Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/12/2010 09:25, Timm Wimmers wrote: Am Freitag, den 03.12.2010, 00:33 -0500 schrieb Weihang Wang: Hi Martes, I have tried the first two interfaces which are said to be supported by FreeBSD, they do not work. Surprisingly, now I choose the option Intel PRO/1000 T Server and in NAT

FreeBSD .dlink 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1: Tue Nov 9 21:13:03 MSK 2010 r...@.dlink:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

2010-12-04 Thread K. Yura
Can't use watch. How to install snp snoop device? === [root@ /dev]# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/snp [root@ /usr/src/sys/modules/snp]# make Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/sys/modules/snp @ - /usr/src/sys machine

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-04 Thread Da Rock
On 12/04/10 14:23, John Levine wrote: Network is the way to go. USB *may* be okay. Parallel is not living anymore - allthough I'm still using it that way, but my home setting is a life support system for obsolete technology anyway. :-) My printer is a sturdy old Lexmark Optra T610.

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-04 Thread JB
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:42:09 +0100, J B wrote: ... Hi, thanks to every body who contributed to this thread. If I only, in addition, could get that console/bash Delete key working properly (delete a char under the cursor instead of the preceding one) it would be a perfect first rendezvous

Re: Support for hard drives 2 TB?

2010-12-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:44:22 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Another possible downside: if you want to multi-boot, the other OS may also need to understand both GPT and PMBR. That can be a big problem actually: I'd heard that Windows 7 supported GPT so I recently tried to install it. It

Re: printing from inside Linux firefox

2010-12-04 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Dan Strick wrote: I tried /usr/ports/www/firefox which installs as firefox3, a native FreeBSD Firefox program. It will print via lpr, but It won't do flash. Actually, it will. I tried the flashplugin-mozilla port, but it just causes a segmentation violation when I

hilarious quotes (from across the pond)

2010-12-04 Thread JB
To some extent it is a waste of time but I like the point that we pay Linux with our time by which we get educated. A Linux user JB :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-04 Thread John Levine
My printer is a sturdy old Lexmark Optra T610. CUPS has a driver, which does duplex, N-up, and so forth. Each toner cartridge is good for over 10K pages, so I buy one about every two years, and I can usually find one for $100, making the per page cost very low. Lexmarks are very badly

massive hdd/geli problems after upgrade to 8.1-RELEASE

2010-12-04 Thread Michael Schaefer
Hey folks, some days ago i upgraded my FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 system to 8.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update. I'm using a generic kernel so the upgrade process was just straight forward. However I encountered massive problems with my hdd which I now found out are attributed to this upgrade. I'm

Re: printing from inside Linux firefox

2010-12-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 07:22:34PM -0800, Dan Strick wrote: I am running FreeBSD release 8.1. I normally run a Linux Firefox (currently version 3.5.15) because I need the flash plugin (/usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10). I also need to print web pages on occasion but the Linux Firefox

Re: FreeBSD .dlink 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1: Tue Nov 9 21:13:03 MSK 2010 r...@.dlink:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

2010-12-04 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 05:16, K. Yura yy.gu...@gmail.com wrote: Can't use watch. How to install snp snoop device? The module is built during normal kernel builds, unless you are using the MODULES_OVERRIDE directive in your kernel. Run kldload snp. Put snp_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf to get

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-04 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth JB on Saturday, 04 December 2010: On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:42:09 +0100, J B wrote: ... Hi, thanks to every body who contributed to this thread. If I only, in addition, could get that console/bash Delete key working properly (delete a char under the cursor instead of the preceding

Re: FreeBSD samba+winbind

2010-12-04 Thread Ivo Karabojkov
Hi! Thanks for your reply! Sorry, but that didn't help. I even tried installing samba 3.4 (also form ports). With the same configuration as Samba 3.5 there was no idmapping at all. I'll try to raise loglevel to see what happens. With Samba 3.5 and loglevel 10 there were no significant errors

Re: massive hdd/geli problems after upgrade to 8.1-RELEASE

2010-12-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 12/4/2010 12:08 PM, Michael Schaefer wrote: ad4: FAILURE - READ_MUL48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=594632984 Those do seem like hardware errors on the disk. But going back to the old kernel however should not make a difference. Try (/usr/ports/sysutiles/smartmontools

Re: massive hdd/geli problems after upgrade to 8.1-RELEASE

2010-12-04 Thread Michael Schaefer
Hi Mike and thank you for your response please find the smartctl output here: http://pastecode.org/index.php/view/27349679 will do the atacontrol comparison later on since I would ahve to upgrade the system again. I stressed the hdd now with the old kernel for several hours copying

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 4, 2010, at 6:26 AM, JB wrote: If I only, in addition, could get that console/bash Delete key working properly (delete a char under the cursor instead of the preceding one) it would be a perfect first rendezvous with this FreeBSD help group :-) man bash suggests: Commands for

Re: massive hdd/geli problems after upgrade to 8.1-RELEASE

2010-12-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 12/4/2010 2:46 PM, Michael Schaefer wrote: http://pastecode.org/index.php/view/27349679 Well, the drive doesnt think it has any issues which is good! will do the atacontrol comparison later on since I would ahve to upgrade the system again. I stressed the hdd now with the old kernel

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-04 Thread JB
Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com writes: ... Thanks. It works in console/bash, both Delete and Backspace keys. But now Backspace stopped working in gnome xterm ... JB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-04 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth JB on Saturday, 04 December 2010: Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com writes: ... Thanks. It works in console/bash, both Delete and Backspace keys. But now Backspace stopped working in gnome xterm ... JB ___

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-04 Thread JB
Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com writes: ... By stopped working, you mean it doesn't do anything? ... Backspace does not do anything in gnome xterm. I am wondering what is the line format if I wanted to put Chuck's suggested forward-backward-delete-char in .inputrc ? This is a

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-04 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth JB on Saturday, 04 December 2010: Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com writes: ... By stopped working, you mean it doesn't do anything? ... Backspace does not do anything in gnome xterm. I am wondering what is the line format if I wanted to put Chuck's suggested

Re: RELEASE vice CURRENT vice STABLE

2010-12-04 Thread JB
Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com writes: ... RUBOUT: forward-backward-delete-char ... That fixed Delete behavior. It changed behavior of Backspace in gnome xterm slightly, but it is acceptable. Thanks to both of you. JB ___

Re: Support for hard drives 2 TB?

2010-12-04 Thread krad
On 4 December 2010 07:44, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:12:58 -0600 Josh Paetzel j...@tcbug.org wrote: ... The caveat is that very few systems have a BIOS that can boot from a GPT labeled drive. So regardless of your OS, you

Re: FreeBSD on Virtualbox: No network access

2010-12-04 Thread Weihang Wang
Hi, Thank you so much for your advices. I am using NAT mode now. Just as you said, there is no need to configure DHCP in /etc/rc.conf. I just choose the Intel PRO/1000 T Server as my virtual network interface. It works well. Thank you very much. : ) Best, W.W. On Dec 4, 2010, at 8:32 AM,

regex question....

2010-12-04 Thread Gary Kline
Gang, I was tried to find Jeffrey Friedl's email to figure out some quick regex when it struck me that the list can clue me in [[I have figured this out myself several times--well, 3 or 4 anyway--but it was more trial/error than I need.]] I have a file with ints from 0 to some N. What is

Re: regex question....

2010-12-04 Thread Joshua Gimer
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g -- Thanks, Joshua Gimer --- http://www.linkedin.com/in/jgimer http://twitter.com/jgimer http://itsecops.blogspot.com/

Re: regex question....

2010-12-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 05:29:49PM -0700, Joshua Gimer wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g So I just missed the *? Didn't need to escape the [ or ] ? ---I'll

Re: regex question....

2010-12-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:24:30 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: So I just missed the *? Yes. In regex, * means any amount of, if I remember correctly. So you don't have to specify precisely how many numbers there are. How many lights? :-) Didn't need to escape the [ or ] ?

Re: regex question....

2010-12-04 Thread perryh
Joshua Gimer jgi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g Too broad -- it will match the null string. (* means zero or more instances of whatever preceded it.) Best RE I

Re: regex question....

2010-12-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 05:56:59PM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Joshua Gimer jgi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g Too broad -- it will match the null

Re: regex question....

2010-12-04 Thread xSAPPYx
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 17:56, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Joshua Gimer jgi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g Too broad -- it will match the null string.  (* means

Re: regex question....

2010-12-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:49:45PM -0800, xSAPPYx wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 17:56, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Joshua Gimer jgi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g Why not just

gedit 's problem

2010-12-04 Thread xinyou yan
hello freebsd 8.1 afer i su to root after i beat gedit GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for