Re: 5.2-BETA: giving up on 4 buffers (ata)

2003-11-26 Thread Ryan Sommers
I'll also note in my FreeBSD current debugging of some drivers it was about a 50/50 shot as to if this would happen. Having to fsck every other reboot was only made less painful by the background fsck thing. Don't some BIOS' protect the superblocks as a kind of "virus protection"? Could this b

Re: 5.2 STABLE?

2003-11-26 Thread Ryan Sommers
Document of interest to you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/index.html The schedule can be found at (when RELENG_5 is scheduled to be branched): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/schedule.html Thomas T. Veldhouse writes: Will 5.2-RELE

ACPI and APM testing on Dell Inspiron 8200

2003-11-22 Thread Ryan Sommers
I'm having difficulty getting battery and thermal status. If I compile the kernel with APM support I get battery statistics but if I try to put APM/ACPI in the kernel ACPI reports that another PM system is enabled and doesn't load the /dev/acpi device. If I take APM out and compile in ACPI I ge

Re: DStumbler / BSD-AirTools Error with new Wi code?

2003-11-19 Thread Ryan Sommers
I upgraded to 0.3 and installed. However, I'm still getting errors no matter how I run it: dstumbler wi0 -o error: cannot use monitor mode on non-prism2 cards dstumbler wi0 -s error: unable to ioctl device socket: Invalid argument same for just running dstumbler wi0. Any ideas? Sean Chit

DStumbler / BSD-AirTools Error with new Wi code?

2003-11-19 Thread Ryan Sommers
I have been getting the following error when attempting to use dstumbler with 5.1-RELEASE-p10: error: unable to ioctl device socket: Invalid argument After much searching around newsgroups/mailing lists it looks like the Wi(4) code was changed and dstumbler never got updated. I found one patc

Re: 5.0 Install Troubles

2002-12-19 Thread Ryan Sommers
Thu, 2002-12-19 at 04:29, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 05:53:17PM -0600, Ryan Sommers wrote: > > Yah, there isn't a secure dist. I'm doing a full install now, to see if > > it hits it. I don't understand why only installing base would work on > >

Re: 5.0 Install Troubles

2002-12-18 Thread Ryan Sommers
Yah, there isn't a secure dist. I'm doing a full install now, to see if it hits it. I don't understand why only installing base would work on 4.7 but not on 5.0. On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:57, Nate Lawson wrote: > It sounds like you didn't install the secure dist. But I thought ssl had > been moved

5.0 Install Troubles

2002-12-18 Thread Ryan Sommers
I've been having difficulty installing 5.0 from the SP2 and RC1 images I created. I'm attempting to install in a virtual machine under vmware. For distributions I choose Custom and only choose to install the base, I would like to install/build&install my own selection of packages later. It gets t

Port package on RC1

2002-12-17 Thread Ryan Sommers
Today for the fun of it I decided to try installing RC1 on VMware running in Win2K. (very bored today). Everything goes fine until the ports installation. I choose all the default options, I have it running in a 256mb of RAM 10gb virtual disk environment. Like I said up until the ports installation

[Fwd: Compiling -CURRENT and PCMCIA support.]

2002-11-22 Thread Ryan Sommers
I got this back so I will try resending/asking it. -Forwarded Message- > From: Ryan Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Compiling -CURRENT and PCMCIA support. > Date: 21 Nov 2002 12:50:53 -0600 > > ?On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 22:13, Ry

Compiling -CURRENT and PCMCIA support.

2002-11-21 Thread Ryan Sommers
?On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 22:13, Ryan Sommers wrote: > My question is could I keep and build the CURRENT source tree on the > FreeBSD desktop, mount it over NFS to the laptop, and install it over > the NFS mount? Is the kernel on the 5.0SP2 ISO built with PCCard support? I installed fr