Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-16 Thread William Bentley
I also echo John's sentiments here. Very excellent points made here. Thank you for voicing your opinion. I was beginning to think I was the only one who felt this way. I also have several FreeBSD installations spread across different development/production systems and it is not feasible to always

Re: good morning to all

2009-06-14 Thread william
I have honestly found the best guide/help to be the actual handbook. Unlike most open source projects with poor documentation; this is one of the best. Here is the link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ -Will --Original Message-- From: malathi selvaraj Sender: owner-freebsd

Re: CFT: Graphics support for /boot/loader

2009-02-05 Thread william
There is a screenshot on the wiki site --Original Message-- From: Julian Elischer Sender: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org To: Max Laier Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org Cc: Oliver Fromme Sent: Feb 5, 2009 19:15 Subject: Re: CFT: Graphics support for /boo

Re: CFT: Graphics support for /boot/loader

2009-02-05 Thread william
Works beautifully! Loving it. Thanks for the work. --Original Message-- From: Oliver Fromme Sender: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org Sent: Feb 5, 2009 17:18 Subject: CFT: Graphics support for /boot/loader Hello fellow hacke

Re: FreeBSD hacker 101

2008-01-24 Thread william wong
That brings me to another ponder: why juniper and cisco are using FreeBSD and not Linux even Linux performs better in an UP environment? 2008/1/25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "william wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smør

Re: FreeBSD hacker 101

2008-01-24 Thread william wong
2008/1/24, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "william wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for enlightening me on different aspects. Actually I found there are > > many exciting network stack projects/overhaul happening in FreeBSD 8. I just &g

Re: FreeBSD hacker 101

2008-01-24 Thread william wong
that i can get myself acquainted to the software development process. It seems that Juniper favors the even number FreeBSD's. So get to know about FB8 could be ahead of them :) william 2008/1/24, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "william wong" <[EMAIL PRO

FreeBSD hacker 101

2008-01-23 Thread william wong
Hi, Are there any docments or pointers to get me started hacking around my 6.3asap? Building toochains, submitting patches etc or i just follow most of the conventions in the Linux kernel development community? regards, william ___ freebsd-hackers

Fwd: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-06-06 Thread william wallace
-- Forwarded message -- From: william wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 7, 2006 11:13 AM Subject: Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch To: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-06-04 Thread william wallace
#x27;s a find document for the freebsd resource topology, thank you ,sir . On 6/4/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "william wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On 5/20/06, Warner L

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-06-04 Thread william wallace
On 6/4/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > > Warner : Prior to removing a card from the system, two things must occur: : : The device's driver must cease accessing the card. : : The card must cease generation transaction and interrupts. : : How this

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-06-04 Thread william wallace
On 5/20/06, Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "william wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 13:39:08 +0800 > comparing the method array of pci_pci and cardbusbridge: > what

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-06-01 Thread william wallace
Sir : question one : I see lots' of use of pcib_get_bus but i cannot see the defination ,where is it ? question two: what is the relationship among 1device_delete_child 2devclass_delete_device and 3devclass_delete_driver there seems some overlap among them :) 1devclass_delete_driver ->de

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-30 Thread william wallace
eeBSD , that is what i am doing,thank u On 5/31/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "william wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : BTW :my current code is mainly translate the pcie natve hotplug from : linux , not f

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-30 Thread william wallace
thank sir ,below is my opinion On 5/30/06, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2006, william wallace wrote: > On 5/30/06, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> william wallace wrote: > >> >> >> > I have to clarify my intentions t

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-30 Thread william wallace
On 5/30/06, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: M. Warner Losh wrote: > : THIRD > : Because the PCIE configure space is 4k long ,shall we change the > : #define PCI_REGMAX 255 > : to facilitate the PCI express config R/W? > > Maybe. Lemme investigate because PCIe changes this from a well know

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-30 Thread william wallace
On 5/30/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "william wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Sir: : I have got the way to map linux pci access way to the BSD way :) : now ,several more question ,wondering :(

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-30 Thread william wallace
Sir: I have got the way to map linux pci access way to the BSD way :) now ,several more question ,wondering :( FIRST struct pci_devinfo * pci_read_device(device_t pcib, int b, int s, int f, size_t size) struct cardbus_devinfo { struct pci_devinfo pci; uint8_tmprefetchable;

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-28 Thread william wallace
t dev, int b, int s, int f, int reg, int width) ? and how can i get int b, int s, int f? thank u On 5/24/06, John-Mark Gurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: william wallace wrote this message on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 21:13 +0800: > roger really good tips :) > and so far as i know , > the

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-27 Thread william wallace
; typedef u_int32_t u32; so ,what is the use of drm_os_freebsd.h and any advice for me to translate DT from linux to Freebsd? On 5/24/06, John-Mark Gurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: william wallace wrote this message on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 21:13 +0800: > roger really good tips :) > and

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-24 Thread william wallace
wrote: william wallace wrote this message on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 15:48 +0800: > IN static device_method_t pci_methods[] = { > what is the freeBSD's magic to connect pci_read_config_methodwtih > PCI_READ_CONFIG? awk script?and so on? > which > DEVMETHOD(pci_read_config,p

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-24 Thread william wallace
); in pci_enable_io_method in pci.c and what if i create a new method in pci method interface ? such as DEVMETHOD(pci_have_rest , pci_have_rest_method) what else should i do when i want to use PCI_HAVE_REST(dev ) point to pci_have_rest_method On 5/23/06, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: will

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-22 Thread william wallace
I just have fossicked some idea from [EMAIL PROTECTED] "PCI-Express support " PCI-Express support All, I've emailed before about supporting various aspects of PCI-Express and especially MSI, but haven't really gotten too far with it due to lack of resources. I now how access to a system that c

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-21 Thread william wallace
On 5/22/06, Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "william wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:08:00 +0800 > On 5/21/06, Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > nope

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-21 Thread william wallace
On 5/21/06, Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: nope. It may be called once per bus instance per driver, if the bus is not self-identifying. If the bus is self-idntiying, chances are that it will not be called. pci never calls its children drivers' identify routine because it already knows

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-20 Thread william wallace
bus): DEVMETHOD(bus_add_child,ppbus_add_child), Smbus.c (dev\smbus):DEVMETHOD(bus_add_child,smbus_add_child), On 5/20/06, Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "william wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: misc questions about the device&driver arc

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-19 Thread william wallace
On 5/20/06, Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Busses create devices to represent hardware in the system. The bus then causes these devices to be probed and attached. This latter usage is for those cases. As drivers are loaded these devices are offered to the new (and old) drivers in the

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-19 Thread william wallace
comparing the method array of pci_pci and cardbusbridge: what losts in pci bridge but exist in cardbusbridge: 1 card interface 2 power interface 3 some functions : 3ain bus interface (bus_driver_added, cbb_driver_added), (bus_child_detached,cbb_child_detac

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-19 Thread william wallace
about devclass_find_internal devclass_find_internal will be called to create a new devclass in such 2 conditions : one is creating a new device , as : if (name) { dc = devclass_find_internal(name, 0, TRUE); another is in the function:devclass_add_driver. but ,if a driver 's name is different f

fakedevice hotplug Demo with sourcecode

2006-05-06 Thread Wallace William
hello ,everyone . i have write a demo module to demostrate the hotplug of a pci device under freeBSD 5.3 . when kldload the module ,the fakedevice will be "plug "into the pci architechure,when kldunload ,the device will be removed. pciconf -l ,and devinfo -v will be the tool to show this

Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch

2006-05-06 Thread Wallace William
I have seen this in the freebsd 5 road map,have the hotplug of pci already merged into the RELENG_5 branch? PCI resource allocation: PC2003 compliance requires that x86 systems no longer configure PCI devices from the system BIOS, leaving this task solely to the OS. FreeBSD must gain the ability

Re: network settings

2005-09-18 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, eoghan wrote: > Hello > Im pretty new the freeBSD. Im working with 5.3. Each time I start up > the computer I have to go to /usr/sbin/sysintall and configure it to > use my network. I plugged directly in and Im not sure why I have to > set this up each time. > Also, when I go

Re: upload speed test problem

2005-05-12 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Ganbold wrote: > return showSpeed(starttime1,endtime1,"Upload",buffer_len); What does showSpeed() look like? -Zera Holladay ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: kernel programming

2005-04-20 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yeah thanks for that, i figured the code was a good start. Now that I > know the docs i know where to go, cheers for that > > --neuro > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > >> where's a good place for kernel programming documentation ? > >

Re: make for bootable ISOs

2005-04-11 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 4.x uses el-torrito 2.88Mb floppy emulation for booting.. > make release builds an install CD and a live file system disk. > > I made a page with some tips on make release for 4.x if you're interested.. > http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/FreeBSD-re

make for bootable ISOs

2005-04-10 Thread Zera William Holladay
Hi, I'm attempting to make a bootable ISO for i386 architecture on 4.11-STABLE. I am using: %make buildworld %make buildkernel %make hierarchy DESTDIR=/... %make installworld DESTDIR=/... %make installkernel DESTDIR=/... And then modifying etc so that /dev/acd0a is the root directory. Is this t

Re: Kernel [memory] tweaking question

2005-04-07 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: > These are all reasonably well documented in sys/conf/NOTES. If you > want more detail, try a SystemV-oriented Unix book > > Close - they only control SystemV shared memory. Sane shared memory > is available via mmap(2). SystemV semaphores are controlled

Re: 4BSD Scheduler Problem on 5.3

2005-04-01 Thread William Michael Grim
3.20 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SI

4BSD Scheduler Problem on 5.3

2005-03-31 Thread William Michael Grim
be helpful. Thanks so much for your help. -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good dump found on device /dev/aacd0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture

Re: Causing a process switch to test a theory.

2005-03-20 Thread Zera William Holladay
If you post the section(s) of code in question, then you'll probably elicit some responses. PIPE_BUF is a POSIX defined minimum, so you might grep for sections of code that contain fpathconf(*, _PC_PIPE_BUF) to determine if the programmers took this into consideration. At least you'll be able to

Re: threads question

2005-03-15 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: [cut] > The answer is probably something like what you just said, scope being > lost when making the call to a shared library. Why is it ok going to a > static library but not a shared though? There is probably a race condition, so your code will work

Re: Can someone please help me? Why does init fail to start?

2005-03-10 Thread William Bierman
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:58:09 +, Joseph Koshy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried with the default, but also tried just "/sbin/init" -- which I > > have verified to exist. > > > > > 3) Does 'init' run on a regular FreeBSD kernel? > > > > It's not the default kernel, but the same kernel boots

Can someone please help me? Why does init fail to start?

2005-03-09 Thread William Bierman
Hello. I setup the partitions/slices correctly, extracted the correct files to each, and installed the kernel and initialized the boot sector. The kernel loads succesfully but is unable to succesfully hand over control to the init process. I established this by putting print debug statements at

Re: init troubles with custom install .. perhaps a kernel bug?

2005-03-04 Thread William Bierman
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:25:37 -1000, William Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I have been endeavoring to create my own livecd which will > mount a remote share from which to run scripts installing a ghost > image onto a local hard drive. I realize this may be more trou

init troubles with custom install

2005-03-04 Thread William Bierman
hatever additional information may be necessary. Thanks! William ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Error in my C programming

2005-02-20 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Kathy Quinlan wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Here is a section of my code: > > *** Wtrend_Drivers.c *** > unsigned char Length , Network , Receiver , Node , Command = 0x00; > //Some Variables > > These are some of the errors I get in pairs for each of the above variables: > > Wtrend_

Re: kernel vm question

2005-01-27 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jacques Fourie wrote: > Hi, > > I have a kernel module with the following entry point : > > static int test_modevent(module_t mod, int type, void *unused) > { >int s; >unsigned char *p = NULL; >unsigned char v = 0x55; > >switch (type) > { > case MOD

Re: Kernel mode programming

2005-01-18 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > > --- Zera William Holladay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > My understanding is that when a system call is made > > from a user process, > > there is a trap into the kern

Re: Kernel mode programming

2005-01-18 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Ryan Sommers wrote: > Zera William Holladay said: > > Even if the application were run as a kernel module, how much of a > > performance benefit could there be when making system calls? I suspect > > that the module would get a higher scheduling prior

Re: Kernel mode programming

2005-01-18 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:45:05AM +0100, - Felix - wrote: > > Doing lot of syscalls interrupts in a soft seems to take quite a long time, > > and seriously slow performances. As far as you can't reduce the syscall > > amount, is there any way to r

Re: getting mount points in kernel

2005-01-14 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Siddharth Aggarwal wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is there a system call to get all the mount points? In a user app, I guess > I would probably parse the /etc/fstab, but how do I do it in the kernel? Is are you looking for "man 2 getfsstat"? Entries in /etc/fstab are not nessarily m

Re: Picture CDs ?

2005-01-11 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > It's odd but I couldn't mount a Picture CD on FreeBSD 5.2.1. This is pretty > weird as Windows reports it is just CDFS and some jpeg files plus some windows > software that let's you view it. I don't know... how can I get it wrong: mount > /cdrom ri

Re: max data segment size problem (process can not allocate more then 1gb memory)

2004-12-25 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Zera William Holladay wrote: > > > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, freebsd wrote: > > > hello all, > > i have problem, when process tryes to allocate more then 1gb memory it > > coredumps > > i have tryed options MAXDSIZ to 1.5gb but kernel panics &

Re: max data segment size problem (process can not allocate more then 1gb memory)

2004-12-25 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, freebsd wrote: > hello all, > i have problem, when process tryes to allocate more then 1gb memory it > coredumps > i have tryed options MAXDSIZ to 1.5gb but kernel panics > when i put it in loader.conf with kern.maxdsiz kernel panics again > this is my server memory configur

Kernel Configuration script [was Re: "Next Generation" kernel configuration?]

2004-07-29 Thread William Kirkland
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 07:39:31PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Just musing on an idea here: > > I've been thinking for a while now about trying to write a tool to make > kernel configuration easier, sort of a "make config" (as in ports) for > the kernel, similar to what's available on some

Kernel Configuration script [was Re: Next

2004-07-29 Thread William Kirkland
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 07:39:31PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Just musing on an idea here: > > I've been thinking for a while now about trying to write a tool to make > kernel configuration easier, sort of a "make config" (as in ports) for > the kernel, similar to what's available on some

Re: Jails: An rc.d script

2004-05-22 Thread William M. Grim
quot; in start) start_jails ;; restart) stop_jails sleep 1 start_jails ;; stop) stop_jails ;; esac Thanks again, and sorry for the confusion. William M. Grim wrote: Hi! I've written an rc.d script that can start/stop/

Jails: An rc.d script

2004-05-22 Thread William M. Grim
it better over time and to write a man page for it. Many thanks. -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [

Re: IP frag need

2004-05-19 Thread William M. Grim
___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Please send these types of questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not an admin here, but I think that place would be more appr

Re: Remote Debugging using GDB on Linux

2004-04-20 Thread William M. Grim
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:17:56AM -0500, William M. Grim wrote: Hi! Is it possible to do remote debugging of the FreeBSD kernel over a serial connection using Linux? FreeBSD has a special "-k" switch that Linux does not for GDB; so, I'm not even sur

Remote Debugging using GDB on Linux

2004-04-20 Thread William M. Grim
Hi! Is it possible to do remote debugging of the FreeBSD kernel over a serial connection using Linux? FreeBSD has a special "-k" switch that Linux does not for GDB; so, I'm not even sure it's possible without a lot of work. Thanks in advance for your replies. -- William

Re: -stable needs rw obj dir for install?

2004-03-03 Thread William Grim
e" creates updated object files depending on the time an object was created. If the source code is newer than the object that would be built from the source code, then the object is rebuilt. Maybe this will help you understand why the times have to be in sync between and NFS server and clie

FBSD 4.9-STABLE -- Lexmark z25 (USB) -- BROKEN

2004-03-03 Thread William Grim
lpt0" appears to hang, and "echo 1 > /dev/ulpt0" has no effect (just returns after a few seconds). "dmesg | grep -i ulpt" returns no results. Any ideas? -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE

Re: machine/atmoic.h

2004-02-14 Thread William M. Grim
So if anyone would enlighten me that would be great. -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROT

Re: cons25 and xterm

2004-01-29 Thread William M. Grim
but that might not be practical in this case. In your .profile (or equivalent file) on the remote system, set TERM=ansi. ansi terminals on Sun have full colors support, etc. -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Comp

Re: symlink: /home -> /usr/home vs. /home -> usr/home in default installation

2004-01-24 Thread William M. Grim
27;m beginning to think this is a very good idea. I really don't foresee any problems with it. Since you guys already have some of this work complete, perhaps you could submit a PR for it? -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Admini

Re: symlink: /home -> /usr/home vs. /home -> usr/home in default installation

2004-01-23 Thread William M. Grim
. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" That idea seems good to me. I don't forsee any issues with it. -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsvil

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-11 Thread William Grim
e sure an older version of FreeBSD 4.x/5.x is always available for download? This way, floppy users could install an older version of the OS and cvsup to the latest version they want. I see the above as a decent compromise. This way, we no longer have to support newer floppy editions, but we

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-10 Thread William Grim
not sure, because of time and lack of several test systems. Later! -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-06 Thread William Michael Grim
I just have one comment... who gives a shit. Let this useless thread die. William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

RE: pciconf -lv - /dev/pci error

2003-12-31 Thread William Michael Grim
Good call; I do in fact have securelevel enabled. I would like to keep it enabled if possible. Is there any way to get to /dev/pci while in securelevel 2, or do I have to temporarily drop the securelevel through sysctl? Many thanks in advance. William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois

pciconf -lv - /dev/pci error

2003-12-31 Thread William Michael Grim
tach a dmesg and kernel config if it's necessary. Thanks in advance. William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: logitech cordless optical mouse problems...

2003-12-30 Thread William Michael Grim
worked), but the extra speed would be wasted, since we use devices so slowly (compared to how fast a computer operates). William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: logitech cordless optical mouse problems...

2003-12-30 Thread William Michael Grim
. With USB mice, you sometimes need to use the "auto" protocol. BTW, you can not disable moused on bootup by disabling it in /etc/rc.conf. I plan to write a patch or something for this sometime because it's annoying. Best of luck! William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois U

Re: Update: PR bin/60636

2003-12-29 Thread William Michael Grim
ailed me about this problem. I would like to say thanks to you as well. William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 200

Update: PR bin/60636

2003-12-29 Thread William Grim
ail too to get this resolved if this is not the appropriate place. -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

[Patch] : adduser - one other thing

2003-12-27 Thread William Michael Grim
I forgot to mention the adduer patch was for FreebSD 5.x; I'm very sorry for the extra posting. William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Phone: (217) 341-6552 Email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Patch] : adduser - new functionality

2003-12-27 Thread William Michael Grim
the man page for adduser that gives some information about the change. I tried testing this in as many possible ways as I could. I'd like to think I did a good job, but only time can tell. Should I send this patch somewhere else or not? William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois Unive

FreeBSD 5.1 Automount - amd.map help?

2003-12-10 Thread William M. Grim
ribes how the amd.map works so that I can create my own? I'd like to automount home directories and other exports off of remote servers (not using fstab). -- William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. P

FBSD 5-CURRENT: Kernel Makefile.inc1 Error

2003-12-06 Thread William M. Grim
ent earlier in the Makefile.inc1 that it is not. I tried patching this on my own but failed; would someone more experienced be able to patch this for me? I have attached my "dmesg" and "Makefile.inc1" to this as well just in case someone wishes to view them. -- William Michael Gr

Re: sign me up

2003-11-20 Thread Sgt William Kilgore
David, Welcome to the FreeBSD light infantry. Please report to your local recruiting office, from where you will be transported to base, equipped with uniform, weapons, ammunition and CD-ROMs. After a brief period of basic training in OS warfare you will be deployed on the front line, possibly th

Re: OpenSSH flaw #23515 - what is the workaround, and is there an exploit ?

2003-09-16 Thread William Michael Grim
What the hell are you talking about? Thanks for not giving us any info about your problem. William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Josh Brooks wrote: > > 1. What

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support

2003-07-15 Thread william paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Boris Georgiev had to walk into mine and say: > Hi Bill, > > Sorry for the previous e-mail, but have in mind that I'm trying to cooperate > by testing your drivers and > I am not aware of the rules for declaring a hardware problem in the ma

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support

2003-07-14 Thread william paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Boris Georgiev had to walk into mine and say: > Kenneth, > > As I already posted William, I have bad news - it doesn't work for me. I > rebuilt kernel yesterday with > the patched sources and the only thing that happene

Re: Login directly as root.

2002-12-27 Thread William Michael Grim
system at that point. Second, what if you're reading your usernames off of NIS and don't have anyone but root on your system? Then you'd get kind of screwed in single-user; your whole system would break. Well, I hope this helps you out. William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illin

Re: I'm leaving the project

2002-12-18 Thread William Michael Grim
I don't care who hacked what; get over it, grow up, and move on. William Michael Grim Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Unix System Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Matt Dillon wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002

CMD Tech. PCI-0680 Driver

2002-10-05 Thread William M. Grim
Hey there! I'm very new to this list and couldn't find a better one to post too (please let me know if I should post elsewhere). Anyway, I'm looking to update the ATA driver so that my new ATA/133 card with a Silicon Images' PCI-0680 chipset works. I bought the card from CMD Technologies. Appa

Re: raidframe

2002-06-11 Thread William Carrel
etty stable, I could always submit them as a PR too, but I shudder to think of the sort of flaming that would incur. -- William Carrel | Sr. Systems Engineer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] InfoSpace INC 601 108th Ave NE | Suite 1200 | Bellevue, WA 98004 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-04 Thread William Carrel
On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 03:56 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:26:54PM -0800, William > Carrel wrote: >> See now you've made me curious, and I ask myself questions like: How >> robust is PMTU-D against someone malicious wh

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-04 Thread William Carrel
[reducing CC creep] On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 03:46 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:35:35PM -0800, Terry > Lambert wrote: >> Of course, now you've let the dirty little secret out of the >> bag: the MTU is on the *route*, which means on the next hop,

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-04 Thread William Carrel
On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 12:46 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: > William Carrel wrote: > >> ipfilter with 'keep state' on the connections will automatically allow >> back in relevant ICMP messages such as mustfrag. > > Heh... I need to try to write a "mu

Re: path_mtu_discovery

2002-01-04 Thread William Carrel
ELENG_4 systems I run spewing stuff to console if the PMTU-D was turned on. Also I wonder if the user's OpenBSD box and FreeBSD box agree on what their MTU is. In any case, barring anyone being able to repeat this it probably belongs on -questions@. -- William Carrel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: free() and const warnings

2001-06-08 Thread T. William Wells
> E.. this was the whole point of this thread. I *can't* cast > a (const char *) to a (char *) when using the -Wcast-qual gcc flag - Not all -W options are equally useful and some are actively harmful. This is one of them. There are several situations where it is necessary to remove a quali

Re: Getting peer credentials on a unix domain socket

2001-05-04 Thread William E. Baxter
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:34:57PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > The silly part of it is that the socket's initial credentials > might be different than the holder's credentials. A user calls connect() with one set of credentials, subsequently changes credentials, and writes to the socket.

Re: Getting peer credentials on a unix domain socket

2001-05-04 Thread William E. Baxter
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:07:38PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Dima Dorfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010504 16:06] wrote: > > Is there a reliable method of obtaining the credentials (uid/gid) of a > > peer (SOCK_STREAM sockets only, obviously) on a unix domain socket? > > All the Stevens books

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-04-03 Thread T. William Wells
33:27 -0400 > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Lines: 51 > Xref: twwells.com local.freebsd.hackers:12476 > > At 06:17 PM 04/03/2001, T. William Wells wrote: > ...but you've alrea

Fix for scrambled top display on SMP [PR 22270]

2001-03-05 Thread William Carrel
It's just three lines of code. :) I have SMP machines here that have some pretty absurdly long usernames thanks to some NIS accounts (20+ chars). Unfortunately the namelength truncation code in /usr/bin/top currently doesn't take into account the 'C' (last CPU) field that SMP machines have.

RE: Shared Memory

2000-12-08 Thread William Carlsson - Teligent Nordic, AB - Sweden
FreeBSD 4+ I had something like 8192 processes in mind and same goes for max open files I'd like 256M shared memory... William Carlsson Second Line Support Teligent Nordic AB P.O. Box 213 S-149 21 Nynäshamn SWEDEN Telephone: +4

RE: Shared Memory

2000-12-08 Thread William Carlsson - Teligent Nordic, AB - Sweden
Isn't all kern.* read only? Seems like it can't be changed more than it's in theory changeable Something like the maximum nuber of files and processes, that is suposed to be soft configurable in login.conf (doesn't work either) ,D Does anything work in FreeBSD? ,D -Original Message- Fro

Shared Memory

2000-12-07 Thread William Carlsson - Teligent Nordic, AB - Sweden
Could anyone enlighten me on how to set the amount of shared memory? I'd like that info for FreeBSD 2.2.2, 3.x, 4.x Thanks... William Carlsson Second Line Support Teligent Nordic AB P.O. Box 213 S-149 21 Nynäshamn SWEDEN Tele

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