The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-11-07 - 2004-11-27

2004-11-28 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list arc

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 27 November 2004 11:49 pm, Rem Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > On Saturday 27 November 2004 11:27 pm, Rem Roberti > [1]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I sent this message to Joshua back channel, and realized that I should > have also sent it to the gro

maestro3 sound problem on Dell Inspiron 4000

2004-11-28 Thread Jason W. Barnes
I have been unable to get sound to work on my Dell Inspiron 4000 under FreeBSD 5.3. Until last Tuesday I was running 4-STABLE, under which sound would work, but only after I had put the computer to sleep (zzz), and then brought it back up. Before that, any attempt to play sound resulted

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-28 Thread Rem Roberti
Okay, it turns out that I was editing the wrong file. Instead of editing the configuration file that was in the /etc/src/sys/i386/conf directory, I was editing the configuration file that I had redirected to a new directory, as indicated by the handbook. I guess I was under the impression (newb

installing gcc in 5.3 Release

2004-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Fellows, I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 Release! I tried to run an executable from Linux. In linux this files takes: 3442 milliseconds to run. //g++-3.4.3 In freebsd it needs : 5992 milliseconds to run. So I tried to recompile the file in freebsd and it also needed 5992 milliseconds to

installing gcc in 5.3 Release

2004-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Fellows, I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 Release! I tried to run an executable from Linux. In linux this files takes: 3442 milliseconds to run. //g++-3.4.3 In freebsd it needs : 5992 milliseconds to run. So I tried to recompile the file in freebsd and it also needed 5992 milliseconds to

installing gcc in 5.3 Release

2004-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Fellows, I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 Release! I tried to run an executable from Linux. In linux this files takes: 3442 milliseconds to run. //g++-3.4.3 In freebsd it needs : 5992 milliseconds to run. So I tried to recompile the file in freebsd and it also needed 5992 milliseconds to

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Sunday 28 November 2004 01:25 am, Rem Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rem Roberti wrote: > > Joshua Tinnin wrote: > >>On Saturday 27 November 2004 11:27 pm, Rem Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>wrote: > >>>I sent this message to Joshua back channel, and realized that I should > >>>hav

rj-45 connector

2004-11-28 Thread johne edw
dear sir, i've 3 computers and i want to connect them togather as a workgroup network via a hub. i know that the both ends of cable must have the same sequense of color .please advice me if that the color sequence of wires connected to rj-45 connector is important or not?..i mean, in another wo

Make search dead in ports?

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Rowlands
Sometime fairly recently, make search in ports stopped working. I have installed sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex-1.1 so I suspected this was the villain but after removing INDEX and INDEX.db and doing a make index and portsdb -Uu make search still doesnt work. FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Wed Oct

Re: FreeBSD Printing

2004-11-28 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 12:12 -0800, gabriel wrote: > Nice, thanks for the replies guys. I was looking into this printer. > > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/18972-238444-410635-12085-f57-90805-90810-90811.html > > HP PSC 2175 All-in-One (Q3068A) I have an older model PSC 2110. Prin

Re: Custom Kernel

2004-11-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Sunday 28 November 2004 01:41 am, Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you ln -l /usr/src/sys/i386/conf you should see something like this: Of course, that was supposed to be ls -l ... - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

Re: rj-45 connector

2004-11-28 Thread Ian Moore
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:25, johne edw wrote: > dear sir, > i've 3 computers and i want to connect them togather as a workgroup > network via a hub. i know that the both ends of cable must have the same > sequense of color .please advice me if that the color sequence of wires > connected to rj-45 c

what does "rm //" delete?

2004-11-28 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I had a directory which contained the following: ls showed me simple this: "?" with 0 bytes ls -axl showed me nothing So I tried to delete the directory but could not succeed with "rm -R" because the "directory is not empty". I changed to the directory and tried to delete everything inside w

Timezone conversion

2004-11-28 Thread Jimmy Mäkelä | Loopia Webbhotell AB
Hi I'm trying to convert a date from one timezone into another using the date-command, but I can't seem to get it to work. The problem can be illustrated as below, though in reality I get the date from another source of course, otherwise I wouldn't have to do this. Take a date in some timezone

Re: Is this a hole in my firewall?

2004-11-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-28 04:48, Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 03:31:35AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > : AFAIK, rule 00300 will never be hit by packets going out tun0 as long as > : you also have rule 00200 in there. > > Hmmm here's a run after having the lapt

Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz

2004-11-28 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello Ted: Thanks for your help. I tried that before without success. I am going to download 4.10 floppies and I will tell you the result. Thanks. Ramiro. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3- RELEASE particularly the section:

Re: what does "rm //" delete?

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Ovens
Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I had a directory which contained the following: ls showed me simple this: "?" with 0 bytes ls -axl showed me nothing So I tried to delete the directory but could not succeed with "rm -R" because the "directory is not empty". I changed to the directory and tried to delete ev

RE: rj-45 connector

2004-11-28 Thread Joseph H. Fry
Look it up on the web... There are many many sites with good illustrations and such. Keep in mind that most people use the 568b standards. Just google for 568b wiring and one of the first few sites will probably be readable by you. Joe Fry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -Original Message-

Re: error downloading

2004-11-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Vijay Anand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is a local IP.Plz help me. Ah. So you are running your own cvsweb installation; that wasn't at all clear from the original message. I'm afraid I don't know anything about the cvsweb software itself; however, the first step is obviously to check on

Re: error downloading

2004-11-28 Thread Vijay Anand
Error msg doesnt show any hints on the line of code it throws the error..! Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/28/2004 08:02 PM Please respond to freebsd-questions To: "Vijay Anand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: Mysql Error 1135

2004-11-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Akhthar Parvez. K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am getting following error message while accessing mysql. > > ERROR 1135: Can't create a new thread (errno 35). If you are not out of > available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug > > What could be the problem?

Re: rj-45 connector

2004-11-28 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, johne edw wrote: please advice me if that the color sequence of wires connected to rj-45 connector is important or not?..i mean, in another word, is there a special sequense of color ? or any sequense of color will be valid when the both ends have the same color sequense ? h

Re: install & partitioning advice needed

2004-11-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"baldyeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using a FreeBSD 4.6 CD I have, I'd like to install on an > older system (P200). The machine has a 4 GB IDE drive and > another 4 Gb attached via SCSI. These seem to be recognised > as da0 and ad0. [Vice versa, actually...] > The SCSI adapt

Re: installing gcc in 5.3 Release

2004-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > So I decided to install from source gcc-3.4.3 in /usr/local in FreeBSD. > This is something which is a routine since I have done it millions of times > in Linux! The commands I used are the following: > > #cd /usr/local > #mkdir GCC-3.4.3 > #

discjuggler cdi image

2004-11-28 Thread arden
Hi all I've been given a dvd of images that are in disc juggler *.cdi format Ive googled around but not found any working solution I have no windows m/c here so any help would be appreciated Arden ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

lcdproc port

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Cullen
Just to tell you I got the newest version of lcdproc to compile (0.4.5). I don't have an LCD ready yet, so I don't know if it works.. but it compiles now. Attached is a tar of the patches in the 'files' directory. It seems there was no need for patch-port anymore, so I removed that and fixed t

Help with IPFW + NATD + Passive FTP

2004-11-28 Thread James A. Coulter
Hoping someone can provide a solution to the following problem: I am using a FBSD 4.10 box as a gateway/router/firewall between a cable modem and my home lan and its been working great for several months. All machines behind my firewall are able to connect to the outside world for http, e-mail,

Cyrus-SASL2-2.1.20 & MySQL crypt'ed passwords

2004-11-28 Thread klr
Hi, Could anyone make this setup work? The patch for 2.1.19 applies cleanly to the ports tree and I can build sasl, but it ignores the settings on smtpd.conf (mainly password_format: crypt). I can auth @ SMTP using the encrypted password I find at the database, but no luck using the plaintext pas

Re: rj-45 connector

2004-11-28 Thread John Barbieri
The sequence is important if your running high speed, like GigE, since each pair of wires is wound a bit different for the others. The sequence is: white/orange orange white/green blue white/blue green white/brown brown This is when holding the connector face down (eg, the clip is facing down) ht

Re: lcdproc port

2004-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
Mark Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to tell you I got the newest version of lcdproc to compile (0.4.5). > I don't have an LCD ready yet, so I don't know if it works.. but it > compiles now. > > Attached is a tar of the patches in the 'files' directory. It seems > there was no need fo

JDK Issues

2004-11-28 Thread Jake Stride
I seem unable to install JDK14: portupgrade -NRP jdk ---> Found 4 ports matching 'jdk': java/jdk11 java/jdk12 java/jdk13 java/jdk14 Install 'java/jdk11'? [yes] no Install 'java/jdk12'? [yes] no Install 'java/jdk13'? [yes] no Install 'java/jdk14'? [yes] yes ** Port

hdd error

2004-11-28 Thread Marta Resende
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Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread jason
Trey Sizemore wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my desktop machine (P4 2.8GHz with 512MB RAM) and cannot get my mouse pointer to move in KDE. It is a Microsoft Wireless Optical 2.0 mouse (USB) and I have the following section in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file: Driver "mouse" Option "Protoc

Re: rj-45 connector

2004-11-28 Thread jason
johne edw wrote: dear sir, i've 3 computers and i want to connect them togather as a workgroup network via a hub. i know that the both ends of cable must have the same sequense of color .please advice me if that the color sequence of wires connected to rj-45 connector is important or not?..i me

Re: Make search dead in ports?

2004-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 10:47:58AM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > Sometime fairly recently, make search in ports stopped working. > > I have installed sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex-1.1 so I suspected this > was the villain but after removing INDEX and INDEX.db and doing a make > index and port

RE: Cyrus-SASL2-2.1.20 & MySQL crypt'ed passwords

2004-11-28 Thread Marcel de Reuver
> > Could anyone make this setup work? The patch for 2.1.19 applies cleanly to > the ports tree and I can build sasl, but it ignores the settings on > smtpd.conf (mainly password_format: crypt). > > I can auth @ SMTP using the encrypted password I find at the database, but > no luck using the plain

Re: Remembering defines for port upgrades.

2004-11-28 Thread RW
On Saturday 27 November 2004 22:55, Adam Fabian wrote: >Is there any other/better way to remember build options so > that I don't have to remember them every time I build a port? If you use portupgrade, put your options in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf where there is a section in whch they can be

RE: Cyrus-SASL2-2.1.20 & MySQL crypt'ed passwords

2004-11-28 Thread klr
That is exactly my smtpd.conf , I don't understand why it doesn't work :/ The password_format directive was incorporated on 2.1.20 ? >> >> Could anyone make this setup work? The patch for 2.1.19 applies cleanly >> to >> the ports tree and I can build sasl, but it ignores the settings on >> smtp

VPN software

2004-11-28 Thread alexei kozlov
Hello, list. Just learning the FreeBSD and have one question: currently I am behind the firewall, and to go to internet I (my ISP) setup VPN in windowsxp. On one of my low profile machine (450MHz, K6-II) I set up FreeBSD. I setup ethernet adapter and can connect to other machines. But I can no

Solved: Lost MBR/wrong disk geometry

2004-11-28 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: Jeremy Faulkner wrote: 'fdisk -B' didn't work? Nope :-( I have installed gpart, it complians* dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=32 fdisk -BI ad0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s1 bs=512 count=32 bsdlabel -w -B ad0s1 did the job. I think I shouldn't have specified -w in the l

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Ovens
On Sat November 27 2004 22:26, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > > Trey Sizemore wrote: > >> I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my desktop machine (P4 2.8GHz with > >> 512MB RAM) and cannot get my mouse pointer to move in KDE. It is a > >> Microsoft Wireless Optical 2.0 mouse (USB) and I

Re: Make Depend

2004-11-28 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:57:51 +0100, Gert Cuykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:44:52 -0500 (EST), John Mills > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Freebies - > > > > > > > > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 09:43:17 +0100, Gert Cuyk

Re: Timezone conversion

2004-11-28 Thread ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐÐÑ ÐÐÑÐÐÑÐÐÐ
Jimmy MÃkelà | Loopia Webbhotell AB wrote: Hi I'm trying to convert a date from one timezone into another using the date-command, but I can't seem to get it to work. The problem can be illustrated as below, though in reality I get the date from another source of course, otherwise I wouldn't have

Error message with 'portupgrade'

2004-11-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
I just updated to FreeBSD 5.3. While running 'portupgrade' the following non fatal error message is displayed: Vulnerability check disabled, dada base not found I do not remember seeing this when I had version 5.2.1 installed. Obviously I have forgotten to do something, but I cannot remember what

Re: Error message with 'portupgrade'

2004-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:18:55PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I just updated to FreeBSD 5.3. While running 'portupgrade' the following > non fatal error message is displayed: > > Vulnerability check disabled, dada base not found > > I do not remember seeing this when I had version 5.2.1 insta

Re: Error message with 'portupgrade'

2004-11-28 Thread Chris
Gerard Seibert wrote: I just updated to FreeBSD 5.3. While running 'portupgrade' the following non fatal error message is displayed: Vulnerability check disabled, dada base not found I do not remember seeing this when I had version 5.2.1 installed. Obviously I have forgotten to do something, but I

Re: Error message with 'portupgrade'

2004-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 10:26:02AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:18:55PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > I just updated to FreeBSD 5.3. While running 'portupgrade' the following > > non fatal error message is displayed: > > > > Vulnerability check disabled, dada base no

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Trey Sizemore
Mark Ovens wrote: On Sat November 27 2004 22:26, Trey Sizemore wrote: Mark Ovens wrote: Trey Sizemore wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my desktop machine (P4 2.8GHz with 512MB RAM) and cannot get my mouse pointer to move in KDE. It is a Microsoft Wireless Optical 2.0 mouse

Re: Timezone conversion

2004-11-28 Thread jimmy
Quoting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Try the following: > 1. Output date in seconds from epoch > SECONDS=$(date ... "+%s") > 2. Change the time zone. > TZ=CET > export TZ > date -r $SECONDS Yes, but I have dates in the format specified in the earlier mail (with a different timezo

Re: what does "rm //" delete?

2004-11-28 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Oliver Fuchs thusly... > > I had a directory which contained the following: > > ls showed me simple this: "?" with 0 bytes > ls -axl showed me nothing Try ... ls -lia ... and then, note the inode number in left, your left that is, most column which will be

Re: what does "rm //" delete?

2004-11-28 Thread Chris
Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I had a directory which contained the following: ls showed me simple this: "?" with 0 bytes ls -axl showed me nothing So I tried to delete the directory but could not succeed with "rm -R" because the "directory is not empty". I changed to the directory and tried to delete ev

Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk

2004-11-28 Thread rain cip
Thanks, Joshua. This appears to be the easiest way to add multiple OSs. I installed gag and added another Linux OS parition in no time. Great tool! rain Joshua Lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:26:38 -0800 (PST), rain cip wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I can get some help

Kernel with PAE does not build

2004-11-28 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, we have in our IBM x345 Server 4GB of RAM. So we need the option PAE in our kernel. But a buildkernel gave me: /usr/src/sys/dev/amd/amd.c: In function `amd_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/amd/amd.c:466: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/

Re: what does "rm //" delete?

2004-11-28 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > for shell in sh csh tcsh bash ksh93 blah ^ ^ ^ ^ Sorry, that "blah" shell was there only to test for existence of a shell which i forgot to remove. Of course.

Re: Make search dead in ports?

2004-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:13:26PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 5:27 PM > > To: Mark Rowlands > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Make search dead in ports? > > > > On

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Ovens
On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless > version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light > purple color ). > Yes, same as mine. You did change ''moused_port'' in /etc/rc.conf to /dev/p

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Trey Sizemore
Mark Ovens wrote: On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light purple color ). Yes, same as mine. You did change ''moused_port'' in /etc/rc.

Starting gconcat / gstripe at boot?

2004-11-28 Thread Mac Mason
So, I have a pair of disks I'd like to put into a mirror with /usr on them; this is 5.3-RELEASE, so using vinum is out of the question. It looks to me like gstripe will do the trick; all that is necessary is that the module get loaded before boot tries to mount /usr. Can this be done? (I also ha

Server throwing "NMI ISA 20, EISA ff" messages

2004-11-28 Thread dpk
We have various servers, with various versions of FreeBSD throwing these NMI messages: NMI ISA 3c, EISA ff NMI ISA 2c, EISA ff NMI ISA 20, EISA ff There's no information about this anywhere that I can see, but at least two other people have had the problem according to Google searches. If tripwi

APM and/or ppp doing strange things

2004-11-28 Thread Emil Khatib
Hi list. I've got a very strange problem with FreeBSD 4.10 and APM. After waking up the machine after a zzz, ppp will dials up but nothing works; I have no ftp access, www navigators don't work, etc ... I've got FreeBSD installed on a HP Pavilion 8515. Everything else seems to work just fine. _

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Ovens
On Sun November 28 2004 19:35, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > >On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >>Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless > >>version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light > >>purple color ).

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Trey Sizemore
Mark Ovens wrote: On Sun November 28 2004 19:35, Trey Sizemore wrote: Mark Ovens wrote: On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light

5.3-Release/Stable Problems with ichsmb

2004-11-28 Thread Jochen Keil
Hi all. Recently i've got a dual Mainboard and one of the first things i tried was the smbus stuff. I knew that i had to put device smb and device smbus in my kernel configuration file plus a specific driver. After some googl'ing i figured out that i need the ichsmb driver in order to access the

Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz

2004-11-28 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello Ted and FreeBSD fans, I have tried the FreeBSD 4.10 boot floppies and they work. I am still thinking about why 5.3 fails. I have tried some hint.*.*.*="*" that I found searching on the Internet but it does not work. I would like installing FreeBSD in that old machine. I had Debian woody

Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-11-28 Thread Davis Doherty
I just put a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.10 from CD on my Presario 1610 laptop (ancient!), and I'm trying to get a Linksys WPC11 wireless card working with my home network. The wireless card uses the Prism 2 chipset, and was recognized when I plugged it in. I did 'wicontrol -n "my network SSID"' an

Re: Starting gconcat / gstripe at boot?

2004-11-28 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 November 2004 20:41, Mac Mason wrote: > So, I have a pair of disks I'd like to put into a mirror with /usr on > them; this is 5.3-RELEASE, so using vinum is out of the question. > > It looks to me like gstripe will do the trick; If you wa

Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-11-28 Thread Matthias Buelow
Davis Doherty wrote: The wireless card uses the Prism 2 chipset, and was recognized when I plugged it in. I did 'wicontrol -n "my network SSID"' and 'wicontrol -p try setting the ssid with ifconfig, and see if that makes a difference. -- Matthias Buelow; [EMAIL PROTECTED],informatik.uni-wuerzburg

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Trey Sizemore
Mark Ovens wrote: On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light purple color ). Yes, same as mine. You did change ''moused_port'' in /etc/rc.

Re: Make search dead in ports?

2004-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:16:13PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 10:47:58AM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > > > > > Sometime fairly recently, make search in ports > > stopped working. > > > > > > > > > > I have installed sysutils/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex-1.1 so I > >

Re: JDK Issues

2004-11-28 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Jake Stride wrote: I seem unable to install JDK14: portupgrade -NRP jdk ---> Found 4 ports matching 'jdk': java/jdk11 java/jdk12 java/jdk13 java/jdk14 Install 'java/jdk11'? [yes] no Install 'java/jdk12'? [yes] no Install 'java/jdk13'? [yes] no Insta

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Ovens
On Sun November 28 2004 22:22, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > >On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >>Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless > >>version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light > >>purple color ).

/dev/dsp busy

2004-11-28 Thread doug
I need help in finding the reason for the /dev/dsp busy message. fstat does not show any process using /dev/dsp. I am running 5.3 with xorg, kde 3.3. When KDE starts, /dev/dsp tests busy which directs arts to /dev/null. There are no processes using /dev/dsp. I can play CDs using either kcd or 'cdc

RE: Cyrus-SASL2-2.1.20 & MySQL crypt'ed passwords

2004-11-28 Thread klr
It is accessing the database properly. SASL isn't even trying to check vs an encrypted password, if I feed it (at the SMTP auth) with the encrypted password I find at the database, it will accept it (like if it was a plaintext-password) >> >> That is exactly my smtpd.conf , I don't understand wh

RE: Make search dead in ports?

2004-11-28 Thread Mark Rowlands
> -Original Message- > From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:29 PM > To: Mark Rowlands > Cc: Kris Kennaway; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Make search dead in ports? > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:16:13PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > > >

Re: Make search dead in ports?

2004-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:44:05PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > > Does it work if you use 'make fetchindex' to get a pristine index? > > > > Kris > > > That works fine Something must be broken with your locally-built index then. Can you make it available on a website somewhere so I can downl

Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-11-28 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 05:02:00PM +, Greg Lehey wrote: > Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please > let me know: I'm constantly updating it. I bought your book back in August...the 4th edition I think. Great book! I recently took on a job managing several

How to edit file in single user mode

2004-11-28 Thread Trey Sizemore
I made a typo in rc.conf and now am able to boot only into single user mode. I thought vi would be available to edit the file, but cannot execute it (vi not found). How can I edit my rc.conf at this point/ Thanks a lot. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: How to edit file in single user mode

2004-11-28 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I made a typo in rc.conf and now am able to boot only into single user > mode. I thought vi would be available to edit the file, but cannot > execute it (vi not found). How can I edit my rc.conf at this point/ After you drop into single user, say the

Marked as Broken - where next?

2004-11-28 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I was follwing this tutorial http://www.bsdnews.org/01/vcd.php but was halted abruptly when the build of transcode required mpeg4ip - which is marked as broken (Im running 5.3) So, I thought I would take a look at AcidRIP out of curiosity to see if it could help make a VCD but g

Re: Starting gconcat / gstripe at boot?

2004-11-28 Thread Mac Mason
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:08:29PM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: > An example - if you want geom_stripe.ko loading at boot-time just put the > line > 'geom_stripe_load="YES"' into your /boot/loader.conf. I actually just ended up adding the requisite options to my kernel; that worked just fine a

Re: How to edit file in single user mode

2004-11-28 Thread Trey Sizemore
Fernando Gleiser wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Trey Sizemore wrote: I made a typo in rc.conf and now am able to boot only into single user mode. I thought vi would be available to edit the file, but cannot execute it (vi not found). How can I edit my rc.conf at this point/ After you drop in

Re: [OT] Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Adam Fabian wrote: Does parity RAM reliably report on it's reliability? Nope. At least if you're talking about parity memory on FPM or EDO DRAM, which only has a fifty-fifty chance of even noticing an error, and a 1/9 (~11%) chance of reporting an error with the parity bit itself. Modern SDRAM

Re: Marked as Broken - where next?

2004-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:20:30PM +, Graham Bentley wrote: > > Hi All, > > I was follwing this tutorial http://www.bsdnews.org/01/vcd.php > > but was halted abruptly when the build of transcode required > mpeg4ip - which is marked as broken (Im running 5.3) > > So, I thought I would

Re: Marked as Broken - where next?

2004-11-28 Thread Manuel Rabade Garcia
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:20:30PM +, Graham Bentley wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I was follwing this tutorial http://www.bsdnews.org/01/vcd.php > > > > but was halted abruptly when the build of transcode required > > mpeg4ip - which is marked as broken (Im running 5.3) > > > > So

Re: hdd error

2004-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marta Resende wrote: everytime i compile any program, or make world, it gives me that: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=74623 anyone knows what's that ?thx I'd try replacing your IDE cable. Possibly something else is wrong, perhaps with your master/slave/CS jumper settin

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Trey Sizemore
Mark Ovens wrote: On Sun November 28 2004 22:22, Trey Sizemore wrote: Mark Ovens wrote: On Sun November 28 2004 18:28, Trey Sizemore wrote: Hmmm...not sure why mine's not working then. Is your mouse the wireless version? Mine says Microsoft Wireless Mouse 2.0 (it's kind of a light

Dear freebsd problem!

2004-11-28 Thread Rameez
Dear freebsd organization i downladed freebsd 5.3 legacy and all 4 discs i got there iso names are diferent indedd but when u burn them they all ahve same name except the boot disk whcih is fbsd_miniinst.iso so there si virtualy no way of telling if u got all 2 installation cd's or u sju got dup

Re: Mailing-lists behaviour on bounce

2004-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jeremie Le Hen wrote: I recently have a problem with my primary mail server and some mails have bounced today. Now, everything seems to work. I know that FreeBSD mail servers handle a very large amount of mail addresses, so I don't expect them to defer bounced mails for the next five days as clas

Re: /dev/dsp busy

2004-11-28 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need help in finding the reason for the /dev/dsp busy message. fstat does not show any process using /dev/dsp. I am running 5.3 with xorg, kde 3.3. When KDE starts, /dev/dsp tests busy which directs arts to /dev/null. There are no processes using /dev/dsp. I can play CDs

Re: Kernel with PAE does not build

2004-11-28 Thread Trevor S. Cornpropst
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 06:00 am, Axel S. Gruner wrote: > Hi, > > we have in our IBM x345 Server 4GB of RAM. So we need the option PAE in > our kernel. > But a buildkernel gave me: > > /usr/src/sys/dev/amd/amd.c: In function `amd_action': > /usr/src/sys/dev/amd/amd.c:466: warning: cast from poi

Re: Dear freebsd problem!

2004-11-28 Thread Adam Fabian
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:52:13PM -0500, Rameez wrote: > Dear freebsd organization i downladed freebsd 5.3 legacy and 4.10 is a legacy release. 5.3 is not. > all 4 discs i got there iso names are diferent indedd but when > u burn them they all ahve same name except the boot disk whcih They ar

RE: Dear freebsd problem!

2004-11-28 Thread AntonZ
Sorry, but how about just label them right after you burn them, one by one? Best Regards, Anton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Fabian Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 5:59 PM To: Rameez Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dear freebsd

Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk

2004-11-28 Thread Dev Tugnait
You can try out vlc i have had great success in playing dvds with it. * rain cip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD > from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and > ad3. My hardw

Re: Playing DVD movies with Xine

2004-11-28 Thread Dev Tugnait
I guess i made a little error and mailed it in the wrong topic sorry. Try out vlc its good for dvds. * RL ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed Xine from ports because I have been having very odd > issues with ogle. However, it says "there is no demuxer plugin to > handle /dev/acd0 Usual

Re: Installing libgnome-2.8.0 (really trying galeon)

2004-11-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello guys! > > I'm trying to install galeon (the lastes port version) for like the > tenth time and as always I haven't been successfull at all. When I try > to install galeon it goes through its motions of installing > dependencies and such until it reaches

Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-11-28 Thread Davis Doherty
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Matthias Buelow wrote: > >try setting the ssid with ifconfig, and see if that makes a difference. > I have already tried this (though I forgot to mention it), and it doesn't seem to make a difference. -Davis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: USB mouse support

2004-11-28 Thread Robert Huff
Trey Sizemore writes: > OK...making some progress now. I have these entries (except I'm > using /dev/psm0 for the time being) and now the mouse is jumping > to the upper left corner of the screen and flickering menus > mysteriously. Moving the mouse only causes the flickering. I > used an

Re: Problems with WPC11 wirelss card on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-11-28 Thread Jonathan Ben Ari
Does the access point show that the client is associated to it? I'm new to this list, so this may be a heretic question, but have you tried the card in a Windows laptop to see if it works there? On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:22:44 -0800 (PST), Davis Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 20

Re: JDK Issues

2004-11-28 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 28 November 2004 02:20 pm, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Jake Stride wrote: > > I seem unable to install JDK14: > > > > portupgrade -NRP jdk > > ---> Found 4 ports matching 'jdk': > >java/jdk11 > >java/jdk12 > >java/jdk13 > >java/jdk14 > > Ins

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