I finally figured this out. Turns out the FreeBSD side of things worked
from the start, and it was the hardware that was broken. A replacement
adapter works like a charm.
Oh and yes, Oliver, you're perfectly right, /dev/cuaU0 is indeed created
by ucom. I was confused by the device having the
Roland Smith wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 19:54:44 Roland Smith wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something
like that, but I get
Ian Smith wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:06:08 +0200 Benjamin Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've bought an USB-Serial adapter in order to use an old serial 33.6k
modem. I've loaded the uplcom and ucom modules, but am unsure how to
proceed from here.
The system runs FreeBSD 6.2
On 2007-10-24 17:15, Roland Smith wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:26:20AM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
Does the onboard serial port work via USB? How odd! On my standard PC,
the serial ports are driven by the sio driver, and have /dev/cuad* and
/dev/ttyd* devices, noc cuaU
Hello,
I've bought an USB-Serial adapter in order to use an old serial 33.6k
modem. I've loaded the uplcom and ucom modules, but am unsure how to
proceed from here.
The system runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8. When connecting the adapter,
dmesg says:
ucom0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 19:54:44 Roland Smith wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something
like that, but I get nothing. (cuad0 is taken by the onboard serial
port, which, alas, isn't wired
On Saturday 26 May 2007 16:39, User Pjf wrote:
I install openvpn from port. Follow openvpn.net howto, vpn can
connect from client to server, but on client side, I cann't ping
server side other machines.
On my server side, vpn server and gateway is same one box, I
use dev tun, the server has
On Thursday 24 May 2007 08:53, Sandy Rutherford wrote:
Benjamin,
On Wed, 23 May 2007 you wrote:
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 15:41, Sandy Rutherford wrote:
I have been trying to get Maple 10 working on FreeBSD 6.2. With
the patch to the kernel to add `linux_rt_sigpending', it works
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 15:41, Sandy Rutherford wrote:
I have been trying to get Maple 10 working on FreeBSD 6.2. With the
patch to the kernel to add `linux_rt_sigpending', it works fine with
the exception of the help command. This gives me:
Help error, during help initialization - No
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 05:32, Chandhee Thala wrote:
if i connect to the net with a cable modem or some other device that
uses NAT and gives me a private IP addresses, what is the most
Elegant way to get my real IP? (assume that the device itself will
not let me have it).
I can go to some
On Monday 09 April 2007 16:20, dbetts wrote:
Is there a simple way to uninstall KDE and Xorg, or do I have to use
the pkg_delete command for each one?
I recommend you use pkg_cutleaves (it's in the ports), as it will help
avoid broken dependency chains. It's still a bit of work though
Hello,
I've been playing around with IP packets tonight, and I've noticed a peculiar
behaviour in FreeBSD that I can't explain. Can someone provide some insight?
Specifically, I've been sending IP packets to broadcast addresses, once to
10.0.0.255, which is the local subnet's broadcast
On Sunday 04 June 2006 16:45, Jonathan Horne wrote:
my freebsd boxes are refusing connections (or erroring them out, im not
sure which it is at this time). when i try to scp a file or make a sftp
connection, this is what i get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sftp tyche
Connecting to tyche...
On Saturday 27 May 2006 15.52, Pete C wrote:
. . . looking for advice/guidelines for a minimum disk size for a decent
desktop install of 6-stable with gnome, openoffice, firefox, gimp etc. .
. .
. . . I have both a 20G and a 250G on hand, so I guess the question
really is is 20G enough ? ? ?
On Monday 29 May 2006 16:10, Federico Freigedo wrote:
Hi there I would like to ask you some questions if I may.. Im wanna make a
server for a site like friendster.com and I am very interested of using
FreeBSD as my SO on my server but I got some problems first I notice that
FreeBSD does not
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 01:42, Joe wrote:
Hi,
I've read the documentation and it seems there's no pkg_upgrade or
pkg_update, or a way to install an updated/upgraded package. I'd like
to determine if that is indeed the case.
[...]
The documentation mentions portupgrade and portmanager as
On Saturday 20 May 2006 05:38, Robe wrote:
Does any body know if the distribution of FreeBSD for IA-64 run in a
Celeron D microprocessor?
It will not. FreeBSD/ia64 is for Itanium and Itanium 2 systems only. However,
FreeBSD/i386 will run on your Celeron D just fine.
Cheers
Benjamin
Hello Andreas,
On Saturday 20 May 2006 18:46, none none wrote:
hi
i am new in FreeBSD and i have encounterted a problem
with kmail. I had set it up and it was working fine
until i tried to portupgrade -a. Some pkgs failed
during portupgrade and since then i am unable to run
kmail. the
On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:52, Joey F. wrote:
I went to the downloads page but was not sure what I am supposed to
download. as far as alpha, amd64 etc:/ If you could get back to me ASAP
it would be greatly appreciated.
If it's a standard Windows-capable computer, i386 will be what you need.
On Monday 17 April 2006 00:46, Marwan Sultan wrote:
Sorry,
But forgot to say that this problem happens when there is no Internet
connection only!
But when internet sharing presents on my XP all works fine.
Thank you and sorry again.
Hello,
I just fresh installed FreeBSD 6.0R,
The
On Saturday 15 April 2006 12:08, astalus razvan wrote:
Hy.Sorry if I disturb you.My name is Marius ,and i am a FreeBSD user.I love
this OS.A few days ago I've installed freeBSD on an Pentium 2 machine at
233 Mhz,with a Realtek RTL\8019 network card.I've configured the network
card but there is
On Saturday 15 April 2006 15:23, Kees Plonsz wrote:
Is is so important to know that the question or answer came from
that person ? I don't think so.
Even if it were so, for me it is too much trouble to import every key
into my key-database from a key-server.
I sign emails for the same reason
On Saturday 15 April 2006 15:08, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
I have a sizable collection of mp3 files (most of my CDs, actually) encoded
at high ratio for archiving.
I'd like to put some of them on a low-capacity player. Is there a utility
(preferably -- a ported one), that can reencode an
Hello Ashley,
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 17:08, Ashley Moran wrote:
I've tested the 6.1-BETA4 CD and that supports the card. I forgot my
desktop actually runs a very old 6-STABLE, so the Linksys card v3 support
must have been added a few weeks after 6.0 was released. I'll just run the
Hello jay,
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 05:55, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
The MIS suggested a LAN transition project, and I was assigned to lead the
team. Right now, we are only two in this very big team. :-) I'm just
wondering if I will ever gonna finish this project or not. I have a lot of
On Saturday 25 March 2006 16:26, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Installer, yes. good system for installing programs ... some would
differ. Ease of use isn't the only thing that FreeBSD ports offers,
and I'm not sure that PCBSD has that figured out; obviously, that's
open for discussion. Seems to me,
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 18:15, Paul Schmehl wrote:
What does this New Messages feature do?
It's like Favorites, except it only displays folders that have new messages
in them. I have so many folders that it's a real PITA to have to scroll
through 20 that have no new messages in them just
On Monday 06 March 2006 04:25, Olivier Nicole wrote:
For testing purposes, I am trying to build a quite old (read slow)
machine. It happens that every time I start a buildworld, I will have
to leave before the end. And next morning the shell I was using to run
the buildworld will have
On Saturday 18 February 2006 21:11, Brent Hostetler wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to get a linksys EG1032 working with freebsd 6.0. The
driver appears to not be loading properly giving error that it could
not map ports/memory and attach returned 6. Not sure what is wrong, or
what needs to be done
So from what I gather, rev=0x10 indicates the use of the realteak
chipset and the 6.0 release kernel does not recognize this variant and
must be patched to load the correct driver re.
I have not manually done source patches and am kind of adverse to
using blind patches from mailing lists.
Kirk Strauser wrote:
I have an older PS2 Happy Hacking Lite Keyboard (love it!), but I'm getting
reacquainted with Emacs and one aspect of the keyboard is driving me nuts: I
can't seem to get the diamond keys (like Windows keys) to send only Meta to
Emacs.
I use KDE on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5
Hello,
I've run into a little problem with device numbering. My boot device is
a SATA RAID5 array, which normally shows up at /dev/da0. Now I've
connected an external USB HD, which showed up at /dev/da1. So far so good.
The next time I booted, I was surprised to see the USB disk now having
Mikael Backman wrote:
Hi.
I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then.
How often should I cvsup the ports?
As often as you like/need. I usually do it manually every 1-3 days.
Cvsup is quite efficient, so you shouldn't have to worry about
overloading the cvsup servers if you do it
Olaf Greve wrote:
[...]
Now, this is where the issue lies. When putting a CD-ROM in the drive,
and trying to access it through the /cdrom mountpoint I get an empty
directory listing (not correct) and when manually trying to do the
following:
mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom
I get the error (on all
Frank Bonnet wrote:
I need some infos on FreeBSD baed VPN server
links/experiences welcome
I'm using OpenVPN (http://www.openvpn.org), and I'm very happy with it.
It's simple to set up (*much* simpler than IPSEC), and it has so far
been reliable for me. Since it uses SSL for encryption, it is
Sean Murphy wrote:
I have an onboard soundcard for my FreeBSD box and I was thinking of
getting the new Audigy card. Does the FreeBSD drivers for the Audigy
take advantage of surround sound, EAX, digital connections, or number of
channels? Or does the soundcard operate at a more basic level
Ansar Mohammed wrote:
Where can we find a list of the features of FreeBSD 6.0?
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-BETA5/RELNOTES.HTM
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I'm seeing those as well. The connection attempts are harmless, but
annoying, since they fill up the logs.
I decided to solve the problem by restricting the IP range that can
access my sshd to the class-A blocks that are most commonly used in my
country. Maybe it's not a truly elegant solution,
I was wondering if we can visit your orginaztion and get some
training in your system and also to get your permission to use
FreeBSD.
There is no company behind FreeBSD. FreeBSD is written and maintained by
a large team of individuals from all over the world. There are no
headquarters to
It's GBDE, not GEOM. GEOM is the system of abstracting disk access, and
GBDE is a GEOM class (as is GELI).
Cheers
Benjamin
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But when my eyes turns to Gnome, I am really scared by its components
and dependencies. At this point, I am willing to install it from
ports.
However, there is a problem: all my previous softwares were installed
manually, could ports check it out to avoid install some dependencies
(like
When I try and log into the jail via ssh I get to the
login prompt, type my info and once I press enter I
get some weird error nice tcsh promt: set promt =
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%~%#'.
I realize tcsh is a shell, but why the error... Does
anyone know what this is, and how I can fix it?
I think
Is it possible to set things so that 'telnet' is allowed only to one
specific user, while everyone else needs sshd? ie: Obviously, nologin
can be used as a shell to not permit any logins (but makes 'su' break
too), but I'd like to allow telnet for one specific user only and keep
everyone
Wouter van Rooij wrote:
\
Hello,
At the first place, sorry for my bad English.
My question is:
How can you, when you're writing a perl program, make a input
(stdin) hidden, so that when someone is typing an input in the
following program is hidden:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print Your name:;
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Correct about DD... This array will NEVER be used with another OS and
It will NEVER be booted from The disk array will never show it's
self in DOS because it needs special drivers. In FreeBSD I want it to
show up as one big disk and just mount it as /data or
dick hoogendijk wrote:
Personally I think it is wiser to wait for fbsd-6.x to make the
transfer and use my (old) FreeBSD-5.4-i386 version on my new machine.
Yeah, that's a good idea. 6.0-RELEASE is currently scheduled for August
15. Or you could install 6.0-BETA1 now. It runs pretty well here,
cd /usr/ports/www/opera; make -V ONLY_FOR_ARCH
Just tried this, but got no response. Maybe it works now.
Oops. Forget the S there at the end. It's ONLY_FOR_ARCHS .
There are a few things that will not work at all on amd64 right now,
however: OpenOffice.org, proprietary media codecs,
then , the MO capacity is 2.6G. But the real mounted capacity is 1.2G.
[...]
What's wrong about to delete original partition and the capacity ?
Nothing, works as advertised. It's a bad habit of manufacturers of
backup hardware to advertise twice the capacity that their hardware
actually has,
Valerio daelli wrote:
I am trying to install grub as a boot loader on my disk.
I installed it from ports.
When I try to install it on the MBR I get the error
[...]
Error 29: Disk write error
Two guesses:
- You can't write to a disks MBR while it's being used. I've seen
this myself, but
dick hoogendijk wrote:
Is there much difference between the athlon3000/3400 ??
Will the intel platform have (dis)advantages ?
Well, the 3400+ will be slightly faster when it comes to number
crunching. They'll be up to par to the Intel chip, but the Intel system
will cost more.
If price is
Hello,
As a pet project I've started to change /etc/rc so it uses make(1) to
execute the scripts in /etc/rc.d instead of executing them one after the
other like the standard /etc/rc does. The goal of the project is to speed
up boot time by executing rc.d scripts in parallel.
Now, if I don't
, before filing a bug report, I'd like to get some more
information. If you've ever encountered this bug, what were the
circumstances? If you've researched it some, what did you find out?
Greetings
Benjamin Lutz
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heh. That's human nature. To quote:
What is actually happening, I am afraid, is that we all tell each
other and ourselves that software engineering techniques should be
improved considerably, because
I use mutt with an imap server. I've tied macros to specific keys
that save messages to INBOX.trash, which effectively deletes them
from
the current folder. I go to the .trash folder and use 'D' to clean
it
out on a regular basis, sometimes finding one or two that I didn't
want to
I've been reading Jeff Roberson's ULE paper - very interesting. He uses
a tool called late for testing. Where can I find this tool? He says that
it should be available in FreeBSDs source repository, but I'm unable to
find it. Can anyone point me towards it? Thanks.
- Benjamin
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I'm trying to understand what FreeBSD uses its memory for.
Unfortunately, I've not been able to find documentation that answers all
my questions, so I'm hoping someone on this list can answer them.
Let's start with top(1)'s memory categories:
Free: Not used for any purpose.
I am wondering why there was 4.9 release if the newest one it 5.1.
Whick is better I am currently on 5.1. It's a little confusing. Well
there be a 4.10 and 5.2 release at the same time?
4.9 is the stable production release, while 5.1 (and in a few weeks,
5.2) is the development release that
Hi,
I have a friend for whom I installed FreeBSD 5.1. Recently, the box has started acting
up... programs like dhclient would freeze, driving the load up to above 3. If killed,
some other program would freeze minutes later.
I've been puzzled by this behaviour, since I run 5.1 on two other
My searches for information on webcam have not found much, except for some
sites which say FreeBSD does not support USB web cameras.
My Creative Labs USB Webcam (older Model, Webcam Plus or something it was called) runs
ok with /usr/ports/graphics/vid, which supports Webcams with the OV511 and
I just installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on a machine that was running 4.7-RELEASE-p3
before. I've got a problem with my network card:
After rebooting the system, it's MAC address is reset to C0:00:C0:00:C0:00. The card
works fine otherwise (apart from some dc: failed to force tx and rx to idle
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