Re: AHCI timeouts on S3 resume

2010-05-29 Thread Damian Gerow
(For the archives...) Before posting this to acpi@, I updated my system to r208630, and tried to reproduce the issue with verbose logging. No such luck: the AHCI timeouts are now gone! ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: AHCI timeouts on S3 resume

2010-05-19 Thread Damian Gerow
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: : On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:14:03PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: : A few months back, I swapped out my dying hard drive for a WD Scorpio Blue. : Cheap, seemed reliable, and it was the only drive the local shop had in : stock. However, it seems that AHCI doesn't like

AHCI timeouts on S3 resume

2010-05-18 Thread Damian Gerow
A few months back, I swapped out my dying hard drive for a WD Scorpio Blue. Cheap, seemed reliable, and it was the only drive the local shop had in stock. However, it seems that AHCI doesn't like this device, and is having troubles during an S3 resume. It appears as though I'm experiencing two

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-26 Thread Damian Gerow
Adrian Wontroba wrote: : How about using the write every 5 seconds python script posted earlier : in this thread by e...@tefre.com? Works nicely for me and stops the load : cycle count increase. I have a WD2003FYPS sitting in a system, to be used for testing. Bought it just before this thread

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-26 Thread Damian Gerow
Dan Naumov wrote: : This drive is sitting, unused, with no filesystem, and I've performed : approximately zero writes to the disk. : : Having a script kick off and write to a disk will help so long as that : disk is writable; if it's being used as a hot spare in a raidz array, it's : not going to

Re: iwn driver on 7.1 [no vaps in RELENG_7]

2009-01-19 Thread Damian Gerow
Sam Leffler wrote: : OTOH iwn is now out of date and someone needs to update it. There's : newer firmware that is supposed to fix many of the bugs I hit when I : worked on the driver (and Intel refused to acknowledge) and obsd has : added support for newer parts that people want. It'd be

Re: [OT] resolv.conf and dhclient

2006-06-05 Thread Damian Gerow
I've recently run into a situation similar to the original posters, and... Thus spake Karol Kwiatkowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05/06/06 08:55]: : What is the best approach to keep dhclient from overwriting : /etc/resolv.conf every time it gets a new lease on an IP address? This : has been a

Re: [OT] resolv.conf and dhclient

2006-06-05 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Lyndon Nerenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05/06/06 15:49]: : I have two interfaces, one wired and one wireless. Both addresses are : negotiated via DHCP. However, I do /not/ want to use the DNS servers : provided via the wireless connection. : : : interface ath0 { : supersede

Re: [OT] resolv.conf and dhclient

2006-06-05 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Lowell Gilbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05/06/06 10:32]: : I've often wondered why dhclient.conf doesn't have an 'ignore' directive. : There's a 'require' in there; it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to : 'ignore' something. : : Why not just write a simple script for one of the

Tyan K8WE BIOS v1.03 and -STABLE

2006-04-16 Thread Damian Gerow
I tried updating the BIOS on my K8WE (S2895) yesterday to 1.03, but after the update, FreeBSD (RELENG_6 dated March 26) would randomly freeze after booting. As I was updating from v1.01, I suspect it may be the updates to the nVidia SATA firmware that caused the issue, as things generally froze

Re: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Adam Stroud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [11/04/06 23:49]: : I have been using pf (on an OpenBSD box) to automatically block : offending IP address using pf and it seems to work well for me. : Basically when an attackers tries to connect x number of times in y : minutes, I have the firewall

Re: Problem with 16-in-1 card reader

2006-03-12 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Alex Dupre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [11/03/06 22:18]: : This problem has been discussed many times on the lists. In order to : update devfs you can use: : : cat /dev/null /dev/daX : : I seem to remember another method using dd. : : I hope this helps. : : The 'cat' way works,

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-03-11 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [11/03/06 03:51]: : I have yet to get it working, but I've been focusing explicitly on an : Opteron blade using an amd64 install. It seems as though you may have luck : by using an Intel blade (these are by far more common), and doing the : install

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-03-10 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake fbsd_user ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/03/06 08:59]: : I see you both have Bladecenters. : Have you had any luck with getting FreeBSD to install on it yet. : : What is the status of your efforts. : : Been offered contract to do this for client, : but need to know if it can be done before

Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed

2006-03-10 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Daniel O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/03/06 07:09]: : I've been doing some testing with kismet throughout the night, and I've : been seeing consistant signal strengths around -50 to -60dBm, with noise : sitting pretty consistantly at -96, and its strongest reading (after about :

Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed

2006-03-09 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Daniel O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08/03/06 19:45]: : In any case I imagine there is no point forcing it to use 54Mbit - it will : negotiate the highest speed it can manage based on signal strength and : hardware support (for the AP and the card) automatically. Huh. : I suspect

Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed

2006-03-09 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Daniel O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/03/06 00:19]: : Okay, this has me a bit curious, so I dug into it a bit more: : : SSIDBSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS : linksys 00:06:25:7b:25:3d6 11M 35:0 100 E : MYSSID

Re: ath(4) and 802.11g speed

2006-03-09 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Daniel O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/03/06 01:00]: : Sounds like a question for Sam. Sam? : Actually one thing.. Is the AP set for g mode or b only? 11g mode only. Specifically, autoselect mode 11g, and is currently running at OFDM54. Thus spake JoaoBR ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

ath(4) and 802.11g speed

2006-03-08 Thread Damian Gerow
So, with the updated HAL, I'm now able to negotiate an IP address via DHCP over the WLAN. Huzzah! But I've got two questions (now that I can use the card): ath(4) doesn't contain a list of media nor mediaopt settings that can be used. Some are detailed down in EXAMPLES, but there's no

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-02-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Riv Octovahriz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/02/06 03:58]: : Is there anyway to install FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20 ? Not that I've been able to figure out. I asked the same question not too long ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-February/022699.html

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-02-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Axel S. Gruner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/02/06 05:22]: : go to boot loader prompt and type: : : unset acpi_load : load ispfw : load isp : set hint.atkbd.0.disabled=1 : boot : : With these options i am able to boot the installation cd, also the keyboard is : working and, surprise

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-02-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Michael Proto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/02/06 08:17]: : Do isp/ispfw do any funkiness with the keyboard? Even when booting with : hint.atkbd.0.disabled=1, my keyboard still doesn't work. : :- Damian : : Try this at the loader prompt: : : hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x1 I've tried that.

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-02-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Stacey Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01/03/06 01:48]: : Sorry for asking the obvious here, but exactly what type (make / protocols) of keyboard are you using for the : installation? Generic PS/2 keyboard. But it's wired in to the blade via USB1.1. - Damian

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-02-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Stacey Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01/03/06 02:24]: : Generic PS/2 keyboard. But it's wired in to the blade via USB1.1. : : I see. : : Is it possible to try a genuine USB keyboard to see if that makes a difference? You'll want to also include the : procedure for USB keyboard

Re: IBM LS20 and a 6.1-BETA1 install

2006-02-20 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Antony Mawer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20/02/06 03:23]: : This may be something you have already tried, but I mention it just in : case you have not -- can you boot if you select the Boot FreeBSD with : USB keyboard item from the menu? Or does it not appear (reading the : beastie.4th, it

IBM LS20 and a 6.1-BETA1 install

2006-02-19 Thread Damian Gerow
I've been trying to coax 6.1-BETA1 onto an IBM LS20 Blade (885055U), with a few problems. I've turned up a number of other posts about people who have had the same problem, but nobody seems to be able to get it working. On boot, the keyboard works in the boot menu (beastie.4th), but once the

Problems with snd_ich

2005-10-02 Thread Damian Gerow
I've got a K8WE, and up until a few days ago, snd_ich worked just fine under 6.0-BETA3: pcm0: nVidia nForce4 port 0x1800-0x18ff,0x1400-0x14ff mem 0xc8002000-0xc8002fff irq 22 at device 4.0 on pci0 pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcm0: Analog Devices AD1981B AC97 Codec Then suddenly, anything

Re: NFS directory copies cause crash

2005-09-17 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Don Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16/09/05 04:25]: : See PR kern/41723: [2TB] on 1TB fs, copying files to filesystem causes integer divide fault and panic. Yep, that seems to be the problem. : Just doing a mkdir should be sufficient to trigger the panic. Just before dropping my

NFS directory copies cause crash

2005-09-15 Thread Damian Gerow
I've just updated a low-volume fileserver to 5.4-stable (as of Sep 13), and ever since, whenever I try to move or copy a directory onto one of its NFS shares, it causes a crash. I do not have a crash dump (no dumpdev enabled, unfortunately), but I can reproduce it quite easily. The client is a

Re: NFS directory copies cause crash

2005-09-15 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Daniel O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15/09/05 22:32]: : Is this something known and being worked on, or should I try to gather some : debugging information? : : I think even if someone was working on it you'd want to get a crashdump (or at : least a stack trace via the console) so

Re: NFS directory copies cause crash

2005-09-15 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15/09/05 21:39]: : Is this something known and being worked on, or should I try to gather some : debugging information? : : The latter..at least a DDB traceback to begin with so we can tell if : it's a known issue or not. The best I've been able to

Re: NFS directory copies cause crash

2005-09-15 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15/09/05 21:39]: : Is this something known and being worked on, or should I try to gather some : debugging information? : : The latter..at least a DDB traceback to begin with so we can tell if : it's a known issue or not. This is what I've got:

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-17 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Chuck Swiger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [17/05/05 08:27]: : I wasn't motivated enough to compare the headers versus other postings, or : to check whether the IP that claimed to be hub.freebsd.org actually is-- : if you control reverse DNS for some netblock, you can make any box claim to :

Re: nForce[34] chipsets?

2005-05-13 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Ivan Voras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13/05/05 07:37]: : Some time ago, there were complaints that nForce chipsets don't work very : well on FreeBSD - specifically various components like built-in NIC, sound : card, ACPI... : : Is this still true? What about nForce4 (PCI-Express) support?

Re: examples/etc/make.conf: nocona?

2005-05-08 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Dag-Erling Smørgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08/05/05 11:08]: : Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : I can understand listing nocona under AMD64 architecture, but isn't it an : Intel CPU? Am I missing something in thinking it should be listed under : Intel CPUs? : : Correct. I

examples/etc/make.conf: nocona?

2005-05-05 Thread Damian Gerow
When looking through the example make.conf, I saw that 'nocona' is listed under AMD CPUs (under Intel x86 architecture) as well as under AMD64 architecture. I can understand listing nocona under AMD64 architecture, but isn't it an Intel CPU? Am I missing something in thinking it should be listed

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-29 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Eduard Martinescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29/04/05 19:06]: : I ran into a similar error, only when processing if_vlan. Removing : /usr/obj solved my issue. For the record (and as I stated off-list to someone), I suspect this is a bad memory issue: my motherboard (MSI K8T Master2-FAR)

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Any clues at all? I'd *really* like to apply the patches to my system, but continuously run into that kmod.mk problem. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Jose M Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/04/05 06:10]: : Any clues at all? I'd *really* like to apply the patches to my : system, but continuously run into that kmod.mk problem. : : Using this in RELENG_5_4 without problems. latest -n patchset. look : into the list archive for the

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Jose M Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/04/05 12:32]: : I'm positive it's something about my build environment, but I don't : know /what/. : : For safety, and only about what I'm using (RELENG_5_4), you: : - cvs/cvsup fresh sources : - apply the patchset : - untar the tarball : :

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Scot Hetzel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/04/05 14:21]: : Look at the ata/Makefile and make sure there are no lines like: : : : : : : : : : : As this indicates a conflict is in the file, and you'll need to fix it. Nope. All patches applied without problems. Makefile and

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Jonathan Noack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/04/05 14:53]: : Does this error happen all the time or only with ATA mkIII? Only with ATA mkIII. I'm running a system that I rebuilt this morning without issue. : Check /etc/stable-supfile to make sure you're getting RELENG_5_4 : (tag=RELENG_5_4

TXCSUM on bge0 breaks bridging

2005-04-24 Thread Damian Gerow
Someone just helped me through a bridging problem I was having, and I thought I'd throw the problem out to the list to see if it's a bug, or at least, for archival purposes. I have a machine that I'm using as a workstation, that I would also like to use to bridge a home LAN. It has two

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-20 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake tofik suleymanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20/04/05 03:55]: : This patch worked fine on RELENG_5 for amd64.Here are the steps we : did(as long as i remmember them): : : (assuming RELENG_5 is already up and running): : tar -zxf ata-mk3n-releng5.tar.gz : cp -R sys/modules/ata

Re: FreeBSD and NMAP

2005-04-19 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Dominic Marks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19/04/05 07:18]: : On Tuesday 19 April 2005 12:11, pck wrote: : Hi, : : How can i hide from nmap that my OS is FreeBSD? Is this possible? : : # sysctl -ad | grep random_id : net.inet.ip.random_id: Assign random ip_id values : # echo

Re: load 1, no process using 10% CPU...?

2005-04-19 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19/04/05 21:21]: : I'm a little fuzzy as to /how/ load is calculated, but why would my system : think that it's doing all kinds of work when ps, top, and systat can't : really tell me /what/ it's doing? It turned out to be a runaway xmms process

Re: load 1, no process using 10% CPU...?

2005-04-19 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Dan Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19/04/05 22:13]: : It turned out to be a runaway xmms process. But I still find it : strange that it didn't show anything obvious in top. : : If xmms is threaded, you probably got bit by the libpthread doesn't do : process CPU accounting bug. Most

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-17 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Soren: : I've just uploaded the latest ATA mkIII patches for releng_5 (and : releng_5_4 for that matter). : : Since this work is now in -current there will only be releng_5 patches : now and then if there is sufficient interest. Since the work was done for ATAPICAM, I decided to try

Re: tcpslice out of date

2003-10-09 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Bruce A. Mah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09/10/03 13:11]: There's a newer (Y2K-compliant) version in ports (net/tcpslice). I was talking with Bill Fenner (CC-ed) about the possibility of importing this newer version to the base system but I think both of us had too many other things to

CheckMail option in sshd_config

2002-07-17 Thread Damian Gerow
With the recent SSH commits to -STABLE, sshd_config has lost the CheckMail option. Users can be notified whenever new mail arrives by specifying 'biff y', but what about on first login? I can't seem to find anything that will tell you if you have new/old mail when you first log in. - Damian