Re: need help; cacti fails to build on 7.2-R, p4....
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:26:42AM +0530, Vaibhav Gavane wrote: Upgrade x11/libxcb YEs, exactly right. (ALong with portupgrade and other build/fix tools.) thanks much, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a 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: pf nuttyness
2009/11/25 Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk krad wrote: 2009/11/24 Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com I'm at the end of my rope here with PF. I have a ruleset loaded, that is long and complicated...but I've shortened to to a pass all rule. The box has 4 interfaces, one for pfsync, one for me to connect to it, and two bridged interfaces. The only traffic on the bridged interfaces is STP and IP multicast traffic from my EIGRP routers. When I run pfctl -s rules -v, the EIGRP multicast traffic never hits any rules...yet it's allowed. I'm on FreeBSD 7.1. Has anyone else come across this before? I'm ready to throw out FreeBSD 7.1 and try OpenBSD for pf use...which would be a shame since I use FreeBSD for all my other servers, and having 2 OpenBSD boxes would just be... weird... --Brian Have you read the if_bridge(4) manpage? I'd reccommend starting at the heading PACKET FILTERING and checking you have the correct sysctl settings. pf certainly can filter bridge interfaces according to the manpage. That said I've never tried it. Vince -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me. -- Bill Murray, Ghostbusters ___ 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 pf works at layer3 (ip) bridging works at layer 2 (ethernet/datalink) therefore the traffic probably never get to the upper layer of the ip stack where pf works. You can do l2 filtering with ipfw if you enable the sysctl variable net.link.bridge.ipfw=1. However im not sure if you can do it with pf on freebsd. I had a quick scout through the man pages and cant see anything. However im fairly sure you can to l2 stuff with pf in openbsd. As your traffic is multicast you could always configure you bsd box as a multicast router rather than bridging the traffic. pf should see the traffic then as your working at l3 and above ___ 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 think this is the one you want echo net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge=1 /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/rc.d/sysctl restart ___ 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: ZFS pools gone?
2009/11/25 cali clarke xorquew...@googlemail.com Thanks for the replies, all. An import and upgrade was all that was needed. ___ 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 yep if you have no zpool.cache file under /boot/zfs/ then no pools will be imported ___ 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: 8.0 release serial mouse not working
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:57:32 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: From the 8.0 release notes is the following http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html [amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN. tested these rc.conf statements moused_port=/dev/cuau0 moused_type=intellimouse moused_enable=YES serial mouse works again Can confirm. This means sysinstall mouse config needs to be changed to reflect the new dev names. That's correct. The handbook sec. 2.10.10 and fig. 2-44 would need an update, too. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-post.html submitted PR http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140887 ___ 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
mod_security apache port
Hello! When i use the ports to install mod_security on a fresh installed 8.0 system, it is installing apache 2.0.63_3. Are there any known problems why 2.2 isn't used together with mod_security? Thx Alex ___ 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: mysql60-server??
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:59:39 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org replied: I took a class in the Ingres db suite from one of the guys who wrote it. Think that Postgress is a follow-on. It strikes me as almost a *certainty* that any commerical project could be done better by the open-source community. ---If it's got your *NAME* on it, you're going to be certain it's superior, whereas if you're coding just for a paycheck, sure, you'll do a good job. But not as outstanding as an open-source suite. The determining factor is suitability to task. Once that is determined, then cost to implement comes into play. BTW, I totally disagree with your statement regarding commercial product' vs open source and quality. If that were really true then Open Office would be equal to or superior to MS Office. In actuality, it is at best equal to Office 97, and that is even stretching the point. Commercial software is written with the end-user in mind. Commercial software that does not sell will not be around very long. On the other hand, open-source software tends to be written with the developer as the focal point with the hope that others will share their point of view. Neither philosophy is inherently superior. In the final determination the end user has to determine which meets their suitability to task requirements; whether that be cost, suitability or both. BTW, I am running mysql-server-6.0.11 on one of my PCs. It handles tables for my mail system and several other sundries. It is only under a light load; however, I have never had a single problem with it. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser. Dave Thomas, Strange Brew ___ 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: mysql60-server??
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:41:06 -0500, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: BTW, I totally disagree with your statement regarding commercial product' vs open source and quality. I beg to differ. Bad software exists everywhere - in open source world as well as in the commercial sector. If that were really true then Open Office would be equal to or superior to MS Office. In actuality, it is at best equal to Office 97, and that is even stretching the point. I've worked for a long time in a cross-platform (Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows) environment where OpenOffice has been used successfully. A MICROS~1 product couldn't work that good when it's about interoperability. There are many things modern MICROS~1 office products lag behind open software, be it interface design, conforming to standards, useful (!) functionality or operation speed. On the other hand, I admit that there are often problems in quality with open source programs, but not as you may think: I'm talking about the lack of proper documentation (try man opera and man firefox for a comparison) and insufficient attention paid to internationalisation. KDE's german language version is a good example. Sometimes, I think it's just quick quick, add more features, quick quick, and release the whole thing instead of having a result that is acceptable in every way it claims to serve. (Sidenote: I'm running all my programs in their native language, which is english, with OpenOffice being the only exception, simply because using the german variants is so unpleasant.) Commercial software is written with the end-user in mind. Haha! Very funny. :-) You meant to say, and I may correct your statement: Commercial software is written with the end-user's MONEY in mind. In order to make him buy incompatible, slow and outdated software, aggressive advertisement is used. This advertisement has taken the place of good coding, or: The worse your program is, the more money you put in advertising it's greatness. This is the way software is sold. Free software, on the other hand, isn't sold per se. It is used, and so it is created with the end-user in mind, because he doesn't give money anyway. That's quite generic, I know, but it can be summarized that way without contradicting to reality. Commercial software that does not sell will not be around very long. That's true, and a logical implication of what I said just before. On the other hand, open-source software tends to be written with the developer as the focal point with the hope that others will share their point of view. Maybe that has been the case, but it's not anymore. Maybe you're true in regards of operating systems, their interfaces and APIs, but that's logical again, because the end-user isn't interested in how to program for a certain OS, but the application developers who write the software for the end-users are - and need to be. The change of this attitude isn't new. Neither philosophy is inherently superior. Yes, I agree. In the final determination the end user has to determine which meets their suitability to task requirements; whether that be cost, suitability or both. That's the problem: The tasks are adjusted to fit the software currently in use (or promised to to come out soon). Educated judgement, sadly, isn't one of the strengths of the average PC user. PC on, brain off is a setting you find more often than you'd like to. In the past, I have mostly used free software, but some commercial products, too, e. g. Solaris and IRIX (and HP-UX for some special cases), and they served well in the places they were intended to use. I would not claim that free software serves better than commercial software in general, because this often depends on supporting various hardware, and we all know that the hardware vendors still are focused on a monopoly of Windows and don't care for other operating systems because they don't exist. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: mod_security apache port
2009/11/26 Alex Huth a.h...@tmr.net Hello! When i use the ports to install mod_security on a fresh installed 8.0 system, it is installing apache 2.0.63_3. Are there any known problems why 2.2 isn't used together with mod_security? Thx Alex ___ 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 have you csup your ports? ___ 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: mod_security apache port
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:05:44PM +0100, Alex Huth wrote: Hello! When i use the ports to install mod_security on a fresh installed 8.0 system, it is installing apache 2.0.63_3. Are there any known problems why 2.2 isn't used together with mod_security? Thx I think that 2.0 is just the default. To build 2.2 instead put: APACHE_VERSION=22 in /etc/make.conf or install 2.2 first and then mod_security. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ 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-update with MYKERNEL kernel configuration
Hi all! I've got a problem while upgrading FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 - FreeBSD 8.0-RELESE with freebsd-update(8). First of all I made a copy of the most configuration files. Then I made: # freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade All went good, except the message, that because of MYKERNEL kernel configuration I should upgrade my kernel before freebsd-upgrade install. Then I was looking for the way of kernel upgrade, but found nothing. How could I build 8.0 kernel in FreeBSD 7.2? Of course, there were 7.2 sources in /usr/src and I didn't find any sources in /var/db/freebsd-update/. It's the first my question. Thus I decided to upgrade all except the kernel and then rebuild the kernel (that worked good while upgrading 7.1 - 7.2). I made as mentioned in hanbook: # freebsd-upgrade install # shutdown -r now # freebsd-upgrade install There were many errors bad sistem call on th last command. After all I discovered that much files from / were lost (I didn't find any grep, bzcat and so on). On boot kernel can't find fsck_ufs, so automatic mounting fails. If mounted by hand, there is no way to login because of some init error. Single user mode works. freebsd-update roolback can't find any backup. Shell scripts can't find test (it really doesn't exists in /bin/[ ) and fails. How can I restore the system? I've FreeBSD 7.1 CD. Thank's in advance for your help. ___ 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-update with MYKERNEL kernel configuration
On Thursday 26 November 2009 14:32:01 S4mmael wrote: Hi all! I've got a problem while upgrading FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 - FreeBSD 8.0-RELESE with freebsd-update(8). First of all I made a copy of the most configuration files. Then I made: # freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade All went good, except the message, that because of MYKERNEL kernel configuration I should upgrade my kernel before freebsd-upgrade install. That message should probably be more strongly worded. It is absolutely *imperative* that the custom kernel is upgraded before continuing with freebsd-upgrade install. For more information about how to upgrade to freebsd 8 see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-upgrading- freebsdupdate.html Then I was looking for the way of kernel upgrade, but found nothing. How could I build 8.0 kernel in FreeBSD 7.2? Of course, there were 7.2 sources in /usr/src and I didn't find any sources in /var/db/freebsd-update/. It's the first my question. Use csup(1) to upgrade the sources to RELENG_8_0. Thus I decided to upgrade all except the kernel and then rebuild the kernel (that worked good while upgrading 7.1 - 7.2). As you found out, you should never do that. Always make sure the kernel is the same or newer as world (userland) especially when upgrading to a new major version. I made as mentioned in hanbook: # freebsd-upgrade install # shutdown -r now # freebsd-upgrade install At this point most userland utilities (because they all use libc.so) depend on features only available in the 8.0 kernel, while the installed kernel is still at 7.1. Essentially the system is bricked. There were many errors bad sistem call on th last command. After all I discovered that much files from / were lost (I didn't find any grep, bzcat and so on). On boot kernel can't find fsck_ufs, so automatic mounting fails. If mounted by hand, there is no way to login because of some init error. Single user mode works. freebsd-update roolback can't find any backup. Shell scripts can't find test (it really doesn't exists in /bin/[ ) and fails. How can I restore the system? I've FreeBSD 7.1 CD. You can try reinstalling 7.1 taking care not to repartition the HDD. If all went well the system runs a GENERIC kernel, which is upgradeable by freebsd- upgrade. You can then retry the upgrade process. This process (the reinstall from cdrom) will revert any changes to /etc, so you will need to restore that from backup. Perhaps others know a better/easier way. Thank's in advance for your help. Good luck! -- Pieter de Goeje ___ 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: Spammer data mining and www.freebsd.org
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: I just got a spam from some numbnuts spammer who said (in the spam), and I quote: Why would anyone still pay recruitment agency fees? Wouldn't you prefer to RECRUIT AS MANY PEOPLE/strong per campaign for $499? Your contact details were on 'http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributors/article.html#STAFF-COMMITTERS' and we thought you should know that, during November, you can RECRUIT AS MANY PEOPLE per campaign... Jeezze Louise! In the first place, I didn't even know that my name or e-mail address were listed on that page, and I was really rather surprised to find that they were. Why the bleep am _I_ on there? Yea, I've hacked free software from time to time in my career... more than just a little... but I really can't recall having ever ``contributed'' to FreeBSD in any significant or meaningful way. I mean I'm honored to be listed in with such illustrious company, but in all modesty, I don't deserve to be. But anyway, regardless of that, I have to ask: (1) Why the bleep are so many e-mail addresses listed on that page in plain text, and without any sort of spammer harvesting protection whatsoever? And (2) who should I gripe to about this sorry state of affairs? webmaster(at)freebsd.org? I don't expect the email addresses to be protected by captchas or anything that convoluted, but the webmaster certainly could have at least replaced `@' with `(at)' or some such thing. You do realize that this email is being archived on any number of online archives that the FreeBSD project has no control over, and that any of them may list your email address unobfuscated. While I can't speak for the project, I feel that obfuscating email addresses is a weak and obsolete protection from harvesting. It's trivial to make a screen-scraper translate at to @, and even if the method of obfuscating is more clever than that, if it's consistent and a larger number of email addresses are available after breaking it, well ... you get the idea. Far better to complain to the ISP where the email originated. That's someone who can actually do something about the problem. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ 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
ifconfig - GUI interface available?
Hi Daemons, I use my laptop in different wifi networks. To choose the ssid, passwords and such necessities I have to use the all-knowing and confusing 'ifconfig'. Question: Is there a GUI replacement for ifconfig? Where I can scan, choose the ssid and do other basic things? I havent found anything in the ports collection.. Thanks herb langhans -- sprachtraining langhans herbert langhans, warschau http://www.langhans.com.pl herbert dot raimund at gmx dot net +0048 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: ifconfig - GUI interface available?
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:09:26 +0100 herbert langhans herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Daemons, I use my laptop in different wifi networks. To choose the ssid, passwords and such necessities I have to use the all-knowing and confusing 'ifconfig'. Question: Is there a GUI replacement for ifconfig? Where I can scan, choose the ssid and do other basic things? I havent found anything in the ports collection.. No idea, but what about using wpa_supplicant. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgp1wpMxmqhPh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Brett Glass wrote: Dead as in doesn't show in dmesg/pciconf Yep, that's correct. The only hint of it is the following message: pci3: network at device 0.0 (no driver attached) Hard to tell. Is it possible it's just disabled? I thought the wireless on/off switches were soft switches, but maybe not on that model. If you can get Linux to identify the exact model of card, along with the model of computer, that would be helpful. http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ 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: ifconfig - GUI interface available?
Hi Andreas, yes - I have studied the handbook, it was necessary to set all up. Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, there is a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe the password is already assigned) and you get the certain wifi net. I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong one. It would be great to point and click and get the connection.. Cheers herb langhans On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:14:23PM +0100, Andreas Rudisch wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:09:26 +0100 herbert langhans herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Daemons, I use my laptop in different wifi networks. To choose the ssid, passwords and such necessities I have to use the all-knowing and confusing 'ifconfig'. Question: Is there a GUI replacement for ifconfig? Where I can scan, choose the ssid and do other basic things? I havent found anything in the ports collection.. No idea, but what about using wpa_supplicant. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 -- sprachtraining langhans herbert langhans, warschau http://www.langhans.com.pl herbert dot raimund at gmx dot net +0048 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
cvs authentication
Should the CVS/SVN mirrors really require authentication? -- Running /usr/bin/csup -- Parsing supfile /etc/csup/sources Connecting to cvsup8.de.freebsd.org Connected to 212.118.165.142 Server software version: SNAP_16_1h Authentication required by the server and not supported by client *** Error code 1 1 error *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ 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: ifconfig - GUI interface available?
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100 herbert langhans herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, there is a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe the password is already assigned) and you get the certain wifi net. I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong one. It would be great to point and click and get the connection.. Hence the link and the keyword wpa_supplicant. Any way, here is another link: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.confsektion=5 Take a look at the example section. You can define multiple networks. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgp8MBHHZFHRg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:09:26PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, I use my laptop in different wifi networks. To choose the ssid, passwords and such necessities I have to use the all-knowing and confusing 'ifconfig'. Question: Is there a GUI replacement for ifconfig? Where I can scan, choose the ssid and do other basic things? I havent found anything in the ports collection.. There's no GUI for ifconfig that I know of, but there *is* a GUI for managing wi-fi networks in the ports: http://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/wifimgr/ See if it helps. -- Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz -- The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Robert Frost ___ 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: ifconfig - GUI interface available?
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:11:38 +0100 Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net replied: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100 herbert langhans herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, there is a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe the password is already assigned) and you get the certain wifi net. I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong one. It would be great to point and click and get the connection.. Hence the link and the keyword wpa_supplicant. Any way, here is another link: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.confsektion=5 Take a look at the example section. You can define multiple networks. I think it is pretty obvious that the OP is searching for a GUI to facilitate configuration of his device. I had actually thought about attempting to write one. At some future date, assuming I have the time and can assimilate all the info I need, I might attempt to do so. rant Personally, I have always felt that one of the major stumbling blocks to getting users to switch to a non-Windows based system is the degree of difficulty in configuring devices. The majority of users do not have the time or inclination to read through how-to documentation, assuming it even exists, gather scads of information, and then attempt, usually unsuccessful on the first attempt, to get a simple wireless device working when they can accomplish the same feat with little or no user intervention on a Windows machine. Even OSX greatly simplifies the installation process. Virtually every device that cannot be configured and activated by Windows comes with its own installation program. I really believe that it is fundamentally possible to accomplish the same feat in a non-Windows environment. Just my own 2¢. \rant -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | There are no emotional victims, only volunteers. ___ 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-update with MYKERNEL kernel configuration
Hi, I paste this link where Colin Percival explain who to use the tool freebsd-update with custom kernel. But I think that same thing as been written in the handbook. http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=30920postcount=9 --- En date de : Jeu 26.11.09, S4mmael s4mm...@gmail.com a écrit : De: S4mmael s4mm...@gmail.com Objet: freebsd-update with MYKERNEL kernel configuration À: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Jeudi 26 Novembre 2009, 13h32 Hi all! I've got a problem while upgrading FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 - FreeBSD 8.0-RELESE with freebsd-update(8). First of all I made a copy of the most configuration files. Then I made: # freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade All went good, except the message, that because of MYKERNEL kernel configuration I should upgrade my kernel before freebsd-upgrade install. Then I was looking for the way of kernel upgrade, but found nothing. How could I build 8.0 kernel in FreeBSD 7.2? Of course, there were 7.2 sources in /usr/src and I didn't find any sources in /var/db/freebsd-update/. It's the first my question. Thus I decided to upgrade all except the kernel and then rebuild the kernel (that worked good while upgrading 7.1 - 7.2). I made as mentioned in hanbook: # freebsd-upgrade install # shutdown -r now # freebsd-upgrade install There were many errors bad sistem call on th last command. After all I discovered that much files from / were lost (I didn't find any grep, bzcat and so on). On boot kernel can't find fsck_ufs, so automatic mounting fails. If mounted by hand, there is no way to login because of some init error. Single user mode works. freebsd-update roolback can't find any backup. Shell scripts can't find test (it really doesn't exists in /bin/[ ) and fails. How can I restore the system? I've FreeBSD 7.1 CD. Thank's in advance for your help. ___ 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-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: ifconfig - GUI interface available?
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Andreas Rudisch wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100 herbert langhans herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, there is a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe the password is already assigned) and you get the certain wifi net. I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong one. It would be great to point and click and get the connection.. Hence the link and the keyword wpa_supplicant. Any way, here is another link: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.confsektion=5 Take a look at the example section. You can define multiple networks. Yes, but wpa_supplicant wants to autoselect. Is there a way to make it choose a specific network? As far as GUI goes, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that a couple GUI network managers are around: http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ http://wicd.sourceforge.net/screenshot.php The bad news is that neither seem to have been ported to FreeBSD. This Debian page suggests using logical interface names for each network which could probably be used with FreeBSD. It also mentions ifscheme (which also doesn't seem to have been ported): http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#SwitchingConnections And then my memory suggests there is or was some type of network profile setting through /etc/rc.conf, but I can't find more details. Finally, there's this: http://www.kts.org/hm/download/setnetparm/ -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ 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: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:29:44 PST Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Charlie Kester wrote: Can someone remind me once again, when rebuilding all of my ports, what is the trick for avoiding the options dialogs? I'd like to have this run largely unattended. I seem to recall someone describing a method to go through all of them upfront, rather than having the build process interrupted each time a port wants that input. I know that portupgrade has a batch build option, but unless I'm mistaken, that skips any ports that need interaction to build. ___ 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 With portupgrade give -C to run make make config or -c to run make config-conditional for all tasks before everything else. To skip the config dialogs altogether, specify -DBATCH on the make commandline (-m -DBATCH or -M -DBATCH to portupgrade to append or prepend the -DBATCH to the make commandline). Thanks for your replies! To do the complete reinstall of my ports after upgrading to 8.0, I've elected to use the method documented on the manpage for portmaster. ___ 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: ifconfig - GUI interface available?
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:46:01PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Andreas Rudisch wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0100 herbert langhans herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Its merely a matter of comfort. Like on OSX or the infamous MS-thing, there is a simple window. It shows all the ssid, you click on one (maybe the password is already assigned) and you get the certain wifi net. I use the laptop in different networks, often its auto selecting the wrong one. It would be great to point and click and get the connection.. Hence the link and the keyword wpa_supplicant. Any way, here is another link: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.confsektion=5 Take a look at the example section. You can define multiple networks. Yes, but wpa_supplicant wants to autoselect. Is there a way to make it choose a specific network? As far as GUI goes, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that a couple GUI network managers are around: Have a look at net-mgmt/wifimgr; http://opal.com/freebsd/ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr/ Maybe that is what you're looking for? 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) pgpeTNyEMNPUD.pgp Description: PGP signature
TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)
Hi, I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009. http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html Dear TeXLive team, I created 6 sets of FreeBSD binaries of TeXLive2009, for FreeBSD 6, 7 and 8, each for i386 and amd64: http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-2009/bin/ As an active FreeBSD contributor/porter -- and a user of TeXLive on FreeBSD myself -- I offer to maintain all these sets and do test builds from now on. This maintenance might include producing new sets of binaries if significant changes occur in software provided by ports system that TL binaries are linked to. Besides, I will be glad to cover more FreeBSD versions for these two archs if a need arises, although this in unlikely at the moment. I am aware that you received offers for FreeBSD maintainership earlier, but I hope that my offer will suit you better because of all-in-one approach. Cheers Oliver ___ 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: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)
acheron wrote: Hi, I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009. http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get TexLive 2009 running on FreeBSD. ___ 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 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset
At 08:28 AM 11/26/2009, Warren Block wrote: Hard to tell. Is it possible it's just disabled? There's no switch to disable the wireless on the Eee Box. Also, the wireless did work with Linux just before I installed FreeBSD. So, I do not think the problem is that the wireless is disabled. I think that no FreeBSD driver is recognizing the card. (More below.) Only the Asus Eee laptops, not the desktops, are listed in the Wiki (Why?). But the two lines are very similar and in some cases use the same motherboards, just populated differently. The LAN interface is identified by the kernel as one of the Realtek gigabit chips. The PCI chip ID is 0x816810EC, which sure enough is listed in the PCI database at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/10ec as a RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller. The re(4) driver runs it correctly. There's something funny, though not fatal, going on with ACPI, though. At boot time, I get a warning from the FreeBSD acpi driver: ACPI Warning: Option field Pm2ControlBlock has zero address or length... However, the machine still boots. And hyperthreading is enabled, because the Atom has HTT. (I have been thinking of disabling it, because hyperthreading may not work very well on the Atom. Does anyone know how to do this properly? I tried setting machdep.hlt_logical_cpus to 1 in /boot/loader.conf and was rewarded with a system crash at boot time.) I thought the wireless on/off switches were soft switches, but maybe not on that model. If you can get Linux to identify the exact model of card, along with the model of computer, that would be helpful. I wiped Linux off the box when I installed FreeBSD. But the model number of the computer is B202 -- a desktop micro-workstation. It uses the Atom N270 CPU and comes with a 160 GB hard drive and 1 GB of RAM. The FCC label on the outside of the box mentions two AzureWave mini-PCI wireless cards: the AW-NE766 (FCC ID: VQF-RT2700E; IC: 7542A-RT2700E) and the AW-NE771 (FCC ID: PPD-AR5891; IC: 4104A-AR5891). The second one clearly uses an Atheros chipset, but the first incorporates what looks like a Ralink part number. And sure enough, the pciconf -l command lists the wireless interface's PCI chip ID as 0x07811814. According to the PCI database at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1814 this makes it a Ralink RT2860 chip. The card ID is 0x27901814, which has the same least significant word so it would again be a Ralink (probably just rebranded by AzureWave). FreeBSD has a driver that says it works on the Ralink 2560 and 2661 but not later chips. So, what we probably have here is a recent model Ralink b/g/n wireless card that's too new for the driver to recognize. Linux is ahead of us. A brief Web search indicates that Ralink has apparently released firmware for the RT28xx chips under a BSD-like license. However, I don't know if the ral(4) driver would handle the interface properly if I got a copy of that firmware, hacked /sys/dev/ral/if_ral_pci.c to upload it, and then told it to treat the chip as if it were a 2661. Does anyone know if this has a chance of working? --Brett ___ 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: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:30:48 +0200, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: acheron wrote: I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009. http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get TexLive 2009 running on FreeBSD. You can build your own binaries by tweaking an svn checkout of the TeXlive sources. I've done this on my laptop, because I run CURRENT and the old TeXlive 2008 binaries failed to run: keram...@kobe:/tmp$ tex This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/FreeBSD) **\relax *\bye No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. keram...@kobe:/tmp$ I think I kept notes while building the binaries. If I manage to find them soon-ish I will post a followup of how you can build a TeXlive 2009 distribution from source. Note that the TeXlive sources are more than 1.7 GB of compressed data: keram...@kobe:/home/texlive$ ls -la total 1793074 drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel - 4 Oct 26 04:02 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel - 9 Nov 10 22:35 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 keramida wheel -244 Oct 24 05:10 makeiso.sh -rw-rw-r-- 1 keramida wheel - 1834745550 Oct 23 04:33 tldevsrc.tar.bz2 keram...@kobe:/home/texlive$ and will expand to at least 2 GB: keram...@kobe:/opt/texlive$ du -sh . 2.1G. keram...@kobe:/opt/texlive$ The FreeBSD binaries themselves are really _very_ small: keram...@kobe:/opt/texlive$ du -sh bin/i386-freebsd 34Mbin/i386-freebsd keram...@kobe:/opt/texlive$ But you would have to build TL-2009 on FreeBSD 8.X to be able to use it in non-CURRENT snapshots. Notes for builders == If you try building TeXlive 2009 on FreeBSD 8.X it may be useful to set the following in your shell environment: export TL_MAKE='gmake' export TL_CONF_BANNER='--with-tex-banner=TeX Live 2009/FreeBSD' export TL_CONFIGURE_ARGS='--without-graphite' You can get a source snapshot of TeXlive 2009 following the instructions at http://www.tug.org/texlive/. I used rsync to grab a snapshot of the sources, as described in http://www.tug.org/texlive/svn/. Then I followed the instructions at http://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html to build my own snapshot on FreeBSD 9.X. ___ 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 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset
Brett Glass wrote: However, the machine still boots. And hyperthreading is enabled, because the Atom has HTT. (I have been thinking of disabling it, because hyperthreading may not work very well on the Atom. Does anyone know how to do this properly? I tried setting machdep.hlt_logical_cpus to 1 in /boot/loader.conf and was rewarded with a system crash at boot time.) In /boot/loader.conf try: machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=0 Though it seems hyperthreading is improved on the Atom and there is no penalty for leaving it on. ___ 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: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)
Hi, I just got the news of someone who build binaries of TeXlive 2009. http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-November/023783.html This is great news, thanks for sharing. I was looking forward to get TexLive 2009 running on FreeBSD. Absolutely, have either of you tried it out yet? any problems with it? -- Jamie Website: http://www.koderize.com PGP Key: wget http://www.koderize.com/jpg-gnupg.asc pgp14ehNbqTQX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to print using cups on FreeBSD?
Le Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:15:07 -0800 (PST), Unga unga...@yahoo.com a écrit : Hi I'm trying to print using cups 1.3.10 on FreeBSD 7.2 on a Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer. It prints garbage! That is, it print some series of characters. My first question is, does cups work on FreeBSD to print? Yes. ... pkg_info | grep foomatic foomatic-db-20090530 Foomatic database foomatic-db-engine-4.0.1,2 Foomatic database engine gutenprint-foomatic-5.1.7_2 GutenPrint Printer Driver Looks good, according to linuxprinting.org the Gutenprint driver should work for your printer. I have followed this for cups configuration: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/printing-cups-configuring-server.html ls -l /dev/unlpt0 crw-rw 1 root cups0, 155 Nov 26 12:23 /dev/unlpt0 ls -l /dev/ulpt0 crw-rw 1 root cups0, 154 Nov 26 12:23 /dev/ulpt0 I don't have /dev/lpt* . I'm a member of cups group. Ok. How did you configure the printer under cups? Did you try the option usb / usb no reset for the usb port used by cups? Also check the cups logs (/var/log/cups/*) HTH, regards. ___ 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: TeXlive2009 binaries for FreeBSD 6,7,8 (i386/AMD64)
You can build your own binaries by tweaking an svn checkout of the TeXlive sources. I've done this on my laptop, because I run CURRENT and the old TeXlive 2008 binaries failed to run: snip I think I kept notes while building the binaries. If I manage to find them soon-ish I will post a followup of how you can build a TeXlive 2009 distribution from source. If you could post back with that, it would be great. snip Notes for builders == If you try building TeXlive 2009 on FreeBSD 8.X it may be useful to set the following in your shell environment: export TL_MAKE='gmake' export TL_CONF_BANNER='--with-tex-banner=TeX Live 2009/FreeBSD' export TL_CONFIGURE_ARGS='--without-graphite' You can get a source snapshot of TeXlive 2009 following the instructions at http://www.tug.org/texlive/. I used rsync to grab a snapshot of the sources, as described in http://www.tug.org/texlive/svn/. Then I followed the instructions at http://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html to build my own snapshot on FreeBSD 9.X. Thanks for the information -- Jamie Website: http://www.koderize.com PGP Key: wget http://www.koderize.com/jpg-gnupg.asc pgpS0WEecuDlD.pgp Description: PGP signature
8.0-R.. does arp not sort correctly anymore?
How strange.. arp is not printed in the order it used to be.. FreeBSD milenko.homelan 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 25 13:33:49 EST 2009 r...@milenko.homelan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERICplus amd64 r...@milenko [~]# 17 arp -an ? (192.168.1.9) at 00:12:3f:7e:b8:10 on bge0 [ethernet] ? (192.168.1.11) at 00:01:e6:4b:e3:2e on bge0 [ethernet] ? (192.168.1.10) at 00:1e:c9:40:a1:29 on bge0 permanent [ethernet] ? (192.168.1.1) at 00:1f:90:35:4f:a8 on bge0 [ethernet] ? (192.168.1.2) at 00:10:18:30:38:83 on bge0 [ethernet] ? (192.168.1.5) at 00:17:f2:c7:c4:4a on bge0 [ethernet] ? (192.168.1.6) at 00:24:36:a1:18:ec on bge0 [ethernet] ? (192.168.1.255) at (incomplete) on bge0 [ethernet] r...@milenko [~]# 18 cat /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERICplus include GENERIC ident BSD # Commented out debug in GENERIC options DEVICE_POLLING options HZ=1000 options SW_WATCHDOG chlorine [~]$ 3 uname -a FreeBSD chlorine.domain.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Sun Oct 4 18:31:01 EDT 2009 r...@chlorine.domain.com:/exports/obj/exports/src/sys/GENERICplus amd64 chlorine [~]$ 4 arp -an ? (a.b.c.1) at 00:0b:db:6b:b4:8f on bge0 [ethernet] ? (a.b.c.2) at 00:1e:c9:44:32:3f on bge0 permanent [ethernet] ? (a.b.c.3) at 00:1e:c9:44:32:3f on bge0 permanent [ethernet] ? (a.b.c.4) at 00:22:19:25:2b:65 on bge0 [ethernet] ? (a.b.c.5) at 00:22:19:25:2b:65 on bge0 [ethernet] ? (a.b.c.10) at 00:1d:09:24:27:3f on bge0 [ethernet] ? (a.b.c.12) at 00:1d:09:24:27:3f on bge0 [ethernet] ? (a.b.c.15) at 00:1e:c9:44:32:3f on bge0 permanent [ethernet] ? (a.b.c.18) at 00:1e:c9:44:32:3f on bge0 permanent [ethernet] ? (a.b.c.19) at 00:22:19:25:2b:65 on bge0 [ethernet] ? (a.b.c.36) at 00:1a:a0:3c:88:79 on bge0 [ethernet] I don't see anything in the notes about 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
HTT on Atom (Was: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset)
At 04:33 PM 11/26/2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Though it seems hyperthreading is improved on the Atom and there is no penalty for leaving it on. Is there really no penalty? With HZ=1000 there are double the clock interrupts to be serviced at least. And as I understand it the Atom has less redundant hardware, so there are less likely to be unused resources available to the second thread. I am seeing substantially faster compiles with the SMP option commented out of the kernel. --Brett ___ 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
2 processes reproducible read same file with different speed
Hello. I've noticed a very weird behavior of 2 Apache processes that shold read the same file to process a request (they configured to read it on every request). One spends about 6ms to read the file, and second spends about 114ms (I used ktrace to find this out). Every time, on every request, the problem is reproducible. Apaches are the same, the only difference between them that they are working from different users to serve different sites. Same binary, same config. First Apache used to work in the same way some time ago - it spent ~120ms to read the file. But once it changed and now it is working fast. Restarts of Apache do not look to affect on anything. The file that Apache should read is 315k long. Apache reads it by small blocks of 4096 bytes each. May be FreeBSD has some memory about how process is working with files and after some time enables some optimization or caching? I just do not have any clue... :( Can anyone explain this 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
black-friday ads -- ASUS-EEE's
Folks, IF any/everone would keep an eye out for national Black FRiday adds that offer a 9-10 ASUS-EEE, I'd appreciate it. (I've been poking around for much of today, but zip.) The stores that are open obv'ly want to build suspense; this is a win re that notebook. For me anyway:-) tia, y'all -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a 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
Gnome Terminal
There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it to work. When I try to bring it up from the command line from within Fluxbox I get this error message: Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting As usual, all help much appreciated. Rem ___ 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: How to print using cups on FreeBSD?
--- On Fri, 11/27/09, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: From: Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org Subject: Re: How to print using cups on FreeBSD? To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 8:19 AM Le Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:15:07 -0800 (PST), Unga unga...@yahoo.com a écrit : Hi I'm trying to print using cups 1.3.10 on FreeBSD 7.2 on a Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer. It prints garbage! That is, it print some series of characters. My first question is, does cups work on FreeBSD to print? Yes. ... pkg_info | grep foomatic foomatic-db-20090530 Foomatic database foomatic-db-engine-4.0.1,2 Foomatic database engine gutenprint-foomatic-5.1.7_2 GutenPrint Printer Driver Looks good, according to linuxprinting.org the Gutenprint driver should work for your printer. I have followed this for cups configuration: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/printing-cups-configuring-server.html ls -l /dev/unlpt0 crw-rw 1 root cups 0, 155 Nov 26 12:23 /dev/unlpt0 ls -l /dev/ulpt0 crw-rw 1 root cups 0, 154 Nov 26 12:23 /dev/ulpt0 I don't have /dev/lpt* . I'm a member of cups group. Ok. How did you configure the printer under cups? Did you try the option usb / usb no reset for the usb port used by cups? Also check the cups logs (/var/log/cups/*) HTH, regards. Hi Thank you very much for the reply. Here is what shows on error_log: Listening to ::1:631 on fd 1... Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 3... Listening to /var/run/cups.sock on fd 4... Resuming new connection processing... [Job ???] Request file type is application/postscript. [Job 14] Adding start banner page none. [Job 14] Adding end banner page none. [Job 14] File of type application/postscript queued by unga. [Job 14] Queued on EPSON-R800 by unga. [Job 14] Started filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 1467) [Job 14] Started filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 1468) [Job 14] Started filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.1 (PID 1469) [Job 14] Started backend /usr/local/libexec/cups/backend/usb (PID 1470) [Job 14] Canceled by unga. Only error is on access_log: POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1 200 112 CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found As for your question, the printer is connected to a USB port and configured using the KDE 3.5 printer configuration utility. The same printer prints very well on a older Linux system with a older Gutenprint driver! What am I still missing? Regards Unga ___ 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
OOo3.1 binary addition makes firefox,evolution unlaunchable from desktop
fellow FreeBSDians, I am facinggnome2 issues in freebsd7.2 I installed freebsd7.2 in an IBMT60 lenova notebook,( coreduoe 2.16 Ghz, IGB ram, ATI graphics) I done pkg_add -r xorg, fine created xorg.conf and tested with -retro option, then got mouse detected with blank screen. I used hald and dbus in rc.conf. Then I installed gnome bypkg_add -r gnome2 , fine enabled gdm in rc.conf and able to login and can use Desktop . I can chage Desktop background with .jpeg files everything fine. But when Idownloaded OOo3.1 binaries for 7.2 release from http://lamarelle.lautre.net/OOo/ and pkg_add locally , then it failed , asking me to install python26.x , jbigkit,latest gnutls jpeg from ports instead of what I have in this box, then cups-base, cups-image, cups-client etc . I installed python26, jbigkit, cups-base, cups-image, cups-client. I deinstalled gnutls jpeg ports and installed again them. after this OOo got installed and working fine. But after I rebooted the machinebut issues 1) firefox browser can't launch , what I made wrong how to fix it? 2) Ekiga softphone , Epiphany webbrowser can't launch. how to fix ? 3)in SoundVideo Movie player , swfdec Flash player etch can't launch 4) Evolution Mail calender also can't launced. 5) I can't change Desktop background with .jpeg files , but .png wall papers worked for desktop backgroud. ? what I made wrong, how can I fix these issues, I really need a FreeBSD7.2 Desktop in my this notebook, Please help me with your suggestions expertise, All help much appreciated. Thanks in advance Dhanesh _ Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop___ 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: HTT on Atom (Was: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset)
Brett Glass wrote: At 04:33 PM 11/26/2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Though it seems hyperthreading is improved on the Atom and there is no penalty for leaving it on. Is there really no penalty? With HZ=1000 there are double the clock interrupts to be serviced at least. And as I understand it the Atom has less redundant hardware, so there are less likely to be unused resources available to the second thread. I am seeing substantially faster compiles with the SMP option commented out of the kernel. --Brett My tests involved building a custom kernel - I never tried without SMP, just without hyperthreading and there was no appreciable difference. Using -j3 in make kernel, the kernel is built in just about 40 minutes. Without -j same procedure lasts 55 minutes. (I am using an Atom 330 which is dual core) On a Pentium 4 with HTT, -j actually results in a somewhat slower build. ___ 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: OOo3.1 binary addition makes firefox,evolution unlaunchable from desktop
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:07:15 +, dhaneshk k dhanes...@hotmail.com wrote: I deinstalled gnutls jpeg ports and installed again them. after this OOo got installed and working fine. But after I rebooted the machinebut issues 1) firefox browser can't launch , what I made wrong how to fix it? It's possible that Firefox had been linked against the jpeg library you had installed before the upgrade. Upgrading Firefox now should fix this. 2) Ekiga softphone , Epiphany webbrowser can't launch. how to fix ? Maybe the same reason. Can you start it from a terminal session and show the error message? Please do the same with Firefox to check missing library dependencies. 3)in SoundVideo Movie player , swfdec Flash player etch can't launch 4) Evolution Mail calender also can't launced. See above. 5) I can't change Desktop background with .jpeg files , but .png wall papers worked for desktop backgroud. ? Yes, really seems to be the jpeg library. what I made wrong, how can I fix these issues, I really need a FreeBSD7.2 Desktop in my this notebook, As it looks to me, you upgraded the jpeg library to a newer version (to fulfill a requirement of OpenOffice), but the applications you have installed still require the older library that doesn't exist anymore on your system. To fix this, either re-install the older library version (this is what you surely do NOT want because of OpenOffice), or upgrade all applications that depend on the jpeg library. Tools like portmaster or portupgrade can help you with this, so you don't need to upgrade everything manually. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
how to add OpenOffice binaries in FreebSD7.2
I need to install openoffice in my FreeBSD7.2 laptop (IBMT60 coreduo) , without doing a port installation how can I do it with package addition pkg_add -r what_the_name_of_openoffice_package I need to supply in # pkg_add -r ? Is there an official FreeBSD package for OOo ? I done 3rd party binary installations for open office from lamrelle.net . but all the time it crashed some of my gnome applications ..such as firefox, evolution etc.. any hints much appreciated.. dhanesh _ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop___ 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
