a number of widly varied questions [FreeBSD 6.0; stdc++6, Xorg/Drivers issues, one KDE issue]

2006-03-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
you for your time, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a number of widly varied questions [FreeBSD 6.0; stdc++6, Xorg/Drivers issues, one KDE issue]

2006-03-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that screen refresh rate seems to have fixed it. The original that xorg generated through the config script just drove my monitor bonkers (lots of shaking and a message on the screen that complained). I finally managed to get it to work forcing horiz and vert to be 60.0 (60.0-60.0 on

Re: Apache Httpd - Access error

2006-03-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
Have you tried setting up the part I have below here, which occures right after the server admin email address? The example shows the info for a test machine I have running on my network at home. # ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to

Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518

2006-03-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
, could someone tell me what driver to use, and what device to point it to? Right now I just have the xorg defualt setup, with the options to tell it to use the scroll wheel and 10 buttons (although it's only able to handle 7). Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518

2006-03-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
-0500 Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've googled the problem in general, tried looking around xorg and this site, but I couldn't find any useful information on getting my MX518 working with all of it's buttons in BSD (were I to downgrade back to Linux, I could, but I'd rather not do

Re: Which xorg driver/setup to use to get all the buttons for a Logitech MX518

2006-03-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
or sent wrong, 9 and 10 appear to simply be dropped. Thanks, -Jim On 3/31/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Aye, it's got a lot of buttons, and I've tried transferring several of the config settings, however, none of the drivers they pointed to seem to exist

issues with ports: conflicts

2006-04-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
sorry, in my n00bness, I need to ask yet another question, a bit more serious. I have run into several instances where there are conflicts with ports. My current machine is an x86_64 machine, running FreeBSD 6.0 The first conflict issue that I run into a lot is that the applications want 32 bit

Re: freebsd rocks

2006-04-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'd like to second this. Oh, and it's not just the network drivers, just about everything. And BSD has man, info, and html help too, but I actually like that. BSD just throws so much help in your face, in such better quality, it's nice. I got so much done with 1/10th the questions I would have

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I appologize is this stuff is too basic for you, but it sounds as if you need a crash course in Unix basics, not just FreeBSD. This will tell you how to do the basics. My suggestion is to go to the library and pick up some books on Unix use/administration and/or FreeBSD. O'Reily makes some nice

Re: Newbie help!

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
/lynx, porgupgrade, and a couple others, in semi-random order at first). On 4/10/06, Andy Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/10/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appologize is this stuff is too basic for you, but it sounds as if you need a crash course in Unix basics, not just

newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I did a make install clean in the lang/gcc40/ directory to get a newer version of GCC, and it seems happy, so the next thing I did was I replaced my /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g++, etc. binaries with hard links to the /usr/local/bin/gcc-freebsd-4.0, /usr/local/bin/g++-freebsd-4.0, etc. binaries. Now

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
] wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:43:51AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I did a make install clean in the lang/gcc40/ directory to get a newer version of GCC, and it seems happy, so the next thing I did was I replaced my /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/g++, etc. binaries with hard links to the /usr

Re: newbie question on upgrading GCC

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
When it comes to changing the default compiler a good rule of thumb is that if you need to ask how to do it, then you should not do it. That seems to be a general *nix world rule of thumb for just about everything... ___

make buildword problem/documentation

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
=sse #CXXFLAGS=-finline-functions -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make buildword problem/documentation

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
ahh, thanks everyone, I was looking through the document, and focused on finding buildworld. Still, anyone know why those particular cflags would cause problems? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: make buildword problem/documentation

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Stapleton
ok, thanks, I won't worry about it then. I just like to have everything as optimised as possible. Guess it'll have to wait here... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
I used the examples as a basis, and a little trial and error if things didn't work, so I eventually got a working supfile. However, it did some weird stuff, even though this should be downloading 6.0 stable (from what I can tell), I get errors in port builds (even without optimisation flags). On

Re: I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
override the default setting of RELENG_6. Remove the tag=. next to your src, ports, and doc entires, cvsup again, and your sources should be updated with 6 STABLE. -David On 4/12/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used the examples as a basis, and a little trial and error

Re: I think I butchered my supfile - can anyone tell me why I get this result?

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
CVSUP gave no erros. As stated, my kernel compiled to 7.0-Current (o.O) $ cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2/ $ make install # fails $ cd /usr/ports/multimedia/kbtv/ $ make install #fails There were a few others, but it'll be a while until I can get to the point of replicating any of these and having the

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm not a lawyer either, but frankly I think their EULA is unenforceable and their attitude ought to cost them customers. This isn't the most abusive thing they've done to date, not even close, and people still use their software (unfortunately), I doubt it'll change much... Overall, their

TV Tuner viewing software suggestions

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm trying to use my TV Tuner (A Leadtek Brooktree chipset tuner), and I have gotten FXTV to work great with one exception: It appears to only work in something that looks to be about 320x240, when I go fullscreen or anything larger than what it opens as, it only draws to part of the screen...

where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Stapleton
I want a non-root user (I'm happy to limit it to wheel users), to be able to mount smb shares and rip music, but I don't know how to do this. Where can I find documentation on this? Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, both of you, this should be useful, and I'll try it later when I get home. Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-17 Thread Jim Stapleton
Works great so far, except I get the following error when trying to mount SMB files still: mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (ISO8859-1:tolower): syserr = Operation not permitted Also, I still have to manually do a root 'kldload smbfs' before mounting samba, I tried adding these

Re: from Mongolia

2006-04-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
I should probably leave it be. On 4/19/06, Azarsuren A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jim How are you? I need your answer in this week. Because, our company is assisting tender. Could you help me. I hope hearing from you Bye azaraa --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jim Stapleton [EMAIL

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
sorry, I sent a second reply to the newsgroup, here's the error: mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (ISO8859-1:tolower): syserr = Operation not permitted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

2006-04-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 4/18/06, Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: That did not work either. Jim; Unless I'm mistaken, smbfs_load=YES should go into /boot/loader.conf. Use kldstat to see if the module is loaded. Patrick

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
I can't answer this too well unfortunately, but I can give you a bit of info. Dell does not carry AMD, and probably will not for a long time. However they do have AMD64 compatable Intel chips, which are better at bandwidth, though not as good for calculations. Dell treats their business

rsnapshot: /bin/cp failed

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Stapleton
Anyone know what would cause this? I am on a 6.0 system, an installed rsnapshot via ports. It looks like it wants to use the -a option, and cp doesn't like that, what's the fix? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09:19:03 (0) ~ sudo /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly cp: illegal option

Re: rsnapshot: /bin/cp failed

2006-04-28 Thread Jim Stapleton
Now I'm getting a nother problem: gcp is trying to follow symlinks, even though it's being called with -al, and -a implies no-dereference, which means it shouldn't follow symllinks anyway, I tried the two commands listed at the end of this, with the listed results. Anyone know of this issue with

Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows machine (which has McAfee Enterprise)? Background: System lags occasionally, and has crashed

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
/29/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, Jim Stapleton wrote: Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks everyone. Virii would be the correct spelling we biologists use, but viruses is standard in normal-people-speak, and gets the meaing across. I doubt I need to scan my entire machine, just my /winbackup/ directory (about 10-15GB max) Thanks again!

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm not really here for windows advice, Just FreeBSD. I'm happy with my windows AV solution as it is, as I've had too many issues with many other solutions... And I have verified that it was hardware that was the problem, not a virus, makes sense, it would be my first virus if it were a virus

dd issues

2006-05-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm trying to back up some of my software, and I'm having some problems, I found something in the archives specifying the need to set a block size of 2k or greater. This makes a backup (I've not tested it yet). My questions are: (1) Why does this work? (2) Is it possible that not using the

Re: dd issues

2006-05-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 5/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 1 May 2006 at 19:44:00 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to back up some of my software, and I'm having some problems, I found something in the archives specifying the need to set a block size of 2k or greater

Re: dd issues

2006-05-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
That doesn't sound like a backup to me. dd isn't a backup program, and CDs are not normally things you back up. A backup is just a copy of the data on a different media than the source (in this case, a hard drive). People back up CDs alll the time, in case they get scratched or damaged, and

BSD equiv of /proc?

2006-05-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have a proc filesystem on my computer, but it's empty. I'm used to linux, where you can do stuff like 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to get information about the system. What is the BSD equivalent of this, or is it /proc, and I'm just missing something? ___

Re: OT: Torn between SCSI and SATA for RAID

2006-05-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've found that scsi isn't exceptionally faster given similar RPMs, or even slightly higher RPM (ex. a 10K RPM SCSI vs. 10K RPM SATA drive would have simlar performance). However, SCSI tends to high tighter standards, and you get the following advantages, which in some cases are worth the money,

securing beyond the handbook

2006-05-10 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm about to get a static IP and direct outside access for my BSD box (before it was hidden behind a firewall/NAT). I was comfortable with the level of security I've had, but with the whole open to the outside world setup I'll have, what would you suggest for securing it? I'll be running: Apache

Re: Wine and FreeBSD how to

2006-07-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 7/31/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed wine on my 6.1 system but I don't see a config file anywhere on the system. Has anyone installed and used Wine successfully that could point me towards an easy FreeBSD how to? Or something similar. I told my 7 year old I

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
ON u.uid = s.uid WHERE s.sid = d9fe25949f79f2c767a0d237b4fdf841 AND u.status 3 -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I recently updated MySQL to version 5.0.22 using the ports system (portupgrade -r -R mysql

anyone have any luck on installing FreeBSD on a SATA drive on an Adaptec 1205SA card?

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
with the card installed, except in safe mode, and even then the installer hanges at random intervals. Any fix suggestions? The motherboard is an ABit NF7-S. The drive is a Seagate and was used for a FreeBSD install on an ASUS A8N-E motherboard, quite successfully. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I thought there were mysql forums, but I am not sure. In the queries I gave you, none of the results were too large I take it (not above the low thousands)? -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! All of these queries worked just fine, without causing any

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
there: http://www.newegg.com. Alternatively, I got some SATAII cables from, oddly enough, Microcenter, that were good priced and worked well. -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Aug 2006 at 17:23, Nikolas Britton wrote: The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has

Re: Wine and FreeBSD how to

2006-08-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 7/31/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed wine on my 6.1 system but I don't see a config file anywhere on the system. Has anyone installed and used Wine successfully that could point me towards an easy FreeBSD

driver source compilation question

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've found some driver source, it's just got the .c and .h files for the drivers, and no makefile. make and make install do nothing (I've extracted them to a folder in my home directory). How do I install them? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd

Re: driver source compilation question

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Stapleton
driver? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 8/25/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplest thing is to copy a make file from a port, or other driver source directory and edit it for your driver. -Derek At 08:20 PM 8/25/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote: I've found some driver source, it's

Re: driver source compilation question

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
), channel_init is not described anywhere, but I noticed that several other driver files in the kernel tree use soemthing like this also - I'm assuming that I'm missing something in the makefile, but I cant figure out what. Any help is appreciated. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton

IPSEC, am I missing something?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
options FAST_IPSEC # new IPsec (cannot define w/ IPSEC) options IPSEC_FILTERGIF #filter ipsec packets from a tunnel before adding these, I just had the default 6.1 generic kernel file with a few things commented and a couple uncommented. Am I missing soemeting? Thanks, -Jim

Re: IPSEC, am I missing something?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
, -Jim Stapleton On 8/27/06, Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: What I found and added: #ipsec: Required for VPN optionsIPSEC#IP security optionsIPSEC_ESP#IP security (crypto; define w/ IPSEC) #ipsec optimsations optionsFAST_IPSEC

free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

2006-08-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
am not installing windows/linux on my notebook to get this (and sound) working, each has it's own issues which make it much worse for my uses. :-P Thanks -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

2006-08-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
, -Jim Stapleton On 8/30/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to connect my FreeBSD notebook to some shares at work, which are on an EMC Celerra box, which uses the windows SMB protocol, but I keep getting an odd error, which right now I'm suspecting is an incompatability between

Re: free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
] wrote: On 31/08/2006 2:18 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: nevermind, my own dumb mistake with the connection string, first I didn't have the right stuff for logging into a domain, second time around when that was fixed, I had a / where there should have been an @. What was the right stuff for logging

can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
of garbage to the VPN connection, should I connect the loopback (127.0.0.1), my local ip (192.168.1.84), or create a new loopback or virtual network connection (how?) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-09-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
d'oh, thanks, I was looking for vpn in net and net-mgmt, didn't think of grepping the security directory. Thanks! -Jim Stapleton On 8/31/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:28, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to VPN in to work from

ndis + Linksys WPC54Gv3

2006-09-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have just picked up this card for my notebook. On this site: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/02/linksys-wpc54g-with-freebsd-yesterday.html it is reported to work. I have inserted the card, the status light on it blinks green then goes off. I ran ndis and generated the driver as specified,

Re: Newbie Question - looking for suggestions of small ports to install on stand-alone system without internet connection

2006-10-07 Thread Jim Stapleton
have to download elsewhere and put on either a CD or a flash drive. Have fun, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested

2006-10-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
/scsi_da.h ./coda/coda.h ./dev/ida/ida.c but I could not do a make in the scsi or cam directories. make scsi gave me a don't know how to make class of error, and make cam gave me an error saying cam is up to date. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd

Re: USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 10/15/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: It used to work on this machine, the kernel/world has not been recompiled/reinstalled since then. However, A USB drive that used to work (and still works in windows) no longer works in FreeBSD. When I plug in the drive

Re: Route #3 - USB 802.11 a/b/g

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
On 10/8/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/06, Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: On 10/7/06, Lars Engels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:22:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: OK, that's interesting, I tried, that, and got

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
Well, in my case: - No matter what method I use to install packages in Linux (Apt-Get, Yum, Deb, RPM, and to a much lesser extent, Emerge, and to a *MUCH* greater extent src tar.gz's), I tend to have a lot more trouble getting installs to finish than with BSD in ports. - The FreeBSD community

USB2 drive speed problems

2007-01-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
to take at this point. I know I had the USB2 modules compiled into my kernel. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

configuring all dependancies before making in ports

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
the dependancies that need build, running their configuration menus /before/ doing any of the builds? i.e. $ cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 $ make -dependancies=configure install clean Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: configuring all dependancies before making in ports

2007-02-03 Thread Jim Stapleton
of the builds? i.e. $ cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 $ make -dependancies=configure install clean Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

NVidia troubls with AMD64..

2007-02-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
their time away from keeping this great OS great. (Don't bother searching if you don't know, just asking if anyone reading this knows off the top of their heads): Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

I'd like to do my bit to support FreeBSD

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
I've found quite a few tricks and techniques for handling FreeBSD's ports system when things go south. I'd like to add them to the handbook, adding, lets say 4.5.6 - When Ports Attack. OK, really it'd be more along the lines of 4.5.6 - Installing Ports When Things Go Wrong It would give hints

Re: I'd like to do my bit to support FreeBSD

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, that doesn't look like a challange at all. Guess I'll have some fun with it when I get home. -Jim Stapleton On 2/6/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've found quite a few tricks and techniques for handling FreeBSD's ports system

x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
ask here before I put a lot of time into it (i.e. I'll try with no response or some I don't knows, but if I get a can't be done, then I won't waste my time). Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
Jim Stapleton wrote: I have two hard drives in my machine (ad8, ad10), ad10 is the system disk, ad8 has a few GB of swap at the end and 2 fat32 partitions. Mostly I'm using the fat partitions for a windows install to use as the base for WINE, but occasionally I'll want to install software

Re: CPU Intel core 2 (64bits). Which freeBSD should I install?

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
Hi all; I looked up on the Free archives and what I found was that I should either install amd64 ( if I use lots of multimedia stuff) or i386 (later compiling for SMP). I tried ia64 (which I thought means Intel Architecture) but the image won't even boot. This machine is going to be exclusively

problems with jail

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
with 192.168.1.85 and with assigned to it also jail command (run from root for testing purposes only - I'll narrow it down to a less privledged host/jailed system user later) jail /jail/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 192.168.1.85 /bin/csh The machine was rebooted since I set everything up. Thank you, -Jim

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
.FreeBSD.org Name lookup failure for cvsup12.FreeBSD.org: hostname nor servname provided, or not known Will retry at 20:52:12 I'm only using one jail (it'll run apache, mysql and possibly sftp) Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:22

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, it still did not connect using that. The mail server is a SMTP server. Also I copied over my host's resolve.conf file. With all these hassles/headaches, would it be better/more secure for me to settup Bochs or QEmu running a virtual BSD server? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that's at least useful testing, but it did not work. Jail is definetly not getting any network action. Would a host netstat output be useful? I looks pretty cryptic. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:22 PM 2/22/2007, you wrote: I'd like

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
legolas /jail Is that what you needed Thanks, -Jim Stapleton Jim Stapleton wrote: Thank you, that's at least useful testing, but it did not work. Jail is definetly not getting any network action. Would a host netstat output be useful? I looks pretty cryptic. Can

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
%ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss %exit exit On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:25:00PM +, Jim Stapleton wrote: Thank you, it still did not connect using that. The mail

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
commenting out the ifconfig_nve0= line, and uncommenting the other ifconfig_nve0/defaultrouter lines (just in case I misread something). Neither worked. Thanks -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Philipp Wuensche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: Jail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14:04:11 (0) ~ sudo

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 On 2/23/07, Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:38 PM 2/23/2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: new host rc.conf: hostname=elrond.ameritech.net #ifconfig_nve0=inet 192.168.1.84 netmask

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
?? Ss 0:00.09 /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/ums1 -t auto -I /var/run/moused.ums1.pid Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 2/23/07, Philipp Wuensche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: new host rc.conf: hostname=elrond.ameritech.net #ifconfig_nve0=inet 192.168.1.84 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
, but that didn't fix the problem. named is not running, and hasn't run on this machine. and I did read the jail man page, I'm still stuck. -Jim Stapleton On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 02:06 schrieb Jim Stapleton: yes, I can ping it from

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
to find documentation on them, X, and KDM. I can't find anything on limiting sockets of these to a specific IP only. -Jim STapleton On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 04:01 schrieben Sie: I saw them in there, but that section seemed to be lacking

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) udp6 0 0 *.syslog *.* On 2/24/07, Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 04:21 schrieb Jim Stapleton: I did the ssh after you did

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Stapleton
addendum, I fixed syslogd by adding this to my rc.conf: syslogd_flags=-b 192.168.1.84 However, looking through netstat's man page, I couldn't find the name of the flag (if it exists) that will show the process name. Does that require a different tool? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton On 2/24/07

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
ata* hide 2000 path atkbd* hide 2100 path kbd* hide 2200 path fd* hide 2300 path fid* hide 2400 path net* mode 777 2500 path show 2600 path * unhide Still no luck. Thanks everyone for all the help, hopefully this is enough information to indicate the problem. -Jim Stapleton sockstat

Re: problems with jail

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that fixed it. After all the other stuff (some of which also had it broke), it was a 1... ARGH! Thanks again, I am now the proud owner of a shiny new jail to put all my processes behind bars inside of. :-) On 2/24/07, Philipp Wuensche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote

Asking for bugs instead of about them, for a change.

2007-02-28 Thread Jim Stapleton
/CPUTYPE) [b] the entire dependancy trace (the list of ports that the system is backtracking out of), and the last 15 to 20 lines of the actual build (be it the configuration steps, the compilation commands, etc). Also nice would be [c] How you fixed it or plan to fix it. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton

hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
2 21:27:53 elrond kernel: device_attach: cxm0 attach returned 6 So it's safe to say I have an unknown tuner on this card, what would my next step from here be? Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I appologize -questions, disregard this, it was supposed to go to multimedia. On 3/3/07, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After being unable to get the WinTV-Radio work, I replaced it with a PVR-150. I followed the instructions here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, I'll call hauppauge tomorrow, they seem to be quite friendly about it. I was trying to find the file that spat out the error message but was lost. Thanks again, -Jim Stapleton On 3/4/07, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 March 2007 20:34, Jim Stapleton wrote: I

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
OK, I'm working on that, what's the most trivial method of finding out if the tuner is working? I saw a cat /dev/cxm0 test.mpg comment, do I have to set channel before I do that, should I use the pvr250_setchannel application? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
/dev/cxm0 | some_app Thanks, -Jim Stapleton #!/bin/sh INC=0.10 START=740.00 STOP=750.00 P=$START cat /dev/cxm0 test_$START.mpg TEST=$(echo $P = $STOP | bc) while [ $TEST -eq 1 ] do echo $P pvr250-setchannel -m 2 $P P=$(echo $P + $INC | bc) TEST=$(echo $P = $STOP | bc) sleep 2 done kill

Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
mentioned on nVidias web site, and they are all in the right spots, which leads me to suspect it's an xorg.conf error, but I'm not sure. I've attached the xorg.conf file to the end, just in case. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia

creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-21 Thread Jim Stapleton
advise me? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton rc.conf: == #hostname/ifconfig/defaultrouter omitted usbd_enable=YES linux_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES ntpdate_enable=YES ntpd_enable=YES sendmail_disable=YES sendmail_enable=NO mail_enable=NO inetd_flags=-wW

Re: creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-22 Thread Jim Stapleton
/local/etc/rc.d/hald /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fusefs /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ffserver /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-dnsconfd.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001slpd.sh Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 3/21/07, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL

Re: creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
oops, sent a reply to the wrong list a bit ago... Anyway, it is still not working. I forgot to mentions, sorry, doing $ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sb_server start works just fine. I used /usr/bin/env python because I would like to add this to the port that installs the server this script starts, and

Mouse diagnostics tools?

2007-10-14 Thread Jim Stapleton
to work with xmodmap to get the left click functional. There are no hits for FreeBSD. I've tested with an old mouse (wired) and it works fine, however in this situation, a wired mouse is not a solution. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Mouse diagnostics tools?

2007-10-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mouse/Keyboard recommendation?

2007-10-19 Thread Jim Stapleton
Wireless 2.0 was not. Thank you, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

experience with a Logitech Internet 1500 wireless keyboard/mouse?

2007-12-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
really need wireless on this system. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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