Re: Card readers - Does anyone know where to get help for this?

2008-03-27 Thread Da Rock
I must be the only one who has this... Can anyone redirect me to a list, resource, whatever that my give me some clue to this problem? Cheers On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:42 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > I have mentioned this before in other threads, but it appears it > requires a thread of its own. > >

Re: Auto Mounting USB Sticks and CD's

2008-03-27 Thread Kevin Downey
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a FreeBSD 7.0 install, and I am running the Gnome Desktop (2.22) > I was hoping that someone had a nice HOWTO or could paste their config files. > I want my usb sticks to auto mount when I insert the

Auto Mounting USB Sticks and CD's

2008-03-27 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
Hello, I have a FreeBSD 7.0 install, and I am running the Gnome Desktop (2.22) I was hoping that someone had a nice HOWTO or could paste their config files. I want my usb sticks to auto mount when I insert them like they do on PC-BSD I know that if I put gnome_enable in my /etc/rc.conf then it al

Re: Limiting Individual User Upload w/ PF+ALTQ

2008-03-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 18:18:09 Mar 27, Joe Ryan wrote: > I am trying to setup traffic shaping on our network. I was wondering if it > was possible to limit a users download bandwidth and upload bandwidth within > the same state connection. For example, say a user connects to an external > FTP site and does some uploa

Dell XPS Notebook

2008-03-27 Thread Terry Sposato
I am interested in purchasing a Dell XPS notebook through my current workplace. Has anyone purchased one of these and successfully installed FreeBSD? Any thoughts or opinions will be much appreciated. Regards, Terry signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

problems with i386 jail on amd64 install 7.0 Release

2008-03-27 Thread Mark Moellering
I have been trying to install an i386 jail on an amd64 install. I added Target=i386 to the command line in the make buildworld and installworld commands. I keep getting the following (or similar) error /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libedit.so.6" not found, required by "sh" the $jail/li

FreeBSD for Linux VPS?

2008-03-27 Thread Dan Riordan
Hello, Just wondering if FreeBSD is usable on Linux VPS servers? I run VPS services and a client is asking if we could support it. It would be good if we could. If you could let me know as soon as you can, that would be super. Thank you, Dan -- Deise Host Website Hosting and Design http://www.d

Understanding Flags, Refs, Use, Expire in Routing Table

2008-03-27 Thread Daniel Dias Gonçalves
I would like an explanation on each field it command "netstat - rn", example: Flags,Refs,Use,Expire In Flags: UGS, UC, UHLW, UH Somebody can explain me ? Thanks, Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes

2008-03-27 Thread Martyn Hare
On Thursday 27 March 2008 16:38:20 Darren Spruell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Derek Ragona > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it worthwhile to contact NVidia with bug reports? Does the FreeBSD > > community amount to much of a blip on their radar? Do we have a direct > > liaiso

Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread mdh
--- Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:13:07PM -0700, mdh wrote: > > > > If you are running AMD64, then no it would not run > on > > an Intel core2 duo based system. Maybe consider > an > > Yes it would. The Core 2 duo chips support the amd64 > instruction set

Re: OpenOffice 2.3

2008-03-27 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Nikola Lečić wrote: > According to what can be read on the page I sent with my previous > mail, it seems to be a GTK-related issue. I confirm that all 7-stable > OpenOffice packages (including 2.3.1_1) work perfectly on my plain > 7.0-RELEASE/i386 install, but with *up-t

Limiting Individual User Upload w/ PF+ALTQ

2008-03-27 Thread Joe Ryan
I am trying to setup traffic shaping on our network. I was wondering if it was possible to limit a users download bandwidth and upload bandwidth within the same state connection. For example, say a user connects to an external FTP site and does some uploading and downloading. Can I allow him to dow

Limiting Individual User Upload w/ PF+ALTQ

2008-03-27 Thread Joe Ryan
I am trying to setup traffic shaping on our network. I was wondering if it was possible to limit a users download bandwidth and upload bandwidth within the same state connection. For example, say a user connects to an external FTP site and does some uploading and downloading. Can I allow him to dow

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I would get ThinkPad T30 or T23 from Ebay. They will work just fine with FreeBSD. They go for $190-250. my T23 works fine. all devices, no problems, any OS including FreeBSD of course ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: tcpdump stopped working / changes to pcap since 5.2.1-RELEASE?

2008-03-27 Thread Markus
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:01:41 +0100 Markus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Were there any changes to tcpdump, the em driver, pcap or another part > of the OS in recent history which could lead to such a behavior? > Again, regular packets on any em-interface we can collect just fine, > just the packets

Re: restore in Fixit mode

2008-03-27 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hi Douglas, That's the problem all right (got bit years ago by it). It's been a while but if you've got a /tmp partition, mount it over the memory file system /tmp so restore can lay off what it needs there. Or make a memory file system backed by swap. Thanks for this one, it solved my proble

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Mike Jeays wrote: On March 27, 2008 03:09:42 pm mdh wrote: --- David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:53:57PM -0400, Joe Demeny wrote: In the end, the best advice seems to be indeed to take the FreeBSD CD to the brick-and-mortar sto

Just in case someone comes across this problem about acpi_tz0

2008-03-27 Thread matt donovan
To get rid of the flooding of the messages if your computer does not have sensors in it like mine does. You need to add hw.acpi.thermal.polling=1800 to /etc/sysctl.conf and you'll only see messages every few minutes not right after each other. ___ freebs

Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread Kevin Sanders
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:13 PM, mdh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am thinking upgrading my hardware to core2 duo > > to enjoy fbsd > > 7.0, my old 6.3 runs on amd64 3400+. If I just buy a > > new m-board+core > > 2 cpu, can my

restore in Fixit mode

2008-03-27 Thread Infrax Administrator
Hello, I am trying to restore a backup of /usr created with dump using the command: dump -0 -Lauf - / | bzip2 | dd of=root.backup When I restore / and /var partitions, I don't have any problems. Here's how I do it: 1. boot FreeBSD 7.0 live CD and go to fixit mode. 2. mount /dev/ads1a partition

Re: hplip setup problems

2008-03-27 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Isaac Mushinsky wrote: Anish Mistry (the port maintainer) has answered below. It seems that this is a printer defect after all then. I'll try to patch the code to fill in the missing serial id with some fake string, and shall report if I get the thing to work. Is the hp backend the only entry po

Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:13:07PM -0700, mdh wrote: > > If you are running AMD64, then no it would not run on > an Intel core2 duo based system. Maybe consider an Yes it would. The Core 2 duo chips support the amd64 instruction set. Do make sure that you have the GENERIC kernel kernel installe

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On March 27, 2008 03:09:42 pm mdh wrote: > --- David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:53:57PM -0400, Joe Demeny > > > > wrote: > > > In the end, the best advice seems to be indeed to > > > > take the FreeBSD CD > > > > > to the brick-and-mortar store... > > > > Or you

Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread mdh
--- Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am thinking upgrading my hardware to core2 duo > to enjoy fbsd > 7.0, my old 6.3 runs on amd64 3400+. If I just buy a > new m-board+core > 2 cpu, can my old installation boot up the system, > and then allow me > to recompile kernel and stu

Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
forgot to mention, i am running i386 version, after finding out that lots of ports still not supported well under amd64 arch... TFC On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:13 PM, mdh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am thinking upgrading my hardw

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread mdh
--- David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:53:57PM -0400, Joe Demeny > wrote: > > > > In the end, the best advice seems to be indeed to > take the FreeBSD CD > > to the brick-and-mortar store... > > Or you could purchase an Apple Mac Book and have a > commercially >

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:53:57PM -0400, Joe Demeny wrote: > > In the end, the best advice seems to be indeed to take the FreeBSD CD > to the brick-and-mortar store... Or you could purchase an Apple Mac Book and have a commercially supported Unix pre-installed. Guess that would take all the "fun

Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Tsu-Fan, Thursday, March 27, 2008, 7:43:27 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > I am thinking upgrading my hardware to core2 duo to enjoy fbsd > 7.0, my old 6.3 runs on amd64 3400+. If I just buy a new m-board+core > 2 cpu, can my old installation boot up the system, and then allow me > to recompile

Re: Odd Keyboard, mouse, networking issues

2008-03-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Outback Dingo wrote: I installed FreeBSD 7 on a IBM thinkpad Z60M, Xorg from ports, 3 different window managers, kde, xfce4 and fvwm-crystal in console, there is no issue in X anytime i type something on the keyboard, anything, regardelss of being in a console or in firefox the text doesnt dis

from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

2008-03-27 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I am thinking upgrading my hardware to core2 duo to enjoy fbsd 7.0, my old 6.3 runs on amd64 3400+. If I just buy a new m-board+core 2 cpu, can my old installation boot up the system, and then allow me to recompile kernel and stuff? I thought about getting a new drive too to do a fresh inst

Re: OpenOffice 2.3

2008-03-27 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:18:57 + Mike Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 27 March 2008, Nikola Lečić wrote: > > > (BTW, there are pre-built packages for all OpenOffice versions: > > > >   > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/por

Re: OpenOffice 2.3

2008-03-27 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Nikola Lečić wrote: > (BTW, there are pre-built packages for all OpenOffice versions: > >   > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/editor >s/ > >  -- have you considered trying them?) I tried this about a week ago without much success. I could

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
fred wrote: Hello all, I am trying to fix an issue with my dual xeon ibm server, it only detects 3GB or RAM but I have 4GB: I discovered on my workstation that there is a BIOS setting to cause the motherboard to remap everything above 3GB installed RAM up above the PCI address space. Without

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread Joe Demeny
On Monday 24 March 2008 06:04:17 am Jason P. Thomas wrote: > Joe Demeny wrote: > > I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 > > > > Does any

Odd Keyboard, mouse, networking issues

2008-03-27 Thread Outback Dingo
I installed FreeBSD 7 on a IBM thinkpad Z60M, Xorg from ports, 3 different window managers, kde, xfce4 and fvwm-crystal in console, there is no issue in X anytime i type something on the keyboard, anything, regardelss of being in a console or in firefox the text doesnt display, or execute until

Re: Suppressing "Limiting icmp unreach response" log messages

2008-03-27 Thread Christopher Cowart
Paul Hoffman wrote: > How can I eliminate the "Limiting icmp unreach response" messages from > getting to /var/log/messages or to the console? I have a spate of them that > is causing log rollovers. I think I know the source of the problem, but > need to get rid of the messages first. The icmp

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 nvidia-driver woes

2008-03-27 Thread Darren Spruell
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it worthwhile to contact NVidia with bug reports? Does the FreeBSD > community amount to much of a blip on their radar? Do we have a direct > liaison in the community? > Never hurts to file a bug report. It seems to

Re: www/flock port fails to install

2008-03-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:48:49AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:41:46AM -0500, Gerard wrote: >> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:57:07 +0100 >> > Pieter Baele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > >> > > When there are (security) vulnerabil

Re: keyboard initialization in freebsd

2008-03-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
> I haven't used my MS keyboard on 7.0 yet. the box it's hooked up to is > a test box and i'm going through a torture session quickly. :P > > I'll check it soon though. Are you looking for any feedback, any > special specific feedback? > > --Tim > Yeah, does anyone have an idea of what cha

Re: Suppressing "Limiting icmp unreach response" log messages

2008-03-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Install syslog-ng 2.x from ports. source src { unix-dgram("/var/run/log"); unix-dgram("/var/run/logpriv" perm(0600)); internal(); file("/dev/klog"); }; Kernel messages from /dev/klog get mapped to "user.notice" syslog, so: log { source(src); filter(f_user); filter(f_n

Suppressing "Limiting icmp unreach response" log messages

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Hoffman
How can I eliminate the "Limiting icmp unreach response" messages from getting to /var/log/messages or to the console? I have a spate of them that is causing log rollovers. I think I know the source of the problem, but need to get rid of the messages first. _

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:26:05PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > fred writes: > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to fix an issue with my dual xeon ibm server, it only detects > > 3GB or RAM but I have 4GB: > [...] > > I have seen this problem under Linux on IBM Intellistations (6225). > IBM

RE: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thank you all for your replies. I will install FreeBSD AMD64 and test my softwares to make sure everything works as it should. Mission critical softwares are the reasons why I was sticking to 32-bit OS on my servers. freebsd/amd64 is compatible with /i386 and with linux/i386

Re: Working /etc/pam.d/sshd file with pam_ldap 6.3 or 7.0 ?

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:17:26 +0100 Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Setting up pam ldap ssh access on a FreeBSD box takes less than five minutes *after* installing the correct ports. 1) net/openldap-client 2) security/pam_ldap Then configure ldap.conf (in /usr/local/etc/) whic

RE: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread fred
Thank you all for your replies. I will install FreeBSD AMD64 and test my softwares to make sure everything works as it should. Mission critical softwares are the reasons why I was sticking to 32-bit OS on my servers. -fred -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: hplip setup problems

2008-03-27 Thread Anish Mistry
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: > Anish Mistry (the port maintainer) has answered below. It seems > that this is a printer defect after all then. I'll try to patch the > code to fill in the missing serial id with some fake string, and > shall report if I get the thing to work. > >

Re: www/flock port fails to install

2008-03-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:48:49AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:41:46AM -0500, Gerard wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:57:07 +0100 > > Pieter Baele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > When there are (security) vulnerabilities, ports won't install. > > > You can overri

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
fred wrote: > I have read that OPTION PAE in kernel would fix the problem but I have also > read that compiling FreeBSD AMD64 might be a better solution, any advices > before I break my current setup? Except if you have a strong reason to stick with the 32-bit kernel, use AMD64. signature.as

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > fred writes: >> Hello all, >> >> I am trying to fix an issue with my dual xeon ibm server, it only detects >> 3GB or RAM but I have 4GB: > [...] > > I have seen this problem under Linux on IBM Intellistations (6225). > IBM pointed me to a tech document (the number of w

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread lhecking
fred writes: > Hello all, > > I am trying to fix an issue with my dual xeon ibm server, it only detects > 3GB or RAM but I have 4GB: [...] I have seen this problem under Linux on IBM Intellistations (6225). IBM pointed me to a tech document (the number of which I do not remember) that says whe

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have read that OPTION PAE in kernel would fix the problem but I have also read that compiling FreeBSD AMD64 might be a better solution, any advices before I break my current setup? simply use FreeBSD/amd64 i don't understand why you don't use 64-bit system on 64-bit hardware

Re: hplip setup problems

2008-03-27 Thread Isaac Mushinsky
Anish Mistry (the port maintainer) has answered below. It seems that this is a printer defect after all then. I'll try to patch the code to fill in the missing serial id with some fake string, and shall report if I get the thing to work. Is the hp backend the only entry point to libusb, or should

FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread fred
Hello all, I am trying to fix an issue with my dual xeon ibm server, it only detects 3GB or RAM but I have 4GB: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (3000.13-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x641d AMD Features=0x2000

Re: OpenOffice 2.3

2008-03-27 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:34:05 +0300 "Mike Barnard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! Do you have one? > I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US" There is no such locale "en_US",

tinybsd doesn't have /etc/rc.d/ ?

2008-03-27 Thread Ashant Chalasani
The whole of /etc/rc.d/ directory is missing on TinyBSD 0.9. Is this by design? I'm hoping someone can throw light on it. I copied the sshd script manually from my 7.0-REL host onto the flash image, as also a simple initialization script that I wrote for setting up the network. But it looks lik

Re: Tool for managing network settings?

2008-03-27 Thread Michal Kulczewski
Niels Kobschaetzki escribió: > I'm using FreeBSD 7 with XFce and I'm searching a tool for managing > network settings (gui or cli doesn't matter). E.g at home I need a > static IP, at work DHCP on my ethernet-card. take a look at this magnificent tool http://www.kts.org/hm/download/setnetparm/ (

Re: Working /etc/pam.d/sshd file with pam_ldap 6.3 or 7.0 ?

2008-03-27 Thread Frank Bonnet
Paul Schmehl wrote: Please don't top post. It disrupts the flow of the conversation. (See below for my response.) --On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:01 PM +0100 Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello After having spent several hours on it I can't have a working ssh access that use P

Re: ports fetch timeout

2008-03-27 Thread Ashant Chalasani
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Sys Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've been trying to install a bunch of packages on a freshly built > > 7.0-REL machine. The ports "make install" command has been > > consistently failing to download fi

Re: make readmes errors

2008-03-27 Thread fire jotawski
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Jörgen Blomberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fire jotawski wrote: > > hi sirs, > > > > my machine is FreeBSD siting.oaep.go.th 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE#3: > > Fri Mar 7 03:20:47 ICT 2008 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SITING > > i386 > > i try m

Re: Stopped working : Gnucash, libicui18n.so and libmap.conf

2008-03-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:19:40 +0200 Volodymyr Kostyrko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Norberto Meijome wrote: > > I have gnucash built against icu 3.6 . I have since then upgraded icu to > > 3.8, > > but i can't upgrade gnucash until I can successfully build the newer sguile. > > Anyway, until today