Atheros AR5141

2008-11-04 Thread Reinhold
Hi I got myself a nice little R52 802.11a/b/g MiniPCI Card for our router. This card is using the Atheros AR5141 chipset. I searched everywhere to find out more info on this and came across a few pages where it said that the AR5141 chipset is supported but when I stick the card in the router and

RE: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Kevin
Can you please try 7.1-PRERELEASE or 6.4-RC2 (just announced today)? There have been bootstrap-related changes since 7.0-RELEASE which may fix your problem. I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I tried (for the sake of argument) Debian debian-40r5-amd64 , and it

Block device

2008-11-04 Thread d_elbracht
Hi list, can someone please explain, why stat -x /dev/da1 show the SCSI-Drive as a character-device ? Also, on the same device S_ISREG(st.st_mode) is false S_ISCHR(st.st_mode) is true thanks Dieter ___

Re: Block device

2008-11-04 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
h, all, On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:32:01PM +0100, d_elbracht wrote: Hi list, can someone please explain, why stat -x /dev/da1 show the SCSI-Drive as a character-device ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-block.html HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter

Re: Block device

2008-11-04 Thread Max Laier
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:32:01 d_elbracht wrote: Hi list, can someone please explain, why stat -x /dev/da1 show the SCSI-Drive as a character-device ? Also, on the same device S_ISREG(st.st_mode) is false S_ISCHR(st.st_mode) is true

Disk top usage PIDs

2008-11-04 Thread Eduardo Meyer
Hello, I have some serious issue. Sometimes something happens and my disk usage performance find its limit quickly. I follow with gstat and iostat -xw1, and everything usually happens just fine, with %b around 20 and 0 to 1 pending i/o request. Suddely I get 30, 40 pending requests and %b is

GCC profiling broken with C++ exceptions on FreeBSD 7.1

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, I just noticed this in testing over last week, it seems to be specific to FreeBSD 7.1: http://bugzilla.xorp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=811 Does anyone have any information we could use to further track this down? Other platforms don't seem to be affected. cheers BMS

RE: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Kevin
I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I tried (for the sake of argument) Debian debian-40r5-amd64 , and it wouldn't boot either -- it said Your CPU does not support long mode, please use a 32bit distribution. This means your processor does not support

Re: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:37:01AM -0500, Kevin wrote: Can you please try 7.1-PRERELEASE or 6.4-RC2 (just announced today)? There have been bootstrap-related changes since 7.0-RELEASE which may fix your problem. I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I tried

Re: Block device

2008-11-04 Thread Scott Long
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: h, all, On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:32:01PM +0100, d_elbracht wrote: Hi list, can someone please explain, why stat -x /dev/da1 show the SCSI-Drive as a character-device ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-block.html Wow that's a

Re: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:18:36AM -0500, Kevin wrote: I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I tried (for the sake of argument) Debian debian-40r5-amd64 , and it wouldn't boot either -- it said Your CPU does not support long mode, please use a 32bit

Re: Disk top usage PIDs

2008-11-04 Thread Adam McDougall
Eduardo Meyer wrote: Hello, I have some serious issue. Sometimes something happens and my disk usage performance find its limit quickly. I follow with gstat and iostat -xw1, and everything usually happens just fine, with %b around 20 and 0 to 1 pending i/o request. Suddely I get 30, 40 pending

Re: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 11:41:31 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:18:36AM -0500, Kevin wrote: I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I tried (for the sake of argument) Debian debian-40r5-amd64 , and it wouldn't boot either -- it

RE: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Kevin
Yes, the BTX fault you are getting is from trying to start 64-bit mode on a CPU that doesn't support 32-bit mode. The latest snapshots should have a fix where you get a more helpful Your CPU doesn't do 64-bit message. -- John Baldwin Thank you all for your prudent help, it is much

Re: Atheros AR5141

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Canich
Are there a new version of the ath driver somewhere that does support this chipset? Hello Reinhold, The latest ath_hal is available from http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ . Tom ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting John Baldwin, who wrote on Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:10:04PM -0500 .. On Tuesday 04 November 2008 11:41:31 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:18:36AM -0500, Kevin wrote: I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I tried (for the sake

RE: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 11:18 -0500, Kevin wrote: I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I tried (for the sake of argument) Debian debian-40r5-amd64 , and it wouldn't boot either -- it said Your CPU does not support long mode, please use a 32bit

PostgreSQL stats collector eats all CPU time

2008-11-04 Thread Krzysztof Jędruczyk
Recently postgresql on our database server started showing some sort of problems: after running for some time stats collector process eats 100% cpu time - exactly as someone reported here: http://groups.google.com/group/pgsql.general/browse_thread/thread/6dfea591d243e987 No solution is provided

Re: Install issues with 7.x

2008-11-04 Thread Joel Dahl
Ryan skrev: Sadly with the quality of BIOS recently, that is not an option. Not much to offer. Attached is a picture of what I have to change. Other and XP are the same, Vista unlocks AHCI. Another way of accomplishing disabling firewire is to remake the install CD with a different kernel and

Re: Block device

2008-11-04 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:32:51 +0100, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick M. Hausen wrote: h, all, On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:32:01PM +0100, d_elbracht wrote: Hi list, can someone please explain, why stat -x /dev/da1 show the SCSI-Drive as a character-device ?

[Fwd: Profiling on FreeBSD]

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce M Simpson
I got this response from Robert, the root cause sounds plausible (amd64 vs i386 not preserving ecx). Any chance of an MFC? I see one is pending in the PR. If I can test and verify the change I could MFC. Original Message Subject:Profiling on FreeBSD Date: Wed, 5