Hardware Serial Numbers under FreeBSD

2004-11-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I'm trying to create an inventory script for systems that will be loaded via net-boot. I was wondering if there was any useful way to obtain the serial number of devices like the hard drives, processor, and/or motherboard. (as far as I can guess, those are the only things likely to

Re: Hardware Serial Numbers under FreeBSD

2004-11-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 04), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: Hey all, I'm trying to create an inventory script for systems that will be loaded via net-boot. I was wondering if there was any useful way to obtain the serial number of devices like the hard drives, processor, and/or motherboard.

Re: Hardware Serial Numbers under FreeBSD

2004-11-05 Thread Arne Schwabe
Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all, I'm trying to create an inventory script for systems that will be loaded via net-boot. I was wondering if there was any useful way to obtain the serial number of devices like the hard drives, processor, and/or motherboard. (as

Re: Hardware Serial Numbers under FreeBSD

2004-11-05 Thread Matthew George
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: ports can print it. As for the motherboard serial number, you'll probably need to open the case to get that, but try the dmidecode port. My Asus board prints a serial number of xxx, but other boards might actually put a real value in there.

Re: Loadable Scheduler in Freebsd

2004-11-05 Thread David Schultz
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004, Devesh Shah wrote: Is there a loadable scheduler exist for freebsd 5.2.1 that I could use or any work in the pipeline to develope the infrastructure for freebsd? I believe, Linux has policy based loadable scheduler but could not find one for freebsd. I know, Freebsd

Can ifconfig modify mac address?

2004-11-05 Thread joe mcguckin
Has ifconfig been updated to that the mac address can be modified? FreeBSD used to not allow this... Joe -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

Re: Can ifconfig modify mac address?

2004-11-05 Thread Michael Johnson
It really depends on if you card supports it see http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200406/netgraph.html Michael On Nov 5, 2004, at 9:13 PM, joe mcguckin wrote: Has ifconfig been updated to that the mac address can be modified? FreeBSD used to not allow this... Joe -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications

Re: Can ifconfig modify mac address?

2004-11-05 Thread Peter Kieser
ifconfig device ether mac_address -- Peter Kieser Home: 604.338.9294 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. // - Original Message - From: joe mcguckin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 6:13 PM Subject:

c++filt is broken

2004-11-05 Thread Bruce M Simpson
c++filt is broken, at least on 5.3 and -CURRENT. It no longer builds during a buildworld. This is really annoying for those of using the base system compiler to build large C++ projects. I've attached a Makefile which works for me; I haven't integrated it into my local buildworld, though. BMS #