Re: Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem

2005-08-14 Thread Bsderss
--- Vladimir Botka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running Speedtouch 510i, which is defacto router with some small unix system inside. You can login with telnet and configure it from command line or use the web interface or load the configuration file. I dont think that USB and

disk fragmentation, 0%?

2005-08-14 Thread Lei Sun
Hi, I know this question has been raised a lot of times, and most of people don't think it is necessary to defragment ufs, and from the previous posts, I got to know there are sometimes, disksize can be more than 100% But... I got ... /dev/ar0s1a: ... 0.5% fragmentation /dev/ar0s1e: ... 0.0%

Re: disk fragmentation, 0%?

2005-08-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:54 PM 8/13/2005, Lei Sun wrote: Hi, I know this question has been raised a lot of times, and most of people don't think it is necessary to defragment ufs, and from the previous posts, I got to know there are sometimes, disksize can be more than 100% But... I got ... /dev/ar0s1a: ...

The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-07-24 - 2005-08-13

2005-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: the Installation package Apache Web Server Failure

2005-08-14 Thread Nils Vogels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mario Jose Canto Barea wrote: i had installed FreeBSD 5.4 from CD's ( ISO i get with ftp from freebsd.org and burned with nero 6 on windows) but the Installation package Apache Web Server Failure Install the ports tree collection from

How much performance loss?

2005-08-14 Thread Nils Vogels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there ! I am trying to get FreeBSD properly running on my Soekris net4801, and for that reason I have compiled a custom kernel that doesnt have support for the hardware that I do not have. When booting, the kernel gives me the following

How to write Intel IXP23xxx driver for FreeBSD?

2005-08-14 Thread Bsderss
Hi, I wonder whether there is driver for Intel IXP23xxx being written in FreeBSD. If not, is there any guideline to help me to write a driver for it? Thanks Sam __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: XTerm fvwm2 Xorg

2005-08-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 01:54:05AM +0100, Charles Smyth wrote: I'm trying out fvwm2 on a FreeBSD 5.4 box with Xorg The XTerm uses a small font as default. How can the font be made larger, and how can the XTerm window be made larger by default. You could use options on the command line to

mplayer-plugin firefox

2005-08-14 Thread gb
Dear all, I have tried to build mplayer-plugin from the ports/www. My browser is firefox so I did a make WITH_MOZILLA=firefox. I get an error in the configuration phase error: Unable to find gecko sdk. I am running 5.3 this is probably something simple and to do with paths. Any help would be

Files get broken

2005-08-14 Thread Sebastian Pahlke
Hello, my FreeBSD 5.4 release system makes some annoying things which I don't understand. I use gmirror to mirror two IDE discs which seems to work without problems until now. I also use gbde to encrypt one data partition, but this partition seems NOT to be affected for now, so I guess it's not

What versions of PHP / mysql / apache for Mambo?

2005-08-14 Thread Chris Ryan
Hi All What versions of mysql server , apache and php should be run to use the mambo cms on freeBSD 5.4? What advantages of apache2 over 1.3? Php 5 - more secure than php4? Other reasons? Mysql server 4.0 / 4.1 / 5 ? Thanks in advance Chris ___

Re: Mambo CMS on freeBSD5.4

2005-08-14 Thread Chris Ryan
Hi Jack Mambo now running smooth as too :) Knew there was something I forgot... Thanks for your help Cheers Chris Ryan, Did you enable MySQL in /etc/rc.conf? At my server FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE Mambo is running smooth! Jack - Original Message - From: Chris Ryan [EMAIL

Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?

2005-08-14 Thread Bo Xiao
Hi, Having trouble install a 300G SATA with 5.4 release. HW is Dell PowerEdge. First disk is a 80G SATA. All is good. When adding the 300G, sysinstall cant understand the geom, 581421/16/63. It thinks it is 36481/255/63. Cant write to the disk. Even if I use G to tell it, it

bug with amavis-stats

2005-08-14 Thread fire67
Hello , i'm on freebsd 5.4 and i tried to configure port amavis-stats-0.1.12 but i have problem with it when i run it.I have that : %/usr/local/sbin/amavis-stats /var/log/maillog syntax error at /usr/local/sbin/amavis-stats line 215, near err syntax error at /usr/local/sbin/amavis-stats line

How to develop Intel IXP device drivers for FreeBSD?

2005-08-14 Thread Bsderss
Hi, I've been searched Google for few days but still can't find any info about how to develop device drivers for Intel IXP in FreeBSD. Can anyone please tell me some guideline and reference for it? I will be very appreciate for any suggestion. Thanks Sam

Dump on large file systems

2005-08-14 Thread John Pettitt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I tried to dump a 600gb file system a few days ago and it didn't work. dump went compute bound during phase III and never wrote any data to the dump device (this on an up to date RELENG_5 box). - is this a known problem? Are there any work

Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-14 Thread Milscvaer
Milscvaer wrote: I am attempting to install FreeBSD on a Pentium system (133 Mhz Intel). The system already had 4.6 on it so I wished to delete the 4.6 system from the filesystem and install 5.4 onto the same UFS filesystem, while keeping /usr/home in place. I deleted everything

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem

2005-08-14 Thread Abu Khaled
On 8/14/05, Bsderss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Vladimir Botka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running Speedtouch 510i, which is defacto router with some small unix system inside. You can login with telnet and configure it from command line or use the web interface or load

Re: mplayer-plugin firefox

2005-08-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
gb wrote: Dear all, I have tried to build mplayer-plugin from the ports/www. My browser is firefox so I did a make WITH_MOZILLA=firefox. I get an error in the configuration phase error: Unable to find gecko sdk. I am running 5.3 this is probably something simple and to do with paths. Any

Re: scanner for fbsd $50-$200

2005-08-14 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/13/05, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked in the hypertext man pages, but the supported scanners (uscanner driver) all seem a bit old. Than I looked at SANE-cvs (the latest). There also most modern cheap scanners you see in store today don't seem to be supported.

Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-14 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to try to boot the system on the hard driv e from a floppy. Maybe there is something wrong with the boot record on the HD. Does anyone know if this is possible and how I can do that? Sure, but you've left us in the dark as to what you have to

[Fwd: ipf sample rule file]

2005-08-14 Thread Dave Webster
---BeginMessage--- Thank you for your tremendous guide for FreeBSD newbies. I am confused by: # Allow out access to my ISP's DHCP server for cable or DSL networks. # This rule is not needed for ‘user ppp’ type connection to the # public Internet, so you can delete this whole group. # Use the

Re: need I install synaptics Touchpad driver for FreeBSD

2005-08-14 Thread nawcom
This is a common issue with laptops. Here's my little fix - its been a solution I've been giving out that works: in /boot/device.hints: add this line: hint.psm.0.flags=0x1000 lemme know if it doesn't do the trick. -Ben Fabian Keil wrote: Huajian Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just

Re: Connect to Cisco VPN server from FreeBSD?

2005-08-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 04:38:34PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: Hi all, As in the subject - has anyone managed to get a FreeBSD machine to connect to a Cisco VPN server, using IPSec and 2-factor authentication (password + SecurID card)? My employer has been acquired by another company, and

Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-14 Thread Milscvaer
--- Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to try to boot the system on the hard driv e from a floppy. Maybe there is something wrong with the boot record on the HD. Does anyone know if this is possible and how I can do that?

Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-14 Thread Milscvaer
--- Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to try to boot the system on the hard driv e from a floppy. Maybe there is something wrong with the boot record on the HD. Does anyone know if this is possible and how I can do that?

Question

2005-08-14 Thread John C. Bogard
Root PW lost, need to access FBSD and am unable to now Is there a work-around or way to boot to an install disk and reset root password. Regards, John John C. Bogard 863-255-6100 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: disk fragmentation, 0%?

2005-08-14 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:09:19AM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: 2. How come /tmp is -0% in size? -278K? What had happened? as I have never experienced this in the previous installs on the exact same hardware. Not sure about that one. Maybe someone else has an answer. This is a FAQ. The

Re: Question

2005-08-14 Thread Beecher Rintoul
On Sunday 14 August 2005 11:11 am, John C. Bogard wrote: Root PW lost, need to access FBSD and am unable to now Is there a work-around or way to boot to an install disk and reset root password. Regards, John John C. Bogard 863-255-6100 ___

madman compilation

2005-08-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
just started to try to compile madman, a music manager, ( http://madman.sourceforge.net ) on FreeBSD 6.0 BETA-2 after creating the dir /usr/share/qt and some symlinks in there include - /usr/X11R6/include/ lib - /usr/X11R6/lib/ to satisfy the configure-script, it bails out with this (amongst

increasing size of a partition

2005-08-14 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a 5.4-release box that is in need of some partition maintence. It's using raid1 procedure1 from Mr. Ralf S. Engelschall's site: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ I haven't been able to get procedure2 to boot, i keep getting an error on boot that the kernel is not found.

Re: disk fragmentation, 0%?

2005-08-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:18 PM 8/14/2005, cpghost wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:09:19AM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: 2. How come /tmp is -0% in size? -278K? What had happened? as I have never experienced this in the previous installs on the exact same hardware. Not sure about that one. Maybe someone else

Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?

2005-08-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:11 PM 8/13/2005, Bo Xiao wrote: Hi, Having trouble install a 300G SATA with 5.4 release. HW is Dell PowerEdge. First disk is a 80G SATA. All is good. When adding the 300G, sysinstall cant understand the geom, 581421/16/63. It thinks it is 36481/255/63. Cant write to the

Mounting on da0s1c or da0s1d?

2005-08-14 Thread Joachim Dagerot
From my Vinum period I recall that mounting should be done on d, not c or whatever it was. Today I'm running a hardware IDE RAID and though I read the handbook I can't find any recommendation on where to mount. Any help is appreciated. ___

Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On August 14, 2005 1:36:42 PM -0700 Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:11 PM 8/13/2005, Bo Xiao wrote: Hi, Having trouble install a 300G SATA with 5.4 release. HW is Dell PowerEdge. First disk is a 80G SATA. All is good. When adding the 300G, sysinstall cant understand

RE: Mounting on da0s1c or da0s1d?

2005-08-14 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Hi Joachim, From the bsdlabel man page : # size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a:8192004.2BSD 1024 819216 b: 1681920 swap c: 11739300unused0 0 # rawpart,don't edit as you can see c is the raw part, leave

Re: Mounting on da0s1c or da0s1d?

2005-08-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:16 PM 8/14/2005, Joachim Dagerot wrote: From my Vinum period I recall that mounting should be done on d, not c or whatever it was. Today I'm running a hardware IDE RAID and though I read the handbook I can't find any recommendation on where to mount. Any help is appreciated. The 'c'

presario amd64 boot fails

2005-08-14 Thread Damon Blom
Hi 5_3_30Dec2004 Freebsd hp Presario r3000 cannot update. ran cvsup current for current source. build world, build kernel, installkernel device.hints: hint.acpi.o.disabled=1 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 hw.acpi.skip_timer_override=1 hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x9 boot

Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?

2005-08-14 Thread Bo Xiao
Installation on another box, also with 5.4R, went well. So it must be this particular Dell PowerEdge 750. After moving the disk back, % sudo newfs /dev/ad3s1d newfs: /dev/ad3s1d: failed to open disk for writing % sudo mount /dev/ad3s1d /mnt/a mount: /dev/ad3s1d: Operation not

Re: How much performance loss?

2005-08-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:45:55AM +0200, Nils Vogels wrote: I am trying to get FreeBSD properly running on my Soekris net4801, and for that reason I have compiled a custom kernel that doesnt have support for the hardware that I do not have. When booting, the kernel gives me the following

Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?

2005-08-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Aug 14, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Bo Xiao wrote: Installation on another box, also with 5.4R, went well. So it must be this particular Dell PowerEdge 750. After moving the disk back, % sudo newfs /dev/ad3s1d newfs: /dev/ad3s1d: failed to open disk for writing % sudo mount /dev/ad3s1d

Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?

2005-08-14 Thread Bo Xiao
Right on, Chad! Some other folks set it on. I know where to check next time. Thank you for the help! Bo Xiao From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bo Xiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD handle

cache-only named won't resolve localhost

2005-08-14 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
I think I followed the bind manual and poked around /var/named and it has been working OK for a few weeks until I pointed my browser to localhost and then I tried host localhost. It can resolve 127.0.0.1 back to localhost.localhost. fine, but if I try my name localhost or localhost.localhost, I

Re: Can FreeBSD handle 300G SATA disk?

2005-08-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Bo Xiao wrote: Right on, Chad! Some other folks set it on. I know where to check next time. Thank you for the help! You're welcome. It comes from experience :-) Chad Bo Xiao From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bo Xiao [EMAIL

Question

2005-08-14 Thread jon freddy
When I get my new computer and I am going to run FreeBSD, also, I want to still run the browser Firefox. But if you go to Firefox's website it also lists other OS, but not FreeBSD. But I see that a lot of my friends that run FreeBSD use firefox. Would I install the Linux package because it is also

Re: Question

2005-08-14 Thread John Barbieri
Ports collection is your freind :) /usr/ports/www/firefox or /usr/ports/www/linux-firefox cd to either dir, make install clean :) jon freddy wrote: When I get my new computer and I am going to run FreeBSD, also, I want to still run the browser Firefox. But if you go to Firefox's website it

Re: Question

2005-08-14 Thread Tim Holmes
| When I get my new computer and I am going to run | FreeBSD, also, I want to still run the browser | Firefox. But if you go to Firefox's website it also | lists other OS, but not FreeBSD. But I see that a lot | of my friends that run FreeBSD use firefox. Would I | install the Linux package

Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-14 Thread Milscvaer
After trying unsuccessfully to boot FreeBSD 5.4 installed onto an existing filesystem that held 4.6, but after the installation completing not being able to get past the F1 FreeBSD prompt, I decided to wipe out the filesystem and start with a new filesystem, thinking this might be the problem! But

Re: Monitor Tuning

2005-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 12 August 2005 at 15:52:13 -0400, Sean wrote: My display is not very sharp and I was looking for a few tips that might help to cure things. I tweeked a few things and no luck. Still a soft dull image. Little annoying on the eyes. Is anyone running a NEC Multisync XV17+ with an

Re: cache-only named won't resolve localhost

2005-08-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: I think I followed the bind manual and poked around /var/named and it has been working OK for a few weeks until I pointed my browser to localhost and then I tried host localhost. It can resolve 127.0.0.1 back to localhost.localhost. fine, but if I try my name localhost

Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-14 Thread Milscvaer
--- Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry, I should explain the situation a more clearly. And I'm sorry that I don't have much more to say. First, I apologise for being so upset. I was rather frustrated by this. I think that

Re: mplayer-plugin firefox

2005-08-14 Thread Jason Morgan
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:50:34PM +, gb wrote: Dear all, I have tried to build mplayer-plugin from the ports/www. My browser is firefox so I did a make WITH_MOZILLA=firefox. I get an error in the configuration phase error: Unable to find gecko sdk. I am running 5.3 this is

RELEASE 4

2005-08-14 Thread Ted Thomas
I just installed RELEASE 4 on a Dell 800mhz w/128mb ram. While attempting to install CVSup, I keep encountering patch failures like this one: cosmo4# make install === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for libtool-1.5.10_1 = Checksum OK for

Re: disk fragmentation, 0%?

2005-08-14 Thread Lei Sun
Thanks for the good answers. But can anyone tell me why the capacity is going negative? and not full? Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1e248M -278K228M-0%/tmp Thanks a lot Lei On 8/14/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:18 PM

*** POKED TIMER *** in named

2005-08-14 Thread DeadMan Xia ....
I m running FreeBSD 5.4 on Dell PowerEdge 6650 on Quad Processor. I ve configured the BIND, when I start BIND its works fine but i m also getting an error when i do tail -f /var/log/messages Aug 15 09:26:15 www named[769]: starting BIND 9.3.1 Aug 15 09:26:15 www named[769]: couldn't add command

Help with Fluxbox

2005-08-14 Thread Campbells
Hello, I just installed Fluxbox from the ports collection (latest version). I subsequently added this line at the end of my xinitrc file: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox Now when I run startx nothing has changed! It isn't running fluxbox as its windowmanager! So I type startfluxbox and it