hi all ....
this is really weird.
i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at
least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it.
i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!?
what can be the reason?
it'a brand new install of freebsd 7.2 amd64 (amnesiac) ... fits the
name...
while i'm on here... the machine comes with an ethernet card on board
that according to pciconf there is no driver for it. pciconf identifies
the card as Marvell Semiconductor (was: Galileo something...) which
according to the handbook needs the msk driver. which is in the generic
kernel anyway. the thing is pciconf says no...@pci0:2:0:0 for that card.
dmesg doesn't mention anything about msk. and sysinstall doesn't see
anything either. so far so awesome...
now... the wireless card i put in. ralink technology. in the office here
there is a simple wifi router that is "protected" with WPA password. if
i get rid of the password and just use ifconfig to get to the router
everything works ok but putting the wpa on again and using the
supplicant things suck. ifconfig says the card is associated. and it
gets an ip but that's pretty much all that happens. pings to a
neighboring machine produce huge dropouts. with 85% packet loss.
another awesomeness... and those are pings to ips. dns is pretty much
nowhere to be found. sysisntall has <unknown network interface type> for
ral0...
so in conclusion:
what's up with the root password amnesia?
what's up with the msk driver card?
and what's up with this wpa supplicant thing?
thanks....
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