Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Siju George
Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? Can I use Windows driver? Thanks -Siju ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? Can I use Windows driver? Maybe you want to have a look at pwcbsd[1]. This is to use linux drivers on FreeBSD. Not sure if there is a wrapper for

Clarification w.r.t MDLv2 reports send at reboot in FreeBSD 8.0 Release

2010-02-25 Thread SitaRamaRaju Kunparaju
Hi,   FreeBSD 8.0 Release send two MLDv2 Reports at reboot before performing DAD for its Link Local address, One for the IPv6 Solicited-node multicase address(i.e FF02::1:FFDB:ACD5)  and other is unknown (i.e FF02::2:21d:d024 ). Could anyone please clarify me, why FreeBSD is send MLDv2 Report

Re: how to disable loadable kernel moduels?

2010-02-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:49:29PM -0600, Robert Bonomi typed: I'm building custom kernels for use in 'hostile' environments -- where I need to enforce restricted capabilities, even in the event of malicious 'root' access. (if the bad guy has *physical* access to the machine, I know

Re: left over restore file restoresymtable

2010-02-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:35:49AM +0800, Aiza wrote: The man for restore says this. Note that restore leaves a file restoresymtable in the root directory to pass information between incremental restore passes. This file should be removed when the last incremental has been restored. What

bonding NICs with netgraph

2010-02-25 Thread Urbanski, William
Hi, I am setting up a freebsd box to act as a snort sensor on a network. The box has three nics, one internal nic for talking on the network and to the management server, and two nics on a single pci card that each connect to SPAN ports on my switch. I am trying to bind the two adapters on the

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? Can I use Windows driver? Maybe you want to have a look at pwcbsd[1]. This is to use linux drivers on A more

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported. Personally, I always avoided

remote syslog(3)ging behaving strangely?

2010-02-25 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hi, i have several jails that push their syslog to the syslogd on the host. This is on FreeBSD 7.2. The only line for syslog.conf in the jails is: *.* @haydn.nognu.de On the host I have a standard syslog.conf but all.log is enabled. The problem now

Re: remote syslog(3)ging behaving strangely?

2010-02-25 Thread Erik
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:13:03PM +0100, Frank Steinborn wrote: Hi, i have several jails that push their syslog to the syslogd on the host. This is on FreeBSD 7.2. The only line for syslog.conf in the jails is: *.* @haydn.nognu.de On the

Re: kde4/python26 and pth help. [SOLVED]

2010-02-25 Thread Jimmie James
On 02/25/10 00:12, Dima Panov wrote: On Thursday 25 February 2010 14:47:08 Jimmie James wrote: On 02/24/10 23:28, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jimmie Jamesjimmie...@gmail.com mailto:jimmie...@gmail.com wrote: On a freshly installed 8-STABLE box (4 days old)

Wireless setup iwn

2010-02-25 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello List, well im sure its a small mistake here or there. I know driver works with PCBS perfectly, but i cannot manualy configure it. something missing.. its iwn wireless driver, here are the settings : /boot/loader.conf legal.intel_iwn.license_ack=1 if_iwn_load=YES

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported.

Re: Wireless setup iwn

2010-02-25 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Marwan Sultan dead_l...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello List,  well im sure its a small mistake here or there.  I know driver works with PCBS perfectly, but i cannot manualy configure it.  something missing..  its iwn wireless driver, here are the settings :

getpwnam

2010-02-25 Thread Doug Hardie
I encountered a situation where sendmail was opening up what appeared to be listening on random UDP ports. In the process of tracking this down I discovered that the culprit is getpwnam. A ktrace of the following simple program show whats happening: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us writes: Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)? Should I deinstall the ports version and

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Programmer In Training wrote: Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)? Should I deinstall the ports version and go ahead and compile from

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/25/10 15:09, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us writes: Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)?

Re: Wireless setup iwn

2010-02-25 Thread Leslie Jensen
2010-02-25 21:45, Marwan Sultan skrev: Hello List, well im sure its a small mistake here or there. I know driver works with PCBS perfectly, but i cannot manualy configure it. something missing.. its iwn wireless driver, here are the settings : /boot/loader.conf

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported.

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 03:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 18/02/2010 21:26, Programmer In Training wrote: snip Possibly not the most secure permissions but I don't remember the default (I think it's 644). Nope. For directories it's 755. You need the x permission on a directory to chdir to it. I

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:18:21 -0600 Programmer In Training wrote: As of the last time I updated ports (the 22nd) I was prevented from installing Firefox because of the vulnerabilities. You may be looking at the wrong place. Please, take a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING, entry 20100207: AFFECTS:

Re: boot loaders and USB devices

2010-02-25 Thread Aiza
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:54:00 +0800 From: Aiza aiz...@comclark.com Subject: boot loaders and USB devices My PC does not have the BIOS option to boot from USB. I use an USB cabled external hard drive for taking backups. It has FreeBSD installed on it which I want to boot from so the

using secure memory from a script

2010-02-25 Thread Chad Perrin
What's the simplest/easiest way to use secure memory (i.e., memory that won't be written to a swap partition) from within a program (written in Ruby in this case) on FreeBSD? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgphqNJQhPZ33.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported.

Re: using secure memory from a script

2010-02-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 19, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: What's the simplest/easiest way to use secure memory (i.e., memory that won't be written to a swap partition) from within a program (written in Ruby in this case) on FreeBSD? Well, Ruby supports calling C functions, so you can invoke mlock() that

Re: using secure memory from a script

2010-02-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 04:22:29PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: Well, Ruby supports calling C functions, so you can invoke mlock() that way: http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/18/extending_ruby.html ...but you also have to do so as root. It might be more sane to setup encrypted

Printing via USB Port

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Tillman
I had a nifty setup with an old computer running as my FreeBSD file and print server. Worked so good I decided to update the computer. But since most computers no longer come with parallel port for printing I'm forced to use the USB feature on my Brother HL-2040 printer.   In the previous setup

Re: Plans for BIND and DNSSEC readiness

2010-02-25 Thread jhell
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:12, dougb@ wrote: PGP Command Output gpg: Signature made Mon Feb 22 00:12:14 2010 EST using DSA key ID D5B2F0FB gpg: Good signature from Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us gpg: aka Doug Barton

Acer Aspire Laptop AS5732Z-4867 and FreeBSD ??

2010-02-25 Thread Rom Albuquerque
Hi folks. Has anyone been successful at installing FreeBSD on this Acer Laptop.. ? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5648712Sku=A180-15670 Your response is greatly appreciated. Many thanks. --Rom

ppc and Xorg

2010-02-25 Thread David Goodwin
I've got an iMac G3, and have gotten past a number of difficulties/ First. Freebsd 8 stopped loading at acd0 . Found a blog somewhere that mentioned set hint.pcib.2.skipslot=14 then I went many rounds before I figured out that I needed to pre-partition the drive so that the installer labeler

Changing Default Shell

2010-02-25 Thread Roger Campbell
Lowell Gilbert, I would like to thank you for your posting about changing the default shell. I was running in circles until I found your post suggestion vipw. Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

IDE ZIP100 Drive

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
OK, after some searching (while not the best search engine around, Startpage comes up a winner more often than not if there is anything relevant to be found) I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1]. Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with the external drive (either

Re: Changing Default Shell

2010-02-25 Thread mikel king
On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Roger Campbell wrote: Lowell Gilbert, I would like to thank you for your posting about changing the default shell. I was running in circles until I found your post suggestion vipw. Roger Roger, You can also use pw. pw usermod

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 14:26, Programmer In Training wrote: On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote: snip And don't miss the documentation about getting Flash stuff running: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html That all worked except for the last command: nspluginwrapper -v -a -i

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 14:48, Frank Wißmann wrote: Hello! Programmer In Training schrieb: On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and reinstall, making

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/25/10 17:31, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:18:21 -0600 Programmer In Training wrote: As of the last time I updated ports (the 22nd) I was prevented from installing Firefox because of the vulnerabilities. You may be looking at the wrong place. Please, take a look at

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 15:27, Adam Vande More wrote: snip Better yet, update your ports tree and install the current version Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but that errors out, too. -- Yours In

OOo.3.20 vs OOo.3.11

2010-02-25 Thread Gary Kline
I d'loaded and built the latest Version of OOo on my new dual core server, then scp'd it over, stuck it in /usr/local , and tried to install the 3.2.0 version with pkg_add. (I tried other things too, note, zip. The following is an ls -lt of /usr/local

Re: OOo.3.20 vs OOo.3.11

2010-02-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 25), Gary Kline said: I d'loaded and built the latest Version of OOo on my new dual core server, then scp'd it over, stuck it in /usr/local , and tried to install the 3.2.0 version with pkg_add. (I tried other things too, note, zip. The following is an ls -lt of

[SOLVED]Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 15:34, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but that errors out, too.

premature ENOMEM

2010-02-25 Thread Brad Penoff
Greetings, I have a 32-bit machine with 2 GB running FreeBSD 8. I have a complex application that starts getting ENOMEM once the resident memory is about 200 MB. I adjusted the appropriate /boot/loader.conf and /etc/login.conf settings resulting in an increase in the limit values to around 2