It seems Andrij Korud wrote:
>Hi, can you help me with problem with Aladdin V chipset and UDMA.
>Here is my dmesg when UDMA in bios is off:
>[snip snap]
>wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff on isa
>wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16
>wd0: 4892MB (10018890 sectors), 10602 cyl
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Bill Paul wrote:
> Well, after a bit of head scratching, I finally think I've gotten the
> hang of the new bus architecture stuff (in general that is, not just
> the new ISA and PCI stuff). I'm trying to create an miibus framework so
> that I can have an miibus attached to tho
> I don't think that so many collisions are normal! I think there is a
> problem, because at work we nearly only use 3COM 100 Mbit cards and
> don't have much collisions. Even under high load!
Collisions on half-duplex Ethernet are *normal*. Get used to it.
Collisions is the standard flow control
Hi,
> Collisions on half-duplex Ethernet are *normal*. Get used to it.
>
> Collisions is the standard flow control mechanism for
> half-duplex Ethernet.
> The amount of collisions you get depend on the cards used,
> the amount of
> traffic, and several other things. The amount of collisions
>
Bill Paul writes:
> If you have a real, detailed and accurate bug report to submit, then fine:
> let's hear it. But if you just want to make vague and unsubstantiated
> complaints, do me a favor and just keep it to yourself.
This whole argument strikes me as a good wake up call for all of
us. I
Hi,
> -Original Message-
> From: Greg Black [mailto:g...@acm.org]
> Sent: Dienstag, 1. Juni 1999 05:21
> To: Bill Paul
> Cc: hack...@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: xl driver for 3Com
>
> This whole argument strikes me as a good wake up call for all of
> us. It really is important to make sur
I have a question concerning the maximum length allowed to be mapped by the
mmap?
Is it still limited to 2GB as the manual pages say or the restriction has been
overcome?
On Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:31:21 +0200, Alexander Maret wrote:
> There are so many FreeBSD-Hackers who are whining that Linux has so
> many users and FreeBSD hasn't.
No there are not. There are many FreeBSD enthusiasts who are whining
that Linux has so many users and FreeBSD hasn't.
FreeBSD _devel
Hi,
> -Original Message-
> From: Sheldon Hearn [mailto:sheld...@uunet.co.za]
> Sent: Dienstag, 1. Juni 1999 10:45
> To: Alexander Maret
> Cc: hack...@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: xl driver for 3Com
>
> FreeBSD _developers_ seem to be more concerned with producing a
> rock-solid operating sy
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, fretre wrote:
> 1. I try to learn something about boot code with version 3.0. I
> wander whether I can begin with biosboot?(/usr/src/sys/i386/
> boot/biosboot)
The 3.0 boot code is located in /usr/src/sys/boot
> 2. The initialized data will be loaded into memory aft
This comparison with Linux is completely off. The number of knowledgable
people working on USB for example is equivalent to the ones in FreeBSD.
Most of the people talking on linux-usb are talkers not do-ers.
FreeBSD developers do things in their spare time and they want other
people to respect t
Hi,
> -Original Message-
> From: Nick Hibma [mailto:nick.hi...@jrc.it]
> Sent: Dienstag, 1. Juni 1999 11:01
> To: Alexander Maret
> Cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list
> Subject: RE: xl driver for 3Com
>
> This comparison with Linux is completely off. The number of
> knowledgable
> pe
Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake Mark Newton (new...@internode.com.au):
> > but for most people who just want to build a handful of ports,
> > browse the tree to see if there's anything cool they want, and
> > then forget the ports tree 'til the next upgrade, it'll cut
>
> How do you wa
> > FreeBSD developers do things in their spare time and they want
> > people to respect that. They want to see some investment from
> > the other side as well to make it worthwhile.
> > And if that trade off is not what
> > you want, there are companies out there that solve problems for mone
Hi,
> -Original Message-
> From: Nick Hibma [mailto:nick.hi...@jrc.it]
> Sent: Dienstag, 1. Juni 1999 11:58
> To: Alexander Maret
> Cc: 'hack...@freebsd.org'
> Subject: RE: xl driver for 3Com
>
>
>
> The discussion started with a remark about the fact that 3Com
> cards have
> problems
Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake Mark Newton (new...@internode.com.au):
> > > DESCR file?
> > /usr/ports/INDEX ?
>
> Isn't the DESCR much more detailed than this INDEX file?
> (compare mail/mutt/pkg/DESCR and the INDEX file)
Use INDEX to work out whether the package *might* be appropr
Thus spake Mark Newton (new...@internode.com.au):
> > DESCR file?
> /usr/ports/INDEX ?
Isn't the DESCR much more detailed than this INDEX file?
(compare mail/mutt/pkg/DESCR and the INDEX file)
Alex
--
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> Yes, I read this remark and then decided to write to the developer
> because I had such a problem. I tried to post as many information
> as I could. Well it was not enough for Bill, but instead everyone
> just saying: "Provide information" people should ask questions.
> You will only exactl
> Disadvantages:
> - Unpacked ports will use about twice as much disk space (3 times if
> you include the original CVS archive).
> - ar(1) may need some tweaks to allow pathnames (not just filenames)
> as object names (and maybe to create directories).
> - Updating ports is not as easy (the por
m...@smith.net.au said:
:- there are certain classes of users that it's in our interests _not_
:- to attract.
So, Mike, when will you be issuing the official FreeBSD Qualification Test
(FQT), and issuing a License to Use FreeBSD (LUF)?
Sheesh! :-(
---
> Excuse my inattention and impertinence, but I've CVSUP'ed 3.2-STABLE a
> couple of times in the last couple of weeks and it appears that at every
> turn another set of applications don't run in the new environment.
>
> At first it appeared it was just the old a.out files that weren't happy,
> bu
Hi All,
Looking for someone to do part time contract work.
All type of OS FreeBSD, DOS and WIN95
A good all round programer ?
http://www.apcs.com.au/work.html
Thanks
Keith Anderson
"The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD."
** The thing I like most about
Thus spake Mark Newton (new...@internode.com.au):
> I think most novices probably don't even know the DESCR file
> exists anyway.
Exactly, when I was new I used lynx and the included .html-files for
each package to find out what it is.
Ok. if you can remove the buildenv-stuff when the package i
Alexander Maret writes:
> Hi,
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Sheldon Hearn [mailto:sheld...@uunet.co.za]
> > Sent: Dienstag, 1. Juni 1999 10:45
> > To: Alexander Maret
> > Cc: hack...@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: xl driver for 3Com
> >
> > FreeBSD _developers_ seem to be mor
Hi,
We're seeing the following message on one of the drives we have
mounted in a server system.
(da23:ahc1:0:14:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 46 aa 50 0 0 40 0
(da23:ahc1:0:14:0): RECOVERED ERROR info:46aa77 asc:18,7
(da23:ahc1:0:14:0): Recovered data with ECC - data rewritten sks:80,1
>
> Hi,
>
>We're seeing the following message on one of the drives we have
> mounted in a server system.
>
> (da23:ahc1:0:14:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 46 aa 50 0 0 40 0
> (da23:ahc1:0:14:0): RECOVERED ERROR info:46aa77 asc:18,7
> (da23:ahc1:0:14:0): Recovered data with ECC - data
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Max Khon wrote:
> I have very (VERY!) bad link to anoncvs.freebsd.org. are there other
> anoncvs servers?
Not to my knowledge, though FreeBSD.org has a few co-located machines, I'm
sure one could run an anoncvs mirror.
- bill fumerola - bi...@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - compute
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> There are a number of solutions available:
> (1) Change 'make release' to scan the ports collection and create an
> mtree file beforehand; apply the mtree file before extracting the
> collection. This will make the inode layout more efficient.
I
I found the question/answer kernel configuration maddening
on Linux.
Linux has a tk based script (xconfig) which is pretty good...
Marty Leisner
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Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
> I write a small program to read/write each FreeBSD partition via special
> device file names, e.g. /dev/wd0s2e, /dev/rwd0s2e, etc. I have two
> questions about doing this:
>
> (1) If I try to read() on these files, the buffer size must be given in
> multiples of 512 (secto
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:09:59 +0200
Alexander Maret wrote:
> At first I tried my FreeBSD machine and I got about 800-900 collisions.
> Second I booted on the same machine linux and I only got 4 (!) collisions.
It's also possible that Linux isn't counting the collisions properly.
> I have no
Ayan George writes:
> Yes, pwd_mkdb compares the UID with USHRT_MAX. I wonder if there
> is a macro that defines the maximum GID and UID like:
It's just a warning which was put there because some software
incorrectly stores UIDs in unsigned short ints rather than uid_ts and
thus does not grok la
[gack, let's get the Cc: right this time around]
Steve Ames writes:
> The question is "What is the maximum UID?". Its either a 2 or 4
> byte unsigned integer. The filesystem seems to accept 4, pwd_mkdb
> complains about larger than 2 but lets you do it...
pwd_mkdb warns about UIDs greater than U
Thanks for the answers on this. This certainly makes my life
simpler. That 65K limit was about to become real annoying :)
-Steve
> From d...@flood.ping.uio.no Tue Jun 1 10:12:21 1999
> To: Steve Ames
> Cc: a...@kiwi.datasys.net, freebsd-...@freebsd.org,
Peter Jeremy wrote:
> How about storing each port as a single file in ar(5) format, which is
> unpacked into the directory structure when make'd? ar(5) is a text
> format, which means it can easily be managed by CVS, which includes
> a tool for manipulating its contents - ar(1).
This isn't
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> - No need to CVS commit ar files. (BTW, CVS can also handle binary
> files, so ASCII vs. binary is a non-issue.)
CVS handles binary files poorly. It is an issue.
- bill fumerola - bi...@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp -
- ph:(80
Bill Huey wrote:
>
> > Inter-UNIX rivalries are one of things that has kept unix healthy for so
> > long. Linux tends to pick up most of the 3L1t3 dudez, who don't know
>
> You must be joking me. Just about every other systems person I've talked
> to in past 5 years, (including me) would highly
Darryl Okahata wrote:
>
> David Scheidt wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 30 May 1999, Bill Huey wrote:
> >
> > > That's fundamentally disturbing especially coming from other fellow
> > > Unix variant folks.
> >
> > Inter-UNIX rivalries are one of things that has kept unix healthy for so
> > long. Linux ten
Bzzzt!
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
> Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> >
> > I write a small program to read/write each FreeBSD partition via special
> > device file names, e.g. /dev/wd0s2e, /dev/rwd0s2e, etc. I have two
> > questions about doing this:
> >
> > (1) If I try to read() on these file
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Alexander Maret
had to walk into mine and say:
> Hi,
>
> > Well maybe FreeBSD is transmitting packets much faster than Linux. :)
> > You still haven't actually measured the transfer speed, so there's
> > no way for us to know.
>
> Well, I
> I think its useful if it gets linux people less afraid of FreeBSD.
This is one of those reocurring threads.. Everyone to contribute
to it so far has either had no better ideas for "front ending"
the kernel configuration process or lots of ideas but no time
to implement them, resulting in the sa
> You don't want FreeBSD to have more users? Do you think it already has
> enough users? How many users is enough? What is the goal of the FreeBSD
> project? To be the test platform for new kernel ideas exclusively? Why
> do you tolerate the presence of the X on the FreeBSD CD-ROMs then?
I think t
At 08:00 AM 6/1/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:09:59 +0200
> Alexander Maret wrote:
>
> > At first I tried my FreeBSD machine and I got about 800-900 collisions.
> > Second I booted on the same machine linux and I only got 4 (!) collisions.
>
>It's also possible that Linux isn't coun
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
> +[ Spike ]-
> |
> | a good enough job. I think this because in the end FreeBSD is going to
> | lose to Linux if only from the sheer momentum of twenty million rabid
> | Linux fanatics. And realistic
At 08:06 PM 5/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>It is kind of interesting that now the shoe is on the other foot...
>
>A few months ago I purchased some sync cards from ET, and had some (and am
>still having) trouble getting them to work consistently.
>
>When I emailed their support dept for help, I got a
Hello,
I'm not quite sure if this is the right mailing list to post my particular
problem too, and I apologize if it is not.
I have a Sony VAIO psg-505ts running a -CURRENT SNAP from 032799 with a 4.3gig
disk entirely devoted to FreeBSD. I now have a need to run Windoze on this
laptop, and I d
At 02:50 PM 5/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> >> I have no stake in 3com cards (they are
>> >> problematic in LINUX as well)...maybe the cards are flawed? Its not my
>> >> problem.
>> >
>> >It *is* your problem. Supposing you can't get Intel cards anymore.
>> >Then what're you going to do.
>>
>> Use so
Dennis wrote:
> For "Fairness" gaps in between frames are better
> as you approach capacity of your wire.
Isn't there some ethernet requirement (implemented on the NIC) that a
transmitter holds off the wire a little to give other NICs enough time
to notice there's nothing being transmitted?
The
> Dennis wrote:
>
> > For "Fairness" gaps in between frames are better
> > as you approach capacity of your wire.
>
> Isn't there some ethernet requirement (implemented on the NIC) that a
> transmitter holds off the wire a little to give other NICs enough time
> to notice there's nothing being tr
>
> If your nic driver chains packets (such that there is no time in between)
> you will see good throughput from the box but your overall network
> performance will suffer. A PCI card with continueous traffic can completely
> hog your lan (particularly at 10Mb/s)...which can cause a lot more
> c
Hi folks,
docs/11589 says that programs that include aio.h also need to include
sys/time.h.
I've had a chat with Terry Lambert, who wrote the aio_read.2 manual page,
who says
> And here is a section from the aio.h manual page (from the
> Single UNIX Specification):
>
> Inclusion of the h
On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 11:21:57PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> You guys should be aware that work is going on to change, in a rather
> major way, not just the config file, not just the configuration method,
> but the entire way that devices are detected and drivers added.
Is this documented anyw
On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 07:27:57AM -0400, Brian Feldman wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Chris Costello wrote:
> > On Sun, May 30, 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > > Cheers, committed.
> >
> >Already? As the CVS tree (at least the one on
> > anoncvs.freebsd.org) has it, the so_cred changes haven't b
At 11:03 AM 6/1/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>
>> If your nic driver chains packets (such that there is no time in between)
>> you will see good throughput from the box but your overall network
>> performance will suffer. A PCI card with continueous traffic can completely
>> hog your lan (particularly
Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> Bzzzt!
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
>
> > Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> > >
> > > I write a small program to read/write each FreeBSD partition via special
> > > device file names, e.g. /dev/wd0s2e, /dev/rwd0s2e, etc. I have two
> > > questions about doing this:
>
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
>
> ???
>
> dd verifies the behavior you report:
>
> r...@homer# dd if=/dev/rwd0s2b of=/dev/null bs=1
> dd: /dev/rwd0s2b: Invalid argument
> ...
> r...@homer# dd if=/dev/rwd0s2b of=/dev/null bs=512
> ^C18805+0 records in
> ...
>
> w...@homer$ ls -l /dev/*
Hi,
I have some problems with m3socks and cvsup.
The configuration files and output follows...
m3socks.conf:
findserver No
sockd @=socks.student.uu.se 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
server socks.student.uu.se
output:
m3socks cvsup -g -L 3 cvs-stable
Parsing supfile "cvs-stable"
Looking up address of cvsup.se.
> From: Wes Peters
> Date: 1999-06-01 11:50:23 -0700
> To: Julian Elischer
> Subject: Re: Accessing special device files
> Cc: Zhihui Zhang ,
freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> X-Accept-Language: en
> Delivered-to: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
>
> dd verifies the behavior you report:
>
> r...@homer# dd if=/dev/rwd0s2b of=/dev/null bs=1
> dd: /dev/rwd0s2b: Invalid argument
> ...
> r...@homer# dd if=/dev/rwd0s2b of=/dev/null bs=512
> ^C18805+0 records in
> ...
>
> w...@homer$ ls -l /dev/*wd0s2a
>
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote:
> If your nic driver chains packets (such that there is no time in
> between) you will see good throughput from the box but your overall
> network performance will suffer. A PCI card with continueous traffic
> can completely hog your lan (particularly at 10Mb/s)...
Dennis wrote:
>
> At 08:00 AM 6/1/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:09:59 +0200
> > Alexander Maret wrote:
> >
> > > At first I tried my FreeBSD machine and I got about 800-900 collisions.
> > > Second I booted on the same machine linux and I only got 4 (!) collisions.
> >
> >It's als
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 11:21:57PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > You guys should be aware that work is going on to change, in a rather
> > major way, not just the config file, not just the configuration method,
> > but the entire way that devices are detect
>> The discussion started with a remark about the fact that 3Com
>> cards have
>> problems under load, without a backing of that statement. That is the
>> thing that made people trip over. It is a statement that is not the
>> least helpful for anyone on the hackers mailing list and will not
>> tr
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
> If you mean "lack of competition would make UNIX more homogenous and
> more viable to every Tom, Dick, and Jane that comes down the pike,"
> I will agree with that. I just disagree that this is success. UNIX
> was never meant to be a word processor loader,
My changes to kern/sys_pipe.c are now available for review. The read
changes are already in the queue for Alan to commit. The write
changes are undergoing testing.
http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/
It would probably be easiest just to review the post-patched file,
t
>The discussion started with a remark about the fact that 3Com cards have
>problems under load, without a backing of that statement. That is the
>thing that made people trip over. It is a statement that is not the
>least helpful for anyone on the hackers mailing list and will not
>trigger help fro
Darryl Okahata wrote:
>Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> How about storing each port as a single file in ar(5) format, which is
>> unpacked into the directory structure when make'd? ar(5) is a text
>> format, which means it can easily be managed by CVS, which includes
>> a tool for manipulating its content
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Evan Tsoukalas wrote:
> My question is, can I shrink my /usr partition down without losing what is on
> it? It is a 3.8 gig partition that only has 900 meg or so on it. I would
> like to trim about a gigabyte off of it so that I can install Windoze. Is
> this going
> to b
Going through the 4.4 BSD book, I learnt that the purpose of the pv_table
is to be able to locate all the mappings to a given physical page.
However, comparing this to the Linux approach, which chains vm_area_struct
(analogous to vm_map_entry in FreeBSD) together to locate the shared
mappings, it
Hi there!
Apologies if I have selected the wrong list to post this question.
Advice is appreciate, and I've tried to do my homework first.
I am consistenly receiving a panic 12 (page not present) after
installing FreeBSD 3.1 from the Walnut Creek CD's on an old Compaq
Prosignia 300 I had laying
David Scheidt wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
>
> > If you mean "lack of competition would make UNIX more homogenous and
> > more viable to every Tom, Dick, and Jane that comes down the pike,"
> > I will agree with that. I just disagree that this is success. UNIX
> > was never
:Going through the 4.4 BSD book, I learnt that the purpose of the pv_table
:is to be able to locate all the mappings to a given physical page.
:
:However, comparing this to the Linux approach, which chains vm_area_struct
:(analogous to vm_map_entry in FreeBSD) together to locate the shared
:mapping
> 3. The video card doesn't support required graphics modes.
>Run 'vidcontrol -i mode' and see if the 320x200 256 color mode
>is supported. The vga driver in FreeBSD may not be able to support
>all video modes, if the video card's BIOS is not as compatible as
>it should be.
I hav
>> 3. The video card doesn't support required graphics modes.
>>Run 'vidcontrol -i mode' and see if the 320x200 256 color mode
>>is supported. The vga driver in FreeBSD may not be able to support
>>all video modes, if the video card's BIOS is not as compatible as
>>it should be.
Matthew Hunt wrote:
> If I add "-export-dynamic" to LDADD in usr.bin/login/Makefile, everything
> is groovy.
>
> I've noticed that dynamic linking in Perl also doesn't work for me,
> likely for the same reason. I haven't tried rebuilding perl with
> "-export-dynamic" yet, though.
>
> So, the que
Hi there.
I have a simple prog that writes to a bit on the parallel port.
It compiles fine under 2.2.x (tested on 2.2.5 and 2.2.8) BUT
the compiler barfs over . with 3.1-release.
I am trying to use outb(base,onoff).
bash-2.02$ cc -o out1 outF.c
In file included from outF.c:10:
/usr/include/machin
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