can't get iicbus working - ARRGH!

2001-02-14 Thread Mike Nowlin
I messed around with this about a year ago, and now I'm messing around with it again. In a nutshell, I can NOT figure out how to get iic with lpbb working. I have tried all sorts of combinations of config file parameters from LINT, man pages, etc. My current config file has something like:

KLD'fying PCI device driver!

2001-02-14 Thread Satyajeet Seth
Hi I am trying to convert my PCI device driver into a KLD. So far I have done the following: 1. Built the kernel without the static linked device driver. 2. Added entries to Makefiles in /sys/modules and /sys/modules/xxx. 3. Did "make all install" in /sys/modules directory. 4. Tried loading the

Re: UDI environment now released.

2001-02-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
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Re: UDI environment now released.

2001-02-14 Thread Julian Elischer
Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > The differences are still there, and it's usually soo tough to get > > companies to provide drivers for FreeBSD. Yeah IBM GPL'd some > > winmodems, no one has mentioned a FreeBSD port... > > > > Although the issue might be political, UDI might be the way to finally > >

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Julian Elischer
Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > The findchip thing would be nice.. > > Will do then. > > > one way is to simply boot with -v and look at the PNP IDs that the BIOS > > returns. > > (what I did) > > Actually I have done that, to

Re: UDI environment now released.

2001-02-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
> The differences are still there, and it's usually soo tough to get > companies to provide drivers for FreeBSD. Yeah IBM GPL'd some > winmodems, no one has mentioned a FreeBSD port... > > Although the issue might be political, UDI might be the way to finally > get over the "designed only for

Re: UDI environment now released.

2001-02-14 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
The differences are still there, and it's usually soo tough to get companies to provide drivers for FreeBSD. Yeah IBM GPL'd some winmodems, no one has mentioned a FreeBSD port... Although the issue might be political, UDI might be the way to finally get over the "designed only for windows ..and s

Re: UDI environment now released.

2001-02-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > The problem is that at the time this was a huge issue there were a much larger > > number of machines and pieces of h/w and radically different OS's (or flavors > > within Unix even) to support. Such a wide set of differenc

Re: UDI environment now released.

2001-02-14 Thread Sergey Babkin
Matthew Jacob wrote: > > The problem is that at the time this was a huge issue there were a much larger > number of machines and pieces of h/w and radically different OS's (or flavors > within Unix even) to support. Such a wide set of differences is not really > there any more, hence the cost of

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Benno Rice
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: [snip] > there's a few of us working on IrDA > > yes we CAN use the ng_tty node for the low speed SIR > implimentation.(And we plan on doing so for systems that > only have the tty interface. Most laptops these days have > a mor

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2001-02-14 Thread Yusuf Kurniawan
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Re: UDI environment now released.

2001-02-14 Thread Robert Lipe
Gérard Roudier wrote: > Being smart with kernel interface is important for drivers to be fast and > reliable. Puting some stinky layer between native kernel interfaces and > drivers looks horrible to me. Fast and reliable are both covered. For example, the specification (though not the current

Re: UDI environment now released.

2001-02-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > Being smart with kernel interface is important for drivers to be fast and > reliable. Puting some stinky layer between native kernel interfaces and > drivers looks horrible to me. > > Why isn't UDI proposed as a native kernel interface, instead? > Note that last time I read the specs, I have

Re: UDI environment now released.

2001-02-14 Thread Gérard Roudier
Being smart with kernel interface is important for drivers to be fast and reliable. Puting some stinky layer between native kernel interfaces and drivers looks horrible to me. Why isn't UDI proposed as a native kernel interface, instead? Note that last time I read the specs, I haven't been this

UDI environment now released.

2001-02-14 Thread Robert Lipe
I'd mentioned a few times on this list that I had tinkered with a port of UDI, the Uniform Driver Interface, to a FreeBSD environment while waiting for our lawyers to get their acts together[1]. Well, I got the final clearance and the code was released today at: http://projectudi.sourcef

Re: linked files on iso9660?

2001-02-14 Thread Farooq Mela
David: I believe that links on CD-ROM are handled using RockRidge extensions, which basically has plain text files named "00_TRANS.TBL" in each directory which contains links to other files on the CD. I don't know all the details and specifics, but you should probably consult your CD recording so

Re: Qmail Vs. Sendmail

2001-02-14 Thread Greg Black
Mustafa N. Deeb wrote: > I'm thinking of testing qmail, and qmail-POP3 using MYSQL > I need some openions, from people who used it.. This is /not/ the right place for this question. People who switch to qmail are usually happy they did; it's fast and reliable and easy to configure. Some people

linked files on iso9660?

2001-02-14 Thread David Miller
I'm trying to back up some freebsd systems on cdrom. My intention is to have one which people can look at specific file on, or pax/tar/dump over on top of a live, minimally installed OS. /stand has 31 file of considerable size: on a standard system they're all hard links to the same file. All h

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Panagiotis Astithas
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > The findchip thing would be nice.. Will do then. > one way is to simply boot with -v and look at the PNP IDs that the BIOS > returns. > (what I did) Actually I have done that, too. From the many PnP devices that the system re

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Panagiotis Astithas writes: : implement the lower protocol layer on top of ng_tty, essentially : doing something like IrDA-over-serial? If that was possible I : guess we don't have to implement any drivers at all, and we : could concentrate on the higher layers of th

Qmail Vs. Sendmail

2001-02-14 Thread Mustafa N. Deeb
hi,   I'm thinking of testing qmail, and qmail-POP3 using MYSQL I need some openions, from people who used it..   Cheers

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Julian Elischer
Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I am one of those who would like to see IrDA support in FreeBSD, > and for that matter I am prepared to offer some work. I have > downloaded the relative specifications and I have been looking > at the Linux-IrDA stuff. I am about to embark on an effo

IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Panagiotis Astithas
Hi folks, I am one of those who would like to see IrDA support in FreeBSD, and for that matter I am prepared to offer some work. I have downloaded the relative specifications and I have been looking at the Linux-IrDA stuff. I am about to embark on an effort to port the irda-utils-0.9.13 from lin

Re: huh

2001-02-14 Thread diman
gdb(1) does this definitely. truss(1) gdb for the first and start thinking. On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, milunovic wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Huh thanks those who helped me with some ptrace() examples for Linux. > But I cann't still figure how to trace programm execution under F

own memory size of process (exclude memory shared from parent)

2001-02-14 Thread Shabanov Vladislav
Title: own memory size of process (exclude memory shared from parent) Dear hackers! Does anybody knows how to calculate own memory size of process. Ps or top shows resident/total size of process, but both these values include memory pages shared from parent. I want know how much memory us

Re: huh

2001-02-14 Thread Wes Peters
milunovic wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Huh thanks those who helped me with some ptrace() examples for Linux. > But I cann't still figure how to trace programm execution under FreeBSD... > please can anybody help me or give me some source example to see:o) > Thank you man -k