Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have found that D-Link are quite cheap and somebody on the list suggested them. In that price range TP-LINK is also a choice. Anybody advises against TP-LINK? TP-Link is OK and is really cheap (D-Link is not). Buy it. I use lots of pure-100 and 100+1000 ones

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
spikes). I have found that D-Link are quite cheap and somebody on the list suggested them. In that price range TP-LINK is also a choice. Anybody advises against TP-LINK? i advise for. have a lot of this cheap things, works fine. ___

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-20 Thread Peter
Wojciech Puchar wrote: spikes). I have found that D-Link are quite cheap and somebody on the list suggested them. In that price range TP-LINK is also a choice. Anybody advises against TP-LINK? i advise for. have a lot of this cheap things, works fine. 1 more vote for TP-Link - cheapest

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II) - Openoffice packages

2009-06-20 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 at 10:02:47 +0300, Manolis Kiagias said: Chris Whitehouse wrote: I would vote for including openoffice, it takes much longer to compile than to download, or maybe make the package and any dependencies that are not already included available as a separate tarball.

ANNOUNCING: Web site for the FreeBSD Custom Releases project

2009-06-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, Most members of the list have probably noticed my latest posts on a project to create custom FreeBSD CD/DVDs with updated (or different) set of packages. There is also an ongoing effort to provide pre-compiled packages for larger

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 14:30:21 Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Glen Barber wrote: A broadcast of 255.255.255.255 is misconfigured (not saying it's not gonna work, I'm saying for your network, it's not configured right). you need broadcast-address 192.168.2.255 That

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 13:51:32 Tim Judd wrote: Replies inline On 6/18/09, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Thursday 18 June 2009 10:27:44 Tim Judd wrote: Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an extremely short delay period

Can't boot 7.2-RELEASE i386 or AMD64 on an Abit KV8 Pro motherboard with Sempron 3100+ CPU

2009-06-20 Thread ericr
Hi, As the subject says, I can't get the 7.2-RELEASE i386 CD to boot on a system that has: Abit KV8 Pro (K8T800P-8237-6A7L1A1BC-26) motherboard with the most recent BIOS - BIOS release 26 4/20/2007 (

No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start

2009-06-20 Thread Manish Jain
Hi Roland, Looks like nobody at freebsd-questions has any answers for me. Maybe 7.2-x86 doesn't like newish amd hardware. Anyway, here are the contents of /dev/sndstat : FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: HDA ATI RS690/780 HDMI PCM #0 Digital at

Re: PACKAGESITE Directory Structure

2009-06-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 18:31:02 Glen Barber wrote: Hello, list. After trying to figure out the incorrect directory structure for some of the packages hosted on my site, I am at a loss. After reading through /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c from HEAD, lines 337-340 seems to suggest

Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start

2009-06-20 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:31:45 +0530 Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like nobody at freebsd-questions has any answers for me. Maybe 7.2-x86 doesn't like newish amd hardware. post the output of: pciconf -lv as well as dmesg. Also your rc.conf and PolicyKit.conf files might be

Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start

2009-06-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:31:45AM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Hi Roland, Looks like nobody at freebsd-questions has any answers for me. Maybe 7.2-x86 doesn't like newish amd hardware. Anyway, here are the contents of /dev/sndstat : FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)

Re: Can't boot 7.2-RELEASE i386 or AMD64 on an Abit KV8 Pro motherboard with Sempron 3100+ CPU

2009-06-20 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 20 June 2009 11:00:45 am ericr wrote: Hi, As the subject says, I can't get the 7.2-RELEASE i386 CD to boot on a system that has: Abit KV8 Pro (K8T800P-8237-6A7L1A1BC-26) motherboard with the most recent BIOS - BIOS release 26 4/20/2007 (

portell breakage

2009-06-20 Thread Joshua Isom
I recently upgraded my ports tree which included the python update. Everything went smoothly(except that openchrome on amd64 requires a hand patch), but now portell won't run. I can create a database, but all I get otherwise is: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-20 Thread Jeff Laine
A vote for C-net devices. Pretty cheap and I can't recall any troubles caused by 'em. -- Best regards, Jeff | Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ... | | Xorg.conf(5)| ___

Re: portell breakage

2009-06-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Joshua Isom wrote: I recently upgraded my ports tree which included the python update. Everything went smoothly(except that openchrome on amd64 requires a hand patch), but now portell won't run. I can create a database, but all I get otherwise is: Traceback (most recent call last): File

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-06-20

2009-06-20 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

Vim-Lite Port Refuses to Update

2009-06-20 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hey, I'm having issues with the vim-lite port. I have it installed, and I'm trying to update it. However, when the system attempts to fetch the patches, it fails. Here's the log: http://pastebin.ca/1468178 It seems like it's putting a % on the end of the URL that it is trying to fetch. Any

Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start

2009-06-20 Thread Daniel Underwood
Aside: My Bonnie looked into a gas tank, The height of its contents to see! She lit a small match to assist her, Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me. Hah... I like that. Dark, but witty. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Audio

2009-06-20 Thread Jeff Molofee
Just wondering what changed with the sound on BSD? My system way back in the 4.x days sounded not too bad... good bass, etc. After dropping my audio cards for on board audio (intel hda) I noticed the sound was really BAD... tin can, bad separation, no bass at all. Some time this past week,

OT: Dark humor (Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start)

2009-06-20 Thread perryh
Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Aside: My Bonnie looked into a gas tank, The height of its contents to see! She lit a small match to assist her, Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me. Hah... I like that. Dark, but witty. I first heard it some 50 years ago, and it was not new

self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-20 Thread Gary Kline
for the dedicated nerds on-list now on the weekend, i just edited [[ this is my LAST edit ]] of ``slicejourney.php''. it goes away in ten days. i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new and lost cost notebook computers i had heard of. how many and which ones work best

SSL Acceleration cards

2009-06-20 Thread Cameron Jacobson
I posted a message about SSL Acceleration cards a while back on one of the newsgroups, but never got a response. I'm revisiting this now that I've got a project in the works that I'd like to utilize this technology, but still don't think I have the equipment I need. I purchased several SSL cards