Asking the experts. . .
I'm setting up a web/mail/source coude server for my open source project and am using FreeBSD. My first concern is security. I read through the appropriate area of the Handbook and really enjoyed it. However, I do not know what suid, guid, and the like are. I've look up the man pages, but am still confused. It seems like the suid bit means that only the file owner can execute the file. Is this true? Also, does anyone have any security tips? I am new to all this and so am looking for as much info as possible. I would like to get a (few) book(s) on FreeBSD and security - any recommendations? My second concern is performance. I read the tuning man page and was a little confused. Could anyone help me with this? Reasources and/or advice would be great. I am using Apache/PHP/MySQL, eGroupWare, and SubVersion so far. I also need an email server. I will need mailing lists. I would like to support IMAP, but am unfamiliar with it. I understand POP3 as I have dealt with it for a while. What are the tradeoffs and/or advantages of IMAP? I know IMAP is supposed to be newer and better, but how? In addition to mailing lists, contributors will also get e-mail addresses for the project. I'd like to use ClamAV for e-mail virus protection - but need some pointers for installation and configuration. Right now I am running FreeBSD 5.4, Apache 2.0.54, MySQL 4.1, and eGroupWare 1.0.0.008. Thanks is advance :-) Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ 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-release install problem
On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:33 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I downloaded the 5.4-release iso images from the freebsd website. I used my windows machine and Nero to burn the iso images to cd's. I have an old machine that I am trying to install 5.4-release on. It is a PII 333, SCSI with 30GB scsi hard drive. I place cd 1 in the drive (disk 1 iso) and reboot the machine. When it boots, it looks to the cdrom drive as the first boot device. When it does, my screen is full of scrolling text which looks like dump info. It scrolls on and on. If the text starts grey, then switches to white, then turns grey again that's FreeBSD booting. After a little bit sysinstall should load. sysinstall is the utility used to install FreeBSD. Any ideas on the problem ? So far it doesn't sound like anything is wrong. Have you read the handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html ? thanks, Darryl Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ 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-release install problem
[Deleted] Well, I went and tried to look at the scrolling text. It had several columsn with in err ef1 cip. Their is a line that says: BTX Halted. ss:esp= I'm pretty sure this is not the normal boot process. I'll look at the handbook as suggested. -Darryl I found this when I Googled BTX Halted. ss:esp= : | BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 | int=0006 err= efl=00010246 eip=1934 | eax=00021d60 ebx= ecx= edx= | esi= edi=00020c34 ebp=00094bec esp=00094bdc | cs=0026 db=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 | cs:eip=0f 44 d6 89 55 fc 46 83-2c b7 00 74 05 83 fa ff | ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff | BTX halted |did you try a hard power reset after this message? I have an old |IBM intellistation that does the same thing with 5.x. After I install |I get the BTX halted, but if I cold boot it after the message it |will boot. It sounds like you get the BTX Halted error before you install, is that correct? If I remember correctly, the ISO image from the web site should have an MD5 hash. Have you compared the hash on the web site with the hash of the ISOs you downloaded? Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache problems
I know this isn't directly freebsd related, but this list has been good to me before. I am running 5-STABLE. I installed Apache 2.1.4 using make install clean after updating my ports collection. Everything seemed to go fine. I then installed mod_php5 via make install clean. I added 192.168.1.102 thereallm.org to my /etc/hosts file (I am testing this box before I send it out for co-located hosting). When I run apachectl start I get no errors - even with -e, but there's no pid for apache or httpd in top (via top | grep httpd or top | grep apache). Thanks, Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package database corruption
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 07:36 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:44:05PM -0400, dave wrote: Hello, I've got a 5.4 box, that was working fine until it somehow lost it's correct date. A port upgrade was atempted while in this state then when it failed, it was handed off to me to fix. THe problem is in the f-prot-sig package, it's not updating it's either wanting v 20050705 or 20050730 it says 20050730 is install but a portversion -l shows f-prot-sig still needing updating. I tried just updating that package with portupgrade f-prot-sig and it said the package wasn't updated because it was already marked as ignored. I'm hoping i don't have to uninstall and reinstall the packages on this box, any help appreciated. Make sure you updated your index (e.g. make fetchindex) before updating ports, or portupgrade won't know which need to be updated. You could also give portsnap a go. It's under the ports collection. Kris Thanks, Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard drive not properly dismounted
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 08:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a second hard drive in my docking station that gets mounted at each boot as /hd2. For the past few weeks, everytime I boot, I get the message /hd2 not properly dismounted I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that automatically mounts and unmounts /hd2 at boot and shutdown. Also, if I just unmount /hd2 manually, I still get that message. I've run fsck on it, can still access when booted, and don't see anything wrong. Why am I getting that message? If the laptop (or docking station) lost power or was forcably powered off the drive will be left in an inconsistant state - causing the error message you're seeing. I have had this happen to me a few times. I booted into single-user mode by entering boot -s at the boot countdown (after pressing space). Once the system is up (and before I mount any drives) I run fsck -y. This runs fsck and answers yes to all questions. Check the man-page for all availible options. If you want to run fsck interactively, leave -y off. Any ideas? Hope that helps :-D Thanks, DW Thanks, Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup kernel - confirmation
On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:10 pm, Norberto Meijome wrote: quick question - I have a remote box with SMP/HTT disabled, but I'd like to see how it works with it. If I make a copy of my current kernel to /kernel_orig, I should be able to install the SMP one as /kernel, and if hell breaks lose, I should be able to point it to /kernel_orig ... right? Yes, you can do that. Also of note is that when FreeBSD compiles a kernel it takes the old kernel and renames it kernel.old. When FreeBSD is booting you can select which kernel to use simpy by entering boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel or boot /boot/kernel_orig/kernel. I did this when I was tweak the kernel in my laptop. Check the boot man page for more info. any caveats for this? ( I do off-band access to the server) Booting using boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel runs as if you were booting using your current kernel. I ran my laptop all day on my old kernel and did't see any problems. thanks in advance, Beto Thanks, Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: huh?
On Thursday 28 July 2005 06:55 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Wednesday 27 July 2005 10:39, Chris wrote: Do you have curses like cisco rhce msce CCNA , maybe for free ? YOU - are an idiot... Read the list name... FreeBSD Questions... I think he meant to ask, are there FreeBSD certifications similar to RHCE, MSCE, etc.?, which is a perfectly legitimate question. Don't be so quick to anger. Thank you for saying that. I'd actually be interested in FreeBSD certification. I've learned a lot, but there's still so much I don't know :-) Thanks, Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ 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 Tuesday 19 July 2005 10:14 am, Rommi Alvian (MTHK/EDP) wrote: I am deeply interested with freeBSD. currently, i am a windows expert then i am trying to move into freeBSD. The problem is no one can teach me. i have read xxxguide but it can't help me. does freeBSD support GUI interface? How far have you gotten with your FreeBSD install? What version are you trying to install? What books/guides have you read? please help step by step.. The more information we have, the better we can help you :-) thanks Thank you for trying FreeBSD! alvian Bryan P.S. I had a lot of trouble in the beginning too. I got a lot of good help from this mailing list. Now I have two fully-functioning installs - a desktop (Dell Dimesion 2400) and a laptop (Dell Latitude C600). It can be done and is well worth the effort :-) -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdrom mount question
I am not sure which list to post this to, I'll start here. :-) I am trying to play a CD through amaroK in KDE, but when I try to mount the disc I get the following error: cd9660: /dev/acdo: Operation not permitted I am not running as root when trying to access the device and I'm sure this is the problem. . . I just don't know how to fix it :-). Thanks for all your help! Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel question
On Friday 01 July 2005 11:02 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/1/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read through your kernel - very nice comments, thanks a lot! I compiled the kernel and boot-up is noticably faster, thanks again! I would like to investigate transfering all the device info from boot -v to LATITUDE_C600.hints. I don't really know what most of the info from boot -v means, I'd like to work on figuring it out. Maybe you could help me learn and we could figure it out together? Any help you could give you be greatly appreciated! One thing of note: I don't have any sound. I've never had sound, but after booting with the new kernel I went into KDE's control panel and tested the sound system, but nothing came out. I didn't get any errors when it restarted the sound system so I'm not sure what's up. Your using the wrong driver. the one you want is snd_maestro3. Add this to your loader.conf file: #sound_load=YES#PCM Sound Support #snd_driver_load=YES # Loads every sound drivers it can find snd_maestro3=YES # Your driver hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 #sets up up to 4 virtual audio channels on demand #hw.snd.targetirqrate=36# read the sound man page #hint.pcm.0.buffersize=16384 #read the sound man page After you do that reboot and retest it. first thing is to check dmesg. dmesg|grep -i pcm and do the same for ess and maestro, you should see that it was detected. also you should try 'cat /dev/sndstat'. fire up X and well, anyways if everything is working put the driver in the kernel config file and comment it out in loader.conf. I'll see what I can do about your other questions later, right now I need a smoke and have work to do. My sound is working now, thanks :-) My battery doesn't seem to be charging though. . . Everytime I boot dmesg tells me that my battery has a critically low charge. I do not know how to correct this. I just need my battery to work and I'll have a fully functional laptop! I've incuded the dmesg output from the new kernel boot in case you need to look at it along with my current CUSTOM.hints file (maybe it'll help. . . :-?) Anyway, thanks a lot for the new kernel, it works like a charm! Bryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for all your help! Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple question
I just want to note: it tokk all of five minutes to get an answer to this question. I know not all questions are, or can be, answered this quickly. I just think it's worth noting that Open Source Software does have excellent user support. . . Just my .02 :-) On Wednesday 06 July 2005 07:45 pm, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi again, I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD Handbook and there I always find this references: sendmail(8) sshd(8) /etc/inetd.conf(5) -Which is the meaning of those numbers Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.4 ndis support
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 08:25 am, Tobias Tom wrote: Anyway, there is a utility in 5.4 (I think that's that's where it showed up) called ndisgen. Running ndisgen steps you through a wonderful little script that asks for for the location of your INF and SYS files, generates you .h file and kernel module. I did that ... thank you very much ... it generated a rt2500_sys.ko .. and that could be loaded by hand. No problem, glad I could help! :-D Now I have just the Problem left that it does not work when i try to load it on boot. Is there anything I have to do except copy that file to /boot/kernel and enter load_rt200_sys=yes to loader.conf? As long as you're not using DHCP that should work fine. I'm actually trying to get my Linksys WPC11 ver.4 to load at boot and grap an IP through DHCP, but I don't think it's possible (if anyone has any ideas on this I'd love to hear them :-)). If you can assign a static IP to your wireless card through your router you should be fine. Just bind your wireless car's MAC address (found using ifconfig -a and looking for the ether property of the ndis0 device) to your chosen IP address using your router (if your router can hand out static IPs it should be able to map those static Ips to a MAC address). If you have any problems, or questions, please provide your router's model number and we'll do some research. . . You could also try putting your chosen static IP address in your kernel's kernel.hints file (if you're using the GENERIC kernel it'll be GENERIC.hints). I'm not sure what the syntax for that would be though. . . might be something fun to experiment with :-D I was getting the same No such file or directory error until I ran ndisgen. Maybe you could try kldload ./your .ko file. That worked here. And after all, I saw that inside the manual is written down that only prism chipset cards are supported to run as an access point. Is that still correct? Or is there any change to get it run. The Interface seems to work now. When I try to use wicontrol it tells me wicontrol: SIOCGWAVELAN: Device not configured. Please tell me that my card will work, too ;o) Thanks for your Help Regards Tobias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any more questions please feel free to ask. Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.4 ndis support
I've been having issues with ndis myself. However, I got some help and things are going good for me, except that i haven't gotten DHCP to work for the card. . . Anyway, there is a utility in 5.4 (I think that's that's where it showed up) called ndisgen. Running ndisgen steps you through a wonderful little script that asks for for the location of your INF and SYS files, generates you .h file and kernel module. I was getting the same No such file or directory error until I ran ndisgen. Give it a try. :-D Bryan On Sunday 03 July 2005 10:10 am, Tobias Tom wrote: Hello everyone, I'm using FreeBSD for some years now. I've read the german Mailinglist for nearly the same time. But I've got a Problem which no one can reproduce, or no one know any solution. I want to use my Level One wnc 0301 WLAN PCI Card in my FreeBSD box with acts as a Router in my small Home Network. I've found no drivers or buildin support for that Card. Google, and the Manufactor told me that it is using the raltech rt2500 chip. I found a page where someone builds a driver for FreeBSD CURRENT, but it is not portable for the 5.x branch. Someone told me that I could use the ndis Feature which occured in FreeBSD 5.3. I'm not sure how happy I am with Windows Drivers on my FreeBSD Box, but for now i don't see any alternative. So I tried to get ndis Support up like it is described inside the Manual, and inside the first commit Message of the Files. Building seems to work really fine. I've created the ndis_driver_data.h from my driver INF and Driver SYS. Ran make make install and everything was finished without any error. Then I tried to load the ndis support with kldload ndis. It results into the following Error Message: kldload: can't load ndis: No such file or directory So I looked it the file is really not existing. But it exists, ls output is: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 91686 Jul 3 15:37 /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko So I looked into dmesg and saw the following Error: link_elf: symbol VOP_GETATTR_APV undefined KLD if_ndis.ko: depends on ndisapi - not available After I could not get something usefull out for me (others might be more successfull ;o) I looked again into the man page of ndis. Under Synopsis the following lines are written down: options NDISAPI device ndis device wlan So I though when i cannot build ndis as module, or maybe the ndisapi come directly from the kernel, i could build my custom kernel with these options. It stoped with these Lines: cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -std=c99 -nostdinc -I- -I. -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/altq -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/pf -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/freebsd -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ngatm -I/usr/src/sys/dev/twa -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -fno-common -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -ffreestanding -Werror /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c: In function `KeRemoveQueueDpc': /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: error: request for member `mtx_lock' in something not a structure or union /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: error: request for member `mtx_recurse' in something not a structure or union /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: error: request for member `mtx_lock' in something not a structure or union /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: error: request for member `mtx_recurse' in something not a structure or union /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: error: request for member `mtx_recurse' in something not a structure or union /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: error: request for member `mtx_lock' in something not a structure or union /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3123: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3123: error: request for member `mtx_recurse' in something not a structure or union /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3123: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3123: error:
Re: Test messages to -questions
Pardon my newness, but what is top posting? Thanks, Bryan On Friday 01 July 2005 06:56 pm, Lane wrote: On Friday 01 July 2005 13:30, Robert Marella wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post before you actually post a question? If your first question/comment doesn't go through, you know it's not working. And subsequent tests can be the same question/comment with a datestamp. Just my 2 cents. Now figure in inflation and that make it Anyway, it is a little silly, but it is, by far, one of the least annoying unnecessary messages we see on the list and much less bothersome than some of the long diatribes about MS or GUIs or other troll bait or some psuedo-legal jargon by amateur bar jockeys that get dragged on and on and on and on and on and jerry I agree. I am much more annoyed by top posters. Robert The only thing about email that annoys me is spam. While I'm a subscriber to freebsd-questions, top posting, incomplete questions, inflammatory commentary, etc. is just the price I pay for getting a steady stream of Aha's, and hardly seems worth the effort to develop an emotional viewpoint. Although thought police who say do this and don't do that wear me out sometimes with their email. lane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel question
I read through your kernel - very nice comments, thanks a lot! I compiled the kernel and boot-up is noticably faster, thanks again! I would like to investigate transfering all the device info from boot -v to LATITUDE_C600.hints. I don't really know what most of the info from boot -v means, I'd like to work on figuring it out. Maybe you could help me learn and we could figure it out together? Any help you could give you be greatly appreciated! One thing of note: I don't have any sound. I've never had sound, but after booting with the new kernel I went into KDE's control panel and tested the sound system, but nothing came out. I didn't get any errors when it restarted the sound system so I'm not sure what's up. I've incuded the dmesg output from the new kernel boot in case you need to look at it along with my current CUSTOM.hints file (maybe it'll help. . . :-?) Anyway, thanks a lot for the new kernel, it works like a charm! Bryan On Friday 01 July 2005 05:58 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/30/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I checked out the man pages you listed, thanks for the help! I didn't understand everything in all of them, but they did help me firgure out some more questions to ask. Is it possible to identify all hardware component in my system in the device.hints file and if so, what would that accomplish? I am running a Dell Latitude C600. Do this with the kernel .hints file. it will be statically compile into the kernel then. kernel.hints = statically compiled = faster boot. device.hints = dynamic-ish = slower, but still faster then random probing. Also, I have a custom kernel I am trying to tweak. However, when I boot from it I get the following messages: ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out ata1-master: timeout sending command=a1 ata1-master: error issueing ATAPI_IDENTIFY command ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 It then asks me to manually enter a root filesystem. I've attached my CUSTOM kernel config. Along with my CUSTOM.hints file. I don't use CUSTOM.hints, but it has hints about the nexus device. this device shows up when I use boot-v. I'm not sure If I have it's info entered properly, maybe you could help me with that. I've attached a kernel for you to use. Compare it to yours (and GENERIC) and read the comments I made in it. It should address most of your questions. Could I use the info from a boot -v in the device.hints file? If so, how do I translate the syntax. I've looked at the boot -v output before and it seems like there's enough info for the device.hints file, I just don't know what it all means or how to extract it. You can put the boot -v info into the kernel .hints file, I think. I never tried to do anything like that and I'm not sure how to go about doing it. Or maybe thats what kenv is for... hmmm -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/CUSTOM.hints,v 1.13 2005/04/14 14:50:31 maynard Exp $ hint.npx.0.at=nexus hint.npx.0.port=0x0F0 hint.npx.0.flags=0x0 hint.npx.0.irq=13 hint.acpi_timer.0.port=0x808-0x80b hint.acpi_timer.0.at=acpi hint.ata.0.at=isa hint.ata.0.port=0x1F0 hint.ata.0.irq=14 hint.ata.1.at=isa hint.ata.1.port=0x170 hint.ata.1.irq=15 hint.atkbdc.0.at=isa hint.atkbdc.0.port=0x060 hint.atkbd.0.at=atkbdc hint.atkbd.0.irq=1 hint.psm.0.at=atkbdc hint.psm.0.irq=12 hint.vga.0.at=isa hint.sc.0.at=isa hint.sc.0.flags=0x100 hint.apm.0.disabled=0 hint.apm.0.flags=0x20 hint.pcic.0.at=isa #hint.pcic.0.irq=10 hint.pcic.0.port=0x3e0 hint.pcic.0.maddr=0xd hint.pcic.1.at=isa hint.pcic.1.irq=11 hint.pcic.1.port=0x3e2 hint.pcic.1.maddr=0xd4000 hint.pcic.1.disabled=0 hint.ppc.0.at=isa hint.ppc.0.irq=7 hint.ed.0.at=isa hint.ed.0.port=0x280 hint.ed.0.irq=5 hint.ed.0.maddr=0xd8000 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel question
I checked out the man pages you listed, thanks for the help! I didn't understand everything in all of them, but they did help me firgure out some more questions to ask. Is it possible to identify all hardware component in my system in the device.hints file and if so, what would that accomplish? I am running a Dell Latitude C600. Also, I have a custom kernel I am trying to tweak. However, when I boot from it I get the following messages: ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out ata1-master: timeout sending command=a1 ata1-master: error issueing ATAPI_IDENTIFY command ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 It then asks me to manually enter a root filesystem. I've attached my CUSTOM kernel config. Along with my CUSTOM.hints file. I don't use CUSTOM.hints, but it has hints about the nexus device. this device shows up when I use boot-v. I'm not sure If I have it's info entered properly, maybe you could help me with that. Could I use the info from a boot -v in the device.hints file? If so, how do I translate the syntax. I've looked at the boot -v output before and it seems like there's enough info for the device.hints file, I just don't know what it all means or how to extract it. I've also included the output from kenv and dmesg if that will help. It says the kernel is kernel.old, but that's because I had to boot from that after writing down the messages I got when booting from my CUSTOM kernel. kernel.old is my GENERIC kernel though. Anyway, thanks for your help! Bryan On Thursday 30 June 2005 06:47 am, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/29/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey helpful friends! :-D I would like to conduct an experiment: down the road (a couple years maybe) I'd like to start building and selling PCs. I'd like these PCs to run FreeBSD - because it's the best ;-). These machines will be a slightly different from the current crop in that they will be laptops that will not have PCMCIA slots or CD/DVD drives (these items will be held in a separate breakout box). The machines wil lbe completely sealed with the exception of the various memory card (SD, CompactFlash, Memory stick, etc.) embeded in the monitor casing. There's much more to these machines, but I'll save those details for the appropriate place - my question for here is this: I'd like to minimize boot time as much as possible. Since these machines will not ever have hardware added or changed I would like to statically build as much device information as early in the boot process as possible. I understand that FreeBSD has a three stage boot process. I'm a bit fuzzy as to what happens when, but was wondering how, or if, I could cut out any of these stages - and shorten the remaining stages as much as possible. I've looked around loader.conf, device.hints, KERNEL.hints, and such and this is what got me wondering. If you all need anymore info please let me know. Thanks a lot! Bryan -- http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot.html Man pages: loader.conf loader loader.4th boot btxld boot0cfg device.hints kenv The majority of the boot process time is the BIOS testing and initializing hardware and there is no simple way around this. The best place to start is to rip everything out of the kernel config file. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. # # CUSTOM -- Custom kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 created by Bryan Maynard # Last updated: 2005-06-29 # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/CUSTOM,v 1.413.2.9 2005/06/29 12:00:10 maynard Exp $ machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident CUSTOM options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler options INET# InterNETworking options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem options PSEUDOFS# Pseudo-filesystem framework options PROCFS
Kernel question
Hey helpful friends! :-D I would like to conduct an experiment: down the road (a couple years maybe) I'd like to start building and selling PCs. I'd like these PCs to run FreeBSD - because it's the best ;-). These machines will be a slightly different from the current crop in that they will be laptops that will not have PCMCIA slots or CD/DVD drives (these items will be held in a separate breakout box). The machines wil lbe completely sealed with the exception of the various memory card (SD, CompactFlash, Memory stick, etc.) embeded in the monitor casing. There's much more to these machines, but I'll save those details for the appropriate place - my question for here is this: I'd like to minimize boot time as much as possible. Since these machines will not ever have hardware added or changed I would like to statically build as much device information as early in the boot process as possible. I understand that FreeBSD has a three stage boot process. I'm a bit fuzzy as to what happens when, but was wondering how, or if, I could cut out any of these stages - and shorten the remaining stages as much as possible. I've looked around loader.conf, device.hints, KERNEL.hints, and such and this is what got me wondering. If you all need anymore info please let me know. Thanks a lot! Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Possibly silly question. . .
Hey all, I was just looking through the ports collection to portinstall Kopete, but I couldn't find it! I checked the spelling and capitalization to make sure I was entering my search correct, and I was. I know Kopete is availible - I've used it in a previous install. It's just been a while since I tried to install it. My current install had to be very minimal, so I've been adding things as I need them. I know this is silly and I'm sorry. I'd really appreciate a little help jogging my memory, thanks! :-D Bryan P.S. I tried running kopete and Kopete from the Run Command dialog to see if I already had it installed but to no avail. I am running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #3: Fri Jun 17 12:58:02 UTC 2005 (according to uname) and KDE 3.4. -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possibly silly question. . .
I'm portinstalling kdenetwork-3.4.0 right now, thanks a lot! Bryan On Tuesday 28 June 2005 04:56 pm, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 6/28/2005 03:49, Bryan Maynard seems to have typed: I know Kopete is availible - I've used it in a previous install. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/kopete/Attic/pkg-descr Try installing the kdenetwork3 port. -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ndis0 dhcp question
Hello all! :-D I have a Linksys WPC11 ver.4 wireless NIC. I got it setup using ndisgen (very cool tool by the way). Now when kldload /root/rtl8180_sys.ko (the location of my wireless kernel object) dmesg shows this: ndis0: Realtek RTL8180 Wireless LAN (Mini-)PCI NIC port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x88 00-0x880001ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus1 ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:66:cf:10:7e ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps and when I run ifconfig -a I get this: ::My onboard ethernet NIC xl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU inet6 fe80::204:76ff:fe48:9301%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:04:76:48:93:01 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active ::I don't know what this is. . . plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ::Loopback device lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 ::My Linksys WPC11 ver.4 ndis0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 ether 00:0f:66:cf:10:7e media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 I have several questions, but I'll ask them one at a time. . . I have a Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router. Currently my onboard NIC is what I use to access the net and stuff. How do I assign an IP address - and any other needed parameters - to my wireless NIC, activate it, and use it instead of (or along with) my onboard ethernet NIC? I know about using ifconfig interface name blah blah blah, but what paramaters do I pass and where do I get them? Thanks, Bryan -- Open Source: by the people, for the people. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
