Re: So I whip out a FTDI-based multiport Serial USB Adapter....

2013-02-04 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 22:05 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org wrote: FTDI's vendor ID is 0x0403, and FTDI stuff works fine in FreeBSD 9 and 10; I use it all the time. Sometimes aftermarket vendors who use FTDI's parts program different vendor

Re: So I whip out a FTDI-based multiport Serial USB Adapter....

2013-02-04 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 15:20 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: On 2/4/2013 3:13 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 14:58 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: On 2/4/2013 2:06 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 12:57 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: ... and plug it into FreeBSD 9.1-Stable

Re: So I whip out a FTDI-based multiport Serial USB Adapter....

2013-02-04 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 16:31 -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Feb 4, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 14:58 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: On 2/4/2013 2:06 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 12:57 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: ... and plug it into FreeBSD

Re: stable/9: Force ada1 to UDMA-33

2013-02-01 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 19:52 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Hello, I've got a (P)ATA disk in a special frame. The disk itself supports UDMA-100 (and has an 80-ribbon cable), but the frame isn't compatible with that. By default, FreeBSD negotiates UDMA-100, and the console starts to fill with

Re: time issues and ZFS

2013-01-21 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 13:33 +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote: After many trials (and errors), here are some facts: host: DELL PowerEdge R710, 16GB, mfi0: Dell PERC H700 Integrated mfid0: 14305280MB (29297213440 sectors) RAID volume 'r5' is optimal mfi1: Dell PERC 6 mfid1: 12393472MB

Re: time issues and ZFS

2013-01-21 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 17:35 +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote: ... What's the output of sysctl kern.eventtimer? kern.eventtimer.periodic is 0 Does the bad behavior change if you set kern.eventimer.periodic=1? setting

Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 12:30 +0200, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: Hi, Re-sending this one, as I've attached an image which was too large to pass the mailing lists, sorry about that :) After starting the system last night I kept monitoring the memory usage just in case I see something

Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 08:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Ronald Klop wrote: Memory chips gone bad? Power (or other) cables gone loose? Memory failures will cause intermittent and mysterious things. Easy to test, too, just run memtest86 on it for a while. Do that

Re: Failsafe on kernel panic

2013-01-17 Thread Ian Lepore
wrote: Its only a kernel option? There is no flag to pass to the loader? SAMI 17 2013 05:18, Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org: On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 23:27 +0200, Sami Halabi wrote: Thank you for your response, very helpful. one question - how do i configure auto-reboot once kernel

Re: Failsafe on kernel panic

2013-01-16 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 23:27 +0200, Sami Halabi wrote: Thank you for your response, very helpful. one question - how do i configure auto-reboot once kernel panic occurs? Sami From src/sys/conf/NOTES, this may be what you're looking for... # # Don't enter the debugger for a panic. Intended

Re: 9.1 file content

2012-12-31 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 17:33 +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: I'm quite happy to see 9.1 out and want to ask polite and benevolent question: regarding times on the site, are iso and img files the same as 2 weeks ago? To remind noble readers. I installed on my computers what was release at that time

Re: Can't build kernel with ndis

2012-12-26 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 05:35 -0500, Thomas Mueller wrote: I am trying to build FreeBSD update, STABLE branch, and buildkernel apparently snagged on ndis, which I don't want to do without. According to man ndis, I need in kernel config options NDISAPI device ndis device

Re: /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh, SYSDIR set to wrong directory.

2012-12-13 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 20:52 +0200, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Ian Lepore free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 18:14 +0200, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: Hello, My 9-STABLE buildworld broke in a very inexplicable way, I was getting an error

Re: /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh, SYSDIR set to wrong directory.

2012-12-12 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 18:14 +0200, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: Hello, My 9-STABLE buildworld broke in a very inexplicable way, I was getting an error on /usr/src/include/osreldate.h that I couldn't figure out until I started looking at the sys/conf/newvers.sh and what it does. It turned out that

Re: Using dhclient on WAN if on a box serving DHCP to LAN if

2012-12-07 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 11:38 +, Tom Evans wrote: Hi all Using 9.0-STABLE #1 r230946 - I found it out as I rebooted to prepare for 9.1, but I think it should be largely irrelevant of version. I have a freebsd router that provides all the things a soho router should on its LAN iface -

Re: What's the most effective way to restart net children?

2012-12-03 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 08:05 -0800, Chris H wrote: Greetings, I've always maintained at least a /24 since the early 80's. I'm now evaluating a new ISP, and am not ready to commit. Until then I'll be forced to use DHCP. My problem is that they are really mercenary about their lease(s) --

Re: Library Problem

2012-11-29 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 13:33 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 November 2012, at 06:01, Gary Palmer wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:46:51PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: On 28 November 2012, at 20:01, Devin Teske wrote: On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:36 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: I have

Re: When did Xorg remove support for keyboards, and mice?!

2012-11-26 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 12:25 -0800, Chris H wrote: Greetings, Seems I get bitten by this every time I build a desktop on a new freebsd install. After all these years, I'd have the _definitive_ answer by now. I just put (built) a copy of 8.3 on an x(i)386 (AMD32) box. Built/installed kernel

Re: Where do I purchace an unlock code to build a custom kernel?

2012-11-25 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 00:29 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: [big discussion snipped, including advice to include GENERIC] I full-heartedly agree that include-statement is good, but still $ wc -l /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/MINI 174 /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/MINI And this is just after

Re: Where do I purchace an unlock code to build a custom kernel?

2012-11-25 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 11:19 -0800, Jakub Lach wrote: That's good idea, albeit you are missing two points: - GENERIC is expected too be able to boot almost all hardware (is this correct approach?) - almost no one really needs custom stripped kernel, most people (e.g. me) do it for fun.

Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer....

2012-11-21 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:51 +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 2012-11-21 16:08, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 21/11/2012 15:20 Willem Jan Withagen said the following: On 2012-11-21 11:14, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2012-Nov-21 10:57:49 +0100, Willem Jan Withagen w...@digiware.nl wrote:

Re: [patch] Re: SU+J on 9.1-RC2 ISO

2012-11-03 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 09:08 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:00:27 +0100 Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: Though the last 10 years I have not had the inconvenience of having to deal with long fsck' s or bgfsck' s on servers or workstation installs, so I think this

Re: Why is SU+J undesirable on SSDs?

2012-11-03 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 17:06 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote: Have been following the thread related to SU+J, and am wondering: why is it considered to be undesirable on SSDs (assuming that they have good wear leveling)?

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-23 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: I found two good primers: http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#SUBVERSION-PRIMER The second primer in the

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and (Kingspec) PATA drive ATA status errors. Drive unusable.

2012-08-12 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 10:57 -0400, Wajih Ahmed wrote: I have a Dell D420 laptop with the ZIF interface and uses a 1.8 PATA drive. I purchased a Kingspec 16GB SSD and installed it. The BIOS recogonizes the drive. I am using the USB image to boot in verbose mode. Upon boot the disk is

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and (Kingspec) PATA drive ATA status errors. Drive unusable.

2012-08-12 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 12:29 -0400, Wajih Ahmed wrote: Thank you. I'll try it out. One question though. How do i modify the loader.conf on the usb image from which i am booting? Is there somethign i can change in the boot loader? If this is RTFM kindly point me to it. You can enter the

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and (Kingspec) PATA drive ATA status errors. Drive unusable.

2012-08-12 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 12:42 -0400, Wajih Ahmed wrote: Ok at the boot loader prompt i did as you suggested set hint.ata.0.mode=UDMA33 And that change did take effect as evedint by ada0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, PIO 512bytes) Unfortunately i still get the error

Re: Who is responsible for Heimdal/Kerberos in FreeBSD

2012-08-03 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 13:52 +0100, Attila Bogár wrote: Hello, I'm repeating my last month request. Who is responsible for Heimdal/Kerberos or GSSAPI/NFS in FreeBSD? I got a working NFSv3/Kerberos over UDP for EL6 nfs clients, but suddenly I'm experiencing NFS I/O errors on high

Re: OpenSSL from Ports

2012-07-30 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 20:36 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: Am 07/30/12 20:04, schrieb Beat Siegenthaler: Hello, Until today, when I was asked what WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes should do.. i was obviously wrong: I think whole openssl should be replaced, but : [mym:~] # which openssl

Re: 9.0-STABLE: Can't umount umass device

2012-07-03 Thread Ian Lepore
On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 20:42 -0400, George Mitchell wrote: uname -a: FreeBSD wonderland.m5p.com 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #9: Sun Jun 3 10:01:09 EDT 2012 geo...@wonderland.m5p.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WONDERLAND amd64 dmesg | grep umass: umass0: Bulk-In, Bulk-Out, Interface on

Re: Need help with nfsv4 and krb5 access denied

2012-06-28 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 16:25 +0200, Herbert Poeckl wrote: On 06/28/2012 02:07 AM, Rick Macklem wrote: The NFS server will authenticate nfs/tmp2.ist.intra against the Kerberos KDC, using the information in the keytab entry. The whole idea behind a host based principal like nfs/tmp2.ist.intra

Re: How to bind a route to a network adapter and not IP

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 23:07 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Monday 18 June 2012 23:03:34 H wrote: On Monday 18 June 2012 12:54 Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Monday 18 June 2012 00:00:51 H wrote: sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I loose packets because I use a WLAN adapter. Sometimes

Re: su problem

2012-06-09 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 15:47 +0300, Sami Halabi wrote: %su - Password: load: 0.00 cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd] 0.91r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2092k load: 0.00 cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd] 3.99r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2092k load: 0.00 cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd] 4.81r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2092k load: 0.00 cmd: su 30588 [ttydcd]

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-30 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:54 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard anything. I'm really getting a bit desperate. I have a system that I am trying to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0. I have built it and installed the kernel, but it fails to

Re: /var getting full

2012-04-27 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 10:14 -0500, Efraín Déctor wrote: Hello. I have a server using FreeBSD 8.2, and recently I’ve noticed that /var is getting full But du hs /var shows me this: 14M/var/ How Can I know what is using var to free space? Thank you. OS info: FreeBSD edh.edh

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-04 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 08:38 +, jb wrote: kpneal at pobox.com writes: ... You can appeal to authority by saying the Gentoo Hardened developers said such-and-such all you want, but it would be more useful for you to be able to make specific technical arguments yourself. Saying it

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-04 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 15:05 +, jb wrote: Ian Lepore freebsd at damnhippie.dyndns.org writes: ... But of interest to me is this: ... Text relocations are a way in which references in the executable code to addresses not known at link time are solved. Basically they just write

Re: Can't load many network kernel module in 8.3-PREREALEASE

2012-03-23 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 12:19 +0100, Quentin Schwerkolt wrote: Hi, I can't load many if_* module on FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE on amd64 and i386. I have rebuild the system from the latest source. When I try a kldload /boot/kernel/if_*.ko I have error such as file exist or exec format error.

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 18:13 +0200, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: Andriy Gapon wrote: on 22/03/2012 17:33 Volodymyr Kostyrko said the following: Andriy Gapon wrote: on 22/03/2012 15:19 Mike Tkachuk said the following: kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0 It might make sense to try 1 here. Also

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-11 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 15:07 +0700, Adam Strohl wrote: I've now seen this on two different VMs on two different ESXi servers (Xeon based hosts but different hardware otherwise and at different facilities): Everything runs fine for weeks then (seemingly) suddenly/randomly the clock STOPS.

Re: Xeon Processors with AES instructions and geli encryption

2012-03-07 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 09:09 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: Does the crypto(9) framework recognize and use these instructions? Looks like the Windmere-series Xeons will drop into my system boards; I gain two cores per CPU at the same time, so I'll go from an 8-way SMP system to a 12-way one.

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread Ian Lepore
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 19:13 +, Luke Marsden wrote: Hi all, I'm having some trouble with some production 8.2-RELEASE servers where the 'Active' and 'Inact' memory values reported by top don't seem to correspond with the processes which are running on the machine. I have two

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 03:44 -0300, H wrote: Doug Barton wrote: Just looking at the committers, of which we have over 300, only a couple dozen at most have ever identified as actually using FreeBSD as a desktop at my count. Taking the larger development community into account I think the

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 09:09 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: H h...@hm.net.br wrote: ... Forever installing FreeBSD Desktop, either KDE or Gnome, was a nightmare process, or better, to make it appear on screen was a nightmare. I have never understood the point of KDE or Gnome, other

Re: Regression between 9-RELEASE and 9-STABLE [PCIB ?]

2012-02-28 Thread Ian Lepore
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 19:15 +, Harry Newton wrote: 9-RELEASE works fine. csup to 9-STABLE and make buildworld kernel etc gives a system the hangs during the boot process. There are no error messages during the part boot, and no panic. Last messages before hang are: pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI

Re: geom vs. removable disks/cards (was: Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday)

2012-02-25 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 07:55 +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: In article 1330126840.7317.60.ca...@revolution.hippie.lan you write: On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 00:39 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 24/02/2012 18:23 Ian Lepore said the following: I've always suspected something in the geom layer isn't

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-24 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 13:50 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Thursday 23 February 2012 20:22:57 Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 22.02.2012 um 07:34 schrieb Erich Dollansky: tunefs -L NewDeviceName /dev/da0a Either this call or the mount command does not work randomly.

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-24 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 00:39 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 24/02/2012 18:23 Ian Lepore said the following: I've always suspected something in the geom layer isn't noticing that a CF or SD card in the reader got removed/inserted/reformatted, and un-/re-plugging the whole reader (making

Re: 6.2-Release ..ish.. CF + ata == freeze?

2012-02-14 Thread Ian Lepore
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 00:12 -0500, Jason Hellenthal wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 08:43:08PM -0800, john fleming wrote: Just thought i would post over here as i'm not getting a warm fuzzy from checkpoint about being able to find the root cause of an issue. I have a large install base

Re: Disable DMA.

2012-02-12 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 10:29 +0100, Peter Ankerstål wrote: On Feb 11, 2012, at 9:34 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 02/11/12 20:15, Peter Ankerstål wrote: In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-10 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 15:10 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: * Addition: device ichwd - Note: We do not use features of this driver given known problems with the watchdog firing during ddb and similar environments. I have no idea if this has been fixed, but I do remember it being

Re: Serial port stops working after upgrade to 9-CURRENT

2012-01-20 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 07:28 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Also, does this machine have ACPI support? I do not use 9.x, but uartX on our RELENG_8 systems is tied to acpi0, not isa0. It's been this way for quite some time (even our RELENG_7 boxes are this way). It works on systems that don't

Re: Marvel 88SE9480

2012-01-20 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 17:19 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: Hi, I tried this new controller http://www.addonics.com/products/ad2ms6gpx8.php which is based on the 88SE9480 chipset. Does anyone have it working ? I tried adding the PCI ID, but it does not attach unfortunately. {0x94801b4b,

Re: Strange 'hangs' with RELENG_9

2012-01-19 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 19:14 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: On 19.01.2012 18:51, Oliver Pinter wrote: CC: Alexander Motin On 1/19/12, László KÁROLYIlas...@karolyi.hu wrote: László KÁROLYI wrote: Ok, couldn't get it through... So here is it, uploaded:

Re: Strange 'hangs' with RELENG_9

2012-01-19 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 21:46 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01/19/12 21:05, Ian Lepore wrote: I saw in the eventtimers(7) manpage that there's a sysctl to change the timer, but when I used it the system timing went completely wonky (ntpd reported it was off by many seconds, a few seconds

Re: Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-18 Thread Ian Lepore
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 20:12 +, Joe Holden wrote: Hi guys, Has anyone else noticed the tendency for 9.0-R to be unable to accurately keep time? I've got a couple of machines that have been upgraded from 8.2 that are struggling, in particular a Virtual box guest that was fine on 8.2,

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