On 0, Jon Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wrote FDISK partition information out successfully.
>
> After that i quit back to config menu, goes into label and there i just do an
> 'auto' to see if it works, there i get the following when i write:
> Unable to add /dev/ad3s1b as a swap device:
On 0, Jon Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Before you just stopp reading with the thought 'duh, this question is for
> freebsd-newbie' please read it becouse i've asked it both at newbie and
> questions and haven't got any sullotion.
>
> What I'm trying to do is to simply add a new ide
On 0, David McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 23-Mar-2001, Michael Aronsen wrote:
> > Has anyone been working on or know of any work being done on getting any
> > fingerprint gadgets working in FreeBSD?
>
> This is mostly off-topic, but I wanted to take the opportunity to point
> out an exc
I messed around with this about a year ago, and now I'm messing around with
it again.
In a nutshell, I can NOT figure out how to get iic with lpbb working. I
have tried all sorts of combinations of config file parameters from LINT,
man pages, etc.
My current config file has something like:
> At 1:33 PM -0800 1/29/01, Josef Grosch wrote:
> >Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought
> >that at one time FreeBSD had one of these.
>
> Note there are multiple ideas of what it means to be EBCDIC.
> Alphanumerics stay the same between them, of course, but a
> few of the
I've been trying to figure this out for some time now...
I have several systems that have 8- and 16-port RocketPort boards in them,
connected to banks of modems. (ISA cards on all of them - I just got a
PCI RP board, but haven't installed it anywhere yet.) These modems make a
lot of outgoing c
> Again, you miss the point. Spending dollars advertising is arguably a more
> valuable contribution than altering a few line of code or submitting a
> driver for some obscure card.
Key word here: "arguably", meaning "can be argued indefinitely", and
loosely translates to "drop this argument -
(If you're looking for FBSD-specific messages, hit "next"...)
I'm looking for a technical answer to this one - I have a good background
in electronics, but never really spent much time on the i386 architecture.
One of my clients has an interface card (StarLAN, ISA) that controls an
embroidery
> Figure 32MB RAM for FreeBSD & X, 64MB for Netscape, and 64MB for StarOffice.
> If you want to run both Netscape and StarOffice at the same time, 128MB
> isn't enough. Sigh.
Yup... I noticed that 64MB might be a little short when I set one of
these up earlier today. :( I think I'll do 128 f
I recently made the decision to upgrade all of our net-booted X terminals
to full-blown workstations. (Basically, adding a hard drive and some
memory.) Having 19 people running Netscape remotely on our Alpha is
sucking up a gig of RAM and almost two gigs of swap, not to mention the
"normal" th
> Just a quick question out of interests sake, I was setting up nos-tunnels
> yesterday, and I had the tunnel functioning 100% perfectly, however I
> could not get it to NAT the remote side of the tunnel, until I put an ipfw
> divert 8668 ip from any to any via any statement in my firewall config
> Wouldnt putting up a compressed tarball of the releases reduce bandwidth
> usage (and download time)?
>
> I know I've asked this before, but it seems logical enough.
Hmmm..I doubt it.
hawk:/usr2# ls -l 4.1.1-install.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root backup 672761856 Sep 26 06:45 4.1.1-install.i
> It's unlikely that plex86 will make VMware or Trelos' product "moot
> discussions" anytime soon; Bochs/Freemware/Plex86 is a credible start,
> but would have a great deal of ground to cover before getting to that
> point.
I got it! FreeBSD running Bochs running VMware running Linux runnin
This really isn't a (directly) FBSD-related question, but since I'm trying
to get everyone at work off MS products over to FBSD workstations, I
figure it's appropriate enough to ask here... :)
The new guy who came in to start running the company is big on sending
documents back and forth via em
Running mgetty on a bunch of modems on various machines, I will
occasionally run across one that looks like:
rimmer:/usr4/mike$ ps alx|grep cuaR11
0 1371 1 0 4 0 9168 ttywai IE??0:00.02
/usr/local/sbin/mgetty cuaR11
...with "ttywai" as the WCHAN and "E" in the STAT f
Had an interesting one tonight... I've been using rrestore to duplicate
the filesystems on a bunch of machines that I'm mass-producing. Things
seemed to be going OK, but one of these machines (Compaq Presario
5340) booted up twice, started throwing up strange warnings about UDMA not
working cor
> I sent this to questions a couple of weeks ago, but didn't receive any
> helpful replies. Anyone doing this - two machines connected by a null-modem
> cable with the ability to create a serial terminal session from either
> side, with suitable juggling of getty processes?
Used to do this in
erstated/funny man-page sentence of the current time period:
>From route(4) on FreeBSD-3.4, DESCRIPTION section:
"FreeBSD provides some packet routing facilities."
...duh...
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> This is a message which appeared on the aussie-isp mailing list earlier
> today. I thought people here might like it :-) Ross is a reliable source,
> so I doubt we can chalk this one up to "urban legend".
Maybe I'll have my graphics guy whip up a picture of Tux with horns and
holding a pitc
> I personally consider leaving the kernel module loadable intact after
> boot to be a huge, huge security hole. Loadable modules... fine, but
> once the machine goes multi-user I want to up the securelevel and
> that disables any further kld operations. If one of the biggest
>
> Can anyone tell me the difference between nos-tun(8) and gif(4) (Other
> than IPv6)? I want to create a tunnel between 2 networks (IPv4), 2
> FreeBSD boxes... will one of these work or is this a different type
> of tunnel. I am familiar with Cisco tunnelling, I am assuming a similar
> concept
- - - - - - - - - - -
"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, 'I drank
what?'" -- Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), Real Genius
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> the other end is set to full. I wouldn't trust any "Auto" settings until
> it can be assured that it doesn't hurt.
Agreed -- from experience with a couple of HP Procurve 2424M switches and
various 100Mb cards, the "Auto" setting is less than reliable... My
Netgear FA310TX(?) and Intel Ethe
> Did you try Mutt? It has a nice GUI :-)
Eeewww GUIs are for weenies - real geeks telnet to ports 25 & 110...
:)
(just kidding - been a rough day, and I needed to be sarcastic toward
SOMEONE...)
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> This is what "Differential GPS" provides: a standard time source that
> can be used to remove the SA meanderings from the GPS fix.
If I'm understanding this correctly (with very little actual research into
it) is that a DGPS station essentially transmits the difference between
what it "hears"
> What can one say to that, apart from "I have one right here and it works
> just fine" - not something you can say about the IA-64. 8)
I'll just reach down and pat my trusty pair of manufactured-in-1993 Alpha
3000's on their heads... :)
Oh, forgot... It's not new until Intel does it... sor
>
> i was wondering if FreeBSD had a kind of like DLL capability?
>
> i'd like to be able to do something as follows:
>
> // ... construct char *fileName
> moduleHandle = loadCodeModule(fileName);
> (char *)(*fn char *) myfn; // ii'm pretty sure i screwed that up
>
our Linux-based servers with FreeBSD,
due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team have
implemented.
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> >Since FreeBSD systems will start pumping out random signal 11's in the face
> >of bad memory, try searching the -hardware and -questions list for that. I
> >believe that someone actually wrote a signal 11 FAQ, but I don't have a
> >pointer.
>
> I'll go and see if I can find something like that
> I had one system with two VERY hot SCSI drives in it, and one of these
> slot fans really made a major difference. (Both drives are now always
> only just barely warm to the touch, whereas before, they were practically
> on fire.)
Got a couple of those (DEC RZ26 & RZ28) with old 486 cooling f
> > > Just for the sake of my curiosity, what was modifiying
> > > resolv.conf? Is this a security feature?
Ran into a similar "what's changing this file?" problem a while ago --
fstat(1) is your friend...
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
fstat /etc/resolv.conf >> /fstatlogfile
done
Throw that int
(this is on 3.4-RC as of Dec. 11)
Here's the situation -- a lot of modems are brain-dead, and don't do a
full reset when you tell them to (by a DTR drop, with (usually) AT&D3)...
The DTE baud rate likes to stay where it was, instead of returning to the
115200 that (my) gettys are expecting. I w
Hate to sound like a bum, but I haven't figured out enough of the kernel
to answer this one for myself. :)
Topic: serial driver
We have an application that sends (not receives) data to a serial port to
a set of brain-dead analyzers (and other stuff). For several reasons I
don't feel motiva
> >Autonegotiation is failing. That happens in the Fast Ethernet world.
> >Buying better quality switches *may* help. ;^)
>
> Can you get any better than 3COM's top of the range stacks?
I ran into a similar problem with a couple Linksys cards under both FBSD &
(ugh) Win95 -- telling the HP Pr
> Is there anyway to bind a class C to an interface without a lot of
> aliases? whats the downside of aliases? I have a 2.2.8 hack that does
> the C, but I'd like to avoid having to port it to 3.3.
What do you mean by "bind a class C"? Make an interface so it will
respond to incoming requests
> >() +---+ +---+ ()
> > + + | | | |+ +
> > ( 130.144.120/22 ) -- |FreeBSD| |FreeBSD| --( 130.144.120/22 )
> > +(real)+ | | | |+(test)
> SUIDDIR will work for any user EXCEPT ROOT
> I did this because I felt it was a security hole to allow users to create
> files owned by root.
> (from memory it will also refuse to do files that have the execute bit set
> but I can't remember for sure)
In a mildly drunken state, I respond.
>I disagree. BogoMIPS is a completely meaningless measurement
> and does not belong in our source tree as it will only produce
> repository bloat.
I would agree.. BogoMIPS actually stands for "Bogus, Misleading
Indication of Processor Speed"... In an old Linux Journal article I have
(will
> Yeah, you're supposed to tie PE low when you want power... However, in a
> system I'm working with now, we've discovered that some inexpensive ATX
> power supplies don't expect to have PE come up immediately when they're
> given power. If you see the symptom that all the LED's on your system di
> Yeah, you're supposed to tie PE low when you want power... However, in a
> system I'm working with now, we've discovered that some inexpensive ATX
> power supplies don't expect to have PE come up immediately when they're
> given power. If you see the symptom that all the LED's on your system dim
> Another issue: I was recently involved in a project which required HA
> solutions (that's why I asked]. I gathered a lot of ideas and materials
> (and perhaps some code if that company agrees to release it). Is ther
> someone else here who is interested in these issues, and using FreeBSD for
> t
> Another issue: I was recently involved in a project which required HA
> solutions (that's why I asked]. I gathered a lot of ideas and materials
> (and perhaps some code if that company agrees to release it). Is ther
> someone else here who is interested in these issues, and using FreeBSD for
>
I have a couple of diskless -CURRENT machines hosted off another 3.x-C box
-- they're "full-featured", but very lightly loaded. I can keep the host
updated fairly easily through the standard CVSUP->buildworld->installworld
methods, but am having a rough time with the diskless machines... The
ser
I have a couple of diskless -CURRENT machines hosted off another 3.x-C box
-- they're "full-featured", but very lightly loaded. I can keep the host
updated fairly easily through the standard CVSUP->buildworld->installworld
methods, but am having a rough time with the diskless machines... The
se
I had sent this message to -stable about a month ago, never heard anything
-- so am trying it here.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 03:24:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Nowlin
To: freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org
Subject: I2C/SMBus/LPBB
OK -- I give up I'm tryi
I had sent this message to -stable about a month ago, never heard anything
-- so am trying it here.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 03:24:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Nowlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I2C/SMBus/LPBB
OK -- I give up...
Ok, I know this has very little to do with FreeBSD, but the tru64-hackers
list is a little slow :)
Here's the situation:
DEC Alpha 3000/500S box, running Compaq Tru64 UNIX V4.0F (formerly known
as the operating system Digital Unix, which is the operating system
formerly known as DEC OSF/1) -
Ok, I know this has very little to do with FreeBSD, but the tru64-hackers
list is a little slow :)
Here's the situation:
DEC Alpha 3000/500S box, running Compaq Tru64 UNIX V4.0F (formerly known
as the operating system Digital Unix, which is the operating system
formerly known as DEC OSF/1)
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