From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 24 00:59:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443471065670 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:59:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kalin@el.net) Received: from mail.el.net (mail.el.net [74.1.12.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3D648FC18 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:59:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 49448 invoked by uid 1008); 24 Oct 2009 02:12:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kalins-macbook-pro.local) (kalin@el.net@74.1.12.115) by mail.el.net with ESMTPA; 24 Oct 2009 02:12:53 -0000 Message-ID: <4AE250BF.8010902@el.net> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:56:31 -0400 From: kalin m User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: freebsd forgets root password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:59:07 -0000 hi all .... this is really weird. i've must have set up the root password on this new machine i got at least 5 times and after a few reboots this thing forgets it. i have to go in single user and reset it again and again?!? what can be the reason? it'a brand new install of freebsd 7.2 amd64 (amnesiac) ... fits the name... while i'm on here... the machine comes with an ethernet card on board that according to pciconf there is no driver for it. pciconf identifies the card as Marvell Semiconductor (was: Galileo something...) which according to the handbook needs the msk driver. which is in the generic kernel anyway. the thing is pciconf says none2@pci0:2:0:0 for that card. dmesg doesn't mention anything about msk. and sysinstall doesn't see anything either. so far so awesome... now... the wireless card i put in. ralink technology. in the office here there is a simple wifi router that is "protected" with WPA password. if i get rid of the password and just use ifconfig to get to the router everything works ok but putting the wpa on again and using the supplicant things suck. ifconfig says the card is associated. and it gets an ip but that's pretty much all that happens. pings to a neighboring machine produce huge dropouts. with 85% packet loss. another awesomeness... and those are pings to ips. dns is pretty much nowhere to be found. sysisntall has for ral0... so in conclusion: what's up with the root password amnesia? what's up with the msk driver card? and what's up with this wpa supplicant thing? thanks....