Re: Spark 5.

2002-09-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:17:24AM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote: For FreeBSD you'd want an Ultra 1 at least - 13w3.com has a 170MHz model Nope. We don't support the U1 -- neither the Ethernet controller or the SCSI controller. So you can't boot from any device. An Ultra 1e (Enterprise) is

using tar --exclude in FreeBSD..

2002-09-30 Thread Andrew Nelson
Hi, I'm having trouble using tar with simple exclusion rules.. I'd like to be able to run something like this: tar cfvzp etc-backup.tgz /etc/ but exclude all *.gz files. I can only the --exclude syntax of tar if I leave off the -vzp options. Why doesn't the following work? tar cfvzp

Re: using tar --exclude in FreeBSD..

2002-09-30 Thread
Hello Andrew, Monday, September 30, 2002, 4:14:42 PM, you wrote: AN Hi, AN I'm having trouble using tar with simple exclusion AN rules.. I'd like to be able to run something like this: AN tar cfvzp etc-backup.tgz /etc/ AN but exclude all *.gz files. I can only the --exclude syntax AN of tar

Re: using tar --exclude in FreeBSD..

2002-09-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:14:42PM +1000, Andrew Nelson wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble using tar with simple exclusion rules.. I'd like to be able to run something like this: tar cfvzp etc-backup.tgz /etc/ but exclude all *.gz files. I can only the --exclude syntax of tar if I leave

Do u think I can trust memtest from ports?

2002-09-30 Thread Paolo Pisati
If I load the agp module and i run memtest, i got a lot of errors (and in the past i exprienced even system crash), while if i don't load agp module and i run memtest everything is ok: why the agp module gives me these memory problems? bye -- Paolo Italian FreeBSD User Group:

Re: Do u think I can trust memtest from ports?

2002-09-30 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:40:53PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: If I load the agp module and i run memtest, i got a lot of errors (and in the past i exprienced even system crash), while if i don't load agp module and i run memtest everything is ok: Could be any number of things, both vm- and

Re: Spark 5.

2002-09-30 Thread Mark Valentine
From: David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon 30 Sep, 2002 Subject: Re: Spark 5. On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:17:24AM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote: For FreeBSD you'd want an Ultra 1 at least - 13w3.com has a 170MHz model Nope. We don't support the U1 -- neither the Ethernet controller

Re: POSIX message queue

2002-09-30 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:21:40AM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 11:14:20PM -0400, Dmitriy Fitisov wrote: Hi, I cannot find implementation of POSIX message queues (mq_open, mq_xxx, ...). Even though there is a message header mqueue.h ld cannot find a library.

Re: Slow I/O responsiveness with UDMA133

2002-09-30 Thread Sean Farley
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:14, Mike Silbersack wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sean Farley wrote: I just do not understand how a 5400 RPM UDMA 33 drive can beat a 7200 RPM UDMA 133 drive by 33% on sequential output blocks. Rumor has it that newer drives cannot write a single sector at a time,

Re: two make questions

2002-09-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-28 17:20:56 -0400: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: yup. or the fact that /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz documents conditionals in the form #keyword instead of .keyword (that might work, i haven't tried, but shouldn't the

sis900 : sis0 attach returned 6

2002-09-30 Thread Guido Van Hoecke
[originally sent to freebsd-questions] Trying to install FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 on a new ECS iBuddy4 desknote with sis900 fast ethernet card. The sis900 is never attached. When I look at dmesg output, I see

proper printf fmt type for off_t?

2002-09-30 Thread Nate Lawson
What's the portable way of printing an off_t? It should work on Linux and FreeBSD. Linux seems to recommend casting the off_t to intmax_t which isn't present in FreeBSD. This is in usermode. Thanks, -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the

Re: proper printf fmt type for off_t?

2002-09-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:36:39PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: What's the portable way of printing an off_t? It should work on Linux and FreeBSD. Linux seems to recommend casting the off_t to intmax_t which isn't present in FreeBSD. This is in usermode. In current, intmax_t is defined in

Comments on new Linux threading implementation?

2002-09-30 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, I saw this post on the Linux kernel mailing list which describes a major re-write of the POSIX threads implementation on Linux: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0209.2/1075.html How does this stuff under Linux compare to the scheduler activation type work going on under

Making one's own wireless base station

2002-09-30 Thread Stephen Hocking
've bought a Linksys PCI wireless card, and am looking to make my own base station. Does anyone know (once I have the right drivers installed) what to do next? I assume that I can assign the network interface its own IP (it'll have a subnet all of its very own), run a dhcp server on it and

Re: Comments on new Linux threading implementation?

2002-09-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Craig Rodrigues wrote: Hi, I saw this post on the Linux kernel mailing list which describes a major re-write of the POSIX threads implementation on Linux: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0209.2/1075.html How does this stuff under Linux compare to

sis900 : sis0 attach returned 6

2002-09-30 Thread Guido Van Hoecke
I am trying to install 'FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386' on a new ECS iBuddy4 desknote with sis900 fast ethernet card. The sis900 is never attached. When I look at dmesg output, I see repeated blocks of output about the

Re: sis900 : sis0 attach returned 6

2002-09-30 Thread Matthew Emmerton
I am trying to install 'FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386' on a new ECS iBuddy4 desknote with sis900 fast ethernet card. The sis900 is never attached. When I look at dmesg output, I see repeated blocks of output about

Fixing PREFIX opacity in /usr/src/etc...

2002-09-30 Thread Mike Meyer
/usr/src/etc installs a number of things that have /usr/local hardwired into them. We don't generally allow ports to do this, so I don't see why /usr/src/etc gets away with it. Fixing it is straightforward, and not really time-consuming. I'm willing to fix /usr/src/etc (and subdirs) if there's no