Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-26 Thread Kris Kirby
need to look at tweaking the kernel? In other words, can the ed(4) driver work with ethernet cards running at speeds other than 10 MHz? I know there are drivers for the WaveLan card, but I'm looking at going even slower (256Kb!). -- Kris Kirby --- TGIFr

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Kris Kirby
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: > > I know there are drivers for the WaveLan card, but I'm looking at going > > even slower (256Kb!). > Why do you wnat to do this? If for bandwidht limiting you need look no > further than 

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Kris Kirby
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: > > It's not a bandwidth issue; it's a speed issue. I'm trying to find an > > extremely cheap way to get data in and out of a PC. > > How about an I2C bus? > > (Or is that -too- slow?

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Kris Kirby
card, even if it is 10Base-2 (BNC). The idea is to eliminate other hardware in order to drop cost and complication. -- Kris Kirby --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Kris Kirby
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > > It's not a bandwidth issue; it's a speed issue. I'm trying to find an > > extremely cheap way to get data in and out of a PC. I've got the > > National Semiconductor application sheet

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-28 Thread Kris Kirby
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > > > RS232? RS485? VERY cheap and the later is at least moderatly resistant to > > > noise > > Noise shouldn't be an issue. It's going to be handling "clean" data. By > > ch

Re: Cheap link (was: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?)

1999-08-28 Thread Kris Kirby
FHSS equipment is rather complicated and requires come pretty accurate (TXCO?) signal sources. There are going to be problems. If I can't use a ethernet card, I've got a MCU in mind to do the job. -- Kris Kirby --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-28 Thread Kris Kirby
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > > I'm going to be building at least three of these units, assuming I get > > the technical issues out of the way. So I'm looking at a cheap (hardware > > and software) way of getting data

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Kris Kirby
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: > > Both. The problem is that you can't cram a signal moving at 10 Mbps > > through a radio interface designed for 256K, even if it is bandwidth > > limited to 256K. I'm hoping the 3C503 is anc

Re: Its about that time of year again. (FreeBSD & MCA)

1999-08-30 Thread Kris Kirby
stash of MCA stuff and came up with the following cards: A Token ring card (IBM), a NICps/2 Model PC3000 (82586 powered, 10Base-5 only), and a Etherlink/MC. Where is this kernel at? :-) Somebody got a URL? -- Kris Kirby --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Un

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Kris Kirby
noledge this but far > too often you see in some Linux list/newsgroup some dick sizing^W^Wbogomips > comparisons. Of course, that's what RC5DES is for. -- Kris Kirby --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Kris Kirby
FWIW, I made it to 997K, with just wdc0, fdc0, sio(4), ppp(4), and MSDOS support. I just wish I had PCMCIA slots so I could BOOTP FreeBSD instead.) -- Kris Kirby --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Kris Kirby
n the system that _is_ > being powered up. They are looking for the power on button :-). Usually the space bar is used to turn the computer on from the keyboard. It's an option, usually set by jumper. Maybe the dolts want PCs to be more like Macs. (Oops, wait, Sun did that too,

MB86950 Support in the works?

1999-05-13 Thread Kris Kirby
I was wondering if any adventurous individual has looked into writing a driver for the MB86950 ethernet controller. I have quite a few cards that use this chip and would be more than willing to acid-test the driver. (Ever got 1MB/s over coax? :-)) -- Kris Kirby Home UAH CS WWW

Re: MB86950 Support in the works?

1999-05-17 Thread Kris Kirby
boxes (3.0-R and 2.2.8) with PCI NE2000's. -- Kris Kirby Home UAH CS WWW --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

X.25 drivers

1999-07-14 Thread Kris Kirby
#XNS over IP If they are not shipped, where am I to go to find them? -- Kris Kirby --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-03-10 Thread Kris Kirby
as from that E10K in the > corner... "if you do it quickly, nobody will notice" Maybe I need to install more 10K drives in my desktop machine; that should keep it from being able to fall over - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD

Re: Problems Building PicoBSD Bridge disk: crunch.mk not found

2001-04-07 Thread Kris Kirby
mall and > it does not have a noisy fan as most PCs. One gentleman has netbooted FreeBSD into the Apple AirPort. I haven't been able to find the dmesg he posted, but I'll keep looking. - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Kris Kirby
hink I smashed somewhere. I was once given a whole pile of 40 MB and 80 MB SCSI drives (3.5"). I broke a few but the novelty wore off. It's tiring work destroying hard drives. - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| -

Location of superblock?

2000-08-23 Thread Kris Kirby
alternates. I have already found them. (600MB of text from "fsck -b # -n" run by a shell script that incremented # every loop.) - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | --- "Fate,

Re: What's the best PCMCIA Ethernet card?

2000-09-13 Thread Kris Kirby
ng FreeBSD 2.2.5 on a 486/33 from a 386-16 luggable. That and FreeBSD doesn't seize to badly waiting for NFS. - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | --- "Fate, it seems, is

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-08 Thread Kris Kirby
ne tried that, or > > know if it is possible? > > Maybe it would be possible to kludge something together using PS/2 mouse > and keyboard for one and USB mouse and keyboard for the other. I don't > think there is anything available "out of the box" for this, tho

NFS Flags Oddity

2003-11-26 Thread Kris Kirby
FreeBSD (4.9-RC) doesn't appear to "export" schg flags over NFS. You've got to shell in locally to the machine to move the schg flags; ls -lao doesn't report them over NFS, but does list them locally. -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TGIFreeBSD IM: &#x

Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

2002-07-08 Thread Kris Kirby
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Does anyone have a detailed list of which SCSI drives do track writes > > rather than sector writes? > > All the broken ones. Could you be a little more specific? :-) -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff

X.25 drivers

1999-07-14 Thread Kris Kirby
#XNS over IP If they are not shipped, where am I to go to find them? -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-26 Thread Kris Kirby
need to look at tweaking the kernel? In other words, can the ed(4) driver work with ethernet cards running at speeds other than 10 MHz? I know there are drivers for the WaveLan card, but I'm looking at going even slower (256Kb!). -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL P

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Kris Kirby
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: > > I know there are drivers for the WaveLan card, but I'm looking at going > > even slower (256Kb!). > Why do you wnat to do this? If for bandwidht limiting you need look no > further than 

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Kris Kirby
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: > > It's not a bandwidth issue; it's a speed issue. I'm trying to find an > > extremely cheap way to get data in and out of a PC. > > How about an I2C bus? > > (Or is that -too- slow?

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Kris Kirby
card, even if it is 10Base-2 (BNC). The idea is to eliminate other hardware in order to drop cost and complication. -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Kris Kirby
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > > It's not a bandwidth issue; it's a speed issue. I'm trying to find an > > extremely cheap way to get data in and out of a PC. I've got the > > National Semiconductor application

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Kris Kirby
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > > > RS232? RS485? VERY cheap and the later is at least moderatly resistant to > > > noise > > Noise shouldn't be an issue. It's going to be handling "clean" data. By > > ch

Re: Cheap link (was: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?)

1999-08-28 Thread Kris Kirby
FHSS equipment is rather complicated and requires come pretty accurate (TXCO?) signal sources. There are going to be problems. If I can't use a ethernet card, I've got a MCU in mind to do the job. -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- T

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-28 Thread Kris Kirby
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > > I'm going to be building at least three of these units, assuming I get > > the technical issues out of the way. So I'm looking at a cheap (hardware > > and software) way of getting data

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Kris Kirby
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: > > Both. The problem is that you can't cram a signal moving at 10 Mbps > > through a radio interface designed for 256K, even if it is bandwidth > > limited to 256K. I'm hoping the 3C503 is anc

Re: Its about that time of year again. (FreeBSD & MCA)

1999-08-30 Thread Kris Kirby
stash of MCA stuff and came up with the following cards: A Token ring card (IBM), a NICps/2 Model PC3000 (82586 powered, 10Base-5 only), and a Etherlink/MC. Where is this kernel at? :-) Somebody got a URL? -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- TGIFreeBSD

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Kris Kirby
noledge this but far > too often you see in some Linux list/newsgroup some dick sizing^W^Wbogomips > comparisons. Of course, that's what RC5DES is for. -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe:

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Kris Kirby
FWIW, I made it to 997K, with just wdc0, fdc0, sio(4), ppp(4), and MSDOS support. I just wish I had PCMCIA slots so I could BOOTP FreeBSD instead.) -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Kris Kirby
n the system that _is_ > being powered up. They are looking for the power on button :-). Usually the space bar is used to turn the computer on from the keyboard. It's an option, usually set by jumper. Maybe the dolts want PCs to be more like Macs. (Oops, wait, Sun did that too, didn't they?)

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-20 Thread Kris Kirby
ndustry has > been pushing quite hard to increase that number... I'm sure they aren't the only ones. After all, Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea" is sold for $10 a pop, mostly just because high school teachers require it. 8-/ -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: Corrupt File System

1999-09-26 Thread Kris Kirby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to mount /dev/vn0 Produces a file /mnt (not a directory) I do believe you want the directory to exist before you attempt to mount to it. (mkdir /mnt) -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- TGIFreeBSD... 'N

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Kris Kirby
irst. Wait a minute, aren't YOU the "Product > Manager" for FreeBSD? Hah! Now YOU'RE trapped, too! > > Wes, you've walked away and forgot to logout again. I suspect Dogbert has been seen around your home/office lately. -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Huge Binaries..

1999-09-30 Thread Kris Kirby
t give me the choice. (4.08 land...) -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Fetch/wget/ftp: How to do a recursive ftp-get?

1999-10-04 Thread Kris Kirby
dir webserver.my.dom/htdocs/tree, but not any subdomains to > that. > > Leif wget -r -m --follow-ftp -T timeout_seconds -c "URL_HERE" I know as I do. -- Kris Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. T

Re: Upgrading a different way

1999-10-17 Thread Kris Kirby
booting sequence and it seems like new > boot blocks will have to be written to master boot record? For lack of any other response, I'd recommend backing the machine up and installing fresh. You can then change the relevant options. (This assuming you weren't running "heav

Using make to allow parallel operations?

1999-12-14 Thread Kris Kirby
x27;t go bother whoever built the makefiles in /usr/src ;-)] -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreBSD 3.3, power off and power button stuff

2000-01-24 Thread Kris Kirby
ecomes 5.0 (within the > next few months). My Abit BP6 has an option in BIOS (under power management) to "Power Button Override". IIRC, this is an ACPI function. Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|

Acceptable MBUF levels?

2000-01-26 Thread Kris Kirby
machine as a risk for running out of mbufs. Most of my machines have much lower mbuf usage (at the moment). I guess I am more interested in finding out what the acceptable load levels are and how to increase them, up to a non-ridiculous level. --- Kris Kirby .signature maimed To Unsubscribe: send

PCI IDE Controller (HPT-366) supported?

2000-02-09 Thread Kris Kirby
Is anyone actively working on a driver for the High Point Technologies PCI disk controller (HPT-366)? I have a machine I can test on, and would be willing to assist. I'm tired of telling people that my motherboard has four IDE ports, but I can't use more than two under FreeBSD :-).

Voice Over IP (VOIP) support?

2000-02-22 Thread Kris Kirby
Do we have anyone actively working on Voice Over IP (VOIP) programs or other interfaces for FreeBSD? I'm highly interested and would be willing to assist in anyway that I can. Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EM

Re: Finding percent idle

2000-02-28 Thread Kris Kirby
gt; I wrote a patch for fixing the SMP case and a KLD to get them via > sysctl. With slight modifications to the KLD, you can get those values > exported via sysctl. It would be interesting to see a SMP box with an attached LCD showing load per CPU. --- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIF

Misuse of options BRIDGE?

2000-04-14 Thread Kris Kirby
ecaite any input from the group Apoligize if I seem a little terse; it's late and I'm not all here - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| --- "God gave them the ab

Re: Misuse of options BRIDGE?

2000-04-15 Thread Kris Kirby
set on only one device. I've always wondered about that - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| --- "God gave them the ability to reproduce... ... Scie

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-04 Thread Kris Kirby
ed error, plotted over a few hours. - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| --- "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Who is a ham? (Was: Re: GPS heads up)

2000-05-04 Thread Kris Kirby
> Out of curiosity, how many people in this discussion are hams? > > --mike N8NVW > Not me. :-p - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| --- "Fate, it seems, is

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

2000-05-08 Thread Kris Kirby
I was standing right in front of it." Yes, to cook your noodle you'd need a couple hundred watts but still, it's energy. - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| --- &qu

Re: question abt top...

2000-06-15 Thread Kris Kirby
Joy wrote: > what does CPU0 in the STATE field of "top" mean. i am running a SMP > kernel. a process utilizes 99% of cpu and shows CPU0 in its STATE field. It states that the process in question is running on CPU0. If it were running on the second processor, it would say CPU1,

Re: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religiouswars! (fwd)

2000-06-17 Thread Kris Kirby
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Mike Nowlin wrote: > Maybe I'll have my graphics guy whip up a picture of Tux with horns and > holding a pitchfork > > (Actually, I think I've seen something like that before.) <http://www.satanic.org/cframe1.gif> or <http://www.sata

Re: pricerange for dinner.

2000-06-18 Thread Kris Kirby
under the impression that you were a computer consultant working for LEMIS and there for working for yourself ;-) - Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| --- "Fate, it