Fear and loathing in FreeBSD 7.2 (AGP issues and fixes)

with the update. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu wp...@windriver.com | Wind River Systems

Re: Lenovo X60 em workaround

Since this was just seen, and the patch below validated as working I wanted to send general email to capture this: The Lenovo X60 can have issues with long ping times, this is a KNOWN hardware problem, and Intel is working with IBM/Lenovo, a final 'fix' has not been decided on yet.

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

Hello Bill, * Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Switching from and to promiscuous mode takes 7 seconds. All packets are dropped in the mean time. The SIOCSIFFLAGS handler in re_ioctl() currently just takes a shortcut of calling re_init(). While this does eventually end up

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:46:00PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on my new desktop. It has the following hardware: - Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 - Asus P5B motherboard - On-board Realtek NIC (8168B/8111B) For some reason,

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

* Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's more likely a problem with the multicast filter programming. IPv6 is all about the multicasting (neighbord discovery depends on it to work correctly). I can't explain why it's not working though. I've tested the sample 8168B/8111B cards

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:46:00PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on my new desktop. It has the following hardware: - Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 - Asus P5B motherboard - On-board Realtek NIC (8168B/8111B) For some reason, it drops

Re: em network issues

with it. The downside of course is that a Smartbits with gigE ports isn't cheap, but I'd be surprised if Intel didn't have one kicking around somewhere. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer

Re: em network issues

Bill Paul wrote: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attempted via a number of tests

Re: em network issues

-- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Systems = adamw you're

Re: em network issues

straightforward. It's worth a shot at any rate. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Systems

Re: fdisk, bsdlabel and hidden tricks

that I need boot0cfg -o packet diskname to make the first stage bootstrap successfully load the second stage if I've done something weird with the geometry. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior

Re: Linksys WPC54g v4, NDIS, Kernel Panics

inclined I am to help anyone. The shit you don't think is important? It's important. So spill it already. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Broadcomm BCM4401-B0 and memory upgrade issue.

-- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Systems = adamw you're just BEGGING to face the moose

Re: ndis0 does not associate since update to RELENG_6

6.0? I've tested the 2200BG myself with the NDISulator 6.0 and I've been able to get it to associate with 11g networks. I don't know what's wrong in your case. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior

Re: ndis0 does not associate since update to RELENG_6

drivers don't let you set the channel unless you're in ad-hoc mode. (Some drivers erroneously process channel selectin requests in infrastructure mode too, but the results can be unpredictable.) -Bill -- = -Bill Paul

Re: problems with wifi

some special software to make the switch work. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Systems

Re: 6.0-RC1: ifconfig reporting bad info when using ndis0 WPA

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Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

? It says Bill Paul. It does *NOT* say Paul Bill, does it now. WELL DOES IT!!?!?! No, it damn well doesn't! And yet, for some incomprehensible reason. the majority of you nitwits seem to think it does!! Get this through your miserable little heads: my first name is BILL

Re: dc0 being really weird

Is this just me, Yes, it is just you. You probably don't have the card seated properly, or it's posessed by Satan. (Of course it's a PNIC so that's a given.) Forgive me if I don't get to worked up over it. And I don't care what fxp does in the same box. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to