Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Siju George
Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? Can I use Windows driver? Thanks -Siju ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fre

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? > Can I use Windows driver? Maybe you want to have a look at pwcbsd[1]. This is to use linux drivers on FreeBSD. Not sure if there is a wrapper for windos drivers. Cheer

Clarification w.r.t MDLv2 reports send at reboot in FreeBSD 8.0 Release

2010-02-25 Thread SitaRamaRaju Kunparaju
Hi,   FreeBSD 8.0 Release send two MLDv2 Reports at reboot before performing DAD for its Link Local address, One for the IPv6 Solicited-node multicase address(i.e FF02::1:FFDB:ACD5)  and other is unknown (i.e FF02::2:21d:d024 ). Could anyone please clarify me, why FreeBSD is send MLDv2 Report for

Re: how to disable loadable kernel moduels?

2010-02-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:49:29PM -0600, Robert Bonomi typed: > > > > > I'm building custom kernels for use in 'hostile' environments -- where I > > > need to enforce "restricted" capabilities, even in the event of malicious > > > 'root' access. (if the bad guy has *physical* access to the machin

Re: left over restore file restoresymtable

2010-02-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:35:49AM +0800, Aiza wrote: > The man for restore says this. > > Note that restore leaves a file restoresymtable in the root > directory to pass information between incremental restore passes. > This file should be removed when the last incremental has been restored. >

bonding NICs with netgraph

2010-02-25 Thread Urbanski, William
Hi, I am setting up a freebsd box to act as a snort sensor on a network. The box has three nics, one internal nic for talking on the network and to the management server, and two nics on a single pci card that each connect to SPAN ports on my switch. I am trying to bind the two adapters on the f

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? > > Can I use Windows driver? > > Maybe you want to have a look at pwcbsd[1]. This is to use linux drivers on A more recent proj

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a logitech quickcam. > > Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported. Personally, I always avoided Logitech because their webcams really

remote syslog(3)ging behaving strangely?

2010-02-25 Thread Frank Steinborn
Hi, i have several jails that push their syslog to the syslogd on the host. This is on FreeBSD 7.2. The only line for syslog.conf in the jails is: *.* @haydn.nognu.de On the host I have a standard syslog.conf but all.log is enabled. The problem now is

Re: remote syslog(3)ging behaving strangely?

2010-02-25 Thread Erik
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:13:03PM +0100, Frank Steinborn wrote: > Hi, > > i have several jails that push their syslog to the syslogd on the > host. This is on FreeBSD 7.2. The only line for syslog.conf in the > jails is: > > *.* @haydn.nognu.de > > On

Re: kde4/python26 and pth help. [SOLVED]

2010-02-25 Thread Jimmie James
On 02/25/10 00:12, Dima Panov wrote: On Thursday 25 February 2010 14:47:08 Jimmie James wrote: On 02/24/10 23:28, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jimmie Jamesmailto:jimmie...@gmail.com>> wrote: On a freshly installed 8-STABLE box (4 days old) and up to date p

Wireless setup iwn

2010-02-25 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello List, well im sure its a small mistake here or there. I know driver works with PCBS perfectly, but i cannot manualy configure it. something missing.. its iwn wireless driver, here are the settings : /boot/loader.conf legal.intel_iwn.license_ack=1 if_iwn_load="YES" wla

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber > wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. >> >> Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported. > > Personally, I always av

Re: Wireless setup iwn

2010-02-25 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote: > > Hello List, > > > >  well im sure its a small mistake here or there. > >  I know driver works with PCBS perfectly, but i cannot manualy configure it. > >  something missing.. > > > >  its iwn wireless driver, here are the settings : > > > >

getpwnam

2010-02-25 Thread Doug Hardie
I encountered a situation where sendmail was opening up what appeared to be listening on random UDP ports. In the process of tracking this down I discovered that the culprit is getpwnam. A ktrace of the following simple program show whats happening: #include #include #include #include #in

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Programmer In Training writes: > Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates > for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be > made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)? Should I > deinstall the ports version and go ahead and compile

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Programmer In Training wrote: Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)? Should I deinstall the ports version and go ahead and compile from sour

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/25/10 15:09, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Programmer In Training writes: > >> Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates >> for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be >> made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)? Should I >> dein

Re: Wireless setup iwn

2010-02-25 Thread Leslie Jensen
2010-02-25 21:45, Marwan Sultan skrev: Hello List, well im sure its a small mistake here or there. I know driver works with PCBS perfectly, but i cannot manualy configure it. something missing.. its iwn wireless driver, here are the settings : /boot/loader.conf legal.inte

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber > wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. >> >> Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported. > > Personally, I always av

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 03:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 18/02/2010 21:26, Programmer In Training wrote: >> Possibly not the most secure permissions but I don't remember the >> default (I think it's 644). > > Nope. For directories it's 755. You need the x permission on a > directory to chdir to it. I fig

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:18:21 -0600 Programmer In Training wrote: > As of the last time I updated ports (the 22nd) I was prevented from > installing Firefox because of the vulnerabilities. You may be looking at the wrong place. Please, take a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING, entry "20100207: AFFECTS:

Re: boot loaders and USB devices

2010-02-25 Thread Aiza
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:54:00 +0800 From: Aiza Subject: boot loaders and USB devices My PC does not have the BIOS option to boot from USB. I use an USB cabled external hard drive for taking backups. It has FreeBSD installed on it which I want to boot from so the motherboard cabled hard driv

using secure memory from a script

2010-02-25 Thread Chad Perrin
What's the simplest/easiest way to use "secure memory" (i.e., memory that won't be written to a swap partition) from within a program (written in Ruby in this case) on FreeBSD? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgphqNJQhPZ33.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/25/10 12:37, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0500, Glen Barber > wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. >> >> Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported. > > Personally, I always av

Re: using secure memory from a script

2010-02-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 19, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > What's the simplest/easiest way to use "secure memory" (i.e., memory that > won't be written to a swap partition) from within a program (written in > Ruby in this case) on FreeBSD? Well, Ruby supports calling C functions, so you can invoke mlock()

Re: using secure memory from a script

2010-02-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 04:22:29PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Well, Ruby supports calling C functions, so you can invoke mlock() that way: > > http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/18/extending_ruby.html > > ...but you also have to do so as root. It might be more sane to setup > encrypt

Printing via USB Port

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Tillman
I had a nifty setup with an old computer running as my FreeBSD file and print server. Worked so good I decided to update the computer. But since most computers no longer come with parallel port for printing I'm forced to use the USB feature on my Brother HL-2040 printer.   In the previous setup

Re: Plans for BIND and DNSSEC readiness

2010-02-25 Thread jhell
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:12, dougb@ wrote: PGP Command Output gpg: Signature made Mon Feb 22 00:12:14 2010 EST using DSA key ID D5B2F0FB gpg: Good signature from "Doug Barton " gpg: aka "Doug Barton " gpg: ak

Acer Aspire Laptop AS5732Z-4867 and FreeBSD ??

2010-02-25 Thread Rom Albuquerque
Hi folks. Has anyone been successful at installing FreeBSD on this Acer Laptop.. ? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5648712&Sku=A180-15670 Your response is greatly appreciated. Many thanks. --Rom

ppc and Xorg

2010-02-25 Thread David Goodwin
I've got an iMac G3, and have gotten past a number of difficulties/ First. Freebsd 8 stopped loading at acd0 . Found a blog somewhere that mentioned set hint.pcib.2.skipslot=14 then I went many rounds before I figured out that I needed to pre-partition the drive so that the installer labeler co

Changing Default Shell

2010-02-25 Thread Roger Campbell
Lowell Gilbert, I would like to thank you for your posting about changing the default shell. I was running in circles until I found your post suggestion vipw. Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

IDE ZIP100 Drive

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
OK, after some searching (while not the best search engine around, Startpage comes up a winner more often than not if there is anything relevant to be found) I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1]. Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with the external drive (either USB

Re: Changing Default Shell

2010-02-25 Thread mikel king
On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Roger Campbell wrote: Lowell Gilbert, I would like to thank you for your posting about changing the default shell. I was running in circles until I found your post suggestion vipw. Roger Roger, You can also use pw. pw usermod rcampb

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 14:26, Programmer In Training wrote: > On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote: >> And don't miss the documentation about getting "Flash" >> stuff running: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html That all worked except for the last command: nspluginwrapper -v

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 14:48, Frank Wißmann wrote: > Hello! > > Programmer In Training schrieb: >> On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training >>> wrote: It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and reinstall, making sure t

Re: Mozilla Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/25/10 17:31, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:18:21 -0600 Programmer In Training wrote: > >> As of the last time I updated ports (the 22nd) I was prevented from >> installing Firefox because of the vulnerabilities. > > You may be looking at the wrong place. Please, take a loo

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 15:27, Adam Vande More wrote: > > Better yet, update your ports tree and install the current version > Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but that errors out, too. -- Yours In Christ,

OOo.3.20 vs OOo.3.11

2010-02-25 Thread Gary Kline
I d'loaded and built the latest Version of OOo on my new dual core server, then scp'd it over, stuck it in /usr/local , and tried to install the 3.2.0 version with pkg_add. (I tried other things too, note, zip. The following is an ls -lt of /usr/local with

Re: OOo.3.20 vs OOo.3.11

2010-02-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 25), Gary Kline said: > I d'loaded and built the latest Version of OOo on my new dual core server, > then scp'd it over, stuck it in /usr/local , and tried to install the > 3.2.0 version with pkg_add. (I tried other things too, note, zip. > > The following is an ls -lt of

[SOLVED]Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 15:34, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Programmer In Training < > p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote: > >> Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just >> fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but >> that errors o

premature ENOMEM

2010-02-25 Thread Brad Penoff
Greetings, I have a 32-bit machine with 2 GB running FreeBSD 8. I have a complex application that starts getting ENOMEM once the resident memory is about 200 MB. I adjusted the appropriate /boot/loader.conf and /etc/login.conf settings resulting in an increase in the "limit" values to around 2 G