Bit order == byte order??

2011-03-03 Thread Frank Solensky
In sys/netinet/ip.h, the first octet of the ip header structure tests the byte ordering to determine the ordering of the header length (ip_hl) and version (ip_v) fields. My question: that always works? While my reading of the language specification document leaves both the ordering of the

Re: text wrapping console type size etc

2010-11-09 Thread Frank Solensky
While most commands will give full output, ps, by default, truncates output to the display window's width. Adding -ww to the options gives the entire line without truncation. On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:54 AM, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: Hi How can one control output to the

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Frank Solensky
Original message Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:40:26 -0400 From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org (on behalf of Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org) Subject: Re: BSD logo To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org On 7/23/10 10:01 PM, Victor Skovorodnikov vic...@mail.ru wrote: I have always been

Kernel crash before dumpon

2008-11-25 Thread Frank Solensky
I'm trying to get a dump off a machine with a 7.1-beta2 kernel that's been crashing during the boot process, following the instructions on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html#KERNELDEBUG-OBTAIN I've recompiled the kernel with -g but no vmcore file appears so

Re: Fatal Trap 19 on initial install

2008-04-05 Thread Frank Solensky
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:08 +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: Frank Solensky wrote: I'm attempting to add FreeBSD 7.0 onto a free disk partition on my Sony Vaio (VGN-FZ340E; Intel Core 2 Duo processor; 3 GB memory) and am running into a Fatal Trap 19 while running the installation disks

Fatal Trap 19 on initial install

2008-03-22 Thread Frank Solensky
I'm attempting to add FreeBSD 7.0 onto a free disk partition on my Sony Vaio (VGN-FZ340E; Intel Core 2 Duo processor; 3 GB memory) and am running into a Fatal Trap 19 while running the installation disks. Here's the last screenful of messages: NMI ISA b0, EISA FF RAM parity error, likely

Re: Fatal Trap 19 on initial install

2008-03-22 Thread Frank Solensky
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:08 +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: Frank Solensky wrote: .. I believe the RAM parity error is a red herring: I haven't had any problems running Linux or Vista on this machine and running Memtest86+ overnight didn't turn up any problems. http://updraft3