Clock Drift Problem

2000-03-09 Thread tomb
Has any else seen this? FreeBSD 3.4 Release. Intel motherboard. kernel.GENERIC The clock on one machine is drifting by 5 mins a day and on the other by 30 mins a day. I'm not running ntp. Any ideas? tomb ;~> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacke

Re: Clock Drift Problem

2000-03-09 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > Has any else seen this? > > FreeBSD 3.4 Release. > > Intel motherboard. > > kernel.GENERIC > > The clock on one machine is drifting by 5 mins a day and on the other by 30 mins a > day. > > I'm not running ntp. > > Any ideas? > > tomb ;~> uh. run ntp? or at least timed. jim

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Andrey Sverdlichenko
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > /tmp softlink to /var/tmp(because having two tmp's is stupid) What if /var can't be mounted after crash? /tmp should be on root filesystem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of t

RE: freeBSD booting src info

2000-03-09 Thread Koster, K.J.
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/internals.html Kees Jan == You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life > -Original Message- > From: BSDknowledge seeker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: woensdag 8 maart 2000 7

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:25 PM -0500 3/8/00, Colin wrote: > I might be completely out in left field somewhere, but I don't >see that the defaults should be that important. We're discussing >what is fundamentally a server oriented system, and realistically >we have to assume some minimum level of understanding on

ahc0 errors

2000-03-09 Thread José Monteiro
i've been experiencing several problems with an adaptec 2940u2w. the disk and controller are detected as: ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.17.0 ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 80.000MB/s tr

problems with compaq honoring warranty.

2000-03-09 Thread Jim Bryant
i thought i'd pass this along to the -lists. after having my compaq oem seagate cheetah commit hari-kari on monday, i have ran into some serious roadblacks getting warranty coverage on this drive i bought brand new in july. compaq, at the director level, refuses to honor warranties on any disk d

Re: ahc0 errors

2000-03-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
[Jos_ Monteiro] writes: > i've been experiencing several problems with an adaptec 2940u2w. > > the disk and controller are detected as: > > ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.17.0 > ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 > da1: Fixed Direct

Re: doscmd under FreeBSD 4.0 20000214-SNAP

2000-03-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Sam Leffler writes: . > If you want to learn about this sort of stuff get a copy of The Undocumented > PC. URL? > I'd be interested in talking to anyone that's successfully using doscmd to > do anything. I want to use it to run a DOS app that communicates with a > Panasonic KSU but can't see

Re: Clock Drift Problem

2000-03-09 Thread Doug Barton
tomb wrote: > > Has any else seen this? > > FreeBSD 3.4 Release. > > Intel motherboard. > > kernel.GENERIC > > The clock on one machine is drifting by 5 mins a day and on the other by 30 mins a > day. Common causes for this are overclocking and bad hardware. It's been covered very re

Re: Clock Drift Problem

2000-03-09 Thread Wes Peters
tomb wrote: > > Has any else seen this? > > FreeBSD 3.4 Release. > > Intel motherboard. > > kernel.GENERIC > > The clock on one machine is drifting by 5 mins a day and on the other by 30 mins a > day. > > I'm not running ntp. > > Any ideas? ntp & a GPS? -- "Where am I, and wh

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Wes Peters
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: > : Being able to configure vinum slices would be nice, too. Especially > : once Greg commits support for booting from vinum volumes. Think about > : booting from mirrored volumes for reliability. > > Having vinum support

RE: freeBSD booting src info

2000-03-09 Thread Jim Shankland
"'BSDknowledge seeker'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: > Is there a document available which explains the freeBSD's > booting sequence - ie. the place where the kernel is mapped, > initialisation of the page tables, segment descriptors and so > on. If the relevant files are also mentioned, all the be

Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread Roger Hardiman
Hi, My new i840 chipset motherboard has onboard networking. It ises the Intel chipset and the FXP driver detects it. However, it reports PHY Unknown PHY 17 type 2. on the 4.0-current 2307 snapshot. Is there a quick fix for this? I'd really like to get networking going with this board. Thank

Re: freeBSD booting src info

2000-03-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jim Shankland wrote: > > boot2 is slightly more sophisticated, and understands > the FreeBSD filesystem enough to find files on it, and > can provide a simple interface to choose the kernel or > loader to run. > > Since the loader is much more sophisticate

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread David Greenman
>Hi, >My new i840 chipset motherboard has onboard networking. >It ises the Intel chipset and the FXP driver detects it. > >However, it reports PHY Unknown PHY 17 type 2. >on the 4.0-current 2307 snapshot. > >Is there a quick fix for this? I'd really like to get >networking going with this boar

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread Roger Hardiman
David >Can you look on the motherboard and find out what type of chip it uses? > It should be one of: 82557, 82558, or 82559. Let me know. The lid is off. It says GD82559 I wonder if we can get Jordan to allow a quick commit fix for this one. The board (from SuperMicro) is a top end server b

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> "Andrey" == Andrey Sverdlichenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /tmp softlink to /var/tmp (because having two tmp's is stupid) Andrey> What if /var can't be mounted after crash? /tmp should be Andrey> on root filesystem. Just create an underlying /var/tmp on the root filesyste

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 18:11:58 +, Roger Hardiman wrote: > David > >Can you look on the motherboard and find out what type of chip it uses? > > It should be one of: 82557, 82558, or 82559. Let me know. > > The lid is off. > It says GD82559 > > I wonder if we can get Jordan to allow a qu

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread Mike Smith
> Hi, > My new i840 chipset motherboard has onboard networking. > It ises the Intel chipset and the FXP driver detects it. > > However, it reports PHY Unknown PHY 17 type 2. > on the 4.0-current 2307 snapshot. > > Is there a quick fix for this? I'd really like to get > networking going with

Re: problems with compaq honoring warranty.

2000-03-09 Thread Wes Peters
Jim Bryant wrote: > > is there anyone that can help me get the warranty coverage i am > entitled to? Your lawyer? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread Roger Hardiman
Hi > > However, it reports PHY Unknown type 17 addr 2. > Mike wrote: > This is just a diagnostic message; the interface ought to work > regardless. Have you tried it? Oops. It works. I can ping the machine next to me. Pass me the pointy hat. Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTE

3.2Stable September 1999, Sysinstall problem ...

2000-03-09 Thread Wiesiek Glod
 Motheboard - SL67EV chipset VIA683  DISK - IBM DPTA - 372050 (20,5 GB)   Problem Sysinstall:    Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rwd0s1a  Command returned status 1.   On diagnostic console: 'a' partition is unavailable    Any information ?   ===

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread David Greenman
>> > However, it reports PHY Unknown type 17 addr 2. > >> Mike wrote: >> This is just a diagnostic message; the interface ought to work >> regardless. Have you tried it? > >Oops. > >It works. >I can ping the machine next to me. > >Pass me the pointy hat. Actually, it doesn't completely work.

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread Mike Smith
> >> > However, it reports PHY Unknown type 17 addr 2. > > > >> Mike wrote: > >> This is just a diagnostic message; the interface ought to work > >> regardless. Have you tried it? > > > >Oops. > > > >It works. > >I can ping the machine next to me. > > > >Pass me the pointy hat. > >Actually,

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread David Greenman
>here is: > >GD82559 >L942SH98 > >There's what might be the PHY next to it (assuming it's not internal). > >MVT203011 CW >722490-001 > >I don't recognise the logo on this, unless it's a new/changed >International Rectifier logo (looks like two diodes pointing at each >other inside a circle and s

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Brian Beattie
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > "Andrey" == Andrey Sverdlichenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> /tmp softlink to /var/tmp (because having two tmp's is stupid) > > Andrey> What if /var can't be mounted after crash? /tmp should be > Andrey> on root filesystem.

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread Mike Smith
> >There's what might be the PHY next to it (assuming it's not internal). > > > >MVT203011 CW > >722490-001 > > > >I don't recognise the logo on this, unless it's a new/changed > >International Rectifier logo (looks like two diodes pointing at each > >other inside a circle and square). > >T

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Nik Clayton writes: > Recommended disk and partition layout > > In order to reduce space wastage, and provide a flexible partition layout > for future work, the following disk partition layout is recommended. > > First, you need three 'standard' filesystems, of roughly th

Re: inner workings of the C compiler

2000-03-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I'm pretty sure this can be done a hell of a lot easier by using shared > libraries and using the enviornment variables LD_LIBRARY_PATH and > LD_PRELOAD, see the rtld manpage for more help. Yes, I've done this when trying to track down buffer overflo

Re: Sysinstall 'A'uto partitioning

2000-03-09 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:25:33AM +0300, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: > Yes, it's good. > But it's better just mount partition on it's own place, no symlinks, I disagree. > such as: > /dev/sd1s1f 3942238 2151773 147508659%/usr > /dev/sd0s1g98553538016 868677 4%/usr/

pptpd / ppp trouble

2000-03-09 Thread Leif Neland
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Leif Neland wrote: > > > I'm trying to use MS-VPN using poptop. (pptpd) > > > > It works nicely from home to my current at home, where both hosts are on the same >network, ,but not >> where the two hosts are on different networks. > > > > Followup: From work to current

Sound for Intel and Alpha

2000-03-09 Thread nathan
Is the soundblaster support for FreeBSD good ? (both intel and alpha) if so does is support any of the SB pci cards ? Do the supported cards work on both platforms ? if so which ones ? Thier is no specific mention of sound card chip sets for freebsd on their web site thank you nathan To U

Re: ahc0 errors

2000-03-09 Thread Doug White
Reply below .. saving detail On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, [iso-8859-1] José Monteiro wrote: > i've been experiencing several problems with an adaptec 2940u2w. > > the disk and controller are detected as: > > ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.17.0 > ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255

Re: problems with compaq honoring warranty.

2000-03-09 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jim Bryant wrote: > i thought i'd pass this along to the -lists. > > after having my compaq oem seagate cheetah commit hari-kari on monday, > i have ran into some serious roadblacks getting warranty coverage on > this drive i bought brand new in july. > > compaq, at the dire

Re: 3.2Stable September 1999, Sysinstall problem ...

2000-03-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 9 March 2000 at 21:01:22 +0100, Wiesiek Glod wrote: > Motheboard - SL67EV chipset VIA683 > DISK - IBM DPTA - 372050 (20,5 GB) > > Problem Sysinstall: > > Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rwd0s1a > Command returned status 1. > > On diagnostic console: 'a' partition is un