Re: "ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp" after cvsup and making worldfmen

2005-03-27 Thread Graham Menhennitt
Doug White wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Graham Menhennitt wrote: I just cvsupped to the latest RELENG_5 (as of yesterday) and built and installed the world and a new kernel. When I boot the new kernel, I get an error "ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp". At the "mountroot>" prompt, whatever I type

Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?!

2005-03-27 Thread Mars Trading
Rob, I think you may be on to something here. Not that I'm an expert, BTW. If I remember correctly, 4.11 doesn't use device.hints; device irq's and stuff were all included in the kernel configuration. This is no longer the case with 5.x which uses /boot/device.hints to tell where attached d

Re: WIFI access software

2005-03-27 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Jeff Seeman wrote: > I have a client who has 3 restaurants and wants to provide wifi access > to the customers. He wants to be able to control who and when it can be > accessed. He is not planning on charging for the access at the moment > but certainly would like that ability. I want to use freebs

Re: 5.4Pre sched_ule SMP XOrg hangs or reboots

2005-03-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 04:07:05PM -0500, Derek VerLee wrote: > Hi, i have become fascinated with getting sched_ule to run reliably, and > I've been running tests with about 8 different configurations. I've > listed some of them and the results at my website, at > http://noogenesis/freebsd/test

Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?!

2005-03-27 Thread Rob
--- Randy Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 00:10 -0800, Rob wrote: > > > > I have a very old Pentium-1 PC (60 MHz). > > > > I have installed 4.11, without any problems, > > although the dmesg output has a line about buggy > > ATA controller (see below for dmesg output). >

Re: WIFI access software

2005-03-27 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Danny Braniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > There is this thing I wrote, called the NAA (network authentication > appliance) > > > > > http://www.freebsd.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Freebsd/NetworkAuthenticationApp liance > > We seem to have similar problems :-), I was wondering if you

Re: file /usr/src/etc/rc.d/network is not installed

2005-03-27 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 08:56:52PM +0200, Martin Jakob wrote: > Hi Max, > > thanks for your answer. > > > > my network reconfiguration demands. Yet, bravely copying it to /etc/rc.d > > > and executing it, does not work. It produces warnings like: > >

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load

2005-03-27 Thread James Seward
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:04:42 +0300, Pertti Kosunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can PIO modes be used with SATA controller? It should compile in PIO > mode if it's possible. I don't think it can - the BIOS on the card only seems to offer options to do with RAID, but I shall investigate tomorrow. _

Re: installing FreeBSD on partition of a SATA Intel 865 raid0 volume

2005-03-27 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, James Wood wrote: > How do you setup FreeBSD on a partition of a raid0 volume? I downloaded > FreeBSD 5.3, then made a 60 GB partition in my raid volume, and then went to > boot from the CD. It did not see any raid volumes, it just sees two HDs. FreeBSD does not recognize the

5.4Pre sched_ule SMP XOrg hangs or reboots

2005-03-27 Thread Derek VerLee
Hi, i have become fascinated with getting sched_ule to run reliably, and I've been running tests with about 8 different configurations. I've listed some of them and the results at my website, at http://noogenesis/freebsd/testing_ule, the index html for which I've also attached to this email.

Re: "ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp" after cvsup and making worldfmen

2005-03-27 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > >>I just cvsupped to the latest RELENG_5 (as of yesterday) and built and > >>installed the world and a new kernel. When I boot the new kernel, I get > >>an error "ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp". At the "mountroot>" prompt, > >>whatever I type (eve

Re: SSH hanging

2005-03-27 Thread Max Laier
Sorry for replying late ... On Saturday 26 March 2005 01:25, Didier Rwitura wrote: > /etc/shell ---> /usr/sbin/authpf <...> > I am getting > > Hello didier, You are authenticated from host "10.0.0.33" > > when I connect with ssh but it hangs ... I don't get the prompt This is intentional. authp

Re: file /usr/src/etc/rc.d/network is not installed

2005-03-27 Thread Martin Jakob
Hi Max, thanks for your answer. > > my network reconfiguration demands. Yet, bravely copying it to /etc/rc.d > > and executing it, does not work. It produces warnings like: > > WARNING: $flushroutes is not set properly - see rc.conf(5). or > > WARNING: $auto_ifconfig is not set properly - see rc.

Re: SSH hanging

2005-03-27 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 08:47:50PM -0500, Didier Rwitura wrote: > I am getting > > Hello didier, You are authenticated from host "10.0.0.33" > > when I connect with ssh but it hangs ... I don't get the prompt > > any help will be appreciated Try running the ssh daemon in debug mode, and run th

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load

2005-03-27 Thread Pertti Kosunen
James Seward wrote: I am also attempting to upgrade my system to a newer cvs but unfortunately I can't buildkernel on it - it'll either panic or generate enough timeouts to make "make" fail. If anyone could point me at a HOWTO or similar on cross-compiling then I'll compile it on my other machine i

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load

2005-03-27 Thread James Seward
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:04:50 -0800, Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to install the smartmontools port and use it to access > the disk performance data. That should give you good information on > the status of the drives and any problems they have encountered. > Smartmontoo

Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?!

2005-03-27 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 03:06:14 -0800 (PST) Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I got stuck during the initial stage of the > install process; I haven't got any kernel info at > that point, or have I? Well, you said that you "get to the point where FDISK should start,". If this is correct, you ar

Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?!

2005-03-27 Thread Rob
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:10:09 -0800 (PST) > Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have installed 4.11, without any problems, >>although the dmesg output has a line about buggy >>ATA controller (see below for dmesg output). > > > The controller is broken. For the whole ugl

Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?!

2005-03-27 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:10:09 -0800 (PST) Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed 4.11, without any problems, > although the dmesg output has a line about buggy > ATA controller (see below for dmesg output). The controller is broken. For the whole ugly story, see http://mindprod.com/eide

buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?!

2005-03-27 Thread Rob
Hi, I have a very old Pentium-1 PC (60 MHz). I have installed 4.11, without any problems, although the dmesg output has a line about buggy ATA controller (see below for dmesg output). When I try to install 5.3 in this PC (using the three floppies), I get to the point where FDISK should start, b