Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-07 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olaf Hoyer) writes: > Well, thats reality. > Sometimes the mobile telco hotlines are so overloaded, you cannot even tell > them that your phone was stolen. (Talk about service-but you get what you > pay for) > In germany, there is some list, where every cell phone can be enter

Re: One NFS cookie question

2000-05-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have one question regarding the usage of NFS cookies. I read the :following passage in the mailing list archive: : : : :The BSD code simpy re-reads all of the directory blocks until it :hits the right offset again whenever it gets NFSERR_BAD_COOKIE. However, :suppose you have a directo

Re: mmap cdev function in device drivers

2000-05-07 Thread Coleman Kane
One step ahead of you brian. I searched all over until I found it, he was writing a driver for the older pci implementation. He got hung up on the mmap thing too... Brian Fundakowski Feldman had the audacity to say: > I just want to inform you before doing a huge amount of work on this that > ov

RE: mmap cdev function in device drivers

2000-05-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 08-May-00 Coleman Kane wrote: > the memory region mapped by the PCI BIOS (in this case the 0x100 region > between 0xec00 and 0xecff), or an address of a mapped region within > kernel memory area? I had it return the former and it crashed the machine, > trying to use bus_alloc_r

Re: mmap cdev function in device drivers

2000-05-07 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
I just want to inform you before doing a huge amount of work on this that over a year ago, Stepehen Hocking started work on a 3dfx driver. His work seems to have disappeared from the planet, but you can try to contact him, and you'll probably get some old code to work with maybe :) -- Brian Fun

mmap cdev function in device drivers

2000-05-07 Thread Coleman Kane
Hello, I have taken it upon myself to write a device driver to access the 3dfx voodoo cards, just like the 3dfx linux driver that is available. I am using the linux code as a reference and have come to a brick wall while writing the cdev mmap function. What exactly is the return value of the devic

Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System"

2000-05-07 Thread David Greenman
>> >>It's basically Kirk, me, and Sam Lefler. It won't be ready until Q1 >2001. >> > >Hey, if it's not "exactly" you, me, and Kirk then there's a problem :-) > >Sam > >PS. Leffler. I didn't know if Keith Bostic was still going to be the copy editor, and thus one of the names on the cov

Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System"

2000-05-07 Thread Sam Leffler
> >It's basically Kirk, me, and Sam Lefler. It won't be ready until Q1 2001. > Hey, if it's not "exactly" you, me, and Kirk then there's a problem :-) Sam PS. Leffler. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Lazy binding

2000-05-07 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a strong reason why FreeBSD rtld uses lazy binding by default ? 1. Faster start-up times for programs. 2. Better interversion library compatibility. It doesn't matter if a function is missing from a library,

Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System"

2000-05-07 Thread David Greenman
>On Sun, 7 May 2000, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > >> On Sun, 7 May 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: >> > >> > > Can you also recommend any other books describing the internals of the >> > > FreeBSD OS which are a closer match than the above? >> > >>

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-07 Thread Doug Barton
Mike Smith wrote: > > > There were some famous cases where some criminals were located by tracking > > down their cell phone. The police needed some decision from court to do > > that, but after that, it was a short way to go. The GSM nets have some of > > this ability built in, to track phones.

Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System"

2000-05-07 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: > > > > > Can you also recommend any other books describing the internals of the > > > FreeBSD OS which are a closer match than the above? > > > > Nope.

Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System"

2000-05-07 Thread Alkis Evlogimenos
Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: > > I was wondering if this book is far too off the current state of > FreeBSD. Are there fundamental differences between the design of 4.4BSD > and FreeBSD? > > Can you also recommend any other books describing the internals of the > FreeBSD OS which are a closer match

Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System"

2000-05-07 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: > > > Can you also recommend any other books describing the internals of the > > FreeBSD OS which are a closer match than the above? > > Nope. It's still the best ref. Ask me again in 9 months, maybe there'l

Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System"

2000-05-07 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: > I was wondering if this book is far too off the current state of > FreeBSD. Are there fundamental differences between the design of 4.4BSD > and FreeBSD? There are some pretty large differences. The VM has changed. Drivers have changed. > Can yo

RE: ps does not work after a cvsupdate to 4.0-STABLE

2000-05-07 Thread Henk Wevers
Yes i did, i found the solution in the Dutch FreeBSD mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAQ IIRC. libkvm is out of sync. cd /usr/src/lib/libkvm make cleandir make cleandir make obj make depend make all install cd /usr/src/bin/ps make cleandir make cleandir make obj make depend make all install Thi

Re: ps does not work after a cvsupdate to 4.0-STABLE

2000-05-07 Thread Doug Barton
Henk Wevers wrote: > > Hi *, > > After a make world and offcourse a rebuild from the kernel, my > ps and top command did not work anymore. > > If i do a ps i get the following message. > > ps: proc size mismatch (40872 total, 1044 chunks) > > Somebody has an idea? > Is the procfilesystem cha

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-07 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sat, 6 May 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > With CDMA, you can get a distance very easily. The phones know what > time it is, or CDMA doesn't work at all. That helps a lot. Much of > GPS's work is knowing what time it is. Since the phone knows what > time it is, they can do all kinds of calculat

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-07 Thread Andre Oppermann
Warner Losh wrote: > > With CDMA, you can get a distance very easily. The phones know what > time it is, or CDMA doesn't work at all. That helps a lot. Much of > GPS's work is knowing what time it is. Since the phone knows what > time it is, they can do all kinds of calculations and round tri

Is there a way to install FreeBSD without "Probbing Devices"

2000-05-07 Thread Gustavo Pamplona
Hi, guys, Sadly, I posted to FreeBSD-Questions, but nobody answered me. And I think Hackers is the best choice. (I think is necessary to hack the sysinstall program to do this) I have memory problems, but my other systems, Windows 95 and NT worked without problems, and my only problem is with Fr

Re: controlled panic - kernel-module

2000-05-07 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Chris D. Faulhaber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As opposed to pressing ctrl-alt-esc to get into DDB, then typing 'panic'? This needs to be compiled into the kernel, modules compile faster than new kernels :-P But, this could be documented as well. Alex PS: I just _had_ to write a panic.k

Re: controlled panic - kernel-module

2000-05-07 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: > Hello! > > Just happened to write this kernel-module, which panics the machine. > > It is, if you just set up your savecore-setup, you have to wait for a > panic to test, if it works. If this is a panic you would have liked to > savecore, and it did

controlled panic - kernel-module

2000-05-07 Thread Alexander Langer
Hello! Just happened to write this kernel-module, which panics the machine. It is, if you just set up your savecore-setup, you have to wait for a panic to test, if it works. If this is a panic you would have liked to savecore, and it didn't work, this can be annoying. (At least that was my prob

"The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System"

2000-05-07 Thread Alkis Evlogimenos
I was wondering if this book is far too off the current state of FreeBSD. Are there fundamental differences between the design of 4.4BSD and FreeBSD? Can you also recommend any other books describing the internals of the FreeBSD OS which are a closer match than the above? Thanks. -- Alkis Evl

Re: problem with ioctl handler in a module

2000-05-07 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Jake Burkholder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The request parameter to ioctl needs to contain length information. > I think you want something like: > #define ZIVA_IOCTL _IOW('c', 10, int) > ioctl(fd, ZIVA_IOCTL, &foo); That's it. Thanks! Alex -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: s

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-07 Thread Leif Neland
> Well, thats reality. > Sometimes the mobile telco hotlines are so overloaded, you cannot even tell > them that your phone was stolen. (Talk about service-but you get what you > pay for) > In germany, there is some list, where every cell phone can be entered with > its IMEI-number (thats like t