ath0: link state changed to DOWN

2006-08-18 Thread Helge Preuss
Hello everybody, after a kernel recompile (completely unrelated to WLAN or network drivers) my Atheros WLAN card acts funny. I have in the meantime reinstalled the previous, working kernel, but it does not work any more. The card goes down and up again every few seconds. dmesg contains only

Re: Needing a guide/tutorial please

2006-08-18 Thread Helge Preuss
Looking for a guide online somewhere that will walk me through setting up a mail server with the following items on it. SpamAssassin Postfix (pop3 and smtp setup) MySQL (for database driven mail user administration) MyPHPAdmin (to visually admin the database) Squirrelmail (for

Re: jdk15 on 6.0

2006-04-02 Thread Helge Preuss
james g. wrote: On Apr 2, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 4/2/06, james g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD Land: I've seen this question asked on this very list, and once or twice on the web, but have yet to find a solution. I'm attempting to compile jdk15 on an older

Order of rc file execution

2005-12-16 Thread Helge Preuss
which does not require changing system-supplied scripts. I'd prefer making my edits in a centralized way (for instance, editing something like /etc/rc.local) instead of something under rc.d. Thanks Helge -- Helge Preuss Freelance Software Developer +49 177 2262 484 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Order of rc file execution

2005-12-16 Thread Helge Preuss
I use a GBDE-encrypted /var partition which i attach and mount during boot in rc.local. why don't you use /etc/rc.d/gbde? (btw, which version of FBSD?). Heh, because I didn't know about it! Thanks, this looks like the cleanest solution. How do I use this script? If I interpret the

Re: Order of rc file execution [solved]

2005-12-16 Thread Helge Preuss
Erik Norgaard wrote: Helge Preuss wrote: I use a GBDE-encrypted /var partition which i attach and mount during boot in rc.local. why don't you use /etc/rc.d/gbde? (btw, which version of FBSD?). Heh, because I didn't know about it! Thanks, this looks like the cleanest solution. How

Re: AMD64 question

2005-09-26 Thread Helge Preuss
Eric Murphy wrote: [...] however if i run make buildkernel kernconf=GREED it runs but uses the GENERIC kernel This sets the variable ${kernconf}, which is ignored, because make looks for ${KERNCONF}. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Fwd: Re: C program to write to the com port - RESOLVED

2005-09-09 Thread Helge Preuss
vittorio wrote: [...] SerialPort.C: In function `int main(int, char*)': SerialPort.C:62: error: invalid conversion from `unsigned char*' to `char*' SerialPort.C:62: error: initializing argument 1 of `int snprintf(char*, size_t, const char*, ...)' SerialPort.C:66: error: `err' undeclared

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-15 Thread Helge Preuss
[...] So I'm thinking I probably want to move to a RAID mirror filesystem, and keep some sort of quality backups offsite. 1. RAID mirror filesystem questions: 1a: should this be vinum? I have read and can follow the handbook instructions for a vinum root filesystem. 1b: Will it help to