Re: mmap cdev function in device drivers

2000-05-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
I just want to inform you before doing a huge amount of work on this that over a year ago, Stepehen Hocking started work on a 3dfx driver. His work seems to have disappeared from the planet, but you can try to contact him, and you'll probably get some old code to work with maybe :) -- Brian

RE: mmap cdev function in device drivers

2000-05-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 08-May-00 Coleman Kane wrote: the memory region mapped by the PCI BIOS (in this case the 0x100 region between 0xec00 and 0xecff), or an address of a mapped region within kernel memory area? I had it return the former and it crashed the machine, trying to use

Re: One NFS cookie question

2000-05-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have one question regarding the usage of NFS cookies. I read the :following passage in the mailing list archive: : : : :The BSD code simpy re-reads all of the directory blocks until it :hits the right offset again whenever it gets NFSERR_BAD_COOKIE. However, :suppose you have a

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-08 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olaf Hoyer) writes: Well, thats reality. Sometimes the mobile telco hotlines are so overloaded, you cannot even tell them that your phone was stolen. (Talk about service-but you get what you pay for) In germany, there is some list, where every cell phone can be entered

RE: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-08 Thread Koster, K.J.
BTW, you do realize that in many cases "off" for your cell phone doesn't really mean off, right? :) Well, those with the same old Nokia 9000 communicator that I have will know that after 20 hours of standby it's off off. And I mean really, battery gone, off, off. That ought'a tell Big

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-08 Thread Kris Kirby
BTW, you do realize that in many cases "off" for your cell phone doesn't really mean off, right? :) I have strong objections to small transcievers (what cell phones actually are) that operate close to my body and don't let me know when they are transmitting. When you're talking on it,

Re: controlled panic - kernel-module

2000-05-08 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 07 May 2000 16:17:39 +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: This needs to be compiled into the kernel, modules compile faster than new kernels :-P But, this could be documented as well. Only if someone sent in a patch. *nudge* While you're deciding which document to patch, you may

Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked

2000-05-08 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 05 May 2000 11:16:29 MST, Matthew Dillon wrote: There's not much point statically linking mt if it's sitting in /usr/bin. On the face of it it does seem a good candidate to move to /bin. Given that having things move around in the base system carries with it varying

Re: Is there a way to install FreeBSD without Probbing Devices

2000-05-08 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 07 May 2000 13:28:44 -0300, Gustavo Pamplona wrote: Sadly, I posted to FreeBSD-Questions, but nobody answered me. And I think Hackers is the best choice. (I think is necessary to hack the sysinstall program to do this) Judging from your message, I'd say that nobody who reads

Re: One NFS cookie question

2000-05-08 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: :I have one question regarding the usage of NFS cookies. I read the :following passage in the mailing list archive: : : : :The BSD code simpy re-reads all of the directory blocks until it :hits the right offset again whenever it gets

Connect to lpd on insecure port

2000-05-08 Thread Konrad Heuer
Today I did some testing concerning lpd and I was very astonished to see that lpd accepts jobs also from insecure ports (violating RFC 1179). It does not accept such jobs on 2.1.6-RELEASE (yes, I still have some old 386 system out there with 2.1.6) but it does on 3.x (and as far as I've seen

USB Support during Install

2000-05-08 Thread John Baldwin
Hey all, I have been working on adding USB support into our initial install as I've mentioned previously. Currently, the only hold-up is that USB keyboards can't be used in the kernel userconfig. Thus, our install currently requires an AT or PS/2 keyboard for x86 machines until the userconfig

Re: Connect to lpd on insecure port

2000-05-08 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Konrad Heuer wrote: Today I did some testing concerning lpd and I was very astonished to see that lpd accepts jobs also from insecure ports (violating RFC 1179). It does not accept such jobs on 2.1.6-RELEASE (yes, I still have some old 386 system out there with 2.1.6)

GPS SA/no-SA graph

2000-05-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
I've put up a temporary web page showing a before and after snapshot of the GPS readings taken on one of Emeryville's bus lines. http://www.backplane.com/nosa/ -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked

2000-05-08 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Fri, 05 May 2000 11:16:29 MST, Matthew Dillon wrote: There's not much point statically linking mt if it's sitting in /usr/bin. On the face of it it does seem a good candidate to move to /bin. Given that having things move

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Robey writes: : Curious about that, I haven't been following it too closely, but I know : cdma works on codes, not timing ... how do they get timing (other than bit : clock recovery)? cdma does work on timing. It effectively transmits all the data all the

nokia

2000-05-08 Thread george sinclair
my phone droped in water I cleaned it up and soldered a few things when I turned it on the greeting was two king rules then when I checked the programs the esn number was not there it read (00). please tell me what has happen and if I can program the esn back into the phone

Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked

2000-05-08 Thread Dan Moschuk
| There's not much point statically linking mt if it's sitting in | /usr/bin. On the face of it it does seem a good candidate to move | to /bin. | | Given that having things move around in the base system carries with it | varying degrees of pain, can you guys just explain

Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked

2000-05-08 Thread Matthew Jacob
Instead of going through pains of moving everything around, why not build a static mt on the rescue disk only? Umm, that's possible also. I tend to not believe that the rescue disk is useful since most of the machines *I* use don't have floppy drives. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-08 Thread Wes Peters
Olaf Hoyer wrote: At 12:40 06.05.00 -0600, you wrote: Plus, they can get a fix on the phone in 300ms (good to about 25m), which is far faster than a GPS unit can do it. Basically, the phone is 'locked on' as soon as you turn it on and it finds a cell tower. And, apparently

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-08 Thread Wes Peters
Nate Williams wrote: : With 12-channel chipsets becoming common, new devices are getting quite : good at this. Yes. Most of the data I have is for 6 channel models. 12-chanel chipsets are overkill if you don't live more or les exactly on the equator or one of the poles. I

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wes Peters writes: There were some famous cases where some criminals were located by tracking down their cell phone. Several cases have been nailed shut here in Denmark on that basis by now, people saying "I were not at home that evening, I was with some friend

Re: mmap cdev function in device drivers

2000-05-08 Thread Coleman Kane
Daniel O'Connor had the audacity to say: The return type is the errno for the mmap() call.. You need to inform the VM systems about it. The meat of your mmap call should be - return(i386_btop(vtophys(rman_get_virtual(sc-g_membase.reshandle)) + offset)); This is probably what I am

Getting an aligned IO port

2000-05-08 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hi How can get a 16byte aligned ISA IO port from the resource allocator? I need this to get if_xe working for Realport cards. This aspect of the driver is nothing to do with Warner's changes to PCCard. Thanks Duncan ---

Re: IPv6

2000-05-08 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: On Sat, 06 May 2000 13:15:00 -0400 James Housley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: jim Is there a IPv6 Mailing list for FreeBSD/*BSD specifically? How about [EMAIL PROTECTED]? It is for KAME, but FreeBSD's IPv6 code came from KAME. There is

mysql 3.22.32 and freebsd 4.0-stable

2000-05-08 Thread FengYue
Hello, anyone of you running mysql 3.22.32 on 4.0-stable? I'm getting a core dump on startup. I tried with the ports as well as the package from www.mysql.org. (4.0-stable as of May 7th) Here it's the backtrace, I've not got a chance to look into the source. I'm wondering if any of you have

newsyslog(8) hack

2000-05-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
I've hacked newsyslog(8) to accept a list of log files to process on the command line (very useful in combination with -F). See attached patches. I'll commit this in a few days if noone objects. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: newsyslog.8

Re: controlled panic - kernel-module

2000-05-08 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Sheldon Hearn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Only if someone sent in a patch. *nudge* It's on my TODO list now :-) Alex -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Boot panics

2000-05-08 Thread Jonathan Perkin
Hey guys, got a strange one for you :) Running 4.0-STABLE on a P2-450 Asus P2B-D 512Mb with Cheetah ST39102LW's connected via U2W Adaptec 7890 PCI. Connected up a single drive to ID-0 and installed 4-R, afterwhich cvsup'd to -stable (as of 18:00 GMT today). Had no problems, happily rebooted

panic reading routing socket

2000-05-08 Thread Archie Cobbs
The patch below adds some INVARIANTS consistency checks to socket receive operations. This was motivated by a recurring "receive 1" panic that happens every couple of weeks on a 3.4-RELEASE based system. When I use this patch I get an immediate panic as the system comes up, when routed tries to

RE: Getting an aligned IO port

2000-05-08 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 08-May-00 Duncan Barclay wrote: Hi How can get a 16byte aligned ISA IO port from the resource allocator? I need this to get if_xe working for Realport cards. It's okay I've worked it out and got RealPorts (well mine) working in -current again. Patches mailed to -mobile. Duncan ---

Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

2000-05-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 6 May 2000 at 18:15:15 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: At 07:38 AM 5/6/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 4 May 2000 at 17:00:35 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: At 11:40 AM 5/4/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: There's a separate issue about whether to build kernels with