Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
Vinny Abello wrote: > I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet loss > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the > integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs. Have you enabled polling on the interface? I experienced a similar problem on a HP Pro

Problem with external usb harddisk

2007-05-30 Thread Cédric Devillers
Hello, I have a problem with an external usb harddisk in FreeBSD 5.4. It seems to be recognize but when I try to fdisk it, I have the following message : fdisk: can't open device /dev/da0 fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da0: Input/output error The kernel dmesg is : umass0: VIA Technologi

acpi_hpet panic on amd64

2007-05-30 Thread Oleksandr Tymoshenko
My 6.2-STABLE box panics on boot trying to initialize acpi_hpet0. The problem is "divide by zero" exception and takes place in dev/acpica/acpi_hpet.c in acpi_hpet_attach. HPET_OFFSET_PERIOD register is zero and there is no check for it. I've added this check for my system, though I'm not s

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:08, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > The second one is more accurate as I didn't copy it from a blurry > > photo :) > > Could you, please, show the complete output from the boot, including > btx banner ? That's it.. With my i965 system I don't appear to be able to get it to

Dead lock

2007-05-30 Thread Roger Miranda
Good Day, I've brought up this issue in the past. I've now got a bit more information but still no solution. I am looking for a way to debug this anyway I can. We got a freebsd 6.2 (FreeBSD  6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0) machine running if_bridge as a intercept proxy. We have added the

Re: Some local rc scripts running twice

2007-05-30 Thread Vivek Khera
On May 27, 2007, at 2:48 AM, Duane Whitty wrote: Has anyone else encountered local rc scripts running twice? I thought I saw something about this on one of the @freebsd.org lists but my search efforts haven't located it yet. No, but I have noticed local periodic/daily scripts running twice

Re: Some local rc scripts running twice

2007-05-30 Thread Vivek Khera
On May 27, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Pascal Hofstee wrote: If the above assumption holds true ... did you run the mergebase.sh script as suggested in /usr/ports/UPDATING ? Most significantly .. this script adds the following entry to your /etc/rc.conf local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d" Hrm... see

Re: Problem with external usb harddisk

2007-05-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:34:05PM +0200, Cédric Devillers wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with an external usb harddisk in FreeBSD 5.4. > It seems to be recognize but when I try to fdisk it, I have the following > message : fdisk: can't open device /dev/da0 > fdisk: cannot open disk

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Vinny Abello
Oliver Fromme wrote: > Vinny Abello wrote: > > I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet > loss > > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the > > integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs. > > Have you enabled polling on the interface? > > I e

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Vinny Abello
Oliver Fromme wrote: > Vinny Abello wrote: > > I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet > loss > > with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the > > integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs. > > Have you enabled polling on the interface? > > I e

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or ifconfig > doesn't understand the polling argument. I'm wondering if it is > supported by the driver on this chipset. You need to enable "options DEVICE_POLLING" in your

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 5/30/07, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or ifconfig > doesn't understand the polling argument. I'm wondering if it is > supported by the driver on this chips

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Vinny Abello
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > On 5/30/07, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: >> > Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or >> ifconfig >> > doesn't understand the polling argument. I'm wondering i

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 5/30/07, Vinny Abello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > On 5/30/07, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: >> > Thanks for the suggestion. Either I am doing something wrong or >> ifconfig >> > do

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread security
Vinny Abello wrote: > > OK, I've enabled polling in my kernel and did ifconfig bge0 polling and > it accepted it and shows that polling is enabled on bge0 when checking > with ifconfig. Unfortunately, this did not resolve the packet loss issue > I wrote about originally. I still have the same loss.

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Vinny Abello
security wrote: > Vinny Abello wrote: >> OK, I've enabled polling in my kernel and did ifconfig bge0 polling and >> it accepted it and shows that polling is enabled on bge0 when checking >> with ifconfig. Unfortunately, this did not resolve the packet loss issue >> I wrote about originally. I still

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:49:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: > All suggestions welcomed: Your mbuf counts look OK. I don't see anything there which looks like a problem. If you had packet loss caused by mbuf exhaustion, your FreeBSD console log would show something. I've some couple questions:

Compile KERNEL

2007-05-30 Thread Kyriakos Yioutanis
I have a question about compiling the Kernel. I am using the XCP protocol from ISI for testing purposes (like TCP protocol) This protocol changes about 20 files at the system. In order to compile the new KERNEL under FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE, they provide all the files of the source of the kernel. Then

dcons broken?

2007-05-30 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Hello, I just csup 60 minutes ago, but make buildworld faild. machine -> /usr/src/sys/i386/include :> opt_bdg.h awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/device_if.m -h awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/bus_if.m -h awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/dev/pci/pci_if.m -h awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @

Re: Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-30 Thread Vinny Abello
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:49:42PM -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: >> All suggestions welcomed: > > Your mbuf counts look OK. I don't see anything there which looks > like a problem. If you had packet loss caused by mbuf exhaustion, > your FreeBSD console log would show somet

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Adriaan
On 5/30/07, Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: int=000d ... ... BTX halted According to John Baldwin in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028774.html : "Because other OS's run the BIOS in real mode, and we run it in vm86 mode and we don't emulate eno

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:52, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > > - > > int=000d ... > > ... > > BTX halted > > You boot from the hard drive, right ? Then, boot2 shall be changed > too, since it uses btx. You should apply the patch, build the world, > then install _both_ new boot blocks using bsdl

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:33, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:52, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > - > > > int=000d ... > > > ... > > > BTX halted > > > > You boot from the hard drive, right ? Then, boot2 shall be changed > > too, since it uses btx. You should apply the patch,