Re: programs...

2009-01-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:43:09AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:03:29PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Guys, > > > > I've going to give away what I think could be at least a > > multi-thousand dollar idea, something we nearly have already. > > And a

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, nvidia-driver, GeForce 8500 GT

2009-01-10 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
perhaps, I need to deinstall and reinstall nvidia-driver after having changed boot/loader.conf? g. On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 1/9/09, Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Giuseppe Pagnoni >> Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-10 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > > > > I'm in the process of sync'ing up my system with source . . . but, in the > > meantime I'm wondering about the choice of Broadcom driver. Is it really > a > > matter of trying different ones? > > It was for me. It took me 3 tries before

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-10 Thread Glen Barber
Neal Hogan wrote: Well, it took me all day, but I did synch-up the source with the kernel. However, being new to the ways of fBSD I (accidentally) ended up building the -CURRENT source and kernel (8.0). I tried ndisgen on the latest driver and it didn't work . . . I'll tell you why in a secon

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zhang Weiwu writes: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC? >> > You mean ACPI? No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you can do that without compiling a special kernel for it, so it may not be worth trying. > You mean

Re: kernel panic

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kamlesh Patel writes: > Hi there, > > I changed the following file of FreeBSD 7.0: > sys/boot/forth/beastie.4th > > variable rebootkey > variable mykey (added line) > > I built and installed kernel, then i reboot the system, it gives me the > following error: > > -

Re: 7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frank Bonnet writes: > I've installed 7.1 onto our mail exchager (MX) then it suddendly stopped > to work last night with the following message > > watchdog bge0 timeout > > > The machine is a HP pc which was doing the same service at 6.3 without > that kind of trouble Could be hardware trouble,

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-10 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/10/09, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Zhang Weiwu writes: > >> Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >>> Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC? >>> >> You mean ACPI? > > No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you > can do that without compiling a special kernel for it

FreeBSD 7.1 and ftpd

2009-01-10 Thread Alexander Panyushkin
Hi. I update FreeBSD 7.0 --> FreeBSD 7.1 ftp for local user not work, but anonymous - permit to login. # uname -srp FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p1 i386 # ps aux | grep ftpd | grep -v grep root 1922 0,0 0,1 3444 1380 ?? Is 15:58 0:00,00 /usr/libexec/ftpd -D -l -U #tail /var/log/xferl

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-10 Thread stan
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 04:57:45PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > stan wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:33:46AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> stan wrote: > >> > >> I'll describe the test setup that I used within a VM to configure things > >> inline. The software does not necessarily match

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-10 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:22:36AM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:03:32PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > I am trying to get the ampcache port working on a 7.1 machine. > > Just wondering if you've resolved the problems you had with this. No, I had a bust week at work, and

Portsnap problem: "gunzip: unknown compression format"

2009-01-10 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
I've been getting this for the last three days even though there where no changes at all in my system. r...@inferna:~ # portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. U

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread gpeel
Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. I ahve been to the windows recovery console many times and ran the Fixboot, Fixmbr commands, being very meticulous about the paramaters etc. I ahve also tried reinstalling the FreeBSD boot manager

wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread gpeel
Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if="/dev/0" of="/dev/da1" bs="1024" Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:36:33AM +, RW wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file > > system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to > > FAT32. > > Not a good idea.

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:46:54PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 2:09 PM -0800 1/4/09, David Christensen wrote: > > > >I have changed the root shell to Bash on another machine I use as a CVS > >server and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I've been wondering if > >I'm setting myself up fo

Re: wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:55:41PM -0500, gpeel wrote: > Hi all, > > When dd is used like: > > dd if="/dev/0" of="/dev/da1" bs="1024" > > Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does > it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Yes

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:52:07PM -0500, gpeel wrote: > Hi all, > > Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and > Windows boot back. > > I ahve been to the windows recovery console many times and ran the Fixboot, > Fixmbr commands, being very meticulous about the pa

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry, Maybe true. When this all started I used the ISO disk from the Symantec site to remove GoBack. I assumed in doing so ('unhooking GoBack from the MBR), that it would replace the original windows one. It may also be worth noting that this disk -had- a recovery partition on it once upon

Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Hi. I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting basic ethernet connectivity working. I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old virus software called 'Vista' on that connection. The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine recognis

Re: wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"gpeel" writes: > When dd is used like: > > dd if="/dev/0" of="/dev/da1" bs="1024" > > Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does > it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Assuming you mean /dev/zero, yes. -- Lowell Gilbert, e

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"David Christensen" writes: > freebsd-questions: > > I'm building a fresh Amanda server using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386: > > > http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=misc&portname=amand > a-server > > > Most of my software background is GNU/Linux. I would prefer using the > Bash s

[Re: wiping a drive with dd]

2009-01-10 Thread Derek Funk
I would use System Rescue boot disk from www.sysresccd.org It has gparted which I would use to delete all partitions and create new. Thats considering you have a functioning pc to access the net and burn an iso with. Derek Original Message Subject:wiping a drive with

Re: wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if="/dev/0" of="/dev/da1" bs="1024" dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1m (or at least 64k for block size, unless you have too much time. Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and cont

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
William Gordon Rutherdale writes: > I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble > getting basic ethernet connectivity working. > > I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the > old virus software called 'Vista' on that connection. > > The ifconfig util

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/10/09, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: > Hi. > > I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting > basic ethernet connectivity working. > > I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old > virus software called 'Vista' on that connection. > >

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
RW wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good idea. Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg

freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Franck Royer
Hi, I tried to upgrade my system from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE. I first do a 'freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE' without any problem. Then I do 'freebsd-update update' and I have this output : r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not

Re[2]: Best torrent client/server available for FreeBSD?

2009-01-10 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Justin. Вы писали 8 января 2009 г., 5:54:14: >> I have found myself to like rtorrent, which is a very powerful console >> torrent client. JJ> I've been using transmission-daemon recently and I'm getting JJ> comfortable with it. I like the fact that it can be controlled via a JJ> we

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Franck
Yes, it is, I will try Like you say. Thank you Franck 2009/1/10 Toni Schmidbauer : > At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:24:30 +0100, > Franck Royer wrote: >> r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install >> Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not supported > > i think i had the same problem updat

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:24:30 +0100, Franck Royer wrote: > r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install > Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not supported i think i had the same problem updating one machine from 7.0 to 7.1-BETA2. any chance that this file is on an zfs filesystem? if ye

kernel: WARNING

2009-01-10 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Questions. Jan 10 22:26:13 kes kernel: WARNING: attempt to net_add_domain(netgraph) after domainfinalize() Does this messages harmfull or not? How to solve this warning? -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru _

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Saturday 10 January 2009 21:20:26 Toni Schmidbauer wrote: > At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:24:30 +0100, > Franck Royer wrote: > > r...@methrilla ~ $ freebsd-update install > > Installing updates...chflags: ///.cshrc: Operation not supported > > i think i had the same problem updating one machine from 7

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:18:57 +, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > If you are using version 13 of ZFS - you just need to run zfs upgrade -a thanks for the hint, i think you mean 'zpool upgrade'. as far as i can tell fbsd 7.1 only supports version 6, this is what 'zpool upgrade -v' tells me. if i rec

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Tore Lund
gpeel wrote: > Hi all, > > Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and > Windows boot back. [snip] I know it won't help you now, but for the general case: It is a very good idea to save MBRs. Restoring an MBR is a quick and painless way to bring back a former state o

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-10 Thread Franck Royer
Toni Schmidbauer a écrit : > At Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:18:57 +, > Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > >> If you are using version 13 of ZFS - you just need to run zfs upgrade -a >> > > thanks for the hint, i think you mean 'zpool upgrade'. > > as far as i can tell fbsd 7.1 only supports version 6,

does IPI_PREEMPTION in the kernel config do anything

2009-01-10 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
For the last year I have been using IPI_PREEMPTION in my kernel config and I know back then it helped quite a bit on the performence of my dual core... now I am setting a 4 core machine using 7.1pl1 (i386) [on the dual core I {and will continue} to use -current] and was just wondering if IPI_PREEMP

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-12-21 - 2009-01-10

2009-01-10 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 maili

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look relevant to the problem. I had to write them down on pape

Odd behavior after upgrading to 7.0-p7

2009-01-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I installed 7.0 i386 and all was working great. I upgraded to p7 and now when I end my X session, I have kdm loading, it doesn't bring me to a login prompt. It dumps me on console 0 and I have to kill the kdm-bin process to return to a kdm login. This didn't happen before upgrading to p7

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread RW
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:57 + Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file > size) but it's very cross platform. ntfs is much more robust than fat32, if you crash windows or pull the plug, you are more likely to lose data with fat32. _

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Michael Powell
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: > I have to use paper-sneakernet because > - no network connectivity yet > - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up > with the 'mount' command > > Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look > relevant to th

Pre-idea question.

2009-01-10 Thread Gary Kline
people, first, the idea i have that could earn some cash very likely is not new; it is text-to-speech, but in a certain way. here's my question since recently i heard a computerized voice speaking so very normally, at first i thought it was human. thus: how advanced are some of these commercial app

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine recognises something called fwe0 with an ethernet address of 02:1e:8c:9a:3b:96. However dmesg tells me this is a 'Fake Ethernet' address. fwe is firewire emulated ethernet - you may connect 2 computers using firewire cable. it's wrong interfa

gname

2009-01-10 Thread Grant Peel
Wow, After a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.4, (with Xorg) I tried installing Gnome, and I get a "stop" during build, Filesystem Full! Is Gname really that big? or did I miss doing something? Doing a du -h -d1 on /usr shows" ... 7.0G ports. 1.8G local df -h shows: ... /dev/ad8s1e 9.7G(total) 9