Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want
From: Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 9:32 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want So... basically you've just set up servers that utilize the host connection or doesn't route? On Nov 5, 2011, at 5:35 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: From: Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 10:22 AM Subject: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want I have a PE 2450 with dual NICs and I want to turn it into a bridging VPN for the guys in the office to utilize. Our configuration: My office: 192.168.46.0/24 Server IPs: 192.168.46.2 [8.2-RELEASE] + public IP Corporate office: 192.168.45.0/24 My VPN: 192.168.47.0/24 [preferred] There's a NetVanta VPN between my office and the corporate office and I presume that will still work to route 47.0/24 to 45.0/24 when all is said and done. I am going to be supporting Windows and Mac clients (well, all windows and then my mac) and I'd like to test it from my 8.2 server at home before pushing this over to my MacBook Pro (using Tunnelblick) and then to my Windows users. I've tried the FreeBSD handbook and the Section6.net walkthroughs to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I can't say that I'm familiar with your setup which uses bridging. But I setup OpenVPN to work on a server inside my LAN which is behind my FreeBSD firewall server. The setup wasn't that hard, you just have to forward the right ports and get the certificates copied to the clients correctly. The docs on the OpenVPN site were very helpful in this for me. The trouble you may find is that this other VPN appliance you reference, NetVanta, may or may not be compatible with OpenVPN. I tried this several years ago with a remote company I was working for and found out quite dissappointingly that the protocol used by OpenVPN would not work whatsoever with Cisco equipment. That may have changed now but at the time all the advice I got was forget about it. Cisco equipment would not work with OpenVPN period. Luckily at the time I had a small Cisco appliance at my house and that is the only way I could get that setup to work. These days I happily connect to my LAN with encrypted tunnels from most places like hotels, etc... There is a problem sometimes at places like Starbucks or McDonalds where they have equipment which is blocking ports needed to run VPN. And in most cases it's not that they are blocking specific ports, it's that they are blocking everything except port 80 to only let their freebie users surf web content. YMMVcheck the docs on the OpenVPN site. Many HOWTOs and examples will help you get going. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Yes, but the setup is very similar. The docs available on the OpenVPN website give HOWTOs on both setups and they are very similar. I would check these as I found them to be very helpful. OpenVPN also has a great mailing list where I got some additional help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want
From: Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 10:22 AM Subject: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want I have a PE 2450 with dual NICs and I want to turn it into a bridging VPN for the guys in the office to utilize. Our configuration: My office: 192.168.46.0/24 Server IPs: 192.168.46.2 [8.2-RELEASE] + public IP Corporate office: 192.168.45.0/24 My VPN: 192.168.47.0/24 [preferred] There's a NetVanta VPN between my office and the corporate office and I presume that will still work to route 47.0/24 to 45.0/24 when all is said and done. I am going to be supporting Windows and Mac clients (well, all windows and then my mac) and I'd like to test it from my 8.2 server at home before pushing this over to my MacBook Pro (using Tunnelblick) and then to my Windows users. I've tried the FreeBSD handbook and the Section6.net walkthroughs to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I can't say that I'm familiar with your setup which uses bridging. But I setup OpenVPN to work on a server inside my LAN which is behind my FreeBSD firewall server. The setup wasn't that hard, you just have to forward the right ports and get the certificates copied to the clients correctly. The docs on the OpenVPN site were very helpful in this for me. The trouble you may find is that this other VPN appliance you reference, NetVanta, may or may not be compatible with OpenVPN. I tried this several years ago with a remote company I was working for and found out quite dissappointingly that the protocol used by OpenVPN would not work whatsoever with Cisco equipment. That may have changed now but at the time all the advice I got was forget about it. Cisco equipment would not work with OpenVPN period. Luckily at the time I had a small Cisco appliance at my house and that is the only way I could get that setup to work. These days I happily connect to my LAN with encrypted tunnels from most places like hotels, etc... There is a problem sometimes at places like Starbucks or McDonalds where they have equipment which is blocking ports needed to run VPN. And in most cases it's not that they are blocking specific ports, it's that they are blocking everything except port 80 to only let their freebie users surf web content. YMMVcheck the docs on the OpenVPN site. Many HOWTOs and examples will help you get going. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want
Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: the protocol used by OpenVPN would not work whatsoever with Cisco equipment ... That's what security/vpnc is for :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want
So... basically you've just set up servers that utilize the host connection or doesn't route? On Nov 5, 2011, at 5:35 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: From: Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 10:22 AM Subject: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want I have a PE 2450 with dual NICs and I want to turn it into a bridging VPN for the guys in the office to utilize. Our configuration: My office: 192.168.46.0/24 Server IPs: 192.168.46.2 [8.2-RELEASE] + public IP Corporate office: 192.168.45.0/24 My VPN: 192.168.47.0/24 [preferred] There's a NetVanta VPN between my office and the corporate office and I presume that will still work to route 47.0/24 to 45.0/24 when all is said and done. I am going to be supporting Windows and Mac clients (well, all windows and then my mac) and I'd like to test it from my 8.2 server at home before pushing this over to my MacBook Pro (using Tunnelblick) and then to my Windows users. I've tried the FreeBSD handbook and the Section6.net walkthroughs to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I can't say that I'm familiar with your setup which uses bridging. But I setup OpenVPN to work on a server inside my LAN which is behind my FreeBSD firewall server. The setup wasn't that hard, you just have to forward the right ports and get the certificates copied to the clients correctly. The docs on the OpenVPN site were very helpful in this for me. The trouble you may find is that this other VPN appliance you reference, NetVanta, may or may not be compatible with OpenVPN. I tried this several years ago with a remote company I was working for and found out quite dissappointingly that the protocol used by OpenVPN would not work whatsoever with Cisco equipment. That may have changed now but at the time all the advice I got was forget about it. Cisco equipment would not work with OpenVPN period. Luckily at the time I had a small Cisco appliance at my house and that is the only way I could get that setup to work. These days I happily connect to my LAN with encrypted tunnels from most places like hotels, etc... There is a problem sometimes at places like Starbucks or McDonalds where they have equipment which is blocking ports needed to run VPN. And in most cases it's not that they are blocking specific ports, it's that they are blocking everything except port 80 to only let their freebie users surf web content. YMMVcheck the docs on the OpenVPN site. Many HOWTOs and examples will help you get going. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want
I have a PE 2450 with dual NICs and I want to turn it into a bridging VPN for the guys in the office to utilize. Our configuration: My office: 192.168.46.0/24 Server IPs: 192.168.46.2 [8.2-RELEASE] + public IP Corporate office: 192.168.45.0/24 My VPN: 192.168.47.0/24 [preferred] There's a NetVanta VPN between my office and the corporate office and I presume that will still work to route 47.0/24 to 45.0/24 when all is said and done. I am going to be supporting Windows and Mac clients (well, all windows and then my mac) and I'd like to test it from my 8.2 server at home before pushing this over to my MacBook Pro (using Tunnelblick) and then to my Windows users. I've tried the FreeBSD handbook and the Section6.net walkthroughs to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
what to do about missing Flash and missing Java
I love FreeBSD, (and though years ago I was a Slackware user,) I much prefer the BSD's. But guy's, we really have to solve these problems. So here it is, I just installed 8.2 and need the latest Flash. What's the right procedure here, please. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what to do about missing Flash and missing Java
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:22:54 -0500, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: So here it is, I just installed 8.2 and need the latest Flash. What's the right procedure here, please. Java is not a problem and non-native flash has worked without issues here for a very long time. In fact, it's less problematic than actually running the native linux version on linux in my opinion. The handbook has everything you need to know: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
what to do with multimedia/xvid4conf
pkgdb -Ff --- Checking the package registry database Stale origin: 'multimedia/xvid4conf': perhaps moved or obsoleted. - The port 'multimedia/xvid4conf' was removed on 2011-05-02 because: Has expired: Upstream has disapear and distfile is no more available - Hint: xvid4conf-1.12_5 is required by the following package(s): subtitleripper-0.3.4_5 dvdrip-0.98.11_3 transcode-1.1.5_15 tovid-0.30_9 - Hint: checking for overwritten files... - No files installed by xvid4conf-1.12_5 have been overwritten by other packages. Deinstall xvid4conf-1.12_5 ? [no] Since it's required by other ports, removing it will break them, so I have to be harassed by this message every time I update my ports? Is there a way to hide this? -- I am currently away on leave, traveling through time and will be returning last week. Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?
On 11/18/10 03:12, Rob Farmer wrote:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:58, O. Hartmann
ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
Thanks.
I got it. But it seems that my first porting task run into some difficulties
for the advanced porters, since there is no autotool environment.
By the way, the global environment variable ${CSH} seems to be noneexistent,
instead ${SH} exists.
Interesting - I assumed it would be listed in bsd.commands.mk, but it
seems to not be. Most of the base system tools are. In any case, glad
to hear you got it working.
Well,
in this case, it would really be a 'nice to have', maybe this is worth a PR?
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Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?
2010/11/18 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Well, in this case, it would really be a 'nice to have', maybe this is worth a PR? Try asking on the ports@ list. I'm not sure what the criteria is for something being listed there - if something isn't going to be used by very many ports, it may not be worth adding, from a bloat point of view. I would say it is probably safe for your port to assume csh is /bin/csh, though. -- Rob Farmer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?
On 11/18/10 13:52, Rob Farmer wrote: 2010/11/18 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Well, in this case, it would really be a 'nice to have', maybe this is worth a PR? Try asking on the ports@ list. I'm not sure what the criteria is for something being listed there - if something isn't going to be used by very many ports, it may not be worth adding, from a bloat point of view. I would say it is probably safe for your port to assume csh is /bin/csh, though. I'll do, thanks ;-) Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?
Hello. I try to create a port of a software which does not have a Makefile and is build via a propriate csh script. Installation is done temporarely into some lib's and exe's subfolder withing the source folder, so I need to tell the top level Makefile of the port to use a specific build script instead implying having Makefile and a home-brewn install script, which takes the binaries and libs out of the temporary folders and install them at the proper places within the FreeBSD's tree. How can I perform these two tasks? Please set my CC, I'm not subscribing this list. Thanks in advance, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?
2010/11/17 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de:
Hello.
I try to create a port of a software which does not have a Makefile and is
build via a propriate csh script. Installation is done temporarely into some
lib's and exe's subfolder withing the source folder, so I need to tell the
top level Makefile of the port to use a specific build script instead
implying having Makefile and a home-brewn install script, which takes the
binaries and libs out of the temporary folders and install them at the
proper places within the FreeBSD's tree. How can I perform these two tasks?
You want to override the do-build target, something like:
do-build:
${CSH} ${WRKSRC}/build-script.csh
you can list additional commands as necessary
For the install, do the same with the do-install target. Unless your
install script is particularly long or complicated, it will probably
be best to put it right into the port's Makefile. Then you can use the
INSTALL macros to ensure permissions are set correctly, binaries are
stripped if the user doesn't specify WITH_DEBUG, etc.
If you haven't already, check out the Porter's Handbook - it will
familiarize you with important guidelines and covers a lot of common
problems:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
--
Rob Farmer
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Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?
On 11/17/10 22:01, Rob Farmer wrote:
2010/11/17 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de:
Hello.
I try to create a port of a software which does not have a Makefile and is
build via a propriate csh script. Installation is done temporarely into some
lib's and exe's subfolder withing the source folder, so I need to tell the
top level Makefile of the port to use a specific build script instead
implying having Makefile and a home-brewn install script, which takes the
binaries and libs out of the temporary folders and install them at the
proper places within the FreeBSD's tree. How can I perform these two tasks?
You want to override the do-build target, something like:
do-build:
${CSH} ${WRKSRC}/build-script.csh
you can list additional commands as necessary
For the install, do the same with the do-install target. Unless your
install script is particularly long or complicated, it will probably
be best to put it right into the port's Makefile. Then you can use the
INSTALL macros to ensure permissions are set correctly, binaries are
stripped if the user doesn't specify WITH_DEBUG, etc.
If you haven't already, check out the Porter's Handbook - it will
familiarize you with important guidelines and covers a lot of common
problems:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
Thanks.
I got it. But it seems that my first porting task run into some
difficulties for the advanced porters, since there is no autotool
environment.
By the way, the global environment variable ${CSH} seems to be
noneexistent, instead ${SH} exists.
Regards,
Oliver
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Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:58, O. Hartmann
ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
Thanks.
I got it. But it seems that my first porting task run into some difficulties
for the advanced porters, since there is no autotool environment.
By the way, the global environment variable ${CSH} seems to be noneexistent,
instead ${SH} exists.
Interesting - I assumed it would be listed in bsd.commands.mk, but it
seems to not be. Most of the base system tools are. In any case, glad
to hear you got it working.
--
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Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
On 07.07.2010, at 23:24, Henrik Hudson wrote: One caveat is that ESX / ESXi are very picky about their hardware and pretty much won't run on anything but server class devices (mobo, NICs and CPU are the big ones). Yes, I'm aware of that. We have entry level, but ESXi compatible, HP and IBM servers. VMware still has their VMware Server (software) solution, but it's slowly being phased out. Also, it's against the EULA to use ESXi for commercial / reseller purposes and ESX isn't cheap. Oh, wasn't aware about the ESXi EULA... will check, thank you. Iv___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
On 08.07.2010, at 03:04, Olivier Nicole wrote: That's the idea: bare metal and free, proxmox has something based on... I don't remember. I opted for vmware becuase it seems to be more wide spread. Yes, that's what I think, too. You will have to make your fingers dirty, because once you are installing any OS on a virtual machine, it is as dirty as installing on a bare hardware: you need to learn how to install, tune and secure that new OS... Good luck, Right. It's rather the comfort that I can have the right for every case (i. e. Oracle, Interbase) without asking for budget for a physical machine and having to take care of one more physical machine. Thank you for your thoughts, Iv___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
Hello everyone, I have been using FreeBSD since 4.x for web related applications (php, Apache, PostgreSQL, Postfix, Cyrus IMAP, etc.), and while I am not an expert, I feel quite comfortable. Lately I find myself in situations where I have I have to take care of legacy Oracle (10g on Windows) and Interbase (6 on Linux) databases and sometimes legacy OS which need to be run for some time in a virtual machine, and I have difficulties to accomplish this with FreeBSD - no Oracle port, no Interbase port and only VirtualBox support, which is a bit unclear to me. What is the recommended parallel way for a person, who feels comfortable with FreeBSD, when FreeBSD cannot do the job? - i. e. is it a good idea to go towards Solaris, instead of Linux? Or rather go towards some sort of Linux? Thank you, Iv___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
Hi, What is the recommended parallel way for a person, who feels comfortable with FreeBSD, when FreeBSD cannot do the job? - i. e. is it a good idea to go towards Solaris, instead of Linux? Or rather go towards some sort of Linux? I see 2 questions in one. What virtulization system to use? Personnally I use ESXi from vmware What OS to use instead of FreeBSD? It depends on what is recommended for your application, what resources you have available around you, etc. For a similar problem I choosed Ubuntu because Ubuntu was well supported by the application and some colleagues had a decent knwoledge of ubuntu. Best regards, olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
What virtulization system to use? Personnally I use ESXi from vmware This was a great tip, thank you. I wasn't aware that ESXi is a bare metal and free. What OS to use instead of FreeBSD? It depends on what is recommended for your application, what resources you have available around you, etc. For a similar problem I choosed Ubuntu because Ubuntu was well supported by the application and some colleagues had a decent knwoledge of ubuntu. I am not fanatic about FreeBSD, but I feel very comfortable with it and I resist change. However your ESXi tip would allow me to run ESXi on bare metal and virtualize simple installations of the unpleasant legacy OSes without making my fingers too dirty. Thank you very much, Iv___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010, Iv Ray wrote: What virtulization system to use? Personnally I use ESXi from vmware This was a great tip, thank you. I wasn't aware that ESXi is a bare metal and free. What OS to use instead of FreeBSD? It depends on what is recommended for your application, what resources you have available around you, etc. For a similar problem I choosed Ubuntu because Ubuntu was well supported by the application and some colleagues had a decent knwoledge of ubuntu. I am not fanatic about FreeBSD, but I feel very comfortable with it and I resist change. However your ESXi tip would allow me to run ESXi on bare metal and virtualize simple installations of the unpleasant legacy OSes without making my fingers too dirty. Thank you very much, One caveat is that ESX / ESXi are very picky about their hardware and pretty much won't run on anything but server class devices (mobo, NICs and CPU are the big ones). VMware still has their VMware Server (software) solution, but it's slowly being phased out. Also, it's against the EULA to use ESXi for commercial / reseller purposes and ESX isn't cheap. henrik -- Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net - God, root, what is difference? Pitr; UF ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
What virtulization system to use? Personnally I use ESXi from vmware This was a great tip, thank you. I wasn't aware that ESXi is a bare metal and free. That's the idea: bare metal and free, proxmox has something based on... I don't remember. I opted for vmware becuase it seems to be more wide spread. What OS to use instead of FreeBSD? It depends on what is recommended for your application, what resources you have available around you, etc. For a similar problem I choosed Ubuntu because Ubuntu was well supported by the application and some colleagues had a decent knwoledge of ubuntu. I am not fanatic about FreeBSD, but I feel very comfortable with it and I resist change. However your ESXi tip would allow me to run ESXi on bare metal and virtualize simple installations of the unpleasant legacy OSes without making my fingers too dirty. You will have to make your fingers dirty, because once you are installing any OS on a virtual machine, it is as dirty as installing on a bare hardware: you need to learn how to install, tune and secure that new OS... Good luck, olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
kern.maxfiles limit exceeded... what to do?
Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Then I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded... what to do?
increase kern.maxfiles :) in sysctl.conf On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Then I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) When this happens, I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? And I have to restart the server manually by on/off switch... If it's not a very busy machine, something must be wrong with postfix to cause this error. If it is a busy machine, you can increase the kern.maxfiles. sysctl kern.maxfiles=number You can set it in /etc/sysctl.conf to set it at boot time. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:11 PM, VeeJay maan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? sysctl -a | grep kern.maxfiles and then sysctl kern.maxfiles=123456789 (or some other BIG number) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) When this happens, I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? And I have to restart the server manually by on/off switch... -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
Hello, Check your HHD. Last time I hit this on a not busy machine it was the RAID card. Do you use RAID on it ? Peter Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: sysctl kern.maxfiles=number You can set it in /etc/sysctl.conf to set it at boot time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 14:11:02 VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) When this happens, I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? And I have to restart the server manually by on/off switch... Check kern.openfiles sysctl to see if it is close to kern.maxfiles. Tune kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc (use bigger numbers). kern.maxfiles: Maximum number of files kern.maxfilesperproc: Maximum files allowed open per process kern.openfiles: System-wide number of open files HTH, Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 14:11:02 VeeJay wrote: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) From man 7 tuning: The kern.maxfiles sysctl determines how many open files the system sup- ports. The default is typically a few thousand but you may need to bump this up to ten or twenty thousand if you are running databases or large descriptor-heavy daemons. The read-only kern.openfiles sysctl may be interrogated to determine the current number of open files on the system. -- Mel who wubs self-answering questions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
kern.maxfiles limit exceeded... what to do?
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:41, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: increase kern.maxfiles :) in sysctl.conf Pretty sure he got his answer over on @hackers. The need to cross post never ceases to amaze me. On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Then I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded... what to do?
VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? please see tuning(7) -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
What ELSE do I need to add to make.conf to avoid X ?
Just trying to install rrdtool on a server. Do not want X. Do not want X11. Do not want Xorg. So I did the right thing and added this to /etc/make.conf: WITHOUT_X11=yes WITHOUT_X=yes WITH_X=NO ENABLE_GUI=NO and then 'make install' in the rrdtool directory. The problem is, eventually I saw this: === Installing for pango-1.14.7 === pango-1.14.7 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-truetype === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for xorg-fonts-truetype-6.9.0 = MD5 Checksum mismatch for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz. = SHA256 Checksum mismatch for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz. === Refetch for 1 more times files: xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg. = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/x11/x.org/pub/X11R6.9.0/src/. X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz 3% of 31 MB 8188 Bps 01h05m^C fetch: transfer interrupted Oops. Looks like I was going to get X11 anyway. So, what other options do I need to add to make.conf in order to install a simple stats/database tool without hundreds and hundreds of MB of x11 ? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What ELSE do I need to add to make.conf to avoid X ?
Juri Mianovich wrote: Just trying to install rrdtool on a server. Do not want X. Do not want X11. Do not want Xorg. So I did the right thing and added this to /etc/make.conf: WITHOUT_X11=yes WITHOUT_X=yes WITH_X=NO ENABLE_GUI=NO and then 'make install' in the rrdtool directory. The problem is, eventually I saw this: === Installing for pango-1.14.7 === pango-1.14.7 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-truetype === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for xorg-fonts-truetype-6.9.0 = MD5 Checksum mismatch for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz. = SHA256 Checksum mismatch for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz. === Refetch for 1 more times files: xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg. = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/x11/x.org/pub/X11R6.9.0/src/. X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz 3% of 31 MB 8188 Bps 01h05m^C fetch: transfer interrupted Oops. Looks like I was going to get X11 anyway. So, what other options do I need to add to make.conf in order to install a simple stats/database tool without hundreds and hundreds of MB of x11 ? Thanks. I don't think your '=NO' stuff would do much. You may also wish to add WITHOUT_GUI=yes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
What ELSE do I need to add to make.conf to avoid X ?
Juri Mianovich writes: Just trying to install rrdtool on a server. Do not want X. Do not want X11. Do not want Xorg. === Installing for pango-1.14.7 If it requires pango, I think you're hosed. I don't think it's possible to build pango without X, if only for various .h files. (And given what pango does, it wouldn't make much sense to.) Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What ELSE do I need to add to make.conf to avoid X ?
In the last episode (Apr 07), Juri Mianovich said: Just trying to install rrdtool on a server. Do not want X. Do not want X11. Do not want Xorg. So I did the right thing and added this to /etc/make.conf: WITHOUT_X11=yes WITHOUT_X=yes WITH_X=NO ENABLE_GUI=NO and then 'make install' in the rrdtool directory. The problem is, eventually I saw this: === Installing for pango-1.14.7 === pango-1.14.7 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-truetype === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for xorg-fonts-truetype-6.9.0 = MD5 Checksum mismatch for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz. = SHA256 Checksum mismatch for xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz. === Refetch for 1 more times files: xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz xorg/X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg. = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/x11/x.org/pub/X11R6.9.0/src/. X11R6.9.0-src1.tar.gz 3% of 31 MB 8188 Bps 01h05m^C fetch: transfer interrupted Oops. Looks like I was going to get X11 anyway. So, what other options do I need to add to make.conf in order to install a simple stats/database tool without hundreds and hundreds of MB of x11 ? Note that it's only downloading that file to install the fonts that are included in it. It's not going to install all of X. You might be able to comment out the RUN_DEPENDS entries in the pango Makefile to avoid installing any fonts, but your rrdtool graphs will look boring with no text :) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What ELSE do I need to add to make.conf to avoid X ?
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:40:53AM -0700, Juri Mianovich wrote:
Just trying to install rrdtool on a server.
Do not want X. Do not want X11. Do not want Xorg.
snip
Oops. Looks like I was going to get X11 anyway.
So, what other options do I need to add to make.conf in order to
install a simple stats/database tool without hundreds and hundreds of
MB of x11 ?
You should pick a tool that doesn't depend on X
components. From databases/rrdtool/Makefile:
LIB_DEPENDS=freetype.9:${PORTSDIR}/print/freetype2 \
cairo.2:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/cairo \
png.5:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/png \
xml2.5:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/libxml2 \
pangocairo-1\.0.0:${PORTSDIR}/x11-toolkits/pango
and
USE_GNOME= gnomehack
The cairo library depends on an Xorg component called xrender, unless
you build it with the WITHOUT_X11 variable defined, which is not the
default. See /usr/ports/graphics/cairo/Makefile.
Pango depends on some X components as well, unless compiled with the
WITHOUT_X11 variable defined. See /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango/Makefile.
So if you _really_ want no X related stuff at all, you'd better pick
something else, because cairo and pango are linked with several X
components. Check the required items for rrdtool on freshports
[http://www.freshports.org/databases/rrdtool/], and then follow the
links to the packages it depends on, and look at their
dependancies. You'll see a host of X related stuff. Maybe using
WITHOUT_X11=yes is sufficient to stop these dependencies, but I doubt if
that is a situation that has been well tested.
Roland
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Re: if_bridge - what i do wrong
exactly this! thank you very much! On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Mario Lobo wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:02:55 Wojciech Puchar wrote: ifconfig: BRDGADD tap0: Invalid argument I had this problem once because my kernel was out of sync with userland. When I recompiled world, the problem went away. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) ___ 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]
Re: if_bridge - what i do wrong
On Friday 11 April 2008 05:36:16 Wojciech Puchar wrote: exactly this! thank you very much! On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Mario Lobo wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:02:55 Wojciech Puchar wrote: ifconfig: BRDGADD tap0: Invalid argument I had this problem once because my kernel was out of sync with userland. When I recompiled world, the problem went away. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your welcome ! I am happy I could be of help. Everyone is so keen and quick on this list that everytime I try to give some helpful info, someone always does it ahead of me. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if_bridge - what i do wrong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig bridge0 addm tap0 ifconfig: BRDGADD tap0: Invalid argument ^ why? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig bridge0 bridge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 2001:::::1 prefixlen 64 inet 10.255.245.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.255.245.255 ether 5a:81:5a:a6:e6:38 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig tap0 tap0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::2bd:2cff:fe1d:0%tap0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 ether 00:bd:2c:1d:00:00 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: if_bridge - what i do wrong
On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:02:55 Wojciech Puchar wrote: ifconfig: BRDGADD tap0: Invalid argument I had this problem once because my kernel was out of sync with userland. When I recompiled world, the problem went away. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What exactly do I have to do to get background fsck?
My Thinkpad got instable, and I haven't figured out yet whether it's hardware, FreeBSD's RELENG_6 kernel or X11/DRI. Anyway... I always go through a foreground fsck, no matter whether the thing paniced or had a powercycle, or how long it has been up. I have softupdates activated but I must be missing something. I badly need background fsck. We are talking a 1.3 GHz, a 5400 rpm P-ATA notebook harddrive with a 150 GB filesystem here :-/ Martin -- %%% Martin Cracauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What exactly do I have to do to get background fsck?
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:45:08 -0500 Martin Cracauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Thinkpad got instable, and I haven't figured out yet whether it's hardware, FreeBSD's RELENG_6 kernel or X11/DRI. Anyway... I always go through a foreground fsck, no matter whether the thing paniced or had a powercycle, or how long it has been up. I have softupdates activated but I must be missing something. I badly need background fsck. We are talking a 1.3 GHz, a 5400 rpm P-ATA notebook harddrive with a 150 GB filesystem here :-/ It's the default for all partitions with soft-updates enabled. sysinstall defaults to enabling soft-updates on all except the root partition, so if you created one big partition you need to use tunefs to enable soft-updates. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dreaded '__mb_sb_limit' Error And What To Do About It
On one of my FBSD 6-STABLE machines, I have the system cvsup the latest sources nightly and rebuild (but not install) the system and all relevant kernels. Every week or so, I go to single user and install what was last built (assuming the build worked OK). My last such venture was on 11-20-2007 without problems. Tonight, I tried to do this again, and immediately got hit with the libexec '_mb_sb_limit' symbol missing problem. I fell back to the 11-20-2007 system image, and all is once again well. So, here's my question. Is this a temporary problem that will be resolved at some point before 6.3 is released, or do I have have to rebuild the entire system applications set to get new binaries that don't depend on this symbol? Also, if it is going to be fixed, how will I know it has been before trying another update like this again? TIA, P.S. Rebuilding the apps on this system would be a REAL pain. Here's hoping the fine FBSD developers can find it within themselves to make this symbol once again appear so old binaries will run unchanged. -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dreaded '__mb_sb_limit' Error And What To Do About It
Tim Daneliuk wrote: On one of my FBSD 6-STABLE machines, I have the system cvsup the latest sources nightly and rebuild (but not install) the system and all relevant kernels. Every week or so, I go to single user and install what was last built (assuming the build worked OK). My last such venture was on 11-20-2007 without problems. Tonight, I tried to do this again, and immediately got hit with the libexec '_mb_sb_limit' symbol missing problem. I fell back to the 11-20-2007 system image, and all is once again well. So, here's my question. Is this a temporary problem that will be resolved at some point before 6.3 is released, or do I have have to rebuild the entire system applications set to get new binaries that don't depend on this symbol? Also, if it is going to be fixed, how will I know it has been before trying another update like this again? See discussion on freebsd-stable Kris TIA, P.S. Rebuilding the apps on this system would be a REAL pain. Here's hoping the fine FBSD developers can find it within themselves to make this symbol once again appear so old binaries will run unchanged. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeff D wrote: I've swapped in an Ubuntu disk, and I can say that Apache 2.2.4 BerkeleyDB 4.6.19 install just fine on Ubuntu right out of the box. There are security advisories against Apache 2.2.4. You should be using 2.2.6 instead. See: http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html The ports system had the security fixes for Apache22 in place on the 9th September, only two days after apache-2.2.6 was released by the Apache foundation. Now, there isn't a compelling reason to use any particular version of BDB over any other with apache -- it simply doesn't need any of the new transactional capabilities or anything like that. Hence the way the updates have been prioritized. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3 7 Priory Courtyard PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW, UK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHKEMM3jDkPpsZ+VYRAyJYAJ4k4VmjT49mpiaKw00ecVrNKHNBYgCdH1k7 AY9aIqGuPF4aMhuEJ+iFNLk= =y1gH -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
On October 29, 2007 at 05:22PM Jeff D wrote: I've decided to try to build up my 1st FreeBSD server. Reading the Handbook is mostly helpful, but I' getting hit with a couple of problems I can't figure out. I was looking for a beginner's list. I think this is the closest to it. The main reason I'm trying out FreeBSD is because I want to set up my own web server, and the Ports seemed liked a way to do it that manages conflicts dependencies better even that Linux systems. Not being much of a program guy, that sounds good to me! When I try to install the Apache port in /usr/ports/www/apache22, it errors out with IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version After checking on the Oracle site, I made sure to install the latest, most up to date /usr/ports/databases/db46 port. It seems to have worked and I can use it in other ports. I'm not sure where to turn next. Anybody got some advice to share? I had a similar problem. I used the following knobs: WITH_DBM=bdb WITH_BERKELEYDB=db44 I installed the latest version of of DB, version db46 and changed the know accordingly, When I attempted to reinstall the port, I received the same message you are receiving. It appears that the port will not accept the db46 version. I read the ports Makefile, and version db46 is not listed. I did contact the port maintainer regarding this; however, I never received a reply. I am thinking of filing a PR. In any case, I went back to using the older version, db44, without any problems. -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
Fyi, there's already an open PR, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/116637 referenced in the thread here, http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/5a9fe987a2905b20/110361efd66ba40a?lnk=raot Regards, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
I've decided to try to build up my 1st FreeBSD server. Reading the Handbook is mostly helpful, but I' getting hit with a couple of problems I can't figure out. I was looking for a beginner's list. I think this is the closest to it. The main reason I'm trying out FreeBSD is because I want to set up my own web server, and the Ports seemed liked a way to do it that manages conflicts dependencies better even that Linux systems. Not being much of a program guy, that sounds good to me! When I try to install the Apache port in /usr/ports/www/apache22, it errors out with IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version After checking on the Oracle site, I made sure to install the latest, most up to date /usr/ports/databases/db46 port. It seems to have worked and I can use it in other ports. I'm not sure where to turn next. Anybody got some advice to share? Regards, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
Hi, there should be a file under /usr/ports/ called UPGRADING It contains some hints of changes. Jeff D wrote: IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version Can you configure Apache to use other database systems? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeff D wrote: When I try to install the Apache port in /usr/ports/www/apache22, it errors out with IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version This is a known problem with the apache22 port. At the moment it only understands about Berkeley DB versions up to 4.4.x -- there's an open ticket in the PR system which requests support for versions up to 4.6.x: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/116637 Until that gets fixed, use BDB 4.4.x instead. To make that the default version on your system add this to /etc/make.conf: WITH_BDB_VER= 44 Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3 7 Priory Courtyard PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW, UK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHJuw+3jDkPpsZ+VYRA4rOAJ9zn9QMdCY9BM6VDF1BjLlsEv9dwACfdwTg h8OP6o+MNYUQibJwfApmhao= =TfMF -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
Matthew, On 10/30/07, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a known problem with the apache22 port. At the moment it only understands about Berkeley DB versions up to 4.4.x -- there's an open ticket in the PR system which requests support for versions up to 4.6.x: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/116637 Until that gets fixed, use BDB 4.4.x instead. To make that the default version on your system add this to /etc/make.conf: WITH_BDB_VER= 44 Thanks for pointing this out. I'd thought that the port system in Freebsd was assured to be internally consistent with all other stuff in the system by a central team (QA?). I didn't realize that each port was from a different person, and that the process could get held up for weeks or months. I guess your advice is what I should do. I'm a little nervous about undoing what's already been done, and think I might just start over with db44 to be safe. Knowing this now, I guess I should also make a list of the programs and versions I need, and check each every one for problems before I start again. If something popular like the Apache Web Server has long standing unresolved issues like this, other programs may too. A friend is pushing me to use Ubunutu Linux instead, saying that stuff like this doesn't happen with it, but I'm not so convinced. After being 'sold' on the Freebsd ports, it's worth some more reading. Thanks. Regards, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 15:54 -0700, Jeff D wrote: I've decided to try to build up my 1st FreeBSD server. Reading the Handbook is mostly helpful, but I' getting hit with a couple of problems I can't figure out. I was looking for a beginner's list. I think this is the closest to it. The main reason I'm trying out FreeBSD is because I want to set up my own web server, and the Ports seemed liked a way to do it that manages conflicts dependencies better even that Linux systems. Not being much of a program guy, that sounds good to me! When I try to install the Apache port in /usr/ports/www/apache22, it errors out with IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version After checking on the Oracle site, I made sure to install the latest, most up to date /usr/ports/databases/db46 port. It seems to have worked and I can use it in other ports. I'm not sure where to turn next. Anybody got some advice to share? What version of the operating system are you using? When did you last update your ports tree? These're both important for us to know. But, you should know that apache on FreeBSD is fantastic. I tried getting it configured once on Ubuntu; that was a harsh, harsh experience. Weird custom configuration files in weird locations. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
James, On 10/30/07, james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of the operating system are you using? I'm using the Version 6.2 Release, updated with Patchset 7 When did you last update your ports tree? Last time was yesterday afternoon. These're both important for us to know. Sorry about that! But, you should know that apache on FreeBSD is fantastic. I tried getting it configured once on Ubuntu; that was a harsh, harsh experience. Weird custom configuration files in weird locations. What makes it fantastic versus not? Isn't an Apache configuration supposed to be the same? In httpd.conf, or whatever? Regards, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 07:15 -0700, Jeff D wrote: James, On 10/30/07, james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of the operating system are you using? I'm using the Version 6.2 Release, updated with Patchset 7 When did you last update your ports tree? Last time was yesterday afternoon. Okay, great. Have you also done a successful portupgrade since then? I should have asked this earlier, but it's before nine and I'm not at my best when tired ;) But, you should know that apache on FreeBSD is fantastic. I tried getting it configured once on Ubuntu; that was a harsh, harsh experience. Weird custom configuration files in weird locations. What makes it fantastic versus not? Isn't an Apache configuration supposed to be the same? In httpd.conf, or whatever? I agree! However, some folks think that httpd.conf should be deprecated in favour of apache2.conf. And then it gets weirder and weirder... apache on FreeBSD is installed consistently (i.e. you know where to look for files based upon sensible reasoning), and it follows exactly the conventions you expect it to follow, with httpd.conf etc. The only weirdness to be aware of is that the handbook covers apache 1.3, not 2.x. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
James, On 10/30/07, james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, great. Have you also done a successful portupgrade since then? I should have asked this earlier, but it's before nine and I'm not at my best when tired ;) Before I got re-started, now I have. Other than the complaint about Apache22 not finding db46, all seemed to go ok. apache on FreeBSD is installed consistently (i.e. you know where to look for files based upon sensible reasoning), and it follows exactly the conventions you expect it to follow, with httpd.conf etc. The only weirdness to be aware of is that the handbook covers apache 1.3, not 2.x. I'll keep this in mind, and eventually investigate. But for now I can't exactly agree OR disagree, since Apache22 simply doesn't install on Freebsd because of this out of date Port. I've just been told that there's some sort of a Port version freeze in place in preparation for the version 7 release (?), which will delay any update to that Apache22 port even longer. I've swapped in an Ubuntu disk, and I can say that Apache 2.2.4 BerkeleyDB 4.6.19 install just fine on Ubuntu right out of the box. I'm not sure which way to go now. Being a big believer in a bird in the hand ..., I'm leaning towards Ubuntu instead, beacuse it works now. But, I'll Google some more for objective comparisons to be sure. Regards, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
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Jeff D wrote:
Matthew,
On 10/30/07, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a known problem with the apache22 port. At the moment it only
understands about Berkeley DB versions up to 4.4.x -- there's an open
ticket in the PR system which requests support for versions up to 4.6.x:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/116637
Until that gets fixed, use BDB 4.4.x instead. To make that the default
version on your system add this to /etc/make.conf:
WITH_BDB_VER= 44
Thanks for pointing this out.
I'd thought that the port system in Freebsd was assured to be internally
consistent with all other stuff in the system by a central team (QA?). I
didn't realize that each port was from a different person, and that the
process could get held up for weeks or months.
Correct: there is a continual process of testing and compilation of ports
for all supported OS versions and architectures. You can see the results
here:
http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/
and there's also
http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html
which summarises all of the known issues within the ports tree.
However, due to resource limitations it's only ever the *default* set of
options that are used when test-compiling any port. At the moment, the
ports system uses databases/db41 (db41-4.1.25_4) as the default version
of Berkeley DB -- you can find that out by reading
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.database.mk
As to why db41 is still considered the default -- probably because no one
has requested it be updated and there isn't a specific maintainer to take
care of bsd.database.mk. In any case, changes to the ports infrastructure
like that will require a test package build run before being committed, and
that's not a trivial undertaking. There's a ports freeze coming up prior to
the release of FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0 so it's exceedingly unlikely to be changed
in the next month or two.
I guess your advice is what I should do. I'm a little nervous about undoing
what's already been done, and think I might just start over with db44 to be
safe.
Fear not. You can install several BDB ports for different versions of BDB
simultaneously. No need to rip out any ports you've previously compiled
against bdb46 and rebuild them. You can make just apache depend on bdb44 by
a snippet like the following in /etc/make.conf:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/www/apache22}
WITH_DBM= bdb
WITH_BERKELEYDB=db44
.endif
That's assuming you want to install apache-2.2.6 -- there are several other
versions of apache in the tree, and you can use much the same sort of construct,
just changing the 'www/apache22' bit, to apply options to those ports.
See also the ports-mgmt/portconf port for a possibly more user friendly way of
doing this sort of thing.
Knowing this now, I guess I should also make a list of the programs and
versions I need, and check each every one for problems before I start
again. If something popular like the Apache Web Server has long standing
unresolved issues like this, other programs may too.
I usually find that so long as I've accounted for anything from
/usr/ports/UPDATING, then just trying to install or upgrade the port is
successful 99 times out of 100. Only on the 100th time is it necessary to go
hunting around in bug databases and so forth.
The ports tree contains over 17,000 individual ports, maintained by a wide
variety of volunteers or (in perhaps too many cases) without any particular
person
or group of people to maintain them at all. Despite this, over all the quality
and consistency of ports is generally good. There will be occasional problems
- -- and when these are reported, usually they are fixed with a great deal of
dispatch.
A friend is pushing me to use Ubunutu Linux instead, saying that stuff like
this doesn't happen with it, but I'm not so convinced. After being 'sold'
on the Freebsd ports, it's worth some more reading.
You friend is living in a dream world, I'm afraid. It is practically
impossible to have zero problems in any large collection of software packages or
ports like this. Ubuntu has it's points and a lot of people find it suits them
very well, but to my mind it is best fitted to being a point'n'click style
desktop
for Windows refugees. FreeBSD (IMHO) is unbeaten as a serious Unix server
platform,
but to get the best out of it, you should not be afraid of getting to grips
with command line interfaces.
Cheers,
Matthew
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7 Priory Courtyard
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Kent, CT11 9PW, UK
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Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:22:24PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: I've decided to try to build up my 1st FreeBSD server. Reading the Handbook is mostly helpful, but I' getting hit with a couple of problems I can't figure out. I was looking for a beginner's list. I think this is the closest to it. The main reason I'm trying out FreeBSD is because I want to set up my own web server, and the Ports seemed liked a way to do it that manages conflicts dependencies better even that Linux systems. Not being much of a program guy, that sounds good to me! When I try to install the Apache port in /usr/ports/www/apache22, it errors out with IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version It builds fine on my machine (7.0-BETA1, amd64). Which version of FreeBSD are you running? Did you update your ports tree before building apache? (run 'portsnap fetch extract' once. Later use 'portsnap fetch update' to keep the tree up-to-date.) Did you set or unset any options? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpqxQe8srwJR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 06:42 -0700, Jeff D wrote: Matthew, On 10/30/07, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a known problem with the apache22 port. At the moment it only understands about Berkeley DB versions up to 4.4.x -- there's an open ticket in the PR system which requests support for versions up to 4.6.x: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/116637 Until that gets fixed, use BDB 4.4.x instead. To make that the default version on your system add this to /etc/make.conf: WITH_BDB_VER= 44 Thanks for pointing this out. I'd thought that the port system in Freebsd was assured to be internally consistent with all other stuff in the system by a central team (QA?). I didn't realize that each port was from a different person, and that the process could get held up for weeks or months. I guess your advice is what I should do. I'm a little nervous about undoing what's already been done, and think I might just start over with db44 to be safe. Knowing this now, I guess I should also make a list of the programs and versions I need, and check each every one for problems before I start again. If something popular like the Apache Web Server has long standing unresolved issues like this, other programs may too. A friend is pushing me to use Ubunutu Linux instead, saying that stuff like this doesn't happen with it, but I'm not so convinced. After being 'sold' on the Freebsd ports, it's worth some more reading. Thanks. Regards, Jeff All OSes have their good and bad points. Sometimes, even the mighty ubuntu pushes out broken updates (such as the one a version or two back that broke a significant percentage's X-configuration). And ubuntu has a bug tracker for a reason, not just for kicks. Just like FreeBSD. If you want a smoother sailing way of going forwards, try installing the older version of apache that's available in ports. Its install is the one that's handbook documented. If you decide to go with ubuntu, I hope it goes well for you. They have a friendly community that can help most problems. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
James, On 10/30/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All OSes have their good and bad points. Sometimes, even the mighty ubuntu pushes out broken updates (such as the one a version or two back that broke a significant percentage's X-configuration). And ubuntu has a bug tracker for a reason, not just for kicks. Just like FreeBSD. If you want a smoother sailing way of going forwards, try installing the older version of apache that's available in ports. Its install is the one that's handbook documented. If you decide to go with ubuntu, I hope it goes well for you. They have a friendly community that can help most problems. Thanks for the 'points'. I certainly get the fact that all OSes have bugs. That's not my concern. What's a bit confounding is why/how the process allows two very mainstream released/stable versions of programs (Apache 22 Berkeley DB 46) to not play nice together for so long. ( Reading the PR reference from above, it's been at least a solid month, if not longer ...). It's not liike my expectation was to get anything but the most popular, widely used, programs set up. To a Newby, it seems like a guessing game as to what works and what doesn't. Frustrating, if only after an extended 'sales job' on how the ports system makes such problems go away got me here in the 1st place. And, yes the Ubuntu crowd has been very responsive -- and I do have a fully functional server with up to date program version up and running (mostly) without any of problems of out of date Ports not being dealt with. That said, I've stumbled on the PF firewall. After the headache I was getting trying to learn configure IPTables, it's seemingly straightforward to use. And, if I read correctly, NOT available in the Linux world, only on OpenBSD FreeBSD. So, I've some choices to make. The PR author replied to an email I sent, and has given me some options to workaround the out of date Apache22 port instead of downgrading to an earlier/older version of Berkeley DB. But that's starting to get me into a system that isn't managed by a port-management system. Which is what I was hoping to avoid in the first place. All of this would cease to be a problem for me if that port were simply updated. But, that seems unlikely anytime soon without some intervention by someone with the right knowledge clout. That's certainly not me. Regards, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?
I've decided to try to build up my 1st FreeBSD server. Reading the Handbook is mostly helpful, but I' getting hit with a couple of problems I can't figure out. I was looking for a beginner's list. I think this is the closest to it. The main reason I'm trying out FreeBSD is because I want to set up my own web server, and the Ports seemed liked a way to do it that manages conflicts dependencies better even that Linux systems. Not being much of a program guy, that sounds good to me! When I try to install the Apache port in /usr/ports/www/apache22, it errors out with IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version After checking on the Oracle site, I made sure to install the latest, most up to date /usr/ports/databases/db46 port. It seems to have worked and I can use it in other ports. I'm not sure where to turn next. Anybody got some advice to share? Regards, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what to do with this..?
Hi, i have a serial files named as 1.zip, 2.z01, 3.z02, etc. what to do with this? I tried unzip but have trouble, thansk!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what to do with this..?
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 07:35:42 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a serial files named as 1.zip, 2.z01, 3.z02, etc. what to do with this? I tried unzip but have trouble, thansk!! assuming that you have installed port or package archivers/unzip .. You can 'unzip 1' for 1.zip, but need to 'unzip 2.z01' and so on; that is, you need to specify the full filename unless it ends in '.zip', but unzip will work on any valid zipfile whatever it's called. See unzip(1) Try running 'unzip -l 2.z01' and if it lists properly, 'unzip -t 2.z01' to test the archive contents, before unzipping for real. If that doesn't help, quote us exactly what you try, and the response. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what to do with this..?
On 8/8/07, Rolf G Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, i have a serial files named as 1.zip, 2.z01, 3.z02, etc. what to do with this? I tried unzip but have trouble, thansk!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they're parts of the same archive, that's been split, just cat them together: cat *.z?? archive.zip (to get the files in correct order, you might need to specify every file instead, depending on how they're named). Then run zip -F archive.zip This should give you a fully compliant zip file, that you can unzip. -- Sincerly, Rolf Nielsen right on, I cat files from *.z01, *.z02.. *.zip into one archive, then unzip it, it works!! thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what to do with this..?
You can 'unzip 1' for 1.zip, but need to 'unzip 2.z01' and so on; that is, you need to specify the full filename unless it ends in '.zip', but unzip will work on any valid zipfile whatever it's called. See unzip(1) Try running 'unzip -l 2.z01' and if it lists properly, 'unzip -t 2.z01' to test the archive contents, before unzipping for real. If that doesn't help, quote us exactly what you try, and the response. possibly it's simply splited files so cat ?.z* onefile.zip and then unzipping? Cheers, Ian ___ 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]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops fully working ? I'm a huge Toshiba fan, and a HUGE fan of the touchpoint/accupoint devices. As of yesterday I replaced my Satellite Pro 6000 with a new M5-S433. Speaking for -current, not -stable, it boots fine, detects the gig ethernet with the em driver, serial port, usb, touchpad (bleh!), etc work fine. The ATA driver is identified as a GENERIC ATA controller and the drive is listed as UDMA33, which is either incorrect (the drive is SATA, I've removed it) or it's just using a SATA-PATA bridge internally. X11 starts up with the nv driver just fine, right now it's humming away beside me installing KDE. The only things that do not work are the builtin wireless, which should have a driver soon, and the sound, which I hope will also have some support soon! I have had a couple of quirks -- several times it has booted up but the ATA driver never saw the HD, but a reboot later it was finding it just fine. I also had trouble getting it to attach to an atheros card I was inserting, but I think that was related to the BIOS setting for device resource allocation rather than a kernel problem. Once i've had it a little longer I'll drop in on the -multimedia list and see if I can spur a little work on the sound. Everything else seems in order. -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:36:43 -0500 (EST) Wesley Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything else seems in order. Thanks for the info Wesley. What about ACPI? btw, what resolution are u running X at? what fps does glxgears report? cheers, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:36:43 -0500 (EST) Wesley Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything else seems in order. Thanks for the info Wesley. What about ACPI? btw, what resolution are u running X at? what fps does glxgears report? I haven't tried any sleep states yet. X runs at the native 1024x768 and glxgears runs at about 760-790 FPS when one of the two cores is occupied with something else and 815 when both are idle. -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:01:04 +1100 David Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mm, well I run a Dell 700m .. the widescreen 12 one with built-in wireless. thx for your time :) B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:32 -0500 From: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems I don't think Thinkpad has [SP]ATA things (yet). From my T43: atapci0: Intel ICH6 SATA150 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x18c0-0x18cf at device 31.2 on pci0 Since the drives are still PATA, I assume it uses a SATA/PATA chip for the internal drives, but it may make SATA available to a docking station. all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Thinkpad T42 is great in that regard, except that the use of dri w/ suspend/resume causes lockup. You would need to pick either dri or suspend/resume. If you can, try to get a laptop either without a 802.11g (so that you can decide which one to buy) or buy one supported by ath driver. I have T42 w/ Intel 2200BG card, and it using w/ iwi driver (net/iwi-firmware port). Here, connected w/ Linksys WRT54G wireless router/switch/AP, iwi interface|driver needs to be reset just about every two hours (when i start getting TKIP ICV mismatch on decrypt message. iwi (and its kin-folk) have been betting heavy work in HEAD over the past week or two and, hopefully, things will improve. OTOH, I have two colleagues using this card with Windows and they complain that it locks up periodically and they have to disable and enable it to get it back, so this may not be just a FreeBSD thing. There is also fairly new firmware out (V3.0) which MAY fix some of these problems. Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. Can't say about Thinkpad on that. I think the only ThinkPads with Core Duo are T60s, although I'm sure other will follow. Don't know if Lenovo will ever go the AMD route, but I sure hope they do. My AMD desktop is one amazing system! From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Boy do those Toshiba's TruBrite screen looked amazing (in a chain store). On almost all the displayed laptops, however, the keyboards are buggered up, mainly on the right side. Keys were shifted around or had really unusual area of key caps. What is amazing about the messed up keyboard layout is that there was much wasted space on the sides (owning to the wider screen) in front of the keyboard. FWIW, I have been amazed at the brightness of my T43. It is MUCH brighter than my trusty T30. What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? People generally advise to get one from business line (used to be Latitude for some time in past; don't know about the present/future), not the home one (Inspiron). Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. T4[0-3]-generation should be affordable by now, around USD1[0-2]00. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Yes, some Dell Inspiron. My wife has not been at all happy with her Latitude. Heavy and still not robust. Unpleasant keyboard and very touchy touchpad. (This is from her as I don't often use it.) I do love the 1600x1200 display, though! For less expensive (and less powerful) ThinkPads, look at the R series. No Core Duos there, but they start at about $800 new. No touchpads (which I consider a plus), but a bit clunky compared to the T series. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:00:31 -0800 Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:32 -0500 From: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems I don't think Thinkpad has [SP]ATA things (yet). From my T43: atapci0: Intel ICH6 SATA150 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x18c0-0x18cf at device 31.2 on pci0 Since the drives are still PATA, I assume it uses a SATA/PATA chip for the internal drives, but it may make SATA available to a docking station. yeah, the T60s (available now @ my provider! ) also come with SATA drives. If you can, try to get a laptop either without a 802.11g (so that you can decide which one to buy) or buy one supported by ath driver. I have T42 w/ Intel 2200BG card, and it using w/ iwi driver (net/iwi-firmware port). Here, connected w/ Linksys WRT54G wireless router/switch/AP, iwi interface|driver needs to be reset just about every two hours (when i start getting TKIP ICV mismatch on decrypt message. iwi (and its kin-folk) have been betting heavy work in HEAD over the past week or two and, hopefully, things will improve. OTOH, I have two colleagues using this card with Windows and they complain that it locks up periodically and they have to disable and enable it to get it back, so this may not be just a FreeBSD thing. There is also fairly new firmware out (V3.0) which MAY fix some of these problems. I have a 2200BG on this tosh A2 - some lockups, but couldn't pinpoint it to the card (again, i've made the habit of ifconfig down before suspend...) . No problems at all while running. Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. Can't say about Thinkpad on that. I think the only ThinkPads with Core Duo are T60s, although I'm sure other will follow. Don't know if Lenovo will ever go the AMD route, but I sure hope they do. My AMD desktop is one amazing system! I know :) What about AMD64 (single or Dual core) cpus for laptops (Turin ? ) : any good experiences there anyone? From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Boy do those Toshiba's TruBrite screen looked amazing (in a chain store). yeah, a colleague has a Tecra A5, bright as a CRT. FWIW, I have been amazed at the brightness of my T43. It is MUCH brighter than my trusty T30. What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? People generally advise to get one from business line (used to be Latitude for some time in past; don't know about the present/future), not the home one (Inspiron). Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. T4[0-3]-generation should be affordable by now, around USD1[0-2]00. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Yes, some Dell Inspiron. My wife has not been at all happy with her Latitude. Heavy and still not robust. Unpleasant keyboard and very touchy touchpad. (This is from her as I don't often use it.) I do love the 1600x1200 display, though! For less expensive (and less powerful) ThinkPads, look at the R series. No Core Duos there, but they start at about $800 new. No touchpads (which I consider a plus), but a bit clunky compared to the T series. yeah i'm running the features vs numbers job atm... Actually thinking of looking into the components of ASUS laptops, as well as those from pioneercomputers.com.au - have heard of some great experiences with those laptops with Linux. BTW, thanks everyone for your help :) will keep asking questions as needed, of course ;) Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What laptop do you recommend?
hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) Best regards, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) Best regards, Beto ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I reccomend it highly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
I've a related question, but my primary constraints are physical. I'm looking for a lightweight and low-profile package, like the fabulous (and wicked prone to hard failure) Sony 505 series of products. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: I've a related question, but my primary constraints are physical. I'm looking for a lightweight and low-profile package, like the fabulous (and wicked prone to hard failure) Sony 505 series of products. take a look at the P-series from Fujitsu. I ran FreeBSD on a P2120. It was pretty good with the exception of battery life. The new P7xxx series used the Pentium M as a CPU which is better supported by FreeBSD. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) I've Thinkpad R50e. Everything works fine and it makes an excellent work tool : http://www.yazzy.org/configs/freebsd/thinkpad/ Price of those thinkpads is yet another pluss. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
At Mon, 13 Mar 2006 it looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] composed: I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I reccomend it highly. Do you have the wireless working too on that model, the integrated chip? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. I have a new Lenovo (IBM) T43 (266875U) that is working well. If you get an integrated A/B/G card, it's Athros based and works very well with FreeBSD and the wpa_supplicant. The internal Winmodem is useless, though. The GE is a Broadcom which works well. Graphics is an ATI Radeon, so you will want to have Radeontool to turn it off. ACPI has no problems and, if you load acpi_ibm, it provides lots of features. Sound is snd_ich and works fine. I disable the touchpad, so I really can't say much about it. If the touchpad is disabled, it has a 3 button mouse. I have not been successful with a suspend/resume cycle while running X. It seems to suspend, but never resumes when in X. If I'm on a vty, it does resume, but the display characters are garbage. vidcontrol mode 80x25 fixes it, though. I can probably stick this into rc.resume. It's only a 2GHz Pentium-M, though. The new T60s are Core Duo systems, but we don't have one, yet. One was just ordered last week, so I hope to get to play with one soon. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:58:29 -0800 Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been successful with a suspend/resume cycle while running X. It seems to suspend, but never resumes when in X. If I'm on a vty, it does resume, but the display characters are garbage. vidcontrol mode 80x25 fixes it, though. I can probably stick this into rc.resume. Thanks for the info. I had a similar issue with suspend/resume from within X (using APM though), using my Toshiba Tecra A2. hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1 fixed it. i get some garbling in some semitransparent aterm windows, but nothing major at all. Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) Best regards, Beto What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops fully working ? thx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
On Monday 13 March 2006 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I reccomend it highly. I have this notebook as well. It is very nice and works with every OS I've ever tried (Linux Fedora, FreeBSD, BeOS...). I do believe, however, it's been replaced by the R52 model, but it has basically the same hardware. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --hackmiester Walk a mile in my shoes and you will be a mile away in a new pair of shoes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD/yYl3ApzN91C7BcRAoVVAJ97uhjh30nQ4hd9bQ90gJqiwsLEfgCeKSrg bVfqEeJ09WhO6Y51WHEHb6o= =VTUd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: Geek Code v3.1 (PHP) GCS/CM/E/IT d-@ s: a- C++$ UBLS*$ P+ L+++$ E- W++$ !N-- !o+ K-- !w-- !O- M++$ V-- PS@ PE@ Y--? PGP++ !t--- 5--? !X-- !R-- tv-- b+ DI++ D++ G+ e h r+++ z --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Quick contact info: Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Large files/spam: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GTalk:hackmiester/AIM:hackmiester1337/Y!:hackm1ester/IRC:irc.7sinz.net/7sinz pgppsJDTgIzir.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What laptop do you recommend?
mm, well I run a Dell 700m .. the widescreen 12 one with built-in wireless. I'm using the fantastic iwi-firmware (so yes, the wireless works), and 855patch to get 1280x800 (the native res of the lcd) working. I have a very quick document on what I did to get that going at http://bratdot.info/cub1cle/projects/700m/ Accelerated graphics have never worked, but I just run Konsoles and Kmail .. so I dont miss it. The winmodem doesnt work, but thats about it. I havent missed anything else that didnt work 'out of the box' on 6. I ran 5.4 on there for a while as well, and the only thing I had to add was UHCI to the generic kernel (so I could do backups before the heat-death of the universe). YMMV, but they are cheap, small and light. -David On 3/14/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) Best regards, Beto What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops fully working ? thx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Dean +61 402 55 6068 [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: What laptop do you recommend?
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems I don't think Thinkpad has [SP]ATA things (yet). all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Thinkpad T42 is great in that regard, except that the use of dri w/ suspend/resume causes lockup. You would need to pick either dri or suspend/resume. If you can, try to get a laptop either without a 802.11g (so that you can decide which one to buy) or buy one supported by ath driver. I have T42 w/ Intel 2200BG card, and it using w/ iwi driver (net/iwi-firmware port). Here, connected w/ Linksys WRT54G wireless router/switch/AP, iwi interface|driver needs to be reset just about every two hours (when i start getting TKIP ICV mismatch on decrypt message. Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. Can't say about Thinkpad on that. From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Boy do those Toshiba's TruBrite screen looked amazing (in a chain store). On almost all the displayed laptops, however, the keyboards are buggered up, mainly on the right side. Keys were shifted around or had really unusual area of key caps. What is amazing about the messed up keyboard layout is that there was much wasted space on the sides (owning to the wider screen) in front of the keyboard. What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? People generally advise to get one from business line (used to be Latitude for some time in past; don't know about the present/future), not the home one (Inspiron). Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. T4[0-3]-generation should be affordable by now, around USD1[0-2]00. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Yes, some Dell Inspiron. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Users unknown in jail, what to do?
Hi Gabor, I figured as much. A tip: install your base tools first, things like freebsd-update, portupgrade, webmin, etc. configure those and then tar the /path/to/jail directory. That will give you a nice clean system to fall back on and replicate whenever you need a new jail, and save you a lot of time. Regards, Ruben -Original Message- From: Kövesdán Gábor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 01, 2006 10:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Users unknown in jail, what to do? Hello, thanks. Actually, I just did a make installworld DESTDIR=/path/to/jail, I didn't follow the steps in jail(8) exactly and that was the problem. I should have done a make distribution DESTDIR=/path/to/jail from /usr/src/etc. Thanks, Gabor Ruben Bloemgarten wrote: Hi Gabor, Did you install the jail following the instructions of the man page ? Which version of FBSD are you running ? Assuming that u are running the jail command from root, you don't have to specify the user. Regards, Ruben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kövesdán Gábor Sent: December 30, 2005 10:36 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Users unknown in jail, what to do? Hello, I've set up a jail and started it with: jail -u root /path/to/jail hostname ip /bin/sh When I tried to install a port inside the jail I got an error message that I don't have the mtree files. I don't know why those files haven't been built but I copied it from the host system to the jail. Now I get: mtree: line 6: unknown user root *** Error code 1 I copied passwd, master.passwd, group, nsswitch.conf files, too, but I get the same. Could somebody tell me how can I solve this? -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/217 - Release Date: 12/30/2005 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/217 - Release Date: 12/30/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Users unknown in jail, what to do?
Hello, I've set up a jail and started it with: jail -u root /path/to/jail hostname ip /bin/sh When I tried to install a port inside the jail I got an error message that I don't have the mtree files. I don't know why those files haven't been built but I copied it from the host system to the jail. Now I get: mtree: line 6: unknown user root *** Error code 1 I copied passwd, master.passwd, group, nsswitch.conf files, too, but I get the same. Could somebody tell me how can I solve this? Thanks in advance, Gabor Kovesdan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Users unknown in jail, what to do?
Kövesdán Gábor wrote: mtree: line 6: unknown user root *** Error code 1 I copied passwd, master.passwd, group, nsswitch.conf files, too, but I get the same. Could somebody tell me how can I solve this? Try: # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd in your jail. That creates (amongst other things) the hashed .db files the getpwent() etc. routines use. Also look at # cap_mkdb login.conf Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
RE: Users unknown in jail, what to do?
Hi Gabor, Did you install the jail following the instructions of the man page ? Which version of FBSD are you running ? Assuming that u are running the jail command from root, you don't have to specify the user. Regards, Ruben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kövesdán Gábor Sent: December 30, 2005 10:36 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Users unknown in jail, what to do? Hello, I've set up a jail and started it with: jail -u root /path/to/jail hostname ip /bin/sh When I tried to install a port inside the jail I got an error message that I don't have the mtree files. I don't know why those files haven't been built but I copied it from the host system to the jail. Now I get: mtree: line 6: unknown user root *** Error code 1 I copied passwd, master.passwd, group, nsswitch.conf files, too, but I get the same. Could somebody tell me how can I solve this? Thanks in advance, Gabor Kovesdan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/216 - Release Date: 12/29/2005 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/216 - Release Date: 12/29/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
Ok... looks like add route default got it to work. Thanks a ton. Matt Emmerton wrote: [ top-posting corrected ] Matt Emmerton wrote: Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot ping the AP, I cannot get a lease using DHCP, basically the only thing I can do is associate. I think it does associate because when I set an invalid wep key, t# Wireless NIC cards I type in: # ifconfig ath0 channel 7 ssid gibsons wepmode on # ifconfig ath0 weptxkey *etc. # ifconfig ath0 up # ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::213:46ff:fe0f:3f66%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 ether 00:13:46:0f:3f:66 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid gibsons channel 7 bssid 00:0c:41:a0:2c:46 authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpowmax 38 protmode CTS bintval 100 # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.107.15 # ping 192.168.107.1 I am unable to ping my router. (linksys bewfs42) It seems like i'm missing something really simple here...anyone able to help point me in the right direction? Thanks. Maybe deftxkey needs to be set? Tried it...I think i've tried almost every combination of weptxkey and deftxkey and starting up things in different orders... However, when I disabled WEP on my router I can connect to my router and get an IP, but no internet. When you ping, do you see ping: sendto: Host is down errors or ping: sendto: No route to host errors, or just nothing at all from ping? If it's either of the latter two options, then perhaps setting a default route (route add default 192.168.107.1) is what you need. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot ping the AP, I cannot get a lease using DHCP, basically the only thing I can do is associate. I think it does associate because when I set an invalid wep key, t# Wireless NIC cards Setting a static IP address does not help. Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With Windows[TM] (and on the same AP). If it is using wep, set the weptxkey. I had the same problem when moving from a laptop with releng_5 to a laptop with releng_6. I am having this same issue I believe in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. I have a dwl-g650 na.b5, h/w ver :b5, f/w ver :2.54. I compiled the following into my kernel: device wlan# 802.11 support device ath # Atheros device ath_hal # Ath_hal device ath_rate_onoe device wlan device wlan_wep# WEP support I type in: # ifconfig ath0 channel 7 ssid gibsons wepmode on # ifconfig ath0 weptxkey *etc. # ifconfig ath0 up # ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::213:46ff:fe0f:3f66%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 ether 00:13:46:0f:3f:66 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid gibsons channel 7 bssid 00:0c:41:a0:2c:46 authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpowmax 38 protmode CTS bintval 100 # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.107.15 # ping 192.168.107.1 I am unable to ping my router. (linksys bewfs42) It seems like i'm missing something really simple here...anyone able to help point me in the right direction? Thanks. -Bryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot ping the AP, I cannot get a lease using DHCP, basically the only thing I can do is associate. I think it does associate because when I set an invalid wep key, t# Wireless NIC cards Setting a static IP address does not help. Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With Windows[TM] (and on the same AP). If it is using wep, set the weptxkey. I had the same problem when moving from a laptop with releng_5 to a laptop with releng_6. I am having this same issue I believe in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. I have a dwl-g650 na.b5, h/w ver :b5, f/w ver :2.54. I compiled the following into my kernel: device wlan# 802.11 support device ath # Atheros device ath_hal # Ath_hal device ath_rate_onoe device wlan device wlan_wep# WEP support I type in: # ifconfig ath0 channel 7 ssid gibsons wepmode on # ifconfig ath0 weptxkey *etc. # ifconfig ath0 up # ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::213:46ff:fe0f:3f66%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 ether 00:13:46:0f:3f:66 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid gibsons channel 7 bssid 00:0c:41:a0:2c:46 authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpowmax 38 protmode CTS bintval 100 # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.107.15 # ping 192.168.107.1 I am unable to ping my router. (linksys bewfs42) It seems like i'm missing something really simple here...anyone able to help point me in the right direction? Thanks. Maybe deftxkey needs to be set? -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
Tried turning deftxkey 1 too, same thing. However when I turn off WEP on my router, I can connect to and ping the router, but I can't get internet... Matt Emmerton wrote: Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot ping the AP, I cannot get a lease using DHCP, basically the only thing I can do is associate. I think it does associate because when I set an invalid wep key, t# Wireless NIC cards Setting a static IP address does not help. Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With Windows[TM] (and on the same AP). If it is using wep, set the weptxkey. I had the same problem when moving from a laptop with releng_5 to a laptop with releng_6. I am having this same issue I believe in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. I have a dwl-g650 na.b5, h/w ver :b5, f/w ver :2.54. I compiled the following into my kernel: device wlan# 802.11 support device ath # Atheros device ath_hal # Ath_hal device ath_rate_onoe device wlan device wlan_wep# WEP support I type in: # ifconfig ath0 channel 7 ssid gibsons wepmode on # ifconfig ath0 weptxkey *etc. # ifconfig ath0 up # ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::213:46ff:fe0f:3f66%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 ether 00:13:46:0f:3f:66 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid gibsons channel 7 bssid 00:0c:41:a0:2c:46 authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpowmax 38 protmode CTS bintval 100 # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.107.15 # ping 192.168.107.1 I am unable to ping my router. (linksys bewfs42) It seems like i'm missing something really simple here...anyone able to help point me in the right direction? Thanks. Maybe deftxkey needs to be set? -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:25:39 +0100 Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot ping the AP, I cannot get a lease using DHCP, basically the only thing I can do is associate. I think it does associate because when I set an invalid wep key, the status changes back to 'no carrier'. Setting a static IP address does not help. Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With Windows[TM] (and on the same AP). If it is using wep, set the weptxkey. I had the same problem when moving from a laptop with releng_5 to a laptop with releng_6. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
On 2005-11-02 08:41, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:44:49PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Make sure you're not running a BSD firewall too, like the one I had a few days ago and kept failing to obtain an address from my wireless AP at home because of the paranoid ruleset I was using :) First I confirmed that it really wasn't a firewall issue. Then of course I found out it was a PEBKAC; I used this command to configure ath0: # ifconfig ath0 ssid FOO wepmode on wepkey 0xBAR which showed an association but did not allow packets to be sent. The correct incantation is # ifconfig ath0 ssid FOO wepmode on wepkey 0xBAR weptxkey 1 which, I presume, also sets the wepkey to be used for transmitting packets after destination. I must say that I don't really see the value of specifying the WEP key and then not using it, but then again this is not my OS :-) Ah! Hehe. That's a nice catch there. I didn't hit this because I explicitly specified more than the absolutely necessary stuff in my /root/netstart.home shell script, which I use to connect to my home's network. The important bit for the wepkey setup is the ifconfig_ath0 line, which contains: % # Use a format similar to rc.conf(5) to allow /etc/rc.d/netif to % # find and use these settings automagically. % export ifconfig_ath0=DHCP ssid FOO \ % wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey '1:0xXX' I'm explicitly specifying that weptxkey is going to be key 1 and then prepending the number of the key, so this didn't happen here. Thanks for the followup, since now I know what to look for when things don't Just Work(TM) in the future :))) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:44:49PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 19:40, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:28:51PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With Windows[TM] (and on the same AP). You haven't firewalled everything off, right? Good call! I certainly hope not. I haven't touched the AP since getting it working with the same laptop in Windows, at least none of its firewall rules. I'll triplecheck asap though. Make sure you're not running a BSD firewall too, like the one I had a few days ago and kept failing to obtain an address from my wireless AP at home because of the paranoid ruleset I was using :) First I confirmed that it really wasn't a firewall issue. Then of course I found out it was a PEBKAC; I used this command to configure ath0: # ifconfig ath0 ssid FOO wepmode on wepkey 0xBAR which showed an association but did not allow packets to be sent. The correct incantation is # ifconfig ath0 ssid FOO wepmode on wepkey 0xBAR weptxkey 1 which, I presume, also sets the wepkey to be used for transmitting packets after destination. I must say that I don't really see the value of specifying the WEP key and then not using it, but then again this is not my OS :-) Thanks for thinking with me, Giorgios! --Stijn -- Diane, 2:15 in the afternoon, November 14. Entering town of Twin Peaks. Five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. Never seen so many trees in my life. As W.C. Fields would say, I'd rather be here than Philadelphia. -- Special Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks pgp1iAodV88w5.pgp Description: PGP signature
cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot ping the AP, I cannot get a lease using DHCP, basically the only thing I can do is associate. I think it does associate because when I set an invalid wep key, the status changes back to 'no carrier'. Setting a static IP address does not help. Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With Windows[TM] (and on the same AP). Thanks, --Stijn [1] read: the day before yesterday... -- In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in the proper order then why can't he? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
On 2005-10-31 19:25, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot ping the AP, I cannot get a lease using DHCP, basically the only thing I can do is associate. I think it does associate because when I set an invalid wep key, the status changes back to 'no carrier'. Setting a static IP address does not help. Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With Windows[TM] (and on the same AP). You haven't firewalled everything off, right? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:28:51PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-10-31 19:25, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an SMC PCMCIA wireless adapter, model SMCWCB-G, based on an Atheros 5212 chipset, in a laptop running a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.0-RC1. The card associates fine, but then fails to send any IP packets in the air, or at least that's what I presume is going on. I cannot ping the AP, I cannot get a lease using DHCP, basically the only thing I can do is associate. I think it does associate because when I set an invalid wep key, the status changes back to 'no carrier'. Setting a static IP address does not help. Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With Windows[TM] (and on the same AP). You haven't firewalled everything off, right? Good call! I certainly hope not. I haven't touched the AP since getting it working with the same laptop in Windows, at least none of its firewall rules. I'll triplecheck asap though. --Stijn -- Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. pgpXoEP5PhcjA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cannot get IP working between associated ath0 AP, what to do?
On 2005-10-31 19:40, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:28:51PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Any hints on where I might go from here to debug this? I know the setup should work because in a previous life [1] it Worked With Windows[TM] (and on the same AP). You haven't firewalled everything off, right? Good call! I certainly hope not. I haven't touched the AP since getting it working with the same laptop in Windows, at least none of its firewall rules. I'll triplecheck asap though. Make sure you're not running a BSD firewall too, like the one I had a few days ago and kept failing to obtain an address from my wireless AP at home because of the paranoid ruleset I was using :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what to do? amd64 - i386
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:07 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas about _WHAT_ does not work? Do you have examples? If I can't live without them, then.. ;-)) I forget, but too many for me. Found somebody with Google that got several broken things running, but he didn't say how. I had a few problems with base-system stuff but probably could have lived with that. (Eg, I had to use older ncr instead of sym.) The problems are with the ports, so waiting for 6.x won't help. I keep on wondering what will be best for this new amd64 machine. Today I saw all KDE packages were anewed. I have a fbsd-4.11-stable machine that has KDE running. My other machines have 5.4, so I cannot build the 4.11 packages on one of those (faster) machines. And then there's this dicussion on the speed of 5.4 - 4.11 (the latter is said to be faster). Maybe it's just to early to make the switch to 5.x if all options needed are supported in 4.11-stable. If I install the latter on the new amd64 machine (dump /restore) I will have a very fast machine (i386) which can build the packages for the main server too. HOW LONG will FreeBSD-4.11 be supported ?? (could not find it on the website) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what to do? amd64 - i386
On 8/1/05, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:07 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas about _WHAT_ does not work? Do you have examples? If I can't live without them, then.. ;-)) I forget, but too many for me. Found somebody with Google that got several broken things running, but he didn't say how. I had a few problems with base-system stuff but probably could have lived with that. (Eg, I had to use older ncr instead of sym.) The problems are with the ports, so waiting for 6.x won't help. I keep on wondering what will be best for this new amd64 machine. Today I saw all KDE packages were anewed. I have a fbsd-4.11-stable machine that has KDE running. My other machines have 5.4, so I cannot build the 4.11 packages on one of those (faster) machines. And then there's this dicussion on the speed of 5.4 - 4.11 (the latter is said to be faster). Maybe it's just to early to make the switch to 5.x if all options needed are supported in 4.11-stable. If I install the latter on the new amd64 machine (dump /restore) I will have a very fast machine (i386) which can build the packages for the main server too. HOW LONG will FreeBSD-4.11 be supported ?? It's at http://www.freebsd.org/security/ (estimated EOL - 31 Jan 2007. It's interesting that estimated EOL for 5.4 mentioned on the same page is earlier than that). -- Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements We live less by imagination than despite it - Rockwell Kent, N by E ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what to do? amd64 - i386
I have a well running FreeBSD-5.4 system. In a few days I get an Athlon64 based system, so I will be able to install the FreeBSD-5.4-64 version _OR_ use dump / restore to transport my system to the new drive. Personally I think it is wiser to wait for fbsd-6.x to make the transfer and use my (old) FreeBSD-5.4-i386 version on my new machine. But maybe I'm wrong about this assumption. FreeBSD will be my main system. I will use a lot of ports and don't mind reinstalling, but it should be worthwile. I know the OS itself will be faster, but how about ports. Is there a way to find out which ports will or will not build? Using the i386 version gives me no hassle at all I guess, but.. (??) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
