Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
kalin m wrote: does anybody here know if freebsd has a driver for Marvell 88E8057 nic chip? according to the kernel list of drivers (7.2) marvell chips are driven by the msk driver. but it doesn't show up in pciconf, dmesg or sysinstall strangely enough 88E8057 is not in the list in

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-24 Thread kalin m
Kevin Kinsey wrote: kalin m wrote: does anybody here know if freebsd has a driver for Marvell 88E8057 nic chip? according to the kernel list of drivers (7.2) marvell chips are driven by the msk driver. but it doesn't show up in pciconf, dmesg or sysinstall strangely enough 88E8057 is

freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread kalin m
hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it. i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!? what can be the reason? it'a brand new install of freebsd 7.2

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it. i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!?

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread kalin m
thanks adam. Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM, kalin m ka...@el.net mailto:ka...@el.net wrote: hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread kalin m
not really... i checked. many times. even for num loc. which doesn't matter... amnesiac is the name freebsd uses when no hostname is set. in this Amnesiac is the release name i think... man msk many times msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere now... the

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread James Phillips
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:46:03 -0500 From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: freebsd forgets root password To: kalin m ka...@el.net Cc: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID:     6201873e0910231846j4386baa9g3bd3eab21fed1...@mail.gmail.com Content

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:15:19 -0400, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: man msk many times msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere If you have if_msk_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, it should. A message for dmesg is issued at the moment the driver is loaded

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:41:31 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: With how flimsy the entry-level keyboards are these days, it may be *almost* as likely ;) Entry level? Ha! All modern keyboards... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread kalin m
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:15:19 -0400, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: man msk many times msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere If you have if_msk_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, it should. A message for dmesg is

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread kalin m
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:41:31 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: With how flimsy the entry-level keyboards are these days, it may be *almost* as likely ;) Entry level? Ha! All modern keyboards... :-) actually the one i'm using was

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
kalin m wrote: hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it. i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!? what can be the reason? Can you clarify a bit?