Re: Which disk is which

2004-08-30 Thread John
Subhro wrote: What do u mean by difference? That page does not mention da devices at all. The device ad represents a IDE/ATA disk and the da device represents a SCSI disk. As you have got one IDE hard disk and one SCSI hard disk in your box, its showing up as ad0 and da0. But as you say that the

Re: MAXDSIZ and MAXSIZ

2004-08-30 Thread Dennis George
But if its an offset then why do specify like this : options MAXDSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024) options MAXSSIZ=(128UL*1024*1024) options DFLDSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024) Dennis Subhro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:19:51 -0700 (PDT), Denn

Question on ATM w/ FreeBSD

2004-08-30 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi All, Can I plug in an ATM DS3 into something like a Cisco Lightstream LS1010 with a DS3 card, then plug a PC running FreeBSD and Quagga, with a Marconi Forerunner HE155 using the fatm() driver, into a OC3 card on the LS1010, then define a VC, switch it through the switch, and run data over t

re: building new kernel fails during build of 'ath' driver

2004-08-30 Thread Fredrik Andersson
Hi jms ! I had the same problem. I get a tip in another mailgroup, that I tried. After that my card worked better and no errors when compile kernel. Try too add device ath_hal device wlan in kernel and then compile again. Fred. >version: 5.2.1 > >I added this driver in my kernel config

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-30 Thread Shantanu
+++ Soo-Hyun Choi [freebsd] [28-08-04 00:52 +0100]: | Hi, | | I edit C++ codes with a certain text editor under Windows XP, and then | I open the C++ codes using vi editor under FreeBSD. Then, there are | bunch of "^M" sign at the end of each line. Does anyone know why this | is happening? And, do

Re: newfs_msdos bootstrap file

2004-08-30 Thread Matthew Crowe
Henrik: Yes, I did try /boot/mbr and /boot/boot0 (and boot1), but none of them successfully booted dos or windows. I think I need to steal one from a FAT32 filesystem that was made with Dos's fdisk.. :( Matt Henrik W Lund wrote: Matthew Crowe wrote: Hi All, In the newfs_msdos(8) man page, there

Re: Squirell mail login problem

2004-08-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, August 30, 2004 09:51:14 AM +0600 indunil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey , I installed PHP, Couier-Imap and squirell mail for sendmail under freeBSD 5.21. but when i go to squirell mail and login to it, it says unknown user name and password. What method of authentication are you usi

Re: maximum hard drive capacity supported?

2004-08-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> > Upon trying to buy a new hard drive (80 GB) I was asked > about the capabilities of my system, and I just thought that > these were needed to tell what kind the IDE (ATA) > capabilities. However, the vendor said that depending on the > BIOS the system might not be able to recognize a large disk

Re: maximum hard drive capacity supported?

2004-08-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> > Well if the manufacturer states that the BIOS CAN support 80G drives > then there is no reason why you should not believe on that. Go ahead > and get one of thoes 80G giants. it's rather standard now :) 250GB are available and works with FreeBSD on 500Mhz class hardware :) just /boot partiti

burncd problem err=16 any ideas?

2004-08-30 Thread michael
Im running freebsd 4.10 with a sony cd/dvd burner combo (DRU-530A) im using burncd -f /dev/acd0c -s max -e data imagefile.iso fixate , i have tried to lower the speed to 1x and 8x and i get the same problem ill include the error with -v verabos output maybe it will help ( does burncd log somew

Re: maximum hard drive capacity supported?

2004-08-30 Thread Fernan Aguero
+[ Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (30.Aug.2004 17:55): | | > | > Upon trying to buy a new hard drive (80 GB) I was asked | > about the capabilities of my system, and I just thought that | > these were needed to tell what kind the IDE (ATA) | > capabilities. However, the vendor said that de

determine X windows version from command line

2004-08-30 Thread Steven Friedrich
I've been massaging UberMon for SuperKaramba for my FreeBSD systems. I'd like to be able to run a command that will yield which X window system is installed and what version. I've done it with something like startx -- -version, but this is problematic if X windows is running (which is the scena

Re: determine X windows version from command line

2004-08-30 Thread Phil Schulz
Steven Friedrich wrote: I'd like to be able to run a command that will yield which X window system is installed and what version. `X -version` works for me. But I'm not sure if this will also work w/ X.org since I'm still running XFree86 Regards, Phil -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 20

Re: slightly OT - journal or project tracking app query

2004-08-30 Thread Charles Ulrich
Louis LeBlanc said: > Failing the existence of such an application, > I'll have to devise my own organizational method and just go with vim > until I can work something useful out. > > What does the FreeBSD community use? vim's always worked great for me. But these days I use a wiki hosted on int

Re: Which disk is which

2004-08-30 Thread John
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Hi, John ... As you cc'ed doc@, I'm sending your original mail to them also, so they'll have some background. Comments inline. John Summerfield wrote: I've booted a 5.2.1 miniinstall CD and got to the point where I choose which disk to install onto. My choice

Re: Which disk is which

2004-08-30 Thread John
Jerry McAllister wrote: I've booted a 5.2.1 miniinstall CD and got to the point where I choose which disk to install onto. My choices are ad0 da0 Great. How do I know which disk is which? OK ad0 would be the first ide drive and da0 would be the first SCSI drive or maybe the first USB drive. T

pentium II cpu cache prevents boot

2004-08-30 Thread fbsd
Hello All, I've been trying to install FreeBSD-4.10 stable on a PcPartner BXA828D mainboard. This mainboard features the Intel 82440BX chipset, and I fitted it with a Pentium-II 450mhz with 512kb cache. Furthermore, I've added one vga adapter and two nic's (RTL8139). Storage is in the form of o

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-30 Thread W. D.
At 01:46 8/30/2004, Harlan Stenn, wrote: >Better to follow the FreeBSD convention and leave them in /usr/local. > >Change xntpd_program in /etc/rc.conf . > >H Thanks Harlan for your reply. FreeBSD appears to expect these NTP programs to be in: /usr/sbin/ That is where the 2003 Oct port put them

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-30 Thread Harlan Stenn
> FreeBSD appears to expect these NTP programs to be in: >/usr/sbin/ No, that's where FreeBSD expects the *stock* versions to go. If that's where something in /usr/ports/ put them, you'd have to ask the port maintainer why. Doing so is against normal guidelines. Danny will have to comment on t

vt400 terminal?

2004-08-30 Thread Michael Pope
I have a special need to use a vt400 compatible terminal program. Currently I use gnome-terminal but it only supports vt320, i've tried aterm, xterm and eterm and all are the same as gnome-terminal in regards to emulation types. Does anyone have any suggestion to which terminal pro

loader keymap

2004-08-30 Thread Marcel.lautenbach
hi, is there a way to set the keyboard type for the loader(8)? -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Which disk is which

2004-08-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >>I've booted a 5.2.1 miniinstall CD and got to the point where I choose which > >>disk to install onto. > >> > >>My choices are > >>ad0 > >>da0 > >> > >>Great. How do I know which disk is which? > > > > > > OK ad0 would be the first ide drive and da0 would be th

Strange error

2004-08-30 Thread Jack Raats
The last weeks I've a strange error. After a reboot It seems that some programms are not being started up by their script in /etc/usr/local/rc.d. The programms will run if I start the script by hand. (The programms are enabled in /etc/rc.conf). Can anyone give me a clue where to look? Met vriendel

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-30 Thread Danny Mayer
At 07:13 PM 8/30/2004, W. D. wrote: 30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: logging to file /var/log/ntpd.log 30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 30 14:14:07 GMT 2004 (1) 30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: precision = 4.191 usec 30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface dc0, fe80:1::2a0:ccff:f

LDAP, pam, nss

2004-08-30 Thread Curtis Vaughan
In order to get centralized logins to work on my Linux Debian computers (authenticating of a RedHat Samba server), I have to: install libnss-ldap libpam-ldap. Perform some configuration on the of /etc/libnss-ldap.conf and /etc/pam-ldap.conf files. Edit the /etc/nnsswitch.conf file. Then I can c

Question

2004-08-30 Thread A W
Hello, i am attempting to try FreeBsd on a very old computer, unfortunatly it does not have any cd drive. And i do not know which files to install. Leaving me with only 1 choice to use FTP servers but the problem is the version of FreeBsd that i've tried does not support the network card

newest kdelibs fails to build

2004-08-30 Thread Steven Friedrich
KDE 3.3.3 became available today, but kdelibs build fails. gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/work/kdelibs-3.3.0/kioslave/http' source='http.cc' object='http.lo' libtool=yes \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../../admin/depcomp \ /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --mode=compile --

Variable length packets?

2004-08-30 Thread Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3)
I am trying to implement a custom protocol that sends and receives variable-length packets on top of TCP/IPv4. The problem is that the length field of the packet is silently being mangled first becoming 0 and then getting turned into a very large number (about 2-3 billion). The length field i

Re: newest kdelibs fails to build

2004-08-30 Thread Subhro
cat /etc/make.conf Regards S. On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:15:19 -0400, Steven Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > KDE 3.3.3 became available today, but kdelibs build fails. > > gmake[4]: Entering directory > `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/work/kdelibs-3.3.0/kioslave/http' > source='http.cc' object='htt

Re: burncd problem err=16 any ideas?

2004-08-30 Thread Subhro
Are you running the GENERIC kernel? If not have you included support for the CD file system? Also did you put something non standard in /etc/make.conf? Regards S. On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:56:54 -0500, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im running freebsd 4.10 with a sony cd/dvd burner combo (DRU-

Re: newest kdelibs fails to build

2004-08-30 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Monday 30 August 2004 09:54 pm, Subhro wrote: > cat /etc/make.conf > > Regards > S. > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:15:19 -0400, Steven Friedrich > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > KDE 3.3.3 became available today, but kdelibs build fails. > > > > gmake[4]: Entering directory > > `/usr/ports/x11/kdel

Re: Strange error

2004-08-30 Thread Subhro
The paths you have provided are wrong. The correct path is /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ Regards S. On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:03:09 +0200, Jack Raats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last weeks I've a strange error. After a reboot It seems that some > programms are not being started up by their script in /et

Re: Variable length packets?

2004-08-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 30), Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3) said: > I am trying to implement a custom protocol that sends and receives > variable-length packets on top of TCP/IPv4. The problem is that the > length field of the packet is silently being mangled first becoming 0 > and then getting

Re: newest kdelibs fails to build

2004-08-30 Thread Subhro
First of all, ports like XFree86 and KDE are really not worth maintaining from the ports. Packages do much better for these softwares. If you really want to compile it from the ports tree, then go ahead. It seems to me that somehow wrong arguments are being passed to c++ as a result of which the e

Re: Unsupported 3Com NIC? (: Question)

2004-08-30 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
A W wrote: Hello, i am attempting to try FreeBsd on a very old computer, unfortunatly it does not have any cd drive. And i do not know which files to install. Leaving me with only 1 choice to use FTP servers but the problem is the version of FreeBsd that i've tried does not support the netwo

Re: 3Com Etherlink III ISA support [was Question]

2004-08-30 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >the version of FreeBsd that i've tried does not support the network >card i have on the computer which is a "3Com Etherlink III ISA (3C509b->TPO) in PnP mode" i would like to know which versions of FreeBsd >supports this network card. Hello, I used that card in 2.2.2. (My first FBS

Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

2004-08-30 Thread W. D.
Hi Danny, Reply below... At 19:02 8/30/2004, Danny Mayer wrote: >At 07:13 PM 8/30/2004, W. D. wrote: >>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: logging to file /var/log/ntpd.log >>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 30 14:14:07 GMT >>2004 (1) >>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: precision = 4.191 us

Re: Question on ATM w/ FreeBSD

2004-08-30 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >Can I plug in an ATM DS3 into something like a Cisco Lightstream LS1010 >with a DS3 card, then plug a PC running FreeBSD and Quagga, with a >Marconi Forerunner HE155 using the fatm() driver, into a OC3 card on >the LS1010, then define a VC, switch it through the switch, >and run data

Re: burncd problem err=16 any ideas?

2004-08-30 Thread Subhro
What type of ATA cable are you using? The 40 conductor type or the 80 conductor type? Does your burner support some kind of underburn protection? Could you paste "sysctl -a | grep dma" without the "s ? FreeBSD requires IDE drives to be fixed on the cable in a particular order, ie the master dri

Re: LDAP, pam, nss

2004-08-30 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > In order to get centralized logins to work on my Linux Debian computers > (authenticating of a RedHat Samba server), I have to: > > install libnss-ldap libpam-ldap. > Perform some configuration on the of /etc/libnss-ldap.conf and > /etc/pam-ldap.conf f

Re: 3Com Etherlink III ISA support [was Question]

2004-08-30 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: by: A W >Sorry im a total Newb to this Freebsd thingy. But if i were to do wat >u told me to do and get Version 2.2.2 of FreeBsd, Which files do i >need to start the installation? by: stheg olloydson >>I used that card in 2.2.2. (My first FBSD install!) As I remember, I >>had to run

Nvidia drivers and mem.ko module

2004-08-30 Thread Ricardo Britto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #3 on my machine and I'm having problems on installing nvidia-driver from ports. I get the following error: ERROR: Failed to load the NVIDIA module! KLD nvidia.ko: depends on mem - not available. That's sayin