Re: 11.2-RC3 regression - networking igb driver

2018-06-24 Thread Jim Pingle
On 6/23/2018 1:27 PM, David Samms wrote: > There is a regression in 11.2-RC3 that effects the igb driver for Intels > C2000 SoC I354 Quad GbE Controller > > Supermicro A1SRi-2558F > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SRi-2558F.cfm > > This server has run 10.x and 11.x fine

11.2 dhclient MTU behavior is broken

2018-05-18 Thread Jim Pingle
The DHCP client, dhclient, in 11.2 was changed to support server-side MTU ( https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206721 ), but this MTU feature being enabled by default causes an unexpected change in behavior on upgrade, which to me is a POLA violation. My ISP sends a bogus MTU

Re: Ipsec VPN tunnel from a Win/7 box?

2013-02-22 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/15/2013 10:45 AM, Karl Denninger wrote: > On 2/15/2013 9:37 AM, Kurt Lidl wrote: >> >> Hmm. >> >> I've got IPSEC tunnels from Windows XP and Windows 7 working >> to a FreeBSD 8.3 host, using NAT/T. >> >> I'm using the Shrewsoft client: http://www.shrew.net/software >> >> -Kurt >> _

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-30 Thread Jim Pingle
On 8/30/2012 9:53 AM, Stas Verberkt wrote: >> I spent a little time today setting up an SVN mirror after reading this >> thread and wrote up a how-to for those looking to do the same. >> >> http://www.pingle.org/2012/08/24/freebsd-svn-mirror >> >> Comments/Flames/Corrections welcome... >> > Just wo

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-24 Thread Jim Pingle
On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: >> >> I found two good primers: >> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#

Re: IPv6 and CARP crashes boxes

2012-06-01 Thread Jim Pingle
On 5/31/2012 5:31 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 31 May 2012, at 22:31, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> On 31 May 2012 06:42, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >>> Hey list, >>> >>> The thread about "Why Are You Using FreeBSD", listing the pros and cons >>> of FBSD, has brought back a topic to mind. >>> >>> Recentl

Re: Policy on static linking ?

2011-01-15 Thread Jim Pingle
On 1/15/2011 5:11 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > If I compile openldap-client against openssl from ports, then it > creates massive problems elsewhere. [snip problems] > I dislike this method, because should openldap gets upgraded again and > be linked against openssl port, I will lock myself out o

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-10-16 Thread Jim Pingle
On 9/16/2010 12:20 PM, Eivind E wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: >>> (WW) RADEONHD(0): !!! Option HPD is set !!! >>> This shall only be used to work around broken connector tables. >>> Please report your findings to radeo...@opensu

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-03-07 Thread Jim Pingle
On 3/7/2010 3:34 PM, Sam Leffler wrote: > Not following the wlanX naming convention will cause confusion for > things like rc config files (I believe). Definitely any tool I touched > expects vap's to be named wlanX. Duly noted. I wasn't aware of just how many issues would arise from straying fro

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/28/2010 10:16 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 1 Mar 2010, at 03:05, Jim Pingle wrote: > >> On 2/28/2010 9:41 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: >>> On 1 Mar 2010, at 02:26, Jim Pingle wrote: >>>> Ah, I wasn't aware of wlandebug(8). However, it doesn't seem to operate

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/28/2010 9:41 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 1 Mar 2010, at 02:26, Jim Pingle wrote: >> Ah, I wasn't aware of wlandebug(8). However, it doesn't seem to operate >> on this mwl(4) card. It sets the value of the sysctl net.wlan.0.debug >> and that doesn't show up

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/28/2010 7:03 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 28 Feb 2010, at 17:38, Jim Pingle wrote: >> Are there some other bits that need set in order to have clients >> associate with HT rates? Or some other prerequisite conditions such as >> number of attached antennae? I do only have on

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/28/2010 2:29 PM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Jim Pingle wrote: [snip] >> In this case, the mwl card is the AP. The client line is from an >> associated Windows 7 laptop with an Intel 5100abgn card which does show >> the AP as 802.11

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/28/2010 7:54 AM, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 28 Feb 2010, at 03:22, Jim Pingle wrote: >> >> Are you aware if similar work ongoing for the mwl(4) based 802.11n >> cards? I picked up a couple cheap this past week and have them working >> with hostapd but, as with the OP

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-27 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/27/2010 9:09 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 27 Feb 2010, at 20:29, Robert Watson wrote: > Progress on supporting 11n with atheros cards is on going. There's much more > to it than adapting the rate control algorithm. Please stay tuned. Are you aware if similar work ongoing for the mwl(4) based 80

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-10 Thread Jim Pingle
On 12/10/2009 2:28 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> On 12/9/2009 11:13 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >>> hi, >>> FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some >>> gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input >>> is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-10 Thread Jim Pingle
On 12/10/2009 2:32 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> Which ALIX board exactly? There are some differences (even various BIOSes). >> Any chance you have vga driver in kernel? TinyBIOS emulates VGA a bit, >> redirects output to serial port. If at the beginning you are trying both VGA >> and serial port,

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-09 Thread Jim Pingle
On 12/9/2009 11:13 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: > hi, > FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some > gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input > is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu > is ok, but booting off the CF (using boot0sio)

Re: 8.0-rc2 dropped hardsupport

2009-12-03 Thread Jim Pingle
Marten Vijn wrote: > Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and > 7.2 and higher): > > - WRAP 1C > - WRAP 2E (EOL) > - ALIX 1C > > Both devices stopped booting as described in several postings and pr's. > > My question/suggestion to announce this in the >> 7.2 and 8.

Re: Freebsd 7.2-RC boot problem

2009-04-27 Thread Jim Pingle
subbsd wrote: > Hello, i've got some problem with my SATA Optiarc DVD RW: > message output on the screen in not stopped, but repeating with incremental > delay: > ... > acd0: DVDR at ata3-master UDMA33 > HEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_Install Did you retype this? Or did

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Jim Pingle
Andrew Thompson wrote: > Also an entry in UPDATING that a config error that was once harmless now > renders the system unbootable (without intervention). Would this also be something that mergemaster could check for and warn against? Jim ___ freebsd-sta

Re: Possible regression in ifconfig under7.0 - removes validdefault route

2008-11-17 Thread Jim Pingle
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Summary: confirmed. Above two tests show that even if changing the IP > to something else within the same network block, the default route is > removed and not put back. > > This is pretty major, if you ask me. I've encountered similar issues before, and typically just a

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-01 Thread Jim Pingle
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > P.S. -- You're the 2nd person I've encountered in under a week who's > using 440BX/GX-based hardware in present day. I would not be > surprised if the board is simply going bad/failing due to age. :-) I still have quite a few of these in active use. They are good workhor

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Pingle
Dan Allen wrote: > On 4 Sep 2008, at 8:22 AM, Jim Pingle wrote: > Okay, so how about for packages on the base CD: > > * cvsup-without-gui (I also always use this) > * rsync > * perl As others have mentioned, there are plenty of uses for packages, even if I do not use them &quo

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Pingle
Wesley Shields wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:28:44PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: >> Hey, these great comments bring up a different solution, which may be >> the way to go. >> >> It is simple: have a few of the common apps that are net-centric (like >> firefox) be simply calls to pkg_add -r in the

Re: apachectl gracefult causes Signal 11 crash after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade [SOLVED]

2008-06-12 Thread Jim Pingle
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jim Pingle wrote: I need to see if I can improve the script any (suggestions are most welcome) then open a PR to see if it -- or logic like it -- can be included in the php-extensions meta port. Adding the script to the port seems like the way

Re: apachectl gracefult causes Signal 11 crash after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade [SOLVED]

2008-06-11 Thread Jim Pingle
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I myself haven't ever run into extension ordering issues like those described (and we've done hosting for years), but I don't doubt those who have experienced such. I am currently experiencing this :( In the past I shuffled the

Re: php5 and postgresql 8.2/8.3

2008-04-17 Thread Jim Pingle
Claus Guttesen wrote: I have installed php5 with support for postgresql (php5-pgsql). If I install postgresql-client ver. 8.2.7 or 8.3.x apache (httpd) core-dumps. If I install postgresql-client 8.1.11 or 8.2.6 apache does not core-dump. I have confirmed that it's postgresql which makes apa

Re: jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE

2008-02-29 Thread Jim Pingle
Kris Kennaway wrote: Teemu Korhonen wrote: Did anyone find a solution to the "jerky mouse" -problem? It still exists in 7.0-RELEASE. I have pretty much exact same symptoms as in this post: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039599.html Part of the problem here i

Re: 7.0-PRERELEASE Fatal Trap 12 with sysctl and acpi

2008-02-27 Thread Jim Pingle
Jim Pingle wrote: Jim Pingle wrote: I'm having some trouble with a SuperMicro SuperServer 6022L-6 that previously ran 7.0-BETA4 without problems. Today, I updated this machine to 7.0-PRERELEASE and now it will not fully boot unless I disable ACPI. A quick search of the PR database didn&#

Re: 7.0-PRERELEASE Fatal Trap 12 with sysctl and acpi

2008-02-15 Thread Jim Pingle
Jim Pingle wrote: I'm having some trouble with a SuperMicro SuperServer 6022L-6 that previously ran 7.0-BETA4 without problems. Today, I updated this machine to 7.0-PRERELEASE and now it will not fully boot unless I disable ACPI. A quick search of the PR database didn't turn u

7.0-PRERELEASE Fatal Trap 12 with sysctl and acpi

2008-02-14 Thread Jim Pingle
I'm having some trouble with a SuperMicro SuperServer 6022L-6 that previously ran 7.0-BETA4 without problems. Today, I updated this machine to 7.0-PRERELEASE and now it will not fully boot unless I disable ACPI. A quick search of the PR database didn't turn up anything similar with sysctl and

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Jim Pingle
Gavin Spomer wrote: Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/12/08 7:01 PM >>> make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE If you put KERNCONF into make.conf, you can simplify it to: make kernel Just to be clear, if I add the appropriate KERNCONF line i

Re: /usr/bin/objformat is missing

2008-01-29 Thread Jim Pingle
Chris H. wrote: [snip] While it didn't fix my seeming php5 module number limitation. I was able, after trial and error, to discover that the recode module was the module causing Apache to dump core. Simply removing it from the list cured it. :) Further investigation reveals that there are some is

Re: Also seeing 2 x quad-core system slower that 2 x dual core

2007-11-30 Thread Jim Pingle
Pete French wrote: >> Have you checked that your dir hash isn't suffering due to lack of memory >> this can have a marked impact on seemingly trivial things like this as >> could silly things like the RAID card being installed in a different slot. > > RAID card is onboard on these things - how wou

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-20 Thread Jim Pingle
Artem Kuchin wrote: > A day ago at 11 am i have turn off the server, > pull out the old driver, installed a new one, turned of the server > and started rebuild in an hour from remote location via web interface. > After about 5 minuted the machine became unresponsive. Tried rebooting > - nothing. I

Re: long pause in startup

2007-07-18 Thread Jim Pingle
Charles Sprickman wrote: > Any ideas on this one? This machine (one of those ancient VALinux 2U > boxes, Intel L440GX+ board, dual PIII) hangs for a very long time > between the second processor launching and geom_mirror kicking in. It > does always boot, but the hang is more than a minute - just

Re: upgrade 6.2 to xorg 7.2

2007-06-08 Thread Jim Pingle
Stephen Clark wrote: > There is a deadly embrace. > > The /usr/src/UPDATING says I am going to miss out if I > don't have the meta port installed (which I currently don't), but when I > try to install > the meta port it tells me I should use portupgrade to upgrade Xorg, but > the /usr/src/UPDATING

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-27 Thread Jim Pingle
Roland Smith wrote: > Most spammers do not bother to return if they get a resend request. > That's the whole point of doing this. So practically it doesn't increase > bandwidth consumption. This conversation is getting rather OT for -stable, but I felt the need to ask a question: To defeat this,

Re: Adaptec 2100, asr driver

2006-12-13 Thread Jim Pingle
Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state > of the RAID and its disk out into the open? It shure would give me a > much better feeling, knowing that at least serious trouble would be > detected by me. Instead of getting this call from a NO

Re: asr / raidutil not available for 6.x either ... ? :(

2006-12-12 Thread Jim Pingle
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Installed it from ports, and it installed the compat4x stuff, but although it > runs with no args, as soon as I try to access the controller: > > > # raidutil -d 1 -L physical > osdIOrequest : File /dev/rdptr17 Could Not Be Opened > Engine connect failed: COMPATILITY

Re: php in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense

2006-11-23 Thread Jim Pingle
Dominik Zalewski wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 release on i386. I have a problem with pear and apache. > Here is what I'm getting: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pear list > Installed packages, channel pear.php.net: > = > PackageVersion State > Archive_

Re: long timeout on boot

2006-06-02 Thread Jim Pingle
Antony Mawer wrote: > On 3/06/2006 2:43 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: >> On 6/2/06, Gavin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:30 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: >>> > Both on my own machine, and on systems in our test group's lab, we >>> > notice these long (like 2min maybe?) delays n

Re: Freebsd 6.1 and Palm Tungsten C

2006-02-18 Thread Jim Pingle
Viktorija wrote: > I have following problem. I have Palm Tungsten C and FreeBSD 6.1 on my > laptop. I'm trying to synhronize my palm with freebsd, but without any > success. What i did: > in kernel added devices: > ucom and uvisor. > in usbd.conf: > device "Palm Handheld" > devname "uc

Re: [5.4-p6] Trouble with swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer on LSI(PERC4)-RAID on Dell PE6650

2006-01-11 Thread Jim Pingle
Raphael H. Becker wrote: > Hi *, > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device amrd1s1d, blkno 77 > > Any access to the RAID is impossible (e.g. login on console, shutdown, > ... ), have to powercycle it. > > What is the meaning of this message? I have encountered this error once before, and

Re: Why use 60 sec on da0 during boot?

2005-11-19 Thread Jim Pingle
Lukas Ertl wrote: > On 11/9/05, Ingeborg Hellemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Fresh new ProLiant dl380 2 CPU/dual core >>Fresh new FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE >> >> >>During boot I arrive at >> >>da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 >>da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device >>da0: 135.168MB/s transfers >>d