In the last episode (Aug 29), Damian Gerow said:
Thus spake Dan Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29/08/03 16:22]:
Try adding
MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', -A')
to your sendmail.mc and regenerating (assuming you're using
FEATURE(`local_procmail') ).
That will modify the local_procmail
Hi,
I'm working on scripting the buildworld/installworld process.
This will keep me from messing up everything by doing it wrong or making
a typo.
I'll be glad to post the scripts for review if anyone's interested.
Right now, I have a couple of questions.
1. I realize that running
Hi Ralph,
When I manually send mail to root from either inside the box or from
elsewhere, it is properly received by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (an external domain).
Any and all comments would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
It sounds like you have it setup properly. It works fine for me
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:37:47PM -0500, ES top-posted:
For your bzip2 files, would the following command suffice?
bzcat filename | less
[...]
Yes, of course. But zmore is smart enough to figure out what to do with
several compression techniques, or even to handle non-compressed files
very
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions.
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This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If
you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender
thinks that
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page
or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge
computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately,
The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.
Hello,
I have a IBM ThinkPad 600X. 500Mhz Pentium III, 128MB RAM.
Machine type is 2645-4EU
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/quickPath.do?quickPathEntry=2645-4EUquickPathEntry.x=5quickPathEntry.y=7
When I do a dmesg it reports:
CPU: Intel Pentium III (135.87-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin
Thanks, that worked perfectly.
Nathan Wheeler
- Original Message -
From: Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Nathan Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: hard drive disk timeout
- Original Message -
From: Nathan
Hi
I have trouble using vi and vim under freebsd, under linux red hat it was working
perfect. The trouble is that the arrow-keys doesn't work when I'm in insert mode. I
have heard that it's important to use the right terminalprogram. In vim it's ok with
the fancy swedish letters with dots
I'm trying to install Xfd, and I'm getting compilation errors. I cvsup'ed
my ports collection today. Any ideas? Console output follows:
(22:41:00) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/x11-fonts/Xft/# uname -a
FreeBSD 68.162.128.185 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #1: Sat Nov 16
20:36:05 EST 2002
Did anybody find a bug in FreeBSD 5.1 when formatting a floppy? It
always gives an error even when formatting a new floppy, When I used
version 4.8, the formatting works fine with the same machine and
hardware. I also find the number of drives in Free BSD 5.1 much less
than in version 4.8. Many
Dear FreeBSD,
I have a junky old 386 laptop with 4 megs of ram and 16 mHz of CPU
power. I am currently running a junky distribution of Linux, which I
hate. I hear that the latest version of FreeBSD that supports my
hardware is version 2.1.7. How can I download it? It isn't on your FTP site.
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:30, Desmond Lee wrote:
Hello
Thank you for your reply.
I don't understand how editing /etc/fbtab will help me provide a
mounting point that is accessible to everyone. I believe that fbtab will
just set the permissions of the device to whatever is specified in that
I'm setting up a laptop which will need to dual-boot Windows 2000 Server (ugh!)
and FreeBSD. I partitioned the large (60 GB) hard disk so that there was
an 18 GB NTFS partition at the beginning, followed by a 20 GB partition for
data, followed by an 18 GB partition for FreeBSD. But when I
I recently got a new Asus laptop. I went to place FreeBSD 4.8 on it, but
it kept hanging on detecting the HDD. So I tried 5.1 instead which
installed fine.
I have run into several problems with the hardware. The first is that the
3 Com Gigabit card (from the 3com site it looks like a 3C2000-T)
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:22, Brett Glass wrote:
I'm setting up a laptop which will need to dual-boot Windows 2000 Server
(ugh!) and FreeBSD. I partitioned the large (60 GB) hard disk so that there
was an 18 GB NTFS partition at the beginning, followed by a 20 GB partition
for data, followed by
I downloaded and burned the two ISO for 4.8. I have no issues with the
media and have ³completed² an install. The NIC is not being recognized
however, it is a Netgear FA310TX. I haven¹t had issues with older versions
of FreeBSD... The kernel is not recognizing and NIC driver... I tried to
On Friday 29 August 2003 08:52 pm, Brett Glass wrote:
I'm setting up a laptop which will need to dual-boot Windows 2000
Server (ugh!) and FreeBSD. I partitioned the large (60 GB) hard disk
so that there was an 18 GB NTFS partition at the beginning, followed
by a 20 GB partition for data,
[Please break your lines at a manageable length -- 72 is good]
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:30:10AM +0200 or thereabouts, mats wrote:
Hi
I have trouble using vi and vim under freebsd, under linux red hat
it was working perfect. The trouble is that the arrow-keys doesn't
work when I'm in
Hi There,
I have some problems with freebsd 5.1 and 2 promise raid controllers. I have
been searching the net but not found any usefull information.
promise TX2000 with 4 60Gig disks (old) (raid0)
promise TX2000 with 4 120Gig disks (new) (raid0)
After installing the 2nd promise raid
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I'm setting up a laptop which will need to dual-boot Windows 2000 Server
(ugh!) and FreeBSD. I partitioned the large (60 GB) hard disk so that
there was an 18 GB NTFS partition at the beginning, followed by a 20
GB partition for data, followed by an
I am running Freebsd 5.1 on a Dell 410 with 2xPII and 2xIDE drives (each
on its own channel).
Drive #1 as 1 filesystem mounted on /, drive #2 has 1 filesystem,
mounted on /data1
(both have softupdates enabled)
i) start a process doing some io on drive #1
ii) start iostat 5
iostat blocks until
Hello,
I have elementary knowledge in radius and a total newB on mysql. Would anyone know of
and be so kind to paste a link on a how-to to start me on this? I can only find this
in google which seems have non-english characters on it:
http://www.y-min.or.jp/~nob/FreeBSD/freeradius.html
Thanks
Hello
I'm having problems setting up sudo. I want to let a user 'dlee' be able
to mount and umount the cdrom. All I add in the /user/local/etc/sudoers
file is the following:
dleelocalhost = NOPASSWD: mount /cdrom, umount /cdrom
But when I do a 'sudo -v' (logged in as dlee) it says that
Verghese George wrote:
Did anybody find a bug in FreeBSD 5.1 when formatting a floppy? It
always gives an error even when formatting a new floppy, When I used
version 4.8, the formatting works fine with the same machine and
hardware. I also find the number of drives in Free BSD 5.1 much less
than
Brett Glass wrote:
I'm setting up a laptop which will need to dual-boot Windows 2000 Server (ugh!)
and FreeBSD. I partitioned the large (60 GB) hard disk so that there was
an 18 GB NTFS partition at the beginning, followed by a 20 GB partition for
data, followed by an 18 GB partition for FreeBSD.
Hi,
We are interesting in using LDAP for authentication/indentification for our users
(everything from sshd, login, samba, mail)
Our servers are running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, and we are currently not planning to
upgrade to FreeBSD 5.1 (due to lack of time)
I did a search on Google, and found
I just bought a USB - PS/2 keyboard and mouse converter for my
laptop. It's a Sitecom brand and it gets recognised as MCT Corp.
addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel
addr 2: Generic USB Hub, ALCOR
addr 4: HID-compliant Mouse (USB), Mitsumi
addr 3: PS/2 - USB Interface Adaptor, MCT Corp.
Although
Please read entire article before sending any comment to me.
Why would any one wish to change the term DAEMON, D.A.E.Mon., and Disk
and execution monitor, to a more fitting title.
In practice this term has grown outdated. For today it stands that many
people in the world abroad don't
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:51:27PM +0200, Walter C. Pelissero wrote:
I just bought a USB - PS/2 keyboard and mouse converter for my
laptop. It's a Sitecom brand and it gets recognised as MCT Corp.
I had similar problems with a Tangtop USB-PS/2 k+m adapter.
In the end it turned out that this
Hi!
Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a
lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora,
Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So
I'm asking why still a lot of people here who hadn't move to FreeBSD?
Are
Le Samedi, 30 aoû 2003, à 10:52 Europe/Zurich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
It would be more fitting to address the storage units as media or
storage
media. Thus the title DAEMON could be reverted to SMAEMON or Storage
Media And
Executon MONitor.
Why not SALMON? Tant que vous y êtes?
More
Uh, you're assuming everyone on the list use only one type of machine.
For instance, I'm writing this on a Linux box, but have 3 FBSD servers I administer,
as well as a small handful of Windows servers I'm responsible for. I also use windows
2000 and XP as well as FBSD and more than 2 distros
- Original Message -
From: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mats [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 5:44 AM
Subject: Re: The VI editor
[Please break your lines at a manageable length -- 72 is good]
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:30:10AM +0200 or
On Saturday 30 August 2003 08:13 am, Denis Troshin wrote:
Are there any common reasons of why people are not satisfied with
FreeBSD? Why do they still prefer windows?
I think a lot of people use this list to get advice on how to install FreeBSD
and how to resolve issues. I know when I
Denis Troshin wrote:
Hi!
Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that
there a lot of people here who are using mail programs like
Outlook, Eudora, Mozillafor win32. This means that they
run windows systems. So I'm asking why still a lot of people
here who hadn't
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 08:13, Denis Troshin wrote:
Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a
lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora,
Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So
I'm asking why still a lot of
At 07:13 PM 30/08/2003 +0700, Denis Troshin wrote:
Are there any common reasons of why people are not satisfied with
FreeBSD? Why do they still prefer windows?
As a desktop I still like the interface better. There are also a lot of
applications I use on a regular basis that are not
On 8/30/2003 at 7:13 PM Denis Troshin wrote:
|Hi!
Hi.
|Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a
|lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora,
|Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So
|I'm asking why still a
Hi all, I'm trying to setup a Freebsd 5.1 machine to be able to watch quicktime
trailers from
apple's website. I installed from ports:
qtutils
libquicktime
openquicktime
However, the site tells me I'm still missing a plugin and can't view the trailer. Any
help will be
highly appreciated.
Please read entire article before sending any comment to me.
Read.
Why would any one wish to change the term DAEMON, D.A.E.Mon., and
Disk
and execution monitor, to a more fitting title.
In practice this term has grown outdated. For today it stands that many
people in the world abroad
Hi
Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach
simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk and
use Ghost to backup my Linux-Partitions to a FAT-Partition and then
distribute the images around different computers on the network. I would
like
Sorry to post this again, but I still have seen no sugestiosn as to what I
am doing wrong here :-(
And I am going out of town soon, and desperatrly need this to work.
Please, can some kind soul give me some help here?
I'm trying to set up one of my FreeBSD STABLE machines to dial intot the
Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to execute wdm, I get :
error 13 binding socket address 177
Cannot open server authrization file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/wdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-
yooW24
I get the login screen but thats it, the background/beastie.jpg is missing and I
can't
Steve Camp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can someone tell me what the following message logged to /var/log/messages
means, and whether I ought to be concerned about it:
Aug 29 13:41:29 server natd[180]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied)
It means a packet was blocked by ipfw after
Vitali Malicky wrote:
What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all
serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may run
other processes periodically under a user specified. What about it? And many
my colleagues, and me as well, refer to it also as
Vitali Malicky wrote:
What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all
serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may
run
other processes periodically under a user specified. What about it? And
many
my colleagues, and me as well, refer to it
Adam McLaurin wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 08:13, Denis Troshin wrote:
Are there any common reasons of why people are not satisfied with
FreeBSD? Why do they still prefer windows?
To use windows doesn't implicate that the user prefers Windows. Using
Windows more often implicates to hate it
Hi,
take a look at g4u/ It works really well
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
---Mike
At 03:02 PM 30/08/2003 +0200, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote:
Hi
Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach
simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk
Walter C. Pelissero writes:
Although the keyboard works, the mouse doesn't. I tried to plug
two types of mice (a Micro$oft 2 buttons and a Trust 3 buttons)
but both, while generating traffic on the USB bus (the converter
LED blinks), don't move the pointer.
Hopping up and down
Monah Baki wrote:
Hi all, I'm trying to setup a Freebsd 5.1 machine to be able to watch quicktime trailers from
apple's website. I installed from ports:
qtutils
libquicktime
openquicktime
However, the site tells me I'm still missing a plugin and can't view the trailer. Any help will be
highly
Sorry, didnt mean to hit send so quickly. What I meant to say is that g4u
will do what you want. Also, take a look at just plain old dump and
restore. If you want to have an image of what is on your partition as well
as have incremental backups it works really well too.
---Mike
At
The sound codec is probably the same used for the apple music store,
mpeg 4 audio. The big changes in the recent windows release was the
sound codec already present on mac systems for iTunes 4. If the
openquicktime software doesn't have an apple style implementation of
mpeg 4, you will be
Vitali Malicky wrote:
OK, Hendrik! On monday I'll take A Student's Guide To UNIX(C) by Harley
Hann which I began with 5 years ago, and I'll quote for you and for all dear
All the whole paragraph where it's explained.
Deal?
Why not? :) But I was more interested what the single letters in dragon
Thank you, I'm now farther than where I was before, however, when I click on the
trailer, a
dialog box for mplayerplug-in pops up and its says loading movie but nothing else
shows up,
background is white.
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 10:30 AM, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote:
Monah Baki
FreeBSD 5.1 + TeamSpeak 2.0.29.47 + Quake3
ok so teamspeak its lovelly supported under Freebsd, congrats for the
port mantainers and teamspeak developers
i have this sound board builtin,
code:
pcm0: Nvidia nForce2 AC97 controller at io 0xd000, 0xd400 irq 5 bufsz
16384 (1p/1r/4v channels
Stephen L Martin wrote:
I have a IBM ThinkPad 600X. 500Mhz Pentium III, 128MB RAM.
Machine type is 2645-4EU
[ ... ]
When I do a dmesg it reports:
CPU: Intel Pentium III (135.87-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 05:33, Michelle wrote:
Not really FreeBSD specific..but.. :)
I ran mysqldump -A backup-file.sql and then upgraded the mysql port,
but now when I try to restore the backups using mysql database name
backup-file.sql, It states unknown database. I also have a
stan wrote:
Sorry to post this again, but I still have seen no sugestiosn as to what I
am doing wrong here :-(
And I am going out of town soon, and desperatrly need this to work.
Please, can some kind soul give me some help here?
[ ... ]
Aug 29 14:12:43 brown2 ppp[863]: Chat: Expect(480): CONNECT
How would I best upgrade my 5.0 installation to 5.1?
I have done binary (CD-ROM) updates on 4.x in the past, but I was
thinking this could be done using cvsup.
Can anyone briefly say wheter this procedure would be right:
- change default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_0 to RELENG_5_1
- cvsup the new
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The documentation for CVS is not especially well-known for being inclusive.
Are you using CVS over SSH or in pserver mode? The first case requires you to
set up password-less SSH authentication via ssh-keygen, the latter uses the
David Kelly wrote:
[ ... ]
Yes, of course. But zmore is smart enough to figure out what to do with
several compression techniques, or even to handle non-compressed files
very trivially and without hassle.
'zmore' is a simple shell script which calls gzcat | ${PAGER-more}. One
solution to your
I'm a Windows system administrator trying to learn FreeBSD. I have installed 5.0 on a
few machine in my home lab and have the FreeBSD complete reference.
My question is, what next? What kind of things, applications etc should I do to get
more familiar with the OS? My goal is to use OS for
- Original Message -
From: Cesar Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:26 AM
Subject: Where to go next
I'm a Windows system administrator trying to learn FreeBSD. I have
installed 5.0 on a few machine in my home lab and have the FreeBSD
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:19:14AM -0700 or thereabouts, Desmond Lee wrote:
Hello
I'm having problems setting up sudo. I want to let a user 'dlee' be able
to mount and umount the cdrom. All I add in the /user/local/etc/sudoers
file is the following:
dlee localhost = NOPASSWD: mount
Hi,
Gnucash used to work, now it fails on startup w/:
ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
ERROR: file: libgw-gnc, message: can't close the module
I don't know what I did to set this off, but it happens now
with both ver. 1.8.4 and 1.8.5. I even re-updated all my ports,
just in case. Still no go.
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 13:33, mpd wrote:
Hi,
Gnucash used to work, now it fails on startup w/:
ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
ERROR: file: libgw-gnc, message: can't close the module
I don't know what I did to set this off, but it happens now
with both ver. 1.8.4 and 1.8.5. I even
Denis Troshin wrote:
Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a
lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora,
Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So
I'm asking why still a lot of people here who hadn't move to
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote:
Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach
simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk and
use Ghost to backup my Linux-Partitions to a FAT-Partition and then
distribute the images
Matt Bjornson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I downloaded and burned the two ISO for 4.8.
The NIC is not being recognized however, it is a
Netgear FA310TX. ... The kernel is not recognizing
and NIC driver... I tried to manually select each
Network driver in UserConfig with no success when
On Saturday 30 August 2003 01:02 pm, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote:
Hi
Well, just like the subject says I am for a program or a backup approach
simillar to the one I am currently using. I boot with a Dos-Bootdisk and
use Ghost to backup my Linux-Partitions to a FAT-Partition and then
Ah, I indeed forgot the system information.
It is a P II 333 MHZ with 256 of RAM and an UDMA 33 HD (40 GB).
Judging from your timings, this is going to take a while...
Does buildworld and installworld always take equally long, even say only
10 files changed?
Are there any pitfalls I should be
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:37:52PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 13:33, mpd wrote:
Hi,
Gnucash used to work, now it fails on startup w/:
ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
ERROR: file: libgw-gnc, message: can't close the module
I don't know what I did to
I'm trying to install some new ports, and I'm getting a lot of errors of
the type:
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.2 not found
I recently upgraded gettext to version 0.12.1, which I think it part of
the cause. I now have only libintl.so.5 on my system. How can I resolve
In my ongoing strugle to get ppp to connect over a link that tales a _very_
long time to come up, I've come to suspect that the hdlc timer is timing
out (based upon it's default of 55 seconds seeming to be when my timeouts
occur).
Can I increase this timer's lentgh in /etc/ppp.conf?
--
They
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 14:55, Adam Bender wrote:
I'm trying to install some new ports, and I'm getting a lot of errors of
the type:
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.2 not found
I recently upgraded gettext to version 0.12.1, which I think it part of
the cause. I now have
Well if the plug in is not working, which I have seen happen occasionally. You
could try pointing mplayer directly at the files, from the command line.
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:42:32 -0400
Monah Baki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you, I'm now farther than where I was before, however, when I
--On Saturday, August 30, 2003 19:13 +0700 Denis Troshin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a
lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora,
Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So
OK, sorry to deluge the list with questions, but now I've having serious
problems compiling ports.
Xfd won't compile:
=== Building for Xft-2.1.2
gmake all-am
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/x11-fonts/Xft/work/xft-2.1.2'
source='xftdpy.c' object='xftdpy.lo' libtool=yes \
[...snip...]
On Saturday 30 August 2003 11:44 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
Ah, I indeed forgot the system information.
It is a P II 333 MHZ with 256 of RAM and an UDMA 33 HD (40 GB).
Judging from your timings, this is going to take a while...
Yes, on a machine with that speed, it will be several hours.
Your conclusion that people mailing from Windows systems don't run
FreeBSD is not valid, for one thing. Check your logic.
In my case, my webserver is running FreeBSD for my domains. I use Mac
OS X's mail.app for email. Plus the obvious, an x86 machine running
windows can dual boot
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 15:55, Adam Bender wrote:
OK, sorry to deluge the list with questions, but now I've having serious
problems compiling ports.
What version of XFree86 are you running?
--
Adam McLaurin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Description: This is a digitally signed message part
I have a question regarding this as well. Let's say that my
FreeBSD is running on a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook with a Fujitsu 2.5
4200rpm 60GB HD which has 116280 cylinders/16 heads/63 sectors per track/
512 bytes per sector. I just recently bought a Hitachi TravelStar 7K60
7200rpm 60GB
Hi,
I think I know what you're talking about, it's the UMN Mapserver for GIS
application. Basically it's the php-mapscript part which needs php to be
compiled as cgi. It's a wonderful open source GIS app which works very
nice
and very stable once configured correctly but it's a major pain
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 03:55:57PM -0400 or thereabouts, Adam Bender wrote:
[ ... ]
I then wanted to use portupgrade, which installs:
# uname -a
FreeBSD 68.162.128.185 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #1: Sat Nov 16
20:36:05 EST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/adam
i386#
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:36:26PM -0700, Technical Director wrote:
Do you get ugen# announcements for generic usb devices on boot up?
OK, I got a D-Link USB 2 pci card, and now the devices get seen at
boot up, though it still thinks it's uhci instead of ohci; I don't know
what's what, but
OK, the point of this whole exercise was to find out if what I'd heard
about USB 2 being half duplex and thus a bad idea for RW mass storage
was true. It looks like it, but on the other hand, it looks like I'm
only running at USB 1 speeds too:
/mnt is the USB drive, which has a fresh FreeBSD
Adapting zmore for the case where you specify the files to display on
the command line is not problem at all:
diff kk zmore
5,14d4
get_decompressor ()
{
case `file ${1--} | sed s/[^:]*: *\([^ ]*\).*/\1/` in
compress*) DECOMPRESSOR=uncompress -c;;
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