Re: [#24529544] Re: Network sort of stops working with the em (intel) driver under load.

[mark rowlands]

> Ticket subject: Re: Network sort of stops working with the em (intel) driver 
> under  load.
> Ticket number: 24529544
> Ticket link: https://secure.mpcustomer.com/ticket.php?ticket=24529544
> Ticket body: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:30 PM, mark rowlands 
>  wrote:
>> Newly built and cvsupped system,with GENERIC kernel,  when copying
>> large amounts of data over a gigabit link via scp  the network  will
>> hang after a couple of gig.  I can then no longer login via ssh. If I
>> leave it be, after about 12-24 hours I can then login again. (A reboot
>> of course fixes the issue immediately...) .
>
> snip...
>
> I can now confirm that a similar copy to the vr card does not cause
> the same problem... so it would appear
> more likely that it might be an em related problem.

and after replacing the em0 with a realtek gigabit card, the problem
also does not occur. (the vr0 was only 100mb)
So it would seem there is something hinky with at least the em (82540) card .
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Re: Network sort of stops working with the em (intel) driver under load.

[mark rowlands]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:30 PM, mark rowlands  wrote:
> Newly built and cvsupped system,with GENERIC kernel,  when copying
> large amounts of data over a gigabit link via scp  the network  will
> hang after a couple of gig.  I can then no longer login via ssh. If I
> leave it be, after about 12-24 hours I can then login again. (A reboot
> of course fixes the issue immediately...) .

snip...

I can now confirm that a similar copy to the vr card does not cause
the same problem... so it would appear
more likely that it might be an em related problem.
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Network sort of stops working with the em (intel) driver under load.

[mark rowlands]

Newly built and cvsupped system,with GENERIC kernel,  when copying
large amounts of data over a gigabit link via scp  the network  will
hang after a couple of gig.  I can then no longer login via ssh. If I
leave it be, after about 12-24 hours I can then login again. (A reboot
of course fixes the issue immediately...) .

The system is very vanilla, only accf_http in loader.conf. No sysctl
tuning done, no firewall hankypanky.

pciconf -lv | grep -A4 ^em
e...@pci0:3:4:0: class=0x02 card=0x001e8086 chip=0x100e8086 rev=0x02 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82540EM)'
class  = network
subclass   = ethernet

em0:  port
0xec00-0xec3f mem 0xfeae-0xfeaf,0xff irq 17 at device 4.0 on
pci3

Suggestions as to where I could look for more information as to the
precise nature of the problem gratefully received.  Current plan is to
purchase another variety of gigabit card to see if it is specific to
the intel card.

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pcib2:  irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci0
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pci3:  on pcib3
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0xec00-0xec3f mem 0xfeae-0xfeaf,0xfeac-0xfead irq 17
at device 4.0 on pci3
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Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

[Mark Rowlands]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 18:42, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote:
>  but freebsd mostly
> used as a server. not much suitable for PC usage.

I really dislike this canard, I have run FreeBSD on  a laptop since 3.4
and support for the hardware has generally been adequate, I guess
it depends what you want to use it for. I wouldn't choose FreeBSD as an 
operating system for a media centre.
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Re: Good idea or Bad idea?

[Mark Rowlands]

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 23:09, Mike Hernandez wrote:
...
> I have no trouble following docs, so I'm not really worried about blowing
> everything up in the process (even though I might haha...) I'm just
> wondering if there are any real (noticeable) performance increases if I
> build my kernel and base system from source. Of course either way my ports
> will be compiled.

There are definitely security benefits from stripping unwanted services from 
your system and I rather like to know that my system (and ports) are up to 
date with the latest patches which occasionally requires that you rebuild 
everything. 

I would imagine that there is some very minor perfomance benefit in that my 
new kernel and all its bits and pieces is 22mb smaller than the default 
shipped in RELENG_6

 18M./kernel
 42M./kernel.old


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save-entropy on 6.0 release bit sensitive to rc.conf

[Mark Rowlands]

I enabled inetd in my usually sloppy fashion in 6.0 release

(which so far is making me smile in a way i haven't since
4.something, three cheers for the developers hip hip..)

inetd_enable="YES"# -- enabled inetd 10-11-2005 -- mwr

(note the missing space between " and #.

this does not break startup 

However it definitely breaks /usr/libexec/save-entropy causing a 
"-- not found message"

Further investigation showed that

inetd_enable="YES"#-- enabled inetd 10-11-2005 -- mwr

gives a  "enabled  not found" message

man rc.conf gives no guidance as to proper use of # comments in rc.conf
(cf man (5)  newsyslog.conf)

but I guess folks should know? or am i being picky?

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Re: ipfw or pf

[Mark Rowlands]

On Sunday 13 March 2005 09:16, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:41:23PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
> >  Le 03/03/2005 ? 13:07:53-0800, Loren M. Lang a ?crit
> >
> > > > Well it's not de syntaxes, I always use packet filter system
> > > > (sometime on hardware like Foundry/Cisco) where the rule is : First
> > > > match first use. And the pf use entire rules is very strange for me
> > > > (I known I can use ?quick? butwell it's not the philosophy I
> > > > think).
> > >
> > > I like first match better too, but I think pf is sufficiently better
> > > that I just use it with quick over ipfw.
> >
> > Better on what ?
>
> More security features like srubbing packets.  This can look for errors
> like bad tcp flag combinations that some port scanners might use.  Also,
> it is just more flexible by using tables for matches that can even be
> updated dynamically.  ipf and ipfw would require a completely new rule
> to change the firewall.  Tables can be used to, say, keep track of a
> blacklist of ip address like the ones that keep trying to log into ssh
> accounts on my server that don't exist

man ipfw 

 ipfw table number add addr[/masklen] [value]
 ipfw table number delete addr[/masklen]
 ipfw table number flush
 ipfw table number list



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Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

[Mark Rowlands]

On Saturday 12 February 2005 12:46, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
> > I don't see why you are so proud of not doing this.  Is it your
> > intention to cause problems for companies that want to use FreeBSD
> > in their products?  This sort of thing is exactly what the
> > chicken littles like Anthony are talking about.
>
> It surprises and worries me that anyone does it, for precisely the
> reasons that you describe.  Should I ever contribute code to FreeBSD,
> I'll just assign the copyright, or release the code to the public
> domain.  I have to wonder about the motivations of someone who says he
> wants to contribute to a Great Cause but then insists on retaining his
> copyright.
>
> Remember that in some jurisdictions, copyright reverts to the author
> after a certain number of years, no matter what he says to the contrary.
> This includes the U.S.; see 17 USC 203.

from the mailling list info :-

freebsd-chatNon-technical items related to the FreeBSD community

freebsd-questions   User questions and technical support

I think it should be clear where this conversation belongs. 
The issues you are discussing are emphatically non-technical.

Please?
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Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

[Mark Rowlands]

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 21:06, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Chad Morland wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:48:19 +, Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> See the thread "The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition
> >> for the new logo design. " in -advocacy - I've already replied
> >> with
> >> my views on the subject, along the same lines as your comments.
> >
> > I'm not subscribed to -advocacy can you provide me with an archive
> > link to this thread in question? I wasn't able to find it based on the
> > subject you provided.
>
> Put "freebsd advocacy" into Google, click on the link for the list,
> click on the link for the archive, and check out February's posts.
>
> There are a total of 4 posts listed, 3 of them with the Subject:
>
>   The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new
> logo design. 
>
> How hard was that ?
>
please take this thread elsewhere...anywhere
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Re: Failed Install Gigabyte motherboard w/RAID

[Mark Rowlands]

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 20:45, Richard Blanchard wrote:
> Hello,
>   I have been trying to install FreeBSD on my machine with a new
> motherboard with built in hardware RAID and the installation freezes at
> system probing. Is there a known way around this problem? The motherboard
> is a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 (Rev 2.0). I have configured two Seagate 160GB
> IDE drives for RAID 1, have a PCI video card and PCI modem installed. I
> also tried to install the operating system with the RAID turned off and
> one hard drive on IDE 0 but the installation also failed. Any suggestions?
>
> Sincerely,
> Richard Blanchard

indicating which version of freebsd would be a fine place to start
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Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

[Mark Rowlands]

On Sunday 06 February 2005 12:24, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
>
> TM> In a clean room or positive pressure network room, where there is
> TM> an extremely low level of dust, off-the-shelf computer fans will
> TM> last many years longer than fans in a typical home PC.
>
> What about filters?  On my current FreeBSD server (not in a clean room,
> alas!), the fans that I installed have washable plastic filters, which
> removes part of the dust.  I'd love to find disposable filters that
> capture more dust and can simply be tossed at regular intervals.
> Ideally, they wouldn't interfere with airflow too much, but I realize
> that catching all dust and maintaining airflow are almost mutually
> exclusive.

I use my gfs tights...  christ...  I hope she's not subscribed here as 
well
>
> Currently I have two 8-cm fans blowing directly past the disk drives, in
> order to keep them as cool as possible (not that the drives are that
> busy, but I'm trying to be prudent).
>
> TM> For PC's left on for long periods, they have a different problem
> TM> because disk drives that spin at full speed continuiously (as
> TM> server drives do, servers have power saving disabled on their
> TM> drives of course for obvious reasons) the disk will eventually
> TM> overheat in just about all the garden-variety case designs.
> TM> (you can fix this yourself of course, by adding more fans to
> TM> the cases)  Once the drive overheats the lubrication migrates
> TM> out of the bearings and if the drive is turned off for more
> TM> than 6-8 hours, it cools down enough to the point that the drive
> TM> will never spin up again.
>
> Interesting!  Have you actually had this happen?  I've had drives fail
> on restart but not because they wouldn't spin up (as far as I know).

yup.. but only on old scsi drives

> I've had drives fail very quickly when I've packed too many of them into
> a single case (as in weeks or months).  We needed the additional space
> and we were lucky to get the drives--asking for more fans or a better
> case or anything like that would have been an exercise in futility.

jeez how much does a fan cost?
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Re: Leaving a Computer Running ?

[Mark Rowlands]

>
> My FreeBSD server runs continuously because it has to: it holds my Web
> site, my e-mail server, my DNS server, my NTP server, etc.  The other
> machines run continuously because it's more convenient and because I
> worry about machines not coming back up again if I power-cycle them.
>
my machines run continuously 'cause I'm just to lazy too go and switch em off.

I am however noticing an increasing tendency for modern hi-speed ata drives
to fail at around warranty date + x for increasingly small values of x which 
cause me to rethink my laziness
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Re: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATA RAID on ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe

[Mark Rowlands]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 15:38, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is anyone using the Silicon Image SiI 3114 controller on an ASUS P5GD2
> Deluxe motherboard?  AFAICS, FreeBSD 5.3 supports the controller, but
> I can't seem to get the installer to see the SATA RAID 1 array that I
> set up using the BIOS.  The only disks in the system are two identical
> 200G Seagate drives, and I used the in-ROM Silicon Image setup utility
> to create a RAID 1 array with them.  When I boot using a 5.3
> installation CD, it sees the SiI 3114 controller, but then presents me
> with ad4 and ad6 as separate drives.  It seems my problem is much like
> the one described here:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2004-September/002082.html
>
> However, despite using atacontrol as described, I could not get ar0 to
> persist across a reboot.
>
> Is anyone using this particular motherboard?

search  on -current ...there has been discussion about this
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Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt

[Mark Rowlands]

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:08, Robert Huff wrote:
> Karol Kwiatkowski writes:
> >  Someone else should comment on that, but I think updating (cvsup)
> >  ports tree once a week should be often enough to track changes
> >  and rare enough to not overload mirrors.
>
>   The other theory involves more frequent (i,e, daily) but
> presumably smaller updates.
>   On the gripping hand ... I'm not convinced the mirrors are
> in danger of overload except possibly at the end of a ports freeze.
>
>

an alternative is to subscribe to freshports  portswatch service and be 
notified  of changes to your installed ports and update accordingly.

fastest_cvsup (from the ports collection natch) can also be employed to locate 
the  fastest cvsup server for you
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Re: OT: 3Ware RAID Controller ...

[Mark Rowlands]

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 18:08, Richard Collyer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> From what I can tell its standard PCI 64bit. I could be wrong though but
> unless they are shouting about it being PCI-E or PCI-Express then you
> could probably assume that it isnt either.
>
> 3ware PCI to SATA RAID Controller Card, Model "9500S-4LP" - Retail
> Model# 9500S-4LP
> Specifications:
> Ports: 4x Serial ATA
> Interface: PCI 2.2 compliant 64-bit/66MHz bus master
> RAID Levels: 0, 1, 10, 5, Single Disk (JBOD)
>
> http://www.3ware.com/products/pdf/9000_DS_101904.pdf
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:31:30 -0400 (AST)
>
> "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Can someone tell me whether or not the 3Ware 9500S-4LP is a PCI-X or
> > PCI-Express card?  I'm trying to get the right riser for my chassis for
> > this, and can't find anywhere on the 3ware site that states which :(
> >
> > thanks ...
> >
 
and the pages around it are interesting
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Re: 5.3 interrupt storm (atapicam) and I/O error

[Mark Rowlands]

On Saturday 29 January 2005 05:30, ad5gb wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Not sure what to think about this yet but it definitely has something to do
> with having my ATAPI CD connected to the 2nd channel of my Promise Ultra
> 133 TX2 adapter (PDC20269).  If I disconnect the cable from channel 2 the
> kernel will boot with atapicam enabled.  I don't seem to be able to use my
> motherboard's embedded EIDE controller with the Promise adapter installed. 
> I don't see any obvious I/O or interrupt conflicts, but I also don't have
> too much control over it with this old SuperMicro mainboard.
>
> Seems odd to me though, since this all worked on 5.2.1.  Open for
> suggestions, but for now I'm going to try to track down the SCSI I/O error
> problem so I can get some CD burning done (critical system backups) and
> then I'll see if I can try to figure out if this is an EIDE driver issue or
> a atapicam issue.
>
> If anyone comes up with anything in the meantime... please YELL!
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> --
> Randall D. DuCharme (Radio AD5GB)
>
> Powered by FreeBSD!
> The Power to Serve
>
>
>
>  --- On Fri 01/28, Daniel S. Haischt < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> wrote: From: Daniel S. Haischt [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:37:21 +0100
> Subject: Re: 5.3 interrupt storm (atapicam) and I/O error
>
> I don't know whether this is related to your issue,but on one of my
> boxes I am also getting an interruptstorm with atapicam
> enabled.On FreeBSD 5.2.1 I did not experience any
> interruptstorm issues, even if using the same hardware
> configuration.Have a look at the attached text file for a
> detaileddescription ...Olivier Certner schrieb:>  Hi,>
> >  Could you give a look at my post dated 04/01/2005 entitled "Freeze
> with CAM > (using KsCD)"? Maybe we have fallen on the same kind of bug
> concerning > atapicam.> >  If you have KDE, maybe you should
> try to reproduce the problem I had. I've no > time to test your
> scenario (the one with the EIDE drive, I don't have SCSI) > now, but
> I'll try to reproduce it at the beginning of next week, in order to >
> see if the freeze happens also on my computer.> >  Hope this will
> help us to progress on our issues.> >  Regards,> >  
> Olivier> ___ >

I am also having a shitload of problems on my newly installed 5.3 box (which 
was a happy camper under 4.x. I have a promise tx2 100 board. there are a 
pair of disks with a geom stripe over them,  Under heavy i/o the system 
either freezes or crashes. I will have some time later next week to 
investigate but I am really inclined to use the time to revert to 4.11.
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Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

[Mark Rowlands]

 

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Anthony Atkielski
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:51 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: *** SPAMMY *** Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU
> 
> Colin J. Raven writes:
> 
> CJR> Eh? Surely you don't meant trashed - physically annihilated?
> 
> Absolutely.  That's the only safe way to protect data.  Any 
> disk drive with platters that are even remotely intact can 
> still be read.
> 
> I have yet to throw away any disk drives for this reason 
> (can't find a convenient place to have them destroyed).
> 

I find installing windows on them does the trick
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RE: Torrent Program

[Mark Rowlands]

Bittornado  is in the ports

Works fine and doesn't require linux  and java and god knows what else
to run. 

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hunter
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 5:35 PM
> To: Warren
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Torrent Program
> 
> On Jan 20, "Warren" wrote:
> 
> > Im chasing a GUI Torrent program that will allow multiple 
> downloads of 
> > torrents without having to re-open the d/l program for each new 
> > torrent.  If anyone knows of such a program please let me know(not 
> > QTorrent)
> 
> I haven't tried this Java client on FBSD, but it claims to 
> run on linux:
> 
> http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
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Where to report successful hardware configurations

[Mark Rowlands]

I recently got the opportunity to get a Lacie external firewire disk and
interface card
cheap. I configured firewire into my kernel, rebooted, and was
pleased...and surprised
when it actually worked. I was surprised because extensive trawling of
google and the
bsd mailing lists gave no indication of whether it would or wouldd not
work.


So the question is

Where do you report such happy accidents so that this can be documented
as functional?
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RE: Gnome without the stuff?

[Mark Rowlands]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Robert William Vesterman
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:32 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Gnome without the stuff?
> 
> Mark Rowlands wrote:
> 
> >/usr/ports/www/firefox
> >/usr/ports/www/epiphany
> >/usr/ports/mail/evolution
> >/usr/ports/games/gnome-music-quiz
> >/usr/ports/games/gnomeattacks
> >/usr/ports/games/gnomebreakout
> >/usr/ports/games/gnomechess
> >/usr/ports/games/gnomegames2
> >/usr/ports/games/gnomegames2-extra-data
> >/usr/ports/games/gnomekiss
> >/usr/ports/games/gnomememoryblocks
> >/usr/ports/games/gnomermin
> >
> >Sure they have dependencies, you might need X
> >  
> >
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding something fundamental.  Is "Gnome" 
> nothing more than the collection of applications like 
> Evolution and Epiphany and the little game with the colored 
> marbles? I thought it was a GUI environment, not an application suite.

As the BSD package states :-

GNU Network Object Model Environment

This metaport installs the entire GNOME 2 desktop, including
the the most common user applications.  Other popular GNOME
applications can be installed from the other GNOME 2 metaports:

* x11/gnome2-fifth-toe
* x11/gnome2-power-tools
* editors/gnome2-office
* devel/gnome2-hacker-tools

WWW: http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/


> Now, I understand that epiphany and so forth can be installed 
> via their own ports.  But the "gnome2" package installs 
> epiphany and evolution and gnomegames and assorted other 
> gnomecrappitycrap (I'm sure it's wonderful stuff, no offense 
> intended by this choice of words).  Gnome2 "depends" 
> upon the little game with the colored marbles.  But I just 
> want the Gnome desktop without that game, and so forth.

Nja Now I see.. In that case I would start hacking at
the Makefile in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite - take out a few
Of those runtime dependencies.  
 
> But if I'm right that Gnome is nothing more than 
> gnomecrappitycrap et al, then maybe what I'm really looking 
> for would be the Windows Manager that Gnome uses by default? 
> That is, Metacity? Maybe?

Sawfish perhaps?

> I'm sorry if these are stupid questions - I'm mostly new to 
> this, and am confused as to the roles of (Gnome/KDE/Whatever) 
> versus (Metacity/WindowMaker/Whatever).

Nope... Not stupid KDE / Gnome provide fully featured
desktops out of the box so to speak, I prefer to use a window
manager appropriate to the task/capabilities of the machine I
am using. Usually windowmaker or xfce but I have KDE on my laptop
to show windows folks - I also have XP on my laptop to show unix
folks ;-)  

> 
> >Personally I want the moon on a stick.
> >  
> >
> I'm sorry, I can't help you with that.
> 

Goddamnis there no one pit there that can help me that.
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RE: Gnome without the stuff?

[Mark Rowlands]

 

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:29 AM
> To: Robert William Vesterman
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Gnome without the stuff?
> 
> Robert William Vesterman wrote:
> 
> > I installed the Gnome2 port, and it installed a whole lot of stuff 
> > that I wasn't expecting, including stuff that I don't know 
> what it is, 
> > and also stuff that I never intend to use.
> >
> > Is there a way to install just a "basic" Gnome, without all 
> the stuff?
> > That is, the default applications of various types? If I want 
> > Evolution, or Epiphany, or games, or blah blah blah, I 
> would like to 
> > just install that specific thing myself when I decide that 
> I want it.  
> > But if I want to use Firefox, I'm not interested in having 
> Epiphany installed.
> >

/usr/ports/www/firefox
/usr/ports/www/epiphany
/usr/ports/mail/evolution
/usr/ports/games/gnome-music-quiz
/usr/ports/games/gnomeattacks
/usr/ports/games/gnomebreakout
/usr/ports/games/gnomechess
/usr/ports/games/gnomegames2
/usr/ports/games/gnomegames2-extra-data
/usr/ports/games/gnomekiss
/usr/ports/games/gnomememoryblocks
/usr/ports/games/gnomermin

Sure they have dependencies, you might need X

Personally I want the moon on a stick.


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RE: Make search dead in ports?

[Mark Rowlands]

 

> -Original Message-
> From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:29 PM
> To: Mark Rowlands
> Cc: Kris Kennaway; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Make search dead in ports?
> 
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:16:13PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 10:47:58AM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote:
> > > > > > Sometime fairly recently, make search in  ports
> > > stopped working.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I have installed sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex-1.1 so I
> > > > > suspected this
> > > > > > was the villain but after removing INDEX and INDEX.db and
> > > > > doing a make
> > > > > > index and portsdb -Uu make search still doesnt work.
> > > > > 
> > > > > "Doesn't work" isn't a helpful description of the error.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Kris
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > That's true...sorry...stupid hat was on
> > > > 
> > > > zero result...no error.. 
> > > 
> > > Can you do a 'ls -l /usr/ports/INDEX*' for me?
> > > 
> > > Kris
> > 
> > Haha...you suspect I may be an idiot  ;-)...
> > S'ok...it's not the first time..and I suspect not entirely 
> > grounded in fiction
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   6296046 Nov 28 05:37 /usr/ports/INDEX
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13681664 Nov 28 05:43 /usr/ports/INDEX.db
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13650944 Nov 26 05:22 
> /usr/ports/INDEX.db.old
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   6278054 Nov 26 05:21 
> /usr/ports/INDEX.old
> > 
> > Other factors that may be of interest.  Same problem does 
> not occur on  
> > my 5.3 machine :-  cvsupped today and installed p5-portindex.
> > Make search works, Deleted INDEX* did a make index and 
> portsdb -uU and 
> > make search works.
> > 
> > Could it be related to which version of DB is in effect?
> > (blind guesswork)
> 
> Does it work if you use 'make fetchindex' to get a pristine index?
> 
> Kris


That works fine
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Make search dead in ports?

[Mark Rowlands]

Sometime fairly recently, make search in  ports stopped working.

I have installed sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex-1.1 so I suspected this
was the villain but after removing INDEX and INDEX.db and doing a make
index and portsdb -Uu make search still doesnt work.



FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Wed Oct  6 21:27:47 CEST 2004
Perl 5.8.5
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RE: Status of high-speed usb drivers

[Mark Rowlands]

>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davon
Shire
>>> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 7:08 PM
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Subject: Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

>>> Hello,
>>>  I want to start this email saying I'm a very devoted FreeBSD user.
>>> I've been using it a very long time. Did the subscription thing. Etc

>>> etc
>>> 
>>>  That said, I'd very much like to know where on the horizon do USB 
>>> 2.0 highspeed drivers sit? I've seen that current is now into 6.0
but 
>>> from what I've read USB functionality is not even on the agenda.

>> -- 
>> Message: 21 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:47:12 +0100 
>> From: Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers 
>> To: Davon Shire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii * 
>> Davon Shire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1044 15:44]:

>> It's already in. man 4 ehci.

> Perhaps I'm not understanding my difficulty with this. As Mr Davies
seems to
> think that a man page is going to contain the answer I have asked for
in this
> post.

>  Having used FreeBSD for a Very long time I can appreciate Mr Davies
research
> skills. However this does not in any way answer my question so let me 
> restate.

An unkind soul might suggest then that by now you should have learned to
format
mail sensibly and ask "good" questions.

> I have at no time been able to get High-Speed functionality out of my
USB 2.0
> Drives. When the umass driver loads I'm happily informed that I will
be 
> getting essentially fullspeed from the device in question.

> ohci, uhci, ehci, umass modules are loaded. Devices hooked directly to
ehci 
> connectors identify which of course they wouldn't if the ehci module
didn't 
> load.

> Perhaps the problem is in the umass driver I can't say I know for
sure. but 
> what I do know is I can get High-Speed IO happening on Linux, and in
Windows.
> But it just does not happen in FreeBSD as recent as 5.3Beta-7

> Now after reading this email. I hope people will realise that I'm not
someone
> who writes 'I've been using FreeBSD for a very long time.' to mean I
just
> thought I'd boot up this cool Unix distro called FreeBSD and see if  I
can
> find a bug.

> If I'm very much missing something in how USB 2.0 is suppose to
function in 
> Freebsd. Please let me know. I have requested info about this many
times and
> so many times I get responses very much like Dick Davies gave. 

Well, the a more effective approach might be might be to post a kernel
config,
uname -a and a dmesg, examples of what usb devices you are using and
what
transfer rates you are getting.

However, as the user base of usb using developers is pretty small they
probably
don't have access to the devices you have and so probably your problem
doesn't
scratch any itch that they have.

What I tend to try and avoid is using a bulldozer to take the kids to
daycare.

In other words Linux is well suited to desktop use with lots of odd
funky
device support and should I require that,  I would probably run some
linux
variant. 

My servers run FreeBSD.

I'm not trying to be snotty or anything, this is just the way things
are.
If you have a popular piece of hardware it will probably get support.

Good luck - oh and my Pentax Camera doesn't work at all under 'BSD
nor
my usb-bluetooth dongle ;-)
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Pentax Optio 30 panic under 5.3 beta 6

[Mark Rowlands]

Anyone got one of these working under 5.3 ?

I get an instant panic.

And if not...does anyone know of a usb SD card reader that works
under 5.3? 
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RE: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem

[Mark Rowlands]

> Where exactly are the text strings for F1, F2, F3, F4 stored?

> Now that I know what's what, it's no big deal, but the 
> anal/retentive part of me wants to label F2 suitably.


http://gag.sourceforge.net/
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portupgrade broken?

[Mark Rowlands]

Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: freeciv-gtk2-1.14.1

Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_jk2-apache2-2.0.2

Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_rpaf-ap2-0.5

 Done.

done

[Updating the portsdb  in /usr/ports ... - 11733 port
entries found
.1000.2000.3000.4000.5000...
..6000.7000.8000/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/po
rtsdb.rb:587: [BUG] Bus Error

ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4]

 

got the above on 4-10  with portsdb -uU

 

recvsupped ports ...got same

reinstalled portupgrade . got same

removed /usr/ports/

removed refuse files, cvsupped , got same

 

 

any thoughts?

 

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RE: kde3

[mark rowlands]

This seems to be a bug. the distfile listed does not seem to exist.
I found the source as a tgz, turned it into a bz2 and amended the
distinfo
accordingly. this worked, but I would imagine a patch will be issued

soon.

> -Original Message-
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emre BALCI
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 5:32 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: kde3
> 
> Hello
> I am trying to install kde3 on ports but a depencies
> ImageMagick does not exist in ftp.freebsd thus
> installation aborted
> What can I do ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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RE: laptop pccard ethernet

[mark rowlands]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FreeBSD questions
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: laptop pccard ethernet
> 
> I have a laptop with fbsd 4.10.

Good

> it seems that altho it boots and recognises the PCMCIA ethernet
> card, that it never successfully executes the ifconfig for
> IP number and gateway.

bad

> I have to enter these two commands manually _after_ it completes
> booting, and all ethernet activities are fine after that.

tiresome

> is it possible that during the booting sequence the PC card
> recognition is too late in the process? 

yes
> Are the rc.conf command
> line entries "order specific". (I always thought that they are noa)t.

no
 
> Any tips would be appreciated
> 
> Jim
> --

1) posting your rc.conf, and card details and the relevant bits of dmesg
would help.

But long time since I ran 4.x on my laptop but istr

man pccardd

will tell you about the -z flag

which will delay daemonizing  pccard until it has probed
and attatched to your card 
and a quick snoop around /etc/defaults/rc.conf 
would tell you about pccard_ifconfig="NO"
which I think you either need to set to "DHCP"
or something like 
pccard_ifconfig="inet 192.168.12.100 netmask 255.255.255.0"

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RE: ntop problems with FreeBSD?

[mark rowlands]

I would take this to the ntop mailing list, 
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Supply as much info as possible, Burton likes to see plenty of
detail in any bug reports! 

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RE: cvsup install

[mark rowlands]

man pkg_delete 


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Vaughan
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:51 PM
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Subject: cvsup install

Made a big mistake today.  I was reading in a book that I needed to 
install cvsup for doing updates.  Good.  So, I started installing it.  
Meanwhile I began perusing the FreeBSD website information about cvsup 
and there I read, if you not using a gui, then don't install cvsup, but 
cvsup-without-gui.  So, is there a way to back out the cvsup which I 
did do as it apparently has installed a lot of stuff I don't need on 
this server.
Or do I have to just uninstall all those packages individually?  Is 
there a way then to identify which packages were installed by 
installing cvsup?

Curtis

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RE: 4.10-STABLE

[mark rowlands]

>-Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: 4.10-STABLE

> Needing some help here,

> I'm experincing compatibility issues with Perl and trying
> to reinstall ports/src 

what you want is probably cvsup

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

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RE: win32codecs.tar.bz2

[mark rowlands]

Cvsup your ports system and try again

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html


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Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 5:02 AM
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Subject: win32codecs.tar.bz2

The MPlayer package requires win32codecs to be installed, but when I
"make" 
it, it can not find the package and tells me to copy it to 
"/usr/ports/distfiles/", however, when I do that, it tells me of an
incorrect 
checksum. I find this odd because I "cat"ed the file with the checksums
and 
they look the same (or very similiar, I took a quick snapshot way of
looking 
at it). I do not know what the problem is, could someone help me?

I am running FreeBSD-5.1-Release, upgraded "base" and "ports" collection
(it 
also did the same with the original).

Thank you, if you could help me I would be appriciative of it.

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optio 30 freebsd 5.2.1 p9

[mark rowlands]

Any one had any luck getting this to work under 5.2.1 p9?
It is detected as a pentax pentax optio 30 (that's not a misprint)
but as attatches as ugen0 which I presume means that umass does not
recognize it? 

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RE: FreeBSD v4.10 - Newbie Needs Help - KDE Really Slow !!

[mark rowlands]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DK
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 4:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: FreeBSD v4.10 - Newbie Needs Help - KDE Really Slow !!
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just installed FreeBSD v4.10.
> All installed OK & I choose KDE as the Desktop
> 
> Problem: KDE v3 is reallly SLOW!!
> 
> - Takes 2 minutes to start/load !!

Does dns resolution work? Open up a console and try 
nslookup something.somewhere.com

> - Just opening a simple Console takes almost a minute !!
> - Resolution looks really grainy - as if its 256 colors - Don't know
how
> to change this ???

That is an X configuration issue, not a kde issue. What do you have
in /etc/X11/XF86Config


> My System:
> Pentium 200Mhz
> 128MB RAM
> 16MB PCI Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT

Kde / X are never going to exactly rock with this config




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RE: the most light weight X web browser?

[mark rowlands]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Fleck
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 2:49 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: the most light weight X web browser?
> 
> 'links -g', eh?
> 
>   dcf>$ links -g
>   Unknown option -g
> 
> Some *other* links, perhaps?
> 
> --
> David Fleck
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] : /web1/web1: 03:16 PM:
links -version
Links 2.1pre14
[EMAIL PROTECTED] : /web1/web1: 03:17 PM:
links -help
links [options] URL
Options are:

 -g
  Run in graphics mode.
..
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RE: installed mysql/php/apache but there's no mysql.sock file

[mark rowlands]

 

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Shaun Friedle
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 8:18 PM
> To: chip
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: installed mysql/php/apache but there's no mysql.sock file
> 
> On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 18:42, chip wrote: 
> > I then created a file in /tmp called mysql.sock but mysql 
> still gives 
> > the same error -[error 2002] cannot connect to local mysql server 
> > through /tmp/mysql.sock (2).
> > I read the section in the mysql manual about the socket but 
> don't see 
> > anything about creating this file.
> > How do I fix this?
> 

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start

should do the trick
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RE: installing perl module Net::Netmask

[mark rowlands]

 

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JJB
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG
> Subject: installing perl module Net::Netmask 
> 
> Freebsd 4.9 is delivered with perl all ready installed.
> Just how do I go about installing  module Net::Netmask into 
> the existing Perl software?
> 

I'm gonna hate myself for this.

1) cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
2) make install clean
3) Edit a file  /somewhere/portsup thusly



*default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org
# change it to reflect your nearest mirror!. cvsup.se.freebsd.org
for example
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix

# If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following
line.
*default compress

## Ports Collection.
#
# The easiest way to get the ports tree is to use the "ports-all"
# mega-collection.  It includes all of the individual "ports-*"
# collections,
ports-all



4) cvsup /somewhere/portsup

5) When all that excitement is finished:-  cd /usr/ports

6) make search key=netmask | egrep "Port|Path"
Port:   libmtrie-1.0.3
Path:   /usr/ports/devel/libmtrie
Port:   pop-before-smtp-1.33
Path:   /usr/ports/mail/pop-before-smtp
Port:   hawk-0.6
Path:   /usr/ports/net/hawk
Port:   XBone-3.0
Path:   /usr/ports/net/xbone
Port:   icmpquery-1.0.3
Path:   /usr/ports/net-mgmt/icmpquery
Port:   netmask-2.4_1
Path:   /usr/ports/net-mgmt/netmask
Port:   p5-Net-Netmask-1.9007
Path:   /usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Net-Netmask

H  lookeee lookeee

7) cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Net-Netmask

8) make install clean

9) Go read the the handbook, the faq, take a look in /usr/share/doc and
sin no more.


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RE: What happened after gnome upgrade??

[mark rowlands]

> >> Now with Gnome-2.6 upgraded (mostly  OK, crashed )

mostly ok ? ooops!
 
> >> towards the VERY end...), all my things don't work right anymore.
> >> All apps like GnomeMeeting, the battery meter, etc appear to be 
> >> completely messed up.  For the most part, they run, but 
> none of the 
> >> words, etc are there!  The battery meter, when I click on it, only 
> >> shows the "Do Not Enter" ERROR box, no text and nothing 
> else visible
> >> - again, no words, etc.  The same goes for GnomeMeeting.  
> Also when I 
> >> try to run the proccess display applet, nothing shows up, just the 
> >> line graph of CPU usage, but nothing such as process names, 
> >> descriptions, etc or menu items along the top shows up 
> anymore.  HOW 
> >> do I fix this?!
> >
> > GTK+ was updated recently and this sounds like what happens 
> when apps
> > that use it get out of sync with it. You will have to recompile 
> > everything that uses GTK+. I suggest portupgraded.
> >
> > /me recently saw this himself with the gtk apps he uses when updated
> > gtk+
> 
> Are you saying that a portupgrade -fRra is required?

>From the faq..

>> Oops! I ran portupgrade(1)! What do I do?

Do not worry; hope is not lost. Running portupgrade(1) will cause the
build to fail,
but it will not cause any lasting damage to your ports tree, unless you
have done 
something exceptionally creative. Simply download the gnome_upgrade.sh
script and 
run it, and pretend that you ran it in the first place. Nobody needs to
know that 
you didn't read the directions first!

The upgrade failed; what do I do?

Unfortunately, this is not only possible, it's highly probable. There
are many possible
valid GNOME configurations, and even more invalid starting points. If
the script fails,
follow the instructions in the error message to let the FreeBSD GNOME
team know about 
the failure.

The majority of build failures will be dependency-related issues. One
simple way to resolve
the problem is to remove the offending port, re-run gnome_upgrade.sh,
and then reinstall the
port when the upgrade process is complete.



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RE: Gimp 2 does not come with help?

[mark rowlands]

 

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Gimp 2 does not come with help?
try 

cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-manual-html
make install clean
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RE: WebMail

[mark rowlands]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Paetzel
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 5:04 AM
> To: Shawn Guillemette
> Cc: Freebsd-Questions
> Subject: Re: WebMail
> 
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM -0400, Shawn Guillemette wrote:
> > I'm looking into options for webmail.. was looking for ideas... 
> > Looking for something with a good how to .. ;-)
> > 
> > Shawn Guillemette
> 
> I've had pretty good luck with openwebmail
> 
> Josh Paetzel

ducking and covering...

I use Microsoft Exchange 2003 with postfix / spam-assassin / 
amavis-d as the mta / frontend and then reverse proxy the 
webmail through apache. Though I hate to say it I simply haven't
found any webmail / open source collaboration software that really
matches the functionality in OWA 2003  :-(. The cost sucks tho...
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RE: Inexpensive wireless suggestions?

[mark rowlands]

 

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Aleksandar Simic
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 7:45 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Bob Collins; Jonathon McKitrick
> Subject: Re: Inexpensive wireless suggestions?
> 
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:31:52PM -0400, Bob Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr  6, 2004, Jonathon McKitrick clacked the 
> keyboard to produce:
> > > 
> > > I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive wireless setup for home 
> > > that will work with FreeBSD and an older laptop.  Does 
> anyone have any suggestions?
> > > 
> > > NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed.  Thanks.
> > 
> > Post it here, read it here.
> 
> 
> Any particular reason for this attitude ?
> 
> 
> > Man wi  will help with wireless cards. Any card should 
> would with any 
> > WAP using the same protocol, if not a multi protocol WAP.
> > 
> > I went with a cheapo Belikn WAP $20.00 USD and a Spectrum 
> second0hand 
> > card $25.00 USD. Works fine for me.
> 

4.9 - stable

Cheap
D-Link DWL-650

Not Cheap
Cisco pcm352

both worked nicely, I was able to set up the D-link as an ad-hoc access
point
for the Cisco to connect to

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RE: seeking shell scripting resources

[mark rowlands]

> 
> Haven't found much around at all on shell programming and 
> would like to start learning it. Any more resources would be 
> most welcome to find out about.
> 
then you haven't looked 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en%7Clang_sv&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
8&safe=off&q=unix+scripting&btnG=Google+Search&lr=lang_en%7Clang_sv

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en%7Clang_sv&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
8&safe=off&q=bash+scripting&btnG=Google+Search&lr=lang_en%7Clang_sv

http://freshmeat.net/projects/advancedbashscriptingguide/

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Performance over network with mount_smbfs (warning large mail)

[mark rowlands]

I have a Windows 2003 machine(2) with a share mounted on a Freebsd
machine (1) via mount_smbfs


Hardware
Machine 1

FreeBSD pcmarpxy.mine.nu 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #1: Fri Jan 30
23:33:38 CET 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MARK
i386
PIII 650, 392mb ram
system : ata-100 5400 disks on builtin ide
data :- 2 ata-100 disks on a promise ata card running under vinum
(software raid) raid 0
- real men always run raid 0  :-)

BSD is recently cvsupped and compiled etc... 
samba Version 3.0.1

Machine 2

Windows 2003 all patches.
PIII 500 with a promise atx raid card and a 
pair of 30gb ata-100 5400 rpm. (also raid 0)

The machines are connected via a switch running 100mb all interfaces,
ports are
manually set to 100mb full duplex, neither machine is exactly
overloaded.

I backup to machine 2 (40gb) via an smb mount to a Windows 2003 server. 

with smbfs
167604556 bytes sent in 8m.15.133  (330 Kbytes/s)

With ftp 
167604556 bytes sent in 15.06 seconds (10.62 MB/s)

With samba (from samba share on Freebsd box  to Windows 2003 box)

167604556 bytes sent in 35.06 seconds  (4.56 MB/s)


 
this is something of a disparity!. Anyone got any ideas

Some other info

sysctl :-

netsmb_dev: loaded
net.local.stream.sendspace: 8192
net.local.stream.recvspace: 8192
net.local.dgram.maxdgram: 2048
net.local.dgram.recvspace: 4096
net.local.inflight: 0
net.inet.ip.portrange.lowfirst: 1023
net.inet.ip.portrange.lowlast: 600
net.inet.ip.portrange.first: 1024
net.inet.ip.portrange.last: 5000
net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst: 49152
net.inet.ip.portrange.hilast: 65535
net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1
net.inet.ip.redirect: 1
net.inet.ip.ttl: 64
net.inet.ip.rtexpire: 1066
net.inet.ip.rtminexpire: 10
net.inet.ip.rtmaxcache: 128
net.inet.ip.sourceroute: 0
net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen: 50
net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops: 20
net.inet.ip.accept_sourceroute: 0
net.inet.ip.fastforwarding: 0
net.inet.ip.keepfaith: 0
net.inet.ip.subnets_are_local: 0
net.inet.ip.fw.enable: 1
net.inet.ip.fw.autoinc_step: 100
net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass: 1
net.inet.ip.fw.debug: 1
net.inet.ip.fw.verbose: 1
net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit: 0
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_buckets: 256
net.inet.ip.fw.curr_dyn_buckets: 256
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_count: 241
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max: 4096
net.inet.ip.fw.static_count: 59
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_ack_lifetime: 300
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_syn_lifetime: 20
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_fin_lifetime: 1
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_rst_lifetime: 1
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_udp_lifetime: 10
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_short_lifetime: 5
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keepalive: 1
net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets: 143
net.inet.ip.maxfragsperpacket: 16
net.inet.ip.sendsourcequench: 0
net.inet.ip.check_interface: 0
net.inet.icmp.maskrepl: 0
net.inet.icmp.icmplim: 200
net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect: 1
net.inet.icmp.log_redirect: 1
net.inet.icmp.icmplim_output: 1
net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho: 0
net.inet.tcp.rfc1323: 1
net.inet.tcp.rfc1644: 0
net.inet.tcp.mssdflt: 512
net.inet.tcp.keepidle: 720
net.inet.tcp.keepintvl: 75000
net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 32768
net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 57344
net.inet.tcp.keepinit: 75000
net.inet.tcp.delacktime: 100
net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain: 0
net.inet.tcp.blackhole: 2
net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack: 1
net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery: 1
net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize: 1
net.inet.tcp.local_slowstart_flightsize: 4
net.inet.tcp.newreno: 1
net.inet.tcp.tcbhashsize: 512
net.inet.tcp.do_tcpdrain: 1
net.inet.tcp.pcbcount: 50
net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst: 1
net.inet.tcp.isn_reseed_interval: 0
net.inet.tcp.inflight_enable: 0
net.inet.tcp.inflight_debug: 0
net.inet.tcp.inflight_min: 6144
net.inet.tcp.inflight_max: 1073725440
net.inet.tcp.inflight_stab: 20
net.inet.tcp.syncookies: 1
net.inet.tcp.syncache.bucketlimit: 30
net.inet.tcp.syncache.cachelimit: 15359
net.inet.tcp.syncache.count: 0
net.inet.tcp.syncache.hashsize: 512
net.inet.tcp.syncache.rexmtlimit: 3
net.inet.tcp.msl: 3
net.inet.tcp.rexmit_min: 1000
net.inet.tcp.rexmit_slop: 200
net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive: 1
net.inet.udp.checksum: 1
net.inet.udp.maxdgram: 9216
net.inet.udp.recvspace: 41600
net.inet.udp.log_in_vain: 0
net.inet.udp.blackhole: 1
net.inet.accf.unloadable: 0
net.inet.raw.maxdgram: 8192
net.inet.raw.recvspace: 8192
net.link.generic.system.ifcount: 3
net.link.ether.inet.prune_intvl: 300
net.link.ether.inet.max_age: 1200
net.link.ether.inet.host_down_time: 20
net.link.ether.inet.maxtries: 5
net.link.ether.inet.useloopback: 1
net.link.ether.inet.proxyall: 0
net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface: 1
net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements: 1
net.link.ether.ipfw: 0
net.smb.version: 103006
net.smb.tcpsndbuf: 65535
net.smb.tcprcvbuf: 65535
netsmb_dev: loaded

A little trace


trace looks something like this :- 

Frame 229 (125 bytes on wire, 125 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: 00:60:08:d0:62:2d, Dst: 00:10:4b:b6:f1:7b
Internet Protocol, Src Addr: 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1), Dst Addr:
192.168.0.4 (192.168.0.4)
Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: 2857 (2857), Dst Port:
netbios-ssn (139), Seq: 1126518730, Ack: 2575214210, Len: 59
NetBIO

RE: dlt gone away on adaptec 2940

[mark rowlands]

 

> -Original Message-
> From: Justin T. Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 7:53 PM
> To: mark rowlands; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: dlt gone away on adaptec 2940
> 
> > a previously functioning dlt has "gone away" He had moved over to a 
> > windows box I judged it to be more in need of regular 
> backup ;-) When 
> > it moved back to it's rightfull home viz :-
> 
> ...
> 
> > mly0: physical device 0:5  gone
> 
> This doesn't look like a 2940.  Your subject suggests otherwise. 8-)
> 
> --
> Justin
> 
> 
eeek! brainfart, the adaptec is another box.
the tapedrive works on that too. I took the Mylex Acceleraid card
over to
another 4.9 stable box and tested with a compaq DLT and that works ok 


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dlt gone away on adaptec 2940

[mark rowlands]

a previously functioning dlt has "gone away" He had moved over to a
windows box
I judged it to be more in need of regular backup ;-) When it moved back
to it's
rightfull home viz :-

FreeBSD pcmarpxy.mine.nu 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 15
21:06:28 CET 2004

The following was observed at boot :-

mly0:  mem 0xd800-0xd8ff irq 10 at device
19.0 on pci0
mly0: AcceleRAID 160  , 1 channel, firmware 7.01-0-00 (20020418), 16MB
RAM
mly0: Mylex AcceleRAID 160 (20), 33MHz 32-bit PCI
mly0: 16MB 66MHz 32-bit SDRAM+ECC, cache 6MB
mly0: CPU: i960RM @ 100MHZ
mly0: 5MB 66MHz 32-bit private SDRAM+ECC
mly0: battery backup not installed
mly0: maximum data transfer 2048 blocks, maximum sg entries/command 257
mly0: logical devices present/critical/offline 0/0/0
mly0: physical devices present 2
mly0: physical disks present/offline 0/0
mly0: 1 physical channel, 2 virtual channels of 2 possible
mly0: 512 parallel commands supported
mly0: 1MB flash ROM, 0 of 10 maximum cycles
.
.
mly0: physical device 0:5  gone
mly0: physical device 0:5  gone
mly0: physical device 0:5  gone
mly0: physical device 0:5  gone
mly0: physical device 0:5  gone

The DLT (an hp 20/40gb DLT IV) which is indeed on scsi id 5 has
definitely not
physically gone anywhere, lights flashy flashy and tapes load but
FreeBSD seems
no longer interested. Still works under Win2k (same cable) There are no
other
devices attached to the card.

 Any wise words ? 
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RE: SSH problem, delay ---??? How to fix?

[mark rowlands]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Zivenko
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SSH problem, delay ---??? How to fix?
> 
> Hi!
> When I am trying to connect to my FreeBSD server, I have a 
> problem. It's not a very big problem, but I want to fix it 
> anyway. When I'm connecting to my FreeBSD machine I have a 
> big delay. It's very strange, when I'm working all is great, 
> I have delay only when I'm connecting, it gives me the 
> paswword string in 40 seconds...
> What the problem?

check your dns 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en%7Clang_sv&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
8&safe=off&q=freebsd+slow+ssh+login+delay&btnG=Google+Search 

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RE: Vinum stripe values table?

[mark rowlands]

And in retrospect I could have a) written in English and b) been more
crystally clear  8190kb was the stripe size finally plumped for.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mark rowlands
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 7:14 PM
To: J.A. Terranson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Vinum stripe values table?

> J.A. Terranson
> The values to plug into vinum for stripe size has always been vague,
> other than avoiding a power of 2.  

Where is the vagueness here?

"A good guideline for stripe size
is between 256 kB and 512 kB.  Avoid powers of
2, however: they tend to cause all superblocks
to be placed on the first subdisk."

> Is there any way to calculate an 
> optimal value?  Or is there a table anywhere?

I did some work on this and came to the unsurprising conclusion of
"it depends" 

The needs of a database server / web server / ftp server / user file
server are not equivalent, in addition, obviously the exact layout of
"your" vinum configuration plays a non-trivial part. 

> Given an 8 drive raid5 array, where each drive is an identical 4096m
> drive, where do I start?

You have already started when you created an Raid 5 configuration  ;-) 

Well, I created my vinum configuration, made some wild guesses as to
what 
I was going to be using it for (mostly web-serving of files of the order
of
4-5MB) and then ran some tests, measuring both with bonnie and vinum's
builtin statistics using different stripe sizes and increasing numbers
of
concurrent transactions, using both bonnie and scripted file transfers
to
generate disc i/o. 

Overall, with my config  4 disks striped raid 0 on an promise ide
controllers (real men always run Raid 0 !) an 8k stripe seemed to
function well for me in this distinctly unscientific test scenario. Real
world performanceit's okcould it be better, probably. But it's
good enough for what this machine does.

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RE: Vinum stripe values table?

[mark rowlands]

> J.A. Terranson
> The values to plug into vinum for stripe size has always been vague,
> other than avoiding a power of 2.  

Where is the vagueness here?

"A good guideline for stripe size
is between 256 kB and 512 kB.  Avoid powers of
2, however: they tend to cause all superblocks
to be placed on the first subdisk."

> Is there any way to calculate an 
> optimal value?  Or is there a table anywhere?

I did some work on this and came to the unsurprising conclusion of
"it depends" 

The needs of a database server / web server / ftp server / user file
server are not equivalent, in addition, obviously the exact layout of
"your" vinum configuration plays a non-trivial part. 

> Given an 8 drive raid5 array, where each drive is an identical 4096m
> drive, where do I start?

You have already started when you created an Raid 5 configuration  ;-) 

Well, I created my vinum configuration, made some wild guesses as to
what 
I was going to be using it for (mostly web-serving of files of the order
of
4-5MB) and then ran some tests, measuring both with bonnie and vinum's
builtin statistics using different stripe sizes and increasing numbers
of
concurrent transactions, using both bonnie and scripted file transfers
to
generate disc i/o. 

Overall, with my config  4 disks striped raid 0 on an promise ide
controllers (real men always run Raid 0 !) an 8k stripe seemed to
function well for me in this distinctly unscientific test scenario. Real
world performanceit's okcould it be better, probably. But it's
good enough for what this machine does.

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Re: bsd daemon chick wallpaper??

[Mark Rowlands]

On Wednesday 18 June 2003 5:17 pm, bennt wookie wrote:
> Andrew Thomson wrote:
> >>The cartoon daemon in chick is a glowing blue for memory with a tail
> >>wrapping over her lap??
> >>
> >>sounds dodge, but i just can't remember where i got the picture
> >>originally..!!
> >>
>  > all over it.. thanks all.
>
> that's the bit that sounds dodgy
>


See http://www.baldwin.cx/splash/#screens 

the original web-site has long since vanished :-(

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Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes

[Mark Rowlands]

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 2:02 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Monday,  9 June 2003 at 17:10:37 +0200, freeBSD wrote:
> > I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming
> > a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around
> > without any purpose.

>
> > I do realise that I will loose 50Gb, but that's better than not
> > using it at all.
>
> You can make another volume out of that.
>

Really?  Every time I think I have understand some of the vinum man page, 
along comes groggy to bugger me up.so I could label a disk with a 
vinum partition and a freebsd partion (if I can figure out the maths 
correctly)?


f: 296960000   4.2BSD  0 00   # (Cyl.0 - 29460*)
h: 1020280   29696000 vinum  # (Cyl. 29460*- 30472*)
c: 307162800  unused0 0# (Cyl.0 - 30472*)

sort of like that ?

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Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes

[Mark Rowlands]

On Monday 09 June 2003 5:10 pm, freeBSD wrote:
> I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming
> a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around
> without any purpose.
>
> Can I add this 170GB to the raid5 volume in any way at all? I do realise
> that I will loose 50Gb, but that's better than not using it at all.
>


from http://www.daemonnews.org/22/vinum.html

"Like striped plexes, RAID-5 plexes must have equal-sized subdisks and cannot 
currently be extended"

from http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/Future-directions.html

"Extending striped and RAID-5 plexes is a slow complicated operation, but it 
is feasible." 

I am prepared, and desperately hope to be corrected on this but as far as I am 
aware it is only possible by backing up, recreating a new vinum configuration 
and restoring.

As for losing 50gb I'll swap you a 120gb for the 170gb  ;-)






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Re: Copying shortcuts in KDE

[Mark Rowlands]

On Sunday 01 June 2003 4:38 pm, Steven Lake wrote:
>   Hi all.  I installed OpenOffice recently and had to install it as
> root.  Problem with this is none of my user accounts have the shortcuts in
> them for OpenOffice, however Root does.  does anyone know how to copy the
> OpenOffice menu tree (the folder and all the links under it) that appear
> in the KDE menu editor and on the KDE menu from root to the other users on
> the box so that everyone can have access to OpenOffice?  Many thanks.
>
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Do the users not need to run the setup program to create those?

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Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

[Mark Rowlands]

On Saturday 31 May 2003 5:18 pm, Doug Poland wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:00:33AM +1000, David Gerard wrote:
> > OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it
> > came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work on FreeBSD at that
> > time.
> >
> > So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 from
> > ports. A few days' compilation from source. It, er, sort of works. It
> > starts up, but crashes when you try to save anything (dies with an
> > internal error).
> >
> > The README claims it works with FreeBSD 4.5 and up, but I'll believe that
> > when I see it doing so.
> >
> > What are others' experiences so far? Is there some undocumented hoop one
> > must jump through to get it to behave itself?
>
> I had been using linux binaries with success.  I've been trying to build
> native 1.0.3 but the build keeps failing.  I've never been able to compile
> any version of OO.org from source.

why not use the freebsd package ? :-

http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/

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Re: RBEM10/100+56k at 32-bit cardBus

[Mark Rowlands]

On Friday 30 May 2003 4:04 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "Victor Bratsev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Can anybody help me to solve this -
> > I've got RBEM10/100+56k PCMCIA card and I can't get it work.
> > Because my cardBus - it's 32-bit, and driver is 16-bit.
> > I've got a message at startup pcmcia: 32-bit cardbus is unsupported
>
> This message means exactly what it says.  Cardbus is not supported on
> 4.x.  You can either run 5.x (which isn't ready for full production
> use yet, but works great for lots of people) or get a 16-bit PCMCIA
> card.
>
> > and as result if_xe.ko is unloaded with strange fhdjklsah - if I try to
> > kldload if_xe it says that it can't load module because it is already
> > loaded, but kldstat says that there is NO if_xe loaded.
> > FreeBSD is RELEASE-4.7 with custom kernel with device xe included.
>
> There is no if_xe module loaded because it's already compiled into the
> kernel.  That's fine.

and I didn't had much joy with mine under 5.0 either maybe things will be 
improved under 5.1 but frankly unless you have some compelling reason for
running 5.x 

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Re: Installing Stripped System

[Mark Rowlands]

On Thursday 23 January 2003 10:10 pm, Jens Haeusser wrote:

>
> I've always thought that the entire base system should have it's own
> package/port system. That way, you could easily remove the bits you don't
> want (remove UUCP from a fileserver, remove gcc from a firewall, etc). As
> well, this would make security/other upgrades much easier. Telnet has a
> remote hole? Simply upgrade the base-telnet port. OpenSSL has a problem?
> Upgrade the base-OpenSSL port, which will take care of rebuilding any other
> dependant base-ports. This should also make binary upgrades easier if it
> included proper packages. It could certainly simplify the whole track the
> security branch, spend hours making install/buildworld every few weeks
> issue.
>
> Ah well, I can always dream.
>

nope. you can get coding...   ;-)

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Re: iostat - define Kilobits per transfer

[Mark Rowlands]

On Thursday 23 January 2003 5:40 am, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Dax Eckenberg wrote:
> > > so what exactly does KB per transaction mean? what happens if I am
> > > handling 300 concurrent users with 160Kbit encoded audio streams -
> > > could I in fact do this on this machine?  or will I be limited by the
> > > 64KB/t issue?
> >
> > 300 x 160Kbit = approx. 46Mbit/sec.
> > A new-ish SCSI drive should be able to easily pump out in excess of 200
> > Mbit/sec. Your bottleneck will be your ethernet adapter long before your
> > local storage. Unless your app is designed very poorly.
>
> okay things are getting clearer over here.  what exactly does KB
> per transaction mean?  I dont understand what this describes?
>
> - Noah
>
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my guess :- 

iostat -Iw 60 -t da

 ad0
KB/tXfrs MB
8.42710.58

so over the period,  71 transfers occurred totalling 0.58MB for an average 
KB/t of (0.58*1024) / /71   = 8.37 KB/t   but maybe the actual avg transfer 
size is recorded and summarized giving that slight variation?.  Try a longer 
period and see, or read the code..   (the math starts around line 
600) 

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Re: New to FreeBSD

[Mark Rowlands]

> I won't lie to you, it takes time, but once you learn it you will never
> understand why you use windows. (If it wasn't for my fiance I would use
> fBSD all the time, but she isn't ready for the jump yet).

and you're still gonna marry her?good grief man, get your priorities 
sorted!   

;-)



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FreeBSD release 5. Xircom CEM56-100

[Mark Rowlands]

Not to worry I thought, I'll get out my trusty Xircom CEM56-100 and
whack that in to the aforementioned FreeBSD 5.0 freshly installed and cvsupped
and that'll see me right. Bugger  

Panic, press a button on the console or instant reboot in 15 secs..

So all in all, it looks like its back to 4.7, if anyone cares to reply and ask 
me do anything over the next 2.5 days that's cool but I need a working laptop 
at the weekend :-)

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FreeBSD release 5. 3Com 3CCFE575CT (Cardbus)

[Mark Rowlands]

In eager anticipation I rammed this into my freshly installed and RELENG_5_0 
box.  Imagine the disappointment... I tried booting with the card in and 
out and tooling around with pccard.conf but.. no joy 


cbb1: card inserted: event=0x, state=3820
cbb1: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_0V and CARD_VPP_0V [44]
cbb1: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_3V and CARD_VPP_VCC [11]
found-> vendor=0x10b7, dev=0x5257, revid=0x10
class=02-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0
cmdreg=0x, statreg=0x0210, cachelnsz=8 (dwords)
lattimer=0xa8 (5040 ns), mingnt=0x0a (2500 ns), maxlat=0x05 (1250 ns)
intpin=a, irq=255
Manufacturer ID: 01015752
cardbus1: Opening BAR: type=IO, bar=10, len=0040
Product version: 5.0
Product name: 3Com Corporation | 3CCFE575CT | LAN Cardbus Card | 004 |
Functions: Network Adaptor, Memory
CIS reading done
cardbus1: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=80
cardbus1: Resource not specified in CIS: id=18, size=80
cardbus1: Non-prefetchable memory at 88002400-880024ff
cardbus1: Non-prefetchable memory rid=18 at 88002400-8800247f (80)
cardbus1: Non-prefetchable memory rid=14 at 88002480-880024ff (80)
cardbus1: IO port at 1080-10bf
cardbus1: IO port rid=10 at 1080-10bf
xl0: <3Com 3c575C Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x1080-0x10bf mem 
0x88002400-0x8800247f,0x88002480-0x880024ff irq 9 at device 0.0 on cardbus1
xl0: reset didn't complete
xl0: command never completed!
xl0: command never completed!
xl0: eeprom failed to come ready
xl0: failed to read station address
device_probe_and_attach: xl0 attach returned 6
cbb1: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_0V and CARD_VPP_0V [44]
cbb1: CardBus card activation failed


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FreeBSD release 5.0 3c574tx poor performance

[Mark Rowlands]

Freshly installed cvsupped (RELENG_5_0)

My 574 card is recognised and works but pings 1.6ms  / ftp 900KBytes/s
Windows box on the same hub 9000KBytes/s.

dmesg attached,  I assume it is only running at 10mb but I see no way of 
changing tht with the ep driver. A  secondary issue is that the card 
"freezes".  It loses contact with no error message. Reinertion of the card 
and restarting dhclient seems the only way to bring it back to life.

Thoughts anyone?
 
Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #2: Wed Jan 22 06:56:55 CET 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MARK
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0496000.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc04960a8.
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 646667600 Hz
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (646.67-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x686  Stepping = 6
  
Features=0x383f9ff
real memory  = 234815488 (223 MB)
avail memory = 223121408 (212 MB)
Initializing GEOMetry subsystem
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
npx0:  on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0:  on motherboard
ACPI-0625: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE15
Using $PIR table, 12 entries at 0xc00fdf00
acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model.
Timecounter "ACPI-safe"  frequency 3579545 Hz
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x8008-0x800b on acpi0
acpi_cpu0:  on acpi0
acpi_tz0:  on acpi0
acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (0.-1C)
acpi_tz0: _ACx value is absurd, ignored (0.-1C)
pcib0:  port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0:  on pcib0
agp0:  mem 0xf800-0xfbff at 
device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1:  at device 1.0 on pci0
pcib1: could not get PCI interrupt routing table for \\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_ - 
AE_NOT_FOUND
pci1:  on pcib1
pci1:  at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
isab0:  at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0:  on isab0
atapci0:  port 0x1020-0x102f at device 7.1 on 
pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pci0:  at device 7.2 (no driver attached)
pci0:  at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
pcm0:  port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on 
pci0
pci0:  at device 11.0 (no driver attached)
cbb0:  at device 12.0 on pci0
cbb0: PCI Memory allocated: 8800
cardbus0:  on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
pcib0: slot 12 INTA is routed to irq 9
cbb0: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_0V and CARD_VPP_0V [44]
cbb1:  at device 12.1 on pci0
cbb1: PCI Memory allocated: 88001000
cardbus1:  on cbb1
pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1
pcib0: slot 12 INTA is routed to irq 9
cbb1: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_0V and CARD_VPP_0V [44]
pci0:  at device 12.2 (no driver attached)
acpi_acad0:  on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0:  on acpi0
acpi_cmbat1:  on acpi0
acpi_lid0:  on acpi0
acpi_button0:  on acpi0
atkbdc0:  port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0:  flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: failed to get data.
psm0:  irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
acpi_ec0:  port 0x66,0x62 on acpi0
sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
fdc0:  port 
0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
orm0:  at iomem 0xe-0xe3fff,0xc-0xc on isa0
sc0:  at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0:  at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5%
cbb0: card inserted: event=0x, state=3410
pccard0: chip_socket_enable
cbb_pcic_socket_enable:
cbb0: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_0V and CARD_VPP_0V [44]
cbb0: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_5V and CARD_VPP_VCC [15]
pccard0: read_cis
cis mem map d0981000
pccard0: CIS tuple chain:
CISTPL_DEVICE type=null speed=null
 01 02 00 ff
CISTPL_DEVICE_A type=eeprom speed=150ns
 17 03 43 02 ff
CISTPL_MANFID
 20 04 01 01 74 05
CISTPL_FUNCID
 21 02 06 00
CISTPL_VERS_1
 15 1d 04 01 33 43 6f 6d 00 4d 65 67 61 68 65 72
 74 7a 20 35 37 34 42 00 42 00 30 30 31 00 ff
CISTPL_CONFIG
 1a 06 02 03 00 00 01 03
CISTPL_CFTABLE_ENTRY
 1b 0f c1 01 1d 71 55 35 55 54 e0 72 5d 65 30 ff
 ff
unhandled CISTPL 19
 19 03 00 00 ff
CISTPL_NO_LINK
 14 00
CISTPL_CHECKSUM addr=0 len=5b cksum=0 ok
 10 05 ae ff 5b 00 00
CISTPL_END
 ff
pccard0: check_cis_quirks
pccard0: CIS version PCCARD 2.0 or 2.1
pccard0: CIS info: 3Com, Megahertz 574B, B, 001
pccard0: Manufacturer code 0x101, product 0x574
pccard0: function 0: network adapter, ccr addr 1 mask 3
pccard0: function 0, config table entry 1: I/O card; irq mask ; iomask 5, 
iospace 0-1f; io8 io16 irqlevel
pccard0: functions scanning
pccard0: Card has 1 functions. pccard_mfc is 0
pccard0: I/O rid 0 start 0 end 
cbb_pcic_socket_enable:
cbb0: cbb_power: CARD_VCC_0V a

Re: anyone tried KDE 3.1?

[Mark Rowlands]

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:03 pm, Andrew Y Ng wrote:
> I'm highly interested in a few new features in KDE 3.1, like
> tabbed-browsing support in Konqueror, and the new MS Exchange 2000 plugin
> for the konganizer. if that stuff works well I don't need Linux at work
> (now I need it for Ximian Connector).
>
> I'm wondering if anyone here tried to compile KDE 3.1, maybe somebody from
> the freebsd KDE team can give us some headsup for their progress?
>
> thanks!

dont know about the ms exchange plugin  but  packages of  kde3.1 rc3 are 
available from fruitsalad.org



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Re: KDE3 port failed

[Mark Rowlands]

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 6:40 pm, Bo Xiao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Running 5.0-RC. Hit the same problem since 5.0-DP2.
>
> Anyone else seeing it?
>
> Bo Xiao

I would head over to http://fruitsalad.org.. i believe the last successful 
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Re: couple of vinum questions from a vinum newbie.

[Mark Rowlands]

On Monday 09 December 2002 12:45 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday,  8 December 2002 at 17:04:28 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote:
> > I have decided to dip my toe into the vinum waters primarily for improved
> > read performance, not redundancy or reliability. I have backups for that 
> > ;-).
> >
> > I have two questions, one related to optimal stripe size and one to
> > gathering statistics.
> >
> > I have a freshly cvsupped 4.7 stable currently installed on a 30g single
> > disk I propose to add a second 30gb disk as a mirror of this. and to add
> > two new identical disks (maxtor fdb-9 120gb) and create a striped volume
> > for data on those.
> >
> > I propose (maybe) to create a single striped volume but.. what stripe
> > size? Reading the various vinum docs and looking at some of the samples
> > I found lying around the web left me a touch confused.
> >
> > There are two categories of files on  the data disk, largeish ( 4-5mb)
> > which are most frequently accessed but the overwhelming majority of files
> > are much smaller  (<4k) but not accessed so frequently.
> >
> > So, is it better to try and optimize for the most frequently accessed, or
> > the filesize that comprises the bulk of file accesses? or better to
> > create two volumes with different stripe sizes. In either case, if anyone
> > has any concrete recommendations, I would welcome them.
> >
> > When the new hardware arrives, (about a week), I will probably run some
> > tests with varying stripe-sizes and see what happens but any pointers
> > towards likely good starting points..
>
> There's a fair discussion of stripe sizes in vinum(4), about 200 lines
> long, under the heading "Performance considerations".  I can't do
> better than that in less space.  What part of that don't you
> understand?
>
yes, that was a poorly phrased question. more of a bleat than a question 
really. What confuses me in particular, is that despite vinum (8) saying that 

"with modern disk sizes and correct raid implementations there is no reason 
why stripe sizes of between 2-4mb could not be used"
 
and 

"a good value for stripe size is betwween 256 and 512 but avoid powers of 
2..."

The samples then shown in vinum (8) all then use stripe sizes of 512k  (a 
power of 2) or 32k or 64k (distinctly less than 256).

This is also common in the cases where I have found sample configurations on 
the internet.

So I am, as we speak, running some tests with various stripe sizes and newfs 
options to help me see the performance differences for myself. Apologies for 
wasting your time, I have posted a note on my monitor."think before you 
hit the send button" I will also have a look at ccd and atacontrol.

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couple of vinum questions from a vinum newbie.

[Mark Rowlands]

I have decided to dip my toe into the vinum waters primarily for improved read 
performance, not redundancy or reliability. I have backups for that  ;-).

I have two questions, one related to optimal stripe size and one to gathering 
statistics.

I have a freshly cvsupped 4.7 stable currently installed on a 30g single disk
I propose to add a second 30gb disk as a mirror of this. and to add two new 
identical disks (maxtor fdb-9 120gb) and create a striped volume for data on 
those.

I propose (maybe) to create a single striped volume but.. what stripe 
size? Reading the various vinum docs and looking at some of the samples 
I found lying around the web left me a touch confused. 

There are two categories of files on  the data disk, largeish ( 4-5mb) which 
are most frequently accessed but the overwhelming majority of files are much 
smaller  (<4k) but not accessed so frequently. 

So, is it better to try and optimize for the most frequently accessed, or the 
filesize that comprises the bulk of file accesses? or better to create two 
volumes with different stripe sizes. In either case, if anyone has any 
concrete recommendations, I would welcome them.

When the new hardware arrives, (about a week), I will probably run some tests 
with varying stripe-sizes and see what happens but any pointers towards 
likely good starting points.. 






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Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop

[Mark Rowlands]

On Thu July 25 2002 20:51, Kent Stewart wrote:
> Jud wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: "MET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:23:10 -0400
> > Subject: FreeBSD as a Desktop
> >
> > There is without a doubt that FreeBSD is an amazing server OS, but how
> > well does it stand as a desktop, or rather a laptop.  To be blunt, I'm
> > tired of Microsoft and was wondering how feasible it is to run FreeBSD
> > as my Laptop OS.  I will do some searching, but are there good GUI
> > environments for word processing, C/C++ development, email, ICQ, some
> > port of AOL Instant Messenger (I can't believe I'm putting this here),
> > MP3 players/converters, web browsers that actually keep up to date with
> > the standards, and anything else commonly used ?
>


Something nobody else seems to mentioned. you can run ipfilter or ipfw. As 
my laptop gets plugged into a lot of windows environments, running ipfilter 
and only opening up what I need when I need it is kind of comforting.


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Re: NTPD

[Mark Rowlands]

On Wed July 24 2002 23:32, Brian McCann wrote:
> Ok...I've tried reading the NTPD pagesbut they are a bit cryptic for
> me.  I'm trying to set up an NTP server.  I tried just running "ntpd
> -A", and when I try to query it, my client returns "no server suitable
> for sync. found".  Is there a howto someplace on setting up a NTPD
> server?  Or could someone tell me how?
>
> Thanks,
> --Brian



contents of /etc/ntp.conf

server some time-server   prefer
server another timeserver
logfile /var/log/ntp.log
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift



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Re: PHP Apache Assistance ~ like a moron

[Mark Rowlands]

On Wed July 24 2002 23:21, Steve Mazerski wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 July 2002 22:48, MET wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> > Here's what I've done so far.
> >
> > cd /usr/local/httpd-2.0.39
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-module=all
> > --with-mpm=worker
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > cd /usr/local/php-4.2.2
> > ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-mysql
> > --with-xml --enable-ftp --enable-short-tags --enable-calendar
> > --enable-track-vars --with-tsrm-pth
> >
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > I then get a nice little PHP Liscense notice as well as a warning for
> > register_globals being off.
>
> I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like you are building
> PHP as a DSO-module (i.e. dynamically loadable,
> not statically compiled in). This is perfectly reasonable,
> but...
>
> > So I continue:
> >
> > ee /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
> >
> > I then append the line:AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
>
> does Apache know about the PHP module? Somewhere in
> the httpd.conf there should be two sections (can't recall
> off-hand) where the modules-to-be-loaded are explictly
> mentioned. You may need to add PHP in both.
>

I think you will need to add least least..

LoadModule php4_modulelibexec/apache2/libphp4.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

and you may wish to add this or similar.

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php 


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Re: Checking the Version?

[Mark Rowlands]

On Wed July 24 2002 18:28, MET wrote:
> Is there a command to check which version of FreeBSD your running?  I
> know that I'm running 4.6 ~ however I wanted to append a script someone
> shared with me that shows how long the machine has been up, with the
> exact version info on all of its key software, such as FreeBSD
> (naturally being the number one most important), Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
>
> Oh yeah, the script is for an email signature.
>
> - Matthew
>
> /**
>
>   Matthew Metnetsky
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> **/

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
foreach $opt (head('http://localhost/')) {
if ($ver=~/Apache/) {
print $ver,"\n";
print `uname -sr`;
print `mysql -V`;
print `uptime`;
}
}

or something like that



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Re: PHP Installation Issues

[Mark Rowlands]

On Tue July 23 2002 20:25, MET wrote:
> I'm trying to install the PHP 4.2.2.  My ./configure command looks like
> this:
>
> ./configure --with-mysql --with-xml --with-apache=../httpd-2.0.39
> --enable-ftp --enable-short-tags --enable-track-vars
>
> Up one level is the httpd-2.0.39 dir which is Apache2.  On it I've only
> run: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apacheas to set its directory.
> I have not run "make" or "make install" on apache as a tutorial i've
> read says to do it later.  So anyways. when I run the ./configure
> command for PHP I get this error:
>
>
> Configuring SAPI modules
> checking for AOLserver support... no
> checking for Apache 1.x module support via DSO through APXS... no
> checking for Apache 1.x module support... configure: error:
> --with-apache does not work with Apache 2.x!
>
> Any ideas on what I am doing wrong and how to fix it?
>

er why not use ports?.. 

cd /usr/ports/www/apache2
make -DWITH_APXS install clean
cd /usr/ports/www/mod_php4
make -DWITH_APACHE2 install clean




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Re: using a printer shared from a windows machine

[Mark Rowlands]

On Tue July 23 2002 15:29, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> sorry for this OT question, my excuse is that it is somewhat related
> to my freebsd box. :)
>
> i have this problem: my computer is the only non-windows pc in the
> office. There's one NT4 server with a shared HP 5L which the other
> win2k boxen use for printing. i've read (parts of)
> /usr/share/doc/en/books/corp-net-guide, and it looks like i *should*
> be able to use that printer provided the NT box had something called
> "Microsoft TCP/IP Printing" installed, which it doesn't.
>
> what i need to know is: if i add the "tcp/ip printing" service, will
> it affect the other (win2k) computers? 

Well you will need a reboot

> will it be necessary to change anything

yes.. you need to install it. 

>or will that change go unnoticed?

depends on how awake your sysadmin is :-)

>
> or, do i have any other options if i want to print on that printer?

There is always mtowtdi  but I use this method ...  tcp/ip on the windows 
box and cups on the unix boxes and it  works really nicely.


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Re: SPAM from charlie root.

[Mark Rowlands]

On Mon July 22 2002 00:50, sagacious wrote:
> How do I stop getting these emails. This incident happened over a month
> ago.
>
> On Fri Jul  5 10:40:05 2002, the user root was editing a
> file named fstab on the machine , when it was saved for recovery. You
> can recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r
> option to vi:
>
>   vi -r fstab
>
> I get tham every time the machine reboots. Thanks.

stop rebooting your system ;-)

and have a look at /tmp/vi.recover

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