Re: Manual routing

2007-12-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Celso Viana wrote: I have 2 machines (A and B) interconnected by a cable network crossover; added the following addresses on the network card: Machine "A": 192.168.1.1/24 Machine "B": 10.10.1.1/24 Question: How would for these machines to communicate, adding routes manually? The easiest woul

Re: Scanner Compatibility

2007-12-08 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Michaël Grünewald wrote: Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I use Epson Perfection 1670 and it works like a charm. Unfortunately it does require binary blob which might be something you want to avoid. What is that binary blob stuff? Do you mean by this a binary image that s

Manual routing

2007-12-08 Thread Celso Viana
Hi All, I have 2 machines (A and B) interconnected by a cable network crossover; added the following addresses on the network card: Machine "A": 192.168.1.1/24 Machine "B": 10.10.1.1/24 Question: How would for these machines to communicate, adding routes manually? Thanks -- Celso Vianna BSD U

Re: Manual routing

2007-12-08 Thread Danielisz Laszlo
For example you can try using 192.168.1.1/24 on A and 192.168.1.2/24 on B and it will work! - Original Message From: Celso Viana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2007 9:03:03 AM Subject: Manual routing Hi All, I have 2 machines (A and B

Re: Manual routing

2007-12-08 Thread Dave Curry
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:03:03AM -0300, Celso Viana wrote: > Hi All, > > I have 2 machines (A and B) interconnected by a cable network > crossover; added the following addresses on the network card: > > Machine "A": 192.168.1.1/24 > Machine "B": 10.10.1.1/24 > > Question: How would for these m

Re: Scanner Compatibility

2007-12-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Micha?l Gr?newald wrote: Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I use Epson Perfection 1670 and it works like a charm. Unfortunately it does require binary blob which might be something you want to avoid. What is that binary blob stuff? Do you mean by this a binary

looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data

2007-12-08 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am worried about the s

Re: Scanner Compatibility

2007-12-08 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Let me clarify firstly some things. Thank you very much for this very detailed answer, it's very nice from you! [SNIP] > In essence your scanner uses this file to explain the Sane the page > layout and graphics. So it is not a driver! If I do u

Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data

2007-12-08 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Frank Staals wrote: > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep >> all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS >> [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I >> know I can do this by putti

Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data

2007-12-08 Thread Frank Staals
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition

relay host in sendmail?

2007-12-08 Thread jekillen
Hello: I am using Absolute BSD, Second Ed. and am looking in the section on Sendmail. I cannot find where to specify a relay host. I have a hosts that originate mail to remote recipients but use a mail hub (Postfix) on another machine on local network to relay this mail to the outside. It is not s

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-08 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +, Michael Doyle wrote: > > On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: > >> Michael Doyle wrote: >>> Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion >>> on a new MacBook Pro ? >>> >> I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of V

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-08 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +, Michael Doyle wrote: > > On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: > > >Michael Doyle wrote: > >>Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion > >>on a new MacBook Pro ? > >> > >I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas

Re: Manual routing

2007-12-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have 2 machines (A and B) interconnected by a cable network crossover; added the following addresses on the network card: Machine "A": 192.168.1.1/24 Machine "B": 10.10.1.1/24 Question: How would for these machines to communicate, adding routes manually? no way. select same subnet Thanks

Re: DVD's and FreeBSD

2007-12-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
no problems yo play anything that is video with mplayer - including DVDs. On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Gary Kline wrote: Update: Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, but kmplayer works --altho with fewer control flow options. And after compiling in "device at

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-08 Thread Barnaby Scott
Peter Schuller wrote: My understanding from the reading I have done is that in a situation like this where power outages are a danger (and presuably having the UPS signal the server to shut down gracefully is not practical), you need to make the file system as robust as possible in the first plac

ReiserFS and /etc/fstab: "rw" or "ro"?

2007-12-08 Thread Adam J Richardson
Hi all. I just installed Ubuntu on a second hard drive. (Got fed up waiting for things like VMware Player 2.) I've booted into FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE and I'm looking at my /etc/fstab. Is it safe to specify "rw" for my ReiserFS partitions, or should I stick with "ro" for now? (I have Googled

Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data

2007-12-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:46:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep > all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS > [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I > know I can

Using wpa_supplicant with ipw on 6.2

2007-12-08 Thread doug
I am using a ThinkPad, T42p which has an Intel PRO/1000 wireless interface built in. This does not seem to work with WPA. I was told that this may have been fixed in 6.3 but can not find that in the release notes. Can anyone confirm or deny this. I am reluctant to upgrade my laptop 3,000 miles f

Re: Scanner Compatibility

2007-12-08 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Michaël Grünewald wrote: Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Let me clarify firstly some things. Thank you very much for this very detailed answer, it's very nice from you! [SNIP] In essence your scanner uses this file to explain the Sane the page layout and graphics

Re: relay host in sendmail?

2007-12-08 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, On 08/12/2007, jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > I am using Absolute BSD, Second Ed. > and am looking in the section on Sendmail. > I cannot find where to specify a relay host. > I have a hosts that originate mail to remote > recipients but use a mail hub (Postfix) on > another ma

SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Predrag Punosevac
I was just looking at the documentation on SANE web-site about network scanning and I noticed that /etc/services on my i386 does not include line like sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon which is used by saned (Sane Network Daemon to enable scanning over the network)

copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things CD and DVD actually working has been a study in persseverancce.

LPRng question and printing in general

2007-12-08 Thread Predrag Punosevac
I would like to ask people who use LPRng spooling system on FreeBSD to clarify something for me. I have been playing with all available spooling systems on FreeBSD (LPD, LPRng, CUPS , PDQ) as well as HPLIP in order to document their behavior and write simple howtos for each of the systems.

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Gary Kline wrote: Folks, IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things CD and DVD actually working has been a study in per

Re: relay host in sendmail?

2007-12-08 Thread jekillen
On Dec 8, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Christian Walther wrote: Hi, On 08/12/2007, jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello: I am using Absolute BSD, Second Ed. and am looking in the section on Sendmail. I cannot find where to specify a relay host. I have a hosts that originate mail to remote recipien

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 08 December 2007 20:39:06 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I was just looking at the documentation on SANE web-site about network > scanning > and I noticed that /etc/services on my i386 does not include line like > > sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon > > which is

Re: ReiserFS and /etc/fstab: "rw" or "ro"?

2007-12-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed Ubuntu on a second hard drive. (Got fed up waiting > for things like VMware Player 2.) I've booted into FreeBSD > 6.3-PRERELEASE and I'm looking at my /etc/fstab. > > Is it safe to specify "rw" for my ReiserFS partitions, or should I

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-08 Thread Peter Schuller
> Exactly, which is why I thought that just bypassing all those > interventions with -y was 'brushing under the carpet'. No? Ah I see. Yes. Given that all bets are off, it's hoping for the best ;) > I realise it would normally be excessively cautious to go for > synchronous mounting, but what abo

Re: huawei e220 hsdpa on freebsd 6.3-BETA2

2007-12-08 Thread Joao Barros
On Dec 7, 2007 9:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but when loading the ucom/ubsa stuff before umass, the device will > not be recognised as /dev/cdX and show up as a communication device > (ucom). I've had success at getting ucom to pickup the serial by connecting an

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Michel Talon
Gary Kline wrote: > IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto > on my bsd virtual site. K3b certainly works to burn CDs and DVDs under FreeBSD. I have used it many times on several burners. Of course you need to kldload atapicam for that. What does not work on any of my burners i

Re: 7.0BETA4 cannot install. acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (1 retry left)

2007-12-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 08 December 2007 01:11:49 pm Robert Gray wrote: > I've tried to install both > 7.0-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso and > 7.0-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso > > on a Dell Optiplex 745, Model# DCTR with > > acd0: CDROM at ata3-master UDMA33 > > The booting doesn't get past the acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG ret

setxkbmap dosn't work (with KDE)

2007-12-08 Thread Yuri
I am trying to enable some key combination to switch between keyboard layouts. Command 'setxkbmap -option grp:alts_toggle' is supposed to enable layout switching by both alts. But alts don't do anything after it. Same with 'setxkbmap -option grp:caps_toggle'. setxkbmap is from setxkbmap-1.0.4. T

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-08 Thread Robert Huff
Anish Mistry writes: > >So if the PSC attaches as umass, I'm hosed, but if it attaches > > as ugen I win. > You can probably hack the umass driver to prevent it from > attaching to the printer. On attaching, I get: ugen1: on uhub4 So it looks like I'm good. Now we'll

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-08 Thread Robert Huff
Robert Huff writes: > So it looks like I'm good. Now we'll see if HPLIP can do its > job. So close, and yet so far. Ran hp-setup. Everything worked OK except for: 1) didn't automatically find the correct driver (is it supposed to?) 2) foun

How to find out when a package is installed?

2007-12-08 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, Is there a command that can help find out when a package is installed/compiled? Or what options should I give to pkg_info to find out installation date? Simon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Pollywog wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2007 20:39:06 Predrag Punosevac wrote: I was just looking at the documentation on SANE web-site about network scanning and I noticed that /etc/services on my i386 does not include line like sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:18:25PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Folks, IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. The help from this group has b

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:17:21 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of > sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the Debian web-site and seems it > is just idiotic GUI. > I was using Debian and I now use Ubuntu and FreeBSD. The sane-utils

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Pollywog wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:17:21 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the Debian web-site and seems it is just idiotic GUI. I was using Debian and I now use Ubuntu and Free

How do I use my USB microphone and motherboard audio out?

2007-12-08 Thread Rudy
I want to use the "audacity" port to record sound and play it back. I don't have a mini-jack microphone, but I have a USB microphone. The system tries to record from the motherboard sound card (which does not have a microphone attached). If I run this command: sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 07:33 am, Gary Kline wrote: > > Folks, > > IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto > on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. > The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things > CD and DVD actually

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 03:26:19 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > Then look the /usr/local/etc/sane.d You already have all files you need > to have. > > > Debian is known for fine grinding of packages so I would not be > surprised that they divided generic sane-backhand package in several part. > T

Re: How to find out when a package is installed?

2007-12-08 Thread Rudy
I have used this: ls -l /var/db/pkg/PORT_NAME/+DESC replace PORT_NAME with the correct directory name... RUdy Simon Gao wrote: Hi, Is there a command that can help find out when a package is installed/compiled? Or what options should I give to pkg_info to find out installation date? Simon

Re: How to find out when a package is installed?

2007-12-08 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:44:00PM -0800, Simon Gao wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a command that can help find out when a package is > installed/compiled? Or what options should I give to pkg_info to find > out installation date? I don't think there is such a command - I've never come across it, in

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 03:26:19 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:17:21 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > >> Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of > >> sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the Debian web-site and seems it > >> is

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Pollywog wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2007 03:26:19 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Pollywog wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:17:21 Predrag Punosevac wrote: Saned (Sane Daemon) is included in the standard distribution of sane-backhands. I checked sane-utils on the Debian web-site

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:06:29 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I thought we were discussing sane-backhands and network scanning. Don't I need HPLIP in order to get my printer (scanning) to work? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: SANE Network Daemon question

2007-12-08 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:06:29 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > HPLIP works like a charm on FreeBSD > http://dsteinbrook.googlepages.com/hpliponfreebsd Thanks for that, unfortunately it indicates that this is going to be more difficult for me than I thought, because I will need to recompile my k

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-11-18 - 2007-12-08

2007-12-08 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 maili

Re: How do I use my USB microphone and motherboard audio out?

2007-12-08 Thread Rudy
After reading some more man pages, I am still stumped but can better phrase my question: how do I set dsp0.0 as the default OUPUT and dsp1.1 as the default INPUT? Rudy here is the output of /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: at memory

Re: LPRng question and printing in general

2007-12-08 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:07 PM -0700 12/8/07, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I would like to ask people who use LPRng spooling system on FreeBSD to clarify something for me. I have never used LPRng in production, although I know the guys in our (RPI) CS department used to use it for their printing world. I also notice

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:18:25 -0700 Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >Folks, > > > >IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto > >on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. > >The help from this group has been outst