Re: GSoC: EFI on intel

Eric McCorkle writes: | On 04/03/12 13:22, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > EFI is a good task. For generic PC's we need an X64 format. The current | > version in FreeBSD is IA32 format. The X64 can boot i386/amd64. | > Qemu can be used to test both IA32 and X64 formats. I added some |

Re: GSoC: EFI on intel

Eric McCorkle writes: | I'm assessing possible summer of code projects, and the EFI work caught | my attention. I've been running FreeBSD on a macbook for a little under | a year now, and booting on EFI is definitely an interest to me. Does | anyone know if this is still a viable project proposal

Re: [patch] Disable bios probe if acpi is enabled

Sean Bruno writes: | I'm noting that newer machines are completely hosed if we attempt to | probe for bios values. I'm proposing this change. | | -bash-4.2$ p4 diff -du //depot/yahoo/ybsd_7/src/sys/i386/i386/bios.c | --- //depot/yahoo/ybsd_7/src/sys/i386/i386/bios.c 2011-09-16 | 22:47:30.00

Re: mfi (Dell H700) + hot swapping doesn't appear to work with RC1

Andrew Boyer writes: [snip] | Has anyone managed to get the real JBOD mode working on this controller? | It advertises support in the firmware but doesn't seem to do anything. | The documentation only lists JBOD mode as a feature of the lower-end | controllers. [snip] The curren

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

Alexander Leidinger writes: | Quoting Doug Ambrisko (from Thu, 19 May 2011 | 14:38:40 -0700 (PDT)): | | > Alexander Leidinger writes: | > | On Thu, 19 May 2011 10:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Doug Ambrisko | > | wrote: | > | | > | > doesn't have access to it anymore either. R

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

Alexander Leidinger writes: | On Thu, 19 May 2011 10:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Doug Ambrisko | wrote: | | > doesn't have access to it anymore either. Running an X server in a | > vimage has some issues. Most are pretty easy to over-come. | | Are you using my patch | (http://www.leidinger.

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

Arnaud Lacombe writes: | Hi, | | On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: | > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:17:12PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: | >> On Tue, 17 May 2011 12:56:40 -0700 Sean Bruno | >> wrote: | >> | >> > Silly thing I ran into today. ?User wanted to NFS mou

Re: Set default pxeboot vfs.root.mountfrom to nfs?

Garrett Cooper writes: | Hi Hackers, | I realize this is a trivial patch, but it's a minor item that I | found kind of fascinating (and not thoroughly documented elsewhere | because many examples are booting mfsroots instead of directly booting | off nfs roots), but I'm proposing that pxeboot d

Re: Reading acpi memory from a driver attached to hostb

John Baldwin writes: | On Thursday 23 July 2009 2:08:35 am Andre Albsmeier wrote: | > On Wed, 22-Jul-2009 at 09:48:56 -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > > Andre Albsmeier writes: | > > | On Sat, 18-Jul-2009 at 10:25:06 +0100, Rui Paulo wrote: | > > | > On 18 Jul 2009, at 09:1

Re: watchdog: hw+sw?

Alexander Leidinger writes: | Quoting Doug Ambrisko (from Thu, 2 Apr 2009 | 16:16:34 -0700 (PDT)): | | > This worked well for us so I think it is a good idea. Also some HW | > watchdogs can be told to generate an NMI which can also produce a kernel | > dump/ddb prompt. I've al

Re: watchdog: hw+sw?

Andriy Gapon writes: | I have some vague thoughts on using SW_WATCHDOG and a hardware watchdog | together. | I think this could be useful but I am not sure how to implement this. | The idea is this: timeout for SW_WATCHDOG is smaller than timeout for hw | wd; when some freeze happens sw wd logic

Re: [patch] enhance powerd(8) to handle max temperature

Bill Moran writes: | In response to "Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | > Hajimu UMEMOTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > > I cannot see _TC1, _TC2 nor _TSP in your `acpidump -dt' output. | > > Further, there is no _PSV definition in anywhere, in the first place. | > > It seems to me that y

Re: 32/64bit KSE issues?

Daniel Eischen writes: | On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, John Baldwin wrote: | > On Saturday 31 March 2007 03:16, Andriy Gapon wrote: | >> on 31/03/2007 05:23 Daniel Eischen said the following: | >>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, David E. Cross wrote: | >>> | I recently ran into a problem where the 32bit JVM won'

Re: FW: IPMI kernel module errors on 6.x

Raymond Sundland writes: | I purchased a new Supermicro Superserver SS6015B-T (motherboard is X7DBR-E) | about 3 weeks ago with the IPMI module (part called SIMSO) and have had a | hard time getting the IPMI functionality to work in RELENG_6. | | Particularly, when I attempt to 'kldload ipmi' I ge

Re: get DMI information in kernel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hello, | how do i get DMI Informations (stuff displayed by dmidecode) in a kernel module? | | I need some "System Information" like Vendor,Model and OEM String identifying hardware on a Thinkpad. | | Can anybody give me a hint on that? You can look at the ipmi(4) d

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

Kip Macy writes: | WOW THATS GREAT DOUG! \0/ - it didn't work for me. This was with the last patched driver for vmware 2. I'm not sure if it every made it into the port. http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/files/changes 28 Jan 01 Version 0.99-1-0.22 Support for multiple vmware

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

Kip Macy writes: | IIRC lack of per instance cdevs also limits Freebsd to one vmware instance. Really? Don't tell my vmware multiple instances! I used to run 10 on one FreeBSD host. Doug A. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Comtrol Rocketport UNIVERSAL PCI 32-port

Vitaliy Skakun writes: | thanks, but I see this patch is against recent HEAD | | I've got the yesterdays RELENG_6 sources and can't simply update to HEAD ( | it is a server ) Give this a shot against RELENG_6: Index: rp.c === RCS fi

Re: CPU/case/disk temperature sensors for Dell PowerEdge 2850

Surer Dink writes: | (I was told this was /one/ of the appropriate forums for this message - | however I did not want to cross-post - if this is not the correct place, | please let me know and I will try the other suggestions [acpi- and ports-].) ipmitool will work fine over lan in ports. It will

Re: Comtrol Rocketport UNIVERSAL PCI 32-port

Vitaliy Skakun writes: | Hi everybody! | | One problem arised: | | when doing in the shell | echo "~WS" > /dev/cuaR00 | | for several times as quick as I can, I get panic with the following message: | panic: device_unbusy: called for non-busy device rp0 | | same thing when trying to send data t

Re: Parking disk drive heads

Julian Elischer writes: | just placing an unmounted drive down on a hard table, even when | not running, can ruin it. We lost hundreds that way at Whistle until | we did a failure analysis. Just placing a rubber mat on the table. | fixed it and instructing the staff to always put the drives on | a

Re: Checking sysctl values from within the kernel.

John Baldwin writes: | On Friday 05 August 2005 10:50 am, Dan Nelson wrote: | > In the last episode (Aug 05), Thordur I. Bjornsson said: | > > If I want to check a sysctl value from within the kernel (e.g. an | > > KLD), should I use the system calls described in sysctl(3) ? | > > | > > If not, wha

Re: bug in calcru()

cally increasing you can get "wacky" results so IMHO it will never be right but "good enough" Atleast that is what I recall when I tested this stuff out a long time ago. The assumption with this calculation is that st & it tend to be small compared to tt so the 1024 X shouldn&

Re: bug in calcru() in kernel: integer overflow computing user time

Chris Landauer writes: | | hihi, all - | | well, i have an "almost" fix for the problem - read on, ... | (this is for discussin before send-pr submission) | | description | | in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (and 5.2.1R, and 5.1R), | in file /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_resource.c, | lines 65

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA) RELENG_4

ge since I have compatibility macros to make it transparent. The bug fixes tweak some of the ata core code. My employer would give me time to do this. | Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | >Dmitry Morozovsky writes: | >| On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: | >| | >| DM> DA&g

Re: Two keyboards

Julian Elischer writes: | David Scheidt wrote: | > Julian Elischer wrote: | >> Bram Van Steenlandt wrote: | >>> For a pos system I am working on I need support for two keyboards | >>> (actually one keyboard(ps/2) and one scanner(usb)). | >> | >> you can already do this.. | >> what makes you call th

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

Dmitry Morozovsky writes: | On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: | | DM> DA> There is: | DM> DA> http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ata_stable_sata_7.patch | DM> DA> for 4.10. That deals with Intel and Promise SATA stuff and | DM> DA> ata-raid fixes/enhancements. It deals with lega

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

Scott Long writes: | On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, yoke an wrote: | > My motherboard is using an ICH5 southbridge and your suggestion is works. | > As you said, my sata disks appear to be normal IDE drives but it is not | > running on Raid mode. Currently I'm having 2 HDD, if I do this option, | > it cannot

Re: Sudden Reboots

Jim Durham writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | On Friday 01 October 2004 12:36 pm, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > Jim Durham writes: | > | I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period | > | of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardwar

Re: Sudden Reboots

Jim Durham writes: | I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period of | about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem but it seems to be | too much of a coincidence with 3 different machines doing the same thing. | | The first time was when I put 4.5-RELEA

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

Don Bowman writes: | The Intel ICH3 (and probably all) has the feature it can | issue an SMI on first count-down to 0, then a hard reset | on 2nd. What we did was implement an SMM handler (in bios) | that, when called due to watchdog, issued an NMI and did | a return from smm. | In FreeBSD, an NMI

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

Scott Long writes: | In reading the code, it appears that it is indeed an ICHx service and | not limited to just i8xx chipsets. I have a few issues with how the | probe and attach are done, and I'm addressing these in a private mail | right now. It's funny that I was reading the Intel ICH5 docs l

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

Scott Long writes: | Wm. Daryl Hawkins wrote: | > I've written a driver for the Intel i8xx TCO watchdog timer for both | > FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE. | | This is wonderful. I'd be happy to test it and shepherd it in. Does it | support the intel 750x chips also? All ICH chips that I'v

Re: 4.9 kernel panics on a poweredge 2650

Bogdan TARU writes: | | Hi Hackers, | | Ok, now some more infos about my problem: | | We have 3 identical webservers (as hw configuration), and the same | kernel and applications running on all three. They get mostly the same | traffic (dns round-robined). They all run 4.9-RELEASE. I have

Re: specifying RAM size at boot?

Daniel Ellard writes: | I thought this was configurable by setting a variable in | /boot/loader.conf and rebooting, but I haven't been able to find the | right variable(s). (someone suggested MAXMEM, but this doesn' | seem to do anything at all.) I think it is hw.physmem= I used it at a

Re: Console serial speed

Russell Cattelan writes: | On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 21:58, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > Russell Cattelan writes: | > | How does one set the serial speed of the console. | > | I changed the boot loader speed to 57600 in make.conf | > | but the kernel seems to chose random speeds each time

Re: Console serial speed

Russell Cattelan writes: | How does one set the serial speed of the console. | I changed the boot loader speed to 57600 in make.conf | but the kernel seems to chose random speeds each time | it's booted. | Sometimes it's 9600 sometimes it 115200 other times | it's 38400. | | Note this is on 5.x

Re: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relating toBSDsettlement agreement

Josef Grosch writes: | On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:01:38PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: | > On Tuesday, 17 June 2003 at 6:08:06 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: | > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > > Martin Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > >> Will the FreeBSD project issue a

Re: Realtek

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | > 5000 packets transmitted, 94 packets received, 98% packet loss | > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.156/0.337/0.605/0.159 ms | > So I'm not see much difference. | | are you sure it's not because of this: | 'ping:

Re: redirect everything to socks5

Keith Pitcher writes: | Living in rural slow connection land, I've been playing around with | satellite Internet. The problem is the company only has Win | drivers. (Linux driver is in the works, but no plans to open source it, will be | released as a binary - the bastards) | | Anyhow, to get the

Re: Realtek

Wes Peters writes: | Or you can cheat and use a SmartBits-2000 like I did. It can send exactly | 148,800 packets per second, with very precise timing of the inter-packet Soon we should be getting an Ixia. | So it seems to keep up reasonably well, but this is misleading. Use -l to | force the

Re: Realtek

Wes Peters writes: | On Monday 10 March 2003 08:47, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > Hmm, I thought I had said "benchmark in your environment". We have a | > closed box that is sort-of a router and a bridge. So your only inputs | > is really network traffic. That is what we tune

Re: Realtek

Wes Peters writes: | On Friday 07 March 2003 09:16, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | You did something truly bizarre. I've tested similar cards on many | machines ranging from K6-2 400MHz to P4 2.4GHz and the RealTek | performance has always been at or near the bottom of the heap. On the | s

Re: Realtek

Terry Lambert writes: | No, the best thing about all GigE is that you don't need a twisty | cable, It Just Works. They should do the same thing for the 100Mbit, | IMO. 8-). They have started that. Via has atleast one auto-mdi/mdi-x nic chip. We'd like it if more companies start doing it but I w

Re: Realtek

Thierry Herbelot writes: | Le Friday 07 March 2003 18:16, Doug Ambrisko a ?crit : | > everything at once. This illustrated the HW issue with the new D-Link 4 | > port card since none of their "supported" drivers and OSes could get over | > 20Mbs. We had 100FDX links to each cl

Re: Realtek

Wes Peters writes: | On Thursday 06 March 2003 15:02, Paulo Roberto wrote: | > --- Bram Van Dam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > cheap they are they do their job fairly well. If performance isn't | > > an issue then go for it. | > | > I couldn't agree more. If you are just staying in 55 mph, you do

Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performanceresults (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

Julian Elischer writes: | On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Matthew Dillon wrote: | > :I can't find any online specs to tell me if the graphics part of the | > :Northbridge has understands the VESA stuff. Does the XFree86 "vesa" | > :driver work? | > : | > :Also found this forum discussion... | > : | > :http:/

Re: Supporting HW_WDOG?

Bruce M Simpson writes: | Mainly interested in exploring this with a view to implementing capabilities | a bit like the LOM chip found in Sun Netras on an i386 box. | | What I'd like to do is modify a Soekris net4501 for this. The Sun LOM | chip handles things like serial console capabilities, en

Re: bge problems (was: gigabit NIC of choice?)

John Polstra writes: | If you want a gigabit interface that is likely to keep working in | FreeBSD, your only option is to use the Intel chips and the "em" | driver. It's our only gigabit driver that's maintained by somebody | who has unrestricted access to the documentation and errata. Atleast

Re: NS DP83820 gigabit MAC

Bruce M Simpson writes: | On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:30:43PM +0200, Robert Fenech wrote: | > I've been desperately looking for some help regarding the DP83820. Is | > anyone willing to help me pls? | | NetBSD would seem to have a driver for this. | http://www.tac.eu.org/cgi-bin/man-cgi?gsip+4 |

Re: Motherboard temperature sensing

Dan Nelson writes: | In the last episode (Jul 09), Julian Elischer said: | > I haven't been following this so now naturally | > it becomes important.. | > | > anyone have good pointers? | | healthd, mbmon, or lmmon, in ports. Healthd and lmmon don't get all my | variables, mbmon does (Asus cuv4

Re: PCI4800

Dmitry A. Bondareff writes: | Last 3 days I was trying to connect an Aironet card PCI4800 with Cisco | Aironet series 340. | No success! | | Does anybody do it ?? I have a PCI Cisco version that talks to various other cards without problem. Some more info would be helpfull like if your are usin

Re: vlan traffic over ipsec tunnel

Archie Cobbs writes: | Terry Lambert writes: | > Bridging doesn't work with the vlanX interface currently in FreeBSD. | | Why not? | | I believe you, I've just never used vlans and always assumed | that they acted like normal Ethernet interfaces. Same here: a21p# ngctl list There are 5 tot

How stable is the ste(4) DLink DFE-550TX driver?

I'm seeing some stalls on RXing packets which takes performance down to ~50mbs on a 100BaseTX link. TX runs at 92mbs with no stalls. This is on -stable. I don't see this with the OpenBSD driver. -current is really slow on RX. What have others experienced? I'm starting to look at the differenc

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

Josef Karthauser writes: | > > Does anyone have any working practices around this problem? I'm sure | > > that I'm not the only one of us with it. | > | > I would recommend just enabling crash dumps; then it doesn't matter if | > you're in X when the machine panics, and you can get a stack trace

Re: Mini-PCI <-> PCI boards

M. Warner Losh writes: | I have had placed into my hand a few Mini-pci cards from time to | time. Since I'm using my laptop with mini-pci as a main terminal, I'd | like to put some of them in my desktop machine. I'm looking for a | mini-pci <--> pci card board. It would also be good if the stan

Re: read-only CD-ROM boot partition for vinum webfarm?

Terry Lambert writes: | Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > | The issue is that the MTBF for IDE CDROM drives is very | > | low, comparatively, when they are forced to a continuous | > | duty cycle. This was discuseed two years ago, and I don't | > | think the situation has

Re: read-only CD-ROM boot partition for vinum webfarm?

Terry Lambert writes: | "Clark C . Evans" wrote: | > Hello. I was wondering if it is possible to make a read-only | > boot partition (core kernel, static configuration, and /usr) | > for a web-farm application. I've posted this question to the | > freebsd-small list as well and will try to soli

Re: Multicast problem with sis interface?

Bob Bishop writes: | Hi, | | At 21:01 -0800 18/2/02, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | >Bob Bishop writes: | >| Seems there might be some problem with multicast on sis interfaces. | >| Specifically, netatalk doesn't work right on this box through the sis | >| interface but it's fi

Re: Multicast problem with sis interface?

Bob Bishop writes: | Seems there might be some problem with multicast on sis interfaces. | Specifically, netatalk doesn't work right on this box through the sis | interface but it's fine through the RealTek. | This is the onboard interface on a K7S5A m/b, dmesg follows. Ideas, anyone? TIA | | Cop

Patch for SIS630ET embedded NIC

I would appreciate if people that have SIS Ethernet controllers to test out this patch. I added support for the 630ET based on the changes in the Linux driver. It seems to work fine. I'd like to get some "yes it doesn't break anything" or "heh, now my SIS Ethernet controller works now" comments

Re: Problems with booting of CD-ROM (fwd)

Thomas Dixon writes: | | | On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: | | > | > On 16-Oct-01 Thomas Dixon wrote: | > > I'm trying to make a bootable CD using the cdboot program that come with | > > freeBSD in /sys/i386/boot/cdboot. The computer I'm trying to do this on | > > definately boots ot

Re: 64bit Ethernet Card (if_sf driver)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I've been testing the adaptec 64044 card (if_sf driver) which is a 64bit | 66Mhz 4 port ethernet. I can have come to one of two conclusions: | | 1) the card sucks | 2) the driver sucks | | or both. A 32bit Dlink 4 port card outperforms it by a wide margin, as do | 3

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

John Baldwin writes: | This is for boot0. Nothing should be touching boot1 flags. | My guess is that someone has somehow mixed an old boot2 with the new boot1 | which is jumping to the wrong place to call xread. The "code" at cs:eip looks | a lot like the BPB in boot1 now. Okay that basically h

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Kent Stewart wrote: | | > Mike Smith wrote: | > > | > > > So.. if I read you right, booting correctly for > 1024 cylinders works | > > > if boot0 knows about it. Isn't boot0 the one in the MBR, not in the fbsd | > > > slice? Does this mean that boot1 and boot2 shoul

Re: how to share include files between kernel and userland?

Marco Molteni writes: | I am writing a program to parse frames dumped to bpf by an, the | aironet driver. | | I am using the latest patches by Doug Ambrisko, that allow the driver | to dump not only the 802.11 frame but also the special Aironet header | that the device prepends to the 802.11

Updated Aironet Sniffing patches for -stable

I have new patches for the Aironet sniffing and some major code clean-up of duplicated structures and defines it requires the latest -stable. http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/an/an.patch.cisco.rfmon2+ifconfig5 Applies to /usr/src if you don't have the linux ioctl patch from: http://www

Re: bridging with pcmcia cards

Joesh Juphland writes: | | Great. | | Can I already bridge with an* ? And does this mean that bridging in | general with pc cards is a-ok ? This has been reported to work with the "an" driver with netgraph bridging. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe free

Re: NFS swap?

David Gilbert writes: | I used to include 'option option-128 "/path/to/swap"' in my dhcpd.conf | file to get nfs swap mounted properly. I'm now using a 4.3 kernel and | dhcpd 3.0rc4 from ISC. It won't allow me to put in option-128. Is | there any other way to specify nfs based swap? Try this

802.11 sniffing with Cisco/Aironet card

In my latest set of patches for -stable the Aironet driver with a few patches to FreeBSD's bpf & libpcap to support 802.11 packets permits sniffing of raw 802.11 packets. The patches are at: http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/an/ The latest version is an.patch.cisco.rfmon2+ifconfig3 Se

Re: cdr and cdrw with 4.3 release

Terry Lambert writes: | Tom wrote: | > | > Does anyone know if it is possible to use a cdr/cdrw | > with 4.3 release? I want to use it with my sony vaio | > f580 (notebook). I have the option of usb or pcmcia. | > Can you tell me which models are known to work? Thanks | > for your help. Please ma

Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.

Andrew Gallatin writes: | | Doug Ambrisko writes: | > | | > | Grub doesn't support FreeBSD very well (eg, it can't set the root | > | device, set hints, etc). I think he was hacking grub to add those | > | features, but I don't know how far he got...BTW, grub has

Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.

Andrew Gallatin writes: | | Alfred Perlstein writes: | > So I've got this really elite machinery here to test on, problem is that | > booting takes about 2 minutes each time I make a bad kernel, s... | | Do you mean that vmware boots so slowly that the extra reboot cycle | required to inst

Netboot FreeBSD on Apple Airport (port format)

I put together a port version of the code to boot FreeBSD on an Airport base station. I haven't polished it but it produces a functional image. Some code should be converted from nasm to gas but I just haven't had time to mess with that hopefully some else might. There is code to netboot over a

Any ideas for add driver info to linprocfs?

I've been working on getting things cleaned up for the Aironet driver to emulate the Cisco Linux ioctls so that the binary only utilities for configurating and flashing Aironet cards just work. I send-pr'ed the minor changes to add some DEVPRIVATE ioctls to the emulation layer and support that

Re: problem with Aironet driver

Andria Thomas writes: | Recently, we've seen messages like the following spewed to the consoles | of each machine: | | Mar 26 14:25:57 gw /kernel: an0: id mismatch: expected 178, got 224 | Mar 26 14:25:57 gw /kernel: an0: id mismatch: expected 17e, got 178 | | When these messages begin, our netw

Re: Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops

Matthew N. Dodd writes: | On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > I have confirmed that this works. So now we should be able to boot a | > FreeBSD CD on all IBM hardware that I can find around here. I will | > revise the PR. | | I wonder if this solves the PS/2 bootin

Re: Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops

John Baldwin writes: | Well, think of boot1 as a really small device driver and xread as a syscall. | The offset is a magic number. I'd prefer not to, but whatever. | The maintainer for this stuff is Robert Nordier (rnordier@) and he'll need to | sign off on it. Any chance you could figurative

Re: Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops

hat I can find around here. I will revise the PR. Doug A. | Here is the updated structure in boot1.s: | /* From OpenBSD biosboot.S with tuned values from Doug Ambrisko so | ThinkPads can boot from CDROM. I think the critical part | is setting the media type. | */ | .org

Re: Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops

John Baldwin writes: | On 06-Apr-01 Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > On on IBM PC desktops a FreeBSD bootable CDROM won't boot and it hangs. | > This has been reported in several places. | > | > The problem is that some BIOSes namely IBM's writes to the boot sector | > of

Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops

On on IBM PC desktops a FreeBSD bootable CDROM won't boot and it hangs. This has been reported in several places. The problem is that some BIOSes namely IBM's writes to the boot sector of the floppy to potentially update the parameters for the emulated floppy used for the El Torrito boot. Sinc

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

Robert Watson writes: | On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: | > Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM | > S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on | > a whim I tossed out the idea of running FreeBSD on one of them, and to | >

Re: boot1 changes and etherboot support

Warner Losh writes: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Luigi Rizzo writes: | : > We'd also be able to load the kernel out of ROM :-) | : | : the whole issue is the size of the ROM isn't it ? | | Yes. I saw a few datasheets for embedded systems that have 2M or 4M | of flash. Some of that is for t

Re: SCTP implementation and pccard.conf change for Cisco 802.11B 340series cards

Jonathan \"Taz\" Mischo writes: | I am currently at IETF 49, where I have moved from my old wi card to the | | new Cisco 342, which is an an card, since Cisco acquired them. The 342 | does 128-bit or less encryption at 11 meg, thus it was a worthy | investment. However, pccard.conf does not hav

Re: VMware hanging -- Memory deadlock?

Barry Lustig writes: | I have a vaio z505le with 192MB running 4.2-STABLE (cvsupped today). I've | been trying to get vmware running properly on it. I first configured vmware | on the vaio, created a win2k type virtual disk, set ram in the VM to 80M, | and copied a happily working win2k

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

John Hay writes: | > | > You don't, it is done via the bootp or dhcp record option 128 for example | > | > option option-128 "192.168.2.254:/usr/work/netboot"; | > | > You then have to make the swap file in that directory of format | > | > swap. | > | > Use dd to create the file by

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

John Hay writes: | > You don't, it is done via the bootp or dhcp record option 128 for example | > option option-128 "192.168.2.254:/usr/work/netboot"; | > You then have to make the swap file in that directory of format | > swap. | > Use dd to create the file by copying /dev/zero f

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

John Hay writes: | > > the dhcp.xxx stuff is easy, the problem is that the DHCP options are not | > > enough, so im trying to look into defining a FBSDclass ala PXEClient, and | > > supplying stuff like usr-ip/usr-path swap-ip/swap-path or whatever. | > | > You don't need those; you can get them

Re: WEP keys for an driver

Brooks Davis writes: | On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:42:32AM -0700, Dave Cornejo wrote: | > Some comments on your code: | > - WEP keysare variable length from 5-13 bytes, you should just check for | > >=5 & <=13 (it seems odd, but I have seen networks that use the odd | > sizes). | | Since all the w

Re: WEP keys for an driver

Dave Cornejo writes: | It doesn't matter to me which version gets used - I just need the | capability to set the WEP keys. | | Some comments on your code: | - WEP keysare variable length from 5-13 bytes, you should just check for | >=5 & <=13 (it seems odd, but I have seen networks that use the o

Re: WEP keys for an driver

Dave Cornejo writes: | my apologies if i am not following the correct procedures here... | | I have submitted a patch in PR kern/21843 which adds WEP key support | to the an driver. This is my first attempt at messing with driver | code so any constructive criticism is appreciated. | | I have t

Re: freebsd port of netboot?..

Peter Wemm writes: | Warner Losh wrote: | > In message Christopher Stein | writes: | > : .. does anyone know if this exists? It would | > : speed up the panic-edit-compile-boot-copy-boot kernel hacking | > : cycle by transforming it to panic-e

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

Paul Saab writes: | Doug Ambrisko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > Paul Saab writes: | > | set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc | > | > Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts | > using it so you end up with junk

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

Paul Saab writes: | set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts using it so you end up with junk out the port. However, if you have a BIOS that setups the baud rate etc. of the serial port then you would be okay

Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!

Alan Edmonds writes: | | I'm playing with PXE and pxeboot. I have a question about | setting the serial console option. The PC BIOS reports | 'No Keyboard Present', but when PXE boots, BTX reports | console as internal keyboard/video. So, I'm looking at | hard coding a serial console into BT

Re: Removing interfaces

Nick Hibma writes: | | if_kue, if_aue or ask Doug Ambrisko for a copy of the udbp (USB double | bulk pipe) driver that should have that as well. The udbp doesn't do it since it just creates a netgraph node. Then you tie that netgraph node to an interface. At that point netgraph mak

Re: Possible solution for USB Ethernet problem

| The problem I was seeing was that large frames would trigger babble | errors, which would cause an endpoint halt and wedge the RX or TX pipe. | Julian brought up another driver written by Doug Ambrisko which appeared | to be able to transfer 1500-byte frames without any trouble. However, | neither he nor

Re: USB ethernet hacking

d you use usbd_alloc_buffer()? | | ummm I don't have the driver with me here. | | Doug Ambrisko has is so we'll send it to you as soon as he reads this I | guess. Technical note, device only has an internal 15*64 (960) byte buffer. 1500 MTU's work fine and no performance hit over

Re: pccard disruptions : how did it go?

Warner Losh writes: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Kennett writes: | : I've just scoured the archives, and found a thread from late October 1999 | : titled: | : Massive pccard disruptions to continue | : | : So, have these disruptions continued? And what is the current status with |

Re: netbooting on fxp0?

David Gilbert writes: | The current batch of IBM etherjets (probe as fxp0) have dhcp-enabled | boot ROMs built into them. What is required to support these, or has | someone worked on this already. 100Mb cards could make a decent | diskless workstation/server. Look at ports/net/etherboot. It

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