Re: hifn(4) DMA fix for review

2010-05-10 Thread Sam Leffler
On May 9, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Fri, 07 May 2010 12:13:20 -0700, Oleksandr Tymoshenko go...@bluezbox.com a écrit : Hi, Proposed patch addresses hifn(4) problems on FreeBSD/mips. Current implementation keeps some of the state information (indexes in buffers,

Re: hifn(4) DMA fix for review

2010-05-10 Thread Sam Leffler
On May 7, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: Proposed patch addresses hifn(4) problems on FreeBSD/mips. Current implementation keeps some of the state information (indexes in buffers, etc) in DMA-mapped memory and bus_dma code invalidates them during sync operations. This fix

Re: IPsec in GENERIC kernel config

2009-04-27 Thread Sam Leffler
Jan Melen wrote: Hi, Again when I compiled a custom kernel just to enable IPsec in the FreeBSD kernel it came to my mind why is it so that the IPsec is not enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel configuration file? At least for me the GENERIC kernel configuration would do just fine if the

Re: Compilation of hostapd

2009-04-01 Thread Sam Leffler
Daamn M wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set up wifi access point using my FreeBSD box and hostapd deamon. My goal is running EAP-TTLS server. It seems that the version shipped with base system isn't compiled with options allowing to use EAP server (I'm using 7.0 version but the same is with the latest

Re: Atheros wireless card keeps losing signal when signal is too weak

2009-03-25 Thread Sam Leffler
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 3/25/09, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I have Linux box sitting next to FreeBSD box that has a very cheap Airlink 101 card but it has no problems connecting to my WiFi network. Every time when Linux box says that quality of connection drops below 10/100 FreeBSD box

Re: no kern.usercrypto

2009-03-03 Thread Sam Leffler
Vasile Marii wrote: Hello everybody! I'm a newbie in BSD. I don't have /dev/crypto nor kern.usercrypto in sysctl...so where can i read something about enabling this on my systems. man 4 crypto ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-24 Thread Sam Leffler
Siddharth Prakash Singh wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Ray Mihm ray.m...@gmail.com wrote: Title: Multicore Aware Process Scheduler. I have not gone through the process scheduler code of Free BSD. Hence, I am not yet aware about the current support for Multicore Architectures.

Re: pahole - Finding holes in kernel structs

2009-02-12 Thread Sam Leffler
Max Laier wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2009 15:08:22 Andrew Brampton wrote: So I ran the tool pahole over a 7.1 FreeBSD Kernel, and found that many of the struct had holes, and some of which could be rearranged to fill the gap. Interesting tool ... Someone should be able to do

Re: pahole - Finding holes in kernel structs

2009-02-12 Thread Sam Leffler
Max Laier wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2009 17:42:19 Sam Leffler wrote: Max Laier wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2009 15:08:22 Andrew Brampton wrote: So I ran the tool pahole over a 7.1 FreeBSD Kernel, and found that many of the struct had holes, and some of which could

Re: How to troubleshoot why ath0 can't connect to a passwordless wireless network?

2009-02-10 Thread Sam Leffler
Yuri wrote: I have a several wireless networks without password that my linux box easily connects to. On FreeBSD 'ifconfig ath0 up scan' command shows it. 'ifconfig ath0 ssid my-ssid up' brings interface to 'associated' state. But dhclient fails to set it up. I have another device on the

Re: Super I/O driver [generic gpio driver]

2009-02-06 Thread Sam Leffler
Andriy Gapon wrote: Do we have any drivers for special functions provided by ISA/LPC Super I/Os. I mean many of them have watchdog capabilities, GPIO, etc. I do not meant fdc, lpt, sio/uart and hwm which are 9or can be) handled as the devices of their own. I have some quite hairy code for

Re: Dynamic ddb commands

2009-02-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Matthew Fleming wrote: In general it is far easier to just add sysinit's than to hack directly on the kernel linker. There are very few ddb commands, so one extra pointer or two per command is not a lot of space. Respectfully, I disagree, for several reasons. First, in order to make

Re: Dynamic ddb commands

2009-01-30 Thread Sam Leffler
Matthew Fleming wrote: I'm working on BSD 6.x and of course the set of ddb commands is static to whatever is in the kernel at compile. I see that BSD 7.1 has dynamic commands using sysinits and sysuninit's to call a new db_[un]register_cmd. I see this, though, only after I have spent a day or

Re: doubts regarding System Initialization working (SYSINIT)

2009-01-23 Thread Sam Leffler
John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 23 January 2009 10:55:32 am Mehul Chadha wrote: Hello all, I have been browsing through the FreeBSD kernel's source code trying to understand its working . In the mi_startup() in /sys/kern/init_main.c all the SYSINIT objects are sorted using

Re: hack bios hp compaq v3618la

2008-12-27 Thread Sam Leffler
Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 5:28 PM, lazaax - lazaax@gmail.com wrote: hi, people, anyone knows how to hack bios from v3618la or had a bios hacked, i want to bypass whitelist wireless network, i put a atheros on mi hp and cant supported, sorry my english is

Re: crypto(9) choose another driver if we cannot open a session on it

2008-12-10 Thread Sam Leffler
Patrick Lamaizière wrote: Le Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:21:55 +0100, Philip Paeps [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello, On 2008-12-07 22:45:51 (+0100), Patrick Lamaizière [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote a small patch to allow the crypto framework to choose another cryptographic driver if we

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Sam Leffler
jT wrote: Steve, A few Iwn drivers *are* supported, mine being iwn 4965 -- is supported and has been committed to 8.0-CURRENT. You can find more information about development on this hardware here : http://www.clearchain.com/blog/posts/iwn. I'm pretty sure that there is not that much work

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Sam Leffler
The 4965 firmware license does not require an ack via the loader tunable. This used to be true but was changed recently as I was mistaken about the license (only iwi and ipw firmware requires the end user acknowledge the EULA). Everything else that was said seemed spot on. Sam jT wrote:

Re: conf/128030: [request] Isn't it time to enable IPsec in GENERIC?

2008-10-18 Thread Sam Leffler
Max Laier wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2008 19:05:26 Sam Leffler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Synopsis: [request] Isn't it time to enable IPsec in GENERIC? Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs-freebsd-net Responsible-Changed-By: gavin Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Oct 18 16

Re: WPA associating with unknown SSID

2008-09-04 Thread Sam Leffler
Roland van Laar wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:37:28PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: Matthias Apitz wrote: El d?a Wednesday, September 03, 2008 a las 08:04:49AM -0700, Sam Leffler escribi?: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I'm using WPA to connect to my various

Re: WPA associating with unknown SSID

2008-09-03 Thread Sam Leffler
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I'm using WPA to connect to my various Wifi AP's (office, home, partner locations) and have them well configured in the wpa_supplicant.conf(5) file; from time to time at home I encounter that it is associating with an unknown AP of my neighbourhood: # ifconfig

Re: WPA associating with unknown SSID

2008-09-03 Thread Sam Leffler
Pietro Cerutti wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sam Leffler wrote: | Matthias Apitz wrote: | Hello, | | I'm using WPA to connect to my various Wifi AP's (office, home, partner | locations) and have them well configured in the wpa_supplicant.conf(5) | file; | | from time

Re: WPA associating with unknown SSID

2008-09-03 Thread Sam Leffler
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, September 03, 2008 a las 08:04:49AM -0700, Sam Leffler escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I'm using WPA to connect to my various Wifi AP's (office, home, partner locations) and have them well configured in the wpa_supplicant.conf(5) file

Re: Extending the ddb command set

2008-08-17 Thread Sam Leffler
Guillaume Ballet wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guillaume Ballet wrote: Hello hackers, I am currently working on a small project and would like to add a few commands to the set that is available in ddb. I found that very interesting

Re: Extending the ddb command set

2008-08-16 Thread Sam Leffler
Guillaume Ballet wrote: Hello hackers, I am currently working on a small project and would like to add a few commands to the set that is available in ddb. I found that very interesting albeit succinct presentation:

Re: startup options

2008-08-15 Thread Sam Leffler
Stefan Sperling wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:00:25PM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: I was wondering if it was possible, with a machine that has about 2 year old dual AMD64 processors and an up-to-date AMI BIOS, to get the machine to be able to start up from a

Re: crypto(9) and maxoplen

2008-07-21 Thread Sam Leffler
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:10:00PM +0200, Patrick Lamaizi?re wrote: Le Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:39:55 +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello, In the opencrypto framework the function crypto_register() has an argument 'maxoplen'.

Re: Hifn 7955 doesn't work with Freebsd 7.0-release

2008-05-21 Thread Sam Leffler
Richard van Mansom wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup two Soekris 4521 with a minipci vpn1411 (Hi/fn 7955) in a vpn. I understood that the crypto card should automatically work with only three kernel configuration file modification. So I added these three lines device crypto device

Re: wpi -- periodic disconnections

2008-03-04 Thread Sam Leffler
Pietro Cerutti wrote: Andrew Thompson wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:47:39PM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi list, I can't get my if_wpi (Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) stay connected to my WPA-enabled access point for more than a

Re: Is it possible that modern wireless card only supports WPA and not WEP or this is a bug in the driver?

2008-02-27 Thread Sam Leffler
Yuri wrote: I have a Linksys PCI wireless card that is being attached by ral driver: ral0: Ralink Technology RT2561S mem 0xcffe8000-0xcffe irq 17 at device 10.0 on pci0 ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527 ral0: Ethernet address: 00:18:f8:2e:40:25 ral0: [ITHREAD] But when I do 'ifconfig ral0

Re: Is it possible that modern wireless card only supports WPA and not WEP or this is a bug in the driver?

2008-02-27 Thread Sam Leffler
Yuri wrote: Pietro Cerutti wrote: It wouldn't make sense. Flags are used to specify capabilities of the interface, not things provided by the operating system. This is very confusing to user. User is assumed to have this bit of knowledge that WEP flag actually means only hardware

Re: ath0 will not associate

2008-02-21 Thread Sam Leffler
Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi, Runing -current i386 as of February 19. Tried to use an ath wireless on my laptop, it wouldn't associate using: # ifconfig ath0 ssid GoAway wepkey 0xdeadbeef1234567890deadbeef wepmode on Set wlandebug scan+auth+assoc, got the following in /var/log/messages. (I've

Re: retrive data from mbuf chain

2008-02-07 Thread Sam Leffler
Biks N wrote: Hi, I am new to FreeBSD kernel programming. Currently I am trying to work on mbuf data manupulation. From my understanding: data (payload) is stored into one or more mufs which are chained together through m_next pointer. Now, I need to retrive all data in mbuf chain ( mbufs

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-02-03 Thread Sam Leffler
Kris Kennaway wrote: Stefan Lambrev wrote: I run from host A : hping --flood -p 22 -S 10.3.3.2 and systat -ifstat on host B to see the traffic that is generated (I do not want to run this monitoring on the flooder host as it will effect his performance) OK, I finally got time to look at

Re: How long is a hz?

2008-01-28 Thread Sam Leffler
Sean Bruno wrote: Jason Slagle wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Sean Bruno wrote: I couldn't quite find the definition for hz in sys/ this morning. What is it's value and where is it defined? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the International System of Units

Re: Nvidia Driver w/RELENG_7

2008-01-14 Thread Sam Leffler
John Baldwin wrote: On Sunday 13 January 2008 08:55:46 pm Yuri Pankov wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 05:22:46PM -0800, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote: Hi, Does anyone have the nvidia video driver working with releng 7? What I am seeing is that the kernel module compiles and loads fine, but it

Re: Coverity problems?

2008-01-11 Thread Sam Leffler
Mark Linimon wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:12:27PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: These numbers seem strange and out of proportion. I know there has been prior cooperation with Coverity - is this just old data? IIRC Coverity is not tracking our use of their software, at least in those

Re: How to add wake on lan support for your card

2007-11-28 Thread Sam Leffler
Stefan Sperling wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:13:28PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Well, I hope I haven't missed anything important, but I guess that's about it. Wow ! seems like you spent a fair time assembling that lot, About 2 hours. it'd sure be a shame if it

Re: loading a firmware image

2007-07-15 Thread Sam Leffler
Maslan wrote: The firmware is bundled in a seperate kernel module that can be loaded, read and then unloaded. See src/sys/modules/iwifw/iwi_bss for an example of the Makefile magic that creates the kld. if i wrote FIRMWS = filename:shortname:version in the Makefile then i should user

Re: stopping callouts

2007-06-01 Thread Sam Leffler
Artis Caune wrote: Hello FreeBSD-hackers! what is the right way to stop callout which is initialized with mutex: callout_init_mtx(callout_function, my_mtx, 0); should I lock mutex before calling callout_drain() or not? man page says: callout_drain() is identical to callout_stop() and if the

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Steven Hartland wrote: I've been repartitioning some of our machines here and found that using the following method sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems. 1. Boot a machine using an nfs mounted /usr 2. Run: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 to enable writing to the disk mbr 3. run

Re: Yet another magic symlinks implementation

2006-11-05 Thread Sam Leffler
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:56:29AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Hi, All! I've ported NetBSD magic symlinks implementation to FreeBSD. The description of magiclinks can been found here: http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/symlink.7.html Patch here:

Re: vr(4) performance

2006-11-04 Thread Sam Leffler
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:27:46PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: Devon H. O'Dell wrote: Hey all, So, vr(4) kind of sucks, and it seems like this is mostly due to the fact that we call m_defrag() on every mbuf that we send through it. This seems to really

Re: vr(4) performance

2006-11-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Devon H. O'Dell wrote: Hey all, So, vr(4) kind of sucks, and it seems like this is mostly due to the fact that we call m_defrag() on every mbuf that we send through it. This seems to really screw performance on outgoing packets (something like 33% the output efficiency of fxp(4), if I'm

Re: 6.1-current 20060823 ath0 stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)

2006-08-31 Thread Sam Leffler
Jared Mauch wrote: no responses here, any better idea where to go with my problem? I just returned from holiday and will try to reproduce the problem. Sam ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2006-07-05 Thread Sam Leffler
John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 03 July 2006 00:02, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : This summary makes an attempt to describe the kernel interfaces needed by : the NVIDIA FreeBSD i386 graphics driver to achieve feature

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2006-06-29 Thread Sam Leffler
Christian Zander wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:49:10PM -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:32:42AM -0700, Kip Macy wrote: IIRC lack of per instance cdevs also limits Freebsd to one vmware instance. -Kip On 6/29/06, Oleksandr Tymoshenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Quality?

2006-04-06 Thread Sam Leffler
Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Benjamin D Adams wrote: I came across the fallowing website: http://scan.coverity.com/ Looks like they check open source projects for source quality. They Have the fallowing listed: The FreeBSD Foundation has negotiated a license to use the Coverity

Re: 6.1-PRE boot locks up, using USB keyboard

2006-03-15 Thread Sam Leffler
Rick C. Petty wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 12:27:08PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 15 March 2006 12:11, Rick C. Petty wrote: My BIOS (Asus A8N-E rev 1010) has no option for disabling USB keyboard support, but I can either disable the USB controller or disable the USB legacy

Re: wireless on a laptop

2006-02-24 Thread Sam Leffler
Florent Thoumie wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:40, Chuck Lever wrote: hi all- i have a D-Link DWL-G650M PCCard (Atheros) and an IBM T40 laptop. they don't want to talk with each other. the T40 has a built in Aironet, but the driver generates received 194 bytes, expected 196 bytes

Re: noise level measurement with Atheros driver

2005-12-04 Thread Sam Leffler
Lang, Tanja wrote: Hi, I would like to record signal strength and noise level for each client packet received on a wireless access point. I found the fields IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_ANTSIGNAL and IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_DBM_ANTNOISE in the radiotap header which should give me this

Re: ieee80211_input() and fragmented mbufs

2005-09-08 Thread Sam Leffler
Sebastien wrote: Hello, I'm passing ieee80211_input() heavily fragmented mbuf chains and it makes (at least) the function fail to parse beacons correctly. I have the ieee80211_recv_mgmt: no ratesin beacon frame message, and it makes the driver unable to scan for networks (always return no

Re: Atheros driver and radiotap reliability

2005-08-30 Thread Sam Leffler
Sam Pierson wrote: On 8/29/05, Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Pierson wrote: I had some correspondence with the ethereal developers and David Young and apparently there is a bug in how ethereal handles the radiotap header. News to me; the last time I checked it looked correct

Re: Atheros driver and radiotap reliability

2005-08-30 Thread Sam Leffler
Sam Pierson wrote: On 8/30/05, Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David appears to be talking about how netbsd works. Understand that David does not work on FreeBSD; I'm not even sure he uses it. ... tcpdump and ethereal get the same data. If they display it differently given identical

Re: Atheros driver and radiotap reliability

2005-08-29 Thread Sam Leffler
Sam Pierson wrote: Hi guys, I'm trying to get an accurate measurement of signal strength (preferably in dBm) on a per-packet basis between two atheros cards that I have. I had some correspondence with the ethereal developers and David Young and apparently there is a bug in how ethereal

Re: FreeBSD 6.0BETA2 ndis(4) WPA-PSK

2005-08-08 Thread Sam Leffler
chuck wrote: Hi, I've just install the 6.0Beta2 to test the new WPA-PSK functionality. Regarding this, I have 2 questions. 1) The signal strength is quite different between drivers. (ath vs ndis). - The signal is much stronger when I use the ndis drivers. Why ? No config info, no way to

Re: Atheros, hardware access layer, collisions

2005-07-26 Thread Sam Leffler
David Malone wrote: I just had a lengthy discussion with a couple of guys about the 802.11 protocol. One had said that the random delays inserted before transmission was one of the *IFS delays (can't remember which now), and that it was a standard 802.11 number, not a random delay. Yep - in

Re: Atheros, hardware access layer, collisions

2005-07-21 Thread Sam Leffler
David Malone wrote: I was looking for this in the ah.h and the ah_desc.h files. Are they someplace else, or maybe this is a system call? I can't find anything about the retry limit (-- CWmin = retry?) Thanks, CWmin is a setting that controls the random delay before packets are transmitted.

Re: SIMPLEQ_* macros from OpenBSD sys/queue.h

2005-07-13 Thread Sam Leffler
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-07-12 17:59, Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently working on OpenBGPd port update and I'm facing a little problem that is actually quite painful to deal with. I need some macros from OpenBSD sys/queue.h which aren't present in FreeBSD. I can

Re: ProPolice: best way to fill canary

2005-07-09 Thread Sam Leffler
Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Hi Mike, On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:22:13PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: The second method requires to introduce the kern.arnd sysctl (KERN_ARND). FYI, note that NetBSD has kern.urandom (KERN_URND) and they define KERN_ARND

Re: Accurate/Fine-grained timing of latency in atheros drivers

2005-07-01 Thread Sam Leffler
Sam Pierson wrote: Hey guys, In a current project, I need to find out exactly how long it takes to send a 802.11 packet and how much time is spent in the following stages: send time - time spent constructing message, including context switches and other delays and the time it takes to transfer

Re: Use if_ath.c for on the fly transmission power change?

2005-06-07 Thread Sam Leffler
. Do I have to construct each packet by hand (is this even feasible)? I saw back in September that Sam Leffler said per-packet TPC is not working right now, so I assume that it may have been worked on or at least checked out since then. Still no support for TPC. There's a sysctl knob

Re: JKH Task: Stack saving/tracing functionality.

2005-04-11 Thread Sam Leffler
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:08:33AM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: + I have proprietary code from a previous employer of mine that implements + some really useful debugging features. I'm looking for someone who is + interested in cleaning it up, making it architecture

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Brian Reichert wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:50:52AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I'm looking at the impressive list of wireless network cards supported by FreeBSD here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#WLAN But, I have the specific interest of building an 802.11g WAP.

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Brian Reichert wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:28:42AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: I guess everything listed here, with a URL to an up-to-date list: http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts In perusing many of these cards specs, I see many of them offer a 'turbo mode' of

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:16:35PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: In perusing many of these cards specs, I see many of them offer a 'turbo mode' of 108 Mbps. That's a vendor-specific mode. I strongly advice you _against_ using it, it's using at least one additional channel

Re: which Wifi cards can be used for a WAP?

2005-04-02 Thread Sam Leffler
Sam Leffler wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:16:35PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: In perusing many of these cards specs, I see many of them offer a 'turbo mode' of 108 Mbps. That's a vendor-specific mode. I strongly advice you _against_ using it, it's using at least one

Re: TX rate problem in hostap mode

2005-02-01 Thread Sam Leffler
Paulo Fragoso wrote: Hi, We are using a Samsung wireless card (PRISM2) with FreeBSD 5.3 in hostap mode and client is running FreeBSD 5.3 with Orinoco wireless card, all works fine but tx rate at hostap it is all time in 2Mbps. We found this article for solve this problem with FreeBSD 5.x:

Re: ttyd0/cuad0 - why is there still this duality ?

2005-01-24 Thread Sam Leffler
Bernd Walter wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:42:50PM -0500, Kurt J. Lidl wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:16:13PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:30:43AM +0100, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: Just a question. Maybe it isn't true but to me it seems there is still this duality

Re: ttyd0/cuad0 - why is there still this duality ?

2005-01-24 Thread Sam Leffler
Bernd Walter wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:13:26AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: Bernd Walter wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:42:50PM -0500, Kurt J. Lidl wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:16:13PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:30:43AM +0100, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote

Re: ttyd0/cuad0 - why is there still this duality ?

2005-01-24 Thread Sam Leffler
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurt J. Lidl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Having seperate dialout and dialin devices really are just a kludge : for having the kernel doing locking that could be done in userland : code. That's not why they are there. Maybe now; that's

Re: Porting the OpenBSD free Atheros HAL

2004-11-10 Thread Sam Leffler
with these cards and their current status in the open-source world, you'll know that the only method of using them relies solely on the binary-only HAL provided by Atheros that Sam Leffler was kind enough to wrap in a FreeBSD driver shell. Would this give us AMD64 support for atheros cards

Re: can WEP keys be set without resetting a wireless interface?

2004-10-15 Thread Sam Leffler
Phillip Crumpler wrote: Hi hackers, Can anyone tell me why setting WEP keys on a wireless interface must result in the interface being reset? I have a wireless authenticator that wants to set random WEP keys and send them out to connected stations. Setting a key results in the interface being

Re: Parameters passed to ath_hal_setuptxdesc() from ath(4)

2004-09-15 Thread Sam Leffler
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 01:23 pm, Rob Deker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey folks, ~I've recently been working on some patches to the ath(4) driver to allow for raw frame injection, and I've got a question. Our patches will be allowing for full-frame raw

Re: bridge callbacks in if_ed.c?

2004-09-06 Thread Sam Leffler
On Sunday 05 September 2004 02:53 pm, Andre Oppermann wrote: Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 02:20:36PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: L I see that bridge callbacks are still living in if_ed.c L from FreeBSD 2.x times. See if_ed.c:2816. I think this is L not correct. L L

Re: [HEADS-UP] mbuma is in the tree

2004-06-05 Thread Sam Leffler
On Friday 04 June 2004 04:27 am, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:19:11AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: B On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:56:52AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: B S allocated using this mechanism. I did it once for vlan tags but botched it B S (didn't handle module

Re: [HEADS-UP] mbuma is in the tree

2004-06-03 Thread Sam Leffler
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 02:49 am, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: Bosko, On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 02:51:01PM -0700, Bosko Milekic wrote: B mbuma is an Mbuf Cluster allocator built on top of a number of B extensions to the UMA framework, all included herein. are you going to convert mbuf tag

Re: FAST_IPSEC bug fix

2004-04-25 Thread Sam Leffler
On Apr 24, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Oldach, Helge wrote: Hi list, this is a month-old mail about the lack of a FAST_IPSEC feature compared to legacy IPSEC. Including a working patch. I haven't seen this being committed, or is it? Please also MFC to STABLE. The fix was not quite right for -current

Re: FAST_IPSEC bug fix

2004-04-25 Thread Sam Leffler
On Apr 24, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:56 PM 24/04/2004, Sam Leffler wrote: On Apr 24, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Oldach, Helge wrote: Hi list, this is a month-old mail about the lack of a FAST_IPSEC feature compared to legacy IPSEC. Including a working patch. I haven't seen this being

Re: FAST_IPSEC bug fix

2004-03-31 Thread Sam Leffler
I have time to deal with this this week. Thanks. Sam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CURRENT] Panic in -CURRENT of 20031105

2003-11-07 Thread Sam Leffler
On Friday 07 November 2003 07:49 am, Jaco H. van Tonder wrote: Hi All, I get panics at random times of the day with -CURRENT from 20031105, with absolutely no load on the machine. The machine acts as a dial-up server/gateway/firewall for my local lan. I managed to get a coredump. The

Re: 5.1-CURRENT (today), ath(4) + Dlink DWL-AG650 = no joy

2003-11-06 Thread Sam Leffler
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 10:29 am, Steven Hartland wrote: Is anyone using this atm. Just got the card today as it was in the hardware compat list for the ath driver but I not having any joy with it. On insert or boot it identifies as: ath0: Atheros 5212 ... ... . But when using

Re: process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD

2003-10-20 Thread Sam Leffler
I've lived through several checkpointing implementations. You've got the easy part. Applications must participate or such a facility has very limited usefulness. Delivering a signal is only part of the problem; there tend to be issues synchronizing user-mode checkpoint of application state

Re: Is socket buffer locking as questionable as it seems?

2003-10-04 Thread Sam Leffler
On Friday 03 October 2003 10:38 pm, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: I keep getting these panics on my SMP box (no backtrace or DDB or crash dump of course, because panic() == hang to FreeBSD these days): panic: receive: m == 0 so-so_rcv.sb_cc == 52 From what I can tell, all sorts of

Re: possible deadlocks?

2003-08-07 Thread Sam Leffler
My advisor Dawson Engler has written a deadlock detector, and we'd like some verification. They look like bugs, unless there is some other reason why two call chains cannot happen at the same time. Dawson? Hey Dawson! second one in bpf, between bpfif_lock and bpfd_lock. thread 1: bpf_tap() /*

Re: Intel 820 RNG

2002-03-04 Thread Sam Leffler (at Usenix)
But, back to the topic. We have taken the OpenBSD driver for the RNG on the i810 chipset (and some other i8x0 chipsets), and ported it to FreeBSD-4.4. We made some enhancements to get more of the available random data bandwidth. I ported the openbsd crypto stuff to -stable for the purpose

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-09 Thread Sam Leffler
What board is this? Sam - Original Message - From: "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Alex Zepeda" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 4:42 AM Subject: Re: if_fxp - the real point On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:13:07PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:

Re: Request for review (HW checksum patches)

2000-03-25 Thread Sam Leffler
FWIW, Win2000 has a mechanism for dealing with what they call task offloading. If you decide to attack the problem, an inexpensive device you can use for testing is the 3C905B; it does IP+TCP checksums. Sam - Original Message - From: "Justin C. Walker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?

2000-03-10 Thread Sam Leffler
- Original Message - From: "Didier Derny" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 3:02 AM Subject: Is FreeBSD dead ? Hi, I've just read the announcement of the merge of BSDI and Walnut Creek CDROM. (March 10 2000). I guess it's a sad day for FreeBSD. I

Re: doscmd under FreeBSD 4.0 20000214-SNAP

2000-03-08 Thread Sam Leffler
INT15's are typically a result of unexpected interrupts or a printer acknowledge IRQ; ignore them. INT16's are video requests; function 1 in this case sets the cursor type. The video requests are done to draw the boot menu that (probably) lets you pick whether to boot w/ or w/o certain device

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-17 Thread Sam Leffler
- Original Message - From: "Marco van de Voort" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 3:30 PM Subject: Re: 64bit OS? Which leads to my potentially ignorant question: Where is FreeBSD w/regards to running on the Itanium (or other 64bit chips)?