RTL8187 drivers for FreeBSD (usb wlan device)

2008-08-14 Thread Kevin
Any advice regarding these drivers being already available or ported somewhere, or perhaps any advice for someone to help facilitate the driver being ported would be greatly appreciated! Thanks , Kevin K. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

RTL8187 drivers for FreeBSD (usb wlan device)

2008-08-14 Thread Kevin
Any advice regarding these drivers being already available or ported somewhere, or perhaps any advice for someone to help facilitate the driver being ported would be greatly appreciated! Thanks , Kevin K. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

RE: RTL8187 drivers for FreeBSD (usb wlan device)

2008-08-14 Thread Kevin
> Be aware that the RTL8187, RTL8187B and RTL8187L are all different > chipsets. I believe Linux has two drivers for them, one driver covers > two > chips. I believe it is the RTL8187L chipset. The actual device is an Alfa Network "AWUS036H" , product information is http://dplanet.biz/alfa.com/p

RE: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-03 Thread Kevin
> The Ubuntu install is very compelling. I am just wishing that FreeBSD > was AS compelling in its first install experience. At present it is > far, far behind. > > That does not stop ME from preferring FreeBSD, but it stops many other > people. FreeBSD is primarily a server oriented operating

Make buildkernel fails

2008-09-25 Thread Kevin
# uname -a FreeBSD ck.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #1: Tue Jul 15 11:38:41 EDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CK i386 # Make buildkernel kernconf=CK fails here : linking kernel.debug sbp.o(.text+0xd9d): In function `sbp_free_ocb': /usr/src/sys/dev/firewire/sbp.c:2905: unde

DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-03 Thread Kevin
22 e0 b8 00 c0 03 00 0f-22 d8 0f 20 c0 0d 00 00 Ss:eso=90 95 00 00 00 80 fc 00-00 90 fc 00 07 e0 03 00 00 00 00 00 07 d0 03 00-00 00 00 00 3c d9 06 00 BTX halted The above happens /JUST/ after pressing "enter" at the boot screen when booting from the

RE: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Kevin
> Can you please try 7.1-PRERELEASE or 6.4-RC2 (just announced today)? > There have been bootstrap-related changes since 7.0-RELEASE which may > fix your problem. I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I tried (for the sake of argument) Debian debian-40r5-amd64 , and it

RE: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Kevin
> > I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I > tried > > (for the sake of argument) Debian debian-40r5-amd64 , and it wouldn't > boot > > either -- it said "Your CPU does not support long mode, please use a > 32bit > > distribution". > > This means your processor does not

RE: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Kevin
> Yes, the BTX fault you are getting is from trying to start 64-bit mode > on a > CPU that doesn't support 32-bit mode. The latest snapshots should have > a > fix where you get a more helpful "Your CPU doesn't do 64-bit" message. > > -- > John Baldwin Thank you all for your prudent help, it is

Question about imaging / migrating freebsd

2010-01-08 Thread kevin
the servers in question are production systems. Both systems will be 7.1-PRERELEASE. And I am unable to physically mount the new server's disk in the old server, unfortunately. Any help / suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thanks,

XEN HVM + FreeBSD = BTX Halted?

2010-03-02 Thread kevin
Hello, I have been trying to install a FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE or FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE implementation. After finally getting the XEN HVM instance to see the boot disk , I am now seeing "BTX Halted" error messages right when it tries to boot. I did some research and this is a known issue with FreeBSD

RE: Bridge causes freezes

2010-03-16 Thread kevin
>I confirm this problem for another server: >stable 8 amd64 + vlan + carp > >Whenever I join a bridge with a vlan interface: > >ifconfig bridge0 addm vlan35 > >The system soon or later freezes. > >This time it has happened after 3 days of normal behavior. > >No logs, no dump. This happens to me

RE: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd

2008-07-24 Thread Kevin
> > Try to disable kbdmux before booting. Jump to the loader prompt and > type: > > > > set hint.kbdmux.0.disabled=1 > > boot -v > > > Can you try > > set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 > > from the loader prompt. > > It's a long shot but it just might work. > > As it's a laptop, you might need to do all

Re: Stable does not boot after make buildworld, ... Was: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-14 Thread Kevin
following the instructions to the point >leads to a running system, automagically, > or, alternatively >change the build instructions to show the pitfalls more prominently? > > IMHO, when big changes like aout-elf, or, recently, new tool chain tools > make changes to the bu

Re: hold-on at 'Entropy harvesting' afer upgrading to 8.1

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
the last message to appear is "Entropy harvesting:", that may or may not be the cause of the hang. It really should continue after a ^C if that was the issue. Can you try a ^T to see what is really running? Or, if that does not tell you, try adding rc_debug="YES" to rc.conf. Thi

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
;) > > > > When you say -stable, I assume that's 8.2-RC3 yes ? > > No, that is in a separate branch that is frozen. This won't be in 8.2, we > would have had to have gotten it in in December to make 8.2. > > This is in stable/8. > > > I'm not ve

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
loading) system. > > I tend to try different block sizes (starting at bs=8k and working up to > bs=256k) for sequential benchmarks. The "sweet spot" on most disks I've > found is 64k. Otherwise use benchmarks/bonnie++. When FreeBSD updated its random number engine a c

Re: Backup tool fot ZFS with all "classic dump(8)" fetatures -- what should I use? (or is here any way to make dump -L works well on large FFS2+SU?)

2011-04-02 Thread Kevin Thompson
on a little test machine and have it backup to itself. I might recommend doing this anyway since you'll want to be able to experiment with configuration and controls before trying it on your production machine. --Kevin ___ freebsd-stable@freebs

Re: Constant rebooting after power loss

2011-04-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
at properly functioning NCQ (or TCQ) can assure that the metadata is safely updated so that power loss will never engender data corruption while enhancing performance. It still will not save you from losing the data that is in cache and not written, but that is the extent of the damage. -- R. Kevi

Re: powerd / cpufreq question

2011-04-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
the UC-San Diego System Energy Efficiency Lab has presented research that shows that servers save by far the most power when a process gets in, runs at maximum speed and gets out to allow the system to sleep. This is clearly the only way to significantly improve power consumption in servers. If you d

Re: System extremely slow under light load

2011-04-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
be in the data sheet for the CPU. If ACPI does not hange it, it runs in a purely automated fashion with no human intervention available. I wish I could provide some easy way to detect when it kicks in, but I don't think there is one. You can force it while monitoring performance. Try running md5

Re: System extremely slow under light load

2011-04-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
exactly .125 > > of the original time. > > Thanks, I will be using that to try and determine whether it really is > TCC that makes my machine sluggish under load. It works to tell you that TCC is doing the job, but does not explain in any way why your CPU is so hot. I'll be v

Unable to boot Lenovo T520

2011-06-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
ce for any help. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Last work day before retirement is Ju

libarchive, lzma, and xz interaction

2011-07-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
4 XZ_5.0 lzma_stream_encoder Any clues to what i happening would be greatly appreciated! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: libarchive, lzma, and xz interaction

2011-07-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I'm trying to understand the problems I am having on some systems > regarding libarchive, lzma, and xz. > I have an 8-Stable system updated yesterday. As far as I can tell, > libarchive does include the lzma stuff > fro

Re: dell latitude 13

2011-07-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
ut that it interferes with the main graphics system, usually Intel 3000 which is actually a part of the Sandy Bridge CPU. Since the Intel chip is also still unsupported by FreeBSD, you will be limited to VEDA support which is very limited. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Retired kob6...@gmail.com On Jul

Re: libarchive, lzma, and xz interaction

2011-07-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:32 PM, b. f. wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > I'm trying to understand the problems I am having on some systems >> > regarding libarchive, lzma, and xz. >> > I have an 8-Stable system u

Re: dell latitude 13

2011-07-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
: > http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-21852.html If it is a 4500, you will have at least minimal graphics support. You should be able to disable the NVIDIA daughter card on BIOS, but I would not want to guarantee it. Good luck! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Retired kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
cal. I might be able to admin such a wiki, but I have no place to put it. But I'm retired, so I should have time. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Retired kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: disable 64-bit dma for one PCI slot only?

2011-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
e it to emit the standard (sub)vendor/(sub)device terminology? >> >> Oh, yeah.  I hate that too.  Would you want them as 4 separate entities or to >> just rename the labels to 'devid' and 'subdevid'? >> > > If we're going to change it, might a

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
ber of standalone graphics cards with the addition of "Optimus", it's easy to get one of these useless things by accident. I would have if I hadn't been warned at the last minute. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com __

Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
e about this as GPT looks like the way to go in e future. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send an

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD.  I read >> a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit &g

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
des. Probably around 1993 on an old SparcStation 1 running SunOS and then only due to a bad assumption I made when 'newfs'ing it. Again, thanks for the advice. At very least it will save me a bit of time! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger >> wrote: >> > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick >> > wrote: &g

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Kevin Oberman (from Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:33:27 > -0700): > >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger >> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick

Re: dtrace ustack kernel panic

2011-08-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
Stop in /usr/src/lib/libc. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/src/lib. Did you remember to 'make obj'? If you didn't, the library would be left in the wrong place where 'make install' would not find it. make obj make depend (possibly a no-op) make make install -

GPT boot blocks, booting and booteasy

2011-08-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
lect d ifferent bootable partition or my other disk which is sliced in the traditional fashion? Can anyone point me to any information on how the boot process works with GPT? Thanks! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com __

Re: GPT boot blocks, booting and booteasy

2011-08-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
2011/8/15 Andrey V. Elsukov : > On 10.08.2011 07:12, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> I have /boot/pmbr loaded into the PMBR and gptboot into the >> freebsd-boot partition. I'll >> admit that I did this by rote and don't understand how these two files >> interact wi

Re: WD Advanced Format: do I need to do something special?

2011-08-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
l give you a disk with a 1G root, 4G swap, 5G var, .5G tmp and the remainder for usr.. You can adjust these as you feel appropriate. I would suggest a careful reading of the gpart(8) man page, as well, just so you understand what is going on. You

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
drive is just fine for the most part and replacing it is really a waste of money. Only you can make the call, but if further bad blocks show up in the near term, I'll go along with recommending replacement. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___

Unable to shutdown

2011-08-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
in up and everything is fine. This looks like a bug, but I don't see why the unmounting of an msdosfs system does not spin up the drive. It's clearly hanging on some operation that is not spinning up the drive, but does block. Any ideas what is going on? Possible fix? -- R. Kevin Oberman

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Eli Dart wrote: > > > On 8/28/11 1:06 PM, Bengt Ahlgren wrote: >> >> Kevin Oberman  writes: >> >>> I've run into an odd problem with dismounting file systems on a >>> Seagate Expansion portable >>> USB dr

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:29:02PM -0400, David Magda wrote: >> On Tue, August 30, 2011 11:50, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> [...] >> > The more I look at this, the more it seems to me that it is an issue >> >

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
Jeremy, I think we are simply not communicating, I guess. You are arguing point with which I agree. Comments in line: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:10:13PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:01 AM, wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:04:43PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > ... the standrad does not specify EXACTLY what triggers a >> > transition from standby to ready (PM2 to PM0). Only that it is >>

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-09-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:01 AM,   wrote: >> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:04:43PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> > ... the standrad does not specify EXACTLY what triggers a >>

Re: wlan0 rc.conf setup does not assign static ip on 8.2-STABLE

2011-09-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
55.0.0 ssid wrouter0 mode 11g channel 1" or, to make it cleaner: ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.200.1/16 ssid wrouter0 mode 11g channel 1" Will the AP be routed or bridged? If it is bridged, there is no need for it to have an address. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired

Re: gmirror+gjournal often makes inconsistens file systems

2011-09-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
hat type of example. Either make it clear that a file system, not a drive, is the appropriate application. I am quite aware of this as I just created my first gjournal file system last night and was briefly confused by this. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.c

Re: make installworld fails (touch not found)

2011-09-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
eel -m 444  info.info.gz info-stnd.info.gz > texinfo.info.gz /usr/share/info > ===> include (install) > creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh > touch: not found > *** Error code 127 > > Stop in /usr/src/include. > *** Error code 1 > > Anyone having the same issue? Chec

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin

2011-09-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
ugin configuration has been created strictly in accordance > with the FreeBSD Handbook. No additional actions required. > The problem exists for me with 8-STABLE only. For those who missed it, this is a problem in the Linux emulation. See the announcement from the the FreeBSD Security Off

Re: 8.1 xl + dual-speed Netgear hub = yoyo

2011-10-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
Wow. it's 1985 again. O remember those 10/100 hubs. They were a royal pain! If I remember right, they kept costs down by building in half of a switch. Traffic from a 10 port to a 100 port was buffered, but there was no forwarding table and all packets were forwarded to all ports. Total crap!

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
BTRFS and FreeBSD ZFS. >> > > > Er... does ext4 guarantee data integrity? > > You're not comparing like with like; please do some research on the > point of ZFS before asserting that they're fair comparisons. > > A fair(er) comparison could be ext4 with UFS+soft

Re: 8.2->9.prerel: gmirror failed with error 19

2011-12-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
and "migrate" > your kernel config to mimic what's in /sys/{arch}/conf/GENERIC. Rather than switch to the adaX names, I really, really recommend using labels. While SATA disks should be OK, there is no guarantee that either hardware or software changes won't change the ada names

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
t does not assure a completely clean system. I would also consider saving the files in /usr/local/etc after all ports have been removed.That can save a fair amount of reconfiguration at the slight risk of retaining some old cruft. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com __

Re: HPN-SSH question

2012-01-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
tensively on high latency links (often trans-oceanic) and have never seen that. I'd find running tcptrace and generating time plots very useful for looking at this sort of performance issue. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
imitations, but for any use of FreeBSD as a host system, it's the only game in town. I suspect that most VB users on FreeBSD use it to get access to a small number of took on Windows...the ones in Office. It's still better than either LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org for either documents or p

Re: freebsd 9-stable TOP problem from around Jan 10

2012-02-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
m, let me know but I need to co-ordinate with > others > to upgrade the machine in question. Not seeing it here on 9-stable. Could it be a display issue? I am using gnome-terminal with TERM defined as 'xterm'. -- R. Kevin Oberman, N

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
he FreeBSD disk. This works for me, but I suspect that lots of people would prefer having multiple OSes on a single disk...especially when it's a single spindle laptop. (I suspect laptops are more commonly dual-boot than most any other platform.) As for fdisk and bsdlabel, I'm happy to se

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
t; then how would internal sector remapping work?  ;) Please remember that some disks are dual-boot. FreeBSD may understand geom has the backup one block from the last LBA on the disk, but no other OS is likely to do so. Unless I am missing something, this should be a non-start

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
andard like this. It comes back to bite you in the butt all too often. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, se

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
device?  I guess > I haven't tried that, so I don't know what that would do. Call me a bit confused, but I thought -B did write an MBR. It always has seemed to do so for me, at any rate. From man bsdlabel: "Installing Bootstraps If the -B o

Re: random problem with 8.3 from yesterday

2012-02-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >     On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:56:24 -0800 Kevin Oberman > wrote: >>On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >>> =A0 =A0 On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0700 Erich Dollansky >>> wrote: >>> &g

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
p;& { >  >             __state_remove ${MNT} ${STATE} ${LINE} >  >             continue >  >           } >  >           umount -f ${TARGET} & >  >           unset TARGET >  >           __state_remove ${MNT} ${STATE} ${LINE} >  >           __log "

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
ificantly broad use after a release. Staying in BETA for long intervals leaves important features from getting to a large number of users, so RE has to draw a line somewhere and say, "We are doing a release". It is now more or less time based, but it is still when ABIs

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
ven though RE and everyone running current knew it had big problems. It i also why 5.0 and 5.1 were clearly marked as "development" releases not for production. I really hope to never see a release as ugly as 5. 9.0 may have issues as did 7.0 and 8.0, but for most, it works quite well.

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
59-1/books/developers-handbook)? It tells you how to make a good port, how to test it (though I don't think it has anything on redports, yet), and how to submit it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
after review by a ports committer, the port will be added. The cited section describes exactly how to go about it. Be sure that it passes portlint(1) before you submit. Thanks for you work on this. I'm looking forward to seeing it as a port. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...

Re: powerd and increase in energy need

2012-03-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1 hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1 This should greatly reduce the large number of "frequencies" available, but they will be the ones provided by EST.which really do reduce power consumption. (I put frequencies in quotation marks because throttling does not really change the

Re: powerd and increase in energy need

2012-03-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:26 AM, wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Throttling ... is intended for thermal control, not power >> management. The power savings will be negligible ... > > How can it possibly provide any thermal benefit, if it does not > reduce power

Re: Can't load many network kernel module in 8.3-PREREALEASE

2012-03-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
if_ath.ko: Exec format error > kldload: can't load /boot/kernel/if_aue.ko: Exec format error > kldload: can't load /boot/kernel/if_axe.ko: Exec format error GENERIC already has all of these drivers. Did you buidt a kernel with no network interfaces? If the kernel is built with the d

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 - GPT boot problems?

2012-04-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
home) and the home partition is GELI encrypted. (I I had hardware crypto support, I'd encrypt everything.) The disk does have the protective MBR installed, though it's not really part of the GPT. (See the "GUID Partition Table" article on Wikipedia for more information.) -- R. Kevi

Re: High load event idl.

2012-04-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
ee user processes running. They are obviously using a bit of CPU, but you need to find out what those processes might be. Using top(1) with 'H' to show threads and see what they might be. The possibilities with what we have now are nearly endless. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

9.0-RELEASE hangs on probe of CD on upgraded 9.0

2012-05-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
SuperMicro C25BX mother board. The DVD is PATA, reported on boot (of 8-Stable) as: acd0: DVDR at ata2-master UDMA66 I seem to recall seeing a thread on this a while back on current, but I don't seem to find it, now. Any ideas of how to get around this? Perhaps I need to update to STABLE? -- R.

Re: 8.3-PRERELEASE and ATA_CAM

2012-05-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
gt; What devices am I missing?   I am booting from a compact flash ata interface > on Soekris and PCEngines Alix boards. ata ATA_CAM still needs it. But why are you doing this? 9.0 defaults to use ATA_CAM, so just build GENERIC. atadisk is not in GENERIC, but both ata and da ar, though da

Re: Make buildkernel fails on /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c

2012-05-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
ode 1 > > Stop in /usr/src. > (end of quoted text) > > Is this a known problem?  This is on RELENG_9  and just a couple hours ago Do you have 'device ata' in your kernel? Is 'option ATA_CAM' in it? I don't know how atapi-cam plays with ATA_CAM. -- R. Kevin

Re: Make buildkernel fails on /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c

2012-05-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
ussed in a few past threads on questi...@freebsd.org . That's nice, but do you have 'device ata' in the configuration? It is required, even with ATA_CAM. Also, the thread states that atapicam is not needed with ATA_CAM. I don't have atapicam it in my kernel and my

Re: FreeBSD 9-STABLE: "sh /etc/rc autoboot" could not finish

2012-05-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
  0:00,04 sh /etc/rc autoboot >  1937   0  S+    0:00,00 grep rc > root@blob:/ # uptime >  0:08  up 33 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0,00 0,00 0,00 > root@blob:/ # > >  What happens? Why /etc/rc could not finish? Take a look at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable

Re: Problems trying to run X on Intel DH77DF System

2012-05-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
ave attached my dmesg output, a copy of my xorg.conf file, and the output > of 'pciconf -vl'. > > Anyone have any idea of what's going wrong, or what I can do to get X to work > on this system? Are you using the KMS driver (WITH_NEW_XORG)? Can you provide the Xorg.log? A

Re: Problems trying to run X on Intel DH77DF System

2012-05-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:02:42AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Bob Willcox wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I have a new Intel DH77DF mini-ITX motherboard with a Core

Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
it was probably prior to the release of 9. I googled around, but could not find it. I'd really appreciate it if anyone can point me toward a solution. Thanks, -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.o

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >> I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard >> anything. I'm really getting a bit desperate. >> >> I have a system t

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-05-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 05:13:44PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: >> On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:54 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard >> > anything. I'

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
system and disk speed and I have not actually timed it).and it can be done without console access or a single-user boot. Caveats: Systems must be updated from a version the server knows to a version the server knows; both kernel and world. Major version bumps may require re-installation of port

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-06-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Marius Strobl > wrote: >> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 05:13:44PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: >>> On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:54 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> > I sent a note abou

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-06-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:11:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Marius Strobl >> > wrote: >> >> On Wed

devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
e I should look? I saw a couple of threads on current from others seeing something similar, but could find no resolution. I have seen a -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:41:58 +0200, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Since updating my systems to 9-Stable, I am not getting my smartcard >> reader attached when hot-plugged. >> >>> From devd.conf >> >>

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:50:49 +0200, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Ronald Klop wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:01:21 +0200, Kevin Oberman >>> wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:40:45 +0200, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Ronald Klop >> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:50:49 +0200, Warren Block >>> wrote: &g

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

2012-06-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
or others it is a losing proposition because a server is rendered effectively useless for an extended period. Full disclosure: I have disabled background fsck on most of the systems for which I am responsible, but not all. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___

Re: dtrace problem?

2010-05-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
etting "uid_t" errors when my kernel was not compiled with > > "WITH_CTF" option. > > Yes, that would probably be it. The handbook is explicit about > building with WITH_CTF=1, so I put it in make.conf. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/book

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
ars to be /reliable/. A term I > never dared dream to apply to wireless networking. It should like the Atheros 5212 as IBM re-sold this a/b/g card for some time as the "IBM a/b/g" card. I can believe that other Atheros cards will fail, but that one, if you can find one, should work fine

Re: make world fails in usr.sbin/config?

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
gt; > 0.256 > > > > I'll try a new checkout next. > > Your clock looks OK (worst drift from a stratum 2 comparison is 5.313 > seconds). Minor correction on this. The offset values from 'ntpq -p' are in milliseconds, so the worst offset is <6 ms. Not great, but

Re: portmaster on updates

2010-06-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
e been a LOT of revisions to portmaster since the gettext bump, so this may be already addresses, but it was rather painful, especially on my rather slow laptop. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley Nati

Odd behavior of labels on different filesystem types

2010-07-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
and it has caused a fair bit of trouble when working with gnome-mount as I can't unmount a ufs device. When the /dev/ufs/LABEL device is created again on the umount, gnome-mount sees a new device and immediately re-mounts it. Can this inconsistency be corrected? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Ne

Re: Odd behavior of labels on different filesystem types

2010-07-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Sender: "J. Hellenthal" > Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:55:20 -0400 > From: jhell > > On 07/03/2010 16:51, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I have run into an odd behavior in 8-stable that I can't see a reason > > for. > > > > If I have a FAT32 forma

Re: Odd behavior of labels on different filesystem types

2010-07-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Sender: "J. Hellenthal" > Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:58:30 -0400 > From: jhell > > On 07/04/2010 12:15, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Sender: "J. Hellenthal" > >> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:55:20 -0400 > >> From: jhell > >>

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
k on K8 cores, though. > If any of the above can be corrected or, at least, documented, before > release, we stand a little bit better chance of getting the praise > otherwise well-deserved by FreeBSD... Thanks. Yours, Documentation in FreeBSD seems quite a bit bette

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
it is in > the man page. As someone who's done some release engineering and worked > with sysinstall on my own project, I can tell you it's a real pain and > developers in the FreeBSD community deserve courtesy. Most of us work > on open source for free in o

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