Rink Springer wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds like you're overflowing the printer's buffer. When you say "it
worked fine" under RedHat, did you actually attempt to print a large job?
Yup, I did, and it worked nicely.
The queue entry
Terry Lambert wrote:
Back in July I was asking about the capability to set parameters (variables)
when loading my DSL driver module. There was a small flurry of activity
about some initial ideas on how to do it, but I never heard any more about
it. Did you (Mike, Warner, or anybody)
Terry,
First, thanks for the reply.
Back in July I was asking about the capability to set parameters (variables)
when loading my DSL driver module. There was a small flurry of activity
about some initial ideas on how to do it, but I never heard any more about
it. Did you (Mike,
Back in July I was asking about the capability to set parameters (variables)
when loading my DSL driver module. There was a small flurry of activity
about some initial ideas on how to do it, but I never heard any more about
it. Did you (Mike, Warner, or anybody) have time to work on it? Did
[ I'm sending this to the list just in case anyone searches the
email archives for an answer to a similar question. ]
I wrote:
Now since the MBR booter "knows" that you don't boot DOS/Windows
from an "extended" partition (type 5), it doesn't offer it as
a boot choice. Now I could
I have a notebook PC with Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD on it.
I installed the FreeBSD booter into the Master Boot Record (MBR).
Using that, I can boot Windows or FreeBSD. But Linux doesn't
show up as a boot choice, because I installed it into a "dos
extended" partition (slice), to keep linux
Peter Dufault wrote:
you can have a Linda-like pool of work requests to hand out to a swarm of worker
bees.
^^^
Could you please decode this for me? :)
Thanks,
Gary
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Devin Butterfield wrote:
Hi all,
In the process of learning device driver writing, I have written a
simple skeleton driver for an isa PnP card I have.
Although this driver works (successfully probes, attaches, and gets it's
needed io resources) when compiled into the kernel, if I
Archie Cobbs wrote:
Warner Losh writes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Gary T. Corcoran" writes:
: I was wondering if you (or anyone on this list) has had time
: to add module parameters to kldload? (and before anyone suggests
: it, sorry, but I am barely able to squeeze
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes:
: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Gary T. Corcoran" writes:
: : No, I know it's not that easy. We need to be able to do things
: : like have "TransmissionMode=4" on the kldload command line, and
Mike Smith wrote:
If you say "kldload foo", you load the file foo.ko. However, that file
may contain more than one module.
I didn't know that was possible (i.e. supported)...
The hints mechanism is what we are currently using to pass in the
information that used to be in the kernel
Warner Losh wrote:
Yes. You'd say
hint.dslmodem.-1.TransmissionMode=LLC
What's the "-1" in the above?
But writing this, I thin that normal enums would want a specialized
routine for doing this that would could pass a table to.
Yes, a table of strings and enums seems like a
Warner Losh wrote:
Something like the following?
Comments?
struct driver_param
{
const char *name;
int (*fnp)(const char *, void *, void *);
size_t off;
void *argp;
};
Perhaps instead of the "size_t off" above, which from the
code below tied us
Mike,
A couple of months ago we spoke about my needing the ability
to set module parameters during a kldload, and you indicated
that you would be working on them for FreeBSD 4.1.
I've since progressed my DSL driver to the point where it works
in all the modes I need (same as the Linux driver),
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
I'm sitting here in Seoul, Korea (which is very nice, by the way) and
I've just managed to delete all 82 images of Kyoto off the FAT-12 format
Smartcard they were on. Wh!
Way back in the Dark Ages I used to hack on FAT-12 code...
Going *way* back in the
Sergey Babkin wrote:
Steven Alexander wrote:
I've had problems getting Windows NT to boot using bootloaders from other
OSes. I'd suggest installing NT last and putting it on the first partition.
The partition number does not really matter, what really matters is
that Windows wants
Steve Hill wrote:
Well, I am getting ready to attempt a quad-boot system. I wish to boot
one of the following configurations:
First CONFIG:
- WinNT
- FreeBSD
- Linux
- NetBSD
Second CONFIG:
- WinNT
- FreeBSD
- Linux
- OpenBSD
The
Parthasarathy M. Aji wrote:
Hey All,
I know how to read and write to a text file in the user level , but I am
assigned the task of reading data from a file while writing a kernel
level C program. I don't know what functions to use, can any of you help
me. If you can point me to some web
Now that my device driver basically works (I can successfully do pings
and ftp transfers through it) using default settings, I'd like to
start polishing it up a bit...
This is a driver for a DSL device (Lucent WildWire), and our driver
has lots of options because there are many "flavors" of DSL
Warner,
Two options.
Once is that you can get hints, the other is that you can get
environment variables. The third is to have sysctls, but those can't
be set until after the driver has finished loading. Which one do you
want me to talk about?
I'm sorry, but I don't know what "hints"
Mike Smith wrote:
So, I want to know how I can "automagically" set the device options,
every time a user kldload's the device driver.
If you want to support this mode of operation, you really don't have a
lot of options right now.
Well, teaching kldload about module parameters would
Warner Losh wrote:
Original Message
Subject: PCI DMA Questions
I'm debugging a hunk of PCI hardware that I have under NDA. It
doesn't seem to be initiating DMA transfers. This may be a hardware
problem, but before I go back to the vendor, I want to make sure that
I'm
As I mentioned the other day, after installing FreeBSD 4.0-Release
I started getting random spontaneous reboots while in X (after running
FreeBSD 3.4-Release for 2 months without any problems). Now that I've
started debugging my driver, I enabled DDB, and now instead of
rebooting I'm crashing
Mike Smith wrote:
You're probably looking at code that thinks it can do "inb" and so forth;
Yep, more or less. That is, sprinkled throughout the code, there are things
of the form (just to give 1 example):
NdisRawReadPortUchar( (OneOfTheBaseAddresses + SomeOffset), variable);
sorry, we
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Gary T. Corcoran" writes:
: #define NdisRawReadPortUchar( _port, _ptr) *(_ptr) = inb((_port))
Yes. The bus_space_handle_t that rman_get_bushandle returns on the
i386 is the portnumber in I/O space. However, you'll need a sep
I installed FreeBSD 4.0 and I'm trying to write the attach() routine
for my device driver, to be compiled as a loadable module. In 4.0
the attach routine only gets passed a dev pointer, not a PCI configuration
pointer. My PCI device has up to 6 I/O ranges, and I need to get the
base addresses
Since I received exactly ZERO responses to my plea for help in making
my network device driver a loadable module, I'm now trying to compile
my driver into the kernel.
First, I made up a makefile and got my driver compiling cleanly
standalone in my directory. So the code is known good with
Mike Smith wrote:
Go back to the module if this is for 4.x;
I originally asked about making a network driver module for 3.4.
I was hoping for either a "here's how you do it" or at least an "it's
not possible with 3.4" response...
Now this is a common codebase for this driver, which
I'd like to know how to make the network device driver I'm
working on a loadable module. It's for a PCI device. I was
unable to find any examples of PCI network modules under /sys/pci.
The examples under /usr/share/examples/kld are not very helpful
either for a PCI network device.
It appears I
Darrell,
I'm trying to initialize a network device, and I'm trying to download
code *into* my device from some binary system files. There is no "user
space" or user process, for that matter, to deal with at this point. I
just want to (at this step) open a file(s) directly from my
Can someone please tell me how I can read a file from a device driver
in FreeBSD? I need to download 2 or 3 relatively-large code files to
my device, choosing from amongst several different files depending on
which mode I'm operating in. Therefore compiling-in the code is not
a reasonable
Alfred,
Can someone please tell me how I can read a file from a device driver
in FreeBSD? I need to download 2 or 3 relatively-large code files to
my device, choosing from amongst several different files depending on
which mode I'm operating in. Therefore compiling-in the code is not
"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Gary T. Corcoran wrote:
I'm trying to initialize a network device, and I'm trying to download
code *into* my device from some binary system files. There is no
"user space" or user process, for that matter, to deal wit
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