Re: What do people think of maybe using the sourceforge software?

2000-05-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Second, the projects page we have now, with all due respect to the people that try to keep it reasonably organised, is a mess due to the lack of updates. people only maintain their project pages perhaps, but certainly not the links that lead to them. Being able to work with more people on

RE: smb printer trouble

2000-05-17 Thread Koster, K.J.
Perhaps there are some invisible spaces after some of the backslashes? Kees Jan == You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life -Original Message- From: Charlie Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: dinsdag

Re: newbus documentation

2000-05-17 Thread Alexander Langer
To follow up myself, I got the first important comments from Matthew N. Dodd, which I will merge this evening. Alex -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

new comer...

2000-05-17 Thread G.B.Naidu
Hi, I am G.B. Naidu, a unix maniac. What is the discussion that's going on currently on this list? I have some simple question. Many of you might have written some hooks into the kernel. I wonder what are these hooks and how to write them? Can somebody help me to understand this. thanks

Re: SSE support for FreeBSD

2000-05-17 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Issei Suzuki writes: I add SSE support for FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE and 5.0-CURRENT. Some more work is needed everything to go well, but it works functionally now. The patches and documents are avaiable at: http://home.jp.freebsd.org/~issei/sse/sse.html Limitations: -

bpf question

2000-05-17 Thread Dmitry Samersoff
I have traffic metering program using bpf, it works fine on relatevly free net but looses about 30% of packets on havy loaded one. Could any body suggest me something? Thank you! -- Dmitry Samersoff, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ:3161705 http://devnull.wplus.net * There will come soft rains ...

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:56 PM -0400 5/11/00, Ted Buswell wrote: I don't like the proposed idea (shell script mod of smb.conf) either, however I was under the impression with your lpr mod you would also bludgeon the user with 4*5*200 printer shares. I had thought that with your lpr mod, you still need to somehow

Question about file write????

2000-05-17 Thread Joy Ganguly
hi all, i have written a special ioctl which writes data into a file from a buffer in kernel memory. it invokes fo-fo_write() and involves one copy from kernel mem to disk cache. however this takes substantially more time than an ordinary write which copies from user space to the disk cache.

ATM adapter

2000-05-17 Thread Daniel Hilevich
Hi, I'm looking to purchase an ATM adapter for my FreeBSD box. The two adapters specified in the "Integrating ATM networking into BSD" document (Adaptec ANA-59x0 efficient ENI-155) are no longer available. My needs are simple: -PCI/ISA ATM adapter. -Compatibility with the en0 driver (or

Re: ATM adapter

2000-05-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Get the Fore PCA200 and use the "HARP" ATM code which is far more functional than the "Chuck ATM" code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: ATM adapter

2000-05-17 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Daniel Hilevich wrote: Hi, I'm looking to purchase an ATM adapter for my FreeBSD box. The two adapters specified in the "Integrating ATM networking into BSD" document (Adaptec ANA-59x0 efficient ENI-155) are no longer available. My needs are simple: -PCI/ISA ATM

Re: Question about file write????

2000-05-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joy Ganguly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000517 09:41] wrote: hi all, i have written a special ioctl which writes data into a file from a buffer in kernel memory. it invokes fo-fo_write() and involves one copy from kernel mem to disk cache. however this takes substantially more time than an

Re: Question about file write????

2000-05-17 Thread Joy Ganguly
Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Joy Ganguly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000517 09:41] wrote: hi all, i have written a special ioctl which writes data into a file from a buffer in kernel memory. it invokes fo-fo_write() and involves one copy from kernel mem to disk cache. however this takes

How to make system Sync

2000-05-17 Thread FTG staff
I had a couple of system out of sync problems. (1) PCI sync problem: ATM adapter updates a buffer return pointer and generates intr, but when driver pulls out the information that updated by adapter, some memory in the last piece of the pool is garbage. e.g. head

Laptop support for the mss pcm driver.

2000-05-17 Thread Ira L Cooper
For those using the mss pcm driver on laptops, this a patch to fix the skipping and volume changes that happen after resuming from hiberation or suspension. Note that your laptop will not resume playing music until you close and re-open the sound device using these patches. The

netgraph support for channelized LMC 1504 PCI card?

2000-05-17 Thread Len Conrad
There was some talk about this back in March or so, leaving me rembering someone said that it wouldn't be too hard or long to do it. Has there been any progress? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Question about file write????

2000-05-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joy Ganguly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000517 11:19] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Joy Ganguly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000517 09:41] wrote: hi all, i have written a special ioctl which writes data into a file from a buffer in kernel memory. it invokes fo-fo_write() and involves one

Re: How to make system Sync

2000-05-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jin Guojun [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000517 12:34] wrote: I had a couple of system out of sync problems. (1) PCI sync problem: ATM adapter updates a buffer return pointer and generates intr, but when driver pulls out the information that updated by adapter, some memory in the

Re: netgraph support for channelized LMC 1504 PCI card?

2000-05-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Len Conrad wri tes: There was some talk about this back in March or so, leaving me rembering someone said that it wouldn't be too hard or long to do it. Has there been any progress? I have still not received my hardware :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: newbus documentation

2000-05-17 Thread Alexander Langer
Second revision is online at http://big.endian.de/misc/newbus-intro.txt The led-driver is still in the tar.gz I posted yesterday, but this tar.gz still has version 1. Please, guys. READ IT! COMMENTS! Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in

kernel 'nproc' and 'proc' symbols in FreeBSD 3.x

2000-05-17 Thread Vadim Belman
Which symbols might be used instead of 'nproc' and 'proc' (which is FreeBSD 4.0 specific, as far as I understand) with FreeBSD 3.x kernels? I have a local port of ucd-snmp 4.1.1 with host resources module included which works fine but complains about this symbols on all 3.x boxes. --

Re: bpf question

2000-05-17 Thread Wes Peters
Dmitry Samersoff wrote: I have traffic metering program using bpf, it works fine on relatevly free net but looses about 30% of packets on havy loaded one. Could any body suggest me something? A much faster processor? What kind of CPU/memory/network interface are you using? --

Re: Question about file write????

2000-05-17 Thread Joy Ganguly
Alfred Perlstein wrote: bcopy should be using the hand optimized code, I think you may have to explain more of what you're doing if anyone is going to be able to help. well this is what i am doing: i have a device buffer in contiguous physical memory. i want to write that buffer into a file

Re: How to make system Sync

2000-05-17 Thread FTG staff
Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated: I had a couple of system out of sync problems. (1) PCI sync problem: ATM adapter updates a buffer return pointer and generates intr, but when driver pulls out the information that updated by adapter, some memory in the

Re: Question about file write????

2000-05-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:i have a device buffer in contiguous physical memory. i want to write :that buffer into :a file disk. for that ive written a simple ioctl which works similar to :the syscall :write. except that it transfers from kernel space instead of user :space. my user :program calls this ioctl with the

Cisco Port Grouping w/FreeBSD

2000-05-17 Thread Yann Ramin
Hi, I have a question for the networking gurus out there. How exactly would you configure a FreeBSD machine connected to a Cisco switch with port grouping on two Ethernet channels? Also, for future reference, the funny network delays on the switched network were solved. It turns out if you

Re: smb printer trouble

2000-05-17 Thread James Halstead
I know it is happening because of the ``read firstline'' command. It is using the standard shell way of continuing a line using the '\' char and applying that to the input. That explains why only the first line is effected. Actually, if there is a way that I can read only the first two chars

boot/kernel debugging

2000-05-17 Thread J McKitrick
I've used softice for debugging under windows, and i was wondering if gdb offers similar capabilities. It seems the best way to debug the ECP parallel port problem is to step through the code during the boot phase. Can this be done, or is there too much timing-critical stuff going on then? jm

modules and newbus

2000-05-17 Thread Adam
I got the impression that newbus would make it easier to make kernel modules out of things. What in general does it take to make something into a kld? I'm thinking of pcm for example. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the

Re: leaking sockets (closure)

2000-05-17 Thread Bosko Milekic
Hi Mike, On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Silbersack wrote: Heh, that's sorta neat, I guess. It'll be interesting to find out if the leak is due to the mbuf waiting in some way, or a totally unrelated bug we're tickling. I'd almost guess the latter. I finally peeked at the tcp_timer

Re: modules and newbus

2000-05-17 Thread Andrew Reiter
Just as a quite spot note... Im near completion on my KLD programming tutorial... Just got to push out a section or two more and then wait for a review and it will be ready for relaease. This will/should help many with their general questions regarding how to write KLDs and hopefully willhelp

Musings on ip checksumming

2000-05-17 Thread Dave Preece
I'm trying to write a simple static NAT, and have got a bit stuck with the new checksum in the IP header thing with me is that I'm not happy about something till I understand it (and it appears that the IP stack is well behaved and won't send something unless the IP checksum is right either).