Re: Cant bring up network interface

2004-07-04 Thread John Murphy
Nikhil Kale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have just installed FreeBSD 5.2 on my system. My network card is National Semiconductors DP 83815 which is detected properly for interface sis0. But somehow I cant bring the interface up using DHCP. My machine is a dual boot, and the linux system

Re: Cant bring up network interface

2004-07-04 Thread John Murphy
Nikhil Kale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I dont think the problem is related to releasing the DHCP lease because I have Windows XP, SuSE linux and now FreeBSD installed on the computer. I havent had any problem with Windows/Linux. Perhaps not, but I think it's related to DHCP. Do you have a

acd0 problem installing 5.0

2003-02-01 Thread John Murphy
Greetings I can't seem to install FreeBSD 5.0 Release on some old but functioning i386 hardware. The problem occurs just after creating the emergency holographic shell on vt4, and the error message says: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Operation not supported by device (19). I've installed

Re: acd0 problem installing 5.0

2003-02-02 Thread John Murphy
John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to install FreeBSD 5.0 Release on some old but functioning i386 hardware. The problem occurs just after creating the emergency holographic shell on vt4, and the error message says: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Operation not supported

Re: FreeBSD Installation Problems

2003-03-29 Thread John Murphy
Sukhbinder Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did what you asked me to do. This time I had a little bit of progress but still I got a differen error message. I used the windows command winipcfg command to get the DNS information. As I indicated in my previous mail there are 6 fields in the windows

Re: FreeBSD Installation Problems

2003-03-27 Thread John Murphy
Sukhbinder Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, I made the 2 image floppy disk for the 2 image files by downloading them from ftp.freebsd.org. These 2 files are kern.flp and msfroot.flp. I also downloaded and made an image disk for drvivers.flp just to download the drivers at the

Re: Lyx 1.3.0

2003-03-31 Thread John Murphy
Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have successfully compiled Lyx 1.3.0 from the ports. It was not simple, I had to cvs-update my ports, and I had to compile qt-3.1.1_4 and kde 3.1. That sounds more like KLyx. Neither qt or kde are listed in the requirements for Lyx. John.

Re: USING FTP TO DPWNLOAD FREEBSD

2003-04-01 Thread John Murphy
John Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please could someone tell me which FTP software to use to download FreeBSD images. And what command lines I should use? If you would prefer a Windows GUI FTP client, I recommend FileZilla from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla It is quite

Re: Firewall

2003-04-01 Thread John Murphy
John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: add 00100 tcp from any to any When I disable that as well all seems to work well. It looks like the option in rc.conf firewall_type=/etc/firewall.ast does not get interpreted correctly. That rule should certainly have an 'action' keyword eg. allow. Try 'add

Re: Lyx 1.3.0

2003-04-01 Thread John Murphy
Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, John Murphy wrote: Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 01:32:27 +0100 From: John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lyx 1.3.0 Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: VPN pass through?

2003-04-01 Thread John Murphy
Mark-Nathaniel Weisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: long lines re-formatted I have a W2K VPN server (RRAS using PPTP) setup behind my FreeBSD firewall. I also have a web server, mail server, and several others. I've setup up my ipfw to allow packets for port 1723 on both tcp and udp from any to any,

Re: How to ignore arp error message

2003-04-03 Thread John Murphy
Dancho Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:14:24AM +1000, Carl Morley wrote: From: Carl Morley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 07:14:24 +1000 Subject: How to ignore arp error message arp: 10.1.21.80 moved from 00:03:47:f1:b8:3b to

Re: pooh.ASARian.org security run output (lots of wrong arpmessages)

2003-07-09 Thread John Murphy
Fuzzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to convince the kernel not to log these incorrect arp messages? currently we have... net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface: 1 Is there a different sysctl or variable for rc.conf to stop it from logging incorrect information? Indeed there is but

Communicating with deties [was How to get the best results fromFreeBSD questions]

2003-07-11 Thread John Murphy
Beasty knows I didn't want to bring this to the list but I've seen this error posted so many times, and humbly tried to get it corrected through more targeted means of communication. Please Mr. Lehey Sir; could you update the instructions for un-subscribing from these hallowed lists in your

Re: 5.0-release install problem

2003-02-09 Thread John Murphy
Shane Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure I've done something foolish, so any advice is appreciated. drivers.flp is your friend :) It happened to me, and I'm no fool! John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: 5.0-release install problem

2003-02-09 Thread John Murphy
northern snowfall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drivers.flp is your friend :) It happened to me, and I'm no fool! Well, thats kind of the point of the problem. Drivers.flp isn't needed. Sysinstall loads the 8139 driver from its base. The ATA drivers are in the base, as well (of course), so the

Re: FBSD 5.0, Geforce 440 Go, KDE3.1

2003-02-10 Thread John Murphy
Aslak Evang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed FBSD 5 on my Toshiba laptop a week ago. I've installed KDE 3.1 and I'm using the NVIDIA drivers with X. At, what seems to me like, totally random times, the system locks up hard and needs to be switched off and on again to work. I've just tried

Re: LED Mouse Flashing

2003-02-11 Thread John Murphy
Justin P. Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone out there that may know how to get this mouse working with the wheel? option Buttons 5 option ZAxisMapping 4 5 added to the mouse section of /etc/X11/XF86Config was all that was necessary to get mine working for KDE3. John.

Re: XF86Config.

2003-02-11 Thread John Murphy
Peter van Eck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still having toruble to get my X window system to run properly. It loads the X server succesfull but the display is isshowing 3 Vertical stripes thru the Desktop. The frequencies seem OK , but it is like the desktop is split up in 3. USing an HP Ultra

Re: Problem booting new kernel

2003-02-13 Thread John Murphy
Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just trying to install 4.7 onto a new PC and have compiled a customer kernel so that I can get the Prism II card working. However on reboot I'm getting VIA C3 CPU CPU Class not configured I'm not sure if a C3 is 586 or 686 class, but you've probably

TI486dx100 any chance of FreeBSD on these?

2003-03-01 Thread John Murphy
I've been given some old but sturdy TI486dx100 Ali chip set pcs on which I'd like to run any version of FreeBSD. NetBSD installs and runs, but Free fatal traps with 'privileged instruction fault while in kernel mode' on everything I've tried. Is there any kind of FreeBSD kernel I could build (on

Re: problems

2003-03-02 Thread John Murphy
John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No /kernel Where did you install the OS? Bear in mind you can't run FreeBSD from a 'logical' partition. Think I should've said 'extended' there, sorry. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: problems

2003-03-02 Thread John Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Patryas) wrote: I have 2 questions: One is when I installed Freebsd 5.0 from a DOS partition, it gave me an error message: Error mounting /dev/adOs1 on /dist: Operation not supported by device (19) After the kernel loads, you are given an option to load any

Re: 5.0 and ACPI Errors:

2003-03-02 Thread John Murphy
Lord Sith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a clue what this error means? acpi0: ABIT AWRDACPI on motherboard ACPI-0625: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE15 Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdf00 acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model.

Re: can't sshd into box

2003-03-02 Thread John Murphy
Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can ssh out to the world, but I can't get into the new box from the gateway FreeBSD box on the same home network. The gateway box properly lists the new box in /etc/hosts. Each box can ping the other by name and by ip. Bear in mind that (by default) you

Re: I think I'm addicted...

2003-03-02 Thread John Murphy
John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, but having given this question considerable thought, I'd choose (from left to right) LSD BSD. But I guess Nike would disapprove of the first. Oh well. Doh! I should've read this first http://web.morons.org/feature/rants/bsdlsd.jsp Myth shattered

Re: 5.0 and ACPI Errors:

2003-03-03 Thread John Murphy
Lord Sith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only two I see in this BIOS are: Plug and Play = ON or OFF (currently on) IRQ Resources Assigned = AUTO or MANUAL (currently auto) Is this what you are referring to? I've had a look in the BH6 manual and the setting is on the PNP/PCI Configuration page.

Re: Serial ATA support in FreeBSD

2003-03-16 Thread John Murphy
Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received no responses the first time, so am trying again. - I am in the process of building a new system and was looking at using the new Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA drives. Does

Re: Headless system or serial console

2005-02-17 Thread John Murphy
Joachim Dagerot wrote: The handbook describes a way to install freeBSD to a headless system. (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html) I'm used to drag'n'drop(!) my 45kg 21 spare monitor in and out from the closet to do single-user tasks. But now I want

Corrupt list archives?

2004-07-09 Thread John Murphy
While browsing the freebsd-questions archives at freebsd.org and via google, I noticed that corruption occurs, under some circumstances, where = becomes =3D (3D is ascii for =) and some spaces are shown as =20. Eg. A familiar line from /etc/rc.conf misleadingly becomes: firewall_enable=3DYES

Re: Corrupt list archives?

2004-07-09 Thread John Murphy
Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jul 09), John Murphy said: While browsing the freebsd-questions archives at freebsd.org and via google, I noticed that corruption occurs, under some circumstances, where = becomes =3D (3D is ascii for =) and some spaces are shown as =20

Re: Corrupt list archives?

2004-07-09 Thread John Murphy
John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think my messages were affected before I started using sendmail locally. Ignore that comment (LOL); found some earlier messages similarly corrupt. -- John. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Corrupt list archives?

2004-07-09 Thread John Murphy
Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:28:39PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jul 09), John Murphy said: While browsing the freebsd-questions archives at freebsd.org and via google, I noticed that corruption

Re: Corrupt list archives?

2004-07-09 Thread John Murphy
Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:58:29PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The archive shows your post exactly as it was sent. I'm amazed. = shows as =3D and =3D as =3D3D for me! Hyphen hyphen space (sig separator) as --=20

Re: Connecting a USB Zip drive -- whatever am I doing wrong?

2004-07-11 Thread John Murphy
epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ### uname -a FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p1 i386 ### relevant lines from kernel device vpo device scbus device da device umass device uhci# uhci related entries show up in dmesg device usb device

Re: Problem with hardware OX16PCI954 8-ports serial

2004-07-11 Thread John Murphy
Harchenko Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have FreeBSD 4.9 and try to install multiport card OX16PCI954 8-ports serial. And I have some problem 4 ports works normaly. But other don't work. dmesg puc0: Oxford Semiconductor OX16PCI954 UARTs port 0xa800-0xa81f,0xb000-0xb01f mem

Re: IS freebsd.org working

2004-08-14 Thread John Murphy
JJB wrote: Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up as not reachable. Any body else having same problem Me too. I browse this list via http://docs.freebsd.org and it's been down all day. http://www.uk.freebsd.org/ is still working though :) -- John.

Re: IS freebsd.org working

2004-08-14 Thread John Murphy
Tim Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:29, John Murphy wrote: JJB wrote: Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up as not reachable. Any body else having same problem Me too. I browse this list via http://docs.freebsd.org and it's

Re: sick and tired of freebsd resolving problems

2004-08-26 Thread John Murphy
Hi there I`ve been experiencing resolving problems with freebsd 5.2.1-release-p9 the problem is this: I CAN NOT RESOLV my hosts file is ok looks like this in the gateway # 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.myfoodamin.org 192.168.0.1 a a.foodoamin.org #NIC2

Re: init: not found in path...panic:no init

2004-08-31 Thread John Murphy
oscar wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joseph and bsd guys: hello,i have a very old toshiba t4600c (386, 33Mhz, 200Mb Hd. 8 MbRAM, no LAN, just serial port and floppy drive.) i supose that that is enough for mini install freebsd 4.10 , but everything goes fine until toshiba asks for

Using 'incorrect' HD geometry.

2006-03-13 Thread John Murphy
I'm currently dual booting FreeBSD-5.3 and Windows 2000 on a WD800BB 80GB IDE HD. It all seems to be working very well, but now I want to install 6.0 on the slice where 5.3 is. fdisk -s currently says: /dev/ad0: 155061 cyl 16 hd 63 sec Part Start Size Type Flags 1:63

Re: Using 'incorrect' HD geometry.

2006-03-14 Thread John Murphy
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nowdays, the geometry on the drives seems to be 'virtual' and so you should just let the installer/fdisk do what it wants and leave it that way. If it doesn't work the way the installer wants to then there may be a problem. But if it works, just ignore

Re: Using 'incorrect' HD geometry.

2006-03-16 Thread John Murphy
Thanks Lila, your success encouraged me to try and you were quite right that your win partition is pretty safe with freebsd fdisk. Unfortunately the install failed saying: Write failure on transfer! (wrote 77187 bytes of 1425408 bytes) And loads of errors like the following were shown on the

Re: Using 'incorrect' HD geometry.

2006-03-16 Thread John Murphy
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Write failure on transfer! (wrote 77187 bytes of 1425408 bytes) When I got this error message during install it mean the hard drive had a bad spot on it. This had nothing to do with the hd geometry used. Bet your hd is udma 33. Think this is a bug in fbsd

Re: Using 'incorrect' HD geometry.

2006-03-16 Thread John Murphy
Mr J. Happy Chappy here, just noting a few observations: Jerry McAllister's and Lila's suggestions were quite right that the installer's fdisk would not affect the other partitions on the HD if it's allowed to just do its thing. Its interpretation of the geometry was entirely useful.

Re: Trouble searching mailing list archives

2006-03-16 Thread John Murphy
Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can always use Google with 'site:lists.freebsd.org your key words' I usually find the interface below most usefullest (sp): http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.questions?hl=en -- John. ___

Re: Trouble searching mailing list archives

2006-03-17 Thread John Murphy
Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Murphy wrote: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can always use Google with 'site:lists.freebsd.org your key words' I usually find the interface below most usefullest (sp): http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.questions?hl=en Thanks

Re: Trouble searching mailing list archives

2006-03-17 Thread John Murphy
The archive at gmane seems quite useful and it's searchable here: http://search.gmane.org/?query=email=group=gmane.os.freebsd.questionssort=relevanceDEFAULTOP=andxP=compat5.xFILTERS=Gos.freebsd.questions---A It's fast too. (Sorry about the long URL). -- John.

moused doesn't respond to small movements

2006-03-20 Thread John Murphy
If I move my mouse slowly the pointer doesn't move. It moves ok for faster movements but it's impossible to accurately point at something. (no problem with the same hardware under win2k) I tried setting the report rate with: # moused -F 1000 -p /dev/psm0 I tried -F 1 too, but neither made any

Re: clock drifts after upgrade from 5.x to 6.x

2006-03-21 Thread John Murphy
Alfred Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have upgraded 4 different machines from various FreeBSD versions of 5 to various versions of 6 and 3 of the machines has a problem where the clock will drift very quickly slowing about 2 seconds per minute. Interesting. Were all the upgrades

Re: ipfilter nat redirect

2006-03-21 Thread John Murphy
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a web server on my private lan that I want to be accessible from the public internet. dc0 is the interface facing the public internet I added this rdr rule after the map rules at the end of my nat file. rdr dc0 0/0 port 80 - 10.0.10.4 port 8080 also

Re: Proper Method of Time Sync? (added: time server choices)

2006-04-18 Thread John Murphy
Murray Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also read this http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ For how not to do it !! What a sorry tale! I had previously read about some of Poul's time-geek activities. So sad that his efforts should be vandalised like that. Unbelievable that some people think

Do you always type in a full screen of garbage?

2006-04-27 Thread John Murphy
I've only used FreeBSD since 3.0 and I'm still proud to be a newbie. I do what it tells me and whenever I install '6.0 and choose the ssh server option, I always enter exactly 1 screen of garbage :) It's something I *can* do well!!!11 -- John. ___

Re: device ath compile in kernel

2006-05-01 Thread John Murphy
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:42:05 -0500 Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: How do I add my ath card ? Loading it from /boot/loader.conf goes well, but I want it in the kernel. I've got the following: # wLAN stuff device

20 Ierrs/sec on ath0 (no traffic)

2006-05-07 Thread John Murphy
I've recently installed a D-Link DWL-G520 PCI card in my Soekris Net4801. It's configured to use ipsec and seems to work very well except 'Daily' reports an ever increasing number of 'Ierrs' far in excess of 'Ipkts' and 'Opkts'. Without any traffic on the card the counter seems to increment by

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2006-05-08 Thread John Murphy
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is giving me problems for some reason. I've put the floppy images on a Debian box in my office and dd'd onto a floppy. The boot.flp worked but then with the kern1.flp - which I dd'd onto the same floppy as boot.flp had gone on, get this after a while:

Re: searching

2004-10-24 Thread John Murphy
P Stalidis wrote: hello, I'm trying to find one of the earliest versions of freeBSD... 1.0 would be fine! I'm trying to get an intel i386sx33 with only 1mb of ram, up and running again... so any help is welcome thanks in advance :) There's an ftp search engine at

Re: FBSD 5.3 + Nvidia drivers

2004-11-10 Thread John Murphy
Cargnini wrote: Someone knows if the driver is working on 5.3 release ? Yes. I installed the nvidia driver from ports (/usr/ports/X11/nvidia-driver). I must apply all the patchs like in 5.2.1, in 5.3 ?? No. If you use the port it even makes an entry in /boot/loader.conf for you. Change the

Re: Kernel 5.3 error tryring to compile it

2004-11-12 Thread John Murphy
Cargnini wrote: hi i'm trrying to compile the new kernel 5.3 and i received the following error during compilation(please someone could know what it is ): udbp.o(.text+0x40c): In function `udbp_attach': : undefined reference to `ng_newtype' Did you enable the following line? GENERIC has it

Re: bootonly.iso?

2004-11-13 Thread John Murphy
Matthew T. Lager wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: I have successfully burned iso CDs from FreeBSD files, so I know my process for burning the CDs works. I burned Release 5.3's bootonly.iso file to a CD. When I put that CD back into my Windows machine that burned it, it is recognized as a blank CD.

Re: Natd/Gateway=yes vs 5.3

2004-11-14 Thread John Murphy
Francisco Reyes wrote: Migrating a 4.10 box. Copied data to a second drive. Installed 5.3 Changed kernel to add options IPFIREWALL options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=50 options IPDIVERT In /etc/rc.conf have firewall_enable=YES

Re: Kernel compilation failed in 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-14 Thread John Murphy
Robert Kot wrote (quoting Subhro): Recvsup and rebuild. Did you change anything in /etc/make.conf? No, absolutely not. This is my /etc/make.conf: # -- use.perl generated deltas -- # # Created: Wed Nov 10 22:37:45 2004 # Setting to use base perl from ports: PERL_VER=5.8.5 PERL_VERSION=5.8.5

Unintelligible messages in list archive.

2005-06-16 Thread John Murphy
Occasional archive reader wondering what happened here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=992851+0+current/freebsd-questions and here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=826734+0+current/freebsd-questions -- John. ___

Linking to the html docs on a system?

2005-06-16 Thread John Murphy
What's the best/easiest way to make all the html documentation on a FreeBSD server available from the DocRoot directory of an http server? (boa on 5.4) A 'one liner' would be great. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problems compiling sample OpenGL apps .

2004-11-16 Thread John Murphy
Karel Miklav wrote: Anybody here doing OpenGL development on FreeBSD? I need a 3D engine and there's nothing in the Ports. It looks like I'll have to port Irrlicht or Ogre, if none comes with a better idea :) IANAD but there's a game called cube in the ports which seems to use a good 3D engine

Anything stronger than hw.ata.ata_dma=0?

2006-08-30 Thread John Murphy
I'm trying to get a Kingston 1GB 50x 'elite pro' Compact Flash working as ad1 initially, and then move it to ad0 to install FreeBSD-6.1 on it. The hardware is an Soekris net4801 and it's known that CF cards usually only work in PIO mode. A line in /boot/loader.conf saying: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 is

Re: cups-1.3.3 not compiling anymore in FreeBSD 7.0

2007-10-02 Thread John Murphy
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:32:33 + O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Since several days all my FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT boxes are incapable of upgrading cups-base port with the follwoing error. Can anyone help? Thanks a lot, Regards, Oliver I get a similar error while trying to

Can't build kdelibs. Errors in cups-util.c

2007-10-03 Thread John Murphy
Can't build kdelibs. Errors in cups-util.c I posted to the cups-1.3.3 not compiling anymore in FreeBSD 7.0 thread because this seemed a similar (cups) problem to that one. http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071002233308.06dfa5bd For the full details. The errors are: cups-util.c: In function

Re: Can't build kdelibs. Errors in cups-util.c

2007-10-03 Thread John Murphy
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't build kdelibs. Errors in cups-util.c I posted to the cups-1.3.3 not compiling anymore in FreeBSD 7.0 thread because this seemed a similar (cups) problem to that one. http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi

Re: unable to install XFree86

2007-10-10 Thread John Murphy
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:23:26 +0800 williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 # make install. == XFree86-3.3.6_11 is marked as broken: Does not build on FreeBSD =6.x. *** Error code 1 Is that means, the XFree86 should not install and run on my newly installed

Re: offline installation of Xorg - Re: unable to install XFree86

2007-10-10 Thread John Murphy
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:37:26 +0800 williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I install Xorg, if there is no internet connection ? I means offline installation of Xorg ? I got a lot error codes, relating to accessing the http sites. Please advise. Thank you. Presuming you have

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread John Murphy
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:39:19 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James writes: Add yourself to wheel (which is the root group on FreeBSD, a name I believe it inherited from earlier BSDs, but I've no idea what the justification for choosing 'wheel' is; any BSD historians

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread John Murphy
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:33:57 +0100 Donovan R. Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it

Re: pkgdb -Ff and autoconf question...how do I respond?

2007-10-27 Thread John Murphy
I have a similar problem with gnu-automake, it seems to be required by the kde meta port: # pkg_info | grep kde-3 kde-3.5.7 The meta-port for KDE kdeartwork-xscreensaver-kde-3.5.7 Support for xscreensaver blankers in KDE # pkg_info | grep gnu-aut gnu-automake-1.10 GNU

Re: Virtualization

2007-10-31 Thread John Murphy
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:57:20 +0100 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: I was curious with the information coming out regarding FreeBSD 7 what option are available for virtualizing other OS's using FreeBSD as a host. Extremely limited. I've been running several

Re: Virtualization

2007-11-01 Thread John Murphy
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:21:41 +1100 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:09:20 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a clue to a cure, but qemu was dropping cores when I tried it recently. Tried bochs too; I quite like it. Hi john, how do you find

Re: not sure which list for 7beta items...

2007-11-03 Thread John Murphy
On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:03:38 -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now that 7.0 is in official beta, which list should i post to concerning issues im having (specifically, unreliability of the built-in iwi driver)? thanks, There seems to be a fair number of 7.0 questions on

Amarok crashes X (since portupgrade)

2007-11-29 Thread John Murphy
Testing 7.0 beta2 so I should upgrade to beta3, but all was working well until I portupgraded yesterday. Now amarok shuts down X server: Nov 30 00:14:37 asus kdm-bin[1146]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly I get a couple of lines of text if I start it from an xterm, but they are

Re: Amarok crashes X (since portupgrade)

2007-11-29 Thread John Murphy
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:30:22 -0500 Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:47:01 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Testing 7.0 beta2 so I should upgrade to beta3, but all was working well until I portupgraded yesterday. Now amarok shuts down X server: Nov

What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-11-30 Thread John Murphy
I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my shell in single user mode. It grumbled about termcap (I think) and then gave me a

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread John Murphy
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread John Murphy
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:46:12 + Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:15:26PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-02 Thread John Murphy
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Murphy wrote: [after pressing 4 at the Beasty menu] Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s2a Enter full path name of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: /bin/tcsh sh: Cannot open /etc/termcap sh: using dumb

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-07 Thread John Murphy
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:53:02 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount /

Re: Release 7.0 Beta2

2007-12-09 Thread John Murphy
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:36:47 -0800 Srinivasa R Kanduru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 Beta2 on a dell x86 machine which doesn't have any PS2 ports. The installer expects a PS2 keyboard I think. The USB port is disabled for some reason and it is not possible

Re: Kernel compile problems

2007-12-14 Thread John Murphy
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:23:41 -0500 (EST) O-ren-ishi-i [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I use this kernel config file (follows below): syntactical the configuration appears ok.I get no errors here. When compiling the kernel I get errors as soon as the modules are being build. I then

Re: flash

2007-07-02 Thread John Murphy
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 21:54:51 -0300 Anton Galitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I tried flash9 and flash7, the flash9 just crashes, and flash7 shows a grey square in the place where the flash application should be showed. I tried both, linux-firefox, and nspluginwrapper methods, it shows the

Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-05 Thread John Murphy
Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'? Seem to recall it occurring when I deleted the directory I was 'in'. I may have imagined it though! -- John. ___

Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-06 Thread John Murphy
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:46:52PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'? I remember seeing that error message somewhere

nVidia port build failure in ldconfig

2007-04-29 Thread John Murphy
While trying to build /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-9631 from a freshly csup'd ports tree, it stopped with the following error: === Installing for linux-expat-1.95.8 === linux-expat-1.95.8 depends on file: /compat/linux/etc/fedora-release - found === Generating temporary packing list ===

Re: nVidia port build failure in ldconfig

2007-04-30 Thread John Murphy
Garrett Cooper wrote: John Murphy wrote: While trying to build /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-9631 from a freshly csup'd ports tree, it stopped with the following error: === Installing for linux-expat-1.95.8 === linux-expat-1.95.8 depends on file: /compat/linux/etc/fedora-release - found

Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

2007-04-30 Thread John Murphy
Victor Engmark wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to create a pristine xorg.conf, but I've been unable to find proper values for HorizSync and VertRefresh for my Dell Latitude D610. I've tried the values presented in MonitorsDB

FreeBSD superkaramba

2007-06-24 Thread John Murphy
Are there any superkaramba themes designed for FreeBSD? I've tried a few, but they all seem to be designed for Linux (hda eth0 etc). Also, any pointers to where their configuration files are stored under the fbsd file hierarchy would be gratefully received. I've seen some under ~/.superkaramba,

Re: make buildkernel ERROR ?Why?

2006-06-21 Thread John Murphy
Jordi Pavon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The configuration File is attached, sorry for the Hotmail editor. You have the umass device enabled which, as it says, requires scbus and da. Either remark the umass line or unremark the scbus and da lines in the SCSI peripherals section. Also, as you

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread John Murphy
adrian esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've been trying to install FBSD on my computer, but I keep getting an error message that I have absolutely no idea what it means. This is what I get when I hit Alt+F2 DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-27 Thread John Murphy
adrian esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had similar errors reported when I tried to install FreeBSD from a CDRom drive which was connected to the motherboard with a standard udma(33?) ribbon cable (Yes write errors). Make sure your connectors are the better 80 conductor ones. Thanks John but

mono-addins-0.3.1 port fails with Error 1

2008-05-31 Thread John Murphy
I'm trying to get the software for an open source software defined radio project, which is written in c#, working on FreeBSD. I've applied to join the BSD# mailing list, but have not received a response as yet. I need mono-develop (it's actually merged into the ports framework after using the