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

2007-02-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Feb-12 16:07:03 +1030, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I regularly ship systems overseas where the power fails frequently. The inability to boot because one disk got hosed is Bad News (tm). A decent UPS can help here. It depends on your exact situation, I was just pointing out

Re: PXEboot fails at kernel (text) loading

2007-02-12 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:22:22 -0800 (PST) Rob wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.1 PC as the server to a PXE boot of another Compaq Deskpro EN PC. The Compaq PC has the option of a Network Service Boot with the F12-key during BIOS boot up. On the server, tftpd, bootpd and dhcpd are all working well.

java 1.5 diablo binaries from freebsd foundation

2007-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Williams
Has anyone tried loading the java 1.5 diablo binaries from the freebsd foundation on 6.2 yet? Thanks Jeff ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

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

2007-02-12 Thread Artem Kuchin
On 2007-Feb-12 16:07:03 +1030, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I regularly ship systems overseas where the power fails frequently. The inability to boot because one disk got hosed is Bad News (tm). A decent UPS can help here. No, i can't. I have seen UPS (even APC) fail in some

Re: java 1.5 diablo binaries from freebsd foundation

2007-02-12 Thread O. Hartmann
Jeffrey Williams wrote: Has anyone tried loading the java 1.5 diablo binaries from the freebsd foundation on 6.2 yet? Thanks Jeff ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe,

Re: gjournal patch

2007-02-12 Thread Vince
Václav Haisman wrote: Hi, yesterday, I tried to build kernel and world with the gjournal patch. It does not apply cleanly. This brings me to question, are there some outstanding issues that prevent it from being commited to RELENG_6? I tried to search ml archives but I did not find any. --

RE:java 1.5 diablo binaries from freebsd foundation

2007-02-12 Thread Wlodek Kraterski
nope but it was flawless on 5.5 with tomcat regards, wlodek ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java 1.5 diablo binaries from freebsd foundation

2007-02-12 Thread Vlad GALU
On 2/12/07, Jeffrey Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried loading the java 1.5 diablo binaries from the freebsd foundation on 6.2 yet? Yes, and it works OK. I also happen to run the java/jdk15 port and it runs just as smoothly. You can ask the port maintainer about the

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: There's information around PPP that's not been communicated or documented well. The 'performance' way to do PPP on FreeBSD is to go off and run MPD, because it has the right compromise between doing low-level packet shunting in the kernel,

Re: java 1.5 diablo binaries from freebsd foundation

2007-02-12 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:55:06AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Jeffrey Williams wrote: Has anyone tried loading the java 1.5 diablo binaries from the freebsd foundation on 6.2 yet? Thanks Jeff ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

problems with sil3512 on freebsd 6.1

2007-02-12 Thread Patrick Georgi
Hi, (please CC me, I'm not subscribed) I'm currently working on a freebsd box I've inherited from the former admin, and been tasked with installing new hard disks on sata. Currently, it has a scsi disk containing the system and an ide disk containing the data partitions (it's a file server).

Re: PXEboot fails at kernel (text) loading

2007-02-12 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Rob wrote: Is it OK to have a double kernel read at the last two lines? Any idea what's wrong here or what I could do to further test what the actual problem is? Argh. I had this same problem as recently as October, but I can't remember exactly what caused this. When I went back and re-did

February 2007 Monthly Snapshots

2007-02-12 Thread Ken Smith
Just a note to say the February 2007 Monthly Snapshots are completed and available at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200702/;. With the FreeBSD-6.2 release cycle over we're now back to doing RELENG_6 snapshots as well as the HEAD snapshots. Sums: MD5

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:26:18PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Kevin Way wrote: I recently ran into a bug in the jail startup scripts that caused this command to be executed:

Re: install on usb hdd

2007-02-12 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 2/10/07, Zoran Kolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy! I tried to install 6.2 amd64 on external usb hdd, but with no result. It is 2.5 WD and enclosure with two usb connectors for power. The box is not visible from bios at all, even when I use powered usb hub. Is it possible to install on

Re: java 1.5 diablo binaries from freebsd foundation

2007-02-12 Thread Michael Proto
Jeffrey Williams wrote: Has anyone tried loading the java 1.5 diablo binaries from the freebsd foundation on 6.2 yet? Thanks Jeff Just reinstalled my workstation at the office at the beginning of the year with 6.2 and installed the diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01 binary package. Been running fine

Re: install on usb hdd

2007-02-12 Thread Zoran Kolic
Hi Andy! IIRC, you can only install to drives that the bios can see. You could try finding a computer whose bios can see the drive and installing from there. As long as you don't touch the internal drives on that machine, everything *should* be safe. YMMV Huh! My bios sees usb flash stick

Re: install on usb hdd

2007-02-12 Thread Dominic Marks
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:14:20 +0100 Zoran Kolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andy! IIRC, you can only install to drives that the bios can see. You could try finding a computer whose bios can see the drive and installing from there. As long as you don't touch the internal drives on that

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:26:18PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Changing the behaviour of tools always involves a certain danegr of breaking existing script. That's especially true for symstem administration commands such as ifconfig that are running in automated scripts, and people depend on

Re: install on usb hdd

2007-02-12 Thread Zoran Kolic
How big is the drive? Perhaps it is too large for the BIOS? I hate myself posting so frequently, without anything smart to say. Drive is 40 Gb on 5400. I will go tomorrow to the servicer, maybe the drive is failing. If not, could be perfect flying saucer.

install on USB flash memory

2007-02-12 Thread Todorov @ Paladin
Hi list, I'm trying ot install FBSD on USB flash (2.0) SanDisk 512MB. The procedure went good - I see first stage of the loader (which slice to boot from) and then continuously scrolling assembler data registers. My target is simple - booting FBSD from USB flash. I've tried tutorial from :

Re: install on usb hdd (more info)

2007-02-12 Thread Zoran Kolic
I made few steps again and got this errors: Fist put hdd into Chieftec enclosure IU250 and got: uhub2: device problem (IOERROR), disabling port 6 Then hdd is in canyon enclosure: Feb 12 16:58:23 faust kernel: uhub2: device problem (TIMEOUT), disabling port 6 Feb 12 16:58:31 faust kernel:

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: [...] The -alias parameter simply removes an address from an interface. The term alias should really be avoided because it is misleading. You can use delete or remove which do the same thing. I think -alias should really be regarded

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:22:22PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: FWIW, I still use alias/-alias. Mainly because that's what has existed historically, and the term alias is what is used in reference to rc.conf ifconfig_iface_aliasX entries.

Re: java 1.5 diablo binaries from freebsd foundation

2007-02-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Monday 12 February 2007 01:25 am, Jeffrey Williams wrote: Has anyone tried loading the java 1.5 diablo binaries from the freebsd foundation on 6.2 yet? Working fine on my 6.1-RELEASE laptop that was upgraded to 6.2-RELEASE (without upgrading the JRE package). -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL

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

2007-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:25:57PM -0600, Jaime Bozza wrote: I want to second the recommendation for Areca controllers. We have two systems - The first is using an 1160 (16-port PCI-x) with 16 400GB drives, the 2nd is using the newer 1261ML card (16 port PCI Express, mini SAS connectors) with

Re: install on USB flash memory

2007-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:22:59PM +0200, Todorov @ Paladin wrote: Hi list, I'm trying ot install FBSD on USB flash (2.0) SanDisk 512MB. The procedure went good - I see first stage of the loader (which slice to boot from) and then continuously scrolling assembler data registers. My target

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

2007-02-12 Thread Jaime Bozza
Jaime, can you expand a bit about what sort-of motherboard you installed the 1261ML in? I've yet to find any mainstream motherboards which have a PCIe x8 slot. Most have x1, some have x4, and many have x16. I've seen one Supermicro board which has a x8 slot but is only wired for x4 (has 4

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread JoaoBR
On Monday 12 February 2007 12:26, Oliver Fromme wrote: JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifconfig nic -alias is obviously a wired and confusing behaviour It might be confusing to you. Personally I think that the current behaviour isn't that far off. the question is not you or me, I

Re: install on USB flash memory

2007-02-12 Thread Todorov @ Paladin
Jeremy Chadwick написа: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:22:59PM +0200, Todorov @ Paladin wrote: Hi list, I'm trying ot install FBSD on USB flash (2.0) SanDisk 512MB. The procedure went good - I see first stage of the loader (which slice to boot from) and then continuously scrolling assembler

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Brooks Davis wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: FWIW, I still use alias/-alias. Mainly because that's what has existed historically, and the term alias is what is used in reference to rc.conf ifconfig_iface_aliasX entries. Maybe it

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:39:35PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: FWIW, I still use alias/-alias. Mainly because that's what has existed historically, and the term alias is what is used in

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifconfig nic -alias is obviously a wired and confusing behaviour It might be confusing to you. Personally I think that the current behaviour isn't that far off. the question is not

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Brooks Davis wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: ipv4_addrs_interface is a much better replacement IMO. It's easy to use and doesn't required the hackish pseudo array traversal used by ifconfig_iface_aliasX. That might work for simple cases, but how do you

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:23:33PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: ipv4_addrs_interface is a much better replacement IMO. It's easy to use and doesn't required the hackish pseudo array traversal used by

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: What do you need to set? It's sets IP and netmask. It doesn't handle broadcast, but I'd be pretty suprised if that's needed often. What else is needed? Axing ifconfig_iface_aliasX is not needed, but reducing the visiability of

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:07:39AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: What do you need to set? It's sets IP and netmask. It doesn't handle broadcast, but I'd be pretty suprised if that's needed often. What else is needed? Axing

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread John Hay
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:39:35PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: FWIW, I still use alias/-alias. Mainly because that's what has

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:27:36PM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:07:39AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Does it support media and mediaopt arguments? These are very commonly used. I also rely on this, for what it's worth: openvpn_enable=yes

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:06:59PM +0200, John Hay wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:39:35PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote:

Re: gjournal patch

2007-02-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
Václav Haisman wrote: Hi, yesterday, I tried to build kernel and world with the gjournal patch. It does not apply cleanly. This brings me to question, are there some outstanding issues that prevent it from being commited to RELENG_6? I tried to search ml archives but I did not find any.

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Monday 12 February 2007 11:06 am, John Hay wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:39:35PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote:

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread JoaoBR
On Monday 12 February 2007 16:09, Oliver Fromme wrote: it is not misleading and it is a perfect term. With alias you add secondary addresses to an interface. Like secondary is probably the better word, No, not at all. As soon as you use the terms primary IP address and secondary IP

Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2007-02-12 Thread Pentti Huttunen
We tested the latest version (1.2.2.12) of the driver on Friday (Feb 9, 2007), but could not get the interfaces up. Has anybody managed to get the network interfaces up and running with this latest version of the driver? Thanks, Pentti -- No virus found in this outgoing message.

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread JoaoBR
On Monday 12 February 2007 16:27, Brooks Davis wrote: Setting media options and the like via _aliasesX variables makes no sense and you don't appear to be doing it so I'm confused by your question.  The ifconfig_iface_aliasX syntax exists to add IPv4 addresses to an interface. New

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2007-02-12 Thread Roar Pettersen
Hi ! We tested the latest version (1.2.2.12) of the driver on Friday (Feb 9, 2007), but could not get the interfaces up. Has anybody managed to get the network interfaces up and running with this latest version of the driver?

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Brooks Davis wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: True, not often, but sometimes. I had cases like that in certain environments with bridged networks and arp proxies. I'm fine with your proposed syntax, as long as all the existing ifconfig possibilities continue to be possible, i.e.

Re: install on usb hdd

2007-02-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:39:16 +0100 Jost Menke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: first of all, I think installation won't be possible with the menu-driven installer (sysinstall), so you'll have to do this manually (i.e. by using the install.sh scripts on the CD and creating rc.conf fstab and the like

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread J. T. Farmer
Oliver Fromme wrote: In the case of adding something, what should be added if nothing is specified? Should the tool invent an arbitrary IP address and add it? Now that would be nonsensical. But when removing something without specifying which one, it makes some sense to simply remove the

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

2007-02-12 Thread Geoffrey Giesemann
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:11:42PM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: On 2007-Feb-12 16:07:03 +1030, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I regularly ship systems overseas where the power fails frequently. The inability to boot because one disk got hosed is Bad News (tm). A decent UPS can

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Kevin Way
Oliver Fromme wrote: But you called it confusing. That's just your personal perception. It doesn't mean it is confusing to everybody. If asked what -alias does, would you really reply it removes the primary IP, while leaving the alias? Be honest here. Also note that it doesn't hurt

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:18:54 -0300 JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the problem here is that ifconfig_nic=inet IP ifconfig_nic=ether MAC does not work on one line and does not work on two either, the latter overrides and or you get an IP address with original MAC or you get a

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 02:37:53AM +0100, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:18:54 -0300 JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the problem here is that ifconfig_nic=inet IP ifconfig_nic=ether MAC does not work on one line and does not work on two either, the latter

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias [ath and ifconfig parameter order]

2007-02-12 Thread Sam Leffler
Freddie Cash wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007 11:06 am, John Hay wrote: Also with the atheros driver I had problems in the past with some parameters that did not like to be on a single commandline. At least with the ath(4) driver, it all comes down to the order the options are written on

Re: Desired behaviour of 'ifconfig -alias' [ath and ifconfig parameter order]

2007-02-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, February 12, 2007 8:01 pm, Sam Leffler wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007 11:06 am, John Hay wrote: Also with the atheros driver I had problems in the past with some parameters that did not like to be on a single commandline. At least with the ath(4) driver, it

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread JoaoBR
On Monday 12 February 2007 22:37, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:18:54 -0300 JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the problem here is that ifconfig_nic=inet IP ifconfig_nic=ether MAC does not work on one line and does not work on two either, the latter overrides

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Kevin Way wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: But you called it confusing. That's just your personal perception. It doesn't mean it is confusing to everybody. If asked what -alias does, would you really reply it removes the primary IP, while leaving the alias? Be honest here. No,