Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread onsapoengo Ons
Hello ! It would be desirable to learn from experienced users OS - why FreeBSD does not concern the category serious systems at the overwhelming majority of manufacturers of hardware. More recently there were times when anybody from manufacturers did not notice Linux. However now it is possible to

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
manufacturers of hardware. More recently there were times when anybody from because managers/bosses concentrate on majority, not minority of users. manufacturers did not notice Linux. However now it is possible to find a few given out "put normal OS - their list is at us on a site and then

Re: FreeBSD /dev/fd0

2008-12-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am having issues configuring and using my external floppy drive on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. It's a parallel port floppy drive. /dev/fd0 is not present and dmesg shows fdc0: port 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FILTER] when using dmesg | grep fd parallel port is working properly

Adding Static Routes - Tricky situation

2008-12-07 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello list, I have a situation where I am connecting two sites using mpd. mpd5 is running at site A on server mode while mpd5 is also running on site B but on initiator mode. Site B establishes a connection to site B to complete the tunnel. This works so far, and users on the LAN on site B are abl

Re: FreeBSD /dev/fd0

2008-12-07 Thread Polytropon
As it has been mentioned before, it's questionable if there is any support for parallel floppy disk drives in FreeBSD. But there is support for USB driven external floppies, this is done via the ufd driver. On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:32:36 -0500, Cynical Nihilist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >

Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Redd Vinylene
On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to root's entry in my password file: root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment. Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on Sundays. Is there any way I can fix this on my own? Thanks y'all! -- ht

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Valentin Bud
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Redd Vinylene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to > root's entry in my password file: > > root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment. > > Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Redd Vinylene
Thanks guys. But I guess I'm all outta luck: $ sudo -s /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.5" not found, required by "sudo" On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Glen Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Redd Vinylene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On this ded

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Powell
Redd Vinylene wrote: > Thanks guys. But I guess I'm all outta luck: > > $ sudo -s > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.5" not found, required by > "sudo" > [snip] Don't know if this would help but you might try creating a file called libmap.conf in /etc and place in it: libutil.so

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 06:02:26AM -0500, Michael Powell typed: > Redd Vinylene wrote: > > > Thanks guys. But I guess I'm all outta luck: > > > > $ sudo -s > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.5" not found, required by > > "sudo" > > > [snip] > > Don't know if this would help but

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Powell
Ruben de Groot wrote: [snip] > > This advise is only helpful if you have root allready =) I've never figured out why people seem to always want to play with the root account the way they do, such as the favorite "I wanna use bash for root's shell"... Since the OP seems to want to keep playing w

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Joost Bekkers
On Sun, December 7, 2008 11:04, Redd Vinylene wrote: > On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to > root's entry in my password file: > > root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment. > > Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on Sundays. Is

Re: Error Kernel Compiling

2008-12-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:08:12PM +0100, Federico Cicciarella wrote: > > My Machine i: ASUS P5N-E, Celeron D 440, 1 slot PCI 10\100 Realtek > > > > > Configure Kenrel: > > machinei386 > cpu I686_CPU > ident ArrakisKernel > makeoptions DEBUG=-g

Re: QT4.5 packages

2008-12-07 Thread David Naylor
On Saturday 06 December 2008 22:19:32 matt donovan wrote: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can find many packages for several releases under > > > >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386 > >> ___

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Redd Vinylene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to > root's entry in my password file: > > root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment. > This is why you shouldn't edit password

Re: Error Kernel Compiling

2008-12-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 08:02:33AM +0100, Federico Cicciarella wrote: > > linking kernel.debug > if.o(.text+0x1027): In function `if_setlladdr': > /usr/src/sys/net/if.c:2646: undefined reference to `arp_ifinit' > igmp.o(.text+0x45): In function `igmp_sendpkt': > /usr/src/sys/netinet/igmp.c:472: und

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 09:40:46 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> manufacturers of hardware. More recently there were times when >> anybody from > >because managers/bosses concentrate on majority, not minority of users. That is plain good business sense. As Willy Sutton once r

Re: QT4.5 packages

2008-12-07 Thread Warren Liddell
I may be missing something here but Qt 4.5 has not been released yet. It has not even reached beta yet (and there are still lots of regression with regards to KDE but the regressions should be fixed by the beta). Qt 4.4.2 is in area51, you can use the following command to get a working copy o

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:04:00AM +0100, Redd Vinylene wrote: > On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to > root's entry in my password file: > > root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment. > > Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed o

Problem lauching Eclipse

2008-12-07 Thread Sdävtaker
Im trying to run last ports version of eclipse in FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE-p1 #0: Mon Nov 24 11:49:24 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC It starts and ask for env place, i select /usr/home/myaccount then start loading all the modules, and when getting to the last step crashes and

Timer driven tasks in FreeBSD 7

2008-12-07 Thread Yony Yossef
Hi All, What mechanism should I use for making my netwrok driver call a function every half a second, for instnace? I am already using task queues but I haven't found a way to make it work with a timer. Thanks Yony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Timer driven tasks in FreeBSD 7

2008-12-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 17:56:47 +0200, "Yony Yossef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > What mechanism should I use for making my netwrok driver call a > function every half a second, for instnace? > > I am already using task queues but I haven't found a way to make it > work with a timer. callo

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
> NVidia, for one, has expressed > a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization > to improve its basic product, especially in the 64-bit systems, which > are the future of computing. Does anyone know of any recent progress on a 64bit Nvidia Driver? there is mention of pr

Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

2008-12-07 Thread n j
> versions. The packages for a particular branch tend to lag the updates by up > to a couple of weeks although they are built continually. If you want to stay > really up to date you need to keep your tree updated with portsnap or csup > (part of the base system) and compile them yourself. Another

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does anyone know of any recent progress on a 64bit Nvidia Driver? there is mention of progress on this page http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545&page=24 most freebsd users don't need 3D at all, or don't need super-high-speed 3D. so simply don't use nvidia/ati ___

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If so, force it to reboot - maybe by pulling the plug if you have to then bring it up in single user mode. CTRL-ALT-DEL shutdowns the system unless it was configured not to. Remount root mount -u / Then use vipw to edit the file and remove that comment and any trailing blanks on that lin

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Ole Vole
If only 3D or "super-high-speed" has been affected by this driver. Regrettably most application simple is not usable, like video-players, google-earth, KDE4 - all of that on my desktop station with > 4Gb of RAM is looks&works like nightmare in vesa (xorg nv)-driver. And me too a very long ti

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 12/7/08, Ole Vole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If only 3D or "super-high-speed" has been affected by this driver. > Regrettably > most application simple is not usable, like video-players, google-earth, > KDE4 - all of that on my desktop station with > 4Gb of RAM is > looks&works > like nigh

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 08:29:32AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > > IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, > it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed > a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization > to improve its basic

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 07:18:08PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > most freebsd users don't need 3D at all, or don't need super-high-speed > 3D. Who is "most freebsd users"? I agree that there are more important things to worry about than nvidia/amd64 support, but: if you want to buy a computer

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 07:18:08PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >Does anyone know of any recent progress on a 64bit Nvidia Driver? > >there is mention of progress on this page > >http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545&page=24 > > most freebsd users don't need 3D at all, or don't

Re: geli authentication algo and newfs weirdness

2008-12-07 Thread Vinny
Vinny wrote: Hello Everyone, I've been reading up on geli and decided I wanted to use data authentication. This involves the -a switch on the geli init command. Here's what I've found: = No authentication (the disk size is correct @ 152G): the/root{143}~# geli init da1 Enter new passphr

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread prad
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:17 +0100 Uwe Laverenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who is "most freebsd users"? > i would think most are interested in running servers or routers or possible scientific applications or engaged in os study and appreciate its simplicity and consistency. i don't think it can

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Robert Huff
Paul B. Mahol writes: > Simple solution: > Pay them or someone to do it for you, or hack it yourself, or > wait for it little longer. Given nVidia has offered to write and maintain a driver ... if we're going this route, the correct solution is to pay someone to make the changes nVidi

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Powell wrote: > I've never figured out why people seem to always want to play with the > root account the way they do, such as the favorite "I wanna use bash > for root's shell"... Probably because most users are unaware of the harm that it c

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:20:49PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I don't even know if this has been done before, nor do I know for sure >>> if it's a sound comparison. Never the less, someone posted, in response >>> to someone else here ju

NFS UDP MTU

2008-12-07 Thread Charles Darwin
Hello to you all, I have a question about sharing a directory over my subnet. I have users downloading up to 3-4 G per session and obviously speed is crucial. I am thinking of going with UDP (accuracy is not an issue here). What is the best way to go about this? Is NFS the right pick? If

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Win2003 R2 NTFSRAID10-15 87 25 113 6425 11990 Ubuntu Server 7.10 ext3RAID10-15 129 60 167 36114 72562 Ubuntu Server 7.10 JFS RAID10-15 131 64 167 6638 4855 Ubuntu Server 7.10 Reiser3 RAID1

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> Win2003 R2NTFSRAID10-158725113642511990 >> Ubuntu Server 7.10ext3RAID10-1512960167 >> 3611472562 >> Ubuntu Server 7.10JFSRAID10-15131641676638 >> 4855 >> Ubuntu Server 7.10Reiser3

boot hangs on thinkpad x40

2008-12-07 Thread James Strother
Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1-Beta2 on my IBM thinkpad X40. Everything works fine while the system is connected to the dock, but when I boot with the dock disconnected the system hangs. With verbose logging enabled it appears to hang at either acpi_cmbat or acpi_acad (they appear to run i

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ZFS was very good, but not so much when compared to Linux file systems, ZFS in your benchmart is similar to UFS. Look at the read speed. it's faster on that benchmark. but i think low MAXPHYS may be a problem. i changed it to 1MB everywhere. ___

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-07 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Wojciech Puchar schrieb: it's faster on that benchmark. but i think low MAXPHYS may be a problem. i changed it to 1MB everywhere. I've found that increasing vfs.read_max increases read performance quite a bit in bonnie++ benchmarks. sysctl vfs.read_max=32 Uwe _

Driver Iwn in FreeBSD 7.1 ?

2008-12-07 Thread Espartano
Hi list. Someone know if the driver iwn will be included officially in FreeBSD 7.1 ? -- "Linux is for people who hate Windows, BSD is for people who love UNIX". "Social Engineer -> Because there is no patch for human stupidity" "The Unix Guru's View of Sex unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ;

FreeBSD kernel module and sending udp packets

2008-12-07 Thread Ferner Cilloniz
Hello everyone. I need help with documentation concerning how to send a udp or tcp packet from a kernel module. I have found this information for Linux but not for FreeBSD. Please help me. Thank you :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: FreeBSD kernel module and sending udp packets

2008-12-07 Thread Espartano
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Ferner Cilloniz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I need help with documentation concerning how to send a udp or tcp > packet from a kernel module. I have found this information for Linux but > not for FreeBSD. > > Please help me. > > Thank you :) I t