Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sio5: Dolphin Peripherals 4036 on puc0 sio5: type 16550A sio5: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode So, apart from the actual program code everything else is different :) (Hopefully my next test will reduce the variable space a lot..) Any sugestions most welcome. -- Daniel

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
specs? Not as such, although it is a bit difficult as the PC is rather remote :( (80 degrees north) I have another card of the same model here and I will also see if I can get someone on site to swap the cable with one of the onboard ports (used for the UPS) -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
contains only the aout subdirectory. Is this a bug in release 6.1? I think you need to install ports/misc/compat5x You can probably use your existing libraries by calling ldconfig but I don't see any reason to not do it the right way. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a work around.. There's no point the default install installing libraries that the majority of people don't use - there are very few binary only applications for a given version of FreeBSD. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

RAID rebuild problem

2006-05-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/local0/src/sys/GENESIS amd64 I plan to try rebuilding it in the BIOS but I would dearly like to be able to rebuild arrays without having to resort to the BIOS. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the interrupt latency in 6.x is much higher. -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 19:45, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Tue, 2006-May-23 19:23:20 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I would hope that 9600 baud wouldn't be *too* fast for a 2GHz CPU :( That depends on what else is sharing the IRQ. PLIP can give you 10's of msec of latency. PIO disks can also

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 21:18, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tuesday 23 May 2006 19:45, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Tue, 2006-May-23 19:23:20 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I would hope that 9600 baud wouldn't be *too* fast for a 2GHz CPU :( That depends on what else is sharing the IRQ. PLIP can

USB MGE UPS problem

2006-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to try instrumenting ugen next and see why it's returning EIO. I checked CVS but I don't believe any of the commits since 6.0 would have an effect here. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: USB MGE UPS problem

2006-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 16 June 2006 11:48, Daniel O'Connor wrote: usb_control_msg: 33 9 791 0 0x514f34 8 4000 USB error: error sending control message: Input/output error Set report failed FAILED ktrace shows.. 26140 newhidups RET write 89/0x59 26140 newhidups CALL ioctl(0x4,USB_SET_TIMEOUT

Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
? -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpR66K8f8iW7.pgp

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:24, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hmm actually I just looked through the code.. It appears that this happens because isa_irq_pending() is a noop unless isa is in the kernel, and it isn't in GENERIC. Perhaps those tests in sio.c should be conditionalised on isa too

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the test in sio.c for the AMD64 case since isa_irq_pending() won't do anything. -- 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

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
kernel a stub is built in machdep.c. .. although that only happens if DEV_ISA is defined.. I don't understand how sio.c can link if you don't have isa in your kernel because there won't be any isa_irq_pending() defined anywhere. WTF? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the uart ACPI attachment and the sio PCCARD one.. -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
an actual one. That's what makes it a warning and not an error :-) whineYeah but it's uuugly./whine :) -- 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: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems

2006-06-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 23 June 2006 15:39, Daniel O'Connor wrote: How's this diff? So hideous you are blinded and hence can't reply? :) -- 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

6.1-STABLE panic

2006-06-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that for test purposes). The verbose dmesg was shortened so I don't have a full copy, I have attached the partial verbose dmesg and the full normal dmesg. -- 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: 6.1-STABLE panic

2006-07-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 30 June 2006 10:21, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have an odd problem with 6.1 where it panics, and then when it reboots the system hangs solid just after printing how much memory is in the system, the only way out is the reset switch. Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault

Re: slapd - slow starting

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ldap shells: files -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: slapd - slow starting

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpbjTQgZm10a.pgp

Re: slapd - slow starting

2006-07-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
problem anyways. Yeah, I had to do this for 6.0 and hadn't reverted it for 6.1.. It took me a fair amount of frustration to figure out why, when I updated my system slapd was hanging on startup and I didn't go back and verify what was actually needed to fix it. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: Silicon Laboratories CP2101/CP2102 usb serial adapters FreeBSD

2006-08-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 02:04, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Daniel O'Connor was making an attempt, but I did not find any info whether he succeeded. He sort of succeeded but the resulting driver has issues :) You can try it here.. http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/ucp-0.01.diff.gz MD5 (ucp-0.01

SATA timeouts with 6.1

2006-08-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the same ID number (I am assuming that when the array is created it gets a moderately unique ID) but the new disk has an older generation number and so not add it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

ATA RAID oddity..

2006-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
no device found for this subdisk ie there is metadata but it has no drive entries.. It's not a problem as such but it is weird. -- 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: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
was testing a Promise 2300 the act of plugging the drive in caused a new disk to show up (which was nice :) This did not happen on the VIA 8237 controller (which, by the way, has a really really crappy RAID function, avoid at all costs). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
can find this in dmesg, same for pciN. Any chance this could be documented somewhere? (Or tell me where if it is.. :) I checked pci(4) and device.hints(5)) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: speedstep / cpu frequency control on 6-stable?

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
1.4Ghz) -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpLlAb1SD7pe.pgp

Re: Order of devices listed in ifconfig

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
motherboard vendor as to which order that actually is - there's no way for the OS to differentiate between an onboard and a PCI card. -- 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: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
can't say anything good or bad about them. I believe Promise *do* support FreeBSD quite a bit. Certainly Soren's commit messages indicate 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

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Areca cloned them! /sarcasm Promise cards have been supported for much longer than Areca (longer than Areca has actually existed as a company?) and it is my understanding they regularly supply Soren with documentation and hardware. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: gjournal and Softupdates

2006-09-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. If the power fails during the track write then you lose potentially completely unrelated data. This affects all file systems equally 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

Re: gjournal and Softupdates

2006-09-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that may result in really poor write performance :) -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E

Re: External DVD burner - connected via USB.

2006-10-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 20:33, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Is this supposed to work under FreeBSD 6.X amd64 at all ? Did you actually try using 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

Re: How to connects to Linux machine via null-modem cable and cu command?

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
command on FreeBSD? Two questions 1) Is cuad0 the correct port? Have you tried cuad1? 2) What baud rate are you using? (the -s flag) -- 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: How to connects to Linux machine via null-modem cable and cu command?

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and connect :) Of course if you aren't doing 8N1 it's a PITA but there you go. If I need fancy stuff (eg local echo) then I just use minicom (as un-unixlike as it is) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: How to configure a usb device

2006-10-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
are running a GENERIC kernel (which has all of the USB drivers loaded in it already) then it would seem FreeBSD doesn't support your hardware. -- 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: How to configure a usb device

2006-10-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
am guessing you probably need to install the palm/uppc-kmod port and then get PPP working. -- 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: How to configure a usb device

2006-10-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) the courtesy of following the instructions I'm supplying so I don't have to send you so many email messages! Doesn't look like uppc-kmod will help though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on an Epox nForce2 board (I can't remember exactly which model) and it has never worked. They all have AWARD BIOSen (if it matters) I wonder if it's a problem where a memory area is overwritten because there is more info from the BIOS than expected (ie floppy, CDROM, RAID). -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
curious to see if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times). OK, well I'll try it a few times and see :) Thanks for your input. -- 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: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I think most reasonable people are sitting - they want decent tests, and have a good attitude to fixing the problems. -- 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

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
doesn't reflect real world with but I *do* use dd in real world. Read what I said.. ... IN GENERAL ... -- 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

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of these things since I don't have any spare hard disks or much time :( The disks I have used have been fresh from the maker so they shouldn't have any trace of FreeBSD on them anyway. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: ndisgen intended to be the only way to generate ndis?

2005-07-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
expects to be linked to a .sys file. I suggest the best approach would be to submit improved documentation for the ndiscvt man page (and a new ndisgen page) along with some handbook changes. It would also be fairly trivial to modify ndisgen to take some arguments. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4.mumble as I have installed plenty of systems like that. I will try some earlier 5.x releases (say, boot only ISOs) and see how it goes. - 5.1 works. - 5.2 insta-reboot. - 5.2.1 BTX halted - 5.3

Re: IrDA question

2005-07-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
which is rather annoying.. It has to be 15-20cm away otherwise it won't work (closer is as bad as far away). -- 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: IrDA question

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
completed query completed query completed No peer station found The mobile phone had Ir switched on and I have tried running the command from various distances. Hmm, any way you can test it besides in FreeBSD? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
think the best way to rectify this is to test RC candidates on YOUR hardware.. This finds the bugs you need fixed at a time when people are very receptive to fixing them. It's not realistic for the release engineer to test on a lot of hardware as they are very busy doing other things. -- Daniel

Re: kb error

2005-07-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Thanks. What version, exactly? What sort of hardware? PS/2 or USB keyboard? Do you have anything in /etc/rc.conf? -- 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

Re: x for users slow

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I would say your DNS is broken. Either the forward or reverse lookup is timing out. If that isn't it then maybe you have a strange card/driver? -- 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

Firewire oddity..

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
: fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. When I tried this earlier with 65000 much larger files I managed to get rsync to use 125% of the CPU (no HT/SMP here).. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net80211 ieee80211.c ieee80211_input.c ieee80211_ioctl.c ieee80211_node.c ieee80211_node.h ieee80211_output.c ieee80211_proto.c ieee80211_proto.h ieee80211_var.h src/sys/dev/ath if_ath.c src/sys/dev/ipw if_ipw.c ...

2005-08-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 13 August 2005 14:27, Sam Leffler wrote: [Not sure why you're sending this to cvs-all] Oops, freebsd-stable@ is probably better. Daniel O'Connor wrote: ipw is still broken [for me].. Sorry but that wasn't the question. I don't believe the commit you are responding to changed

Re: USB camera

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
out why :( -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpEClwtQk3f0.pgp

Re: /dev/midi and /dev/sequencer

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it, but not anymore. -Dan You can try OSS drivers from www.opensound.com. You will surely get at least software MIDI support. AFAIK Rosegarden can play using timidity.. The latency is fairly abysmal, but if you're listening to a composition it's tolerable. -- Daniel O'Connor software

VIA 6420 SATA150 RAID on 5.4

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
mean [g]vinum either :) I am interested to know if FreeBSD will grok the metadata etc on the array disks. Thanks. -- 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

Re: VIA 6420 SATA150 RAID on 5.4

2005-09-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
BANC1G10 at ata3-master SATA150 ar0: 194480MB VIA Tech V-RAID RAID1 status: READY ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad4 at ata2-master ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master Have you tried pulling a disk while it's running to see how it copes? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: VIA 6420 SATA150 RAID on 5.4

2005-09-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 03 September 2005 00:35, Dominique Goncalves wrote: On 9/2/05, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried pulling a disk while it's running to see how it copes? No, because I don't know, if this controler and FreeBSD support hotplug for SATA disks. What about if you

Re: VIA 6420 SATA150 RAID on 5.4

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
'broken', but I can try to boot. When FreeBSD boot: ar0: 194480MB VIA Tech V-RAID RAID1 status: BROKEN And I can't mount the raid. Hmm that's not good.. A mirror array should definitely not be broken with one drive removed :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

6.0-BETA3 tests

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that option does but I suspect it might be stale from a time when the atkbd default device flags were 0, not 1 and hence the PS/2 keyboard was always seen by default. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Can't dump on ATA RAID in 6.0-BETA3

2005-09-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(master) using ad4 at ata2-master ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master I have been able to dump on ATA RAID in 5.4 (using a Promise FT100 TX2) so I think this is a regression. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Building Qt on 6.0-BETA3 amd64

2005-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
QString::makeSharedNull() *** Error code 1 Stop in /local0/tmp/work/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.4/src. *** Error code 1 It is built with.. WITH_CUPS=true WITH_KDE_PATCHES=true WITHOUT_NAS=true WITH_OPENGL=true WITH_XFT=true I'm just using the package for now. -- Daniel

textproc/aspell install problem

2005-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
with the PC in particular.f -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

6.0-BETA3 panic (vge)

2005-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a better idea of where the problem is. It appears to be tickled by doing recursive make operations on an NFS mounted ports tree (NFS server is running 4.x) eg make config-recursive seemed to trigger it pretty easily. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Can't load if_fwip on 6.0-BETA3

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
6:20] ~sudo kldload if_fwip interface firewire.1 already present in the KLD 'firewire.ko'! kldload: Unsupported file type if_fwe works OK 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: Can't reboot into single mode

2005-09-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
really booting into single user mode.. Try breaking into the loader (ie press space at the count down) then type 'boot -s'. -- 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

Re: NFS directory copies cause crash

2005-09-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a crashdump (or at least a stack trace via the console) so you could determine if their fix is applicable. -- 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: wireless, ndis and my ovislink wl8000

2005-09-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the error message. -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: wireless, ndis and my ovislink wl8000

2005-09-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is bridging the wireless network and your wired network so rl0 and ndis0 are on the same segment. Pick one or the other. -- 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

Re: wireless, ndis and my ovislink wl8000

2005-09-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
look forward to doing this all again with ndisgen when 6.0 is released. There are lots of Atheros cards you can buy (cheap ones too :) -- 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: Can't Logon as Root

2005-09-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT -PW And.. Don't login as root! Use su or sudo! -- 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 - 5596

Re: lpt0 always busy

2005-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
printer will toggle the BUSY line as it should.. I don't believe you'd be able to print on any OS if this was broken. Are you sure nothing else is using the port? (lpd, cups, etc) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: lpt0 always busy

2005-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/EPP extras) very very simple. Have you tried using lptcontrol to put it into simple mode? What do you see in dmesg? -- 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

Re: lpt0 always busy

2005-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
busy ... It seriously looks like the printer, cable or port are broken, or the printer is very very special.. What sort of printer is it? You could try printing to /dev/lpt0.ctl since that will ignore BUSY for the open. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: lpt0 always busy

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
difference is that lpt0.ctl ignores BUSY on open so lptcontrol can use 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 to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: Infra-red in FreeBSD... Remote control in XMMS... LIRC ??

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
will be committing RSN (when I get back to him anyway :) -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: application to check cpu / system temp?

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
= 1.30, 2.62; Volt. = 1.54, 5.67, 11.73, -10.68, -4.55 If you have functional ACPI support you can use sysctl too. [inchoate 12:22] ~ sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 45.5C -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to be ignored. Services like SERVERS, NETWORKING, LOGIN, etc, are all provided within /etc/rc.d. rcorder /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* I believe rcorder is not used to start stuff in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (unfortunately). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

ath problem with 6.0-BETA5

2005-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to this problem. -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpjbiqxg4M8C.pgp

Re: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c

2005-10-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:31, James Long wrote: wicontrol is obsolete and you should not need to use it, particularly for ath(4) devices. Why are you using it? Is some feature you need missing from ifconfig? The command I use most is wicontrol -L Try ifconfig ath0 list scan -- Daniel

Re: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c

2005-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:05, James Long wrote: Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:05:23 +0930 From: Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c The command I use most is wicontrol -L Try ifconfig ath0 list scan

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to a tmp directory on my largest partition. This is a per system policy issue though so doing it by default is not the right answer. -- 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: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
i386 Ahh that explains it.. Continue using wicontrol :) -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: Qualcomm modem via USB

2005-11-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
woulud say it's because umodem doesn't support modems that don't do multiplexed mode. See /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/umodem.c line 78. So, basically, it's an unsupported device unless someone writes the code to get it going. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: burncd and dvd-drives

2005-11-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it to talk to SCSI devices) -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: USB Card Reader Permissions

2005-11-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
or how to test a rule without rebooting. It isn't very obvious :( You can test your changes by doing.. /etc/rc.d/devfs restart -- 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: USB Card Reader Permissions

2005-11-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:20, Andy Fraser wrote: On Tuesday 08 Nov 2005 10:11 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I was wondering if someone could tell me how to set the permissions for a USB card reader when it's plugged in? I've been Googling for hours and found nothing concrete so far although

mplayer + bktr

2005-11-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it look much nicer :) -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
with xawtv and fxtv? Does the problem only show with mplayer? What other build options did you enable when building the software? I don't use either of those, but a small program I wrote which captures YUV frames and uses the Xv extension doesn't show the problem. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the mplayer lists to see if this problem appears on other systems. I'll try to do some research as well. Yeah, the long haul :( I was hoping for a magic wand ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) and dropped frames. I don't use either of those, but a small program I wrote which captures YUV frames and uses the Xv extension doesn't show the problem. Capturing only pictures at 25 fps (with mplayer vo) can be handled easily. Hmm OK. So much to learn! :) -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
signals to be missed. Strange.. I wouldn't expect to miss signals.. Missing frames I can believe - the picture quality sucks due to a long cable. Time to dig into the code myself I guess :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

2005-11-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and then the whole PC will lock up because the OS isn't polling the error register.. -- 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 - 5596

Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

2005-11-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a losing battle - you will be hard pressed to find a new PC for which the devices are properly supported. (eg stuff like onboard ethernet) -- 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

Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Barton. Look here http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ I'm pretty sure those patches are for 4.x.. P.S. But, if all else fails, FreeBSD 6 looks like the direction I need to go anyway. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bios, acpi...? Can someone suggest to me whether these are both safe choices? I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d). Am I better off installing 5.4 or 6.0? I'd try 6.0 myself. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
typing this on an Inspiron 8600C with ATI Radeon). Mmm, the radeon man page claims Radeon 9000's are supported without caveats. -- 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: Silicon Image 3132under RELENG_5

2005-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
corruption, etc, so you'd be better off buying another card. -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: nfs locking (was: Re: OOO 2.0 compiles but doesn't work properly)

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(or even 50) syscalls a second is a big CPU load unless there is a specific problem with sysctls or the cpufreq infrastructure. I run powerd like this - /usr/sbin/powerd -i 90 -r 30 -a adaptive -b adaptive -n adaptive -p 200 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

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