Re: 4x Kernel
Keith Phipps wrote: Good Day, We've got a FreeBSD box that's running 4.10 (that may not be correct, but it's 4.x for certain) and it's not seeing our ATA driver on the appliance it's been installed on. It's just a small 1u device, 1 hard drive, no RAID. The same version installs on the 2u with the RAID controller no problem. Best I can tell, 6.1 has the proper ATA driver. ICH7 is what I'm looking for. The build of our boxes are ISO'd on a CD, so I'm wondering the best way to get this done - as I've never had to recompile anything and the more and more I'm reading, the more and more it looks like I'm going to have to a) figure out where/how to pull the ICH7 ATA driver from the 6.1 build b) how I can recompile the kernel that goes with the ISO It'd be easy (so google says) if it were anything other than the drive controller - but since I can get to the drive, I can't load the OS properly, can't just replace the kernel that way. Any and all ideas, resources, etc.. would be helpful, as this was just sort of dropped on my plate. Thanks! -Keith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any particular reason why you can't just use 6.1? I know it's probably not what you want to hear, but it's highly likely it's going to be said if I don't anyway :-) If it's because of stability, you *could* give NetBSD or OpenBSD a try perhaps? I had even 4.x panic'ing and locking up on my machine, where NetBSD 3 is totally stable. I *think* NetBSD 3 supports ICH7 at least. -- Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSc (Hons), Computer Science ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting more than 4 OSes from a hard disk?
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Dear all, I was wondering if the 4 primary parition booting limit still exists. Is it possible to have Windoze Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD on the same box in such a way that we can boot into any of them? I am particularly interested in the x86 arch with IDE disks. I think this is possible on other archs with SCSI. What boot manager am I supposed to use? Does it require setting something on the BIOS? Does FreeBSD support booting from a point way off the first sector? Thanks. regards, Girish __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I *think* GAG can do this, though I have never actually personally tried it. If I ever use a boot loader though, GAG is my first choice. It's incredibly simple to install and configure. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ -- Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSc (Hons), Computer Science ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Temperature Monitor
Tamouh H. wrote: Hi, I've an Intel board D865GVHZ running on FBSD 5.4 that I'd like to monitor its temperature. I've tried using lmmon , but the data are way off: Motherboard Temp Voltages 255C / 491F / 528KVcore1: +3.984V Vcore2: +3.984V Fan Speeds + 3.3V: +3.984V + 5.0V: +6.654V 1:0 rpm+12.0V: +15.938V 2:0 rpm-12.0V: -15.938V 3:0 rpm- 5.0V: -6.654V All the other apps I'm finding are either too old, or only work with laptops / specific boards. Any suggestions ? Thx, Tamouh Hakmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've always had good luck with 'mbmon'. I think you can find it in ports, possibly under 'xmbmon' -- in which case I think you'll need to specify the option to build the console version, not the X version. -- Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.11 Server Locks Up
Tom Grove wrote: Over the past few months I have noticed that our mail server is flat out locking up. I monitor it via Nagios and about once every two months I get emails saying it is down and when I go over to the console the server is totally unresponsive. I've gone through logs every time and find nothing at all wrong. This is a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with Dual Xeon cpu's and 2GB of memory. Uname replies with: FreeBSD colossus 4.11-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p13 #0: Fri Oct 14 13:34:01 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/COLOSSUS i386 One, has anyone else had similar problems with boxes just becoming unresponsive under high load? Two, is there any reason this would occur? -Tom Grove ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have very recently (a couple of weeks a go) had my small home server start randomly deciding to lock up, not even under heavy load. It would just decide to freeze up for no reason. It would happen usually at least once a week, and it was fairly common for it to lock up during the O/S boot. It would never lock up in BIOS though. After replacing every single piece of hardware in the machine, aside from the motherboard, nothing seemed to help. Upon further inspection of the motherboard, just before looking to buy a new one, I noticed bulging / leaking capacitors around the CPU socket. It looked like *all* of the most important caps were knackered. I am suprised it managed to turn on and stay up (for a while) at all. Just the other day I ordered some good brand name caps (Rubycon MCZ's) and replaced all but 3 of the original capacitors on the board. It's been up for 11 days with no signs of locking up. Before leaving it on again I tested it out, just by restarting a fair few times, to see if it continued to lock up during O/S boot. Not *once* did it lock up after the capacitor replacement jobby I did. It appears to have solved all my instability problems! It may be a long shot, but it's perhaps worth perhaps checking the capacitors and making sure they're in good condition. Even a slight bulge is the sign of a failing capacitor, as far as I am aware. The tops should be *perfectly* flat, and nice and shiny :-) Of course, you may not be comfortable taking a soldering iron to your board. If you do discover bad caps and would like to have them replaced by someone with experience, take a look at www.badcaps.net. They offer a paid service for capacitor replacement. Not exactly certified by any motherboard manufacturers or anything, but appears to have a lot of experience. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vinum RAID 1, FreeBSD 4-STABLE two different size drives
Hello :-) I've come across a deal where by I can either buy two identical 20GB drives, or a 20GB drive and a 40GB drive for the same price as the two 20GB's. I was intending to use the drives for a RAID 1 array and have read that ideally the drives should be identical, but it is do-able with different size drives. Obviously as both options are the same price I would like to get more for my money and get the 40GB and 20GB drive, rather than two 20GB's. This should also give me the option of buying only a single 40GB drive later on for cheap if I need to bump the space up a bit, rather than buying two drives. Simple questions really I suppose. Is having two different size drives going to work? Is it going to make configuration trickier in any way? Are there any disadvantages (other than I will be losing out on 20GB on the 40GB drive, and that it's only going to be as fast as the slowest drive I imagine)? I've never ever touched vinum before! Thanks in advance for any advice / comments, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With 'for' Loop
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a for loop. To test, I've written the following: for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.jpg -or -iname *.gif -print` do echo -e \n$i done The first line 'find' returns is /multimedia/Pictures/1998 Christmas/April01.JPG Yet 'echo $i' only returns /multimedia/Pictures/1998, stopping at the first space. Is it possible to get 'i' to represent the whole string that 'find' returns? If so, how? Thanks, Drew Actually, ignore that one. Wouldn't work like I thought it would :-( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With 'for' Loop
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a for loop. To test, I've written the following: for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.jpg -or -iname *.gif -print` do echo -e \n$i done The first line 'find' returns is /multimedia/Pictures/1998 Christmas/April01.JPG Yet 'echo $i' only returns /multimedia/Pictures/1998, stopping at the first space. Is it possible to get 'i' to represent the whole string that 'find' returns? If so, how? Thanks, Drew Wild guess.. I would say try something like this... for i in `/usr/bin/find /home/mrboo -iname \*.jpg\ -or -iname \*.gif\ -print ` do echo -e \n$i done ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting original kernel
Micah wrote: Siriphan Brigder wrote: This page from the handbook will hopefully help you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-troub le.html Good luck! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sudheer Gupta Sent: 09 October 2005 22:51 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting original kernel Hi I am using 4.1 BSD. Made few changes to the kernel and compiled it. When trying to reboot using the modified kernel, it throwed some page faults. So, i booted using the older config namely kernel.old. I again made few changes and recompiled the kernel with a new config. Now, trying to boot the kernel, it neither boots with the latest nor the older one. How do I boot with original configuration ?? Regards Sudheer From the sounds of it, when you compiled your second kernel your kernel.old (the original generic kernel) was overwritten by your broken kernel leaving you with two broken kernels and no working kernels to boot from. If that's what happened you either need to reinstall FreeBSD or boot the install/rescue cd and try to copy the generic kernel from it. That handbook page has a lot of good information, but most of it is preventative. The best suggestion is to always keep a working copy of the kernel seperate from the kernel.old that FreeBSD makes for you. HTH Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't there also /kernel.GENERIC that gets installed? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting from IPFW to IPFILTER
Charles Swiger wrote: On Oct 6, 2005, at 5:44 PM, Brian E. Conklin wrote: I am getting ready to switch a FreeBSD 4.11 machine from IPFW to IPFILTER for better FTP and NAT support. Hmm. Is there something natd doesn't handle for your case...? I currently have IPFW compiled into the kernel. Do I need to recompile a kernel without IPFW before I can enable IPF? Can I just set IPFW to allow everything by default? Thanks in advance for your advice. You can have IPFW and IPF active at the same time, yes. If you're going to switch to using IPF, you might want to consider upgrading or reinstalling the OS to 5.4 instead of 4.11. Are there any particular reasons why you suggest switching from 4.11 to 5.4 if going from IPFW to IPF? Because I have just converted from IPFW2 to IPF on 4.11-STABLE... I did notice that IPF appears to be a rather old version. 3.something, where the latest version of IPF is 4.something. Is this the reason? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Complete hangs while extracting source
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jakob Breivik Grimstveit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My entire system stops completely while unpacking large tar files, like when building OpenOffice2.0-devel. Sound goes into a loop with a timeframe of 0.001 seconds, mouse pointer stops responding, everything goes to a halt. This lasts about 0.5 seconds, then it starts working again, and then halts again and so on, until the tarfile is completely uncompressed. Is this expected behaviour? Is it a broken scheduler? Am I incuding something in the kernel which I shouldn't have? Sounds more like an interrupt issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] conf]$ grep -i sched /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NUSSE options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions [EMAIL PROTECTED] conf]$ uname -a FreeBSD nusse.starshipping.com 5.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #17: Tue Sep 13 19:31:11 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NUSSE i386 Are you seeing interrupt storms? What kind of controller are you using on that hard disk, and is anything else sharing the same interrupt? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've always had this problem (it sounds like the same thing at least) with FreeBSD, on every system I have tried it on, be it 4.x or 5.x. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bye-bye beastie ...
Mike Jeays wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really dying to have on there; You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. Sincerely, A sincere Christian who doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. Fortunately I'd finished my drink at the time, but I did wonder if he could send out a Protestant version ;-D KDK P.S. Of course, if it was worth the fuss, I could hack that myself... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or GDM login screen? When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen Windows before, their first reaction is how geeky all that text looks as it rolls by. They are turned off before I even get to the login screen. Most current Linuxes are 'better' in this respect. I realise it may make it harder to debug failed startups... Probably not the best solution in the world but you could try... echo -h /boot.config Works for 4.11 atleast :-) ___ 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]
dhclient + DHCPNAK = release ip?
Good morning :-) I've recently switched ISP and got a static IP. However, my ADSL modem is a bit dense it seems. With a dynamic IP things worked reasonably well. With my new static IP, however, whenever the connection drops - I don't have the worlds highest quality phone line or something - either dhclient or the modem gets a bit confused because the IP is the same. Here's what happens when I catch it disconnecting and do a `ifconfig fxp1 delete` just after the DHCPNAK: Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPNAK from 192.168.0.1 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New Network Number: x Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 255.255.255.255 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: Reason: BOUND Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: Old IP Address (fxp1): Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New IP Address (fxp1): xx Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp1): 255.255.255.0 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp1): 255.255.255.255 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New Routers: x Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: bound to x -- renewal in 57 seconds. With this, all is good and my connection works again. Here's what is actually happening if I don't either 1) restart dhclient or 2) ifconfig fxp1 delete after the DHCPNAK Sep 23 12:08:08 bone dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on fxp1 to 192.168.0.1 port 67 Sep 23 12:08:08 bone dhclient: DHCPNAK from 192.168.0.1 Sep 23 12:08:08 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 Sep 23 12:08:15 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 Sep 23 12:08:25 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 Sep 23 12:08:29 bone dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Sep 23 12:08:29 bone dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. Sep 23 12:08:29 bone dhclient: DEBUG: FAIL Sep 23 12:08:30 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 Sep 23 12:08:35 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 Sep 23 12:08:41 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 Sep 23 12:08:51 bone dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Sep 23 12:08:51 bone dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. and it just does this forever and as a result I lost my connection. So, my question, is there a way to make dhclient release the IP address on the interface whenever it gets this DHCPNAK message? Apologies for my probably rather bad attempt at explaining my problem. Thanks in advance, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhclient + DHCPNAK = release ip?
Good morning :-) I've recently switched ISP and got a static IP. However, my ADSL modem is a bit dense it seems. With a dynamic IP things worked reasonably well. With my new static IP, however, whenever the connection drops - I don't have the worlds highest quality phone line or something - either dhclient or the modem gets a bit confused because the IP is the same. Here's what happens when I catch it disconnecting and do a `ifconfig fxp1 delete` just after the DHCPNAK: Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPNAK from 192.168.0.1 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New Network Number: x Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 255.255.255.255 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: Reason: BOUND Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: Old IP Address (fxp1): Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New IP Address (fxp1): xx Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp1): 255.255.255.0 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp1): 255.255.255.255 Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: New Routers: x Sep 23 10:36:19 bone dhclient: bound to x -- renewal in 57 seconds. With this, all is good and my connection works again. Here's what is actually happening if I don't either 1) restart dhclient or 2) ifconfig fxp1 delete after the DHCPNAK Sep 23 12:08:08 bone dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on fxp1 to 192.168.0.1 port 67 Sep 23 12:08:08 bone dhclient: DHCPNAK from 192.168.0.1 Sep 23 12:08:08 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 Sep 23 12:08:15 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 Sep 23 12:08:25 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 Sep 23 12:08:29 bone dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Sep 23 12:08:29 bone dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. Sep 23 12:08:29 bone dhclient: DEBUG: FAIL Sep 23 12:08:30 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 Sep 23 12:08:35 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 Sep 23 12:08:41 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 Sep 23 12:08:51 bone dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Sep 23 12:08:51 bone dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. and it just does this forever and as a result I lost my connection. So, my question, is there a way to make dhclient release the IP address on the interface whenever it gets this DHCPNAK message? Apologies for my probably rather bad attempt at explaining my problem. Thanks in advance, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tightvnc compile errors
Hi, I decided to install tightvnc and during the X stuff I got this error.. - [...snip...] rm -f xdpyinfo cc -o xdpyinfo -O -pipe -march=pentium -ansi -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -L/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/exports/lib xdpyinfo.o -lXtst -lXi -lXrender -lXinerama -ldmx-lXxf86vm -lXxf86dga -lXxf86misc -lXext -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/exports/lib /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -ldmx *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/programs/xdpyinfo. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/programs. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontDefaultBitmaps. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontDefaultBitmaps. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/tightvnc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/tightvnc. --- This is on FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE if it matters, ports tree updated as of... about 10 minutes ago. Any ideas what's going wrong? Need more info?? Thanks, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: any way to tell memory config of a machine?
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 21, 2005, at 8:52 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if there was any way to tell the memory configuration of a server running FBSD 5 (while running). By this I mean: can I tell if 2GB is 2x1GB or 4x512MB etc? Obviously I can shut it down and either look at the BIOS or physically look inside, but I would rather not do that. With most systems, there is no way to do this. On many, there isn't even a way for the BIOS to tell... Assuming the BIOS knows (it lists the memory config on boot by slot), is there a FreeBSD utility that will get the info from the BIOS for me? Thanks Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try 'dmidecode' in ports. /usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode :) Works for me... *snip snip* Handle 0x0006 DMI type 6, 12 bytes. Memory Module Information Socket Designation: BANK_0 Bank Connections: 0 1 Current Speed: 70 ns Type: DIMM SDRAM Installed Size: 64 MB (Single-bank Connection) Enabled Size: 64 MB (Single-bank Connection) Error Status: OK Handle 0x0007 DMI type 6, 12 bytes. Memory Module Information Socket Designation: BANK_1 Bank Connections: 2 3 Current Speed: 70 ns Type: DIMM SDRAM Installed Size: 64 MB (Single-bank Connection) Enabled Size: 64 MB (Single-bank Connection) Error Status: OK Handle 0x0008 DMI type 6, 12 bytes. Memory Module Information Socket Designation: BANK_2 Bank Connections: 4 5 Current Speed: 70 ns Type: Unknown Installed Size: Not Installed Enabled Size: Not Installed Error Status: OK Handle 0x0009 DMI type 6, 12 bytes. Memory Module Information Socket Designation: BANK_3 Bank Connections: 6 7 Current Speed: 70 ns Type: Unknown Installed Size: Not Installed Enabled Size: Not Installed Error Status: OK *snip snip* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient oddness?
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right, I have this weird annoying issue with my modem which I have finally got around to looking in to. Basically, it's all good and works fine (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be here!), except when I reboot the internet computer the IP will change, the connection DOESN'T drop, but the IP does change. I have just now narrowed this down to some sort of problem with dhcp I think. The modem has a dhcpd server built in, which sends out the internet IP address to the computers network card. It seems, whenever the dhcp client, dhclient in this case, gets restarted it'll get the old ip address (the first chunk of the quote below, before the freeze), natd will update itself, but then the connection will just stall until dhclient does the next DHCPREQUEST thing (47 seconds in this case?) .. then the modem sends back a DHCPNAK and I get a different IP address. Any ideas why this might be happening? Your modem is clearly the source of the problem, and it seems unlikely that anything on the FreeBSD side could help, aside from maybe forcing a lease free before starting dhclient on startup. I'd try looking at the configuration for that modem device, or possibly for a firmware upgrade for it. Hi, Could you explain what's going on to me? I mean, in simplified terms, what exactly is causing the modem to get a new IP address when dhclient restarts? I have contacted them about the issue and they seem to think it's an O/S problem (well, it's *obviously* not an issue with their modem now, is it? :-P). How would I go about forcing a 'lease free'? Delete dhclient.leases, or some option somewhere that I missed? As for configuration, there's no config for the DHCP server and there's never been a firmware upgrade for it (this is the only issue I have EVER had with it and I expect most users don't notice it). Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient oddness?
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mark Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right, I have this weird annoying issue with my modem which I have finally got around to looking in to. Basically, it's all good and works fine (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be here!), except when I reboot the internet computer the IP will change, the connection DOESN'T drop, but the IP does change. I have just now narrowed this down to some sort of problem with dhcp I think. The modem has a dhcpd server built in, which sends out the internet IP address to the computers network card. It seems, whenever the dhcp client, dhclient in this case, gets restarted it'll get the old ip address (the first chunk of the quote below, before the freeze), natd will update itself, but then the connection will just stall until dhclient does the next DHCPREQUEST thing (47 seconds in this case?) .. then the modem sends back a DHCPNAK and I get a different IP address. Any ideas why this might be happening? Your modem is clearly the source of the problem, and it seems unlikely that anything on the FreeBSD side could help, aside from maybe forcing a lease free before starting dhclient on startup. I'd try looking at the configuration for that modem device, or possibly for a firmware upgrade for it. Could you explain what's going on to me? I mean, in simplified terms, what exactly is causing the modem to get a new IP address when dhclient restarts? I have contacted them about the issue and they seem to think it's an O/S problem (well, it's *obviously* not an issue with their modem now, is it? :-P). Okay, now I'm confused. I thought your FreeBSD machine was the one being issued a new address, not the modem. [And that since the address was being issued *by* the modem, it was making the decision about which address to choose. I guess that means I was assuming your modem was doing NAT. Does the modem have an address at all? Ooops, sorry. The FreeBSD machine does have the IP address assigned to it's network card. I don't quite know how it works, but they seem to call it 'Live IP technology'. I think maybe most people know it as 'PPP Half-Bridge', maybe?? The address is issued, to the FreeBSD network card, by the modem via DHCP. The FreeBSD machine does the NAT and everything. As far as I am aware the modem actually holds the IP, so it's kind of annoying that, just because dhclient gets restarted, the modem decides that the IP address has to change. Surely, since the modem's actually doing all the work and holding the connection, it should be able to give me back my old IP address?? Shouldn't it? How would I go about forcing a 'lease free'? Delete dhclient.leases, or some option somewhere that I missed? I'm pretty sure that dhclient(8) has an command-line option to do it. Ok, I will have a look and give it a try! As for configuration, there's no config for the DHCP server and there's never been a firmware upgrade for it (this is the only issue I have EVER had with it and I expect most users don't notice it). Since you've rebooted your computer anyway, why do you care? You've just lost all of your connections already. Because I would like to try and keep the same IP as long as possible :P I've been given admin on a game server that goes by IP address and cannot afford my ISPs 'static IP' options. Furthermore, they stopped with the 'sticky IP addresses' apparently :-( -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhclient oddness?
Right, I have this weird annoying issue with my modem which I have finally got around to looking in to. Basically, it's all good and works fine (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be here!), except when I reboot the internet computer the IP will change, the connection DOESN'T drop, but the IP does change. I have just now narrowed this down to some sort of problem with dhcp I think. The modem has a dhcpd server built in, which sends out the internet IP address to the computers network card. It seems, whenever the dhcp client, dhclient in this case, gets restarted it'll get the old ip address (the first chunk of the quote below, before the freeze), natd will update itself, but then the connection will just stall until dhclient does the next DHCPREQUEST thing (47 seconds in this case?) .. then the modem sends back a DHCPNAK and I get a different IP address. Any ideas why this might be happening? - Apr 5 17:45:01 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 Apr 5 17:45:01 bone dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1 Apr 5 17:45:01 bone dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Apr 5 17:45:01 bone dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 Apr 5 17:45:01 bone dhclient: Old IP Address (fxp1): 81.179.214.216 Apr 5 17:45:01 bone dhclient: New IP Address (fxp1): 81.179.214.216 Apr 5 17:45:01 bone dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp1): 255.255.255.0 Apr 5 17:45:01 bone dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp1): 255.255.255.255 Apr 5 17:45:01 bone dhclient: New Routers: 81.179.214.216 Apr 5 17:45:01 bone dhclient: bound to 81.179.214.216 -- renewal in 47 seconds. Apr 5 17:45:08 bone natd[432]: Aliasing to 81.179.214.216, mtu 1500 bytes big pause here Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on fxp1 to 192.168.0.1 port 67 Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: DHCPNAK from 192.168.0.1 Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1 Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on fxp1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: Old IP Address (fxp1): Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: New IP Address (fxp1): 81.178.94.190 Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp1): 255.255.255.0 Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp1): 255.255.255.255 Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: New Routers: 81.178.94.190 Apr 5 17:45:48 bone dhclient: bound to 81.178.94.190 -- renewal in 53 seconds. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Something wrong in stable 5.3?
Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: Hi! I'm confusing now: about a month ago I have upgrated from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to stable 5.3. Since this moment strange things have been happens on my PC. Usually system works Ok, and can be run as long as I need without errors. But sometime, (after a little time after the boot) all begin crashed (core dump --- signal 11). Crashed base utility, like `cat', `sh' etc. Today I have cvsup'ed to stable 5.3 again, and build world again, but problem don't go away. I don't understand what I should do to detect source of problem... Have you any idea? Sounds like possible overheating? I had base utils core dump randomly after a while when I tried running an old .. Celeron 400(?) with a big chunk AMD heatsink on and without a fan. After I noticed I plugged the fan back in and all was well again. -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 4.8
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Jerry Hoover wrote: I would like to learn FreeBSD 4.8 (I think I have a copy) What I need to know, what does it require? CPU? RAM? Hard Drive Space? A 486-grade CPU or later, 16MB of RAM, and 1 GB of disk space is something resembling a minimum configuration. If you want to run a GUI environment involving X11, make that a Pentium-2 grade system and 64+ MB of RAM, and 4+ GB of disk space. Rather long list of techie details (for the PC-compat architecture): http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html Or for 4.8... http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html I've got 4.10 running on an old 133MHz P1, without the external cache plugged in as it was faulty, and 64MB of RAM.. chugs along quite nicely :) HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Increase 'routetbl' maximum size?
Nothing bad has happened.. yet. But the high memory usage column for routetbl on vmstat -m looks like it got close to limits. high limit routetbl 29192 3953K 8681K 10210K 160873650 0 16,32,64,128,256 Suppose it did reach the limit, what would happen? Would it straight out panic or try and free some ... routetbl memory, I guess it would be? Should I be concerned? -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux kernel on FreeBSD
Jeff Lawlor wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 09:07, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:49:50AM -0600, Jeff Lawlor typed: For programs that require linux kernel source code what about copying the linux kernel source files from a linux box on to the FreeBSD machine? Has anyone tried this? Please name 1 program that requires linux kernel source code to run. Cisco VPN. Port: vpnc-0.3.2 Path: /usr/ports/security/vpnc Info: Client for Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B-deps: expat-1.95.8 gettext-0.13.1_1 gmake-3.80_2 libgcrypt-1.2.0_1 libgpg-error-1.0_1 libiconv-1.9.2_1 perl-5.8.5 R-deps: expat-1.95.8 gettext-0.13.1_1 libgcrypt-1.2.0_1 libgpg-error-1.0_1 libiconv-1.9.2_1 perl-5.8.5 This one? I have no idea what this thread is about, but that's in ports. Wouldn't Linux emulation work anyway? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux kernel on FreeBSD
Jerry McAllister wrote: Jeff Lawlor wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 09:07, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:49:50AM -0600, Jeff Lawlor typed: For programs that require linux kernel source code what about copying the linux kernel source files from a linux box on to the FreeBSD machine? Has anyone tried this? Please name 1 program that requires linux kernel source code to run. Cisco VPN. Port: vpnc-0.3.2 Path: /usr/ports/security/vpnc Info: Client for Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B-deps: expat-1.95.8 gettext-0.13.1_1 gmake-3.80_2 libgcrypt-1.2.0_1 libgpg-error-1.0_1 libiconv-1.9.2_1 perl-5.8.5 R-deps: expat-1.95.8 gettext-0.13.1_1 libgcrypt-1.2.0_1 libgpg-error-1.0_1 libiconv-1.9.2_1 perl-5.8.5 This one? I have no idea what this thread is about, but that's in ports. Wouldn't Linux emulation work anyway? I think it was sort of a newbie question from someone who has yet to learn about ports and also the Linux emulation available in FreeBSD. Oh right :-) I read something earlier in this thread about the lack of features in the *BSD firewalls. Dunno about that because I haven't used Linux for years, but I think the BSD firewalls are fab! The syntax is understandable and a dummy like me can get a vague idea of what's going on anyhow. First they seemed to think they would have to somehow import the Linux kernel in to FreeBSD somehow to run a Lunix driver, showing unfamiliarity with the Linux emulation already there that allows Lunix stuff to be run. Then they did not seem to know about the vpnc (or other stuff) already in ports to perform the function[s] they want. I have to admit, searching /usr/ports can be a bit time consuming and tedius if you get started on a wrong track. Yeah, sometimes! http://www.freshports.org/ was nice last time I looked :-) Has someone perhaps pointed him/her towards the handbook? Anyway, hopefully, you have enlightened them. I think you did all the enlightening needed in your last post! jerry -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lcdproc port
Just to tell you I got the newest version of lcdproc to compile (0.4.5). I don't have an LCD ready yet, so I don't know if it works.. but it compiles now. Attached is a tar of the patches in the 'files' directory. It seems there was no need for patch-port anymore, so I removed that and fixed the configure patch. Perhaps someone can test it out and update the port? -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ files.tar Description: Binary data ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Realtek 8100B
Just wondering if anyone knows if this has the same 'bad design' as the 8139 cards. I'm looking at an embedded board computer which can either have 3xRealtek 8100B's or 3xIntel 82559's. The Realtek version is £170 and the Intel version says to contact them for a price, I think it's going to be in the £200 mark somewhere, as I have seen a board similar somewhere else with 3xIntels (maybe 2) and it was £212 ish.. so, if the 8100B's are improved, I'll look into getting that and saving me some money. -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Serial console weirdness
Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys # If console is marked insecure, then init will ask for the root password # when going to single-user mode. console noneunknown off secure # ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv2 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv3 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv4 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv5 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv6 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv7 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 dialup on secure ttyd1 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure ttyd2 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure ttyd3 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure # Dumb console dcons /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt100 off secure As you can see I have set ttyd0 to on (and adjusted the speed, but it was the same on 9600 to0) Now, my problem is that when I do a kill -HUP 1 nothing happens; Well, I am sure something happens, it certainly doesn't start getty on that serial port though! However(!) when I start getty manually on that port: /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0 It promptly goes into the background and on my other machine I get the login prompt and all is well (until I logout as getty isn't being respawned). I didn't see anything logged as to why it's not working. I will mention that I yanked the (very very broken) graphics card out of that machine, so there's no ttyv's. Do I need to make the serial console my ... console/display for getty to start working again perhaps? Any help would be much appreciated. -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial console weirdness
Artem Kazakov wrote: Mark Cullen wrote: Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 dialup on secure Now, my problem is that when I do a kill -HUP 1 nothing happens; Well, I am sure something happens, it certainly doesn't start getty on that serial port though! However(!) when I start getty manually on that port: /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0 It promptly goes into the background and on my other machine I get the login prompt and all is well (until I logout as getty isn't being respawned). I didn't see anything logged as to why it's not working. I will mention that I yanked the (very very broken) graphics card out of that machine, so there's no ttyv's. Do I need to make the serial console my ... console/display for getty to start working again perhaps? Any help would be much appreciated. probably you need to change dialup with something (like vt100) sutable your enviroment I have tried cons25, xterm and (now) vt100. It's not that... # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 cons25 on secure ttyd1 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure ttyd2 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure ttyd3 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure # Dumb console dcons /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt100 off secure # Pseudo terminals ttyp0 nonenetwork /etc/ttys: 307 lines, 7539 characters (root|bone)/home/mrboo# kill -HUP 1 (root|bone)/home/mrboo# ps ax | grep getty 21134 p0 R+ 0:00.02 grep getty (root|bone)/home/mrboo# Note: I have no getty processes as there's no graphics card, so I am guessing if it was working right I would start to see a: /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 ttyd0 It appears in the process list (and works) when I run the above manually! -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial console weirdness
Mark Cullen wrote: Artem Kazakov wrote: Mark Cullen wrote: Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 dialup on secure Now, my problem is that when I do a kill -HUP 1 nothing happens; Well, I am sure something happens, it certainly doesn't start getty on that serial port though! However(!) when I start getty manually on that port: /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0 It promptly goes into the background and on my other machine I get the login prompt and all is well (until I logout as getty isn't being respawned). I didn't see anything logged as to why it's not working. I will mention that I yanked the (very very broken) graphics card out of that machine, so there's no ttyv's. Do I need to make the serial console my ... console/display for getty to start working again perhaps? Any help would be much appreciated. probably you need to change dialup with something (like vt100) sutable your enviroment I have tried cons25, xterm and (now) vt100. It's not that... # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 cons25 on secure ttyd1 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure ttyd2 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure ttyd3 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure # Dumb console dcons /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt100 off secure # Pseudo terminals ttyp0 nonenetwork /etc/ttys: 307 lines, 7539 characters (root|bone)/home/mrboo# kill -HUP 1 (root|bone)/home/mrboo# ps ax | grep getty 21134 p0 R+ 0:00.02 grep getty (root|bone)/home/mrboo# Note: I have no getty processes as there's no graphics card, so I am guessing if it was working right I would start to see a: /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 ttyd0 It appears in the process list (and works) when I run the above manually! I'll reply to myself here. I just now created /boot.config with -h, rebooted, and all is well. With the added bonus of it being a serial console at the boot loader part. I am impressed :) Can't seem to get it to work with anything other than 9600 (even though the process list shows std.115200), but it gives me some sort of of display to work with during the boot process atleast :) -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: First impressions of FreeBSD 5.3
Gordon Freeman wrote: Well, After upgrading a very vanilla 5.2.1 to 5.3 a lot of things are just broken. ipfstat doesn't run. The error: openkmem:open:no such file or directory My RAID card (Adaptec 2150 using asr driver) is inaccessible because the rasr control device no longer exists. Making raidutil useless. And the server runs incredibly slow. (No I didn't leave in the testing options) The upgrade was far from smooth for me. Which was mostly my fault (/usr/src/UPDATING is a must read) but that doesn't really explain why things are running so badly on this box. ACPI is disabled, and aside from including IPF and SMP options into the kernel, it is a very generic kernel as well. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not an answer to your question but on my (old 133MHz) box 5.x is alot lot slower than 4.x. But I think the general response there will be... you shouldn't run 5.x on such a slow box :) -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How is 4-STABLE doing these days?
Hi there, I was just wondering what the state of 4-STABLE is these days? I have just installed 4.10-R on a machine and was going to update it to STABLE. What sort of changes have there been in STABLE since 4.10-R was released? UPDATING just stops at 4.10 released. -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How is 4-STABLE doing these days?
Mike Hauber wrote: On Sunday 24 October 2004 12:04 pm, Mark Cullen proclaimed: Hi there, I was just wondering what the state of 4-STABLE is these days? I have just installed 4.10-R on a machine and was going to update it to STABLE. What sort of changes have there been in STABLE since 4.10-R was released? UPDATING just stops at 4.10 released. First off thanks to both the people who replied so far! That's interesting, now that you mention it. I've kept up to date with the changes by subscribing to the freebsd-stable list. As far as I know (and hopefully I'm wrong on this...), it's is the only way to read up on the actual changes as they take place. Whoops, sorry. Forgot about the other lists :) The only problem is that you'll have to put on your waders to find anything specific. See the following link for more info on the mailing list (link may have wrapped): http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable I'll look there now :) If you don't want to subscribe to the list, the archives are available from the link above as well. I've cvsup'd just a few days ago and I'm running the latest 4.10-STABLE on two machines (one is setup as a desktop and the other provides various services to the LAN). If it's any help, it runs like a dream. :) I'm switching back from 5.x due to instability. I should probably go RELEASE and install the patches, but I can't help thinking STABLE would be a better choice :) HTH, It does, thank you very much! Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WDMA mode won't enable? Old machine...
Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:18:18PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote: I have a rather old machine acting as a home server. According to dmesg it has a: -- atapci0: Intel PIIX WDMA2 controller port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 -- However, both hard disks attached are running in PIO mode. -- ad0: 4103MB ST34321A [8894/15/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO ad2: 6194MB IBM-DADA-26480 [13424/15/63] at ata1-master BIOSPIO -- I tried running the following, but as you can see the end result is that they are still running BIOSPIO. -- (root|bone)/home/mrboo# atacontrol mode 0 WDMA2 WDMA2 Master = BIOSPIO Slave = BIOSPIO -- Any suggestions as to how I might enable some sort of DMA on these drives? Since the machine is rather slow (133MHz) and it's currently using polled IO I am sure it will likely benefit me, even if it isn't quite UDMA :) You should check out the following sysctl variables: Good call! hw.ata.ata_dma hw.ata.atapi_dma These are readonly at runtime, so need to be set at boot in the file /boot/loader.conf. You can add the them like so: Unfortuantly... (mrboo|bone)/home/mrboo$ sysctl hw.ata. hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 hw.ata.wc: 0 hw.ata.atapi_dma: 0 ATAPI is just CD drives isn't it? Mainly? If that's the case 0 is ok for that one, as it doesn't have a CD drive anymore. hw.ata.ata_dma=1 hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 Also, as I understand it, 80 conductor ribbon cables were only recommended at UDMA modes =2, but perhaps you might consider using one just to be safe. Well I can't use a newer cable on one of the drives as it is a laptop drive, using one of those 'special' laptop cable things :-) Thanks, but any other ideas as to why it won't enable? I don't seem to get any messages out of it, just doesn't want to do anything by the looks of it! Nathan -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WDMA mode won't enable? Old machine...
I have a rather old machine acting as a home server. According to dmesg it has a: -- atapci0: Intel PIIX WDMA2 controller port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 -- However, both hard disks attached are running in PIO mode. -- ad0: 4103MB ST34321A [8894/15/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO ad2: 6194MB IBM-DADA-26480 [13424/15/63] at ata1-master BIOSPIO -- I tried running the following, but as you can see the end result is that they are still running BIOSPIO. -- (root|bone)/home/mrboo# atacontrol mode 0 WDMA2 WDMA2 Master = BIOSPIO Slave = BIOSPIO -- Any suggestions as to how I might enable some sort of DMA on these drives? Since the machine is rather slow (133MHz) and it's currently using polled IO I am sure it will likely benefit me, even if it isn't quite UDMA :) -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
