Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:15:19 -0400 From: kalin m <kalin@el.net> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd forgets root password Message-ID: <4AE26337.8030001@el.net> In-Reply-To: <6201873e0910231846j4386baa9g3bd3eab21fed1727@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AE250BF.8010902@el.net> <6201873e0910231846j4386baa9g3bd3eab21fed1727@mail.gmail.com>
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thanks adam. Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM, kalin m <kalin@el.net > <mailto:kalin@el.net>> 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 not really... i checked. many times. even for num loc. which doesn't matter... > > > > 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. in this Amnesiac is the release name i think... > > > > 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 many times.... msk should at least show in the dmesg somewhere.... > > > > 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 > <unknown network interface type> for ral0... > > > This has always worked well for me: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html that's where i got the wpa configuration from. also from man wpa_supplicant and wpa_supplicant.conf. my conf looks like: network={ ssid="home" scan_ssid=1 key_mgmt=WPA-PSK psk="very secret passphrase" } wpa_supplicant with -ddd show more and more of the same with nothing that helps me identify anything as a problem. just loops through the same sequence of information which doesn't mean much to me. > > -- > Adam Vande More
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