Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-23 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Mark Andrews wrote: This is just the attitude that's going to get people to use other software. People are going to laugh at you trying to get a network connection and joke it works fine with Windows. Then you try and explain that it's not your OS's fault and somebody messed up some

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-23 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, Greg Barniskis wrote: Mark Andrews wrote: Yes it is reasonable to expect ISP to fix things like this. You pay the ISP to operate there part of the network within the operational contraints of the RFCs (Standards track and BCP). I totally agree. Make sure when calling

Re: sym(4) broken on amd64 (Time to port new driver?)

2005-11-23 Thread Scott Long
Sergey N. Voronkov wrote: Looks like it is broken for a while - _sym_calloc2: failed to allocate HCB is always there... And... Looks like Gerard Roudier havn't more interest in maintaining this driver - there is the second generation of the original driver into linux source three since 2001,

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:38:05PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d). The graphics work perfectly on my Thinkpad R51 (Radeon 9000), including 3D acceleration/dri. There are different R51 models with different graphic chipsets available IIRC.

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:01:25AM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: Mmm, the radeon man page claims Radeon 9000's are supported without caveats. Oops, I sent my initial reply off-list. To summarize for everybody else: Yes, you're right; I was thinking the Radeon 9000 was a newer chip,

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-23 Thread Dimitry Andric
Mark Andrews wrote: What would be really interesting to know is what they expect the customers to find using this suffix. My bet is that this really is just a configuration error on their part. As is often said: Never attribute to malice what can adequately be

Re: ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ...

2005-11-23 Thread Pete French
I'm specifically looking at the Proliant DL360, which has this card ... can you provide any comments, or insight, concerning what the man page states? Should I shy away from this controller? :( I use SMART controllers driven by the ciss driver, as well as earlier ones driven using ida,

Re: ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ...

2005-11-23 Thread Holger Kipp
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:37:23AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Hi .. Having read the man page, there is alot in there that makes me wonder whether going with a HP Smart Array P600 is a wise idea ... The Compaq ciss adapters require faked responses to get reasonable behavior out

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-11-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:04 AM 23/11/2005, kama wrote: I have a HP DL380G3 Dual 2.4 w HT disabled. Polling and SMP is only a recent thing, as is polling support for the bge. I would try disabling that. In terms of seeing why its crashing,

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Bruno Ducrot
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:12:46PM -0800, Graham North wrote: Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless or IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:01:09 +0100 Marwan Burelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, yes, you may have full support, but you won't see the difference for 3D accel (I have an ATI card fully supported, when hardware accel becomes available for me, it doesn't realy change anything ... ) On my

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-11-23 Thread kama
The system crashes without polling enabled. That I added afterwards. With it enabled it crashes not so often as without polling. I'll try a GENERIC kernel with debuging enabled. /Bjorn On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:04 AM 23/11/2005, kama wrote: I have a HP DL380G3 Dual 2.4

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-11-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:33 AM 23/11/2005, kama wrote: The system crashes without polling enabled. That I added afterwards. With it enabled it crashes not so often as without polling. I'll try a GENERIC kernel with debuging enabled. The kernel option doesnt install any debugging into your running kernel, it

boot menu change in 6.0?

2005-11-23 Thread Vivek Khera
I see in the 6.0/amd64 release notes in section 2.2.1 that the beastie boot menu is disabled by default. It doesn't seem to be in 6.0-REL but was in the last RC that was issued. A couple of weeks ago I made a CD of the last RC before release of 6.0 and installed it on a Dell 1850 which

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-11-23 Thread Hendry Sarumpaet
Hello kama, Wednesday, November 23, 2005, 8:04:36 PM, you wrote: I have a HP DL380G3 Dual 2.4 w HT disabled. This server is running as a newsserver (Diablo) and recieving more or less a full feed. aprox 200Mbps in and out. When the load rises the system reboots. I can occupy it with high

umass device support...how generic is it?

2005-11-23 Thread Juan Cristóbal Gumucio
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Re: boot menu change in 6.0?

2005-11-23 Thread Holger Kipp
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:34:08AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: Last week, I installed from a 6.0-RELEASE cd onto a generic opteron box and I get the beastie menu (albeit beastie is replaced with a FreeBSD image). Thus, I am confused by this entry in the release notes. Can anyone

Dell DRAC card snatches keyboard console

2005-11-23 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Hi! I just installed a Dell 2850 with a DRAC card and a PS/2 keyboard. The keyboard stopped working when entering multiuser mode, and I found an old email on current from September 2004, where Brooks said to comment away ukbd lines in devd.conf. I did, PS/2 keyboard works but the DRAC remote

Re: Dell DRAC card snatches keyboard console

2005-11-23 Thread Palle Girgensohn
FreeBSD 6.0 (IA32), sorry... --On onsdag, november 23, 2005 17.32.19 +0100 Palle Girgensohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I just installed a Dell 2850 with a DRAC card and a PS/2 keyboard. The keyboard stopped working when entering multiuser mode, and I found an old email on current from

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-11-23 Thread kama
Try adding a lot of disk IO too. I believe that the problem lays within that area. I get a load of aprox 6 on that machine. /Bjorn On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Hendry Sarumpaet wrote: Hello kama, Wednesday, November 23, 2005, 8:04:36 PM, you wrote: I have a HP DL380G3 Dual 2.4 w HT disabled.

Re: 6.0 Release - Pentium install panic and some questions

2005-11-23 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:25:31 +1000 Paul Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:03 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:28:27PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote: On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: Issue 1: Can't install on a Pentium P5 class machine:

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-11-23 Thread Lukas Ertl
On 11/23/05, kama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try adding a lot of disk IO too. I believe that the problem lays within that area. I get a load of aprox 6 on that machine. We're having approximately the same config as you have (DL380G3, Dual CPU+HTT, Diablo). Runs happily day and night, throughput

crashing application.

2005-11-23 Thread kama
Hi, I have a linux based server application that crashes every now and then. This server is threaded. And I dont believe its a FreeBSD problem, since the same hardware runs other linux based server apps in threaded mode, without problems. Never the less, it runs on FreeBSD and I want to know

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-11-23 Thread kama
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Lukas Ertl wrote: On 11/23/05, kama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try adding a lot of disk IO too. I believe that the problem lays within that area. I get a load of aprox 6 on that machine. We're having approximately the same config as you have (DL380G3, Dual CPU+HTT,

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:57:30AM +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:38:05PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d). The graphics work perfectly on my Thinkpad R51 (Radeon 9000), including 3D acceleration/dri. There are

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
Or, can the touch pads be disabled in the bios? I have a Dell Inspiron 8600C, which only has a touch pad. *But* its immediate predecessor, the 8600, had a track pad and one of those little pink joysticks (what are they called anyway?) and I know for a fact that the keyboard and wrist rest in

6.0 kernel will not boot past atkbd0

2005-11-23 Thread Pete French
Having successfully upgraded one system in-place from 5.4 to 6.0 I had a go at the second system today. This is an old Compaq proliant 1600R with two 500mhz pentium3's in it. Currently running 5.4 quite happily. so I buildworld, buildkernel, insall kernel and rebooot to check that the kernel

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:19:07PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: Or, can the touch pads be disabled in the bios? I have a Dell Inspiron 8600C, which only has a touch pad. *But* its immediate predecessor, the 8600, had a track pad and one of those little pink joysticks (what are they

ACPI problems with Dell laptops (was: Laptop choices)

2005-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 22 November 2005 at 17:12:46 -0800, Graham North wrote: Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless or IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 November 2005 at 11:42:17 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:19:07PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: Or, can the touch pads be disabled in the bios? I have a Dell Inspiron 8600C, which only has a touch pad. ... Of course, this is not a Thinkpad clone, but

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
It's so much better than the standard 1024x768 that you have to see it to understand. At least in my experience, it also makes people call you nuts all the time. I am using tiny fonts for things that are not as important (like menu bars, for example) and bit fonts for text that I really want

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Gary Kline thusly... I'm looking for a newer laptop (a newer, faster ThinkPad, probably). There are ' some seriously cheap laptops on-sale, but they would probably be a bad choice because they have those touch/scratch mouse-pad things that I can't use.

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:24:25PM +0100, Rutger Bevaart wrote: Strange indeed. On a 1750 with bge's: 475 mbufs in use 501/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/max) 0/3/6656 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 1120 KBytes allocated to network 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for

Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on HighPoint RocketRAID 1520

2005-11-23 Thread Ilja Alaoja
I've aquired a HighPoint RocketRAID 1520 SATA controller card, since it's supposed to be very well supported under FreeBSD. Unfortunately i can't seem to install FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. As a matter of fact, the installation CD fails to boot. My two disks are Seagate Barracuda 120 GB, and my

Re: Dell DRAC card snatches keyboard console

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Koch
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:32 am, Palle Girgensohn wrote: Hi! I just installed a Dell 2850 with a DRAC card and a PS/2 keyboard. The keyboard stopped working when entering multiuser mode, and I found an old email on current from September 2004, where Brooks said to comment away ukbd lines in

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-11-23 Thread Lukas Ertl
On 11/23/05, kama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Lukas Ertl wrote: We're having approximately the same config as you have (DL380G3, Dual CPU+HTT, Diablo). Runs happily day and night, throughput is about 1.3TB of news data per day, no crashes for the last couple of

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:05:05PM +0100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 23 November 2005 at 11:42:17 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:19:07PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: Or, can the touch pads be disabled in the bios? I have a Dell Inspiron 8600C, which

Re: Dell DRAC card snatches keyboard console

2005-11-23 Thread Ronald Klop
Somebody is creating a keyboard multiplexer. I thought it was called vmux or something like that. This will make it possible to connect multiple keyboards to one console. I don't know the status of it. Ronald. On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:32:19 +0100, Palle Girgensohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops (was: Laptop choices)

2005-11-23 Thread Ted Faber
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:51:20PM +0100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 22 November 2005 at 17:12:46 -0800, Graham North wrote: Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. Dell Latitude d600 with

RE: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Sune Wettersteen
#Subject: Laptop choices #Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck #winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. #Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless #or #IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless. #The main differences will

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Peter Goetz
I have an IBM Thinkpad R51with a Radeon Mobility 9000 M9. It works quite well with FreeBSD 5.4. The only issue I have, is that I cannot have 3d-acceleration and at the same time have suspend-to-ram support. (Theres a huge difference noticable when I run glxgears) The device section in my

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:36:07PM -0500, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Gary Kline thusly... I'm looking for a newer laptop (a newer, faster ThinkPad, probably). There are ' some seriously cheap laptops on-sale, but they would probably be a bad choice because they have

has anyone installed Freebsd 6.0 on a thinkpad i 1300 laptop

2005-11-23 Thread Wei Hu
freebsd 5.3's X was not working on thinkpad i 1300. if anyone has good news on 6.0, please advise. Wei ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:36:07PM -0500, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Gary Kline thusly... I'm looking for a newer laptop (a newer, faster ThinkPad, probably). There are ' some seriously cheap laptops on-sale, but they would probably be a bad choice because they have