Re: NULL pointer deref in sioopen() suggests a close/open race on sio device?

2005-01-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:51 PM + 1/23/05, Robert Watson wrote: The ps list is a bit boring, but the primary interesting thing is that it looks like the close was going on in one thread just about when the sio swi was scheduled to run also: [...] This in turn suggests that something has called ttyrel/tty_close

Re: NIC card problems....

2005-01-23 Thread Warner Losh
> The TX threshold messages issued by the dc driver appear more as an > indication that the PCI bus is under severe load, than as a hint that > the dc driver is causing the reboots, IMHO. I've also seen them when the card is a CardBus card, which may indicate some slightly pessimal performance par

Re: NIC card problems....

2005-01-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2005-Jan-24 00:27:38 +0100, Stefan Eßer wrote: >The TX threshold messages issued by the dc driver appear more as an >indication that the PCI bus is under severe load, than as a hint that >the dc driver is causing the reboots, IMHO. Under Tru64, I've seen Tulip cards report backoff to 1024

Re: NIC card problems....

2005-01-23 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Hello Stefan (and everyone else!), Thank you for your great comments! I think I have a 3c9xx card around here somewhere, I will give that a shot when it reboots the next time (just to see). It looks like for future systems I'll standardize on the Intel fxp-based cards, I really appreciate that a

Re: NIC card problems....

2005-01-23 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2005-01-23 05:57 -0800, Net Virtual Mailing Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My latest problem is with a: > > dc0: port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xe608- > 0xe60803ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 > dc0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:41:ed:ae:85 > > ... after several hours of *HEAVY* (I'm probably u

Re: NIC card problems....

2005-01-23 Thread Pete French
> You know, I don't really care what NIC I use - I really don't. I'm not > so much interested in trying to figure out why this NIC is giving me > grief as much as I am in finding one that will work. I would just like > someone somewhere to tell me what is a stable NIC to use for FreeBSD, As seve

Re: NIC card problems....

2005-01-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Net Virtual Mailing Lists wrote: [ ... ] [ ... ] It would be nice if somewhere there was some statement of a "fact" that NIC is known to work well with FreeBSD. I'm aware of all of the FUD out there, about people beating their chests saying how wonderful NIC-A is or NIC-B is, and I've tried

Re: NIC card problems....

2005-01-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2005-Jan-23 05:57:53 -0800, Net Virtual Mailing Lists wrote: > It would be nice if somewhere there was >some statement of a "fact" that NIC is known to work well with >FreeBSD. I recall seeing quite a few such statements about different cards over the years. In general, such stateme

sendmail failure

2005-01-23 Thread ianjhart
That post about lookups reminds me; the one 5.x box I'm running at work, refuses to deliver it's log files to our mail hub. I know that there are about a million different ways for me to have stuffed this up myself, so please be gentle. That other post reminds me about this because we have

Re: loader.conf examples

2005-01-23 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Jason C. Wells wrote: > --On Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:22 AM -0500 Matt Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I'm confused about how and why modules are built and (seemingly > > loaded without my having specified any to load) when I have not > > told my kernel conf fil

Re: loader.conf examples

2005-01-23 Thread Jason C. Wells
--On Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:22 AM -0500 Matt Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm confused about how and why modules are built and (seemingly loaded without my having specified any to load) when I have not told my kernel conf file to build anything as a module. As a former NetBSD user, I had

NULL pointer deref in sioopen() suggests a close/open race on sio device?

2005-01-23 Thread Robert Watson
Ran into the following panic on a 5-STABLE box this morning, which occurred after hitting Ctrl-D to close a login session on a serial console (ttyd0 at 9600 bps): login: Jan 23 10:43:27 fledge login: 2 LOGIN FAILURES ON ttyd0 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address

NIC card problems....

2005-01-23 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Hello, I regret that I have never posted to this list before, despite the fact I have been using FreeBSD in one form or another for many years now (since 2.x era). I'm a bit cranky, so please do not take any of this wrong. I have a system running FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE (bites tongue). In any even

Re: loader.conf examples

2005-01-23 Thread Jorma Dooper
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:22:20AM -0500, Matt Herzog wrote: > Can anyone point me to a loader.conf file that's full of a wide > range of options? I just want to see some syntax for stuff like > video hardware acceleration, audio chipset support etc. > Try /boot/defaults/loader.conf and loader.conf

5.3 prob reading 4.11 hdd

2005-01-23 Thread Warren
I recently took my primary hdd running FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE out of my main machine leaving my 2ndry hdd in the machine and installing FreeBSD5.3-STABLE on it to use as the new primary. When everything was done and i plugged in the 2nd hdd that originally had 4.11-STABLE on it, i was unable to fi

loader.conf examples

2005-01-23 Thread Matt Herzog
Can anyone point me to a loader.conf file that's full of a wide range of options? I just want to see some syntax for stuff like video hardware acceleration, audio chipset support etc. I'm confused about how and why modules are built and (seemingly loaded without my having specified any to load) wh