Re: help: Linux Drivers on FreeBSD

2004-05-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
You can't use linux drivers in BSD, but you might be able to port linux driver to FreeBSD. Ken Hi, I've installed an internal Smartlink HSP56 Micromodem pci modem on the first pci slot of my H30CF jetway motherboard with(if i'm not mistakem) only one com1 port and a com2 header which i think

Re: interupts

2004-05-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting stan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a way, in FreeBSD 4 STABLE, to determine what a given machine's intrupt (PCI intrupt assignment) ussage is? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Michal Pasternak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: David O'Brien [Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 04:00:26PM -0700]: You do know you can run FreeBSD/i386 on the Athlon64 3200+ laptop, right? :-) A 3200+ running 32-bit FreeBSD will out-perform the P4 2.8GHz running the same OS. ... but will it outperform it also

Re: em0 Intel Gigabit card, rc.conf processing on boot

2004-06-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Michael Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have 2 fxp Intel 100mb cards in this machine that work fine. I have ran it with 3 fxp cards in the past. I added an em0, Intel gigabit this morning. The card displays a non active status during the boot process. RC.conf is processed and the card does

RE: em0 Intel Gigabit card, rc.conf processing on boot

2004-06-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
for auto-negotiation to finish. Ken Michael Clark Nemschoff Chairs Inc mclark at nemschoff dot com CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP Voice: (920) 457 7726 x294 Fax: (920) 453 6594 -Original Message- From: Kenneth Culver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 3:39 PM

RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Remi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well I just got an email back from the manufacturer of the AMD64 laptop I wanted to buy. Im not sure how it works when switching 64 to i386, but they say it's not supported in the BIOS(I assume this is where it is suppose to be changed) So now I come to a cross

RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Kenneth Culver wrote: It runs OK, with some minor nits compared to x86 version. I'm not sure what the laptop maker is talking about... but if you boot the x86 version of FreeBSD, it'll work. I think they meant you can't switch from amd64

RE: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Remi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just to clarify exactly what you mean. I can the x86 version of BSD with no changes to the BIOS, jumpers or anything on an AMD64? Sorry in advanced if this is a stupid question, Ive never dealt with anything but x86 Yeah, no changes anywhere. I have my machine set

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-07-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:17:35AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Me either. -current actually supports running i386 binaries in amd64 mode. Thats one of the processor's features. :-) You can't run amd64 binaries when

Re: Why do you prefer FreeBSD???? Maybe Windows is more comfortable than FBSD?

2003-09-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All!!! I think that WinXP more popular and more easy than FreeBSD. People all over the world know what is Windows but don't know what is FreeBSD. More programs is written work on Windows Windows more comfortable in work with graph... If

Re: Sendmail vs. Postfix...

2003-09-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
I have used postfix and sendmail on both linux and FreeBSD and I definitely prefer postfix. For starters, its security track-record is much better. Also it was very easy to ste up a system that uses mysql with virtual domains, SASL for relay authentication (also interfacing with mysql) etc... I

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Daniel Hawton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SoloCDM wrote: Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD and its tarballs. Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in their CDs? There

Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat

2003-10-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Daniel Hawton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 4.4BSD Lite 2 is BSD.. which is from SysV.. heh That's what I said. But that's my point, it's NOT from SysV. It's always been it's own thing, parellel to SysV. It had some ATT code in it at some point, but is not from SysV. Ken Kenneth Culver wrote

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-16 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Matthew Faircliff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Can anyone tell me if openoffice 1.1 (openoffice-devel) works with the native java (diablo-jdk13)? Matthew Faircliff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: FTP Client from Behind Filtering Bridge/Firewall

2003-10-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Khalil Khozeimeh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have configured a FreeBSD 4.8 system as a filtering bridge/firewall using the IPFW. I am interested in enabling FTP clients from inside the firewall to access FTP servers on the outside. It will be appreciated if somebody can point me in the

Re: ALSA drivers

2004-01-21 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Stas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Does FreeBSD supports ALSA drivers? No it doesn't. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-09 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day all ... Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, and want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz

Re: I'm really upset with my new computer

2004-02-09 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:09:15PM -0500, Craig Reyenga wrote: I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. I'm a little confused on

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-02-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK

Re: firefox build fails

2004-02-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Goodleaf, John M [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I cvsup'd the ports this AM and have tried to build firefox. Actually, it builds fine, it's the install that fails. I've tried on two machines, one running 4.9-STABLE and the other running 5.2-RELEASE. In both cases the the install fails with

Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

2004-02-13 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004, Chuck Swiger clacked the keyboard to produce: Peter Leftwich wrote: Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs) partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)? I am not familiar with any such software,

Re: AMD XP 2000

2004-02-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Spades [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I have a AMD XP 2000 system, can i install FreeBSD 4.7-REL? Of course, you can install any pc operating system on this machine. although 4.7 is old and I'd reccommend 4.9 since it's the latest 4.x Ken ___ [EMAIL

Re: flash plugin BSD vs linux

2004-02-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Osmany Guirola Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi people I have a little problem whith the flash plugin on my BSD box. I installed the flash plugin port whithout problem but these not work , it showme a black screen in the place of the plugin and no picture no animation no nothing :-(. i try

RE: flash plugin BSD vs linux

2004-02-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Osmany Guirola Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry .. but i installed both the linuxflash plugin port and the bsd(flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.10_5 ) port and i tested the bsd port whit mozilla and epiphany ..and due to this instalation does not work i have to install the linux ports(flash and

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Osmany Guirola Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I feel very happy when I saw in the nvidia site the drivers for linux and of course for FREEBSD, and I need to Know what about ATI and FREEBSD(linux not have problems) drivers because I will acquire a new machine and I need to decide between a ATI

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you are going to run freebsd 5.2.1 there aren't a lot of hoops to get an ATI card to work, but some people have reported better frame rates and less graphical glitches with nVidia cards. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP in my PC and its working fine. I

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: I feel very happy when I saw in the nvidia site the drivers for linux and of course for FREEBSD, and I need to Know what about ATI and FREEBSD(linux not have problems) drivers because I will acquire a new machine and I need to decide

Re: DVD Player Not Recognized as Slave, Only Master

2003-01-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
After it sees my CD-RW (acd0) it should then recognize my DVD drive. I don't know why it doesn't show, as the BIOS sees it, and that DVD-ROM drives are supported in FreeBSD 4.7. I did some playing around with drive configs and found out some interesting things. I first unplugged the CD-RW

Re: ATA66 compatible CD/DVD burners

2003-01-31 Thread Kenneth Culver
There are none currently. The solution is to use your secondary IDE channel for your optical drives, your Primary IDE channel for your boot drive and a secondary controller (They're dirt cheap, like $25) for any other drives. Keeping your Hard drives at 1/channel improves performance, since

Re: 200Gig disk shrinks to 124 upon install

2003-02-03 Thread Kenneth Culver
Maybe you should try to use a later version of FreeBSD before becoming sad :-) I'm not sure that would help, but then we'd at least be sure that the latest kernel still has the same problem or behavior that you're seeing. It could also have something to do with the dedicated disklabel. Ken On

Re: vmware 3.2

2003-02-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
There was a port of vmware2 to freebsd before. It doesn't require having access to the closed-source part of vmware 3, in fact, the port should for the most part be pretty straightforward, I was planning on trying it but I ran out of time and won't have time again until June at the earliest. Ken

Re: vmware 3.2

2003-02-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
I'd looked over the Ethernet-virtualization drivers, and I thought they were pretty ugly (and accordingly scary), but given your previous success with tweaking the Linuxulator, I'm willing to accept your assessment. Well, it's not really just my assessment, it's actually in

Re: /etc/sysctl.conf

2003-07-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 kern.ps_showallprocs=0 You can make these lines take effect without reboot in the following manner (as root): sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 sysctl -w net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 sysctl -w kern.ps_showallprocs=0 rebooting would also make

RE: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
I can't reboot. This is a server. Why are you even running X on a server? I know this doesn't help your problem, but it's generally not a good idea to run X on servers. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
Yes, I know, but this server is also my workstation (it's just a home server). ok, well like the other people said... did you try kill -9 as root on the process in question? If you did, and it still won't die, most likely you'll have to reboot. Ken

Re: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-16 Thread Kenneth Culver
Reboot! :) Hey, she's not talking about Windows ;-) Sounds like her video card is hung, and in that case, the only thing to do is reboot, as much as it sucks. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: I hate meeses to pieces

2003-07-18 Thread Kenneth Culver
I am an extreme newbie at FreeBSD. I have it installed but when I go into the Xserver in either of the two GUIs I get a weird mouse that seems to only be able to stay on the very top of the screen and has no vertical movement. I have it setup on Auto and PS/2 Busmouse settings.

Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Yes, my ISP's DHCP server should assign me a hostname. I assumed that's how it was done by dhclient on RedHat7.3/8/9 all of which just did this automatically whenever I selected DHCP configuration of the interface. I've been comparing FreeBSD 5.1's default dhclient-script to RedHat's trying

Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Why is the Logo of FreeBSD an devil What have an oparating System to do with the devil Of course, there is something like daemon's (under Windows called services) but this is not the meaning of deamon!!! I think the meaning of daemon is d=disk a=and e=? (i don't know)

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
I have spent a lot of time on FreeBSD.org web pages, but I still can not find VERY SIMPLE answer for this question: what version of FreeBSD should I use ? I need system which is VERY STABLE, with as few possibilities to hack as possible (the best is absolutely closed :-) ), running only

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Thanks for quick response. I have thought so, but I want to be sure. There is also 4.7. Do you think better to use 4.8 ? It's best to use the latest 4.x Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Sendmail works fine in FreeBSD 4.8. Named is considered insecure because people use it. If you pick another product to be safe, make sure no one uses it. Any suggestion on this list would be to popular to be safe. As I said in my last email, people find holes in popular software more

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Well, but what about djbdns ? Is it fully compatible with BIND ? I think it is, as you use it :-) I have never heard about it. It's complient with whatever standards there are governing DNS. And it works very well for me. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Well, but what about djbdns ? Decent program, but the license is awful. yeah, the licence is wierd. Is it fully compatible with BIND ? No, it is not. The configuration is not even remotely close, and the author refuses to support parts of the RFC that he feels to be problematic. It

Re: What version of BSD should I use

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Well, but what about djbdns ? Is it fully compatible with BIND ? I think it is, as you use it :-) I have never heard about it. no, try powerdns instead :) Depends on what he means by compatible. I took this to mean will it communicate with bind servers and the answer is yes it can be

Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment

2003-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
The standard dhclient-script sets the hostname. At least, it sure *looks* like it does... [line 97 of src/contrib/isc-dhcp/client/scripts/freebsd,v 1.9.2.6] OK, yeah, it does, so there must be some other configuration that needs to be done. Ken ___

Re: Setting up a NAT Router that will route between 3 networks

2003-07-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Jason Hunt wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:14:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how to modify the appropriate files to setup a FreeBSD computer to act as a NAT Router, that would do the following: Check the natd(8) man page, it should give you

Re: nforce2 audio?

2003-07-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
You can use the sound module, or recompile your kernel with device pcm, but I doubt very seriously that the nforce2 audio is supported. Ken uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 2.2 (no driver attached) pci0: network, ethernet at device 4.0 (no driver

Re: FreeBSD tool for network bandwidthmeasure ?

2003-08-05 Thread Kenneth Culver
Is there any standard (or non) FreeBSD tool that is used to measure a current network throughput/bandwidth? And also, what are the requirements to do so, and do I need to be root to run, or do I need to load a special kernel module? Just run systat -if 1 That will tell you what you want to

Re: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration

2003-08-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
why would ya want to route lo1 127.0.0.1 to a 192.x.x. address ??? seems to me that there are to many system side processes that listen or ocmmunicate thru that...giving access or routing that traffic to a internal address ...doesnt seem to smart to me. This is basically what I just said.

RE: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration

2003-08-12 Thread Kenneth Culver
why would ya want to route lo1 127.0.0.1 to a 192.x.x. address ??? seems to me that there are to many system side processes that listen or ocmmunicate thru that...giving access or routing that traffic to a internal address ...doesnt seem to smart to me. -- I wouldn't; I was using that as an

Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
I personally would go with FreeBSD as a router. I have been used both a 200Mhz P1 and a 300Mhz P2 as routers with out problems. I personally have really liked being able to ssh into it su to root and change what ever I want to. It makes for a really flexible system. BTW I would suggest

Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
As a Note, the top end routers out there, Junipers, run JunOS, which is a FreeBSD variant. A Juniper M160 can route OC192's at wire speed (That's 10Gb/s folks). However, the way those are set up, FreeBSD doesn't do the actual routing, as far as I can remember they upload a routing table to the

Re: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
Coming from a Network Engineering perspective, I'm interested in having my servers be as redundant as possible. I have two NIC's in the machine, so I would like for the server to be reachable over either interface. To my mind, I would give a loopback interface an IP address that is the

Re: FreeBSD tool for network bandwidthmeasure ?

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
(FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 3.3) Oh, I've never tried it on 4.x. It works on my -CURRENT boxes though: /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10 Load Average Interface Traffic PeakTotal lo0 in

Re: ELF file ABI version invalid

2003-08-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
man brandelf On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Yusuf UZUNAY wrote: Hi! when i was trying to run a linux program in FreeBSD i take an error like ELF file ABI version invalid! Ýs there anyone who has got some idea about this error? Thanks! -yusuf __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: ELF file ABI version invalid

2003-08-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Are you sure you're running the linux emulator kernel module? Ken On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Yusuf UZUNAY wrote: i tried it too! But no result! :( --- Kenneth Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's a linux program you want to brandelf using Linux instead of FreeBSD as the name. Ken

Re: Something rotten in the OS?

2003-08-22 Thread Kenneth Culver
I think that you've just been unlucky in buying two hard drives or whatever which have failed prematurely. I think if there was such a bug in FreeBSD, a lot more people than you would be complaining and heaven and earth would be being moved in order to fix it. I would have to agree that it's

Re: Is CIFS available already on FreeBSD?

2003-08-26 Thread Kenneth Culver
well , i am a final year student in my computer engineering course. All i have to ask is IS THERE IS AN IMPLEMENTATION OF CIFS , Common Internet File System AVAILABLE ON FREEBSD? i'll be waiting for your As far as I know, what you want is also

Re: Is CIFS available already on FreeBSD?

2003-08-26 Thread Kenneth Culver
Hi, yes, samba is available for freebsd. but i mean whether a CIFS client is available or not? plz reply smbclient comes with samba, and you can use smbfs. Ken ___ [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 not allowing incoming ftp connects?

2003-09-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
I am trying to set up a FreeBSD 5.1 i386 box. Everything seems to be fine, except, incoming ftp is all rejected. Inetd.conf is set to allow ftp. Is there another switch to set somewhere to allow all incoming ftp? If so, what/where? is inetd even starting? I don't think that inetd starts

Re: Problem with my FreeBSD

2003-09-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
Hi, I need your help, I bougth FreeBSD4.8 (Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF] ) from FreeBSD Mall, but I have problems I can't configure my xwindow I'm attachement the log file. My video card is: Nvidia TNT2 64m My monitor is: LG studioworks 500G 15''

Re: Booting bit-by-bit (rc.conf broken)

2003-09-03 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote: My rc.conf file appears to be broken in some way, and this is preventing my system from booting. It boots to a heavily resticted system, with only the / file system mounted and the statically linked binaries available. Problem is, I can't edit my

Re: Problem with kdm (or not)?

2003-03-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
It happens because for some reason, the later kdm's don't seem to want to start xconsole. I'm not sure why though, I've never had time to mess with it. Ken On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote: When I boot my machine, I get the following message at the command prompt before it launches

Re: Why won't gaim show me online??

2003-06-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 03:42 PM, Tim Kellers wrote: How about AIM? /usr/ports/net/aim It requires Linux emulation, but I think gaim does, too. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT AIM does require linux emulation, but gaim doesn't. Ken On Saturday 31 May 2003 03:17 pm, Steven Lake wrote: Just

Re: System for generating C/C++ references?

2003-06-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
cscope works well for C, don't know about the other ones. Ken On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Michal Pasternak wrote: Hello, I am looking for some sort of software which would allow me to generate C/C++ (and preferably other languages, like Python or PHP) references for a given project. Suppose I am

Re: Nvidia resolution problem

2003-06-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
Does your monitor support higher resolutions? If you have an old monitor, did you put proper values in the monitor section of your XF86Config? Ken On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Rik Scarborough wrote: I cannot get the resolution for X above 800x600 (although I'm not sure, it could be one smaller than

Re: Nvidia resolution problem

2003-06-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Rik Scarborough wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Kenneth Culver wrote: Does your monitor support higher resolutions? If you have an old monitor, did you put proper values in the monitor section of your XF86Config? It's a new flat screen monitor. I've pretty much ignored

Re: SSH: connection refused

2003-06-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] haifa touati wrote: Hi all, I tried to ssh to a remote machine from a FreeBSD 4.5 machine, but I received ... connection refused message. However I succeeded to connect to this machine from Windows. Are there any specifics settings to fix this? Thanks in

Re: versioning file system

2003-06-23 Thread Kenneth Culver
years ago I used a VAX VMS system that automatically saved file versions whenever a file name was clobbered. I've seen wrapper scripts for vi to accomplish the same but it would be nice if someone had actually implemented something at the file system level to do this. Anyone know of

Re: Stand-a-lone NAT PGM

2003-06-27 Thread Kenneth Culver
I have been looking for NAT program which is not part of some other program like NATD is part of IPFW or IPNAT is part of IPFILTER or NAT of user ppp. I can not find any NAT program in the FBSD ports collection unless I mis-understood some description. If anybody knows of one please let me

Re: what kernel does freebsd use?

2003-06-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
I've read that there are multiple kernels for BSD. What does FreeBSD use? Can I swap it out for other kernels? Or am I mistaken? FreeBSD uses the FreeBSD kernel. You can recompile it using the source for the FreeBSD kernel, but it is the only kernel that works with FreeBSD. Ken

Re: libc (?)

2003-07-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
Probably a really stupid question - but is there a compatability port of some sort for 4.x systems so we can run things compiled for 5.x ? :-) No, but you can go the other way around. You MIGHT be able to use the 5.x libc directly on 4.x, but I wouldn't recommend it. Ken

Re: Sound oddity in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-07-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
Not sure if this will actually help you but I recall thinking my sound wasn't working after a recent KDE install. Turned out that it was simply installing the desktop without explicit sound assignments for system events (so it merely seemed like sound wasn't working, yet no pop up errors when

Re: libc (?)

2003-07-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
No you can't - it relies on the 5.1 kernel. OK, well I wasn't sure how much things had changed as far as the ABI goes, so I didn't want to rule it out. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: pcm on 5.1

2003-07-03 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 07:58 PM, Laszlo Vagner wrote: I just updated to 5.1-r and was wondering how to add soundcard support to the kernel.? in 4.8 i just added 'device pcm' in my kernel config and recompiled but 5.1 is different and i dont want to do something to mess things up.

Re: how many bytes send out of my box?

2003-07-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
I wrote a small utility that can tell you. http://www.glue.umd.edu/~culverk/ifbwmon-0.1.tar.gz just untar it, cd to the directory that gets created, type make, then run the resulting executable like this: ifbwmon fxp0 replace 'fxp0' with whatever ethernet interface you use. Ken On Tue, 8

Re: 5.1R system crash -- sound related

2003-07-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
vchans probably aren't working right with your sound card yet. I had a problem for a while with my soundcard, but it seems to be working fine now with vchans. Ken On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: Hi, Any now an then, mostly now :(, when I simoultaniosly use more that one sound

Re: 5.1R system crash -- sound related

2003-07-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
At that point, only 1 application at a time will be able to access the soundcard at 1 time. Ken On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2003 17:09, Kenneth Culver wrote: vchans probably aren't working right with your sound card yet. I had a problem for a while with my

Re: 5.1R system crash -- sound related

2003-07-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
I'm under KDE ;), so it starts up. buh# ps ax | grep artsd 706 ?? S 0:28.09 /usr/local/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f and i suppose it's the suspect. I've tried artsdsp -v aviplay %f Marlene\ Dietrich_Peter.mp3 and got (no hang): - artsdsp:

Re: *BSD is dying

2003-07-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
The fact that it is a moderated forum leads me to believe that the slashdot operators are themselves FreeBSD bigots. I for one have much less respect for Slashdot for allowing that drivel through. They don't usually let it through per say, you have to browse the comments at a very low Score

Re: port scanner found my SMTP / SSH is up and I didn't put themthere!!!!

2002-07-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
I used a port scanner on my server just to check things out. I wasn't expecting this. Port 22 (ssh) and port (25) SMTP are up. I looked in /etc/inetd.conf and SMTP is comented out. I created a webmailer and sure enough, all my e-mail was recieved but not sent out. If this isn't a default

Re: NAT with Three NICs

2002-07-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
You could run two natd daemons on the gateway machine, one for the win machine and one for the macs. Just start another natd listening on another port, and add a ipfw divert rule to send the traffic from the macs through this new natd. Or you could use ipfilter+ipnat, and just add two

wierd kdm/kdesu problem

2002-09-18 Thread Kenneth Culver
I was just wondering if anyone else had seen this problem... I'm assuming it's permissions related but I'm not sure exactly how to fix it... basically when I log in and use startx kdesu works fine, but if I login using kdm (started from /etc/ttys) kdesu just hangs when I try to use it for

Re: Traffic shaping - current best practice?

2002-09-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
I recall seeing in the man page that DUMMYNET has RED and GRED algorithms built in - I don't know any more detail than that though... It also Has W2FQ+ (or something like that) fair queueing, although I havn't tried to set it up in a while, last time I used it, it worked great. Ken To

Re: KDE and KDM issues still

2002-09-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Friday 20 September 2002 04:22 am, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:52:59AM -0400, James Dean wrote: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdmxterm on secure I keep getting these errors messages in my logs: Sep 7 13:00:28 bsdguru kdm_config[12241]: Unknown command line

Re: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
I just setup a 4.6.2 machine locally on my network at home to replace an aging Linux NAT box I had going. Clients behind the new box can only get 100k/sec downloads while clients behind the old Linux box (running ipchains) get 400k/sec+ downloads off the same cable modem. Locally on the

RE: Performance issues with natd

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Yeh, but is he downloading from the same place with every test? To be honest, you should be testing the performace across a reliable link that doesn't change. This way you can tell if it is related to the machine versus it being an upstream network

Re: Building FreeBSD 4.6 with GCC 3.2

2002-10-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 05:12 pm, Deepankar Das wrote: All, Has anyone tried building FreeBSD 4.6 with GCC 3.2? I am seeing pre-processor problems during the make depend stage. Anything that I need to know to make GCC 3.2 build FreeBSD 4.6? Thanks, Deepankar I'm just curious, but why

Re: DDR Memory

2002-10-23 Thread Kenneth Culver
FreeBSD supports whatever memory your chipset supports. I don't think there is any specific driver support to allow an OS to use DDR over SDR SDRAM. So yes, it does, and so does any other OS that runs on a PC. Ken On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: I ferreted around but could not find

Re: ABIT KX7-333R

2002-10-18 Thread Kenneth Culver
I have this motherboard and have not seen any problems. If you are seeing problems I'd suggest tweaking your bios a bit... That always helps me... Ken On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Simon1 wrote: As a follow up to my initial post: A brand new board, with new memory, and a new processor failed to fix

Re: ATAPI/CAM and cdbakeoven

2002-11-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Have you tried running cdrecord as root? Ken On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: Hi! I've just upgraded to a new kernel that includes ATAPI/CAM. Now I'm trying to figure out how to use this with eg. cdbakeoven and I don't have much success. Eg. if I try to copy a music-CD,

Re: WineX

2002-11-16 Thread Kenneth Culver
it. Ken On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: Interesting, FreeBSD's linux-ulator doesn't implement mmap2, or ftruncate64 linux syscalls, so if it's working, that's pretty odd because I know winex needs these syscalls. Ken On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Travis P. wrote: Just incase

Re: WineX

2002-11-16 Thread Kenneth Culver
folder over to your FreeBSD system. In some cases, installers fail to work, but the game runs fine. .. tlp On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: FreeBSD constantly spits out mmap2 errors in ttyv0, however, it doesn't seem to effect game play in StarCraft. Hrmm, maybe I'll mess

Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Yep - I'm using them on 4.7-RELEASE right now. Myth II runs great :) Quake 3, Wolfenstein, tuxracer, and UT2003 all work on my machine. However, ut2003 refused to work on my hardware while using the nvidia agpgart. I had to switch to using FreeBSD's agpgart. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: patches

2002-11-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
You don't really write patches... you write code in the current code that's already there, and then you use diff to generate patches... this is very easy if you are using cvs to keep track of your code... cvs diff file.c (I like to use cvs diff -u but that's personal preferance). if you aren't

Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-21 Thread Kenneth Culver
I had them working just fine on -RELEASE. Ken On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, lewiz wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have ISOs, right? You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia drivers working. I

FreeBSD detecting less than total memory

2002-11-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE as of a couple of days ago... and it seems that FreeBSD is not detecting the total amount of ram that I have on my system. I have 512M but here's my dmesg (where memory is concerned: real memory = 402669568 (393232K bytes) Physical memory chunk(s):

Wierd message followed mem prob

2002-11-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Hi, This is in addition to my last mail. Just to reiterate, I'm using FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE as of a few days ago, and I've never seen this problem before. The wierd message comes from /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c: Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up It prints before

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