The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-10-08 - 2006-10-28

2006-10-29 Thread Dan Langille
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Re: qt-3.3/php 5.1.6 does not compile FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64

2006-10-29 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:18:44PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. Before sending a PR, I would like to ask you and maybe someone reveals my faults in this subject. Since a couple of weeks I can not build PHP 5.1.6 anymore. I can do it by hand, but not with the ports system. cups and qt

Re: qt-3.3/php 5.1.6 does not compile FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64

2006-10-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday October 29, 2006 at 01:19:12 (AM) cpghost wrote: I've had a similar show-stopper, until I realized that I had WITH_THREADS set in /etc/make.conf (to get a threaded perl), which was then picked up by the libxml2 port. After recompiling and reinstalling libxml2 without WITH_THREADS,

Re: qt-3.3/php 5.1.6 does not compile FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64

2006-10-29 Thread O. Hartmann
cpghost wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:18:44PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. Before sending a PR, I would like to ask you and maybe someone reveals my faults in this subject. Since a couple of weeks I can not build PHP 5.1.6 anymore. I can do it by hand, but not with the ports

Can't connect to my wireless network

2006-10-29 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 Release and after installing a CNet CWP-854 pci wireless nic and running into some problems with the ral driver I was able to fix that but now I can't connect to my wireless network. If I run these commands one at a time: # ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.1.42 netmask

clock running too fast

2006-10-29 Thread Thierry Lacoste
On one of my servers running 6.1-RELEASE-p10 I cannot keep the clok synchronized using ntpd. AFAICS this is certainly because the clock is running way too fast (about one second per minute). After I run ntpdate then ntpd the clock is drifting and /var/db/ntp.drift contains 0.00. Is there a way

Re: clock running too fast

2006-10-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Thierry Lacoste wrote: On one of my servers running 6.1-RELEASE-p10 I cannot keep the clok synchronized using ntpd. AFAICS this is certainly because the clock is running way too fast (about one second per minute). After I run ntpdate then ntpd the clock is drifting and /var/db/ntp.drift

Re: freebsd equivelent to the linux ethtool command?

2006-10-29 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:07, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 28), Jonathan Horne said: i have a computer that recently stopped obeying WOL packets, after i did a dual boot of freebsd/suse 10.1. before i put suse on there, WOL always worked just fine. apparently, the

How to Print from WIN XP to Samba

2006-10-29 Thread Derrick Edwards
Hi, I am having problems setting up windows XP Pro to print to SAMBA Print Server. I have an HP PSC 2210, using the HPLIP CUPS driver. I am printing fine from the FreeBSD box that it is attached to. I can browse to the printer however, once I connect to it, it says that the correct

qemu networking help with windows98

2006-10-29 Thread Stephen J. Roznowski
[I've searched for the answers, but have come up empty] I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and Qemu 0.8.2_2. I've gotten Windows 98 running inside of the emulator, but I'm having trouble getting the network to work. Basically, I'm interested in setting it up so that my Windows98 system can

Re: How to Print from WIN XP to Samba

2006-10-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday October 29, 2006 at 11:36:57 (AM) Derrick Edwards wrote: I am having problems setting up windows XP Pro to print to SAMBA Print Server. I have an HP PSC 2210, using the HPLIP CUPS driver. I am printing fine from the FreeBSD box that it is attached to. I can browse to the printer

bounced mail to list

2006-10-29 Thread Jeremy Gransden
I am getting mail bounced from anther address when I send to this List. I am not familiar with the details of smtp so i am unsure what the problem is. here is the bounce reply: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to

Re: rubygems in ports

2006-10-29 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 8/25/06, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've been meaning to ask this for a while... what is the motivation for including individual Ruby gems in ports? It strikes me as unnecessary duplication, as the gem tool works well on its own, even for gems with C code. Are there many gems

Re: qemu networking help with windows98

2006-10-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 29 October 2006 12:06, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: [I've searched for the answers, but have come up empty] I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and Qemu 0.8.2_2. I've gotten Windows 98 running inside of the emulator, but I'm having trouble getting the network to work.

NJ FreeBSD Sysadmin job

2006-10-29 Thread Joe Chimento
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things-Mail: update

2006-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
People, It took me awhile to figure out how thunderbird just-works with sendmail (on my private net), but I'm on my way. I'll still use mutt for most things, but at least with thunderbird I can click-on the embedded URL's and have firebird pop up. No more mousing and pasting. With tao at

Re: things-Mail: update

2006-10-29 Thread Rem P Roberti
Gary Kline wrote: People, It took me awhile to figure out how thunderbird just-works with sendmail (on my private net), but I'm on my way. I'll still use mutt for most things, but at least with thunderbird I can click-on the embedded URL's and have firebird pop up. No more mousing and

Re: Bounced Mail to List

2006-10-29 Thread Reinald S. Nielsen
Jeremy Gransden has the problem with bounces of his mail to the freeBSD list. Quite annoying, I am sure. I have the circumstance where messages to the list from ? are directed to me. Simply corrected with the delete key, but I imagine that Mr. ? wonders where his messages have gone. I have

apache.tar.gz

2006-10-29 Thread justin
Hello, I need to install apache on a hp-unix machine. I`m looking for a ftp site where i can fetch the tar.gz file in order to compile the server. I thought maybe my freebsd friends can givi me a hint of where to look for the apache.tar.gz file. Thanks in advance, Justin.

Re: things-Mail: update

2006-10-29 Thread Tore Lund
Rem P Roberti wrote: Boy, I'm glad somebody got embedded URL's to work. I have been trying for some time now, and still can't get them to work. Firefox is named in KDE, but still no joy. I'm getting tired of cutting and pasting :) Have you tried setting network.protocol-handler.app.http

Re: things-Mail: update

2006-10-29 Thread Rem P Roberti
Rem P Roberti wrote: Boy, I'm glad somebody got embedded URL's to work. I have been trying for some time now, and still can't get them to work. Firefox is named in KDE, but still no joy. I'm getting tired of cutting and pasting :) Have you tried setting

Re: things-Mail: update

2006-10-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:50:46PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: People, It took me awhile to figure out how thunderbird just-works with sendmail (on my private net), but I'm on my way. I'll still use mutt for most things, but at least with thunderbird I can click-on the embedded URL's and

Re: How to Print from WIN XP to Samba

2006-10-29 Thread Derrick Edwards
On Sunday 29 October 2006 12:12, Jeremy Gransden wrote: On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 12:36 -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote: I downloaded the Windows Driver for the printer (rw2_021_w02_enu.exe), and printed fine from the XP box so I know that the driver is there and works. When prompted for path of

question on my screen resolution

2006-10-29 Thread Sherry Zhang
Hello everyone: I am running freebsd 6.1 release on my Dell 6400 laptop computer. It has a 1280x800 wide-screen resolution. The video card I use is ATI Radeon Mobility X1300. But I failed to adjust the screen resolution. I follow the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook, but failed. First I add

Re: question on my screen resolution

2006-10-29 Thread Lane
On Sunday 29 October 2006 19:37, Sherry Zhang wrote: Hello everyone: I am running freebsd 6.1 release on my Dell 6400 laptop computer. It has a 1280x800 wide-screen resolution. The video card I use is ATI Radeon Mobility X1300. But I failed to adjust the screen resolution. I follow the

What's -STABLE?

2006-10-29 Thread Lane
Hey, ya'll! I'm trying to help a guy with a dial-up connection upgrade/update to 6.X, or even 5.X. He's on 4.2 and we can't seem to get cvsup to install, nor can he get the whole ball-o-wax download from /usr/ports/etc/etc/ports/ports.tgz So I'm thinking he should use sysinstall to do an

GTKMozEmbed with linux-firefox

2006-10-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi everyone, I use www/linux-firefox as my standard browser, as www/firefox doesn't support flash. /etc/make.conf has WITH_MOZILLA=firefox WITH_GECKO=firefox I am trying to install devel/devhelp, and I bumped into these issues: 1) it requires

Re: GTKMozEmbed with linux-firefox

2006-10-29 Thread Sherry Zhang
Norberto: I am a newbie and maybe I do not know how to answer your question. but I just follow the FreeBSD handbook chapter 6 [6.2.3 Firefox Mozilla, and Java plugin] and have the flash plugin installed. it works fine. maybe you can have a try? Sherry Zhang with best regards On 10/30/06,

Re: things-Mail: update

2006-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:20:36AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: Rem P Roberti wrote: Boy, I'm glad somebody got embedded URL's to work. I have been trying for some time now, and still can't get them to work. Firefox is named in KDE, but still no joy. I'm getting tired of cutting and pasting

Re: things-Mail: update

2006-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:44:55AM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:50:46PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: People, It took me awhile to figure out how thunderbird just-works with sendmail (on my private net), but I'm on my way. I'll still use mutt for most things,

Re: GTKMozEmbed with linux-firefox

2006-10-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:21:42 +0800 Sherry Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a newbie and maybe I do not know how to answer your question. but I just follow the FreeBSD handbook chapter 6 [6.2.3 Firefox Mozilla, and Java plugin] and have the flash plugin installed. (please keep the list in

Re: things-Mail: update

2006-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:20:36AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: Rem P Roberti wrote: Boy, I'm glad somebody got embedded URL's to work. I have been trying for some time now, and still can't get them to work. Firefox is named in KDE, but still no joy. I'm getting tired of cutting and pasting

Re: things-Mail: update

2006-10-29 Thread Rem P Roberti
Boy, I'm glad somebody got embedded URL's to work. I have been trying for some time now, and still can't get them to work. Firefox is named in KDE, but still no joy. I'm getting tired of cutting and pasting :) Have you tried setting network.protocol-handler.app.http in Thunderbird

Process arguments

2006-10-29 Thread Dave Clausen
Hello list, I'm a n00b to the FreeBSD kernel and I'm trying to log all commands run on the command line from within the kernel for security purposes by loading a kernel module which redefines execve(). I've successfully created the KLD and have it working, but am having problems saving the

Re: question on my screen resolution

2006-10-29 Thread Sherry Zhang
Lane: but actually I think it _is_ a problem of freebsd. when I use Debian GNU/Linux operating system without the ATI fglrx driver installed, I use the similar xorg.conf [remove the Modes 1280x800 and Modeline] and add Virtual 1280 800 and everything works file. but I try the same method in

Re: dhcpd conf error

2006-10-29 Thread Lane
On Sunday 29 October 2006 22:35, Warren Liddell wrote: When loading the dhcpd i get an error with the static IP addressing via mac address's with the following.. attached isa copy of my conf file .. any an all help apprecviated. ===

Re: question on my screen resolution

2006-10-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:08:35 +0800 Sherry Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but actually I think it _is_ a problem of freebsd. when I use Debian GNU/Linux operating system without the ATI fglrx driver installed, I use the similar xorg.conf [remove the Modes 1280x800 and Modeline] and add

accessing BIOS and RAID info on old Compaqs

2006-10-29 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings. For FBSD 6.1 on old Compaq DL320 and 1850R machines: 1. Is there a way to access the system BIOS, either at boot time or (preferably) from within FBSD? I'm specifically interested in seeing what the system's hardware clock is set to. 2.

dhcpd conf error

2006-10-29 Thread Warren Liddell
When loading the dhcpd i get an error with the static IP addressing via mac address's with the following.. attached isa copy of my conf file .. any an all help apprecviated. === /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf line 16: expecting a parameter or declaration

Re: What's -STABLE?

2006-10-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
Lane wrote: I'm trying to help a guy with a dial-up connection upgrade/update to 6.X, or even 5.X. He's on 4.2 and we can't seem to get cvsup to install, nor can he get the whole ball-o-wax download from /usr/ports/etc/etc/ports/ports.tgz So I'm thinking he should use sysinstall to do an