Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread Karl Sinn
Hi, I'm using this: title FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE root (hd1,0,a) kernel /boot/loader title FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader I tried, but it still does not work. Grub is giving a file not found message. If I understand it right it

build problems with gnupg-1.4.6_1,intltool-0.35.1

2006-12-09 Thread bf
I've had problems building the ports gnupg-1.4.6_1 and intltool-0.35.1 using 'portmanager -u', or 'make install' in the appropriate directories of my ports tree. I keep encountering the messages(my comments in [] are not part of the message): WARNING: `automake-1.9' is missing on your system.

Optical PS/2 Mouse ???

2006-12-09 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi, I invested 5 EUR in a nice Optical PS/2 mouse and I can't get it working with FreeBSD, neither on console nor on xorg. The mousepointer will only show up once on screen and then seems to vanish somewhere in the lower border. Of course the thing works wonderfully when I boot into windows.

error ouput of fsck

2006-12-09 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Gurus, Im on FreeBSD 6.1R-p10, Box acting as NAT/gateway. I have mysql, freeradius, chillispot installed all working okay. Every like 2-3 weeks my box become slow...internet sharing works and stops, timeout, page cannot be displayed... and when i dig in the logs... i see really

Re: Optical PS/2 Mouse ???

2006-12-09 Thread a
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:24:45PM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: Hi, I invested 5 EUR in a nice Optical PS/2 mouse and I can't get it working with FreeBSD, neither on console nor on xorg. The mousepointer will only show up once on screen and then seems to vanish somewhere in the lower border.

strange locale issue

2006-12-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
# login.conf # me:\ :charset=iso-8859-1:\ :lang=en_US.ISO8859-1: # :lang=nl_NL.ISO8859-1: I've a strange issue. My wife runs with lang=nl_NL.ISO8859-1 and she experiences weird dropouts when she types text into Abiword. I upgraded to the latest ports but the issue was still there. Then I

Re: error ouput of fsck

2006-12-09 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Saturday 09 December 2006 11:48, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Gurus, Im on FreeBSD 6.1R-p10, Box acting as NAT/gateway. I have mysql, freeradius, chillispot installed all working okay. Every like 2-3 weeks my box become slow...internet sharing works and stops, timeout, page

tip(1) connect to another host with serial cable: vim display junk text

2006-12-09 Thread 张韡武
Hello List. This is another stupid frequent question that might already get answered a thousand times, but I cannot do effective googles because the word 'tip' is too general. Local host is freebsd 6.1, remote host is Gentoo Linux. Both connected through serial cable on COM1. Now I wish to

has ANYONE used FreeBSD read Chinese directories from a Windows Share? (was: Re: (repost) cannot read windows share)

2006-12-09 Thread 张韡武
If our understanding to the current problem is correct (that FreeBSD kernel iconv currently have problem with double-bit character-set), then there should have never been FreeBSD users that can actually mount and access a Windows Share that: I. is using GB2312 locale (that is, Windows

Re: Optical PS/2 Mouse ???

2006-12-09 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:24:45PM +0100, P.U.Kruppa wrote: Hi, I invested 5 EUR in a nice Optical PS/2 mouse and I can't get it working with FreeBSD, neither on console nor on xorg. The mousepointer will only show up once on screen and then seems

X server remote login

2006-12-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
I run solaris and FreeBSD. In solaris I can login on a remote machine with an X session. I can't see my freebsd machine though. I have no idea where the config to make this possible resides on FreeBSD. I guess X runs without broadcasting itself on fbsd. How can I change this? --

Example network protocol implementation

2006-12-09 Thread Vishal Patil
Could someone point me to an example that shows a SIMPLE network protocol implemented over TCP/IP inside the FreeBSD kernel. I think I could look at the NFS client driver but is there an example simpler than that. Also is there a guide explaining how to go about developing TCP/IP based network

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread David Stanford
On 12/9/06, Karl Sinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using this: title FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE root (hd1,0,a) kernel /boot/loader title FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/loader I tried, but it still does not work. Grub is giving a file not

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-09 Thread Derek Ragona
By default in FreeBSD X doesn't listen for TCP requests. To change this do: startx -listen_tcp -Derek At 01:14 PM 12/9/2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: I run solaris and FreeBSD. In solaris I can login on a remote machine with an X session. I can't see my freebsd machine though. I have

Re: Example network protocol implementation

2006-12-09 Thread perryh
Vishal Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone point me to an example that shows a SIMPLE network protocol implemented over TCP/IP inside the FreeBSD kernel. I think I could look at the NFS client driver but is there an example simpler than that. NFS normally runs over UDP, not TCP.

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 21:54, Derek Ragona wrote: By default in FreeBSD X doesn't listen for TCP requests. To change this do: startx -listen_tcp Thank you. But can this be made permanent somewhere? I guess the tcp port (6000?) should be made inaccessible to the outside world. --

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread Karl Sinn
Hi, Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 21:29 schrieb David Stanford: What are you using now for your menu.lst? Still this?... title FreeBSD root (hd3,0) chainloader +1 no I can almost guarantee that you have your 'root' specified incorrectly. You should have something similar to the

How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem?

2006-12-09 Thread FK
Dear list members, How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem? I thought there would be a solution on the Internet, and googled but could not find one yet. I hope you would have some hints. Thank you. Background: FreeBSD6.0-RELEASE. #disklabel /dev/da0s2 # /dev/da0s2: 8

gmake upgrade

2006-12-09 Thread Grzegorz Danecki
Hello list! it may be a stupid question, but i'm a little bit scared before gmake upgrade. I'm not using portupgrade, everything is build from the ports tree, so, when some package is old, and there is newer version in ports, then make all make deinstall make install make clean. It works

Re: gmake upgrade

2006-12-09 Thread Joe Holden
Grzegorz Danecki wrote: Hello list! it may be a stupid question, but i'm a little bit scared before gmake upgrade. I'm not using portupgrade, everything is build from the ports tree, so, when some package is old, and there is newer version in ports, then make all make deinstall make

dns cache on a desktop

2006-12-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
how can i flush the dns cache on my desktop system? google turns up plenty on how to do it in linux or osx... but not freebsd. can someone clue me in? thanks! jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: gmake upgrade

2006-12-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 10:44:29PM +0100, Grzegorz Danecki wrote: Hello list! it may be a stupid question, but i'm a little bit scared before gmake upgrade. I'm not using portupgrade, everything is build from the ports tree, so, when some package is old, and there is newer version in ports,

Re: error ouput of fsck

2006-12-09 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Daniel, The problem, is why its happening ? Also the other server had this sudden diffrent output 192# fsck ** /dev/ad8s1a (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on / ** Root file system ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 -

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread David Stanford
I tried this with (hd3,0,a) and (hd3,1,a). It didn't work. I got a message like: disk is not existing (don't remember the exact message) See below. If I understood right the hdd in Linux translates to ad3 in FreeBSD? 1.) the hard drive and 2.) the partition you installed FreeBSD on.

Re: tip(1) connect to another host with serial cable: vim display junk text

2006-12-09 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 09:52 schrieb 张韡武: Hello List. This is another stupid frequent question that might already get answered a thousand times, but I cannot do effective googles because the word 'tip' is too general. Local host is freebsd 6.1, remote host is Gentoo Linux. Both

Re: error ouput of fsck

2006-12-09 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Saturday 09 December 2006 18:55, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Daniel, Hello, all this output looks like an abrupt power down in the machine, try doing fsck with unmounted volumes in single user mode. If this does not works, maybe the hard drive have problems. The problem, is why its

Re: dns cache on a desktop

2006-12-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 09), Jonathan Horne said: how can i flush the dns cache on my desktop system? google turns up plenty on how to do it in linux or osx... but not freebsd. can someone clue me in? Just bounce named: /etc/rc.d/named restart If you are not running named, you have no

Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem?

2006-12-09 Thread perryh
FK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If alternatives are all copies of the master, they must have the same contents. I checked and found they are equal. # dd if=/dev/da0s2a skip=160 bs=512 count=16 of=sb1 16+0 records in 16+0 records out 8192 bytes transferred in 0.013373 secs (612571 bytes/sec)

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Stanford wrote: ad3 may be (and probably is) correct for you, but this has no relationship with the 'hdx' format that Grub uses. Using 'hd3' in your Grub config would suggest that you have installed FreeBSD on the fourth (counting 0, 1, 2,

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread David Stanford
Incorrect. If you installed the filesystem on ad3s1, it should be: root (hd3,0,a) Thank you, I stand corrected. Not sure what I was thinking there... :) Many people goof up GRUB by accident because it's numbering system is zero-based and linux-like to a certain extent, so /dev/hda in Linux

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread Karl Sinn
Hi, Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 23:19 schrieb David Stanford: title FreeBSD root (hd1,0,a) kernel /boot/loader This worked. But I have to say, I don't know why. It is the third harddisk in the system, and it's definitifly the slave on the second IDE-port. During the

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Stanford wrote: Incorrect. If you installed the filesystem on ad3s1, it should be: root (hd3,0,a) Thank you, I stand corrected. Not sure what I was thinking there... :) Many people goof up GRUB by accident because it's numbering

Re: error ouput of fsck

2006-12-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:55:06PM +, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Daniel, The problem, is why its happening ? Also the other server had this sudden diffrent output 192# fsck ** /dev/ad8s1a (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on / ** Root file system ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-09 Thread Tony Shadwick
I have to apologize, as I've never had x11 start automatically for me anyplace. That said, you need to understand that the server/client relationship for X11 is backwards to what you might expect. The display, keyboard, and mouse are at the x-server side, and the machine you connect to is

Re: Example network protocol implementation

2006-12-09 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Saturday 09 December 2006 17:18, Vishal Patil wrote: Could someone point me to an example that shows a SIMPLE network protocol implemented over TCP/IP inside the FreeBSD kernel. I think I could look at the NFS client driver but is there an example simpler than that. Also is there a guide

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread David Stanford
On 12/9/06, Karl Sinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 23:19 schrieb David Stanford: title FreeBSD root (hd1,0,a) kernel /boot/loader This worked. But I have to say, I don't know why. It is the third harddisk in the system, and it's definitifly the

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread David Stanford
Good question; not sure about that one, since the BIOS may or may not count the EIDE channels as 0 and 1, and the SATA as 2 and 3. Needless to say, this little numbering scheme with grub has become confusing, esp with the introduction of new technology (SATA) .. Not sure how numbering would work

Printing (Trying)

2006-12-09 Thread Robbie Bykowski
I have been trying to get my Canon Pixma iP5000 to print on FreeBSD.I used Apsfilter cause apparently its more user friendly then CUPS. I when through all the settings and set everything up probably (i hope) as when i did a test print it printed, but it came out as an A5 size (is that normal?)

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Stanford wrote: Good question; not sure about that one, since the BIOS may or may not count the EIDE channels as 0 and 1, and the SATA as 2 and 3. Needless to say, this little numbering scheme with grub has become confusing, esp with the

Re: Which one?

2006-12-09 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Todd McNutt wrote: I am hoping to install BSD on an IBM ThinkPad 600X that I have. It has not been running the newer Windows and I popped a CD version of Knoppix in it and it works fantastic. It got me thinking... I had used BSD in the past and I would like to find an

Re: Example network protocol implementation

2006-12-09 Thread Vishal Patil
For implementing iSCSI protocol as a kernel driver. On 12/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vishal Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone point me to an example that shows a SIMPLE network protocol implemented over TCP/IP inside the FreeBSD kernel. I think I could look

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-11-19 - 2006-12-09

2006-12-09 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER over an SSH connection ... what is the sequence?

2006-12-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I swore I had it saved here somewhere, but can't seem to find it in my mailboxes :( I have an HP Proliant DL360 G4p server (well, a few, actually), that allow for getting a remote console via ssh ... I have DDB/KDB enabled on the server, just

Re: dns cache on a desktop

2006-12-09 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/10/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Dec 09), Jonathan Horne said: how can i flush the dns cache on my desktop system? google turns up plenty on how to do it in linux or osx... but not freebsd. can someone clue me in? Just bounce named: /etc/rc.d/named

Re: Example network protocol implementation

2006-12-09 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vishal Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Could someone point me to an example that shows a SIMPLE network protocol : implemented over TCP/IP inside the FreeBSD kernel. I think I could look at : the NFS client driver but is there an example simpler than