How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?

2009-02-09 Thread Yuri
I have a wireless network without password that my linux box easily connects to. On FreeBSD 'ifconfig ath0 up scan' command shows it. 'ifconfig ath0 ssid my-ssid up' brings interface to 'associated' state. But dhclient fails set it up. I have another device on the same system: ral0. It

Re: broken ports

2009-02-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:30:44AM +, David Collins wrote: What does: $ ldconfig -r | grep gcc_s give you? viper:~$ ldconfig -r | grep gcc_s 247:-lgcc_s.1 = /usr/local/lib/gcc-4.2.5/libgcc_s.so.1 On my FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64: $ cc -v Using built-in specs.

Re: broken ports

2009-02-09 Thread David Collins
I think the problem is that somebody has installed a compiler out of ports on your machine it's associated libraries. See what cc -v says. My cc is exactly the same as yours viper:~$ cc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i386-undermydesk-freebsd Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler

Re: broken ports

2009-02-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:08:28AM +, David Collins wrote: I think the problem is that somebody has installed a compiler out of ports on your machine it's associated libraries. See what cc -v says. My cc is exactly the same as yours viper:~$ cc -v Using built-in specs. Target:

gdm wont start

2009-02-09 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I upgraded to 7.1 and did a portupgrade and I think I broke something and for the likes of me .. I dont know how to fix this. I havnt changed my /etc/rc.conf, and it all looks the same / untouched. When ever I restart gdm I get the following. ** (gdm-binary:2646): WARNING **: Couldn't

Intel Quad Port Bypass Adapter

2009-02-09 Thread Affan Basalamah
Hi all, I just looked at Google and mailing list archive, but I still cannot see satisfactory answer. I would like to know if any of you has used Intel Quad Port Bypass Adapter http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/pro1000_quad_bypass_server_adapters.htm, and I would like to use

xorg and nvidia

2009-02-09 Thread Daniel Leal
Hi everyone! I am trying to convince my girlfriend to use freebsd as a desktop in her (not so) old toshiba S2450-201 laptop. I use it in my toshiba A200 laptop and it works fine. I just install it in her laptop with a 30GB disk I have... Installation was fine. This laptop as a nvidia geforce4

CUPS, initial PATH environment

2009-02-09 Thread Pieter Donche
If one installs CUPS as the printing system, one must use the /usr/local/bin versions of lp, lpr, lpq and lprm instead of the FreeBSD versions in /usr/bin, otherwise you get errors when using the command line interface... I could rename /usr/bin/lp, lpr, lpq, lprm to e.g. lp.origfreebsd, etc..

RE: CUPS, initial PATH environment

2009-02-09 Thread Johan Hendriks
If one installs CUPS as the printing system, one must use the /usr/local/bin versions of lp, lpr, lpq and lprm instead of the FreeBSD versions in /usr/bin, otherwise you get errors when using the command line interface... I could rename /usr/bin/lp, lpr, lpq, lprm to e.g. lp.origfreebsd, etc..

Re: CUPS, initial PATH environment

2009-02-09 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:46:46PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: If one installs CUPS as the printing system, one must use the /usr/local/bin versions of lp, lpr, lpq and lprm instead of the FreeBSD versions in /usr/bin, otherwise you get errors when using the command line interface... I

auditdonly works for console

2009-02-09 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I have tested audit subsystem with FreeBSD 7.1. But the weird thing is that I only get commands that are executed on console not the ones that are executed through ssh. Am I missing something here? I have followed these steps: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/audit-install.html

Re: xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:39:23PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Anton Shterenlikht skrev: After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log # So no xdm daemon. My system: FreeBSD

Re: gdm wont start

2009-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:45:30PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I upgraded to 7.1 and did a portupgrade and I think I broke something and for the likes of me .. I dont know how to fix this. I havnt changed my /etc/rc.conf, and it all looks the same / untouched. When ever I restart

zfs trauma from locate?

2009-02-09 Thread B. Cook
So I've been having much trauma with zfs and i386; but it seems it's been narrowed down to the 'weekend'. We leave friday and come back monday, and monday this box is not working properly. Nothing has crashed, it's just slow.. but there is no load on the box; just deathly slow.. 2+ minutes

Re: gdm wont start

2009-02-09 Thread cwt
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:45:30PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I upgraded to 7.1 and did a portupgrade and I think I broke something and for the likes of me .. I dont know how to fix this. I havnt changed my /etc/rc.conf, and it all looks the same /

using -t option with unix sort ?

2009-02-09 Thread Pavel Zelenov
This works: sort -t `/bin/echo '\t'` ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

CUPS - no german Umlaut characters

2009-02-09 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After successfully setting up CUPS I found out a problem wrt printing german Umlaut characters: Whenever I try to print a file with umlaut characters the file is only printed up to not not including the first umlaut characters. This happens for example when I take a text file with umlaut

Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers

2009-02-09 Thread Gabe
--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers To: n...@att.net Cc: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sunday,

Re: CUPS - no german Umlaut characters

2009-02-09 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Ewald Jenisch schrieb: Hi, After successfully setting up CUPS I found out a problem wrt printing german Umlaut characters: Whenever I try to print a file with umlaut characters the file is only printed up to not not including the first umlaut characters. This happens for example when I take a

Re: broken ports

2009-02-09 Thread David Collins
Then you should be able to build rtorrent. Then what I'd do is deinstall gcc42: # pkg_deinstall -f gcc-4.2.5_20080702 Comment out the CC line in /etc/make.conf run ldconfig: # /etc/rc.d/ldconfig start and hopefully your system is then back to normal. I tried all this and rtorrent

Re: Shrink a Slice? FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-09 Thread perikillo
Thanks for your great info, the only problem is that I don't want to cause any trouble to my current system and I needed to fix this quickly. I already install the system and everything is working, I have to built a system and test your procedure step by step. This info u give to us is

Re: gtkpod permissions problem

2009-02-09 Thread Tim Judd
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net writes: I have installed gtkpod for use with my Nano, but I'm having a problem when trying to add files. The Nano is mounted at /mnt/ipod, and when I try to add a file I get

all mail arriving empty - spamassassin?

2009-02-09 Thread David Banning
After some upgrades, all mail arriving via sendmail-provmail is empty - when I actually deinstall spamassassin - the mail starts arriving again. I haven't seen posts on this topic - I wonder if anyone has a guess as to where to look for answers on this. I am guessing if there is some way of

Re: gtkpod permissions problem

2009-02-09 Thread Rem P Roberti
I have installed gtkpod for use with my Nano, but I'm having a problem when trying to add files. The Nano is mounted at /mnt/ipod, and when I try to add a file I get a message similar to this: Transfer of 'Petite Fleur' failed. Error opening

Re: all mail arriving empty - spamassassin?

2009-02-09 Thread RW
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:43:21 -0500 David Banning da...@skytracker.ca wrote: After some upgrades, all mail arriving via sendmail-provmail is empty - when I actually deinstall spamassassin - the mail starts arriving again. I haven't seen posts on this topic - I wonder if anyone has a guess as

Re: broken ports

2009-02-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:52:58PM +, David Collins wrote: Then you should be able to build rtorrent. Then what I'd do is deinstall gcc42: # pkg_deinstall -f gcc-4.2.5_20080702 Comment out the CC line in /etc/make.conf run ldconfig: # /etc/rc.d/ldconfig start and

Re: broken ports

2009-02-09 Thread David Collins
Thank you for your input. I feel like this problem is too far over my head to be able to give adequate enough debugging. I am not against any alternative methods of resolving this (even removing and reinstalling ports) rather than fixing, I just don't want to have to jump into sysinstall or

Re: all mail arriving empty - spamassassin?

2009-02-09 Thread RW
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:27:01 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:43:21 -0500 David Banning da...@skytracker.ca wrote: After some upgrades, all mail arriving via sendmail-provmail is empty - when I actually deinstall spamassassin - the mail starts arriving

ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-09 Thread gahn
Hi all: Free questions with FreeBSD and IPV6. I am running 7.1. 1) My machine has multiple interfaces and some of interfaces I would like to run IP v6 but not all of them. How could I do that? Currently ipv6_enable=YES enables every interface of this machine, and ipv6_network_interface=fxp0

Re: How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?

2009-02-09 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 2/9/09, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I have a wireless network without password that my linux box easily connects to. On FreeBSD 'ifconfig ath0 up scan' command shows it. 'ifconfig ath0 ssid my-ssid up' brings interface to 'associated' state. But dhclient fails set it up. I have another

Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers

2009-02-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gabe wrote: Now with a gstripe+gmirror setup, would it be possible to fail a specific drive on purpose? I mean fail a (good) drive, pull it out, replace it and rebuild(?) it. I know I know, but humor me. Yes. Cheers, Matthew Well, to 'fail' the drive, you'ld have to

Re: installkernel on small disk

2009-02-09 Thread Albert Shih
Le 08/02/2009 à 01:51:50-0700, Tim Judd a écrit Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I've two servers (in fact guest in vmware) on don't have enought disk space to make buildkernel (or world). For the world freebsd-update can work. But for the kernel I've my own kernel. So if I compile

xorg 7.4: button fonts unreadable ...

2009-02-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Have searched Google, but haven't been able to find anything that either worked, or was relevant ... I just cleaned out and reinstalled all of my ports ... when I load up an xterm (the one I'm working in right now), all the text in it is fine and readable ... but, the top of the xterm, where

Re: How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?

2009-02-09 Thread Yuri
Quoting Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: wlandebug(8) for general 802.11 debuging ath driver have it's own debug options ... documented in source code Thanks! In the debug log I see the line: ath0: ieee80211_scan_update: no scanner suppport for mode 8 From source code I see that mode 8

Re: xorg 7.4: button fonts unreadable ...

2009-02-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:28:58PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Have searched Google, but haven't been able to find anything that either worked, or was relevant ... I just cleaned out and reinstalled all of my ports ... when I load up an xterm (the one I'm working in right now), all the

Re: How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Vande More
Yuri wrote: Quoting Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: wlandebug(8) for general 802.11 debuging ath driver have it's own debug options ... documented in source code Thanks! In the debug log I see the line: ath0: ieee80211_scan_update: no scanner suppport for mode 8 From source code I

Re: xorg 7.4: button fonts unreadable ...

2009-02-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
So, if I backtrack to 7.3.x, I should be fine? On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:28:58PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Have searched Google, but haven't been able to find anything that either worked, or was relevant ... I just cleaned out and reinstalled

Re: xorg 7.4: button fonts unreadable ...

2009-02-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:58:12PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: So, if I backtrack to 7.3.x, I should be fine? that sounds like it (I don't keep track of the version numbers). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpIAaiseBBGi.pgp Description: PGP

xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting anywhere, so now to ask ... Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an ASUS P5Q with a Quad Core Intel CPU ... everything boots / runs fine, until I try and start up X ... If I use the

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting anywhere, so now to ask ... Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an ASUS P5Q with a Quad Core Intel CPU ...

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting anywhere, so now to ask ... Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an ASUS

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... Well, that's good to hear. ;) Thought I'd as to be safe. -- Glen Barber

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... Well, that's good to hear. ;) Thought I'd as to be safe. Ya, that was

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Vande More
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... Well, that's good to hear. ;) Thought I'd as to

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
I ran into the same kind of issue. FWIW, I had better luck downloading the nVidia drivers from the website which includes modifying the kernel. I can now do all kinds of extra things, like spanning 2 monitors, etc (on workstations). I can dig up my notes if you intend to go this route at

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
Oops. Brain FART... I'm in a multi-OS environment... My answer was with respect to a different OS, but it might be applicable to FreeBSD. I don't have experience with nVidia on FreeBSD. Deb Heller-Evans Energy Science Network MS-50A-3101 Berkeley, CA 94720 510/495-2243 Deb Heller-Evans

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-09 Thread gahn
Ok, i meant the configuration of ipv6_network_interface=fxp0 alone doesn't seem to be working: for /etc/rc.conf: #ipv6_enable=YES ipv6_network_interface=fxp0 u...@lab:~:$ ifconfig fxp0 fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500

Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash

2009-02-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Hi Deb ... was this vs compiling from source? On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Deb Heller-Evans wrote: Oops. Brain FART... I'm in a multi-OS environment... My answer was with respect to a different OS, but it might be applicable to FreeBSD. I don't have experience with nVidia on FreeBSD. Deb

Re: installkernel on small disk

2009-02-09 Thread Tim Judd
Albert Shih wrote: Le 08/02/2009 à 01:51:50-0700, Tim Judd a écrit Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I've two servers (in fact guest in vmware) on don't have enought disk space to make buildkernel (or world). For the world freebsd-update can work. But for the kernel I've my own kernel. So

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How do I spinup disk from power-up in standby ?

2009-02-09 Thread Dieter
Western Digital SATA disk in power-up in standby mode. disk is connected to nforce4-ultra FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 Google found that MirBSD's atactl man page has: puisspinup Explicitly spins up the device if power-up in standby (puis) mode is enabled. I can't find anything like

Re: xorg 7.4: button fonts unreadable ...

2009-02-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Downgrading to 7.3 has made X usable again ... will try out nvidia driver tomorrow ... On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:58:12PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: So, if I backtrack to 7.3.x, I should be fine? that sounds like it (I don't keep track of the

Sierra Wireless AC595U

2009-02-09 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Hi all. Is there any plans to add support for this device? It seems that NetBSD has the code for it almost for a year now. Currently 7-STABLE doesn't recognize this device. Adding it to ubsa.c also gives nothing - the device is detected properly but doesn't work at all: Feb 10 06:58:11

wildcards don't work in sh shell for FAT32 filesystem

2009-02-09 Thread Carl
Why do pathnames containing a wildcard work in the tcsh shell regardless of the target filesystem, but do not work in the sh shell if the target filesystem is FAT32? The following sequence begins in the tcsh shell by mounting a FAT32 partition from a USB thumb drive. /tmp is in a UFS2

Re: lagg driver at 6.4 ?

2009-02-09 Thread Mel
On Friday 06 February 2009 04:03:24 Frank Bonnet wrote: Does the lagg driver ( ethernet bonding ) has been backported to the 6.4 release ? I have to setup a server with two giga-ethernet interfaces ( broadcomm ) and I would like to use them with LACP with a Cisco switch # uname -r

Re: Slow DNS (and host: connection timed out)

2009-02-09 Thread Mel
On Thursday 05 February 2009 22:55:56 David Naylor wrote: Hi, My ISP is using a WinGate DNS but resolving host names often takes a long time. The problem is also present in Konqueror (3 4) and Firefox. An example: # time host google.co.za google.co.za has address 66.249.93.104