Re: Xorg and ATI card query.

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Unfortunately there is no amd64 version and I lack the clue to make one. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766

Re: Xorg and ATI card query.

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tools. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgppEj3bQHl4r.pgp

Re: fork wedging (I think)

2007-03-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the array. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgp4AlpDkHPcA.pgp

Re: fork wedging (I think)

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:35, Daniel O'Connor wrote: in /rescue and use './sysctl' (and other commands in rescue). I think you will still be able to execute static executables in the current directory vis a relative path even if the FS is deadlocked. (As long as your shell isn't

Re: fork wedging (I think)

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 05 March 2007 11:36, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I tried to reboot in another window but.. eureka:~reboot load: 0.06 cmd: csh 71159 [allproc] 0.03u 0.00s 0% 4652k Interestingly this process did eventually finish. The system hasn't rebooted yet but perhaps it will eventually. -- Daniel

fork wedging (I think)

2007-02-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
yet a solution :) I can upgrade it to RELENG_6 if it will fix the problem but I'd rather not do so without a reasonable idea it will improve things. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: fork wedging (I think)

2007-02-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
shell.. Going to be a PITA given the length of time between failures. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766

Re: Supported graphics card on X11.

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
i386 there is a hacky port of the fglrx driver - http://www.fglrx-freebsd.com/index.php - it worked for me in my old system (i386/Radeon X800) but my new system is amd64 so I can't use it. Hopefully the guy will be able to create an amd64 version soon. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in hardware RAID vs. OS mirroring and striping. He used Linux, but I'd bet a huge amount that his findings can be transferred to arbitrary current operating systems. Software RAID won't help you if your primary disk gets an error in, say, the second stage loader. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
:) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpqYtKYMRj3q.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Changing portsnap servers

2007-02-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
think Internode provide a portsnap mirror 2) You can just use the -s argument to portsnap to pick a mirror. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Loader hang

2007-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
except DOS. I just tried updating the BIOS - no luck.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E

Re: Newbie Sempron/ISO question

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
will not use the CPU to its fulest. I don't think that running it in i386 mode will have a negative impact on performance - possibly the reverse due to cache size. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Newbie Sempron/ISO question

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 02 February 2007 20:52, Simon Dick wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 19:55 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Friday 02 February 2007 15:46, Thomas Roberts wrote: While searching through bsdforums.org a poster said the k8-class CPU is an Athlon64 locked in 32-bit mode and if anyone

Re: Newbie Sempron/ISO question

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
:) Hmm, I wonder what the magic option out of that slew is.. (If any, maybe it's detected another way) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Loader hang

2007-01-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a BIOS at all (after probing) Interestingly the hang only occurred when booting the installed version - when booting from the CD it worked perfectly.. Anyone seen anything similar? Any suggestions for debugging? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: 6.1BETA3 amd64 doesn't detect my floppy drive

2007-01-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 04:26, Roland Smith wrote: Haven't used floppies in years, don't miss them. A USB thumbdrive holds a lot more data anyway. Unfortunately sysinstall won't read install.cfg from a USB drive. I'd like to modify it so it does, but ENOTIME as usual :) -- Daniel

Re: 6.2 bge regression

2007-01-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that ifconfig is still reporting no carrier once it's in multi-user mode. I am booting install media, but this is long past the kernel startup - I run the CD/DVD shell and then run ifconfig. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Re: 6.2 bge regression

2007-01-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 29 January 2007 21:32, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Currently it's connected to a 10mbit hub :) (Very crusty, I know) I've tried hard wiring it to 10BaseT/UTP but no change. I just dug out a spare switch (god knows why the hub was still in place) and it works fine with that. I

Re: 6.1BETA3 amd64 doesn't detect my floppy drive

2007-01-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Not sure if it's related though. Anyone know of any debugging that could be tried to shed more light on the problem? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: 6.1BETA3 amd64 doesn't detect my floppy drive

2007-01-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 09 March 2006 12:11, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 09:22, M. Warner Losh wrote: Maybe the output of size kernel? textdata bss dec hex filename 3069343 305288 212944 3587575 36bdf7 /boot/kernel/kernel (6.0-RC1 custom) 5746665 702632

6.2 bge regression

2007-01-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x02c615d9 chip=0x165914e4 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 This system was updated using CVS so it's really 6.2-PRERELEASE, I am about to try updating again to RELENG_6 and seeing if I was perhaps out of sync. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: lirc serial FreeBSD

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
which is a non trivial amount of work.. Probably easier to get an IRMAN compatible device :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: 6.2 nvidia x11 driver: weird 16bpp/24bpp colorspace damage

2007-01-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 09:03, Patrick Reich wrote: Wishful thinking: Too bad there isn't an nvidia-driver-legacy port. It wouldn't be too much work to split the current port into 3 separate ones for this purpose. Then you could send-pr and someone could commit it :) -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: 6.2 nvidia x11 driver: weird 16bpp/24bpp colorspace damage

2007-01-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. That's a bit far.. You suffer significant feature loss going to that low a version I believe.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: Source MAC addresses when bridge(4) used

2007-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
address will change at each reboot. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Temperature/fan monitoring on a Supermicro P8SCT

2007-01-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
was basically wondering if anyone had patches or similar to mbmon/healthd I could use. Failing that I will try and generate some myself (when I get some time, ho ho ho). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Temperature/fan monitoring on a Supermicro P8SCT

2007-01-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/faq.cfm?faq=3099 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: twe on amd64 hangs

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 15:18, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, We have recently bought some new Supermicro P8SCT boards with 3ware 8006LP2's and are using the amd64 port, however if I put the 3ware in the PCI-X slot it hangs probing the disks (eg at the end of the boot if it's in the kernel

twe on amd64 hangs

2007-01-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: pam.d/sshd

2006-11-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is what starts ssh-agent) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Compiler Options

2006-11-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
but the above is what I remember reading on various lists over the years :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: Standrat way to apply custom patches. WAS [Re: Pleading for commit]

2006-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
are in kernel sources so pre-compiling kernel after patch solve the problem, but it is nasty when I do this remotely and forget to compile nfe driver ;) I think probably the easiest way is to cvsup the repo and the use CVS to checkout/update. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: How to configure a usb device

2006-10-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
are running a GENERIC kernel (which has all of the USB drivers loaded in it already) then it would seem FreeBSD doesn't support your hardware. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: How to configure a usb device

2006-10-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
am guessing you probably need to install the palm/uppc-kmod port and then get PPP working. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: How to configure a usb device

2006-10-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) the courtesy of following the instructions I'm supplying so I don't have to send you so many email messages! Doesn't look like uppc-kmod will help though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: How to connects to Linux machine via null-modem cable and cu command?

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
command on FreeBSD? Two questions 1) Is cuad0 the correct port? Have you tried cuad1? 2) What baud rate are you using? (the -s flag) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: How to connects to Linux machine via null-modem cable and cu command?

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and connect :) Of course if you aren't doing 8N1 it's a PITA but there you go. If I need fancy stuff (eg local echo) then I just use minicom (as un-unixlike as it is) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: External DVD burner - connected via USB.

2006-10-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 20:33, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Is this supposed to work under FreeBSD 6.X amd64 at all ? Did you actually try using it? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: gjournal and Softupdates

2006-09-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that may result in really poor write performance :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E

Re: gjournal and Softupdates

2006-09-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. If the power fails during the track write then you lose potentially completely unrelated data. This affects all file systems equally though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
can't say anything good or bad about them. I believe Promise *do* support FreeBSD quite a bit. Certainly Soren's commit messages indicate that. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Areca cloned them! /sarcasm Promise cards have been supported for much longer than Areca (longer than Areca has actually existed as a company?) and it is my understanding they regularly supply Soren with documentation and hardware. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
was testing a Promise 2300 the act of plugging the drive in caused a new disk to show up (which was nice :) This did not happen on the VIA 8237 controller (which, by the way, has a really really crappy RAID function, avoid at all costs). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
can find this in dmesg, same for pciN. Any chance this could be documented somewhere? (Or tell me where if it is.. :) I checked pci(4) and device.hints(5)) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: speedstep / cpu frequency control on 6-stable?

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
1.4Ghz) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpLlAb1SD7pe.pgp

Re: Order of devices listed in ifconfig

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
motherboard vendor as to which order that actually is - there's no way for the OS to differentiate between an onboard and a PCI card. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

ATA RAID oddity..

2006-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
no device found for this subdisk ie there is metadata but it has no drive entries.. It's not a problem as such but it is weird. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

SATA timeouts with 6.1

2006-08-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the same ID number (I am assuming that when the array is created it gets a moderately unique ID) but the new disk has an older generation number and so not add it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Silicon Laboratories CP2101/CP2102 usb serial adapters FreeBSD

2006-08-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 02:04, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Daniel O'Connor was making an attempt, but I did not find any info whether he succeeded. He sort of succeeded but the resulting driver has issues :) You can try it here.. http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/ucp-0.01.diff.gz MD5 (ucp-0.01

Re: slapd - slow starting

2006-07-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
problem anyways. Yeah, I had to do this for 6.0 and hadn't reverted it for 6.1.. It took me a fair amount of frustration to figure out why, when I updated my system slapd was hanging on startup and I didn't go back and verify what was actually needed to fix it. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: slapd - slow starting

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ldap shells: files -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: slapd - slow starting

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpbjTQgZm10a.pgp

Re: 6.1-STABLE panic

2006-07-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 30 June 2006 10:21, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have an odd problem with 6.1 where it panics, and then when it reboots the system hangs solid just after printing how much memory is in the system, the only way out is the reset switch. Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault

6.1-STABLE panic

2006-06-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that for test purposes). The verbose dmesg was shortened so I don't have a full copy, I have attached the partial verbose dmesg and the full normal dmesg. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 23 June 2006 15:39, Daniel O'Connor wrote: How's this diff? So hideous you are blinded and hence can't reply? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the uart ACPI attachment and the sio PCCARD one.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
an actual one. That's what makes it a warning and not an error :-) whineYeah but it's uuugly./whine :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the test in sio.c for the AMD64 case since isa_irq_pending() won't do anything. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
kernel a stub is built in machdep.c. .. although that only happens if DEV_ISA is defined.. I don't understand how sio.c can link if you don't have isa in your kernel because there won't be any isa_irq_pending() defined anywhere. WTF? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpR66K8f8iW7.pgp

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:24, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hmm actually I just looked through the code.. It appears that this happens because isa_irq_pending() is a noop unless isa is in the kernel, and it isn't in GENERIC. Perhaps those tests in sio.c should be conditionalised on isa too

USB MGE UPS problem

2006-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to try instrumenting ugen next and see why it's returning EIO. I checked CVS but I don't believe any of the commits since 6.0 would have an effect here. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: USB MGE UPS problem

2006-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 16 June 2006 11:48, Daniel O'Connor wrote: usb_control_msg: 33 9 791 0 0x514f34 8 4000 USB error: error sending control message: Input/output error Set report failed FAILED ktrace shows.. 26140 newhidups RET write 89/0x59 26140 newhidups CALL ioctl(0x4,USB_SET_TIMEOUT

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the interrupt latency in 6.x is much higher. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 19:45, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Tue, 2006-May-23 19:23:20 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I would hope that 9600 baud wouldn't be *too* fast for a 2GHz CPU :( That depends on what else is sharing the IRQ. PLIP can give you 10's of msec of latency. PIO disks can also

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 21:18, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tuesday 23 May 2006 19:45, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Tue, 2006-May-23 19:23:20 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I would hope that 9600 baud wouldn't be *too* fast for a 2GHz CPU :( That depends on what else is sharing the IRQ. PLIP can

RAID rebuild problem

2006-05-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/local0/src/sys/GENESIS amd64 I plan to try rebuilding it in the BIOS but I would dearly like to be able to rebuild arrays without having to resort to the BIOS. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
specs? Not as such, although it is a bit difficult as the PC is rather remote :( (80 degrees north) I have another card of the same model here and I will also see if I can get someone on site to swap the cable with one of the onboard ports (used for the UPS) -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
contains only the aout subdirectory. Is this a bug in release 6.1? I think you need to install ports/misc/compat5x You can probably use your existing libraries by calling ldconfig but I don't see any reason to not do it the right way. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a work around.. There's no point the default install installing libraries that the majority of people don't use - there are very few binary only applications for a given version of FreeBSD. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sio5: Dolphin Peripherals 4036 on puc0 sio5: type 16550A sio5: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode So, apart from the actual program code everything else is different :) (Hopefully my next test will reduce the variable space a lot..) Any sugestions most welcome. -- Daniel

Re: Ath0, netgear WG311T problem. [SOLVED]

2006-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ath0 scan? :) I see there is a gkrellm plugin in ports but I've never used it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Re: usb to serial

2006-05-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/0.01, addr 2 What does usbdevs -v say about it? I have a CP2102 based device here and I am currently trying to port the Linux driver (reverse engineered from USB tracing) - you may be in the same boat. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: system crash during file copy to a floppy with bad sectors

2006-05-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
if you have the backtrace I think. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F

Re: system crash during file copy to a floppy with bad sectors

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
problem. Can you get a back trace? ie enable crash dumps and do it again, or transcribe, or photograph the screen as it panics if you are local. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: 'Max recursion level (500) exceeded' error

2006-05-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
or upgraded. If I commented that line out, then everything's fine. Shouldn't I put that line in make.conf? Or there's a bug in port's makefile? The former - that parameter is only for a port to set I think. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: How to change hardware clock

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
exactly? When you reboot the BIOS time is unchanged? Does the clock change in FreeBSD when you use those? Also, don't drop the CC. -Original Message- From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 11:36 PM To: Mare Negrocan Subject: Re: How to change

Re: How to change hardware clock

2006-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 15 April 2006 23:27, Mare Negrocan wrote: How to change hardware clock? I can't update clock with rdate, ntpdate. Care to provide any error messages? Or even what you tried? Is ntpd running? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
suggest an upgrade to RELENG_6 or wait until 6.1 comes out. PS here is a page with how I do it.. http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/brute-force-mitigation.html (With a script to expire IPs from the table) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
use this much swap your machine will be incomparably slow.. The old swap size = 2x RAM rule is no longer applicable unless you have a very special application. IMO if you end up using more than 512MB of swap you need more RAM, or less applications :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: How can I install a driver?

2006-04-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
=YES to /boot/loader.conf -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: How can I install a driver?

2006-04-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that but the guy asking probably didn't, and your message isn't very helpful if it doesn't say why.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: downgrade question

2006-04-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sunday 09 April 2006 14:33, Chris H. wrote: I inadvertently put the wrong tag in my cvsup script and ended up with 5.5-PRERELEASE instead of 5.4. If I just change the tag to default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 will it prune and/ or overwrite my src tree accordingly? Yes it will. -- Daniel

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. It also depends on the failure mode of the disk. Personally I think the price is worth paying :) (Although for a home server you can get your hands on easily then software RAID should not be a problem) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
can be used on ANY system. (Except for booting) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
except that on boot the array won't be recognised by the card BIOS. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
with a dead primary disk with software RAID1. (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Process hanging on 6.0-STABLE

2006-03-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 23:49, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:41, David Xu wrote: The problem is that every now and then the process gets stuck and becomes unkillable just after forking, ie.. Are you using pthreads ? Nope. Hmm I just found I had an FD leak

Re: Process hanging on 6.0-STABLE

2006-03-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:41, David Xu wrote: The problem is that every now and then the process gets stuck and becomes unkillable just after forking, ie.. Are you using pthreads ? Nope. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Process hanging on 6.0-STABLE

2006-03-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of FreeBSD is a little after 6.0-RELEASE but not much. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the motherboard) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed

2006-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpCwXnNy5VZy.pgp

Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
link? Which SSID? MYSSID? The linksys one looks like b only. The other 2 look like g. Are you sure your card supports g? It may be able to see a g AP but only connects and b speeds. What does ifconfig -m ath0 say? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpFvLy3vcEdy.pgp Description: PGP

Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
doesn't support it), or it will negotiate a speed up to 54Mbit (which would result in no functional change). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Matlab

2006-02-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Unfortunately it does not just ignore the fact it's a FreeBSD binary - it blows up. You can try adding a manual symlink - I have libreadline.so.4 from linux_base but not libreadline.so, ie I suggest you do this.. cd /compat/linux/usr/lib ln -s libreadline.so.4 libreadline.so -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: AMD Mobile Athlon 64 VERY slow on 6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT

2006-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
kern.timecounter and hw.acpi? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: pthreads and ldap-python

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
your Python wasn't compiled with threads. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
before giving it out so if you steal one then it probably won't be reassigned. Obviously this isn't a long term solution, and in some circumstances (like you suggest) it won't work, but it IS acknowledged as a bug.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

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