Re: fbsd 4.0Release

2000-07-27 Thread Blaz Zupan
> bug in the RealTek driver in 4.0 that crashes the system (more info on that in > PR kern/17582), this is probably what you are seeing. You should either > upgrade the driver or upgrade the whole system to 4.0. Oops, that should of course

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-27 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, July 28, 2000, Bjorn Tornqvist wrote: > PosixThreads are userland threads - if one thread blocks on i/o the > whole process is blocked. Which makes PosixThreads rather useless. That is incorrect. FreeBSD's userland pthread implementation does not block the whole process on I/O. PO

BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-27 Thread Bjorn Tornqvist
Howdy all, I must have missed something very importand w.r.t threads under FreeBSD, here's what I've come up with during the last week: PosixThreads are userland threads - if one thread blocks on i/o the whole process is blocked. Which makes PosixThreads rather useless. FreeBSD Kernel-threads (

Re: uncool MO disk problems

2000-07-27 Thread W.H.Scholten
L.S. Update on previous mail a while back. I tried the latest sym driver from the CVS tree (into fbsd 3.3) but little has changed (haven't checked what happens with 640MB 2048 b/s disks yet): > 4. Formatting ufs on fbsd: > newfs hangs (unkillable). This now works. > 3. ufs disk formatted on ob

Re: fbsd 4.0Release / 4.1-RC ?

2000-07-27 Thread Paul Saab
Yes.. the problems were fixed a few months ago. paul Jim Flowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I noticed in cvsuping RELENG_4 day before yesterday it came back as > 4.1-RC. Does that also address the network stack panics? > > Jim Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > #4 ranked ISP on C|NET #1 in Oh

Re: fbsd 4.0Release / 4.1-RC ?

2000-07-27 Thread Jim Flowers
I noticed in cvsuping RELENG_4 day before yesterday it came back as 4.1-RC. Does that also address the network stack panics? Jim Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #4 ranked ISP on C|NET #1 in Ohio On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Paul Saab wrote: > There are known panics in the network stack in 4.0-RELEASE.

Re: PTP ethernets

2000-07-27 Thread Dennis
At 06:47 PM 7/27/00 -0500, Kim Shrier wrote: >If I understand your question correctly, all you need to do to set up >a ptp ethernet link is: > >ifconfig fxp0 inet 200.1.1.1 200.1.1.2 It *seems* like that should work, but it doesnt. When ping from one machine to another, the receiver doesnt respo

Re: PTP ethernets

2000-07-27 Thread Kim Shrier
If I understand your question correctly, all you need to do to set up a ptp ethernet link is: ifconfig fxp0 inet 200.1.1.1 200.1.1.2 Dennis wrote: > > Is it possible to have only one address on an ethernet network? the only > way that I can get it to work is with: > > ifconfig fxp0 200.1.1.1

PTP ethernets

2000-07-27 Thread Dennis
Is it possible to have only one address on an ethernet network? the only way that I can get it to work is with: ifconfig fxp0 200.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 route add fxp0 200.1.1.2 -interface fxp0 arp -s 200.1.1.2 ether-address Is there a way to get such a setup to work dynamically with AR

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-07-27 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Julian Stacey: > just as today I'd use an encrypting file system on my new laptop, > but such file system don't exist on FreeBSD unfortunately. Ahem. Why did I sent an update for security/cfs to green a few months ago? :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMA

Re: fbsd 4.0Release

2000-07-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jim Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000727 14:35] wrote: > We have been using fbsd 4.0-RELEASE on a number of router applications > (IPV4). Recently we have switched to new hardware and now we get fatal > faults periodically. > > Typically these run with a minimum kernal using ipfw and natd and n

Re: kevent()/kqueue() in a multithreaded environment

2000-07-27 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, [Windows-1252] Nicolas Léonard wrote: > > > I'm trying to use the new kqueue()/kevent() syscalls in the last > > snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0. > > It works perfectly, except when I'm trying to use it in a multi- > > threaded program. > > T

Re: fbsd 4.0Release

2000-07-27 Thread Blaz Zupan
> Does this indicate that my new hardware is probably not going to work with > fbsd 4.0? [snip] > rl0: port 0xde00-0xdeff mem [snip] I notice that you use a RealTek card in your router. First of all, there is a bug in the RealTek driver in 4.0 that crashes the system (more info on that in PR ker

Re: fbsd 4.0Release

2000-07-27 Thread Paul Saab
There are known panics in the network stack in 4.0-RELEASE. You should really upgrade to 4.1-RELEASE. paul Jim Flowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > We have been using fbsd 4.0-RELEASE on a number of router applications > (IPV4). Recently we have switched to new hardware and now we get fatal >

fbsd 4.0Release

2000-07-27 Thread Jim Flowers
We have been using fbsd 4.0-RELEASE on a number of router applications (IPV4). Recently we have switched to new hardware and now we get fatal faults periodically. Typically these run with a minimum kernal using ipfw and natd and not much more. 32 MB memory. Does this indicate that my new hardw

Re: kevent()/kqueue() in a multithreaded environment

2000-07-27 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, [Windows-1252] Nicolas Léonard wrote: > I'm trying to use the new kqueue()/kevent() syscalls in the last > snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0. > It works perfectly, except when I'm trying to use it in a multi- > threaded program. > The call of kevent() by my network thread blocks the o

Re: Writing device drivers (ioctl issue)

2000-07-27 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Isaac Waldron wrote: > I started working on a port of FreeMWare/plex86 (www.plex86.org) to FreeBSD > yesterday, and have run into a small problem. The basic idea is that I need > to write a kernel module that implements some ioctls for a new psuedo-device > that will eventua

Re: unable to use disklabel -B from fixit floppy?

2000-07-27 Thread John Reynolds
[ copying -doc because I've got a doc patch for the FAQ ... perhaps :) ] [ On Thursday, July 27, John Baldwin wrote: ] > > Umm, well. First off, disklabel -B doesn't fix your MBR. fdisk does that, > or boot0cfg if you are using boot0 to dual-boot. However, can you type Hmmm. Must have just

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-07-27 Thread Julian Stacey
"Andrew Reilly" wrote: > Well, even if there are/were folk who want tiny disk footprints, > and crunching everything isn't going to do the whole job, wouldn't > a compressed filesystem be a better way to approach this? At least > that way you'd still be able to page from the executable(s), and >

pcm sound driver works with CMI8330

2000-07-27 Thread Nasko Bachvaroff
I have a temporal solution on running CMI8330 sundcard under FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. Everybody having troubles with this soundcard, send me email and i'll send em the patch. I'm working in the moment on making the solution completely working and I'll release it soon. Atanas Bachvaroff, BGR, [EMAIL

Re: unable to use disklabel -B from fixit floppy?

2000-07-27 Thread John Baldwin
John Reynolds wrote: > > Hello all ... hope this is the right group for this Umm, well. First off, disklabel -B doesn't fix your MBR. fdisk does that, or boot0cfg if you are using boot0 to dual-boot. However, can you type disklabel ad0 now and get useful information? Or disklabel ad0sX

kevent()/kqueue() in a multithreaded environment

2000-07-27 Thread Nicolas Léonard
Hello I'm trying to use the new kqueue()/kevent() syscalls in the last snapshot of FreeBSD 5.0. It works perfectly, except when I'm trying to use it in a multi- threaded program. The call of kevent() by my network thread blocks the other thread. I look in the libc_r sources and I found that thi

Re: mmap syncs and file extends

2000-07-27 Thread Trent Nelson
Dimitar Peikov wrote: > > Hi, hackers, > > I've try to use mmap() and resize the mapping. msync() syncronizes > only the memory that was mmapped with mmap(). How can I extend the > main file? Memory is filled correctly, but I must write extended data > to file by hand. You need to ext

mmap syncs and file extends

2000-07-27 Thread Dimitar Peikov
Hi, hackers, I've try to use mmap() and resize the mapping. msync() syncronizes only the memory that was mmapped with mmap(). How can I extend the main file? Memory is filled correctly, but I must write extended data to file by hand. In my examples 'x.txt' was 11 bytes (some text); Where I'm wro

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-07-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Julian Stacey wrote: > That laptop has now gone to 4.0, & aout to elf, & a 1.5G disc, so no > incentive to do it all again to see how much FreeBSD-4 gzipped aout > binary tree might save/waste on a whole tree. BTW I was `strip'ing gzexe(1) is your friend :-) Kris -- In Go

unable to use disklabel -B from fixit floppy?

2000-07-27 Thread John Reynolds
Hello all ... hope this is the right group for this Last night I had to re-install win98 on my IDE drive (dual-boot) and it happily clobbered my mbr. No problem. I've had this happen before. I booted up 4.0 from my CDs and chose the "Fixit" option from the CD-ROM. I tried: disklabel -B