Re: FBSD support for Intel mini-itx board w. realtek 8111D nic

2011-03-31 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Erik Nørgaard wrote: I'm looking at the D945GSEJT which has a realtek 8111DL nic. Which driver is used for this nic? re(4). Some forum users have had recent problems with certain versions (maybe newer) of the 8111. My older 8111C onboard versions have always worked fine

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Eduardo
At 20:22 31/03/2011, Gary Dunn wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Me too. Am I wrong to think that installing a newer gcc could break system or port building? No, you must take care that newer gcc will be installed on /usr/local/bin and not in /usr/bin, check this forum entry: http://forums

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Eduardo
At 20:19 31/03/2011, Gary Dunn wrote: Can someone point me to an official position statement on this ban on GPL3 code in FreeBSD? Doesn't seem right to me. And please, no GPL flame wars. Don't know if there were an official Some links that may be interesting: http://forums.freebsd.org/showth

FBSD support for Intel mini-itx board w. realtek 8111D nic

2011-03-31 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi: I've got a fanless via based mini-itx box as my gateway and server and looking to upgrade to a Intel Atom based box. I believe it's supported out of the box. Now, I don't have an extra monitor, basically I'm gonna take the old disk, plug it in and hope it will boot (FBSD81, GENERIC kernel

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/31/11 1:10 PM, "Polytropon" wrote: >On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:33:09 +0100, Arthur Chance >wrote: >>On 03/31/11 17:06, Arthur Chance wrote: >>> On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a FreeBSD system image that can be used with Virtual

Re: ruby cpu 100% hang during pkgdb -F

2011-03-31 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 31 March 2011 16:46, Roland van Laar wrote: > Hello, > > I'm asking again about pkgdb -F because it's still running. > > On 03/29/2011 07:50 AM, Roland van Laar wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I updated FreeBSD 8.0 to 8.2 with freebsd-update. >> Everything went fine till I got to the ports: >> I used

"Text Ticker" app. nntp / rss client?

2011-03-31 Thread Gary Gatten
Hi, So I'm looking for a "simple" way to distribute company info internally, such as: application availability info, weather updates, etc. Whatever the powers at be deem appropriate to distribute. I'm thinking maybe something based on nntp, rss, or whatever. "I" would personally like to see

Re: ruby cpu 100% hang during pkgdb -F

2011-03-31 Thread Roland van Laar
Hello, I'm asking again about pkgdb -F because it's still running. On 03/29/2011 07:50 AM, Roland van Laar wrote: Hello, I updated FreeBSD 8.0 to 8.2 with freebsd-update. Everything went fine till I got to the ports: I used the commands: # pkgdb -F gives me this: ---> Checking the packa

FreeNX server on 64bits?

2011-03-31 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I wanted to install FreeNX server from ports on an amd64 machine, but I found the port only supports i386 architecture. Here's the output: martin@server:/usr/ports/net/freenx$ sudo make install clean Password: ===> Installing for freenx-0.6.0_3 ===> freenx-0.6.0_3 depends on file: /usr/lo

Re: SSH persistent sessions without screen?

2011-03-31 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:00:02AM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: > I would like to have something like virtual terminals that continue > running no matter if ssh is connected to them or not. Something like > the screen utility. But I don't want to use screen, I'm looking for > something more aut

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: > >>On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: >> >>> When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is >>4.2.1. >>> The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0 dated 19 Mar 2011. >>> >> >>Probably never,

Re: SSH persistent sessions without screen?

2011-03-31 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Chris Telting [2011-03-31 09:00:02-0700]: > Something like the screen utility. But I don't want to use screen, > I'm looking for something more automated. tmux can do this, and unlike GNU screen, can be easily scripted. Check it out, we started using it at $work early year and we had about 2 do

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Gary Dunn
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:37:53AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:10:44PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn >wrote: >> > >> > > When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Gary Dunn
Adam Vande More wrote: >On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > >> When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is >4.2.1. >> The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0 dated 19 Mar 2011. >> > >Probably never, as GPL 3 code isn't allowed in the base system. ... Can som

Re: Ethernet connection and monitor resolution in DesktopBSD

2011-03-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:14:04 -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: > I'm trying out DesktopBSD in VirtualBox. I like it better > than PC-BSD and GhostBSD. > > However, the Internet connection isn't working out-of-the-box. > When I go to the network configuration utility, select the > auto DHCP, and click on C

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:05:36 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:12:26 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:12:23 -0400, Jerry > > wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:32:29 -0700 (PDT) > > > four.harris...@googlemail.com > > > articulated: > > > > > > > Once y

Re: SSH persistent sessions without screen?

2011-03-31 Thread Devin Teske
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 09:00 -0700, Chris Telting wrote: > I would like to have something like virtual terminals that continue > running no matter if ssh is connected to them or not. Something like > the screen utility. But I don't want to use screen, tmux? > I'm looking for > something m

Ethernet connection and monitor resolution in DesktopBSD

2011-03-31 Thread Jason Hsu
I'm trying out DesktopBSD in VirtualBox. I like it better than PC-BSD and GhostBSD. However, the Internet connection isn't working out-of-the-box. When I go to the network configuration utility, select the auto DHCP, and click on Connect, nothing happens. I have an Internet connection in my

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:33:09 +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 03/31/11 17:06, Arthur Chance wrote: > > On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: > >> There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a > >> FreeBSD system image that can be used with VirtualBox. > > > > Nitpick: the web site says > >

Re: download if_ppp.ko

2011-03-31 Thread Michael Powell
Denis Rybakov wrote: > Where download if_ppp.ko? You don't. It once was the kernel ppp module but became unsupported and was removed from the system. Use userland ppp as described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html Pay particular attention to the note

Re: java support in FBSD Firefox 4

2011-03-31 Thread Robert Huff
Tim Kellers writes: > Someplace between Firefox 3.5 and 4.0 I changed from diablo to openjdk. > > That: > ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/ > > was the missing step for me. I tried this, and discovered that - at least for SeaMonkey - I had to

Re: java support in FBSD Firefox 4

2011-03-31 Thread John R. Levine
This link explains it pretty well: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21010 Someplace between Firefox 3.5 and 4.0 I changed from diablo to openjdk. It was 3.6. Check the archives for considerable gnashing of teeth as we tried to figure out how to get Java working again. ln -s /us

Re: java support in FBSD Firefox 4

2011-03-31 Thread Tim Kellers
On 03/31/11 11:06, John Levine wrote: In article<4d948902.6000...@wallnet.com> you write: Before I attempt to (re)invent the java wheel in Firefox 4... Is there any documentation about how to enable java support already written or available. If there isn't, does anyone have any hints? It's

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/31/11 17:06, Arthur Chance wrote: On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a FreeBSD system image that can be used with VirtualBox. Nitpick: the web site says > VirtualBSD is a virtual appliance for VMware Following myself up, Polytrop

Re: download if_ppp.ko

2011-03-31 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:53:11 +0600, Denis Rybakov a écrit : > Where download if_ppp.ko? It's a kernel module, you will find it in /boot/kernel Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

SSH persistent sessions without screen?

2011-03-31 Thread Chris Telting
I would like to have something like virtual terminals that continue running no matter if ssh is connected to them or not. Something like the screen utility. But I don't want to use screen, I'm looking for something more automated. Maybe even be able to have multiple connections on different

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a FreeBSD system image that can be used with VirtualBox. Nitpick: the web site says > VirtualBSD is a virtual appliance for VMware Thanks for the pointer though, could be useful in encouraging others to

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Eduardo
At 17:19 31/03/2011, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >What is FreeBSD c compiler? > >Isn't it GCC? > > Now yes, but FreeBSD needs an iso c'99 compiler and source code is > iso oriented, not gcc, afaik gcc hacks and code that only compiles on > gcc can't be commited, there's a mailing list for iso99 c

Re: java support in FBSD Firefox 4

2011-03-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Tim Kellers wrote: > Before I attempt to (re)invent the java wheel in Firefox 4... > > Is there any documentation about how to enable java support already written > or available. If there isn't, does anyone have any hints? > As always, the FreeBSD Handbook is wh

download if_ppp.ko

2011-03-31 Thread Denis Rybakov
Where download if_ppp.ko? Denis ___ 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: java support in FBSD Firefox 4

2011-03-31 Thread John Levine
In article <4d948902.6000...@wallnet.com> you write: >Before I attempt to (re)invent the java wheel in Firefox 4... > >Is there any documentation about how to enable java support already >written or available. If there isn't, does anyone have any hints? It's unchanged from 3.6, or at least, when

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Anton" == Anton Shterenlikht writes: Anton> Are you saying GCC doesn't comply with ISO standard(s)? Welcome to the GNU World. First time here? :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix con

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Eduardo
At 16:49 31/03/2011, you wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:37:53AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:10:44PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > > > > > When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it i

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:16:38PM +0200, Eduardo wrote: > At 16:49 31/03/2011, you wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:37:53AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:10:44PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > >> >

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:37:53AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:10:44PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > > > > > When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is 4.2.1. > > > The ports tree has

java support in FBSD Firefox 4

2011-03-31 Thread Tim Kellers
Before I attempt to (re)invent the java wheel in Firefox 4... Is there any documentation about how to enable java support already written or available. If there isn't, does anyone have any hints? Thanks Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-31 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: Try tkdvd. It is in ports tree (sysutils/tkdvd) > > -- > Gökşin Akdeniz (Gökşin Akdeniz) > Anahtar parmakizi/key fingerprint= FE10 8C14 A144 4FDE BE18 D5E3 E758 > F49A 8A5D F8AE > [Son kullanma tarihi/expire date: 2011-06-08] > > While not

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:10:44PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > > > When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is 4.2.1. > > The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0 dated 19 Mar 2011. > > > > Probably never, as GPL 3 code

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:10:29 -0700 (PDT), "four.harris...@googlemail.com" wrote: > I left Linux a while ago, but at that time compiling and > installing a new kernel on Red Hat or Slackware (to stick > within my experience) was significantly harder to do than > "make buildkernel; make installkern

Upgrade 8.1 to 8.2 still broken: info2html

2011-03-31 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello There was a bug described in 2003: [...] > I then started a build - with a -DNOCLEAN option for speed and it > failed again. I ran this under 'script' to get the output. > > Here is the tail of that file. > >>> stage 4: building everything.. [...] > ===> lib/libcom_err/doc > info2

FreeBSD' Webcam and DVB Compatibility List

2011-03-31 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, We have started a small documentation project in the FreeBSD Wiki: The FreeBSD' Webcam and DVB Compatibility List. http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat The main goal of this page is to give an exact answer about which application works with a given cam or DVB. Combinations of the

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread four.harris...@googlemail.com
Sorry for top posting - my phone makes it awkward. I take your point about wireless config. Perhaps that was a poor example. To take Windows out of the equation (I've nothing against it per se) how about compiling the kernel? I left Linux a while ago, but at that time compiling and installing a

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-31 Thread Gökşin Akdeniz
Try tkdvd. It is in ports tree (sysutils/tkdvd) -- Gökşin Akdeniz (Gökşin Akdeniz) Anahtar parmakizi/key fingerprint= FE10 8C14 A144 4FDE BE18 D5E3 E758 F49A 8A5D F8AE [Son kullanma tarihi/expire date: 2011-06-08] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-31 Thread Graham Bentley
Thanks for your several considered replies > 1) If you're already got KDE libs, k3b / k3b-kde4 is pretty light > 2) I find that Gnome has pretty good built-in support > 3) Polytropon as 1,2 mostly I shoud have been more specific. Im running xorg with vtwm and trying to stay light / minimal as pos