RE: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard.

2001-11-08 Thread Mike Meyer
[Context recovered from top posting.] Nicpon, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: From: Mike Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Nicpon, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: I've been having the same problem listed below and was wondering if anyone had a fix? There wasn't a fix when I asked last

Re: missing words, lots of them

2001-11-08 Thread Joseph Jacobson
These words, 830 of them, were obtained by intersecting the words in a number of lexicons and then subtracting the words in /usr/share/dict/web2. This all done with words that contain only lowercase letters. You'll find those words at the end of this message. Should you take even a

RE: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard.

2001-11-08 Thread Nicpon, John
It was a small link on the bottom of this page for users who did a bad bios flash. I thought there might be some information as far as card parameters that would assist in updating the drivers. http://www.ecsusa.com/ecsusa/www.ecs.com.tw/download/k7s5a.htm -Original Message- From: Mike

Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard.

2001-11-08 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:02:15PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: [Context recovered from top posting.] Nicpon, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: From: Mike Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Nicpon, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: I've been having the same problem listed below and was wondering

Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard.

2001-11-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:02:15PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: Could you provide a pointer to where you found it? An explanation of why users need to reprogram their MAC's - which is rather unusual - would help quite a bit. There are several possibilities: * Users wish to replace a card but

Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard.

2001-11-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: : Things like DECnet used to do it. And I think some server clustering : solutions might still do it. Some clustering solutions do do it to this day. They provide for completely trasnparent IP failover, and experience has shown that the easiest

Re: mmap/madvise

2001-11-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Jason Mawdsley wrote: Jason Mawdsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks: I am looking for a way to reserve memory, without actually allocating the swap space. Alfred Perlstein answers: Just proceed normally, freebsd does overcommit such that you really don't need to do anything

Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard.

2001-11-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Wilko Bulte wrote: An explanation of why users need to reprogram their MAC's - which is rather unusual - would help quite a bit. Things like DECnet used to do it. And I think some server clustering solutions might still do it. DECNet reprogrammed the MACs with the DEC ethernet

How to profiling a KLD?

2001-11-08 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I am trying to profile a KLD. It seems to me that adding the following line in its make file does not help: COPTS+= -pg -DGPROF The kernel was configured with config -p and I used kgmon -b, kgmon -h, kgmon -p, and gprof /kernel gmon.out gprof.out to collect the data. But none of my routines

Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard.

2001-11-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:50:44PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: FreeBSD needs some basic changes for multiple MAC s to be useful, though. I have more than once wished to assign a separate MAC to each virtual IP address on an interface. I have no idea how complex that would be, but it would be

Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard.

2001-11-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Leo Bicknell wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:50:44PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: FreeBSD needs some basic changes for multiple MAC s to be useful, though. I have more than once wished to assign a separate MAC to each virtual IP address on an interface. I have no idea how complex

Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?

2001-11-08 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
Hi all, A couple of questions here. i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules, again)? They work quite nice under Linux for multimedia apps, and it's a pity we haven't got anything of this kind (TNT2 based v/cards with HW accelleration, for one). Did anybody try to

Re: mmap/madvise

2001-11-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I am creating a virtual memory manager. : :Currently I am doing a :mmap(...PROT_NONE, MAP_ANON ) to reserve the memory. :then when committing the memory I am using mprotect( ...PROT_READ | :PROT_WRITE ) : :HTH : :Jason Mawdsley ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] :m_ a c a d a m i a nt e c h n o l o g i e

processor recommendations for multi-user freeBSD system ?

2001-11-08 Thread Joesh Juphland
I am planning on building a true multi-user system (as opposed to a NFS server, or a web server, or a mail server) - many people with many shells will be doing many things. Two things have been decided: - it will run freeBSD - it will be dual processor - So what two processors should I

Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard.

2001-11-08 Thread Mike Meyer
Leo Bicknell [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:02:15PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: Could you provide a pointer to where you found it? An explanation of why users need to reprogram their MAC's - which is rather unusual - would help quite a bit. There are several

Re: processor recommendations for multi-user freeBSD system ?

2001-11-08 Thread Mike Meyer
Joesh Juphland [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: I am planning on building a true multi-user system (as opposed to a NFS server, or a web server, or a mail server) - many people with many shells will be doing many things. Two things have been decided: - it will run freeBSD - it will be dual

Re: processor recommendations for multi-user freeBSD system ?

2001-11-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:36:18PM -0700, Joesh Juphland wrote: So what two processors should I use ? Coming from a Sun hardware background, I originally thought to use PIII Xeons .. since they have a lot of cache, and fast cache. I was thinking 512meg cache p3 xeons running at 550mhz.

Report on FreeBSD 4.4 pthread implementation verses boehm-gc

2001-11-08 Thread Loren James Rittle
Hello all, I have ported the most recent version of boehm-gc (6.1-alpha) to FreeBSD/i386 under the auspice of the gcc project (it will be in Hans' 6.1 release and it is on the gcc mainline). I got one notable thing fully configured beyond what is in the ports tree (which is based on 6.0):

Re: Report on FreeBSD 4.4 pthread implementation verses boehm-gc

2001-11-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Loren James Rittle writes: : void* worker (void* arg) : { : pthread_kill (*(pthread_t*)arg, SIGUSR1); : sleep (1); : pthread_kill (*(pthread_t*)arg, SIGUSR2); : } We've seen the same thing with: pthread_kill (*(pthread_t*)arg, SIGUSR1);

Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?

2001-11-08 Thread Craig R
I'm going to have to agree with your idea in general, however there are parts that I disagree with. First, taking all of the code from Linux may not be good for the FreeBSD project. That would steer FreeBSD into being more like yet another Linux distro instead of an independent project. Just

Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?

2001-11-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 09-Nov-2001 Craig R wrote: code and build it straight into the base OS. A linux compatability layer could be made (similar idea as the existing binary support) so that more applications would run, but the system itself would be independant. The idea Why write yet another interface?

IPFW module

2001-11-08 Thread Dimitar Peikov
This morning I've cvsuped to STABLE and put 'options IPFIREWALL' into my kernel configuration file. After installing all I try to 'kldload ipfw' which complains that ipfw module is already in kernel, but kldstat reports that module is being loaded! Then I've decided to kldunload it Kernel