Re: Can't install from ports

Rem P Roberti writes: > Boy, this hasn't been a good night. I am unable to install from > ports. When I attempt to do > a compile I get this error message: > > 1 open conditional: > at line 131 (evaluated to true) > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue This may help to nar

Logs from wireless routers disclosing L2/MAC info?

Some of the popular wireless routers have an option to email access/security logs to an account on the Internet. When enabled, the logs contain the last 24 bits of the MAC address of the router's cable modem port, (the rest could be guessed since the brand name is included in the email,) and, the

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

for example, say you have 2 interface em0 and em1 which you like to swap their minor numbers: ifconfig em0 name tmp ifconfig em1 name em0 ifconfig em0 name em1 or to assign cisco-like names to you interfaces: ifconfig xl0 name fastEthernet0 ifconfig em0 name gigaEthernet0

Re: gvinum & gjournal

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:23:30PM -0500, Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all. I'm cross-posting this since I figure I'll have better luck > finding someone who's done this before... > > I'm building a system that has 4 1.5TB Seagate SATA drives in it. > I've setup gvinum and made mirrors for my OS part

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I'm running a small server based on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC). I hope to be able to create an bootable copy of the server at home, and so I freed up enough partition space on my PC, using a gparted CD, which is what someone suggested I use. The PC is running Vista. I defragmented and then re

Re: Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 18:13:06 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:23:25 Artem Kuchin wrote: > >> I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all > >> at any port. The addesses are random, they are not nets. > >> These

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

Yony Yossef wrote: Thanks for the explanation. So there's no way to determine this in advance.. What do you mean by 'in advance'? Assuming a fixed hardware configuration, when the kernel is loaded, you know all the interface names and can rename them, i.e., in rc.local. I must build a s

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

Hi, Sorry to jump in but... > Problem is, this unit number is not constant and changing arbitrarily every > time I reload the driver (card A unit number=0 & card B un=1 or the other > way around). Since I have been using FreeBSD, the NIC had always been given the same unit number (that is, unles

RE: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

> Yony Yossef wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation. > > > > So there's no way to determine this in advance.. > > > What do you mean by 'in advance'? Assuming a fixed hardware > configuration, when the kernel is loaded, you know all the > interface names and can rename them, i.e., in rc.lo

Re: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest

Sebastian Setzer wrote: Reading the handbook and several pages on the web, i got the impression that ports are always compiled from source. I should have read the handbook more thorougly, sorry. It mentions portupgrade -P. -Original Message- From: Erik Osterholm [mailto:freebsd-lists-e

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

H.fazaeli wrote: > >for example, say you have 2 interface em0 and em1 which >you like to swap their minor numbers: >ifconfig em0 name tmp >ifconfig em1 name em0 >ifconfig em0 name em1 >or to assign cisco-like names to you interfaces: >ifconfig xl0 name fastEthernet0 >

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Hello, I was looking for an efficient way to reinstall (recompile due to an update in the perl port) all installed p5 ports… I have done that manually, but I am certain there is a better way to do that… I have tried: # portmaster -rdf p5- But that didn't work as I had to re-install al

Re: reinstall all p5 installed ports with portmaster [solved]

Le 15 janv. 09 à 12:19, Herbert J. Skuhra a écrit : 2009/1/15 bsd : Hello, I was looking for an efficient way to reinstall (recompile due to an update in the perl port) all installed p5 ports… Have you tried perl-after-upgrade? See UPDATING and man page. No… That's exactly what I was

Re: reinstall all p5 installed ports with portmaster

2009/1/15 bsd : > Hello, > > I was looking for an efficient way to reinstall (recompile due to an update > in the perl port) all installed p5 ports… Have you tried perl-after-upgrade? See UPDATING and man page. > I have done that manually, but I am certain there is a better way to do > that… > >

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: >> > > Your link to the instructions is dead. > The page has been down on me before...give it a few hours, or plug that URL into Google and load the cached version (which takes a while to load since the CSS still tries to come from the original site

Re: reinstall all p5 installed ports with portmaster

On Thu, January 15, 2009 12:19, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > 2009/1/15 bsd : >> Hello, >> >> I was looking for an efficient way to reinstall (recompile due to an >> update >> in the perl port) all installed p5 ports… > > Have you tried perl-after-upgrade? See UPDATING and man page. > >> I have done

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

Yony Yossef wrote: Thanks for the explanation. So there's no way to determine this in advance.. I must build a script that contains my own mapping between MAC addresses and the wanted interface names and run it after each driver load, rename the interfaces if necessary. you must agree it's

Re: gvinum & gjournal

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > Hi, > > It think that it touches it because the .p0 contains the gjournal metadata in > the same way that the volume does, so gjournal attaches to that before the > volume. One problem is that gjournal attaches to the "wrong" provider, but >

RE: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

> Yony Yossef wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation. > > > > So there's no way to determine this in advance.. > > I must build a script that contains my own mapping between MAC > > addresses and the wanted interface names and run it after > each driver > > load, rename the interfaces if nece

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

Yony, good day. Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:26:34AM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: > All I'm doing is unloading and reloading the driver. > Unit numbers change and it makes my automatic subnet configuration > (/etc/rc.conf) assign bad IPs. You're using your own driver, aren't you? If yes, could you show

RE: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

> -Original Message- > From: rea-f...@codelabs.ru [mailto:rea-f...@codelabs.ru] > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:01 PM > To: Yony Yossef > Cc: 'Julian Elischer'; Liran Liss; freebsd-...@freebsd.org; > Oleg Kats; 'H.fazaeli'; Eitan Shefi; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:15:53PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: > > You're using your own driver, aren't you? If yes, could you > > show your device_method_t structure and the corresponding > > identify, probe, attach and detach routines? You're setting > > the unit numbers via 'if_initname(ifp, dev

correct way to move users?

After my debacle with the PAE kernel, I am building the mail server anew. I had used webmin's user batch file thing to generate the users on the temporary system, but there were some issues with that. If I have a good copy of /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd, is there a better

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

Yony Yossef wrote: Thanks for the explanation. So there's no way to determine this in advance.. I must build a script that contains my own mapping between MAC addresses and the wanted interface names and run it after each driver load, rename the interfaces if necessary. It seems quite wrong,

Re: Launching Vim

Rem P Roberti wrote: > Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when > I try to launch > the program I get this error message: > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libperl.so" not found, required by > "vim" > > Is this a path problem? The actual file libperl.so reci

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I just recently installed a new FreeBSD 7 system (beginning of week) and installed a ports collection via portsnap fetch and portsnap extract. which created a /usr/ports of 498 Mb My cron does a portsnap every night 1 3 * * * root portsnap -I cron update && pkg_version -vIL= So far the only pack

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I'm having trouble with HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. I have 2 disks on it in a mirror configuration. Everything seems to go swimmingly through the FreeBSD installation, up until the final reboot... 1) Boot from Disc 1. 2) At the "Welcome to FreeBSD" screen, choose option "6"

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please update your portstree this was fixed few days ago. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:45:50PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > I just recently installed a new FreeBSD 7 system (beginning of week) > and installed a ports collection via portsnap fetch and p

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Hello, After an upgrade from FreeBSD 7.0 to 7.1 (with freebsd-update in my case), is it required to recompile all ports (portupgrade -af) like specified in some docs/blog-entries, or is it not *really* necessary? What are you doing on your production systems? Having to upgrade several servers (>

Re: upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1 : portupgrade -af required?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hello, > > After an upgrade from FreeBSD 7.0 to 7.1 (with freebsd-update in my > case), is it required to recompile all ports (portupgrade -af) like > specified in some docs/blog-entries, or is it not *really* necessary? > What are you doi

Re: upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1 : portupgrade -af required?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hello, > > After an upgrade from FreeBSD 7.0 to 7.1 (with freebsd-update in my > case), is it required to recompile all ports (portupgrade -af) like > specified in some docs/blog-entries, or is it not *really* necessary? No. Not necessary

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

Yony, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: And how come the unit number is given an arbitrary value? Is there a good reason for that? ... In your case I'm not sure why your two cards would flip order. Could it be how your BIOS and hardware set up the PCI IDSEL lines at boot? If this is the case on

Re: Can't install from ports

Rem P Roberti writes: Boy, this hasn't been a good night. I am unable to install from ports. When I attempt to do a compile I get this error message: 1 open conditional: at line 131 (evaluated to true) make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue This may help to nar

Re: Launching Vim

Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when I try to launch the program I get this error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libperl.so" not found, required by "vim" Is this a path problem? The actual file libperl.so recides in /u

RE: upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1 : portupgrade -af required?

-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] Namens matt donovan Verzonden: donderdag 15 januari 2009 16:47 Aan: Olivier Mueller CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-po...@freebsd.org Onderwerp: Re: upgrade 7.0 -> 7.

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:30:27PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello Jerry, > > > Anyway, 256 MB should be plenty of space for / slash unless you > > are putting everything in it. > > My main mistake was that I had > makeoptionsDEBUG=-g > in the kernel config file. That made for a ~130M

Re: gvinum & gjournal

On tor, jan 15, 2009 at 07:14:25am -0500, Brian McCann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Ulf Lilleengen > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It think that it touches it because the .p0 contains the gjournal metadata > > in > > the same way that the volume does, so gjournal attaches to that before the

Re: gvinum & gjournal

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:22:13PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:23:30PM -0500, Brian McCann wrote: > >> Hi all. I'm cross-posting this since I figure I'll have better luck > >> finding someone who's done this before... > >> > >> I'm building a sys

working xorg config for ATI Radeon 3850

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Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:06:58AM +, RW wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:20:54 +0100 > Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:55:38PM +, RW wrote: > > > > Not just in reduced transfer rates, but also in terms of CPU cycles > > > used - a sustained geli to geli file copy mak

Re: sysctl machdep.independent_wallclock

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Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

It turns out that on a multi-core machine a geli thread is started on each core for each disk (4 cores, two disks): and it is actually used when many transfers are done in parallel. my core2duo saturates (both cores 100% load) at about 100MB/s disk I/O _

Re: kernel configuration

Chuck Swiger wrote: [snip] > > While it is true that you can comment out all but i686 and get a > working kernel, you will experience reduced performance. There are a > number of low-level assembly routines (cf sys/i386/i386/support.s such > as i586_bcopy) that are conditionalized off of I586_CP

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: ... I wanted to stress only one point: simple 'kldunload ' and 'kldload ' makes devices to flip for Yony's case. This means that unless some PCI hotplug stuff is here (which I don't believe to be present, because no physical cards are touched and there is actually a small

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

Bruce, good day. Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:01:37PM +, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > > In your case I'm not sure why your two cards would flip order. Could > > it be how your BIOS and hardware set up the PCI IDSEL lines at boot? > > If this is the case on your system, then

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

> Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:15:53PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: > > > You're using your own driver, aren't you? If yes, could you show > > > your device_method_t structure and the corresponding identify, > > > probe, attach and detach routines? You're setting the > unit numbers > > > via 'if_initname

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

> Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > > ... > > I wanted to stress only one point: simple 'kldunload ' and > > 'kldload ' makes devices to flip for Yony's case. > This means > > that unless some PCI hotplug stuff is here (which I don't > believe to > > be present, because no physical cards are touched and th

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:07:35PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: > > Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > > > ... > > > I wanted to stress only one point: simple 'kldunload ' and > > > 'kldload ' makes devices to flip for Yony's case. > > This means > > > that unless some PCI hotplug stuff is here (which I don't

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

Jeremy Gagliardi wrote: > I'm having trouble with HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. > > I have 2 disks on it in a mirror configuration. Everything seems to go > swimmingly through the FreeBSD installation, up until the final reboot... > > 1) Boot from Disc 1. > 2) At the "Welcom

portupgrade <-> portmaster?

Hi, Having used portupgrade for several years I'm thinking to make the switch to portmaster since both of them seem to be fully supported as far as upgrading ports is concerned. Anything to consider when going from portupgrade to portmaster? Caveats/pitfalls? Is there also a way back, i.e. from

Re: kernel configuration

In the last episode (Jan 15), Michael Powell said: > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > While it is true that you can comment out all but i686 and get a > > working kernel, you will experience reduced performance. There are > > a number of low-level assembly routines (cf sys/i386/i386/support.s > > such as i

RE: correct way to move users?

> > I saw a very breif website that said to use this method:> > > > "> > Move > > user entries from the following old files: > > > > /etc/passwd/etc/group/etc/master.passwd > > Then run the following command > > to rebuild the password database: > > pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd > > "> > > >

Re: upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1 : portupgrade -af required?

Hello, Le 15 janv. 09 à 19:36, Peter Ulrich Kruppa a écrit : 1) On a production server you don't have so many ports, do you? So a portupgrade -af wouldn't take that long, would it? Well, it depends what you mean by "not so many"... :-) [...@omega09 ~]$ pkg_info | wc -l 370 "just" for

Re: Help! locate.code /tmp: filesystem full

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Andy Wodfer wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm getting an error message every week and I can't seem to understand > why > > nor manage to fix it. Here it is: > > > > [snip] > > > > > # df -h > > Filesystem SizeUsed

Re: working xorg config for ATI Radeon 3850

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Robert Huff wrote: Does anyone have a working X.org config file for the ATI Radeon 3850? That they'd be willing to share? I'm converting from a different card and would rather not reinvent the wheel. This worked for me under 8-CURRENT and with the not-yet-

Re: kernel configuration

On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: Actually, those functions are only enabled if the CPU is truly a 586-class processor. See /sys/i386/isa/npx.c , the npx_attach() function. There is a test for cpu_class==CPUCLASS_586, while most modern CPUs are CPUCLASS_686. Thanks for the addi

freebsd-update question

I'm trying to use freebsd-update to upgrade a system from 7.0-RELEASE- p9 to 7.1 running # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE generates this Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches.

Re: Help! locate.code /tmp: filesystem full

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Andy Wodfer wrote: > Hi, > I'm getting an error message every week and I can't seem to understand why > nor manage to fix it. Here it is: > > #dmesg > [snip] > pid 54753 (locate.code), uid 65534 inumber 23557 on /tmp: filesystem full > > # df -h > Filesystem S

Re: upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1 : portupgrade -af required?

Olivier Mueller schrieb: Hello, Le 15 janv. 09 à 19:36, Peter Ulrich Kruppa a écrit : Yes, it seems it's the answer for the upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1, thanks for your answer and the 3 others on the list :) Sorry, that wasn't any kind of "secret" hint. I just frequently hit the wrong Reply-button on

Re: portupgrade <-> portmaster?

On 1/15/09 8:25 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Anything to consider when going from portupgrade to portmaster? Portupgrade has the advantage that it can use binary packages to upgrade your system. portmaster can create them (by adding the -g option) - but not use them. This is the reason we use p

Re: Help! locate.code /tmp: filesystem full

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:37:24 +0100, "Andy Wodfer" wrote: > Should I run fsck -y? Is it safe to do so? At least, fsck will do its best to repair the defective file system. As you have seen from the messages, you will surely lose some files when their information gets cleared. If you use -y, fsck i

Re: mythtv port

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Karapetyan wrote: > Has the mythtv port been fixed yet? Any timetable for a new release? The > current port makefile indicates that it is broken. > ___ Hello David, I've been working on various Myth

Re: mythtv port

I ask because I am considering installing debian on a home box and running mythtv from it. However, I don't trust anything other than the stable version of debian, and I am not a fan of their release cycle for packages. Quite frankly, I trust the freebsd community over the linux community, and

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

Michael Powell-6 wrote: > > In your motherboard BIOS is there any entry that controls which controller > boots first? If so set it to boot from the add-in card first instead of > the > onboard controller. > In my BIOS there is the following... Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter] 1. SC

Re: portupgrade <-> portmaster?

On Thursday 15 January 2009 16:04:09 Christer Solskogen wrote: > On 1/15/09 8:25 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > Anything to consider when going from portupgrade to portmaster? > > Portupgrade has the advantage that it can use binary packages to upgrade > your system. portmaster can create them (by ad

Re: portupgrade <-> portmaster?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Mitja wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009 16:04:09 Christer Solskogen wrote: > > On 1/15/09 8:25 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > > Anything to consider when going from portupgrade to portmaster? > > > > Portupgrade has the advantage that it can use binary packages t

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Re: Bios chip update suggestions

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: > I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. > The company is now out of business. > It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. > > I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory stick. > >

Re: Bios chip update suggestions

matt donovan wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Fbsd1 > wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. I want to fi

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Re: Cannot send to mailing lists - client host rejected: cannot find your hostname

> I'm having a minor problem with posting to the list. I have my own > mail server using postfix, fetchmail, and courier. I have several > domain names, and I'm using one for my mail server. > > In my logs I'm seeing 450 errors for freebsd-questions since around > the end of last year, but I

[Fwd: Re: Sun sucks]

--- Begin Message --- On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 03:47 +, RW wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:10:10 -0500 > "Ansar Mohammed" wrote: > > > > After registering Sun complains that they don't like my ID and I need > > to provide more information. I create another account. Same problem. > > After 3 mon

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--- Begin Message --- On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 21:44 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Grant Peel wrote: > > Can I use a windows install cd's "R" option to do the fdisk /mbr ? > > I don't know. > > It's been $years since I've had to use a Windows install CD for such a > thing. > > If it's win32, my e

[Fwd: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager]

--- Begin Message --- On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? > > What I am asking, is, somehting like: > > Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the > sysinstall utility, reinstall the

[Fwd: Re: programs...]

--- Begin Message --- What about Miro? On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 23:19 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > 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 cou

[Fwd: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager]

--- Begin Message --- On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? > > What I am asking, is, somehting like: > > Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the > sysinstall utility, reinstall the

[Fwd: Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground]

--- Begin Message --- On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:07 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:16PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: > > I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse. > > > > The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed > > to fail writing

[Fwd: Re: FreeBSD USB Install]

--- Begin Message --- On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:11 -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: > Hello > > I notice that when you write zeros to the first sectors > of the pen drive it gets mad about it > and you must make fsck and disklabel TWICE... > > the first time, it complains, > the second time

[Fwd: age0 driver power issues - device_attach error 6]

--- Begin Message --- I'm getting issues similar to what others have seen in the pre-release 7.1. I'm using the release version because it supposedly has this driver, but the issue is when I'm on battery it'll work and load the driver, on ac forget it. Its on a laptop with an iwn device so I'm in

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--- Begin Message --- I've tried the driver on 7.0- 8.0 current is out of the question as it still doesn't fully function either- but I'm trying to sort out 7.1 (might as well, I have many other issues to work out so I might as well fix them on this :) ). The driver patches compiles (iwn-7 from g

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--- Begin Message --- I was just running a check to see if I could install FreeBSD on my tv server and check the driver situation, but the cdboot failed with a usb issue- address not found. This occurred for 7.1, 7.0, and even 6.4. In my search I found many different reasons why it could be, but t

[Fwd: est1 device_attach error 6]

--- Begin Message --- Similar to the age0 problem in my previous post the enhanced speed step on this laptop on the second core of the cpu has the same problem- athough this doesn't appear to be power related (ac or battery that is). Where does this place the issue- acpi? --- End Message --- _

vipw and bash login shell

Hi, When I used vipw to change the login shell to /usr/local/bin/bash (which is listed in /etc/shells, and was built from ports), subsequent ssh login attempts fail (password rejected). If I change the shell back to /bin/sh or /bin/csh then login works again. If I instead use webmin Users and Gr

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Re: [Fwd: iwn driver on 7.1]

> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Da Rock > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:32:04 +1000 > Subject: iwn driver on 7.1 > I've tried the driver on 7.0- 8.0 current is out of the question as it > still doesn't fully function either- but I'm trying to sort

Installing OpenSSL from ports, how to remove base-openssl?

For a certain customer that wants to use a later version of OpenSSL (base is at 'e' while ports is at 'j') I installed /usr/ports/security/openssl. This is all fine, but now I have two sets binaries and libraries of OpenSSL on that system. What is the proper way to remove the base openssl? I looke