Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable

2000-03-21 Thread Jim Mercer
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:52:17AM +0200, Nadav Eiron wrote: I have (had?) some similar reboots, but I'm not sure it's the same. Still, it's another data point: I have a 133MHz Pentium with two IDE disks, running Postgresql over vinum. The machine is underpowered (only 32MB RAM, so it swaps

Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable

2000-03-21 Thread Nadav Eiron
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jim Mercer wrote: both my machines have more than adequate RAM (384 Meg and 512 Meg). one runs vinum, theother doesn't. (in fact the one running vinum reboots less frequently than the one without vinum). Naturaly, it all stoppoed once I added dumping to the

Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable

2000-03-21 Thread Nadav Eiron
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jim Mercer wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:14:47AM +0200, Nadav Eiron wrote: I didn't add kernel debugger, just kernel dumps. All the time it takes on a reboot is the time your disks take to copy RAM to swapspace. Even with your RAM size it should be less than a

Re: need help

2000-03-21 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Mourad Lakhdar writes: i have always problems when trying to work with the inet_addr(), inet_network() ,inet_ntoa() functions ,when changin in the ip_input file: i got error like(when making): ip_input.o(.text+0xce9):undefined

Re: ports security advisories..

2000-03-21 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:46:14PM -, Dave McKay wrote: Is it really necessary to post the ports security advisories? The exploitable programs are not part of the FreeBSD OS, they are third party software. I think the proper place for these is the Bugtraq mailing list on

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-03-21 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, MikeM wrote: Has anyone thought of Unicode support on FreeBSD? Depends on what you mean by 'Unicode support'. If you use a suitable encoding (UTF-8?) everything should work, only it might look strange, as userland doesn't support it. It is largely a 'application

100Bit Fast Ethernet EISA card - anyone?

2000-03-21 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Is there one at all? And if so, does anyone have one for sale/giving away? FreeBSD friend Aled Morris (aledm) was so kind to send me an FDDI DEFEA (Eisa) card for zero. Although I found a free EISA Motherboard now, I'm lacking a 100MBit Fast Ethernet card now to build the complete router. In

Re: if_fxp driver

2000-03-21 Thread Dennis
At 08:45 PM 3/20/00 -0800, David Greenman wrote: I hope your happy, but do you know the answer to my question? Has the driver been updated recently? Not to fix the problem that you are reporting. The solution might be as simple as adding another PHY identifier to the list of supported ones. I

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-03-21 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
At 11:47 20-03-2000 -0800, MikeM wrote: Has anyone thought of Unicode support on FreeBSD? Certainly. Is it possible, or is it totally out of the question? What would it require? Is there any way of implementing partial support, working in stages, untill it is fully supported? I worked on

Re: if_fxp driver

2000-03-21 Thread Steve Kargl
Dennis wrote: Ok. Thanks. Mr. Peters thinks that I should spend a half day searching for, installing and testing the "latest driver" (of course latest depends on where you happen to download it from), when it seems to me that asking the developers if a particuar issue has been corrected is a

Re: [GENERAL] Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable

2000-03-21 Thread Arthur M. Kang
Had this rebooting problem before for a while and it drove me NUTZ! Inst= alled RedHat and FreeBSD and both rebooted periodically. Don't know if my solution wi= ll help or not, but what was causing my reboots was the system BIOS. The options for Pow= er Management in the system BIOS should

Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable

2000-03-21 Thread Chris Parker
OK, I don't have quite the same setup but I do seem to suffer from the spontaneous reboot problem - with a twist. It only happens when I'm in X. Happens every couple of days. Mine is an Abit BP6 motherboard with dual Celeron 400s, 256MB RAM. I'm not using vinum, I'm not using anything spiffy

Re: 100Bit Fast Ethernet EISA card - anyone?

2000-03-21 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:55:00PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Is there one at all? And if so, does anyone have one for sale/giving away? They seem to exist (rumor has it etc..) In the first place I thought I could use the DEFEA on an ISA slot as well so that I could use a PCI MB and

Re: WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo (Silver)

2000-03-21 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:32:49PM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote: The FreeBSD driver doesn't currently support encryption, correct. The Linux driver does, so perhaps it would be fairly easy to port the functionality, and the Linux driver is dual-licensed under GPL and BSD licenses so there's no

Re: if_fxp driver

2000-03-21 Thread Wes Peters
Dennis wrote: At 08:45 PM 3/20/00 -0800, David Greenman wrote: I hope your happy, but do you know the answer to my question? Has the driver been updated recently? Not to fix the problem that you are reporting. The solution might be as simple as adding another PHY identifier to the

Re: 100Bit Fast Ethernet EISA card - anyone?

2000-03-21 Thread Christoph Kukulies
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:07:16PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:55:00PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Is there one at all? And if so, does anyone have one for sale/giving away? They seem to exist (rumor has it etc..) ... ISA fits in EISA slots. Not the other

Re: Loginproblem

2000-03-21 Thread Doug White
This belongs on [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Kasper Kristiansson wrote: When i login this message comes, ** Who are you? (Unable to look up login name)** and when i do a whoami it answers whit my uid, why has my server lost the loginnames??? Log in as root and 'vipw', then

Re: splFoo() question

2000-03-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Wes Peters wrote: A per-driver mutex, perhaps? This would save us from potential deadly embraces within a single driver, at least. I'm surprised no one mentioned the following yet. splFoo() is one of FreeBSD curses. While what we have is much better than the older splFoo() stuff, it's

Re: 100Bit Fast Ethernet EISA card - anyone?

2000-03-21 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Is there one at all? And if so, does anyone have one for sale/giving away? Well, you can try some of the 3c597 boards but they aren't gonna be able to fill the pipe, or keep up very well. I've got a NetFlex 3/E with a 100 meg module, but have not

Re: 100Bit Fast Ethernet EISA card - anyone?

2000-03-21 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: An FDDI ISA card would not be much fun (performance wise) But they exist, as do ISA 100baseTX cards. :) -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL|

IBM Netfinity 5600

2000-03-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
The following patch adds support for the host to pci bridge on IBM's new Netfinity 5600. It's based on the 3.4-RELEASE code, I don't know if it'll apply to 4.0 or 5.0. It's also quite a hack; I guess what you'd really want to do is either use NBUS instead of 2, or extract some kind of "correct"

md_image compression?

2000-03-21 Thread Nick Sayer
I'm sort of thinking in my head about adding the ability for the md driver to handle gziped images. md's drvinit() looks like the perfect place to do this. if strcmp(type,"md_image_gzip") then gunzip the image and so on. Obviously this trades RAM for disk space. The target implementation is the

IOpener ?

2000-03-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, i think i missed something interesting... does someone have more info on what is the IOpener (more specifically on hw features, which i seem unable to find on the netpliance web site). thanks luigi ---+-

Re: md_image compression?

2000-03-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Sayer writes: I'm sort of thinking in my head about adding the ability for the md driver to handle gziped images. md's drvinit() looks like the perfect place to do this. if strcmp(type,"md_image_gzip") then gunzip the image and so on. Obviously this trades RAM

Re: md_image compression?

2000-03-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I'm sort of thinking in my head about adding the ability for the md driver to handle gziped images. md's drvinit() looks like And you can't load the kernel and the gzipped images from the boot loader, letting the boot loader decompress the stuff and just using the existing MD_ROOT option hook

Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable

2000-03-21 Thread Jim Mercer
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:06:05PM +0100, Pawe³ Dubin wrote: the first system runs 3.4-stable and gets spontaneous reboots infrequently, and there are no messages (dmesg, console or syslog) indicating why it rebooted. the new system runs 4.0-stable, doesn't have vinum, and is spontaneously

Re: Davicam dc0 driver

2000-03-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have a BookPC with a built in Davi Comm 10/100 ethernet card. : :I am always getting : :/kernel: dc0: watchdog timeout : :every few minutes.. : :Can thease errors be stopped? : : :Thank you for any reply : :RP :[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've got a kernel build environment setup, try the