powerd(8), cpufreq(4) only available on amd64/i386?

2013-01-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I recently installed 9.1-release on a sparc64 box. One of the options in bsdinstall was to use the cpu power control. I chose to use it. So I've got # grep power /etc/rc.conf powerd_enable=YES # which doesn't seem to work: root: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start powerd Is the following dmesg

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread herbert langhans
All I use is Adblock Plus. With the automatic updates I havent seen any ad for month.. herb langhans ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Mike Woods
Quoting herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl: All I use is Adblock Plus. With the automatic updates I havent seen any ad for month.. I'll second this endorsement, i've been using it for a good few years now and I just works :) Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism

drivers for BMC43142 and/or AR8162 chips

2013-01-07 Thread vilibald wanca
Hi, I've installed pc-bsd 9.1 and FreeBSD 9.1 on my new laptop ASUS X201E, which was originally running ubuntu, after a little struggle to get it booting I am up and running although I have no network access whatsoever as the Ethernet device is Atheros AR8162 and the wifi is hybrid

Re: problem to compile lang/gcc

2013-01-07 Thread Fleuriot Damien
On Jan 7, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi to all, I try compile lang/gcc port but it stopped with required 'file to patch': root@casa:/usr/ports/lang/gcc # make Making GCC 4.6.3 for i386-portbld-freebsd9.1 [c,c++,objc,fortran,java] === Found saved

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 19:40:37 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. Simply deactivate Flash. :-) There are several extensions for Firefox to make the web less

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-07 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... Next problem: the FB 9.1 dmesg differs on: - VB VM pnp bios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum ... orm0: ISA Option ROM at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff pnpid ORM on isa0 Correction - on real hardware none of the

Unreferenced Libraries?

2013-01-07 Thread Walter Hurry
9.1-RELEASE on amd64. libchk reports the following libraries (among others) as unreferenced: /usr/lib/libBlocksRuntime.so.0 /usr/lib/libform.so.5 /usr/lib/libformw.so.5 /usr/lib/libgpib.so.3 /usr/lib/libgssapi_ntlm.so.10 /usr/lib/libgssapi_spnego.so.10 /usr/lib/libhistory.so.8

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread RW
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:32:35 +0100 Polytropon wrote: Today I don't need to deal with this question anymore. I've been using a two browsers approach: Firefox with Flash installed, everything works as intended, and Opera as my main browser, with Flash deactivated, and quite picky about what

Re: Unreferenced Libraries?

2013-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 07/01/2013 14:27, Walter Hurry wrote: 9.1-RELEASE on amd64. libchk reports the following libraries (among others) as unreferenced: /usr/lib/libBlocksRuntime.so.0 /usr/lib/libform.so.5 /usr/lib/libformw.so.5 /usr/lib/libgpib.so.3 /usr/lib/libgssapi_ntlm.so.10

Ignorance and pth etc

2013-01-07 Thread David Southwell
Hi I seem to be getting problems with some error messages which appear to indicate pth failures. The system is 8.2-RELEASE GENERIC amd64 on Intel quad core. I do not understand how pth threads are managed. 1. From ports I have installed fpc-pthreads-2.6.0 libpthread-stubs-0.3_3 pth-2.0.7 2.

User IDs

2013-01-07 Thread Don Dugger
Hi All, Looking for advice. I have had between 3 - 9 boxes on a small home business network. This network has been in place for 12+ years. On occasions there's a Linux box however I am trying to use PC-BSD instead. The non-FreeBSD boxes are used for office and general work the FreeBSD boxes are

IPFW stopped logging

2013-01-07 Thread Jerry
I have discovered that IPFW stopped logging any messages in the security log over a week ago. I did a reset, etcetera, but without favorable results. I even tried a cold reboot to see if that made any difference; however, it didn't. Other than that, it appears to be working fine. I am looking for

Re: IPFW stopped logging

2013-01-07 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: I have discovered that IPFW stopped logging any messages in the security log over a week ago. I did a reset, etcetera, but without favorable results. I even tried a cold reboot to see if that made any difference; however, it

Re: User IDs

2013-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:49:48 -0800, Don Dugger wrote: The question is about dealing with adding users. I been using NIS for a while now it works ok however I've had to keep good notes on how to do thing mainly because I don't add user or boxes very often. I'm a software engineer not a system

Bash history empty on login

2013-01-07 Thread Andre Goree
I'm not sure what's going on, as I've never had an issue like this in my years of using FreeBSD nor Linux. Each time I login, my history file is empty! I'm not sure what could be causing this, but below [1] is my .bashrc. I had . ~/.bashrc in ~/.profile, but I removed it while I'm

Re: User IDs

2013-01-07 Thread Don Dugger
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:49:48 -0800, Don Dugger wrote: The question is about dealing with adding users. I been using NIS for a while now it works ok however I've had to keep good notes on how to do thing mainly because I don't add user or boxes very often. I'm a software engineer not a system

Re: sendmail not working

2013-01-07 Thread Gary Aitken
On 01/07/13 19:45, Robert Huff wrote: On a system running: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Dec 30 12:52:09 EST 2012 amd64 I have compiled sendmail following the instructions in the cyrus-sasl port. Sendmail starts, but no mail is processed either way. /var/log/maillog

Re: problem to compile lang/gcc

2013-01-07 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi, I think you should update your ports tree :) Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com Sent by: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org 07.01.2013 15:15 To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject problem to compile lang/gcc Hi to all, I try compile

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 04:44:18PM +0200, Aldis Berjoza wrote: 07.01.2013, 05:43, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. thanks for some tips,