FreeBSD/Fedora Core 3/Windows XP

2005-07-03 Thread Javier Ivan Mendoza
I have installed Windows Xp and Fedora Core 3 on the same hard drive, in another drive is FreeBSD, after FreeBSD 5.3 installation, GNU/GRUB boot loader does not work with FreeBSD; according to the GRUB manual the following sholud work # For booting FreeBSD title FreeBSD 5.3 root (hda1,2,c)

The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-06-12 - 2005-07-02

2005-07-03 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

How to troubleshoot slow network performance with Realtek 8169s?

2005-07-03 Thread Juha Saarinen
I have a 3.06GHz Intel P4 server running 5.4-RELEASE-p3, with the following two NICs: fxp0: Intel 82801BA/CAM (ICH2/3) Pro/100 Ethernet port 0xdf00-0xdf3f mem 0xfea fc000-0xfeafcfff irq 20 at device 8.0 on pci2 miibus0: MII bus on fxp0 inphy0: i82562ET 10/100 media interface on miibus0 inphy0:

RE: How to troubleshoot slow network performance with Realtek 8169s?

2005-07-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
The Realtek is a cheap adapter. You can try hard-coding the media type to see what happens, but the fact remains this is nowhere near as good a card as the 82801B. As a result of this there hasn't been that much attention to driver optimizations, you can review the work here:

FreeBSD 5.4 ndis support

2005-07-03 Thread Tobias Tom
Hello everyone, I'm using FreeBSD for some years now. I've read the german Mailinglist for nearly the same time. But I've got a Problem which no one can reproduce, or no one know any solution. I want to use my Level One wnc 0301 WLAN PCI Card in my FreeBSD box with acts as a Router in my small

Re: integrated SATA RAID controller on Intel server board SE7520bd2

2005-07-03 Thread Olga Zenkova
Thanks, Gayn! I am thinking what to do. Olga Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com ___

Re: How to troubleshoot slow network performance with Realtek 8169s?

2005-07-03 Thread Juha Saarinen
Hmm... replying to myself here, but using iperf I see 420Mbit/s+ from FreeBSD to Windows with TCP. Vice versa, 640mbit/s approx. Not so with file transfers across ftp, http, and smb though. Which is odd. -- Juha ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: How to troubleshoot slow network performance with Realtek 8169s?

2005-07-03 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 7/3/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Realtek is a cheap adapter. You can try hard-coding the media type to see what happens, but the fact remains this is nowhere near as good a card as the 82801B. As a result of this there hasn't been that much attention to driver

Re: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)

2005-07-03 Thread Ron
On 7/3/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I am saying your going to have to rebuild with the June drivers and _see_if_it_works_. If that locks up, well then as Nvidia wrote those drivers, you can call them on their support line. Please report back here and let us know how

Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes me

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-07-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
markzero wrote: (WW) The NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro GPU installed in (WW) this system is supported through the NVIDIA Legacy (WW) drivers. Please visit (WW) http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more (WW) information. The 1.0-7667 NVIDIA driver will ignore

help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread fbsd_user
What is the sh coding to strip the periods from a IP address?? raw_ip='10.0.10.5' this is starting num_ip='100105'and this is what I need to convert to. thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Year-old messages

2005-07-03 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
How come I get all these year-old messages coming in today? I got a couple of dozen of these in both questions@, current@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's an exerpt from the headers of one such message What's mu.org got to do with this? - Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread nbco
On Sunday 03 July 2005 00:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi snip I would like to know if possible how this came about, and what thinking was behind it. From experience, I consider symbols to be very significant, Historically, psychologically and even spiritually. Best regards Mark Hi there

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-02 19:35 -0400] FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes me uncomfortable is the symbol/emblem that the OS uses. That is a devil ! This has been covered many times before, and you could search the archives for more

Re: Year-old messages

2005-07-03 Thread Nicolas Blais
On July 3, 2005 09:46 am, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: How come I get all these year-old messages coming in today? I got a couple of dozen of these in both questions@, current@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's an exerpt from the headers of one such message What's mu.org got to do with this?

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread wizlayer
On Saturday 02 July 2005 07:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. FreeBSD looks like a good

Re: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 03 jul 2005, at 15:39, fbsd_user wrote: What is the sh coding to strip the periods from a IP address?? raw_ip='10.0.10.5' this is starting num_ip='100105'and this is what I need to convert to. Hi, many ways, here's one: printf '10.0.10.5' | sed 's/\.//g' Arno

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread wizlayer
On Sunday 03 July 2005 10:11 am, wizlayer wrote: And naturally, because FreeBSD is such a powerful system, if you use it for evil (which we are all capable of), it would be on us, not the daemon... Heck, not even the Devil because the Devil didn't make you do it... _You_ did it! :)

new convert

2005-07-03 Thread Eddie Colon
Hello I will be a new FreeBSD user as soon as I receive my DVD. I am a Linux user for a few yrs now. I have a few concerns, I hope you can answer me, I don't belong to any mailing lists. I don't think there are any user groups down here in Puerto Rico. 1- Can you tell me if it has

DNS setup

2005-07-03 Thread Alan Curtis
I am running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE behind a Linksys Wireless Access Point and Firewall and a DSL modem. My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP address which changes on a regular basis and the root domain and Domain Name Servers associated with that domain also change. I have seen at least 3 different

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Lane
On Sunday 03 July 2005 09:11, wizlayer wrote: On Saturday 02 July 2005 07:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I

Multi-User Single System

2005-07-03 Thread TvZ
At last...my e-mail is up and running again. I have a question which Linux users can answer and wondering if freebsd can come up with a simpler implementation. Groovix (the company) devised a Linux system that multiple users can connect to at one time. Thus...4 screens, 4 keyboards, 4 mice

Re: FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)

2005-07-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:28:41PM +0200, Ron wrote: Is there any 3d hardware company that does supply enough programming info? I looked a year ago, but I haven't seen any *product* yet, although there are initiatives. There is support for older cards from ATI (up to the Radeon 9250 aka

Re: DNS setup

2005-07-03 Thread Casey Scott
If you are just looking to be able to resolve DNS internally, you can very easily setup your FBSD box to be a forwarding DNS server, and point all your other machines at it for DNS resolution. There are many howtos covering this subject. Casey I am running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE behind a Linksys

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread TvZ
Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread TvZ
Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes

Re: DNS setup

2005-07-03 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:07:41 -0400 Alan Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE behind a Linksys Wireless Access Point and Firewall and a DSL modem. My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP address which changes on a regular basis and the root domain and Domain Name Servers

RE: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread fbsd_user
On 03 jul 2005, at 15:39, fbsd_user wrote: What is the sh coding to strip the periods from a IP address?? raw_ip='10.0.10.5' this is starting num_ip='100105'and this is what I need to convert to. Hi, many ways, here's one: printf '10.0.10.5' | sed 's/\.//g' Arno

Re: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 12:14:05 -0400 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks but I need a little more help. num_ip=(printf $raw_ip | sed 's/\.//g') gives me a error. What would the correct syntax be? I am trying to write script to insert rules into PF firewall on 5.4. using pf

Re: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:14:05PM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: many ways, here's one: printf '10.0.10.5' | sed 's/\.//g' Arno * Thanks but I need a little more help. num_ip=(printf $raw_ip | sed 's/\.//g') gives me a error. What would the

Re: Year-old messages

2005-07-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:46:46PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: How come I get all these year-old messages coming in today? I got a couple of dozen of these in both questions@, current@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's an exerpt from the headers of one such message What's mu.org got

Re: Year-old messages

2005-07-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:46:46PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: How come I get all these year-old messages coming in today? I got a couple of dozen of these in both questions@, current@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's an exerpt from the headers of one such message

RE: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread fbsd_user
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 12:14:05 -0400 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks but I need a little more help. num_ip=(printf $raw_ip | sed 's/\.//g') gives me a error. What would the correct syntax be? I am trying to write script to insert rules into PF firewall on 5.4. using pf anchors.

Re: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 03 jul 2005, at 17:18, fbsd_user wrote: On 03 jul 2005, at 15:39, fbsd_user wrote: What is the sh coding to strip the periods from a IP address?? raw_ip='10.0.10.5' this is starting num_ip='100105'and this is what I need to convert to. Hi, many ways, here's one:

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread wizlayer
On Sunday 03 July 2005 11:38 am, Lane wrote: It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then starts redecorating! I like the members-only solution, but

disk tuning

2005-07-03 Thread Alexandre D.
Hi guys, I'm trying to determine the good commands to initialise a disk. I would like to get the same result than with the sysinstall fdisk. But If I use the handbook's command: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad2 bs=1k count=1 # fdisk -BI ad2 # disklabel -B -w -r ${disk}s1 auto I do not get the

Serial console capable BIOSes?

2005-07-03 Thread Steve Brown
Does anyone have recommendations for motherboards (P3 or P4) with good BIOS serial console support that plays nicely with FreeBSD running a serial console on the same port? Basically, I'd like to monitor the pre-BSD boot process and the BSD boot process from a terminal window on another

Syn TCP Retries equivelent?

2005-07-03 Thread Matt Juszczak
snip- We figured out that if the primary LDAP server is online but the slapd process is down, the client (in this case NSS/PAM) immediately gets a connection refused and fails over to the secondary. On the other hand, if the machine is really down (i.e. powered off) and is in the same

RE: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread fbsd_user
std_text='No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled' ret_ob='No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled OK' ret_ob=`printf $ret_ob | sed 's/\$std_text//g'` Does not strip off the std_text stuff. How would I code a statement to remove everything from $ret_ob but

RE: disk tuning

2005-07-03 Thread Alexandre D.
using sysinstall, I got: *** Working on device /dev/ad2 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=79656 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:

Re: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 03 jul 2005, at 20:59, fbsd_user wrote: std_text='No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled' ret_ob='No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled OK' ret_ob=`printf $ret_ob | sed 's/\$std_text//g'` Does not strip off the std_text stuff. How would I code a

Re: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 14:59:32 -0400 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: std_text='No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled' ret_ob='No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled OK' ret_ob=`printf $ret_ob | sed 's/\$std_text//g'` Does not strip off the

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 ndis support

2005-07-03 Thread Bryan Maynard
I've been having issues with ndis myself. However, I got some help and things are going good for me, except that i haven't gotten DHCP to work for the card. . . Anyway, there is a utility in 5.4 (I think that's that's where it showed up) called ndisgen. Running ndisgen steps you through a

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Sean Hafeez
Issues like this just go to prove: Civilization and Religion are incompatible. On Jul 2, 2005, at 4:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux.

mirror login.conf values

2005-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Can anyone give estimate values of login.conf parameters for a T-1 FreeBSD mirror? E.g I'd like to run ftp,www,cvs,cvsup under different classes and would like to have an estimate of values for datasize, memory,vlimits,stacks, processes,openfiles and session limits. Thanks in advance!

RE: help with she script

2005-07-03 Thread fbsd_user
Thanks guys your solutions have worked and I am learning allot along the way. This is my last coding problem. target=check-state # Find the rule number of the target rule where you want the doorman # pass rules inserted before. ruleno=`ipfw list | sed -n -e s/00\([0-9]*\) $target/\1/p` The

Whom to report a panic to?

2005-07-03 Thread Vittorio De Martino
My (daughter's) new mp3 usb device made my laptop with the latest freebsd 5.4 freeze and show a page of panic explaining (not to me) what went wrong. The same mp3 reader is smoothly seen as a usb mass memory from linux on the same laptop. My question is: 1)Whom should I report the freebsd

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 7/3/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then starts redecorating! ... I believe there was nothing in the

Re: help with she script

2005-07-03 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 16:47:24 -0400 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks guys your solutions have worked and I am learning allot along the way. You are welcome. This is my last coding problem. target=check-state # Find the rule number of the target rule where you want the

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread TvZ
I'm religious as well and thought about connecting religion to everything connected to OS's Ok...let's see...Coming from South Africa, I could easily find a meaning Ubuntu : I am what I am because of who we all are.(Coming from South Africa, I could easily find a meaning)

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Steve Brown
That is way I here your problem but could not clearly see the problem with any Os's. How about you install BSD and just clear the conf file which shows Beastie at startup. Asking people to do something to easily remedy a situation of their own accord? Are you crazy? Steve B.

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:02:33AM +0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: I am, personally, currently helping my friend to buy and configure a computer for him and his family. Although I know FreeBSD better than Linux (and this does not mean I am a FreeBSD guru), I'll be installing something like

/var superblock mismatches first alternate

2005-07-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
Twice while ripping a particular music cd with grip, my system paniced when it hit track 9. On the second reboot, my system failed fsck on the /var partition complaining the superblock differed from the first alternate block and dropped me to a shell. I tried running fsck /var and got the same

Re: DNS setup

2005-07-03 Thread Alan Curtis
On Jul 3, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Leon Messner wrote: On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:07:41AM -0400, Alan Curtis wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE behind a Linksys Wireless Access Point and Firewall and a DSL modem. My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP address which changes on a regular basis and the

Re: DNS setup

2005-07-03 Thread Alan Curtis
On Jul 3, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Alejandro Pulver wrote: On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:07:41 -0400 Alan Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE behind a Linksys Wireless Access Point and Firewall and a DSL modem. My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP address which changes on a regular

Re: help with sh script

2005-07-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-03 09:39, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the sh coding to strip the periods from a IP address?? raw_ip='10.0.10.5' this is starting num_ip='100105'and this is what I need to convert to. There are many ways: echo ${raw_ip} | sed -e 's/\.//g' echo ${raw_ip}

Re: DNS setup

2005-07-03 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 18:23:31 -0400 Alan Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 3, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Alejandro Pulver wrote: On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:07:41 -0400 Alan Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE behind a Linksys Wireless Access Point and Firewall

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 7/4/05, Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:02:33AM +0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: I am, personally, currently helping my friend to buy and configure a computer for him and his family. Although I know FreeBSD better than Linux (and this does not mean I am a

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 3 July 2005 23:02, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 7/3/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 3 July 2005 23:02, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 7/3/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then

Re: FreeBSD/Fedora Core 3/Windows XP

2005-07-03 Thread Matthew
On 7/2/05, Javier Ivan Mendoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Windows Xp and Fedora Core 3 on the same hard drive, in another drive is FreeBSD, after FreeBSD 5.3 installation, GNU/GRUB boot loader does not work with FreeBSD; according to the GRUB manual the following sholud work

Re: DNS setup

2005-07-03 Thread Alan Curtis
On Jul 3, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Alejandro Pulver wrote: If you want examples I can provide you some. Then let me know if you want option 1) or 2) so I can help you with the next step. 1) Have an independent DNS server on each machine (there is one for Windows called TreeWalk - free -, that

Re: DNS setup

2005-07-03 Thread Ken Ebling
On Jul 3, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Alan Curtis wrote: I do need some clear instructions. I tried djbdns without success (see another post) and also the instructions under 'Domain Name System (DNS)' in the FreeBSD Handbook. I added named_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf. Used the default

Re: DNS setup

2005-07-03 Thread Ken Ebling
On Jul 3, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Alan Curtis wrote: On Jul 3, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Alejandro Pulver wrote: If you want examples I can provide you some. Then let me know if you want option 1) or 2) so I can help you with the next step. 1) Have an independent DNS server on each machine (there

installing ports/permission denied

2005-07-03 Thread bruce baldy
as root I continually receive permission denied when attempting to veiw ports collection.When I try to install again it says cannot find.I try using commands in the handbook very few of which are found by system.My version is 5.3 with total port collection(supposedly installed,the install sreen

Re: NVIDIA TNT2 woes

2005-07-03 Thread markzero
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:53:43PM -0400, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: glxgears works for you with the nv driver? I cannot get it to work for me (I have a RIVA TNT as opposed to your RIVA TNT 2). Could you post your xorg.conf? I have the line Load glx in the Module Section. Perhaps the

Top posting (was: Test messages to -questions)

2005-07-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[resequenced, trimmed] On Friday, 1 July 2005 at 14:01:13 +, Bryan Maynard wrote: On Friday 01 July 2005 06:56 pm, Lane wrote: On Friday 01 July 2005 13:30, Robert Marella wrote: I agree. I am much more annoyed by top posters. The only thing about email that annoys me is spam. While