Sunday, 30 July 2006
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| login through serial console Adam Sean 19:38:51 |
| | Hi,
I want to boot a freebsd system in a CF-card in a WRAP SBC. The SBC has
no VGA adapter, thus login this system can only be done through serial
console from another freebsd which has VGA adapter.
Can anyone please tell me how to login this WRAP SBC system through
serial console from another FreeBSD?
PS. the CF-card is already contains a freebsd system and I have it
tested before, therefore I just plug in the CF card in the WRAP SBC and
off it goes.. There is no system installation needed at all.
Thanks
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| Password Protect Boot -s Timmy 18:48:15 |
| | Anyone knows how to do this?
Is there a way to make those that boot into single user mode enter a root
password before they can mount the file system?
Thanks in advance.
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| Upgrading 5.5-STABLE to 6.1 Alan Strassberg 17:25:47 |
| | Just wondering if cvs'ing from 5.5 to 6.1 is straightforward
or would a clean install be the preferred path.
alan
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| printing setup missing in gnome Huub 09:56:42 |
| | Hi,
Maybe this is the wrong group for this, but after installing FreeBSD 6.1
and a couple of applications from ports, I find I don't have a printing
option in the menues. From which ports should I build it?
Thanks,
Huub
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| need some links/books to get started with UNIX. PankajSachdeva in 07:25:01 |
| | hi,
i am a newcomer to the UNIX env. and need some help regarding the
books.Kindly send some links for UNIX only to get started.
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Saturday, 29 July 2006
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| Setting env variables when logging in via ssh Philby 17:45:15 |
| | I have a Free BSD 5.4 box which I access using ssh via putty. Putty has
provision to set enviroinment variables on the host you are hitting. This
works for Telnet sessions to a SCO box I use, but seems not to work on the
ssh / BSD setup. I have seen some traffic about some ssh-2 hosts not
supporting this, so I suspect that's the case with freeBSD. Is there some
setting on the host I can change which will allow this? Is doing this
inherently bad for security or something? I have users who need to hit the
box and run one of two databases which look very similar. So that their
putty window could be named to match the database name and help avoid
confusion, I planned to have two putty icons running two putty configs which
set a variable to specify the database name.
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| no desktop background anymore Huub 17:27:24 |
| | Hi,
After successfully installing vs. 6.1, cvsup all ports and building some
applications (Gimp being the last so far), I restart X/Gnome (2.12) and
find I no longer have a desktop background. How can this happen?
Other question: ports/X11-wm/Metacity look like the portslocation of
gnome. Is this correct?
Thanks,
Huub
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| FreeBSD 6.1 Instailliton Problems Guest 15:06:00 |
| | I have a Compaq Presario SR1650NX which uses a non-raid sata
controller. Which i have not been able to find out what controller
exactly. If i turn off SATA all together i can start the installer
fine but then which is obvious doesnt see the SATA drives in it.
I have CentOS linux running on it currently and that mounted the sata
drive during install/post install. So im wondering if it could be an
unsupported hardware controller.
Well if anyone could help me out, please reply,
-Kevin
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| How can I use CONSOLE command to know BSD version? Favorites 15:03:51 |
| | Which command can I use to show FreeBSD version? I am in command line
interface.
Thanks. Maybe it's a simple question.
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Friday, 28 July 2006
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| bad fs corruption - fsck won't fix it Guest 06:24:59 |
| | when doing "ls" in my root i get:
ls: .snap: Bad file descriptor
ls: compat: Bad file descriptor
ls: entropy: Bad file descriptor
ls: sys: Bad file descriptor
then the rest of the directory listing.
when doing "fsck /" while in single user i get:
** /dev/ad0s1a
** Last Mounted on /
** Root file system
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED
ALLOCATE? y
and it immediately segfaults.
any ideas how to repair this?
it's my freevo box running 5.3-RELEASE-p5 on a p3/600.
i suppose i /could/ rebuild it (kinda dated) but it was a lot of work
getting it to where it is as far as the general user interface goes.
had to do a lot of hacks to freevo as well and i'd hate to start over.
any advice, as always, is greatly appreciated.
--
- - james <at> hal-pc.org - -
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
- Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776.
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| IOCTL to read a block from a partition on a filesystem Guest 06:22:06 |
| | Hello,
I'm very new to using IOCTL's for programming and am having difficulty
getting the information I want by searching Google. Every time I enter
something like, "IOCTL read block" etc. I get a bunch of hits on
blocking reads, etc. I'm not having trouble with blocking I/O.
What I'm after is, I want to know what the IOCTL is for reading a block
of data from an arbitrary block in a filesystem. I would imagine that
it's specific to the OS (or at the very least, not easily portable) so
the OS I'm working on is FreeBSD 6.0. I've looked through the include
files in /usr/include/sys but not being certain of what I'm looking
for, it's very tough to know if I've looked through all the right
files. So basically, what IOCTL would I use to read block 5,520 from a
file system? (Is that even the right way to ask the question?)
Because this pertains to FreeBSD, I'm cross-posting this message to the
freeBSD group too. Please forgive the cross-post.
Thanks for any help.
Andrew Falanga
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| Configuration of quad port ethernet card Sam 05:18:08 |
| | Hi,
I just installed a quad port ethernet card in a motherboard that s
running freebsd 6.0. Its onboard bgeX is being configured automatically
by the system (with the option I defined in the rc.conf file), but all 4
ports on the quad port ethernet card is not configured.
When I looked at messages file, I found the kernel is reading its
configuration, but failed to read its Spped and Duplex.
eg. with em0 on this quad port ethernet card, it is being read by the
kernel as:
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version 1.7.35> port 0xd000-0xd03f
mem 0xd00000-.... irq 24 at device 4.0 on pci3
Ethernet address: 00:04:23:...
Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A
What s wrong with it and how to further configure the system setup the
network configuration on this quad port ethernet card?
Thanks
S
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| Install vmware on freebsd Dave Sean 05:11:10 |
| | Hello,
I want to install VMWARE 3/4 on freebsd 6, but I encountered the
following error:
# make
===> vmware3-3.2.1.2242_12,1 "linprocfs is required, please build the
module and/or add it to your kernel".
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3.
What are the requirements for installing vmware in freebsd?
Is there a port of version 4 of vmware for freebsd?
Thanks
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| Reinstall Windows on Dual Boot FreeBSD box B Briggs 04:03:09 |
| | Before I do this, I thought it would be wise to ask here.
ad0s1 is FreeBSD
ad0s2 is Windows 2000
ad0s3 is something I botched with a Fedora Core install - I don't even
use it. (it might have even been some other linux flavor; can't remember)
To make a short story long:
I use Win2K because it supports a piece of hardware that FBSD doesn't
support - a Hauppauge-150 TV tuner/decoder card. Win2K has never been
connected to the internet because I'm using a Linksys wireless pci card
that has big problems on this box (AMD Duron 850) - Cannot determine why.
Anyway, the other day, I was trying to reinstall the software from the
Linksys CD and now Win2K will not boot. - or it gets to some boot stage
and reboots - no amount of Safe mode(s) help. Since there's nothing I
want on that partition (slice) other than the use of the Hauppage card,
I want to reinstall my Win2K.
(THE WAY I HAVE IT SETUP IS THAT THE PC WILL ALWAYS BOOT FreeBSD unless
I override with the F-keys) - IOW, the FreeBSD loader is always first,
which remembers the last default, and if I happened to boot windows last
time, the NT loader will then pick FreeBSD as a default.
Here's what I'm thinking of doing:
Reinstall Windows on that partition.
Copy /boot/boot0 to bootsect.bsd on c:\
Modify c:\boot.ini accordingly to point to bootsect.bsd
Question: Is boot0 the one to use? Or boot1?
I can't remember how I did this the first time; probably trial and error
before I installed anything. I'm following the handbook here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html#BOOT-BOOT0-EXAMPLE
but that shows my FreeBSD loader, the default - and if F2 (windows) was
last booted, it will go to the NT loader - at which point FreeBSD is set
as default, so for a power outage I don't accidentally go into Windows.
So Problem 1 is that I can't remember. I know how I have the Windows
partition setup (I can still mount it, copy data, I just can't boot
because IT reboots), but how can I make sure that the FreeBSD loader is
the first to come up?
And Problem 2 - MAKE SURE I DON'T SKIP ANY STEPS. I came here looking
for advice before I do this. I think I can get FreeBSD loading from the
NT loader if I know boot0 or boot1 and I can do this by trial and error.
But how do I get the FreeBSD boot loader first? I rarely use the Windows
slice.
Bonus Question:
Sorry for asking multiple questions, but while I'm going through this, I
might mention that this a 160G drive, 40G FreeBSD, 40G windows, and 80G
on which I tried to install Fedora Core 3. I'm trying to recover that
space - how can I use it in FreeBSD? I tried to change the type in
/stand/sysinstall, but I just get write errors trying to change the
slice type to 165 - it won't let me change anything there - either in
Label or FDisk.
--
B Briggs
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| Dump to drive problems Bill Farina 03:39:08 |
| | I'm trying to backup a directory from one drive on the same computer to
another and it keeps wanting to write to tapes, 22.63 of them to be exact.
The target drive has plenty of room for this backup. Here's the command and
the significant output:
# dump -0uL -f /usr/old-var/vardump /var
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jul 27 02:36:34 2006
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/ad1s1d (/var) to /usr/old-var/vardump
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 886204 tape blocks on 22.63 tape(s). <=========<<<<
What am I doing wrong here?
Any help appreciated.
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Thursday, 27 July 2006
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| short-circuit New Boy 23:21:00 |
| | Hi,
Such a bad day today.
I accidentally plugged in a QUAD PORT NETWORK CARD in a PCI in an
opposite direction. There is slit smoke raised from the PCI slot, I
think the motherboard is gone. Will this damage the RAM and CPU as well
as the network card?
Sadness
A
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| ipfw log Ditch Brodie 21:40:29 |
| | I peeked into my ipfw logs today and found this line
Dec 27 19:13:01 32 Deny UDP xx.xx.xxx.xx:60018 204.225.44.10:53 out via ed0
This is not the only line like this. There are several like it in the recent
log.
The xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx represents the ip address of my external NIC. I think it
seems strange to find that something is trying to get out. Can anyone tell
me what this means is happening?
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| ip conflict problem Agnibhu 11:27:47 |
| | Hi all,
I'm struggling to get to fix a problem in vxWorks .I've tried in
vxWorks forum but no reply.so i'm posting here because vxWorks inherits
most of the free bsd codes .
I'v working on an ARM board with vxWorks 6.1 RTOS.
My aim is to set a unique IP address to the board. After configuring
some ip address to the board I called arpresolve() to check wheather
anybody have already using this ip.
If there is any conflict with any other machine arpresolve should give
the other machines MAC address, i think. But the arpresolve() function
returns itsown MAC address.
Ultimately i want to check for ip conflict to my board's IP.
I'm getting kernal level error messages when there is an ip conflict
.But i want to detect this programmatically.
Is there any mechanism to detect the same ?
Thanks in advance.
Deepu
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| Adaptec RAID Controller 2230S Richard Gliebe 11:14:52 |
| | Hi together,
We have here an Adaptec RAID Controller 2230S installed in an IBM xSeries
346 Server with is running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0.
Now I've installed the port 'aaccli-1.0 - Adaptec SCSI RAID administration
tool' to administrate the Raid Controller.
But when I run the command 'aaccli' with root access, I'm getting the
following error when I'm trying to open the controller:
[...]
# dmesg | grep -i aac0
aac0: <Adaptec SCSI RAID 2230S> mem
0xdee00000-0xdeffffff,0xdedff000-0xdedfffff irq 96 at device 4.0 on pci4
aac0: New comm. interface enabled
aac0: Adaptec Raid Controller 2.0.0-1
aacp0: <SCSI Passthrough Bus> on aac0
aacp1: <SCSI Passthrough Bus> on aac0
aacd0: <RAID 1 (Mirror)> on aac0
# aaccli
Adaptec SCSI RAID Controller Command Line Interface
Copyright 1998-2002 Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
CLI > open aac0
Executing: open "aac0"
Command Error: <The current AFAAPI.DLL is too old to work with the current
controller software.>
[...]
Does someone know how to resolve this error?
Thanks in advance
Richard
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| Is any getting really cheap dial-up access? Lars Eighner 01:23:32 |
| | I want really cheap dial-up access. I want to plug my user name,
password and local access number into my ppp on demand set up and
go. I don't want to connect with a GUI interface (and of course
cannot get one that works on FreeBSD). I just want the connect.
And if they want to throw in email, I want to access it with fetchmail,
not with some browse system.
Is anyone actually doing something like this? With whom?
--
Lars Eighner SAVE BEASTIE!
eighner@io.com http://larseighner.com/
TIP: Most ports Makefiles test for the existence of variables, not the
value. So, WITH_FEATURE="NO" will likely cause FEATURE to be built.
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006
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| FreeBSD 6.1 linux-firefox and java help Dave 22:16:30 |
| | I've been struggling with freebsd firefox and getting flash to work
(sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't)! It displays things wrong
and crashes often blah blah. I have linux-firefox working great. It plays
flash files fine and works mostly except for the java. I cant seem to get
it working well at all. I read that there is a linux-sun-jdk15 that
supposedly works for linux-firefox but it is DOA due to security issues.
Does anyone have any suggestions on getting this working?
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| Help on tclMagick on FreeBSD 6.1 ... any joy? Guest 21:54:36 |
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TWIMC,
I can't find ports or binaries for tclMagick, and the auto* is a bit
problematic (so what else is new?). Has anyone had any joy in compiling
the cvs version of tclMagick/tkMagick against Imagemagick 6.2.3 on FreeBSD
6.1-Release?
Cheers,
Rob.
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