Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I have a laptop Acer Aspire One D250 running 9-CURRENT and it seems that after ~12 secs the disk is spinning down and is coming up again if an action, like a command to start, requires this; I have checked with atacontrol(8) but as far as I can see spin down is disabled: # atacontrol list

NTPd GPS with BU-353 USB on FreeBSD 8.x??

2011-01-15 Thread Howard Leadmon
I would have sworn I had a doc on configuring the BU-353 GPS receiver on FreeBSD, and in fact why I picked one up on the cheap when I had the chance. That said, I have googled and binged and everything else, and I'll be damned if I can find any definitive instructions as to how to get this worki

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:57:33 -0500, Aryeh Friedman a écrit : > No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says "USB Debugging > Connected" On my HTC dream when I connect it to USB, there is a notification on the phone and I have (on the phone) to "unmount" the sd card. Then I can mount the sd ca

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says "USB Debugging Connected" On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:48 PM, George Liaskos wrote: >>> Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here >>> is one last try: >>> >>> flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 >>> dd: /dev/

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread George Liaskos
>> Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here >> is one last try: >> >> flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 >> dd: /dev/da0: Device not configured >> flosoft-stable# mount /dev/da0 /mnt >> mount: /dev/da0 : Device not configured Have you switched the con

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread George Liaskos
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I am attempting to make it so I can communicate with the linux on my > Android HTC 0100 and when I insert it I get the following on the > console: > > ugen5.2: at usbus5 > umass0: on usbus5 > umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Forgot to include the list On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here > is one last try: > > flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 > dd: /dev/da0: Device not configured > flosoft-stable# mount /dev/

Re: can somebody give me a shell acct?

2011-01-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:17:07PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 15 January 2011: > > An update on the blogware: it works or is starting to. I had a typo in the > > title and cd'd into my homepage then did a recursive grep. NO TITLE. I > > had > > just-assumed that

problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am attempting to make it so I can communicate with the linux on my Android HTC 0100 and when I insert it I get the following on the console: ugen5.2: at usbus5 umass0: on usbus5 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems [SOLVED]

2011-01-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-08 13:26, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello, I have several e-mail addresses, and to make it easier to read them all, I use fetchmail to get the messages from the servers and deliver them to one local account. And I have a POP3 server running so I can read that local account's mail from e.g. thu

GNU/Linux NIS tweaks was: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread James Phillips
--- On Sat, 1/15/11, FRLinux wrote: > Hello, > > I'd be curious to hear about any particular tweaking you > need applying > on NFS FreeBSD servers. I have used them for the past 8 > years starting > with 4.x at the time and now with a mix of 6.x 7x and 8.x > and had not > to tweak anything. >

Re: can somebody give me a shell acct?

2011-01-15 Thread RW
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:06:17 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > > Until late last year I had an emergency account on a site named > toxic.magnesium.net. It was a tenuous site; one day it vanished, and > when it did show up again, my account was gone. Else I had forgotten > the password ... :-( Anyway,

Re: ndis-based network driver fails to load at boot (8.2-PRERELEASE)

2011-01-15 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Yuri wrote: > I have the old module that always worked. > Begining from some update (~8.1-STABLE), it stopped loading at boot time > with the messages: > <...skipped...> > module ndis already present > KLD file bcmwl5_sys.ko is missing dependencies > <...skipped...

Re: can somebody give me a shell acct?

2011-01-15 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 15 January 2011: > An update on the blogware: it works or is starting to. I had a typo in the > title and cd'd into my homepage then did a recursive grep. NO TITLE. I had > just-assumed that the title stuff as well as the tagline that is the > [optional] subtitle w

can somebody give me a shell acct?

2011-01-15 Thread Gary Kline
Until late last year I had an emergency account on a site named toxic.magnesium.net. It was a tenuous site; one day it vanished, and when it did show up again, my account was gone. Else I had forgotten the password ... :-( Anyway, can anybody giv e me a tmp account so I can ssh in or otherwise

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread FRLinux
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:56 AM, James Phillips wrote: > One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX "dialect" than > most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros as > well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking. One thing > I als

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Carl Johnson
Swe Gill writes: > Hi Peg > > Thanks for your help by applying "ls -lao". I get following result > > -rw--- 1 root wheelsappnd 8307655937 Jan 13 10:45 debug.log > -rw--- 1 root wheelsappnd 15415 Oct 2 2009 dmesg.today > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel-

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [..] > > Last I knew having a file open, even for writing, was no protection > > against its last link being removed. The _inode_ won't go away > > until the last handle is closed, but the _directory e

Lenovo G550

2011-01-15 Thread User Wojtek
anyone knows how to: - make it's touchpad usable? without any special software and used as mouse emulator it is very bad. The problem is that it quite often produces false clicks when you type on keyboard. Tried xf86-input-synaptics but it doesn't recognize the device (protocol psm, device psm

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:47:15 +0100 Alessandro Baggi articulated: > How is the hardware support on FreeBSD? Not too bad as long as you are not interested in securing reliable/functioning drivers for wireless "N" devices. -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Swe, I suspect the reason you can't just delete these files is > > likely because something has them open for writing, and the system > > won't let you remove such files, naturally enough. > > Really? Must be a fa

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 January 2011 11:47, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > On 01/15/2011 11:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips  wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX "dialect" >>> than most Linux distros (though that is likely t

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread Alessandro Baggi
On 01/15/2011 11:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote: On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX "dialect" than most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros as well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't w

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips wrote: > One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX "dialect" than > most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros as > well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking. One thing > I also r

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread perryh
Ian Smith wrote: > Swe, I suspect the reason you can't just delete these files is > likely because something has them open for writing, and the system > won't let you remove such files, naturally enough. Really? Must be a fairly recent change -- and IMO not necessarily a good one. For one thin

Re: strange behaviour

2011-01-15 Thread perryh
Chuck Swiger wrote: > > # ping 10.7.7.7 > > PING 10.7.7.7 (10.7.7.7): 56 data bytes > > ping: sendto: Invalid argument > > ping: sendto: Invalid argument > > ping: sendto: Invalid argument > > > > what is problem and how to fix?? > > Where are you routing 10.7.7.7 to? > > If you don't have a spe