Re: freebsd forgets root password

Kevin Kinsey wrote: kalin m wrote: """ does anybody here know if freebsd has a driver for Marvell 88E8057 nic chip? according to the kernel list of drivers (7.2) marvell chips are driven by the msk driver. but it doesn't show up in pciconf, dmesg or sysinstall strangely enough 88E8057 i

Re: freebsd forgets root password

kalin m wrote: """ does anybody here know if freebsd has a driver for Marvell 88E8057 nic chip? according to the kernel list of drivers (7.2) marvell chips are driven by the msk driver. but it doesn't show up in pciconf, dmesg or sysinstall strangely enough 88E8057 is not in the list in

Re: freebsd forgets root password

kalin m wrote: hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it. i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!? what can be the reason? Can you clarify a bit? Do

Re: freebsd forgets root password

Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:41:31 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips wrote: With how flimsy the entry-level keyboards are these days, it may be *almost* as likely ;) Entry level? Ha! All "modern" keyboards... :-) actually the one i'm using was entry-level maybe about 15 ye

Re: freebsd forgets root password

Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:15:19 -0400, kalin m wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: man msk many times msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere If you have if_msk_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf, it should. A message for dmesg is issued at the m

Re: freebsd forgets root password

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:41:31 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips wrote: > With how flimsy the entry-level keyboards are these days, > it may be *almost* as likely ;) Entry level? Ha! All "modern" keyboards... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, .

Re: freebsd forgets root password

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:15:19 -0400, kalin m wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: > > man msk > many times msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere If you have if_msk_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf, it should. A message for dmesg is issued at the moment the driver is loaded successfull

Re: freebsd forgets root password

> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:46:03 -0500 > From: Adam Vande More > Subject: Re: freebsd forgets root password > To: kalin m > Cc: freebsd-questions > Message-ID: >     <6201873e0910231846j4386baa9g3bd3eab21fed1...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; chars

Re: freebsd forgets root password

not really... i checked. many times. even for num loc. which doesn't matter... amnesiac is the name freebsd uses when no hostname is set. in this Amnesiac is the release name i think... man msk many times msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere now... the wirel

Re: freebsd forgets root password

thanks adam. Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM, kalin m > wrote: hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it.

Re: freebsd forgets root password

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM, kalin m wrote: > > > hi all > > this is really weird. > i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least > 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it. > i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!? > > what

freebsd forgets root password

hi all this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it. i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!? what can be the reason? it'a brand new install of freebsd 7.2 amd6