I realize this is probably not really a FreeBSD question, but I was hoping
someone had seen this before.
I am running isc-dhcpd 3.0.1.r14_6 on a FreeBSD 4.11-REL machine. This box
also serves as the primary gateway router and firewall (and general "network
services" machine).
All of my *nix
> Hi have an IDE drive (bit old) that is starting to develop bad blocks.
>
> Is there a tool to scan the disk and reassign/block (I don't care
> loosing some space on that disk) the bad bocks?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Olivier
Unfortunately, most ATA drives automatically map spares as they detect b
Guys/Gals,
One of my embedded machines died a while back after several years of service
(enough to erase my memory.). I am trying to rebuild the flash file system
on the machine, and ran into a snag. I'm attempting to manually install
4.11-REL on this system, as it is a rather old device with litt
Guys/Gals,
I have an old NCD Explora 451 thin client I no longer have room for, as well
as a copy of NCDware 5.1.140. (It's on a CD-R, but rest assured, it is a
real, licensed copy from NCD).
I also have another 451, but I think it has a bad ethernet port - it doesn't
pass a self-diagnostic. I
Guys,
I recently attempted to install FreeBSD 5.3-REL on a HP Pavilion XE746. This
system contains a TriGem Cognac+ mainboard, based on the Intel i810 chipset.
For the curious, it is running the HP branded 3.0.7 BIOS firmware. ACPI is
enabled be default, and can't be disabled - so that could be
Hello,
I recently decided to swap out the 3Com 3C905-TXM board in my router for a
dual port Compaq NC3122 (317453-001) dual port NIC so I could avoid using the
built-in NIC (the Intel ICH2 integrated fxp device) Ironically, I was told
that this board would perform well for this application.
The
Hello,
I have an existing FreeBSD based router/internet gateway system that is using
ipfilter & ipnat. It performs quite well, and my wife would be mightily
irritated if I screwed it up. :)
However, we have VoIP through Vonage, and a standard Comcast cable modem
connection to the Internet. Most
Robert,
I have a FreeBSD based router running on an Intel PIII board (D815EFV) that
uses a serial console. I redirect to com1/cuaa0 at 115 kbps. I also
configured FreeBSD to use a serial console as the primary console, and I
haven't had any problems with the router failing to boot, either with o
Guys,
I recently had a little run-in with lightning during a recent thunderstorm -
which destroyed my FreeBSD based router (along with a good chunk of my home
automation system...)
The machine had a VIA EPIA mainboard with a 933MHz processor. I had two 3Com
3C905C-TX boards installed for the r
Guys,
I asked about this during the reign of FreeBSD 4.7 - and no one had any ideas,
so I thought I would toss this question back out now that three new versions
have crept up - and none indicated any changes to the pcn driver.
I have a Compaq IA-1 internet appliance with an AMD 79C978 (PCnet/Ho
Daniela,
The ugen device means that there wasn't a kernel driver to handle the device.
I don't believe you can use the ugen device as a formatted device (like cuaa,
tty, etc).
What is the exact model of your modem? Most of the Alcatel SpeedTouch models I
looked at claimed to have a UTP network
Guys,
I would like to help out the kdevelop project by building and testing releases
on my system. However, as it comes from the project, the source won't
configure OR (if I managed to dink with the configure script enough to get it
to complete) compile on my system. This includes the released 3
> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:17:46 -0500
> From: "Daniel R. Curran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Firefox Process Not Exiting
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
> Seeing as the problem would now seem to be in t
Guys,
I recently built kdevelop3 from the ports tree, and it has been, to say the
least, a bit unstable. Has anyone else had any problems with it?
Specifically, after opening a project, it will crash out very easily. Closing
the project, adding files to the project - even closing the applicatio
Guys,
I was checking out the kde website, and noticed that there are (or were) two
critical bugs in the 3.2.0 release of kmail. (http://dot.kde.org/1075969434/)
Have these been fixed in the ports tree, or do I need to attempt to apply a
patch? (I would be affected by the pop3 filter bug.) I inst
Guys,
I discovered this while attempting to upgrade to KDE 3.2.0 on my FreeBSD
4.9-REL box last night. Unfortunately, kdevelop 3 won't build because of a
problem with autoconf. When I first started the upgrade, I apparently had
2.53_1 installed, so it complained that it needs 2.54 or later.
I t
Guys/gals,
I've got a curious networking problem with ipfilter/ipnat (or possibly ssh).
The firewall where I work allows only 4 ports to go through unmolested (i.e.,
no proxy servers/authentication). These are 21 (FTP), 22 (SSH), 23 (TELNET),
and 110 (POP3). I have three hosts at the house I wou
Hey guys/gals,
I forgot to include the versions! I'm using FreeBSD 4.8-REL, and apcupsd
version 3.8.6
Sorry, and thanks again!
Seth Henry
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Hey guys/gals,
I realize this may not be a FreeBSD problem, but I thought I'd post it and see
if anyone else has seen it. I want to connect an APC SmartUPS to a
"legacy-free" FreeBSD system. I recently used another of these USB to serial
converters with a home automation system, and it seems to
Guys,
I am, needless to say, still fairly new to programming under *nix - despite
months of learning. So far, I have been able to work out a lot of things, but
this issue with the select statement has me stumped.
I am attempting to listen to a serial port, and perform actions when data is
recei
Guys,
You can get a two slot chassis for a mini-ITX or flex-ATX board. The Travla
C137 can take a 2-slot riser, though you are limited to using a 2.5" HDD. I
used one of these chassis' for my primary router, with two 3Com 3C905TX NIC's
installed. Although present and working, I don't use the onb
Guys/Gals,
In another attempt to reduce my inventory of gadgets, I've decided to to a
bit more purging. This time, it's X terminals. Yes - I do have the server
side software for all of them, so they won't end up as doorstops.
2x IBM Netstation 1000 terminals. Nice, fast - but limited to 256 c
Guys,
I'm not sure if this is even a FreeBSD question, but googling hasn't turned up
much on it, so I thought I'd toss this one out there.
I have a Motorola SB5100 cable modem directly attached to a FreeBSD router
(running ipfilters/ipnat). The external network is a comcast segment, and is
assi
an accomodate a laptop (2.5") hard disk as
well as a normal 3.5" drive, so I went that route instead.
Regards,
Seth Henry
On Thursday 20 November 2003 13:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, J. Seth Henry wrote:
> > Guys,
> > Case Outlet*, and perhaps others
Guys,
Case Outlet*, and perhaps others by now, have the Travla Flex ATX / mini ITX
case that will accomodate two PCI cards. I have an 933MHz EPIA board with two
3c905TX-C NICs, and have seen a substantial improvement in performance over
my old Netgear router.
Trust me, the onboard NIC's are cr
Guys,
I know this doesn't *seem* like a FreeBSD question, but the problems started
after an upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9. I understand a lot of libraries got minor
version upgrades as well.
Has anyone had any problems using the Kdevelop editor? I find that it
occasionally hangs while typing. There d
Actually, I have noted this same issue, and both points are correct.
I have a Compaq IA-1 internet terminal which I converted into an X terminal.
The hardware (was) unmodified, and ran WinCE with no active cooling at all.
The little machine was perfectly stable, and in fact was designed to never
>Hi!
>
> Does anyone know if the Via EPIA 800MHz is supported in any version of
>freebsd. I tried it with 4.6.2 and it reboots as soon as kernel loads.
>Or do I need to enable any specific options in the kernel config.
>
>It has the following CPU-
>VIA C3 800 E-Series processor, 800 MHz
>
>I would
Hey gang,
I have been trying to build an Internet gateway using a 933MHz EPIA
mainboard, and a couple of 3Com 3C905C-TX NIC cards. The gateway works
great, under low load - but has a problem with dropping connectivity
under load.
At first, I thought it might be the VIA LAN port, a vr device. Howev
Hello,
I (finally) have my FBSD 4.8-REL internet gateway running, and have
replaced my old Netgear router with the new machine. Everything works
except for dynamic DNS updates. In fact, my Cisco ATA actually works
BETTER through the new router :)
I have found several dynDNS updater programs, but t
Hello all,
I could use a bit of help with a networking problem. I am trying to
replace a dying Netgear RT314 with a FreeBSD 4.8-REL system configured
as an Internet gateway.
My network is as such:
\
|
/-
Hello,
I'm trying to use the comserv daemon in the ports tree to share a SIIG
Cyber 4S multiport serial board. The ports work locally, and it appears
that comserv is, in fact, working. However, I can't write to the ports
once I open them on the remote end.
I don't think it is a permissions problem
quick question, though - how much RAM should I install in this
beast? I have a 65Mb DIMM laying around, but I could probably pull some
128's from my Windows box if need be.
Thanks,
Seth Henry
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 11:16, Mykroft Holmes IV wrote:
> J. Seth Henry wrote:
>
> > Hello,
Hello,
I have recently been having problems with my Netgear RT314 broadband
gateway router. Having decided to replace it, I started searching for a
new router - only to discover that every sub $300 router I found had a
history of problems. Lockups, random reboots, or worse, they would just
turn int
Not sure if this is the right list or not, but I could really use some
pointers.
How can I code trap serial port interrupts in my C program?
For example, I want to read values from a serial device every
user-specified number of seconds, calculate some stuff and then sit for
a while. Should the se
>
> I haven't really looked at the sio driver, but I doubt it, it still
> works with the 8250, which only had one IO address (tell it what you
> want to do, read the result, tell it what you want to do, send it info,
> tell it what you want to know, read the info it has.
ay wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:00, J. Seth Henry wrote:
> > Not sure if this is the right list or not, but I could really use some
> > pointers.
> >
> > How can I code trap serial port interrupts in my C program?
> >
>
> For any modern hosted system inte
eturn your kernel to something closer
to the baseline.
Regards,
Seth Henry
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 13:18, stan wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:34:14AM -0400, J. Seth Henry wrote:
> > All you need in your kernel config is 'device puc'. You already appear
> > to have thi
All you need in your kernel config is 'device puc'. You already appear
to have this in your config, as your system detected the adapter.
You will have to "sh MAKEDEV cuaa" (where 0 < n < NUM_PORTS) to get
the device nodes in your /dev directory.
Alternately, since they have sequential minor numbe
e the only thing running on the BSD box.
Thanks,
Seth Henry
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 23:29, LLeweLLyn Reese wrote:
> "J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi gang,
> > I've recently started using NCD Explora's to connect to my FreeBSD
>
Hi gang,
I've recently started using NCD Explora's to connect to my FreeBSD
server. They are quiet, reasonably fast, and small. Unfortunately,
NCDware has some odd quirks.
The first is that it only supports a two-button mouse. What's odd is
that when I run xev, it reports button1 and button3? (I h
I know this is a bit offtopic, but I'm hoping someone can help out.
I have a couple of NCD Explora 451 X terminals I picked up on the cheap.
They came with NCDware 5.1.140. Presently, I'm connecting to a FreeBSD
server running 4.8-REL with KDE 3.1.
The problem is that I've been getting random ker
Guys/gals,
I have been experiencing an odd problem with my NAS setup. I finally got
things to work, sort of.
I have a small FreeBSD 4-8-REL system running nasd (NAS 1.6). I want to
connect to it via a separate machine on the network.
Now, I CAN play simple .WAV files via auplay, and this works. I
Hello,
I recently split up my FreeBSD server into two machines. One is a small
ITX based system than [is intended to] handle audio and home automation.
I installed nasd 1.6 on this machine, and it appears to be loaded (I can
telnet to port 8000 and it connects), but I can't actually use it. So
far,
It isn't just an X problem, it's also a KDE problem. I ran into this recently,
after installing some IBM netstations on my network. When I attempted to use
anything other than the fixed fonts in Konsole, I would get this strange
spacing and video corruption. On my system console, they work fine.
Jay,
I'm on Comcast in MD, and my DHCP lease is a bit longer - on the order of 3
months. Not sure if that is because I am a holdover of @Home or what. Just a
note of caution, though. Comcast doesn't technically allow any kind of
server. They will tolerate SMALL servers that don't generate a lot
Ok, I'm not sure if this will work (or if it does, how well), but I'm
curious to see what happens.
I have one of the older Happauge WinTV boards (that is supported by
FreeBSD). Unfortunately, the only machine with an open PCI slot is my
headless server. I have a number of IBM netstations attached
Actually, this should work, but it will require some twiddling with the
disks partition table in disklabel. I used to have an old drive array with
a bunch of HP labelled Seagate ST32550WD drives. For some unearthly
reason, some of the drives were formatted to have only 2 billion bytes
(2000MB), not
I have had very good luck with the Linksys USB100TX adapters. I have four
of them supporting small X terminals, and they have turned out to be more
reliable than the terminals (they crash for reasons unrelated to their
network connections). They also have decent performance for a USB 1.x
device.
I
I was somewhat distraught to find that after all my trouble, the "package"
was little more than a bunch of HTML files. ARGH! Unfortunately, for me, I
discovered this after mucking with the configure script.
Anyway, I discovered that the --enable-mt option in the configure script
was only allowed o
extra-libraries/includes option for the configure script. It now
finds the jpeg libraries.
Thanks,
Seth Henry
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:57:24PM -0400 or thereabouts, J. Seth Henry seemed to
> write:
> > I recently started playing around wit
I managed to get rid of some of my surplus gear, but not all.
I had a fellow claim the serial terminal, and some of the K6 CPU's, but
never got back to me with an address. If you still want these items, let
me know.
I had someone else looking for a K6 CPU, but my emails have been bouncing.
Right
I recently started playing around with Kdevelop 2.x on my server, and
found it much improved over the older releases. Getting into it, I decided
to download and compile the C/C++ reference documentation, and ran into a
snag. I'm not sure if it is because the configure script is having
problems runn
Wow - most of the stuff in the list was claimed in a half hour. Anyway,
the following items are remaining:
1) tray of 4 AMD K6-2 266 CPU's
2) AMD K6-3+ mobile processor with heatsink/fan. Not sure if it works
3) Compaq RAM module for 386LTE
4) 4x 1Mb 30-pin SIMMs
I've decided to roll the Paralan
Ok, I've about finished going through the closets and boxes, and I have
the following:
9) Tray of 4 K6-2 266MHz processors.
10) K6-3+ (mobile) processor. Not sure if it works, though. The system it
was in was dead. I know the mainboard was dead, but I'm not sure if the
CPU bought it with the boar
I live near Baltimore, Maryland (US) ZIP is 21113
Regards,
Seth Henry
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, MaryAnne Olsen wrote:
> What is your zip code?
> - Original Message -
> From: "J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED
I have a bit of functional, but older equipment I hate to throw away, but
no longer have the space to keep. If anyone is interested, it's yours for
the price of (actual) shipping. Some of this stuff might be able to go on
eBay (and may, if no one claims any of it), but I'd rather see if any of
my f
Eric,
First, you didn't mention how fast the clock was under FreeBSD. If you
are talking about minutes/seconds, then you can use ntpd to keep the
clock in line. If you have permanent network access, then you can
actually keep your clock to within a few milliseconds of the NIST/Navy
"official" time.
It turned out to be a problem with dhclient. It wanted to write to
/etc/resolv.conf which was on a read-only file system at the time.
Eventually, it crashed out - perhaps trashing the interface configuration
on its way down.
I moved resolv.conf to /usr/local/etc and symlinked it in /etc - and the
That did it - I copied resolv.conf to /usr/local/etc and created a
symlink. dhclient runs properly, and now I can remote reboot without
making a visit.
Now if I could just figure the /dev thing out...
Thanks again for the help!
Seth Henry
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Dan Pelleg wrote:
> "J. Se
Dan,
That's an interesting idea on the resolv.conf, but /var/db is on a
writable file-system. I'll try creating a symlink to a copy of resolv.conf
in /usr/local/etc and see if that clears things up.
Thanks,
Seth Henry
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Dan Pelleg wrote:
> "J. Seth Henry&
Ok, I think I just qualified for an idiot award. After a little more
poking around, I discovered that it was the read-only filesystem that was
causing the problem. I rebuilt the microdrive image, and included a
special /dev this time - which I mount over the original /dev. Now, I
don't seem to be
I appreciate the help so far in trying to get these X terminals going.
Unfortunately, I have discovered another oddity, this time with sshd and
dhclient. I'm not sure if they are related or not.
The first is with sshd. Randomly, and for no apparent reason, sshd will
refuse to allow logins. Instead
maller.
Thanks for the help,
Seth Henry
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The trick is, if I make / read-only, I run into problems with /dev. During
> > boot, I get numerous error messages - and things d
I think this came up a while back, and no one had any clues, but this
device doesn't seem to be fully supported in 4.7-REL. The adapter itself
is, but I always get an error message about there being no supported PHY's
- which is interesting, because there are actually two MII phy's in the
ASIC.
He
I have managed, through hook and crook, to get a full 4.7-REL install on a
Compaq IA-1 internet appliance. I put a kernel, /bin, /etc, /boot, /dev,
/proc, and a partial /sbin on the internal flash memory. During boot, I
mount a complete /sbin, /usr and on a microdrive. Since I want to
reduce the n
I appreciate all the helpful comments regarding programming under FreeBSD.
I think I have enough to take another stab at it. I also discovered that
the developer's handbook has a lot of useful info - though it seems the
chapter on signals is missing?
Thanks again,
Seth Henry
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I realize this isn't exactly on topic, but I figure a bunch of you
guys/gals have probably done stuff like this, and might know where to
point me.
I am trying to write an automation program in FreeBSD that listens for
commands on a serial port, and responds by issuing commands in response. I
also
Mark,
I have an APC 750XL smart UPS powering my server and home automation
setup. I have taken to using the PowerChute software provided by APC under
linux emulation, which works quite well so long as you modify the shell
scripts for use on a BSD system.
I haven't tried running the apcupsd daemon,
Thanks much for the help so far, but this X terminal project is
reminiscent of the dutch boy and dike. Everytime I get one thing working,
something else goes screwy.
I now have X starting automatically by initd, and it connects to an xdm
application server. This works correctly, and I can log in a
I know this is probably an obvious question, but so far my attempts at
writing a script to do this have failed.
I would like to launch X windows at boot, and have it query an xdm server.
I attempted to put a script with:
#/bin/sh
/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query whitetower
in my /usr/local/etc/rc.d direc
I strongly suspect you have a hardware problem. Either in the controller,
or one of the disks. It is possible that something is crapping out in
vinum, or in the kernel, but I've dumped massive amounts of data to a
vinum raid5 volume before, and it didn't even burp - much less crash. I've
also had b
I know this is probably going to be an odd question, but is there a way to
create true "linux" shell within FreeBSD, capable of running linux gcc and
creating a linux binary?
I want to play with Midori Linux, which involves compiling a lot of Linux
source, for Linux. Dual booting is out of the que
I recently built a small server with a SuperMicro 370DL3 mainboard, only
do discover that neither healthd nor lmmon support the environmental
monitoring interface on the ServerWorks chipset.
Does anyone know of a tool that will work with this chipset?
Thanks,
Seth Henry
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I have noticed that my Compaq IA-1's (AMD K6-2/266 & VIA chipset) run
substantially hotter under FreeBSD than under Linux. I didn't realize just
how much until the machines began spontaneously rebooting under load.
Right now, I have a minimal 4.7R install (with X) running from a
microdrive - but I
getting 'local' storage might
stabilize things.
Have you gotten the backlight control code ported over to FreeBSD for
these
rigs? I'd love to have a screensaver module that just shut the LCD down.
Joshua Coombs
- - Original Message -
From: "J. Seth Henry" <[EM
Don't rule out hardware problems. I have been working with 4.7R on an
IA-1. The power supplies in there aren't the greatest, and I've had
problems with wireless keyboards loading the units down to where they had
problems booting.
I would suggest you get a self-powered USB hub, and make all your
co
I have a system with an onboard ethernet controller, the above mentioned
PCNet32/Home device. Instead of using the two onboard PHY's, there is an
external 10/100 PHY. Both are detected by the kernel, but in the wrong
order. As such, the pcn device fails because it can't find any MII PHY's,
and a fe
I asked almost the exact same question a month ago, and more recently a
few days ago. Apparently no one has been able to get xdm to work across
a network in FreeBSD, or they felt it was some rite of passage and didn't
want to spoil the surprise. Having tried for a month to get it to work
correctly,
Hello,
I am working on adapting FreeBSD to a Compaq IA-1. The display on this
system is not DPMS compliant, so shutting off the backlight requires
writing to a PCI register.
I currently have a small C program which I can use to manipulate this
register from the command line, and I would like to ei
Hello,
I have been struggling with setting up an X host and X terminals for a few
weeks now. I figure it's time to stop and ask for directions :)
I have a FBSD 4.7R server which I intend to host X sessions from. It has
the libraries for Xfree86 4.2.0 and runs icewm. (X does work, but isn't
normall
Randall,
I took a look at the adapter, and it appears to support multiple formats.
This could be the source of your problem. I use a much simpler CF -> IDE
adapter for programming FreeBSD images to CF devices for use in embedded
systems. My adapter has an IDE header, CF slot and LED - that's it. CF
The Wake on Lan functionality operates below the operating system level.
It's actually a signal to the mainboard that simulates the power button
(though it can only turn a system "ON" as far as I know). This feature
should work fine for any system whose BIOS supports it, though I can't
imagine turn
I have a working install of FBSD 4.7R running on a 340MB microdrive. It's
not terribly fast, but it seems stable. My only problem is that the
Netgear USB NIC craps out randomly after a few days, and FreeBSD doesn't
really support the Linksys USB100TX, even though it claims to.
I'd be interested to
Mark,
I saw your post on freebsd-questions, and I should point out that you can
get the RJ45 -> DB9 adapter for free from APC. It took about two months
for some reason, but you might be able to speed that along if you give
them a call. You should have gotten a card with the unit, which entitles
you
I am about to install an AprilAire 8870 communicating thermostat to add
HVAC control to my home automation setup. Has anyone written anything for
this thermostat (or the statnet protocol) for FreeBSD?
Alternately, if I indeed have to write my own interface program, where
can I find example code th
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