Flash drive device name difficulties.

2005-10-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
I am running FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE. I recently aquired a 256M USB flash drive which the system recognises when plugged in; and I can mount and use it -- all working well. But now I'd like to make it available to a user or group of users through mtools. To do this I need to change the permissions on

Re: Help Understanding While Loop

2005-10-16 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Drew Tomlinson thusly... Thus I set the following variables: remote_pictures_dir=/multimedia/Pictures local_pictures_dir=/tv/pictures find_args=-iname '*.jpg' -or -iname '*.gif' Then I called the 'find' command as follows: for original in

Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD

2005-10-16 Thread Graham Bentley
I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :( Mmm, that chaos seems to have gotten stallman et alii a long way ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-09-25 - 2005-10-15

2005-10-16 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host

2005-10-16 Thread Graham North
Can someone please explain what this is. I ran df to look at my directory/filesystem and 2 of the devices were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net I have not noticed these before. Thanks for any help. Graham/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC

[Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host]

2005-10-16 Thread Graham North
To clarify - on my home network the server machine is named www so that is probably where the www comes from in the device names below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net G/ Original Message Subject:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005

Re: Recommended partitioning

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Teo De Las Heras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of my reading in books and online does suggest straying from the default when configuring mail and web servers (for example). I do understand the importance of following standards, and that's why I'm asking for feedback from this

Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Peter Matulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly guys, what is this thread about? Hum, understanding something? You're not gonna make portupgrade work any faster or smoother if you weed out a couple of switches from the command-line.

Re: kldload snd_driver locks up 5.4-STABLE

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Annelise Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5.4-STABLE on a Dell Optiplex GX620, there's an Integrated AC97 Audio. dmesg says: pci0: multimedia, audio at device 30.2 (no driver attached) If I try to load sound drivers with kldload, the machine

Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-16 Thread Thomas Linton
Hi, Is there any tool available to change the region code of a DVD-Drive? Many thanks in advance, Thomas. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re[2]: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-16 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday, October 15, 2005 9:21:00 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: portupgrade stale dependencies Wrote these words of wisdom: On 10/16/05, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use portupgrade to update my installed ports. I ran into trouble with dependencies

root mail is pointing to one user account..?(sendmail)

2005-10-16 Thread perikillo
Hi people. Freebsd 5.4-p8 tag RELENG_5_4 I need some help, the problem is that for some reason that i still dont know, my root mail account is pointing to another user, is to wear, that i really dont know how this happend, i check the /etc/mail/ files and dosnt see any thing wrong, i

Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-16 Thread Deepak Naidu
Hi, I wanted to install nagios client on FreeBSD 5.4. I want to monitor my SMTP (25) and disk usage etc to be monitored from Nagios server installed on Linux box. How do I do... In linux there is Nagios-Client.rpm. What is the alternative on FreeBSD I dont want the server, I just wnat to

Re: Should I increase vfs.read_max

2005-10-16 Thread Deepak Naidu
Thanx very much Andrew... Cheers, Deepak Naidu. --- Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/15/05, Deepak Naidu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanx Andrew, Could u provide some details, where can I obtain 6.0, stable or what ever the updated release is there for 6.0.

Disabling Hyperthreading...

2005-10-16 Thread Deepak Naidu
Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on Dell PowerEdge 1750, which has Xeon processors. I have recompiled the kernel with SMP support(should I add any option in Kernelconf file to disable it) When using top command I c 0123, processor it seems hyper threading is enabled. How do I disable it, or

Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have asked this question before, so if it looks familiar ... I am hoping all the reading I have done over the past few weeks makes this instance of the qeustion clearer. Background: 1 Dell 24 Port Switch, WAN connection to my ISP. 5 Dell Serers, each with 2 NICs. 1 NIC on each

localepurge for FreeBSD?

2005-10-16 Thread N Deepak
Hi, Debian GNU/Linux has a utility called `localepurge'. This software asks the user about his locale, and purges remaining locales. The recovered disk space, when executed the first time, can run into many megabytes. Is there an equivalent for FreeBSD? Thanks, Deepak

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have asked this question before, so if it looks familiar ... I am hoping all the reading I have done over the past few weeks makes this instance of the qeustion clearer. Background: 1 Dell 24 Port Switch, WAN connection to my

su command PPP

2005-10-16 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dears, I have 2 question : 1.for dialing PPP ,Am i do compile kernel? 2.When i run gdm,i can't use su command.When i use this command,i recieve following text : su : sorrry! Please guide me... Yours,Mohsen. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Grant Peel
Thanks Andrew, So If I understand your reply, a setup like this should always give me access to any of the servers by SSHing to one server, then CUing to get to the console of the 'broken' one, regardless of its state (assuming the disks are OK, and boot stage 1 worked): (WAN Shown, LAN

Re: su command PPP

2005-10-16 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 08:28 am, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dears, I have 2 question : 1.for dialing PPP ,Am i do compile kernel? 2.When i run gdm,i can't use su command.When i use this command,i recieve following text : su : sorrry! This is the normal response to a user who does not have

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Andrew, So If I understand your reply, a setup like this should always give me access to any of the servers by SSHing to one server, then CUing to get to the console of the 'broken' one, regardless of its state (assuming the disks are

Re: su command PPP

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/5/05, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dears, I have 2 question : 1.for dialing PPP ,Am i do compile kernel? Make sure device tun in your kernel, use /usr/sbin/ppp, not /usr/sbin/pppd. /etc/ppp/ppp.conf - is ppp's config file man ppp describes ppp and ppp.conf

Re: Recommended partitioning

2005-10-16 Thread John Oxley
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:01:01PM -0400, Teo De Las Heras wrote: Part Size / 10G - for both the / and /usr files (swap) 2G /var 10G - Web server, print spool, other log files?? /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup /home 50G - for all user files /home/teo 40G - For my files

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Grant Peel
Thanks again Andrew, I will do a search on COM Hubs and see whats out there. I assume, the HUB would connect to one controll terminal, then to each COM port on the servers. I have been reading (pouring over and over) the man and handbook pages to see if more than one console can be

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, RS-232 Serial Port hubs seem to be a little hard to come by, and the ones I have found are quite expensive. COuld we could achieve the same using USB terminals and a 16 port USB hub? -Grant - Original Message - From: Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL

[OT] X+mga frustration

2005-10-16 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Sorry for the littering but I am so frustrated trying to make a Matrox G550 work with DVI output. The G550 has dual head capability and both the VGA and the DVI output works from the console, but only VGA from X. Tried 4.11, 6.0-RC1 with both Xfree86-4 and xorg. If there is anyone out there

.wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Warren
im runnign FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE with XMMS mp3 player and out of curiosity, why is it that windows media vid files can be played on FreeBSD, but the music files cant? -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread John Oxley
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:14:35AM +1000, Warren wrote: im runnign FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE with XMMS mp3 player and out of curiosity, why is it that windows media vid files can be played on FreeBSD, but the music files cant? Install /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma -- John Oxley Systems Administrator

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Warren
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:16 am, John Oxley wrote: /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma thanks. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Recommended partitioning

2005-10-16 Thread Teo De Las Heras
Based on recommendations here is how I'm going to partition the two FreeBSD servers that I'm installing in my lab. mail, print, web, and file server Part Size / 200M /usr 15G - Ports live in usr /tmp 256M (swap) 2G - paging file /var 10G - print spool, db files, other log files?? /var/mail 10G -

Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-16 Thread Micah
Andrew P. wrote: On 10/16/05, Peter Matulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly guys, what is this thread about? Hum, understanding something? You're not gonna make portupgrade work any faster or smoother if you weed out a couple of switches from

Re: [OT] X+mga frustration

2005-10-16 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:39:03 +0200 Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is anyone out there who successfully configured this card to use DVI only output under X please, please, how did you do it? Port: mga_hal-4.1 Path: /usr/ports/x11-servers/mga_hal Info: Module for

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like John Oxley composed: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:14:35AM +1000, Warren wrote: im runnign FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE with XMMS mp3 player and out of curiosity, why is it that windows media vid files can be played on FreeBSD, but the music files cant? Install

Re: Recommended partitioning

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Teo De Las Heras composed: Based on recommendations here is how I'm going to partition the two FreeBSD servers that I'm installing in my lab. mail, print, web, and file server Part Size / 200M /usr 15G - Ports live in usr /tmp 256M (swap) 2G - paging file /var

cdrecord vs. burncd

2005-10-16 Thread Frederico Franzosi
Hi... I used to be a debian user and I'm recently migrating to FreeBSD... One thing that I am still having problems is with the cd recording. I tried to use burncd to record an audio CD but it seems to eat some of my media space since it wasn't able to record a 62 minutes CD with a 80 minutes

Re: cdrecord vs. burncd

2005-10-16 Thread guru
El día Sunday, October 16, 2005 a las 03:03:56PM -0200, Frederico Franzosi escribió: Hi... I used to be a debian user and I'm recently migrating to FreeBSD... One thing that I am still having problems is with the cd recording. I tried to use burncd to record an audio CD but it seems to eat

Preferred softphone for Asterisk ...

2005-10-16 Thread Kiffin Gish
I was just wondering which (free) soft-phones were available on FreeBSD I can use to play around with my asterisk setup. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [OT] X+mga frustration

2005-10-16 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
You need this for DVI, DualHead and such things installed and loaded. Works fine with my G450-DVI and Xorg. fixed it. Thanks a lot! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

portupgrade: what must I fix in this pkgtools.conf entry?

2005-10-16 Thread James Long
I've been aware of pkgtools.conf but hadn't buckled down to suss out the syntax prior to recently. Thanks to Dru Lavigne's excellent article at onlamp.com, I'm working on my first attempt at setting make variables in pkgtools.conf. First, is there something I've specified incorrectly in my

Re: Help Understanding While Loop

2005-10-16 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/15/2005 11:33 PM Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Drew Tomlinson thusly... Thus I set the following variables: remote_pictures_dir=/multimedia/Pictures local_pictures_dir=/tv/pictures find_args=-iname '*.jpg' -or -iname '*.gif' Then I called the 'find' command as

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-16 Thread Mattias Björk
Hi, Deepak Naidu wrote: Hi, I wanted to install nagios client on FreeBSD 5.4. I want to monitor my SMTP (25) and disk usage etc to be monitored from Nagios server installed on Linux box. How do I do... In linux there is Nagios-Client.rpm. What is the alternative on FreeBSD I dont

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Kane
Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the errors that occurred and someone

Re: Help Understanding While Loop

2005-10-16 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 15, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 10/14/2005 3:24 PM David Kirchner wrote: On 10/14/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I've been working on an sh script and I'm almost there. In the script, I created a 'while read' loop that is doing what I want. Now I

Re: cdrecord vs. burncd

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Frederico Franzosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... I used to be a debian user and I'm recently migrating to FreeBSD... One thing that I am still having problems is with the cd recording. I tried to use burncd to record an audio CD but it seems to eat some of my media space since

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-16 Thread Deepak Naidu
Thanx Mattias I will give it a try and see. Cheers, Deepak Naidu Mattias Björk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Deepak Naidu wrote: Hi, I wanted to install nagios client on FreeBSD 5.4. I want to monitor my SMTP (25) and disk usage etc to be monitored from Nagios server installed on Linux

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 16 Oct Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Sunday, 16. October 2005 18:34, Ronald Klop wrote: There are a couple of options: 1. Do not remove old (5.4) libraries. All 5.4 libs wil still be found. 2. Remove old libraries and install ports/misc/compat5x. All 5.4 lib wil still be found. 1.

Re: localepurge for FreeBSD?

2005-10-16 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote N Deepak thusly... Debian GNU/Linux has a utility called `localepurge'. This software asks the user about his locale, and purges remaining locales. I assume the user in this context is root? The recovered disk space, when executed the first time, can

My experiment which FreeBSD, stuck with wireless card.

2005-10-16 Thread Animesh Sharma
Dear Folks, I had a Mandrake + WinXP dual boot system but somehow was not satisfied with Mandrake distro, though it was really cool, still I was not happy. So when I saw the FreeBSD 6.0 RC1, I thought I will go for it. Right from the installation, I started anticipating the difficulties which were

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Kane
Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :( http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ I checked there for the

Re: pptpclient problem

2005-10-16 Thread Gunter Wambaugh
No. I _wasted_ so much time trying to figure this out... I have given up for the time being. (I use my iBook). On Oct 15, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Mike Vidal wrote: Did you ever get pptp working? I'm having the same issue I think. Gunter Wambaugh wrote: I am having trouble connecting to my

How to get listed as a publisher

2005-10-16 Thread Ryan Cloke
How can I get listed as a BSD publisher? My information is: TheLinuxStore.ca Shanty Bay, ON Canada Email: |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| WWW: http://www.thelinuxstore.ca/index.php?main_page=indexcPath=41_101 Ryan -- Get Firefox! http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliatesid=136833t=81Get

gdm starting without keyboard

2005-10-16 Thread Frederico Franzosi
I know this is already a known issue, but it seems my problem is kinda different. The trouble is: when I enable gdm at /etc/rc.conf it starts at boot time with keyboard totaly locked. But, when I start it by hand after my machine boots at text mode, the keyboard works just perfectly. I already

Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :(

Re: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?

2005-10-16 Thread Jared Evans
Worked like a charm!! Thanks for your expert help!! I'm glad to know that the next release of FreeBSD will have this all built in. Jared On 10/15/05, Jared Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for taking the time to reply. I shall try your patch and see if I can get it to work. Jared On

Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64

Strange problem at boot time

2005-10-16 Thread Luchezar P. Petkov
Hi list. I've just moved to 6.0RC1, and I added the ATAPI/CAM module to the kernel. Now, the system boots *extremely* slowly when detects my CDRW - about a minute. The device is working almost properly. I can mount CDs, but not CD-RWs. # camcontrol devlist TEAC CD-W552E 1.09 at

Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 17 Oct 2005 it looks like Andrew P. composed: humbly_snipped It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports themselves should get to work under amd64. Ahh, very good point. I didn't look at it from that angle. 2006 will probably become the year of widespread adoption of

Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Kane
Andrew P. wrote: On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't

If I want to hook FreeBSD to a SAN ...

2005-10-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
What do I need to know? For instance, if memory serves, we don't support iSCSI SANs right now? Pointers to any web pages that are good for this sort of thing, especially as concerns FreeBSD, would be greatly appreciated ... Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Oct 16, 2005, at 2:28 AM, Thomas Linton wrote: Hi, Is there any tool available to change the region code of a DVD-Drive? Many thanks in advance, Thomas. I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require

Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v 2.10 (mouse not being detected)

2005-10-16 Thread Alejandro Valenzuela Roca
Hello, I just purchased a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop this morning and I'm regretting I did. Here's my dmesg: ukbd0: Microsft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10, rev 2.00/0.38, addr 2, iclass 3/1 kbd1 at ukbd0 uhid0: Microsft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10, rev 2.00/0.38,

Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 17 Oct 2005 it looks like Andrew P. composed: humbly_snipped It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports themselves should get to work under amd64. Ahh, very good point. I didn't look at it from that angle. 2006

Re: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v 2.10 (mouse not being detected)

2005-10-16 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 10/16/05, Alejandro Valenzuela Roca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have any suggestions on what I might try to make the wireless mouse work? Unfortunately I have no solution but I can tell you that on my Dell system that came with a wireless mouse and keyboard, the keyboard works, and the

nvi for serious hacking

2005-10-16 Thread Oleg Petrov
Hello, FreeBSD people. First thing to mention is that I'm very experienced Emacs user. I was using it for 4-5 years or so. But sometime ago i began to feel myself so uncomfortable with it for some reasons: first, i use many different systems and emacs isn't default application for FreeBSD or any

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Mark Kane wrote: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Gr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :(

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, RS-232 Serial Port hubs seem to be a little hard to come by, and the ones I have found are quite expensive. COuld we could achieve the same using USB terminals and a 16 port USB hub? -Grant Just stumbled upon this:

WRITE_DMA UDMA CRC error on Nimble v5

2005-10-16 Thread Wesha the Leopard
Dear colleagues, I would really appreciate some help here. I've tried every option I was able to think of, to no avail. My server is built on Nimble v5 (http://www.nimblev5.com/product/specification.htm). This is a wonderful little box built on VIA C3 Eden 733MHz, quiet and consuming very little

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host

2005-10-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 16), Graham North said: Can someone please explain what this is. I ran df to look at my directory/filesystem and 2 of the devices were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net You have amd enabled. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host

2005-10-16 Thread Graham North
Thank you for the enlightenment! Cheers, G/ Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 16), Graham North said: Can someone please explain what this is. I ran df to look at my directory/filesystem and 2 of the devices were: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/host [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net You have amd

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread stheg olloydson
Hi all, RS-232 Serial Port hubs seem to be a little hard to come by, and the ones I have found are quite expensive. COuld we could achieve the same using USB terminals and a 16 port USB hub? -Grant - Original Message - From: Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvi for serious hacking

2005-10-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:46:56AM +0400, Oleg Petrov wrote: Hello, FreeBSD people. First thing to mention is that I'm very experienced Emacs user. I was using it for 4-5 years or so. But sometime ago i began to feel myself so uncomfortable with it for some reasons: first, i use many

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 16:44 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: I would not support your chaining idea, though.[...] The matter is, that you'll want 9600 bps speeds for max compatibility. While it is usable for occasional failure recovery, chaining it would make it lag too much. Well, chaining is such

Re: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v 2.10 (mouse not being detected)

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 16, 2005 5:06:37 PM -0500 Alejandro Valenzuela Roca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just purchased a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop this morning and I'm regretting I did. Here's my dmesg: ukbd0: Microsft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10, rev 2.00/0.38, addr 2,

Re: If I want to hook FreeBSD to a SAN ...

2005-10-16 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Pointers to any web pages that are good for this sort of thing, especially as concerns FreeBSD, would be greatly appreciated ... Not sure if is along the lines of what you need, but but a few years back I found a company that allowed multiple machines to connec to

Recommended TV Tuner Capture Card

2005-10-16 Thread ross
I'm looking for a very basic TV tuner for my machine. I don't have a tv right now and I want something I can hook my VCR into. I'm looking to spend the least amount of money so old hardware gotten off e-bay is the idea. Any recomendations? -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client:

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Eric Schuele
John Oxley wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:14:35AM +1000, Warren wrote: im runnign FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE with XMMS mp3 player and out of curiosity, why is it that windows media vid files can be played on FreeBSD, but the music files cant? Install /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma I recently

Re: localepurge for FreeBSD?

2005-10-16 Thread N Deepak
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 03:25:34PM -0400, Parv wrote: Debian GNU/Linux has a utility called `localepurge'. This software asks the user about his locale, and purges remaining locales. I assume the user in this context is root? Yes. The recovered disk space, when executed the first

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2005-10-16 Thread Clyde Mooney
Hi, I am having a problem with FreeBSD 5.3 seeing the harddrive on my new workstation. all the previous versions of FreeBSD = 5.1 work great. I believe that the problem exists with the Biostar Motherboard and its BIOS and have checked the boards for solutions. I have seen none. I have

Re: .wma music files

2005-10-16 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 17 Oct 2005 it looks like Vladimir Kushnir composed: Sorry for intrusion but it DOES work (with some of WMAs, at least). What I've done was comment out ONLY_FOR_ARCHS line and then make CC='cc -fpic -DPIC' was all. BTW, mplayer and ffplayer (from ffmpeg - or perhaps ffmpeg-devel -

Re: FreeBSD routing

2005-10-16 Thread Richard Burakowski
Bob Hepple wrote: I won't expect that this will work at all, even not with Linux, because the IP 192.168.254.245 and 192.168.2.214 are of different subnets. Either you use 192.168.254.0/24 or 192.168.2.0/24 in the 10baseT net, but not both. I don't know if Linux makes it possible to do this;

Re: Flash drive device name difficulties.

2005-10-16 Thread Robert Marella
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:54:23 +0930 Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE. I recently aquired a 256M USB flash drive which the system recognises when plugged in; and I can mount and use it -- all working well. But now I'd like to make it available to a user

Re: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v 2.10 (mouse not beingdetected)

2005-10-16 Thread Alejandro Valenzuela Roca
Thank you for your replies. Mike: have you tried connecting the mouse through PS/2 (if possible)? I'll try it tomorrow (the computer I'm using right now has only USB ports). Paul: the difference between your setup and mine is the fact that there's only one receiver for both the wireless

How to update doc/www/source via a http proxy?

2005-10-16 Thread Michael Li
Hello all, I connect to the Internet via a http proxy(no ftp service available). I managed to update my port tree by using portsnap port rather than cvsup which does not use http protocol. But now I want to update my doc/www/source tree either. What should I do? Is there any port to do this like

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
If you've got money then Cyclades or Perle console servers are the way to go... --- Martin On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have asked this question before, so if it looks familiar ... I am hoping all the reading I have done over the past few weeks makes this