Re: 82559 information

1999-10-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, David Holloway wrote: To David Greenman or.. whoever is maintaining if_fxp.c I picked up an 82559 card from compusa today... Guess what?! It's device id was 0x1030 instead of 0x1229. I adjusted my driver to match and it seems to work fine. Support was added in

Re: ambiguity between -STABLE and -RELEASE

1999-11-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 07:47:23PM +, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: just a very basic question that would resolve a dispute between colleagues. When one talks about Fbsd3.3-STABLE my impression is that such version is a stage before the Fbsd3.3-RELEASE. In other words the -RELEASE is for the

Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20

2002-10-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:16:32PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: Until pppd is taught to create the interface if one doesn't exist, this information needs to be in /usr/src/UPDATING. pppd doesn't need to be taught to create the interface. Rather it needed to learn to check for ppp support

Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20

2002-10-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:43:57PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: It's a moderately common case in -CURRENT, when kernel structure sizes change, and you build a new kernel without new modules, and a module refuses to load. It's not technically correct. The old message might not be either, but

Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20

2002-10-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:35:22PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: If someone who actually uses pppd could test it, perferably in both sceneios, I'll see about getting it commited. Here's a new patch that gives the user more of a hint at how to add PPP support and only loads the module

Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20

2002-10-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 05:34:15PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: Here's a new patch that gives the user more of a hint at how to add PPP support and only loads the module if they are actully root. How's this look? I still don't like it. How to explain I don't think it is pppd's

Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20

2002-10-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:05:57PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: This isn't going to have an effect on the ability to use kernel ppp for other things. The tty orientation of pppd and the outdated, unmodular design on ppp(4) have taken care of that. This patch gives

Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20

2002-10-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:20:33PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:05:57PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Depending on the value of sysctl kern.module_path, if the if_ppp module does not exist, and one of the path components is writeable, then this would permit you

Re: ypbind doesn't work right on freshly installed machines

2002-11-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:23:02PM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote: BTW, /etc/rc.network never tried to save you from rpcbind_enable=NO nis_client_enable=YES so it may be a mistake for /etc/rc.d/* to try to. /etc/rc does though: chkdepend amd amd_enablerpcbind rpcbind_enable chkdepend

Re: Netgraph and KQUEUE(2)

2002-11-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:48:07PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Ok but there cound be netgraph nodes that have no hardware but could be called into creation by some external event. e.g. a netgraph hook on a pseudointerface like gif or tun. (not at present but a possibility I was looking at

Re: This kernel lacks ppp support?

2002-11-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:31:13PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've just tried to start pppd on two different -CURRENT machines, one built on 26 October, the other on 5 November. In each case I get the following message: pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. To include

Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING

2002-11-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:16:06PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: I'd love for there to be a way to know which binaries use __sF. The following script run on your bin, sbin, lib, and libexec directories does a pretty decent job of finding files that contain refrences to __sF and listing the ports

Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING

2002-11-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:22:13PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I did remove the $ from $*. I thought it was running too fast :-) You're supposed to pass it a list of files not run it in a directory. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one, true Y is FALSE. PGP

Re: Will official-NVIDIA-driver for 4.7 work with -CURRENT ?

2002-11-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:09:10PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: P.S. hw.pci should moved somewhere global, but donno how this can be done or even if it is possible to do. I think you just need a SYSCTL_DECL(_hw_pci) in scope. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one, true Y is

Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:27:10AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Kirk McKusick wrote: Does the background fsck process continue to run, or does the whole system come to a halt? If the fsck process continues to run, what happens when it eventually finishes? Is the system

Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd)

2002-12-09 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:52:38PM -0800, Kirk McKusick wrote: Adding a two minute delay before starting background fsck sounds like a very good idea to me. Please send me your suggested change. Here it is. As written it doesn't add the delay, but you can change etc/defaults/rc.conf to do

Re: 5.0-RC1: No /dev/card0

2002-12-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:41:55AM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: Despite the following lines in dmesg... cbb0: TI1420 PCI-CardBus Bridge at device 1.0 on pci2 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 cbb1: TI1420 PCI-CardBus Bridge at device 1.1 on pci2

Re: PXE Installation of RC2

2003-01-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 05:47:42PM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get FreeBSD 5.0-RC2 installed on a Thinkpad X21 laptop without floppy or cd-rom drive. I'm booting the installation from PXE. Note that this procedure works with 4.7, but I haven't found any specific

Re: PXE Installation of RC2

2003-01-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:23:44PM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: For the archives, this is way too much work. Instead point tftp and NFS at the mounted ISO and you're done. Doing that results in a can't load kernel error at the boot prompt. Pointing to /mnt (where

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-03-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 02:57:38PM -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: Also, it's persistent for legitimate design reasons, just like files are. Applications need to clean up after themselves. You can have many more than 32 files. Files are (usually) well-organized and have names, so you

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:01:09AM +, Nik Clayton wrote: Quoting the whole thing deliberately: On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 08:24:35PM +, Nik Clayton wrote: [snip] To which the response has been nil. At this point, you're either all struck dumb by the staggering simplicity and

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:14:42PM +, Nik Clayton wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:19:57AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:01:09AM +, Nik Clayton wrote: To which the response has been nil. At this point, you're either all struck dumb by the staggering

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:49:06PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooks Davis writes: : You don't need to update /dev though. As long as you don't change : anything else, a 4.0 kernel will work just fine with a 3.x /dev and : userland (other then top and friends

Re: Shared IRQs

2000-03-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:25:26PM -0800, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (cvsup'ed as of tonight) machine. It has a USB controller (PIIX3) and an ethernet controller sharing irq 10. I'm not much in the way of a hardware expert, so I'm wondering if this is safe or if I

Re: [URGENT] OpenSSH changes

2000-03-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 03:33:05PM -0800, William Woods wrote: Is there actually a RELENG_4 (release) ? I have seen a couple messages saying there is and a few saying there isnt. There is a RELENG_4 (cvsup'ing my CVS repository took forever this morning ;-), but there is not a 4.0 release tag

Re: mouse question

2000-03-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 05:27:30PM -0500, Will Saxon wrote: Not certain what list this ought to go to, perhaps -questions so I apologize if this is not the right one. -questions was the right place. This has nothing do with current. Redirecting to -questions. I was wondering if there could

Re: FreeBSD branches?

2000-03-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 06:15:37PM -0500, Ted Sikora wrote: Does anyone know what they are now or will be? I want to follow 4.0-stable if there will be one. Right now I have been cvsup'ing from 4.0-RC to 5.0-current. I am assuming there will be: 3-stable 4-stable 5-current Yes, no,

New-bus patch for tx (kern/17601)

2000-03-26 Thread Brooks Davis
Hi, I've written a new-bus probe/attach patch for the tx driver and submitted it as PR kern/17601. It works for me, but it could definatly use wider testing as it's my first venture into driver hacking. If you've got one of these cards please give it a spin. Thanks, Brooks -- Any statement

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:00:53AM +0200, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: Maybe there are some people with the same problem .. or maybe someone who knows what this could be and how this problem sneaked into the system. I'm cunning -CURRENT for ages but since March 19 I am unable to compile

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:43:30PM -0400, Eric D. Futch wrote: Ok.. I figured I'd take this on on my way to getting more comfy with FreeBSD. Check out my patch and let me know how far I've gone off the deep end :) http://quake.nyct.net/~efutch/FreeBSD/if_vx_pci.c.patch Unfortunately I

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:43:30PM -0400, Eric D. Futch wrote: Ok.. I figured I'd take this on on my way to getting more comfy with FreeBSD. Check out my patch and let me know how far I've gone off the deep end :) http://quake.nyct.net/~efutch/FreeBSD/if_vx_pci.c.patch Unfortunately I

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:35:31PM -0400, Eric D. Futch wrote: I figured it would take more work than I put into it. It was just a shot in the dark. I think I have one of these cars in my Linux box at home which I wouldn't mind ripping out and sticking in this machine. Let me know if it's

Re: IEEE 1394 Firewire issues

2000-04-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:30:03PM -0800, Southwell wrote: Ok Guys Help needed -- I would be grateful for any information which would be useful for a project to provide IEEE 1394 (firewire support) on FreeBSD 4.0. In particular to start with the Texas Instruments OHCI compliant

Re: Bluetooth

2000-04-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 05:01:28PM -0800, Southwell wrote: It would be good to be ahead of the game rather than behind it on this occasion -- Well, get started then. ;-) Most people currently writing code have better things to do then write drivers for vaporware. The problem is that, people

Re: Anyone have OpenSSH + X11-fwd working?

2000-04-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:59:11PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: It still doesn't work at all, after multiple make worlds with the latest crypto sources all around. I'm going to update the port and then try that instead. It works for me. I just tested it from my laptop (current as

Re: usr.sbin/xntpd missing in 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:02:34PM +, attila! wrote: in 5.0-CURRENT as of this morning (Tue, 25) usr.sbin/xntpd was not in the cvs files. xntpd is obsolete. It has been replaced with ntpd. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe:

Re: linux ldconfig core dump

2000-04-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:14:57PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: As of about Thursday, Apr 20 I get this message when I try to run linux ldconfig: Segmentation fault(core dumped) I recompiled the module and the kernel on this day so I think that's what cause the problem, but I was

Re: How to determine when something broke

2000-04-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:29:43AM +0200, Leif Neland wrote: Because I can't do anything more intelligent to find my 2-printer-panic, I'd like at least to know when it broke. It works in a kernel from march 15, and has been broken at least a week. So I cvsup to 2000.04.01.00.00.00 to see

Re: error making world: stage 1

2000-05-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:12:23PM -0700, MikeM wrote: Hi, This is the first time I've tried to install current, so if the following issue has already been discussed, please let me know where to find the logs. I am trying to upgrade from 3.2 Release to -current but the build fails in

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:16:08AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: (*) Speaking of which: why are we considering doing process dumps into a _different_ swap-ish partition, instead of just ensuring that all processes are sleeping in the normal swap partition? If that was done, then they would

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:49:24AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: The issue isn't with the size of the disk storage required, but with the mechanism. Why dedicate 256M to a suspend partition, and invent a new process saving mechanism, instead of making your existing swap partition 256M larger

Re: Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon With Hyperthreading enabled...

2003-08-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:26:42PM -0600, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi Brooks, Thanks for responding... However I'm confused by the terms used. Are you saying if I set it to 0, I would be using the processing power of all CPU's? I'm not sure how this halted comes in to play, cuz the

Re: atheros (ath) driver, hostAP?

2003-08-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:21:30PM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and I'm considering messing around with some Soekris boards and making some embedded routers with built-in wireless access points and VPN stuff. I know I can do that with the

Re: Strange system responsiveness issues with 5.1-CURRENT

2003-09-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:43:25PM +0300, Dan Naumov wrote: Starting applications (XFree, Evolution, Mozilla, OpenOffice, games) takes a noticably longer time than it used to, I'd say that Mozilla Firebird load times have increased by about 30-40%. I can also now see jerkiness in switching

Re: TEST PLEASE: if_tun patch

2003-09-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:57:19PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Please test this patch: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/if_tun.patch There is a slight change in semantics in that the interface will disappear entirely when the /dev/tun%d device is closed. If no objections this

Re: TEST PLEASE: if_tun patch

2003-09-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:29:08AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brooks Davis writes: | Properly dismantle and remove the interface and destroy the dev_t=20 | at last close of the device. I'm not convinced this is the right direction to move

Re: TEST PLEASE: if_tun patch

2003-09-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:35:34PM +0200, Pawel Malachowski wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:04:42PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: I'm not convinced this is the right direction to move in. The problem is that users are beginning to expect that pseudo-interfaces be created with network

Re: Improvements to fsck performance in -current ...?

2003-09-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:44:30PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:28:20 -0300 (ADT) From: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote: are either of these enhancements back-patchable to the 4.x fsck, or do they require some

reliable panics in arstrategy

2003-10-16 Thread Brooks Davis
I've got four dual Xeon servers that I can reliably panic under disk load. All of them have Promise ATA Raid controlers running in RAID1 mode. They consistantly panic in arstrategy if I run something like a CVS checkout of ports. The panic message and ddb backtrace are below as is the dmesg.

HEADSUP if_xname incoming in one week

2003-10-23 Thread Brooks Davis
In approximately one week, I plan to commit the conversion of the if_name and if_unit members of struct ifnet to if_xname. Initially, this was the sum total of the commit, but code requiring knowledge of the underlying driver name and unit number necessitated the addition of two more members,

Re: HEADSUP if_xname incoming in one week

2003-10-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:49:14PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: Some FAQs regarding this change: Oops, I forgot one. Q: Won't this break some ports? A: Yes, a few do break, but the fix is trivial and there are better inferfaces for what they want. When a previous version was tested

HEADSUP: if_xname changes incoming

2003-10-31 Thread Brooks Davis
I will be commiting the if_xname changes momentairly. If you experience any problems with this commit, please let me know ASAP. I'll send an all clear once I've sucessfully built a world/kernel from CVS. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one, true Y is FALSE. PGP fingerprint

Re: HEADSUP: if_xname changes incoming

2003-10-31 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:27:35AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: I will be commiting the if_xname changes momentairly. If you experience any problems with this commit, please let me know ASAP. I'll send an all clear once I've sucessfully built a world/kernel from CVS. Ok, we're mostly clear

Re: Linksys Wireless USB adapter

2003-06-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:42:30PM +, administrator wrote: Anyone know if Linksys wireless usb adapter works under Freebsd 5.1? I see a msg saying it recognizes the adapter but it uses ugen0, how do you get an ip or have it work? USB wireless adaptors are not supported. -- Brooks -- Any

Re: Hyperthreading

2003-06-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:39:12PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: Thanks. I had read the smp manual page. I know _how_ to enable HTT; I was wondering whether I _should_ enable it. It seems the answer is that it is not beneficial in its current state because the scheduler does not yet

Re: should fdisk -BI still work?

2003-07-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:15:49AM +0200, John Hay wrote: Hi, Should fdisk -BI ad0 still work on current? I have a script that I use to prepare flash disks that have worked for a long time on older versions of FreeBSD, but it seems a little broken on -current. It actually started with the

Re: current iso snapshots

2003-07-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:31:19AM +1000, Andrew Thomson wrote: is there a definitive zone for snapshots of current?? http://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/ -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one, true Y is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4

Re: DEVICE_POLLING not in NOTES?

2003-07-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:01:49PM +0200, Roderick van Domburg wrote: Is there any particular reason DEVICE_POLLING is no longer available in NOTES? (Or should I say isn't linted any more? :-) It still appears to be available in fxp et al. It is in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES rev 1.1089 and

Re: escalation stage 2 [was:RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release]

2003-07-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:47:25AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Now after resetting the machine which was hung by sysinstall it claims that ad4 (one of two mirrored 30GB 2.5 disks was absent (see dmesg below) Now the controller warns me that one drive is bad (which in fact is definatley

Re: We have ath, now what about Broadcom?

2003-07-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 06:21:23PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: Why would Broadcom be scared? Obviously it's the _driver_ that controls the power/freq output of the chip, so the responsibility of staying within FCC regs is that of the driver authors. Of course, the no warranty aspects of

Re: We have ath, now what about Broadcom?

2003-07-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:36:55AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Thu, Jul 24, 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Chris BeHanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : :

Re: Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon With Hyperthreading enabled...

2003-08-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:59:58AM -0600, David R. Colyer wrote: No doubt this has been answered before, but I have an asus p4pe with a 3.06 p4. Naturally, it is enabled in the bios. To enable hyperthreading do I need to recompile my kernel with smp support, and if so...does this apply to

Re: twe driver, 1+ terabyte array, fdisk and disklabel

2003-08-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:10:27PM -0500, Mark Nipper wrote: On 13 Aug 2003, Brooks Davis wrote: My workaround was to split the array into a 2 disk RAID1 and a 6 disk RAID5. Sysinstall will install on the small mirror and then you can use the RAID5 array raw. On some other systems, I'm

Re: twe driver, 1+ terabyte array, fdisk and disklabel

2003-08-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:55:20PM -0500, Mark Nipper wrote: Haha. There are only two ways I've found to make this work so far, and I'm not happy with either really. One is simple. Use RAID-10, and my disk array drops to 1T. Fast, but not what I'm looking for. The second is to use

Re: Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon With Hyperthreading enabled...

2003-08-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:38:29PM -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote: Well friend of mine just landed a Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon with Hyperthreading Enabled, and yet I know there's a hyperthreading option in 4.8-RELEASE but I don't see one at ALL in 5.1? am I suddenly blind or do I need to cvsup to

Re: Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon With Hyperthreading enabled...

2003-08-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:05:49PM -0600, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi Brooks, I'm curious, what should that option be set to if one does have an SMP kernel running on 2x 2.4Ghz Xeon Processors (Hyper thread enabled) Mine is currently set to machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1 Set it to 0 if you

Re: Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon With Hyperthreading enabled...

2003-08-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:19:25PM -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 15:41, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:38:29PM -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote: Well friend of mine just landed a Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon with Hyperthreading Enabled, and yet I know there's

Re: 5.0-RELEASE VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hello, current! How are you? When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have ``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. It works pretty well and I was totally satisfied. My host is:

Re: 5.0-RELEASE VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:04:32PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hmm... I need installer with special kernel... Is it possible without building full release? I don't know of a way to do it without building a release, though I think you might be able to get by with only a buildworld and

Re: I've just had a massive file system crash

2003-01-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:03:52PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: FreeBSD's ``fix'' for this problem is the same as Windows 98's. Specifically, there is a 5-second delay (tuneable: kern.shutdown.poweroff_delay) after all buffers are flushed but before the power is cut. Maybe we ought to be

Re: 5.0 Ports List

2003-02-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:58:58AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I love FreeBSD !! It Rocks! Now that I softened you busy people up. Where can I find a list of what ports 5.0 has? I am looking to setup 5.0, currently running 4.7, with Apache PHP MySQL SSH for testing and help in feed

Re: Wireless LAN

2003-02-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Gerald Mixa wrote: Hi, does anybody know wether FreeBSD 5.0 supports Wirless Lan cards based on a TI chip. This standard is called 802.11b+ and is said to have 22MBit/s. They are not supported. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one,

Re: can't load if_gif.ko

2003-02-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:12:59PM -0600, Juli Mallett wrote: It's easy to change kldload to have something like Failed to load module, but changing the result of strerror(errno) isn't possible in this case. It is possible, however, to check for obtuse errno values being used that we KNOW

Re: Amanda backups, or dump(8) broken?

2003-03-04 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:31:27AM -0800, Will Andrews wrote: Anyone know if maybe the dump format has been changed to the extent that it breaks Amanda or something? In fact, based on the 64+0 it appears that the header or something similar may have been broken. I've seen reports that dump

Re: Plea for base system trim

2003-03-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:43:15AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:54:13AM -, Subscriber wrote: Having just done two rebuilds for recent OpenSSL and sendmail vulnerabilities, I was surprised to discover that building the port of apache13-modssl required the

Re: Plea for base system trim

2003-03-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:15:29PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote: I have both apache-modssl and net-snmp running, but do NOT have the openssl port installed. Everything builds and runs fine, with no mods to anything. I conjecture that the problem others experience is that they have installed the

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and if this is not agreed upon, then someone needs to fix case when loopback device is not in the kernel config, and is going to be loaded as a module. What is

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:06:32PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:00:11AM -0800) wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and if this is not agreed upon

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: What is gained by making loopback default? Nothing is gained. But it's neccessary fix this, IMHO. Not to mention that our loopback device code looks terribly ugly anyway. :-) I certaintly agree the loop interface could use some

Re: Time drift.

2003-03-11 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:50:25PM -0800, James Satterfield wrote: I'm getting what I think is substantial time drift on my -current boxes. My home firewall in particular drifts about .42 seconds every hour. My desktop machine drifted ~350 seconds over the last 5 days. Anyone else seeing

Re: Can't build wi driver in current

2003-03-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:31:31PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: I am trying to upgrade my main laptop system to CURRENT, but the kernel fails to build. I get lots of undefined references to various ieee80211_*. Looks like I might be missing a header file. from UPDATING: 20030115: A new

Re: source upgrade broken?

2003-03-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:44:02AM -0600, Robert Garrett wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:10:08AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: Are you guys precisely following the instructions in src/UPDATING? most definately, the new compiler depends on new syscalls in the kernel, and the kernel depends on

Re: Anyone working on fsck?

2003-03-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:45:15PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: I might add that the test filesystem was 95% full with about 8,000,000 directories on it. It was populated with multiple copies of /bin and /etc as a test set :-) How much like you're real file mix does this look? If your real

Re: where is rdist

2003-03-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:38:30PM -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote: I just noticed that rdist is not present on FreeBSD 5-current. Why was it removed? The /etc/periodic/daily/320.rdist file is still present. I think it was removed due to massive obsolesence. There's a port of it in

Re: Anyone experience problems with the tap device in current?

2001-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:59:16PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: I just tried using tap in current. In both cases I don't see the /dev/tapX devices with devfs and accessing it without devfs doesn't work reporting Device not configured. I tried it as a module and built into the kernel. Does

Re: CVSup package for -current

2001-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:19:28AM -0700, Adam Kranzel wrote: I did not see one annouced by jdp, sorry for the redundancy if there is already one available :) There are 4.x, 3.5, and 2.2 binaries on jdp's page. Unfortunatly, if you don't have compat4x installed the 4.x binary doens't work and

Re: wake up on lan driver support

2001-11-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:38:50PM -0800, matt wrote: any clue to find the tech doc regarding the format of the packet. I'd code such thing. It's a very good feature for FreeBSD. ports/net/wakeonlan I'd really like to see some driver support for WOL for support of dynamic power control on

applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-16 Thread Brooks Davis
I've been trying to get applix 5.0 to work and I've been running into some intresting problems. The first one was that current has the getresuid syscall and the gtk12 build detects and uses it. Unfortuatly FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x don't have this syscall so you can't use libgtk12 with old libc's if

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:17:08PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:43 PM -0700 10/16/01, Brooks Davis wrote: I've been trying to get applix 5.0 to work and I've been running into some interesting problems. The first one was that current has the getresuid syscall and the gtk12 build

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:38:02AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Tuesday 16 October 2001 22:50, Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: After that I tried using the converters and discovered that the olefilter doesn't work because is uses libc_r.so.3 and we don't

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:13:54AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: A workaround that I used previously is to compile up getresuid.so and run Applix with e.g. `env LD_PRELOAD=/PATH/TO/getresuid.so applix'. Thanks for the tip. I was able to get the olefilter working with a similar hack. I

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-11 Thread Brooks Davis
--lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 03:23:36AM -0800, whoever wrote: clearly the device is opened by the previous=20 instance of the program and is not closed.=20

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:13:58AM -0800, whoever wrote: how come it gets lost in the vmware case and not in your simple app. also does ifconfig report that the vmnet device is opened by the pid of your app between open and close of the simple app? There's one difference between vmware and

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:35:39PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: I saw your message. It wasn't clear to me that you were simply exiting in the test, instead of actually closing the descriptor. I suspect that vmware just exits, and expects a resource tracking close on exit to free the

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:00:51PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: The use of an MFS /var should also be settable. Otherwise installing ports(packages) is just a total PITA. I had issues with the MFS /var and /tmp[0] a couple days ago and changed the code to move the mount -a up before /var and

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:23:12PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: One of the problems I have with a similar configuration is that the file system checker never runs for local filesystems mounted on writable disks. I tend to mount everything nfs and mfs, except for a scratch drive and swap,

Re: ftp and /etc/services...

2000-08-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:39:33AM -0400, Donn Miller wrote: This is on a recently-built -current box. When I try to move ftp from port 21 to port 2121 in /etc/services, I get a "Connection refused" message when I try to login to anonymous ftp sites. Should ftp be this dependent on

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:33:21PM +0900, Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: When kernel is built with static device wiring (i.e. 'hints' line is enabled in the config file), is /boot/device.hints required? Doing 'make install' without /boot/device.hints is failed, saying "You must set up a

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 03:19:15AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: I do read cvs-all, and I missed it. Not did I find device.hints in the relevant Makefiles. Can you provide a pointer to details on how /boot/device.hints is used in the build process, or how having an empty one keeps you from

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:25:26AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: At the very least, there appears to be confusion about how to use the hints. I can see two conflicting views here: 1. You must have a /boot/device.hints file, but it may be empty. This is minimally correct. I.e. that's what the

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