Re: Changing Console Video Modes

[Gonzalo Nemmi]

Im not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but anyways, it is a 
pointer .. so I'm throwing it for you to decide whether it is usefull for 
your case or not:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/bsd-17/1024x768-console-higher-available-366057/#post1867124

I tried it but it didn't work in here .. 
vidcontrol complains before showing giving my a promt and all it get is a:

vidcontrol: cannot activate raster display. Inapropriate ioctl for device
vidcontrol [-CdLHPpx] [-b color] [-c appearance] [-f [size] file]
[-g geometry] [-h size] [-i adapter | mode] [-l screen_map]
[-M char] [-m on | off] [-r foreground background]
[-S on | off] [-s number] [-t N | off] [mode]
[foreground [background]] [show]

and a prompt after that =(

Anyways ... I'm still too new to FreBSD so chances are, I did something wrong.

Still .. I think that getting higher console resolutions is a topic worth 
investigating in order to get a nice res on a 1600x1200 res capable monitor
I really dont care about 1600 at all .. but iḋ like to possiblity to workn on 
a 1024x768 frame buffered console.
 
=)

Blessings

---
Gonzalo Nemmi


On Sunday 20 April 2008 23:28:46 Edward Ruggeri wrote:
 I'm just reading through the manual for FreeBSD, and I am at section
 3.2.6 Changing Console Video Modes.  This discusses how to change
 the default console resolution.  I would try this out, but as I can
 only access my FreeBSD box remotely at the moment, I am hesitant to
 recompile the kernel with the necessary options (I currently get an
 error when running #vidcontrol -i mode: getting active vty:
 Inappropriate ioctl for device.  I assume this is because the current
 kernel is insufficient?).  I'm afraid my computer might need to be
 booted by hand, which I wouldn't be able to do.

 In any case, lacking the ability to experiment, I am curious about
 different video modes.  Will greater resolutions allow me to fit more
 text on the screen in the console?  Of course I know (maybe less than
 I think) about resolution in terms of graphical environments (e.g.,
 can see more of a high-resolution image w/ a greater resolution), but
 is it the same for text?

 Thanks!

 Sincerely,

 -- Ned Ruggeri
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Re: BSD Computers

[Gonzalo Nemmi]

Yup .. that was clear from the very beginning .. 
The idea was that at least I know for sure it can run an OS different from MS 
and the manufacturer is assuring that to me. Which I personally find to be an 
really nice plus for any notebook I may buy.

Anyway .. the thing is that fiven that it run FreeDOS by default .. and that 
Vostros 1400n are almost the same machines than Inspirons 1420n .. how hard 
could it be to get a FreeeBSD running on it out of the box?

I really don't know, but I have the gut feeling that if Im buying a new 
notebook, that one is gonna be the less prone to give me headaches ...

That is whay I began my e-mai asking:
  In the same order of things, have you guys had any experience with
  Dell
  Vostros?

It seems like an interesting notebook to try and run FreeBSD (or any BSD for 
that matter) on.

Any input before buying it will be and extremly valuable plus for everyone on 
the list I suspect.

And just in case anyone wonder .. Mr. Michel Dell can stan in linde to give me 
a bkajsdakjsb ...

I guess, that statement proves that I don't work or have a relation whatsoever 
with Dell. And now ... I guess I'll never have it =D

Blessings

---
Gonzalo Nemmi

On Monday 21 April 2008 02:37:34 you wrote:
 On Apr 20, 2008, at 22:07, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
  In the same order of things, have you guys had any experience with
  Dell
  Vostros?
 
  I live In Argentina and if you acces their latam webpage you'll find
  out that
  they are selling a Vostro1400n (which is not even available in the
  USA
  page), with FreeDOS as the only OS offered ...
  So I though maybe that would be a good choice (except for any
  broadcom chips
  it may pack .. ) for a soon to be replaced by FreeBSD7 laptop.
 
  Just for those interested, here is the link for you to take a look at:
 
  http://configure.la.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=arcs=arbsdt1l=eso
 c=V140Ness=bsd
 
  Any word, pointers or references will be highly appreciated.
  Thanks for you attention and help.

 Looks to me like it says Free DOS, not FreeBSD.  Those are quite
 different.  I can't say if FreeBSD will run on that hardware though.


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cannot move geli disk from 6.3-R to 6.1-R

[Dmitry Sukhodoyev]

i try to attach geli provider, which i have used in 6.3-RELEASE to 
6.1-RELEASE:


# geli attach -k /root/da1.key /dev/da1
MD5 hash mismatch for /dev/da1

in 6.3-R it still attaches successfully, but in 6.1-R is not. system 
with 6.1-R is not my own, so i can't update it. how i can attach geli 
provider from my 6.3-R to this 6.1-R?


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Re: open pgp

[kalin m]

Chris Bannister wrote:

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:32:24PM -0400, kalin m wrote:
  

hi all...

installed open pgp pkg.
added a key sent to me by a client to my keyring...

this is what i get. no matter how many times i enter the client provided  
pass phrase i just get the 'Enter pass phrase: ' prompt...

what, if anythin,  is wrong? the pass phrase?



Who's passphrase?
  

client provided - for the user in the key...

  

# pgp the_pgp_file.pgp
Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.8
Internal development version only - not for general release.
(c) 1999 Network Associates Inc.

Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.

File is encrypted.  Secret key is required to read it.

Key for user ID: user_id [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2048-bit RSA key, Key ID 0xmoo, created 2008/03/10
Key can sign.
You need a pass phrase to unlock your secret key.



Did the client encrypt using your public key?
  

no their own key. which i got from them and added to my keychain..


now...  i did get gnupg. the error i'm getting is pretty much the same. 
the client insists the passphrase is correct. here is the output:



--   start ---

# gpg -d the_pgp_file.pgp

  
?
  ? You need a passphrase to 
unlock the secret key for user:  ?
  ? user_ud 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]?
  ? 2048-bit RSA key, ID 
X7Z42381, created 2008-03-10 (main key ID B66F2023)  ?
  
?   
?
  
?   
?
  ? Passphrase 
***___ ?
  
?   
?
  ? 
OK   Cancel   ?
  
?



pinentry in free(): error: chunk is already free
gpg-agent[8]: command get_passphrase failed: End of file
gpg: problem with the agent: IPC write error
gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...

-  end  ---


thanks...  









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Install CVsup

[Ruel Luchavez]

Hi,

my freebsd server is version 6.2, I want to install cvsup and this is what i
type in my box:

cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without gui
make install

..but during its process i allways has time-out connection then it ends up..
I attached in this email the my console..PLease check it
Please tell me what i forgot..Thanks in advance..
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Re: Changing Console Video Modes

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:28:46PM -0400, Edward Ruggeri wrote:
 I'm just reading through the manual for FreeBSD, and I am at section
 3.2.6 Changing Console Video Modes.  This discusses how to change
 the default console resolution.  I would try this out, but as I can
 only access my FreeBSD box remotely at the moment, I am hesitant to
 recompile the kernel with the necessary options (I currently get an
 error when running #vidcontrol -i mode: getting active vty:
 Inappropriate ioctl for device.  I assume this is because the current
 kernel is insufficient?).  I'm afraid my computer might need to be
 booted by hand, which I wouldn't be able to do.

You will not need to recompile the kernel.  You do however need
to run vidcontrol(1) from the terminal you want to get information about.

You can try running 'vidcontrol -i mode  /dev/ttyv0' to have vidcontrol
return information about the first virtual console.
(vidcontrol tries to get the information from whatever device is attached to
its stdin.  If this device is not a video console it will return an error.)


 
 In any case, lacking the ability to experiment, I am curious about
 different video modes.  Will greater resolutions allow me to fit more
 text on the screen in the console?  Of course I know (maybe less than
 I think) about resolution in terms of graphical environments (e.g.,
 can see more of a high-resolution image w/ a greater resolution), but
 is it the same for text?

Depending on which mode you choose, yes, you can get more text on the screen.

Read the vidcontrol(1) manpage for more information on what video modes
might be available.






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RE: Install CVsup

[Johan Hendriks]

Hi,

my freebsd server is version 6.2, I want to install cvsup and this is
what i
type in my box:

cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without gui
make install

..but during its process i allways has time-out connection then it ends
up..
I attached in this email the my console..PLease check it
Please tell me what i forgot..Thanks in advance..

Why do you want cvsup?
There is csup that is in the base system.
So if you use cvsup only to update the ports and base sources use csup!

Regards,
Johan Hendriks
Double L Automatisering
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Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7

[Gonzalo Nemmi]

While investigating about the Vostro 1400 .. I came across a lspci that claims 
that the Vostro 1400 comes packed with a Broadcom Corporation NetLink 
BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) Ethernet controller ...

in case you want to check it out: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=558211

I moved quickly moved to 
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#ETHERNET in order to find 
out whether FreeBSD7 had support for BCM5906M chipsets but couldn't find it 
on the list of supported ethernet chipsets  
(http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#ETHERNET) so I assumed 
the answer was: no.

I moved to the OpenBSD page in order to see if they had a module for it and 
found out that they actually do for their next release (may 1 2008):

http://www.openbsd.org/43.html
- The bge(4) driver now supports BCM5906/BCM5906M 10/100 and BCM5755 
10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgesektion=4

So i was wondering, is the Broadcom BCM5906M driver already available in 
FreeBSD 7 (but not documented), or is it on the way of getting imported from 
Open or anything, or does anybody have any info regarding support for 
Broadcom BCM5906M  based ethernet cards on FreeBSD7?

Last thing I knew about that was that there was a patch taken from DragonFly 
code (Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:19:23 GMT, Number: 118975, Severity:
non-critical (),  State: open ) .. anyone knows anything else about 
that? It seems it's still not supported :(

Any info will be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advanced =)

Blessings

---
Gonzalo Nemmi

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Re: Install CVsup

[andrew clarke]

On Mon 2008-04-21 15:27:11 UTC+0800, Ruel Luchavez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 my freebsd server is version 6.2, I want to install cvsup and this is what i
 type in my box:
 
 cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without gui
 make install
 
 ..but during its process i allways has time-out connection then it ends up..

17:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui]make fetch
===  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
= cvsup-snap-16.1h.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
= Attempting to fetch from 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/snapshots/.
cvsup-snap-16.1h.tar.gz   100% of  420 kB  113 kBps

It seems to fetch the distfile fine here.  But you should probably
look at using csup instead.  It is functionally equivalent to
cvsup-without-gui but rewritten in C.  It should be in the base system
on FreeBSD 6.2 (or newer) under /usr/bin.

You may also want to look at Portsnap (which should be in the base
system at /usr/sbin/portsnap).  I prefer it to csup.
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Re: Huawei Technologies Mobile card

[Dominic Fandrey]

Per olof Ljungmark wrote:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#USB

says that Huawei Technologies Mobile card (3G) is supported via 
ubsa(4). Can someone here please tell me which model this refers too as 
I cannot find this particular card on the manufacturers home page.


Thank you.


They're normally sold by UMTS providers. I got one from the German provider 
E-Plus that works occasionally:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=122936


It's called Huawei Mobile Compact HSDPA USB Stick on the back of the thing.
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Re: Install CVsup

[Ruel Luchavez]

But my question is why i allways has and error Operation time out or time
out??

Is that a problem in my internet connection or not?

thANKS...

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:57 PM, andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon 2008-04-21 15:27:11 UTC+0800, Ruel Luchavez ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
 wrote:

  my freebsd server is version 6.2, I want to install cvsup and this is
 what i
  type in my box:
 
  cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without gui
  make install
 
  ..but during its process i allways has time-out connection then it ends
 up..

 17:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui]make fetch
 ===  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
 = cvsup-snap-16.1h.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
 = Attempting to fetch from
 ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/snapshots/.
 cvsup-snap-16.1h.tar.gzftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/snapshots/.cvsup-snap-16.1h.tar.gz
   100% of  420 kB  113 kBps

 It seems to fetch the distfile fine here.  But you should probably
 look at using csup instead.  It is functionally equivalent to
 cvsup-without-gui but rewritten in C.  It should be in the base system
 on FreeBSD 6.2 (or newer) under /usr/bin.

 You may also want to look at Portsnap (which should be in the base
 system at /usr/sbin/portsnap).  I prefer it to csup.

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getting iostat -x %b with php

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

I am trying to add performance monitor to a php application working on a 
dedicated server and one of the informations I would like to collect is 
the hard drives load, which, as far as I could find out, can be seen in 
the %b of iostat -x.


What would be the most reliable way to extract this information with 
php? I could imagine that I can exec() the iostat -x - but I am not sure 
about the best way to parse the iostst -x output, so that I get exactly 
this number. For instance, can I rely that %b is aways the Nth column in 
the answer? - then I could do it with regex.


Iv
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Re: Install CVsup

[Ruel Luchavez]

yap..i tri using pkg_add but still the operation time out...

what could possibly be wrong?

Pleasethanks..

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Ruel Luchavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  Hi,
 
  my freebsd server is version 6.2, I want to install cvsup and this is
 what i
  type in my box:
 
  cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without gui
  make install

 From the Handbook

 ,
 | The easiest way to install CVSup is to use the precompiled net/cvsup
 | package from the FreeBSD packages collection. If you prefer to build
 | CVSup from source, you can use the net/cvsup port instead. But be
 | forewarned: the net/cvsup port depends on the Modula-3 system, which
 | takes a substantial amount of time and disk space to download and build.
 `

 so why  not try

 #pkg_add -r cvsup-without gui


 ?

 atb







 Glyn

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connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused

[tethys ocean]

Hi

  I have a big problem about Spamassassin, while spamass is working  get
this error.

Apr  21 10:43:08 spamc[8027]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1
failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
Apr  21  10:43:09  spamc[8027]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1
failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused
Apr  21  10:43:10  spamc[8027]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1
failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused
Apr  21  10:43:11  spamc[8027]: connection attempt to spamd aborted
after 3 retries



what can  do?



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QLogic lies: now it's up to you

[Stephan A. Rickauer]

In October 2007 I have established contact with QLogic, to investigate
whether they could help us in making iSCSI HBAs work in OpenBSD by
donating some hardware and by providing free programming documentation.

Unfortunately, Qlogic has chosen to be difficult. This means, I am
forced to make this private communication public to show our user base
the truth about how I and all OpenBSD people have been led along and
lied to by QLogic. Now it's up to us (=you) to show that we won't put up
with that.

This is the original email conversation between me and QLogic, mainly
Pompey S. Nagra, product manager iSCSI HBAs:

  http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~stephan/qlogic-lies.txt

After you have read this page, please send an email to the following
people, cite this conversation and request (politely) shipping of the
promised hardware. Do not cite any developer names, QLogic very well
knows who we are and where they should ship the HBAs to (but do cite my
name and the link to the converstation):

Pompey S. Nagra : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Clark: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Amit Vashi: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please make this issue as public as possible. It would be nice to also
have it on undeadly and other media.

-- 

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 ---
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 University / ETH Zurich   Sec  +41 44 635 30 52
 Winterthurerstrasse 190   Fax  +41 44 635 30 53
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Re: Screen resolution on FreeBSD 7.0

[Nishita Desai]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:59 AM,  शंतनु महाजन (Shantanoo Mahajan)
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  http://dhoomketu.net.in/node/6

Thank you all for helping. Right now, I have the resolution fixed with
915resolution (http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/)

I will consider installing the Intel drivers some other time.

Thanks again,
Nishita.
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Re: OpenBSD - FreeBSD migration

[Ivan Voras]

Andrew Wright wrote:
 
 Hi All;
 
 I want to migrate a system from OpenBSD 4.2 (ie; the current version)
 to FreeBSD (7.0).  I have poked around on the archives a little
 to determine how best to do this, and I want to make sure that
 my understanding (summarized below) is indeed correct.  If I am
 asking these questions on the wrong list (potentially likely for
 the AMD specific questions) then please let me know:
 
 
 Filesystem stuff:
   - it appears that FreeBSD and OpenBSD use the same partition
 table format.  Is this true?  If so, I can potentially avoid
 rebuilding an entire disk if I am right that ...

No, I don't think that's true. In any case, you can verify it by booting
a live-CD of FreeBSD and trying it.


   If both of these are true, I can simply install FreeBSD over
   top of the OpenBSD /, /var and /usr partitions, and then be
   able to mount the old /home.  Is this something people do?

If you delete everything from all directories except /home, it might
work. Otherwise, the risk of getting mixed binaries, libraries and
scripts from both systems is too great.

 Processor stuff:
   - The machine of interest has an AMD64 processor.  I have seen
 several references to running Linux emulation on an AMD processor,
 but I would like to confirm that this is true while running the
 64-bit version of the OS.  In other words:
   - with a 64-bit installation (amd64) of FreeBSD 7.0, emulation
 of 32-bit Linux binaries (notably Matlab, but possibly other
 software as well) is possible, and indeed a reasonably
 well-known way of proceeding.

I think 32-bit Linux binaries should be supported on 64-bit FreeBSD
alongside 32-bit FreeBSD binaries.




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rolling own mesh soln using BSD?

[Rogelio]

I'm looking to roll my own mesh solution using BSD and was wondering if
anyone had any pointers on hardware, cards, software packages, etc.
Up to this point, I've either played with the little solutions (e.g. dd-wrt)
or the bigger ones (Cisco, BelAir, etc).

I'm looking to experiment around with something in between -- more robust
than the dd-wrt, but not as expensive as the big player equipment.

Any ideas?
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Re: dump restore pain and suffering

[Dominic Fandrey]

Kevin Sanders wrote:

I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very
little success.  Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD
7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f
/mnt/test.root.dump, formating the drive and trying to restore -rf
/mnt/test.root.dump.  /mnt is a ufs formated usb drive.  After the
dump, I've even done a restore -rNf /mnt/test.root.dump just to make
sure it doesn't complain out the dump file.

I've read the handbook, found a few articles, googled all the errors.
The header dumpdate thing is harmless, the expected next file is from
it being a live system, but I'm not ending up with a system that is
very usable.  Doing a df, I see that sometimes I end up with a
restored slice that is about the same size as my dump file, sometimes
less than half.  I know I'm not being very specific with what's not
working, but is anyone really using dump/restore and having success
with the restore part?  I'm now full of doubt and worry that my real
systems are not really backed up.

I really wished this worked as easy as falling out of a boat and hitting water.

Kevin


I have used dump/restore to move systems onto other drives, sometimes even 
through an ssh connection. The only thing you have to remember is to:

chmod 1777 /tmp
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Re: gmirror, geli, gjournal performance

[Wojciech Puchar]

I was replacing a disk in a gmirror+geli pair and decided to compare
the performance of gmirror+geli+gjournal before adding the new disk.



too much mixer in one to give exact answer.


gmirror - no slowdown, faster reads when at least 2 concurrent, near 0 CPU 
load

geli - high CPU load, performance depends mostly on CPU
gjournal - extra overhead on writes, no difference on reads.


When using these three together is the appropriate order to 1) fdisk
and label 2) mirror the disk, 3) geli the partitions, and 4) use the
geli partitions for gjournal label?


right.


With respect to performance, I find the writes to the gjournal disk
about half as fast, which I expected from the benchmarks I've seen.


which - with geli, means twice CPU load.

do you really need gjournal.


However, reading a single file is identical between the two:

   dd if=/sofupdates/1.mpg of=/dev/null bs=1m
   994049168 bytes transferred in 34.858793 secs (28516454 bytes/sec)

   dd if=/gjournal/1.mpg of=/dev/null bs=1m
   994049168 bytes transferred in 34.335267 secs (28951258 bytes/sec)

Is this expected? I was under the impression that reads should be
somewhat faster with gjournal.


wrong impression. reads are the same.

it's best to make sure your hardware and kernel config are OK and system 
doesn't crash every day, and don't use gjournal.


fsck isn't that long, is used only after crash, it's not worth extra 
overhead under NORMAL operation.


with geli - divide your system to partitions the way that not secret data 
are not geli encrypted.


for sure your /usr may be unencrypted, just move /usr/local/etc to 
somewhere out of /usr



geli is very good but needs lots of CPU power.

on my core 2 duo system i was able to get total of 100MB/s (concurrent 
from many disks) with geli, at that point both cores was fully used.

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Re: vpn + samba

[Wojciech Puchar]

hi

i need to get vpn + samba working by vpn i mean a remote user being on
the road can connect to box and use samba file sharing, most of our
users use vista, some xp


so do it. what a problem?
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Re: FreeBSD crashes

[Dan Rue]

 I hope someone can help me. I have started to experience
 seemingly random crashes causing FreeBSD to shutdown and
 power off the machine. The only trace I can find as far as
 the reason for the crash is concerned are the following
 excerpts from /var/log/messages:

 Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: 22NNMIMN NIMIMII IISISSSAAA
 A  20,22 200E,0,I, S  EIEEASI ISAAS f Aff ff
 Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: f
 Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel:
 Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: f
 Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: 22
 Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: f
 Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel:
 Mar 23 11:52:47 myhostname syslogd: exiting on signal 15
 Mar 23 13:04:32 myhostname syslogd: kernel boot file is
 /boot/kernel/kernel

 True. In the meantime, I've started reading the temperature sensors
 with freeipmi and graphing them with munin. On a side note, the
 hardware in question is Dell Poweredge 1750 and I've found following
 two threads which might be related:

Nino, 

This morning, I received the same crash for the first time.

I'm also on 6.1-RELEASE-p1.  Generic kernel+SMP option.  Also on a Dell 1750.
The only difference is that I am not running IPFW.

Apr 21 00:49:53 lucky kernel: 22NMNNINMM IMIII S  AIIIS SAA S 2A0,  
2E20I,20S ,AE0 I,E  SEfIAISf S
Apr 21 00:49:53 lucky kernel: AA
Apr 21 00:49:53 lucky kernel:
Apr 21 00:49:53 lucky kernel: 222f f
Apr 21 00:49:53 lucky kernel: 2fff
Apr 21 00:49:53 lucky kernel: f
Apr 21 00:49:53 lucky kernel:
Apr 21 01:00:22 lucky kernel: 22NNNMM2MIINI  M SS SAA IA S A 
2022,020, 0,E,I   EESIEISASA AI  SffAfff
Apr 21 01:00:22 lucky kernel: f
Apr 21 01:00:22 lucky kernel: 2
Apr 21 01:00:22 lucky kernel: 2ff
Apr 21 01:22:41 lucky syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel

Dan
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ASUS SK8N SATA

[Jason Portwood]

I have an ASUS SK8N motherboard with an athlon fx-51 processor and 1GB of 
RAM with two SATA hard drives (western digital).  I think thats the nForce 
150 chipset in it.  I running FreeBSD 7.0 64bit (amd64) pretty much up 
today (a day or so behind cvs).


When I do massive amounts of activity on the drives the system will 
freeze.  No error messages reported.  I've replaced the drives thinking 
that could be the problem but I get the same results.


I've tried using dd_rescue to copy between the drives and also a test copy 
to /dev/null.  I only get freezes with no errors showing in dd_rescue 
counts.


Is this a known issue on the SK8N and SATA?  I'd still like to use the 
board so if switching to IDE is a work around I could manage that...


Thank you,

Jason Portwood
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Re: OpenBSD - FreeBSD migration

[Andrew Wright]

Ivan Voras wrote:


Andrew Wright wrote:



  If both of these are true, I can simply install FreeBSD over
  top of the OpenBSD /, /var and /usr partitions, and then be
  able to mount the old /home.  Is this something people do?


If you delete everything from all directories except /home, it might
work. Otherwise, the risk of getting mixed binaries, libraries and
scripts from both systems is too great.


I probably should have been more clear in my initial post -- I
am certainly intending on relabelling + reformatting partitions
for /, /usr, /var, /tmp and so on -- to try to run these with
a potential filesystem incompatbility (not to mention the potential
of mixed binaries) is just asking for trouble.

What I am hoping to do is run dump | restore, as the various
userdata partitions are all on separate drives (in a partitions),
and I have enough space to dump the first one and compress it onto
another user-space drive, and similar jiggery-pokery (Doing this
will save _many_ media swaps, and thus much time).

Essentially, I am asking whether _readonly_ access works, for which
I will need FreeBSD to read the disklabel and the filesystem.

Thought I'd clear that up in case a perusal through the archives
steered anyone wrong later one.

Thanks to everyone who pointed out the live CD, I think that will
let me answer most, if not all, of my questions.

Andrew.

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OT: procmail/joe job question

[Lisa Casey]

Hi,

I know this is a FreeBSD group but a lot of you use procmail and I need
some help in a hurry if I can get it.

My domain evidently got joe jobbed yesterday, and my customers are getting
hundreds of MAILER-DAEMON type messages. Needless to say, they are not
happy.

I figured I could use procmail to temporarily discard MAILER-DAEMON messages
until whatever's going on stops. I don't know much about writing procmail
recipes, but I can google for them. I've tried a variety of things in
/etc/procmailrc, but none are working - MAILER-DAEMON messages are still
being delivered to mail boxes. This is what I've tried:


:0:
* ^FROM_MAILER
/dev/null

:0:
* ^from.*mailer.*daemon
/dev/null

:0:
* ^From:.*MAILER.*DAEMON
/dev/null


:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* ^From:.*MAILER-DAEMON
/dev/null

What am I doing wrong, and is there a better way than this to deal with the
back scatter fromn this joe job?

Thanks,

Lisa Casey

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Re: RAM Swap Speed

[Lowell Gilbert]

herbert langhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Honestly, I would never think that adding RAM to a comp with still
 unused space left could speed it up.

That's because it doesn't have unused RAM.  There are plenty of things
that can be stored in RAM which don't need to be moved to swap if the
RAM is needed.
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Need help with error building lang/guile

[Norberto Meijome]

Hi everyone,
For a while now i've been unable to upgrade to the latest lang/guile port. I am
running 7.0-STABLE (world and kernel up to date about twice weekly) on x86. my
current guile is 

guile-1.6.8_3   GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension

and wants to upgrade to 1.8.4. Going by the date of the package built for
1.6.8_3 , it was built when under FreeBSD 6.3. As far as I can tell, i've
upgraded every other component of my laptop...

The error i get is :

---
make distclean; make 
[...]

Making all in goops
gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/guile/work/guile-1.8.4/oop/goops'
gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/guile/work/guile-1.8.4/oop/goops'
gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/guile/work/guile-1.8.4/oop'
gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/guile/work/guile-1.8.4/oop'
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/guile/work/guile-1.8.4/oop'
Making all in libguile
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/guile/work/guile-1.8.4/libguile'
Generating libpath.h...
sed  ./version.h.in  version.h.tmp \
  -e s:@-GUILE_MAJOR_VERSION-@:1: \
  -e s:@-GUILE_MINOR_VERSION-@:8: \
  -e s:@-GUILE_MICRO_VERSION-@:4:
mv version.h.tmp version.h
if [ no = yes ]; then \
cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -I.. -c -o gen-scmconfig.o
gen-scmconfig.c; \ else \  
cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -I..  -I/usr/local/include
-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=pentium-m -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
-Werror -c -o gen-scmconfig.o gen-scmconfig.c; \ fi if [ no = yes ]; then \
cc -o gen-scmconfig gen-scmconfig.o; \
else \  
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link cc  -O2
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=pentium-m -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror
-L/usr/local/lib -o gen-scmconfig gen-scmconfig.o  -llthread -lgmp -lcrypt -lm
-lltdl ; \ fi mkdir .libs cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=pentium-m
-Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -o gen-scmconfig gen-scmconfig.o
-L/usr/local/lib -llthread /usr/local/lib/libgmp.so -lcrypt
-lm /usr/local/lib/libltdl.so   -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -Wl,--rpath
-Wl,/usr/local/lib rm -f scmconfig.h.tmp cat ./scmconfig.h.top 
scmconfig.h.tmp ./gen-scmconfig  scmconfig.h.tmp Segmentation fault (core
dumped) gmake[2]: *** [scmconfig.h] Error 139 gmake[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/ports/lang/guile/work/guile-1.8.4/libguile' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive]
Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/guile/work/guile-1.8.4'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/guile.

I run ktrace on the gen-scmconfig that is dying on me:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mon Apr 21 22:28:36 2008]
/usr/ports/lang/guile/work/guile-1.8.4/libguile
# ktrace ./gen-scmconfig  scmconfig.h.tmp
Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)

and the calls before the core dump are:
 89607 gen-scmconfig RET   sigprocmask 0
 89607 gen-scmconfig CALL  __sysctl(0xbfbfea28,0x2,0x281fb920,0xbfbfea34,0,0)
 89607 gen-scmconfig RET   __sysctl 0
 89607 gen-scmconfig CALL  __sysctl(0xbfbfe538,0x2,0x2820807c,0xbfbfe540,0,0)
 89607 gen-scmconfig RET   __sysctl 0
 89607 gen-scmconfig CALL  __sysctl(0xbfbfe588,0x2,0xbfbfe594,0xbfbfe598,0,0)
 89607 gen-scmconfig RET   __sysctl 0
 89607 gen-scmconfig CALL  readlink(0x281e8e40,0xbfbfe627,0x400)
 89607 gen-scmconfig NAMI  /etc/malloc.conf
 89607 gen-scmconfig RET   readlink -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
 89607 gen-scmconfig CALL  issetugid
 89607 gen-scmconfig RET   issetugid 0
 89607 gen-scmconfig CALL  break(0x810)
 89607 gen-scmconfig RET   break 0
 89607 gen-scmconfig PSIG  SIGSEGV SIG_DFL
 89607 gen-scmconfig NAMI  gen-scmconfig.core

The full ktrace.out can be found at 
http://www.meijome.net/files/freebsd/libguile_smconfig_ktrace.out.gz

I have no malloc.conf . I am not too sure whether it is safe to create any as
per malloc.conf... I tried with an empty file with no improvement on the
outcome.

My libmap.conf is all commented out.

I've rebuilt each dependency of lang/guile, including gmake and tried after each
individual upgrade, no change.

My /etc/make.conf can be found in
http://www.meijome.net/files/freebsd/20080422_make.conf

Any points would be greatly appreciated :)
B
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Re: RAM Swap Speed

[Bruce Cran]

Jon Radel wrote:

herbert langhans wrote:

Hi Daemons,
recently I had to add some more RAM on a workstation. Was 512MB before and is 
2GB now, the reason was to give some graphic apps more space.

But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it did NOT 
make use of the swap-partition and after the big RAM chip of course not too 
(checked it with #top).

This was a Slackware installation. Had anyone experienced such effect on BSD as well? 


Why are you asking about Slackware file caching on a FreeBSD mailing
list?  :-)

In any case, what you're probably seeing is the effect of having lots of
spare RAM to cache files.  In FreeBSD top look at the Cache and Buf
values up top.  If you're doing a lot of file I/O, this can make a
noticeable difference, particularly if you're repeatedly reading the
same files.

However, as is usually the case, unless you do some benchmarks on *your*
computer, it's hard to say more than the first couple GB of RAM you add
will probably make your workstation run faster.

--Jon Radel


It's not only the Cache and Buf values that show how much memory is used 
for caching - any memory which isn't being used by the programs/kernel 
and which isn't accounted for in the Free value can be used as cache. 
So for example my PC is currently showing 5668KB Cache and 110MB Buf but 
also there's also 638MB showing as 'Inact'.  The vast majority of that 
638MB will be used as cache.


--
Bruce
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Re: dump restore pain and suffering

[Kevin Sanders]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Kevin Sanders wrote:

  I've been dumping and restoring a test system today, and I'm have very
  little success.  Basically, I've been installing a base FreeBSD
  7-RELEASE/i386 system, doing something like dump -0auL -f
  /mnt/test.root.dump, formating the drive and trying to restore -rf
  /mnt/test.root.dump.  /mnt is a ufs formated usb drive.  After the
  dump, I've even done a restore -rNf /mnt/test.root.dump just to make
  sure it doesn't complain out the dump file.
 
  I've read the handbook, found a few articles, googled all the errors.
  The header dumpdate thing is harmless, the expected next file is from
  it being a live system, but I'm not ending up with a system that is
  very usable.  Doing a df, I see that sometimes I end up with a
  restored slice that is about the same size as my dump file, sometimes
  less than half.  I know I'm not being very specific with what's not
  working, but is anyone really using dump/restore and having success
  with the restore part?  I'm now full of doubt and worry that my real
  systems are not really backed up.
 
  I really wished this worked as easy as falling out of a boat and hitting
 water.
 
  Kevin
 

  I have used dump/restore to move systems onto other drives, sometimes even
 through an ssh connection. The only thing you have to remember is to:
  chmod 1777 /tmp


I finally got a good restore.  I meant to reply all to document my
solution, but hit reply to Anders only I guess.  I was booting off the
Live CD and had to soft link /tmp to a drive with some free space.
After that everything worked perfect.

Kevin
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openvpn server in a jail

[Rek Jed]

Hi,

Is it possible to run an openvpn server inside of a FreeBSD jail?

Cheers,

Rek.
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Re: FreeBSD 7.0 - should I be using gvinum or gmirror/gstripe?

[Ghirai]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:34:01 -0500
Shelby Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm toying with the idea of setting up a raid 1+0 array using 4 500GB 
 sata drives.  However, I can't seem to find any definitive answer as to 
 whether I should be using gvinum or gmirror+gstripe to accomplish that 
 goal.  Does anyone have any links to resources (or just personal 
 opinion) that provides guidelines for choosing between the two methods?
 
 Regards,
 
 Shelby Cain

I've been using gmirror (and geli) on 4 500GB HDs , raid 1, for almost a year
now (as reported by uptime) without any problems at all.

Setup is very easy.

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Re: determining what's in the base system

[Bruce Cran]

Chad Perrin wrote:

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:35:52PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote:
For the second question, I've always assumed that /COPYRIGHT applied to 
everything in the base system.


I'm pretty sure GCC is in the base system (for instance), and it's GPL
software.  There's no mention of it in /COPYRIGHT at all.  Please correct
me if I'm mistaken somehow.



There's also the ath_hal driver which has its own fairly restrictive 
license in /sys/contrib/dev/ath/COPYRIGHT .


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Re: BSD Computers

[Jerry McAllister]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:13:19PM -0700, Jerry Rukavina wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I can’t find any out of the box computers that have FreeBSD loaded. Do you
 know which computer manufactures, both laptop and desktop, which can run
 FreeBSD? Do you recommend any particular models or know of which ones are
 more highly regarded? What about support? I am a newbie and would need some
 handholding. I will be using the computer to run a small business and online
 research. I would need the regular suite of productivity tools, hopefully an
 open source. I would like to punt MS. Thanks.

Besides other that have been mentioned, here are some others I
am aware of.   I have heard gords about them, expecially FreeBSD Systems.

 IXSystems http://www.ixsystems.com/

 FreeBSD Systems   http://www.freebsdsystems.com/

 Iron Systems  http://www.ironsystems.com/

jerry


 
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Filesystem full......

[Leslie Jensen]

During make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC I get

/: write failed, filesystem is full
install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
*** Error code 71

output of df -H gives

Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a260M259M-20M   108%/
devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/dev
/dev/ad0s1g127G 30G 87G25%/home
/dev/ad0s1e260M 26M213M11%/tmp
/dev/ad0s1f 26G6.0G 18G25%/usr
/dev/ad0s1d260M209M 30M87%/var
/dev/ad4s1d387G119G237G33%/backup
linprocfs  4.1k4.1k  0B   100%/usr/compat/linux/proc

It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few 
times before.


My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to small?

Thanks

/Leslie
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Re: Filesystem full......

[Bill Moran]

In response to Leslie Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 
 During make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC I get
 
 /: write failed, filesystem is full
 install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
 *** Error code 71
 
 output of df -H gives
 
 Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
 /dev/ad0s1a260M259M-20M   108%/
 devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/dev
 /dev/ad0s1g127G 30G 87G25%/home
 /dev/ad0s1e260M 26M213M11%/tmp
 /dev/ad0s1f 26G6.0G 18G25%/usr
 /dev/ad0s1d260M209M 30M87%/var
 /dev/ad4s1d387G119G237G33%/backup
 linprocfs  4.1k4.1k  0B   100%/usr/compat/linux/proc
 
 It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few 
 times before.
 
 My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to small?

Your / is too small for modern version of FreeBSD.

However, you probably can get around this.  My / partition on a 7.X
system is only 160M, so there's probably some stuff you can clean out
to make room.  Do you have a /boot/kernel.old file that would free up
some space if removed?

-- 
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Re: Filesystem full......

[Leslie Jensen]

Bill Moran skrev:

In response to Leslie Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


During make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC I get

/: write failed, filesystem is full
install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
*** Error code 71

output of df -H gives

Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a260M259M-20M   108%/
devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/dev
/dev/ad0s1g127G 30G 87G25%/home
/dev/ad0s1e260M 26M213M11%/tmp
/dev/ad0s1f 26G6.0G 18G25%/usr
/dev/ad0s1d260M209M 30M87%/var
/dev/ad4s1d387G119G237G33%/backup
linprocfs  4.1k4.1k  0B   100%/usr/compat/linux/proc

It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few 
times before.


My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to small?


Your / is too small for modern version of FreeBSD.

However, you probably can get around this.  My / partition on a 7.X
system is only 160M, so there's probably some stuff you can clean out
to make room.  Do you have a /boot/kernel.old file that would free up
some space if removed?



Thank you :-) I removed kernel.old and it gave space to do what I wanted.

A follow up question: Is there a utility like gparted for Linux, that 
can resize bsd slices?


/Leslie
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Filesystem full......

[Robert Huff]

Leslie Jensen writes:

  /: write failed, filesystem is full
  install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
  *** Error code 71

  My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to
  small?

Yes.  :-)
Start by cleaning up /; usually that starts with /tmp ... but
you've already got that on a separate partition,
As for the size - the machine I'm currently on shows:

huff@ du  /boot | sort -nr | head
210558  /boot
93642   /boot/kernel
93002   /boot/kernel.old
22978   /boot/GENERIC
22  /boot/defaults
2   /boot/zfs
2   /boot/modules
2   /boot/firmware

That's 220mb just for kernels.  There's no reason I can't
delete kernel.old or GENERIC ... but having fall-backs lets me sleep
better.
Add 13m for /sbin, 20m for /lib, and you're pretty much done.
(That machine has a 500mb /.)


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Re: Filesystem full......

[Martin Tournoij]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
 
 During make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC I get
 
 /: write failed, filesystem is full
 install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
 *** Error code 71
 
 output of df -H gives
 
 Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
 /dev/ad0s1a260M259M-20M   108%/
 devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/dev
 /dev/ad0s1g127G 30G 87G25%/home
 /dev/ad0s1e260M 26M213M11%/tmp
 /dev/ad0s1f 26G6.0G 18G25%/usr
 /dev/ad0s1d260M209M 30M87%/var
 /dev/ad4s1d387G119G237G33%/backup
 linprocfs  4.1k4.1k  0B   100%/usr/compat/linux/proc
 
 It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few 
 times before.
 
 My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to small?
 
 Thanks
 
 /Leslie

256M should be enough.

You probably have some junk on the root filesystem, you may want to
check /boot/kernel.old and /root

You can use du -hxd1 to check the sizes of directories, and see which
are taking up so much space.

Regards,
Martin Tournoij
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Re: Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Monday, April 21, 2008 4:44 AM -0300 Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:



While investigating about the Vostro 1400 .. I came across a lspci that
claims  that the Vostro 1400 comes packed with a Broadcom Corporation
NetLink  BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) Ethernet controller
...

in case you want to check it out:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=558211

I moved quickly moved to
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#ETHERNET in order to
find  out whether FreeBSD7 had support for BCM5906M chipsets but couldn't
find it  on the list of supported ethernet chipsets
(http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#ETHERNET) so I
assumed  the answer was: no.

I moved to the OpenBSD page in order to see if they had a module for it
and  found out that they actually do for their next release (may 1 2008):

http://www.openbsd.org/43.html
- The bge(4) driver now supports BCM5906/BCM5906M 10/100 and BCM5755
10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgesektion=4

So i was wondering, is the Broadcom BCM5906M driver already available in
FreeBSD 7 (but not documented), or is it on the way of getting imported
from  Open or anything, or does anybody have any info regarding support
for  Broadcom BCM5906M  based ethernet cards on FreeBSD7?

Last thing I knew about that was that there was a patch taken from
DragonFly  code (Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:19:23 GMT, Number: 118975,
Severity:non-critical (),  State: open ) .. anyone knows
anything else about  that? It seems it's still not supported :(

Any info will be greatly appreciated



Looking at the header file in HEAD, the highest number card supported is 
the 5787.  It doesn't look like there's support for that card yet.


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h?rev=1.73.2.1;content-type=text%2Fplain

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Re: Filesystem full......

[darren kirby]

quoth the Martin Tournoij:
 On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
  During make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC I get
 
  /: write failed, filesystem is full
  install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
  *** Error code 71
 
  output of df -H gives
 
  Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
  /dev/ad0s1a260M259M-20M   108%/
  devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/dev
  /dev/ad0s1g127G 30G 87G25%/home
  /dev/ad0s1e260M 26M213M11%/tmp
  /dev/ad0s1f 26G6.0G 18G25%/usr
  /dev/ad0s1d260M209M 30M87%/var
  /dev/ad4s1d387G119G237G33%/backup
  linprocfs  4.1k4.1k  0B   100%/usr/compat/linux/proc
 
  It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few
  times before.
 
  My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to small?
 
  Thanks
 
  /Leslie

 256M should be enough.

Might not be. I have a brand new install here of 7.0 Release (I did build a 
second kernel), and df is reporting my '/' is 267M. I have /usr and /var 
(not /tmp) mounted elsewhere. My /tmp is only using 10K right now, and /home 
has nothing but .cshrc et al so if you want a backup kernel you may need more 
than 256M.  

Did the install yesterday so there is no cruft yet...

 You probably have some junk on the root filesystem, you may want to
 check /boot/kernel.old and /root

 You can use du -hxd1 to check the sizes of directories, and see which
 are taking up so much space.

 Regards,
 Martin Tournoij

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Re: openvpn server in a jail

[Bill Moran]

In response to Rek Jed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hi,
 
 Is it possible to run an openvpn server inside of a FreeBSD jail?

I couldn't get it to work.  The primary problem being that OpenVPN needs
to create a tun device, and you can't do that inside a jail.

Someone more clever than I may have figured out a way to pull it off ...
I'd be interested to know about it.

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Re: Filesystem full......

[darren kirby]

quoth the darren kirby:
 quoth the Martin Tournoij:
  On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
   During make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC I get
  
   /: write failed, filesystem is full
   install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
   *** Error code 71
  
   output of df -H gives
  
   Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
   /dev/ad0s1a260M259M-20M   108%/
   devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/dev
   /dev/ad0s1g127G 30G 87G25%/home
   /dev/ad0s1e260M 26M213M11%/tmp
   /dev/ad0s1f 26G6.0G 18G25%/usr
   /dev/ad0s1d260M209M 30M87%/var
   /dev/ad4s1d387G119G237G33%/backup
   linprocfs  4.1k4.1k  0B   100%/usr/compat/linux/proc
  
   It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few
   times before.
  
   My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to
   small?
  
   Thanks
  
   /Leslie
 
  256M should be enough.

 Might not be. I have a brand new install here of 7.0 Release (I did build a
 second kernel), and df is reporting my '/' is 267M. I have /usr and /var
 (not /tmp) mounted elsewhere. My /tmp is only using 10K right now, and
 /home has nothing but .cshrc et al so if you want a backup kernel you may
 need more than 256M.

 Did the install yesterday so there is no cruft yet...

Ahhh

Disregard this. I copied GENERIC kernel to kernel.good, plus the kernel 
install made kernel.old for total of three kernels. After removing one my '/' 
is  155M

Sorry,
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When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

[Peter Brezny]

I'm a die hard FreeBSD user.

For the past 10 years (since version 2.8 was released) it's been in
production on all of my servers.

Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there
currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for
popular VM applications.

Is there hope for FreeBSD as a popularly supported virtual machine host, or
am I stuck in the multiple disappointments of linsux land.


Sincerely,

Peter Brezny
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Re: Filesystem full......

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:08:39PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:

 
 
 Bill Moran skrev:
 In response to Leslie Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
 During make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC I get
 
 /: write failed, filesystem is full
 install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
 *** Error code 71
 
 output of df -H gives
 
 Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
 /dev/ad0s1a260M259M-20M   108%/
 devfs  1.0k1.0k  0B   100%/dev
 /dev/ad0s1g127G 30G 87G25%/home
 /dev/ad0s1e260M 26M213M11%/tmp
 /dev/ad0s1f 26G6.0G 18G25%/usr
 /dev/ad0s1d260M209M 30M87%/var
 /dev/ad4s1d387G119G237G33%/backup
 linprocfs  4.1k4.1k  0B   100%/usr/compat/linux/proc
 
 It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few 
 times before.
 
 My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to small?
 
 Your / is too small for modern version of FreeBSD.
 
 However, you probably can get around this.  My / partition on a 7.X
 system is only 160M, so there's probably some stuff you can clean out
 to make room.  Do you have a /boot/kernel.old file that would free up
 some space if removed?
 
 
 Thank you :-) I removed kernel.old and it gave space to do what I wanted.
 
 A follow up question: Is there a utility like gparted for Linux, that 
 can resize bsd slices?

Well, gparted will work with FreeBSD slices.   They just call them
primary partitions instead of slices because that is what Microsloth
calls them.  

But, fdisk is what manupulated slices in FreeBSD.  It does it by
brute force - rewriting the slice table and not preserving what
was there before.   So, you would need to use dump/restore to 
carry your stuff over.But they you would have a clean slice or
set of slices with the latest filesystem type.

Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing:
In FreeBSD the slice is the primary division of the disk labeled 1..4.
and a partiton is a subdivision of a slice labeled a..h.

Microsloth and some others use the word partition to mean other things.

jerry

 
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Re: Filesystem full......

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:10:03PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:

 
 Leslie Jensen writes:
 
   /: write failed, filesystem is full
   install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
   *** Error code 71
 
   My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to
   small?

Just to keep this clear.
Your root file system is on a FreeBSD partition  - partition 'a'

Robert Huff uses the term correctly below, but you do not above.

jerry   

 
   Yes.  :-)
   Start by cleaning up /; usually that starts with /tmp ... but
 you've already got that on a separate partition,
   As for the size - the machine I'm currently on shows:
 
 huff@ du  /boot | sort -nr | head
 210558  /boot
 93642   /boot/kernel
 93002   /boot/kernel.old
 22978   /boot/GENERIC
 22  /boot/defaults
 2   /boot/zfs
 2   /boot/modules
 2   /boot/firmware
 
   That's 220mb just for kernels.  There's no reason I can't
 delete kernel.old or GENERIC ... but having fall-backs lets me sleep
 better.
   Add 13m for /sbin, 20m for /lib, and you're pretty much done.
   (That machine has a 500mb /.)
 
 
   Robert Huff
 
 
 
   
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Re: rolling own mesh soln using BSD?

[Jonathan Horne]

Rogelio wrote:

I'm looking to roll my own mesh solution using BSD and was wondering if
anyone had any pointers on hardware, cards, software packages, etc.
Up to this point, I've either played with the little solutions (e.g. dd-wrt)
or the bigger ones (Cisco, BelAir, etc).

I'm looking to experiment around with something in between -- more robust
than the dd-wrt, but not as expensive as the big player equipment.

Any ideas?
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it sounds like your talking about bsd as a firewall, and if so, take a 
look at www.pfsense.org.


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Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

[Simon Chang]

  Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there
  currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for
  popular VM applications.

I hear your pain.  However, VMware is a commercial company one of
whose responsibilities is their bottom line.  I have heard it said
many, many times on this and other FreeBSD discussions that, if
commercial companies hear from the end-users and system
administrators, they would pay more attention to the group in
question.

Sadly, to date I have not seen any organized efforts to bring to
VMware's attention the mob of BSD users that are out there, despite
all the boastful talks.  You also see that there are no (host) support
for Open and Net (BSD).

OSS virtualization efforts are another story, as there is no bottom
line as such.  But you still need the manpower and manhours to do
complicated stuff like virtualization.

SC
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Pine Corupting Inbox

[Chris Maness]

I think that pine is corrupting my inbox, so that it is unreadable by 
UW-IMAPD.  When using squirrelmail after using pine I see the headers, but 
squirrelmail is unable to open the e-mails.  I switched over to alpine 
since I do understand that pine is no longer supported.  If other people 
have experienced this it would be nice to have at least a notice when it 
is installed.  I have used pine for almost 10 years without this problem, 
but maybe this is an incompatability with a newer version of UW-IMAPD.


Anyone else having these issues?

Thanks,

Chris Maness
(909) 223-9179
http://www.chrismaness.com
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Japanese dictionary-software for FreeBSD?

[Niels Kobschaetzki]

Hi!

Anyone on the list that can tell me which software is usable under
FreeBSD as an edict-client? I just do not get gjiten compiled and I
don't know other useful ones…

Niels
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Re: Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7

[Gonzalo Nemmi]

Probably the most accurate and downright _to_the_point_ answer that I've ever 
received.

Thanks a _lot_ Mr Schmehl
Your kind answer has been really hepfull and highly appreciated =)

Blessings

---
Gonzalo Nemmi

On Monday 21 April 2008 13:32:52 Paul Schmehl wrote:
 Looking at the header file in HEAD, the highest number card supported is
 the 5787.  It doesn't look like there's support for that card yet.

 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h?rev=1.73
.2.1;content-type=text%2Fplain

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Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

[alexus]

there is always XEN

or worse case scenario is jail


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there
currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for
popular VM applications.

  I hear your pain.  However, VMware is a commercial company one of
  whose responsibilities is their bottom line.  I have heard it said
  many, many times on this and other FreeBSD discussions that, if
  commercial companies hear from the end-users and system
  administrators, they would pay more attention to the group in
  question.

  Sadly, to date I have not seen any organized efforts to bring to
  VMware's attention the mob of BSD users that are out there, despite
  all the boastful talks.  You also see that there are no (host) support
  for Open and Net (BSD).

  OSS virtualization efforts are another story, as there is no bottom
  line as such.  But you still need the manpower and manhours to do
  complicated stuff like virtualization.

  SC


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Re: vpn + samba

[alexus]

no problem (yet) just trying to get a word from someone who has an
experience in both to share their knowledge which one is better and
why.

so far i see that mpd has more recent release vs poptop

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar
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  hi
 
  i need to get vpn + samba working by vpn i mean a remote user being on
  the road can connect to box and use samba file sharing, most of our
  users use vista, some xp
 
 
  so do it. what a problem?




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RE: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

[Peter Brezny]

Yeah, But Jail offers no real segmentation of resource utilization and
certainly no simple management interface to hand to customers.

At least not back in 2006 when I was using them on a 4.x system, where none
of the jails survived a simple upgrade (from like 4.9 to 4.10 or something I
don't remember).

A great tool for testing and such, but I just didn't find it could do what I
needed (real resource segmentation and control).

How's virtualbox coming along?  Does it have FreeBSD host support yet?
Anyone using it in production?



Sincerely,

Peter Brezny
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From: xSAPPYx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:47 PM
To: Peter Brezny
Subject: Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of
virtualization.

Thats a loaded question. Some might say that Freebsd has been a leading in
virtualization ( jail(8) for example). Support for Zen Dom0 is coming along
nicely it seems. If you want VMware hosting support, not really sure what to
say there. VMware server is a linux kernel..
starting to get into the middle of linux land if you go down the VMware
route.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Peter Brezny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm a die hard FreeBSD user.

  For the past 10 years (since version 2.8 was released) it's been in  
 production on all of my servers.

  Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as 
 there  currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the 
 Host OS for  popular VM applications.

  Is there hope for FreeBSD as a popularly supported virtual machine 
 host, or  am I stuck in the multiple disappointments of linsux land.


  Sincerely,

  Peter Brezny
  Purplecat Networks Inc.
  www.purplecat.net





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Re: BSD Computers

[Gonzalo Nemmi]

The only notebook I found:

http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html

There's just a small issue with the number .. : Price: $1,498.00  (whooow)
And I really couldn't figure out where that number comes from!
Harware specs are not definitive .. and it doesnt seem to be a Panasonic 
ToughBook or anything like that .. :s

Blessings
---
Gonzalo Nemmi

On Monday 21 April 2008 12:23:35 Jerry McAllister wrote:

 Besides other that have been mentioned, here are some others I
 am aware of.   I have heard gords about them, expecially FreeBSD Systems.

  IXSystems http://www.ixsystems.com/

  FreeBSD Systems   http://www.freebsdsystems.com/

  Iron Systems  http://www.ironsystems.com/

 jerry
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Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

[Outback Dingo]

rumour has it VirtualBox might have FreeBSD as host OS coming... and i wount
admit i said this :)
but i saw a post about a solaris build being available, and it stated
FreeBSD maybe coming soon.

also you can run XEN or KVM on HVM capable systems and get away from that
VMWARE Pain

also VirtualBox on linux as host runs FreeBSD guests, I actually have 6
FreeBSD guests running
on XEN 3.21 under a Ubuntu Server OS, waiting for an HVM capable box to be
delivered so i can test
KVM and XEN HVM capabilities.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:00 AM, alexus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 there is always XEN

 or worse case scenario is jail


 On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as
 there
 currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS
 for
 popular VM applications.
 
   I hear your pain.  However, VMware is a commercial company one of
   whose responsibilities is their bottom line.  I have heard it said
   many, many times on this and other FreeBSD discussions that, if
   commercial companies hear from the end-users and system
   administrators, they would pay more attention to the group in
   question.
 
   Sadly, to date I have not seen any organized efforts to bring to
   VMware's attention the mob of BSD users that are out there, despite
   all the boastful talks.  You also see that there are no (host) support
   for Open and Net (BSD).
 
   OSS virtualization efforts are another story, as there is no bottom
   line as such.  But you still need the manpower and manhours to do
   complicated stuff like virtualization.
 
   SC
 
 
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Re: rolling own mesh soln using BSD?

[Outback Dingo]

actually i think he wants to build his own BSD based wireless mesh AP
network hence the mention of dd-wrt
not sure where the mention of firewall came from, but yes, there is pfSense,
as for wireless search google for

freebsd wireless

should get you a good start but for mesh / repeater i think youll need
the latest VAP code, which a
search of the mailing list should turn up

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Rogelio wrote:

  I'm looking to roll my own mesh solution using BSD and was wondering if
  anyone had any pointers on hardware, cards, software packages, etc.
  Up to this point, I've either played with the little solutions (e.g.
  dd-wrt)
  or the bigger ones (Cisco, BelAir, etc).
 
  I'm looking to experiment around with something in between -- more
  robust
  than the dd-wrt, but not as expensive as the big player equipment.
 
  Any ideas?
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 it sounds like your talking about bsd as a firewall, and if so, take a
 look at www.pfsense.org.

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Unable to open device file /dev/lpt0: Permission denied

[David Reedy Jr]

Small home network. Trying to get cups working on my server.

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #4: Tue Apr 15 11:01:37 CDT 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OMEGA
...
ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0
ppbus0: [ITHREAD]
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L/0101.01 PRINTER HP ENHANCED 
PCL5,PJL
lpt0: Printer on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0
ppc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ppc0: [ITHREAD]
...

As you can see, I have a LaserJet attached to the parallel port. Here is 
my printers.conf.

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.7
# Written by cupsd on 2008-04-21 12:16
DefaultPrinter laser
Info HP LaserJet 6L
Location Top
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lpt0
State Stopped
StateMessage Unable to open device file /dev/lpt0: Permission denied
StateTime 1208798191
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
AllowUser root
AllowUser davidrjr
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
/Printer

Trying to print a test page from the cups web interface on a client 
machine, I get the error message. Doing chmod 777 /dev/lpt0 does not 
change anything.

Can somebody tell me what I've done wrong or point me in the direction I 
should be looking?

Dave
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Re: [SSHd] Limiting access from authorized IP's

[Simon Gao]

cpghost wrote:

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:46:48 -0500
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  

Let me clarify.  When I use the term host, I'm referring to what
many would call a personal workstation or personal computer.  If
you have more than one person who has shell access to a computer,
then you no longer have a host. You have a server.  Sure, you may not
think of it that way, but that's what it is.

Servers are a completely different ballgame, and the decisions you
make regarding protecting them have everything to do with who has
access to what. The servers that I referenced in my post have one
person with root access - me 
- and one user - the owners.  No one else has access.  So, it's a

great deal easier for me to lock down the boxes than it is, for
example, here at work, where *many* people have shell access and more
than one have root access through sudo or even su.



Sorry for bikeshedding here, since it's just a matter of terminology,
but...

Hosts used to be multi-user machines for a long time, and actually
still are. Most RFCs, including newer ones, refer to hosts and mean
nodes on the net. They don't care whether the hosts are workstations
used by a single or few user(s), or big multi-user machines with
hundreds of shell accounts.

Server is merely the role a program assumes when it waits passively
for requests from clients. Servers run on hosts, regardless
of the number of users on those hosts (ranging from 0 to very high).

Obviously, the security implications vary considerably if you have
to host many user accounts, esp. on hosts used by mission critical
server programs. ;)

And of course, the bikeshed has to be painted... red! :)

Regards,
-cpghost.

  

Try this:

AllowUsers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] joe@home ip

Simon
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Re: Changing Console Video Modes

[Joshua Isom]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Edward Ruggeri wrote:


I'm just reading through the manual for FreeBSD, and I am at section
3.2.6 Changing Console Video Modes.  This discusses how to change
the default console resolution.  I would try this out, but as I can
only access my FreeBSD box remotely at the moment, I am hesitant to
recompile the kernel with the necessary options (I currently get an
error when running #vidcontrol -i mode: getting active vty:
Inappropriate ioctl for device.  I assume this is because the current
kernel is insufficient?).  I'm afraid my computer might need to be
booted by hand, which I wouldn't be able to do.

In any case, lacking the ability to experiment, I am curious about
different video modes.  Will greater resolutions allow me to fit more
text on the screen in the console?  Of course I know (maybe less than
I think) about resolution in terms of graphical environments (e.g.,
can see more of a high-resolution image w/ a greater resolution), but
is it the same for text?

Thanks!

Sincerely,

-- Ned Ruggeri


Don't forget to use i386 instead of amd64, since those higher 
resolutions are vesa modes(I also don't think you can get any 
widescreen resolutions) and amd64 can't access the vesa instructions.  
You might be able to try hacking the loader and change resolutions 
there but I don't know if it would stay that way through boot or what 
effect X windows would have.


You could just try a fullscreen xterm.  Using evilwm it can give you 
the look of a console with a higher resolution.



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Re: Unable to open device file /dev/lpt0: Permission denied

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:05:56PM -0500, David Reedy Jr wrote:
 Small home network. Trying to get cups working on my server.
 
 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #4: Tue Apr 15 11:01:37 CDT 2008
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OMEGA
 ...
 ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
 ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
 ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0
 ppbus0: [ITHREAD]
 ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE
 Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
 ppbus0: Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L/0101.01 PRINTER HP ENHANCED 
 PCL5,PJL

snip
 StateMessage Unable to open device file /dev/lpt0: Permission denied
snip
 Trying to print a test page from the cups web interface on a client 
 machine, I get the error message. Doing chmod 777 /dev/lpt0 does not 
 change anything.
 
 Can somebody tell me what I've done wrong or point me in the direction I 
 should be looking?

IICR, the print device should belong to the cups group. At least, that's
my working setup. 

I have the following in /etc/devfs.conf:

# Give cups printer access
own lpt0root:cups
permlpt00660

If you don't want to reboot;
# chown root:cups /dev/lpt0
# chmod 0660 /dev/lpt0

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cmucl and sbcl crash on FreeBSD 7.0

[Xuebin Qiao]

Hi, there

After upgrade to FreeBSD 7.0, the cmucl and sbcl keep crash. Is there anyone
who can run cmucl or sbcl on FB7.0.

Following attempts have been tried, but all failed.
1. upgrade to RELNG_7_0_0, then completely remove old port tree and install
port packages from official ftp sites.
2. upgrade to RELNG_7_0, rebuild world and kernel
3. install cmucl and sbcl port package from ftp directory
packages-7.0-release/All or packages-7-stable/All
4. run latest cmucl prebuilt binaries from cmucl official site, both
experiment and snapshot version containing label x86-freebsd7- or
x86-freebsd7.0-.
above results: cmucl/sbcl core dump on entry

5. manually build from port tree.
6. upgrade to latest port tree and build from scratch
7. download latest sbcl sources tar ball from sbcl official site and build
manually.
above results: cmucl crash on build; sbcl crash on build by sbcl compiler,
due to pre-built lisp core keep crash. When compiled with clisp compiler,
sbcl stopped at many undefined functions.

below is a sample stack info from gdb when cmucl crashed. note this binary
was downloaded from cmucl official site:
--
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x67ff in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x67ff in ?? ()
#1  0x61790e5b in ?? ()
#2  0x4800 in ?? ()
#3  0x2000 in ?? ()
#4  0x0007 in ?? ()
#5  0x1012 in ?? ()
#6  0x in ?? ()
#7  0x in ?? ()
#8  0x in ?? ()
#9  0x61713000 in ?? ()
#10 0x0170 in ?? ()
#11 0xbfbfe748 in ?? ()
#12 0x0000 in ?? ()
#13 0x4800 in ?? ()
#14 0x2000 in ?? ()
#15 0x0805cef2 in ?? ()
#16 0xbfbfe738 in ?? ()
#17 0x080544ca in os_validate (addr=0x4800, len=536870912)
at ../../src/lisp/FreeBSD-os.c:129
Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)


Any comments are welcome.

qxb
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Bittyrant crash when moving from 7-stable to 7-release

[Tsu-Fan Cheng]

Hi, my bittyrant stop to work when moving from 7-stable to 7-release.
this is the error message:
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x2810c887, pid=1034, tid=0x28201100
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
(1.5.0_14-p8-tfcheng_07_apr_2008_09_50 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libc.so.7+0x61887]  calloc+0x9d7
#

---  T H R E A D  ---

Current thread (0x2823d180):  JavaThread main [_thread_in_native,
id=673190144]

siginfo:si_signo=11, si_errno=0, si_code=1, si_addr=0xf4792b2c

Registers:
EAX=0x0044, EBX=0x281917f8, ECX=0x000c, EDX=0xf4792b24
ESP=0xbfbfc928, EBP=0xbfbfc970, ESI=0x37e0, EDI=0x3604e000
EIP=0x2810c887, EFLAGS=0x00010246

Top of Stack: (sp=0xbfbfc928)
0xbfbfc928:   2869bba0 0001 280a594f 2807da04
0xbfbfc938:   37e12564 0044 f4792b24 28201100
0xbfbfc948:   37fc0460 bfbfc95c 28058b16 28201100
0xbfbfc958:   280793f4 bfbfc99c 2810c83b 281917f8
0xbfbfc968:   37e12564 37e1256c bfbfc9a0 2810cb7e
0xbfbfc978:   3804e000 0001 bfbfc9a0 37eec8c5
0xbfbfc988:   282182e0 37e1a600 38055ae4 bfbfca08
0xbfbfc998:   3803bb34  bfbfc9b0 38015bd1

Instructions: (pc=0x2810c887)
0x2810c877:   8d 3c 32 8b 57 10 80 bb a9 60 00 00 00 89 55 d0
0x2810c887:   8b 72 08 0f 85 10 01 00 00 8b 93 a8 0e 00 00 8b

Stack: [0xbfa0,0xbfc0),  sp=0xbfbfc928,  free space=2034k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C  [libc.so.7+0x61887]  calloc+0x9d7
C  [libc.so.7+0x61b7e]  free+0x2e
C  [libstdc++.so.6+0xc7bd1]  _ZdlPv+0x21
C  [libstdc++.so.6+0x6ec8d]  _ZNSs4_Rep10_M_destroyERKSaIcE+0x1d
C  [socket.so+0x4846]  _ZNK4scim12SocketConfig4readERKSsPSs+0x196
C  [libscim-1.0.so.10+0x3e631]  _ZNK4scim10ConfigBase4readERKSsS2_+0x41
C  [libscim-1.0.so.10+0x6128d]
_ZN4scim21FrontEndHotkeyMatcher12load_hotkeysERKNS_7PointerINS_10ConfigBaseEEE+0xdd
C  [im-scim.so+0x11707]  +0x61e7
C  [im-scim.so+0x17adc]  _Z28gtk_im_context_scim_shutdownv+0x288c
C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x29102]  g_type_class_ref+0x7f2
C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0xf9c3]  g_object_newv+0x943
C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0xff21]  g_object_new_valist+0x281
C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x10090]  g_object_new+0x40
C  [im-scim.so+0x140d7]  _Z23gtk_im_context_scim_newv+0x67
C  [im-scim.so+0x1ecdc]  im_module_create+0x3c
C  [libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x12db11]  _gtk_im_module_create+0x71
C  [libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x12e788]  gtk_im_multicontext_new+0x128
C  [libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x12e99a]  gtk_im_multicontext_new+0x33a
C  [libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x12bd5e]  gtk_im_context_set_client_window+0x4e
C  [libswt-pi-gtk-3347.so+0x40824]
Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_gtk_OS__1gtk_1im_1context_1set_1client_1window+0x24
j  org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS._gtk_im_context_set_client_window(II)V+0
j  org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.gtk_im_context_set_client_window(II)V+9
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.gtk_unrealize(I)I+11
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.windowProc(II)I+358
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(II)I+15
v  ~StubRoutines::call_stub
V  [libjvm.so+0x17c634]
V  [libjvm.so+0x2823f9]
V  [libjvm.so+0x17b6ef]
V  [libjvm.so+0x18614a]
V  [libjvm.so+0x1a63c4]
C  [libswt-gtk-3347.so+0x2559]  callback+0x249
C  0x366fe212
C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x1639f]  g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID+0x4f
C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x9159]  g_closure_invoke+0x129
C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x1d649]  g_signal_handler_disconnect+0xf29
C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x1f21b]  g_signal_emit_valist+0x88b
C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x1f559]  g_signal_emit+0x29
C  [libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0+0x2737ed]  gtk_widget_realize+0x8d
C  [libswt-pi-gtk-3347.so+0x3960d]
Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_gtk_OS__1gtk_1widget_1realize+0x1d
j  org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS._gtk_widget_realize(I)V+0
j  org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.gtk_widget_realize(I)V+8
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.paintWindow()I+6
j  
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.getMonitor()Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Monitor;+16
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.setInitialBounds()V+12
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.createWidget(I)V+51
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Scrollable.createWidget(I)V+2
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Decorations.createWidget(I)V+2
j  
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.init(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Display;Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Shell;IIZ)V+109
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.init(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Display;I)V+6
j  
org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SplashWindow.init(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Display;Lorg/gudy/azureus2/ui/swt/mainwindow/Initializer;)V+42
j  
org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SplashWindow.init(Lorg/eclipse/swt/widgets/Display;Lorg/gudy/azureus2/ui/swt/mainwindow/Initializer;Lorg/gudy/azureus2/ui/swt/mainwindow/SplashWindow$1;)V+3
j  org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SplashWindow$1.runSupport()V+31
j  org.gudy.azureus2.core3.util.AERunnable.run()V+1
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run()V+11
j  org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Z)Z+29
j  

Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

[Ivan Voras]

Peter Brezny wrote:

I'm a die hard FreeBSD user.

For the past 10 years (since version 2.8 was released) it's been in
production on all of my servers.

Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there
currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for
popular VM applications.

Is there hope for FreeBSD as a popularly supported virtual machine host, or
am I stuck in the multiple disappointments of linsux land.


I'd say the feature(s) will come when the money comes, so, as long as 
there's no great commercial interest in FreeBSD, nothing much will be 
solved.




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Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.

[andrew clarke]

I have serveral FreeBSD machines on my home network and was wondering
why Portsnap failed to find any mirrors on some but not others.  I had
a look at the /usr/sbin/portsnap script to find out what it is doing.
The command it calls to search for mirrors is:

host -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.freebsd.org

resulting in:

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

After a bit of investigating it turns out that on the machines where
it failed, /etc/resolv.conf was configured to use my D-Link DSL-504T
ADSL modem/router's internal nameserver for DNS lookups.  Changing
resolv.conf to instead point directly at my ISP's nameservers solved
the problem.
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Re: RAM Swap Speed

[Jon Radel]

Jon Radel wrote:
 herbert langhans wrote:
 Hi Daemons,
 recently I had to add some more RAM on a workstation. Was 512MB before and 
 is 2GB now, the reason was to give some graphic apps more space.

 But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it did 
 NOT make use of the swap-partition and after the big RAM chip of course not 
 too (checked it with #top).

 This was a Slackware installation. Had anyone experienced such effect on BSD 
 as well? 
 
 Why are you asking about Slackware file caching on a FreeBSD mailing
 list?  :-)
 
 In any case, what you're probably seeing is the effect of having lots of
 spare RAM to cache files.  In FreeBSD top look at the Cache and Buf
 values up top.  If you're doing a lot of file I/O, this can make a
 noticeable difference, particularly if you're repeatedly reading the
 same files.

It has been pointed out that this response by me is incomplete, arguably
misleadingly so.  See
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2004-April/000769.html
for much more technical detail on what is really happening.

--Jon Radel


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Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

[Michel Talon]

Xuebin Qiao wrote:

After upgrade to FreeBSD 7.0, the cmucl and sbcl keep crash. Is there
anyone who can run cmucl or sbcl on FB7.0.

Sbcl runs for me on 7.0:
niobe% sbcl
This is SBCL 1.0.11, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at http://www.sbcl.org/.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
* (+ 1 1)

2
* (quit)
niobe% uname -a
FreeBSD niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Tue
Feb 26 15:10:32 CET 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/NIOBE  i386


As for cmucl, the version in the ports is completely botched. You can
however run a recent precompiled version from the cmucl snapshots here:
http://common-lisp.net/project/cmucl/downloads/snapshots/2008/

There is a version for FreeBSD-7 and it allows to recompile the cmucl
source without any problem.

I have used it to compile maxima, it works very well and fast.


obe% maxima
Maxima 5.14.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp CMU Common Lisp Snapshot 2008-02 (19E)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) expand((x+y)^2);
Evaluation took 0.00 seconds (0.00 elapsed) using 1.086 KB.
 22
(%o1)   y  + 2 x y + x
(%i2)



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Re: cmucl and sbcl crash on FreeBSD 7.0

[Michel Talon]

Sorry, my previous message should have a subject line of
Re: cmucl and sbcl crash on FreeBSD 7.0

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CUPS and Gnome

[Jason Lenthe]

I am using CUPS and when I click the Print button in gedit and 
gnumeric the application immediately terminates.  In abiword, I get a 
blank sheet of paper.  Printing is working fine in firefox, gvim, and lpr.


I did truss gedit and it ended with:

open(/etc/cups/lpoptions,O_RDONLY,0666)ERR#2 'No such file or 
directory'
open(/home/lenthe/.lpoptions,O_RDONLY,0666)ERR#2 'No such file or 
directory'

open(/home/lenthe/.cups/lpoptions,O_RDONLY,0666) = 16 (0x10)
SIGNAL 11 (SIGSEGV)
write(3,^\^X\b\\^A`\^BH\0`\^BH\0`\^B...,64) = 64 (0x40)
write(3, \^X\^B\0\0\0\0\0,8)   = 8 (0x8)
write(3,%\^X\^A\0+\0\^A\0,8)   = 8 (0x8)
read(3,\^F\^A\M-?\^F\M-o\fF\^Cv\0\0\0...,32)   = 32 (0x20)
read(3,\^A\^B\M-F\^F\0\0\0\0\^_\0`\^B\0...,32) = 32 (0x20)
write(3,\^[\^X\^B\0\0\0\0\0,8) = 8 (0x8)
write(3, \^X\^B\0\0\0\0\0,8)   = 8 (0x8)
write(3,%\^X\^A\0+\0\^A\0,8)   = 8 (0x8)
read(3,\^A\^B\M-J\^F\0\0\0\0\^_\0`\^B\0...,32) = 32 (0x20)
getpid(0x8058fe568,0x8058fe568,0x0,0x806101120,0x80a4e2a0,0x1) = 
61242 (0xef3a)
access(/usr/local/bin/gdb,1)   ERR#2 'No such file or 
directory'
access(/sbin/gdb,1)ERR#2 'No such file or 
directory'
access(/bin/gdb,1) ERR#2 'No such file or 
directory'
access(/usr/sbin/gdb,1)ERR#2 'No such file or 
directory'

access(/usr/bin/gdb,1) = 0 (0x0)
getuid(0x807b17ff0,0x1,0x8,0x805efeb8c,0x80a4e2a0,0x7fffaed8) 
= 1001 (0x3e9)
stat(/usr/bin/gdb,{mode=-r-xr-xr-x 
,inode=117986,size=2364976,blksize=4096}) = 0 (0x0)

readlink(/proc/curproc/file,/usr/local/bin/gedit,255) = 20 (0x14)
open(/usr/local/bin/gedit,O_RDONLY,00) = 17 (0x11)
fstat(17,{mode=-r-xr-xr-x ,inode=342182,size=643224,blksize=4096}) = 0 (0x0)
mmap(0x0,643224,PROT_READ,MAP_PRIVATE,17,0x0)= 34487672832 (0x807a02000)
munmap(0x807a02000,643224)   = 0 (0x0)
process exit, rval = 1

All of my ports are up to date.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jason
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Re: openvpn server in a jail

[Shelby Cain]

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| I couldn't get it to work.  The primary problem being that OpenVPN needs
| to create a tun device, and you can't do that inside a jail.
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| Someone more clever than I may have figured out a way to pull it off ...
| I'd be interested to know about it.
I know next to nothing about FreeBSD jails, but is there some reason you 
couldn't add openvpn --mktun --dev name commands to rc.local (or 
whatever FreeBSD's equivalent is) to pre-create the tun device nodes 
prior to running the jailed version of openvpn?


Regards,

Shelby Cain
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Re: vpn + samba

[Elliot Finley]

I would suggest openVPN.  works great and extremely easy to set up.

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:01:50 -0400, you wrote:

no problem (yet) just trying to get a word from someone who has an
experience in both to share their knowledge which one is better and
why.

so far i see that mpd has more recent release vs poptop

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  hi
 
  i need to get vpn + samba working by vpn i mean a remote user being on
  the road can connect to box and use samba file sharing, most of our
  users use vista, some xp
 
 
  so do it. what a problem?

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Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

[RW]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:59:35 +0200
Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Wine is not meant to work that way. You should see Wine as a separate
 Windows. If you want to run applications under Wine either install
 them under Wine or (with simple applications) copy them over from a
 Windows install into ~/.wine/drive_c.
 

And specifically I'd populate  ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts from a
real windows installation. 
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Re: cannot move geli disk from 6.3-R to 6.1-R

[RW]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:33:07 +0600
Dmitry Sukhodoyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 i try to attach geli provider, which i have used in 6.3-RELEASE to 
 6.1-RELEASE:
 
 # geli attach -k /root/da1.key /dev/da1
 MD5 hash mismatch for /dev/da1
 
 in 6.3-R it still attaches successfully, but in 6.1-R is not. system 
 with 6.1-R is not my own, so i can't update it. how i can attach geli 
 provider from my 6.3-R to this 6.1-R?

In the 7.0 source code there are two versions of the function that
computes that hash, so I guess that 6.3 is back-compatible with
6.1, but that a 6.3 geli-device can't be read  by 6.1.

If this is a removable drive that needs to inter-operate, I would
suggest that you dump the data, and create a new geli device under 6.1.
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Ruby on Rails 2.0 application gets illegal instruction on FreeBSD 6.2

[Steve Madsen]

I am in the process of upgrading an existing, stable Ruby on Rails  
application from Rails 1.2 to 2.0.  It's hosted on an AMD64 FreeBSD  
6.2 server.  Immediately after the first deployment, even very simple  
calls into ActiveRecord trap with an illegal instruction signal.   
Googling and looking in the archives point to a stack overflow as a  
likely culprit, possibly related to the need to always link Ruby with  
libpthreads and a small per-thread stack size.


First, is anyone else running 6.2 in production with a Rails 2.0  
application and have you seen this behavior?  Is this problem likely  
fixed if I upgrade the server to 6.3 or 7.0?  (I would rather put this  
off if possible, but I'm exploring all options here.)


Second, is there a way to increase the stack size without modifying  
the code?  I'm considering building the port without pthreads (by  
hacking the Makefile).  I don't think I call into any libraries that  
need pthreads now, but it'd be a nasty surprise later if I end up  
wanting to, so it's not my favorite choice.


--
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dosbox and com ports

[Chris Maness]

Has anyone had experience using dosbox's com port access under FreeBSD?  
Would it be equivalent tot the direct access that DOS and real UART 
provides?  I want to use good old dos app for radio teletype (running 
hamcomm).  The program runs really well under dosbox.  I was wondering 
if anyone has played with com ports.


Thanks,
Chris KQ6UP
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Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

[perryh]

  ... If you want to run applications under Wine either install
  them under Wine or (with simple applications) copy them over
  from a Windows install into ~/.wine/drive_c.

 And specifically I'd populate  ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts
 from a real windows installation. 

Which raises the question:  how does one figure out what-all
pieces of a real windows installation should and should not be
copied (or symlinked) into ~/.wine/drive_c?  So far it looks
as if some (but surely not all) .exe's and .dll's, and (all?)
fonts, should be imported.
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Unable to Pair a BlueTooth Headset to a USB BlueTooth dongle

[lmclouth]

Hello.

I'm having trouble getting a BlueTooth headset paired to FreeBSD.  I  
believe that I've followed the handbook.  My headset is a BlueAnt Z9,  
and when I attempt to pair, I do not get any response out of hsecd.


Some info about my machine
TOGOTU# uname -a
FreeBSD TOGOTU 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 18 21:18:49  
CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TOGOTU  amd64


Here is the process I used:
1. This Friday I upgraded my kernel to 6.3 Release.

2. Today I finished rebuilding all my ports.

3. kldload ng_ubt whose output was
kldload: Unsupported file type
I'm not so worried about this error as  this report says its a minor  
issue for amd64

http://www.jp.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/117186

4. I plugged in my USB dongle, whose output was
ubt0: vendor 0x0a12 product 0x0001, rev 2.00/31.64, addr 4
ubt0: vendor 0x0a12 product 0x0001, rev 2.00/31.64, addr 4
ubt0: Interface 0 endpoints: interrupt=0x81, bulk-in=0x82, bulk-out=0x2
ubt0: Interface 1 (alt.config 5) endpoints: isoc-in=0x83, isoc- 
out=0x3; wMaxPacketSize=49; nframes=6, buffer size=294

kldload: Unsupported file type
kldload: Unsupported file type
kldload: Unsupported file type
kldload: Unsupported file type
kldload: Unsupported file type

still not worried as a kldstat shows lots of other BlueTooth klds  
getting loaded.

TOGOTU# kldstatId Refs AddressSize Name
1   12 0x8010 9e9ca0   kernel
21 0x80aea000 5320 atapicam.ko
31 0x951ec000 434d ng_ubt.ko
45 0x951f1000 90b2 netgraph.ko
54 0x951fb000 875  ng_bluetooth.ko
61 0x951fc000 8afd ng_hci.ko
71 0x95205000 b986 ng_l2cap.ko
81 0x95211000 11c61ng_btsocket.ko
91 0x95223000 1bed ng_socket.ko


5. I copied over /usr/share/examples/netgraph/bluetooth/rc.bluetooth  
to /etc/rc.bluetooth


6. I then started the BlueTooth script
TOGOTU# /etc/rc.bluetooth start ubt0
BD_ADDR: 00:1b:41:00:33:bc
Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0x9b 0xf9 00 0x80
3-Slot 5-Slot Encryption Slot offset
Timing accuracy Switch Hold mode Sniff mode
Park mode RSSI Channel quality SCO link
HV2 packets HV3 packets u-law log A-law log CVSD
Paging scheme Power control Transparent SCO data
Unknown2.7
Max. ACL packet size: 310 bytes
Number of ACL packets: 10Max. SCO packet size: 64 bytes
Number of SCO packets: 8

7.  To check things out I put my headset into discoverable mode and ran
TOGOTU# hccontrol -n ubt0hci inquiry
Inquiry result, num_responses=1
Inquiry result #0
BD_ADDR: 00:1c:d8:02:92:5b
Page Scan Rep. Mode: 0x1
Page Scan Period Mode: 0x2
Page Scan Mode: 00
Class: 20:04:04
Clock offset: 0x6c23Inquiry complete. Status: No error [00]

8. I checked the name of the device
TOGOTU# hccontrol -n ubt0hci remote_name_request 00:1c:d8:02:92:5b
BD_ADDR: 00:1c:d8:02:92:5b
Name: BlueAnt Z9 v3.3

9. I don't believe I'm going to do any point-to-multipoint scenarios  
so I skipped the next few example in the Handbook.


10.  I was able to successfully ping the device
TOGOTU# l2ping -a 00:1c:d8:02:92:5b
4 bytes from 00:1c:d8:02:92:5b seq_no=1633905441 time=992.342 ms  
result=0

4 bytes from 00:1c:d8:02:92:5b seq_no=1633905441 time=26.324 ms result=0
4 bytes from 00:1c:d8:02:92:5b seq_no=1633905441 time=28.310 ms result=0

11. Now to pairing.  Since I'm pairing a headset with a fixed pin and  
I'm initiating pairing from the FreeBSD machine (I can't initiate  
from the headset), the handlbook does not cover this scenario at  
all.  So I searched around and found this article

http://www.oook.cz/bsd/bluetooth.html
Which says to initiate pair with a pair of setup commands
TOGOTU# hccontrol -n ubt0hci write_authentication_enable 1
TOGOTU# hccontrol -n ubt0hci read_authentication_enable
Authentication Enable: Enabled [1]

12.  I set up the hsecd.conf file with the entry
device {
bdaddr  00:1c:d8:02:92:5b;
nameBlueAnt Z9 v3.3;
key nokey;
pin ;
}

That pin code if from my headset manual.

13 and lastly the command
TOGOTU# hcsecd -d
hcsecd[1187]: Restored link key for the entry, remote bdaddr  
00:11:22:33:44:55, name 'Dummy'


and the command doesn't exit.

14.  Which isn't so good, so I further edited out all of hcsedc.conf  
and only left in the entry for the headset I want to pair.  And I got  
this.

TOGOTU# hcsecd -d

No output at all.  And the command never exits.  And the handbook  
says that I should get some output indicating pairing.


Can anyone offer any assistance in pairing a BlueTooth headset?  What  
step am I missing? My end goal is I want to use Skype on FreeBSD with  
it.


Thanks in advance

Lewis
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