On 0, Jon Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wrote FDISK partition information out successfully.
After that i quit back to config menu, goes into label and there i just do an
'auto' to see if it works, there i get the following when i write:
Unable to add /dev/ad3s1b as a swap device: Device
On 0, Jon Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Before you just stopp reading with the thought 'duh, this question is for
freebsd-newbie' please read it becouse i've asked it both at newbie and
questions and haven't got any sullotion.
What I'm trying to do is to simply add a new ide drive
On 0, David McNett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 23-Mar-2001, Michael Aronsen wrote:
Has anyone been working on or know of any work being done on getting any
fingerprint gadgets working in FreeBSD?
This is mostly off-topic, but I wanted to take the opportunity to point
out an excellent
I messed around with this about a year ago, and now I'm messing around with
it again.
In a nutshell, I can NOT figure out how to get iic with lpbb working. I
have tried all sorts of combinations of config file parameters from LINT,
man pages, etc.
My current config file has something like:
At 1:33 PM -0800 1/29/01, Josef Grosch wrote:
Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought
that at one time FreeBSD had one of these.
Note there are multiple ideas of what it means to be EBCDIC.
Alphanumerics stay the same between them, of course, but a
few of the special
I've been trying to figure this out for some time now...
I have several systems that have 8- and 16-port RocketPort boards in them,
connected to banks of modems. (ISA cards on all of them - I just got a
PCI RP board, but haven't installed it anywhere yet.) These modems make a
lot of outgoing
Again, you miss the point. Spending dollars advertising is arguably a more
valuable contribution than altering a few line of code or submitting a
driver for some obscure card.
Key word here: "arguably", meaning "can be argued indefinitely", and
loosely translates to "drop this argument -
(If you're looking for FBSD-specific messages, hit "next"...)
I'm looking for a technical answer to this one - I have a good background
in electronics, but never really spent much time on the i386 architecture.
One of my clients has an interface card (StarLAN, ISA) that controls an
embroidery
Figure 32MB RAM for FreeBSD X, 64MB for Netscape, and 64MB for StarOffice.
If you want to run both Netscape and StarOffice at the same time, 128MB
isn't enough. Sigh.
Yup... I noticed that 64MB might be a little short when I set one of
these up earlier today. :( I think I'll do 128 for
I recently made the decision to upgrade all of our net-booted X terminals
to full-blown workstations. (Basically, adding a hard drive and some
memory.) Having 19 people running Netscape remotely on our Alpha is
sucking up a gig of RAM and almost two gigs of swap, not to mention the
"normal"
Just a quick question out of interests sake, I was setting up nos-tunnels
yesterday, and I had the tunnel functioning 100% perfectly, however I
could not get it to NAT the remote side of the tunnel, until I put an ipfw
divert 8668 ip from any to any via any statement in my firewall config.
Wouldnt putting up a compressed tarball of the releases reduce bandwidth
usage (and download time)?
I know I've asked this before, but it seems logical enough.
Hmmm..I doubt it.
hawk:/usr2# ls -l 4.1.1-install.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root backup 672761856 Sep 26 06:45 4.1.1-install.iso
It's unlikely that plex86 will make VMware or Trelos' product "moot
discussions" anytime soon; Bochs/Freemware/Plex86 is a credible start,
but would have a great deal of ground to cover before getting to that
point.
I got it! FreeBSD running Bochs running VMware running Linux running
Running mgetty on a bunch of modems on various machines, I will
occasionally run across one that looks like:
rimmer:/usr4/mike$ ps alx|grep cuaR11
0 1371 1 0 4 0 9168 ttywai IE??0:00.02
/usr/local/sbin/mgetty cuaR11
...with "ttywai" as the WCHAN and "E" in the STAT
Had an interesting one tonight... I've been using rrestore to duplicate
the filesystems on a bunch of machines that I'm mass-producing. Things
seemed to be going OK, but one of these machines (Compaq Presario
5340) booted up twice, started throwing up strange warnings about UDMA not
working
I sent this to questions a couple of weeks ago, but didn't receive any
helpful replies. Anyone doing this - two machines connected by a null-modem
cable with the ability to create a serial terminal session from either
side, with suitable juggling of getty processes?
Used to do this in
This is a message which appeared on the aussie-isp mailing list earlier
today. I thought people here might like it :-) Ross is a reliable source,
so I doubt we can chalk this one up to "urban legend".
Maybe I'll have my graphics guy whip up a picture of Tux with horns and
holding a
RIPTION section:
"FreeBSD provides some packet routing facilities."
...duh...
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I personally consider leaving the kernel module loadable intact after
boot to be a huge, huge security hole. Loadable modules... fine, but
once the machine goes multi-user I want to up the securelevel and
that disables any further kld operations. If one of the biggest
Can anyone tell me the difference between nos-tun(8) and gif(4) (Other
than IPv6)? I want to create a tunnel between 2 networks (IPv4), 2
FreeBSD boxes... will one of these work or is this a different type
of tunnel. I am familiar with Cisco tunnelling, I am assuming a similar
concept.
ing of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, 'I drank
what?'" -- Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), Real Genius
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the other end is set to full. I wouldn't trust any "Auto" settings until
it can be assured that it doesn't hurt.
Agreed -- from experience with a couple of HP Procurve 2424M switches and
various 100Mb cards, the "Auto" setting is less than reliable... My
Netgear FA310TX(?) and Intel
Did you try Mutt? It has a nice GUI :-)
Eeewww GUIs are for weenies - real geeks telnet to ports 25 110...
:)
(just kidding - been a rough day, and I needed to be sarcastic toward
SOMEONE...)
--mike
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What can one say to that, apart from "I have one right here and it works
just fine" - not something you can say about the IA-64. 8)
I'll just reach down and pat my trusty pair of manufactured-in-1993 Alpha
3000's on their heads... :)
Oh, forgot... It's not new until Intel does it...
i was wondering if FreeBSD had a kind of like DLL capability?
i'd like to be able to do something as follows:
// ... construct char *fileName
moduleHandle = loadCodeModule(fileName);
(char *)(*fn char *) myfn; // ii'm pretty sure i screwed that up
Since FreeBSD systems will start pumping out random signal 11's in the face
of bad memory, try searching the -hardware and -questions list for that. I
believe that someone actually wrote a signal 11 FAQ, but I don't have a
pointer.
I'll go and see if I can find something like that.
I
with FreeBSD,
due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team have
implemented.
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I had one system with two VERY hot SCSI drives in it, and one of these
slot fans really made a major difference. (Both drives are now always
only just barely warm to the touch, whereas before, they were practically
on fire.)
Got a couple of those (DEC RZ26 RZ28) with old 486 cooling fans
Just for the sake of my curiosity, what was modifiying
resolv.conf? Is this a security feature?
Ran into a similar "what's changing this file?" problem a while ago --
fstat(1) is your friend...
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
fstat /etc/resolv.conf /fstatlogfile
done
Throw that into your
(this is on 3.4-RC as of Dec. 11)
Here's the situation -- a lot of modems are brain-dead, and don't do a
full reset when you tell them to (by a DTR drop, with (usually) ATD3)...
The DTE baud rate likes to stay where it was, instead of returning to the
115200 that (my) gettys are expecting. I
Autonegotiation is failing. That happens in the Fast Ethernet world.
Buying better quality switches *may* help. ;^)
Can you get any better than 3COM's top of the range stacks?
I ran into a similar problem with a couple Linksys cards under both FBSD
(ugh) Win95 -- telling the HP ProCurve
() +---+ +---+ ()
+ + | | | |+ +
( 130.144.120/22 ) -- |FreeBSD| |FreeBSD| --( 130.144.120/22 )
+(real)+ | | | |+(test)+
Is there anyway to bind a class C to an interface without a lot of
aliases? whats the downside of aliases? I have a 2.2.8 hack that does
the C, but I'd like to avoid having to port it to 3.3.
What do you mean by "bind a class C"? Make an interface so it will
respond to incoming requests
SUIDDIR will work for any user EXCEPT ROOT
I did this because I felt it was a security hole to allow users to create
files owned by root.
(from memory it will also refuse to do files that have the execute bit set
but I can't remember for sure)
In a mildly drunken state, I respond. :)
I disagree. BogoMIPS is a completely meaningless measurement
and does not belong in our source tree as it will only produce
repository bloat.
I would agree.. BogoMIPS actually stands for "Bogus, Misleading
Indication of Processor Speed"... In an old Linux Journal article I have
(will
Yeah, you're supposed to tie PE low when you want power... However, in a
system I'm working with now, we've discovered that some inexpensive ATX
power supplies don't expect to have PE come up immediately when they're
given power. If you see the symptom that all the LED's on your system dim
Yeah, you're supposed to tie PE low when you want power... However, in a
system I'm working with now, we've discovered that some inexpensive ATX
power supplies don't expect to have PE come up immediately when they're
given power. If you see the symptom that all the LED's on your system dim
Another issue: I was recently involved in a project which required HA
solutions (that's why I asked]. I gathered a lot of ideas and materials
(and perhaps some code if that company agrees to release it). Is ther
someone else here who is interested in these issues, and using FreeBSD for
Another issue: I was recently involved in a project which required HA
solutions (that's why I asked]. I gathered a lot of ideas and materials
(and perhaps some code if that company agrees to release it). Is ther
someone else here who is interested in these issues, and using FreeBSD for
that?
I have a couple of diskless -CURRENT machines hosted off another 3.x-C box
-- they're full-featured, but very lightly loaded. I can keep the host
updated fairly easily through the standard CVSUP-buildworld-installworld
methods, but am having a rough time with the diskless machines... The
server
I had sent this message to -stable about a month ago, never heard anything
-- so am trying it here.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 03:24:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Nowlin m...@argos.org
To: freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org
Subject: I2C/SMBus/LPBB
OK -- I give up
I had sent this message to -stable about a month ago, never heard anything
-- so am trying it here.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 03:24:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Nowlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I2C/SMBus/LPBB
OK -- I give up I'm
Ok, I know this has very little to do with FreeBSD, but the tru64-hackers
list is a little slow :)
Here's the situation:
DEC Alpha 3000/500S box, running Compaq Tru64 UNIX V4.0F (formerly known
as the operating system Digital Unix, which is the operating system
formerly known as DEC OSF/1)
Ok, I know this has very little to do with FreeBSD, but the tru64-hackers
list is a little slow :)
Here's the situation:
DEC Alpha 3000/500S box, running Compaq Tru64 UNIX V4.0F (formerly known
as the operating system Digital Unix, which is the operating system
formerly known as DEC OSF/1)
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