Re: umounting /

2003-12-11 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Strick writes: >You can't unmount the root file system. Even the mere notion makes >me feel a little queasy. There is an explicit test in the kernel that stops you from unmounting the root file system, I guess as an anti foot shooting measure. If you disable th

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erin S harmahd writes: >I'm a bit of a newbie, but I've done a good bit of research, and some >asking around on this issue, and haven't been able to resolve it yet.=20 >I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE with the GENERIC kernel. (from what i >can tell, it has all of the

Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-11 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erin Sharmahd writes: >Will this help, even though I can't mount any usb thumb drives or >anything like that? It's definitely worth a try. People have reported exactly this issue with both recent iPods, and PNY Attache devices. In the case of the iPods, removing th

Re: scanner problems: I/O error/scanner application hangs

2006-02-27 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= wr ites: >I had my scanner, Epson 2480, working half a year ago on FBSD 6.0, now >it's been a while since I used it, I have upgraded to FBSD 6.1-PREREL as >well as upgrading applications, and now it doesn't work. Sorry about the br

Re: Dmesg truncated

2004-12-17 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ericks on writes: >I've been having this problem for quite a whlie but it's never bothered me >too much until I had some free time on my hand to look into it. Is there >any kernel parameter that could be truncating my dmesg buffer. Dmesg only >seems to have 1

Re: Multiple USB ethernet devices on one usb port (with hub)?

2003-09-24 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Thomas writes: >I've got an older Dell Latitude (CPi) laptop that I'm trying to >setup as a router/firewall/??? machine. I'm using 5.1-R with a >compiled kernel that I'm slowly reducing to the minimum I need. > >I decided to try using usb ethernet adapters s

Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.

2003-01-14 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Mike, I'll pay back your effort in replying to this long thing by >working up a patch for the "disklabel" manpage (at least) and, if you >want, I'll CC you so you can veto things you don't like. I do worry At the risk of adding to the con

Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.

2003-01-14 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >/boot/boot0 has the FreeBSD bootloader. The installer also offers >to use the "standard" /boot/mbr. >Roughly speaking. /boot/boot2 is 15 sectors; I suppose the first >(all zeros) is replaced with the disklabel, loosely speaking. >One su

Re: NIS/YP -NFS -DISKLESS problem, weird

2002-10-13 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hartmann, O." writes: >I can see the X-Terminals and other diskless systems booting but when >mounting / via NFS from the boot host, they get stuck. It seems that they >can not mount the NFS file system, but that is not the problem. >I exported then the root tree

Re: accept() doesn't pass back sockaddr

2002-10-14 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Weimann writes: >I am using on a web filter ( dansguardian.org ) and am having >problems on FreeBSD (4.5-STABLE). The filter runs fine for >about 20 minutes or so then can't seem to come up with the >right ip addresses for any client machines. > >After

Re: devbuf state in top

2002-10-18 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Ptacek writes: >I had a process whose state under top was listed as devbuf. >This process seemed to be stuck and I was unable to kill it. >I ended up rebooting the box to reset it. > >None of the man pages (TOP, PS) list the devbuf state. >What is it and wha

Re: Regarding one important issue

2002-11-29 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Senthil writes: >Hi, >We are using FreeBSD in our organization as a NFS Server. Latest, we >have developed a NFS client on Windows, we are facing some problem with >NFSRead on Version 3. Basically we request for reading some size of >bytes, (which is the read Maxi

Re: USB keyboard and KVM

2003-06-10 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Saunders w rites: >I have one issue I haven't been able to figure out yet. I'm using a USB >keyboard with a USB KVM switch. When the machine boots, the keyboard is >recognized and works fine. (The keyboard doesn't seem to have any >effect at the "Hit [enter]

Re: USB keyboard and KVM

2003-06-10 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Saunders w rites: >> device "Keyboard" >> devname "ukbd0" >> attach "kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/ttyv0" > >I added this and tried it with and without the kbdcontrol line in >/etc/rc.i386. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to make any difference. It

Re: Xclock grows and grows (Was Re: How can I check for swapspace?)

2003-08-09 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joh n Mills writes: >'startx' still proceeds until it fills all available memory. In >particular, 'top' shows the size of 'xclock' growing while other processes >seem OK. ... >2) Does this [mis]behavior sound familiar to anyone? I've seen this before when the "fon