bsd.b3ta.org
Yet another *nix admin blog

I have not verified this on my own laptop (HP Compaq Presario V3417AU). But it really a good news.

To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
From: takawata@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 20:25:56 +0900
Subject: SMP suspend/resume.

Hi, I managed to make suspend and resume work on SMP system.
The patch following is a bit crude patch, but it begin
to work on my ThinkPad X61 (core2duo system).

TODO:
1. Suspend/resume path it self is simular to AP boot path.
Some of code may be integrated.
2. More context, like MTRR or npx context should be saved on
suspend.
3. Make acpi suspend resume path more ABI aware: needless
register recoverly or special register context saving
(the value itself is usually constant) should be removed.
4. Make same binary module work on both UP or SMP case.
(Or is it time to give up using acpi module on also on i386?)

Click attachment for the patch.

I walked through routine maintenance of one of FreeBSD boxes, which was running as reverse proxy (Apache httpd + mod_security2 + mod_proxy) for OWA in my office. Everything went smoothly. But when it came to restarting of services, apache started to complain of unresolved symbol!

Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_security2.so into server: /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_security2.so: undefined symbol: xmlFree

I reinstalled apache22, libxml2 and mod_security2 from ports. Nothing unusual was sighted. Asking our friend, google didn’t provide much of information. The latest that I managed to dig out was in 2005 and 2006. Some dudes had the same issue as me.

Anyhow I’m pretty convinced it is a bug from mod_security2-2.1.7_1 in FreeBSD’s ports. Here a quick workaround, just add the lines below to your Apache httpd.conf and the error message will go away!

LoadFile /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so
LoadModule security2_module libexec/apache22/mod_security2.so

I was playing with Alfresco on FreeBSD 6.3 with no success. With mysql 5 and jdk1.5 installed from the FreeBSD ports, I downloaded alfresco community version 2.1.0 which bundled with tomcat and mysql-java-connector 5.0.3. Alfresco ran fine with default setup with minimum configuration for data, index and logging paths.

If I changed db to MySQL and restarted the alfresco tomcat, it failed to start alfresco web client. It complains of missing modules. Too bad I don’t speak much of Java. Seymores, the Java guy, advised me to give it a try on Linux and I managed to get it running within 20 minutes. Everything works like charm.

Anyone has had experience with Alfresco on FreeBSD? Please share some light.

Thanks to the whole HeX development team for continuous effort to make HeX possible! HeX System 1.0.3 is finally released. See official announcement. Grab it while it’s hot now!

Main Download
- http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.3.iso
- http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.3.iso.md5
- http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.3.iso.sha256

In my previous post, FreeBSD : Compaq Presario V3417AU, I could not get broadcom wifi running with FreeBSD 7. Luckily, just before the Chinese New Year, I managed to get it working again. It’s timely for the CNY break. Sweet!!!!!

Project Evil

# fetch ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe
# cabextract -F ‘bcmwl5*’ sp34152.exe
# ndisgen bcmwl5.inf bcmwl5.sys
# cp bcmwl5_sys.ko /boot/modules/
# kldxref /boot/modules
# kldload bcmwl5_sys

Using ndis0 with wpa_supplicant

Set up /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf with your WIFI network information (an example of WEP protected WLAN with DHCP enabled). You may enable wpa_supplicant automatically by setting /etc/rc.conf with ifconfig_ndis0="WPA mywifi DHCP". To initialise it, run /etc/rc.d/netif start ndis0

Additional configurations

i) /boot/loader.conf

if_ndis_load="YES"
bcmwl5_sys_load=”YES”
wlan_scan_sta_load=”YES”
wlan_scan_ap_load=”YES”
wlan_wep_load=”YES”
wlan_ccmp_load=”YES”
wlan_tkip_load=”YES”
wlan_xauth_load=”YES”
wlan_acl_load=”YES

ii) /etc/rc.conf

ifconfig_ndis0="WPA mywifi DHCP"

iii) /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ap_scan=1
network={
ssid=”mywifi”
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_tx_keyidx=1
wep_key1=your_104bit_wep_key
}

If you are on FreeBSD 7.0 and have problem booting up HeX LiveCD with qemu, try this

kldload aio

and add -std-vga option to qemu command line. For example:-

qemu -boot d -cdrom hex-i386-1.0.2.iso -localtime -std-vga

Have fun!

I have been using FreeBSD on Compaq Presario V3417AU notebook for quite sometimes and did not bother/forgot to post the setup notes and until few of my blog visitors dropped me query emails on Compaq presario V3000 series + FreeBSD 7. If you are looking for post on Compaq Presario V3010AU, you can find it here.

Like Compaq V3000 series, V3417AU comes with a layer lamination, subtle looking pinstripe patterns on the chassis, which ensures greater protection from scratches. As usual, I don’t pay for M$ Windows licence as the unit comes with FreeDOS preinstalled.

(more…)

Merry Christmas. HeX development team would like to present you HeX 1.0.2 - The Christmas Release!!!!! Grab it from :-

http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.2.iso
http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.2.iso.md5
http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.2.iso.sha256

Details of release announcement can be found at Hex googlegroup and geek00l’s blog

We are pleased to release Hex LiveCD 1.0.1 to address boot performance and javascript issue on firefox. This build should be perfect version for FreeBSD 6.2-stable based Hex LiveCD. We will go 7.x and unionfs (hopefully) for next release.

Download link:

http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.1.iso
http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.1.iso.md5
http://bsd.ipv6.la/hex-i386-1.0.1.iso.sha256

Please let us have your feedback if you tried it out.

Official site and details:
http://www.rawpacket.org/
http://groups.google.com/group/HeX-liveCD

That’s right. Today is the big day for us at Rawpacket to release our Network Security Monitoring & Network Based Forensics Centric liveCD - HeX version 1.0 Release. See details on geek00l’s blog.