KDE4 system utilization in FreeBSD vs. SuSE 11
The system that I'm doing this on is a Thinkpad T23 with 1GB ram and 1Ghz P3. I've tried KDE4 as the ports tree now has packages for 7-STABLE and found that plasma+xorg is a resource hog. When I look in top I see xorg + plasma each using 20% of the cpu and a large portion of the ram. Opening up konqueror for kde4 slows the system very noticeably and closing konqueror leaves a zombie process. Konqueror for kde3 does not have the same effect and is quite useable. The laptop is unable to go to the lower cpu frequency and is almost unuseable. I've now booted from the SuSE 11 KDE4 livecd. X + plasma + konqueror + konsole + networkmanager is using less than 20% cpu and 70% of the ram. 512K ram is being used as a ramdisk and the other 200K is being used to run KDE4. SuSE has many services running and seems to have no issues doing so as the cpu frequency is at the lowest setting. In fact, the cpu frequency has not budged from the lowest setting. The system is as responsive running from the livecd using KDE4 as FreeBSD using KDE3 from the hard drive. Here is a comparison of memory use between KDE4 and KDE3, http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3138. The conclusion from that is KDE4 applications require less memory than KDE3 applications. Am I doing something wrong that causes such a discrepancy? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TECRA_A9-S9017 -- /usr/src/UPDATING -- Machine is down.
Are you sure you've updated all of /etc, particularly the login? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Panic on boot
What modules are loaded from loader.conf? I had two distinct issues on one machine that were entirely due to module loading. One was sound, using snd_driver instead of a specific sound driver caused the machine to reboot. The other issue was nvidia. The binary nvidia driver caused an instant reboot if loaded too early, ie from loader.conf. There was no problem if the module was loaded from rc.local. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
segmentation fault in claws-mail and firefox
Hello, I'm having an odd problem. When logged into a kde or kde4 session both of these programs work with no errors. When logged into icewm both of these have a segmentation fault with no errors. My guess is some required library is not in the path for these gtk programs, yet they work in kde. I wondered if anyone had a more specific notion, or knew what was happening. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virutual PC 2007 FBSD 6.3 hangs on install
I would suggest using the free version of vmware and possibly virtualbox. VMWare will work and I'm not sure about virtualbox. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?
Using Xfree86 is possible but may require much manual configuration. I also have problems with firefox and claws-mail in windowmaker icewm, but not in kde3 or kde4. I suspect there is a library path issue. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Impressions of kde-4.1
I've installed the kde4 packages for freebsd-7-stable and the only program that I've tested that doesn't work is konqueror, that has problems with speed and stability, terminal emulator does not work, and leaves zombie processing to take up memory. I noticed 10 konqueror processes after having closed the last konqueror window about 20 minutes before. Has anyone noticed that the longer kde4 runs the slower it gets? I don't mean a little slower, I mean like the difference between windowmaker and kde startup. That may have something to do with the machine I've done this on, a thinkpad T23 with 1GB ram. Finally, kde4 looks nice but I don't see anything I would change from kde3 for, though fonts do look better to me than in kde3. This may change if the speed improves. If all other aspects are equal I like having better looking desktop. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network problem
A large number of ISPs block port 80 requests and do not inform you. With Verizon, you need to redirect external http requests to a different port that is not blocked or pay for the business connection. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless (Edimax EW-7128g / ral) to work on FreeBSD 7.0
I'm not sure of your settings, but increasing tx power is only good for transmitting and will increase noise, hurting reception. Your S:N numbers look quite poor, I rarely get any handshake when signal is that bad. I'm surprised you managed to get a dhcp offer. Have you tried this computer in the same location as the windows machines? How far from the router are you compared to those? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)
If you are looking for batch processing, octave may be an option. The objective was to be as compatible with Matlab as possible. There wasn't any gui available when I last looked at this program. As a side note, I found the following from the Matlab site hilarious : FreeBSD distributions of Linux are not compatible with MATLAB 6.0 (R12). Makes me wonder how good the Linux version of Matlab is. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: joining 2 files together ?
You might try the old 'cat file1 file2 ... fileN'. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resizing partitions and slices
I have a hard drive with one slice and 3 partitions. Only two partitions are actually being used. I would like to delete the 3rd partition, resize the slice, and create a second slice the size of the deleted partition. Is there a safe way, one that preserves the data on the other 2 partitions, that this can be done? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless net Card
I thought you were asking about a FreeBSD driver. If you are using Linux then the driver may work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless net Card
FreeBSD and Linux are different operating systems. There is no compatibility between them. FreeBSD has an emulation layer which works for a limited subset of Linux binary programs. These are not kernel drivers. Your best bet on FreeBSD is to check the status for your chipset in CURRENT or to try ndiswrapper. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up Wireless net Card
I believe that card uses the Realtek 8185L chipset. You may be able to get ndis driver to work with it. Download the winxp driver from http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1PNid=24PFid=1Level=6Conn=5DownTypeID=3GetDown=falseDownloads=true I don't know if there is native support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplugin
For youtube, gnash works better than linux-flashplugin7 and worse than wine+flash9 on i386. I understand that amd64 has difficulties with wine, making gnash or similar the only option. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Konqueror crashes with javascript
When javascript is enabled visiting 'www.osnews.com' causes an 'illegal instruction' in konqueror and crashes with no other error messages. Regardless, konqueror should not crash that way. How does one report such a bug and how can more information be found? All I see is the 'illegal instruction' and 'exited on signal 4' in the log. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Timeout on wireless ipw0 using wpa and dhcp
Hello, I have been having an issue with maintaining a connection that seems to hang at random intervals. The only messages I see are about the interface 'ipw0: link state changed to DOWN' then UP a few times until the connection is reestablished or I have to '/etc/rc.d/netif restart ipw0'. If left on it's own reestablishing the connection takes under 60 seconds, using netif is about 5 seconds including typing the command. I suspect an issue with either dhcp, wpa_supplicant, or the ipw wireless driver. I was not able to get the ipw driver to work at all in FreeBSD-6.3 and suspect the driver. Is there anyway to pin down the problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rc.suspend/rc.resume was: resume (hate to even ask)
Can you verify that acpi is loaded and working, 'sysctl -a |grep acpi' ? Suspend/Resume will not work properly with apm and requires acpi. You might also try disabling the loading of any extra modules, particularly sound, on boot in /boot/loader.conf and see if any of that helps. I needed to load acpi_ibm, add a tweak for the mouse in /boot/loader.conf and stop a wireless interface in rc.suspend before resume started working properly on my thinkpad T23. Only loading acpi_ibm seemed intuitive to me, I still don't know what 'hint.psm.0.flags=0x3000' does, and I suspect issues with the ipw driver in FreeBSD but can't find any information on that. Hope something there helps, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Find what options a precompiled package uses
How does one find the options that a particular package was built with, without installing the package? I don't see any such options in pkg_info and wondered if there were some other tool. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Find what options a precompiled package uses
I don't want to know what options are set for building a port. I want to know what options were used in a previously built port that is either available as a tar file or installed on a system, preferably checking the tar file for the options. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Static ip wpa_supplicant
I think I have the beginnings of an idea. Do not set WPA in rc.conf, only DHCP, and use 'script script_name;' in /etc/dhclient.conf. Then have that script do the configuration. Has anyone used dhclient.conf with a custom script? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Find what options a precompiled package uses
Looks like I made a bad assumption, that there would be something similar to /var/db/ports/PORT_NAME/options for packages. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X won't start up; No matching Device section
Have you loaded all the kernel modules you need and installed xf86-video-chips? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keyboard!!
I know of a company that makes new buckle-spring keyboards of all sorts, unicomp (uses the name pckeyboards). That includes custom made ones. The only issue for me is the price, $99. The one I've been wanting is the endurapro with a thinkpad-like stick in the middle. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mounting hfs+ ipod on freebsd i386
Does the kernel need to be rebuilt in order to mount an ipod formatted with apple's hfs+ filesystem? If yes, what options are needed in the kernel and if not, what needs to be done? Other than reformatting to fat32. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keyboard!!
Hello Roland, So you have also been lusting after one of these keyboards? Has anyone actually ordered and used one of these and what is the opinion on them? Thanks David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Static ip wpa_supplicant
Hello, Is there any way using rc.conf and wpa_supplicant.conf that allows a static ip? It's starting to look like I need to write a separate startup script for networking. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very very weak sound from the speaker
On my thinkpad the sound controls are connected to acpi_ibm and the volume level can be seen with 'sysctl -a |grep volume' and controlled with 'sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.volume=SOME_VALUE' or the volume keys. Perhaps you need to load the acpi modules for your laptop. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI RAID on FreeBSD 7.0, where is the array?
HDDs: 2xSeagate Cheetah 73.4 GB Ultra320 SCSI That system looks like you have only SCSI disks. These are listed as da0 and da1. Is the installer having trouble accessing the disks? I'm not sure I see the error. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0
You should not do the upgrade, though you can. ZFS is still experimental on FreeBSD though you can certainly use zfs pools on your existing system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?
You need to make certain all the necessary modules for your card are loaded. Try 'kldload ath' and then put the card in and see if that does anything. Also, use 'pciconf -lv' to confirm what the card is detected as. See the handbook on wireless configuration if that works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default config for claws-mail
I have claws-mail built the way I want, it's just that there was an update with portupgrade that installed the package from the repository. Suddenly my 'Spam/Ham' button wasn't working, took me a little while to figure out that claws-mail had been updated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Default config for claws-mail
I like to use claws-mail with the bogofilter plugin as it is fast and simple. The package is built without bogofilter and I wondered why that is so. Does having claws-mail built with bogofilter conflict with something else? Or is this a legacy of the time when the plugin was a separate port? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pen drive quirk not working
You need to remove the directory under /usr/obj that matches your source. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pen drive quirk not working
I'm sure someone else knows better, but there is a Makefile in /usr/src/sys. Perhaps it's enough to 'make cam' there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wireless network with wpa
Hello, I would like to know what might be happening with a particular network configuration. Wireless router using wpa, wired router provides dhcp and connects to DSL modem. The wireless card involved is a mini-pci intel 2100 using the if_ipw driver. I could not get this card working at all with 6.3, though it seems to work with 7. From time to time, the ability to resolve the address of the wired router disappears along with DNS resolution. If I 'wpa_cli reassociate' it comes back. The most confusing issue is that the connection to the wireless router is never lost. I can always ping the wireless router and access the control panel with a web browser. A computer connected directly to the wired router had issues with the ethernet using FreeBSD and Linux, but not Solaris. An apple computer using Gentoo/OSX had no issues with either wired or wireless. I cannot replicate the issue, it simply recurs through use. OSX had no problem with either wpa or wired connection. Solaris only had issues with unsupported hardware. Linux on the x86 box had problems with wired connections, but none on the powermac. I suspect the 3c905b card in the x86 card may be a problem, though there have been no issues since Solaris had been installed. Any ideas on the problem are welcome. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: panic
Can you disable smp? I see reports on the same issue with 6.3 that imply it may be related to smp. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2
The only thing uname will give you is the currently running kernel. The update must not have changed the kernel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: weird restarts when compiling
It doesn't look like overheating, unless the thermal compound, heatsink and temperature monitor are not properly set. The only times I had reboots like that was due to a driver with an irq conflict, a driver accessing incorrect memory, or running out of space on a device (trying to write to non-existent address). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install failure for 7.0-RELEASE (Need help!)
I have an A7N266 that had issues with the nvidia driver loading before the loader prompt and causing a reboot. The same board also had issues with wired ethernet working reliably. I installed solaris 10 and then opensolaris 2008.05. Both worked well. I installed opensolaris as I wanted newer versions of some software. The hardware is well supported, only gnome is available, flash9 works well, and updating the system and packages is annoying. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install failure for 7.0-RELEASE (Need help!)
Have you tried mounting the iso on the existing system and using sysinstall to partition and install 7.0 on the new hard drive? There may be a problem with the ide controller or ide cable. Have you tried swapping cables? You could also do a minimal 6.3 install with no additional packages as you say that cd works. Then do 'freebsd-update -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade'. See the man page on freebsd-update. Afterwords either pkg_add -r, sysinstall, or use the ports to install packages. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and RAM limit
Hello, You might try the 64bit FreeBSD, I think your system is 64bit capable. That has much higher limits on memory addressing and should get around the issue. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I install openoffice from packages?
You could try one of the packages from the openoffice.org site http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/#obtain . I only see packages for 6.2 and there may be issues. Otherwise you need to build from the ports. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: difference between loading kernel module during boot and after boot manually?
I don't know what the difference is, but there is one. I have a system that automatically reboots if nvidia is added to /boot/loader.conf on FreeBSD7. If the module is loaded from the loader prompt the system boots and xorg works. I now use solaris on that system as FreeBSD had all sorts of issues, but I recall adding a kldload statement to a startup script. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wpa, static ip only on specific networks
Hello, How does one configure a wireless connection using wpa and dhcp on some networks and wpa with a static ip on others? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 -- radio stubbornly remains down at Toshiba Satellite M30-951
Have you accepted the license agreement? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RT2790 Wireless miniCard - ral not working on Eee Box
Is there a driver for this chipset? If not, why not? :D! No. The developers probably don't have the hardware. If you want support for it, I would suggest donating a card to a developer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring an older server for speed...
There are improvements in the wireless system and in locking. One of the most interesting is the possibility of using zfs and dtrace from Solaris. Many of these features have undiscovered bugs that you might prefer not discovering on your own server. For desktop and laptop use I would certainly have no issues with using 7.0. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd-update and more information
freebsd-update only updates the installed sources, not all sources. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cop[ying files from WIndows - FreeBSD using Cruizer
You could transfer files in multiple ways other than copying files to a usb stick and mounting it in freebsd. To mount a fat32 volume in freebsd use 'mount -t msdos /path/to/device /mountpoint' and simply copy the files from the mountpoint. Alternatives are to use network file sharing, ssh file transfer, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to fetch source files using FTP for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2
Hi, You just need to change the release name to 7.0-RELEASE. Use sysinstall and change it in Options or a source supfile with that release name. Keep in mind that if you buildworldinstallworld freebsd-update will not be able to do binary updates. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to fetch source files using FTP for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2
If you have an install cd it works faster than csup to get the sources, then use csup to update the sources. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wpa_supplicant trouble
Hello, I am using FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE and an intel 2100 wireless mini-pci card. The wireless connection is to a linksys router which then connects to a second router that acts as a DHCP server and gateway. The commands I use to start are the following: wpa_supplicant -D bsd -i ipw0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B ifconfig ipw0 192.168.x.x route add default gateway_ip I have no problem with establishing a connection, in fact that works quite easily. After a period of time, I realize that I have no Internet access. I can ping the wireless router, but not the DHCP/gateway nor any outside IP. When I check to see if wpa_supplicant is running, I see that it is not. Restarting wpa_supplicant and resetting the routing table reestablishes all connections. Is there some reason that wpa_supplicant would stop running? As a side note, macosx seems to have no problems with this configuration on a different machine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wpa_supplicant trouble
A further note: If I run remove the '-B' option and add '-d', wpa_supplicant does disassociate but rapidly reassociates on it's own. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xl driver in FreeBSD6.3 fails to maintain connections
Hello, I have an x86 box with a 3com 905b ethernet card installed. I had frequent problems in connecting to it and in fact the card was not up when I checked. A reboot or 2 would bring the card up, but it would not stay up, ie ssh from another computer would disconnect. There did not appear to be any error messages and no configurations were changed for reboot. I suspect the card was being powered off. I have since given up on using FreeBSD on this box and installed Solaris10. As there do not appear to be any hardware issues with Solaris, I was curious if there is a known issue with either the xl driver or the network stack in 6.3 that may have been fixed in 7.0 . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shared object libc.so.6 not found after freebsd-update
Hello, I'm not certain of the following. I think you needed to update to 6.3 first and after the first update, install compat6x. Regardless, you may be able to recover by doing 'freebsd-update rollback'. That will undo the most recent changes and hopefully get you a working system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipw driver in 6.3 vs. 7.0
Hello, I have not been able to get ipw, intel 2100, to associate with any ap in 6.3 but have been able to use the ipw driver in 7.0 with no difficulty. Has anyone successfully used the ipw driver in 6.3 and how? I can find instances of people connecting with 6.0 but none with 6.3. What changed between 6.0, 6.3, and 7.0? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New to FreeBSD
Hello, I have installed FreeBSD on a server and on a laptop. The laptop is more important in indicating some of the changes in FreeBSD. After all, you need graphics, wireless, sound, etc. for a good experience. All of these currently are and have been issues for both Linux and FreeBSD. I actually am using FreeBSD on a laptop that had Debian installed. There were too many issues with hardware on an older laptop that, from everything I found, should have worked well. Problems with suspend/resume, graphics card, wireless, and sound. I had been reading about improvements in FreeBSD and decided to try it. There were no issues with sound, graphics, and minor suspend/resume. Wireless did not work in 6.3, but was simple in 7.0. I had to add 5 lines to loader.conf, 3 to rc.conf, and create a wpa_supplicant.conf file. All done. My only remaining issue was initial desktop configuration of kde/kdm. That brought me to DesktopBSD and PC-BSD. Both worked well enough, though PC-BSD is better. I've had to update the kernel to 7.0 to get wireless working, non-trivial but simple. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wireless help
Hello, You say you've created a static ip for your computer. What is the actual ip? If your router is on subnet 192.168.22.0, then your ip must also be on that subnet. Also, is your router configured as a gateway or router and is DHCP enabled on the router? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wireless problems using an AP connected to router
Hello, I am using freebsd7 on a thinkpad T23 laptop and the ipw driver for the intel 2100 mini-pci card. The 7.0 ipw driver works vs. not working in 6.x . My network consists of an AP+WPA-router+DHCP+DNS-DSL modem. I have setup wpa_supplicant correctly and everything works. An issue arises where I need to reassociate occasionally. If I connect directly to the router, my connection is fine. If I connect to the access point, the connection is fine initially then fails to resolve names and loses the router/gateway. The odd thing is that I still have a good connection to the access point (tested with ping) but no connection to the router (also tested with ping). If I use 'wpa_cli reassociate' everything starts working again. What tools are available to help diagnose this issue and what is the issue? -- Thank you, David Gurvich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
