Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug >Russell writes: > : See, I knew there was a reason I hung on to all these 1M 30 pin SIMMs. :) > : Old 386/40s sure make nice little router/modem/whatever boxes. :) > > Until their hard disks go s

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-21 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 04:47:42PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Perhaps an option to CVSup to test a group of servers and render a "rating" > for each, or to choose a "best" one. Then an intelligent human being could > use this information to occasionally change which cvsup server they use. > > Su

Re: wine in freebsd-current

2000-02-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:30:34PM -0600, Adriel Ickler wrote: > After upgrading to 4.0-current and attempting a clean install of wine, I > saw this: > > ./parser.y: In function `yyparse': > ./parser.y:1624: syntax error before `}' > > in: /usr/ports/emulators/wine/work/wine-991114/tools/wrc/par

Re: wine in freebsd-current

2000-02-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:51:52AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:46:59PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > Wine thinks it can use byacc, but it needs bison. The patch attached to > > the PR ports/16344 will fix the build or you can just cd to >

Re: ATA Drivers and Kernel Panic during INSTALL

2000-02-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:10:29AM -0600, Thomas Veldhouse wrote: > No overclocked bus. I do have the Pentium 166MMX overdrive processor on > the board though. It used to have a 100MHz Pentium in it. However, if > this is causing ATA some problem, it probably shouldn't. Like I said, the > old

Re: HELP! Can not build kernel ... :-(

2000-02-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 07:11:00PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello. > I followed up the stuff posted here and this evening I want to change one of > our smaller server towards FBSD 4.0. Got the CD, have a complete new > source tree cvsuped this day and now I make a cd /sys/i386/conf ... > Within

Re: pcm and /dev/dsp

2000-02-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 12:15:39PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > In 4.0, the pcm sound driver works with my es1371 chipset soundcard for > playing cds. But I cannot play mp3s. When I use mpg123, I get the error > message "can't open /dev/dsp!" > This is an improvement over 3.4, however, where

Re: pcm and /dev/dsp

2000-02-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 12:27:49PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > Beautiful. Thank you :) > What about for isa cards? Which one is used for them now? I gave my only ISA sound card to Camran so I can't say for sure, but if you hardware the probe address the card ends up at that number and I th

Re: pcm and /dev/dsp

2000-02-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 01:23:22PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 12:27:49PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > Beautiful. Thank you :) > > What about for isa cards? Which one is used for them now? > > I gave my only ISA sound card to Camran so I ca

Re: pcm and /dev/dsp

2000-02-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 03:26:07PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 12:27:49PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > Beautiful. Thank you :) > > > What about for isa cards? Which one is used for them no

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-03-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 02:57:38PM -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: > > Also, it's persistent for legitimate design reasons, just like files > > are. Applications need to clean up after themselves. > > You can have many more than 32 files. Files are (usually) > well-organized and have names, so

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:01:09AM +, Nik Clayton wrote: > Quoting the whole thing deliberately: > > On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 08:24:35PM +, Nik Clayton wrote: [snip] > > To which the response has been nil. At this point, you're either all > struck dumb by the staggering simplicity and el

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:14:42PM +, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:19:57AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:01:09AM +, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > To which the response has been nil. At this point, you're either all &

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:49:06PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brooks Davis writes: > : You don't need to update /dev though. As long as you don't change > : anything else, a 4.0 kernel will work just fine with a 3.x /dev and > :

Re: Shared IRQs

2000-03-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:25:26PM -0800, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (cvsup'ed as of tonight) machine. It has a USB > controller (PIIX3) and an ethernet controller sharing irq 10. I'm not > much in the way of a hardware expert, so I'm wondering if this is safe or > if I s

Re: [URGENT] OpenSSH changes

2000-03-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 03:33:05PM -0800, William Woods wrote: > Is there actually a RELENG_4 (release) ? I have seen a couple messages saying > there is and a few saying there isnt. There is a RELENG_4 (cvsup'ing my CVS repository took forever this morning ;-), but there is not a 4.0 release tag

Re: mouse question

2000-03-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 05:27:30PM -0500, Will Saxon wrote: > Not certain what list this ought to go to, perhaps -questions so I > apologize if this is not the right one. -questions was the right place. This has nothing do with current. Redirecting to -questions. > I was wondering if there coul

Re: FreeBSD branches?

2000-03-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 06:15:37PM -0500, Ted Sikora wrote: > Does anyone know what they are now or will be? I want to follow > 4.0-stable if there will be one. Right now I have been cvsup'ing > from 4.0-RC to 5.0-current. I am assuming there will be: > > 3-stable > 4-stable > 5-current > > Yes

Re: 82559 information

1999-10-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, David Holloway wrote: > To David Greenman or.. whoever is maintaining if_fxp.c > I picked up an 82559 card from compusa today... > Guess what?! It's device id was 0x1030 instead of 0x1229. > > I adjusted my driver to match and it seems to work fine. Support was added in -cu

Re: ambiguity between -STABLE and -RELEASE

1999-11-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 07:47:23PM +, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: > just a very basic question that would resolve a dispute between colleagues. > > When one talks about Fbsd3.3-STABLE my impression is that such version is a > stage before the Fbsd3.3-RELEASE. In other words the -RELEASE is for th

Re: Make world documentation

1999-12-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 11:23:21PM -0600, Kevin Entringer wrote: > Recently someone posted a url that provided a quick run through on some > important extra steps to take while doing a make world from -STABLE to > -CURRENT, unfortunatly I lost the URL. I was wondering if someone could > post it a

New-bus patch for tx (kern/17601)

2000-03-26 Thread Brooks Davis
Hi, I've written a new-bus probe/attach patch for the tx driver and submitted it as PR kern/17601. It works for me, but it could definatly use wider testing as it's my first venture into driver hacking. If you've got one of these cards please give it a spin. Thanks, Brooks -- Any statement o

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:00:53AM +0200, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: > Maybe there are some people with the same problem .. or maybe someone > who knows what this could be and how this problem sneaked into the system. > I'm cunning -CURRENT for ages but since March 19 I am unable to compile >

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:43:30PM -0400, Eric D. Futch wrote: > Ok.. I figured I'd take this on on my way to getting more comfy with > FreeBSD. Check out my patch and let me know how far I've gone off the > deep end :) > > http://quake.nyct.net/~efutch/FreeBSD/if_vx_pci.c.patch > > Unfortunate

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:43:30PM -0400, Eric D. Futch wrote: > Ok.. I figured I'd take this on on my way to getting more comfy with > FreeBSD. Check out my patch and let me know how far I've gone off the > deep end :) > > http://quake.nyct.net/~efutch/FreeBSD/if_vx_pci.c.patch > > Unfortunate

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:35:31PM -0400, Eric D. Futch wrote: > I figured it would take more work than I put into it. It was just a shot > in the dark. I think I have one of these cars in my Linux box at home > which I wouldn't mind ripping out and sticking in this machine. Let me > know if it

Re: IEEE 1394 Firewire issues

2000-04-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:30:03PM -0800, Southwell wrote: > Ok Guys > > Help needed -- I would be grateful for any information which would be > useful for a project to provide IEEE 1394 (firewire support) on FreeBSD 4.0. > In particular to start with > the Texas Instruments OHCI compliant contr

Re: Bluetooth

2000-04-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 11:30:40AM -0800, Southwell wrote: > Is anyone working on BlueTooth support for freeBSD? I doubt it. We typicaly wait for someone to actually ship something before going through the pain of trying to implement support for it. Bluetooth has been demoed extensivly, but I do

Re: Bluetooth

2000-04-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 05:01:28PM -0800, Southwell wrote: > It would be good to be ahead of the game rather than behind it on this > occasion -- Well, get started then. ;-) Most people currently writing code have better things to do then write drivers for vaporware. The problem is that, people

Re: Anyone have OpenSSH + X11-fwd working?

2000-04-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:59:11PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > It still doesn't work at all, after multiple make worlds with the latest > crypto sources all around. I'm going to update the port and then try that > instead. It works for me. I just tested it from my laptop (current

Re: usr.sbin/xntpd missing in 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:02:34PM +, attila! wrote: > in 5.0-CURRENT as of this morning (Tue, 25) usr.sbin/xntpd > was not in the cvs files. xntpd is obsolete. It has been replaced with ntpd. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe

Re: linux ldconfig core dump

2000-04-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:14:57PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > As of about Thursday, Apr 20 I get this message when I try to run linux > ldconfig: > > Segmentation fault(core dumped) > > I recompiled the module and the kernel on this day so I think that's what > cause the problem, but I

Re: How to determine when something broke

2000-04-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:29:43AM +0200, Leif Neland wrote: > Because I can't do anything more intelligent to find my 2-printer-panic, > I'd like at least to know when it broke. > > It works in a kernel from march 15, and has been broken at least a week. > > So I cvsup to 2000.04.01.00.00.00 to

Re: error making world: stage 1

2000-05-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:12:23PM -0700, MikeM wrote: > Hi, > > This is the first time I've tried to install current, > so if the following issue has already been discussed, > please let me know where to find the logs. > > I am trying to upgrade from 3.2 Release to -current > but the build fail

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:16:08AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > (*) Speaking of which: why are we considering doing process > dumps into a _different_ swap-ish partition, instead of just > ensuring that all processes are sleeping in the normal swap > partition? If that was done, then they wou

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:49:24AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > The issue isn't with the size of the disk storage required, but > with the mechanism. Why dedicate 256M to a suspend partition, and > invent a new process saving mechanism, instead of making your > existing swap partition 256M large

Re: ftp and /etc/services...

2000-08-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:39:33AM -0400, Donn Miller wrote: > This is on a recently-built -current box. When I try to move ftp from > port 21 to port 2121 in /etc/services, I get a "Connection > refused" message when I try to login to anonymous ftp sites. Should ftp > be this dependent on /etc/

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:33:21PM +0900, Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: > > When kernel is built with static device wiring > (i.e. 'hints' line is enabled in the config file), > is /boot/device.hints required? > > Doing 'make install' without /boot/device.hints is failed, > saying "You must set up

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 03:19:15AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I do read cvs-all, and I missed it. Not did I find device.hints in the > relevant Makefiles. Can you provide a pointer to details on how > /boot/device.hints is used in the build process, or how having an > empty one keeps you from s

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:25:26AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > At the very least, there appears to be confusion about how to use the > hints. I can see two conflicting views here: > > 1. You must have a /boot/device.hints file, but it may be empty. This is minimally correct. I.e. that's what t

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:15:09AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Brooks Davis writes: > > This is more correct. The new world order says that hints are not in the > > kernel, instead they are loaded by the loader at boot time. By default > > they are loaded from /boot/device.

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:30:24AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:29:21PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > This is minimally correct. I.e. that's what the build system requires. > > This works if you build static hints into your kernel. > &g

Re: Anyone experience problems with the "tap" device in current?

2001-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:59:16PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > I just tried using tap in current. In both cases I don't see the > /dev/tapX devices with devfs and accessing it without devfs doesn't > work reporting "Device not configured". I tried it as a module and > built into the kernel. D

Re: CVSup package for -current

2001-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:19:28AM -0700, Adam Kranzel wrote: > I did not see one annouced by jdp, sorry for the redundancy if > there is already one available :) There are 4.x, 3.5, and 2.2 binaries on jdp's page. Unfortunatly, if you don't have compat4x installed the 4.x binary doens't work an

Re: wake up on lan driver support

2001-11-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:38:50PM -0800, matt wrote: > any clue to find the tech doc regarding the format of > the packet. I'd code such thing. It's a very good > feature for FreeBSD. ports/net/wakeonlan I'd really like to see some driver support for WOL for support of dynamic power control on

applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-16 Thread Brooks Davis
I've been trying to get applix 5.0 to work and I've been running into some intresting problems. The first one was that current has the getresuid syscall and the gtk12 build detects and uses it. Unfortuatly FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x don't have this syscall so you can't use libgtk12 with old libc's if i

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:17:08PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:43 PM -0700 10/16/01, Brooks Davis wrote: > >I've been trying to get applix 5.0 to work and I've been running into > >some interesting problems. The first one was that current has the > >

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:38:02AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Tuesday 16 October 2001 22:50, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > After that I tried using the converters and discovered that the > > > olefilter doesn't work

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:13:54AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > A workaround that I used previously is to compile up getresuid.so and > run Applix with e.g. `env LD_PRELOAD=/PATH/TO/getresuid.so applix'. Thanks for the tip. I was able to get the olefilter working with a similar hack. I m

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-11 Thread Brooks Davis
--lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 03:23:36AM -0800, whoever wrote: > clearly the device is opened by the previous=20 > instance of the program and is not closed.=20 > delet

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:13:58AM -0800, whoever wrote: > > how come it gets lost in the vmware case and not in your simple app. > also does ifconfig report that the vmnet device is opened by the pid > of your app between open and close of the simple app? There's one difference between vmware a

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:35:39PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > I saw your message. It wasn't clear to me that you were > simply exiting in the test, instead of actually closing > the descriptor. I suspect that vmware just exits, and > expects a resource tracking close on exit to free the > ref

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:00:51PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > The use of an MFS /var should also be settable. Otherwise installing > ports(packages) is just a total PITA. I had issues with the MFS /var and /tmp[0] a couple days ago and changed the code to move the "mount -a" up before /var an

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:23:12PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > One of the problems I have with a similar configuration is that the file > system checker never runs for local filesystems mounted on writable disks. > I tend to mount everything nfs and mfs, except for a scratch drive and > swap

Re: tape device names and devfs

2001-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:01:32PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > The rewind and non-rewind tape device names were changed under > > devfs from rsa0 and nrsa0 to sa0 and nsa0, (which IMHO > > violates POLA). > > They were changed in MAKEDEV long before that. MAKEDEV also provides > 'r' n

very strange problem with ps

2001-03-16 Thread Brooks Davis
I'm seeing a very strange problem with ps. I was calling "ps -U operator" to check the status of some dumps and it was working fine, but then I ran it again and got a kinfo_proc size mismatch. Calling it with no args still works, but calling it with -U doesn't. This is with a current as of this

Re: very strange problem with ps

2001-03-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:17:37PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:12:29PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > I'm seeing a very strange problem with ps. I was calling "ps -U > > >From what I can tell (I've seen this for a while), calling ps

Re: very strange problem with ps

2001-03-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 10:02:16AM +, David Malone wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:21:46PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > Ah, you are correct. I should have tried that. What a strange bug. > > It happens for any option which causes the sysctl to return no > processes

Re: Call for review... PR 25577

2001-03-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:14:13PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Cool. Does this mean that any of the foocontrol programs can go away? > I've long wished that we could have some of the wireless control stuff > go directly into ifconfig rather than having to run an external > program before bring

Re: Call for review... PR 25577

2001-03-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:51:27PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > One concern, and this may well affect other NIC flavors, is the list of > media types is a little annoying to parse. Hmmm... speaking Perl, I > suppose it could be characterized as > > /^\s+supported media:(\s[\S+(\s)?)+$/

Re: Call for review... PR 25577

2001-03-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:42:48PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > I'll try to spend some more time with it over the weekend, but I > certainly see no objection to committing it as it stands presently. > I *may* try it out on -STABLE (not entirely altruism on my part; it > would make my life simpl

Re: Call for review... PR 25577

2001-03-31 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:16:44AM +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > Can I suggest you add a DS22 for DS 22Mb/s which is going through final > approvals at the IEEE. I've added it and updated the diff for -current. I'll mess with the -stable diff Thursday when I get back from my short vacation. >

Re: Call for review... PR 25577

2001-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:28:38PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Well I can't see that since it's not an array and the values come > from iterating through Cisco's API and a direct query for the > transmit key. Look at ancontrol for the ugly & secret details! I'm pretty sure I've also managed t

Re: ** HEADS UP ** portmap daemon renamed to rpcbind

2001-04-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:49:59PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Question: Does the rpcbind program in -current have the same problem > > or has it already been fixed by whomever you imported the code from? > > (If it hasn't been fixed I'll be happy to fix it. I'm hoping it has,

Re: PATCH: media option for ethernet hw checksum

2001-05-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:11:16PM +, Terry Lambert wrote: > Here is a patch I have locally that would be useful for Bill Paul, > I think. I know, we could use "flag0" for this, but it seems to > me that this will be an increasingly common option in hadware. Should this be implemented as a s

Re: PATCH: media option for ethernet hw checksum

2001-05-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:59:57AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Personaly I don't think I would have wasted 3/8th of the > > shared options on the abomination known as flags... > > Flags can be device private, which can be a good thing. That's true. > I only use the patch because I know of n

Re: wicontrol && ifconfig after wireless ifconfig changes

2001-06-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:58:47PM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > After updating to yesterday's current, my "victim" laptop's wireless > card stopped working. > > It turns out that wicontrol wasn't setting the card correctly. Using > the nifty new ifconfig commands worked perfectly. > > This star

Re: wicontrol && ifconfig after wireless ifconfig changes

2001-06-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:26:41PM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > My apologies. It seems to be working now. I'd say pilot error, > except it's a shell script I call every time I'm working on it. > > If it happens again, I'll capture wicontrol and ifconfig and send them > to the list. If not, I'

Re: KLD-module(dir) naming conventions

2001-07-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:12:50AM +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > Hi, > it seems to me that most existing if_* modul-directories > are named in an inconstant way. > FE: > if_ti.c -> /sys/modules/ti-> if_ti.ko > if_fxp.c -> /sys/modules/fxp -> if_fxp.ko > ... > but > ... >

installworld failures in calendar

2001-07-18 Thread Brooks Davis
I've been seeing the following failure in my installworlds for the past week or so. I've been getting around it with make -k, but it's kinda annoying. Just now I took a look at etc/mtree/BSD.user.dist and noticed that the directory we're actualy creating is de_DE.ISO_8859-1 not de_DE.ISO8859-1.

Re: installworld failures in calendar

2001-07-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:18:06AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > I've been seeing the following failure in my installworlds for the past > week or so. I've been getting around it with make -k, but it's kinda > annoying. Just now I took a look at etc/mtree/BSD.user.dis

Re: installworld failures in calendar

2001-07-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:18:06AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > I've been seeing the following failure in my installworlds for the past > week or so. I've been getting around it with make -k, but it's kinda > annoying. I've looked around some more and I think

Re: device.hints

2001-07-24 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:23:16AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > I want to experiment with current. All went well on the build, but when I try > and install the kernel it stops telling me to install a "device.hints" file. > What do I need to do? I tried re-compiling the kernel with the "static" l

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:27:45PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to > be? I'm running it on my PIII 366 laptop. It's not great, but it's usable. The biggest factors I've seen effecting performance are memory related. Runnin

Re: Unknown PCI chipsets

2000-09-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:18:29PM -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I am trying to identify some PCI chips on my Toshiba Satellite Pro > 4340. > > Looking at sys/pci/pcisupport.c and dmesg, is it safe to assume these > are matches? Looking at the spec of the system, it seems logical. These are th

Re: HP Deskjet 840C supported?

2000-11-01 Thread Brooks Davis
[A best this belonged on -questions though it's not really a FreeBSD question at all.] On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:22:45AM +0100, Leif Neland wrote: > I've just gotten a HP Deskjet 840C (Bundled with a HP C200 camera) > > Is it just a windows-printer, and/or is it supported under Fbsd? Under Fre

non-root users can't debug applications (kern/22711)

2000-11-10 Thread Brooks Davis
After updating about five days ago I noticed that I couldn't sucessfully run gdb on my code any more. I'm pretty sure this is a real issue and that I've correctly narrowed it down to a small typo in sys/kern/kern_prot.h. There's a patch in the PR kern/22711 which fixes it for me. Could someone

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-11-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:59:03PM +, Sascha Luck wrote: > has anyone got the Lucent Orinoco Gold (11MBit/s) PC-Card working > with the wi driver in -CURRENT? They work fine. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:37:53AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Interesting. What other OS distribution put things that went into > /usr/local on their distribution media? I'm fairly sure that some of the software distributed by SGI on their unsupported free software media does this. -- Brooks --

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-12-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:46:27PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" writes: > : Is there a list of wireless pc cards that work (and how well they work) > : with FreeBSD?? > > There's /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, which says breifly: > Aironet 340

PCI changes break HP Docking Station

2001-01-26 Thread Brooks Davis
Hi, I plugged my HP Omnibook 4150 into my dock for the first time in a couple months only to discover that I couldn't attach any of the PCI devices in it. I'm running -current as of sometime in the last week or so. I traced the problem to the new PCI code comitted six weeks ago. Specificaly:

Re: [CFT]: ClangBSD is selfhosting, we need testers now

2010-04-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:32:45PM -0700, K. Macy wrote: > The current llvm-devel package is woefully out of date. Anyone wishing > to try this will need to compile the latest port. For the foreseeable future, doing anything but using the latest port is a recipe for problems. -- Brooks > -Kip >

Re: PXE Installation of RC2

2003-01-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 05:47:42PM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get FreeBSD 5.0-RC2 installed on a Thinkpad X21 laptop > without floppy or cd-rom drive. I'm booting the installation from PXE. > Note that this procedure works with 4.7, but I haven't found any > specific

Re: PXE Installation of RC2

2003-01-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:23:44PM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > For the archives, this is way too much work. Instead point tftp and NFS > > at the mounted ISO and you're done. > > Doing that results in a "can't load kernel" erro

Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, current! How are you? > > When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have > ``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. It works > pretty well and I was totally satisfied. > > My host is: 2x

Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:04:32PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hmm... I need installer with special kernel... Is it possible without > building full release? I don't know of a way to do it without building a release, though I think you might be able to get by with only a buildworld and build

Re: I've just had a massive file system crash

2003-01-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:03:52PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > FreeBSD's ``fix'' for this problem is the same as Windows 98's. > Specifically, there is a 5-second delay (tuneable: > kern.shutdown.poweroff_delay) after all buffers are flushed but > before the power is cut. Maybe we ought to be se

Re: 5.0 Ports List

2003-02-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:58:58AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First I love FreeBSD !! It Rocks! Now that I softened you busy people up. > > Where can I find a list of what ports 5.0 has? I am looking to setup 5.0, > currently running 4.7, with Apache PHP MySQL SSH for testing and help in >

Re: Wireless LAN

2003-02-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Gerald Mixa wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know wether FreeBSD 5.0 supports Wirless Lan cards based on a TI > chip. This standard is called 802.11b+ and is said to have 22MBit/s. They are not supported. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the o

Re: can't load if_gif.ko

2003-02-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:12:59PM -0600, Juli Mallett wrote: > It's easy to change kldload to have something like "Failed to load module", > but changing the result of strerror(errno) isn't possible in this case. It > is possible, however, to check for obtuse errno values being used that we > KNO

Re: Amanda backups, or dump(8) broken?

2003-03-04 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:31:27AM -0800, Will Andrews wrote: > Anyone know if maybe the dump format has been changed to the > extent that it breaks Amanda or something? In fact, based on the > "64+0" it appears that the header or something similar may have > been broken. I've seen reports that d

Re: Plea for base system trim

2003-03-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:43:15AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:54:13AM -, Subscriber wrote: > > Having just done two rebuilds for recent OpenSSL and sendmail > > vulnerabilities, I was surprised to discover that building the port > > of apache13-modssl required

Re: Plea for base system trim

2003-03-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:15:29PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote: > I have both apache-modssl and net-snmp running, but do NOT have the > openssl port installed. Everything builds and runs fine, with no > mods to anything. I conjecture that the problem others experience > is that they have installed

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and > if this is not agreed upon, then someone needs to fix case when loopback > device is not in the kernel config, and is going to be loaded as a > module. What is g

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:06:32PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:00:11AM -0800) wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > > To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and > >

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > What is gained by making loopback default? > > Nothing is gained. But it's neccessary fix this, IMHO. Not to mention > that our loopback device code looks terribly ugly anyway. :-) I certaintly agree the loop interface could use

Re: We have ath, now what about Broadcom?

2003-07-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 06:21:23PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > Why would Broadcom be scared? Obviously it's the _driver_ that controls the > power/freq output of the chip, so the responsibility of staying within FCC > regs is that of the driver authors. Of course, the "no warranty" aspects o

Re: We have ath, now what about Broadcom?

2003-07-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:36:55AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Thu, Jul 24, 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Chris BeHanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: Dual P4 2.4Ghz Xeon With Hyperthreading enabled...

2003-08-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:59:58AM -0600, David R. Colyer wrote: > No doubt this has been answered before, but I have an asus p4pe with a 3.06 > p4. Naturally, it is enabled in the bios. To enable hyperthreading do I > need to recompile my kernel with smp support, and if so...does this apply to

Re: twe driver, 1+ terabyte array, fdisk and disklabel

2003-08-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:10:27PM -0500, Mark Nipper wrote: > On 13 Aug 2003, Brooks Davis wrote: > > My workaround was to split the array into a 2 disk RAID1 and a 6 disk > > RAID5. Sysinstall will install on the small mirror and then you can use > > the RAID5 array raw.

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