wireless device cant go thru wap to nfs/smb server

2003-10-21 Thread yussef
I posted this to -mobile, but im gonna send it here in case anyone might have a better idea. thanks I have a fbsd 4.8 router which also acts as my wireless access point, bridging the wireless interface to the internal nic. on top of that, up until recently, it was my nfs/smb file server as well. E

Re: suspect spl*() code in syscons.c

2003-10-21 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > both -current and -stable have the following snippet of code in > sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c:scclose(): > > { > ... > int s; > > if (SC_VTY(dev) != SC_CONSOLECTL) { > ... > s = spltty(); >

Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-21 Thread Q
As an effort to get more acquainted with the FreeBSD kernel, I have been looking through how mmap works. I don't yet understand how it all fits together, or of the exact implications things may have in the wild, but I have noticed under some synthetic conditions, ie. mmaping small non-contiguous pa

suspect spl*() code in syscons.c

2003-10-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, both -current and -stable have the following snippet of code in sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c:scclose(): { ... int s; if (SC_VTY(dev) != SC_CONSOLECTL) { ... s = spltty(); ... } spl

early write to pci conf register

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Santcroos
What is the earliest point in the boot process that I can write to a pci conf registers of a pci device? I would like to disable some sub devices before they get probed. Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD

2003-10-21 Thread Avleen Vig
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:30:38AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Please note that there are *SEVERE* security issues with this module. > > The module is not loaded into the kernel by default and, when loaded, > > can only be used by users in the wheel group. > > Why the wheel group? Until now,

Re: process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD

2003-10-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:52:07PM -0700, Kip Macy wrote: > Please note that there are *SEVERE* security issues with this module. > The module is not loaded into the kernel by default and, when loaded, > can only be used by users in the wheel group. Why the wheel group? Until now, the only speci

Re: Matrox Parhelia XFree86 Busmastering kernel module?

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Lang
Hi, sorry for coming back so late, but here are more details to the Matrox problem: Eric Anholt wrote on Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:44:51PM -0700: > > AFAIK, you can enable bus mastering using pciconf(8) by setting appropriate > > registers. > > Why do you need any additional kernel module? Or I'm