Re: [CFR]RT305xF support, w/o attachment

2011-03-22 Thread Etienne Robillard
to skip compiling hardware-assisted modules in FreeBSD using the WITHOUT_FIRMWARE option. Likewise, a WITHOUT_OFDM patch for FreeBSD could be ported nicely to OpenBSD... :) Etienne -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e

Re: [CFR]RT305xF support, w/o attachment

2011-03-22 Thread Etienne Robillard
technical errors but i do not drink in the morning!! :) On 22/03/11 06:30 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: So I'm curious - what exactly about OFDM do you have a problem with? Adrian On 22 March 2011 18:23, Etienne Robillard e...@gthcfoundation.org mailto:e...@gthcfoundation.org wrote

Re: [CFR]RT305xF support, w/o attachment

2011-03-21 Thread Etienne Robillard
my RT2860 under dev/ral': different device in same driver; break; } Hint me please. WBW Stop waffling please. I assume your not stupid and could perhaps explains better what you meant to say without the implicit assumptions you don't know what you're doing. -- Etienne

Re: Request to mailing list freebsd-security rejected

2011-03-21 Thread Etienne Robillard
. Google cognitive dissonance for more info... Cheers! The truth is in the semantics of the language -:) -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e...@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 450-936-2123 Website (Company): https

Re: [CFR]RT305xF support, w/o attachment

2011-03-21 Thread Etienne Robillard
a 'WITHOUT_OFDM' and/or 'WITHOUT_FIRMWARE' option to disable compiling any BSD licensed driver code related to OFDM without the user explicit consent. kind regards, -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e...@gthcfoundation.org Work

Re: Request to test if_ath - TX power control changes

2011-03-10 Thread Etienne Robillard
... :-) Regards, -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e...@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 450-936-2123 Website (Company): https://gthc.org/ Website (Blog): https://gthc.org/blog/ PGP public key fingerprint:F2A9 32EA 8E7C 460F 1728

can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
ethernet based nics) so that no ones get hurt being a WLAN (802.11ng ethernet-class) subcarrier ? -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e...@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 450-936-2123 Website (Company): https://gthc.org

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 09:33 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2011 15:23:02 Etienne Robillard wrote: Hi, as the subject line implies, can someone explains why OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is required for running run(4) ? Is there any (safer) alternative to OFDM

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
as defined in OFDM, for operating WLAN devices as 'ethernet-class subcarriers'.. Kind regards, -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e...@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 450-936-2123 Website (Company): https://gthc.org/ Website

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
. I think this guy should be blocked from this list. - Diane (VA3DB) This is out-of-scope but I respect your opinion to call me a name attempting to shed some lights on the security aspect of implict uses of OFDM in FreeBSD... :-) -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club

Fwd: Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
my best bet is that VLF/ELF frequencies are using FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) algorithm to increase compression ratio of WLAN devices operating with OFDM-enabled hardware. If that is true then not all WLAN devices can do OFDM thus explaining why you could use 802.11g without it...

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
trails. QED P.S. Have you noticed the colours from a sprinkler in the Sun? (I will not reply to any more postings about this on freebsd-current) - Diane (VA3DB) -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e...@gthcfoundation.org

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
the radiation levels of OFDM ethernet class devices (including USB devices and routers) using ELF/VLF frequencies below 30khz as per the newer 802.11(ng) drafts... ;-) -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
? Thanks, On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 10:38:30AM -0500, Etienne Robillard wrote: my best bet is that VLF/ELF frequencies are using FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) algorithm to increase compression ratio of WLAN devices No. FFT has nothing to do with this. FFT is a mathematical transform. Nothing

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 09:49 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: OFDM is part of 11g, 11a, and 11n (2/5ghz.) I don't understand why you're asking about it in a security context. Adrian Approaching security can be seen with onion paradigm: True paranoids will want to have multiple layers of security whether its

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 11:31 AM, Etienne Robillard wrote: On 06/03/11 09:49 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: OFDM is part of 11g, 11a, and 11n (2/5ghz.) I don't understand why you're asking about it in a security context. Adrian and finally I almost forgot... there seems to be another aspect

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 11:46 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 11:31:00AM -0500, Etienne Robillard wrote: On 06/03/11 09:49 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: OFDM is part of 11g, 11a, and 11n (2/5ghz.) I don't understand why you're asking about it in a security context. Adrian

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
circulating in the wild to boost 802.11 'speeds' and 'ranges' ? Thanks, -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e...@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 450-936-2123 Website (Company): https://gthc.org/ Website (Blog): https://gthc.org

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 12:36 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2011 18:19:31 Etienne Robillard wrote: On 06/03/11 11:58 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: yes, the difference with 'software OFDM' and hardware OFDM - as in run(4) - is the latter exploits 'objects' and 'peoples

OFDM kernel (Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?)

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 12:46 PM, Etienne Robillard wrote: On 06/03/11 12:36 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2011 18:19:31 Etienne Robillard wrote: On 06/03/11 11:58 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: yes, the difference with 'software OFDM' and hardware

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 12:36 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2011 18:19:31 Etienne Robillard wrote: On 06/03/11 11:58 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: yes, the difference with 'software OFDM' and hardware OFDM - as in run(4) - is the latter exploits 'objects' and 'peoples

Re: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

2011-03-03 Thread Etienne Robillard
fixing the errors in the generic wireless code happening unconditionally with run(4), rt2870, and possibly urtw(4). Plus, a external firmware seems not necessary for using at least the TEW-644UB wireless adapter! Cheers, Etienne -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation

Re: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

2011-03-03 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 03/03/11 06:42 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2011 12:26:20 Etienne Robillard wrote: On 03/03/11 02:45 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: I forwarded this thread on -current. Please also find below a stack trace produced with option KDB_UNATTENDED

Re: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

2011-03-03 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 03/03/11 08:25 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2011 14:07:52 Etienne Robillard wrote: ieee80211_newstate_cb Hi, I think the problem is in the ieee80211 layer not draining its taskqueues properly and/or other activities. It crashes in USB because

RE: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

2011-03-02 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 02/25/2011 07:31, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: On Friday, February 25, 2011 12:47:12 Etienne Robillard wrote: On 25/02/11 06:18 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: On Friday, February 25, 2011 11:03:04 Etienne Robillard wrote: On 25/02/11 04:11 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote

Re: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

2011-03-02 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 02/03/11 11:47 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:00:26 am Etienne Robillard wrote: On 02/25/2011 07:31, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: On Friday, February 25, 2011 12:47:12 Etienne Robillard wrote: On 25/02/11 06:18 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote

Stack overflow before kernel load..

2011-02-21 Thread Etienne Robillard
Hi, Any ideas why the bootloader prints a 'error: stack overflow' message and request user confirmation to load the kernel manually? $ uname -a FreeBSD marina.localdomain 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #1: Wed Feb 16 03:38:23 EST 2011

Re: wlan/wpi are more broken than 3 weeks.

2010-12-26 Thread Etienne Robillard
. Is this bug related to a USB wireless card ? I have similar issues (recurring) on Freebsd 8.1. my current understanding is that USB wireless on FreeSD is somewhat a itchy business.. Regards -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer E-mail: e

shared lib issue in /usr/obj?

2010-12-09 Thread Etienne Robillard
Hi $ sudo rm -rf /usr/obj/* rm: /usr/obj/usr/local/freebsd8/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libc.so.7: Operation not permitted rm: /usr/obj/usr/local/freebsd8/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libcrypt.so.5: Operation not permitted rm: /usr/obj/usr/local/freebsd8/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libthr.so.3: Operation not

Re: shared lib issue in /usr/obj?

2010-12-09 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 12/09/10 07:57, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:38:38 -0500, Etienne Robillarde...@gthcfoundation.org wrote: Hi $ sudo rm -rf /usr/obj/* rm: /usr/obj/usr/local/freebsd8/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libc.so.7: Operation not permitted rm:

Re: Error: stack overflow on boot

2010-11-09 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 08/11/10 06:37 PM, Etienne Robillard wrote: Hi, why is this message happening with 8.1 and sometimes CURRENT ? I tried recompiling the bootloader but the error still happens, forcing user to hit Enter to enter manual boot. Any takes ? :) Many thanks, Etienne

Error: stack overflow on boot

2010-11-08 Thread Etienne Robillard
Hi, why is this message happening with 8.1 and sometimes CURRENT ? I tried recompiling the bootloader but the error still happens, forcing user to hit Enter to enter manual boot. Any takes ? :) Many thanks, Etienne ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org

Re: thunderbird-3.0.6 stuck in ucond upon start

2010-08-03 Thread Etienne Robillard
Please show us the kernel config too. It compiles and runs without side effects on FreeBSD 8.1 (GENERIC) and native gcc... cheers! Etienne On 08/02/10 17:18, René Ladan wrote: Fair enough... a trace of about the first 10 seconds generated by 'ktrace -di thunderbird' is available at

Re: thunderbird-3.0.6 stuck in ucond upon start

2010-08-03 Thread Etienne Robillard
be the GENERIC kernel, it is attached for completeness. Rene 2010/8/3 Etienne Robillard e...@gthcfoundation.org: Please show us the kernel config too. It compiles and runs without side effects on FreeBSD 8.1 (GENERIC) and native gcc... cheers! Etienne On 08/02/10 17:18, René Ladan wrote

Re: thunderbird-3.0.6 stuck in ucond upon start

2010-08-02 Thread Etienne Robillard
linux.ko acer % Regards, Rene ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Etienne Robillard Green Tea Hackers Club

i love freebsd

2010-07-20 Thread Etienne Robillard
in it at all. -- Noam Chomsky -- Etienne Robillard Green Tea Hackers Club E-mail: [4]e...@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 1 (514) 962-7703 Website:[5]https://gthc.org/ During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act . -- George