i82802 Random Number Generator Patch

Hi. This is my first post to FreeBSD-Hackers. It's probably the wrong place at the wrong time and totaly inappropriate in general, so start flaming right now. Anyway, I've writting a small patch to enable the thermal noise random number generator found in the i82802 (i82810). It breaks the

postfix, NO_SENDMAIL and /bin/rmail for UUCP

I'm running postfix and am using UUCP. I have NO_SENDMAIL=yes in /etc/make.conf but this has the side-effect of not installing/updating /bin/rmail which uucp needs for submitting received mail to /usr/sbin/sendmail (which is the 'fake' sendmail from postfix in this case). Should we install rmail

multi-nics in FreeBSD 3.3 Release

Of course some one knows this, but does FreeBSD support 2 NICS? I have a 3com 3c905 and a 3com 3c509 in my box, but no matter how I adjust the configuration file, I cannot get the 509 to be recognized. I could put the Ne2000 clone in there instead, but the 509 is a better card. Also, does the

Re: multi-nics in FreeBSD 3.3 Release

Of course FreeBSD supports more than one NIC : gw# ifconfig -a ed0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 52:54:4c:1b:90:1b ed1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500

How to write a device-driver?

Hello. This is the first time that I try to do a hardware related programming, (if I ever will start and finish it...) I'm currently have no knowledge of that kind of programming, but I'd like to learn! If I'd like to write a device driver for a given card, could you tell me, where I could read

Re: Reading kbd scancodes from userland

Kazutaka This is pretty wiered. You mean the REAL left ALT key Kazutaka doesn't work on this notebook and the external keyboard? The left ALT does *something*, I just don't know what (yet). To get the standard left ALT behaviour I have to use the "windows" key. In what environment do