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

1999-09-06 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 Annex ethernet

sysinstall nit

1999-09-06 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

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 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

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 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 in

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 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 : :

Problems with FIFO open in non-blocking mode?

1999-09-06 Thread Alex Povolotsky
Hello! The following program #include stdio.h #include fcntl.h main() { int control; if ((control = open("STATUS",O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK))0) { perror("Could not open STATUS "); exit(1); } printf("STATUS ready\n");

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 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

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

1999-09-06 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 provide

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

1999-09-06 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

1999-09-06 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 init

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 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 winmodems,

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 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 1999

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

1999-09-06 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 this up to

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

1999-09-06 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 and see

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 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 device

Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 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

Re: mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-06 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

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

1999-09-06 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_RDWR and

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: 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

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, 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

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

1999-09-06 Thread Nick Hibma
This is under 3.2-STABLE as of a few days ago. Any ideas here? Yes, use CURRENT :-) This is the ethernet device, which appears as port 4 of this hub. (1-3 are USB ports, port 4 is an ethernet port) That is the way it should be done. I have a PCI card here with a hub included to make 4

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

1999-09-06 Thread Kevin Day
This is under 3.2-STABLE as of a few days ago. Any ideas here? Yes, use CURRENT :-) Ok, I'll upgrade tommorow and try again. ConnectionStatus: DeviceConnected Current Config Value: 0x01 Device Bus Speed: Full Device Address: 0x06 Open Pipes: 3

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

1999-09-06 Thread Nick Hibma
I'll give that a try too. I do like having a USB keyboard, except for the fact that if the system is *very* busy, I tend to get some weird repetitions. I dunno if this'll happen under FreeBSD or not, but it's annoying. (example, I start up ScanDisk, and a CPU eating program at the

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

1999-09-06 Thread Mike Smith
I'll give that a try too. I do like having a USB keyboard, except for the fact that if the system is *very* busy, I tend to get some weird repetitions. I dunno if this'll happen under FreeBSD or not, but it's annoying. (example, I start up ScanDisk, and a CPU eating program at the same

Re: kern/13593: Problems with FIFO and select

1999-09-06 Thread Alex Povolotsky
"Bruce" == Bruce Evans writes: Description: Attempt to open FIFO file with O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK results in Device not configured error. Bruce This is because there is no reader when the FIFO is opened for Bruce writing (O_WRONLY opens of FIFOs normally block waiting for a Bruce reader, but

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
KATO Takenori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel runs with four different levels of security. ! Any super-user process can raise the security level, but no process can lower it. How about "The security level can only be raised by the super-user, and cannot be lowered by anyone."

Re: FreeBSD install questions

1999-09-06 Thread Jan Pechanec
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Robert Kuan wrote: 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

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-09-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "The Wrath of Satoshi" (free interpretation of "The Wrath of Khan") 8-) The question is, does "The Wrath of Satoshi" also have Kirstie Alley in the role of Lt. Saavik? And if it doesn't, what else does it have that makes it worth watching? Too bad she's a

Re: dumps before init?

1999-09-06 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 05:39:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: How does one enable dumps before init? Warner According to the dumpon(8) manpage: The dump device can also be specified at kernel compile time using the ``dumps on'' clause in the kernel configuration file (see config(8)). This

Re: dumps before init?

1999-09-06 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 05:39:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: How does one enable dumps before init? Warner According to the dumpon(8) manpage: The dump device can also be specified at kernel compile time using the ``dumps on'' clause in

Re: dumps before init?

1999-09-06 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 02:36:38PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 05:39:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: How does one enable dumps before init? Warner According to the dumpon(8) manpage: The dump device can

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

1999-09-06 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello! The following program #include stdio.h #include fcntl.h main() { int control; if ((control = open("STATUS",O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK))0) { perror("Could not open STATUS "); exit(1); }

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :KATO Takenori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : The kernel runs with four different levels of security. : ! Any super-user process can raise the security level, but no process : can lower it. : :How about "The security level can only be raised by the super-user, :and cannot be lowered by

2.2.8 - can't mount root

1999-09-06 Thread Darren Reed
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 ? Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 2.2.8 - can't mount root

1999-09-06 Thread Doug
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 still can't find it to stop and ask rather

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

1999-09-06 Thread Robert Watson
Both postmaster and mailer-daemon seem to have some amount of historical precedent. On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : If we do this, I hope a more obvious name is chosen; something like : "mailman" might be a start. Or "mailperson",

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: : The real problem is the 'isa_get_foo()' calls that are used. I've got a : small start of splitting out the ISA bits from the probe/attach routines : but I'm really not sure what the best way to

Re: FreeBSD install questions

1999-09-06 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Jan Pechanec: another one mentioned and shipped with FreeBSD, it enables custom strings (OS-BS ?). OS-BS 2.0b8, found in the tools directory on FTP/CD. Don't be fooled by the beta part, there never was any non-beta of 2.0. Works fine, including booting from other disks. --

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Greg Black
Matthew Dillon writes: 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

Re: /etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-06 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Doug wrote: ... can find the files at http://gorean.org/rcfiles/ looks good so far. I'm missing rc.serial in rcfiles. While you are at it, could you please change rc.serial to be consistent with the other rc* files? rc.serial should only implement the functions and import

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: 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

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:39:54AM -0700, a little birdie told me :that Matthew Dillon remarked : : 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

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Kevin Day
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

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

1999-09-06 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... Wilko Bulte wrote... As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... ... Even if we assume the scanner yelled for attention and/or the ncr driver is at fault I don't really understand why the cam layer decides to panic the machine. Wouldn't it be sufficient to return EIO,

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Ugen Antsilevitch
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

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-06 Thread Wilko Bulte
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

src/etc/rc.sysctl installation

1999-09-06 Thread Brian Somers
Is it time to install src/etc/rc.sysctl now ? I certainly think it's a good idea :-] -- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Awfulhak.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Andrew Reilly
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

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread tbuswell
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

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Chuck Robey
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

Re: src/etc/rc.sysctl installation

1999-09-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
: 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

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread KATO Takenori
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 running

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 that DDB

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Mike Smith
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)

Re: new kernel build, bad MSF image

1999-09-06 Thread Mike Smith
I have only recently begun to use FreeBSD but I consider myself competent with Linux and I have had FreeBSD installed on my PC for 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

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: Anyway, as soon as you can physically access the PC, youD loose anyway, independent of whether you can go into DDB to do things. You can reboot, boot a floppy. Yes you can do something about those things, but only to a limited extent. Not without

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 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

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 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 easier

sysinstall nit

1999-09-06 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

/etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-06 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.

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

1999-09-06 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 Annex ethernet

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

1999-09-06 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: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 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 device

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

1999-09-06 Thread Andrew Gierth
Alex == Alex Povolotsky tark...@asteroid.svib.ru 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_RDWR and

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

1999-09-06 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 two usb

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: 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

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, 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

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

1999-09-06 Thread Nick Hibma
This is under 3.2-STABLE as of a few days ago. Any ideas here? Yes, use CURRENT :-) This is the ethernet device, which appears as port 4 of this hub. (1-3 are USB ports, port 4 is an ethernet port) That is the way it should be done. I have a PCI card here with a hub included to make 4 out

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

1999-09-06 Thread Kevin Day
This is under 3.2-STABLE as of a few days ago. Any ideas here? Yes, use CURRENT :-) Ok, I'll upgrade tommorow and try again. ConnectionStatus: DeviceConnected Current Config Value: 0x01 Device Bus Speed: Full Device Address: 0x06 Open Pipes: 3

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

1999-09-06 Thread Nick Hibma
I'll give that a try too. I do like having a USB keyboard, except for the fact that if the system is *very* busy, I tend to get some weird repetitions. I dunno if this'll happen under FreeBSD or not, but it's annoying. (example, I start up ScanDisk, and a CPU eating program at the

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

1999-09-06 Thread Mike Smith
I'll give that a try too. I do like having a USB keyboard, except for the fact that if the system is *very* busy, I tend to get some weird repetitions. I dunno if this'll happen under FreeBSD or not, but it's annoying. (example, I start up ScanDisk, and a CPU eating program at the same

Re: kern/13593: Problems with FIFO and select

1999-09-06 Thread Alex Povolotsky
Bruce == Bruce Evans writes: Description: Attempt to open FIFO file with O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK results in Device not configured error. Bruce This is because there is no reader when the FIFO is opened for Bruce writing (O_WRONLY opens of FIFOs normally block waiting for a Bruce reader, but

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
KATO Takenori k...@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp writes: The kernel runs with four different levels of security. ! Any super-user process can raise the security level, but no process can lower it. How about The security level can only be raised by the super-user, and cannot be lowered by

Re: FreeBSD install questions

1999-09-06 Thread Jan Pechanec
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Robert Kuan wrote: 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

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-09-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Wilko Bulte wi...@yedi.iaf.nl writes: The Wrath of Satoshi (free interpretation of The Wrath of Khan) 8-) The question is, does The Wrath of Satoshi also have Kirstie Alley in the role of Lt. Saavik? And if it doesn't, what else does it have that makes it worth watching? Too bad she's a

Re: dumps before init?

1999-09-06 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 05:39:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: How does one enable dumps before init? Warner According to the dumpon(8) manpage: The dump device can also be specified at kernel compile time using the ``dumps on'' clause in the kernel configuration file (see config(8)). This is

Re: dumps before init?

1999-09-06 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 05:39:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: How does one enable dumps before init? Warner According to the dumpon(8) manpage: The dump device can also be specified at kernel compile time using the ``dumps on'' clause in

Re: dumps before init?

1999-09-06 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 02:36:38PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 05:39:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: How does one enable dumps before init? Warner According to the dumpon(8) manpage: The dump device can

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: 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. You'd be my (and a lot of other people's) hero. -- - bill fumerola -

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

1999-09-06 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello! The following program #include stdio.h #include fcntl.h main() { int control; if ((control = open(STATUS,O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK))0) { perror(Could not open STATUS ); exit(1); }

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :KATO Takenori k...@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp writes: : The kernel runs with four different levels of security. : ! Any super-user process can raise the security level, but no process : can lower it. : :How about The security level can only be raised by the super-user, :and cannot be lowered

2.2.8 - can't mount root

1999-09-06 Thread Darren Reed
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 ? Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: 2.2.8 - can't mount root

1999-09-06 Thread Doug
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 still can't find it to stop and ask rather

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

1999-09-06 Thread Robert Watson
Both postmaster and mailer-daemon seem to have some amount of historical precedent. On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message 199909012256.paa01...@dingo.cdrom.com Mike Smith writes: : If we do this, I hope a more obvious name is chosen; something like : mailman might be a start.

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:39:54AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Matthew Dillon remarked 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

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-06 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 16:23:00 -0600 Wes Peters w...@softweyr.com wrote: See, for instance, the al, ax, mx, pn, vr, and wb drivers. ;^) ^^ Especially this one.. it's not a Tulip clone :-) Oh? vr(4) disagrees:

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:39:54AM -0700, a little birdie told me :that Matthew Dillon remarked : : 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

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

1999-09-06 Thread Shaun Jurrens
At the risk of being flamed for my inexperience... I caught the thread here more or less because it was a conspicuous mess on my list (and thanks to the flamers with the name suggestions, even longer). I still think that something good could be done here that of course would cause a little work,

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message pine.bsf.4.10.9909052055080.14497-100...@sasami.jurai.net Matthew N. Dodd writes: : The real problem is the 'isa_get_foo()' calls that are used. I've got a : small start of splitting out the ISA bits from the probe/attach routines : but I'm

Re: FreeBSD install questions

1999-09-06 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Jan Pechanec: another one mentioned and shipped with FreeBSD, it enables custom strings (OS-BS ?). OS-BS 2.0b8, found in the tools directory on FTP/CD. Don't be fooled by the beta part, there never was any non-beta of 2.0. Works fine, including booting from other disks. --

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Greg Black
Matthew Dillon writes: 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

Re: /etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-06 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Doug wrote: ... can find the files at http://gorean.org/rcfiles/ looks good so far. I'm missing rc.serial in rcfiles. While you are at it, could you please change rc.serial to be consistent with the other rc* files? rc.serial should only implement the functions and import

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: 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

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Kevin Day
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

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

1999-09-06 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... Wilko Bulte wrote... As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... ... Even if we assume the scanner yelled for attention and/or the ncr driver is at fault I don't really understand why the cam layer decides to panic the machine. Wouldn't it be sufficient to return EIO,

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: I think you're panicking prematurely, Ugen. You're also checking the very bottom of the market, and you're exaggerating (in your comment about shelling out lot's of cash for a conventional modem) the cost of a regular modem. Things just aren't that

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Kevin Day
Well, he's partially true. We're looking at mass buying several thousand PCI modems. The cost for a non-winmodem model is about 3x the Winmodem style. (You can buy winmodems very cheap, since everyone is making them now. You can't buy non-winmodem's cheap because only a few are doing

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: This is pretty much untrue, because not all applications (industrial applications) for modems have a PC to talk to, so it's totally impossible for conventional modems to go away. I used to make my living tending large banks of modems, and not all

Re: /etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-06 Thread Doug
Michael Reifenberger wrote: Hi, On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Doug wrote: ... can find the files at http://gorean.org/rcfiles/ looks good so far. I'm missing rc.serial in rcfiles. Thanks for the reminder. I didn't make any changes to that file because there weren't any [/test lines in it,

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