Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
-- all of which would be important information that might just persuade hardware manufacturers to provide more FreeBSD support. Surely a condensed version of /var/run/dmesg.boot is more to the point. /var/run/dmesg.boot can't be relied on, unfortunately ... I've had *many* times where

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the system or even how many

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, John-Mark Gurney wrote: User Freebsd wrote this message on Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 22:44 -0300: For those that haven't been following the discussion on this, the iir(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x appears to have a deadlock issue under medium to heavy load, where the 'blocked' state

BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: 'k folks ... the quick and dirty .. actually, not too dirty ... The attached script [...] Can you make this into a port which users can install? I'm not sure, can I? Can ports install into /etc/periodic? Or is there some

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
by vendor, working in FreeBSD X.Y, broken, etc. The XML should be easily outputted on the fly to XHTML so it can be reviewed by devolopers and what not. Just my too cents... 'k, right now, we are trying to get the data from the remote clients to a central server ... if you are thinking of using XML

Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
... STEP 3: fetch http://bsdstats.hub.org/report_sys.php?id=`cat /tmp/getid`system=`uname -mr | sed 's/\ /+/g'` To record the FreeBSD version ... I personally don't think there is anything else useful / non-sensitive that we'd want to report on ... Now, the idea

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 4/08/2006 4:58 AM, User Freebsd wrote: Getting a list of devices is actually pretty easy, and I've tried this on my 4.x machines also, so it isn't something that will be a problem on older versions: # pciconf -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the FreeBSD main page... or registration in sysinstall. Isn't this how everyone else handles the problem? User A installs FreeBSD, registers, works with it for a week, finds he

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/08/02 15:37, User Freebsd seems to have typed: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the FreeBSD main page... or registration in sysinstall. Isn't this how everyone

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Counting portsnap and cvsup accesses is non-intrusive - i.e. nothing sent from local host - will count systems from any version of FreeBSD, but will never count everything because sites

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi! On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a suitable replacement for the card

Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Christian Brueffer wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches ... Official word from Adaptec

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
A quick follow up on this email ... please note that I have not, in this email, pointed to anything but the iir(4) driver, and, more specifically, the GDT controller card ... I have been using Adaptec products since the early 90's, and, until upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x, *never* had

iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hello! On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:51:59AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they were working on full FreeBSD support. I'll

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
, since NAT'd networks would all use the same IP ... even non-NAT'd networks would have the risk of being on dynamic IPs, so that again doesn't work ... (20 + 32) bytes * (10^7) = 495.910645 megabytes. The FreeBSD team would need a 6.6Mbit/s uplink to handle peak load assuming 50% of the hosts

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/31/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Counting portsnap and cvsup accesses is non-intrusive - i.e. nothing sent from local host

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Rico Secada wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:44:01 -0300 (ADT) User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me like the best solution is to boykott Adaptec like OpenBSD did. Actually, based on the thread going on on -stable right now, from ppl that are talking to Adaptec

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Robert Huff wrote: User Freebsd writes: Actually, using ifconfig wouldn't work ... it would give unique, but as soon as you add another IP (ie. alias), the ID would change ... you'd need to do something like: ifconfig | grep ether | sha256 | md5 since the 'ether

Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
support FreeBSD. Making big statements in public that they don't, or that it's not up to ones' standards or hopes, isn't terribly useful or productive. I'd hate for FreeBSD to turn into That Other BSD that publically abuses and harasses vendors for percieved sleights. There are much more positive

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/1/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User Freebsd writes: Actually, using ifconfig wouldn't work ... it would give unique, but as soon as you add another IP (ie. alias), the ID would change ... you'd need to do something like

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: spamfilter

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/1/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Ok.. lets start from the top, again. Why do we need uniqueness? We want to count each host reporting *once* ... without uniqueness per host, how are you

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: Approximately 15000 portsnap snapshots (i.e., /var/db/portsnap or /usr/local/portsnap directories) are being kept updated on systems which send HTTP requests to portsnap*.freebsd.org

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Colin Percival wrote: There are still a lot of people (particularly on pre-6.0 systems) who are using CVSup rather than portsnap for updating their ports trees. Also, I would guess that some people who run multiple FreeBSD systems, use some

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:42 PM, User Freebsd wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: We can also collect the access information of the cvsup server and portsnap server, can't we? What does that give

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: But this will then only count from the first version(s) of FreeBSD which contain the periodic job. Then every machine running an earlier release would be a ghost. Agreed, but any active counting will fail dealing with older machines, regardless

Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches ... Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out

[IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
'k, I finally got ahold of someone @ adaptec, and the official word seems to be: FreeBSD 6 is not officially supported for the GDT based ICP RAID controllers. Nevertheless the inbox driver should work. Great, well, the inbox driver doesn't work with FreeBSD 6.x, and support doesn't exist

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and I have several more for personal use. But of those there are maybe 2-3 that I would be ok with listing and exactly zero that I will actually list. It's not that I don't want to help, but I'm not going to run

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Yes and no. Not all cvsup servers are under the control of the FreeBSD project but you are right, they could log the release tag and more. Also don't forget about website stats, mailing list subscriptions, and ftp servers. None of which

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
permissions first, and, thereby, flooding him with NTP requests ... People just don't realize just how very big the Internet is. That is the problem, yes ... nobody knows how big the FreeBSD community is ... :) Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
might in the short term see as the best tool may not be such in 2 years when support is dropped and you are in a forced obsolescence and have to replace it with something else... So making value judgments like tools that are known to be well supported on FReeBSD for example is part of determining

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:16:55PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be losing not buying their products isn't

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: People like me who only use FreeBSD on the laptop would certainly give much shorter uptimes. Okay, I just wanna say, it's very strange to a mobile/desktop user. Again, I wasn't thinking so much about uptimes as the fact that the information

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: We can also collect the access information of the cvsup server and portsnap server, can't we? What does that give? Approximately 15000 portsnap snapshots (i.e., /var/db/portsnap or /usr/local/portsnap directories) are being

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: We can also collect the access information of the cvsup server and portsnap server, can't we? What does that give? Approximately 15000 portsnap snapshots (i.e., /var/db/portsnap or /usr/local/portsnap directories) are being

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: What we really need is score card to keep track of the good and bad companies. Someone with initiative could have this up and running in a day or less... After it's up we can put a BIG HONKING LINK on the FreeBSD main page. http

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Amitabh Kant wrote: I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether to support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their product in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our money bags, that it will make commercial

Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
to see something better that includes more information (ie. version of FreeBSD being run, AMD vs Intel, etc), even just getting #s on the size of the community that we are apart of would be good Also, for the data to *mean* anything, it has to be semi-realtime, in that it can't just

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote: On 7/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Towards that end, as a starter, I would like to encourage everyone out there running 1 or more FreeBSD boxes to go to http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes register all of your hosts

icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ?

2006-07-27 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ?

2006-07-27 Thread User Freebsd
icmp unreach response from 6646 to 200 packets/sec ^C And its been going on for several hours now ... :( On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Two part question here ... first part ... is there a way of just disabling icmp by setting a sysctl, so that a server just doesn't respond to them

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Tamouh H. wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't support FreeBSD. We've already been over this once. Not to disagree with you, but Adaptec put new drivers for 5.3 and 5.4 for their 2420, 2820

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
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Your message to freebsd-emulation awaits moderator approval

2006-07-26 Thread owner-freebsd-emulation
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Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 7/26/2006 07:35, User Freebsd seems to have typed: The point is, if we keep acting as individuals, vendors will treat as unimportant ... if we start acting like an organization, and actually *lobby* these vendors for better support, maybe

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 7/26/2006 10:34, User Freebsd seems to have typed: Supporting 3ware is good, but what if/when Adaptec buys them out ... Adaptec doesn't officially support FreeBSD, therefore, anyone they buy out would most likely change their policy accordingly

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:36:51PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: * No binary blob drivers. This is one that I don't necessarily agree with ... if Adaptec came out with a *supported* iir driver

Re: What I would like to see, or How many FreeBSD boxen are out there?

2006-07-25 Thread User Freebsd
who is using FreeBSD, what they are using it for (narrow scope, ie. web hosting, firewall, etc ... nothing fancy there), but, also, eventually extended to include information about the OS itself (none sensitive information only): Version of OS Hardware Drivers In Use (via dmesg

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-25 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Oops, forgot about that. Use 5.x then. The statement is that newer versions of FreeBSD are slower than older versions. The point was that this isn't relevant to 90% of users for reasons I already cited. IMHO, I'm not so concerned about my

The results of your email commands

2006-07-25 Thread owner-freebsd-afs
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What I would like to see, or How many FreeBSD boxen are out there?

2006-07-22 Thread User Freebsd
of desktops and servers deployed with FreeBSD ... What I'd love to see is a *project initiated* (or FreeBSD Foundation) FreeBSD reporting mechanism similar to: http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes/myuptimes Something just for FreeBSD users (well, all *BSD users should be invited

Re: What I would like to see, or How many FreeBSD boxen are out there?

2006-07-22 Thread User Freebsd
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, jan gestre wrote: On 7/23/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On various lists, including this one, there is talk about how to we make hardware vendors sit up and take more notice of us ... alot of the negative responses back seem to be 'we are too small of a group

Still debugging why open(/dev/lpt0...) hangs

2006-07-21 Thread george+freebsd
line 302) to print out some identifying information about the process doing the ioctl? Or is there a better list somewhere to ask this question? -- George Mitchell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

FreeBSD 6: open(/dev/lpt0, O_WRONLY) hangup fixed

2006-07-20 Thread george+freebsd
I've solved my /dev/lpt0 problem. Here is what happened: 1. I observed that the problem is also happening on FreeBSD 6.0. 2. It isn't happening on 5.3. 3. I sprinkled some printf's into lptopen in sys/dev/ppbus/lpt.c. 4. I compiled a new kernel, stripping a whole bunch of stuff out

FreeBSD 6.1: open(/dev/lpt0, O_WRONLY) hangs up

2006-07-19 Thread george+freebsd
returned to my shell prompt and typed in: cat /dev/null /dev/lpt0 and that hung up uninterruptibly. What's going on? FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, unmodified generic kernel. All this worked normally under 5.3, though that needed 'hw.intr_storm_threshold=2000

P.S. FreeBSD 6.1: open(/dev/lpt0, O_WRONLY) hangs up

2006-07-19 Thread george+freebsd
found /NIBBLE/ECP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: OKI DATA CORP OKIPAGE 10ex PJL,PCLXL,PCL,EPSONFX,IBMPPR plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 ___ freebsd

More FreeBSD 6.1: open(/dev/lpt0, O_WRONLY) hangs up

2006-07-19 Thread george+freebsd
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RE: SMP Performance (Was: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail ... )

2006-07-16 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Tamouh H. wrote: I have to put my two cents here: 1) I agree with few posters that FreeBSD performance have been lacking behind. I've reported few issues on performance list and many did. We offered few pre-production servers for performance testing, but the answer we

Re: DL360 G4 shared network iLo and FreeBSD

2006-07-16 Thread User Freebsd
, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:13:57 -0700 Eric Lakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to setup a DL360 G4 for use in a colo environment with FreeBSD. I've run into one problem: I've setup the iLo to use the shared network option, which allows the iLo to share the same network

[KDE] starting application on specific desktop ...

2006-07-16 Thread User Freebsd
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RE: *bsd firewall appliance?

2006-07-14 Thread FreeBSD-Questions
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DW Posted At: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:06 PM Posted To: FreeBSD-Questions Conversation: *bsd firewall appliance? Subject: Re: *bsd firewall appliance? Philippe Lang wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

SMP Performance (Was: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail ... )

2006-07-13 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Danial Thom wrote: Simply enabling SMP on a single processor system adds 20-25% overhead in freebsd 6.1. Again, readily admitted/accepted by the developers. There is no way to recover that in efficiency, at least

Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-13 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: IMAP server alternatives

2006-07-13 Thread User Freebsd
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Linksys router and ssh time outs ...

2006-07-08 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Linksys router and ssh time outs ...

2006-07-08 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Eric wrote: User Freebsd wrote: I just put a linksys router in place, so that we could use our wireless laptop, well, wireless ... now, I seem to be getting timeouts on my ssh connections when they are idle, but timeouts that I never received when I had my desktop

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2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 28, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: growing number of places (ie. Adaptec / Intel) appear to be dropping support for it as well ... Many places are starting support for FreeBSD, or increased support, as well

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
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Re: Firefox crashes and hangs my 6.1R system

2006-06-23 Thread freebsd-questions
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portupgrade confusing '-P' and '-p'?

2006-06-19 Thread freebsd-questions
status: 127 ** Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/All/gtk-2.8.19.tbz ** The command returned a non-zero exit status: 127 ** Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/All/gtk-2.8.19.tgz ** Failed to fetch gtk

FreeBSD users of Thailand

2006-06-13 Thread FreeDesktop FreeBSD
To whom it may concern : We, among the few advanced FreeBSD users of Thailand, have been using FreeBSD, Desktop mode (with the emphasis on Desktop) for quite sometime. As you may know copyright infringement is a concern in countries like Thailand. In order to avoid such problems, we think

Re: Firefox crashes and hangs my 6.1R system

2006-06-07 Thread freebsd-questions
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Firefox crashes and hangs my 6.1R system

2006-06-06 Thread freebsd-questions
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Scanner Canon Canoscan Lide 60 not found.

2006-05-27 Thread FreeBSD User Giacomo
Hi, I have a problem with the scanner Canoscan Lide 60 with FreeBSD 6.1. This is sopported in sane but scanimage -L not find it. If I try whith sane-find-scanner I read: --- searching for USB scanners: checking /dev/uscanner... failed to open (Invalid argument) checking /dev/uscanner0... failed

apache2 mod_php5

2006-05-24 Thread FreeBSD Daemon
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Re: portmanager install from packages (please)

2006-05-07 Thread freebsd-questions
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Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-05-03 Thread FreeBSD mailing list
On 29 apr 2006, at 15:28, Yousef Raffah wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be able to read them. You are right but this isn't my

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-05-03 Thread FreeBSD mailing list
On 04 mei 2006, at 01:51, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 5/3/2006 15:38, FreeBSD mailing list seems to have typed: Mac OSX can't be installed onto a UFS formatted drive as far as I know Most OSX programs won't run on it either http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106692 *** QUOTE

^M

2006-05-02 Thread FreeBSD Daemon
Dear list, How can I non-manually remove the ^M line breaks from my text files TIA zheyu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

memtest86 memory test

2006-04-19 Thread FreeBSD Daemon
Dear list Is there a memory test suite other them memtest86/memtest86+ TIA zheyu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unrecognized pci-serial board

2006-04-18 Thread FreeBSD MailingLists
I installed a pci-serial board to my freebsd box. But it doesn't seem to be recognized. dmesg yields this line pci3: simple comms, UART at device 3.0 (no driver attached) pciconf -lv yieds [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:0: class=0x070002 card=0x60011195 chip=0x015213a8 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor

Re: unrecognized pci-serial board

2006-04-18 Thread FreeBSD MailingLists
I forgot to mention... The box said Linux Ready so I thought that it might be FreeBSD compatible as well, but it seems like to get it working on linux, you need to compile the driver which they provide the source for the source for the driver can be downloaded from http://www.ratocsystems.com

Re: USB MODEM

2006-04-18 Thread FreeBSD MailingLists
powered port 2 powered port 3 powered port 4 powered Any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA, Tomoki On 18 Apr 2006 10:20:21 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD MailingLists [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I purchased a usb modem recently and connected it to my FreeBSD

usb-serial controller in 5.4?

2006-04-17 Thread FreeBSD MailingLists
i have a USB-Serial Controller by Prolific Technology, Inc. I tested to see if the device works on FreeBSD on FreeBSD6 machine. the serial controller works when i load ucom and uplcom modules. a ucom0 device is generated along with tty and cua devices. when i connect to a FreeBSD 5.4 machine

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