Re: nfe0 startup

2010-05-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/05/2010 01:15:13, Robert Jenssen wrote: Many thanks to those who responded to my question. It seems that waiting for the network to start up is a common problem. Recently Jeremy Chadwick proprosed adding a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/waitnetwork

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Gary Kline
yo; it's late here [even i've wimped out:: no-ooo-ooo!] so i'll reply come morning. ('sall ready 'tomorrow':) -g On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 05:20:55AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01,

Solved - Atheros AR9285 on FreeBSD-8 [WAS: Re: Wireless networking question]

2010-05-01 Thread S Roberts
Hello Chip, On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:03:21 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 30 2010 13:39, S Roberts wrote: Hello Chip, Good to hear from you.., On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:13 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 26 2010

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured

USB mount delay

2010-05-01 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I have the problem that on my ALIX system USB is first powered up when the FreeBSD kernel is loading. When local filesystems are mounted the USB disk is not yet ready and booting fails giving me a shell prompt. Shortly after I see the kernel message for the recognized /dev/da0 USB disk, mount

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W power supply (and more), and the specs for my AS/400e

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 03:55:43PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread David Rawling
On 1/05/2010 11:55 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W

Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread John Pollock
Hi, Am running FreeBSD 8.0 p2, and had installed Firefox3. Since it keeps crashing when viewing some web pages, I wanted to deinstall it. When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error message that port is not installed. Which brings up a question, when installing

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:14:28 John Pollock wrote: When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error message that port is not installed. You should use pkg_delete instead: running make deinstall could fail if the port has been updated since installing it. -- Bruce

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread John Pollock
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 19:15 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:14:28 John Pollock wrote: When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error message that port is not installed. You should use pkg_delete instead: running make deinstall could fail if

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread Beat Gaetzi
John Pollock wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 19:15 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:14:28 John Pollock wrote: When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error message that port is not installed. You should use pkg_delete instead: running make deinstall

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 308, Issue 10

2010-05-01 Thread Winston Weinert
Yes probably, but for now I can play urban terror as well. Which features are missing ? -- Demelier David What would be awesome is Enemy Territory Quake Wars using the linux compat! The issue is it requires emulation of a later kernel. I also play Urban Terror. Join up on fsk405

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Christopher Key
Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap) /dev/da0s2d on /var (ufs, local,

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread John Pollock
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 20:36 +0200, Beat Gaetzi wrote: John Pollock wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 19:15 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:14:28 John Pollock wrote: When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error message that port is not

Re: I am new to BSD

2010-05-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:34:52AM +, o...@aloha.com wrote: cd /usr/ports/net/asterisk make (get a snack) make install make clean Once you're in the appropriate directory, all the make commands can be kicked off at once: make install clean I prefer to use portinstall and

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: Am running FreeBSD 8.0 p2, and had installed Firefox3. Since it keeps crashing when viewing some web pages, I wanted to deinstall it. When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error message that port is not installed. What

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:44 +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local) /dev/da0s2b (swap)

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 1 May 2010, Bruce Cran wrote: On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:14:28 John Pollock wrote: When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error message that port is not installed. You should use pkg_delete instead: running make deinstall could fail if the port has been

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W power supply

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:58:36AM +1000, David Rawling wrote: Servers tend to be worse - I have a matched pair of Acer servers with single 3GHz P4 class Xeons, 2GB of RAM, 3 x 7200rpm disks and dual NICs. Those systems pull 220W and they're the next ones I'm ditching for something that

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread John Pollock
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 13:13 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: Am running FreeBSD 8.0 p2, and had installed Firefox3. Since it keeps crashing when viewing some web pages, I wanted to deinstall it. When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 05:20:55AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:58:36AM +1000, David Rawling wrote: On 1/05/2010 11:55 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: [[ ]] Core 2 Duo E7400 (about 3GHz), single 7200rpm disk, embedded graphics and

Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall

2010-05-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 13:13 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: Am running FreeBSD 8.0 p2, and had installed Firefox3. Since it keeps crashing when viewing some web pages, I wanted to deinstall it. When I cd

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:32:49PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:58:36AM +1000, David Rawling wrote: Servers tend to be worse - I have a matched pair of Acer servers with single 3GHz P4 class Xeons, 2GB of RAM, 3 x 7200rpm disks and dual NICs. Those systems pull

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 03:33:29PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: hmm. a year++ ago i bought a hidef tv for around $1K. (remember, guys, your wives are going to want [[order you]] to buy a $zillion wood enclousure. whatever it's called. 20' long stand, cabinet+shelves.

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2010/5/1 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions: /dev/da0s2a on / (ufs, local)

Can't compile devel/gobject-introspection under 7.2

2010-05-01 Thread bfls
I'm trying to install deskutils/calibre but it is failing when it tries to compile gobject-introspection. I get the errors below and then it just hangs. I'm running 7.2-RELEASE-p7 with a GENERIC i386 kernel and I updated my ports tree yesterday (1 May). Given the version bump to png I took the