Re: Intel 82559 based NIC support: Where?

1999-09-05 Thread Peter Wemm
Steven E Lumos wrote: According to some posts I've found with deja and by searching the mailing lists, these cards are now supported in the fxp driver. Since the string "82559" does not appear either in the CVS logs, nor the latest version of the driver available for CVS, I need somebody

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 = panic

1999-09-05 Thread Rene de Vries
Ken, Unfortunately the AIC7890 has a 68pin HD connector for which I don't have a cable. As far as the scanner goes: I didn't expect it to have a decent SCSI implementation, this is the reason I used a separate NCR810 to connect it to my system. But I find it strange that the system panics on

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? Randall Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Randall Hopper: | Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? | |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. Great! Thanks. Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface that was being hammered out

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: Brian F. Feldman: |Randall Hopper: | Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? | |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. Great! Thanks. Do you know what the status is on the

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Well, from 3.9.16, I get |(==) NV(0): Write-combining range (0xcc00,0x100):-) | |Nice to know that my work ...errr works. Great! Thanks for the good piece of work. | Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-05 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 20:34:22 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: It was the adding a new user/group just for the sake of adding a new user/group that bothered many of us. ;) I've learned to accept that argument on principle is inevitable. :-) Later, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-05 Thread peter
Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick described by Andre Albsmeier on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers to the freshly installed lib/libosl516li.so mv

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
Brian F. Feldman: |Randall Hopper: | Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? | |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. Great! Thanks. Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface that was being

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 = panic

1999-09-05 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... Rene de Vries wrote... Hi, Today I bought a Umax 1220S scanner and tried to connect this to my FreeBSD Stable (3.3RC) system. I added a NCR810 specially for the scanner (I don't want such a device on the same bus as my root disk which is on an aic7890).

PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Ugen Antsilevitch
Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here - kick me and ignore the rest of the message. If

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Kevin Day
Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here - kick me and ignore the rest of the

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here -

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Mike Smith: | Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE | |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the |-stable branch, but you might be better off moving to -stable or to |3.3-RELEASE. Ok, I might try that. From Brian's message, it

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Kevin Day
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am

VFS stuff agein, VOP_FSYNC and async lock notification.

1999-09-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I've been doing quite a bit of reasearch on NFS lately and some issues have come up: async locks, fsync, and a certain person returning from vacation. 1) async locks To avoid polling on locks by the userland rpc.lockd I'd like to be able to queue a lock on a file. This can also help

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Eric J. Schwertfeger
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: If i am right - this really has to be fixed and soon. There aren't many ISA 56K modems out there that aren't winmodems. On my last search everything that was 56K was divided about 80% winmodems and 20% PCI modems (with UART). I think if you

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warren Welch
At 02:27 PM 9/5/99 -0500, Kevin Day wrote: I'm actually going to look at doing this tommorow, but I have to admit the sio driver isn't really going to like doing this. Has anyone looked at this before and could possibly give any suggestions as to how I should begin this? I might also point out,

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: Mike Smith: | Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE | |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the |-stable branch, but you might be better off moving to -stable or to |3.3-RELEASE.

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: I'm actually going to look at doing this tommorow, but I have to admit the sio driver isn't really going to like doing this. Has anyone looked at this before and could possibly give any suggestions as to how I should begin this? It looks really ugly. The

Re: Intel 82559 based NIC support: Where?

1999-09-05 Thread Steven E Lumos
Thanks! Mine reports (after patching): fxp0@pci0:13:0: class=0x02 card=0x10308086 chip=0x10308086 rev=0x08 hdr=0x00 I have no clue what is really the right way to do it, but here is the tiny patch I made anyway: *** if_fxpreg.h.origSat Sep 4 13:33:29 1999 --- if_fxpreg.h Sun Sep 5

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Newton
Ben Rosengart wrote: I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. /bin/ed - mark Mark Newton

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. IIRC, because vi has a lot

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Day writes: : No, I'm working on adding support for PCI based non-winmodems. Modems that : still have a 16550 based uart interface to them, but just happen to sit on : the PCI bus. I'm not at all planning on writing support for winmodems, just : making sio.c

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warren Welch writes: : I'd really like to see the sio driver code being able to support PCI : devices... Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen cardbus PCI modems

/etc sh script cleanup ready for testing

1999-09-05 Thread Doug
The long-awaited moment (well, by me anyway) has arrived. Except for the files in /etc/periodic I have finished the cleanup of the /bin/sh scripts in /etc. I've followed the style guidelines requested by the majority of -hackers, so I hope that I've made everyone as happy as possible

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1999-09-05 Thread Nassar Carnegie
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Re: Sun StarOffice51

1999-09-05 Thread Wes Peters
Kherry Zamore wrote: I installed Sun StarOffice 5.1 on my 4.0-CURRENT machine without any modifications at all.. Downloaded, set the ld library path, installed and started staroffice. I didn't modify _any_ files at all and it runs without a problem as root. I haven't tried playing

Intel 82559 based NIC support: Where?

1999-09-05 Thread Steven E Lumos
According to some posts I've found with deja and by searching the mailing lists, these cards are now supported in the fxp driver. Since the string 82559 does not appear either in the CVS logs, nor the latest version of the driver available for CVS, I need somebody to tell me which version of the

Re: Intel 82559 based NIC support: Where?

1999-09-05 Thread Peter Wemm
Steven E Lumos wrote: According to some posts I've found with deja and by searching the mailing lists, these cards are now supported in the fxp driver. Since the string 82559 does not appear either in the CVS logs, nor the latest version of the driver available for CVS, I need somebody to

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 = panic

1999-09-05 Thread Rene de Vries
Ken, Unfortunately the AIC7890 has a 68pin HD connector for which I don't have a cable. As far as the scanner goes: I didn't expect it to have a decent SCSI implementation, this is the reason I used a separate NCR810 to connect it to my system. But I find it strange that the system panics on this

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? Randall Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / Any sufficiently advanced bug is\ gr...@freebsd.org

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Randall Hopper: | Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? | |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. Great! Thanks. Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface that was being hammered out

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: Brian F. Feldman: |Randall Hopper: | Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? | |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. Great! Thanks. Do you know what the status is on the

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Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Brian F. Feldman: |Well, from 3.9.16, I get |(==) NV(0): Write-combining range (0xcc00,0x100) :-) | |Nice to know that my work ...errr works. Great! Thanks for the good piece of work. | Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-05 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 20:34:22 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: It was the adding a new user/group just for the sake of adding a new user/group that bothered many of us. ;) I've learned to accept that argument on principle is inevitable. :-) Later, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-05 Thread peter
Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick described by Andre Albsmeier on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers to the freshly installed lib/libosl516li.so mv

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
Brian F. Feldman: |Randall Hopper: | Does FreeBSD support Write Combining on K6 processors? | |Do you mean the MTRR support for K6-2 and above? Yes, that's in 3.3 and 4.0. Great! Thanks. Do you know what the status is on the XFree86-FreeBSD MTRR interface that was being

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 = panic

1999-09-05 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... Rene de Vries wrote... Hi, Today I bought a Umax 1220S scanner and tried to connect this to my FreeBSD Stable (3.3RC) system. I added a NCR810 specially for the scanner (I don't want such a device on the same bus as my root disk which is on an aic7890).

PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Ugen Antsilevitch
Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here - kick me and ignore the rest of the message. If i

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Kevin Day
Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here - kick me and ignore the rest of the

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here -

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am wrong here

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Randall Hopper
Mike Smith: | Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE | |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the |-stable branch, but you might be better off moving to -stable or to |3.3-RELEASE. Ok, I might try that. From Brian's message, it

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Kevin Day
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: Well.. i just looked through some archives and also on the recent traffic in freebsd-questions. It seems there are great many people that have same problem i do - apparently our beloved system does not support PCI modems? Now if i am

VFS stuff agein, VOP_FSYNC and async lock notification.

1999-09-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I've been doing quite a bit of reasearch on NFS lately and some issues have come up: async locks, fsync, and a certain person returning from vacation. 1) async locks To avoid polling on locks by the userland rpc.lockd I'd like to be able to queue a lock on a file. This can also help database

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Eric J. Schwertfeger
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: If i am right - this really has to be fixed and soon. There aren't many ISA 56K modems out there that aren't winmodems. On my last search everything that was 56K was divided about 80% winmodems and 20% PCI modems (with UART). I think if you

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Ugen Antsilevitch
Hey! Thanx a lot first of all! Anytime i CAN write something myself - i do. I can go as low as networking code or pseudodevice driver. But i am at loss when it comes to hardware (and within my scope of work etc. i doubt i will ever learn this stuff). Thats why i pleaded for help. I

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-05 Thread jack
The different results people are having may be a result of the date of their FreeBSD. It Works Here[tm] OOTB (setup requires the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set) with the following -current of about Aug 22nd -stable of Aug 26th -stable of Sep 2nd -stable of Sep 4th It does not work here with -current of

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warren Welch
At 02:27 PM 9/5/99 -0500, Kevin Day wrote: I'm actually going to look at doing this tommorow, but I have to admit the sio driver isn't really going to like doing this. Has anyone looked at this before and could possibly give any suggestions as to how I should begin this? I might also point

Re: K6 Write Combining FreeBSD

1999-09-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: Mike Smith: | Also, I wonder if you've seen/heard of an MTRR patch for 3.2-RELEASE | |You could try to backport the two sets of commits I just made to the |-stable branch, but you might be better off moving to -stable or to |3.3-RELEASE.

placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Ben Rosengart
I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Kevin Day wrote: I'm actually going to look at doing this tommorow, but I have to admit the sio driver isn't really going to like doing this. Has anyone looked at this before and could possibly give any suggestions as to how I should begin this? It looks really ugly. The

Re: Intel 82559 based NIC support: Where?

1999-09-05 Thread Steven E Lumos
Thanks! Mine reports (after patching): f...@pci0:13:0: class=0x02 card=0x10308086 chip=0x10308086 rev=0x08 hdr=0x00 I have no clue what is really the right way to do it, but here is the tiny patch I made anyway: *** if_fxpreg.h.origSat Sep 4 13:33:29 1999 --- if_fxpreg.h Sun Sep 5

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Newton
Ben Rosengart wrote: I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. /bin/ed - mark Mark Newton

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. IIRC, because vi has a lot

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message 199909051942.oaa42...@celery.dragondata.com Kevin Day writes: : No, I'm working on adding support for PCI based non-winmodems. Modems that : still have a 16550 based uart interface to them, but just happen to sit on : the PCI bus. I'm not at all planning on writing support for

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message 4.2.0.58.19990906100437.04bf3...@arthur.intraceptives.com.au Warren Welch writes: : I'd really like to see the sio driver code being able to support PCI : devices... Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say

mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-05 Thread Bosko Milekic
This post is somewhat in relation to the local DoS thread started on --security a few days ago. To slightly put things back into context: The panic() signaling out of mbuf clusters is a result of the initial MGET failing, calling m_retry, and failing again. Since we seem to be

FreeBSD install questions

1999-09-05 Thread Robert Kuan
Hi, I have a few questions on FreeBSD installation; I hope you would help me to answer them. 1. How to change the labels and modify the FreeBSD Booteasy. I.e., From: F1 ?? F2 DOS F3 DOS F4 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 toF1 WinNT 4.0 F2

Re: mbuf shortage situations

1999-09-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: The only reason that I see for which we would actually panic() in :this situation (as opposed to suffer the packet loss) is if we get to the :point where we're losing packets because some script kid starts up :something that will eat up sockbuf space and continuously fork, then we :would

Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread KATO Takenori
Once securelevel has been increased, no process can decrease it because kernel always refuse decreasing it. This is inconsistent with the manual page of init: The kernel runs with four different levels of security. Any super-user process can raise the security level, but only init can

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 09:00:00PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message 4.2.0.58.19990906100437.04bf3...@arthur.intraceptives.com.au Warren Welch writes: Might be a good time have a sys/dev/sio and have pccard, cardbus, pci and isa attachments there. Yes, I did say cardbus, since I have seen

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread Bruce Evans
Once securelevel has been increased, no process can decrease it because kernel always refuse decreasing it. This is inconsistent with the manual page of init: The kernel runs with four different levels of security. Any super-user process can raise the security level, but only init can

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 = panic

1999-09-05 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Rene de Vries wrote... It sounds like there may be a couple of things going on. First, your scanner may not be returning sense information properly. Second, the NCR driver may be doing something wrong. It would be helpful if you could hook this up to your 7890 controller and see

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
[[ questions trimmed ]] In message 19990906151211.a21...@gurney.reilly.home Andrew Reilly writes: : And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a : laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected : only by USB... : :

Re: FBSD3.3RC + UMAX astra 1220S + NCR810 = panic

1999-09-05 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Wilko Bulte wrote... As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... It sounds like there may be a couple of things going on. First, your scanner may not be returning sense information properly. Second, the NCR driver may be doing something wrong. It would be helpful if you could hook this up to

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread KATO Takenori
Bruce Evans b...@zeta.org.au wrote: There used to be security holes that allowed root to lower `securelevel' using init. Rev.1.9 defends against any undiscovered holes. How about following change? -- *** init.8.ORIG Mon Sep 6 14:20:46 1999 --- init.8 Mon Sep 6 14:23:01 1999

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-05 Thread Bruce Evans
There used to be security holes that allowed root to lower `securelevel' using init. Rev.1.9 defends against any undiscovered holes. How about following change? OK. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: : http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99093.piusb.htm : : Hmm. What sort of level of nesting do we support for this sort : of thing? It's probably possible to buy USB interface cards : that plug into ISA, PCI, SCSI? And vice-versa?

Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
USB doesn't present a 16550A interface to the host, so I don't think that sio would have a USB attachment. So there's going to be manufacturer-specific terminal/serial port drivers to talk to the serial ports on USB-attached laptop docking stations, like the Annex ethernet terminal server

Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

1999-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message 9909061532290g.69...@gurney.reilly.home Andrew Reilly writes: : So there's going to be manufacturer-specific terminal/serial port drivers : to talk to the serial ports on USB-attached laptop docking stations, like : the Annex ethernet terminal server things? I guess in the Windows

Problems with FIFO open in non-blocking mode?

1999-09-05 Thread Alex Povolotsky
Hello! The following program #include stdio.h #include fcntl.h main() { int control; if ((control = open(STATUS,O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK))0) { perror(Could not open STATUS ); exit(1); } printf(STATUS ready\n); close(control);