Re: hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Axis wrote: > I have been using *BSD* for around 3 years now. My problem is thatI have > always used the console for system administration duties. I really want to > put a kick *** system together to run X with all of the luxuries. > I have noticed there is not that much suppor

Re: hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Axis wrote: > I have been using *BSD* for around 3 years now. My problem is thatI have > always used the console for system administration duties. I really want to > put a kick *** system together to run X with all of the luxuries. > I have noticed there is not that much suppo

Re: hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Jake Burkholder
> > Given your experience, Could you please inform me of which sound card and > > video display adapter works best with FreeBSD. There seems to be good support for the Nvidia RivaTNT chipset, and lots of cheap 16 meg cards based on them. If I were to get a new sound card soon, I'd probably get a

Re: hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Travis Cole
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:13:02PM -0400, Axis wrote: > I have been using *BSD* for around 3 years now. My problem is thatI have > always used the console for system administration duties. I really want to > put a kick *** system together to run X with all of the luxuries. > I have noticed there is

Re: hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Alex Belits
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Axis wrote: > I have been using *BSD* for around 3 years now. My problem is thatI have > always used the console for system administration duties. I really want to > put a kick *** system together to run X with all of the luxuries. > I have noticed there is not that much suppor

Re: hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Jake Burkholder
> > Given your experience, Could you please inform me of which sound card and > > video display adapter works best with FreeBSD. There seems to be good support for the Nvidia RivaTNT chipset, and lots of cheap 16 meg cards based on them. If I were to get a new sound card soon, I'd probably get a

Re: hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Travis Cole
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:13:02PM -0400, Axis wrote: > I have been using *BSD* for around 3 years now. My problem is thatI have > always used the console for system administration duties. I really want to > put a kick *** system together to run X with all of the luxuries. > I have noticed there i

hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Axis
I have been using *BSD* for around 3 years now. My problem is thatI have always used the console for system administration duties. I really want to put a kick *** system together to run X with all of the luxuries. I have noticed there is not that much support for sound cards andvideo display adapte

Re: hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Alex Belits
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Axis wrote: > I have been using *BSD* for around 3 years now. My problem is thatI have > always used the console for system administration duties. I really want to > put a kick *** system together to run X with all of the luxuries. > I have noticed there is not that much suppo

hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Axis
I have been using *BSD* for around 3 years now. My problem is thatI have always used the console for system administration duties. I really want to put a kick *** system together to run X with all of the luxuries. I have noticed there is not that much support for sound cards andvideo display adapt

Re: FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > > > > I'd just like to offer a hearty hi-ho for a MIPS version of > > > freebsd. I'd love to be able to put some of these !...@$* Cobalt Raqs we > > > have round here to a wholesome

Re: FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Doug
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > > I'd just like to offer a hearty hi-ho for a MIPS version of > > freebsd. I'd love to be able to put some of these !...@$* Cobalt Raqs we > > have round here to a wholesome purpose. :) Of course doing the install > >

Re: FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Warner Losh
In message Doug writes: : I'd just like to offer a hearty hi-ho for a MIPS version of : freebsd. I'd love to be able to put some of these !...@$* Cobalt Raqs we : have round here to a wholesome purpose. :) Of course doing the install : would be a lot of fun with no floppy disk If nothi

Re: Adding a PCMCIA modem to pccard.conf (fwd)

1999-07-09 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > I have a Lucent Venus 56k pcmcia modem. I have been attempting to get it > working under FreeBSD 3.1R. I have added an entry to /etc/pccard.conf and > found the correct "config index" (i think) using "pccardc dumpcis". After > resolving all the resource

Re: FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > > > > I'd just like to offer a hearty hi-ho for a MIPS version of > > > freebsd. I'd love to be able to put some of these !*#@$* Cobalt Raqs we > > > have round here to a wholesome

Adding a PCMCIA modem to pccard.conf (fwd)

1999-07-09 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I posted this to fbsd questions but got no response and was hoping someone here could help me. Thanks in advance, Wayne -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:41:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Cuddy To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Adding a PCMCIA modem to pccard.conf I ha

PCCARD and Vpp voltage

1999-07-09 Thread Bill Paul
Today I started experimenting with the Aironet 4800 series 11Mbps wireless networking cards. Aironet makes PCMCIA, ISA and PCI adapters. I happen to have the PCMCIA and ISA ones. Like the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE cards, the ISA and PCI cards are really PCMCIA cards fitted into a bridge adapter. Unlike t

Re: FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Doug
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > > I'd just like to offer a hearty hi-ho for a MIPS version of > > freebsd. I'd love to be able to put some of these !*#@$* Cobalt Raqs we > > have round here to a wholesome purpose. :) Of course doing the install > >

Re: FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug writes: : I'd just like to offer a hearty hi-ho for a MIPS version of : freebsd. I'd love to be able to put some of these !*#@$* Cobalt Raqs we : have round here to a wholesome purpose. :) Of course doing the install : would be a lot of fun with no floppy

Re: Adding a PCMCIA modem to pccard.conf (fwd)

1999-07-09 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > I have a Lucent Venus 56k pcmcia modem. I have been attempting to get it > working under FreeBSD 3.1R. I have added an entry to /etc/pccard.conf and > found the correct "config index" (i think) using "pccardc dumpcis". After > resolving all the resourc

Re: Sony Z505S [was: USB floppy & booting]

1999-07-09 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Andrew Heybey: > I also have my eye on one of these (or possibly the Z505SX: P-II/366 + > 128M). Anyone know what kind of ethernet card is built in? What Someone -- I don't remember where -- mentionned it was an Intel InterExpress (fxp driver) so we know it will work. > about the m

Adding a PCMCIA modem to pccard.conf (fwd)

1999-07-09 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I posted this to fbsd questions but got no response and was hoping someone here could help me. Thanks in advance, Wayne -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:41:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Cuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FreeBSD Questions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Add

PCCARD and Vpp voltage

1999-07-09 Thread Bill Paul
Today I started experimenting with the Aironet 4800 series 11Mbps wireless networking cards. Aironet makes PCMCIA, ISA and PCI adapters. I happen to have the PCMCIA and ISA ones. Like the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE cards, the ISA and PCI cards are really PCMCIA cards fitted into a bridge adapter. Unlike

Re: FW: NIS, + in the passwd file

1999-07-09 Thread Wes Peters
Nathaniel Schein wrote: > > I am trying to set up NIS with FreeBSD. On bootup ypbind has no problem and > if I do a `ypwhich` it will show the NIS master. Moreover, when I do a > `ypcat passwd` the passwd list is displayed. When I try to use `vipw` to > place a '+' at the end of the passwd file, t

Re: FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > : I don't know- it's very platform specific. I just wanted my kernels to > > : compile again. I think it's probably appropriate to not conditionalize the > > : procfs code bec

Re: Sony Z505S [was: USB floppy & booting]

1999-07-09 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Andrew Heybey: > I also have my eye on one of these (or possibly the Z505SX: P-II/366 + > 128M). Anyone know what kind of ethernet card is built in? What Someone -- I don't remember where -- mentionned it was an Intel InterExpress (fxp driver) so we know it will work. > about the

FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Doug
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message > Matthew Jacob writes: > : I don't know- it's very platform specific. I just wanted my kernels to > : compile again. I think it's probably appropriate to not conditionalize the > : procfs code because that information probably there, in a pla

Re: FW: NIS, + in the passwd file

1999-07-09 Thread Wes Peters
Nathaniel Schein wrote: > > I am trying to set up NIS with FreeBSD. On bootup ypbind has no problem and > if I do a `ypwhich` it will show the NIS master. Moreover, when I do a > `ypcat passwd` the passwd list is displayed. When I try to use `vipw` to > place a '+' at the end of the passwd file,

Re: FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew >Jacob writes: > > : I don't know- it's very platform specific. I just wanted my kernels to > > : compile again. I think it's probably appropriate to not conditionalize the > >

FreeBSD for mips

1999-07-09 Thread Doug
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew Jacob >writes: > : I don't know- it's very platform specific. I just wanted my kernels to > : compile again. I think it's probably appropriate to not conditionalize the > : procfs code because that information probab

FW: NIS, + in the passwd file

1999-07-09 Thread Nathaniel Schein
-Original Message- From: Nathaniel Schein [mailto:nsch...@prisa.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 12:54 PM To: Owner-Freebsd-Questions Subject: FW: NIS, + in the passwd file -Original Message- From: Nathaniel Schein [mailto:nsch...@prisa.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 12:49 P

FW: NIS, + in the passwd file

1999-07-09 Thread Nathaniel Schein
-Original Message- From: Nathaniel Schein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 12:54 PM To: Owner-Freebsd-Questions Subject: FW: NIS, + in the passwd file -Original Message- From: Nathaniel Schein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 12:49

Ariel RS2000 card

1999-07-09 Thread Len Conrad
Is this card a candidate for support in fbsd? There is support for Linux. www.ariel.com Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

more amd hangs

1999-07-09 Thread Doug
In my continuing efforts to get this freebsd box into shape for web hosting at my company (where it relies exclusively on NFS for retrieving customer data) I've been making progress thanks to some recent commits by Peter. Now I can run the heavy duty NFS access script and it completes its m

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
As John-Mark Gurney wrote ... > Adrian Filipi-Martin scribbled this message on Jul 4: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Anthony Kimball wrote: > > > > > > > > Lizard has a tetris game built in for those long waits... > > > Now THAT is cool. > > > > Using the "holistic emergency shell" on vty4 when doi

Re: 10/100 highly reliable supported ethernet cards?

1999-07-09 Thread Jay Kuri
> We have a bunch of the Linksys EtherFast cards around here. They use > the PNIC, which is a follow-on to (or clone of) the 21140 series, and > Bill Paul's driver seems to perform quite well. Thanks, I'll look into that. > The EtherExpress Pro is probably the most respected card around

Ariel RS2000 card

1999-07-09 Thread Len Conrad
Is this card a candidate for support in fbsd? There is support for Linux. www.ariel.com Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

more amd hangs

1999-07-09 Thread Doug
In my continuing efforts to get this freebsd box into shape for web hosting at my company (where it relies exclusively on NFS for retrieving customer data) I've been making progress thanks to some recent commits by Peter. Now I can run the heavy duty NFS access script and it completes its

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
As John-Mark Gurney wrote ... > Adrian Filipi-Martin scribbled this message on Jul 4: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Anthony Kimball wrote: > > > > > > > > Lizard has a tetris game built in for those long waits... > > > Now THAT is cool. > > > > Using the "holistic emergency shell" on vty4 when do

Re: 10/100 highly reliable supported ethernet cards?

1999-07-09 Thread Jay Kuri
> We have a bunch of the Linksys EtherFast cards around here. They use > the PNIC, which is a follow-on to (or clone of) the 21140 series, and > Bill Paul's driver seems to perform quite well. Thanks, I'll look into that. > The EtherExpress Pro is probably the most respected card aroun

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-09 Thread Wes Peters
Mark Newton wrote: > > One of them has an SB16 with a CD-ROM drive. His attempts at installing > FreeBSD from that CD-ROM have met with abysmal failure: > > $ Next came an install on my Pentium 60 (previously running Caldera-2.2) > $ - A total disaster no way despite 12 attempts to instal

Re: 10/100 highly reliable supported ethernet cards?

1999-07-09 Thread Wes Peters
Jay Kuri wrote: > > Hello, > > Recently, I've had some problems with the new 10/100 Management > adapters from intel (they don't seem to work properly in my hardware) > > Can anyone recommend some good stable 10/100 PCI NIC? I've used > the Dec-Ethernet chipset 2x44x but only on

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-09 Thread Wes Peters
Mark Newton wrote: > > One of them has an SB16 with a CD-ROM drive. His attempts at installing > FreeBSD from that CD-ROM have met with abysmal failure: > > $ Next came an install on my Pentium 60 (previously running Caldera-2.2) > $ - A total disaster no way despite 12 attempts to insta

Anybody porting Apple´s Darwin Streaming Server back to FreeBSD?

1999-07-09 Thread Christoph Sold
Hi Folks, the subject says it all: does anybody work on porting Apple´s Darwin Streaming Server to FreeBSD? I do not want to duplicate the process... Thanks -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 10/100 highly reliable supported ethernet cards?

1999-07-09 Thread Wes Peters
Jay Kuri wrote: > > Hello, > > Recently, I've had some problems with the new 10/100 Management > adapters from intel (they don't seem to work properly in my hardware) > > Can anyone recommend some good stable 10/100 PCI NIC? I've used > the Dec-Ethernet chipset 2x44x but only o

Anybody porting Apple´s Darwin Streaming Serverback to FreeBSD?

1999-07-09 Thread Christoph Sold
Hi Folks, the subject says it all: does anybody work on porting Apple´s Darwin Streaming Server to FreeBSD? I do not want to duplicate the process... Thanks -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

10/100 highly reliable supported ethernet cards?

1999-07-09 Thread Jay Kuri
Hello, Recently, I've had some problems with the new 10/100 Management adapters from intel (they don't seem to work properly in my hardware) Can anyone recommend some good stable 10/100 PCI NIC? I've used the Dec-Ethernet chipset 2x44x but only on on-board ethernet... can anyo

10/100 highly reliable supported ethernet cards?

1999-07-09 Thread Jay Kuri
Hello, Recently, I've had some problems with the new 10/100 Management adapters from intel (they don't seem to work properly in my hardware) Can anyone recommend some good stable 10/100 PCI NIC? I've used the Dec-Ethernet chipset 2x44x but only on on-board ethernet... can any

Re: sigaction inconsistancy (here I go again)

1999-07-09 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> >Also, I haven't gone into the code yet, but the floating point > registers are not saved into the sigcontext so that they can be > inspected and modified as appropriate. > > Thanks, > John If I recall correctly - I think there's a discussion of why this is the case in the -hackers ma

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now works under New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-09 Thread Bruce Evans
>this is problematic. > >you cannot add a new element before the pending firing because you can't >tell how far into the present trigger you are. This is not a problem for readable counters like the i8254. The problem for the i8254 is that reading and writing it takes a long time (perhaps 5 usec

Re: sigaction inconsistancy (here I go again)

1999-07-09 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> >Also, I haven't gone into the code yet, but the floating point > registers are not saved into the sigcontext so that they can be > inspected and modified as appropriate. > > Thanks, > John If I recall correctly - I think there's a discussion of why this is the case in the -hackers m

Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap.

1999-07-09 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 20:59:58 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > With that in mind, how about this patch (in conjunction with the patch to > login.conf in the original PR, which just updates a comment)? This looks much better. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org wit

re: HELP!! Slice info disappeared

1999-07-09 Thread Josef Karthauser
Hi Kazukiyo, This is certainly possible. I've enclosed a hack from Niall Smart that should generated enough information to for you to reconstruct it. I'm working on a general solution to this for inclusion FreeBSD as shipped, but it's at home and I'm at work, that said it's Niall's basic code s

Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap.

1999-07-09 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 20:59:58 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > With that in mind, how about this patch (in conjunction with the patch to > login.conf in the original PR, which just updates a comment)? This looks much better. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-09 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
p...@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) writes: > But shouldn't you still be able to use the timer in the local apic ? Did you read the last paragraph in my message? Here it is again: > >It's been a while since I looked at the documentation, but it *might* > >be possible that the local API

Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

1999-07-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
Robert Watson wrote: >> - How can I choose a guaranteed free TCP port? > >www.iana.org >IANA -- Internat Assigned Numbers Authority This is fine in theory, but doesn't work quite as well in practice. I spent several years (unsuccessfully) trying to convince a sister company that allocating TCP po

Re: Wrong comment in VM code?

1999-07-09 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
zzh...@cs.binghamton.edu (Zhihui Zhang) writes: > At the beginning of the file vm_object.c, we have the following comment: > > The only items within the object structure which are modified after time > of creation are: > > reference count locked by object's lock > pager routine

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
But shouldn't you still be able to use the timer in the local apic ? In message <86k8sajlmz@not.demophon.com>, Ville-Pertti Keinonen writes: > >p...@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) writes: > >> Somebody should study the abilities of the on-cpu APIC for this >> for pentium ff. machines.

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-09 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
p...@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) writes: > Somebody should study the abilities of the on-cpu APIC for this > for pentium ff. machines. The local APIC would work very nicely, but I'm not sure that you can enable it reliably in a non-SMP configuration. AFAIK most BIOSes don't provide a

re: HELP!! Slice info disappeared

1999-07-09 Thread Josef Karthauser
Hi Kazukiyo, This is certainly possible. I've enclosed a hack from Niall Smart that should generated enough information to for you to reconstruct it. I'm working on a general solution to this for inclusion FreeBSD as shipped, but it's at home and I'm at work, that said it's Niall's basic code

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-09 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Poul-Henning Kamp) writes: > But shouldn't you still be able to use the timer in the local apic ? Did you read the last paragraph in my message? Here it is again: > >It's been a while since I looked at the documentation, but it *might* > >be possible that the local APIC tim

Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

1999-07-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - How can I choose a guaranteed free TCP port? > >www.iana.org >IANA -- Internat Assigned Numbers Authority This is fine in theory, but doesn't work quite as well in practice. I spent several years (unsuccessfully) trying to convince a sister company th

Re: Wrong comment in VM code?

1999-07-09 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zhihui Zhang) writes: > At the beginning of the file vm_object.c, we have the following comment: > > The only items within the object structure which are modified after time > of creation are: > > reference count locked by object's lock > pager routine locke

Re: new loader question / module question

1999-07-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Ok, ok, this message is a few months old, but better late than never, right? (<-- retorical question, no need to actually answer... ;) Kelly Yancey wrote: > > I was working on a module and need to be able to pass parameters to the > module (preferably without having to compile them in). I notic

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
But shouldn't you still be able to use the timer in the local apic ? In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ville-Pertti Keinonen writes: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Poul-Henning Kamp) writes: > >> Somebody should study the abilities of the on-cpu APIC for this >> for pentium ff. machines. > >The local APIC

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-09 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Poul-Henning Kamp) writes: > Somebody should study the abilities of the on-cpu APIC for this > for pentium ff. machines. The local APIC would work very nicely, but I'm not sure that you can enable it reliably in a non-SMP configuration. AFAIK most BIOSes don't provide an MP