RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Doug Hass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 6:53 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Jim Bryant; MurrayTaylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alfred Shippen Subject: RE: FYI Hi Doug, I'm going to address myself to these points openly as

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Doug Hass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 8:04 AM To: Leo Bicknell Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Jim Bryant; MurrayTaylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alfred Shippen Subject: Re: FYI Would your agreements allow you to provide

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Doug Hass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 8:56 AM To: Leo Bicknell Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Jim Bryant; MurrayTaylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FYI In a private e-mail, Leo writes: You offered a discount on these

Re: Adding support for Duxbury PCI modem to FreeBSD 4.4

2001-10-16 Thread Peter van Heusden
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:35:58AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter van Heusden writes: : I noticed that PCI modems are detected in /sys/isa/sio.c. I added the : chip : id of the modem to the list of PCI devices (pci_ids), and now : sio_pci_probe detects the

Re: Network Startup

2001-10-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:08:38PM +0930, Andrew Reid wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:20:17PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: That's a bit of a problem as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps the network scripts should be redesigned in a similar manner to the one taken on be RedHat. Of

Re: Adding support for Duxbury PCI modem to FreeBSD 4.4

2001-10-16 Thread Matthew Emmerton
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Peter van Heusden wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:35:58AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter van Heusden writes: I'm having a look at the Linux 2.4 kernel code, since they apparently have winmodem support (including for the SM56 chipset,

FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE - question reguarding 3COM 900TPO 10Mbps net card.

2001-10-16 Thread Bri
Hi I was previously using FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE and it ran stable but since I've made a new install on the system on the new hard drive I've put 4.4 RELEASE on the new hard drive and the new Promise TX-2 controller which are both working fine but after 4 or so days the 3COM 900TPO network card on

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Doug Hass
The hardware API or the actual register interface code, is a binary-only module that is snapped in to SAND. SAND is GPL and is similar to the FreeBSD Netgraph module - it provides all the higher-level protocol stuff, like Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and such. SAND goes between the OS TCP/IP

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Doug Hass
There is depending on the price. I'll freely admit however that I have not priced the competitive serial sync cards that are currently supported under FreeBSD, so I don't know how the WANic 400 or 500 stacks up against them. For all I know right now there's someone just bringing a T1

Re: Adding support for Duxbury PCI modem to FreeBSD 4.4

2001-10-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Emmerton writes: : On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Peter van Heusden wrote: : : On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:35:58AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Peter van Heusden writes: : : I'm having a look at the Linux 2.4 kernel code, since they

Re: Adding support for Duxbury PCI modem to FreeBSD 4.4

2001-10-16 Thread Simon Dick
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:05:21AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Emmerton writes: : On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Peter van Heusden wrote: : : On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:35:58AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter van Heusden writes:

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Hass Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 7:28 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Leo Bicknell; Jim Bryant; MurrayTaylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FYI There is depending on the price.

Problems with booting of CD-ROM (fwd)

2001-10-16 Thread Thomas Dixon
I'm trying to make a bootable CD using the cdboot program that come with freeBSD in /sys/i386/boot/cdboot. The computer I'm trying to do this on definately boots other CDs as it has booted several other CDs. However using a CD I've made using mkisofs and cdboot it gives the error;

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Doug Hass
As someone else pointed out in this forum, the Hitachi chipset is an older design. I'm sure that it's probably possible today to design a sync controller chip that sells for a lot less than the Hitachi part, perhaps even under the $30 level. Certainly, async chips sell at that level in

RE: Problems with booting of CD-ROM (fwd)

2001-10-16 Thread John Baldwin
On 16-Oct-01 Thomas Dixon wrote: I'm trying to make a bootable CD using the cdboot program that come with freeBSD in /sys/i386/boot/cdboot. The computer I'm trying to do this on definately boots other CDs as it has booted several other CDs. However using a CD I've made using mkisofs and

Re: Adding support for Duxbury PCI modem to FreeBSD 4.4

2001-10-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon Dick writes: : Please don't remove the SurfRider one: : sio0: SmartLink 5634PCV SurfRider port 0xa400-0xa407 irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci0 : sio0: moving to sio2 : sio2: type 16550A : : It was me who submitted the ID for it, it's my main modem :) Wow! Cool.

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c

2001-10-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Yes, I removed the option userquota from my fstab file and did a :quotaoff -a to be perfectly sure. : :Here is the profiling output without quotas enabled. Note that the :first profiling output was done when sys cpu time was jumping from 0 to :51%, and that this time, due to lack of time for

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c

2001-10-16 Thread Maxime Henrion
Matthew Dillon wrote: This profiled output shows the system completely idle. If something is locking up eating cpu this profile run didn't catch it. Ok, I'll do a new one ASAP, with a system where system cpu time jump is higher. Maxime -- Don't be fooled by cheap finnish

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c

2001-10-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Matthew Dillon wrote: : : This profiled output shows the system completely idle. If : something is locking up eating cpu this profile run didn't : catch it. : :Ok, I'll do a new one ASAP, with a system where system cpu time jump is :higher. : :Maxime :-- :Don't be fooled by

Re: Network Startup

2001-10-16 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:42:20PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: ifconfig xxx inet 1.2.3.4 alias Oh, for sure. That's what I, and the majority of the community, do now. I think that it's not particularly convenient if you want to restart the network if you've got 3 or 4 network

Need post-commit review of vnode freelist cleanup MFC (on -stable)

2001-10-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
In particular, the changes to vfs_subr.c. I've gone over it a bunch of times and done some significant testing, but it doesn't hurt to have other eyes take a look at it as well. -Matt Matthew Dillon

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Doug Hass wrote: The hardware API or the actual register interface code, is a binary-only module that is snapped in to SAND. SAND is GPL and is similar to the FreeBSD Netgraph module - it provides all the higher-level protocol stuff, like Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC,

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Len Conrad
If there's a published interface, we could make a netgraph/SAND interface module I think it's better use of hackers' time to look at vendors who already support FreeBSD, such as SBEI and Cyclades, and see why their support for FreeBSD, while apparently useful, is behind the functionality they

Re: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:35:43PM -0500, Len Conrad wrote: Unfortunately, I still looking for somebody who actually uses SBEI and Cyclades T1 boards with FreeBSD. I ran across them earlier when looking for what T1 boards were out there. Their boards seem nice, and they do have a driver, in

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Len Conrad wrote: Unfortunately, I still looking for somebody who actually uses SBEI and Cyclades T1 boards with FreeBSD. With IBM 2210 series routers going for well under $100 on the used market I can't see why anyone would opt for a host based solution. The people with

RE: T1 boards (was FYI)

2001-10-16 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, The SBE Inc wanADAPT-1T1E1 is USD$750. The driver works fine on FreeBSD 4.x. I have provided them with feedback on their documentation and a patch for BPF support and they are keen on getting the driver incorporated into the FreeBSD source tree. Regards, Chris Knight Systems

Re: T1 boards (was FYI)

2001-10-16 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:00:30AM +1100, Chris Knight wrote: The SBE Inc wanADAPT-1T1E1 is USD$750. The driver works fine on FreeBSD 4.x. I have provided them with feedback on their documentation and a patch for BPF support and they are keen on getting the driver incorporated into the

RE: T1 boards (was FYI)

2001-10-16 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, SBEI have recently put up a new FreeBSD 4.x driver up at ftp://ftp.sbei.com/pub/OpenSource/FreeBSD/FreeBSD_4.3.tar.gz for their wanADAPT range of cards, so they're no longer out of date. Regards, Chris Knight Systems Administrator AIMS Independent Computer Professionals Tel: +61 3 6334

truss vs ktrace

2001-10-16 Thread Jim Pirzyk
So which should I use? Why is there two around? I see that truss has less command line switches than ktrace, but it is a little bit more standard. I also see that truss works with the linux syscalls where ktrace does not remap the syscall names. - JimP -- --- @(#) $Id: dot.signature,v 1.10

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Doug Hass
Better than a published interface and white paper, we also provide the direct code itself. You could certainly make a netgraph/SAND interface module. Doug On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Doug Hass wrote: The hardware API or the actual register

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julian Elischer Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 5:29 PM To: Doug Hass Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Jim Bryant; MurrayTaylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alfred Shippen Subject: RE: FYI On Tue, 16 Oct

RE: FYI

2001-10-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Hass Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 9:54 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Leo Bicknell; Jim Bryant; MurrayTaylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FYI Let's dispense with all the talk

RE: RE: RE: Imagestream WanIC-520 interface cards

2001-10-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: void [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 9:22 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Matt Dillon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: RE: Imagestream WanIC-520 interface cards On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:09:44PM -0700, Ted