Re: Where to find docs on newbus vs. cardbus vs. newcard

2002-02-12 Thread j mckitrick
| : When my laptop is booting (Toshiba with ToPIC97, NoteWorthy modem, | : LinkSys modem card) something odd happens: | : | : IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding | : disabled | : , default to accept, unlimited logging | : pccard: card inserted, slot 0 | :

Re: Where to find docs on newbus vs. cardbus vs. newcard

2002-02-12 Thread j mckitrick
| In -current look at /boot/device.hints. In stable this is still in | the kernel config file. Is the hints file going to become standard, or is it just a tool to help developers writing drivers for -current? jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Where to find docs on newbus vs. cardbus vs. newcard

2002-02-12 Thread j mckitrick
| : Is the hints file going to become standard, or is it just a tool to | : help developers writing drivers for -current? | | It is standard in current, so in 5.0-release and newer people will | have to cope. So the idea is that drivers will be modules dynamically loaded based on the hints

Re: Where to find docs on newbus vs. cardbus vs. newcard

2002-02-12 Thread j mckitrick
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:33:25AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: | In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | j mckitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | : So the idea is that drivers will be modules dynamically loaded based on | : the hints file? | | Not currently. But someone could come in and do

Re: Where to find docs on newbus vs. cardbus vs. newcard

2002-02-12 Thread j mckitrick
| It isn't a huge effort conceptutally, but there is a lot of | infrastructure that CardBus depends on that isn't in -stable or only | partially MFC'd. If someone wanted to start cranking on it, they | could get it done in a few weeks worth of work. Where would be a good place to start? jm --

Re: Where to find docs on newbus vs. cardbus vs. newcard

2002-02-11 Thread j mckitrick
Thanks, Warner! On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:37:08AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: | NEWBUS: | The current way of doing FreeBSD device configuration. This | is approximately sys/kern/subr_bus.c, bus_if.m and device_if.m. That part is pretty clear. | CardBus: | PCMCIA standard for PCI

any problems with parallel port zip drives?

2001-07-23 Thread j mckitrick
Some commits have been in the tree for a month now, and I'm wondering if anyone has had any problem. Please let me know if you have had any timeouts, mode recognition problems, or anything similar. It would be nice to get the commits moved into -stable if everything is working well, especially

Re: conficting cvs version numbers?

2001-07-07 Thread j mckitrick
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:00:19PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: | On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:52:05PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: | I get version 1.15. When I look at the .c,v file in the cvs tree, it says | HEAD is 1.16, but $Id says it is 1.15. | | We don't use $Id$ anymore. Do you mean

conficting cvs version numbers?

2001-07-06 Thread j mckitrick
I'm *sure* I'm doing something wrong here, but I can't figure it out. I am using cvsup to keep a -current cvs tree on my system. According to the web access cvs tree, a file I am looking at should be version 1.16. When I try cvs -R co -f src/sys/dev/ppbus/immio.c I get version 1.15. When I

Re: newbus driver code

2001-04-05 Thread j mckitrick
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:32:23AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: | try teh sample driver in /usr/share/exaples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh Perfect! Just what I was looking for. Thanks. jm -- --- Jonathon McKitrick -- [EMAIL

newbus driver code

2001-04-04 Thread j mckitrick
Could someone point me to a device that is well-written, follows newbus, and would be a good example of how a device driver should be written? thanks, jm -- --- Jonathon McKitrick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It took the

parallel port zip+ fix

2001-01-25 Thread j mckitrick
Hi all, I have been working with Nicholas Souchu to fix a few issues with the parallel port zip, especially the zip+ (250 meg version). I know this is deprecated hardware, but I would like to know if it helps. The driver should now work correctly in PS2 transfer mode, which in theory should be

Re: ATA66 support

2000-08-23 Thread j mckitrick
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: | Well, "work" is exactly the word to use, they work on *some* chipsets | with *some* drivers, but they have problems there as well. Remember | that most wintel boxes doesn't even use DMA... really? why is that? and why include the

ATA66 support

2000-08-02 Thread j mckitrick
A friend of a friend asked me to find out how ATA66 support was coming along. Is it still necessary to disable DMA or PIO settings for it to work? jm -- - Jonathon McKitrick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The physicist's greatest

parallel port zip patch - committer needed

2000-07-14 Thread j mckitrick
hi all, i have been working with nicholas souchu to fix the parallel port zip drive bug. we think we have it beat. however, nicholas doesn't have a devbox, so he has asked me if someone could contact me for the corresponding fix. i have a few minor details to ask him about, and he will then

bad memory patch?

2000-04-06 Thread J McKitrick
I saw this link recently... http://home.zonnet.nl/vanrein/badram/ Apparently, you make a floppy with the supplied image, boot with it to find the bad RAM addresses, and then those addresses are passed on as a kernel parameter once the patch is applied. Bad addresses will be excluded from

Re: Parallel port zip drives - inventory of working and non-working systems

2000-04-05 Thread J McKitrick
Does anyone recall seeing or making a remark about a group of interrupts or hardware port locations that could be causing this problem? I was searching my email and i can't find it. Someone said 4.0 allocates a group of hardware locations (0x380-0x3f0?) differently from 3.4, and that this may

parallel zip driver problem

2000-03-23 Thread J McKitrick
I'm not sure if this belongs on -stable or -current. Has anyone taken a look at the timeout problem in the parallel port zip driver? jm -- Jonathon McKitrick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pure... unrefined... spice

Re: parallel zip driver problem

2000-03-23 Thread J McKitrick
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:46:57AM -0500, Sean O'Connell wrote: J McKitrick stated: I'm not sure if this belongs on -stable or -current. Has anyone taken a look at the timeout problem in the parallel port zip driver? Have you tried backing vpo.c down to 1.19 (1.20 was committed on 23

Parallel port Zip drive and EPP mode

2000-03-08 Thread J McKitrick
Here is a concern i have. I had a hard time getting my parallel port zip to work under 3.4. It turned out there may be a bug in my bios that required me to change from EPP mode to standard bi-directional. Walter noted that EPP mode worked OK for him under 3.4, but did not under -current. Oddly

Paralle mode ZIP support

2000-03-08 Thread J McKitrick
Will NIBBLE mode still be supported in 4.0? Has anyone tried a ZIP drive with bios set at ECP or standard setting? I would like to know what to expect if i upgrade. -- -= jm =- --- Student Loan Officer: "Mr. Wright? We'd like to know what