Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives

2003-02-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that happens is if end users try it and report what happens. I (well work is) am going to purchase a Maxtor enclosure so I will see how it goes. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives

2003-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. This with 5 different computers (various motherboards). OK.. Under -stable I had to get a patch for the sbp code to use M_NOWAIT otherwise it would panic fairly easily.. We ended up going with tape backups. Not an option for me :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: HEADS UP: fast ipsec committed

2003-01-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
security protocols. What about /dev/random? The hifn chips have a random number generator on board, although I've no idea how good it is. PS nice work :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: HEADS UP: fast ipsec committed

2003-01-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Maybe I should just read the code 8-) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4

Re: System reboots while booting with Logitech mouse

2003-01-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, Logitech Dual Eye Optical, and Logitech Wireless Optical mice and they all work fine.. When you say 'kept rebooting' what exactly do you mean? Did it reboot before booting FreeBSD, after, or both? Does it work on another OS and/or PC? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard

2002-12-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
:-) Where'd you buy it? I would be interested for that price.. TV out + install a BT878 card.. mmm :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Loading if_xl from the loader

2002-11-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Perhaps you could try what I did - make if_xl_load=YES first in the list? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C

Re: nvidia tv-out

2002-11-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the horizontal output transformer and associated components. Assuming that the cards TV out driver will even bother looking at that value.. The card probably totally ignores the refresh rate for TV out. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Mounting a mixed-mode CD

2002-11-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
306572 /dev/acd0c /mnt mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument Anyone got any clues? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: ThinkPad R31 - Lucent windmodem woes....

2002-11-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
principle I don't like win modems etc, these ones DO seem to work quite well. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Loading if_xl from the loader

2002-11-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto This is some Packard Bell prebuilt thing if it matters. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Loading if_xl from the loader

2002-11-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that first. Hmm, I just rebooted it again and found that if I interrupt the loader after it's loaded all the modules (including if_xl :) then do 'lsmod' if_xl doesn't show up! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Loading if_xl from the loader

2002-11-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:14, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hmm, I just rebooted it again and found that if I interrupt the loader after it's loaded all the modules (including if_xl :) then do 'lsmod' if_xl doesn't show up! Ooh, even better I find that if I load if_xl first (either by making

Re: Unrecognized CPU Class (and a disc error)

2002-10-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of the IDE chip. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe

Re: video out -- need help

2002-10-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the above mentioned solution) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5

Re: Traffic shaping

2002-10-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
are out of luck if the queue on the remote side is too long. Actually, if you limit incoming TCP it will adapt to the correct speed. I do this at home without hassle (except the latency in games goes up from ~40 to ~100 but it is still acceptable) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: OpenOffice problems on 4.6.2

2002-08-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to mark the binaries as the right type. I haven't had any problems building OO 1.0.1_3. Remember you need a valid DISPLAY variable set to install though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: Booting on a removable disk ?

2002-08-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
such a thing.. FreeBSD _should_ work if the BIOS boots off it but it's a bit hard to test :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Tar not following links now?

2002-08-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
It seems like a bit of a POLA violation especially as the man page doesn't appear to mention and option to get the old behaviour back. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: laptop's modem

2002-05-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
there are any drivers for the 3com win-modem so your only option is to buy a real PCMCIA modem. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: dd of=/dev/eide_drive bs=8192 if=/dev/mem kills system

2002-05-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
during that time including mouse (was running X) and hdd light on case was off) Reading /dev/mem is not a good idea. Try /dev/zero instead. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: dd of=/dev/eide_drive bs=8192 if=/dev/mem kills system

2002-05-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 00:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the note. Hum -- didn't realize that - oh well - things change too fast. Well thanks... Reading /dev/mem _any_ time would have been unadvisable. You just got lucky before. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: Troubles with new ATA !!!

2002-03-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
'atacontrol detach 1' but I am not 100% certain. It should probably be fixed in the code but I don't know how to do that :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: Pentium and NO_F00F_HACK = kernel panic

2002-02-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
have it on as it wouldn't save you very much space.. Could you get a stack trace (enable crash dumps etc..) and file a PR about it? :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: XFree86 4.2.0 + Asus A7A266 + Geoforce 2 Pro = No Go

2002-02-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
work well for me at least :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: New cdboot ISO available

2002-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
encourage!) then please download one of the 650MB ISOs. Hehe.. I do source upgrades :) I will try the ISO soon an report back.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: mmap busted in 4.3?

2001-11-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 18-Nov-2001 Daniel O'Connor wrote: Guess what chipset it's on? The dd copies have had 1 error so far.. I copied the fix from -current and my problems have been solved.. Interestingly after applying the fix I get a number of 'dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold' messages. MFC

RE: Tekram DC-395UW

2001-04-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
adapters with no problems.. I haven't seem the 395UW though. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe:

Miniport fxp0 on Inspiron 8000 and APM

2001-04-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
reading of the manual this is not what is supposed to do. apm -Z causes 'Entire system suspend failure : errcode = 10' - I assume that is because there is no suspend APM capability. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing

Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ad the pcm module way in advance, then after that load the maestro3 module. Hmm.. that shouldn't be the case.. Maybe you have a slightly out of date system? Good luck to you, Daniel. Hope this helps. Yep, I loaded the module and sounds works great now :) --- Daniel O'Connor software a

RE: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to disk 8-) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: SOLVED: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3

2001-04-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. A quick glance at the recent commits doesn't tell *me* anything that might have hit here, but one can never be 100% certain... I don't think this is the case.. I am seeing this problem after installing FreeBSD 4.3 and then building everything on this machine (ie rxvt, xterm etc). --- Daniel

Re: Further question Re: cvsupped to RELENG_4 but got 4.3-RC

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
might find useful.. Also, you could check it out and build it on one machine and then do an installworld via NFS (assuming all the machines are on a fast link and running the same architecture) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

RE: SOLVED: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
or maybe 8.3?) on my 4-STABLE, XFree86 4 system either ( or ) (I can't remember which) generates a backspace (!) Related? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to

RE: Problem With sshd When updating to -STABLE

2001-02-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
my job, but no offense will be taken :) You need to run mergemaster before rebooting.. Also, use KERNCONF= not KERNEL= when using buildkernel. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there a

RE: Interesting plight

2001-01-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
didn't cvsup everything (kernel and userland source) 2) You did cvsup everything OK but didn't build and/or install a new kernel AND userland (ie buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld) 3) Someone broke stable. I bet its 1 or 2 though :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: wierd errors

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 11-Jan-01 Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: hrmm, I tried that, same error (that was the first thing I tried actually) Can't you just increase the kern.maxproc sysctl? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing

Re: wierd errors

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 11-Jan-01 Gregory Bond wrote: Can't you just increase the kern.maxproc sysctl? Nope, it's readonly, because various kernel internal hash tables are sized on it. See src/sys/kern/kern_{proc,resource,mib}.c Hmm.. I thought that was changed a while back but I guess not. --- Daniel

Re: buildworld over nfs failing consistently

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/usr is much faster. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: kldload: Exec format error, is 4.2 problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 04-Jan-01 Warren Toomey wrote: In article by Daniel O'Connor: On 03-Jan-01 Warren Toomey wrote: # kldload /usr/local/modules/rtc.ko kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/rtc.ko: Exec format error Is this a 4.2-thing, or have I just done something wrong? I've searched

Oldish Laptop and boot0

2000-11-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that and it works fine (finally). Is there any information I can provide which would allow boot0 to be fixed? OS-BS is OK but it doesn't remember what you booted last which is minorly irritating.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice

Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
can't address them. Then, hopefully, we'll be able to use a more sane layout. Hah! You have too much faith in PC designers. It will be another hack of course. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stan

RE: PCI IRQ Problem.. (frustrating :)

2000-09-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 14-Sep-00 Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have tried 2 P6SBS motherboards and they both have the same symptoms.. Everything else works (21443 network card, IDE, video etc etc), even the custom cards non interrupt related functionality is fine. This motherboard DID work with 4.0-REL, so

RE: Softupdates disappears?

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it doesn't know about.. And it doesn't know about the symlinks :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe:

RE: SCSI on ATAPI simulation, cdrecord

2000-04-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
drives. Try looking at the stuff in /usr/share/examples/atapi I haven't tried any of it though :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew

RE: 4.0-stable + SMP + fxp = device timeout

2000-03-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
know if it works under those circumstances.. Hmmm :-/ What other stuff do you have plugged in? Does the fxp share irqs? Tried swapping cards? Doing BIOS upgrades? etc etc :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing

RE: dump(8) and SSH

2000-02-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
well. (modulo occasional times when ssh would just close the connection for some reason) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew

RE: Parallel port ZIP drive?

1999-12-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
controller and ppbus.. (Which is the limit of my knowledge since I don't have a parallel zip drive) BTW this sort of question belongs on freebsd-questions. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stan

RE: Out of swap hangs machine

1999-12-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I run a lot of junk which generally gets swapped out :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe:

Re: hang at probing devices screen on VAIO505

1999-11-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 08-Nov-99 Kip Macy wrote: Thanks to all. I will do that. I was seriously worried that I might have to install Linux. Heh.. Linux has the same problem :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stan

Re: talk appears broken!

1999-09-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 14-Sep-99 Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Daniel O'Connor" writes: : Why is restarting it necessary? The man page doesn't say anything to that : effect. The inetd program rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup signal, SIGHUP. Se

Re: talk appears broken!

1999-09-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
oesn't say anything to that effect. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum PGP signature

Re: PIIX4?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
n AC comes on or wait for the power button :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum PGP signature

Re: PIIX4?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
current either.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum PGP signature

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