Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I've got a Dell Dimension 4100 (circa 2000) running FreeBSD 6.2. I plugged in a Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI card, which should be supported by the 'ral' driver. However, my pciconf says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00551737 chip=0x03011814 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor

[panic] RELENG_6_2: many extattr operations - panic

2007-02-20 Thread Ryan Beasley
Hi, all. I recently started using extended attributes to record package origins to files installed with ports/packages. I patched find(1) to examine/test attributes, and periodically search /usr/local for files w/o the special attribute. Today I re-labeled all files in my packages' plists, and

Linksys WMP54G + ndis = panic

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Well - I gave up on the ral(4) driver - seems it doesn't support the WMP54Gv4.1 linksys card. So - I've got ndis working. I can ifconfig ndis0, set the ssid and wepkey, etc... And - DHCP will get the wireless configured (IP address, default route, etc...) But - on the first packet after that

Fwd: Abyssmal dump cache efficiency

2007-02-20 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
(oops... didn't group reply) -- Forwarded message -- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 20, 2007 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Abyssmal dump cache efficiency To: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/17/07, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried modelling a

Re: FreeBSD 5.5 persistent crashing

2007-02-20 Thread Lanny Baron
HI Geoff, Although I don't know what kind of Server you have or who makes it, perhaps you might want to replace the raid controller. Regards, ___ Lanny Baron Freedom Technologies Corporation Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 High Performance Servers and

beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory)

2007-02-20 Thread Arone Silimantia
New, modern, p4-xeon based system. 4 GB physical RAM: # dmesg|grep emory real memory = 3489071104 (3327 MB) avail memory = 3418656768 (3260 MB) 4 GB swap: # swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/da0s1b 4194304 40 4194264 0% And because it has a

NVIDIA MCP51 Ethernet Interface

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Holden
Hi collective, I've recently purchased a machine that is unfortunately NVIDIA based. It's an Athlon 64 board, with an MCP51 NIC, this card is supported under Linux using the forcedeth driver, having taken a look at if_nve.c, it doesn't appear to be supported. Has anyone managed to add

Re: PING: Someone on the core team. (Modem Problem)

2007-02-20 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : At about the time of 2/15/2007 12:14 AM, Peter Jeremy stated the following: : On 2007-Feb-14 00:27:36 -0800, Daniel Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Changing the slot did help. I moved it from slot 3 to slot 1.

RE: FreeBSD 5.5 persistent crashing

2007-02-20 Thread Geoff Garside
Hi Lanny, It's a SuperMicro server with a 3ware 8006/2LP RAID card. We've not yet properly tried Kostiks patch as we've only updated to FreeBSD 6.1 but its been up for at least 3 days now. Regards, Geoff Garside Open Hosting Ltd -Original Message- From: Lanny Baron [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory)

2007-02-20 Thread Eric Anderson
On 02/19/07 22:20, Arone Silimantia wrote: New, modern, p4-xeon based system. 4 GB physical RAM: # dmesg|grep emory real memory = 3489071104 (3327 MB) avail memory = 3418656768 (3260 MB) 4 GB swap: # swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/da0s1b 4194304

HEADS UP: interrupt filtering newbus API breakage

2007-02-20 Thread Paolo Pisati
Hi developers, after re@ approval, i'm ready to commit my first interrupt filtering patch that contains _JUST_ the modification to the newbus API: no new features, no improvement to the interrupt handling, etcetc The patches against a 4 weeks old HEAD are here:

Re: Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-20 Thread Florent Thoumie
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:05 -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: I've got a Dell Dimension 4100 (circa 2000) running FreeBSD 6.2. I plugged in a Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI card, which should be supported by the 'ral' driver. However, my pciconf says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x028000

Re: HEADS UP: interrupt filtering newbus API breakage

2007-02-20 Thread Doug Barton
Paolo Pisati wrote: So, if none as anything against it, i'm going to commit this work on Friday 23 around 14:00 UTC, so speak now or forever hold your peace. With any kind of luck this is redundant information for you, but I feel compelled to ask if you have both tested your patch with the

Re: Fwd: Abyssmal dump cache efficiency

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Feb-20 02:47:00 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/17/07, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried modelling a unified cache along the NetBSD line and there appears to be a massive improvement in cache performance. It's unclear how much of an improvement this

How to contribute to the pkg_* tools project ?

2007-02-20 Thread Lockless
Hello, We (Lucas Bobby H. and Alexandre Lock C.) are two young students from France. We have a quite good theoretical knowledge of C programing, but we would like to improve our experience in real projects. So we looked at the Projects Ideas on the FreeBSD website, and finally found out that

Re: Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Forent Thoumie wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:05 -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: I've got a Dell Dimension 4100 (circa 2000) running FreeBSD 6.2. I plugged in a Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI card, which should be supported by the 'ral' driver. However, my pciconf says: [EMAIL

Re: Which file to request SIOCGIFMAC on?

2007-02-20 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 2/20/07, nocturnal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi The original plan is to only run it on FreeBSD 5 and higher, actually only 6 by now. It's a program i'm writing for work and at work the most active servers run FreeBSD 6 and are updated frequently. The ones with older versions don't run

Re: Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-20 Thread Kip Macy
A couple of things. - The newer rt2661.c driver has not been MFC'd to 6.2. That is most likely why your card is not working. - 'ifconfig' when run as root will load the module for a network driver provided it is a) in the path and b) name if_interface name.ko -Kip