Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Kevin Day
> You don't want to know what a ethernet/parallel/serial/hub thingie looks > like. I don't have one, so anyone that has one, could you send me the > output of the usb_dump utility avaible from > > http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb/usb.pl > > I had a problem when I tried plugging in my tw

Re: Problems with FIFO open in non-blocking mode?

1999-09-05 Thread Andrew Gierth
> "Alex" == Alex Povolotsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> if ((control = open("STATUS",O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK))<0) { Alex> fails to run (STATUS is pre-created FIFO file) with error Alex> "Device not configured", which seems kinda odd for me. Alex> However, when FIFO is opened with O_R

/etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-05 Thread Doug
The long-awaited moment (well, by me anyway) has arrived. Except for the files in /etc/periodic I have finished the cleanup of the /bin/sh scripts in /etc. I've followed the style guidelines requested by the majority of -hackers, so I hope that I've made everyone as happy as possible here.

Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread KATO Takenori
Once securelevel has been increased, no process can decrease it because kernel always refuse decreasing it. This is inconsistent with the manual page of init: The kernel runs with four different levels of security. Any super-user process can raise the security level, but only init can

Re: mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: The only reason that I see for which we would actually panic() in :this situation (as opposed to suffer the packet loss) is if we get to the :point where we're losing packets because some script kid starts up :something that will eat up sockbuf space and continuously fork, then we :would l

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Nick Hibma
> And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a > laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected > only by USB... > > http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99093.piusb.htm That thing looks very simple probably on the USB bus: root hub devi

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 => panic

1999-09-05 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Rene de Vries wrote... > > It sounds like there may be a couple of things going on. First, your > > scanner may not be returning sense information properly. > > > > Second, the NCR driver may be doing something wrong. > > > > It would be helpful if you could hook this up to your 7890 controller

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 => panic

1999-09-05 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Wilko Bulte wrote... > As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... > > It sounds like there may be a couple of things going on. First, your > > scanner may not be returning sense information properly. > > > > Second, the NCR driver may be doing something wrong. > > > > It would be helpful if you could hook t

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread KATO Takenori
Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There used to be security holes that allowed root to lower `securelevel' > using init. Rev.1.9 defends against any undiscovered holes. How about following change? -- *** init.8.ORIG Mon Sep 6 14:20:46 1999 --- init.8 Mon Sep 6 14:23:01 19

Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
> > USB doesn't present a 16550A interface to the host, so I don't think > > that sio would have a USB attachment. > > 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 termina

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Peter Wemm
Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Day writes: > : No, I'm working on adding support for PCI based non-winmodems. Modems that > : still have a 16550 based uart interface to them, but just happen to sit on > : the PCI bus. I'm not at all planning on writing support for winmod

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread Bruce Evans
>Once securelevel has been increased, no process can decrease it because >kernel always refuse decreasing it. This is inconsistent with the >manual page of init: > > The kernel runs with four different levels of security. Any super-user > process can raise the security level, but only in

Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > : http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99093.piusb.htm > : > : Hmm. What sort of level of nesting do we support for this sort > : of thing? It's probably possible to buy USB interface cards > : that plug into ISA, PCI, SCSI? And vice-versa?

Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 terminal server things? I guess in the Windows world : they must provid

sysinstall nit

1999-09-05 Thread Doug
Present in -Stable and -Current. If you go to Configure | Distributions | src and attempt to choose All, the src distribution never gets selected and nothing gets installed. I can send a PR if needed, but it's such a small thing I didn't think it would be worth it. Doug To Unsubscribe:

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 09:00:00PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warren >Welch writes: > 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 win

Problems with FIFO open in non-blocking mode?

1999-09-05 Thread Alex Povolotsky
Hello! The following program #include #include main() { int control; if ((control = open("STATUS",O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK))<0) { perror("Could not open STATUS "); exit(1); } printf("STATUS ready\n"); close(control); r

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
[[ questions trimmed ]] In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Andrew Reilly" writes: : And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a : laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected : only by USB... : : http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99093.piusb.htm : :

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Wemm writes: : Warner: I've had a look at your pccard_nbk patches, and they seem to work : for me reasonably well considering what it's trying to do. :-) :-) : Please, can we have it committed? OK. I can do that. Makes it easier on me. : Leave the #if 0 i

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread Bruce Evans
>> There used to be security holes that allowed root to lower `securelevel' >> using init. Rev.1.9 defends against any undiscovered holes. > >How about following change? OK. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

sysinstall nit

1999-09-05 Thread Doug
Present in -Stable and -Current. If you go to Configure | Distributions | src and attempt to choose All, the src distribution never gets selected and nothing gets installed. I can send a PR if needed, but it's such a small thing I didn't think it would be worth it. Doug To Unsubscribe:

Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Nick Hibma
> No. The Windows world presents a standard SERIAL DRIVER interface, at > least that's the theory that is preached. I see no reason why a USB > serial port wouldn't do the same. USB defines a serial port > interface, IIRC, which is the same across manufacturers (in theory) > which would be

Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Nick Hibma
> > > USB doesn't present a 16550A interface to the host, so I don't think > > > that sio would have a USB attachment. > > > > 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 Anne

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990906060506.39c691...@overcee.netplex.com.au> Peter Wemm writes: : Warner: I've had a look at your pccard_nbk patches, and they seem to work : for me reasonably well considering what it's trying to do. :-) :-) : Please, can we have it committed? OK. I can do that. Makes it easie

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Peter Wemm
Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199909051942.oaa42...@celery.dragondata.com> Kevin Day writes: > : No, I'm working on adding support for PCI based non-winmodems. Modems that > : still have a 16550 based uart interface to them, but just happen to sit on > : the PCI bus. I'm not at all planning on w

Problems with FIFO open in non-blocking mode?

1999-09-05 Thread Alex Povolotsky
Hello! The following program #include #include main() { int control; if ((control = open("STATUS",O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK))<0) { perror("Could not open STATUS "); exit(1); } printf("STATUS ready\n"); close(control); re

Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
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 terminal server things? I guess in the Windows wor

Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
> > USB doesn't present a 16550A interface to the host, so I don't think > > that sio would have a USB attachment. > > 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 terminal

/etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-05 Thread Doug
The long-awaited moment (well, by me anyway) has arrived. Except for the files in /etc/periodic I have finished the cleanup of the /bin/sh scripts in /etc. I've followed the style guidelines requested by the majority of -hackers, so I hope that I've made everyone as happy as possible here.

Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > : http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99093.piusb.htm > : > : Hmm. What sort of level of nesting do we support for this sort > : of thing? It's probably possible to buy USB interface cards > : that plug into ISA, PCI, SCSI? And vice-versa? >

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread Bruce Evans
>> There used to be security holes that allowed root to lower `securelevel' >> using init. Rev.1.9 defends against any undiscovered holes. > >How about following change? OK. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread KATO Takenori
Bruce Evans wrote: > There used to be security holes that allowed root to lower `securelevel' > using init. Rev.1.9 defends against any undiscovered holes. How about following change? -- *** init.8.ORIG Mon Sep 6 14:20:46 1999 --- init.8 Mon Sep 6 14:23:01 1999 *** *

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 => panic

1999-09-05 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Wilko Bulte wrote... > As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... > > It sounds like there may be a couple of things going on. First, your > > scanner may not be returning sense information properly. > > > > Second, the NCR driver may be doing something wrong. > > > > It would be helpful if you could hook th

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
[[ questions trimmed ]] In message <19990906151211.a21...@gurney.reilly.home> "Andrew Reilly" writes: : And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a : laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected : only by USB... : : http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.p

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 => panic

1999-09-05 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Rene de Vries wrote... > > It sounds like there may be a couple of things going on. First, your > > scanner may not be returning sense information properly. > > > > Second, the NCR driver may be doing something wrong. > > > > It would be helpful if you could hook this up to your 7890 controller

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread Bruce Evans
>Once securelevel has been increased, no process can decrease it because >kernel always refuse decreasing it. This is inconsistent with the >manual page of init: > > The kernel runs with four different levels of security. Any super-user > process can raise the security level, but only ini

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 09:00:00PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <4.2.0.58.19990906100437.04bf3...@arthur.intraceptives.com.au> > Warren Welch writes: > 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

Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread KATO Takenori
Once securelevel has been increased, no process can decrease it because kernel always refuse decreasing it. This is inconsistent with the manual page of init: The kernel runs with four different levels of security. Any super-user process can raise the security level, but only init can

Re: mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: The only reason that I see for which we would actually panic() in :this situation (as opposed to suffer the packet loss) is if we get to the :point where we're losing packets because some script kid starts up :something that will eat up sockbuf space and continuously fork, then we :would lo

FreeBSD install questions

1999-09-05 Thread Robert Kuan
Hi, I have a few questions on FreeBSD installation; I hope you would help me to answer them. 1. How to change the labels and modify the FreeBSD Booteasy. I.e., From: F1 ?? F2 DOS F3 DOS F4 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 toF1 WinNT 4.0 F2

mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-05 Thread Bosko Milekic
This post is somewhat in relation to the "local DoS" thread started on --security a few days ago. To slightly put things back into context: The panic() signaling "out of mbuf clusters" is a result of the initial MGET failing, calling m_retry, and failing again. Since we seem to be

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <4.2.0.58.19990906100437.04bf3...@arthur.intraceptives.com.au> Warren Welch writes: : I'd really like to see the sio driver code being able to support PCI : devices... Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say card

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199909051942.oaa42...@celery.dragondata.com> Kevin Day writes: : No, I'm working on adding support for PCI based non-winmodems. Modems that : still have a 16550 based uart interface to them, but just happen to sit on : the PCI bus. I'm not at all planning on writing support for winmodem

FreeBSD install questions

1999-09-05 Thread Robert Kuan
Hi, I have a few questions on FreeBSD installation; I hope you would help me to answer them. 1. How to change the labels and modify the FreeBSD Booteasy. I.e., From: F1 ?? F2 DOS F3 DOS F4 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 toF1 WinNT 4.0 F2

mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-05 Thread Bosko Milekic
This post is somewhat in relation to the "local DoS" thread started on --security a few days ago. To slightly put things back into context: The panic() signaling "out of mbuf clusters" is a result of the initial MGET failing, calling m_retry, and failing again. Since we seem to b

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warren Welch writes: : I'd really like to see the sio driver code being able to support PCI : devices... 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

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Day writes: : No, I'm working on adding support for PCI based non-winmodems. Modems that : still have a 16550 based uart interface to them, but just happen to sit on : the PCI bus. I'm not at all planning on writing support for winmodems, just : making sio.c un

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: > I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is > in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files > in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. IIRC, because vi has a lo

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Newton
Ben Rosengart wrote: > I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is > in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files > in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. /bin/ed - mark Mark Newton

Re: Intel 82559 based NIC support: Where?

1999-09-05 Thread Steven E Lumos
Thanks! Mine reports (after patching): f...@pci0:13:0: class=0x02 card=0x10308086 chip=0x10308086 rev=0x08 hdr=0x00 I have no clue what is really the right way to do it, but here is the tiny patch I made anyway: *** if_fxpreg.h.origSat Sep 4 13:33:29 1999 --- if_fxpreg.h Sun Sep 5 14:

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > I'm actually going to look at doing this tommorow, but I have to admit > the sio driver isn't really going to like doing this. Has anyone > looked at this before and could possibly give any suggestions as to > how I should begin this? It looks really ugly. T

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: > I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is > in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files > in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. IIRC, because vi has a l

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Newton
Ben Rosengart wrote: > I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is > in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files > in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. /bin/ed - mark Mark Newton

placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Ben Rosengart
I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubsc

Re: Intel 82559 based NIC support: Where?

1999-09-05 Thread Steven E Lumos
Thanks! Mine reports (after patching): fxp0@pci0:13:0: class=0x02 card=0x10308086 chip=0x10308086 rev=0x08 hdr=0x00 I have no clue what is really the right way to do it, but here is the tiny patch I made anyway: *** if_fxpreg.h.origSat Sep 4 13:33:29 1999 --- if_fxpreg.h Sun Sep 5 14

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
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 to -stable or to > |3.3-RELEASE

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warren Welch
At 02:27 PM 9/5/99 -0500, Kevin Day wrote: I'm actually going to look at doing this tommorow, but I have to admit the sio driver isn't really going to like doing this. Has anyone looked at this before and could possibly give any suggestions as to how I should begin this? I might also point out,

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > I'm actually going to look at doing this tommorow, but I have to admit > the sio driver isn't really going to like doing this. Has anyone > looked at this before and could possibly give any suggestions as to > how I should begin this? It looks really ugly.

placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Ben Rosengart
I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubs

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
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 to -stable or to > |3.3-RELEAS

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warren Welch
At 02:27 PM 9/5/99 -0500, Kevin Day wrote: >I'm actually going to look at doing this tommorow, but I have to admit the >sio driver isn't really going to like doing this. Has anyone looked at this >before and could possibly give any suggestions as to how I should begin >this? I might also point ou

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-05 Thread jack
The different results people are having may be a result of the date of their FreeBSD. It Works Here[tm] OOTB (setup requires the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set) with the following -current of about Aug 22nd -stable of Aug 26th -stable of Sep 2nd -stable of Sep 4th It does not work here with -current of Jun

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Ugen Antsilevitch
Hey! Thanx a lot first of all! Anytime i CAN write something myself - i do. I can go as low as networking code or pseudodevice driver. But i am at loss when it comes to hardware (and within my scope of work etc. i doubt i will ever learn this stuff). Thats why i pleaded for help. I volonteer

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Eric J. Schwertfeger
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: > If i am right - this really has to be fixed and soon. There aren't many ISA > 56K modems out there that aren't winmodems. On my last search everything that > was 56K was divided about 80% winmodems and 20% PCI modems (with UART). I think if you inve

VFS stuff agein, VOP_FSYNC and async lock notification.

1999-09-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I've been doing quite a bit of reasearch on NFS lately and some issues have come up: async locks, fsync, and a certain person returning from vacation. 1) async locks To avoid polling on locks by the userland rpc.lockd I'd like to be able to queue a lock on a file. This can also help database

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-05 Thread jack
The different results people are having may be a result of the date of their FreeBSD. It Works Here[tm] OOTB (setup requires the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set) with the following -current of about Aug 22nd -stable of Aug 26th -stable of Sep 2nd -stable of Sep 4th It does not work here with -current of Ju

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Kevin Day
> > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > > > > Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the > > > recent traffic in freebsd-questions. > > > It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - > > > apparently > > > our beloved system does not support PCI

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
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 to -stable or to |3.3-RELEASE. Ok, I might try that. From Brian's message, it soun

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the > > recent traffic in freebsd-questions. > > It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - > > apparently > > our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: > Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the > recent traffic in freebsd-questions. > It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently > our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong her

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Kevin Day
> > Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the > recent traffic in freebsd-questions. > It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently > our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here - > kick me and ignore the rest of the me

PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Ugen Antsilevitch
Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here - kick me and ignore the rest of the message. If i

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 => panic

1999-09-05 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... > Rene de Vries wrote... > > Hi, > > > > Today I bought a Umax 1220S scanner and tried to connect this to my FreeBSD > > Stable (3.3RC) system. I added a NCR810 specially for the scanner (I don't > > want such a device on the same bus as my root disk which is on an ai

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Ugen Antsilevitch
Hey! Thanx a lot first of all! Anytime i CAN write something myself - i do. I can go as low as networking code or pseudodevice driver. But i am at loss when it comes to hardware (and within my scope of work etc. i doubt i will ever learn this stuff). Thats why i pleaded for help. I volontee

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Eric J. Schwertfeger
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: > If i am right - this really has to be fixed and soon. There aren't many ISA > 56K modems out there that aren't winmodems. On my last search everything that > was 56K was divided about 80% winmodems and 20% PCI modems (with UART). I think if you inv

VFS stuff agein, VOP_FSYNC and async lock notification.

1999-09-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I've been doing quite a bit of reasearch on NFS lately and some issues have come up: async locks, fsync, and a certain person returning from vacation. 1) async locks To avoid polling on locks by the userland rpc.lockd I'd like to be able to queue a lock on a file. This can also help database

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Kevin Day
> > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > > > > Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the > > > recent traffic in freebsd-questions. > > > It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently > > > our beloved system does not support PCI modems

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
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 to -stable or to |3.3-RELEASE. Ok, I might try that. From Brian's message, it sou

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
> Brian F. Feldman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > | > |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. > > Great! Thanks. > > Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface > that was b

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the > > recent traffic in freebsd-questions. > > It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently > > our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wro

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: > Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the > recent traffic in freebsd-questions. > It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently > our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong he

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Kevin Day
> > Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the > recent traffic in freebsd-questions. > It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently > our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here - > kick me and ignore the rest of the m

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-05 Thread peter
> > > Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick > > > described by Andre Albsmeier on > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers > > > to the freshly installed lib/libosl516li.so

PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Ugen Antsilevitch
Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here - kick me and ignore the rest of the message. If i

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 => panic

1999-09-05 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... > Rene de Vries wrote... > > Hi, > > > > Today I bought a Umax 1220S scanner and tried to connect this to my FreeBSD > > Stable (3.3RC) system. I added a NCR810 specially for the scanner (I don't > > want such a device on the same bus as my root disk which is on an a

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-05 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 20:34:22 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > It was the adding a new user/group just for the sake of adding a new > user/group that bothered many of us. ;) I've learned to accept that argument on principle is inevitable. :-) Later, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord..

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
> Brian F. Feldman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > | > |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. > > Great! Thanks. > > Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface > that was

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-05 Thread peter
> > > Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick > > > described by Andre Albsmeier on > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers > > > to the freshly installed lib/libosl516li.s

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-05 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 20:34:22 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > It was the adding a new user/group just for the sake of adding a new > user/group that bothered many of us. ;) I've learned to accept that argument on principle is inevitable. :-) Later, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Well, from 3.9.16, I get |(==) NV(0): Write-combining range (0xcc00,0x100) :-) | |Nice to know that my work ...errr works. Great! Thanks for the good piece of work. |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEAS

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1999-09-05 Thread supercd
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Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Well, from 3.9.16, I get |(==) NV(0): Write-combining range (0xcc00,0x100):-) | |Nice to know that my work ...errr works. Great! Thanks for the good piece of work. |> Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEAS

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1999-09-05 Thread supercd
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Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Brian F. Feldman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > | > |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. > > Great! Thanks. > > Do you know what the status is on the

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Randall Hopper: |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? | |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. Great! Thanks. Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface that was being hammered out (t

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > > Randall > Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is\ gr...@freebsd.org

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 => panic

1999-09-05 Thread Rene de Vries
Ken, Unfortunately the AIC7890 has a 68pin HD connector for which I don't have a cable. As far as the scanner goes: I didn't expect it to have a decent SCSI implementation, this is the reason I used a separate NCR810 to connect it to my system. But I find it strange that the system panics on this

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Brian F. Feldman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > | > |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. > > Great! Thanks. > > Do you know what the status is on the

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Randall Hopper: |> Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? | |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. Great! Thanks. Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface that was being hammered out (

Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? > > Randall > Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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