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice'
Andrew Gould
Andrew,
I think the entry in /etc/rc.conf should be cups_enable=YES rather
than cupsd.
Rob
That did it!
Much thanks,
Andrew Gould
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Re: need help setting up wireless on my computer
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:17:17 -0600 Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI wireless card. I was able to install it using the windows drivers at ndis0 (see output from ifconfig below). The problem I'm having is I seem to be able to connect, but can't talk to anything. I am using WEP encryption and I am not broadcasting my SSID. My laptop running windows works flawlessly. I've tried this command to connect to the network: ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.255 ssid Brian wepmode on wepkey my key channel 9 ...and it seems to connect (see output from ifconfig after connected below). However, I can't ping my router and I can't get on the Internet. Can someone please help me out? Thanks /Brian output from ifconfig: --- ifconfig ndis0 ndis0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::20e:2eff:fe6d:4c9d%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 ether 00:0e:2e:6d:4c:9d media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit output from ifconfig after connected: -- ifconfig ndis0 ndis0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20e:2eff:fe6d:4c9d%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 0x broadcast 192.168.0.10 ether 00:0e:2e:6d:4c:9d media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/54Mbps) status: associated ssid Brian 1:Brian channel 9 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Your netmask should not be 255.255.255.255. Try 255.255.255.0 instead. 2. Have you configured the computer with gateway and name server information? 3. When in Windows, did you configure the network manually? Or did you use DHCP? Best of luck, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help setting up wireless on my computer
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:23:30 -0600 (CST) Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:17:17 -0600 Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI wireless card. I was able to install it using the windows drivers at ndis0 (see output from ifconfig below). The problem I'm having is I seem to be able to connect, but can't talk to anything. I am using WEP encryption and I am not broadcasting my SSID. My laptop running windows works flawlessly. I've tried this command to connect to the network: ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.255 ssid Brian wepmode on wepkey my key channel 9 ...and it seems to connect (see output from ifconfig after connected below). However, I can't ping my router and I can't get on the Internet. Can someone please help me out? Thanks /Brian output from ifconfig: --- ifconfig ndis0 ndis0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::20e:2eff:fe6d:4c9d%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 ether 00:0e:2e:6d:4c:9d media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit output from ifconfig after connected: -- ifconfig ndis0 ndis0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20e:2eff:fe6d:4c9d%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 0x broadcast 192.168.0.10 ether 00:0e:2e:6d:4c:9d media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/54Mbps) status: associated ssid Brian 1:Brian channel 9 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Your netmask should not be 255.255.255.255. Try 255.255.255.0 instead. I tried this (255.255.255.0 is the correct netmask) but it still doesn't work. 2. Have you configured the computer with gateway and name server information? I have not. I didn't have to do this for the ethernet card that I have in the machine and it works, should I have to do it for wireless? 3. When in Windows, did you configure the network manually? Or did you use DHCP? I use DHCP in Windows. This is one of the things I thought might be the problem. Can you tell me how to set this up to use DHCP? The command that the FreeBSD handbook told me to use includes specifying the IP Address. Thanks a million for the help. /Brian Best of luck, Andrew To continue using manual network configuration: 1. Identify the default gateway's IP address in /etc/rc.conf: defaultrouter=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 2. Add your nameserver's IP address to /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx If you want to activate DHCP: 1. Eliminate the IP address and netmask from your ifconfig command. The ifconfig command will still be used to identify the ssid and provide the wep key. 2. Execute the ifconfig command. The interface needs to be configured with the ssid and wep key _before_ using DHCP. 3. Activate the DHCP client: dhclient ndis0 Hopefully, this will work for you. Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Install Question
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD- I'm a FreeBSD 6.0 newbie and very excited. Could you please by any chance answer the following basic install Question? What is the order of installing FreeBSD for a dual-boot XP environment on a single HDD using GAG (ie, which do I install first, which partition for each os, is there a resource for this answer published somewhere anyway???) Thank you, Daniel Goldberg Daniel Franklin Goldberg 1. Install Windows first, in the first partition. If you want FreeBSD to be able to write to the Windows partition, use the fat32 format instead of NTFS. Do NOT create this partition to use the entire disk as the FreeBSD installation does not include tools to resize the existing Windows partition. 2. See more documentation regarding FreeBSD installation at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Install Question
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:21:26 -0500 Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:39:04 AM Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD- [..] 1. Install Windows first, in the first partition. If you want FreeBSD to be able to write to the Windows partition, use the fat32 format instead of NTFS. Do NOT create this partition to use the entire disk as the FreeBSD installation does not include tools to resize the existing Windows partition. 2. See more documentation regarding FreeBSD installation at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: Perhaps I am missing something here, but I have WinXP installed on one of my computers. The HD is formatted with NTFS, not fat32. Using Samba, i can both read and write to this disk. Maybe I am missing something from the original posters message. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer? (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions residing on a FreeBSD computer.) The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the same computer. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:34:07 + mamaj m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please answer my question This is the first time i use Freebsd So i want to configare the webmin on my server , i download the webmin on a cd how can i configure the webmin on my Freebsd server Many Thanks If you installed the ports system, you can install webmin by following the instructions in the article linked below: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/10/25/FreeBSD_Basics.html Best of luck, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to dual boot
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:31:11 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1. First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to the FBSD installer by booting from the 5.3 CD but what do I do to provide a choice of which to boot right on the HD? ___ You could try the following: 0. Understand that life is risk management; and that I offer no guarantees/warranties regarding the following advice. Continue at your own risk. 1. Boot from the installation CD. 2. When you get to the sysinstall Main Menu, select Index. 3. Select the Partition module. 4. DO NOT delete any partitions. 5. Set the FreeBSD and NTFS partitions as bootable. 6. Write your changes. 7. When given the option, install the FreeBSD boot loader (which Windows erased during installation). 8. Back out of the sysinstall menus and quit. 9. Reboot, remove the CD and see what happens. Good luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvdrecord?
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:56:25 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why there is no dvdrecord in ports? it was available in NetBSD, and i used it for recording DVD-R? or maybe other tool? (but not growisofs that works good with DVD+R only) ___ I use growisofs to burn database backup files to DVD-R on a regular basis. The port name, dvd+rw-tools, is a little misleading in this regard. Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvdrecord?
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:24:46 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or maybe other tool? (but not growisofs that works good with DVD+R only) ___ I use growisofs to burn database backup files to DVD-R on a regular basis. The port name, dvd+rw-tools, is a little misleading in this regard. i'n now writing DVD-R from image with it, now 800MB and still going. anyway it can't record DVD-R from pipe, and can't have extra RAM buffer. dvdrecord CAN write from pipe in -dao mode if size is entered in options i were using that script: mkisofs -rq -jcharset iso8859-2 . 2/dev/null| \ dvdrecord $* -v tsize=`mkisofs -rq -jcharset iso8859-2 --print-size .`x2k \ -delay=5 driveropts=burnfree -dao - to write directly files in dao mode to DVD-R. now i'm unable to do it. Growisofs can burn iso images or use mkisofs internally to burn datafiles directly to the DVD-/+R. In the Examples section of the growisofs man page, you will find the following: To master and burn an ISO9660 volume with Joliet and Rock-Ridge extensions on a DVD: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files To append more data to same DVD: growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J /more/files To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question: dvd-burner.
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in FreeBSD. One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have in two FreeBSD machines now is: acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04 at ata1-slave PIO4 The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since 2002. I replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great. -Mark -- GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device driver for a dvd burner... It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to write data to it.. Please correct me -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Like Mark, I have experience with Sony and Lite-On models. No additional drivers were needed to read from the DVD burners. To burn to the DVD burner, however, the user will need to recompile the kernel with atapicam and install dvd+rw-tools, which is in the ports. (The name of the port is misleading, as the port also burns other DVD formats in addition to +RW.) I still use cdrecord to burn CD's on the DVD burner. Chapter 16 of the online hanbook has a section regarding DVD's: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: next question: dvd-burner.
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:04:53 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:14:23PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:57:52 +0100 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm adding a DVD burner to my planned new platform. Since this is new technology, how careful do I have to be? In other words, does FreeBSD support most burners? Looks like the DVD/CDRW burner is a NEC... I'll 2-check. thanks in advance, gary So far I've had good luck with both DVD burners I've tried in FreeBSD. One was an old Sony DRU500A and the latest one that I have in two FreeBSD machines now is: acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S/KS04 at ata1-slave PIO4 The Sony finally died a few months ago after being in use since 2002. I replaced it with the LITE-ON and it has been working great. -Mark -- GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I think you won't need a device driver for a dvd burner... It's just an atapi device, and there's a standard telling how to write data to it.. Please correct me -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Like Mark, I have experience with Sony and Lite-On models. No additional drivers were needed to read from the DVD burners. So either thw NEC on the Lite-On burner ought to just-work. That's great because I'm tired of not being able to burn stuff myself. To burn to the DVD burner, however, the user will need to recompile the kernel with atapicam and install dvd+rw-tools, which is in the ports. (The name of the port is misleading, as the port also burns other DVD formats in addition to +RW.) I still use cdrecord to burn CD's on the DVD burner. Chapter 16 of the online hanbook has a section regarding DVD's: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html OT, but could you burn say 5 audio CD's onto a DVD and listen on your computer? Just wondering why nobody had audio on DVD-length discs. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix I've burned mp3's to DVD's, which works great on the computer. I've never understood why the portable CD players that can play mp3's aren't DVD-ROM's. Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD starter machine
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:07:44 -0800 (PST) Matt S. Gann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few questions about FreeBSD. I am just beginning to get into UNIX. I know a few line commands, but really want to get familiar and comfortable with the OS. I have been intrugued by FreeBSD for many years now, but I own a windows-based PC and am not keen about running dual OS's. I would like to get a cheap, used, small desktop or laptop to tinker with Unix/Linix and FreeBSD. However, I know little to nothing about system requirements and/or hardware compability. I was thinking of an old 486 or Pentium 1 to get started. Any thoughts on what I could start with? Sincerely, Matt S. Gann I've had no problems installing FreeBSD on old Pentiums. I also have a Dell Inspiron 8100 (laptop) that dual boots Windows XP and FreeBSD 5- STABLE. The problem with old equipment is that it will be slow. Whether your using a resource intensive desktop environment such as KDE or learning to customize the kernel, you'll want a bit of speed and a bit more of RAM. If you go with an old system, try to max out the motherboard's RAM. Once you're happy with FreeBSD on old equipment, you'll get the itch to see what it can do on really good hardware. I'm currently installing FreeBSD 6.0 on a Pentium II 333 with 128MB RAM for my grandson. To help compensate for the system's limitations, I've installed a light weight window manager. It's in situations like this that you see real benefits to having choices in software. Good luck (and welcome to sanity)! Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sharing filesystems between FreeBSD and Windows ...
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:42:29 +0100 Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:07 -0500, Nicolas Blais wrote: On November 22, 2005 09:59 am, Kiffin Gish wrote: I have a home network running 3 desktop machines with Windows XP Pro, and a webserver, fileserver and laptop with FreeBSD 5.x. What's the best way to be able to exchange files and directory shares between the two environments? It would also be nice to share the printer which is connected to one of the Windows boxes via USB. I hear that Samba is the way to go, but also have heard about such client-based utilities like Sharity-light which also do the trick. Thanks alot in advance. I use samba+cups at home. My situation is similar, except my printer is connected to one of my FreeBSD machines. The hardest part of linking FreeBSD with Windows isn't the getting the shares to work, but the printers to work, and I found it easier to have the printer on FreeBSD and have Windows write to it using real drivers (cups in RAW mode). Hmmm, this kinda worries me, to be honest. I went through alot of trouble getting my HP Deksjet G86 working under Windows and cannot imagine the hassle of getting it to work under FreeBSD. I still can't get my HP Dekjet 720C to work with my laptop (FreeBSD 5.4 and apsfilter), and I struggled for days before finally giving up. Actually, it's not as hard at is seems. Here's what I put in my smb.conf to make the printer work: printing = cups load printers = yes [printers] path = /var/spool/samba use client driver = Yes printable = yes public = yes guest ok = yes writable = no You'll find a lot of help in the Samba documentation and cups is also well documented. Nicolas. Thanks Nicolas, I'll give it a go. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands I use Samba to share FreeBSD files with Windows. I used to use sharity- light (/ usr/ ports/net/sharity-light) to use Windows files in FreeBSD; but haven't had the need in a long time, so I haven't installed it in the 5* series. I moved my printers (HP Photosmart 7150, Oki B4350 w/ postscript) to a Hawking Technology print server that supports the internet printing protocol (IPP); and has 2 usb and 1 parallel port. Windows XP supports IPP in the printer configuration wizard. I configured the printers in FreeBSD using cups, which also supports IPP. I forwarded the IPP port from the router to the print server so that I can print to my home printers from anywhere on the internet. When I'm out of town, I can print notes to the kids, who don't have email accounts. Be wary when purchasing print server devices. Some do not support IPP; and many do not support Mac OS (9 or X) on non-postscript printers. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg.conf block my machine
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:01:01 -0300 Pablo Allietti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all. i have xorg loading in tty7 at startup. i change my mouse and i modified the file xorg.conf to mouse0 to mouse1. well the problem is my machine cant start again :( load all system but when finish and try to start X system the screen blinking and i cant do anything i try to load freebsd in safe mode but nothing the same is possible modified the file xorg.conf in any way? i boot in single user too. but the filesystem is read only and i cant find a editor too. :( -- .- Pablo Allietti LACNIC After boot up, while the screen is trying to start X, have you tried going to a virtual terminal by pressing Alt-F1 or Alt-F2? Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing up postgresql data
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:02:11 -0600 Pat Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got postgresql 8 running on my system, and want to do nightly backups of the database. I took a look at the docs, and there are a few methods of doing backups - pg_dump, file system level, and using WAL. I just want to be able to rsync my data every night, maybe every few hours, so that I can recover it if there are any problems...so what's the best way to do this. Are there any scripts or utilities available to make my life easy? Thanks, Pat Are your databases very large or extremely active? If not, a nightly pg_dump (or pg_dumpall) should suffice. I've found the combination of PostgreSQL and FreeBSD to be very stable. If you need more frequent backups, you might consider one of the replication solutions for PostgreSQL. Here are links to a couple of them that I found at PgFoundry: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/slony1/ http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/ I haven't used any of the replication solutions. Hopefully, someone else will chime in with additional information/advice. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help me !
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:21:30 + mohammad ajorlou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear sir I'm Mohammad Ajorlou I have MCP,MCSA,MCSE 2000 2003 certification , but very like learn FreeBSD Operating System i know FreeBSD very very stable , reliable and secure but unfortunately i don't know where must learn it Please help me that which resource and document must use for learning FreeBSD Thank you You can find links to several online documents, including the FreeBSD Handbook, at the url below: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html You can also find books regarding FreeBSD at online bookstores such as Amazon.com. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why my daemon did not start
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:34:15 +0800
Foo JH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all, I'm trying to write a simple RC script to run my little Perl
script as a daemon. The script is as follows:
#!/bin/sh
portal_enable=${portal_enable-NO}
portal_flags=${portal_flags-}
portal_pidfile=/var/run/portald.pid
. /etc/rc.subr
name=portald
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
command=/home/admin/perfectportal/portald.pl
load_rc_config $name
pidfile=${portal_pidfile}
start_cmd=echo \Starting ${name}.\; /usr/bin/nice -5 ${command}
${portal_flags} ${command_args} stop_cmd=kill `cat /var/run/
portald.pid` run_rc_command $1
If I were to run this manually via
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/portald.sh start
it works. but in a reboot, it does not start.
Can anyone guide me where to find the error message, or (even better)
what may be the problem? Thanks.
I haven't studied up on the rc.subr stuff; but I've noticed that many
of the scripts that use it require that an enable line be put in /etc/
rc.conf. Have you tried adding the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
portal_enable=YES
Best of luck,
Andrew Gould
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Re: D-Link wireless LAN card not working in 5.3-R
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:33:29 -0500
Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:57:58AM -0700, N Deepak wrote:
Thanks. A search for 'ath' in the configuration file gave no
matches. There is no such .ko in my /boot/kernel either.
Look for ath_hal.ko after you've compiled your kernel.
Do I have to add a:
device ath
line in my config file and recompile? (as per ath(4))
Yes.
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Don't forget about:
device ath_hal
in the kernel configuration file.
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Re: encrypted file sharing bsd--winxp/2k3
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:00:38 +1000 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mdff wrote: staying away from ipsec and hw-crypto-ether-cards how can i connect to network-shares on freebsd-boxes from windows-clients having the whole connection (auth and data stuff) encrypted? it should be possible to map the share as a nw-drive. br... VPN is probably your choice. Check out OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net/) for a portable and relatively easy-to-setup solution. thx for the hint, but we don't want VPN/tunnels/ipsec solutions for this. would you mind explaining why not? (I was going ot suggest SSH forwarding and then your protocol of choice, but that is a tunnel ). Beto Have you considered webdav over SSL? Configure Apache2 to listen on port 443 (SSL) only and activate webdave directories with web authentication. Windows will map the webdav directories as webfolders. Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to read system mail?
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:44:52 -1000 Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my system, I get the You have mail every time I log in as root, but when I check, there is no mail. How do I fix this? Does another account serve as an alias to receive root's email? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pccard, wi0, wep and DHCP
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:34:55 +0200 Maarten Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If used to have my wives laptop configured with rc.conf containing: 'ifconfig_wi0=DHCP' this works and brings up wi0. Since my town is crowded with wardrivers I would like to use wep. Because my wife often inserts the pcmcia card after booting I also like to have pccard enabled. I can manually configure the card to use WEP. dhclient is configured 'out of the box'. What I did after some googling: in /etc/rc.conf I added: pccard_enable=YES pccard_flags=-z pccard_ifconfig=DHCP and I removed: ifconfig_wi0=DHCP I created a file: /etc/start_if.wi0 ifconfig wi0 nwkey 0xsomehex The wi card is listed in /etc/default/pccard.conf : BENQ AWL100 PCMCIA ADAPTER config auto wi ? insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop so I think /etc/pccard_ether should be executed on boot/insertion. Now this works not as I expect. When I manually run: /etc/pccard_ether wi0 start /etc/start_if.wi0 is not interpretted and the WEP key is not set so dhclient fails. I guess I am missing a trivial point, but which? Maarten I use a script to configure my wireless pccard. A simplified version (without start, stop, etc) of a WEP, DHCP connection follows: #!/bin/sh ifconfig wi0 ssid ssidname nwkey 0x99 dhclient wi0 Basically, you need to add the ssid information to your ifconfig line and execute dhclient after the interface has been configured with the WEP key. Good luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs. window managers
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:19:09 -0600 hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the: default window manager? developer recommended window manager? easiest to install? I am not trying to start a religious war here. I am currently installing KDE from source and it is taking forever. #cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE3 # make Some of the packages needed cannot be found by the make file. Google is great but some of the packages are really hard to find. hal Is there a reason you're compiling KDE from source? KDE is included on the installation CD's. Using pkg_add, you can also install binary packages (and their dependencies) for releases and stable branches from the ftp sites. For example, to get KDE for the i386 architecture, 5- STABLE branch, root would execute: pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/kde-3.4.2.tbz (Beware wordwrap in emails.) Regards, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:17:03 -0400 Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/20/05 11:23 PM, Andrew L. Gould sat at the `puter and typed: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:09:52 +0300 Ovidiu Ene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a joke? Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which explains where things are put (equiv of / var/mail, /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf), where application data is stored, how printers, disks, etc are shared, how to book in fixit disk mode, how to backup/restore, how to configure swap space. And also questions like why XP is professional, etc. I know it's a bit off topic, but I'm having a hard time figuring the system to what's what in XP. Thanks, Kent There are lots of WinXP administration books in the bookstores. Although there are several books for Windows users moving to Unix, I've not seen one for the other direction. There is an O'Reilly book called Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks. It may not help; but at least it has a cool title. ;-) Does it tell you why XP requires any user wishing to print to a network printer must have administrator privileges? Stupid XP. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net Key fingerprint = C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 Probably not. I have normal WinXP users here at home printing to printers on a Hawking print server using IPP. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and projects for kids
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:12:12 -0700 Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building a PC with my 10 year old niece. Actually we are building several PC's out of junk parts that we have laying around the office. We are trying various OS's, including FreeBSD, on them. We are trying to get various devices to work: printers, scanners, sound cards, microphones, video boards, etc. We're having fun (so far, at least.) She's learning a lot. I've been looking around for a web site (or two) for young girls interested in computers. I came across LinuxChix.org (and its defunct special interest group BSDchix.) It has plenty of female role models, but, like FreeBSD-questions, it is a little too advanced for my niece. Googling a bit hasn't hit any gold mines for her. But see below. Thus my questions: any ideas for very elementary reading on computers for a 10 year old? Any ideas for an appropriate web site for her? Anyone tried PicoBSD as an example of a small OS?Can anyone advise me as to how much of FreeBSD I need to load before there are interesting games for 10 year olds in the games ports? Other advice/ ideas? TIA, -gayn P.s. found: http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/computer/lesson.html My grandson found the various chess games interesting, especially the 3D, rotatable boards. You could also use the computer to host bulletin boards or chat rooms that she and her friends could use. The advantage here is that you could control membership and monitor the environment to keep it safe. If she's interested, she could learn the ropes of being a moderator. Would she like her own blog? Good luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:09:52 +0300 Ovidiu Ene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a joke? Kent Hauser wrote: Hi, I've been a Unix sysadmin (SunOS 3.x, 4.x, Solaris, FreeBSD) for 15 years, but am now being forced to learn how to run a collection of XP boxes. Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which explains where things are put (equiv of / var/mail, /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf), where application data is stored, how printers, disks, etc are shared, how to book in fixit disk mode, how to backup/restore, how to configure swap space. And also questions like why XP is professional, etc. I know it's a bit off topic, but I'm having a hard time figuring the system to what's what in XP. Thanks, Kent There are lots of WinXP administration books in the bookstores. Although there are several books for Windows users moving to Unix, I've not seen one for the other direction. There is an O'Reilly book called Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks. It may not help; but at least it has a cool title. ;-) Good luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: start up command for mysql
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:36:31 +0530 Dev FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/19/05, Ed Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dont forget to place it in the /etc/rc.conf as well.. darn rcsubr ;) Hi What is rcsubr ? -- thanks Dev. Good question. I don't feel qualified to give you an explanation; but you'll see the following line popping up in many startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/ and /usr/local/etc/rc.d/: . /etc/rc.subr See man rc.subr(8). You may have to install /usr/ports/sysutils/rc_subr first, though. Regards, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HOW to boot off the 5.4-Release CD with a different kernel that supports more hardware
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:39:37 -0400 (EDT) Ricky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The default 5.4 kernel does include the MK-III patches from Soren as the 6.0 default Kernel does. I have problems installing the 5.4 Release on my system because I am missing these patches. I have tried burning a cd while replacing the kernel with a recompiled one but apparently the mfsroot.flp is not well updated against the new kernel. I am relatively new to FreeBSD and don`t understand well the exact booting process even after some readings on forums and web sites. Could a gentle someone explain how the modify the original 5.4 Iso and replace the stock kernel ? Thanks in advance for any help regarding this. P.S. If I am not in the right mailing-list for this or if question is of too low degree, please simply disregard the post. Would making a release from STABLE or CURRENT branches solve your problem? I've never done it with FreeBSD; but I found the following documentation, which may be helpful: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-build.html Good luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: start up command for mysql
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:09:42 -0700 Mick Wilcoxen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, Ok found the fill, but what do use to check it. Its not viewable in vi, so what do I use to check it ?? *** Mick Wilcoxen (530)933-2882 I don't know what you mean by fill; but if you're looking for the start-up script that works on boot-up, I think you've found the wrong file. The start-up script is a text file used to start MySQL at boot- up and stop it at shutdown. 1. Did you install MySQL from the ports, using pkg_add or manually from the source code? 2. In /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, did you find any file with a name similar to mysql-server.sh or mysql.sh? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: start up command for mysql
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:15:08 -0700
Mick Wilcoxen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Found it. But the command is different from the command that
The person who created the database gave. Should I change it to mach
his command
The command there is
Start)
/sbin/idcongif -m /usr/local/lib/mysql
;;
Stop)
;;
*)
echo
echo Usage: 'basename $0' {start | stop}
echo
exit 64
;;
Esac
He is telling me to put this command in the startup
/usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld .
Run this with the period at the end.put it in your start up script.
The database program.(the first of many I have written) is based on
PHP/Mysql
***
Mick Wilcoxen
(530)933-2882
The script you found does not start MySQL. It just ensures that the
operating system can find the MySQL libraries.
The command you mention above starts MySQL; and can be added to the
Start section of the script. I've never put a period after the
ampersand; so I don't know what that will do. (I switched from MySQL
to PostgreSQL over 5 years ago.)
The reason it would be good to find the script that is installed by the
port is that it probably has a stop section for shutting down MySQL
cleanly and removing the pid file when the operating system is being
shutdown.
Good luck,
Andrew Gould
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Re: wireless DHCP + wep
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:38:51 -0300 Pablo Allietti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all i have a question. i configure a Intel 2200 wireless card and the system detect ok and load in the start time. so. now i need to add wep Key and DHCP. is that possible to do in automatically. because rigth now i cant do dhcp and need to do a ifconfig blablabla wepkey xx wepmode 0 any time when i restart my laptop. thanks. You can configure your interface using /stand/sysinstall by selecting Index, then Network Interfaces. There's a place in the module to put additional ifconfig arguments. The appropriate configuration entries will be added to /etc/rc.conf. If that doesn't work, you can a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. If you use a firewall, you may have to reload the firewall rules after the interface is configured; but you can have the script do this as well. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: start up command for mysql
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:53:13 -0700 Mick Wilcoxen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, really new at this FreeBSD Mysql stuff. Which file do i put the startup command and the location of this ? The startup command is as follows /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld . *** Mick Wilcoxen (530)933-2882 If you installed MySQL from the ports, you'll find a start-up file in in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. Just make sure the file name ends in .sh and MySQL will be started at bootup. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ath driver within 5.4-RELEASE
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:36:14 -0500 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I just wanted to know if the ath driver is included within the 5.4- RELEASE as I can't seem to find it with the GENERIC config or do I just load auth with kldload ? I can't check as I'm not at home atm. Thanks in advance Glyn Yes it's part of 5.4, started life in 5.2, man ath: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=athapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi The ath driver is available in 5.4 RELEASE; but is not compiled into the GENERIC kernel. If my memory serves me correctly, people on this list have reported problems loading the kernel modules. Therefore, you'll probably need to recompile the kernel with the following: device ath device ath_hal Regards, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i can't block win98 computers
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:19:49 -0400 Hornet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/15/05, vladone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I try to block some computers to acces my gateway based on MAC address. I use this ipfw rule: ipfw add 100 deny mac any xx:yy:aa:bb:cc:dd in via $private_interface With this i can block XP computers but not work with Win98. I dont understand what is happened! I try against different computer with win98 OS and i can't block it. Only messenger is blocked but navigation work well. Computers with WinXP OS is blocked succesfull. I believe as is an problem with TCP packets that comming from Win98 computers but i dont know how i can resolv this. IIRC, 98 had a hacked down version of the TCP/IP stack opposed to the normal unix stack. All though I don't think this would be a issue, as 98 boxes would not be able to use any type of switch if the TCP/IP stack did not have some type of MAC header in it. Clear your arp table and look to see if you get an arp address for the 98 boxes. You might find that you have a typo in the address, or pull the MAC right off the card it self. If you're trying to keep Win98 computers off the internet without blocking them from the internal network, you could try manually configure their NIC's with an internal, nonexistent name server. Technically, they would have access to the internet; but without actual IP addresses, non-savvy users would think that access to the internet is blocked. (Savvy users could just change the configuration.) Would this accomplish your goal? (Do you have savvy users?) I have one WinXP computer that's configured this way. It can still access shared directories and printers on the local network. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connect from distance!
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:33:47 -0700 Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can i share ( with chmod for example ) for only some users ( web programmers ) only one directory where they can put his web pages. Ex : share : /var/www/html/dir1 for user1,user2,user3 If user1 make ssh on my server he can view,read,modify,remove only files from /var/www/html/dir1 .. Tks! If exist another solution for my web programers ( secure solution ) to work from distance on my web server please tell me. -- Carstea Catalin Have you looked into webdav? It's a module that's available for Apache that allows the sharing of files over the web. The only drawback is that, as far as I know, the browser client on FreeBSD that supports it is KDE's Konqueror. (If I'm wrong, I would love to be corrected on this point.) Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 05:58:02 -0400 (EDT) PK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the channel correct? yes, it is, without wep works well Do you have an active firewall that could be blocking the wireless interface? no, I don't have any firewall active authmode OPEN is the problem, because ifconfig can not set to SHARED automatically or manually ! do you have authmode OPEN and you use a shared key ? I don't thonk so. Yes, I do use a shared key. If I don't specify a shared key, our Windows PC's fail to connect to the AP. From my wireless PC: # ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::20d:88ff:fec7:5d89%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 192.168.63.25 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.63.255 ether 00:0d:88:c7:5d:89 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid datawok 1:datawok channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit Please note that the AP is 802.11b, thus the automatic selection of 11Mbps. If I bootup without any network configuration, here's all I have to do to get the wireless card working: ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.63.25 netmask 255.255.255.0 \ ssid datawok nwkey 0xXX route add default 192.168.63.1 echo nameserver 24.204.0.4 /etc/resolv.conf Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:56:02 -0400 (EDT) PK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is your wireless router on open or shared ? If I set my wireless router on open, then it works without problems and my ifconfig looks like yours. from man ifconfig: http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=8topic=ifconfig authmode mode For IEEE 802.11 wireless interfaces, set the desired authentication mode in infrastructure mode. Not all adaptors support all modes. The set of valid modes is none, open, and shared. Modes are case insensitive. so you should be able to choose authentication mode open is for me open and shared is shared I cannot find a place in my Access Point's configuration application where it states shared or open. My Windows PC is set to shared. I'm glad you got you connection working. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:11:09 -0400 (EDT) PK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my question was if your wireless accesspoint or router is set to OPEN or SHARED. As I stated in my previous email: I could not find a place in my AP's configuration application that states whether it is set to open or shared. I am using a Linksys BEFW11S4 V2. on my wireless router under security settings I have 2 options: - security mode: I can set OPEN or SHARED - cipher type: I can disble or enable WEP if I set WEP on the router and set the security mode OPEN, then my windows works as shared too, but the router is still OPEN. my connection is working without WEP only, but this is not what I want. without WEP was working before I did this posting. I need WEP and I want the connection with WEP ! --- On Tue 08/09, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew L. Gould [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:11:34 -0500 Subject: Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ? On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:56:02 -0400 (EDT)brPK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:brbr br is your wireless router on open or shared ? br If I set my wireless router on open, then it works without problemsbr and my ifconfig looks like yours. br br from man ifconfig:br br http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=8topic=ifconfigbr br authmode modebr For IEEE 802.11 wireless interfaces, set the desiredbr authentication mode in infrastructure mode. Not all adaptors supportbr all modes. The set of valid modes is none, open, and shared.br Modes are case insensitive.br br br so you should be able to choose authentication modebr open is for me open and shared is sharedbr brbrI cannot find a place in my Access Point's configuration applicationbrwhere it states shared or open. My Windows PC is set tobrshared.brbrI'm glad you got you connection working.brbrAndrew Gouldbr ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:09:31 -0400 (EDT) PK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi I have wlan card WG311T from Netgear installed on freeBSD 5.4 # ifconfig ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe26:d1c9%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:0f:c4:12:b2:b8 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps) status: no carrier ssid myssid 1:myssid channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit but it doesn't work. I think WEP is not active ! in /etc/rc.conf I have: ifconfig_ath0=inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid myssid wepmode on wepkey 0xXX it seems I'm missing wlan_wep module # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 16 0xc040 5dde24 kernel 21 0xc09de000 47dc snd_via8233.ko 32 0xc09e3000 1d4fcsound.ko 41 0xc0a01000 b948 if_ath.ko 52 0xc0a0d000 279a8ath_hal.ko 6 14 0xc0a35000 56270acpi.ko 71 0xc25fc000 6000 linprocfs.ko 81 0xc265b000 17000linux.ko 91 0xc2f27000 9000 ntfs.ko howto activate or install wlan_wep module ? piotr I'm using an atheros wireless PCI adapter with 64bit WEP. I've never had to load a wep module. How do you know the configuration isn't working? Are you unable to ping other IP addresses? Are you unable to ping other host names? Some non-WEP problems could inlude: 1. Poor signal strength 2. Improperly configured nameserver information (/etc/resolv.conf) 3. Improperly configured default gateway More information would be helpful. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:57:44 -0400 (EDT) PK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Poor signal strength no, very good (1 meter distance) windows installed on the same machine shows 100% 2. Improperly configured nameserver information (/etc/resolv.conf) it's correct, because with ethernet nic works well 3. Improperly configured default gateway it's correct, otherwise I cannot ping the default router from the ethernet nic other question howto set (change) DS/1Mbps to 54Mbps ? Do you have your cable and wireless interfaces configured to the same network? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:19:54 -0400 (EDT) PK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, but cable is disabled at the moment Do you mean that the cable is unplugged or that you removed the interface configuration? Unplugging the cable does not change or remove the interface configuration. Reconfigure your cabled interface to 10.0.0.1, then test your wireless interface again. I think there is a problem with DS/1Mbps this driver seems to allow by default the transfer rate: 1 Mbps my wlan access point accept only 54Mbps ! I think I must change to 54Mbps using ifconfig Do you know, howto change this ? # ifconfig ath0 media DS/54Mbps ifconfig: unknown media subtype: DS/54Mbps I think this is handled automatically by default. (I could be very wrong.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ?
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:58:03 -0400 (EDT) PK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi I removed the interface conf. from the cable but still doesn't work. What's very strange is authmode OPEN: # ifconfig ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe26:d1c9%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:0f:c4:12:b2:b8 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps) status: no carrier ssid myssid 1:myssid channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit howto change it to shared ? # ifconfig ath0 authmode shared ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument I also use a shared key; but I've never had to set the mode explicitly. Is the channel correct? Do you have an active firewall that could be blocking the wireless interface? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64 vs. i386
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:46:48 -0500 Joseph Sniderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I install the i386 version of FreeBSD on an AMD64(athelon64) based computer? Yes! Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless with Aironet 350 Card Help needed
On Thursday 28 July 2005 01:28 pm, Reeves, Brandon wrote: I have a Freebsd 5.3 Laptop with an Aironet 350 Card. I can get the card associated with the AP using WEP etc. However, I still can not ping the outside internet. I had this working while I was initially toying with the card but for some reason it no longer works. This is a new card I have added to my laptop to enable wireless since the embedded Intel card is not supported. I also can not ping any machine on the wireless and none of my other machines can ping me.. Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated. One more note, I have installed the Linux-ACU port and it says I am associated but still gets no communication. Thanks Brandon Reeves Information Systems Security FMOL Health System Ph. 225.765.7984 Fax: 225.765.5804 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brandon, Please forgive the obvious questions: 1. Are you pinging using hostnames or ip addresses? 2. Does the result of 'ifconfig an0' show an ip address and netmask for the wireless interface? (I'm assuming the wireless interface is an0.) 3. Was the wireless interface configured manually or did you use dhclient? 4. Is the default gateway set? 5. Are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf correct? 6. Did you add the local network hosts to /etc/hosts? 7. Does your laptop have an active firewall that may be blocking packets? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MySQL - Cannot access as root
On Thursday 28 July 2005 04:20 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have just installed MySQL 5. I can access the program as a regular user, but not as root. As I regular user I have no privileges. If I attempt to access as root, I receive this error message. ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) I can access the program as root using: mysql -u root -p and then supplying a password at the prompt, but that is about it. What can I do to correct this problem? I tried deleting the entire package and reinstalling it, but the problem continues. When I first installed the program, it worked, but only one time. Obviously, I did something, but I do not know what. The system root user is separate from MySQL's root user. The system root user should not be able to access the database server directly. I think this is true for both MySQL and PostgreSQL. If you can log in using 'mysql -u root -p [password]', then everything is okay to start. It's not that you did something wrong, rather you haven't finished setting up the database for your user. Database servers aren't like gui text editors. It's important that you read the documentation. Here are some helpful links: Start here for your immediate needs: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/default-privileges.html Manual Index: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html MySQL Tutorial: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/tutorial.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorry... newbie
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 03:20 pm, Armando Richard wrote: Hope find at least 1 patient person to answer this... I'm used to operate well systems in Linux and Rwindows and trying from 2 days FreeBSD.. I've very very very novice questions and couldn't find any help in literature i've been read (from more than a week). Also this is the forum looking more like... there is anybody who can give some directions?? - for now my main doubt is in java virtual machine: -- sources links that points to nowhere. -- ports descriptions saying only about what i will get after. -- messages like that in my terminal: # cd '/usr/ports/java/jdk13' # ls Makefilefiles pkg-message scripts distinfopkg-descr pkg-plist # make printf: missing format character === jdk-1.3.1p9_4 is*** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk13. # pkg_add jdk13 pkg_add: can't stat package file 'jdk13' # pkg_add jdk-1.3 pkg_add: can't stat package file 'jdk-1.3' # pkg_add jdk pkg_add: can't stat package file 'jdk' # or # pkg_add -r jdk Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Lat est/jdk.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/La test/jdk.tbz' by URL # pkg_add -r jdk13 Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Lat est/jdk13.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/La test/jdk13.tbz' by URL # -- nothing about development kits and thousands of tools, just a simple plugin in my browser (mozilla, can be other if it isn't good) wich works. Sorry if i bore you, just loosed.. my last chance is here... tx You're confusing the process of installing ports from binary packages vs. source code. pkg_add is used to install binary packages. Binary packages are not available for Java for FreeBSD 5*. You'll have to build java from source code. Since FreeBSD is not allowed to distribute the source code, you'll have to download the source code manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/. Then go back to your ports directory and install the port: cd /usr/ports/java/jdk13/ make install If you haven't downloaded the source code, the installation process will stop and tell you where to get the appropriate files. You can get more information regarding Java on FreeBSD from: http://www.freebsd.org/java/ Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache 2 SSL Error
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 11:01 am, Todd Suits wrote: I set up a FreeBSD 4.11 jail to learn how to setup SSL on Apache 2 correctly. I installed Apache 2.0.54 from ports. I generated SSL certs just for testing purposes. I'm not able to get any response at all from the server on SSL unless I set the Listen :443 directive in the httpd.conf as where I think it is supposed to be set in ssl.conf. I get the following error in httpd-error.log: [Tue Jul 05 10:15:28 2005] [error] [client 24.123.123.123] Invalid method in request \x80g\x01\x03 As this is just temporary and for testing purposes I have posted the configs online as they are quite big and this is a work in progress, see links below. http://www.beerdrinka.com/httpd.conf http://www.beerdrinka.com/ssl.conf I keep re-reading the apache docs but there is just something I am missing. As a note I have also tried this in a non-jail environment on 5.3 p16 and get the same error results. When trying to use SSL, are you using a URL with http://; or https://;? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewall on FreeBSD
On Saturday 25 June 2005 05:19 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote: mess-mate wrote: I've a firewall/router/proxy with openbsd and think to replace it with freebsd 5.4 Do you mean freebsd's PF don't support the 'quick' keyword ?? Thought PF on freebsd and openbsd was identical, isn't ? It's a port, pf on FBSD 5.4 is the same as pf on OBSD 3.6, AFAIK. So if your OBSD is the latest or updated after 3.6, then you might have functionalities not supported yet on FBSD. The basic stuff is all the same, I don't think anyone could survive without 'quick', just as 'pass' and 'block' are supported on both platforms :-) Cheers, Erik Minor correction: pf is built into the kernel by default in FreeBSD 5.4. I think this started with FreeBSD 5.3. It may still be in the ports system; but that would be for use in FreeBSD 4* and earlier versions of 5*. Have a great weekend! Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question about ports.
On Friday 24 June 2005 01:01 pm, Sam Ip wrote: Hi, I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection 1. Can you do a CVSup to update your ports via http? 2. Can you install ports via http? Thanks! Sam Welcome to FreeBSD! I hope it's a good experience; but be warned that it may be addictive. I **think** the answer to both questions is no since the files you need are on ftp servers. One (fairly expensive) option for you is to order a DVD of binary packages for the release that you installed. The 2 sources of FreeBSD DVD's that I'm aware of are www.freebsdmall.com and bsdmall.com. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Apache with DynDNS
On Sunday 19 June 2005 09:07 am, Gerard Seibert wrote: I am attempting to get Apache to work on my computer. My ISM only supplies me with a dynamic IP as well as blocking of port 80. I am using DynDNS to try and circumvent that situation. My knowledge of how to accomplish this quite frankly stinks. Even using a copy of O'Reilly's Apache has not helped me much. If anyone has a similar type of setup, I would appreciate them contacting me directly. I can supply all of my configuration files for them to look at. I am probably just doing something really stupid but I lack the knowledge to figure it out on my own. Thanks! 1. Is your server updating DynDNS with your new IP address successfully? 2. Take a look at DynDNS's MyWebHop service. This service forwards port 80 to whatever port you choose. That way, the redirection is transparent to people accessing your site. 3. The only change in Apache configuration needed (relating to the port blocking issue) is to change the port the Apache listens on. This is done in the httpd.conf file. If you're not familiar with this file, you can get lots of good information at: http://httpd.apache.org/ Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Explaining FreeBSD features
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 10:35 pm, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, /--big snip--/ Let me put it this way. A long time ago, we call it now stone age, the people started to realise that a group of people shows better results if they specialise. The people better in hunting went hunting, the people better in 'farming'. Despite one group did not know how the other group got their kind of food, they shared it. Erich That's a great analogy; but I disagree with the way you've applied it. Yes, the hunters and farmers shared the food. That's not to say that the farmers wanted to use the bows and arrows, or that the hunters wanted to use a harvesting tool. If a farmer chose to use a bow and arrow, he/she would be irresponsible not to take a safety lesson (RTFM). Users taste the fruit of FreeBSD whenever they use a service hosted on a FreeBSD server. Most Windows users don't care how they got the fruit. That's okay. FreeBSD users are currently specialized in their interest in computer technology when compared to the average Windows user. That's okay too. Specialized tools serve are used by specialized individuals; although all may benefit indirectly. I support better documentation. I don't think there's any argument there. The idea that FreeBSD should be usable for all levels of computer users, however, is like putting training wheels on a racing bicycle. Any time you modify a professional tool to make it accessible to all, the tool loses some level of efficiency or power. In the case of FreeBSD, it would also absorb valuable development resources. All of this reminds me of a book I saw at Barnes Noble last year: Bioinfomatics for Dummies. Think about it: does anyone on this list want a dummy messing with genetics? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R
On Sunday 19 June 2005 07:15 am, Fabian Keil wrote: Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used mkisofs to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the mkisofs and growisofs process appeared to finish successfully; but 'ls -alh' shows the resulting file to be -514M in size when the DVD-R is mounted in FreeBSD 4.10. When I mount the dvd in a separate FreeBSD 5.4 system, ls -alh results in 'ls: /cdrom/pgdumpall.gz: Value too large to be stored in data type'. I ftp'd the original 3GB file from the FreeBSD 4.10 system to the FreeBSD 5.4 system. ls -alh reads the size of the original file correctly. Windows reads the DVD-R and shows the file size correctly. I've tried recreating the iso image using -r and -l options and burning the iso file with and without the -dvd-compat option; but the results remain the same. Any ideas or advice? Split your backup file before creating the iso. At the moment FreeBSD can't handle big files on isofs. If I remember correctly, big means 1 GB, but I'm not sure. You should still be able to extract the file with isoinfo from the cdrtools port. Fabian Once I've burned the DVD, how can I rejoin the files created using the -split-output option so that I can reload the database from the dump file? The man pages for mkisofs, isoinfo and split weren't very helpful in this regard. Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: usage of split
Regarding the usage of split to divide files into several parts: 1. Can the split utility be used on binary files? 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file using redirection (); but can you do that with a binary file? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: usage of split
On Sunday 19 June 2005 10:34 pm, Olivier Nicole wrote: 2. How does one rejoin the resulting split files to recreate the original file? I assume you can cat text files into a new file using redirection (); but can you do that with a binary file? I'd say yes, you can cat a binary file (though it is likely to mess-up your screen). Olivier That's what virtual terminals are for! ;-) What's a better way of rejoining split parts of a binary file? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R
I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used mkisofs to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the mkisofs and growisofs process appeared to finish successfully; but 'ls -alh' shows the resulting file to be -514M in size when the DVD-R is mounted in FreeBSD 4.10. When I mount the dvd in a separate FreeBSD 5.4 system, ls -alh results in 'ls: /cdrom/pgdumpall.gz: Value too large to be stored in data type'. I ftp'd the original 3GB file from the FreeBSD 4.10 system to the FreeBSD 5.4 system. ls -alh reads the size of the original file correctly. Windows reads the DVD-R and shows the file size correctly. I've tried recreating the iso image using -r and -l options and burning the iso file with and without the -dvd-compat option; but the results remain the same. Any ideas or advice? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web calendar program recommendation
On Thursday 16 June 2005 08:38 am, Noah wrote: FreeBSD-4.11 R3 I am looking for a really nice calendar program that I can run from a web interface. That has the ability to import my calendar from my palm. horde is nice but I cant import any of my palm calendars. neither can webcalendar unless there is some recent update in the past 3 months that does it now. evolution is nice but I think this is X only and not for the web. please correct me if I am wrong. Please pass along any recommendations. Thanks in advance, Noah If you're just trying to get remote access to your calendar using a web browser, you could use any palm-syncable software and tightvnc. You can find tightvnc in the ports. Tightvnc has a small web server that allows access to your desktop from a remote internet browser. Unfortunately, this does not facilitate remote syncing of your palm device. To view tightvnc from a web browser, point your url to your desktop machine using port 5800 + the display number. Example: I sync my palm pilot using the jpilot port. I invoke tightvnc on display 1 on my desktop at hostname.com using: vncserver :1 To run my desktop from a remote browser, I would point my browser to: http://hostname.com:5801 Then I run jpilot on my desktop. I hope this helps. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (starbucks) ssid = tmobile and 5.x (hit-n-miss)
On Thursday 16 June 2005 11:36 pm, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 it looks like Andrew L. Gould composed: Try adding ssid tmobile to the ifconfig arguments in /etc/rc.conf. If adding it to your rc.conf file doesn't work for you, try removing the wi0 stuff from rc.conf and execute the following as root: ifconfig wi0 ssid tmobile dhclient wi0 You'll need to make sure that the default gateway and nameservers are obtained from the DHCP server. I hope this helps. Thanks Andrew, Yes, I've done the manual command but would like to try the rc.conf options, so I'd be looking at: ifconfig_wi0=ssid tmobile ifconfig_wi0=DHCP Does that look correct? Thanks I'm not sure whether all ifconfig arguments need to be on the same line. If it doesn't work, try: ifconfig_wi0=ssid tmobile DHCP The other option is to put the manual commands in an executable file at: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tmobile.sh That way the manual commands would be executed automatically at bootup. Caveat: The delayed network configuration may interfere with the loading of firewall rules; so you may need to add a line to the script to load your firewall rules after wi0 is up. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (starbucks) ssid = tmobile and 5.x (hit-n-miss)
On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:07 pm, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Well sometimes I wish I had all the answers... I need some advice. When I proudly bring my FreeBSD-5.x laptop(s) into Starbucks, I have my wi0 set for DHCP in /etc/rc.conf and I never have consistant handshakes with the server, same coffee shop, same everything. Sometimes I'm so pressed for time that I can't go through all the ifconfig wi0 ... commands and I just have to reboot into godammmed windows and it friggin works. FUCKING HUMILIATING. (sorry for the adj.) Does anyone have any supplimental arguments to /etc/rc.conf to get me onto my account at Starbucks? I firmly believe one cannot: Save Face And Ass At Same Time hence my email. Thank You :) Try adding ssid tmobile to the ifconfig arguments in /etc/rc.conf. If adding it to your rc.conf file doesn't work for you, try removing the wi0 stuff from rc.conf and execute the following as root: ifconfig wi0 ssid tmobile dhclient wi0 You'll need to make sure that the default gateway and nameservers are obtained from the DHCP server. I hope this helps. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WebCam support in FreeBSD
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:27 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the way to use webcam under FreeBSD ? Under Linux there are many drivers supporting many webcams exposing them as device with some standardised access. Under Windows there's whole driver infrastructure of camera devices. What's in FreeBSD ? I couldn't find anything except the old bt848 driver and driver for some obsolete parallel port camera. Am I missing something ? I haven't got much interest in this kind of thing myself, but I do know about: http://vinvin.dyndns.org/projects/pwc_bsd.html Thanks for the link! I've been wondering about webcams as well. For the original message poster: Depending on what you want to do, you can use a digital camera with an AV out port and a TV tuner card to show the image in fxtv and gnome-meeting. I wouldn't know how to stream the image to a web page; but gnome-meeting accepted the TV tuner card as an image source device. Also, if you just want to monitor the room remotely, you could forward fxtv and X over ssh. (Caveat: I haven't messed with this in a long time; so YMMV with newer versions of drivers and ports.) Good luck; and have fun! Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.3 + FreeBSD + TCP/IP
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 03:14 pm, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0500, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: Hi, I'm having a difficulty getting PostgreSQL to accept TCP/IP connections on FreeBSD 5.3. I have edited 'postgresql.conf' in my postgres data directory to set the listen_address (and uncommented it) and have the port line uncommented and set to the default 5432. I then restarted the postmaster and tried to connect. I get: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host xx.xxx.xx.xxx and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? I can connect from localhost just fine. You need to set listen_addresses, like it says in the comments: listen_addresses = '*' This will allow Postgresql connections from all interfaces. I have already tried setting the listen_addresses to * and the actual IP. Neither of which has worked. I restarted the postmaster both times using the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, and by using pg_ctl. Even tried starting postmaster with pg_ctl -i. Nothing seems to be working. I have double-checked all of my pg_hba.conf settings, even though the error doesn't indicate that is the problem at all. Anyone else have any ideas at all? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 Have you checked the firewall settings on both computers to ensure that port 5432 is open? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sudden need for a wireless card for 5.3
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 03:58 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: I suddenly find myself in need of a wireless card for a 5.3 desktop box. Anyone want to recommend something? Thanks, mike How about a Cisco Aironet 350 PCI card. It's an older, proven model (802.11b) with good power output. It uses the an driver. It works great with FreeBSD and Linux (but is hosed in the latest release of NetBSD). The card costs about $200 retail; but I just got one on eBay for much less. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FYI - Commercial antivirus software for FreeBSD free for personal use
FYI - AntiVir Personal Edition Classic is now available for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris. Workstation, Mailgate and Milter versions are available. The Personal Edition Classic version is available free of charge for personal/noncommercial use; although registration is required. http://free-av.com I've been using the Windows version at home for over a year now without any problems. I haven't tested any of the non-Windows versions yet; so please interpret this message as an FYI, not an endorsement. Happy Monday, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: on demand virus scanning of XP share
On Thursday 09 June 2005 11:28 am, dave wrote: Hello, I've got clamav installed on a 5.4 box and i'm trying to use it to do demand scanning of a windows XP machine. I'm atempting to mount the system's C$ share, but although it shows up in the listing of smbclient -L //SystemName -N atempting to mount it via mount_smbfs mount_smbfs //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/C$ /mnt produces either a timeout error or an address not found message depending on whether the -N option is used. Is this possible what i'm atempting to do? Thanks. Dave. I accomplished something very similar using clamav and sharity-light. Sharity-light allows you to mount Windows shares; and can be found in the ports at /usr/ports/net/sharity-light. Dru Lavigne published a tutorial regarding sharity-light at: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/07/12/FreeBSD_Basics.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x
On Friday 03 June 2005 10:44 am, jose luis wrote: hi i need help. my english is little, then i hope that you understand me. well i use freebsd 5.3 i installed xorg and kde. i execute startkde and it appears this: kpersonalizer: can not connect Xserver i execute kdm or xdm and it appear welcome freebsd later i have to log the user, when i do this the screen appears black and it reappears (welcome freebsd) i execute startx and it appears the xterm later i type startkde and the desktop is up but there are two desktop xterm and kde and i can´t work. i hope that u understand and thank u very much. Is the command 'startkde' in the .xinitrc file in your home directory? If not, try adding it to the file, then execute 'startx'. This section of the online handbook may be of help: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html Good luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Small MTA for Mutt?
On Friday 03 June 2005 08:07 am, Frits Westra wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a small MTA for Mutt. I tried sSMTP but had to ditch it since system messages to root @ my ISP couldn't be suppressed. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance, Frits I use msmtp. It's can be configured separately for each user; and works well with mutt. You can find it in the ports. Here's a link to some configuration documentation for use with mutt: http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/Mutt+msmtp.txt Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.4 Installation
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a FreeBSD newbie and have some questions about installation. I installed the 5.4 version from CD and selected the User and X Windows (or something like it) installation. I also selected yes for installing all of the packages. The packages installation copied about 25MB of data to the disk instead of the 300MB that it said it was going to. Is that what its supposed to do? It looks like not all of the packages were copied, specifically Netatalk (which is on the second CD). How do I get it to copy the rest of the packages? Also, it looked like it copied the X.org files but never went through the X setup. Is this what it is supposed to do? I have a working text-based FreeBSD system, but I would like to get the Netatalk package installed and also get the X windows system up and running. Please help!! Thanks! Robert 1. Take a look at the online handbook for package management and X setup: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html 2. A quick google for freebsd, netatalk and tutorial resulted in: http://logicsquad.net/freebsd/imac-sharing-how-to.html I hope this helps, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bsd vx tux
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:58 pm, Joe Wood wrote: Another picture I found rather funny.. http://www.projectosiris.net/multimedia/pics/linuxsuxx.jpg Cheers Joe That's horrible -- the daemon should have used a drop cloth! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amd64 status
On Thursday 02 June 2005 03:36 pm, Miguel Miranda wrote: Hi list, i have heard a lot of good things about opteron servers, im going to upgrade several old production servers (thinking on hp dl145 or sun v20z, sugestions?), is the amd64 port stable enough to use it on production?, what about performance, will i see a plus if i buy opteron isntead of xeons?. Can you point me to some docs about it?, the archives are very messed up on this topic, thanks --- Miguel I would suggest you browse the AMD64 mailing list archives. From what I've heard/read: 1. It's stable. 2. It's easier to find a compatible motherboard if you stay away from NForce (nVidia) chipsets. 3. Certain ports and drivers (ath, for example) have to be rewritten before they'll work in the AMD64 port. 4. If you need features/programs that don't work in the AMD64 port, you can always install the i386 port since the hardware is backwards compatible. You should see a performance boost over 32 bit hardware even though the software is not 64 bit. Take all of this with a 5 pound bag of salt; and be sure to do your own research. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? What do you mean by extra? What have you done so far? Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and ath_hal? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? What do you mean by extra? What have you done so far? Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and ath_hal? Andrew Gould ___ i tried compiling it with ath and ath_hal, but it totally freaks out on make. error on apci (i thought that stuff was disabled in generic?) What version of FreeBSD are you using? Note that the atheros chipset is only supported by FreeBSD 5*. If apci is incompatible with your hardware, you may have to disable it and revert back to apm (or neither). Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? What do you mean by extra? What have you done so far? Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and ath_hal? Andrew Gould ___ i tried compiling it with ath and ath_hal, but it totally freaks out on make. error on apci (i thought that stuff was disabled in generic?) What version of FreeBSD are you using? Note that the atheros chipset is only supported by FreeBSD 5*. If apci is incompatible with your hardware, you may have to disable it and revert back to apm (or neither). Andrew Gould it's 5.3 release, apci and apm are disabled in generic (which i copied). i added the lines device ath and device ath_hal i get the error internal compiler error: segmentation fault stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ctau sorry i can't provide any kind of dump. wifi is this machines only option for networking :/ should i just give up or is there a glimmer of hope i might get this to work? Since I had a version B of the same wireless PCI card working in 5.3, I wouldn't give up. I would, however, update the system using cvsup in case something is missing/corrupted in the source code. (Also check the version of the PCI card. Is it version B?) Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting xorg
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 04:06 pm, Paul Blake wrote: i have read thru the help pages and can not find the command (or way) to start xorg please respond. thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to start xorg from the command line, execute 'startx'. You can select your default window manager/desktop environment by configuring ~/.xinitrc. To start KDE, put 'exec startkde' in your ~/.xinitrc file. Execute 'man startx' for more information. If you want the computer to boot to a GUI, you'll have to configure xdm, kdm or gdm. You can find more information about these in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 doesn't detect wireless card dwl g520
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 05:09 pm, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:51 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:59 am, Timothy Smith wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:50 am, Timothy Smith wrote: is there something extra i can do to force it to load this card? What do you mean by extra? What have you done so far? Have you recompiled the kernel with device lines for ath and ath_hal? Andrew Gould ___ i tried compiling it with ath and ath_hal, but it totally freaks out on make. error on apci (i thought that stuff was disabled in generic?) What version of FreeBSD are you using? Note that the atheros chipset is only supported by FreeBSD 5*. If apci is incompatible with your hardware, you may have to disable it and revert back to apm (or neither). Andrew Gould it's 5.3 release, apci and apm are disabled in generic (which i copied). i added the lines device ath and device ath_hal i get the error internal compiler error: segmentation fault stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ctau sorry i can't provide any kind of dump. wifi is this machines only option for networking :/ should i just give up or is there a glimmer of hope i might get this to work? Since I had a version B of the same wireless PCI card working in 5.3, I wouldn't give up. I would, however, update the system using cvsup in case something is missing/corrupted in the source code. (Also check the version of the PCI card. Is it version B?) Best of luck, Andrew Gould yeah thats the bugger of a thing, it has no network access to update via cvsup, i have to d/l latest i think and try again. can i load kernel modules any other way besides compiling them in? With most modules, yes; but I've never gotten it to work with ath and ath_hal. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 01:13 pm, Carolyn Taft wrote: Will this program allow me create password access to websites? Can I copy program from internet to my computer and burn CD (internal burning)? Thanks FreeBSD is an operating system. Although the operating system, itself, is not a web server, secure web servers are available for FreeBSD as binary packages and through FreeBSD's ports system. ISO images for CD's are available from FreeBSD's ftp servers. More information on how to obtain copies of FreeBSD can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html Best regards, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Impossible install of 5.4
On Monday 16 May 2005 10:26 am, Olivier Gautherot wrote: Hi folks! I've tried to install 5.4 but can't boot the disk. I see a FreeBSD prompt (the master boot selector being a Linux version of grub) but it complains about a missing /kernel. When I check my 5.3 disk with the new 5.4 install, the content of /boot looks fine. I tried all 3 options for the bootmanager but none works. Any clue of what I should investigate? I've installed several versions of FreeBSD in the past but never got this behavior. Thanks in advance P.S. Please copy me on answers... Did you check the md5 value of the iso file to ensure the download was good? Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
95% packets dropped with Atheros in FreeBSD 5.4
I'm having problems with an Atheros PCI card (D-Link G520) when running FreeBSD 5.4 i386: 1. I've been testing the card with the computers placed within 4 feet of the wireless router. 2. When I tested the card in a AMD64 socket 939 computer, it worked fine in Windows XP (rules out hardware issues). When I boot to FreeBSD 5.4 Release (i386 port, not amd64), executing ping results in over 95% packets lost. The on-board, vge ethernet port works fine in either OS. 3. When I use the card in a AMD Athlon XP computer running FreeBSD 5.4, executing ping results in over 95% packets lost. I cvsup'd overnight and rebuilt the world and kernel this morning. The results did not improve. The on-board, realtek ethernet port works fine. What should I do next to find the source of the problem? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnumeric portupgrade fails (libgnomedb)
On Thursday 05 May 2005 08:47 am, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, I tried to portupgrade gnumeric today (from 1.4.1 to 1.4.3_1), but it fails at the point where it tries to compile libgnomedb 1.2.1. It fails with the following error: ... gnome-db-dsn-config-druid.c: In function `general_next_pressed_cb': gnome-db-dsn-config-druid.c:246: error: `GdaProviderParameterInfo' undeclared (f irst use in this function) gnome-db-dsn-config-druid.c:246: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once gnome-db-dsn-config-druid.c:246: error: for each function it appears in.) gnome-db-dsn-config-druid.c:246: error: `param_info' undeclared (first use in th is function) gmake[1]: *** [gnome-db-dsn-config-druid.lo] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/databases/libgnomedb/work/libgnomedb-1.2 .1/libgnomedb' gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/libgnomedb. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/math/gnumeric. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade44803.0 mak e ** Fix the problem and try again. ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! math/gnumeric (gnumeric-1.4.1)(compiler error) --- Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed ... My portstree is up-to-date. Anyone has an idea how to solve this? Thanks. Marco Hi Marco, Do you need gnome-db? (Better yet, have you seen **any** documentation as how to use gnome-db from within gnumeric?) CONFIGURE_ARGS for the gnumeric port includes --with-gnome-db. Perhaps you could try doing make without gnome-db (make --without-gnome-db?) and then do portupgrade. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnumeric portupgrade fails (libgnomedb)
On Thursday 05 May 2005 10:14 am, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On stardate Thu, 5 May 2005, the wise Andrew L. Gould entered: Hi Marco, Do you need gnome-db? (Better yet, have you seen **any** documentation as how to use gnome-db from within gnumeric?) I don't think so. I thought Gnumeric needed it, it's installed as a dependency. Other gnome applications may also need it I guess. CONFIGURE_ARGS for the gnumeric port includes --with-gnome-db. Perhaps you could try doing make without gnome-db (make --without-gnome-db?) and then do portupgrade. I'll try but if that argument is in the configure, doesn't that imply that Gnumeric needs it? Thanks, Marco I think that the fact that it's a configuration argument implies that it's optional. (If it wasn't optional, why would the option be available.) The question that remains would be whether there are features of gnumeric that you use that require gnome-db. Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running out of memory
On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:59 am, Jacob S wrote: I've got a server that keeps running out of memory and crashing. It has 1GB of swap and 1GB of ram. I originally made the swap the same size as the ram, as my previous experience with *nix machines was that when swap is double the size of ram, the computer is almost totally unuseable for at least 30 minutes whenever the computer needs to clean out swap. Has anyone else seen this problem, or is it safe for me to add another GB of swap? Also, I made the mistake of partitioning all the space on the hard drive, with only 1GB set aside for swap. How big of a performance hit would it be to use a swap file instead of a swap partition? Is there an easy (and safe!) way to resize partitions so that I could add in a second swap partition? TIA, Jacob What is it that you're doing that would use up so much RAM and swap? Was the high swap usage expected? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system
My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64. If FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better. I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types? (I've never messed with SATA before.) Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:25 pm, Chuck Robey wrote: Andrew L. Gould wrote: My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64. If FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better. I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types? (I've never messed with SATA before.) YMMV, but for myself, I notice that SATA is notably less reliable than straight SCSI drives are. Less than Ide also. I don't know why. Thanks, Andrew Thanks for the warning. I just did a google search on sata reliability with lots of interesting results. The expected lifespan (MTBF) of a sata is lower than the scsi; but I haven't found any comparisons to ide yet. Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i need a file manager!
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:03 pm, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:48:16 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:43:37 +0100 Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you copy the files in /home/gert/ for example to /home/ in mc ? one by one or is there a other way ? with F5 you can copy whole directories, or select all files with the * sign first and then F5 (you can also use the + sign and then fill in *ogg to select only ogg-file i think you can only select one directory and one file no matter how many * you use ? * is used as a mask on the file name only if i am not mistaken ? I dont think you can do cp /home/gert/desktop/* /home/gert/ in cm using f5 ? ___ The link below leads to an introduction to mc that you may find useful: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue23/wkndmech_dec97/mc_article.html Best of luck, Andrew L. Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i need a file manager!
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 03:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:41:16 +0100 Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What shell file manager do you like or x file manager ? i like mc and xfe and konqueror (good support for ftp,sftp,webdav), but normally i only use mc and command-line for filemanagement ;) If I didn't use anything else in KDE, I would still install it for konqueror's webdav support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 03:29 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: You have no proof of that unless you were to run the tests that I already posted. You're wasting my time. Perhaps somebody who actually understands how FreeBSD works will offer useful assistance sooner or later, although I'm less and less optimistic. No, Anthony, if you've wasted ours. By now, you could have performed the suggested upgrades; and the proof of whether they made a difference would be known. If you're so sure of yourself, why not perform the upgrades and prove your point? Even if the upgrades didn't fix the problem, the changes may have resulted in additional information for those who have tried to help you. Even if the upgrades were irrelevant to your problems, your system might benefit from them after the problems are fixed. You've spent all this time on argumentation rather than progress. If you are convinced that FreeBSD is flawed and its community is closed-minded; maybe FreeBSD isn't the best OS for your purposes. Perhaps you should return to Windows NT. Perhaps you should try Linux, which has more commercial support. Whatever you decide, please do something constructive. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 10:02 am, daniel wrote: On March 22, 2005 10:54 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I have this big curse that I have to access the office computer from home. The office PC runs WinXP Home, not Professional. I have turned the Internet upside-down trying to get an app that will enable me access the goddamn XP desktop, using something like krdesktop, from home. Something that can run on the Windows XP and provide me access to it's desktop from a FreeBSD box running KDE. i'd suggest vnc: http://www.realvnc.com/ http://www.tightvnc.com/ you use realvnc to install the server, then tightvnc to connect (i find it's faster than the normal vnc client. then to connect all you need is X running and: $ vncviewer ipaddress security note: vnc is *not* encrypted and is not generally considered secure. any ports you open/forward should be directed to your ip only. even better, try a knocking daemon. One of the advantages of running the tightvnc server is that it also runs a java web server so that you can access the tightvnc server from an internet browser without the use of a tightvnc client. The port number equals 5800 plus the windown number. For example, to access window 1 at 192.168.0.2, to go: http://192.168.0.2:5801 Caveat: I've only tested this from Win2K to FreeBSD, not the other way around. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:18 pm, Christopher Nehren wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-22, daniel scribbled these curious markings: security note: vnc is *not* encrypted and is not generally considered secure. any ports you open/forward should be directed to your ip only. even better, try a knocking daemon. This is why you set up an SSH tunnel between the two machines. The Handbook (as always) shows how to do this, with examples. Best Regards, Christopher Nehren To forward a VNC session through SSH, the user will need to install a SSH application on the Windows computer. PuTTY is a free example, and is available at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 03:26 pm, Ean Kingston wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:18 pm, Christopher Nehren wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-22, daniel scribbled these curious markings: security note: vnc is *not* encrypted and is not generally considered secure. any ports you open/forward should be directed to your ip only. even better, try a knocking daemon. This is why you set up an SSH tunnel between the two machines. The Handbook (as always) shows how to do this, with examples. Best Regards, Christopher Nehren To forward a VNC session through SSH, the user will need to install a SSH application on the Windows computer. PuTTY is a free example, and is available at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ AFAIK Putty is a client only. The original user wanted to access his WinXP Home system from FreeBSD. So, Putty isn't going to do it. I think there is an OpenSSH implementation (both client and server) for Win32 that runs on XP. I know the cygwin implementation works (but the original poster may not want that much added to the XP system). http://www.cygwin.com/ and http://www.openssh.org/ You're right -- good catch. Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
