Making an mbr boot usb on 8.2-stable

2011-07-03 Thread Joshua Isom
I recently changed my raid0 into two raid1's so I can have redundancy. Getting a disk to boot was harder than I ever remember. Part of the problem, my gigabyte bios locks up hard if there's a gpt usb drive plugged in, not even scanning the memory. It seems to be a little known problem. Some

ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-03 Thread Unga
Hi all Following ipfw rule develop error indicated in the subject line: ipfw add 100 fwd 127.0.0.1,1234 tcp from any to any 1234 out via wlan0 What I want to do is forward any packet going to port 1234 to 127.0.0.1:1234. I have built the kernel with "options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD". What's

LSI MegaRAID 9260 on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-03 Thread Sam Vaughan
Hi, I want to use an LSI MegaRAID 9260 on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using mfi and I have two quick questions: LSI's MegaRaid SAS documentation [1] states that "Currently, the FreeBSD driver is supported only on 32-bit FreeBSD". On the other hand the FreeBSD 8.2 hardware compatibility page [2] states

Re: WLAN issue

2011-07-03 Thread _
The router supports DHCP perfectly fine and there is no MAC address filtering or blocking or anything of that sort. I know this for a fact since I administer it. There are several hosts connected to it. These are cable or WLAN connections based on Windows or Apple machines and there has never been

Re: WLAN issue

2011-07-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, July 03, 2011 a las 06:03:35PM +0200, _ escribió: > Hi List, > > I can't get my WLAN (WPA) to work and I am somewhat at a loss, as to what > else to try... > > > The /etc/rc.conf portion looks like this: > > ifconfig_wi0="WPA DHCP" > > > My /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like

WLAN issue

2011-07-03 Thread _
Hi List, I can't get my WLAN (WPA) to work and I am somewhat at a loss, as to what else to try... The /etc/rc.conf portion looks like this: ifconfig_wi0="WPA DHCP" My /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this: network={ ssid="my_ssid" psk="my_psk" } The above should be fine in terms of h

Re: Mouse problem on ThinkPad X61

2011-07-03 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of July 2, 2011 9:56:33 PM -0600, Warren Block is alleged to have said: The T61 has both a touchpad and a trackpoint. Seems like on my T42, only one works. Possibly there are settings for psm(4) or the synaptics touchpad driver is needed. --As for the rest, it is mine. Check your BIOS

backing up freebsd

2011-07-03 Thread Tim Dunphy
hello list!! I am attempting to backup my freebsd box using amanda. I am enjoying great success backing up linux but the FreeBSD machine is one of my cornerstone network machines housing LDAP and DNS and it would be a a genuinely good idea to get this backed up. So fortunately I had no trou

Re: Mouse problem on ThinkPad X61

2011-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:56:33 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > The T61 has both a touchpad and a trackpoint. Seems like on my T42, > only one works. Possibly there are settings for psm(4) or the synaptics > touchpad driver is needed. If both pointing decies are handled independently, e. g. psm