Re: I need help on installation

[Oliver Mahmoudi]

now that I try to boot from a Free BSD CD (7.2 release) the Intel chip gives
me an
error message that the system boot failed and asks me to insert a system
disk which I do not have

- are you sure that you have burned the 1st CD as a bootable ISO image?
- have you checked the boot sequence in your BIOS and labeled to try your CD
drive before your HD?
- what type of an Intel chip is it?

Do I have to install a boot loader like GRUB2?

- actually this shouldn't be necessary since the 1st FBSD CD is bootable


Oliver
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how does the C pre-processor interface with make?

[Oliver Mahmoudi]

Hey folks,

I was wondering how the C pre-processor interfaces with make. Let's suppose
that I have a little C program, something along the lines of:

#include stdio.h

int
main()
{
#ifdef FOO
 fprintf(stdout, Hi, my name is foo.\n);
#endif

#ifdef BAR
 fprintf(stdout, Hi, my name is bar.\n);
#endif

 fprintf(stdout, I am always here.\n);

 return(1-1);
}

It is easy to control the pre-processor in the above code by defining the
respective terms or leaving them out, however,
I am trying to control the conditionals from out of a makefile.

This is essentially the way in which the kernel sources are compiled.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Oliver
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Re: Sorting a device list

[Oliver Mahmoudi]

you can try to delete the /dev/ad10 entry with sed and then just append it
to the end manually using the
printf(1) utility like so:

# ls /dev/ad* | sed s/\/dev\/ad10// | grep /dev/ad  printf
/dev/ad10\n

Does that help?

Oliver





On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:

 I had tried that. It doesn't work:

 # ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n
 /dev/ad10
 /dev/ad4
 /dev/ad6
 /dev/ad8

 I want the ad10 to appear last...

 -Original Message-
 From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keram...@ceid.upatras.gr]
 Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:31 PM
 To: Peter Steele
 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: Sorting a device list

 On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:48:18 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com
 wrote:
  Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For
 example, if I do this:
 
  ls /dev/ad* | sort
 
  I get something like this:
 
  /dev/ad10
  /dev/ad4
  /dev/ad6
  /dev/ad8

 Just use `sort -n':

ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n

 It should work fine even when there are non-numeric prefix strings.


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Re: How to 'cross compile' to produce Linux binaries

[Oliver Mahmoudi]

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-emulation/index.html

cheers,

Oliver



On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Lorin Lund w...@infowest.com wrote:

 Could someone point me to what to read to learn about building Linux
 executables under FreeBSD?
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Re: FreeBSD crossover cable network

[Oliver Mahmoudi]

Got it, forcing the nics to up did the job here.
I was quite surprised why it complained at all, as this has never happened
to me on my regular network.

Both of my cards make use of the rl(4) driver.

Thanks again.

Oliver

ps: may the force be with you



On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:

 Steve Bertrand wrote:
  Oliver Mahmoudi wrote:
  Hi everybody,
 
  I am trying to set up a crossover cable network between two computers
  running FreeBSD 7.0.
  The network cards are configured and they work, i.e. I pinged myself and
 it
  works.
 
  However, when booting up the systems I always get the error message that
 the
  link status
  of my network cards has changed to down.
 
  Running `ifconfig` tells me that no carrier has been detected even
 though
  the cable ends are
  plugged in.
 
  What type of cards are they?
 
  I've noticed in the past that sometimes I had to manually force the
  cards to 'UP' prior to assigning any addresses to them:

 ... in /etc/rc.conf

  ifconfig_em6=up
  ifconfig_em6=inet6 2607:f118:1:2::/64 eui64
 
  Try the up statement, and see if it helps after the next reboot.

 Steve


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FreeBSD crossover cable network

[Oliver Mahmoudi]

Hi everybody,

I am trying to set up a crossover cable network between two computers
running FreeBSD 7.0.
The network cards are configured and they work, i.e. I pinged myself and it
works.

However, when booting up the systems I always get the error message that the
link status
of my network cards has changed to down.

Running `ifconfig` tells me that no carrier has been detected even though
the cable ends are
plugged in.

Any pointers on how to solve this one are welcome.

Thanks

Oliver
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