Re: the new config and booting

1999-05-11 Thread Mike Smith
of it. I'm not sure I'll get all the way, but in conjunction with some small changes in the loader it *should* make problems like yours history. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is lon

Re: m_get(M_WAIT, ...) _can_ return NULL ?

1999-05-08 Thread Mike Smith
ory, > or by hunting all such occurrences of the code ? I engaged in part of a sweep of this sort with Andrzej a while back, but he never committed any of the changes. I'm not quite sure why. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\

Re: VESA/SMP problems again

1999-05-05 Thread Mike Smith
> Quoth Mike Smith on Wed, 5 May: > : > : Insufficient content. Please add more and try again. > > Insufficient for what purpose? (Trying to understand what > additional information you would like...) In one place (one message), you need: - what hardware - what firmware

Re: SMP & APM

1999-05-05 Thread Mike Smith
27;t get crash > dumps. I should be able to get a null modem cable tomorrow, so I can try a > serial console and remote gdb. I wonder if there are problems running the APM requests on an AP? Daniel, are you running with the most recent MTRR/SMP fixes? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead,

Re: VESA/SMP problems again

1999-05-05 Thread Mike Smith
o majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's

Re: PCCARD driver still sucks

1999-05-04 Thread Mike Smith
the pcic module. Don't do that. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord.

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-01 Thread Mike Smith
> Won't fbsdboot.exe be able to boot /boot/loader? (maybe I am just naive) > (or could it be modified to do so with little effort?) We've had this discussion. No. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.n

Re: mem.c v1.57 and mp_machdep.c v1.99 and kernel panic

1999-05-01 Thread Mike Smith
d seems to have > NULL entry for a pentium. > > dave adkins > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ some

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-30 Thread Mike Smith
aren't working on this, nobody else is. We don't have enough people manning the trenches because they're all sitting back in the chateau waiting for the afternoon dispatches. This doesn't work. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you'

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-30 Thread Mike Smith
e fact doesn't help anyone, least of all yourself. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubs

Re: Heads up! config(8) changes..

1999-04-29 Thread Mike Smith
aise Nicolas lately, so I'm starting to fear that we're going to need a new maintainer. That bites, given how well things were going. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the

Re: ppbus causes hangs?

1999-04-29 Thread Mike Smith
y Packet Filter. Be > # aware of the legal and administrative consequences of enabling this > # option. The number of devices determines the maximum number of > # simultaneous BPF clients programs runnable. > #pseudo-device bpfilter 4 #Berkeley packet filter > > > # USB

Re: some bug reports...

1999-04-29 Thread Mike Smith
anymore and... that's > all. ESS still can't be detected. :( You need to set 'PnP OS' in your BIOS to _off_, and may possibly need to explicitly enable the device using userconfig. This is a FAQ, and does not belong on this list. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead,

Re: Problems with ahc (2940U2W) and USB

1999-04-28 Thread Mike Smith
--+---+ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \

Re: singed short to unsigned long conversion problem in isa.c

1999-04-24 Thread Mike Smith
sure how we go about making that one tidy. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: se

Re: New ATA driver and crash dumps

1999-04-23 Thread Mike Smith
>Is there any way I can help in getting the atapi-fd driver to work with > LS-120's? Unless it was just recently broken, it works fine (I have one). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The rac

Re: USB keyboard attach function?

1999-04-23 Thread Mike Smith
o stupid as to think that DOS had anything to do with the loader. The loader's keyboard interface code uses the BIOS, like it always has. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT GENERIC

1999-04-23 Thread Mike Smith
nths (ie. travel to/around the USA), and the third is that you need to be able to negotiate and sign legal agreements on behalf of your organisation. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long,

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-15 Thread Mike Smith
tack That doesn't help; there is no guarantee that your stack or your alternate stack have been mapped. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ en

Re: booting systems with lots of memory

1999-03-29 Thread Mike Smith
lating to remote health monitoring are all off. I'd fire the one here up to be more specific, but it trips the breaker on this row of offices... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and

Re: rc.conf issues: host identity vs host config

1999-03-25 Thread Mike Smith
n information, and rc.conf.site can be rdist'ed around. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-21 Thread Mike Smith
lesystem itself. I'm not sold, sorry. This isn't sufficiently automatable, nor does it remove the room for massive user error that I for one fear greatly. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The rac

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-21 Thread Mike Smith
> >> I pass "foo" from 1:foo(2s1a)kernel in my version of the old boot blocks. > > > >And you determine "foo" how? > > I type it into the config file or the command line. And you submit that this is an acceptable solution? -- \\ Sometimes y

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-21 Thread Mike Smith
to entertain any alternate solutions. > I pass "foo" from 1:foo(2s1a)kernel in my version of the old boot blocks. And you determine "foo" how? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-21 Thread Mike Smith
t of people). > > > > Use the "last mounted on" field to find and mount filesystems. > > Again, same objections... :-) Same solutions. Plus we'd be likely to place some metadata somewhere on a FAT filesystem, so it'd be trivial to put such a field there. --

Re: NetBoot & 3Com card.

1999-03-21 Thread Mike Smith
om cards? (Any test > drivers out there for it?) No. You might have some success with a commercial bootprom (eg. from www.incom.de) and a tftp'able boot image. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
system itself? Just have it read the node entry for /dev/$rootdev > (or similiar). This doesn't solve the BIOS : FreeBSD unit numbering problem, unfortunately, and it would make moving from one driver to another very difficult (you'd have to override the search). It's a neat

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
However, there's another technique which would work quite well, and one I'm actually moderately enamoured of (modulo it's ability to confuse the heck out of people). Use the "last mounted on" field to find and mount filesystems. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead,

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
ented in the CAM framework will make your life easier, not harder. It's not necessary to write a translation layer at all, if such a thing offends your sensibilities. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ Th

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-19 Thread Mike Smith
call it). The *only* way for this to work is for the kernel to hunt for the root device, possibly with some helping hints from the loader. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-18 Thread Mike Smith
; >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-18 Thread Mike Smith
> It seems Robert Nordier wrote: > > If the problem is the bootblocks, why not send a message to Robert > > Nordier, or if it's loader, to Mike Smith or Daniel Sobral? And > > say, "This is what I want to do, what are we going to do about it?" > > or som

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Smith
> > It seems to work fine except it core dumps on exit for some reason. > Marcel fixed that one a while back; update your system. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long,

Re: Diskless boot stopping at "NFS ROOT:..."

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Smith
t; > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -curre

Re: pcic.c & {,un}register_pcic_intr declarations

1999-03-12 Thread Mike Smith
'd need to study how KLD currently works, then go back over the discussions that Peter, Doug, I and others have had about how we might identify modules within a file, and implement it. I fear that it will result in binary incompatability (again). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead,

Re: pcic.c & {,un}register_pcic_intr declarations

1999-03-12 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > The only configuration which currently works correctly is to remove the > > kldload of the pcic module from /etc/rc.pccard and compile everything > > else statically into the kernel. > > > > Every other variation is *broken*

Re: pcic.c & {,un}register_pcic_intr declarations

1999-03-12 Thread Mike Smith
uot;unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: UPDATE2: ATA/ATAPI driver new version available.

1999-03-08 Thread Mike Smith
ad the disklabel. If they couldn't read the disklabel, you wouldn't be mounting the disk in the first place. Is your disk dedicated in some way? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, an

Re: UPDATE2: ATA/ATAPI driver new version available.

1999-03-07 Thread Mike Smith
> On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > # > # >From the context I've seen, the 'ufs_dirbad' panic is almost certainly > # due to corrupted disk input. > > I definitely can't rule that out as a possibility, but it does make > it difficult to e

Re: UPDATE2: ATA/ATAPI driver new version available.

1999-03-07 Thread Mike Smith

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-05 Thread Mike Smith
y > > good reason an application should care whether the drive is ATA or SCSI, as > > long as the functionality is provided does it matter how? > > The boot code might be distressed... :-) Not as long as the ordering matched the BIOS ordering. The boot code would love it. --

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-05 Thread Mike Smith
was actually wd1 that > didn't probe and what is now visible as wd1 is what you used to know as > wd2? If the disks are identical, you have to look carefully at the boot > messages. If that isn't a POLA violation, what is? Talk about "bike shelter" material. -- \\

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-05 Thread Mike Smith
he few times I've tried to use it, I would get different > results from the same actions on my part, so I gave up.) "DOS compatibility" is irrelevant. What is at issue here is _firmware_ compatability. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you&

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-05 Thread Mike Smith
least its > 4x bigger. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send m

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-05 Thread Mike Smith
to pack unit numbers; the 'wd' driver was our sole exception (the BIOS and the SCSI code both pack unit numbers). Since it's now consistent with everything else, it should stay as-is. Wiring ATAPI units down is of limited utility, but should probably be supported for people that li

Re: gcc

1999-02-28 Thread Mike Smith
s with them. Order the systems with FreeBSD preinstalled from Gateway. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\

Re: how to setuppci ed1 (ne2000)

1999-02-26 Thread Mike Smith
not following the instructions. The PCI device will be assigned to the 'ed' unit one greater than the highest number shown in the kernel config file, and this number can be clearly seen when the system is booting. Please do not send trivial questions like this to the -current lis

Re: [...@off.to: freebsd low kernel expert...]

1999-02-25 Thread Mike Smith
ontext in which you need to get at the suspended PC. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: s

Re: panic: zone: entry not free

1999-02-25 Thread Mike Smith
bsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself.

Re: ELF interpreter /compat/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.1 not found

1999-02-22 Thread Mike Smith
rc.nasa.gov > --- > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes

Re: NFS Problems

1999-02-22 Thread Mike Smith
me; do we have a utility to reference wmesg strings back > to the code that sets them, a la TAGS? Would this be useful? No, and yes respectively. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in

Re: Problems with nfsstat and dynamic OID

1999-02-21 Thread Mike Smith
ou > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race i

Re: NFS Problems

1999-02-21 Thread Mike Smith
ly stuck. > Are there some switches I should try? I assume (without testing) that > 4-current would also show the same problems as 3-stable. Which is why I > posted here. There have actually been some changes in 4.0 which might affect this, if I understand correctly. -- \\ Sometimes you&#

Re: netboot status ? (diskless related)

1999-02-19 Thread Mike Smith
infrastructure - on the Alpha you're just using SRM for the network, wheras on i386 there's somewhat more work to do. It sounded like another week or so would see some preliminary results. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind.

Re: netboot status ? (diskless related)

1999-02-19 Thread Mike Smith
of atleast a couple people netbooting ELF kernels, starting to think > people > don't care about netbooting anymore. I'm just waiting for you to finish the job; the loader needs network support too (there is actually WIP on this, let me know if you need more information). --

Re: panic mount root failed

1999-02-17 Thread Mike Smith
2 without some help. For 3.0 and earlier systems, you would use 1:wd(2,a)kernel at the boot: prompt. For 3.1 and later systems, use: set root_disk_unit=2 at the loader prompt. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smit

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
oo. -O3 does not. We'll probably see the newer version > of compiler before this is fixed. No, -O2 does not work fine; we've seen reports of it breaking things before. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.

Re: sysinstall - ALT F2 black screen

1999-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
hard drive while leaving it cabled to the controller). Yuck. That's extra-bad. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself.

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
to misapply this name to the loader proper. > The prompt isn't OF Forth, I stated that the prompt TAKES Forth; perhaps I > could have said that better. You "meant" that the prompt takes Forth, perhaps. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ some

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Mike Smith
pt, and the prompt is not written in Forth (yet). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send m

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Mike Smith
ever get to "BTX", you end up the loader. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Mike Smith
ored; it does nothing. You should have nothing in /boot.config or /boot.help (delete them both). Use the 'help' command in the loader, or read any of the dozens of posts I've made on this topic to date. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes y

Re: New print interface

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Smith
oing it via my printer port sounds cool. Know anything like that? ppi(4) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm..

Re: Adding a pnp device id

1999-02-11 Thread Mike Smith
g a modem it should have one of the "compatibility" fallback IDs as well. You may need to explicitly enable it if your BIOS is not set for "non PNP OS". -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race

Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-09 Thread Mike Smith
t goes into /etc/defaults, and the "local changes" stay in /etc. The next big candidate for this is make.conf, but that will require careful testing first. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-09 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith wrote: > >In a situation like that, you would just tune the dhcp client not to > >ask for a lease on that interface. You know you've done something > >silly; there's a mechanism to stop it breaking things. What more could > >you ask for? &g

Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-09 Thread Mike Smith
gt; since 3.x-STABLE still has some problems which makes it impossible > for me to use it on production machines. What crippiling disability prevents you from adding the driver yourself? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@sm

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-09 Thread Mike Smith
rfaces''. So it just happily sits there. IMHO we > shouldn't try to dhcp configure it. It will just fill up logs as it > continues to try to get a lease which it can't. In a situation like that, you would just tune the dhcp client not to ask for a lease on t

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-09 Thread Mike Smith
at happens if your lease expires and doesn't get renewed, or gets > > renewed with a different IP address? > > You will get "no route to host" type messages. Yup. That's just the way it is - I can't imagine what alternative the original poster thought they co

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Smith
> > haven't tested. > > > > Cheapbytes. Buying the Cheapbytes disc doesn't support the project, and there's a pretty good chance that the DHCP client won't be on the first disk. Steve; face it, DHCP client functionality is needed by other people. It won&

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Smith
ed. That's not "VERY BAD". Bpf imposes a slight performance, hit, but that's about all. Don't start whining about the "security issues"; they're so trivial to be beyond worry. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Smith
There are any number of reasons for going with the ISC client, including an involved ISC developer that's keen to help it happen. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...

Re: Tracking a Fatal Double Fault

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Smith
uring stack usage (or simply on how to increase the kernel stack allocation...). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \

Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Smith
him for a while now, but I know he had some very happy beta-testers in the field. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yoursel

Re: Tracking a Fatal Double Fault

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Smith
image, but the typical cause of a double fault is running out of kernel stack. Are you running any custom kernel code? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org

Re: KLD confusion..

1999-02-07 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith writes: > > > Take the following scenario: > > > > > > compiled in: module A > > > > > > kldstat -v shows module 'A' > > > > > > kldload A > > > damned thing succeeds. > > > > That&#

Re: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-07 Thread Mike Smith
tablished conventions as well as POLA. > Perhaps the problem is that we are simply naming these things badly. > Frankly, I would rather get rid of rc.conf.site entirely and just leave > rc.conf and rc.conf.local -- and have sysinstall mess with rc.conf.local. That's no be

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-07 Thread Mike Smith
ed" error message > can generally be fixed by low-level formatting the disk. Hmm, mea culpa; I didn't see/register that message. It would, indeed, indicate that a low-level format was required. Daren, my apologies. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ somet

Re: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-07 Thread Mike Smith
eating rc.conf.site which is quietly included *after* everything in rc.conf (so that when someone changes rc.conf, the change is overridden). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and

Re: [Call for Review] new ioctl for src/sys/pccard/*

1999-02-07 Thread Mike Smith
without a preceeding virtual removal? Just to be clear, I have no objections to that approach, but it's something that we would want to make very clear if we're going to make this change. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind.

Re: low level format--how??

1999-02-07 Thread Mike Smith
am_lookup_pass: No such file or directory > > > cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver isn't in your kernel > > > cam_lookup_pass: or da0 doesn't exist > > > rover# > > > > -- > > -- David(obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) > > >

Re: Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr

1999-02-06 Thread Mike Smith
ed it via UFS. > But unfortunately the machine panic'd really fast during filesystem activity. > My tests on this are 3-4 months old though, I will give it another try. Definitely, since we cache ACCESS RPC results now. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes

Re: Bug in piperd

1999-02-04 Thread Mike Smith
tigate that somewhat. If you can demonstrate that they work and have the desired effect, you could make a good case for this. If you have the time, a lot of people would appreciate the effort. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\

Re: Network Cards

1999-02-04 Thread Mike Smith
e best solution would be hardwiring the names, but in that case it > > doesn't matter what are the default names. > > Yes. Hardwiring is the only appropriate solution. Hardwiring is nonappropriate in a non-static environment. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith

Re: Network Cards

1999-02-04 Thread Mike Smith
emains de1 ( ) de0 becomes de1, de1 becomes de0 ( ) you discover a new device, de-1 Having a single linear namespace for interfaces would, actually, make life somewhat easier for the administrator. You can simulate it buy only buying one type of ethernet card. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahe

Re: Boot block problem

1999-02-04 Thread Mike Smith
o chain to another disk, that's definitely preferable... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom

Re: Boot block problem

1999-02-03 Thread Mike Smith
x27; stuff enabled, then talk to Robert Nordier (in that order 8). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com

Re: KLD confusion..

1999-02-02 Thread Mike Smith
ght person, or it's not that easy. I can't see a "right" way of fixing it short of completely separating "files" and "modules". Here's another scenario guaranteed to flummox the current code; link A and B together in a single file, name it after A. Then

Overview of the FreeBSD boot process, 3.1 and later

1999-02-02 Thread Mike Smith
Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsub

Re: Dual console don't work

1999-02-02 Thread Mike Smith
;ve had about four flakes so far). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: Can't boot from 1st disk on 2nd IDE controller

1999-01-31 Thread Mike Smith
ys tries to mount partitions on wd1. Is this a known issue or am I > doing something wrong? > > Thanks in advance!! > > - > Santiago Perez-Cacho > san...@pcfa.es.eu.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with

Re: Reading a text file with BTX

1999-01-31 Thread Mike Smith
rnelname=kernel @read -t 5 -p "Enter kernel name [kernel] : " kernelname @load $kernelname @include /boot/modules.default -include /boot/modules.$kernelname @autoboot 5 The 'include' commands make it easier to keep your module sets organised, should you want to do that. -- \

Re: *1 routines in /sys/kern

1999-01-30 Thread Mike Smith
> sendit() and recvit() for socket I/O), will anyone complain? I'd second Garrett on this; as long as it's documented somewhere that the *1 routines are the "backends", it sounds eminently sensible. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometime

Re: Network/ARP problem? Maybe pn driver?

1999-01-29 Thread Mike Smith
omputers communicate with A. This usually means that you have the netmask wrong, so broadcasts don't work (wrong destination address). When someone else talks to the misconfigured machine, they create an ARP cache entry, which allows the victim to "see" them (until it times out).

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Mike Smith
ve *always* done myself, so I don't mind those warnings either. This comes straight from elementary boolean algebra. Not doing this would be unthinkable. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is lo

Re: About to commit NTFS driver

1999-01-28 Thread Mike Smith
t; Source is at http://iclub.nsu.ru/~semen/ntfs/ Sounds like a good idea. Do you have a reviewer? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with

Re: Reading a text file with BTX

1999-01-28 Thread Mike Smith
it to > RELENG_3 instead of -current, and has not corrected that yet. Gah. Thanks for the PR reference. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's onl

Re: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-28 Thread Mike Smith
x27;s not > that easy. Install it in $PREFIX/compat and then make a symlink from /compat to ${PREFIX}/compat. This only fails if you then install the SVR4 stuff with a different ${PREFIX}, which will screw you anyway. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ some

Re: btokup() macro in sys/malloc.h

1999-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
haven't tried this yet, and since without the warnings you'd never know about the problems in the first place, at least we have an improvement over the status quo. If it sucks, we can back it out. If not, then we can keep it. Relax, both of you. This is -current, remember? -- \\ S

Re: removing f2c from base distribution

1999-01-26 Thread Mike Smith
avorite text editors; it's no harder to install the Fortran support. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@c

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