Fear and loathing in FreeBSD 7.2 (AGP issues and fixes)

2009-05-16 Thread Bill Paul
leased with the results. I was able to get bluetooth tethering to work with my Blackberry fairly easily. I still need to confirm that WPA2 works when I get to the office on Monday. If it does, I'm going to go through with the update. -Bill

Re: Lenovo X60 em workaround

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Paul
> Since this was just seen, and the patch below validated as working I wanted > to send general email to capture this: > > The Lenovo X60 can have issues with long ping times, this is a KNOWN > hardware problem, and Intel is working with IBM/Lenovo, a final 'fix' has > not been decided on yet. Ne

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

2006-12-01 Thread Bill Paul
> Hello Bill, > > * Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - Switching from and to promiscuous mode takes 7 seconds. All packets > > > are dropped in the mean time. > > > > The SIOCSIFFLAGS handler in re_ioctl() currently just takes a short

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Paul
> * Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's more likely a problem with the multicast filter programming. > > > IPv6 is all about the multicasting (neighbord discovery depends on it > > > to work correctly). I can't explain why it's not

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Paul
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:46:00PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on my new desktop. It has the > > > following hardware: > > > > > > - Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 > > > - Asus P5B motherboard > > > - On-board Realtek NIC (8168B/8111B)

Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly

2006-11-29 Thread Bill Paul
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:46:00PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on my new desktop. It has the > > following hardware: > > > > - Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 > > - Asus P5B motherboard > > - On-board Realtek NIC (8168B/8111B) > > > > For som

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Paul
be one of the issues hitting us as well. Switching from testing the descriptor completion bits to using the consumer indexes should be pretty straightforward. It's worth a shot at any rate. -Bill -- = -Bill P

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Paul
test system up and running with your driver code, and it doesn't take that long to run. Of course, I'm biased since I've run the tests many times, and have easy access to the hardware and software. -Bill -- ==

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Paul
> Bill Paul wrote: > > [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > >>On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > >>> > >>>

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Paul
ths and generates hundreds of thousands of interrupts per second. You'd be amazed at the sort of things you can discover with it. The downside of course is that a Smartbits with gigE ports isn't cheap, but I'd be surprised if Intel didn't have one kicking around somewhere. -Bi

Re: fdisk, bsdlabel and hidden tricks

2006-01-31 Thread Bill Paul
console boot blocks, but nothing else. I've found in many cases that I need "boot0cfg -o packet " to make the first stage bootstrap successfully load the second stage if I've done something weird with the geometry. -Bill -- ==

Re: Linksys WPC54g v4, NDIS, & Kernel Panics

2006-01-30 Thread Bill Paul
ask for this basic information. The more I have to ask, the more annoyed I get, and the less inclined I am to help anyone. The shit you don't think is important? It's important. So spill it already. -Bill -- =

Re: Broadcomm BCM4401-B0 and memory upgrade issue.

2006-01-24 Thread Bill Paul
ator is known to work with this chip. But try the fix above first. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Systems =

Re: ndis0 does not associate since update to RELENG_6

2006-01-17 Thread Bill Paul
uot;" up # ifconfig ndis0 ssid "yourssid" bssid up Don't fiddle with the channel setting. Windows drivers don't let you set the channel unless you're in ad-hoc mode. (Some drivers erroneously process channel selectin requests in infrastructure mode too, but the results can be unpredictable.) -Bill -- ==

Re: ndis0 does not associate since update to RELENG_6

2006-01-17 Thread Bill Paul
> Additionally I can't set the mode to 11g: You don't have to do that. It'll associate with 11g automatically. > Is anybody else using this device with FreeBSD 6.0? I've tested the 2200BG myself with the NDISulator 6.0 and I've been able to get it to

Re: problems with wifi

2005-12-31 Thread Bill Paul
I couldn't find the first e-mail in this thread, so I don't know which laptop you have. Check to see if it's one of the ones mentioned here: http://rfswitch.sourceforge.net/?page=laptop_matrix If so, you may need some special software to make the switch work. -Bill -- =

Re: 6.0-RC1: ifconfig reporting bad info when using ndis0 & WPA

2005-10-28 Thread Bill Paul
it until after the release is cut before I can merge it into 6.x. Out of curiosity, what card do you have? -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Systems

Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-16 Thread Bill Paul
at is says? It says "Bill Paul." It does *NOT* say "Paul Bill," does it now. WELL DOES IT!!?!?! No, it damn well doesn't! And yet, for some incomprehensible reason. the majority of you nitwits seem to think it does!! Get this through your miserable

Re: dc0 being really weird

2000-07-28 Thread Bill Paul
> Is this just me, Yes, it is just you. You probably don't have the card seated properly, or it's posessed by Satan. (Of course it's a PNIC so that's a given.) Forgive me if I don't get to worked up over it. And I don't care what fxp does in the same box. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to [E