Re: KINDLY HELP : error while kldloading a pci,character driver

2005-09-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
you loading modules than won't fit the cdevsw framework. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B76

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 AMD64 & MPD

2005-09-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ll) > mpd: caught fatal signal @ ^- funky! :) > mpd: fatal error, exiting > mpd: process 6126 terminated > # > > Last lines in ktrace: Can you run it in GDB and get a backtrace? You may need to rebuild it with debugging symbols enabled to get anythin

Re: A smarter mergemaster

2005-09-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ut that is usually not a big problem to fix. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766

Re: A smarter mergemaster

2005-09-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is properly, you'd need checksums of the original files. *broken record* Try etcmerge, it's in ports. I think the main problem is that you can't use etcmerge *right now* because you have to do one last manual merge to get a baseline etc directory. -- Daniel O'Conn

Re: A smarter mergemaster

2005-09-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hmm.. I'll try and add that if I get some time I think! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Finger

Re: A smarter mergemaster

2005-09-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
since. For passwd stuff I merge /etc/master.passwd and then run cap_mkdb to rebuild the other 3 files based on it. Also run newaliases when aliases are touched, and cap_mkdb for login.conf. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice

Re: serial port question

2005-10-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 04:39, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : how do I alter speed of serial port? minicom/cu is able to do it but I > : want to do it via stty. > : > : how can this be done? > > By using the lock device. Hah, don't be silly! (stty 1200 ; cat) /tmp/somefile

Re: malloc() in kernel and increasing mbuf and cluster size

2005-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
asic sanity checking and for statistics. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766

Re: malloc() in kernel and increasing mbuf and cluster size

2005-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/* sys/something/foo_subr.c */ ... MALLOC(buf, struct foo_buf *, sizeof *buf, M_FOOBUF, M_NOWAIT); Read other code, there are plenty of examples in the tree. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing abou

Re: adding new device to base system

2005-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
onf/files somehow. Do a cvs diff on it and post it here. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B7

Re: adding new device to base system

2005-10-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:20, Jerry wrote: > I reinstalled FreeBSD 5.4. It works now. I may have broken something > earlier. A reinstall is a bit agressive.. You could have just re-cvsup'd your source tree. > -Original Message- > From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:[E

Re: How disable attachment of sio(4) driver to device?

2005-10-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sio - this IS suboptimial so I think I'll have a look at implementing it via uart. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Ta

Re: How disable attachment of sio(4) driver to device?

2005-10-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ice. > The controller have 9 bit wide FiFos. > If you are already in the 8051 world, you might look at TI TUSB3410. Ahh looks interesting. I have used Atmel a bit to play around with it.. I have some sample 3410's but haven't even assembled the test board I made :-/ -- Daniel O&#

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ht place. > In such a context, i assume that the best place to do the name lookup > is in the app, not in the kernel. Yeah.. This is why databases where invented :) FYI 4 in a directory really makes directory listings slow.. 2 million would suck :) --- Daniel O'Connor softwar

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
mage URL's to be cgi requests? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23-Jun-00 Nicole Harrington. wrote: > I dunno.. whats a "binary Blob"? I chunk of binary data you can put in a DB. Like an image, or an mpeg, or a sound file.. AFAIK postgres supports BLOBS. > Also would'nt this make the DB HUGE Yep :) --- Daniel O'C

RE: dlopen() and friends from a statically-linked binary?

2000-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ndle: 0x0, main: 0x0 > > raw : ~ $ gcc dltest.c -o dltest > raw : ~ $ ./dltest > Handle: 0x2805e000, main: 0x0 > Handle: 0x0, main: 0x0 > > [ Note: this seems wrong; according to the manpage for dlsym, the > second call should give the same output as the first. ]

RE: Best way to lock malloc'd memory in kernel

2000-07-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
gt; way to make this memory unpageable? No kernel memory is pageable so it doesn't matter :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew

Re: Best way to lock malloc'd memory in kernel

2000-07-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
well it would be nice to have some kernel memory pageable but.. > that holds true for kernel modules as well, because that's what I'm actually > writing. Yes, writing a module is no different than writing for static kernel code. --- Daniel O'Connor software and

RE: LD_PRELOAD odities / Documentation?

2000-08-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t your calls are being resolved to your own library first, so that is the routine being called. AFAIK you have to build a set of pointers to the original (ie libc) routines. I know esound work with its esddsp program, so you could look there for some tips. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network en

RE: PCI Device Drivers?

2000-08-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
so copy a suitable driver.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

RE: module if_disc.ko - network module

2000-08-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ly sure it's in 4.0 too. Last I checked though, unloading the network interface tended to be a risky prospect so maybe it hasn't been MFC'd yet.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards

RE: Programming a USB driver

2000-10-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
s *identical* to the serial one :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Module parameters? (WildWire DSL card driver)

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nstance data then getting notified of the final close would be sufficient. Also, if you only allow one open you don't need to track each close. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there a

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux

2000-10-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
med 'yes'. I have sysinstall doing a custom installation from a CD in short order with the user only having to configure X (ship different video cards so I can't just whack in a fixed XF86Config) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com

RE: Anyone working on ACARD SCSI driver?

2000-12-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ry onerous).. Unfortunatly I don't have much spare time and I have never written a SCSI driver before :) Also.. The Linux driver is written _very_ badly.. It's horrible to read :( --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "

Re: Broken-by-design USB device?

2001-01-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
kings (looks like a > > PLA to me): > > CY7C63000A-PC > > 9946 G 02 518003 FYI that part is made by Cypress... Basically it is an 8051 core with a low speed USB engine attached. The data sheet is at http://www.cypress.com/usb/lowspeed/cy7c63xxxa.html but it's not going to be much hel

RE: encrypt h/w for FreeBSD?

2001-01-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05-Jan-01 Charles Randall wrote: > nCipher's nFast card supports FreeBSD 3.3 and 3.4. > > http://www.ncipher.com/products/nfast_specs.html I think Mike Smith is 'sort of' working on support for HW crypto cards.. No idea how far he has got. --- Daniel O

RE: Setting default hostname to localhost

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of course, so should not impact any configuration but one > where the hostname is left undefined. > > Thoughts? Sounds like a nice idea. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standar

Re: Observations on make release process?

2003-11-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nd test then after I'm happy with it I make release with a patch to copy the source instead of checking it out. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choo

Re: Loading a shared Linux library from a FreeBSD program?

2003-11-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
times in the past - see the mailing list archives. Hmm, well I think you CAN do it - the flash wrapper (www/flashpluginwrapper) does it. There be dragons, voodoo etc.. Probably easier to write a wrapper linux program and talk to it over a pipe :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network e

Re: Observations on make release process?

2003-11-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 17 November 2003 21:42, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > but the way I do it is not 'normal' - I don't use the CVS repo > > because I can't commit into that tree > > Be careful wh

Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD

2003-11-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
s just that if you use a DVD you can fit a lot more packages/distfiles on the disk (which make release doesn't do for you anyway). Try it and see :) I'm not sure if sysinstall groks UDF either, so I think it would be wise to put at an ISO9660 compat FS on the disk. -- Da

Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD

2003-11-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Torrito boot as per a CD. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928

Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD

2003-11-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 01:36, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:00:12PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > make release will make an directory suitable to put on a CD or DVD. It's > > just that if you use a DVD you can fit a lot m

Re: patchlevels and FreeBSD source

2003-11-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a fair amount longer, but that just depends what ports you actually want :) It takes up about 2.1Gb of space (including building about 300Mb worth of packages) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about st

Re: healthd oddities

2003-11-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ave a problem I didn't know I had? It's probably healthd not processing the data it gets properly, and also possibly the data being used with the wrong label. Unfortunately it seems really really difficult to discover how a motherboard is wired up in this regard automatically :( -- Dan

Re: NFS Flags Oddity

2003-11-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
didn't think flags were a concept NFS understood.. (And hence why you should NFS mount /usr/src & /usr/obj to install kernels, not mount the dest machine on the server and use DESTDIR=) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.

Re: Disillusioned with PAM

2003-12-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
| pw usermod foobar -h 0 In a CGI you would open a pipe to pw and feed it the password. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: USB link cables.

2003-12-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
s there some sensible way this would work? There's a linux driver for some models. http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/ If it's FreeBSD to FreeBSD and they both have firewire you could use if_fwe (which is nonstandard unfortunately). Of course there's also ethernet :) -- Daniel O&

Re: utility to set idle timeout on ata drives

2004-01-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
erested I can add more power management features > and possibly create a package/port of it. Apologies if this is > off-topic for -hackers - I hope people might find this information > useful. This would probably best be made part of atacontrol (and submit a patch for it) -- Daniel O&#

Re: USB stack / configuration 0

2004-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I have such a device (M-Audio Mobile Pre USB) and I have modified USB audio code which works except that you need to manually reset the device without removing power (which is done by partially removing and then reinserting the USB connector). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network en

Re: USB stack / configuration 0

2004-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
device is to > stupid to detach/reattach on his own. I don't think it IS a dumb device, there is a USB spec called DFU which covers it and the hosts job is to do the reenumeration. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.

Re: USB stack / configuration 0

2004-01-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
quired after reset. > > Maybe the following will do instead: > usbd_clear_port_feature(dev, port, UHF_PORT_ENABLE) > delay(USB_PORT_POWERUP_DELAY); > usbd_set_port_feature(dev, port, UHF_PORT_ENABLE) > dev and port is that from the hub. Except that would remove power to the por

Re: USB stack / configuration 0

2004-01-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ve power to the port I think.. > > AFAIK power is independend, but I'm not 100% shure. I'll see how it goes :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that

Re: USB stack / configuration 0

2004-01-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
FreeBSD and am willing to devote my > spare-time to achieving this. I thought Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was doing some USB work, but I am not certain. I can test some stuff - I have a variety of USB 1 and 2 hardware (USB1 scanner, USB2 card reader, USB1 Pocket PC cradle *hiss* :)

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

2004-01-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sysinstall is told to reprobe the hardware, so it should pick it up. I see the 'which kld goes with what device' problem as separate to this issue. The KLD load stuff DOES show a small description for each KLD so it isn't a total black box, and heck, you can just pick everythi

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

2004-01-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
e it instead of having to second guess what sort of hardware they are likely to be using. IMHO of course 8-) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose fr

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

2004-01-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> A simple website which lets you choose what drivers you want (anyone > seen the .muttrc config page? :) > That should be really easy to do with a little perl CGI. > I might take a crack at this in the next week or so. Yep, I suspect mtools is the easiest way to do this.. -- Daniel O

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

2004-01-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
get it to make a zip for you to put on a floppy after you select your hardware from a list. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew

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

2004-01-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ing multiple, segmented images? Who > writes the code to do that? > > If we are going to keep floppies, then we need people who are willing to > tackle these issues and keep them under control. I agree with that! :) However, given your example above, I would just put mount_nfsv4 on ano

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

2004-01-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nstall to load KLD's I thought about this.. Unfortunatly there IS no such list :( I am not sure how hard it would be to generate, but I think it's non-trivial (although probably not too difficult to maintain once it exists) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for

Re: UNIX / BSD parallel port programming documentation

2004-01-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ntioned the ppi etc pages which is good, there is also this port - /usr/ports/devel/avrprog - which programs an Atmel AVR micro via the parallel port (works quite well in my experience) you should be able to examine the source code for clues. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

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

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
believe the loader could do it just as well and it's already imported :) (It uses the BIOS to read the kernel, and groks PXE, although I am hazy on the specifics) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stan

Re: mmap() on pseudo device

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
lloc from your mmap'd region? Once you have mmap'd it you can validly read/write (subject to memory protections) without having to malloc it first. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards

Re: shutdown -p now

2004-01-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
eg apm -e 1) and then shutting down.. If that works you can add the APM enable line to rc.conf. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew T

Re: Bandwidth limiting for eMule ports

2004-01-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
any in recv tun0 ... ie I limit incoming(downloads) to 5k/sec and outgoing(uploads) to 1k/sec. I use in/out because I only want to limit packets across my tun0 (PPPoE) interface. Hope that helps. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.a

Re: Bandwidth limiting for eMule ports

2004-01-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
gt; already in the pipe. I've never been able to pin it down. Yeah, I found some hangs in situations like that (which I believe are fixed now) so I turn the limits on an off by adding/removing the firewall rules rather than reconfiguring the pipes. -- Daniel O'Connor software and ne

Re: EHCI USB MFC?

2004-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:13, Julian Elischer wrote: > Is anyone working on MFCing the EHCI interface? > > if not I will give it a try.. Can it be fixed to work in -current first :-) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.co

Re: Intel wireless NIC on ThinkPad T41

2004-02-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
=0x25518086 chip=0x10438086 rev=0x04 > > hdr=0x00 > > > > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > > device = 'PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter' > > class= network I have mine working with if_ndis (Project Evil). Let me know if you need

Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

2004-03-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
AD to compile it in the kernel.. I don't see why kldload'ing is different to static compilation WRT calling the BIOS.. (Then again I don't have any ISA hardware anymore :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "

Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

2004-03-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:0 bufsz 4096 (1p/1r/0v > channels duplex) > > Without PNPBIOS: no pcm0. Ahh, I see.. Sorry I didn't realise you meant the PNPBIOS in the kernel.. duh :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The ni

Re: Equalizer

2004-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
o the actual shape is controlled by that.. You could probably shove a graphic equalizer into the kernel but it would be fairly complex to debug, and you can only use integer math :) You're probably better off modifying one of the audio multiplexer daemons - I know artsd at least can do plugi

Re: usermode linux on BSD?

2004-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/bsdcon03/tech/eiraku/eiraku_html/ They used NetBSD, and modified it's ptrace() in a pretty minor fashion. They also hacked out the BIOS calls from a FreeBSD 4.7 to make it easier to run (they don't have a VM8086 emulator :) This is some pretty neat stuff! -- Daniel O'Connor so

How to write a new line discipline?

2004-03-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
rrent disciplines seem to be either very very old, or 'hacks' for things like PPP or SLIP :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.&q

Re: How to write a new line discipline?

2004-03-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
faces without loosing the ability to > have protocoll specialized hardware. I have a new PCI card on the back burner, although I would be interested in seeing more details on your USB approach if possible as it would be nice to control our own supply of this hardware (nothing sucks more than not

Firewire tape drives

2004-03-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, Does anyone have any? Do they work in FreeBSD? :) I have seen a Sony AIT2 drive with a Firewire/USB2 option and I'd be interested to know if it works in FreeBSD as UW SCSI cards are rather pricey.. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Softw

Re: Firewire tape drives

2004-03-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
not a huge fan of USB devices to be honest.. > > On 2004/03/17, at 14:39, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > >Hi, > > >Does anyone have any? Do they work in FreeBSD? :) > > > > > >I have seen a Sony AIT2 drive with a Firewire/USB2 option and I'd be &

Re: bus_alloc_resource() returns NULL, but why?

2004-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
clue about WHY it should. It's running on: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE with > GENERIC kernel in a dual pentium 200MMX. It will return NULL if the resource allocation failed. I think rid == 0 is what is incorrect here, either that or the card doesn't do IO (might be SYS_RES_MEMORY instead)

UT2004?

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
here, and nullfs mounting each of the CD subdirectories onto both /cdrom and /mnt/cdrom but no change in behaviour. I think I'll try copying the Windows install over and unpacking the Linux binaries and see how that goes :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Softwa

Re: UT2004?

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Is it expecting /compat/linux/etc/mtab to be updated somehow when you > mount the new disk? That's the implication I guess :) I fiddled briefly with trying to put stuff in there but I didn't really know what the format of it was on a modern linux distro.. Should ask some of my Linux

Re: UT2004?

2004-04-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Is it expecting /compat/linux/etc/mtab to be updated somehow when you > mount the new disk? Hmm, I'm crack smoking.. This works -> sudo env SETUP_CDROM=/cdrom /compat/linux/bin/sh ./linux-installer.sh I thought I tried it but apparently I was blinded by crack smoke. -- Daniel

Re: UT2004?

2004-04-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in the linux namespace. In the end SETUP_CDROM=/cdrom worked. I thought I'd tried it but apparently not.. Now if only nvidia would fix their drivers so I could run it from in KDE without hanging the PC.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http:

Re: UT2004?

2004-04-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Oh, no, I run KDE with nvidia drivers and it works fine, I just use libc_r to do it. I can run Neverwinter Nights from KDE with no probs, but if I try UT2004 it loads up, changes screen res and hangs the PC. Although TLS would be nice so I could not worry about the grim reaper sharpening hi

Re: Loosing STDOUT after file rotation

2004-04-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t, you need another program or to write the log file in the program itself. I have the "another program" bit, it doesn't listen for signals but reopens the file for each blob of data. It's actually work's but I can get my boss to relicense it if you want it. -- Daniel

Re: C code for parsing rc.conf?

2004-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
retty rare and a parser which noted which parameters it couldn't parse and reproduced them verbatim out write-out would probably be OK. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are

Detecting 'floppy' like umass devices

2004-04-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x6, scsi status == 0x0 I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a uhci0: port 0xbf80-0xbf9f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 I have tried a USB flash card reader which gets ~500k/sec. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http:

Re: Detecting 'floppy' like umass devices

2004-04-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
eh :( > > I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a > > uhci0: port 0xbf80-0xbf9f irq > > 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 > > > > I have tried a USB flash card reader which gets ~500k/sec. > > If a drive doesn't preread blocks then each access has to wait for the > medi

Re: Core dump with tip (ucom0 -> external modem)

2004-04-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
thing important. Any thoughts? Can you generate a back trace from the coredump? gdb `which tip` tip.core then bt at the gdb prompt. BTW for this sort of thing I use expect and kermit.. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "Th

Re: install.cfg

2004-05-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please > telephone (023) 8024 3137 or return the E.mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, sen

Re: Memory Leak

2004-05-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a good memory tracing program or something of the sorts. There is valgrind.. http://www.rabson.org/#valgrind I thought it was in ports but I can't see it. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stand

Re: uaudio patch for accepts only fixed sampling rate

2004-05-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
My question to you is, does uaudio work > in fbsd 5+ for you? Not that I am doing development on it, but "me too" :) I have an M-Audio USB audio device which used to work OK in stable, but doesn't in -current :( I am cvsup'ing to get the latest stuff and I will try it out a

Re: GDB/Kernel Question

2004-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ran it as root.. If you wanted to step through the kernel you could setup another machine and use a serial or firewire cable to go through the kernel. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is t

Re: My first DNS server

2004-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> forwarders { 1.2.3.4; }; Hope that helps. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: writing ktrace output to serial port

2004-06-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
FS mount? If you have no ethernet you could NFS mount over PPP/SLIP :) (or PLIP if you have a parallel port) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files?

2004-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
happen to attributes. Also, I don't think attributes work over NFS(?) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files?

2004-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:38, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think he wanted to use sticky/sgid/suid because they get removed when > > the file is changed > > no

Re: USB driver selection algorithm?

2004-07-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
if the 2 differ by enough that one driver couldn't cover them both. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GP

Re: Controlling the Serial port

2004-07-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
It can also be a good idea to clear the receive buffer after enabling > the transmitter and bevor sending anything to wast stall data. One way of doing this would be to write a loadable line discipline.. I have been meaning to do this but haven't got around to it yet :) - -- Daniel O

Re: Controlling external hardware via lpt0

2004-08-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ing the > parallel port in FreeBSD" guide? man 4 ppi The interface is a bit gross, but it does work quite well (see the avrdude port for an example of some software that uses it) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nyway, so it wouldn't make it any worse to write to it (and make the drive remap it) bn = block number cn = cylinder number tn = track number sn = sector number - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about st

Re: Kernel Development

2004-08-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
g _I'd_ appreciate would be to robustify the USB code :) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint -

Re: Kernel Debugging

2004-08-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is method... It gives me error > saying "symbol not found". Can anybody tell me where is the > problem Maybe you should try vmware then you can pretend you have 2 machines :) Not sure how to answer your actual question though. - -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: System freeze when useing bfe (Broadcom BCM440x) driver

2004-08-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
w.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/dev/bfe/if_bfe.c?rev=1.6&content-type=text/plain and put it in /usr/src/sys/dev/bfe then rebuild your kernel, or if you used the KLD for bfe do.. cd /usr/src/sys/modules/bfe make make install kldunload if_bfe kldload if_bfe Then cvsup to RELENG_5

Re: System freeze when useing bfe (Broadcom BCM440x) driver

2004-08-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nstall twice. Personally I'd trust 5.3-BETA over 5.2.1... If it crashes in sysinstall you should report it (eg the panic message) so it's less of a beta when it's released :) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "T

Re: Crystalfontz LCD display from kernel?

2004-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ul.. It write a userland program which did it first and then port it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint -

Re: Crystalfontz LCD display from kernel?

2004-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
painful is it to open/use a device from inside the kernel? Not really sure.. Opening files isn't too bad, but device nodes is probably harder. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that the

Re: NFS + VM question

2004-10-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
quot; > Device: 255,33554458 Inode: 2268790Links: 1 You could do hardlink tricks (and chflags to prevent one jail attacking the others).. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there

Re: AoE for FreeBSD

2004-11-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
6.0. Patches are available at > : http://www.coraid.com/support/freebsd. > > Cool! Yet gross at the same time :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: AoE for FreeBSD

2004-11-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:26, Sam Hopkins wrote: > > Yet gross at the same time :) > > Actually, that was our motto for a while. Hahah :) > But seriously, criticism is welcome -- specifics appreciated. They look nice, but hideously expensive for anything I could use them in :( --

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