Re: Console serial speed

2003-07-29 Thread Terry Lambert
Russell Cattelan wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 07:12, Daniel Lang wrote: Bruce M Simpson wrote on Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:06:36AM +0100: On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:06:28PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote: How does one set the serial speed of the console. Does specifying

Re: vpo in ECP

2003-07-29 Thread Terry Lambert
Paulo Roberto wrote: Sorry hackers, I have posted this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but got no answer... I did set my mainboard BIOS to use ECP transfer mode (dma 3 irq 7). I edited my kernel to: device ppc0 at isa? flags 0x8 irq 7 (is there a way to declare the dma I want to use? config

Re: BCM4401 Support for FreeBSD

2003-07-29 Thread Terry Lambert
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 12:18, Aeefyu wrote: i.e. Broadcom 440x NIC support for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x (as found on latest Dell's Notebooks - mine is a 8500) Would anyone be so kind to enlighten me on the the current status? Last I heard of developments being made

Re: BCM4401 Support for FreeBSD

2003-07-29 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hello Terry, From: Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 12:18, Aeefyu wrote: i.e. Broadcom 440x NIC support for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x (as found on latest Dell's Notebooks - mine is a 8500) Would anyone be so kind to enlighten me on the the

file size different from ls to du

2003-07-29 Thread Bogdan TARU
Hi everyone, I have sort of a newbie question, but that I cannot explain myself. I get some large files in 'ls -al', but when I 'measure' them with 'du', the size is much small. Example: (17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] ls -alsh my_file 19120 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bgd 763M Jul 29 16:56 my_file

Re: file size different from ls to du

2003-07-29 Thread Drew Eckhardt
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] ls -alsh my_file 19120 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bgd 763M Jul 29 16:56 my_file (17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] du -sh my_file 19Mmy_file So the 'ls -alsh' shows a file in size of 763M, but 19M of sectors are really

Re: file size different from ls to du

2003-07-29 Thread Bogdan TARU
Hi Drew, I have tried to create some files of myself, with 'spaces' in them (holes?), but they don't act like this. So could you please explain what 'sparse' means, and the 'trick' to create them? Thanks, bogdan On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Drew Eckhardt wrote: In message [EMAIL

Re: file size different from ls to du

2003-07-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:27:14PM +0200, Bogdan TARU wrote: I have tried to create some files of myself, with 'spaces' in them (holes?), but they don't act like this. So could you please explain what 'sparse' means, and the 'trick' to create them? % cat sparse.c

Re: file size different from ls to du

2003-07-29 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:27:14PM +0200 or thereabouts, Bogdan TARU wrote: Hi Drew, I have tried to create some files of myself, with 'spaces' in them (holes?), but they don't act like this. So could you please explain what 'sparse' means, and the 'trick' to create them?

Re: file size different from ls to du

2003-07-29 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:27:14PM +0200, Bogdan TARU wrote: Hi Drew, I have tried to create some files of myself, with 'spaces' in them (holes?), but they don't act like this. So could you please explain what 'sparse' means, and the 'trick' to create them? Try using the

Re: file size different from ls to du

2003-07-29 Thread Harti Brandt
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: JOUsually programs will manage their own sparse files; it's something hard JOto do at the shell. When I need a file for TCP performance tests I usually do dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1k count=1 seek=9 harti -- harti brandt,

patch to add make -U

2003-07-29 Thread Faried Nawaz
While working around a port issue (ports/55013), I discovered that make couldn't unset variables using make -U. I've written a small patch that adds -U functionality, but I haven't tested it extensively. http://web.nilpotent.org/tmp/make.diff.bz2 (~ 3KB unpacked) against yesterday's -CURRENT

usb (ucom) driver code comments..?

2003-07-29 Thread JacobRhoden
Hey, I am trying to get a device working which uses ucom, and the ucom code has no comments whatsoever, I am able to work bits out, I was wondering if there was any sort of documentation whatsoever on this area? Thanks, Jacob http://rhoden.id.au/

sparse files from shell [Re: file size different from ls to du]

2003-07-29 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: [snip] JO Usually programs will manage their own sparse files; it's something hard JO to do at the shell. dd is your friend. These commands make sparse file of some ks physical and 1g logical: VNFILE=/tmp/sparsefile VNSZ=$((1024*1024)) dd if=/dev/zero

Re: sparse files from shell [Re: file size different from ls to du]

2003-07-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:14:25AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: [snip] JO Usually programs will manage their own sparse files; it's something hard JO to do at the shell. dd is your friend. See also truncate(1) Kris pgp0.pgp