usb wifi dongle for advanced testing - recommendation request

2013-07-18 Thread CeDeROM
Hello :-) I am looking for a really good and well supported WiFi USB dongle for advanced testing like network sniffing, packet injection, setting up access point, etc. I guess that would be Atheros based device? Can you recommend a solution that works for you? :-) Thank you! :-) Tomek -- CeDeRO

textproc/hunspell and readline?

2013-07-18 Thread Walter Hurry
I note that the Makefile for textproc/hunspell has '--with-readline' in the CONFIGURE_ARGS, but on 9.1 it doesn't seem to be honoured (or maybe it is, but at any rate it isn't recorded as a dependency or a shlib). 9.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64 with pkgng. Is there a reason for this? __

Re: textproc/hunspell and readline?

2013-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 18/07/2013 10:42, Walter Hurry wrote: > I note that the Makefile for textproc/hunspell has '--with-readline' in > the CONFIGURE_ARGS, but on 9.1 it doesn't seem to be honoured (or maybe > it is, but at any rate it isn't recorded as a dependency or a shlib). > > 9.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64 with pkgng

Dell Latitude E6520 Xorg Problems

2013-07-18 Thread dweimer
Is anyone out there running FreeBSD on a Dell Latitude E6520? I am struggling to Xorg to start, doing the Xorg -configure I get "number of created screens does not match number of detected devices" I have tried with an external monitor attached and laptop closed, with external monitor attached

Is pkgng supposed to upgrade a dependency of a locked package?

2013-07-18 Thread Paul Mather
I am using pkgng 1.1.4_1 on RELENG_9 (r252725), operating on a local repo I maintain using poudriere 3.0.4. Recently, I wanted to upgrade all packages on a client except two whose update I want to defer for now as they potentially impact locally-developed applications. I figured I would use th

Re: Is pkgng supposed to upgrade a dependency of a locked package?

2013-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 18/07/2013 13:42, Paul Mather wrote: > I am using pkgng 1.1.4_1 on RELENG_9 (r252725), operating on a local repo I > maintain using poudriere 3.0.4. > > Recently, I wanted to upgrade all packages on a client except two whose > update I want to defer for now as they potentially impact locally-

Re: Dell Latitude E6520 Xorg Problems

2013-07-18 Thread OpenSlate ChalkDust
Does it work with the lid open and no additional monitor attached? On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:43 AM, dweimer wrote: > Is anyone out there running FreeBSD on a Dell Latitude E6520? > > I am struggling to Xorg to start, doing the Xorg -configure I get "number > of created screens does not match nu

Re: Dell Latitude E6520 Xorg Problems

2013-07-18 Thread Dean E. Weimer
Nope, but perhaps I found some information, that has me in going in the right direction, this has an integrated intel video card with the core i7, in process of rebuilding world and kernel with Kim's and xorg_new set in make.conf. Sent from my iPad On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:12 AM, OpenSlate ChalkDu

Re: Dell Latitude E6520 Xorg Problems

2013-07-18 Thread Dean E. Weimer
Oops stupid iPAD spell correct Kim's = KMS. Sent from my iPad On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:38 AM, "Dean E. Weimer" wrote: > Nope, but perhaps I found some information, that has me in going in the right > direction, this has an integrated intel video card with the core i7, in > process of rebuilding

Re: Dell Latitude E6520 Xorg Problems

2013-07-18 Thread Dean E. Weimer
I have only gone as far as scanning wifi and it did find all the ssids I expected. System is now recompiling the xorg ports with new kernel and world in place. Sent from my iPad On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:50 AM, OpenSlate ChalkDust wrote: > I am interested in your solution as I plan to more from

Re: Dell Latitude E6520 Xorg Problems

2013-07-18 Thread OpenSlate ChalkDust
I am interested in your solution as I plan to more from my old desktop to a notebook, most likely the same Dell you have. Have you gotten as far as WiFi? Dell has a bad reputation for network drivers, especially WiFi. On Jul 18, 2013 3:41 AM, "Dean E. Weimer" wrote: > Oops stupid iPAD spell corr

Re: Dell Latitude E6520 Xorg Problems

2013-07-18 Thread Dean E. Weimer
Success X is running after some more playing to verify what works and doesn't I will post back with full config, FYI I did have to re-enable Optimus after rebuilding with KMS. Sent from my iPad On Jul 18, 2013, at 9:04 AM, "Dean E. Weimer" wrote: > I have only gone as far as scanning wifi and

does journaling cause DMA-WRITE failure?

2013-07-18 Thread s m
hello all, i have freebsd8.2 on my system with journaled gpt partitions. occasionally, i see the below errors in startup and system doesn't boot correctly. if i restart system, it boot normally and every thing is ok. these errors are: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA requeued due to channel reset LBA=635

trashed installation ?

2013-07-18 Thread john francis lee
Hi, I got FreeBSD 10 CURRENT installed in a virtualbox on my ubuntu desktop, had installed x11, and was working on gnome (the 3rd day of compilation !) when I lost power ... twice in a row. The FreeBSD recovered the first time but it doesn't look good this second time. I attach a screenshot. I

Re: trashed installation ?

2013-07-18 Thread Mark Felder
John, Can you link to the screenshots? They're stripped when you post to the mailing list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsu

pppoe connection freezes

2013-07-18 Thread Andy Balholm
I have CenturyLink DSL, and I use the user-space ppp program in FreeBSD 9.1 to make the PPPoE connection. From time to time (every few days) the connection freezes up—no more data can be sent or received. No error shows up in ppp.log; all I can see there is that there are no more RecvEchoRequest

FreeBSD/NAS Item Not Working

2013-07-18 Thread Christopher Stiefel
Well, I've come to the determination that a simple SATA card driver isn't working in FreeBSD/NAS,etc. I've tried everything. CentOS/Ubuntu/Redhat, etc. all work no problems, but I wanted to use ZFS which I was finally able to do with Ubuntu but I wanted to do this setup with FreeBSD but the driver

Re: does journaling cause DMA-WRITE failure?

2013-07-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:26 AM, s m wrote: > i have two question: does journaling cause to happen these errors? Perhaps indirectly as increased load on a flaky disk/driver can cause these. Mostly likely you have a failing drive though. > and if i > set hw.ata.ata_dma to 0, is it resolve the

Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-18 Thread Paul Kraus
On Jul 12, 2013, at 2:57 PM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > I thought MacOS X's rsync did handle resource forks if you gave it the > proper option. The resource fork is reported by rsync in the usual > convention of having "._" prefixed to the filename. My understanding was that the files named ._ wer

Re: Dell Latitude E6520 Xorg Problems

2013-07-18 Thread dweimer
On 07/18/2013 9:18 am, Dean E. Weimer wrote: Success X is running after some more playing to verify what works and doesn't I will post back with full config, FYI I did have to re-enable Optimus after rebuilding with KMS. So far I still haven't been able to get the external monitor working, I