Re: Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot

2009-11-14 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Saturday 14 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit : [SNIP] > >>> > >>> then, one of the first steps would be a the dmesg of both a succeeding > >>> and a failing kernels (verbose !) > >> > >> I tried the bootonly ISOs for 7.x and 8.x, both amd64 and i386, all of > >> which fail to boot on the

Re: Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot

2009-11-14 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Saturday 14 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit : > On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Le Friday 13 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit : > >> I've been scratching my head all day on an issue that's been > >> frustrating. > >> > &

Re: Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot

2009-11-14 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Saturday 14 November 2009, Steven Hartland a écrit : > Yes I can confirm that. then, could you please provide the verbose dmesg for both working and non-working configurations ? TfH > > Regards > Steve > - Original Message - > From: "Thierry He

Re: Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot

2009-11-14 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Friday 13 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit : > I've been scratching my head all day on an issue that's been frustrating. > > I've got two FreeBSD 6.2 instances installed on two M600 blades, and am > moving to a new datacenter with M600 blades and trying to install FreeBSD > 7.2 or 8. But as

Re: GA-MA780G-UD3H motherboard

2009-08-25 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Tuesday 25 August 2009, Bernt Hansson a écrit : > Andriy Gapon said the following on 2009-08-25 18:35: > > I have become to own Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H motherboard: > > http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassV > >alue=Motherboard&ProductID=3004&ProductName=GA-MA7

Re: GA-MA780G-UD3H motherboard

2009-08-25 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Tuesday 25 August 2009, Robert Noland a écrit : > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 21:27 +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Le Tuesday 25 August 2009, Sam Fourman Jr. a écrit : > > > > Meanwhile, if you interested in any information about this > > > > motherboard - da

Re: GA-MA780G-UD3H motherboard

2009-08-25 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Tuesday 25 August 2009, Sam Fourman Jr. a écrit : > > Meanwhile, if you interested in any information about this motherboard - > > data dumps, outputs from tools, etc - please let me know, I will try my > > best to provide that. > > it would be interesting to see a dmesg as a starting point. > h

Re: Confused by segfault with legitimate call to strerror(3) on amd64 / sysctl (3) setting `odd' errno's

2009-01-16 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Friday 16 January 2009, Garrett Cooper a écrit : > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Christoph Mallon > > #include > #include > #include > > int > main() > { > > struct stat sb; > > int o_errno; > > if (stat("/some/file/that/doesn't/exist", &sb) != 0) { >

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Wednesday 12 November 2008, Varshavchick Alexander a écrit : > I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time > complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition > in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. > Then all by it

Re: strange behaviour with /sbin/init and serial console

2008-10-31 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Friday 31 October 2008, Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 05:46:23PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > with the following patch on /sbin/init, I have two different behaviours > > depending on the console type (on a i386/32 PC) : > > - on a video consol

strange behaviour with /sbin/init and serial console

2008-10-31 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, with the following patch on /sbin/init, I have two different behaviours depending on the console type (on a i386/32 PC) : - on a video console, I see the expected two messages, - on a serial console, the messages are not displayed (init silently finishes its job and gets to start /etc/rc

Re: question about sb->st_blksize in src/sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c

2008-10-25 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Saturday 25 October 2008, Bruce Evans a écrit : > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > the [SUBJ] file contains the following extract (around line 705) : > > > > * Default to PAGE_SIZE after much discussion. > > * XXX: min(PAGE_SIZE, vp->

question about sb->st_blksize in src/sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c

2008-10-24 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, the [SUBJ] file contains the following extract (around line 705) : * Default to PAGE_SIZE after much discussion. * XXX: min(PAGE_SIZE, vp->v_bufobj.bo_bsize) may be more correct. */ sb->st_blksize = PAGE_SIZE; which arrived around four years ago, with revision 1.211 (s

Re: NFS locking from a qemu machine ?

2008-07-20 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Saturday 19 July 2008, Thierry Herbelot a écrit : > Hello, > > I'm trying to use NFS locking from an NFS client running in a qemu virtual > PC to an NFS server running on the host machine, but with no success so far > : > > configuration for the host PC (server) : &g

NFS locking from a qemu machine ?

2008-07-18 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I'm trying to use NFS locking from an NFS client running in a qemu virtual PC to an NFS server running on the host machine, but with no success so far : configuration for the host PC (server) : operating system : FreeBSD 7.0-Stable % cat /etc/exports /shared/ 127.0.0.1 and in /etc/rc.c

Re: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-25 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit : > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD > > drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-

3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

2008-06-24 Thread Thierry Herbelot
[CC trimmed] Le Tuesday 24 June 2008, Garrett Cooper a écrit : > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Scott T. Hildreth > [SNIP] > > (not designed to be troll-bait, just my personal opinion on the matter > -- don't comment on it please) FWIW, Personally I don't think that > Flash support is as critica

Re: FreeBSD on non-fpu device

2008-01-20 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Sunday 20 January 2008, Peter Jeremy a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:33:14AM +0200, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > >Why anyone would be interested? The eBOX 2300SX cpu is a SoC device, > > which is by far the lowest power consumption I have seen, and this is > > probably cheapest computer on t

Re: AMD64 depenguinator?

2007-12-07 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Friday 07 December 2007, Stanislaw Halik a écrit : > Heya, > > I'd like to use depenguinator > to get rid of Linux on my > dedicated servers. This one only works for IA-32 and my machines are > mostly AMD64. > > Could you please share an AMD64 depengui

Re: how to write a raw socket server using UDP

2007-11-27 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Tuesday 27 November 2007, sourav das a écrit : > hello all, > > i m a new comer. i wrote a raw socket client > using setsockopt (sock, IPPROTO_IP. IPHDRINCL, )using UDP. ihave > followed MS_Press network programming . it is showing 19 bytes sent is this the best reference you found ? a

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-20 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Tuesday 20 November 2007, Ari Suutari a écrit : > I have Promise TX2 (PDC20575). It didn't work with 7.0 betas > before, but with this patch things run as well as they did > on 6.x. > > Ari S. Hello, Has anyone an idea why the Promise controllers seemed to work correctly under 6.x, then

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Monday 19 November 2007, Søren Schmidt a écrit : > Hi All! > > I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it fixes > the problem or not. > > Please test and report, its a bit urgent if it need to get into R7 :) > > > -Søren Hello SoS, From what I read, it seems that the las

Re: installing fbsd from foreign system

2007-01-28 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Sunday 28 January 2007 16:22, Oliver Fromme a écrit : > Another possibility is to prepare a boot image, i.e. a file > containing boot sector and a UFS root partition with > wverything needed for bootstrapping (/boot/loader etc., > kernel, base system). It doesn't have to cover the whole > disk,

High-speed transfers

2006-07-01 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Saturday 1 July 2006 15:31, Hans Petter Selasky a écrit : > > Yes, but don't forget high-speed USB transfers. They require larger > buffers. For example 1024 bytes for ULPT is too little. The interrupt rate > will be so high, that it is unrealistic to transfer 20MB/s using 1024 byte > interrupts

Re: setting up a serial console..

2006-05-25 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Thursday 25 May 2006 17:16, OxY a écrit : > hi! > > i have a simple question, but i didn't found the answer. > > after i set console=comconsole in the /boot/loader.conf > and rebooted every output has been sent to the serial console, > it's normal... in /boot/defaults/loader.conf you will find

Re: NetBSD disk backup over network

2006-03-07 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Tuesday 7 March 2006 15:46, Dag-Erling Smørgrav a écrit : > Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just saw this slashdotted article: > > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/dermouse.html > > > > Just to satisfy my curiosity, is it the sort of thing that can be > > implemented as a GEOM l

Promise FastTrak RAID 5 support ?

2005-11-25 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I've been googling for some time and I can't seem to find out whether the ata subsystem of FreeBSD supports the RAID5 feature of the Promise boards. Two boards seem interesting : (by Promise) FastTrak S150 SX4-M and FastTrak SX4100 (I haven't exactly seen the differences, though) fr

Re: Xen dom0 support

2005-11-22 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Tuesday 22 November 2005 23:17, Darcy Buskermolen a écrit : > Hello, > > I know Kip Macy was working on Xen support for FreeBSD. How is FreeBSD > Dom0 coming along as well as SMP support ? Hello, With the instructions on Kip's site or the patch included with the xen sources, it's possible to

Grub capabilities (Re: Multiple Bootable FreeBSD partitions?)

2004-07-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Monday 19 July 2004 22:43, Eitarou Kamo a écrit : > Me too. WinXP, RedHat, FreeBSD-4.10 and Solaris8 live > in my laptop. And RedHat has 2 kernels bootable. So I have > 5 OSes bootable. If 2 linux live in dos basic partition each other > and each linux create extend partition, is it possible to

Re: Multiple Bootable FreeBSD partitions?

2004-07-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I've got a grub.conf example with 5 OS'es at : http://therbelot.free.fr/Install_Linux/grub.conf (including 2 FreeBSD's in the same slice/"primary partition") Happy reading, TfH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: problems mounting firewire HDD

2004-04-07 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Thursday 08 April 2004 02:01, Tadimeti Keshav a écrit : > I am running x86, not sparc. > Any solns? > Thx in advance... try using fdisk on da0 : fdisk will tell you if there are any partition on your disk TfH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

Re: problems mounting firewire HDD

2004-04-07 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Wednesday 07 April 2004 20:02, Tadimeti Keshav a écrit : > Hi all, > I am doing the following to mount a 10GB Quantum > Fireball FAT32 HDD via firewire as root. > FreeBSD 5.2.1, lucent F322/323 (firewire card). This > setup works under Windows 2000. > > #camcontrol devlist -v > #camcontrol start

Re: implications of SMP kernel on UP

2004-04-02 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Thursday 01 April 2004 09:10, Bjoern A. Zeeb a écrit : > Hi, > > what are the implications on running an SMP enabled kernel on a UP > machine ? > > I first thought of things like: > - performence (most likely not worth the discussion ?) I got an improvement with a factor of ten between an SMP a

Keeping an eye on the text console while in X11 ?

2004-02-03 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, [long message] I'm chasing strange freezes on my work PC, with a recent -Current (5.2-SNAP from 01/30). The machine is NEC PeeCee, using a Gigabyte MB, a SIS chipset and a P4-1,8GHz (dmesg to follow). The kernel is just GENERIC, with all debugging options commented out. sometimes (stil

ICH5 + SATA + Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ?

2003-11-18 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I'm in the process of selecting new computers, and I'm tempted by an ASUS P4P800, with Seagate SATA disks. After googling a bit, it seems that the ICH5 is indeed supported in SATA mode from the 4.9-Release (perhaps also 5.1 ?) (at least the chip is correctly identified by

Re: failed freebsd 5.1 install

2003-07-08 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Wednesday 09 July 2003 07:56, Greg Kutzbach a écrit : > Motherboard > Intel® VS440FX Motherboard > http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/VS440FX/ > 84MB RAM > IBM 40GP Hard drive > removed all PCI cards except video > Running Matrox MGA 4MB video > Pentium Pro 200 > IDE Generic CD Ro

strange 5.1 fxp behaviour [was Re: "jumpstation" configuration]

2003-06-13 Thread Thierry Herbelot
[I've seen your previous answer, but I still will describe my setup] [problems netbooting machines between fxp and em NICs] Hello, I am too seeing problems jumpstarting a machine (client) using a fxp NIC from a server (runnning 5.1-Rel) using an em NIC : the em NIC is wired down as 100baseTX fu

Re: make world + kernel with gcc 3.2?

2003-03-15 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Saturday 15 March 2003 18:14, Avleen Vig a écrit : > I don't expect HUGE problems with making world, but am I asking for > trouble if I make a new kernel with GCC3.2? good luck to you ! just have a look at the differences in the source code between current and stable to enable the compilation

Re: Realtek

2003-03-07 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Friday 07 March 2003 18:16, Doug Ambrisko a écrit : [SNIP] > 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 client and a Gig link to the server. > FreeBSD c

Re: IPC and jail.

2003-02-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, PostGreSQL (see the ports) is one (big) program which is difficult to set up in a pure jail, as it uses shared memory : it could be a good candidate for your test. you may want to have first a patch against -Current, as this is the "One True Way" to introduce a new functionality to Free

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

2003-02-10 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Monday 10 February 2003 21:51, Joe O a écrit : > If the linux XFree86 4.x driver was correctly written you should be able > to dump it into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers and use it. > > One of the goals with XFree86 4.x was that the X server modules be OS > independent. > Indeed, that's how I

Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update

2003-02-10 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, Matt, with your copious free time and this new baby, what would you think of porting over the ehci driver from NetBSD over to FreeBSD (this will enable USB2.0) ISTR a call for help (must have been by Joe K.) TfH PS : I confess : this is a shameless plug to get USB2.0 working on

Re: cdrom upgrade of existing installation, defining a swap part

2003-01-10 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Friday 10 January 2003 20:46, John Baldwin a écrit : [SNIP] > > > > I now want to install 5.0-DP2 on ad0s3e so that I can test it for a > > while. I have the cdrom and have created boot floppies. I've booted the > > floppy and selected "upgrade existing installation", but it won't let me > > def

Re: problems with a firewire external hard disk [long]

2002-12-04 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Wednesday 04 December 2002 23:41, Julian Elischer a écrit : > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I can't seem to use my new external firewire hard disk : (this is > > with 5.0-DP2, there are the same kinds of symptoms under 4.7-Stable

problems with a firewire external hard disk [long]

2002-12-04 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I can't seem to use my new external firewire hard disk : (this is with 5.0-DP2, there are the same kinds of symptoms under 4.7-Stable) My main question is to know where the problems are : is the hard disk dead ? is the firewire/ATA bridge fried ? are all problems due to the driver ?

Re: [nephtes@openface.ca: [Xmame] Use of usleep() with -sleepidle]

2002-12-02 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Monday 02 December 2002 18:49, Mike Silbersack a écrit : [SNIP] > > The time select() takes should be directly related to your system's hz > setting. The default for FreeBSD is 100, which means that the interrupt > timer will fire every 10ms. If you want to play with that, edit > /etc/sysctl.c

Reading from an OS-X HFS disk drive ?

2002-11-25 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I've installed 5.0-DP2 on my Vaio which has a firewire port. I already had loaded the firewire driver in 4.7-Stable, to see what happened (nothing remarkable : the chipset is indeed probed and recognized, nevertheless, thanks for the driver !). To go a bit further, I've borrowed a 80Gb

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Saturday 03 August 2002 22:09, Matthew N. Dodd a écrit : > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Alp ATICI wrote: > > And what's the latest about the Nvidia drivers? It's mentioned that > > Nvidia has plans to produce the drivers for FreeBSD. I'd be happy to > > know what's going on in that issue too. > > "Any d

Re: A time resolution problem

2002-05-03 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Paolo Di Francesco wrote: > [SNIP] > 1 msec. (recompiled the kernel with HZ=10) > in my experience, compiling a kernel with HZ greater than 10.000 (ten thousand) is uselesss (I even had crash with greater HZ) TfH [SNIP] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

Re: "boot -a" in 4.5-STABLE

2002-04-22 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Marc Heckmann wrote: > > I've got 4.5-STABLE setup here with vinum as per the Vinum bootstrapping howto > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/index.html). > > I have ad0s1a which is "/" and ad2s1a which is mounted on /rootback, it's an > exact copy of the "/" filesystem.

Re: Contributing to FreeBSD

2002-04-16 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Christian Flügel wrote: > > Hi, Welcome, > > I use FreeBSD regularly for over 4 years now (since I have read an Article > about 3.0 in the c't magazine) and since I deem it such a great product I'd > very much like to contribute to it to help make it even better. this is clearly how FreeBSD h

Re: getting started with -CURRENT

2002-02-27 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Steve Tremblett wrote: > > I would think it is reasonable to dual-boot -CURRENT and -STABLE on > this box. Is this possible on the same hard disk, or will multiple > hard disks be required for that? I'm thinking that the BIOS should > complain about multiple partitions of the same type? I'm so

Re: Clock Granularity (kernel option HZ)

2002-01-31 Thread Thierry Herbelot
I've used a large collection of PCs running somewhat real-time network analysis with a HZ set at 5000Hz with absolutely no ill effects (this was with P-III-450's) using HZ=1 was outside of the possibilities of the machines. one big gain is with timing, which will be better (I myself used NTP

suspected dying CD-writer ?

2002-01-23 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I've got an SCSI CD-Writer, which only gives errors when I try to use cd-record (see full log at the end of the message) As the problem is identical on a fresh 4.4-Rel (with cd-record installed from the CD as a binary package) and a recently updated 4.5-RC, there is strong suspicion the d

Re: Phobos 4-port NIC

2002-01-05 Thread Thierry Herbelot
ry well with the dc driver -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kernel error messages

2001-11-16 Thread Thierry Herbelot
est regards, > Dmitry Mottl > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Tagged Command Queuing support for IC-35L0?0 ?

2001-09-05 Thread Thierry Herbelot
David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:33:55PM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > "known-bad" revision for these babies -, and the 762 North Bridge of the > > soon to be there SMP Athlon) > > "Soon to be there"?? Hum... I'

Re: Tagged Command Queuing support for IC-35L0?0 ?

2001-09-05 Thread Thierry Herbelot
is there some place where a "recommended" list of chipsets is compiled ? (my interest would be about oldies like 440LX/400BX - there may be some "known-bad" revision for these babies -, and the 762 North Bridge of the soon to be there SMP Athlon) Cheers (and keep up the ata)

clock synchronization quality via NTP ?

2001-08-22 Thread Thierry Herbelot
hope having a system clock not farther from the GPS clock by more than 50 micro-seconds ? -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD for ARM processor

2001-07-22 Thread Thierry Herbelot
o keep the list posted of my progresses. > > Steph > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-21 Thread Thierry Herbelot
ituated in the disk *after* ad0s3 which was to be the new boot partition) [SNIP] BTW : thanks for the *detailed* explanation -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread Thierry Herbelot
or ad0s4e for root partition) - In this case, /stand/sysinstall was unable to create all 8 FreeBSD partitions : I had to first install FreeBSD on ad0s3, cut 8 partitions in ad0s4, then reinstall in ad0s4. [SNIP] -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: dual booting -stable & -current

2001-07-20 Thread Thierry Herbelot
y one only 2G partition, but I cut it this way, with a shared swap to be able to dual-boot) PS : I also had problems with a 40G disk on my oldish P-II/266 : it would not boot from the large disk (I just added a spare 8G which I boot from) -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Swapping in diskless ? (was :Re: [hackers] Re: getting rid of sysinstall)

2001-07-13 Thread Thierry Herbelot
nfs swap once a server is running. > > Is there a way to do this in loader.conf or loader.rc? I don't know : my application was "embedded" and used much less than the 128MBytes installed in the machines (thus no swap!) -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: getting rid of sysinstall

2001-07-12 Thread Thierry Herbelot
alled '??'? > And why do my programs keep crashing in it? first : a big thank you for your paper : I finally could use PXE for diskless booting (not install, just running a full, diskless, FreeBSD) then : I thought Google used some version of Linux in its server farms

memory leak in libfetch ? (with patch)

2001-05-21 Thread Thierry . Herbelot
hello, [this is using a 4.3-Release machine] I'm using libfetch for automated file transfers from a program (via ftp). The program is running for long periods of time, and seems to be leaking memory (at least it's SIZE in top(1) just grows and grows - the swap is also increasingly used). As

Re: no keyboard

2001-05-05 Thread Thierry Herbelot
lution for this problem? Note : this is a way to kill your keyboard : an AT keyboard is not hot-plug compatible two better solutions : - a KVM (keyboard video mouse) switch (for example, from Blackbox) - a serial console (via console="comconsole" in /boot/loader.conf + the right conf i

AMD and SMP ? (was :Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium)

2001-04-18 Thread Thierry Herbelot
BTW, is there any AMD SMP machine already running FreeBSD ? (my BP6 is getting old and tired, and I'd like to keep an SMP machine) -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Routing latency

2001-03-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
in my packet blaster, I get an order of magnitude less packet drops with a 3c905 than with a dc NIC (which is on a multi-port NIC : the PCI-PCI bridge may be a hindrance there) TfH > > /Mårten -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Routing latency

2001-03-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Dennis wrote: > [SNIP] > > If you are using the dc driver, make certain it is operating in > store-and-forward mode, the default configuration starts in a mode that > only works on 10mb/s connections. patches ? > > dennis -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: Routing latency

2001-03-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
6 - ggong@ggong:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf>ls -l LINT > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 88928 Mar 11 21:14 LINT > c107 - ggong@ggong:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf>date > Mon Mar 19 15:34:51 PST 2001 > c108 - ggong@ggong:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf>grep HZ LINT > c109 - ggong@ggong:/usr/src/sys

Re: scheduling frequency for threaded applications ?

2001-03-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010319 11:43] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm developping a network benchmark application ("packet blaster"). > > > > The current version uses many processes, to send an

scheduling frequency for threaded applications ?

2001-03-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
y always blocked until an event arrives, either a timeout with select() or a packet with recevmsg()) I've had a quick look a TFM, but I don't see anything applicable (pthread_setschedparam(3) for example does not speak of scheduling frequency) -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe:

Re: Routing latency

2001-03-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
t least want to know what is causing the extra delays. > > /Mårten > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation

2001-03-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Paul Saab wrote: > > Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > they've done this, but their newest BIOS (8 days old) still has a 0.78 > > PXE revision (I've seen more recent DELL machines with a 0.99 - I assume > > this is better) > > No.. 0.99 is t

Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation

2001-03-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Paul Saab wrote: > > Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Paul Saab wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > My problem is that the NIC I'm trying to boot from is an on-board fxp on > > a Motorola p-III M/B (I assume there is no sp

Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation

2001-03-16 Thread Thierry Herbelot
TfH > Upgrade the PXE rom > http://people.freebsd.org/~ps/pxeroms/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation

2001-03-16 Thread Thierry Herbelot
lot. Any suggestions ? > Thanks a lot !! > > - Rohit > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Request

2001-03-15 Thread Thierry Herbelot
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Re: Porting NVidia linux kernel modules to FreeBSD

2001-03-11 Thread Thierry Herbelot
; can give some hints on how to do the same kind of wrapper for FreeBSD good luck -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: if_fxp status?

2001-03-07 Thread Thierry Herbelot
ar or linksys does one of these > cards). I'd go with them. No multiport card, at least as far as i know. What : no more dc multiport board ? are you sure of this ? if so, it may be wise to buy some D-link 570-TX boards in advance for my project. Cheers -- Thierry Herbelot To

Re: detecting a closing socket from a Lex/Yacc interpreter ?

2001-02-23 Thread Thierry Herbelot
YY_INPUT return as an EOF and your <> rule will work fine. > indeed, taking the very simple YY_INPUT code from the man page of lex did the trick (+ remembering to close the fd's associated to the socket ...) Thanks -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMA

detecting a closing socket from a Lex/Yacc interpreter ?

2001-02-22 Thread Thierry Herbelot
es of ftpd, where yacc is used, but from what I've seen, the yylex() function has been hand written (which I would like not to do) I've added a <> target in the lex file, but it does not seem to detect the socket close() taker for any solution, TfH -- Thierry Herb

What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Thierry . Herbelot
Hello, I'm trying to use the pxeboot loader from 4.2-RELEASE, to diskless boot some rack-mount PCs. Using documentation from Alfred Perlstein and Mike Smith, I've configured a DHCP server and a tftp server, and I'm still having problems with at least one machine not being able to start each ti

Re: What to do if a box is just "frozen"

2001-01-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
False alarm : a reinstall of a fresh 4.2-R from a CD-ROM cured everything (I thought I was careful when upgrading via make world ;-)) Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:01:15 +0100, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >I've got a little app

Re: What to do if a box is just "frozen"

2001-01-15 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Eric Lee Green wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > I've got a little application at work which can "just freeze" a > > 4.2-Release : the purpose of the application is just a packet blaster > > Are you sure it's not a hardwa

What to do if a box is just "frozen"

2001-01-15 Thread Thierry Herbelot
e loss of control from the keyboard, not being able to switch to DDB) I will try to upgrade the boxes to a more recent -Stable, to see if the problem still exists. TIA for any idea -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: rpc.lockd and true NFS locks?

2000-12-14 Thread Thierry Herbelot
it in -current ? TfH -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Thierry Herbelot
7;ll be happy to try out patches for the lnc driver to fix the problem of > the Deskpro, or to give remote access to it if you want to work on it. > > Kees Jan -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Routing issues

2000-10-14 Thread Thierry Herbelot
e ony one of the ethernet interfaces has an IP address (you can then set up your firewall in a "stealth" config, where it does not touch the TTL in the IP packets) TfH -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: finding source to functions

2000-09-29 Thread Thierry Herbelot
ere is glimpse in the ports tree (/usr/ports/textproc/glimpse), which can create a very efficient index for lots of text files (like source files) TfH > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Thi

Re: New ATA tagged queuing patch available

2000-09-08 Thread Thierry Herbelot
erious problem reports I'll commit this > shortly, making FreeBSD the first OS that has tagged Queuing > support for ATA drives :) > > -Søren Nice try ! Any chance an older IBM drive might be supported ? TfH -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: solicit hardware and/or testers for newbusified drivers

2000-05-04 Thread Thierry Herbelot
S-4500 hand scanner. > el: 3Com 3C501 ethernet card. > le: Digital Equipment EtherWorks 2 and EtherWorks 3 (DEPCA, DE100, > DE101, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE203, DE204, DE205, DE422). hello, the le driver (or the board) does not work very well , but I can test a newbusified

Re: Voice Over IP (VOIP) support?

2000-02-23 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Ollivier Robert wrote: > > According to Kris Kirby: > > Do we have anyone actively working on Voice Over IP (VOIP) programs or > > other interfaces for FreeBSD? I'm highly interested and would be willing > > to assist in anyway that I can. > > We -- Eurocontrol, my work company -- have a product

Re: Voice Over IP (VOIP) support?

2000-02-22 Thread Thierry Herbelot
There is a very recent and not yet complete "openH323" port which should be a way to VoIP. TfH Kris Kirby wrote: > > Do we have anyone actively working on Voice Over IP (VOIP) programs or > other interfaces for FreeBSD? I'm highly interested and would be willing > to assist in anyway th

Re: PCI IDE Controller (HPT-366) supported?

2000-02-09 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Of course, it works with FreeBSD (TM) The new IDE driver (ata) from the soon-to-become-Stable 4.0 supports the HPT366 : (from the dmesg of my BP6) ata-pci1: port 0xd400-0xd4ff, 0xd000-0xd003,0xcc00-0xcc07 irq 18 at device 19.0 on pci0 ata2-master: success setting up UDMA4 mode on HPT366 chip a

Re: disappearing mount points after install

2000-01-22 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello [-mobile trimmed] Marwan Fayed wrote: > > Hello, > > I am a seasoned UNIX user but have been using freebsd for only about 6 > months. I have posted this problem to freebsd-questions with no response > so, figuring it must be a bug in the install program i'm going to try > here. Oh, I wou

Anyone working on a DOMEX scsi driver ?

2000-01-16 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I've just bought a Mustek SCSI scanner, and it is bundled with a seemingly very simple SCSI controller built by a DOMEX company (from Taiwan) Does someone know where there could be some info ? (perhaps a driver under Linux ?) TfH PS : the board identifier is DMX3191D - the chip

Re: multi-nics in FreeBSD 3.3 Release

2000-01-08 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Of course FreeBSD supports more than one NIC : gw# ifconfig -a ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 52:54:4c:1b:90:1b ed1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 212.198.30.16 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 212.198.30.255 ethe

Re: netgraph into -stable.

1999-11-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Julian Elischer wrote: > > I admit that it doesn't seem a minor addition, but > I'd like ot get netgraph down -nto 3.x now that it has been shaken down a > bit in 4.x > > reasons: > 1/ DSL in Canada is now switching rapidly to PPPoE. > 2/ PPP will start using it soon (other than with pppoe) > a

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