Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
(I won't use the acronym so as not to offend our British readers. I found out about that when the BBC interviewed me about it and I was told that I could not utter the word.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berke

Re: Understanding Flags, Refs, Use, Expire in Routing Table

2008-03-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
le would stop top-posting! The Expire entry is the result of FreeBSD's unfortunate co-mingling network layer routing information with layer 2 ARP information. The only entries with "Expire" values are actually ARP entries. (Note the MAC address os "Gateway".) Expire is i

Dial-up networking with Verizon Treo 700p or 755p

2008-04-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
Has anyone been able to get a Verizon 700p or 755p to connect to the network with FreeBSD? I have Googled a bit and found nothing obvious, but it should be possible. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab

ICH7R RAID1 support?

2008-04-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
Can anyone confirm whether support for RAID1 on the ICH7R is in FreeBSD? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B

Re: ICH7R RAID1 support?

2008-04-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: "Tamouh H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:34:55 -0400 > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Kevin Oberman > > Sent: April 16, 20

Re: portupgrade question

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
t; 'WITHOUT_MOZILLA=1', > } > > frase > When I did this, I had to put in: 'editors/openoffice.org*' => '-DWITH_SYSTEM_FREETYPE -DWITHOUT_MOZILLA', to get it to build the way I wanted it to. Without the '-D', it simply didn't do a

Re: Skype with sound and video support :)

2011-05-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
your sound /video setup outside skype before blaming skype / > mailing me. Many thanks for all of the work that went into getting a modern version of Skype working! Please put the information in this message (or at least most of it) into ports/UPDATING so a few less people running old kern

Can gpart create ntfs and FAT-32 partitions?

2011-07-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
, recovery partition (which I may not use), and Lenovo's odd "SYSTEM_DRV" that is required for booting. gpart has no indications of how to create an NTFS or FAT partition. Any way to so this? Or, should I use W7 to do that and leave the space for the FreeBSD ones? -- R. Kevin O

booteasy and GPT

2011-07-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
with 9-current) and Windows 7. Is it possible to build a "custom" booteasy boot system with boot0cfg or some other tool so I can select the "other disk", which is sliced in the traditional fashion? Thanks! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engi

Re: OpenBGPd stability issue on FreebBSD 9-PRERELEASE

2011-11-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
ffic with tcpdump and analyze with wireshark. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
ings like already compressed video formats. (Probably why it became popular for bittorrent.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd)

2006-01-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
same chipset and CPU on an MSI mobo and had exactly the same problem. Right down to the very low contrast video. I think VESA is broken with this chipset. I installed nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig. It worked immediately. nvidia-xconfig modifies the existing xorg.conf (or XF85Config) to work with the

Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd)

2006-01-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:35:55 -0800 > From: Mike O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike O'Brien) > >>Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:44:43 -0800 > >>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>I

Re: xcdroast problem

2006-02-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
OS. libcam.so.2 was the version present in FreeBSD V4. V6 has libcam.so.3. Its sources are in /usr/src/lib/libcam and the library should be in /usr/lib/libcam.so. In V4, it's really there. In V6, it's in /lib with a symlink from /usr/lib. If you built xcdroast after the upgrade, it s

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
are garbage. "vidcontrol mode 80x25" fixes it, though. I can probably stick this into rc.resume. It's only a 2GHz Pentium-M, though. The new T60s are Core Duo systems, but we don't have one, yet. One was just ordered last week, so I hope to get to play with one soon. -- R. Kevi

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
3]-generation should be affordable by now, around USD1[0-2]00. > > > > (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) > > Yes, some Dell Inspiron. My wife has not been at all happy with her Latitude. Heavy and still not robust. Unpleasant keyboard and very touch

Reading from ATAPICAM DVD

2004-07-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
at a sector boundary, the driver buffered the data to make it appear as a byte stream. Maybe I'm confused. Any suggestions on this are appreciated as I want to get a better idea of what is happening before a report the problem. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
l 5.x machine, load it with the backed-up > data, then find a new use for the 4.x series machine. I have gone this route a couple of times. It was an interesting exercise, but not one I would recommend. It works, but things like the transition from ufs to ufs2 and new threading libraries and LO

Re: irq conflict laptop with 5.1-current

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
in loader.conf. sysctl.conf will not work as it loads too late in the boot sequence. You also have some major ACPI issues that may be causing the failure. If your system supports APM, try using that, instead. Or, at least boot with ACPI disabled (hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" in /boot/device.hint

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
h (atacontrol(8) or the sysctl. The problem is that disks lie about whether they have actually written data. If the power goes off before the data is in cache, it's lost. I am not sure if write-cache can be turned off on SCSI, but SCSI drives seem less likely to lie about when the data is actu

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
on a PDP-11/40, 2xRK05 disk, 1975, but it was before the 11/34 came out, so I think I have you beat by a few weeks, at least. That said, my project moved away from Unix to DEC's RSX11-D and later IAS, so I had little contact with Unix until about 1980 on a VAX11/750 at the UC-Davis Dept. of

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
ch a thing as a USB "extender" cable, say, a meter or two long? Sure. My SmartCard token is plugged into one on my desk. Not knowing where you are I an only suggest Radio Shack or, if there is one near you, Frys. You can easily order one on-line for a LARGE number of vendors. Just rememb

Removing UFS label from root

2012-09-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
efore mounting the drive RW, but it is, of course, mounted RO. I tried setting the "allow foot-shooting" debug flag, but it did not help. Is my only hope to boot a live system? (I have no CD, so I guess I could try a a thumb drive.) -- R. Kevin Oberma

Re: Removing UFS label from root

2012-09-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >>> I added a label to my root fs some time ago. I really prefer the gpt >>> label and I have added it, but I can&#x

Re: Removing UFS label from root

2012-09-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Kevin Oberman w

Process hangs on large pipe writes

2013-01-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
limit on writes to the pipe with no reads done. I have modified the script to write to files instead of a pipe and it is working again, but I would like to understand what broke my script. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___

Max. file size for msdos partition

2003-02-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
file by appending 2GB-1 onto a 2GB-1 file, but I can't seem to do much with this file. Thanks, -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Availability of DRI on Radeon Mobility M7

2002-07-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
I DRI available for ATI Radeons? If so, can anyone tell me what needs to be loaded/configured to do it? Running -stable and the current XFree86 Server port. Thanks, R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab

Re: long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server

2002-09-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
a DNS problem. Make sure that both forward and reverse DNS is working for the names/addresses of both systems. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510

Re: long pause when SSH'ing to FreeBSD server

2002-09-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:20:22 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bsd Neophyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --- Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1. the login prompt to come up > > > 2. the password prompt to come up after i type in the username >

Re: recovering ufs after fat games

2002-09-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
boot access on large disks will fail if the boot partition is too far into the disk. Unless your hardware is quite old, packet should work fine. (Of course, you may want added options like -m, but that's up to you.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawr

Re: CDROM drive(s) suddenly gone

2002-09-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
#x27; If the minor modes for the 'c' partition ar not 0 for acd0c and 8 for acd1c, you need to re-make the devices. Once this is done, you will be able to use /dev/acd0c as intended. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence

Re: recovering ufs after fat games

2002-09-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:11:53 -0400 > From: Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:13:15 -0700 > "Kevin Oberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's on a Dell Deminsion 4300 ... barely a year old and has a Maxtor 7200 40Gig

Channelized Ethernets

2002-09-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
I'm sure I have seen how to channelize two physical Ethernets in FreeBSD. I was thinking it was with netgraph, but I don't see anything in the man pages about how to set it up. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet

Re: Headless FreeBSD box - Serial Redirection Not Working

2002-09-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
console. It will NOT use the internal display device. No probe or anything like that. But it will boot the loader, so you will have the countdown to hit a space and enter commands or boot single-user easily. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berke

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
is: ntpdate -b That will force the system clock to reset even if it is off by more than the maximum allowed step. It is normally used at boot time when you want the time to be set correctly immediately since the existing state of the clock is unknown. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences

Re: portupgrade of portupgrade fails with "The port directory for 'sysutils/pkg_tarup' does not exist"

2002-09-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
depended package simply goes away, even when they are dependencies of portupgrade, itself. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To

Re: Unusual output from dmesg

2002-09-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
longer present, they are errors. To clean this up, edit /boot/kernel.conf and delete old entries. Don't delete the terminating 'q'. Or, if you don't want anything in the file, edit /boot/loader.conf and delete 'userconfig_script_load="YES"'. I believe t

Audio IN to GnomeMeeting on FreeBSD

2002-09-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
to record sound with the Gnome sound recorder, I must kill ESD. It then works, but I still get nothing into GnomeMeeting. :-( And GnomeMeeting does not play the audio stream unless ESD is running. Any ideas here? Thanks, R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O

Re: how to use 'dd' to create image of a hard drive?

2002-09-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
d you can re-order slices. I used to regularly backup my 12 GB drive to a 6 GB drive by copying the first two slices, one Windows and one FreeBSD. Both were bootable if I installed the disk in place of ad0. (Actually, it was bootable from ad2, but required a stand alone boot to edit the fstab.) R.

Re: Q: continuing interrupted 'make buildworld'

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
the library is created and then modules are added. IF the process is re-started, make(1) sees the library with an updated time-stamp and goes on without loading the remaining modules. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Ber

Re: Copying directories contents

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
) and copying the single file. rsync(1) must be installed on both systems. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Character Devices vs. Block Devices

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
7 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0h > > What I am confused about, aren't hard drives treated as block > devices on most systems? What am I missing? Nothing. I can't comment on "most systems", but block devices were eliminated from FreeBSD in V4. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

Re: unix locate cmd

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
was built by user ``nobody''. find(1) skips directo- ries, which are not readable for user ``nobody'', group ``nobody'', or world. E.g. if your HOME directory is not world-readable, all your files are not in the database. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Eng

Re: Q: continuing interrupted 'make buildworld'

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
It's really ugly to build a new OS and discover that some stuff won't work. (Try living with a bad libc.) A corrupt kernel is even worse. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Copying directories contents

2002-10-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
#x27;ve seen it on a great many systems including a couple that were not remotely Unix. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscri

Re: Wireless troubles... Supported hardware???

2002-10-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
0x1 insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop I can't promise that this will work, but it's likely. If this does not work, send a message to freebsd-mobile about it. The folks who maintain this software hang out there and are l

Re: burncd error

2002-10-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
the trick. I suspect that I may have a couple of redundant options in the mkisofs line as -r might imply one or more of the others. Please read the man page for mkisofs as -L may not be appropriate. The resulting CD should mount and look "just like" the original files on the UFS disk. R

Re: burncd error

2002-10-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
ixate ^^---Moved to the correct place! TGIF! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: burncd error

2002-10-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
: root@hostname, now something > like: %^(%^%(%^&()_)_*). > > Did I hit a bug? Could you have wound up using a different character set? If you do a hard reset on the xterm, does it start working right? Do characters echo correctly? I'll admit that I have never seen this. R. Kev

Re: program to create partial invisable gifs

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
Windows, but most only simple operations are available from the display tools. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: HELP: telnet vs. security

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
te device supports it (which Cisco routers do). Have you considered reading the documentation? The FreeBSD team puts considerable effort into keeping it up-to-date and complete so people don't have to ask for help. -K Specifies no automatic login to the remote system. R. Kevin O

Re: system update

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
ERNCONF=KERNEL" command easier than the longer run of: make cd ../../compile/KERNEL make depend make make install R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone

Re: xfree

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
86Config and may be edited for more complex configurations such as multiple screens and non-default color depths and resolutions. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pho

Re: passwordless scp and cronjobs

2002-10-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
t entering a password. > Thanks. The most obvious thing is that you generated SSH V2 RSA keys, but the connection in the example used SSH V1 and is only interested in V1 keys. Check the "Protocol" line in $HOME/.ssh/config and/or /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the client side and /etc/ssh/

Re: passwordless scp and cronjobs

2002-10-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
me other way limited in access on the destination system. You might consider the use of .shosts and host authentication for this. While there is a slightly greater possibility of spoofing, it is probably safer than an open key that can get you to somewhere vulnerable. Good luck. R. Kevin Ober

Re: VIRUS in ISO images?

2002-10-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
as a pet peeve of mine with Norton prior to V5. It reported the MBR as infected with the "bloodhound" virus, but when you looked up the virus at Symantec, it was simply something unexpected in the MBR and the FreeBSD BootEasy MBR was not something Norton expected. Norton stopped doing t

Re: IBM 600E installation with FreeBSD 3.5

2002-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
res a minor system mod to work at all. I can provide the patch and kernel config options on request. 3. Modem will not work for releases before 4.1. Requires the comms/mwavem port of the IBM driver. 4. You MUST use the ps2 utility to adjust BIOS. E.g. enable the COM1 port. It is on the Windows di

Plug and Play USB?

2002-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
ve it plugged in when I boot up. Thanks, R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports

2002-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
ry time some thing is done to a port that portupgrade does not handle, usually whan a dependency is removed along with the dependent package, questions and stable are flooded with questions. But I would not like going back to pre-portupgrade days! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences

Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports

2002-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
t; #make install clean > > You are now up to date. This ignores dependencies. If I upgrade some port but don't get the dependencies as well, things can break. portupgrade was designed to handle these. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O.

Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports

2002-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
rade. I'm sure that portupgrade would be in the base system except for the dependency on ruby, just as cvsup would if not for the Mobula III requirement. But both are nearly essential to maintaining a robust system. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernes

Re: portupgrade freetype2 problem

2002-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
the database. It does not delete any files. 2. pkg_delete -f freetype2-\* portinstall freetype2 The second method insures that everything is completely clean while the former may leave some old cruft around. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkel

Re: portupgrade problem

2002-10-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
ption of this sort, it thinks that the DB is current and does nothing. -f says to force a update of the DB regardless of the timestamp, so that fixes this sort of thing. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berk

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

2002-10-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
keyboard are always the best choices. The network is normally pretty good, although some activity is pretty regular, but not to the degree that should impact entropy. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail:

Re: floppy disk

2002-10-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
lever by pre-parsing the vfstab file. Of course, this is useless on FreeBSD. The alias command should return nothing and the which command should return "/sbin/mount". The other very real possibility is that your system has been hacked and the mount command has been subverted. R. Kevi

Re: openssh

2002-10-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
ady > see this and know how to fix thx to help :) Check that you IP address resolves to a name and vice-versa. host 194.16.34.126 host mysystem.com sshd will always attempt to do a lookup of the accessing system and the delay when this fails is quite long. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Ene

Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool

2002-10-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
(unless this is disabled by sysctl). So this device covers anything you plug into a PCMCIA slot and anything in a mini-PCI slot on most laptops or the PCI on most desktops. You can usually track down what uses it by scanning the dmesg output. On my Dell desktop I see the graphics card, the Ethernet, and o

Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports

2002-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:13:17 -0500 > From: "Jack L. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 12:54 PM 10.7.2002 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:49:23 -0500 > >> From: "Jack L. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: Proper way to upgrade packaes from ports

2002-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
ty CPU intensive operation and can take a while on an older system. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Linux emulation: acd0a is not a cooked ioctl CDROM

2002-10-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
a different problem. You should re-make the acd devices. This is a result of changes to the ATA code that changed the minor mode of the 'c' device inode from 2 to 0. Just: cd /dev rm acd0* ./MAKEDEV all Then acd0c (and acd1c if you have two CDs) will work. This happens if you don

Re: Linux emulation: acd0a is not a cooked ioctl CDROM

2002-10-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
gt; I would be willing to install -CURRENT if that will make cdparanoia > work. You probably don't need to do this. -CURRENT is a BIG change and still likely less stable than desired. The ATAPI/CAM patches are slated to be MFCed as soon as 4.7 is released and the RELENG_4 branch

Re: startx crashes for non-root users on Free86 4.2.0/FreeBSD 4.6

2002-10-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
very time you re-build your X server. But the security problems of living without the wrapper are simply unacceptable. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph

Re: Ping to broadcast ok from subnet, not ok otherwise

2002-10-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
tting DHCP requests through then you need to be > running some sort of DHCP relay or rely on the router to forward > these broadcast requests to your DHCP servers (which actually turn > the broadcast into a unicast and forward it). > > Also, some OS's do not

Re: acd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG

2002-10-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
be better. Alternatively you might well get by with updating the drivers from cvs. Be sure to get those from the stable branch, RELENG_4. Get all of the files there that have been updated in 2 months or less and odds are pretty good. But this is always a bit risky as some dependencies may have c

Re: ATA errors

2002-12-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
es. > Better yet, go to your local hardware store and buy a new ATA/100-spec > cable, flat, not rounded, preferably with pull-loops. One other common source is a damaged CD. Hit that one twice last weekend and I was convinced that something was broken. Then I tried reading on a Windows s

Any word of support for ICH3 (Agre) DSP modem

2003-03-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
Has any progress been made on supporting the newer Agre DSP based Winmodems used in the ICH3 chips? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486

Thread libraries and Perl

2006-09-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
the best way to do this? Should the Perl bindings to the threaded libraries do it? (In this case, p5-Gtk2) or is there a better way. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [

Re: Xine and mplayer will not install

2006-11-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
st version, I assume that the database is out of date or that you chose to build it with Quicktime. To change your build options, use "cd /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs && make config". -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Be

Re: Help I borke my 7.0 AMD64

2007-09-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
libumem.so.1 > libalias_cuseeme.so libavl.so.1 libedit.so.6 > libncursesw.so.7libutil.so.7 > libalias_dummy.so libbegemot.so.3 libgeom.so.4 > libnvpair.so.1 libuutil.so.1 > libalias_ftp.so libbsdxml.so.3 l

Re: Help I borke my 7.0 AMD64

2007-09-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:49:12 +0300 > From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 9/24/07, Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:36:57 +0300 > > > From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-

Re: Help I borke my 7.0 AMD64

2007-09-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
rld looks unnecessary, too. Unless you have a 6 core system, -j7 is probably excessive. Both my own tests and those of others show that having one more build thread than there are processors seems to be the sweet spot. (I don't recall if anyone has tested at over 6 cores, though.) I think

Unable to mount partition with ntfs-3g

2008-02-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
mething? I really rather not convert my new USB disk to FAT32 if I don't have to. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key f

Re: Unable to mount partition with ntfs-3g

2008-02-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:11:37 +0100 > From: Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I would love to be able to mount my NTFS partition R/W, but the FreeBSD > > NTFS support is read-only (or almost read-only), so I installed > > fus

Re: Unable to mount partition with ntfs-3g

2008-02-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:19:26 +0100 > From: Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:11:37 +0100 > >> From: Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> Kevin Oberman wrote: >

Re: Potentially **DANGEROUS** bug in 5.0 - 5.1

2003-06-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
phics system to the point it simply turned off. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ [

Re: FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
n before installworld, although it only makes a difference on limited occasions. (4.4 to 4.8 would be such a case.) FWIW, the only files currently merged when the -p option is present are the group and password files, but this list is subject to change if needed. It is intended to be run before

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
s to the power source made after it is up seem to have no effect. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:46:51 +0200 > From: Tobias Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:07:56AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Were you on AC or battery when you booted? > > > > It seems that the T30 (and many other laptops from multi

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
messages that the system is switching between performance and economy mode when I switch from AC to battery, but the CPU pays no attention and the speed stays unchanged under both APM and ACPI. :-( It sounds like something is very wrong with your T30. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy

Re: A-DATA flash drive: "Attempt to query device size failed"

2003-08-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
now. I imagine that most of these will get to STABLE soon. The 10 byte command issue was just resolved in current last week, so it should make it into STABLE in a couple of weeks unless there is an issue with STABLE that I m not aware of. If I missed something o

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
US-trash-com chipset ! > > Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work > with FreeBSD ? Atheros - if_ath Ralink - if_ral Realtek - Most if_re and if_rl Intel PRO/Wireless - if_ipw, if_iwi, if_wpi For the exact chips supported, see the man pages for the drivers. -- R