ide_pci.c DMA broken

1999-07-21 Thread Christopher Masto
LIM options DUMMYNET options USER_LDT #optionsVM86 #optionsVESA options P1003_1B options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options _KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L I really don't know crap about what's going on in that part of the kernel, b

-current broken?

1999-08-18 Thread Christopher Masto
n't been repaired by then, I'll dig into it. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubsc

Re: fsck of /, related to last post.

1999-12-30 Thread Christopher Masto
tually say what's going on instead of confusing the hell out of people, since there seems to be a thread on this every day on -current. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net

Re: apm suspend ??

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher Masto
as > > just deleting code that had been obsolete for a while now. > > I don't get it either - will try to revert to -CURRENT as of jan 5th, > and see if it works again ... Sometimes the "enter" at the end of the command is sufficient to wake the machine back

Re: Neat little DPT utils...

2000-01-19 Thread Christopher Masto
that some developers base their work on older releases rather than chase the moving target of -current. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free t

Re: Moused hanging...

2000-01-24 Thread Christopher Masto
s). This used to happen to me a lot with my Mouse Systems PS/2 mouse. I blamed it on static. I'm not sure when or why it stopped happening. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://ww

Re: recording does not work

2000-02-04 Thread Christopher Masto
rt 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5 drq 1,5 on isa0 sbc0: setting card to irq 5, drq 1, 5 pcm1: on sbc0 pcm: setmap 8000, 2000; 0xc807e000 -> 8000 pcm: setmap a000, 2000; 0xc808 -> a000 unknown0: at port 0x200-0x207 on isa0 unknown1: at port 0x620-0x623 on isa0 -- Chri

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

2000-02-10 Thread Christopher Masto
ould go out and grab the xmms port tar file from ftpX.freebsd.org, extract it to the appropriate place, then do a make as usual. I haven't had time to try to implement it, though. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: status of 'device awe' ?

2000-02-23 Thread Christopher Masto
less of the input source. There are just so many things broken right now, I haven't got time to worry about not having sound recording, but it'll be sad if 4.0 is released in this state. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two queries [ KDE / XFree86 ]

2000-02-29 Thread Christopher Masto
se" Option "Resolution" "100" Option "Buttons""5" Option "Protocol""Auto" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communicat

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-02-29 Thread Christopher Masto
o free memory on the Amiga, and slowly running out of chip RAM. In any case, one major offender is imlib. Since I've recently gone Gnome, I've had to turn off imlib's "MIT-SHM shared memory" option or things would go bad after a few minutes or hours of use. -- Christopher

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-02-29 Thread Christopher Masto
) Uh.. ipcrm? The problem is that I always end up taking something out that's in use.. or intentionally left around unattached, so it just _looks_ like it's not in use. I think imlib does this as some sort of cache (ugh!). Then I experience a variety of even more annoying random be

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-03-01 Thread Christopher Masto
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:57:19PM -0600, Ade Lovett wrote: > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:41:43PM -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: > > > > In any case, one major offender is imlib. Since I've recently gone > > Gnome, I've had to turn off imlib's "MIT-SHM

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-03-01 Thread Christopher Masto
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:54:35AM -0500, Adam wrote: > #!/bin/sh > ipcs | sed "s/[ ][ ]*/ /g" | cut -f 2 -d" " | sed > "s/[^0-9]//g" | xargs -t -n 1 ipcrm -m Always with the sed. ipcrm `ipcs -m | awk '$1 == "m" { print &qu

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-03-01 Thread Christopher Masto
perating system service to ensure that badly written programs don't fail to release resources when they crash. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free y

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-03-01 Thread Christopher Masto
norganized, and uses up a very scarce resource. > The OS has no way of knowing whether an application wants its shared > memory segments to survive after it terminates. That's unfortunate. That's one of the reasons I try to stay away from SysV IPC. I don't like to have to

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-03-01 Thread Christopher Masto
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:30:08PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Masto writes: > > >SysV shared memory is limited, unnamed, unorganized, and uses up a > >very scarce resource. > > You know, you should go back in the

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages & vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread Christopher Masto
or something else!) Well, I just had much the same blowup with source from last night and I'm using vinum, (and not vn or ccd). Recompiling now to see if it's still there. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTEC

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages & vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread Christopher Masto
I/O read failure: (error code=0) bp 0xc6321358 vp 0xcc6a9500 size: 0, resid: 0, a_count: 4248, valid: 0x0 nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 2 /etc/rc: mktemp: I/O error Thu Aug 26 16:14:22 EDT 1999cu: Got hangup signal I'll let you know if the patch to vinum cures it. -

Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages & vm_fault)

1999-08-26 Thread Christopher Masto
number */ > > devminor = minor(dev); > +dev->si_bsize_phys = DEV_BSIZE; > +dev->si_bsize_best = BLKDEV_IOSIZE; > +dev->si_bsize_max = MAXBSIZE; Bingo! Thank you. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTE

Can't start vinum with new kernels

1999-10-03 Thread Christopher Masto
troller iicbus0 controller iicbb0 device ic0 at iicbus? device iic0 at iicbus? device iicsmb0 at iicbus? options SOFTUPDATES options NETATALK options VESA options IPFIREWALL options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10

SOLVED (partly): Re: Can't start vinum with new kernels

1999-10-03 Thread Christopher Masto
I found out what was causing "Can't get device list: Cannot allocate memory".. libdevstat mismatch. Now I'm getting a panic, but hopefully I'll have a decent backtrace out of it soon. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Commun

Re: SOLVED (partly): Re: Can't start vinum with new kernels

1999-10-03 Thread Christopher Masto
c4004640,c1062800,cc734500,cc734500) at vn_ioctl+0x114 ioctl(cc734500,cdacff80,4,bfbfd4f0,4) at ioctl+0x20b syscall(2f,2f,2f,4,bfbfd4f0) at syscall+0x195 Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x26 Waiting for the dump now.. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey

vinum panic

1999-10-03 Thread Christopher Masto
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 03:09:02PM -0400, Christopher Masto wrote: > Now I'm getting a panic, but hopefully I'll have a decent backtrace > out of it soon. Well... #0 0xc018a06b in getblk (vp=0x0, blkno=0x8, size=0x1000, slpflag=0x0, slptimeo=0x0) at ../../kern/vfs_bio.c:2110 #

Re: vinum panic

1999-10-03 Thread Christopher Masto
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:46:36PM -0400, Christopher Masto wrote: [...] > #1 0xc0188346 in bread (vp=0x0, blkno=0x8, size=0x1000, cred=0x0, bpp=0xcda6fc3c) >at ../../kern/vfs_bio.c:478 > #2 0xc014b40f in read_drive (drive=0xc1083000, buf=0xc108b000, length=0x2, >offset=0x12

Re: vinum panic

1999-10-03 Thread Christopher Masto
> using? It's 1.44. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

VESA module breaks USB?

1999-10-28 Thread Christopher Masto
cq=00 error=04 atapi_interrupt: error=0x24 atapi: phew, got back from tsleep Considering FFS root f/s. changing root device to wd0s1a wd0s1: type 0xa5, start 0, end = 4999679, size 4999680 : OK start_init: trying /sbin/init -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Commun

Re: VESA module breaks USB?

1999-10-31 Thread Christopher Masto
but I can try a hard boot at some point and see if it helps. I can also try to fiddle with the IRQs just in case, but they are after all being assigned by FreeBSD. For now I've just turned off VESA, but I think it is going to become non-optional at some point and I'd hate to se

Re: minor heads up - /etc/make.conf{,.local} being moved

1999-11-02 Thread Christopher Masto
nt to. Some of us have a use for it, such as putting site configuration in foo.conf, and machine configuration in foo.conf.local. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself,

Re: PC-Card ejection(suspend) with 4-current

1999-11-10 Thread Christopher Masto
rfect shed kill this; if the device has to be disabled before removing it, so be it.. but right now it's not possible to remove a pccard at all. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmon

Re: Fsck follies

1999-11-21 Thread Christopher Masto
s to get out of sync; as reads from a mirror set are round-robin, this can be very bad. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- ht

Re: Netscape and -current

1999-11-22 Thread Christopher Masto
)scp, sizeof (struct osigcontext), VM_PROT_READ)) { > + if (scp->sigcntxp->sc_trapno == 0x01d516) ^^ And that does the trick. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ps on 4.0-current

1999-11-23 Thread Christopher Masto
n there which defaults to the "open" position > and people who need to hide it can set it to "close" to do so. Please. Thank you. Not everyone wears the sysadmin hat with the face shield and gas mask, as much as it may currently be in style. If it can work both ways, e

Re: your mail

1999-11-30 Thread Christopher Masto
uot;s and the machine freezes if I put a card in (right after the beep). I noticed that the "new" code does the power off before the reset.. dunno if this is significant. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PR

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-11-30 Thread Christopher Masto
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:59:10PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Christopher Masto writes: > : I found that the only message printed was "ready to power off". > > bingo. looks like we're not deleting the child. Try replacing th

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-11-30 Thread Christopher Masto
my CDPD card with a running PPP session pretty reliably still freezes up. Hrm. No, it's not freezing up, it's a panic, but I'm running X and can't get to it. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PR

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-11-30 Thread Christopher Masto
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 04:04:40PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Christopher Masto writes: > : Hey, we're getting somewhere. It works, in that it stops the panic. > : I get the "ed0: unloaded" message, and the machine doesn't

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-11-30 Thread Christopher Masto
my laptop. :-/ Good luck getting yours back. I have the same model, and desperately hoping I won't also have to deal with Sony's famous customer disservice. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]h

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-11-30 Thread Christopher Masto
n"); + devi->isahd.id_device = 0; + } + } + */ + printf("pccard: ready to power off\n"); /* Power off the slot 1/2 second after removal of the card */ slt->poff_ch = timeout(power_off_slot, (caddr_t)slt, hz

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-12-01 Thread Christopher Masto
o be pulling the plug on network adapters, ZIP drives, etc. We need drivers that are capable of going away cleanly, or at least without a panic. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmong

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-12-01 Thread Christopher Masto
hat. The point was that lots of new busses ARE designed for hot plugging and unplugging, so it's not just pccard that needs to deal with it. Once the underlying mechanism is established for a driver to safely and cleanly go away, pccard just becomes a matter of telling the driver to go away b

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-12-02 Thread Christopher Masto
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 12:55:24AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Christopher Masto writes: > : Well, here's all I've got. It's basically just a sloppy version of > : what you suggested. > > I've cleaned this up, worked it aro

Re: ed driver, resources not released (was: Re: PCCARD eject freeze)

1999-12-07 Thread Christopher Masto
working, but > : don't have the time to dig into this (utun driver is more important :) > > Quick question. If you kill and restart pccardd does the problem go > away? It doesn't for me (I have the same problem). This last commit was unfortunate, as it didn't real

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-08 Thread Christopher Masto
uldn't remove the wd driver entirely until all of its functionality is available in its replacement. Of course, in reality, APIs change and old code isn't always worth the effort of porting, so sometimes you just have to let go. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonge

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-08 Thread Christopher Masto
f code. This particular message should be interpreted more as a suggestion that new systems be made the default sooner in -current in order to get wider testing, but at the same time, the old system should be left as an option until that testing indicates it's safe for it to go away. -- Christop

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-08 Thread Christopher Masto
clinging to the old code rather than getting on-board and > helping with the new code directly impedes the resolution of these > problems. > > Again, I say, think of what we're trying to achieve here. I fully agree that these things are neccessary and good. I just think we nee

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-08 Thread Christopher Masto
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:52:42PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Christopher Masto writes: > : Right now, I have no sound (not detected), no USB (panic on removal), > : can't use my sio pccard, can't eject my ed pccard, my IDE drives are >

Re: Is there any way to use ATAPI CD-R?

1999-12-09 Thread Christopher Masto
27;t yet have the interface cdrecord wants. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send m

Re: Lost PCMCIA sio (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!)

1999-12-10 Thread Christopher Masto
rds the end of last month. I saw the message about the missing #include "card.h", and that was it (along with a broken prototype). Still freezes when I eject, but I'll try again after cvsupping Warner's latest. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Comm

Re: Another current crash (cvs-cur.6183

2000-03-21 Thread Christopher Masto
the function involved, and I'm out of time tonight, so I'm backing up a few days to see if it goes away. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your mac

USB Zip 250 working (was Re: umass driver)

2000-03-26 Thread Christopher Masto
they're mass storage class or something proprietary? -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Uns

Re: Perl 5.6.0?

2000-04-02 Thread Christopher Masto
Mark a little slack on this, at least for a while. I've been running Perl 5 since before it was included with FreeBSD, and I've never noticed anything nightmarish about the build process. I tried 5.6 a couple of days ago, and it built and tested out of the box. -- Christopher Masto

Re: Perl 5.6.0?

2000-04-03 Thread Christopher Masto
y manner, which probably means any time before the next FreeBSD release. (With allowances for going into current first, etc.). -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yours

Re: Another current crash (cvs-cur.6183

2000-04-03 Thread Christopher Masto
[formatting recovered] On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:57:46AM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Paul Haddad wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Christopher Masto wrote: > > > I've been playing around with one of those iopener things and got > > > myself in

USB/Orb/kue/iopener/filesystem corruption

2000-04-04 Thread Christopher Masto
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:27:25PM -0400, Christopher Masto wrote: > Regarding USB drives, I have been using the Orb "2.2GB" USB-SCSI > version with some success. There do seem to be some serious > filesystem corruption problems, but I haven't had time to determine >

Re: USB/Orb/kue/iopener/filesystem corruption

2000-04-04 Thread Christopher Masto
omething similar... But.. but.. I only have the one drive connected. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org

Re: USB/Orb/kue/iopener/filesystem corruption

2000-04-05 Thread Christopher Masto
For those following along, it's definately kue-related. On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 06:40:22PM -0400, Christopher Masto wrote: > Next time I get a chance, I'll try: > > Filesystem-intensive activity without using kue at all, then a > reboot and fsck. Tested, absolutely

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-09 Thread Christopher Masto
r 'bochs' or ... Mmm.. or, giving forth the ability to do in/out instructions, so the non-generic code would be entirely in the add-on forth piece. I'm not sure if there are any security implications there.. at boot time the machine is essentially as single-user as it's ever

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-09 Thread Christopher Masto
> > extern void ficlOutb(FICL_VM *pVM); > > extern void ficlInb(FICL_VM *pVM); I'm an idiot. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your

Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Masto
?? Is 2:28.99 netscape 5409 ?? S 0:00.94 xchat 12638 ?? I 0:00.15 rxvt -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon --

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Masto
G=128 I can increase it more, but I think this is quite a ridiculous amount of shared memory to be using. Something must be wrong. I am now searching for a way to disable the MIT-SHM extension in the X server, but I think I may have to recompile. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Mon

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Masto
in the hardware driver area. I'm using a dual-headed configuration with a Voodoo 3 and a Number Nine (S3 ViRGE VX). -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, fr

Re: Gnome INSANE shared memory usage

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Masto
ing? (Mine is tdfx and s3virge) -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-16 Thread Christopher Masto
> but not a wide-open capability to specify any hostname. Huh? Security through ignorance? -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the

Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature

2000-07-16 Thread Christopher Masto
vironments. I just find it incredibly convenient to be able to install LPRng on a bunch of client machines and just rm /etc/printcap, set $PRINTER, and be done with it. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for review (LPDEST vs PRINTER)

2000-08-03 Thread Christopher Masto
SysV commands that LPDEST takes precedence. It's probably just an oversight. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.free

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Christopher Masto
I'd rather see cdrecord work on ATAPI CD-Rs. burncd gives me a lot of trouble. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon --

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Christopher Masto
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:50:11PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Christopher Masto writes: > > I'd rather see cdrecord work on ATAPI CD-Rs. burncd gives me a lot of > > trouble. > > As cdrecord isn't part of FreeBSD, this is clearly the wrong place to > ask about

Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6

2000-10-24 Thread Christopher Masto
The solution is very simple. Put a statically linked Perl in /sbin, and write the startup system in Perl. For user convenience, it should have a Gnome interface and a PostgreSQL backend, so we should also put X and pgsql in /sbin. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-12-07 Thread Christopher Masto
ugh more expensive and somehow inferior, although I don't understand the exact inferiorities. I am thinking of getting one of these things, despite my strong desire to avoid owning such a stupid looking piece of hardware. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Comm

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-12-08 Thread Christopher Masto
That's my primary concern. I only have FreeBSD, so if it requires any proprietary software at all, I can't use it. Besides that, I'll only be using this 10 feet away from the base. :-) -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications [EMAIL PRO

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-12-09 Thread Christopher Masto
#x27;t believe everything you read, try to verify it > first. I got that quote by asking a friend of mine who owns both products. > If you're only 10 feet from the base, save several hundred dollars and buy > a 4 meter patch cable. Thanks, that hadn't occurred to m

Running 4.0, a few weirdies

1999-01-24 Thread Christopher Masto
I ntpdated it back to normal, but next time I rebooted, it had gone ahead a couple of hours. I've now booted my week-old kernel, and the time was not altered. That's all that I noticed. I will try another update to get Matt's vm fix.. if it still panics, I'll get a proper backt

Re: Running 4.0, a few weirdies

1999-01-24 Thread Christopher Masto
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 03:46:53AM -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: > That's all that I noticed. I will try another update to get Matt's vm > fix.. if it still panics, I'll get a proper backtrace. And yes, I'm > using INVARIANTS. Well, I resupped and rebuilt, and

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-26 Thread Christopher Masto
ailable). Of course, I'm now running afoul of 4.0-related libtool breakage in the ports collection, but it's not exactly a mystery to fix. -- Christopher MastoDirector of Operations NetMonger Communications ch...@netmonger.neti...@netmonger.nethttp://www.netmonge

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Christopher Masto
to say "it's OK to use extra braces or parenthesis when it makes your code more comprehensible". Perhaps you could repeat it? > >so I'm going to do it later tonight.. > > If you commit it, then I will back it out. This list is getting almost as bad as perl5-porte

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Christopher Masto
preferences of the FreeBSD core team. Such a document should either not be provided, peppered with disclaimers about its purpose, or (IMHO preferably) contain correct recommendations. The inertia here sometimes is truly astounding. The apparent infallability of code and historical doc

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Christopher Masto
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably p

Network/ARP problem? Maybe pn driver?

1999-01-29 Thread Christopher Masto
hine is not mine; I will only have access to it for another week or so, but during that time I will be able to do any testing or diagnostics needed. I'd appreciate any ideas or suggestions. -- Christopher MastoDirector of Operations NetMonger Communications ch...@netmonger.net

Re: Network/ARP problem? Maybe pn driver?

1999-01-29 Thread Christopher Masto
replies > do show up but arp doesn't use them). Good idea. Hmm. Running tcpdump seems to make the problem go away. The ARP replies show up immediately appear in the table. Clue. -- Christopher MastoDirector of Operations NetMonger Communications ch...@netmonger.net

Re: Network/ARP problem? Maybe pn driver?

1999-01-29 Thread Christopher Masto
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Christopher Masto wrote: > > I hope I'm not just being really stupid, but I think there's a problem > > somewhere. If it's a configuration error on my part, then I think

Re: Network/ARP problem? Maybe pn driver?

1999-01-29 Thread Christopher Masto
e a new kernel with this change and see if the problem persists. > Report back your findings (one way or the other) so that I'll know if > I should modify the code in the repository. I will have the results for you by tomorrow. Thank you very much for your assistance. -- Christ

Re: Network/ARP problem? Maybe pn driver?

1999-01-31 Thread Christopher Masto
ake sure that it was being properly detected and turned on, and it is.. but enabling the workaround all the time doesn't seem to help. -- Christopher MastoDirector of Operations NetMonger Communications ch...@netmonger.neti...@netmonger.nethttp://www.netmonger

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Christopher Masto
e so I could install it anew. Unfortunately, it's now been so long that I really have to reinstall _before_ I'd want to start on such a thing. And I'm not sure I care anymore. I certainly don't have the free time for some time to come. -- Christopher MastoDirector of

Re: was: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-07 Thread Christopher Masto
blessing. Also, having had sysinstall destroy my /etc/rc.conf on more than one occasion, I am grateful to not have it touched any more. -- Christopher MastoDirector of Operations NetMonger Communications ch...@netmonger.neti...@netmonger.nethttp://www.netmonger.net

Re: was: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-09 Thread Christopher Masto
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 10:11:48PM +, Adrian Wontroba wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 03:14:22PM -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: > > I haven't used it yet, but I definately think the idea is an > > improvement. I hate trying to update /etc after an upgrade.. if it's

/etc/hosts.allow

1999-04-08 Thread Christopher Masto
ample" entries commented out (the addition of ALL : ALL : allow at the top is not quite the same). It may also make sense to use reserved domains like example.com. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications ch...@netmonger.neti...@netmonger.net

UPDATING needs updating

1999-04-08 Thread Christopher Masto
Mightn't it be a good idea to mention the egcs move in /usr/src/UPDATING? -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications ch...@netmonger.neti...@netmonger.nethttp://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon --

Re: UPDATING needs updating

1999-04-08 Thread Christopher Masto
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 03:54:27AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:24:19 -0400, Christopher Masto wrote: > > > Mightn't it be a good idea to mention the egcs move in /usr/src/UPDATING? > > Now that both bootstrapping and -j8 seem to be w

New ATA driver and crash dumps

1999-04-20 Thread Christopher Masto
ld drivers don't get killed off until the replacement has the same functionality. Then again, wddump() is only 100 lines of code, so I should probably try to fix it myself before whining. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications ch...@netmong

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-27 Thread Christopher Masto
e and do our own OSPF. Hopefully nobody will start a fight over the license. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications ch...@netmonger.neti...@netmonger.nethttp://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- ht

Re: IBM's Via Voice

1999-05-03 Thread Christopher Masto
type "" and "w"? No, but I have the same problem. But for anyone else who can't even get this far.. I needed to install the "ldconfig-1.9.5-15.i386.rpm" RPM. Annoyingly, the "Audio Setup Guru" works. So close.. -- Christopher Masto Se

Re: zzz crashing in current OR inthand_remove not removing handlers properly

1999-05-16 Thread Christopher Masto
remove event. I must have lost that polling patch somewhere along the way. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications ch...@netmonger.neti...@netmonger.nethttp://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.

Re: zzz crashing in current OR inthand_remove not removing handlers properly

1999-05-17 Thread Christopher Masto
, so having to shut down to remove the card or even just suspend is rather tedious.) > The solution is to not poll and to make sure insertion/removal events > generate an interrupt which can inform the card's interrupt handlers > that there is no more card. Fortunately the interrupts do

Re: zzz crashing in current OR inthand_remove not removing handlers properly

1999-05-17 Thread Christopher Masto
ICMP_BANDLIM options DUMMYNET options USER_LDT options VM86 options VESA options INVARIANTS options INVARIANT_SUPPORT options DIAGNOSTIC options P1003_1B options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options _KPOSIX_VERSION=1993

USB fixes for cdevsw change

1999-05-31 Thread Christopher Masto
USB stopped working as of the recent cdevsw cleanup. This fixes it. Index: usb.c === RCS file: /usr/cvs/freebsd/src/sys/dev/usb/usb.c,v retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -r1.12 usb.c --- usb.c 1999/05/30 16:51:51 1.12 +++ us