Re: line lengths in /etc/hosts

On 27 Mar 2013, at 09:57, per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote: > Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? > > I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but > characters beyond the first 660 or so seem to be ignored. > > To answer the inevitable followup "

Re: Client Authentication

On 24/03/2013 17:50, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Doug Hardie wrote: One idea is to run a different server process on 25 which does not do SMTP AUTH,, then run SMTP AUTH on 465 or 587. I don't really see a reason to advertise SMTP AUTH on 25, for some reason all mail s

Re: Client Authentication

On 24/03/2013 05:22, Doug Hardie wrote: Basically, my outgoing mail server is being systematically attacked to try passwords looking for one that works. Have you investigated to identify where these attacks originate from? Even if the IP is not fixed, they often belong to ranges assigned to

What is your favorite board for a micro system?

Hi! What is your favorite mini/micro/nano/pico-itx platform for home projects? I currently run a home server on an Intel mini-itx board but was looking around for something fun to play with with the following specs: - mini-itx or smaller, low profile - fanless - low power 12V external PSU - 1

SOLVED: Problem compling apr1 from ports

On 06/01/2013 15:56, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have something funny set in /etc/make.conf or within your python options? Yeah, had PYTHON_VERSION=python2.6, removing that solves the problem. Apparantly the 2.6 port doesn't create the links as does version 2.7. Thanks, Erik -- M: +34

Re: Problem compling apr1 from ports

On 05/01/2013 19:17, Erik Nørgaard wrote: lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len=262144 /bin/sh ./buildconf buildconf: checking installation... buildconf: python not found. You need python installed to build APR from SVN. *** [run-autotools] Error code 1 I tried to debug a bit more on

Problem compling apr1 from ports

Hi, I just rebuilt my system to FBSD91 and updated the ports tree. Now builidng apache which depends on apr1 I but fails building because of dependency on python. Python is installed, and is found initially. Full error: root@alpha:/usr/local/ports/devel/apr1 # make ===> portaudit database e

Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

Hi: I have inherited a problem that is no cause for envy, the previous administrators had no idea what they were doing, so problems with a permission denied would be solved by chown -R 777 /whatever! Needless to say, it's a mess, and ofcourse everything is "critical" there is no room for inte

Re: Write only directory.

On 07/05/2012 20:38, Paul Halliday wrote: Is it possible to let a user write to a directory but not access the file after they write it? The file is being transferred via scp and after the transfer I don't want them to be able to re-fetch or even get a directory listing. Hi, If user has no sh

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

On 05/05/2012 17:21, Joshua Isom wrote: Before I deal with setting postfix to relay the mail, dealing with firewalls and other possible issues, is there a better alternative? postfix will do the job, it just works, local mail will continue to just work. There are alternatives like qmail and s

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

On 04/05/2012 19:51, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: So I checked the 2 other main contenders and just wanted to ask if anyone here had an opinion what 2 install of the BSDs ? Or perhaps FreeBSD 6.4 is a good choice ( I have not tested Open or Net BSD so FreeBSD is my hometurf) The machine will probabl

Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML

On 22/04/2012 13:06, Polytropon wrote: How about the "extended ASCII character set" that has a mixture of "non-US glyphs" and semi-graphic symbols? http://asciiset.com/extended.gif I can't even write my name in that character set. As long as there are multiple charactersets you will

Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML

On 21/04/2012 16:10, Lars Eighner wrote: UTF-8 is a waste of storage for most people and is incompatiple with text-mode tools: it's simple another bid to make it impossible to run without a GUI. UTF-8 is variable with, ascii characters are stored as single bytes (not sure about iso-8859-1) wh

Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML

On 21/04/2012 08:29, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Browsers understand UTF-8 perfectly, simply add to the html header. Obviously I can't know what your project is, but you'll save yourself heaps of problems sticking to UTF-8, in particular if you plan on implementing any search functionali

Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML

On 21/04/2012 07:58, Matthias Apitz wrote: Is there something in the port to convert UTF-8 text to HTML encondings, like: $ echo ü | iconv -f utf-8 -t html ü of the encondings in hex based on the codepoint? AFAIK it's not possible. Browsers understand UTF-8 perfectly, simply add to the ht

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

Hi On 14/03/2012 11:44, Rick Miller wrote: I thought I would follow up on this as a couple individuals expressed an interest in it... We have isolated the configuration in which this occurs under. It occurs during the execution of pxeboot.bs on brocade switches with vlan tagging enabled. You

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

On 01/03/2012 16:16, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, Are there significant differences in the implementation between the tftp client in FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and the client implementation in pxeboot.bs? I have no reason to believe there should be any difference. If you believe there is a problem wit

Re: pxeboot.bs and vlan tagging

On 06/02/2012 19:34, Rick Miller wrote: Thanks for your feedback, Erik! I do have a question below... The kernel I am using is the kernel from the DVD ISO as it is downloaded from freebsd.org. How do I determine what modules have been enabled and disabled in that kernel? I am under the assu

Re: pxeboot.bs and vlan tagging

On 06/02/2012 17:33, Rick Miller wrote: 2) do you fetch the kernel successfully? When using tftp, The kernel and kernel modules are fetched before the memory file system, so do pxeboot fetch the kernel but not the mfsroot? The reason for these questions is that your problem may be with the kern

Re: pxeboot.bs and vlan tagging

On 06/02/2012 17:11, Rick Miller wrote: See my responses inline... On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: On 06/02/2012 16:35, Rick Miller wrote: We are PXE booting into FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE to perform system builds. The pxeboot.bs file was recompiled with TFTP support. 8.2

Re: pxeboot.bs and vlan tagging

On 06/02/2012 16:35, Rick Miller wrote: We are PXE booting into FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE to perform system builds. The pxeboot.bs file was recompiled with TFTP support. 8.2-RELEASE builds were working fine until we attempted a build on bare metal in an environment that utilizes vlan tagging. When t

Re: ipv6 in FreeBSD 9

On 15/01/2012 21:41, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, the wise Erik Nørgaard wrote: Don't use ipv6, but reading above: Did you replace ipv6_enable with ipv6_activate_all_interfaces? because the error seems to tell you that you must keep ipv6_enable I replaced it with th

Re: ipv6 in FreeBSD 9

On 14/01/2012 18:07, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, In 8.2 ipv6 was enabled by adding ipv6_enable="YES" in rc.conf, and all worked fine. In FreeBSD 9 that changed to ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES". But now there are still some error messages at boot time, and ipv6 doesn't seem to work correctly

Re: pxebooting different versions/variants of FreeBSD

On 11/12/2011 13:18, Dura Zell wrote: Is there a way to circumvent the need need of the dhcp option "root-path" and set it instead manually via a config file or as parameter? If not: How can I achieve my goal of pxebooting the different versions of FreeBSD? Hi: No. The only thing you can do i

Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

On 08/12/2011 15:01, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: so which current 14" Lenovo laptop is the best for FreeBSD compatibility right now? Is it the T420 with the Nvidia card (Nvidia card forced in the BIOS)? Sleep modes work with the T420, right? And I guess Intel Wi-Fi cards are the most supported ones

Re: No network in mixed FBSD81/90 chroot environment

On 29/11/2011 15:58, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 11/29/11 1:58 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Today I finished make build/install world/kernel in /mnt, and now I no longer have network access, interfaces are visible with ifconfig but no ip is set and can't be set from within the chroot enviro

Re: No network in mixed FBSD81/90 chroot environment

On 29/11/2011 13:50, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Today I finished make build/install world/kernel in /mnt, and now I no longer have network access, interfaces are visible with ifconfig but no ip is set and can't be set from within the chroot environment. Is this to be expected? How do I g

No network in mixed FBSD81/90 chroot environment

Hi: I have a system running FBSD81 preparing migrate to 90 on a different disk, so the new disk and partitions are mounted in /mnt. To build FBSD90 on the new disk I mount devfs on /mnt/dev and chroot to /mnt. Today I finished make build/install world/kernel in /mnt, and now I no longer have

Re: Breakin attempt

On 22/10/2011 16:12, Polytropon wrote: Is there _any_ reason why moving from port 22 to something different is _not_ a solution? Yes Reason why I'm asking: Moving SSH away from its default port seems to be a relatively good solution as break-in attempts concentrate on default ports. So in case

Re: ISC dhcp server

On 18/10/2011 08:38, n dhert wrote: isc-dhcp31-server was removes from the ports. The Freebsd Handbook still refers to it... Can a /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf configuration file from isc-dhcp31-server, without changealso be used in isc-dhcp42-4.2.2 ? I think so, I use dhcp 4.1 and didn't change m

8_RELEASE buildkernel fails

Hi: I csup'ed my source tree and rebuilt world succesfully, but buildkernel fails with the following error: cc -c -O -pipe -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-

How to restrict jail's network access?

Hi: I'm planning to move services to run in jails. Two jails: 1: Mail related: postfix, cyrus imap and openldap 2: Web related: apache and postgresql No service should be able to connect out of the jail to remote hosts, except for postfix that need to connect out to port 25 for delivery to ot

Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

On 5/6/11 7:03 AM, Robert Simmons wrote: On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR # gpart add -t freebsd ad4# Create a BSD container # gpart create -s bsd ad4s1 # Init with a BSD

Partitioning with gpart or old style slices?

Hi: I just realized how many years ago I haven't been partitioning any disks .. this system is so stable :) So, now I see I have gpart as alternative to fdisk/bsdlabel. I have a 320GB disk which will be dedicated to FBSD, is there any advantage - or any problems (problems as in I've never tr

Re: Where's my disk?

On 4/6/11 3:09 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Thanks, I tried to add labels, and all file systems are labeled, except the root file system, it gives an error alpha# tunefs -L root /dev/ad6s1a tunefs: /dev/ad6s1a: failed to write superblock The filesystem has

Re: Where's my disk?

On 4/6/11 10:48 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:31:18 +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote: The first problem is that I have no idea how my disk will be recognized, now the root partition is on /dev/ad6s1a. A good approach is to apply a label or use the UFSID of the partitions (which

Where's my disk?

Hi: I'm moving my server to new hardware, but I will preserve the disk making the necessary changes to the configuration before the move. The first problem is that I have no idea how my disk will be recognized, now the root partition is on /dev/ad6s1a. The second problem is that the server

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

On 19/5/11 7:49 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: FreeBSD ought to support the 945G chipset and the ICH7 hub; also the RealTek NIC, but the latter isn't the highest quality NIC around. yeah, I'd rather have Intels own NIC dunno why they can't put them on their own boards. Realtek seem to be on all the

FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

Hi: I am looking for a new low power mini-itx board for my firewall/home server. I've had VIA boards but flacky disk controller and other problems have made me look for something else. So, going all Intel, I hope there will be no hardware problems. I'm looking at The Intel D945GSEJT with an

Re: Link and network level in the tcp/ip stack

On 7/5/11 4:12 PM, Arun wrote: Just add default route at your node 10.225.162.28, and make the default GW for this route as 192.168.28.0/24 or the connected interface. Your SRV node should pass it to its default gw 192.168.28.1 which should take care of forwarding it to the destination RN. If yo

Link and network level in the tcp/ip stack

Hi: This is a generic question about may, should and must: I have the following setup: 192.168.28/24 +---+ |.196 |.1 SRV GW- RN |.28|.1 +---+ 10.225.162/24 The server, SRV, has default gateway set to 192.168.28.1, no r

FBSD support for Intel mini-itx board w. realtek 8111D nic

Hi: I've got a fanless via based mini-itx box as my gateway and server and looking to upgrade to a Intel Atom based box. I believe it's supported out of the box. Now, I don't have an extra monitor, basically I'm gonna take the old disk, plug it in and hope it will boot (FBSD81, GENERIC kernel

Re: Wifi AP behind FreeBSD

On 20/07/2010, at 21.09, DadAN wrote: > Hello, > I am planning to change my network a little, > I need to put WiFi AP (Dlink Di-524) behind FreeBSD box, > there are 2 nic in this box - one should be for internet (xl0) > and another should use xl1 nic for WiFi AP. > > I need to know how to setup

Re: slapd crash the HP proliant DL360 at 8.0

On 28/giu/2010, at 11:56, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Argh !!! > > I upgraded slapd to 2.4.22 and it does not start anymore !!! > > some symbol cannot be found anymore > > I had to revert to 2.3.4x to have a working slapd !!! > > What's wrong with 2.4.22 folks ? I don't think there's anything wron

Re: slapd crash the HP proliant DL360 at 8.0

On 28/giu/2010, at 09:50, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I had BIG trouble saturday morning with a HP proliant DL360 > that runs our directory server ( OpenLDAP ) > > Tha machine had crashed ... > > Anyone had the same trouble running slapd at 8.0 ? > > I must find out what happened , softwa

Re: [OT] ssh security

On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:59, Olivier Nicole wrote: Now Diffie-Hellman may help providing the trust for the fingerprint. No it won't. Trust goes either via a trusted third party as in PKI or the pgp chain of trust or via direct verification. In the latter case if you cannot establish tr

Re: Word processor for 6.1

Perry Hutchison wrote: >>> Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? >>> AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. >> What do you mean: which won't build? No problems here - I recently >> compiled both. They don't require the full gnome package. > > Both o

Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

Keith Phipps wrote: >My questions really come down to this; I'll be working with 4.x and > 6.1 boxes. Are there any global issues with them I should be concerned > about, something you guys as admins have to deal with regularly. I spend far more time on third party apps than the base system.

Re: IPSEC, am I missing something?

Jim Stapleton wrote: > What I found and added: > #ipsec: Required for VPN > optionsIPSEC#IP security > optionsIPSEC_ESP#IP security (crypto; define w/ IPSEC) > #ipsec optimsations > optionsFAST_IPSEC # new IPsec (cannot define w/ IPSEC) > optionsIPSEC_

Re: I915 3d acceleration - picture shifts

vvp wrote: > I use FreeBSD 6.1 on HP nx6110 laptop. After fresh installation the drm > module > for i915 didn't work. > I've found a patch for i915 to make it work. After that 3d acceleration is > works, but I've got another issue:when running KDE screensavers, picture is > shifted up. That is

Re: Ouch! "write failed, file system is full"

W. D. wrote: > How do I get out of this mess? > > gzip: stdout: No space left on device > Broken pipe > > df > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 9918398644-7395 108%/ > > I tried to do a backup: > > cd / > mkdir archive > tar -zcvpf /ar

Re: How to bypass loader.conf at boot

Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: > Hi all, > > I edited the /boot/loader.conf to add values for kern.maxdsiz and > kern.dfldsiz. > Unfortunately my server can not boot after that (the values are too > big). How can I bypass the loader.conf parameters at > boot? Or how I can change these values interactivel

ACPI:

Hi: I have multiple problems related to APCI and the ICH6 bus on a Sony VAIO: - A standard setup doesn't work, having enabled both ACPI and APIC the system grinds to a halt with CPU 85% on interrupts. Disabling APIC solved the problem. - APCI with all enabled causes the system to be unstable and

size of crypto file systems geli/gbde

Hi: I want to create encrypted memory filesystems for backup, and selective data destruction: If I have data from different users say, each user's backup will be stored as different encrypted file systems. Then I can selectively destroy data from one user by throwing away the key. Now, how do I e

Re: Finding IP Addresses (OT)

beno wrote: > Erik Nørgaard wrote: >> Lookup the ip with whois you'll get a network segment that has been >> delegated. You ISP may have multiple such segments, but it get's you >> further faster than finding individual ip's. >> > Thanks. I also r

Re: Finding IP Addresses (OT)

beno wrote: > Hi; > I'm configuring my IP filter and I need to figure out what IP addresses > I use (via SSH2) to contact my server. However, my ISP is DirecWay > bouncing off a satellite. I've got a sample IP address from > /var/log/messages and I'm sure over time I could collect a truckload, > bu

Re: Almost ready with diskless setup

Nagy László wrote: > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/30/diskless_clients.html This is quite old, things have changed. > 1. mount_nfs is complaining. It cannot update mounttab. However, the > mounttab is in /var/db and /var is not mounted yet. Is there a nice way > to supress these annoyi

Re: make distribution fails

Nagy László Zsolt wrote: > >> I do: >> >> # cd /usr/src >> # make buildworld >> # make KERNCONF=DISKLESS buildkernel >> # mkdir /var/diskless/FreeBSD >> # make DESTDIR=/var/diskless/FreeBSD installworld >> # make DESTDIR=/var/diskless/FreeBSD distribution >> # make DESTDIR=/var/diskless/FreeBSD KE

Re: make distribution fails

Nagy László Zsolt wrote: > >>> but the PR database is busy, I cannot read the details. >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >>> >> >> What version are you trying to install? On 5.X you gotta be in >> /usr/src/etc, but on 6.X this changed to /usr/src. >> >> Cheers, Erik >> > > I'm using 6.1 RELE

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

Chris Shenton wrote: > cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm using EPIA 5000 mini-ATX boards with 512 MB RAM, diskless booting >> from an NFS server. They load X.org and everything else on demand. >> Compared to local HDDs, there's a small performance hit when loading >> programs [and those

Re: make distribution fails

Nagy László Zsolt wrote: > I got this: > > messias# pwd > /usr/src/etc > messias# make distribution DESTDIR=/usr/local/diskless > cd /usr/src/etc; install -o root -g wheel -m 644 amd.map apmd.conf > auth.conf crontab csh.cshrc csh.login csh.logout devd.conf devfs.conf > dhclient.conf disktab f

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

Freminlins wrote: > You made the point with reference to security, not system recovery. That > is what I am contradicting. Security is often misunderstood to mean protecting against unauthorized access. But this is only part of information security. You need to protect your information assets su

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

Freminlins wrote: > On 01/08/06, *Erik Norgaard* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > you may > even want to mount it read-only for security. (I think these are good > advises on any system). > > > I used to agree with this (specifically the mantra was "mou

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

Yuan, Jue wrote: > What about the first question? curious too :-) http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ is a good bookmark to have when you accidentially delete a post you later want to look at. Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 C

How do I set hardware parameters?

Hi: I have a lot of problems with my new laptop (VAIO FJ3S/FJ1S) that seem to relate to conflicting hardware, it's been years since I've last had this kind of problems. The wireless nic doesn't work, it's on irq 10 but the first ifconfig causes an irq storm on irq 5. The USB doesn't work, it does

Re: Fetching install.cfg from a remote machine

Philippe LAQUET wrote: > I would like to know if someone has published some patch or found a > solution to perform a automatic installation via sysinstall but with a > remote (ftp/http/nfs) install.cfg file? I found some solutions using a > PXE boot disk and mount via NFS but don't want to put NFS

Re: How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

Chris T. wrote: > I"m toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move > the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it > off. I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can > swap setups on the thing by swapping cards. I don't see myself us

Re: smb issue

Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > After loading ichsmb, smbus and smb, dmesg reports: > > ichsmb0: port 0x1880-0x189f irq > 10 at device 31.3 on pci0 > ichsmb0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > smbus0: on ichsmb0 > smb0: on smbus0 > > > Then, mbmon -d -S gives: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/sveinhal]$ mbmon

Re: multiple hardware problems on Sony VAIO

Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am trying to get things up working (FBSD 6.1-STABLE) on a VAIO FJ3S >> notebook, but have trouble with some devices: cardbus, wireless network >> and sound. And I haven't even tried lookin

Re: Problem loading firmware, iwi driver

Yousef Raffah wrote: > Did you try iwicontrol iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss ? Yes, as I understand it from the documentation this is depreciated, anyway, I tried and I get: photon# iwicontrol iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss iwicontrol: Can't load firmware to driver: Invalid argument photon# iwicont

Problem loading firmware, iwi driver

Hi: I have a problem loading the driver for Intel 2200BG Wireless NIC, loading modules if_iwi and iwi_bss I see the following in dmesg: iwi0: mem 0xb0107000-0xb0107fff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci6 iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:16:6f:93:c9:75 firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bs

multiple hardware problems on Sony VAIO

Hi: I am trying to get things up working (FBSD 6.1-STABLE) on a VAIO FJ3S notebook, but have trouble with some devices: cardbus, wireless network and sound. And I haven't even tried looking at the built in camera, memory card reader or firewire ... It may be related, they are all on a ICH6 contro

SOLVED: configuring keyboard in xorg

Micah wrote: > I usually do X -configure, which will write out an auto-configured > xorg.conf in the current directory. Thanks! That did it, I got the config that xorg use after probing the devices, then I only had to set the keyboard preferences. Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818

Re: What FreeBSD users really want

sammy sumer wrote: > Here is what I would fix: > > 1.Reinvent the installer and interface. This has been beaten to death a zillion times. Please read the archives for opinions and why this won't happen any time soon. > 2.Integrate a PHP shell into the core of the system. Why? Install fr

Re: Mail system Suggestions

Gerard Seibert wrote: > I am setting up a simple mail system that will accumulate 20 people. I > already have Postfix installed. I was wondering what users would > suggest to complete the system. I was thinking of Cyrus-Imap or perhaps > Dovecot or maybe something else. I definitely want an imap sy

Re: DHCPd Will Not Listen on the Correct Interface

Serban Giuroiu wrote: > I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a machine with several NICs, > and I need to run different DHCP servers for different subnets on different > NICs. I installed isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.4_2 from ports with the default > options enabled (of importance: DHCP_PAR

Re: how to apply bios firmware update?

Dimitar Vasilev wrote: > Usually firmware updates require that you either run them to extract > some files that later you run under DOS or are targeted to run under DOS > when you boot directly. > Could you tell your brand - it could help a little? > FreeDOS or something like this should do - depen

how to apply bios firmware update?

Hi I have just downloaded a bios firmware update for my laptop, but it assumes that I run windows: close all programs, execute whatever.exe and reboot. Is there some utility that will allow me to update the firmware running freebsd or temporarily boot in some windows emulated environment? Thanks

configuring keyboard in xorg

Hi: I have installed xorg on a new machine, and things justed worked out of the box, with the exception of the keyboard layout. Now, I can't find the usual XF86Config anywhere, I see a sample xorg.conf.eg but editing this just setting keyboard layout and map I get an error getty repeating too

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

Marwan Sultan wrote: > hey guys! > > thanks for all of you, it was the fbsd boot loader, as eric suggested. > now its booting, > BUT :( > during booting it givis the following error > > Warning: System tempreture too high shutting down soon! > acpi_tz1: Warning current tempreture (0.0c) exceeds s

Re: ADSL Internet Sharing

andreas Sotirakopoulos wrote: > Hi, > I have some problems sharing my adsl internet connection > between my FreeBSD 6.0 Box (server) and my Ubuntu 6.0.6 > box (client). I use a crossover cable to connect the two PCs and > on the FreeBSD PC I have an onboard network card (fxp0) and > an wireless ca

Re: Boot hangs at "/bin/sh?", can't see USB keyboard

Chris Shenton wrote: > Any suggestions how to get it to see the USB keyboard in the boot? > This Dell box doesn't have a non-USB keyboard input. The keyboard usually works on the boot menu as the bios is in control. So, exit the menu to load the kernel modules you need, usb, ukbd and uhid I thin

Re: IMAP server alternatives

Pete Slagle wrote: > Nagy László wrote: > >> Are there any alternative IMAP servers that have good support (e.g. >> working mailing list, up-to-date documentation), and can share IMAP >> folders between users? > > I was a satisfied courier-imap user for several years. A few months ago > I switc

Re: Alt Gr key troubles in FreeBSD

nocturnal wrote: > Well i usually use vim and it's hard to know if it happens in other > applications, because i use vim so much compared to the other > applications and also because i mostly write those characters in vim. I > do use FreeBSD at home to and i can't remember any problems from writin

setting ntp-servers for ntpdate via dhcp

Hi: There is a dhcp-option, ntp-servers, to set which ntp-server to use. It would be quite useful with ntpdate. Does anyone have a patch to ntpdate startup script or other hack that use this option? - just before I start hacking myself... Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 we

Atheros 5414 chipset

Hi: I posted this one week ago, but no reply, I found a similar post in the hardware list's archive from February, also no reply: Is the Atheros 5414 chipset supported by the ath driver? (FBSD 6.1) The ath/ath_hal man-pages only mentions 52XX chipsets, but maybe they have not been updated. Goog

Re: Wire pickups.

Goerge Smith wrote: > I am making a computer, and I will be using FreeBSD for the OS. Well I > have a router that works for Windows only, is there a way to get a > wireless plugin to pick up the signal? If I understand you correctly that router is an independent device? In that case "windows only

Re: iwi-firmware

Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Derrick Ryalls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Prior to updating to 6.1, my Intel 2200 BG worked fairly well using >> iwi-firmware and wpa_supplicant. Now, the firmware fails to load so I >> cannot connect. I did some searching and some people recommend >> installing i

SOLVED: Error trying to portdowngrade sane-backends

Downgrading to 1.0.16_1 worked. Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signat

Support for Atheros 5414 chipset

Hi: I was looking at a 3Com WNIC (3CRDAG675B) and it turns out it's based on an Atheros 5414 chipset. According to the ath manpage, only cards based on 5212 chipset family is supported. Anyone knows if the driver also supports the newer chipset but manpage is outdated? or if another driver is ava

Error trying to portdowngrade sane-backends

Hi: I had my scanner working with a previous version of sane-backends (1.16), then I upgraded, system to 6.1 and sane-backends to 1.17 and it has not been working since: I get I/O errors or connection stalls, it seems to be a usb problem. To rule out that this is not just my laptop getting old I

Re: Question on 5.5-RELEASE "Open Issues"

Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wrote: > I'm being forced to upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4+ on a server. > Unfortunately, its an incredibly important server so I can't muck > around with it much. I'm looking to go to 5.5 to get a jump, but I > see in http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.5R/errata.html

Re: setting log_arp_movements to 0 at boot time

Al wrote: > My message log gets flooded by arp movement notices, but I'm able to > turn off these messages using the following command: > sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements=0 > > I read somewhere that I can add this line in my /boot/loader.conf file > to keep it set at boot time: > net.l

Re: FreeBSD on laptops

Derek Jander wrote: > Hi all! I'm considering to migrate my HP nx9030 from Windows XP > Professional > to *nix OS since almost all the servers I'm administering right now have > some Linux flavour installed. I was about to install fedora when some > firend > told me about FreeBSD. I just tested it

Re: autoreply postfix

Rodrigo Mufalani wrote: > I want configure postfix autoreply, for undelivery mails > > If one user does not exists. The short advice: do not. In the case you mention, user does not exist, your postfix should give a 5XX error back to the sending system. That system will then take care of error

Re: quota printing ?

Frank Bonnet wrote: > I'm searching for a centralized quota printing solution that would run > over CUPS or LPRNG , I've reviewed pyquota but it doesn't fit our needings. > > Ideally it could use a SYBASE database system as backend as we have a > SYBASE > server ... This is one of the admin task

Re: Help: Novice - Hardware Advice!

VeeJay wrote: > Thanks for your advice. > > Almost all pages will be generated dynamically (php). > > Bandwidth is ADSL with 1Mb Upstream and 24Mb Downstream. > (Don't know if it is enough?) First, your speed is likely 1Mbit and not 1Mbyte (1Mb) You can make some rough estimates once you have

kismet: madwifi_bg unknown capture source type

Hi: I have had this problem ... actually I think since I upgraded to 6.0. But I have just upgraded base and rebuilt kismet and the problem remains. Whenever I try to run kismet I get the following error: FATAL: Unknown capture source type 'madwifi_bg' in source 'madwifi_bg,ath0,default' I ha

Re: Can one user have more than one system mailboxes?

>> Can a user have more than one system mailbox? >> >> E. g., some ISP provides the next service: a client can make any number of >> mailboxes for himself using web interface. >> Almost all ISP are using UNIX. >> So, how they do this? >> Does that web interface create a new system user every time >

Re: Help: Novice - Hardware Advice!

Maan Jee wrote: > Hello friends and fellows > > Today, I wanna have some hardware advice: > > I wanna build A super duper FreeBSD Web Server Box with apache2, mysql5, > php, etc. > > But I am just unsure about what kind of hardware I should buy since I am > not > having a big budget but do have

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