5.4 kernel crashdump not consistently working

2006-12-01 Thread Cheng Jin
hi, i have run into this strange problem of kernel crashdump not working consistently under FreeBSd 5.4. we have bunch of development machines with identical physical configurations, and every one of them is setup to save the vmcore after a panic. The difference as far as i could tell is the

ipfw out xmit trouble

2005-09-10 Thread Cheng Jin
Hi, I have an ethernet bridging [xl0 fxp0] set up like the following outside world --- [xl0 fxp0] --- test machine xl0 and fxp0 are the two interfaces on the bridging machine. xl0 has an IP address (could this be the source of the problem?), but fxp0 doesnt. I would like to simulate a DSL

Re: ipfw out xmit trouble

2005-09-10 Thread Cheng Jin
Thanks, Leonidas. According to the FreeBSD Handbook, Chapter 26.5 you have to set the following sysctl variables in order to enable bridging support: net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1 net.link.ether.bridge.config=xl0,fxp0 net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1 The bridge.ko is loaded via

kernel module configuration

2005-05-14 Thread Cheng Jin
Hi, Is there a way to compile only kernel modules that one needs like with Linux's configuration file? I included only the drivers I need in the kernel config file, but all the modules got compiled anyway. :( I looked around both in the kernel config dir and google, but didn't find anything that

kernel config sio with flag 0x80

2004-01-06 Thread Cheng Jin
Hi, all I am having problems trying to config my 5.0-Release kernel for remote debugging. from the handbook below, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html it seems to be as simple as adding a line like device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1

SysKonnect GbE problem under 5.0-RC2

2002-12-22 Thread Cheng Jin
Hi, I just installed 5.0 RC-2 on my system and made a custom kernel. However, the two SysKonnect cards I have in the system are not visible under FreeBSD anymore. 4.6-STABLE had no problem recognizing them, but I see the following errors in my log: Dec 22 22:28:16 dm kernel: skc0: SysKonnect