Re: suggestions wanted.... {OT}

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:41:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:52:16 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > I'm looking for a small and portable tablet [or whatever] device > > to use on the once-every-75-years when I do get out. I am not > > looking for a cell phone. the

Re: suggestions wanted.... {OT}

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:51:19PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:52:16 -0800 > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > note that this question is =OT=. > > > > sorry if this is a re-request for clues. I =did= ask a very > > similar question a year or three ago

Entry level C++ projects

Hi All, I am a C++ developer and I want to contribute to FreeBSD. There are so many applications. Is there any C++ project which is simple enough to start with. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Alwin Doss God's Beloved ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Entry level C++ projects

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:10 AM, alwin doss wrote: > Hi All, > > I am a C++ developer and I want to contribute to FreeBSD. > There are so many applications. > Is there any C++ project which is simple enough to start with. > > Thanks in advance for your help. Hi Alwin, there's indeed a lot to do

Re: Duplicate files on distro ISO

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:37:49 -0500 Christian Campbell wrote: > I just tried creating a bootable USB stick with UNetbootin > from FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso. The stick was blank (newly > formatted). While UNetbootin worked it asked about overwriting the > following files: Why are you not u

freebsd-update IDS

Hi! I run freebsd-update on my upgraded FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE and I got: /var/cache has 0755 permissions, but should have 0750 permissions I don't have a server. Should I change permission, please? Thank you. Mitja http://www.redbubble.com/people/lumiwa _

gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

Hi, in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label with glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something very simple the wrong way but I cannot see the error. I try to do it in the following way: # gpart destroy -F da0 # gpart create -s GPT da0 # gpart add -t fr

download port directory/tarvall ?

Hello. I used to download the selected port's directory from cvsweb. Now cvsweb seems to be not updated any more. I am missing this feature from svnweb.freebsd.org. Is there any way to download the particular port's directory? Tried with 'svn co' but it downloads all of the ports without direc

Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

FWIW I could not partition using the FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 install DVD. I partitioned with the PcBSD  8.2 DVD and then tried to install from 9.0, but it anyway caused partitioning issues. After that I partitioned using FreeBSD 8.3, installed 8.3 and then updated to 9.1. Regards, Ralf _

Re: USB in Windows7 guest

Hi Leslie and All, 09.01.2013 16:38, Leslie Jensen пишет: > > Hello. > > I posted this on the freebsd-virtualization list but got no answers so > now I hope that someone here can shed the light for me. > > > I have a Windows7 guest OS in Virtualbox on a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE system. > > I've f

Claws Mail

Hi :) does anybody know how to set up Claws Mail to use POP/SMTP with Yahoo/Rocketmail? I was able to set up Opera for FreeBSD, the settings are pop.mail.yahoo.com , port 995, secure connection TLS enabled, Auto (Plaintext) and sntp.mail.yahoo.com, port 465, secure connection TLS enabled,

pax command and sparse files

I have a sparse file allocated to 1G ls -lh test.img shows 1.0G du -h test.img shows 5.9M This is what I was expecting. Now after pax on that single test.img file ls -lh test.img.tar.gz shows 1.4M du -h test.img.tar.gz shows 1.4M This is what I was expecting. Here is the problem: Ru

9.1-R and garbage on the console

Hello. I installed 9.1-R amd64 on a flash drive and boot off it to do remote ZFS backups. Booting and the text console screen, including the other alt-f? consoles, work fine at this point. A few minutes into the ZFS receive my console turns into blocky garbage: http://imgur.com/y8kWR . The syst

Re: Jails

On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:31 PM, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I have not tested it, but so far things do not look promising... > > I cannot even run "netstat -nvatp" properly, however sopcast seemed to > run, but have not tested it, for plex - have not tried yet. > netstat isn't allowed in

Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label with glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something very simple the wrong way but I cannot see the error. I try to do it in the following way: # gpart destroy -F da0 #

Re: Duplicate files on distro ISO

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:37:49 -0500, Christian Campbell wrote: > I just tried creating a bootable USB stick with UNetbootin > from FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso. The stick was blank (newly > formatted). Formatted with _which_ file system? I'm asking because of this: > 2. The files deposited on

Keyboard weirdness

All of a sudden today Im having a very weird issue with my keyboards. 1. Pressing the ctrl key nets a single quotation mark 2. Pressing s nets s. (s followed by a period). Pressing period nets that same s. combination 3. Pressing the quotation key does nothing. Thats just what Ive come acros

Re: Keyboard weirdness

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:48:01 -0500, Andre Goree wrote: All of a sudden today Im having a very weird issue with my keyboards. 1. Pressing the ctrl key nets a single quotation mark 2. Pressing s nets s. (s followed by a period). Pressing period nets that same s. combination 3. Pressing the q

manpage -> html

Is there any command line command to convert a port's manpage to html? Well really any manpage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions

Re: manpage -> html

On 01/12/2013 06:24 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: Is there any command line command to convert a port's manpage to html? Well really any manpage. In the ports under: textproc/man2html -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.c

Re: manpage -> html

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Is there any command line command to convert a port's manpage to html? > Well really any manpage. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandoc http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___

Re: manpage -> html

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Fbsd8 > wrote: Is there any command line command to convert a port's manpage to html? Well really any manpage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandoc http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ Thank you very muc

BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

FreeBSD 9.0 as of June 1, 2012. I have an older laptop with a PC Card Linksys WiFi adapter. I cannot connect to a close-by (2 ft) wireless router. > cat rc.conf ... ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" wlans_bwn0="wlan0" ... > cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf network={ ssid="tddhome" psk="" } #

Re: gpart, glabel and newfs --> what am I doing wrong

Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:56:39 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > in general, I try to create the partitions with gpart, add a label > > with glabel and put a filesystem. I think that I am doing something > > very simple the wrong way but I can

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:58:31 -0800 "Thomas D. Dean" wrote: > FreeBSD 9.0 as of June 1, 2012. > > I have an older laptop with a PC Card Linksys WiFi adapter. > > I cannot connect to a close-by (2 ft) wireless router. > > > cat rc.conf > ... > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" you must add he

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > FreeBSD 9.0 as of June 1, 2012. > > I have an older laptop with a PC Card Linksys WiFi adapter. > > I cannot connect to a close-by (2 ft) wireless router. > > > cat rc.conf > ... > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" > wlans_bwn0="wlan0" > ... > >

Re: manpage -> html

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:52:06 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > OK let me be more specific. > Using just commands that are in the base system. > IE; come with the 9.1 system Very well: zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Thtml -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 > ls.html zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Thtml > ls.html However, the output l

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > >> FreeBSD 9.0 as of June 1, 2012. >> >> I have an older laptop with a PC Card Linksys WiFi adapter. >> >> I cannot connect to a close-by (2 ft) wireless router. >> >> > cat rc.co

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

On 01/12/13 17:39, Waitman Gobble wrote: # kldload wlan_ccmp # kldload wlan_ccmp kldload: can't load wlan_ccmp: File exists Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: manpage -> html

Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:52:06 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: OK let me be more specific. Using just commands that are in the base system. IE; come with the 9.1 system Very well: zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Thtml -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 > ls.html zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Thtml > ls.html Howev

Regarding: Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.

Greetings... I was upgrading kino tonight, and the upgrade process failed and tossed this request at the tail of the error: ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to po...@freebsd.org [maintainer] and attach the "/usr/ports/multimedia/kino/work/kino-1.3.4/config.l

Re: manpage -> html

Fbsd8 wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:52:06 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: OK let me be more specific. Using just commands that are in the base system. IE; come with the 9.1 system Very well: zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Thtml -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 > ls.html zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Thtml >

Re: Regarding: Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Joe Altman wrote: > Greetings... > > I was upgrading kino tonight, and the upgrade process failed and tossed > this request at the tail of the error: > > ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. > Please report the problem to po...@freebsd.org [maintainer] an

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

On 01/12/13 17:59, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > cat /etc/rc.conf ... ifconfig_wlan0="SYNCDHCP WPA ssid tddhome mode 11b" wlan0_bwn0="wlan0" ... I found another email that said the device did not support mode 11n. But, this does not seem to have changed anything. Tom Dean __

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:39:09 -0800 "Thomas D. Dean" wrote: > On 01/12/13 17:59, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > > cat /etc/rc.conf > ... > ifconfig_wlan0="SYNCDHCP WPA ssid tddhome mode 11b" > wlan0_bwn0="wlan0" > ... > > I found another email that said the device did not support mode 11n. > B

Re: manpage -> html

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:20:02 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > Fbsd8 wrote: > > Polytropon wrote: > >> On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:52:06 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > >>> OK let me be more specific. > >>> Using just commands that are in the base system. > >>> IE; come with the 9.1 system > >> > >> Very well: > >> > >> zcat

Re: Regarding: Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:21:28PM -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: >> Hi, > > If the email contact is as listed it seems there is not a specific person > who has taken the port. I found your email to the ports list with the > attached config.log. I will take a look at the problem and probably find a