Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2
On Dec 7, 2007 9:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but when loading the ucom/ubsa stuff before umass, the device will not be recognised as /dev/cdX and show up as a communication device (ucom). I've had success at getting ucom to pickup the serial by connecting and disconnecting the modem several times. Since I don't currently use it in FreeBSD I left it at that. I know it's not the solution but it can be better than nothing. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Weird %busy in systat
I'm doing a zpool scrub to exercise my system and noticed one strange thing when looking at the output of 'systat -vm': Disks ad0 ad1 ad4 ad6 ar0 ar1 KB/t 44.87 44.71 45.47 45.44 0.00 0.00 tps 162 163 160 162 0 0 MB/s 7.11 7.13 7.11 7.18 0.00 0.00 %busy 100 1006362 0 0 where: ad0: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAK at ata0-master SATA150 ad1: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAK at ata0-slave SATA150 ad4: 305245MB WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0 21.00M21 at ata2-master SATA150 ad6: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAJ at ata3-master SATA150 are connected to: atapci0: Promise PDC20319 SATA150 controller port 0xb000-0xb03f,0xb400-0xb40f,0xb800-0xb87f mem 0xfc024000-0xfc024fff,0xfc00-0xfc01 irq 23 at device 4.0 on pci4 atapci1: Intel 6300ESB SATA150 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0 and my zpool is: config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM r4x320 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1ONLINE 0 0 0 ad0s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 ad1s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 ad4 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad6 ONLINE 0 0 0 Why is %busy so different when the disks are doing the same thing? The only difference is the SATA controllers and zfs using a slice on half of them and a whole disk with the other half. What is taken into account when calculating %busy? I can go read code but was hoping for someone with specific knowledge to answer :) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring
On 9/8/07, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have an ADSL connection at home. When I'm _uploading_ files the whole upload bandwidth is consumed; so far so good. But when _downloading_ no more than 30~40% of download bandwidth is consumed. The guys in the ISP say they've granted me the requested bandwidth but this is not what I see in action. How may I know the real bandwidth limits of my connection? Any tool or trick? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding something about ADSL bandwidth? First of all you have to take into account that with an ADSL connection, I'm guessing PPPoE, you have overhead due to protocol tunnelling. Next you must verify that you don't max out your upload while testing download speed. From my tests, up to 90% upload bandwidth usage is safe and shows no impact on download performance. And for last, use multiple download sources as only one may not be enough. Find http or ftp mirrors close to you (on your ISP for ex) and start downloading multiple ISOs for example. Note: Make sure the device taking care of the PPPoE connection is powerful enough to support your bandwidth. For example, I still have a Linksys WRT54GL as router and I can easily see 100% cpu usage and load 1 and thus I can't use my max contracted bandwidth. Use the modem or a powerful enough machine running FreeBSD of course :) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring
On 9/8/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Amitabh Kant Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 12:25 PM To: Bahman M. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring On 9/8/07, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tested the connection by downloading 2~3 files simultaneously and used 'bmon' as Mel suggested in another reply (thanks to him). As I'd already guessed the RX don't get bigger than 30~40% of the expected bandwidth. I performed the test with some other files and there was no difference. Thanks, Bahman The bandwidth being advertised by your ISP would be the maximum thoughput allowed on your DSL lines with multiple DSL users sharing the same bandwidth, something that is generally known as contention ratio. Rubbish. I work for an ISP and this is nonsense. DSL is not a shared medium until it gets to the ISP and the ISP should be able to handle full rate circuits internally. From the customer to the DSLAM it's a copper pair. If the DSLAM is far from the ISP backbone you have a shared connection. That's where contention is applied. If for example he has 10mbits downstream contracted and there are several power users hitting the same DSLAM and the link to the ISP isn't big enough... He should be able to get max bandwidth from his home system to his ISP's system. All our customers can. Beyond that, from his ISP to the rest of the world that is a different story. But he needs to get the bandwidth correcte dbetween himself and his ISP first. He should be able to get max bandwidth but not every ISP in the world has link bandwidth allocated for all their customers. Example: you have 100 customers with 10mbits contracted downstream. Think every ISP out there will have a 1Gbps link from the DSLAM to the backbone? Most definitely not. The same happens for mail servers. Do you believe every ISP has enough storage space to hold the advertised email storage space to their total number of customers? Most definitely not. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot
On 8/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would like to install FreeBSD 6.2. I downloaded the disc 1 iso image and burned it to a disc in Win98. I had to boot from my CDrom to reinstall Win98 so I know that my boot priority is correct and that my CDrom is working properly. I looked at the burned cd with the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on it in FreeBSD 5.4 and everything appears to be there, including a folder called 'boot'. But I just can't seem to boot from it. 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? 4. Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is corrupted? BTW - I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from discs that I purchased through FreeBSD Mall. I thought I would do it from the 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on FreeBSD's web site this time. Any suggestions, advice, or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Larry Do you have a Promise controller? I have to disable my onboard Promise so that I can boot from a FreeBSD CD My Promise: atapci0: Promise PDC20319 SATA150 controller port 0xb000-0xb03f,0xb400-0xb40f,0xb800-0xb87f mem 0xfc024000-0xfc024fff,0xfc00-0xfc01 irq 23 at device 4.0 on pci4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:0: class=0x010400 card=0x80f51043 chip=0x3319105a rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' device = 'PDC20319(??) FastTrak SATA150 TX4 Controller' class = mass storage subclass = RAID -- Joao Barros ___ 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-Release
On 7/3/07, Joe Vender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 July 2007 18:16, matt donovan wrote: it's on the freebsd site but the code freeze has begun so some are guessing around October or so On 7/2/07, Joe Vender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has a release date been set for FreeBSD 7.0-Release? If not, how about an (educated guess) approximate date, month? Joe Thanks. About 4 months from initial code freeze. That's about what I expected. Joe Keep an eye here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/schedule.html -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Huawei UMTS Wireless Modem
On 11/10/06, David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it is supposed to be a Huawei EC325 Data Modem, just as on this website http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=147 On Nov 9, 2006, at 8:22 PM, Joao Barros wrote: On 11/9/06, David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, i have a Huawei UMTS wireless Modem, which plugs into a USB Slot, and on Windows (after installation of a Driver), looks just like a modem. You dial a number, username and password, and have a speedy connection to the Internet. Is there a way to get such a thing to work under FreeBSD? After plugging it in, dmesg just reports ugen0: Huawei Mobile, rev 1.01 . addr 3 . It doesn't just respond to normal modem commands, when i simply do a cu -l /dev/ugen0 i get a Write Operation not supported by Device. What model is it? I have the Huawei E220 HSDPA USB Modem and it doesn't work. I posted a message on usb@ yesterday evening since this is a multi-function usb device and I don't know if that's supported. !DSPAM:1084,45531c206578638813114! Check for a /dev/cuaU0 I hacked ubsa(4) to detect my dongle and that was the device I connected to. Now on to ppp.conf dial scripts... -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Huawei UMTS Wireless Modem
On 11/9/06, David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, i have a Huawei UMTS wireless Modem, which plugs into a USB Slot, and on Windows (after installation of a Driver), looks just like a modem. You dial a number, username and password, and have a speedy connection to the Internet. Is there a way to get such a thing to work under FreeBSD? After plugging it in, dmesg just reports ugen0: Huawei Mobile, rev 1.01 . addr 3 . It doesn't just respond to normal modem commands, when i simply do a cu -l /dev/ugen0 i get a Write Operation not supported by Device. What model is it? I have the Huawei E220 HSDPA USB Modem and it doesn't work. I posted a message on usb@ yesterday evening since this is a multi-function usb device and I don't know if that's supported. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: access-lists and QoS implementation
On 11/9/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to use my FreeBSD box as an ip router, yet it lacks some functionality seen in Cisco boxes. I am looking for a way to create access lists and also do QoS such as LLQ, priority queing, etc. How can this be accomplished in FreeBSD? Also, is there a FreeBSD implementation of NBAR to classify traffic based on higher layer packet information? For example, I would like to allocate 20% bandwidth on an egress interface to traffic matching an ACL or a certain protocol. Have a look at pf. I believe it will do everything you need. pf doesn't support layer 7 protocol inspection. For that take a look at ng_tag which lives in CURRENT. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running Cisco Systems VPN Client with FreeBSD
On 10/23/06, Alexandre Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have, yet, details about the devices that will be used in the client side but I know that we'll use RSA randomized rotative SecureID's and we'll use IPSEC. I'm not aware if this kind of auth mecanism has anything to do with the client itself. That authentication mechanism is configured on the vpn concentrator but performed with the help from an additional box running an RSA specific app. Most likely the VPN Concentrator and the PIX will disappear and the ASAs will be a multi purpose device so keep those in mind if it's a new buy. Keep us informed on your progress :) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: traffic analysis tools
On 10/21/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey people, I'd like something to look at traffic use through my gateway, so I know how much of my upload bandwidth and download bandwidth is in use at any time. Ideally it'll tell me from where, so I can look at internal abusers, or get an idea of where hits are coming from. Off the top of my head, I can think of two tools. 1. ntop - great web interface, but I've found it unstable 2. iptraf - good curses interface, but I'm looking for trend monitoring 3. mrtg - as I'm running snmp, so I could just monitor it from a desktop running mrtg... Any other suggestions? I have two for you: NetMRG and Cacti You can set them up to read values from pf for example :) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia on CURRENT...
On 10/16/06, Anders Troback [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, X can't use the nvidia module and kldunload nvidia causes: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode. Any ideas? Thanks!!! PS. CURRENT cvsuped 6 hours ago! Try recompiling the nvidia module. When recompiling a new kernel version always remind yourself to recompile the nvidia driver aswell :) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?
On 10/15/06, William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my USB card reader and open the pictures from my digital camera in Gimp. I can browse the web in Firefox. I even compiled my own kernel so that I'm all 1337. :-) Overall, I like FreeBSD--the kernel build process felt a lot smoother than Linux, the /boot and /sys file heirarchies makes more sense to me than /boot and /usr/src under Linux, and the /dev heirarchy seems sane, though it's still pretty alien to me. So far, everything I do under Linux I can do under FreeBSD. FreeBSD is nice, but I haven't seen anything really *compelling* about it. FreeBSD might be more stable as a server, but for my desktop Linux has proven more than stable enough. (X crashes sometimes, but FreeBSD can't really fix that.) The extra file flags look intersting, but otherwise I haven't seen anything that I can do under FreeBSD that I can't with Linux. So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. William Tracy Well, I guess you can ask yourself some questions: - Is there something now that you can't do but were able to using Linux (or vice-versa) ? - Hardware support (might fit the previous question) - Is performance better/worse ? - Your global experience with it: installation, usage, documentation, support. From my experience, I was using linux before FreeBSD, but I always felt curiosity to test it. My first try was with 5.0 and although slow at the time (processing apache logs with awstats) I loved it. Two things come out shining: it's a complete OS not a kernel glued with userland and libraries and the documentation is supreme. Just my 2 euro cents ;-) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?
On 10/15/06, Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/15/06, William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my USB card reader and open the pictures from my digital camera in Gimp. I can browse the web in Firefox. I even compiled my own kernel so that I'm all 1337. :-) Overall, I like FreeBSD--the kernel build process felt a lot smoother than Linux, the /boot and /sys file heirarchies makes more sense to me than /boot and /usr/src under Linux, and the /dev heirarchy seems sane, though it's still pretty alien to me. So far, everything I do under Linux I can do under FreeBSD. FreeBSD is nice, but I haven't seen anything really *compelling* about it. FreeBSD might be more stable as a server, but for my desktop Linux has proven more than stable enough. (X crashes sometimes, but FreeBSD can't really fix that.) The extra file flags look intersting, but otherwise I haven't seen anything that I can do under FreeBSD that I can't with Linux. So, basically, I'm asking you guys to wow me. :-) Show me how FreeBSD can outdo Linux. Make me never want to go back. William Tracy Well, I guess you can ask yourself some questions: - Is there something now that you can't do but were able to using Linux (or vice-versa) ? - Hardware support (might fit the previous question) - Is performance better/worse ? - Your global experience with it: installation, usage, documentation, support. From my experience, I was using linux before FreeBSD, but I always felt curiosity to test it. My first try was with 5.0 and although slow at the time (processing apache logs with awstats) I loved it. Two things come out shining: it's a complete OS not a kernel glued with userland and libraries and the documentation is supreme. Just my 2 euro cents ;-) Ok, make that 3: Ports I really don't miss rpm hell. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...
On 9/29/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As painful as it was to do, I backed up the old data tonight and wiped out the stats ... for one major reason: the stats lost their accuracy. As I said, you just need to download the new version and run it, you don't have to wait for the port to go through, assuming you have already installed from the port and /etc/periodic.conf is setup ... Make sure you run it right after downloading though ... If anyone out there can see a flaw in the script ... or something that I may have overlooked as far as a 'loophole' that could be used to screw around with the data, please let me know ... I know its not possible, minus registration, to get rid of all holes, but, hopefully I've now gotten rid of the ones that a truck could (and did) drive though ... I just updated the script and it ran fine :) I'm the only guy yet from Portugal and the only sparc cpu :D On another subject, with the addition of the other BSDs the releases stats for example are pretty much nonsense. Do you plan to work on that? -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...
On 9/29/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/09/2006 1:11 AM, Joao Barros wrote: On another subject, with the addition of the other BSDs the releases stats for example are pretty much nonsense. Do you plan to work on that? Yep, each individual *BSD is getting its own detailed stats summary section... they're not finished yet, so at the moment I've left the links to the old (nonsensical) pages, but it's a long weekend here this weekend so I'm hoping to try and finalise them :-) See here for the FreeBSD page: http://www.bsdstats.org/freebsd/ Thus far I have Releases and Countries done, so it's just a matter of some further formatting and then the Platforms + Devices pages... Cheers Antony It looks very nice indeed, good work! :-) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sshd brute force attempts?
On 9/19/06, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy? My best attempt will be to get this: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/sshdfilter/index_15.html running and adapt it. I've found a few things based on openBSD's pf, but that doesn't seem to be the default in BSD either. Any response appreciated. I'm using BruteForceBlocker quite successfully. I take the opportunity to thank danger for it :-) http://www.freshports.org/security/bruteforceblocker/ -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD router
On 8/30/06, rithy4u- CEO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I want to know, between Cisco Router and a compiled of FreeBSD Router which one is better? Is it posible to build a Router Appliance on FreeBSD instead of using ISO of Cisco? Richard Ben, CIO I think to best answer your question one needs to know what that router needs to do and how much do you want to spend on it. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats
On 8/27/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, how much overhead do they add to the project? Speaking of sparc64 specifically, what you see in the stats most probably doesn't reflect reality. One of the sparc64 machines in the stats is mine and is at home. Most sparc64 machines running FreeBSD will be at companies (as non sparc64) and of those you'll only get a small percentage of them reporting to bsdstats. Even if you got the sysadmins to install bsdstats you have to convince the security team on having a call home app running. Just Kris Kennaway's playing sparc64 machine with 14 cpus, has more than the sparc64 cpus currently reported in the sparc64 category. And after Sun handing over some new machines with the Niagara cpus to the FreeBSD folks to port to what would you say to Sun and the developers who committed to this? Again, I think we're seeing a distorted version of reality here and shouldn't be jumping to conclusions very fast. -- Joao Barros ___ 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 proxy
On 8/18/06, Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to setup a FBSD 6.1 machine at work. I have an IP addressed by a DHCP server. However, to connect to the internet I need to use a proxy. How do I configure the system to connect via the proxy? I cannot use a browser in to do the same because I am presently trying to install the window manager and other applications via ports. Set this in your shell: export HTTP_PROXY=http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3128 or setenv HTTP_PROXY http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3128 -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp-proxy with pf
On 8/14/06, Ivan Levchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Gilberto, No, that wouldn't work, there is no sense in adding a nat rule to the internal interface. I just found out why it didn't work. All this time, I was using active ftp on my ubuntu box. when i switched to passive, it all worked like a charm. found it on some forum archive .. forgot the link. on linux the env setting for passive ftp doesn't work.. .i never knew that.. you have you add -p to the ftp command or start it using pftp.. On 8/14/06, Gilberto Villani Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using this rule: nat on $int_if from any to any port 21 - 127.0.0.1 port 8021 Gilberto 2006/8/13, Ivan Levchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everybody, having some troubles with ftp-proxy on my gateway at home: the darn thing gets me connected to an outside ftp server, but won't let me do anything else with it. the gateway computer is freebsd (it is running pf with nat to share and secure a pppoe connection); the client computer is running kubuntu 6.06. any help (the right keyword to google with will be nice too!!!) will be great! I'm happilly using pftpx with no problems :-) http://www.freshports.org/ftp/pftpx/ -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
And on the subject, has anyone noticed this email from someone @Promise to the scsi mailing list? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2006-July/002543.html -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is SPF being used on FreeBSD.org? Where's my PR?
I filled a PR through send-pr(1) some hours ago and I can't find it in GNATS. I received the CC I sent myself but nothing else... Is spf being used on Freebsd.org? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 13, 2006 4:07 PM (GMT+1) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Frustration
On 6/30/06, Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I realized that I did not have all the ports installed and that some other dependencies were also missing. I realized then that the installation had not been as successful as I first thought. So, I tried to re-install the ports from the CD, since I didn't have an Internet connection to that machine. Well, I kept getting more and more hardware/software errors. I then tried to upgrade FreeBSD to version 6.1. And that was what I did; I tried. Well, I kept getting more errors, as usual. The more I tried to install/reinstall/upgrade/fix FreeBSD, the more I was realizing that anything that had to do with FreeBSD that could go wrond would go wrong, be it the software installation or hardware behavior. The amount of work and headache that I have been experiencing to move a single 'inch' towards a working Unix environment has been enourmously frustating. The worst part of it all is that I have not accomplished anything tangible at all. I think now it is time for this boy to abandon the 'Unix' bandwagon for good and move back to MS Windows. At least I will be able to concentrate on doing real productive work, instead of dealing with temperamental hardware and software every time I touch the PC. Good luck to those heroic individuals who stick with the configuration fight to the end. I failed to see the 'Power to Serve'. Hi, I don't know your level of proficiency with unix but from your email I think you're taking the initial steps. You tried to build a Lego without all the pieces and with no instructions. You should start with an already built machine and start your way down from there. With this in mind I recomend you to install for example PC-BSD(1). It's FreeBSD all the way, but for what you want, a desktop solution, a custom built FreeBSD. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adjusting partition size with disklabel
On 6/30/06, Morten A. Middelthon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, long story short, I have a partition on a RAID5 array which after an accident where I had to rebuild the array became smaller than it originally was. Here's the original size: amrd1: 1430505MB (2929674240 sectors) RAID 5 (degraded) and the new size after the rebuild: amrd1: 1430400MB (2929459200 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) Is it possible to use 'bsdlabel -e' to shrink the partition down to a size which will fit the new size of the array? To my knowledge, you can only growfs(8) them, not shrink them. References: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=growfsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASEformat=html -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Frustration
On 6/30/06, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being an experienced BSD user who on a daily basis gives support to other people using BSD, wether FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, I hardly think this has to do with FreeBSD. This rather sounds like a typical MS whiner, who hasn't really got around to actually understand what he is doing. In some situations there are hardware complications, which again hasn't got anything to do with FreeBSD but rather is based upon hardware vendores keeping others than MS from using their hardware. Long story short, stop whining and just go back to MS Windows. Nobody cares! Part of the FreeBSD experience is the comunity and you're not helping. I care, most probably someone else cares. Please don't talk for the comunity by stating nobody cares. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
On 6/29/06, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other selling point for me on HP was the 2.5 SAS drives ... our new servers have 4x72G SAS drives in a 1U space, which means I can do RAID1+0 SAS drives are coming in strong. It's what all new machines will have in the server market in upcoming years. Just take a look at new machines from Sun, IBM and HP, they all switched to SAS drives. They're great, really. But so far I've yet to see 15K rpm in 2,5 SAS form factor. I'm talking out of my mouth here but maybe the extra storage density used in SAS compensates for the lack of 15K rpm. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 24/7/365 commercial support wanted
On 6/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do host there, and their FreeBSD support is great, that's true. However, they do not want to promise it. I tried to convince them to say that they will support it and that I can accept if given shift does not have a FreeBSD capable person, but they are very careful to promise things they can not keep. The perfect thing would have been if they offer the support. They have been answering the phone within 2-3 seconds every time I called the last several years. But may be it is too much for them to promise to support everything. At this level it's called a Service Level Agreement (SLA) not a promise... -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
On 6/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deleted] --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net Do you offer Xen hosting Chad?.. and back on topic... What's the point of iLO Marc? What's wrong with having your server text message your cell phone and then you ssh in and check what's wrong / fix it? If it's a hardware problem you'll have to show up anyways, right? If the server is 300KM from... no you don't want to. If the server is in another country for example...no you don't want to. If you have to pay extra for someone to reboot, put a cd, whatever on the machine, no you don't want to. Think this through outside your usual enviroment. iLO allows me to power cycle my server, re-install the operating system, access the BIOS, access the console, etc ... all operating system independent (or with no operating system installed at all) ... the only 'hands on' I need is, as you put it, to replace hardware that might go wrong, but, for instance, with 'just a serial console', like the non-HP servers, I have to get a remote tech to power cycle whenever the deadlocks I'm experiencing right now happen ... with iLO, I login to the iLO CLI, and tell the server to reboot itself ... iLOs rock! :-) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE
On 6/26/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joao Barros wrote: Contrary to what megarc says, it's -h not -? for help. Hope this helps. ? is special to the shell so you need to escape it with a \. h does not produce the same output for me - it's just treated as an unknown command. It also doesn't work as a param to commands, but help seems to. I stand corrected! -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE
On 6/26/06, Scott Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, megarc does have possibly the worst interface I've seen in quite a long time. Allegedly the Linux monitoring tools for these adapters will work with 6.1, although I haven't tried this myself yet. Yes, I think it was Doug Ambrisko who put in the shims for that, but haven't tested it. And yes, megarc should be on wikipedia as a bad example for bad interfaces. I've attached a couple of scripts I use for monitoring amr(4) adapters. One (amr-check-status) is run hourly from crontab to alert of any change in drive or array status. The other (700.amr-status) is a daily periodic script. amrstat from ports also include a daily crontab script which I'm hapilly using. For the hourly job, there is a function in the amr(4) driver that's supposed to do a constant check of the controller but alas the function is just declared, empty in function. If this was to work, a message to syslog would be enough to send out an email with an alert for example. I started this weekend(again) my port of bio from OpenBSD and I really like what they did with the sysctl variables and with sensorsd like: $ sysctl hw.sensors hw.sensors.0=sd0, ami0 0, drive online, OK hw.sensors.1=sd1, ami0 1, degraded, WARN hw.sensors.2=sd2, ami0 2, failed, CRITICAL With sensorsd on top of that, monitoring is a breeze. I think after bio I know what I will do next ;-) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ?
On 6/26/06, Mike Galvez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem was with my backup server being FreeBSD and running AMANDA. The Powervault autoloader was generating SCSI errors. After I setup AMANDA on Linux and got the same errors, they were willing to replace the Powervault autoloader. With the new autoloader in place, I replaced the Linux OS with the same instance of FreeBSD I was using before. No more SCSI errors. All of this took more time than it should have. I can't start to tell you the time I and another collegue wasted with Dell Support (we're talking Gold Queue here) on a Powervault PV660T. Logs here, logs there, exercise this, reflash that... I think the damn thing must have been replaced part by part about 2 times, excluding the chassi! And having to reboot a bunch of (Windows) clusters because of the PV was the icing on the cake! This coating was perfomed many times At a certain point in time we upgraded the PV from 4 to 6 loaders. It took Dell 3 wrong scsi cables to finally send the right one. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ?
On 6/25/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently weighing options ... my last two servers were HP Proliant, and I *really* like them, but I might have a line on a supplier in Panama that deals in Dell Servers and not HP ... Looking at Dell's web site, the PowerEdge has an optional Remote Access Controller that will it *sounds* like will give me similar functionality as HPs iLO ... But, I've heard bad things about their 'desktop offerings', and am not sure if that follows through to their Servers ... So, I'm kinda looking for both good, and bad, experiences with the PowerEdge stuff ... anyone with opinions? I recently quit from a 4 year job on an ISP with around 300 Dell machines (almost all server models), some older Compaq (Proliant 3000) and recently, about 1 year, some IBM. During this time I found out this: - Compaq Proliant 3000: Failed Power supplys occasionaly. Failed SmartArrays after a reboot. When we called in with something failed, not many questions were asked, they send the part with no problems. - IBM Dual Xeons, Quad Xeons, Xeon and Opteron Blades, and Power5: 3 racks full of machines and had 1 server dead at arrival, 1 FC card dead after some months and nothing else failed! Support was miserable but it wasn't from IBM. - Dell: we had almost all models and all had problems. Power supplys, memory, motherboards, fans. Disks, well guess that's not Dell's fault. I remember the 6450 model, a quad Xeon that had a plastic door. If you close the door with some speed, nothing ridiculous, the server would shutdown. They were usually clustered, neat hein? Dell support even at the highest level is a pain. You hear something like: Customer: we have a problem with a blade server. Support: Please disconnect the power from the machine and connect again. Customer: But that will powerdown ALL the blades! Eventually the contract was raised from Silver and Gold to Platinum on all machines so that we could skip the normal support lines... I had a small stop on a bank last month and they work exclusively with HP, around 3500 servers. Major problems were with disks and some powersupplys and I think dead drives are to be expected. Onboard iLOs rock!!! Coming from Dell Hell I was pretty impressed with HP's machines. If I ever am in a position to choose, I'd go with either HP or IBM, although HP seems to have a stronger Opteron offer. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE
On 6/24/06, Alex Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/23/06, Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/23/06, Alex Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The controller is a Perc 4e/Di as assumed, and I'm still a little
unsure as to whether the 2 drives that shipped with the machine are
currently set up in a RAID array. The current filesystem is mounted on
/dev/amrd0s1[a-f] and I would expect to find the new drives named
similarly after using some useful utility that I'm unaware of. Any
thoughts?
Thanks again.
Alex
Try amrstat from ports which will show you something like this:
Logical volume 0optimal (101.60 GB, RAID5)
Physical drive 0:0 online
Physical drive 0:1 online
Physical drive 1:0 online
Physical drive 1:2 online
Physical drive 1:4 hotspare
--
Joao Barros
Sadly, amrstat-20060414 doesn't build on FBSD 6.0 or earlier (or so
says the error msg I get when trying to build it). I've got megarc
installed but have no idea how to use it and no man page was included
with the port.
Anyone more familiar with this utility?
Alex
For what you need to know this should be enough:
#megarc -dispCfg -a0
**
MEGARC MegaRAID Configuration Utility(FreeBSD)-1.04(03-02-2005)
By LSI Logic Corp.,USA
**
[Note: For SATA-2, 4 and 6 channel controllers, please specify
Ch=0 Id=0..15 for specifying physical drive(Ch=channel, Id=Target)]
Type ? as command line arg for help
Finding Devices On Each MegaRAID Adapter...
Scanning Ha 0, Chnl 1 Target 15
**
Existing Logical Drive Information
By LSI Logic Corp.,USA
**
[Note: For SATA-2, 4 and 6 channel controllers, please specify
Ch=0 Id=0..15 for specifying physical drive(Ch=channel, Id=Target)]
Logical Drive : 0( Adapter: 0 ): Status: OPTIMAL
---
SpanDepth :01 RaidLevel: 5 RdAhead : Adaptive Cache: DirectIo
StripSz :064KB Stripes : 4 WrPolicy: WriteThru
Logical Drive 0 : SpanLevel_0 Disks
Chnl Target StartBlock Blocks Physical Target Status
-- -- -- --
0 010x 0x043bc000 ONLINE
0 000x 0x043bc000 ONLINE
1 000x 0x043bc000 ONLINE
1 020x 0x043bc000 ONLINE
HotSpare Disk at Channel No. 1 and ID No. 4
Contrary to what megarc says, it's -h not -? for help.
Hope this helps.
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Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE
On 6/23/06, Alex Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The controller is a Perc 4e/Di as assumed, and I'm still a little unsure as to whether the 2 drives that shipped with the machine are currently set up in a RAID array. The current filesystem is mounted on /dev/amrd0s1[a-f] and I would expect to find the new drives named similarly after using some useful utility that I'm unaware of. Any thoughts? Thanks again. Alex Try amrstat from ports which will show you something like this: Logical volume 0optimal (101.60 GB, RAID5) Physical drive 0:0 online Physical drive 0:1 online Physical drive 1:0 online Physical drive 1:2 online Physical drive 1:4 hotspare -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NDISulator vs Linksys WMP54G BCM4306
Hi, I was trying NDISulator for the first time and it didn't go well, I can't get the driver to detect the card. pciconf -l -v : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00131737 chip=0x432014e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller' class= network from the .inf file: [BROADCOM] %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, PCI\VEN_14E4DEV_4320SUBSYS_041714E4 %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, PCI\VEN_14E4DEV_4320SUBSYS_041814E4 %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, PCI\VEN_14E4DEV_4320SUBSYS_00131737 %BCM430G.DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, I take it it's this one PCI\VEN_14E4DEV_4320SUBSYS_00141737 When I load if_ndis nothing happens When downloading the drivers from Linksys site I noticed there are 3 versions of the WMP54G (v1,v2,v4) so I tried all three drivers with no luck. This is all on 6.1-RELEASE Any advice is very appreciated :-) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to CISCO Devices
On 5/15/06, Yousef Raffah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSDiers, What kind of tools are there to connect to CISCO devices' console on FreeBSD using the COM port? I'm sure there are a lot of you on the list managing CISCO devices! -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator I use minicom: http://www.freshports.org/comms/minicom/ -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Write kernel modules
On 5/15/06, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am thinking about begin learn to write FreeBSD kernel modules. I know this Architecture HandBook chapter: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/devicedrivers.html but, do you know other places or documents where a beginner can start learn this stuff?. My system is 6.1-RC1. Thanks very much, in advance. Regards. Jose. I asked myself the same question some time back. Beside the link you already got you can take a look at /usr/src/share/examples/drivers But I think best of all is looking at real drivers. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gmail vs FreeBSD
Any feedback on that investigation would be much appreciated :-) On 4/20/06, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google redeemed now I've received apologies and promises of investigation. All in all, it's just a dirty trick to make me a happy user once again :-) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gmail vs FreeBSD
I stopped receiving email from any of the FreeBSD lists I'm subscribed to on the 13th and started receiving again late last night. As I can recall this is the 3rd time this has happened, the previous blackout was for about 2 days. I checked all the major RBLs and freebsd.org wasn't listed in any of them. On 4/18/06, David Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew, Yes, this was all very odd...I hadn't received a single message from either -questions or -announce all day. Only an hour or so ago did they begin to all flood in... -David On 4/16/06, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's up with gmail and freebsd sites? I haven't seen a single message delivered to my inbox since April 13. Not from mailing lists, not from gnats scripts - nothing. I told the lists to send mail to my other address, I then redirect from there back to gmail - and it works. So gmail seems to block direct communications from the freebsd servers only. And I'm not the only one to experience this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-April/119155.html I've written to gmail support directly and through their forums, but haven't yet received anything except for the automated replies telling me that I'm an idiot and pointing me to their faqs. I understand that if a problem of this magnitude stays unresolved for more than 72 hours, I should probably be looking for another mail service. What would you suggest? I've already signed up for Yahoo Beta, but it's not clear when I will receive the invitation. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not receiving email from FreeBSD lists on Gmail for about 3 days
Hi all, I'm subscribed to several FreeBSD lists and I stopped receiving any email on my gmail account on the 13th. Anyone else experiencing this problem or the exact opposite, actually receiving mail on your gmail account? Please add me as a direct recipient for any response. My thanks in advance, -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4
On 3/30/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I seem to recall that on Linux with default settings fsync() lies and does not actually sync data before returning, so maybe it's worth turning off on FreeBSD too if you're comfortable with the implications of this. A few months ago I installed a syslog server with syslog-ng inserting the events to postgresql. Since I had 5000+ events per second coming in postgresql was my bottleneck and I had to disable fsync (Even then it would get very slow sometimes). This was on a CentOS 4.2 running kernel 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp This to say, I don't know for sure if Linux is lying or not on fsync, but even on Linux, turning fsync off makes a big difference. In my case if data was lost there was no damage hence my choice to keeping it off -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing FreeBSD with undetected USB keyboard
On 3/20/06, Kenyon Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/19/06, Andreas Rudisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:04:01 +0100, Kenyon Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard connected to an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard. The keyboard works fine in the BIOS setup and in Linux booted from a CD. Booting with a 6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso CD gives me no keyboard functionality at all. Have you tried option 7 'Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard' of the boot menu yet? Kind of difficult since I can't use the keyboard. :) When you have USB Legacy support enabled in the BIOS you should still have a working keyboard up till the loader stage. With that you should be able to select option 7 'Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard' of the boot menu as mentioned. You should also be able to go to loader options and do a load kbdmux and boot afterwards. Note this option only works on 6.1 BETA and there are ISOs to download :) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MySQL forgot some of my data!
On 12/8/05, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our company has a few very large databases (9gb) which required a shut down, mysql SELECT * FROM campaigns LIMIT 0; ERROR 1017 at line 1: Can't find file: 'campaigns.MYI' (errno: 2) Was that using MyISAM or InnoDB ? So my questions to you, deal list are: 1. Should mysqladmin shutdown take this long? a. Is this normal even with a load of 0.00? I'd say no on a Power5 with 8ish cpus and a load of 15 on a 34GB database I could stop it almost instantly using normal shutdown procedure. 2. Is this the best way to shut down a database of this size? Is there a different way per size? Guess not ;) 3. What is most likely to be the cause of the data loss? Were you using MyISAM of InnoDB? I had this issue after a restart with the only table using MyISAM. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 in VMware
On 11/29/05, David Miao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I installed a freebsd 6.0 in vmware 5.5, why I get a mass of error message of calcu runtime error? Quoting Ed (again): Disable your APIC device, provided you're not trying to run an SMP kernel in a virtual SMP machine. Disabling the APIC forces FreeBSD to fall back on the old-fashioned IRQ timers. I think. Anyway, it works. Or works around. Whatever: In /boot/loader.conf , add: hint.apic.0.disabled=1 Note: This had already been answered on this list. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How To Monitor Disk Errors?
Try smartmontools: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/smartmontools/ If you have IBM Deskstars see if there is newer firmware available. On 11/23/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old machine running 4.11. It died sometime last night from what I think was a disk problem. The machine was still running and still passing packets (it is my firewall) but I could not log in via the console, ssh, or telnet. I powered the machine off/on and heard the click of death coming from one of the internal IDE drives. By some miracle, the machine did finally boot and is running again. I'm sure I'm on borrowed time here. However I would like to find some way to monitor drive errors so I know which drive is failing so replace the correct drive. I have two in the machine. I've checked /var/log/messages but see no entries there regarding the drive. Is there some utility that will let me see the current number of errors since boot? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and VmWare 5
On 11/22/05, Ben Siemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to get it working fine after a few tries. I did have a problem with the process timer getting out a sync though, but that went away after the 2nd try. Quoting Ed: Disable your APIC device, provided you're not trying to run an SMP kernel in a virtual SMP machine. Disabling the APIC forces FreeBSD to fall back on the old-fashioned IRQ timers. I think. Anyway, it works. Or works around. Whatever: In /boot/loader.conf , add: hint.apic.0.disabled=1 Or, comment out the device apic line in your kernel config file and rebuild, if you're one of Those People. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and VmWare 5
On 11/15/05, Mário Gamito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has any one around here tried to run FreeBSD 6.0 in VmWare 5 (Windows) with success ? FreeBSD's install reboots when it comes to package installation. I haven't upgraded 6.0 from BETA something on my laptop but it's been working back from 5.x days so I didn't really install 6 on it. What kind of disk are you using on the VM, ide, scsi? What about the installation media, iso mounted on virtual cdrom, using real cdrom? off topic: são raros os portugueses por estas paragens ;) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for freebsd/openbsd Open Source project for multi-WAN load-sharing/failover firewall/internet gateway
Take a look at m0n0wall on steroids: http://www.pfsense.com/ On 11/20/05, Sanjay Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for any open source project that can help me build manage, preferably through a GUI, a multi WAN firewall gateway to the internet, with DMZ, load-sharing, traffic bifurcation on priority/port and auto-ISP failover on any WAN link with IDS/IPS, NAT VPN features. I am not necessarily looking for a firewall distro...but various components that come together (on a minimal OS install) to build a GUI based firewall internet gateway appliance, having the multiple WAN capability. I basically want a minimalist design, which is open source, free and offers the above features. Some examples are the IPcop, m0n0wall (plus multiple WAN links) Sonicwall, Watchguard, Fortigate etc., minus their additional applications like mail anti-virus, mail servers, web-servers (except for whatever is minimal need for GUI) etc. Hope someone can suggest a good solution. With regards. Sanjay. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd boot problem
On 11/5/05, Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I needed to add an IDE disk to an already running SCSI booting machine for testing. Recently upgraded to 6.0 :) with the IDE disk connected to the machine, although not mounted. After a make kernel the machine boots fine but only if I have the IDE disk connected. Booting from the scsi disk I can clearly see it's trying to find the load from the ide disk. I tried 'atacontrol detach ata0' and reinstalling the kernel and tried a bsdlabel -B da0 but I still get the error, boot message follows: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 Invalid partition Invalid partition No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel boot: I tried 0:da(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel but still no go. How can I fix this? -- Joao Barros One more odd thing I noticed: With ad0 attached like as before this problem occurred I correctly see this at the loader: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 Drive 1 is a raid array on another controller. With ad0 disconnected and da0 being the boot drive I only see: F1 FreeBSD Considering that doing a make work kernel with a ad0(which I guess BIOS will see as the new drive 0) attached after the initial system installation on da0 rendered booting from da0 unusable, I think something very wrong must be happening. The disk to consider writing any new boot information should be the one where / lives in, not disk 0 reported by the BIOS. Well, that's my view of it anyway... I'm really unable to restore booting capabilities to da0 so any hints are highly appreciated. -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odd boot problem
Hi, I needed to add an IDE disk to an already running SCSI booting machine for testing. Recently upgraded to 6.0 :) with the IDE disk connected to the machine, although not mounted. After a make kernel the machine boots fine but only if I have the IDE disk connected. Booting from the scsi disk I can clearly see it's trying to find the load from the ide disk. I tried 'atacontrol detach ata0' and reinstalling the kernel and tried a bsdlabel -B da0 but I still get the error, boot message follows: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 Invalid partition Invalid partition No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel boot: I tried 0:da(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel but still no go. How can I fix this? -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new filesystem improvements in 6.0-RELEASE, require newfs?
On 11/4/05, Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most notably amongst the improvements/additions to 6.0-RELEASE, are those in the filesystem area. In performing a system upgrade, does one need to newfs/format a given partition with a new file system to make use of these optimizations, or is the bonus simply in the kernel/filesystem support and sticking with the current UFS2 partition (5.3-RELEASE/amd64) will step-up to it? As you nicely put it: the bonus is simply in the kernel :) -- Joao Barros ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
