Re: FreeBSD 7.1 on Intel server board S3200SHV
Hello Abdullah Thanks for the hint. Regards, Am Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:57:35AM -0800 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri schrieb: - Original Message From: Martin Schweizer lists_free...@bluewin.ch To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:37:42 PM Subject: FreeBSD 7.1 on Intel server board S3200SHV Hello Does FreeBSD 7.1 run on Intel S3200SHV mainboards with S3200 chipset? I did not find any hints in HARDWARE.TXT (also not on support.intel.com and not in Google). Regards, -- Martin Schweizer CPU: Intel ® Core ??? 2 CPU e8...@3.16ghz (3165.08-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x1067a Stepping = 10 Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x1067a Stepping = 10 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLU Features = 0xbfebfbff FPU, VME, DE, PSE, TSC, MSR, PAE, MCE, CX8, APIC, SEP, MTRR, PGE, MCA, CMOV, PAT, PSE36, CLFLU SH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE SH, DTS, ACPI, MMX, FXSR, SSE, SSE2, SS, HTT, TM, PBE Features2=0x309SSE3,MON,TM2,SSSE3 Features2 = 0x309 SSE3,MON,TM2,SSSE3 AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM AMD Features = 0x2010 NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF AMD Features2 = 0x1 LAHF Cores per package: 2 Cores per package: 2 real memory = 1071620096 (1021 MB) real memory = 1071620096 (1021 MB) avail memory = 1038602240 (990 MB) avail memory = 1038602240 (990 MB) ACPI APIC Table: INTEL S3200SHV ACPI APIC Table: INTEL S3200SHV FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs FreeBSD / SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 This is with FreeBSD 7.0 Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ -- Martin Schweizer off...@pc-service.ch PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc; fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
hi
what will happen to FreeBSD if Gentoo/BSD is already out, does it affect freebsd popularity? i dont like gentoo or gentoo/bsd ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:54 AM, GrimJow Espada grimjow.esp...@gmail.com wrote: what will happen to FreeBSD if Gentoo/BSD is already out, does it affect freebsd popularity? i dont like gentoo or gentoo/bsd How would this affect FreeBSD? If you don't like Gentoo or Gentoo/BSD, the (very simple) solution is: don't use it. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM, GrimJow Espada grimjow.esp...@gmail.comwrote: what will happen to FreeBSD if Gentoo/BSD is already out, does it affect freebsd popularity? i dont like gentoo or gentoo/bsd @Espada, According to you, is Gentoo/BSD the same thing as FreeBSD? And haven't you heard of PCBSD, DesktopBSD, DragonflyBSD? Just let Gentoo/BSD be and live your life:-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
what will happen to FreeBSD if Gentoo/BSD is already out, does it affect freebsd popularity? i dont like gentoo or gentoo/bsd so don't use it - like me. that's all :) what a problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: When is there going to be a USB install and run iso iamge for FreeBSD?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:32 AM, George Hartzell hartz...@alerce.comwrote: Formula 1 writes: Is there going to be a possibility for FreeBSD, in the future or now, that there will be a release of it that allows for install and running of the operating system off of a USB memory stick? There's a pretty simple script here that builds a bootable usb stick. http://yds.coolrat.org/zfsboot.shtml While you're there, there's a second script for setting up a mostly ZFS based system, it's a bit behind the time given the zfs boot code work going on in -CURRENT, but still seems pretty relevant if you're in -STABLE world. g. And PCBSD have one as well already. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
hah! ok! On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Remorque odhia...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM, GrimJow Espada grimjow.esp...@gmail.com wrote: what will happen to FreeBSD if Gentoo/BSD is already out, does it affect freebsd popularity? i dont like gentoo or gentoo/bsd @Espada, According to you, is Gentoo/BSD the same thing as FreeBSD? And haven't you heard of PCBSD, DesktopBSD, DragonflyBSD? Just let Gentoo/BSD be and live your life:-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD on Intel Xeon processor 5160
Dear Sir, I have IBM x3550 server with Intel Xeon (Dual-Core) processors 5160 @ 3.0 GHz. I need to install FreeBSD 7.0 but I do not know which type of FreeBSD I have to use to take the best performance of the EM64T and Hyperthreading Technologies. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Metias Network and System Administrator Armanious Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD on Intel Xeon processor 5160
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:41:23PM +0200, Metias Adel wrote: I have IBM x3550 server with Intel Xeon (Dual-Core) processors 5160 @ 3.0 GHz. I need to install FreeBSD 7.0 but I do not know which type of FreeBSD I have to use to take the best performance of the EM64T and Hyperthreading Technologies. Thank you in advance. It depends. You should probably use the amd64 version of you want to use more than 4GB of memory. EMT64 is just intel's term for a chip that uses AMD's 64-bit extensions to x86 architecture. Before installing the amd64 version however, make sure that none of the ports you want to install has ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386 set in it's Makefile. (And note that ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386 amd64 is fine). If you have more servers running i386, and want to centrally compile kernels and ports, it might be better to stick with i386. It is not possible to make a general prediction as to which architicture is faster; that will depend on the workload. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpkON5W4Fdge.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD on Intel Xeon processor 5160
Dear Sir, I have IBM x3550 server with Intel Xeon (Dual-Core) processors 5160 @ 3.0 GHz. I need to install FreeBSD 7.0 but I do not know which type of FreeBSD I have to use to take the best performance of the EM64T and Hyperthreading Technologies. Thank you in advance. EM64T == amd64 so FreeBSD/amd64 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD on Intel Xeon processor 5160
You should probably use the amd64 version of you want to use more than 4GB of memory. AND IF YOU DO NOT. it's normal to use natural architecture, not backward compatibility. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:54 AM, GrimJow Espada grimjow.esp...@gmail.com wrote: what will happen to FreeBSD if Gentoo/BSD is already out, does it affect freebsd popularity? i dont like gentoo or gentoo/bsd FreeBSD popularity will be affected if the big cats (ie. networking companies) continue to not contribute back the enhancements/modifications to the kernel, networking stack, optimizations etc etc ! Gentoo userland and emerge tools are easier and elegant though not certainly superior to FreeBSD make mechanism. This is based on my personal experience as i heavily use Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD on older hardware. And offcourse, i can easily emerge pine 4.64 on Gentoo but there is no way i can do it on FreeBSD. Does anybody know where FreeBSD (in particular) (NetBSD and OpenBSD) is headed ? What is the road map ? Please don't tell me that *BSD is a nice community project (which it is) and the charter is to flip burgers (i mean code) for the next networking company to take the code and run away ! i'm very hopeful that somebody will share some insight on the road map. -- thanks Saifi. -- If you don't know where you want to go, any path can take you there -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
FreeBSD popularity will be affected if the big cats (ie. networking companies) continue to not contribute back the this will affect their sales - FreeBSD user will simply buy network card from another manufacturer. Does anybody know where FreeBSD (in particular) (NetBSD and OpenBSD) is headed ? What is the road map ? i wish the same as is now. STABLE FAST unix-type operating environment. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: FreeBSD popularity will be affected if the big cats (ie. networking companies) continue to not contribute back the this will affect their sales - FreeBSD user will simply buy network card from another manufacturer. How a new user becomes a FreeBSD user ? by buying network cards all the time ? The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular FreeBSD needs growth. Growth comes from new users ! Do you see my point ? Does anybody know where FreeBSD (in particular) (NetBSD and OpenBSD) is headed ? What is the road map ? i wish the same as is now. STABLE FAST unix-type operating environment. Does anybody know where FreeBSD is headed ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular FreeBSD needs growth. Growth comes from new users ! It depends on the kind of new users. The aim of FreeBSD is not to be the most popular OS out there. Has never been. The main driving force is to attract good developers who like technical challenges and who love to tinker. It's nice to have a solid and large user base, but IMHO, that's not the main priority. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
Wojciech Puchar wrote: FreeBSD popularity will be affected if the big cats (ie. networking companies) continue to not contribute back the this will affect their sales - FreeBSD user will simply buy network card from another manufacturer. I think the keywords here are more 'Juniper' and 'Cisco' (both of whom have products either based on FreeBSD or incorporating quantities of FreeBSD code, and neither of whom are in the business of making network cards that I know of) rather than 'Intel' and 'Broadcom' (not that Intel has anything to be ashamed of with regard to their support of their NICs under *BSD. If anything they are the model that we would encourage other companies to emulate). In any case, why should companies be constrained to open their code as the only way of giving back to an opensource community? I agree that it would be desirable, but commercial realities are such that it's not going to happen any time soon. Companies do have other routes to 'give back' -- donations of money or equipment, sponsoring development projects or conferences, providing day-time employment for FreeBSD developers, even just publicly acknowledging that they use FreeBSD technology. None of which is required by the terms of the license, but frequently seems to happen anyhow. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: kernel compile problems
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 13:41 +, daemon wrote: Hi, I try to build a 7.1 kernel but when i does # make depend make clean depend So you make the dependency chain, then clean it and remake the dependency chain. You've gained nothing. make shows : make : don't know how to make ../../../dev/agp/agp.c. Stop This sounds like you've removed the device agp from the config file... Which is needed, even if you don't have an AGP slot/card in your system. anyone know anything? Thanks! GL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular FreeBSD needs growth. completely not true Growth comes from new users ! growth comes from user requirements that do make sense. no matter if it's new or old users. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
No mirrors remaining, giving up. when trying to update(minor or version )
Helo gurus, my system is: FreeBSD cvs2.abvent.fr 7.0-STABLE-200806 FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE-200806 #0: Mon Jun 2 18:36:08 UTC 2008 [1]r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 cvs2# I installed that half-year version of FreeBSD 7, and I get in trouble when updating: it says: cvs2# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. cvs2# It seems my key is bad, because I installed a 7+ version? where is my key? any idea? References 1. mailto:r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: read two files simultaneously
That's true. Using bigger buffer will help, but it doesn't tell why reading large size file is slower than reading small size file. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I'm just guessing inode structure, the physical file location on HDD might be related to this. But, if I read only one file, the size doesn't matter. Reading file (10M, 100M, 700M) gives constantly about 70MB/s, and the weird thing happens when I read 2 files of big size. if you use O_DIRECT it's read from disk exactly as you specified, without readahead, so you do a lot of seeks. simply use bigger buffer like 1MB -- Junsuk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:07:44 + Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: To be popular FreeBSD needs growth. possibly, but being popular is not necessarily a good idea. Growth comes from new users ! neither is growth. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular FreeBSD needs growth. I think that one of FBSD's guiding principles is *correctness* ... or, at least, that's one of the higher values of the community. By way of evidence, I present the following terms, used frequently in correspondence on these lists: It Just Works(tm) The Right Way(tm) canonical P.O.L.A. And be sure and check today's .sig ;-) Kevin Kinsey -- Grandpa used to say --- What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: No mirrors remaining, giving up. when trying to update(minor or version )
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:16 PM, paljibus palji...@gmail.com wrote: Helo gurus, my system is: FreeBSD cvs2.abvent.fr 7.0-STABLE-200806 FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE-200806 #0: Mon Jun 2 18:36:08 UTC 2008 [1]r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 cvs2# I installed that half-year version of FreeBSD 7, and I get in trouble when updating: it says: cvs2# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. cvs2# It seems my key is bad, because I installed a 7+ version? where is my key? any idea? `man freebsd-update' explicitly states you cannot use freebsd-update with -STABLE or -CURRENT (at least not with the -r flag to specify a -RELEASE to upgrade to). -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: No mirrors remaining, giving up. when trying to update(minor or version )
paljibus wrote: Helo gurus, my system is: FreeBSD cvs2.abvent.fr 7.0-STABLE-200806 FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE-200806 #0: Mon Jun 2 18:36:08 UTC 2008 [1]r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 cvs2# I installed that half-year version of FreeBSD 7, and I get in trouble when updating: it says: cvs2# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. cvs2# It seems my key is bad, because I installed a 7+ version? where is my key? any idea? References 1. mailto:r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC You can't use freebsd-update, unless you are running a -RELEASE version. You will have to recompile from source to update this system: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html (relevant section: 24.5.2) Using RELENG_7_1_0_RELEASE as the tag in the method above will get you 7.1-RELEASE, and you can then start using freebsd-update. (You can also use RELENG_7_1 which will get you 7.1-RELEASE plus latest updates) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 06:50:04PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Kailash Kailash wrote: Woj, I'm really surprised that you, of all people, seem lately to have been converted to the Micro$oft Outlock-trained style of top-posting, including tail-quoting all sorts irrelevant and repeated trailers etc, after years of your (almost too- :) concise postings. well, sorry, but i don't use M$ Outlock That's more like it! :) I don't either, but I will provide a different data point: Blind listers, myself included, must generally read through posts sequentially, as it is usually trickier to skip reliably through quotes to the new material when using synthesized speech to read an email. We therefore favor top posting as a rule, though some of us try to adhere to a particular list's preferences. :-) For my part, I got way tired of sifting through masses of quotes and requotes and finally threw a little Perl script in as a Mutt display filter: Anyone who uses to quote lines is now my friend because my filter removes those, and I only see them on demand by opening the body of the message from Mutt's attachment list. Those who use other quoting techniques still cause me some anguish. :) So in summary, I hope people quote consistently, and I'll post at whichever end seems most popular per list. At least when I remember to do so... -- Doug Lee d...@dlee.orghttp://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group doug@ssbbartgroup.com http://www.ssbbartgroup.com When your best-laid plans have turned to dust, vacuum! - Whoopi Goldberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Issue With 7.0-Rel - 7.1-Rel Update
Hi folks, I am updating an AMD-based machine from v7.0-RELEASE to v7.1-RELEASE. Here's what I get: BEGIN: ares-root# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/ubin src/usbin world/base world/dict world/doc world/games world/info world/manpages world/proflibs The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: src/cddl src/compat src/rescue src/tools world/catpages Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. Fetching files from 7.0-RELEASE for merging... done. Preparing to download files... done. Fetching 14771 patches.[snip snip snip]... done. Applying patches... done. Fetching 21632 files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file 21ca797afb693c5ee108f0c9a617760501cb749b9592603dc16e089acf2be70f has incorrect hash. ares-root# END Weird. But hey, I'm an optimist (and it was 2:00 a.m.), so I figured WTF, I'll try it again BEGIN: ares-root# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/ubin src/usbin world/base world/dict world/doc world/games world/info world/manpages world/proflibs The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: src/cddl src/compat src/rescue src/tools world/catpages Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. Fetching files from 7.0-RELEASE for merging... done. Preparing to download files... done. Fetching 10796 patches.102030. done. Applying patches... done. Fetching 18821 files... done. Attempting to automatically merge changes in files... done. The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/amd.map Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts manually... END Okay, I reach that point and press Enter, and I am presented with a diff-style file in vi (which is fine; I'm a vi user) that clearly highlights the differences between the current file and v7.1-R file. I'm good to go with the v7.1-R version, so I edit out the 'current' section, remove the 'diff' markers, ZZ, and that file is done. The updater then presents me with another file whose changes could not be merged automatically. So I go through the identical process. Wash, rinse, repeat, FOR [more than] FORTY MINUTES' worth of files. Each time, I kept thinking, Okay, this has to be the last one.., but it wasn't. Even after 40 minutes, the process was not completed -- I just threw in the towel. For all I know, this process could have continued for all 21632 files -- version 11.5-RELEASE could have been out by the time I finished that process. So, first of all, what did I do wrong? Second, when I start the upgrade over again, what should I do differently? And, if all else fails: In each case of editing the files, the v7.1 version was fine. Is there any way to tell it, I have good backups, and want to live dangerously, so Just Do It, and don't ask me if I want to edit anything...? Muchas gracias __ Vince Sabio vi...@vjs.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
flashplugin9?
Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it. graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube. Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. gary, my son just got it all to work according to the directions in the handbook (section 6.2.3): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html using firefox3 and www/linux-flashplugin9 on fbsd7.1 (note they say you need www/linux-flashplugin7 if you are using an older version of fbsd ... which would explain why i haven't been able to get it to work since i installed 9 on 7.0 ... not that i want to use flash in the first place since there is a great benefit to telling all the irritating people i can't use flash which is that you don't have to watch all the amazing videos they just discovered on the web that they want to share with you as though they think you don't have better things to do with your life than to watch the nonsense they think is wonderful ... therefore, noflash = less bothersome existence). -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your installation step by step: http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl Cheers herbs On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert.raim...@gmx.net *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. for youtube - use youtube-dl from ports. simply cutpaste URL and download file to disk, then play. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Gentoo userland and emerge tools are easier and elegant though not certainly superior to FreeBSD make mechanism. This is based on my personal experience as i heavily use Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD on older hardware. And offcourse, i can easily emerge pine 4.64 on Gentoo but there is no way i can do it on FreeBSD. You can always check out `ports/mail/pine4' from a date before its removal from the ports/ tree and build it on FreeBSD too. If you need help with maintaining a local copy of the relevant ports (`mail/pine4', `mail/pine4-ssl', and `editors/pico') let me know and I'll write a short mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building them as local ports. The source for these ports is no longer maintained, and they may pose a security risk if you use them on multi-user machines --- especially if untrusted users have local shell access --- but if you want to shoot your foot, the Ports tree already provides gun ammo to do that :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: read two files simultaneously
That's true. Using bigger buffer will help, but it doesn't tell why reading large size file is slower than reading small size file. really slower? or just bigger difference with large files? On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I'm just guessing inode structure, the physical file location on HDD might be related to this. But, if I read only one file, the size doesn't matter. Reading file (10M, 100M, 700M) gives constantly about 70MB/s, and the weird thing happens when I read 2 files of big size. if you use O_DIRECT it's read from disk exactly as you specified, without readahead, so you do a lot of seeks. simply use bigger buffer like 1MB -- Junsuk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Accessing /dev/lpt0 in a Jail
Hi, I'm trying to setup CUPS (in a jail) using an old parallel port printer on my server machine. I used ezjail to create a jail and then installed CUPS. I've got it up and running, and I can access the administration website. However, as far as I can tell, the admin website doesn't seem to offer any options regarding the parallel port. Following some research, I believe I somehow needs to create a /dev/lpt0 entry, *in* the jail. Now, that entry exists on the jail's host system, but theres a limited list of entries in the jail's /dev directory. If I do a ls -al /dev (less quotes) in the jail, I get the following... [r...@pearl cups]# ls -al /dev total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 22 19:04 fd lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel14 Feb 22 19:04 log - ../var/run/log crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 16 Feb 22 19:22 null crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 122 Feb 22 19:28 ptyp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 8 Feb 22 19:04 random lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Feb 22 19:04 stderr - fd/2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Feb 22 19:04 stdin - fd/0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Feb 22 19:04 stdout - fd/1 crw--w 1 jazz tty 0, 123 Feb 22 19:28 ttyp0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 Feb 22 19:04 urandom - random crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 17 Feb 22 19:04 zero Does anyone know how I go about providing the jail with a link to lpt0? Thanks, Jazz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 02:07:08PM -0800, prad wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. gary, my son just got it all to work according to the directions in the handbook (section 6.2.3): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html using firefox3 and www/linux-flashplugin9 on fbsd7.1 (note they say you need www/linux-flashplugin7 if you are using an older version of fbsd ... which would explain why i haven't been able to get it to work since i installed 9 on 7.0 hmm. well, after my kernerl wipeout i rebuilt EVERYTHING and now have 7.1. (up from 7.0-pre) ... ... not that i want to use flash in the first place since there is a great benefit to telling all the irritating people i can't use flash which is that you don't have to watch all the amazing videos they just discovered on the web that they want to share with you as though they think you don't have better things to do with your life than to watch the nonsense they think is wonderful ... therefore, noflash = less bothersome existence). oh, i hear you. many of the site i login to use flash [or ask you to d/load+install it ] for commercials. something i despise, but that's another matter. youtube is just an example. i want video mostly to stream the pbs videos that i miss because i'm often helping my daughter with her homework:-) ... and there are other streams too. i just installed miro here. it fails. don't know why. seems like if not flash, no video. (*sigh*) be nice if things-java were the easiest/best way, but evidently now. gary gary -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:28:10 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i want video mostly to stream the pbs videos that i miss because i'm often helping my daughter with her homework:-) there is admittedly some really good stuff out there. for instance, my son and i occasionally watch classical pianists and violinist that are available on youtube. he uses flash, but what i do is use downloadhelper with firefox and then convert the file with ffmpeg to .avi and then watch. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it. Okay; i wasn't clear on that... . graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube. Maybe I need up portupgrade. I use mostly konqueror for the web; things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes. Should I pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers? Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:22:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your installation step by step: http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl Cheers herbs thanks for your fbsd how-to! looks great, and i will try it if nothing else works. i have ff3 (i think that is a Linux-firefox3 port [??] and the freebsd2, and am now downloading the firefox-devel port. in my opinion, too many way to go and too little data on how to get everything working. gary On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert.raim...@gmx.net *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: When is there going to be a USB install and run iso iamge for FreeBSD?
Formula 1 wrote: Is there going to be a possibility for FreeBSD, in the future or now, that there will be a release of it that allows for install and running of the operating system off of a USB memory stick? What is your objective? ie. What will this box be designed to do once it is booted from USB stick? I boot from USB stick with numerous machines, but AFAICT, there is no one single 'install method' to suit all needs. Determine what the system will do, and then post back to the list. Machines inside of my network that boot from USB: - /boot on USB with GELI encrypted system and data on hard disk, in which the USB key can be removed after boot (the USB contains the encryption key) - /boot on USB with large scale ZFS, so I don't have to shave off a UFS piece from one of the drives - routers that run RO from USB with /var /tmp in memory devices so no hard disks need to be present - devices that boot and 'copy' the OS into a memory drive prior to further loading, so no hard drive is required, and the USB stick can be removed after the boot process Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Accessing /dev/lpt0 in a Jail
Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup CUPS (in a jail) using an old parallel port printer on my server machine. I used ezjail to create a jail and then installed CUPS. I've got it up and running, and I can access the administration website. However, as far as I can tell, the admin website doesn't seem to offer any options regarding the parallel port. Following some research, I believe I somehow needs to create a /dev/lpt0 entry, *in* the jail. Now, that entry exists on the jail's host system, but theres a limited list of entries in the jail's /dev directory. If I do a ls -al /dev (less quotes) in the jail, I get the following... [r...@pearl cups]# ls -al /dev total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 22 19:04 fd lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel14 Feb 22 19:04 log - ../var/run/log crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 16 Feb 22 19:22 null crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 122 Feb 22 19:28 ptyp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 8 Feb 22 19:04 random lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Feb 22 19:04 stderr - fd/2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Feb 22 19:04 stdin - fd/0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Feb 22 19:04 stdout - fd/1 crw--w 1 jazz tty 0, 123 Feb 22 19:28 ttyp0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 Feb 22 19:04 urandom - random crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel0, 17 Feb 22 19:04 zero Does anyone know how I go about providing the jail with a link to lpt0? Thanks, Jazz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I've never used ezjail, as I usually setup jails myself. With that said, access to dev entries within jail are/can be controlled by devfs rules. The configuration for your rules is administrator dependant. More specifically, you should find a line in your rc.conf that looks similar to the following: jail_devfs_ruleset=devfsrules_jail This defines the ruleset used for your jails. Knowing this, you can now edit your rules file (/etc/devfs.rules) and add appropriate entries for your printer and associated devices. ~Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 02:52:34PM -0500, Doug Lee wrote: I don't either, but I will provide a different data point: Blind listers, myself included, must generally read through posts sequentially, as it is usually trickier to skip reliably through quotes to the new material when using synthesized speech to read an email. We therefore favor top posting as a rule, though some of us try to adhere to a particular list's preferences. :-) This is why one should trim quotes -- so there's just enough there to provide the needed context, rather than a lengthy record of an entire conversation. It may be surprising to you, but those of us who can see also sometimes find it annoying to have six thousand words of repetitive quotes of material that is currently irrelevant stacked up at either the top *or* the bottom of the email. For my part, I got way tired of sifting through masses of quotes and requotes and finally threw a little Perl script in as a Mutt display filter: Anyone who uses to quote lines is now my friend because my filter removes those, and I only see them on demand by opening the body of the message from Mutt's attachment list. Those who use other quoting techniques still cause me some anguish. :) That's a pretty good idea. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Scott McNealy: Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system. I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too. pgpDnaT2Leb6G.pgp Description: PGP signature
hp TC4200 tablet
my son has a hp TC4200 tablet which worked very well with ubuntu. he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. which is supposed to work, but it hangs the entire system and nothing is being written about it in /var/log/Xorg.0.log the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/wacom script writes the device into /etc/X11/xorg.conf as /dev/ttyd0, but we don't know if this means that the os picks up the tablet or not. is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being recognized? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problem with BASH and [ ! -t 0 ] test.
In a previous message, ges...@yahoo.com wrote: G I am using this snippet of code in a bash script that is run via CRON. G G # See if we are running via CRON G if [ ! -t 0 ] ... G G It runs fine from the console; however, when run via CRON, it outputs Tput: G No terminal type specified and no TERM environmental variable. On FreeBSD, I set an environment variable in the crontab file so I can check if something's being run via cron. This has the advantage of not depending on any scripting language. A sample crontab's below the signature. You can also set TERM to something harmless (say, vt100) but if something else is really expecting interactive behavior, that might come back to haunt you. The safest bet is to find out what's expecting TERM to be set and either wrap it... case $CRON in ) interactive code here ;; yes) ;; esac ...or get rid of it. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Man who live in glass house, dress in basement. --Bryan Albright --- # Everything on a line is separated by blanks or tabs. # #+--- Minute (0-59) #| +--- Hour (0-23) #| | +- Day(1-31) #| | | +- Month (1-12) #| | | | +- Day of week (0-6, 0=Sunday) #| | | | |+ Command to be run #| | | | || #v v v v vv # # Shell variables CRON=yes # # Keep an eye on disk space. 4* * * */usr/local/cron/checkdrives # Store browser history. 59 23 * * *$HOME/cron/mozhist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
WPA-EAP (ath driver): trouble maintaining connection
(Note: I posted this to the freebsd-net@ mailing list about a week ago
but never received a response. I was hoping someone on this list could
offer some suggestions.)
Hello,
I have been having trouble maintaining a wireless connection at my
university, which uses the WPA-EAP protocol. I have played with my
wpa_supplicant.conf file, but haven't found anything that works. I
don't seems to have any trouble at home using a Linksys AP and
WPA-PSK. I was hoping someone here could point me in the right
direction---I am not very familiar with WPA and wireless
networking. Error messages and other relevant information below. (You
will notice that I lose connection every 5-10 minutes.)
Thanks in advance.
$ uname -a
FreeBSD sofie.skepsi.net 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #3: Sun Feb 1
13:00:56 EST 2009 r...@sofie.skepsi.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SOFIE
amd64
$ cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid=osuwireless
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
eap=PEAP
identity=xxx
password=xxx
phase1=peaplabel=0
phase2=auth-MSCHAPV2
priority=1
}
$ cat /etc/dhclient.conf
# ath0
interface ath0 {
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
}
$ cat /var/log/messages
snip
Feb 14 15:50:09 sofie kernel: ath0: link state changed to DOWN
Feb 14 15:50:09 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Trying to associate with
00:0b:86:58:04:00 (SSID='osuwireless' freq=2437 MHz)
Feb 14 15:50:09 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED -
Disconnect event - remove keys
Feb 14 15:50:19 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Authentication with
00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
Feb 14 15:50:27 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Trying to associate with
00:0b:86:58:02:80 (SSID='osuwireless' freq=2437 MHz)
Feb 14 15:50:27 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Association request to the
driver failed
Feb 14 15:50:32 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Authentication with
00:0b:86:58:02:80 timed out.
Feb 14 15:50:39 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Trying to associate with
00:0b:86:5d:3a:40 (SSID='osuwireless' freq=2412 MHz)
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie kernel: ath0: link state changed to UP
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Associated with
00:0b:86:5d:3a:40
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-STARTED EAP
authentication started
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-METHOD EAP
vendor 0 method 25 (PEAP) selected
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: OpenSSL:
tls_connection_handshake - Failed to read possible Application Data
error::lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: EAP-MSCHAPV2:
Authentication succeeded
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: EAP-TLV: TLV Result -
Success - EAP-TLV/Phase2 Completed
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-SUCCESS EAP
authentication completed successfully
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: WPA: Key negotiation
completed with 00:0b:86:5d:3a:40 [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED -
Connection to 00:0b:86:5d:3a:40 completed (reauth) [id=1 id_str=]
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie dhclient: New IP Address (ath0): 128.146.115.38
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie dhclient: New Subnet Mask (ath0): 255.255.255.0
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie dhclient: New Broadcast Address (ath0):
128.146.115.255
Feb 14 15:50:40 sofie dhclient: New Routers (ath0): 128.146.115.1
Feb 14 15:55:48 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Trying to associate with
00:0b:86:58:03:e0 (SSID='osuwireless' freq=2412 MHz)
Feb 14 15:55:48 sofie kernel: ath0: link state changed to DOWN
Feb 14 15:55:48 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED -
Disconnect event - remove keys
Feb 14 15:55:58 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Authentication with
00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
Feb 14 15:56:06 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Trying to associate with
00:0b:86:58:04:00 (SSID='osuwireless' freq=2437 MHz)
Feb 14 15:56:16 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Authentication with
00:0b:86:58:04:00 timed out.
Feb 14 15:56:23 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Trying to associate with
00:0b:86:58:02:80 (SSID='osuwireless' freq=2437 MHz)
Feb 14 15:56:23 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Association request to the
driver failed
Feb 14 15:56:28 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Authentication with
00:0b:86:58:02:80 timed out.
Feb 14 15:56:36 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Trying to associate with
00:0b:86:5d:02:c0 (SSID='osuwireless' freq=2437 MHz)
Feb 14 15:56:36 sofie kernel: ath0: link state changed to UP
Feb 14 15:56:36 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: Associated with
00:0b:86:5d:02:c0
Feb 14 15:56:36 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: CTRL-EVENT-EAP-METHOD EAP
vendor 0 method 25 (PEAP) selected
Feb 14 15:56:36 sofie wpa_supplicant[403]: OpenSSL:
tls_connection_handshake - Failed to read possible Application Data
error::lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
Feb 14 15:56:43 sofie kernel:
Re: read two files simultaneously
Both of them. Reading two 100M files in interleaved way with 16K buffer, 62MB/s Reading two 700M files in interleaved way with 16K buffer, 9MB/s Reading two 100M files in interleaved way with 1M buffer, 55MB/s get worse with large buffer somehow Reading two 700M files in interleaved way with 1M buffer, 34MB/s get better with large buffer, but still difference, 55 vs 34 I cannot find the reason for this. gstat(8) also shows low rates when reading large files in interleaved way but not for small files. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: That's true. Using bigger buffer will help, but it doesn't tell why reading large size file is slower than reading small size file. really slower? or just bigger difference with large files? On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I'm just guessing inode structure, the physical file location on HDD might be related to this. But, if I read only one file, the size doesn't matter. Reading file (10M, 100M, 700M) gives constantly about 70MB/s, and the weird thing happens when I read 2 files of big size. if you use O_DIRECT it's read from disk exactly as you specified, without readahead, so you do a lot of seeks. simply use bigger buffer like 1MB -- Junsuk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: off topic: reporting attempts to access computers
Andrew Gould wrote: Yes, it's probably time to move to certificates. Thanks for the suggestion. If you realize this, then you also want to look at devising an allow-allow-deny_by_default approach for other critical protocols that you can't employ certificates for... Instead of blocking huge netblocks with your firewall (possibly causing a denial of service on legitimate hosts), it's easier and more resource friendly to create access rules that deny by default in ANY case. (Those who provide transit or hosting services can obviously ignore this). Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 05:54:37PM +0800, GrimJow Espada wrote: what will happen to FreeBSD if Gentoo/BSD is already out, does it affect freebsd popularity? i dont like gentoo or gentoo/bsd I suppose, if the Gentoo/BSD project brings the stability of Gentoo to the name BSD, we might expect FreeBSD's reputation to be unfairly tarnished by association. On the other hand, just as Firefox has proven to be sort of a gateway drug for people on MS Windows who are encouraged to try something new (and open source) for an OS as well, I suppose Gentoo/BSD might bring more intelligent people who have something valuable to contribute to the world of FreeBSD, with only a brief stop in the land of Gentoo/BSD. I guess time will tell. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Paul Graham: Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts. pgp1I8habii0e.pgp Description: PGP signature
What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system
Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such file or directory A little history for what's going on; the server was not responding at all so I took it home to diagnose (it was at a friends house, where it's hosted). I turned it on and it booted up ok for me, which was a little odd because he told me that it wasn't doing anything. So, I began looking the system over. Within 10 minutes the system became slow and was rather unresponsive to things. For example, saves while running vim took 20 seconds or so. Within a few minutes the kernel panicked and I had to reboot. Before the panic I noticed that there were some background file system checks going. So, since it was rebooting anyway I went into single user mode and performed fsck on all of the partitions (except the root, that was marked as clean). There were many problems fixed especially on the /usr partition. I'm betting that this missing file, gtype-desc.h, happens to have been one of the many problems fixed. At any rate, after running the file system checks I rebooted normally and everything appears to be fine. I then updated the system and kernel source code and that's when I found this problem. The kernel built ok and I've had the system running for up to 2 hours since fixing the file systems without incident. It's apparently corrupted file systems rather than hardware. Never the less, I will be turning up what smartd is monitoring because I do have it running and received no e-mail about hard drive problems. So, basically, the question for everyone here is, what's the simplest way to get a fresh source code tree so that I can build the world applications? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:24:06PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: you may try running it in wine, but anyway - if you wish to use windows based software, using windows is a best choice. That is not always true, as I've pointed out in response to one of your use Windows, not FreeBSD emails before. For example, I have seen significantly better framerates for World of Warcraft using Wine than using MS Windows XP, on the same machine. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Power corrupts. The command line corrupts absolutely. pgpMKMTzafoIF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: questions
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:24:06PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: you may try running it in wine, but anyway - if you wish to use windows based software, using windows is a best choice. That is not always true, as I've pointed out in response to one of your use Windows, not FreeBSD emails before. For example, I have seen significantly better framerates for World of Warcraft using Wine than using MS Windows XP, on the same machine. Speaking of World of Warcraftcan ya install of CD's yet? I know you can copy a already installed working copy...but it'd be nice of the CD eject was actually working. ~Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.1: iwi problem with intel 2200 pro wireless card
Moving the license agreement phrase did not change the driver/firmware behavior. I changed the firmware timeout setting (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2006-July/008849.html), and this seemed to help somewhat. Now I sometimes pick up a wireless network after rebooting, but the connection is not stable; moreover, I cannot change networks. I've come to the same conclusion, that fixing a broken iwi driver is more trouble than purchasing a cheap wireless card. This machine has undergone a few warranty repairs (including a motherboard replacement). I wonder if that complicates the driver issue. I'm just getting started with FreeBSD; therefore, your replies were especially helpful: Thanks for responding! Best Wishes, John On Friday 20 February 2009 12:32:51 pm Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Erik Johnson wrote: I noticed on your loader.conf that you have the license at the end of WiFi Config. I placed mine at the beginning. as in the example below. Have you tried loading that first? I'm not sure if it makes a difference but might be worth a try. I'm interested in hearing back and keeping in contact since we share similar config for older hardware. --- legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 if_iwi_load=YES wlan_load=YES firmware_load=YES iwi_bss_load=YES iwi_ibss_load=YES iwi_monitor_load=YES The ordering in loader.conf does not matter. I abandoned iwi some time ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-February/003125.htm l You might want to read the whole thread. Disabling bgscan is mentioned there somewhere. IIRC, that is a good idea. Do you really need ibss and monitor? Have you tried not loading three different firmwares at the same time? Last time I used iwi, I did not have to load the firmware manually. Up to 6.1 that was a requirement, but from 6.2 on, iwi could do it automatically. (And it worked better that way, IIRC.) Since the manual page tells you to do so, the loading of the firmware must have changed. When manual loading was required on 6.1, loading multiple at the same time was not a good idea. I never got monitor to receive any packages on 7.0, even after manually loading the firmware. It did work on 6.2, though. ibss was never really reliable. Cheers, Jan Henrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
SCALE
I just wanted to say the FreeBSD booth at SCALE this year was great. There was a guy named Matt there, but I don't remember his last name. If you read this please message me directly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
You can always check out ... from a date before its removal from the ports/ tree ... If you need help with maintaining a local copy of the relevant ports ... let me know and I'll write a short mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building them as local ports. This sounds as if it would make a good Handbook section. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:24 PM, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular FreeBSD needs growth. Growth comes from new users ! The main driving force is to attract good developers who like technical challenges and who love to tinker. How is this different from Linux kernel ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular FreeBSD needs growth. I think that one of FBSD's guiding principles is *correctness* ... or, at least, that's one of the higher values of the community. Higher value ? sounds to me like an overdraft limit ! It still doesn't explain, (as suggested by Wojciech) why the new user must keep buying new network interface cards just to make FreeBSD run (when most of those cards will work fine with Linux). By way of evidence, I present the following terms, used frequently in correspondence on these lists: It Just Works(tm) The Right Way(tm) canonical P.O.L.A. And be sure and check today's .sig ;-) Kevin Kinsey -- Grandpa used to say --- What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right. You're right, Grandpa used to run the guzzler Buick which IS neither popular nor right ! -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
Hi Wojciech: You haven't still explained, (as suggested by your kindself ) why the new user must keep buying new network interface cards just to make FreeBSD run (when most of those cards will work fine with Linux). -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
OT: The official stool for FreeBSD users?
http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/07/i-dont-wanna-grow-up-im-a-big-kid-now/ I'd describe it, but I don't want to spoil the surprise. Enjoy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Intel video driver appears to be broken
I have an old Gateway Intel PIII box with all the video, ethernet, and sound running Intel drivers. The video chip according to dmesg is Intel 82810-DC100 GMCH. Dmesg shows the agp0 driver like this: agp0: Intel 82810-DC100 (i810-DC100 GMCH) SVGA controller on vgapci0 X -configure select the intel driver. But, when I look at the Xorg. 0.log output, I see this: Error in I810WaitLpRing(), now is 2371005, start is 2369004 pgetbl_ctl: 0x12a0001 pgetbl_err: 0x0 ipeir: 0 iphdr: 80f00a00 LP ring tail: 2688 head: 19c len: f001 start 37 eir: 0 esr: 1 emr: 3d instdone: ff7a instpm: 0 memmode: 4 instps: 810 hwstam: 9ac7 ier: 0 imr: 9ac7 iir: 0 space: 56076 wanted 65528 fatal server error: lockup I've tried changing the driver to i810, vesa, and vga, but none of them work. Suggestions please. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
You haven't still explained, (as suggested by your kindself ) why the new user must keep buying new network interface cards just to make FreeBSD run (when most of those cards will work fine with Linux). because his existing is not supported by FreeBSD - because it's manufacturer don't want it. That's simple. FreeBSD runs very well on old computer you can buy for 50$ and are usually well supported - good for a new user. He then will buy new powerful machine with right hardware if he/she really need it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: questions
you may try running it in wine, but anyway - if you wish to use windows based software, using windows is a best choice. That is not always true, as I've pointed out in response to one of your use Windows, not FreeBSD emails before. For example, I have seen significantly better framerates for World of Warcraft using Wine than using MS Windows XP, on the same machine. but not all winsoftware runs under wine. surprisingly - most do. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building them as local ports. The source for these ports is no longer maintained, and they may pose a security risk if you use them on multi-user machines --- especially if untrusted users have local shell access --- but if you want to shoot your foot, the Ports tree already provides gun ammo to do that :-) alpine works fine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
make config options find / used same as binary package
Hiya Recently someone asked about the showing of the config options from the ports. My questions is, how do we see or find what were the options used when installed from binary (pkg_add -r binaryPackage). Kind Regards Brent Clark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
