From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 24 01:46:04 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 8363F106566C for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:46:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f171.google.com (mail-yx0-f171.google.com [209.85.210.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D1CD8FC0A for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:46:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe1 with SMTP id 1so8466265yxe.3 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:46:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=+O3wpeUP8ukwNGh3DTzWTsnHzZZBqlK0mVs7EGHI3C4=; b=SXBMzlHOFjwEgb6v1LnWCZnRm7OxfOrMwVqgEim+vWwfT5jq0wmtijLJbiYTVM+p0g K6VTrUUQ3eGFATdaC7KUcnN4b2X+I27WxcNnXR/vgSfKZPrDvkjtUigz2aRO6aPtUXAn 0g5BbyEq8tb5KUgeyrylWg7Uk9KnHuggGYAAc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=rnZkAyU6ak4VzjSHAqptJRKzJg3xXnf+9BbU+lyPnC3Ye33rOnJ1+9Q9FGpbzdZQfJ GN1kvK9SsD+a22PVVyJDzUeRw7uMB4sIvRo23h+5azQXAmNTMxDEPBbwTGJehc13in9o 3wIjmD/k9GrfzEHdTCBF/RdNvMr/4pX82ZvVY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.24.4 with SMTP id 4mr19405246ybx.67.1256348763355; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:46:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AE250BF.8010902@el.net> References: <4AE250BF.8010902@el.net> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:46:03 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0910231846j4386baa9g3bd3eab21fed1727@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: kalin m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: 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 01:46:04 -0000 On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM, kalin m wrote: > > > 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? > Couple guesses: You keep forgetting the password caps lock > > it'a brand new install of freebsd 7.2 amd64 (amnesiac) ... fits the > name... > amnesiac is the name freebsd uses when no hostname is set. > > 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... > man msk > > 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... > This has always worked well for me: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html -- Adam Vande More