new device drivers for RME soundcard and G400-TV

2000-05-22 Thread Daniel Pouzzner
I'm about to get cracking on a device driver for the RME Digi96/8 PAD. The card's full set of I/O channels is: S/PDIF I/O (2 channels in, 2 out, 16-24 bits@32-96kHz), AES/EBU I/O (2ch in, 2 out, 16-24 bits@32-96kHz), analog I/O (2ch in, 2 out, 16-24 bits@32-96kHz), and ADAT I/O (8 channels in, 8

Re: [net] bpf question

2000-05-22 Thread Jan Koum
i think the buffer is 32K (from BPF_MAXBUFSIZE in bpf.h) and you should be able to bump it up a bit on your box if you wish. it might help. also, maybe we should consider upping the default buffer size in our tree? On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 04:16:56PM -0700, Christopher Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Patch to get Cron to do UTC cron jobs

2000-05-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, Early January this year Bjorn Danielsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted a patch for cron which allowed it to have UTC cronjobs. The message is at -> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=28667+30785+/usr/local/www/db/text/2 000/freebsd-hackers/2116.freebsd-hackers The patch is at -> ht

Teaching sysinstall about the documentation packages

2000-05-22 Thread Nik Clayton
[ -doc, -hackers, and jkh.pl on the To: line. Watch those replies :-) ] For those that haven't been keeping up at the back, Doc. Project package generation is now pretty stable. What this means is that if you take yourself off to ftp.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/doc/packages/ and take a look

Re: [net] bpf question

2000-05-22 Thread Christopher Nielsen
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Graham Wheeler wrote: > If my memory serves me correctly, Marcus Ranum wrote a white paper on > IDS systems in the early days of NFR, in which he said that the existing > configuration of BPF was inadequate for capturing all packets on a fast > link, and suggested a patch to

Re: please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:33:50PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 536$ ls -al | grep .snapshot > > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 537$ ls -al .snapshot > > total 60 > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 May 22 15:01 . > > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 15:51 .. >

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 22 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yeah, I miss the blinky lights. I went to the x-over cable because > > the hub I bought originally was giving me non-stop collisions under > > load. > > It should be noted that a lot of collisions is *expected* under load. Yes, I'm no

Re: please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Scheidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000522 14:30] wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Shadi Fazelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000522 02:31] wrote: > > > Hello. > > > please guide me: > > > 1- how I can see a hidden file (not dot file) and how > > > I can hidden a file ? > >

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Kent Stewart
Doug Barton wrote: > > On Mon, 22 May 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > :>From the workstation: > > :Name Mtu Network Ipkts IerrsOpktsOerrs Coll Drop > > :fxp0 150032102492 0 31653667 0 30900 0 > > : > > :>From the fileserver: > > :Name Mtu Network I

Re: de-GNUfication of Digiboard driver ?

2000-05-22 Thread Brian Somers
More work needs to be done here... The dgb and dgm drivers are almost the same, and the dgb driver doesn't probe my digiboard at the moment (I don't know if this is due to broken hardware or a broken driver). The driver doesn't conform to style(9) and needs to be newbusified. I've been inte

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread sthaug
> Yeah, I miss the blinky lights. I went to the x-over cable because > the hub I bought originally was giving me non-stop collisions under > load. It should be noted that a lot of collisions is *expected* under load. If you saturate a half-duplex segment (using for instance ttcp), the sende

Re: please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Shadi Fazelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000522 02:31] wrote: > > Hello. > > please guide me: > > 1- how I can see a hidden file (not dot file) and how > > I can hidden a file ? > > my mean: I want make a file that ls -al can't see it. > > impossible(

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :>From the workstation: > :Name Mtu Network Ipkts IerrsOpktsOerrs Coll Drop > :fxp0 150032102492 0 31653667 0 30900 0 > : > :>From the fileserver: > :Name Mtu Network Ipkts IerrsOpktsOerrs Coll

Re: SMP kernel compilation??

2000-05-22 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joy Ganguly writes: : i tried to compile a SMP kernel . but when it tries to load the kernel : it gives me " undefined symbol" messages. the messages are:- Make depend? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in th

Re: eBones really dead?

2000-05-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > I read this weekend that eBones is dead, but I still see it in my src > tree on -Current, so I'm curious as to what the status really is. All of the files are in the attic in my repo. Are you sure this isn't just a leftover from a machine which wa

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:>From the workstation: :Name Mtu Network Ipkts IerrsOpktsOerrs Coll Drop :fxp0 150032102492 0 31653667 0 30900 0 : :>From the fileserver: :Name Mtu Network Ipkts IerrsOpktsOerrs Coll Drop :xl0 1500 3250417328967 32900227 0

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : I have two machines at home, one running 3.4-Stable which is my > :firewall/natd/file server machine. The other is running 5.0-Current > :(around 5/8 right now) which mounts a whole bunch of stuff via amd from > :the 3.4 machine. Up until say...

Re: SMP and APIC???

2000-05-22 Thread Joy Ganguly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i have compiled freeBSD 3.4 SMP. but when i try to boot it the kernel > > shows "Testing APIC 8254" and then it hangs. earlier i had run mptable > > and it showed:I/O APICs: > > -- > > {Lots of stuff} > > > > APIC ID Version State Ad

Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Mike Smith
> On the PIIIDM3 that I was working with I had both ECC and PC100 SDRAM. I > forget what I had and when. I did though at one point have ECC unbuffered > memory, and had ECC enabled. I will have some more of these boards later > these week and will retest them, making note of what I have in there.

Re: please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Aleksandr A.Babaylov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000522 08:30] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > > 2- how I can write somthing in a file that nobody can > > > see them > > > my mean: in crontab adding some command that this is > > > hidden. > > impossible(*) afaik. > possible if use similar to linu

Re: SMP and APIC???

2000-05-22 Thread sthaug
> i have compiled freeBSD 3.4 SMP. but when i try to boot it the kernel > shows "Testing APIC 8254" and then it hangs. earlier i had run mptable > and it showed:I/O APICs: > -- > {Lots of stuff} > > APIC ID Version State Address > 2 0x20

Re: SMP and APIC???

2000-05-22 Thread Mike Smith
This sounds like a known problem with 3.4 and the timer interrupt routing code. You will need to update to 4.0 to work around it. > i have compiled freeBSD 3.4 SMP. but when i try to boot it the kernel > shows "Testing APIC 8254" and then it hangs. earlier i had run mptable > and it showed:I/O

Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Essenz Consulting
On the PIIIDM3 that I was working with I had both ECC and PC100 SDRAM. I forget what I had and when. I did though at one point have ECC unbuffered memory, and had ECC enabled. I will have some more of these boards later these week and will retest them, making note of what I have in there. I'll try

Re: IP tunnel

2000-05-22 Thread Mike Nowlin
> Can anyone tell me the difference between nos-tun(8) and gif(4) (Other > than IPv6)? I want to create a tunnel between 2 networks (IPv4), 2 > FreeBSD boxes... will one of these work or is this a different type > of tunnel. I am familiar with Cisco tunnelling, I am assuming a similar > concept

Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Mike Smith
> Well, one question is whether or not you have ECC memory in the machine, > and if so, if you have parity checking or ECC turned on. > > Mike's board doesn't have ECC memory, and I've been trying to find someone > with a SuperMicro 840 board with ECC turned on. (To see whether their > boards ha

Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:33:52 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > Can you be more specific about "panicing"? As far as details go, you're > not helping yourself. > > > I was doing a FreeBSD 4.0 Install on a fairly new Supermicro PIIIDM3 > > motherboard. I eventually got FreeBSD 4.0 installed, howe

SMP and APIC???

2000-05-22 Thread Joy Ganguly
hi i have compiled freeBSD 3.4 SMP. but when i try to boot it the kernel shows "Testing APIC 8254" and then it hangs. earlier i had run mptable and it showed:I/O APICs: -- {Lots of stuff} APIC ID Version State Address 2 0x20usable

IP tunnel

2000-05-22 Thread Nick Rogness
Can anyone tell me the difference between nos-tun(8) and gif(4) (Other than IPv6)? I want to create a tunnel between 2 networks (IPv4), 2 FreeBSD boxes... will one of these work or is this a different type of tunnel. I am familiar with Cisco tunnelling, I am assuming a similar concept. Anyone

hashing a symbol before looking into a hashed table

2000-05-22 Thread gerald stoller
I've been looking at the source code for FreeBSD 3.3 and i noticed that a table-lookUp is called and given the name to look-up and also its hashed value. Why is the hashed value supplied, why should the caller even be aware of it (this is strictly internal to the table-lookUp)? Even if th

Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Mike Smith
Can you be more specific about "panicing"? As far as details go, you're not helping yourself. > I was doing a FreeBSD 4.0 Install on a fairly new Supermicro PIIIDM3 > motherboard. I eventually got FreeBSD 4.0 installed, however, during the > install, it kept hanging up and panicing. After tryi

Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Essenz Consulting
I was doing a FreeBSD 4.0 Install on a fairly new Supermicro PIIIDM3 motherboard. I eventually got FreeBSD 4.0 installed, however, during the install, it kept hanging up and panicing. After trying to do a bin only install, it took about 7 trys until it didnt hang up and panic. When I did get it in

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
: I have two machines at home, one running 3.4-Stable which is my :firewall/natd/file server machine. The other is running 5.0-Current :(around 5/8 right now) which mounts a whole bunch of stuff via amd from :the 3.4 machine. Up until say... 2 months ago, this worked really well. :I never h

eBones really dead?

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
I read this weekend that eBones is dead, but I still see it in my src tree on -Current, so I'm curious as to what the status really is. Thanks, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscr

NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Doug Barton
I have two machines at home, one running 3.4-Stable which is my firewall/natd/file server machine. The other is running 5.0-Current (around 5/8 right now) which mounts a whole bunch of stuff via amd from the 3.4 machine. Up until say... 2 months ago, this worked really well. I never had an

SMP kernel compilation??

2000-05-22 Thread Joy Ganguly
hi all, i tried to compile a SMP kernel . but when it tries to load the kernel it gives me " undefined symbol" messages. the messages are:- intr_machdep.o(.data+0xc0): undefined reference to `Xtsintr0' intr_machdep.o(.data+0xc4): undefined reference to `Xtsintr1' intr_machdep.o(.data+0xc8): unde

Re: Device driver requirement...

2000-05-22 Thread Andrew Reiter
You are correct.. However, they were quite useless, imo. This tutorial will go into detail regarding each step of the skeleton for ading syscalls and device drivers so that hopefully anyone can quickly learn how to write them. Andrew On Tue, 23 May 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: |Andrew Reiter

Re: Device driver requirement...

2000-05-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Andrew Reiter wrote: > > Quick note... in my tutorial on writing KLD's, it will include a section > on an example character device skeleton. 3 of 5 sections are complete in > this tutorial... so I suspect that son I will release it publically. We had a a script, written by Julian, I think, in o

Re: boot/kernel debugging

2000-05-22 Thread Nick Hibma
> > You can single step at boot time, by setting the flags in the loader. > > None of this will be source level, correct? Will it at least have labels if > i use a debug kernel? With remote debugging it will be source level debugging, with DDB it will not. In both cases it will have labels. Eve

Re: please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Alfred Perlstein writes: > > 2- how I can write somthing in a file that nobody can > > see them > > my mean: in crontab adding some command that this is > > hidden. > impossible(*) afaik. possible if use similar to linux emulator method to redirect open(2) - but it is TOO expansive and kernel need

Re: Device driver requirement...

2000-05-22 Thread Andrew Reiter
Quick note... in my tutorial on writing KLD's, it will include a section on an example character device skeleton. 3 of 5 sections are complete in this tutorial... so I suspect that son I will release it publically. Andrew On Mon, 22 May 2000, G.B.Naidu wrote: | |Hi, | |I would like to know

Re: boot/kernel debugging

2000-05-22 Thread J McKitrick
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 12:02:53PM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > You can single step at boot time, by setting the flags in the loader. None of this will be source level, correct? Will it at least have labels if i use a debug kernel? jm -- -

Xircom MPCI Modem ?

2000-05-22 Thread Holm Tiffe
Hi all, Does anyone know if it is possible to get an "Xircom MPCI Modem 56 WinGlobal" working with - current ? It is the internal Modem from my Notebook (Maxdata 650T). Is this an infamous Win Modem ? It gets detected as follows: twity /kernel: found-> vendor=0x11c1, dev=0x0420, revid=0x01 t

Re: modules and newbus

2000-05-22 Thread Nick Hibma
> I got the impression that newbus would make it easier to make kernel > modules out of things. What in general does it take to make something > into a kld? I'm thinking of pcm for example. In general all it takes is a good look at de-allocation of the resources it allocates. Another point w

Re: boot/kernel debugging

2000-05-22 Thread Nick Hibma
In general it is well possible to single step anything in the kernel. You might find occasions where things stop working, and odd cases were things all of a sudden start working, but normally, apart from hardware things, most things are not time critical, or create problems through spin locks. Y

Re: further question to bus_alloc_resource

2000-05-22 Thread Nick Hibma
> > It was just the first driver I got, so far only an example (bad one). > > What about aha? > > It would be nice to be able te detach most drivers. I think that when aha > was converted originally, cam didn't support detach but I'm pretty sure it > does now. The cam_sim_free hasn't been exerci

Re: bpf question

2000-05-22 Thread Graham Wheeler
Dmitry Samersoff wrote: > > I have stoped on perforamnce bpf itself. > > Is there alternate driver or can changing of bpf queue in kernel help, and where > I can read about it? If my memory serves me correctly, Marcus Ranum wrote a white paper on IDS systems in the early days of NFR, in which

Re: please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread Udo Schweigert
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:59:01 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Shadi Fazelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000522 02:31] wrote: > > Hello. > > please guide me: > > 1- how I can see a hidden file (not dot file) and how > > I can hidden a file ? > > my mean: I want make a file that ls -al can't see it

Re: please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Shadi Fazelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000522 02:31] wrote: > Hello. > please guide me: > 1- how I can see a hidden file (not dot file) and how > I can hidden a file ? > my mean: I want make a file that ls -al can't see it. impossible(*) afaik. > > 2- how I can write somthing in a file that nob

please hellllllllllllp me!

2000-05-22 Thread Shadi Fazelian
Hello. please guide me: 1- how I can see a hidden file (not dot file) and how I can hidden a file ? my mean: I want make a file that ls -al can't see it. 2- how I can write somthing in a file that nobody can see them my mean: in crontab adding some command that this is hidden. 3- how I can run

Device driver requirement...

2000-05-22 Thread G.B.Naidu
Hi, I would like to know about the device drivre development. I know the basic concepts behind a device driver. But haven't written a driver my self. But now time has come for me to do that. I need to develop a device driver for a ethernet switch/hub. So I would like to have some clarifications