As Brian F. Feldman wrote ...
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote:
Mike Smith:
| Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE
|
|You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the
|-stable branch, but you might be better off moving
I volonteer to be your first alpha-tester. I have this modem
blaster thing. It is PCI and it has a UART. I was going to sell it
and shell out lots of money for USRobotics 56K ISA real modem. BTW
they call it legacy modem - i think the general direction is such
that PCI will be the
In some mail from Doug, sie said:
Darren Reed wrote:
Is there a way to get FreeBSD 2.2.8 to ask you for the root device
rather than have it attempt to mount and fail ?
The 3.x branch is a lot smarter about this, but I agree that it would be
nice in those situations where it
Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's
a good idea :-]
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over a week now and I decided to build a kernel for my machine and get
rid of all the unnecessary drivers and whatnot (like everything SCSI,
the Qcam
Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote:
Though, as a side note, it should be noted that if you have DDB
enabled then lowering the secure level is pretty easy to do. If you
have access to the console, of course. We used this trick at BEST
a couple of times. Still,
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 07:15:00PM -0400, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote:
Supporting winmodems
btw would be nice, although i doubt manufacturers will give us their code.
That might not be necessary, eventually. I've heard, obliquely,
of a project to develop open source modem (data pump) software
that
Doug Rabson scribbled this message on Sep 6:
SIO doesn't support anything but isa attachments right now. Its probe
and attach routines need to be corrected to not be ISA specific.
I think I will tackle that soon.
if you don't get to it soon, I may take a look at it... I have a bunch
of
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci
and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen
cardbus PCI modems that are NOT winmodems.
And MCA and EISA attachments.
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Warner Losh scribbled this message on Sep 5:
In message 9909061532290g.69...@gurney.reilly.home Andrew Reilly writes:
: So there's going to be manufacturer-specific terminal/serial port drivers
: to talk to the serial ports on USB-attached laptop docking stations, like
: the Annex ethernet
Andrew Reilly writes:
Does anyone know whether there's more to a WinModem than a
line hybrid, a codec and a PCI interface?
It Depends. For many of them, yes, that's pretty much all there is.
However Motorola (at least) has a reference design for a WinModem
that uses their DSP56303 on the
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 07:15:00PM -0400, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote:
Supporting winmodems
btw would be nice, although i doubt manufacturers will give us their code.
That might not be necessary, eventually. I've heard, obliquely,
of a project to
In message 199909070023.baa29...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org Brian Somers writes:
: Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's
: a good idea :-]
No. I don't think we want to install rc.sysctl for an installworld.
It would spam changes that others make to them.
Warner
To
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
On the other hand I built a static nvi and put it in /tmp with a
copy of termcap and set the TERMCAP variable. With only / mounted, nvi did
just fine, and it only took 460592 and 188100 bytes for the static nvi and
termcap respectivly.
: Though, as a side note, it should be noted that if you have DDB
: enabled then lowering the secure level is pretty easy to do. If you
: have access to the console, of course.
:
:It should also be noted that it makes no sense to enable DDB on
:systems that need to use elevated
Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote:
I disagree quite strongly. DDB provides a mechanism to allow a
sysadmin to obtain a greater amount of information from a panic
situation then he could get otherwise. Being able to obtain this
information does not run counter to
Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote:
If the system winds up in a state where a kernel core cannot be
generated, DDB is the only way to figure out what is going on.
securelevel is a mechanism which attempts to guarentee data security,
at least to a degree.
The problem is
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, KATO Takenori wrote:
DDB does not provide enough security. Though securelevel cannot be
changed,
(1) Turn off power.
(2) Boot as single-user mode.
Setting the console as insecure should protect against this.
or
(1) Turn off power.
(2)
pe...@taronga.com wrote:
It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead
of just starting the damn office.
Well, my copy calls this file libosl517li.so, and doing this sed trick on
it just makes it exit without doing anything. Not doing it gives me the
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 07:15:00PM -0400, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote:
Supporting winmodems
btw would be nice, although i doubt manufacturers will give us their code.
That might not be necessary, eventually. I've heard, obliquely,
of a project to develop open source modem (data pump)
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