Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

2006-08-23 Thread Helge Oldach
Chuck Swiger: >FreeBSD's COMPAT stuff will let you run binaries >compiled against an older version of FreeBSD just fine for almost all >circumstances. However, as soon as you try to install a new port >which depends on something already installed, or upgrade anything, >you pretty much real

Re: usb to serial

2006-05-03 Thread Helge Oldach
Marc Fonvieille: >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:33:22AM -0400, David Coder wrote: >> Is there a generic freebsd driver for usb-to-rs-232 adapters? My Thinkpad >> (running 6.1-RC) doesn't have a standard db-9 port. >uftdi(4) for some USB/RS232 adapters. uplcom(4) as well, for example ucom0: Prolifi

Re: swi4: clock sio uses 10% cpu

2006-04-21 Thread Helge Oldach
Holger, >puc0: port 0xa400-0xa41f,0xa000-0xa01f mem >0xdf80-0xdf800fff,0xdf00-0xdf000fff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 >puc1: port 0x9800-0x981f,0x9400-0x941f mem >0xde80-0xde800fff,0xde00-0xde000fff irq 10 at device 11.1 on pci0 The Titan device shows up as two PCI devices wi

OLDCARD vs. NEWCARD revisited

2006-01-20 Thread Helge Oldach
Folks, I own an LG Electronics LW1100P wireless LAN PCI board, consisting of a Texas Instruments TI-1211 PCI-CardBus bridge and a wi(4)-compatible PCCARD. This card is recognized with an OLDCARD kernel but not with a(n almost) GENERIC kernel. I've spotted two oddities with this card and made it w

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Helge Oldach
Remko Lodder: >Brent Bailey wrote: > >> Hello, >> My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd >> systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server samba >> also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup & >> the make buildworld proc

Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

2004-03-06 Thread Helge Oldach
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have an old toshiba which also needs PNPBIOS in 4-STABLE and >> when I tried 5-CURRENT sound just worked. Of course that doesn't say >> anything about your setup... > >PNPBIOS is on by default (and non-optional) in 5.x. That's gre

Re: installation freebsd

2003-12-05 Thread Helge Oldach
nico: >Je voudrais savoir si je dois installer une version STABLE ou RELEASE. >Quelle est la différence? >Pouvez-vous me conseiller entre la freebsd 5.1 ou 4.8 ? 4.x-RELEASE is essentially a snapshot of 4.x-STABLE, with a given x. 4.x-RELEASEs receive security updates only. 4.x-STABLE is t

Re: [4.9-RC] What happened to ``options HTT'' ?

2003-11-04 Thread Helge Oldach
Oliver Fromme: >Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:42:57PM +0200, Jaco van Tonder wrote: > > > I just cvsup'ed to that latest -STABLE and saw that option HTT > > > is no longer availible in LINT. Does anyone know why this is no > > > longer supported? I searched

Re: terminal issues.

2003-09-25 Thread Helge Oldach
Jamie Bowden: >The machine that I use for email and a few other things was cvsup'd to the >latest 4-S this morning now my xterms are all broken. I'm sshing in tothe >box from an SGI, but I get the same results sshing from a Sun. ACK. Likely the SGI or the Sun are not using X11R6 but an older xter

Re: IPsec/gif VPN tunnel packets on wrong NIC in ipfw? SOLUTION AND QUESTIONS

2002-11-22 Thread Helge Oldach
Archie Cobbs: > Guido van Rooij wrote: > > > An esp0 or ipsec0 device would provide the handle ipfw needs. > > > > That is excatly what I wanted to say earlier. > > > > But beware: this is only true in tunnel mode. > > > > In transport mode, the KAME stack calls the subprotocol handler > > direc

Re: HEADS UP: sendmail 8.12.2 MFC'ed

2002-03-27 Thread Helge Oldach
Yeasah Pell: >The question is >simply this: why are there large, complex, non-BSD packages in src-contrib >that are not critical to the running of many types of systems, and not >strictly a dependency of the system proper? Because they always have been. BSD users (those who have been running BSD

Re: HEADS UP: sendmail 8.12.2 MFC'ed

2002-03-26 Thread Helge Oldach
Karsten W. Rohrbach: >Helge Oldach([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.03.26 23:26:57 +: >[...] >> standard, well- and widely-known piece of software around. You may not >> like it but both S*** and B*** are the de facto standards. Period. Please quote correctly and don't fals

Re: problem building smbfs module, any hint ?

2001-11-09 Thread Helge Oldach
Christopher Masto: >On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:37:19AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> ok, thanks for the hint. >> I still think there is a bug in the dependency then, because at >> least from what i have seen when KLDfying other modules, >> you make sure that your kernel contains all is needed >> fo

Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA

2001-03-13 Thread Helge Oldach
Alfred Perlstein: >* Helge Oldach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010313 00:48] wrote: >> Alfred Perlstein: >> >If basically running with blind write caching turned on is akin to >> >running your filesystem in async mode. This is because write >> >caching gives t

Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA

2001-03-13 Thread Helge Oldach
Alfred Perlstein: >* Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010312 13:46] wrote: >> How serious is the possible corruption issue, anyway. The loss in >> performance is pretty drastic although it may be that dd is an >> especially bad case, but I really don't like to corrupt my disks, >> either. > >If

Re: Ports updating... Good ways?

2001-02-11 Thread Helge Oldach
Jim Weeks: >On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, David Bushong wrote: >> I'll try to put a "cleanup" mode in one of these days, but it's rather nasty, >> since basically you have to: >> >> pkg_delete all of the versions (including the most recent), pkg_delete all >> of the programs that depended on older versions

Re: /var drive space problem

2001-01-08 Thread Helge Oldach
Sebastien ROCHE: >My / partition is 32 Mb large. I had no problem until yesterday, when the >make installkernel didn't work due to insufficient space. >I think it's /modules which is bigger than it was (and the installation >process makes a copy of it). Anyway it was difficult to have it work. I >

Re: 4.2-stable, ports/packages in XF86 4.0.2

2001-01-01 Thread Helge Oldach
David W. Chapman Jr.: >The problem is netscape itself, since it comes in binary format, anyone who >ports it doesn't have a choice into which format, I believe the bsdi version >of netscape is elf, but I'm not totally sure. It is, and the BSDI binary runs just smoothly on FreeBSD. The only issue

Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-12-15 Thread Helge Oldach
Glendon Gross: >Is there anyone interested in rewriting that "fake" partition table, Please look at the thread with the same topic three weeks ago. I stated that it wouldn't be possible because there is a fundamental disagreement: BIOS standard demands that the first *sector* always remains res

Re: pcm0: problem

2000-12-08 Thread Helge Oldach
Andre DDAdmin: >I'm running 4.1.1-release, and thinking of moving to 4.2-release or >stable. the problem occurs whenever I play any sound file. mp3 or wav >files. if the sound card is in use and I move my mouse, it gives me >this error. >pcm0: hwptr went backwards -> >pcm0: hwptr went b

Re: "make installworld" from nfs directory

2000-12-06 Thread Helge Oldach
Hurf Sheldon: >We've built oa 4.2-STABLE /usr/src (loaded with cvsup) tree by >running "make buildworld", then a "make installworld" on machine "A" >(originally a 4.0-RELEASE), then built a new kernel, which worked fine. >Now we NFS mount the machine "A":/usr/src to machine "B":/usr/src (also >4

Re: can't flash Cisco 2516 using rcp (recv

2000-12-02 Thread Helge Oldach
Andreas Klemm: >On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:16:17AM +0100, Helge Oldach wrote: >> Andreas Klemm: >> >Address or name of remote host [172.16.2.1]? >> >Source username [ios]? >> ^^^ >> >> >ip rcmd remote-host andreas 172.16.

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2000-11-21 Thread Helge Oldach
Chad R. Larson: >I think earlier in this thread was a reference to a document somewhat >later than the BIOS code shipped with an AT. Which probably makes some sense as FreeBSD won't run on a plain IBM AT box anyway... >Do we want to start a new thread on what exactly =is= the authoritative >docu

Re: 4.2 Beta Broke ahc Support for AHA2842

2000-11-13 Thread Helge Oldach
Dave Tweten: >My old kernel, vintage 4.1.1, works fine with my three old Adaptec SCSI host >bus adapters, two AHA1742A's and an AHA2842VL (yes, it's an old motherboard). >I've cvsupped 4.2 a couple of times (most recently November 9, 14:26 PST), >built world, built kernel, installed kernel, an