Re: FreeBSD Status Reports due August 5th, 2008

2008-07-29 Thread Arne Schwabe
Brad Davis schrieb: Hi Everyone, It is that time again. We would like to remind everybody who has exciting news to share to write a report about their project. This is a good way to improve exposure of your work, receive feedback and help. Looking forward to your reports. As always you can

Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

2007-10-12 Thread Arne Schwabe
Kris Kennaway schrieb: Vladimir Terziev wrote: Hi Hackers, i have found the following very interesting link: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Use_memory_on_video_card_as_swap It's a howto for Video memory utilization as a swap. Could someone point me whether the same is

Re: vlan taggging on etherchannel

2007-08-21 Thread Arne Schwabe
Tom Judge schrieb: Mohacsi Janos wrote: Dear All, What is the recommended way to configure vlan interfaces on etherchannel bonded interfaces in a failure mode. I found, that etherchannel is supported by ng_fec(4) (but not exactly what I want) and also found that there two? way of

Re: SoC / PMC

2007-05-30 Thread Arne Schwabe
Mathieu Prevot schrieb: 2007/5/25, Joseph Koshy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you intend to run FreeBSD under Parallels? If so you may need to check if Parallels emulates PMC hardware correctly. The other emulators do not. You may need a regular i386 or amd64 PC to run FreeBSD on 'bare metal'. I

Re: GPT boot loader?

2007-05-22 Thread Arne Schwabe
Ivan Voras schrieb: Hi! I've had the opportunity to talk to Adam Martin, Marcel Moolenaar and Peter Wemm about making GPT bootable, but not all of them at the same time, so I'd like this thread to be the meeting point on the subject. (Adam and Peter have offered to modify the boot loader

Re: My wish list for 6.1

2005-12-27 Thread Arne Schwabe
Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:57:58AM +1030 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: Perhaps a BIOS option. I've never encountered a system with USB keyboard that did not work in the loader. The emulation or whatever it was was set in the

Re: Smart Hubs

2005-09-09 Thread Arne Schwabe
I came in kinda late to this thread, but if you're trying to find a hub/switch in order to sniff network traffic, then you can always go for a switch that let's you monitor traffic on other ports. I know the Cisco's will let you do this, but I'd be suprised if you couldn't find it on some other

Vertikal and Horizontal Scroll of (mighty) mice

2005-08-25 Thread Arne Schwabe
Hi, I just got myself myself a shiny white Mighty Mouse from Apple. I now have the Problem that Wheel if the scrolling to left and right. I fixed this by teaching ums.c to prefer WHEEL over Z but it would be nice to support both wheel and z axis scrolling. I checked the mouse(4) but the

Re: Bootstrapping install from GRUB

2005-07-15 Thread Arne Schwabe
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: FreeBSD loader doesn't load a kernel from ext2, fat16/32, or network so it's not usable in this case. you can load the kernel from network via tftp at least with pxe loader loads the kernel via tftp. Arne ___

Re: differences between bsd ifconfig and linux ifconfig...

2005-02-01 Thread Arne Schwabe
Julio Capote wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew architecturally and fundamentally why bsd's ifconfig can display active state information regarding the physical medium and why linux ifconfig cant? Not to start any trolling on which is superior, just curious about the difference. Well Linux'

Re: RX4640

2004-11-10 Thread Arne Schwabe
Omar Punzalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Hackers, I have successfully installed my new (and shiny) freebsd5.3 on one of our hp rx4640 itanium2 system. With the SMP kernel, it has detected the 4 CPUs correctly. But then reviewing the /var/log/messages, its sees only 1G of ram: Nov

Re: Hardware Serial Numbers under FreeBSD

2004-11-05 Thread Arne Schwabe
Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all, I'm trying to create an inventory script for systems that will be loaded via net-boot. I was wondering if there was any useful way to obtain the serial number of devices like the hard drives, processor, and/or motherboard. (as

Re: Driver for Thinkpad Hotkeys.

2004-08-08 Thread Arne Schwabe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Wireless LAN indicator Will be take more time. IIrc correct the WLAN indicator is wired to the minipci for Thinkpads, at least the linux madwifi (which is basically our ath driver but our ath has not been updated for some very long time) has support for the IBM

Re: Setting Standby Mode for ATA Disks

2004-06-26 Thread Arne Schwabe
Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:51:06 +0200 Arne Schwabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there a way to set the standby mode for ATA Disks [ ... ] I googled but I did not found anything like this for FreeBSD :/ I think sysutils/ataide For today