Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 06:06:55PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:50:36PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > It appears Linux got support for the 88E8040 in September 2007 (revision > > 1.2.73). Support for the 88E8040T was added in June 2008 (revision > > 1.330.1.3)

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Dan Allen
On 7 Sep 2008, at 7:57 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: You need a 'real' serial port for console, the other option would be to use Firewire (if the laptop has it). The Dell Inspiron 1525 DOES have a mini-Firewire port on the front of the machine. Dan ___

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:27:11AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Ironically, I just bought an Inspiron 1525 for a friend of mine's > > > son as a birthday gift, so I do have access to one indirectly, >

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:27:11AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Ironically, I just bought an Inspiron 1525 for a friend of mine's son > > as a birthday gift, so I do have access to one indirectly, and can > > probably borrow it for a day or two if n

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Ironically, I just bought an Inspiron 1525 for a friend of mine's son > as a birthday gift, so I do have access to one indirectly, and can > probably borrow it for a day or two if need be. It lacks a serial > port, so I'd have to buy a USB serial adapte

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 20:43 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:26:33AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:06:42PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02

Re: WOL (Wake On LAN) no longer working

2008-09-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:44:22AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 03:13:47PM -0400, Walker wrote: > > Somewhere along the road from 7.0 to 7.1 WOL stopped working for me. > > I have an "82546EB Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller" which, after > > shutdown, has link lig

Re: WOL (Wake On LAN) no longer working

2008-09-07 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 03:13:47PM -0400, Walker wrote: > Somewhere along the road from 7.0 to 7.1 WOL stopped working for me. > I have an "82546EB Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller" which, after > shutdown, has link lights on the card and switch. Nothing has changed > on the PC or NIC BIO

Re: Funny things with cflags and world/kernel building

2008-09-07 Thread Derek KuliƄski
Hello Bartosz, Friday, September 5, 2008, 6:12:12 AM, you wrote: > My make.conf: > CPUTYPE=athlon64 > MAKEOPTS=-j3 I would recommend to take that -j3 out from make.conf, it might screw up make install, not to mention many ports might not build with it. > # USE CCACHE > .if !defi

Re: snapshots and disk usage

2008-09-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 07), Stefan `Sec` Zehl said: > Hi, > > I am using ufs snapshots on RELENG_7 for some time now, and am generally > happy with it. I have noticed a strange behaviour when removing large > amount of files, and wanted to ask if this is expected. > > Before starting, we check

WOL (Wake On LAN) no longer working

2008-09-07 Thread Walker
Somewhere along the road from 7.0 to 7.1 WOL stopped working for me. I have an "82546EB Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller" which, after shutdown, has link lights on the card and switch. Nothing has changed on the PC or NIC BIOS. I noticed new wol ifconfig settings, and add "wol" to my rc.conf

mysterious uname non-updates

2008-09-07 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
Dear colleagues, today, updating one of my machines, I got the following mysterious results after reboot: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# sysctl -a | grep RELE kern.osrelease: 6.3-RELEASE kern.version: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #4: Thu Jan 17 15:28:57 MSK 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# strings /boot/kernel/kernel | g

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-07 Thread Scott Long
Ken Smith wrote: I'm with Scott in that I like the "other distros" being around. I don't think that necessarily means we shouldn't try harder. But IMHO trying harder needs to be reflected in a new installer. Lets face it, sysinstall s*cks... For the type of folks who want the installer to do

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-07 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:46:37 -0400 Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:51 +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > I just booted off the 7.0 disc1 to check, and /usr/local/bin/links is > > still the default browser in Options, available during installation from > > another vty. S

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-07 Thread Sticky Bit
On Sunday 07 September 2008 06:46:37 Ken Smith wrote: > The path I'm planning is based on these observations: > > - Many people believe you should just use sysinstall to install > the baseline system, and any packages/ports installs should > be done post-install. Its hard to

snapshots and disk usage

2008-09-07 Thread Stefan `Sec` Zehl
Hi, I am using ufs snapshots on RELENG_7 for some time now, and am generally happy with it. I have noticed a strange behaviour when removing large amount of files, and wanted to ask if this is expected. Before starting, we check the free space on /usr: | ice:/usr>df -h . | Filesystem Siz