Re: Access to keyboard without video.
In FreeBSD version 3.1 or later, the keyboard controller atkbdc(4) and AT keyboard driver atkbd(4) will give you access to the keyboard even when there is no video card. Thanks, I read the source and found the CDEV stuff... I had to disable the sc0 device to get access to it. and then I had to hack kbdcontrol to open /dev/kbd0 instead of stdin (which is what it currently does) Shouldn't you be able to specify the kbd you want to control with kbdcontrol? Maybe default to stdin.. but allow access to the keyboard device as specified? Jay - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - UNIX: because reboots are for hardware upgrades Jay Kuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Access to keyboard without video.
In FreeBSD version 3.1 or later, the keyboard controller atkbdc(4) and AT keyboard driver atkbd(4) will give you access to the keyboard even when there is no video card. Thanks, I read the source and found the CDEV stuff... I had to disable the sc0 device to get access to it. and then I had to hack kbdcontrol to open /dev/kbd0 instead of stdin (which is what it currently does) Shouldn't you be able to specify the kbd you want to control with kbdcontrol? Maybe default to stdin.. but allow access to the keyboard device as specified? Jay - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - UNIX: because reboots are for hardware upgrades Jay Kuri j...@oneway.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Access to keyboard without video.
Hello, I am working on an embedded server, and have run into some difficulty. I need to access the keyboard (to read keys) on a machine that has no video. (no video card, that is) I wrote a program that works fine when run from the shell prompt (working with stdin)... but this is probably going to have to be a daemon of some sort, and I can't figure out how to access the keyboard directly. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Access to keyboard without video.
Hello, I am working on an embedded server, and have run into some difficulty. I need to access the keyboard (to read keys) on a machine that has no video. (no video card, that is) I wrote a program that works fine when run from the shell prompt (working with stdin)... but this is probably going to have to be a daemon of some sort, and I can't figure out how to access the keyboard directly. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
10/100 highly reliable supported ethernet cards?
Hello, Recently, I've had some problems with the new 10/100 Management adapters from intel (they don't seem to work properly in my hardware) Can anyone recommend some good stable 10/100 PCI NIC? I've used the Dec-Ethernet chipset 2x44x but only on on-board ethernet... can anyone direct me to some PCI cards using this chipset? Thanks in advance, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: 10/100 highly reliable supported ethernet cards?
We have a bunch of the Linksys EtherFast cards around here. They use the PNIC, which is a follow-on to (or clone of) the 21140 series, and Bill Paul's driver seems to perform quite well. Thanks, I'll look into that. The EtherExpress Pro is probably the most respected card around these days. Perhaps working with DG to identify and solve your problems might be the best tack? That's a good Idea. Right now I'm talking with Intel. Apparantly this is a problem that is occurring on other OS's, and probably has little to do with the freebsd driver. They have asked me to loan them some machines that are having this problem so that they can investigate it. I will probably do so in the next few days. Perhaps they can either find out what is wrong with the cards and fix it for future revisions, or tell us what we need to do to get around the problem in software. *crossing fingers* Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
10/100 highly reliable supported ethernet cards?
Hello, Recently, I've had some problems with the new 10/100 Management adapters from intel (they don't seem to work properly in my hardware) Can anyone recommend some good stable 10/100 PCI NIC? I've used the Dec-Ethernet chipset 2x44x but only on on-board ethernet... can anyone direct me to some PCI cards using this chipset? Thanks in advance, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: 10/100 highly reliable supported ethernet cards?
We have a bunch of the Linksys EtherFast cards around here. They use the PNIC, which is a follow-on to (or clone of) the 21140 series, and Bill Paul's driver seems to perform quite well. Thanks, I'll look into that. The EtherExpress Pro is probably the most respected card around these days. Perhaps working with DG to identify and solve your problems might be the best tack? That's a good Idea. Right now I'm talking with Intel. Apparantly this is a problem that is occurring on other OS's, and probably has little to do with the freebsd driver. They have asked me to loan them some machines that are having this problem so that they can investigate it. I will probably do so in the next few days. Perhaps they can either find out what is wrong with the cards and fix it for future revisions, or tell us what we need to do to get around the problem in software. *crossing fingers* Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards
However, we have at least one industrial-type system (with a different board/config) that works fine with these cards, though we didn't do the install with one. I'll try that tomorrow and report my findings. Though the cards seem to work post-install, they fail in the install program. I can transfer files to my hearts content using the ftp program... but if I go into the installer and try to transfer a distribution , it fails, locking in the same way. I'm talking with Intel to see if they have had similar problems. I read something in the source about the reciever has locked after garbage in the syncronization bits... could it be a similar problem with the new chip, perhaps exposed by certain types of equipment? Any suggestions as to what I should look into? It sounds like a motherboard chipset problem. It's a standard intel chipset... I'm getting a replacement BIOS to see if that makes a difference. Thanks, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards
program... but if I go into the installer and try to transfer a distribution , it fails, locking in the same way. I'm talking with Intel to see if they have had similar problems. I read something in the source about the reciever has locked after garbage in the syncronization bits... could it be a similar problem with the new chip, perhaps exposed by certain types of equipment? What's the cable plugged into? We have tried: ATI switch (centrecom 3124tr) 10bT 3com SuperStack II (10/100) SMC TigerSwitch 10bT Same results on all of them. We've also tried setting media type to 10baseT/UTP in the 'ifconfig options' in sysinstall... no difference. Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards
However, we have at least one industrial-type system (with a different board/config) that works fine with these cards, though we didn't do the install with one. I'll try that tomorrow and report my findings. Though the cards seem to work post-install, they fail in the install program. I can transfer files to my hearts content using the ftp program... but if I go into the installer and try to transfer a distribution , it fails, locking in the same way. I'm talking with Intel to see if they have had similar problems. I read something in the source about the reciever has locked after garbage in the syncronization bits... could it be a similar problem with the new chip, perhaps exposed by certain types of equipment? Any suggestions as to what I should look into? It sounds like a motherboard chipset problem. It's a standard intel chipset... I'm getting a replacement BIOS to see if that makes a difference. Thanks, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards
program... but if I go into the installer and try to transfer a distribution , it fails, locking in the same way. I'm talking with Intel to see if they have had similar problems. I read something in the source about the reciever has locked after garbage in the syncronization bits... could it be a similar problem with the new chip, perhaps exposed by certain types of equipment? What's the cable plugged into? We have tried: ATI switch (centrecom 3124tr) 10bT 3com SuperStack II (10/100) SMC TigerSwitch 10bT Same results on all of them. We've also tried setting media type to 10baseT/UTP in the 'ifconfig options' in sysinstall... no difference. Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards
Good Afternoon, I have been using the Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B cards for some time. I just recieved a batch of the Intel Pro/100+ management adapters. In most of my machines, they don't work. Everything I can find says they should be compatible, but there are very clearly some problems. Doing FTP installs is impossible, on 3.2, if I can get it to start at all, it gets 60% through bin and hangs. 2.2.8 gets 30% through and hangs. Large data transfers seem to cause the lockup. I know at least 1 netbsd person has reported similar problems with these new cards, (kern/7216). Has anyone seen problems like these? Any ideas? Thanks, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards
Good Afternoon, I have been using the Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B cards for some time. I just recieved a batch of the Intel Pro/100+ management adapters. In most of my machines, they don't work. Everything I can find says they should be compatible, but there are very clearly some problems. Doing FTP installs is impossible, on 3.2, if I can get it to start at all, it gets 60% through bin and hangs. 2.2.8 gets 30% through and hangs. Large data transfers seem to cause the lockup. I know at least 1 netbsd person has reported similar problems with these new cards, (kern/7216). Has anyone seen problems like these? Any ideas? Thanks, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards
Large data transfers seem to cause the lockup. I know at least 1 netbsd person has reported similar problems with these new cards, (kern/7216). Has anyone seen problems like these? Any ideas? Hmmm...I've been using them in some machines here and haven't seen any problems. Strange. Do all of your systems have similar motherboards and CPU? The only thing that I can identify as a common factor, is that the PCI slots are on a riser card. One type is an NLX-form factor motherboard. The other is an industrial system with a Single Board Computer (SBC) and a passive backplain. Aside from the riser card, these machines are completely different. (IDE vs. SCSI, no other PCI devices, SCSI pci device, pentium vs pentium-II... onboard video/ethernet(in addition to the intel cards) vs nothing onboard...) However, we have at least one industrial-type system (with a different board/config) that works fine with these cards, though we didn't do the install with one. I'll try that tomorrow and report my findings. I doubt this is the case, but is the fxp driver different on the install floppy than on the post-install kernel / kernel-source? Any suggestions as to what I should look into? Thanks, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
