i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation.

2007-03-13 Thread ajay gopalakrishnan
Hi, I've recently installed FreeBSD release 6.2 successfully except that the following things that i need importantly dont work. How should i do these? 1. I am using PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE). I am running FreeBSD on Vmware and i set the network connection as Bridged on Vmware. I configured my

Re: i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation.

2007-03-13 Thread Marc Lörner
Hi, I've recently installed FreeBSD release 6.2 successfully except that the following things that i need importantly dont work. How should i do these? 1. I am using PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE). I am running FreeBSD on Vmware and i set the network connection as Bridged on Vmware. I configured

Re: i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation.

2007-03-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
ajay gopalakrishnan wrote: [...] Note, your questions are off-topic here. Please use the questions mailing list next time. 1. I am using PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE). I am running FreeBSD on Vmware and i set the network connection as Bridged on Vmware. I configured my Ethernet device with

Re: Why max mmap size limited to half of virtual address space?

2007-03-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Anton Yuzhaninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why max mmap size limited to half virtual address space? Because you also need address space for the kernel, your program, the libraries it uses and the data it works on (including the stack). May be this check can be removed? It test it on FreeBSD

Re: i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation.

2007-03-13 Thread Max Laier
Hello Ajay, On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:23, ajay gopalakrishnan wrote: I've recently installed FreeBSD release 6.2 successfully except that the following things that i need importantly dont work. How should i do these? this is the wrong list to ask such questions. I referred your email to

Pthread spin locks

2007-03-13 Thread Peter Holmes
I am not very sure about the spin lock behavior of pthreads. Here is the man page description: The pthread_spin_lock() function will acquire lock if it is not currently owned by another thread. If the lock cannot be acquired immediately, it will spin attempting to acquire the

Re: i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation.

2007-03-13 Thread Mike Meyer
5. Where are the kernel sources located? I need it because i want to do kernel network programming? Is having kernel sources sufficient or there are other dependencies also? As others have pointed out, /usr/src/sys. There are no other dependencies needed to work with that source. 6. How do

Re: i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation.

2007-03-13 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Ajay, 2. May I suggest that you get the source code for vim and compile it? It's available at the wonderful Vi lovers homepage at - http://thomer.com/vi/vi.html 3. You could, for instance, create a small file containing the startx command, make sure that file is executable by doing