6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Martin Nilsson
mailbox# uname -a FreeBSD mailbox 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep 22 00:31:29 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj-local/usr/src/sys/SMP amd64 I get tons of these: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP mailbox#

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Oliver Brandmueller
Hi, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:00:21AM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: I get tons of these: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP mailbox# pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x108c15d9 chip=0x108c8086 rev=0x03

Fwd: Loadable SMBus modules regression in 6-STABLE - 6-BETA

2006-09-27 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On 9/27/06, Dmitry Pryanishnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, John Baldwin wrote: I've just found it and fixed it if you upgrade to the newest smbus.c. Thanks, the problem has indeed been fixed. I'm sorry to hijack this thread, but what's the recommended way to read out

Re: NFS: freeze during copy

2006-09-27 Thread rvenne
Vivek Khera wrote: On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to mount nfs mounting point and to copie 16K of 7G data. and, it goes to freezing. I can't kill neither cp process neither mount unmount nfs (umount command goes freezing too). tcpdump tells me that

Re: Loadable SMBus modules regression in 6-STABLE - 6-BETA

2006-09-27 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On 9/27/06, Ulrich Spoerlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to hijack this thread, but what's the recommended way to read out temperature values via SMB? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:31:3: class=0x0c0500 card=0x618015d9 chip=0x24d38086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation'

Re: bug on BTX

2006-09-27 Thread Dominic Marks
John Baldwin wrote: Hmm, are you willing to test a change that should fix that? If so, try http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch You'll need to do a 'make clean make make install' in /sys/boot after applying, and if the make install suceeeds, do a 'bsdlabel -B ad0s1'

Re: NFS: freeze during copy

2006-09-27 Thread rvenne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to mount nfs mounting point and to copie 16K of 7G data. and, it goes to freezing. I can't kill neither cp process neither mount unmount nfs (umount command goes freezing too).

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Long
Oliver Brandmueller wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:00:21AM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: I get tons of these: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP mailbox# pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x108c15d9

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! Well, the best I can say at the moment is, Wow. =-( I guess the thing to do here is to figure out if the problem lies with the em interrupt handler not getting run, or the taskqueue not getting run. I helped Pyun with some debugging by providing ssh access to a machine showing the

USB keyboard LED lights cause audio to stutter

2006-09-27 Thread Dominic Marks
Hello, Has anyone else noticed this? Here is how to repeat it: 1. USB Keyboard 2. Sound card (CMedia 8738 in my case) 3. Recent -STABLE uname -v FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #10: Mon Sep 18 15:46:33 BST 2006 Now, play some music (I'm using XMMS) and press on any keyboard key which toggles an LED

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On 9/27/06, Martin Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mailbox# uname -a FreeBSD mailbox 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep 22 00:31:29 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj-local/usr/src/sys/SMP amd64 I get tons of these: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting em0: link state changed

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! On -stable occasionally other people complained about very similar looking problems with bge and other drivers. My guess is, though I'm not a kernel developer, just an experienced admin, that em stands out as problematic just by coincidence. Certain onboard network components tend to

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread glz
I have seen the watchdog and reset problem on a -STABLE laptop, both em and iwi. It only occur when I try to connect using Mulberry e-mail client so I thought it could be a problem with the linuxilator. The load on the box is normally low but both driver have shared interrupts, either with

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:24:15 +0200 glz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2: G I have seen the watchdog and reset problem on a -STABLE laptop, both em G and iwi. It only occur when I try to connect using Mulberry e-mail G client so I thought it could

snd_emu10k1 driver

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Blue
Hi, Is this driver known to be 100% working? I'm running stable 6.2 p6 right now and have this device driver installed (device sound and device snd_emu10k1 compiled into the kernel) for use with a Creative Live! card. Audio outputs work correctly, and the various players will produce audio

RE: snd_emu10k1 driver

2006-09-27 Thread Yuriy Tsibizov
For the recording software I've used Krec, ffmpeg, darkice and streamTranscoder (the latter two feeding an icecast server). 'mixer' has its recording device (=rec) set to line in, and I'm feeding audio to line in (analog) and spdif in (digital). There's no problem monitoring the 'line

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Philippe Pegon
Hi, it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes we see some watchdog timeout in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's not the same problem... : /var/log/messages:Sep 23 02:47:06 anubis kernel: bge1: watchdog timeout -- resetting /var/log/messages:Sep 23 02:47:06

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Me Too(tm). FreeBSD jacinta.home.cacheboy.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Sep 18 07:59:50 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Lots of this in dmesg: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes we see some watchdog timeout in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's not the same problem... : As far as I know the watchdog timeouts are _supposed_

Re: snd_emu10k1 driver

2006-09-27 Thread Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:55:04 -0700 Bill Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this driver known to be 100% working? For me, it works OK most of the time. Longer audio files (ogg/mp3) usually play without issues, and under rarely and not-understood circumstances some sort of slight audio distortion

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
s/is on the bus/is alone on the irq/. (And it shows up when I'm running polygraph and apachebench tests.) On 9/27/06, Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me Too(tm). FreeBSD jacinta.home.cacheboy.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE#0: Mon Sep 18 07:59:50 UTC 2006 [EMAIL

Re: snd_emu10k1 driver

2006-09-27 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 11:55, Bill Blue wrote: Hi, Is this driver known to be 100% working? I'm running stable 6.2 p6 right now and have this device driver installed (device sound and device snd_emu10k1 compiled into the kernel) for use with a Creative Live! card. Audio outputs

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:25:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes we see some watchdog timeout in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's not the same

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:06:09PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: Me Too(tm). Me three -- and the interesting part (in my case) is that em0 shares an IRQ with the ATA controller. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103435 Because people are reporting this on more than just the em driver

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:25 AM 9/27/2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes we see some watchdog timeout in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's not the same problem... : As

Once more oddity on -STABLE - Linux emulation is broken someway

2006-09-27 Thread Andrew Kolchoogin
Dear colleagues, Linux emulation on -STABLE from September, 25 works somewhat strange. Shortly: it dumps core. Explain: I want to bootstrap native Java Development Kit v1.4 using Linux JDK. Immediately after invoking 'java' executable with full path kernel diagnoses Segfault

6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64 boot kernel.gz failes

2006-09-27 Thread Danny Braniss
originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, While trying to figure out why boot/pxeboot failes on some kernels/hosts, I think i've come up with one solid nogo, if the kernel is gzipped it always fails. Can someone confirm this? or am i suffering from some local problem?

802.11 RSSI value displayed from ifconfig(8)

2006-09-27 Thread Eduardo Meyer
Hello, I would like to convert RSSI to dBm (in fact I would love if ifconfig cound display SNR in dBM), so I would like to know if this formula is any right: /* Calculate the RSSI Value */ V_RSSI = 3.0 * (RSSI_VAL/1024); RSSI_dBM = (int8_t) ((-50.0 * V_RSSI) - 45.5); And if there are any other

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:52:51AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:25:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes we see some

Re: 802.11 RSSI value displayed from ifconfig(8)

2006-09-27 Thread Pete French
Hello, I would like to convert RSSI to dBm (in fact I would love if ifconfig cound display SNR in dBM), so I would like to know if this formula is any right: Take a look here: http://www.wildpackets.com/elements/whitepapers/Converting_Signal_Strength.pdf Especially at the top of page 5. RSSI

Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease

2006-09-27 Thread Vivek Khera
On Sep 26, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Michael Vince wrote: Yeah for some reason I couldn't do that, I can't even remember all the reasons now but the main reason is because I have a USB keyboard, for some reason I can use the USB keyboard in the BIOS but as soon as the boot loader starts with the

Re: 802.11 RSSI value displayed from ifconfig(8)

2006-09-27 Thread Pete French
Is this paper's information accurate regarding atheros? I have no idea - I think you would be best off calibrating it yourself with a dBm metre if you can. The antenna will have an effect as well, as will cabling between it and the receiver chip - all the usual things to do with working with

File systems clean after crash?

2006-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, Yesterday a machine of mine crashed because of a bad power supply (not FreeBSD's fault); its running 6.2-PRERELEASE as of 2006-09-20. I've disabled background fsck in rc.conf. So, when rebooting I expected it to report all filesystems to be unclean and run fsck on them. Instead, three

Re: 802.11 RSSI value displayed from ifconfig(8)

2006-09-27 Thread Eduardo Meyer
How bad. But no big deal since I use mainly atheros and senao (prism) cards. Is this paper's information accurate regarding atheros? Say, RSSI = 23 is -72dbm? On 9/27/06, Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to convert RSSI to dBm (in fact I would love if ifconfig cound

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Oliver Brandmueller
Hi. On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:19:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: You'll still see impact -- that is, no packets flowing. The reason things are recoverable is solely because of the retry functionality for layer 2 packets... You are, of course, right. What I meant is: these

Re: 802.11 RSSI value displayed from ifconfig(8)

2006-09-27 Thread Eduardo Meyer
Yes, this is the point. I dont always have a spectrum analiser to measure my dBm signal nor similar hardware, so I would like to have this information for each associated host in my freebsd access point, even if it is not fully accurate, since no software that does this, in fact is. I need

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Oliver Brandmueller
Hi Scott, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:16:57AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Well, the best I can say at the moment is, Wow. =-( I guess the thing to do here is to figure out if the problem lies with the em interrupt handler not getting run, or the taskqueue not getting run. Since you've stated

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:56:22AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: If it up / downs the interface, it can be painful depending on your setup. In one of the colos I dont have control over, the switch port will block for 15 seconds for Spanning Tree when the interface transitions like that. Even

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:28:24PM +0200, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: Hi Scott, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:16:57AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Well, the best I can say at the moment is, Wow. =-( I guess the thing to do here is to figure out if the problem lies with the em interrupt

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:28:24PM +0200, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: Disk activity does not trigger the problem, I hammered the disk with around 85 MB/s (dd) for about half an hour without seeing any effect. A CPU bound thing like a buildworld triggered the problem. The SMBus Interface is

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Oliver Brandmueller
Hi, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:50:55AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: Disk activity does not trigger the problem, I hammered the disk with around 85 MB/s (dd) for about half an hour without seeing any effect. A CPU bound thing like a buildworld triggered the problem. I'm not sure that's a

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Oliver Brandmueller
Hi, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:55:53AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The SMBus Interface is not used at all (it's not even really usable). Anyway, as soon as I unload the ichsmb module I cannot triger the problem anymore. If I load it again, the problem cann again be triggered by a

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:59:04PM +0200, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: I don't think it has to especially with ichsmb here, but only with the fact, that ichsmb is for me exactly the thing that shares the interrupt with the em interface that shows the problems. I can confirm that making

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Long
Oliver Brandmueller wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:55:53AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The SMBus Interface is not used at all (it's not even really usable). Anyway, as soon as I unload the ichsmb module I cannot triger the problem anymore. If I load it again, the problem cann again

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Tomasz Pilat
Well, HTH - I don't have *any* problems with this configuration: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6: Wed Sep 20 18:52:56 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAILSMP CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2793.20-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf48 Stepping = 8

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:32:59PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:59:04PM +0200, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: I don't think it has to especially with ichsmb here, but only with the fact, that ichsmb is for me exactly the thing that shares the interrupt with the

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Javier Henderson
On Sep 27, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:56:22AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: If it up / downs the interface, it can be painful depending on your setup. In one of the colos I dont have control over, the switch port will block for 15 seconds for Spanning

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, Scott! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:32:49AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: 1. Revert the em driver to its 6.1 form, ask people to test if the problem persists. If it doesn't, leave it at that for now. For me the problem manifested itself some time between 6.0 and 6.1. I did the testing with Pyun

Re: NFS: freeze during copy

2006-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:11:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to mount nfs mounting point and to copie 16K of 7G data. and, it goes to freezing. I can't kill neither cp

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
As an optional data point you might wish to consider the Intel driver I am about to release, it has everything that 6.2 does EXCEPT the interrupt changes. I kept those out because I didn't want to break backward compatibility. If someone that has repro'd this problem wants to check this speak up

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:44:04PM -0400, Javier Henderson wrote: You could enable port fast and still have spanning tree in place. What many reasons do you and others have to shun STP? Rather than ramble off all the things I've experienced with STP, most of them are covered in this caveat

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:32 PM 9/27/2006, Scott Long wrote: My theory here is that something in the kernel, likely VM/VFS, is holding the Giant lock for an inordinate amount of time. During this time, an interrupt fires on the shared em/ichsmb interrupt. The em Hi Scott, Do you think this issue is

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:25:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes we see some watchdog timeout in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's not the

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:32:16AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:25:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes we see some

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2006-Sep-27 10:32:49 -0600, Scott Long wrote: My theory here is that something in the kernel, likely VM/VFS, is holding the Giant lock for an inordinate amount of time. In the past (RELENG_5) I've had major problems with syncer delaying interrupt threads for long periods (I've seen

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Long
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2006-Sep-27 10:32:49 -0600, Scott Long wrote: My theory here is that something in the kernel, likely VM/VFS, is holding the Giant lock for an inordinate amount of time. In the past (RELENG_5) I've had major problems with syncer delaying interrupt threads for long

ipnat: map 10.0.0.0/8 - 212.118.x.y/29: freebsd freeze

2006-09-27 Thread Eugene Kazarinov
Now I use map 10.0.0.0/8 - 212.118.z.w/32 and it works fine. ipnat -s now shows inuse 55633, maximus that i saw was about 8 How to resolve this problem? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: NFS: freeze during copy

2006-09-27 Thread Vivek Khera
On Sep 27, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: See a previous reply to Vivek where I explained what is needed to help debug this kind of problem. and my luck has it such that i've not had a lockup since i added that extra debugging code into the kernel :-) or :-( depending on your

Re: NFS: freeze during copy

2006-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:32:11PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: On Sep 27, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: See a previous reply to Vivek where I explained what is needed to help debug this kind of problem. and my luck has it such that i've not had a lockup since i added that

Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread mailinglists
Hello, I am having a very hard time getting an Intel se7230NH1-E motherboard with 6gb of memory to work. I keep getting two messages about Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up. I'm not sure what the BIOS is (it seems to be OEMed to Intel), but with the menu structure I'd have

Showstopper - 6.2-PRERELEASE does not see SATA DVD drives (fwd)

2006-09-27 Thread Frank
I am sending this again since it has been 4 days with no response. I consider this a showstopper since I could boot from CD but sysinstall could not see the DVD drives, thus no CD install. I had to mount the CD in another machine and do a NFS install. -- Frank -- Forwarded message

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread David G Lawrence
In the past (RELENG_5) I've had major problems with syncer delaying interrupt threads for long periods (I've seen 8msec). See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-February/012346.html I'm not sure if this is still a problem (but I am still having some problems which may be

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:58:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a very hard time getting an Intel se7230NH1-E motherboard with 6gb of memory to work. I keep getting two messages about Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up. I'm not sure what the BIOS is (it

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:58:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a very hard time getting an Intel se7230NH1-E motherboard with 6gb of memory to work. I keep getting two messages about Too many holes in the physical address

Re: Showstopper - 6.2-PRERELEASE does not see SATA DVD drives (fwd)

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Jakubik
Frank wrote: I am sending this again since it has been 4 days with no response. I consider this a showstopper since I could boot from CD but sysinstall could not see the DVD drives, thus no CD install. I had to mount the CD in another machine and do a NFS install. SATA optical drives are

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Volker
On 37378-12-23 20:59, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hello! Well, the best I can say at the moment is, Wow. =-( I guess the thing to do here is to figure out if the problem lies with the em interrupt handler not getting run, or the taskqueue not getting run. I helped Pyun with some

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread mailinglists
Based on what I understand of Intel x86 architecture, to address more than 4GB of memory space, you have to use Intel's PAE feature. I don't think the FreeBSD kernels are built with PAE enabled. This might explain why the kernel states there's too many memory holes. I'd recommend either 1)

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread mailinglists
I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried booting an amd64 kernel on the system? This is an Intel Pentium 4 (D) system. Would the AMD64 kernel even work? - Greg ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Long
David G Lawrence wrote: In the past (RELENG_5) I've had major problems with syncer delaying interrupt threads for long periods (I've seen 8msec). See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-February/012346.html I'm not sure if this is still a problem (but I am still having some

Re: 802.11 RSSI value displayed from ifconfig(8)

2006-09-27 Thread Sam Leffler
Eduardo Meyer wrote: Hello, I would like to convert RSSI to dBm (in fact I would love if ifconfig cound display SNR in dBM), so I would like to know if this formula is any right: /* Calculate the RSSI Value */ V_RSSI = 3.0 * (RSSI_VAL/1024); RSSI_dBM = (int8_t) ((-50.0 * V_RSSI) - 45.5);

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Scott Long
Volker wrote: On 37378-12-23 20:59, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hello! Well, the best I can say at the moment is, Wow. =-( I guess the thing to do here is to figure out if the problem lies with the em interrupt handler not getting run, or the taskqueue not getting run. I helped Pyun with

Re: 6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64 boot kernel.gz failes

2006-09-27 Thread Sam Leffler
Danny Braniss wrote: originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, While trying to figure out why boot/pxeboot failes on some kernels/hosts, I think i've come up with one solid nogo, if the kernel is gzipped it always fails. Can someone confirm this? or am i suffering from some

Re: Showstopper - 6.2-PRERELEASE does not see SATA DVD drives (fwd)

2006-09-27 Thread Frank
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: Frank wrote: I am sending this again since it has been 4 days with no response. I consider this a showstopper since I could boot from CD but sysinstall could not see the DVD drives, thus no CD install. I had to mount the CD in another machine and do

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
Absolutely, its an architecture not a brand name, should call it x86_64 as often done in Linux. If you run only a 32bit kernel on that system of yours you're cheating yourself out of performance anyway. slurp down an iso and boot that before you go pulling dimms and such :) Jack On 9/27/06,

Re: Is there any good reason for get*by*_r()?

2006-09-27 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: get*by*_r() are deprecated on most platforms and there use is highly non-portable, lots of different API's. My understanding was that FreeBSD has copied the Linux version of the API. Why are we adding compatability for

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:21:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried booting an amd64 kernel on the system? This is an Intel Pentium 4 (D) system. Would the AMD64 kernel even work? Maybe. The later Pentium 4 processors do

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Volker
On 2006-09-27 23:29, Scott Long wrote: Volker wrote: [...] Strange... I've seen exactly that on a (recent) RELENG_6 box but using a dirty old USB 1.1 NIC (aue). I've seen DOWN and UP messages (mostly while rebuilding kernel + world + ports) on the console all the time (but did not care

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread mailinglists
Absolutely, its an architecture not a brand name, should call it x86_64 as often done in Linux. If you run only a 32bit kernel on that system of yours you're cheating yourself out of performance anyway. slurp down an iso and boot that before you go pulling dimms and such :) Jack Okay, I'm

Re: 6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64 boot kernel.gz failes

2006-09-27 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:09:16PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, While trying to figure out why boot/pxeboot failes on some kernels/hosts, I think i've come up with one solid nogo, if the kernel is gzipped it always fails. Can someone

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried booting an amd64 kernel on the system? This is an Intel Pentium 4 (D) system. Would the AMD64 kernel even work? I'm not an Intel sales rep, but I believe all the P4 systems have 64 bit support.

Fwd: Re: grep command not working as expected

2006-09-27 Thread Stephen Allen
A simple grep command, 'grep -vf patternfile inputfile' works on Linux, but the same command doesn't work on FreeBSD-6.1. To make it work I found I had to use -F to force the interpretation of fixed-strings. I don't know why it made a difference from Linux, and nothing in the man page

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
On 9/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely, its an architecture not a brand name, should call it x86_64 as often done in Linux. If you run only a 32bit kernel on that system of yours you're cheating yourself out of performance anyway. slurp down an iso and boot that

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
On 9/27/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried booting an amd64 kernel on the system? This is an Intel Pentium 4 (D) system. Would the AMD64 kernel even work? I'm not an Intel sales rep, but I

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : As soon as I can locate the O/U/EHCI register docs, I'll crank out a : patch for everyone to try. If that works then I'll give the same : treatment to ichsmb. You might look in the //depot/user/imp/newcard/...

Re: Is there any good reason for get*by*_r()?

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Andrews
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: get*by*_r() are deprecated on most platforms and there use is highly non-portable, lots of different API's. My understanding was that FreeBSD has copied the Linux version of the API. That still doesn't make it portable.

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Steven Hartland
Scott Long wrote: Well, I kinda danced around the issue before, but I'll say it now. I, as well as a few others, have seen instances of Giant being held by the syncer for 5 or more seconds at a time. I can't explain why, and I've never been able to catch it in the act in a meaningful way. But

Re: Fwd: Re: grep command not working as expected

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006, Stephen Allen wrote: A simple grep command, 'grep -vf patternfile inputfile' works on Linux, but the same command doesn't work on FreeBSD-6.1. To make it work I found I had to use -F to force the interpretation of fixed-strings. I don't know why it made a difference from

cant start 18, 21-24 hdd drives on 6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64. pls pls help

2006-09-27 Thread Eugene Kazarinov
I have nForce3 motherboard and Athlon 64 Here is /var/log/messages Sep 28 03:41:03 ddf syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Sep 28 03:41:03 ddf kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Sep 28 03:41:03 ddf kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991,

Re: cant start 18, 21-24 hdd drives on 6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64. pls pls help

2006-09-27 Thread Eugene Kazarinov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 381 0 irq14: ata0 135495 28 irq15: ata1 166738 34 irq16: atapci3 36963 7

Re: Upgrading to 6.2 stable - failed to compile kernel

2006-09-27 Thread FreeBSD Noob
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:38:43 -0700, Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] About the only thing you should put in make.conf is the name of your kernel config file: KERNCONF=MY_SYS would cause the config file /sys/i386/conf/MY_SYS to be used, assuming it's an i386 system. OK. Is

Re: 6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64 boot kernel.gz failes

2006-09-27 Thread Danny Braniss
--3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:09:16PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: =20 Hi, While trying to figure out why

Re: 6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64 boot kernel.gz failes

2006-09-27 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss wrote: originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, While trying to figure out why boot/pxeboot failes on some kernels/hosts, I think i've come up with one solid nogo, if the kernel is gzipped it always fails. Can someone confirm this? or am i suffering from