Re: VIA Rhine II network card

2004-11-16 Thread Tomek Tylec
Dnia 16-11-2004, Wto o godzinie 13:38 +1030, Daniel O'Connor napisa(a): On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:27, Zoltan Frombach wrote: It could be a full-duplex/half duplex mismatch issue. Try not to use auto-negotiation. You can set your interface to fixed full-duplex (or half-duplex) in /etc/rc.conf

Re: VIA Rhine II network card

2004-11-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:22, Tomek Tylec wrote: I've found vr(4) devices (which are very common in Via chipset motherboards) don't like talking to some switches and I need to force half duplex then unplug and replug the cable :( I've tried all possible combinations with media and mediaopts,

status of ehci(4) in 5.3-stable?

2004-11-16 Thread UBM
Hiho! :-) What is the current status of ehci(4) in 5.3-stable, i.e. what are my chances that if I buy cheap 3.5 external usb 2.0 case it will just or probably work? Thanks in advance! Bye Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Strange interrupts problem.

2004-11-16 Thread F. Senault
Hello. I'm running into a recurring problem. I tried to search the list for some info, but couldn't quite find anything related (there are some discussions on interrupt storms lately, but none seem to apply). I'm running FreeBSD-5.x on some old low end boxes, mostly for small tasks like small

Re: status of ehci(4) in 5.3-stable?

2004-11-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:55 AM 16/11/2004, Marc UBM Bocklet wrote: Hiho! :-) What is the current status of ehci(4) in 5.3-stable, i.e. what are my chances that if I buy cheap 3.5 external usb 2.0 case it will just or probably work? I think your chances would be better using a firewire adaptor and HD. On the Intel

Re: status of ehci(4) in 5.3-stable?

2004-11-16 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:58:53 -0500, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:55 AM 16/11/2004, Marc UBM Bocklet wrote: Hiho! :-) What is the current status of ehci(4) in 5.3-stable, i.e. what are my chances that if I buy cheap 3.5 external usb 2.0 case it will just or probably work?

vinum / 5.3

2004-11-16 Thread Sam
Hello all, I'm trying to create a stripe over 10 disks and am hitting a 32-bit wall in the volume size. The plex properly sees the full 3726 GB, but the volume shaves off the 32nd bit and only sees 1678 GB. Usual for vinum? Also, i kicked up gvinum to compare, but he doesn't seem to have a stripe

Re: vinum / 5.3

2004-11-16 Thread secmgr
Sam wrote: Also, i kicked up gvinum to compare, but he doesn't seem to have a stripe command (despite saying he does in the help). there is a geom stripe class called gstripe thats outside of the gvinum user interface. jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

IBM x225 Boot Failure with all recent 5.x releases

2004-11-16 Thread jcaldwell
Has there been any change in the status of the x225 bug in 5.3? I've got a 5.3-release CD, and it still shows the same problem. Right now, my plans to deploy FreeBSD are stuck, until this bug gets resolved. To refresh memory (and I'm filling in a bug report as soon as I'm done here) - on any

Unable to use ATAPI DVD drive in 5.3-STABLE-20041109

2004-11-16 Thread Matt Kucenski
). However, if I boot verbosely, I get no errors and everything mounts fine. Any ideas on what might be going on? I am downloading 5.3-STABLE-20041116 to see if any changes may have fixed this problem. Thanks, -Matt Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986

Questions about a 5.2.1 crash.....

2004-11-16 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Hi, I've been asked to help this former customer. This box is running 5.2.1 with as most exotic application jave/tomcat. And it crashes too often. The first essential question for the customer is: Is this hardware??? So I did the 'make -j 8 buildworld' test, which it survived with flying

Re: VIA Rhine II network card

2004-11-16 Thread Tomek Tylec
Dnia 16-11-2004, Wto o godzinie 20:08 +1030, Daniel O'Connor napisa(a): Hmm, I'm not sure what changed sorry - perhaps you could look for changes in the code by using cvsweb.freebsd.org. I made an experiment. I downloaded if_vr.c from cvs which was tagged as 5.2.1-RELEASE. Then I substituted

Re: What OS are you? fun

2004-11-16 Thread Rob
Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:39:13AM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: -Original Message- From: Andrew Sinclair Sent: November 16, 2004 15:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What OS are you? fun By the way, speed of light in the other thread is way off. The

Re: Named 9.3.0 weird error at bootup

2004-11-16 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Samuel Trommel wrote: Recently I upgraded from 5.2.1-release to 5.3-release. When I try to start named I get a weird error: Nov 15 19:23:12 freebsd named[1152]: starting BIND 9.3.0 -4 -u bind -t /var/named/etc/namedb/ -c /etc/named.conf Nov 15 19:23:12 freebsd

5.3 Loader Too Fragile

2004-11-16 Thread Roger L. Beeman
Can someone help me build a hardwired version of the loader that will let me boot my system? System is a 440LX dual CPU DEC Personal Workstation Station 333i+. There are no IDE devices. CD and HD are SCSI on 2940U2W controller. I saw in the code that this is bad news if guessing is required.

Re: Named 9.3.0 weird error at bootup

2004-11-16 Thread Jose M Rodriguez
El Lunes, 15 de Noviembre de 2004 19:51, Samuel Trommel escribió: Hello, Recently I upgraded from 5.2.1-release to 5.3-release. When I try to start named I get a weird error: Nov 15 19:23:12 freebsd named[1152]: starting BIND 9.3.0 -4 -u bind -t /var/named/etc/namedb/ -c /etc/named.conf

RE: Named 9.3.0 weird error at bootup

2004-11-16 Thread Samuel Trommel
I already found out (Chroot problem /dev/random /dev/null) Thanks anyway for the help.. Samuel -Original Message- From: Jose M Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 16 november 2004 23:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Samuel Trommel Subject: Re: Named 9.3.0 weird error at

RE: Named 9.3.0 weird error at bootup

2004-11-16 Thread Samuel Trommel
Doug i appreciate your help, but it has nothing to with my config file... I migrated BIND 9.2.3 (Builded from ports) to the integrated BIND 9.3.0. The problem is that my chrootpoint is setup wrong. [23:57:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/named/etc/namedb]# ls -alF total 18 drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512

Different snapshot sizes.

2004-11-16 Thread David Gilbert
I'm somewhat confused. When I take snapshots, offtimes, they seem to be different sizes. I have a system that has two 120 Gig disks that are vinum (now gvinum) raid1'd. On that I have a root, swap, usr, var and 'u' partitions. All vinum created. As one (of several) backup policies, we take

Re: Different snapshot sizes.

2004-11-16 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
David Gilbert wrote: and progressively delete them such that the oldest snapshot we keep is about 30 days old. Off topic comment: consider using ports/sysutils/fileprune for this task. Diomidis Spinellis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Different snapshot sizes.

2004-11-16 Thread James Raftery
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:22:29PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: But the snapshots are often different sizes. This strikes me as odd, as I understood the format of a snapshot was to be the same as the format of the partition itself --- so they should all have the same size as the physical

Re: vinum / 5.3

2004-11-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 November 2004 at 12:50:33 -0500, Sam wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to create a stripe over 10 disks and am hitting a 32-bit wall in the volume size. The plex properly sees the full 3726 GB, but the volume shaves off the 32nd bit and only sees 1678 GB. Usual for vinum? No.

VIA 83C572 USB controller not recognised as EHCI?

2004-11-16 Thread David Gilbert
I have the following: uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 12 at device 17.2 on p ci0 uhci0: Reserved 0x20 bytes for rid 0x20 type 4 at 0xd400 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] 'device ehci' in the kernel doesn't seem to recognise it. Is this a known issue ... or is it a magic byte

Questions about a 5.2.1 crash.....

2004-11-16 Thread Zoltan Frombach
I would risk the upgrade to 5.3. What can you lose? It is crashing frequently already... 5.2.1 was not a stable release officially. Just make sure that you follow the migration guide step by step (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html). Do not skip mergemaster. And you must