100Mbit/s LAN slow, TX only ~3MB/s (esp. file transfer) -- why?

2004-07-14 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, here's the situation: a small LAN with two FreeBSD machines (one 4.10-STABLE, one 5.1-RELEASE-p11), one Gentoo box, one Windows 2000 Laptop. All the machines have 100Mbit/s capable network interfaces, configured for full duplex and auto-negotiation, and actually running in 100baseTX-

Re: 100Mbit/s LAN slow, TX only ~3MB/s (esp. file transfer) -- why?

2004-07-16 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Thank you all who took time to reply! The problem really seems to be one of the (or maybe even both, even the LinkSys!) NICs in the FreeBSD machines. No wonder, the RealTek card is a cheap piece of crap (around EUR 6), I am going to replace it with something more reliable. Any recommendations? I

Ripping Audio CDs and "Enhanced" Audio CDs?

2004-08-02 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE, using ripit.pl (audio/ripit) with lame and dagrab. I've got a (quite simple?) question which keeps me up at nights (not really :-). How do you rip those audio CDs that are "enhanced"? That's the CDs that have such fancy "multimedia" features you can use when y

Re: Ripping Audio CDs and "Enhanced" Audio CDs?

2004-08-02 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
st lie somewhere else, or I didn't try hard enough. > On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE, using ripit.pl (audio/ripit) with lame and dagrab. > > > > I've got a (quite simple?) question which keeps me

vim 6.3 pthread errors?

2004-08-08 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello, quick question: trying to install vim 6.3.15 from the ports with support for GTK2 on a FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9 machine by doing a portinstall -m WITH_GTK2=YES vim. Somewhere in the compilation process it borks with these error messages (last few lines of output): cc -lXt -L/usr/X11R6/lib -

Re: vim 6.3 pthread errors?

2004-08-08 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 03:21:23PM +0200, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > Uwe Laverenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:58:34PM +0200, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > > > >> objects/os_unix.o: In function `get_stack_limit': > >> objects/os

libxml2.so.5: Undefined symbol "pthread_equal" w/ xfce4

2004-05-24 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, This one annoys me for quite a long time now. I am using xfce4 (but that's not the point) and there is this problem with libxml2. It manifests itself thus: ** (xfce-mcs-manager:89174): WARNING **: Module /usr/X11R6/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins /libxfce4settings.so cannot be opened (/usr/l

Re: libxml2.so.5: Undefined symbol "pthread_equal" w/ xfce4

2004-05-24 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Sure I forgot to mention that I use FreeBSD 4.10-BETA as of April 9, not 5.x. Sorry. Thanks. -- Andreas "daff" Ntaflos | "A cynic is a man who knows the price of daff AT dword DOT org | everything, and the value of nothing." Vienna, AUSTRIA| Oscar Wilde ___

Re: App like M$ Project

2004-05-24 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:05:39PM -0400, Bob Collins wrote: > I am looking for a nice Open Source app like Microsloth's Project. I > have Googled a bit and find nothing interesting. Do any of you have a > suggestion for such a thing, assuming it even exists? Of course, I would > also like to run i

Re: Solved: FreeBSD as print server w/CUPS + samba + apsfilter

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Alas, too late I see this thread :) I have written (some months ago) a guide covering the installation and configuration of CUPS+Samba with printing from Windows (2k, NT, XP) clients via the Samba/Windows Network-Interface (the one where you can download printer drivers from the print server). I'v

Problems installing a USB keyboard

2004-06-01 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, this is just a quick question, I used to use a PS/2 keyboard, now I got a Cherry USB which I'd like to try out. I put "device ukbd" in my kernel configuration (along with device uhci, ohci, usb, ugen and uhid) and rebuilt it. However, I seem to be forgetting something, because when

Re: Problems installing a USB keyboard

2004-06-01 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:26:43AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > > What am I missing? Sorry if this is something painfully obvious. > > It isn't, but you may find this applicable: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30570 > Thanks for your reply! If I am not mistaken t

Re: Problems installing a USB keyboard

2004-06-01 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:08:07AM -0700, jimmie james wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:26:43AM -0400, Robert Huff > wrote: > > > > > What am I missing? Sorry if this is something > painfully obvious. > > > > It isn't, but you may find this applicable: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/

Saving a partially rotting IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk

2003-01-02 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, I've got the following problem which I hope someone could help me with: One of my boxes running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE has an IBM DTLA-307030 (30GB) which worked very well for more than 2 years now, but I think it starts rotting away according the following: * The security ou

Re: port question

2003-01-02 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:06:16AM -0800, bryan cassidy wrote: > is there a command i can use to see what packages will > be installed before I install something from the > ports? using freebsd 4.6.2 I suppose you could use # make pretty-print-run-depends-list and/or # make pretty-print-build-dep

Re: Softer crash a show-interrupter only (please CC me in reply)

2003-01-03 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:42:42PM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > [Please CC me in your reply] > > Can anything be gathered from the attached sysconsole messages? Oh, also, > is there a tcsh command line I can run that will "tee" messages both to the > console and to a file, such as `startx &2> s

Re: vim

2003-01-09 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:00:00PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > Hello, > > Is there an x version of vim for bsd? i downloaded the src files from > www.vim.org and compiled it, but it created just the terminal verson of vim. > Any suggestions? > You might try starting gvim from an xterm. Also, y

strange reboot, permissions of /sbin/reboot

2002-10-15 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, Something strange just occured on a quite busy server running FreeBSD 4.6-RC as of May 28. First, it seemed to have suddenly rebooted, but not by a kernel trap or anything like it, the machine has been up for over 120 days, running smoothly. We checked the logs, seeing that it

Re: phpMyAdmin directory (newbie question)

2002-10-22 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:34:23PM -0400, Richard Biffl wrote: > I'm setting up a FreeBSD server for the first time. When I installed Apache, > it created a /usr/local/www/data-dist directory, with www/data as an alias > (symlink?). I then installed PHP, then phpMyAdmin, and it installed in > /usr/

fsck lasting several hours (and then forever) after crash

2002-10-24 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello lists (sorry for crossposting), This is kind of serious for me. Here is what happened: I portupgraded the native version of mozilla to 1.1 and fired it up. It crashed and took X with it. Keyboard and mouse where dead, I had to press the reset button. So the system rebooted and reac

Re: fsck lasting several hours (and then forever) after crash

2002-10-24 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:40:43AM -0500, Matthew Reimer wrote: > Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > > >Is there anything else I could do to help solving this problem? > >regards > > We had a problem like this when an ATA disk went bad--the kernel would > seem to hang while try

Re: cheat sheet? apache, mod_ssl, mod_php, mysql

2002-11-19 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:49:25PM -0600, Ronnie Clark wrote: > > And I have php and SSL playing nice. But, I have a server certificicate > that is expired and doesn't match... How does one update the CA and > server cert after these steps? > Look at the FAQ section of the mod_ssl handbook at

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-20 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > > When running "portsupgrade -uU" I get the output below. How can I fix these > malformed entries, non-existent entries and incomplete dependencies? > Running "pkgdb -F" shows everything to be fine. > Shouldn't this be `portsdb -

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I was at a local installfext yesterday > (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were > interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or > reliability. I'm currently about to finish the m

Native Opera: "INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End", libjavaplugin_oji.so?

2002-12-16 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, Maybe somebody knows what the problem is I am facing with the native version of Opera for FreeBSD. Until now I have used the linux-opera port and it worked quite well I think. Out of curiosity I wanted to give the native version from the ports a try and deinstalled lin

Re: Native Opera: "INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End", libjavaplugin_oji.so?

2002-12-17 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:40:07PM +0100, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > > --- > shell> opera & > INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking > error=Shared object "libgtk-1.2.so.0" not found > > System error?::

Re: Mail clients

2002-12-23 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Ernest H. Rice wrote: > > Si u decided to try and use another mail program. > k-mail doesnt look for my email in /var/mail/... which is a problem > Have you set your $MAIL environment variable to /var/mail/$USERNAME? Also, I am sure you can tell kmail wh

Re: new user woes

2002-07-12 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 01:41:59AM -0700, chris wrote: > Hello, two things, > > One, I have an extended fat32 partition on the same drive (ide) that > FreeBSD 4.6 is installed on. I have tried mounting it with 'mount -t msdos > /dev/ad0s5 /mnt', but only to get a 'Device not configured' error.

autoconf/aclocal woes at building lyx-1.1.6

2002-07-12 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list(s), (I am crossposting because I am not sure if this is -stable related or just the usual "building error" stuff that happes from time to time.) So I am trying to build and install lyx-1.1.6 on a machine running 4.6-STABLE as of Jul 08 and it works just fine building tex and

Re: new user woes

2002-07-13 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:54:58AM -0700, chris wrote: > >> One, I have an extended fat32 partition on the same drive (ide) that > >> FreeBSD 4.6 is installed on. I have tried mounting it with 'mount -t > >msdos > >> /dev/ad0s5 /mnt', but only to get a 'Device not configured' error. > > > >Could

Re: autoconf/aclocal woes at building lyx-1.1.6

2002-07-15 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:13:44PM -0500, Bob Boyken wrote: > Your answer is here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/35197 > > Bob > Yep, thanks a lot, that's it! regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe

SGI's STL (Standard Template Library) in base system?

2002-07-17 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, Maybe I should be posting this to -hackers, but I'll try anyway. Is the Standard Template Library somehow contained in the base system of FreeBSD? I know there is the ports devel/stlport, but if it also resides in the base system (just like sendmail, perl, ssh, etc..) it

Re: SGI's STL (Standard Template Library) in base system?

2002-07-18 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Ok, thanks for answering, I found that it should be enough for a not-really-sophisticated user like me :) Thanks and regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions