Re: ZFS on USB / Sound on alienware m11x
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:58:28 +, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Hi I am trying out FreeBSD on ZFS using the PC-BSD 8.2 installer. I have it installed on a Western Digital USB HDD connected to an Alienware m11x laptop. It seems to work well except that once in a while, any application performing a write freezes for a few seconds (around 15 or so) and looking at top shows their states to be in zio. Is this because it was installed on a USB drive? I've experienced the same behavior on my external USB WD drive. I found that many of the Western Digital external drives will spin-down after some period of time. The wait you're experiencing is probably the time it takes to spin-up. WD has a utility to disable the spin-down feature. It's windows only, however. http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=304&sid=17&lang=en - Craig pgpsbr2vloW02.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NTPd GPS with BU-353 USB on FreeBSD 8.x??
On Sat, January 15, 2011 7:51 pm, Howard Leadmon wrote: > > I would have sworn I had a doc on configuring the BU-353 GPS receiver on > FreeBSD, and in fact why I picked one up on the cheap when I had the chance. > > > That said, I have googled and binged and everything else, and I'll be damned > if I can find any definitive instructions as to how to get this working on my > FreeBSD server. > > If anyone has this working, or knows of how I can get this configured and > running with ntpd, a little help would be most appreciated... > > > > --- > Howard I've seen reference to this in the man page for astro/gpsd, you might want to look there. - Craig ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: File system
On Mon, May 10, 2010 10:53 am, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Ansar Mohammed wrote: >> Hello All, >> I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean >> shutdown it boots into single user mode and I have to run fsck. >> >> When I run fsck, the file system clearly has issues. >> >> Is there any way to have FreeBSD run on a better file system that wont >> crap >> out on me everytime I do and unclean shutdown? > > I am really surprised no one proposed geom journaling. With gjournal, > I never had to do a manual full fsck and have had plenty of unclean > shutdowns. I also occasionally do fsck the filesystem and there were > no errors ever found. It definitely adds the ease factor I am looking > for in a journaling sollution in the case of an unclean shutdown... > Correct me if I'm wrong, but since this FreeBSD install is running inside of a VM, in addition to any of the precautions suggested here to get data written or journaled to the disk as safely as possible, isn't there still the issue of whether the VM actuall commits these writes to the physical disk? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Driver for Belkin F5D9050 V 4000
On Thu, April 29, 2010 6:53 am, Craig Whipp wrote: > On Tue, April 27, 2010 3:44 am, Carmel wrote: >> I am trying to get a Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMI USB Network Adapter, >> version 4000 to work. I contacted Belkin, and they gave me the >> following information: >> >> The chipset used in a adapter F5D9050 V 4000 is Ralink RT2671F, RT2528L >> (RT73). >> >> I have not been able locate a driver for that chipset. Does anyone else >> have that particular USB device working or know where I can locate a >> driver for it? >> >> I have FreeBSD-8, amd64 installed. >> > > Try the rum driver, snipped from the man page: > > "The rum driver supports USB 2.0 and PCI Express Mini Card wireless > adapters based on the Ralink RT2501USB and RT2601USB chipsets." > > "The RT2601USB chipset consists of two integrated chips, an RT2671 MAC/BBP > and an RT2527 or RT5225 radio transceiver." > > > My apologies to the list, in my haste, I pasted the wrong line, I meant to include this one: "The RT2501USB chipset is the second generation of 802.11a/b/g adapters from Ralink. It consists of two integrated chips, an RT2571W MAC/BBP and an RT2528 or RT5226 radio transceiver." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Driver for Belkin F5D9050 V 4000
On Tue, April 27, 2010 3:44 am, Carmel wrote: > I am trying to get a Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMI USB Network Adapter, > version 4000 to work. I contacted Belkin, and they gave me the > following information: > > The chipset used in a adapter F5D9050 V 4000 is Ralink RT2671F, RT2528L > (RT73). > > I have not been able locate a driver for that chipset. Does anyone else > have that particular USB device working or know where I can locate a > driver for it? > > I have FreeBSD-8, amd64 installed. > Try the rum driver, snipped from the man page: "The rum driver supports USB 2.0 and PCI Express Mini Card wireless adapters based on the Ralink RT2501USB and RT2601USB chipsets." "The RT2601USB chipset consists of two integrated chips, an RT2671 MAC/BBP and an RT2527 or RT5225 radio transceiver." ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Finding port dependants
On Mon, April 5, 2010 7:04 pm, Aiza wrote: > The ports make file tree is so very large now a days (21491 ports). > Doing portsnap to download the complete ports system just to install 3 > ports is massive over kill. I have been doing package installs because > the resources consumed in disk space (inodes used) and no compile time > is such a time saver. But there are times when ports have no package or > the package is not up to date. What I am looking for is a method to find > the dependents and their dependents of the selected port. Then search > the package system to determine which have no packages. Install all the > packages and cvs only the make files for the ports lacking packages. I > have script to fetch only the make files for the selected port. > > So question is, does the ports index which I can download by it's self > using portsnap contain the info to find all the dependents of a port? > > Is there some software I can use to do this? The porteasy port (ports-mgmt/porteasy) might do what you're looking for - it uses cvsup to selectively fetch the parts of the ports tree and distfiles needed to install and/or update a port of interest. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: A recent update to vlc requires gnme-vfs, which requires kerberos
On 2/23/10 8:23 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote: Can anyone shed light on this? I don't want to run kerberos... I think you posted this on the freebsd-ports list, and Gary Jennejohn provided the following reply, have you tried? On 2/10/10 11:59 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote: Run "make config" and make sure that the box for Gnome VFS does_not_ have an 'X' in it. I'm using vlc without Gnome VFS and it works just fine. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now
On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: Until recently, it seems like port dependencies were handled at installation time. Lately, they're handled any time I try to do anything with a port. I absolutely detest the new behavior. Example cases: OLD WAY: $ cd /usr/ports/something/foo22 $ make $ pkg_delete foo21-2.1 $ make install NEW WAY $ cd /usr/ports/something/foo22 $ make ===> foo22 conflicts with installed package(s): foo21-2.1 $ make fetch ===> foo22 conflicts with installed package(s): foo21-2.1 $ curse --type=copious $ pkg_delete foo21-2.1 $ make install This isn't just a hypothetical pain in the butt. An example was being unable to build databases/mysql51-client because mysql- client-5.0.something was installed. I understand not being able to *install* it, but to be prevented from *building* it? In most circumstances, I want to be able to delete the old package and install the new one with minimal downtime. As another example, can you imagine not being able to even run "make fetch" on something huge like OpenOffice until you uninstalled the old version? In the mean time, I've been editing the port's Makefile to remove the CONFLICTS line long enough to finish building. That's not very helpful for those ports that don't actually build until you run "make install", but at least I can get the distfile download out of the way. -- Kirk Strauser I agree. I've found that this can interfere with portmaster's "-o" option, used to replace an installed port with one of a different origin. In my case, databases/mysql41-server with databases/mysql55- server. - Craig ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Scripting question
> On 9/13/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > The only space is the one separating the SMTP address from the OK or
>> NO.
>>
>> Then you should be able to tell it to sort on the first token in
>> the string with white space as a separator and to eliminate
>> duplicates. It has been a long time since I had need of sort. I
>> don't remember the arguments/flags but am sure that type of thing can be
>> done.
>>
>> jerry
>
> Ya know, it's really easy to get wrapped around the axle on this stuff.
>
> I think I may have a better solution. The file I'm trying to massage
> has a predecessor - the non-unique lines are the result of a
> concatenation of two files.
>
> Silly me, it's better to 'grep -v' with the one file vs. the second
> rather than trying to merge, sort and further massage the result. The
> fix will be to use sed against the first file to remove the ' NO',
> thus providing a clean argument for grepping the other file.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Kurt
It sounds like you've found your solution, but how about the below shell
script? Probably woefully inefficient, but should work.
- Craig
### begin script ##
#!/bin/sh
# Read in an input list of 2 column data pairs and output the pairs where
the first columns are unique.
INPUT_FILE="list.txt"
OUTPUT_FILE="new_list.txt"
NON_UNIQ_LIST=""
for NON_UNIQ in `cat $INPUT_FILE | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c |
grep -vE '^ *1' | awk '{print $2}'`
do
NON_UNIQ_LIST=$NON_UNIQ_LIST"|"$NON_UNIQ
done
NON_UNIQ_LIST=`echo $NON_UNIQ_LIST | sed 's/^.//'`
cat $INPUT_FILE | grep -vE $NON_UNIQ_LIST > $OUTPUT_FILE
### end script ##
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