Hardware booting problem

2011-09-15 Thread Doug Hardie
I encountered a situation today that I do not understand. This is a very old i386 PC that does not have a usable CD drive. The existing drive uses a very funky SCSI connector that I have nothing for. The system disk is SCSI and there was one additional PATA drive used for additional storage.

RE: Intel 82573E NIC and BMC with FreeBSD 8

2011-09-15 Thread Rafael NAVAZA
Ok I got the BMC responding when the em driver is loaded. I had to comment out the line corresponding to the CRC Stripping (#4153) in /usr/src/sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c and compile/install/loader.conf the driver. I know (from my google searches) that by doing it some other intel nics will not

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread f92902
There is nothing wrong with having / and /usr on separate partitions; in fact, there are some mild advantages to fine-grained partitioning for folks who pay attention to their filesystem space usage. To elaborate on this: Assuming you have separate /var, /tmp, /usr and /home partitions, the

Re: Hardware booting problem

2011-09-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:34 AM 9/15/2011, Doug Hardie wrote: I encountered a situation today that I do not understand. This is a very old i386 PC that does not have a usable CD drive. The existing drive uses a very funky SCSI connector that I have nothing for. The system disk is SCSI and there was one

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Mueller mueller6727
I can't really see the rationale for putting / and /usr on separate partitions. Swap would go on a different partition because it does not use the same file system. I like to put /home on a separate partition, and don't like the idea of /usr/home. I also don't like to put /var and /tmp on

ppp with mode -auto

2011-09-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I'm using ppp(1) with mode -auto in a FreeBSD 8.x (an older 8-CURRENT); I'm reading in the man page that the link is not coming up until packages for the tun interface are arriving... But my ppp starts chatting and LCP... just when it is started. My ppp.conf file is attached; any ideas?

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-15 Thread William Bulley
According to Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com on Wed, 09/14/11 at 20:21: Two things you can do to improve the situation. Thanks. First, describe the appropriate settings and files on http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ Done. Then write some updates to the man page, or at least describe

Re: Thinkpad audio question

2011-09-15 Thread William Bulley
According to Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl on Wed, 09/14/11 at 23:11: It was mav (Alexander Motin), he proposed those hints after I complained that sound stopped working after update. He wondered how I got sound to work in the first place, with hints I had previously. I would have

9.0 bata2 keymap

2011-09-15 Thread Fbsd8
Out of the 9 USA maps only us.iso.acc.kbd worked somewhat. The keyboard 9 key block above the arrow keys don't function. Issuing the man cmd_name command doe's display the man page, but the {Page up, Page down keys } don't work. Also when using the ee edit command the {delete, Page up, Page down

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thanks bud. On 9/15/2011 5:19 AM, f92...@hushmail.com wrote: There is nothing wrong with having / and /usr on separate partitions; in fact, there are some mild advantages to fine-grained partitioning for folks who pay attention to their filesystem space usage. To elaborate on this: Assuming

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thanks Matthew / Michael for your responses on this. On 9/14/2011 2:51 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/09/2011 18:27, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: ... In these days of plentiful RAM, the new rule of thumb is

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thanks again Matthew On 9/14/2011 2:55 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/09/2011 19:31, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In regards to partitioning, I have a question regarding a rumor that has been told to me by various different linux experts, and I

gem19 missing

2011-09-15 Thread Jens Jahnke
Hi, I just installed lang/ruby19 on my freebsd 8.2 box and I'm missing the gem command (gem19). If I do install devel/ruby-gems I get ruby18 and gem18. :-| Any ideas? Regards, Jens -- 15. Scheiding 2011, 20:58 Homepage : http://www.jan0sch.de Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

Re: gem19 missing (solved)

2011-09-15 Thread Jens Jahnke
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:00:06 +0200 Jens Jahnke jan0...@gmx.net wrote: JJ If I do install devel/ruby-gems I get ruby18 and gem18. :-| After adding RUBY_DEFAULT_VER=1.9 to /etc/make.conf and rebuilding ruby19 and ruby-gems it finally works. :) Regards, Jens -- 15. Scheiding 2011, 21:29

Java6 problem

2011-09-15 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hi, After upgrading to Java6, I am having a problem when I launch the Java application that my bank/broker uses. It halts with Start: applet not initialized. Unfortunately, FreeBSD is not a 'supported platform' for my bank/broker, and they won't provide any support. It does work on Windows

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-15 Thread Allen
Sorry for top posting but can anyone send this to Computer Stupidities ? It seems to good to waste like this. Anyone who thinks they're a Hacker yet doesn't know how FTP works is not only funny, it's entertainment. And also, the web site I'm speaking of, has a similar story sent in from another

Thank you for excellent support

2011-09-15 Thread Open Slate
Recently the address I have used for years to post here stopped working. After several pleas for help some nice list owner forwarded by mail to the postmaster, who spent a lot of time tracking down the problem. My ISP has been bought and sold several times, so that my address no longer passes the

A FreeBSD HTPC

2011-09-15 Thread Евгений Лактанов
Thinking about doing an HTPC project, however I remember having problems with an avermedia tuner way back (damn I am old). Browsed through the hardware notes to the 8.2 and the situations seems to be pretty desperate, I've checked GNU/Linux and it is years ahead in this department. I also

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-15 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Sarang. sarang.ch...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:43 PM Subject: Please secure your FTP access Oooh! This big bad but ethical hacker is going to erase all the FTP files I'm shaking in my boots. Please Mr. Big Bad, don't

Re: Java6 problem

2011-09-15 Thread Ashley Williams
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com wrote: Hi, After upgrading to Java6, I am having a problem when I launch the Java application that my bank/broker uses. It halts with Start: applet not initialized. Unfortunately, FreeBSD is not a 'supported platform' for my

Re: Java6 problem

2011-09-15 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:06:44PM -, Scott Ballantyne wrote: Hi, After upgrading to Java6, I am having a problem when I launch the Java application that my bank/broker uses. It halts with Start: applet not initialized. Unfortunately, FreeBSD is not a 'supported platform' for my

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-15 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 05:46:35PM -0400, Allen wrote: Sorry for top posting but can anyone send this to Computer Stupidities ? It seems to good to waste like this. Anyone who thinks they're a Hacker yet doesn't know how FTP works is not only funny, it's entertainment. And also, the web site

Re: Java6 problem

2011-09-15 Thread Scott Ballantyne
[1:text/plain Hide] On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:06:44PM -, Scott Ballantyne wrote: Hi, After upgrading to Java6, I am having a problem when I launch the Java application that my bank/broker uses. It halts with Start: applet not initialized. Unfortunately, FreeBSD is not a

Re: Java6 problem

2011-09-15 Thread Scott Ballantyne
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com wrote: Hi, After upgrading to Java6, I am having a problem when I launch the Java application that my bank/broker uses. It halts with Start: applet not initialized. Unfortunately, FreeBSD is not a 'supported platform'

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-15 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 15 September 2011 21:05, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 05:46:35PM -0400, Allen wrote: Sorry for top posting but can anyone send this to Computer Stupidities ? It seems to good to waste like this.  Anyone who thinks they're a Hacker yet doesn't know how FTP

Re: Need an audio multicasting solution

2011-09-15 Thread Victor Sudakov
Alejandro Imass wrote: A quick look at Icecast showed that it does not support multicast either. It this true? If so, Icecast is completely useless for my scenario. AFAIK very few media streamers (or none) actually support real IPv4 (Class D) Multicast. They support what is known as

Re: Need an audio multicasting solution

2011-09-15 Thread Victor Sudakov
Eduardo Morras wrote: I need a solution to read sound from a soundcard (/dev/dsp) and multicast it into the network, for the multicast audio stream to be played on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows workstations. No sophisticated codecs needed, plain PCM would do. Can you advise something? I know