Re: FYI: USB wireless on FreeBSD 6.1 Release via ural driver
On Monday 07 August 2006 13:35, Andrew Gould wrote: Given the occasional question regarding wireless adapters on this list, and that I didn't see this in the hardware notes, I thought I'd post a message: The D-Link DWL-G122 version B1 is compatible with FreeBSD 6.1 Release on the i386 architecture. This is a USB, 802.11g adapter. Please note that the hardware version number is important as some manufacturers like to change chipsets without changing model numbers. This adapter uses the ural driver. When I plugged the adapter into the USB port, it was identified correctly as ural0. Network configuration using ifconfig was standard, except that the wlan_wep module had to be loaded manually before the adapter could be configured with a WEP code. You can find a list of compatible, adapters in the ural man page. Remember to pay close attention to hardware version numbers. FYI, when I get around to it, I will be submitting patches to usbdevs to support the Nova Tech NV902W Unwire USB 802.11b/g adapter. It also uses the ural driver and works great with two caveats. One is that (along with all ural NICs, it seems) is unstable with wpa so I had to go back to wep. The other caveat is that the link light does not come on, but it does when run under Windows. The activity light does work. I get good signal, either full speed or down to 48mbps. -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX pgpG46XqpaIeE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HOWTO wireless please.
On Thursday 20 July 2006 13:03, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Garrett, Hello doug, In http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless. html it doesnot explain how to setup ugen0 device or any wireless device for a client, insted it says First, make sure your system can see the wireless card: However, in ifconfig -a it doesnot show any wireless device as you wrote Garrett, but the firewire and nic device, then how come in the dmesg it can read the ugen0 ugen0 is a generic USB device, not a NIC. Perhaps you want to load the ural device. Try kldload ural and see if you get a new network device (ural0). Since the NIC is being detected as ugen you might need to have the ural device load before the ugen device (or remove ugen from your kernel config, if you don't need it). -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX pgpKbPsCVznG7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?
On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:06, pete wright wrote: Did you try to build/install a 32bit version of VNC? Also, if you are running a Unix like OS why use VNC? You can achive %90 of the same features (with less of a memory/cpu impact) by running X apps remotely. -pete How do you do cross-compilation on amd64? I looked through the mailing list archives and couldn't find a method. Also, VNC, slow as it is, tends to be faster than running X apps directly, at least over high-latency networks. NX runs rings around both of them, though. -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX pgpNDUVUVewrD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center?
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:32, Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: Hi I have IBM Blade with Qlogic 2312 adapters using DS400 SAN now I have learned that after over 10 years of good FreeBSD experience on various sorts of hardware, I can't use FreeBSD anymore as it does'nt work on IBM Blade. I have read alot on this problem trying to solve this problem and done alot of testing and hacking but without any progress. so I have two questions: is FreeBSD going to support IBM Blade? if it is going to support and work on IBM Blade, can you give me an estimation on when it will be ready to run on IBM Blade? The blade center is a bizarre beast and it is difficult to make the officially supported Operating Systems work correctly with it. We had difficulties making AIX work properly on the JS20 blade, for instance. With IBM hardware, it is best to stick with officially supported products. Sometimes, IBM doesn't support something for a reason... I would be (pleasantly) surprised to laern you were able to attach FreeBSD to IBM storage. Of course, IBM will provide you with no help in either of these, and I wouldn't venture to guess if you can do concurrent maintenance on your DS4000 with FreeBSD running. -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX pgpHYYIFGgQ1g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: USB mice
On Saturday 24 December 2005 04:15, Teilhard Knight wrote:
It didn't work. Actually I have a little more than a USB mouse, I have a
wireless mouse and wireless keyboard which are both controlled by a central
unit which plugs into an USB port in the computer. The keyboard works well,
with the option of booting with an USB keyboard, but I cannot make the
mouse work. Any suggestions?
Try one of the attached patches. They are taken from usb/77604. The patch is
now known to work with at least three different manufacturers mice, and so
far as I have been able to tell doesn't break anything that works without it.
Maybe someone will eventually commit these patches to the appropriate trees,
the PR has only been open for about 10 months...
Choose one of the patches based on the release of FreeBSD you are using. the
hid.c.patch file is for RELENG_5, hid.c.patch.6 is for RELENG_6 and HEAD.
Deposit the file in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb and run patch hid.c.patch[.6] then
recompile and reinstall your kernel.
--
Jonathan Fosburgh
AIX and Storage Administrator
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
--- hid.c.orig Sun Feb 6 06:41:00 2005
+++ hid.c Wed Mar 9 11:31:02 2005
@@ -371,14 +371,23 @@
{
struct hid_data *d;
struct hid_item h;
- int size, id;
+ int hi, lo, size, id;
id = 0;
+ hi = lo = -1;
for (d = hid_start_parse(buf, len, 1k); hid_get_item(d, h); )
- if (h.report_ID != 0 !id)
- id = h.report_ID;
+ if (h.kind == k) {
+ if (h.report_ID != 0 !id)
+ id = h.report_ID;
+ if (h.report_ID == id) {
+ if (lo 0)
+ lo = h.loc.pos;
+ hi = h.loc.pos + h.loc.size * h.loc.count;
+ }
+ }
+
hid_end_parse(d);
- size = h.loc.pos;
+ size = hi - lo;
if (id != 0) {
size += 8;
*idp = id; /* XXX wrong */
--- hid.c.orig Tue Feb 22 01:27:35 2005
+++ hid.c Tue Feb 22 01:38:44 2005
@@ -371,14 +371,22 @@ hid_report_size(void *buf, int len, enum
{
struct hid_data *d;
struct hid_item h;
- int size, id;
+ int hi, lo, size, id;
id = 0;
+ hi = lo = -1;
for (d = hid_start_parse(buf, len, 1k); hid_get_item(d, h); )
- if (h.report_ID != 0)
- id = h.report_ID;
+ if (h.kind == k) {
+ if (h.report_ID != 0 !id)
+id = h.report_ID;
+ if (h.report_ID == id) {
+if (lo 0)
+ lo = h.loc.pos;
+hi = h.loc.pos + h.loc.size * h.loc.count;
+ }
+ }
hid_end_parse(d);
- size = h.loc.pos;
+ size = hi - lo;
if (id != 0) {
size += 8;
*idp = id; /* XXX wrong */
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Re: USB mice don't work
On Sunday 06 November 2005 02:54 pm, Moritz Lipfert wrote: At the moment there are no moused lines in my rc.conf. Should I add these configuration lines? The usbd daemon should take care of it, but you might try putting it in rc.conf. Also, you may wish to try applying one of the patches (hid.patch.c) in usb/77604. Maybe someone will eventually commit these or atleast explain why they can't be... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fibre Channel disks to two Systems?
On Friday 09 September 2005 01:59 pm, Danny Howard wrote: From my research, I am thus far most impressed with the SANbloc 2Gb, which holds fourteen FC drives in a 3U rackmount. It can be had with redundant RAID controllers, or as a JBOD. There are similar products from other vendors as well. Unfortunately I have no experience doing anything SAN related on FreeBSD, but I think I can say that you would do just fine with any Engenio-based (IBM, StorageTek, Maxxan, etc) product. They seem to manufacture most of the modular fibre channel storage out there, and they also sell FC-attached SATA hardware. Of course if someone actually mentions they support FreeBSD then probably go with that, otherwise you are likely to be on your own. I could concievably do the RAID in software by running a gstripe across a set of gmirrors. As I understand it, I can have an FC loop with one or more drives, connected to two servers, and either server can talk to one or the other drives exclusively. My QUESTION is: how is the arbitration done in FreeBSD? You run camcontrol on either server and activate / deactivate drives in the loop? What happens if say, the primary server locks up in some weird manner? Can it block the backup server from talking to the drives? (We can always have a NOC tech turn off a badly failed primary database, and power-cycle the disk array, if needed ...) A really far-out idea I had was that with fourteen drive bays I could have two hot spares, and then set up a stripe across four mirrored pairs (4x2 = 8-disk RAID10) and then with the remaining four drives assign each to be a third component of the gmirrored pairs, let the gmirrors sync up, then detach those drives from the gmirrors, mount them on the backup database, gstripe those containers together, and have a point-in-time snapshot of the drive array that could be mounted on the backup server, from which I could run database dumps, or conduct failover tests, etc. (I could kick this around -geom. :) Uhmmm, has anyone done similar? Suggestions? Feedback? Advice? Or, should I try to get a NetApp, or similar device, even though FreeBSD does not support iSCSI, because NFS performance over GigE may still beat FC? I can't believe that FreeBSD would have such poor support for FC that NFS performs better. :) Remember you dealing with block I/O on the storage array and file I/O on the NetApp (which I think supports either NFS or CIFS). There are (or have been) some proprietary database vendors (Microsoft comes to mind...) who don't allow their databases to run on any kind of NAS setup (which is what the NetApp is). Granted I don't know if Postres gives support for putting databases on raw devices or if it only supports putting the database on a filesystem, so you may not get the full benefits of using block storage. Still, for a database, I think you should use block storage if at all possible. Alas, I can't speak to how you can give multiple FreeBSD systems access to the same storage device. Also, does anyone have a FreeBSD-friendly storage systems integrator or other vendor they can reccomend, particularly one near the San Francisco area? I keep contacting various vendors who then fail to get back to me. :( Personally I have never seen a storage vendor who supports FreeBSD, but I deal with large enterprise players where Linux is only just in the last couple of years enjoying broad support. Maybe the smaller vendors are more likely to support FreeBSD. Are there any Bay area FBSD user's groups? You might try them. Thanks for all feedback and suggestions! Sincerely, -danny -- Jonathan Fosburgh Storage Engineer/Architect ___ 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 SANs
On Monday 24 January 2005 14:16, Oliver Leitner wrote: Ok, im not fully into the programs involved with SAN technology, maybe you may give a few names of programs youre used to, so i could look for em? Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at On Monday 24 January 2005 15:46, Wood, Bradley wrote: Hi I am wanting to access a SAN from FreeBSD. Is there any support for this to you knowledge? If so, can anyone recommend a hardware solution that worked well? Additionally, if anyone is aware of hosting firms that provide and support FreeBSD nodes co-lo managed but also provide per gigabyte pricing on SAN-accessible storage I would be most interested. He's probably more interested in hardware. Is the SAN fibre channel, iSCSI? I believe there is support from FreeBSD for both types, but I have never tried it with FreeBSD. Also, you have to look at whether or not the storage server supports a given OS. In the case of the IBM Shark there is a list of supported platforms that you have to select from when adding a new host to the configuration. Selecting the wrong type can lead to data access problems. On the other hand, some storage servers may not care. Do careful research, but remember that probably no storage servers support FreeBSD officially. -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX pgpVI16EIjJIP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: KMail and IMAP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 July 2004 15:53, Chris wrote: Anyone might know why KMail does not act on message filters on incoming mail when using IMAP? It works wunnerfully with pop. This is best directed at one of the KDE mailling lists, but from the FAQ posted at http://docs.kde.org/en/3.2/kdepim/kmail/faq.html 6.1. Why are my filters not applied to incoming messages of IMAP accounts? Because KMail currently does not support this. You should use server-side filtering (ask your admin for how to install filters on the server and in which format), since IMAP is all about managing your email on the server. Unfortunately, although there exists a mail filter language (Sieve, defined in RFC3028), there is no standardized access protocol for installing or editing server-side Sieve scripts. If such a protocol becomes available in the future, KMail will most probably include support for it. There is a kio slave to upload Sieve scripts to the server, but you still have to have access to enable the script. I think the kmail in kde 3.3 will have additional support for server side filters. - -- Jonathan Fosburgh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA/DfEqUvQmqp7omYRApiQAJ9hFAu52VF6xmgaAxaQ8HJVu9QtjQCeMqoM 41WB+iTOSyo8qyeCHZCBkwU= =f3j1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 March 2004 20:22, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: Hmm. This is distressing, as I've discovered since posting my original message not long ago that my video card (ATI Mobility FireGL T2) is not supported in 4.3, but is supported in 4.4. Try installing the latest version of the XFree86 server snapshot, which is located in the ports. I am using it (well, not the most current yet, but a slightly older version, I haven't done the upgrade to the most current) with much success with my ATI Radeon 9200. - -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAasdGqUvQmqp7omYRAoReAJ974glkxx/CBdrkQ1cAYeXsoS/gKwCdEhW8 sUTdrt56H1Y6kIqL2/RNlog= =uupA -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: umass0: SanDisk Cruzer, Trying To Mount But Errors In 'dmesg', help!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 02:44 pm, Brian Black wrote: major snippage Try mount -t msdos /dev/daXs1 /mnt where X is the disk drive number. - -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAEY21qUvQmqp7omYRAiBWAKC360Xz7XdC5G2sy2rP4IE6dssTbwCfT9gT Bk38cj/UKp4JaWhOcLB+BMM= =At2D -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Wine work on FreeBSD 5.1?
On Sunday 07 September 2003 11:52 am, Adam McLaurin wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 12:04, Dan Strick wrote: Does Wine work on FreeBSD 5.1? snip It works here (well, as well as can be expected). I'd recommend using emulators/linux-winetools to configure it. That'll make life quite a bit easier. Upgrade to -CURRENT. I had many problems with wine from somewhere in 5.0-CURRENT to somewhere in 5.1-CURRENT (post KSE enhancements) where I would get similar errors. Now wine mostly works. -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
