Re: please register ppp as arch-specific

2011-01-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Robert Millan, le Sun 23 Jan 2011 23:00:16 +0100, a écrit : > 2011/1/23 Samuel Thibault : > > It used to be used on FreeBSD, it should be just a matter of ioctls and > > the likes. I guess digging back the old versions of ppp which had the > > support could be a good ground.

The Hurd project and DHCP/PPP/PPPoE

2002-01-15 Thread Debian User
able to install Hurd. Anyone else should consider starting with Linux as an environment to upgrade their knowledge. Rather than focusing on a better install method using a cdrom, I suggest getting DHCP,PPP, and PPPoE working. I have been going into #hurd on irc.openprojects.net a lot lately

Re: ppp

2001-12-11 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Has anyone got ppp running on hurd. I am a newbie and I tried > compiling the source which I got from the ftp site from the sid tree. > when I ran ./configure it said that hurd system was not supported. I > would appreciate some pointers to docs/sites where it is given in > d

ppp

2001-12-11 Thread harsha
Hi Has anyone got ppp running on hurd. I am a newbie and I tried compiling the source which I got from the ftp site from the sid tree. when I ran ./configure it said that hurd system was not supported. I would appreciate some pointers to docs/sites where it is given in detail. regards Harsha

Re: ppp troubles/questions

2001-12-01 Thread Diego Roversi
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:43:17PM -0800, Tristan wrote: > My other problems are > 1) ppp isn't logging anything to syslog, even when i set: > set log Connect Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command > so i usually have ppp send messages to the screen. It

ppp troubles/questions

2001-11-27 Thread Tristan
I have been trying to get ppp working and manage to connect and I am able to ping the outside world but I am unable to send/recv large amounts of data (from what I have read on debian-hurd, everyone else is to). My other problems are 1) ppp isn't logging anything to syslog, even

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-24 Thread Philippe Brochard
On 23-Nov-2001 Neal H Walfield wrote: >> I don't know if that works, because now I'm not abble to just use wget or >> lynx. > > This is what you are getting when you use diald or when you connect > using straight ppp? > > Try starting with something a b

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-24 Thread Niels Möller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > > > 3. Is there a reasonable way to give a user additional uid:s > >automatically at login? > > No, but perhaps there should be. One way to do it might be analogous to supplimentary groups: Have a

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 1. Has anybody thought about partial delegation of networking? Does > >>that make sense at all? > > > > I have some vague ideas. I think it does make sense, but making it > > work seems hard. But if someone prods me, then I can describe my > >

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, but perhaps there should be. > > In fact, it is on the TODO list: > > * Currently libshouldbeinlibc (idvec, etc) and password.defs > and login all think there is one user per-uid, and that > ain't necessarily so. Ne

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I don't know if that works, because now I'm not abble to just use wget or > lynx. This is what you are getting when you use diald or when you connect using straight ppp? Try starting with something a bit more simple, for instance, pinging your gateway. Then, move on to pingi

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Philippe Brochard
r include one in a FAQ. (But I have to >> >> understand what to do) >> > >> > One of the problems is that I do not have a modem and have never >> > actually tested this part of the code -- I normally test using ppp >> > over a serial cable between two comp

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Neal H Walfield
>> 1. Has anybody thought about partial delegation of networking? Does >>that make sense at all? > > I have some vague ideas. I think it does make sense, but making it > work seems hard. But if someone prods me, then I can describe my > vague ideas. Prod, prod. >> 3. Is there a reasonable w

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Philippe Brochard
t; permission on some other nodes as well, to make sure that pfinet gets > access to ethernet hardware and stuff. And then one should probably > think a little about what a "privileged (< 1024) port means when > pfinet doesn't run as root. This seems a little harier than I&#

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > 1. Has anybody thought about partial delegation of networking? Does >that make sense at all? I have some vague ideas. I think it does make sense, but making it work seems hard. But if someone prods me, then I can describe my vague ideas. > 3. Is t

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-22 Thread Anders Jackson
> > One of the problems is that I do not have a modem and have never > > actually tested this part of the code -- I normally test using ppp > > over a serial cable between two computers. So, I think it is pretty > > evident why I am not the best ppp maintainer. > &g

Re: Using apt-get with a PPP connection

2001-11-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:57:32AM +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote: > > "LP" == Laurent Pelecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > LP> It could be possible for example to let the Linux apt-get/dpkg > LP> unpack the debs using --root and just run a `dpkg --pending > LP> --configure' on the H

Re: Using apt-get with a PPP connection

2001-11-22 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "LP" == Laurent Pelecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LP> It could be possible for example to let the Linux apt-get/dpkg LP> unpack the debs using --root and just run a `dpkg --pending LP> --configure' on the Hurd. It's not a big difference but such LP> things make life easier..

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-22 Thread Niels Möller
philippe brochard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but I think it's a good thing if we can run it with an unprivileged user. I'm not sure if there's any sensible way to delegate control over just some parts of the networking (e.g different network interfaces), but until someone comes up with a good

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-22 Thread philippe brochard
;> very happy to make one or include one in a FAQ. (But I have to >> understand what to do) > > One of the problems is that I do not have a modem and have never > actually tested this part of the code -- I normally test using ppp > over a serial cable between two computers. So, I

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-22 Thread Neal H Walfield
: Like I don't find docs on this subjet (only messages), I'll > very happy to make one or include one in a FAQ. (But I have to > understand what to do) One of the problems is that I do not have a modem and have never actually tested this part of the code -- I normally test using ppp

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-21 Thread Phil Brochard
On 21-Nov-2001 Neal H Walfield wrote: >> But I have a little probleme: I can't make a device /dev/tun0 (or N) >> with ./MAKEDEV tun0 in /dev like it's said in the ppp man pages. > > Well, the man pages are BSD centric. In the Hurd, pfinet will > automatically c

Re: um-ppp installation

2001-11-21 Thread Neal H Walfield
> But I have a little probleme: I can't make a device /dev/tun0 (or N) > with ./MAKEDEV tun0 in /dev like it's said in the ppp man pages. Well, the man pages are BSD centric. In the Hurd, pfinet will automatically create the tunnel device for you. Just run settrans

um-ppp installation

2001-11-20 Thread phil brochard
Hello, I'm a new user of the Hurd, and I try to use ppp to connect to the net. But I have a little probleme: I can't make a device /dev/tun0 (or N) with ./MAKEDEV tun0 in /dev like it's said in the ppp man pages. So, I try to rebuild the gnumach with the option: pseudo-devi

RE: Using apt-get with a PPP connection

2001-11-19 Thread hocwp
(sorry, I send this message to Laurent Pelecq, but not for all. So there it is) Hi, Thanks a lot, that works fine on my box. On 18-Nov-2001 Laurent Pelecq wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a new Hurd user. I connect to my ISP with a ppp connection. Since > ppp support doesn'

Re: Using apt-get with a PPP connection

2001-11-18 Thread Laurent Pelecq
Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "LP" == Laurent Pelecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > LP> I'm interested in any simpler method. This one requires to boot > LP> on Linux first and reboot again on the Hurd. > If you can't access the network from the Hurd, I doubt you can

Re: Using apt-get with a PPP connection

2001-11-18 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "LP" == Laurent Pelecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LP> I'm interested in any simpler method. This one requires to boot LP> on Linux first and reboot again on the Hurd. If you can't access the network from the Hurd, I doubt you can upgrade from network without rebooting to another sy

Using apt-get with a PPP connection

2001-11-18 Thread Laurent Pelecq
Hello, I'm a new Hurd user. I connect to my ISP with a ppp connection. Since ppp support doesn't appear to be available, I use the following method to install/update packages with apt-get. Maybe a better way exists. I didn't find anything in docs I read (but I didn't read

Re: ppp on hurd

2001-09-30 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I mean I setup two tunnel device: > > tun1 on /tmp/foo > tun0 on /tmp/foo2 No, tun0 on /servers/socket/2 and tun1 on /tmp/foo.

Re: ppp on hurd

2001-09-30 Thread Diego Roversi
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote: > >> You have the tun0 interface setup on /servers/socket/2, right? > >> Additionally, you should be running as root. > > > > As I told last time, /servers/socket/2 is used for eth0. I setup tun0 on > > /tmp/foo2, is it enough? > >

Re: ppp on hurd

2001-09-29 Thread Neal H Walfield
>> You have the tun0 interface setup on /servers/socket/2, right? >> Additionally, you should be running as root. > > As I told last time, /servers/socket/2 is used for eth0. I setup tun0 on > /tmp/foo2, is it enough? No. Two ppps, two tunnel devices.

Re: ppp on hurd

2001-09-29 Thread Diego Roversi
does not help, > can you send your ppp config file and anything of interest in your log > files. I copied the example config file from ppp package as /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, I didn't modifie it. This is from daemon.log. I've tried to use a different interface using the options "

Re: ppp on hurd

2001-09-24 Thread Diego Roversi
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:03:14PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote: > You have the tun0 interface setup on /servers/socket/2, right? No. I've eth0 on the /servers/socket/2. Is it possible to setup a different translator for tun0? I try to do: settrans -acp /servers/socket/3 ... But it complain tha

Re: ppp on hurd

2001-09-21 Thread Neal H Walfield
You have the tun0 interface setup on /servers/socket/2, right? Additionally, you should be running as root. If this does not help, can you send your ppp config file and anything of interest in your log files.

ppp on hurd

2001-09-21 Thread Diego Roversi
Hello, I tryed the GNU/Hurd ppp port, but I can't reproduce the configuration explained in `examples/ppp/ppp.conf.hurd.virtual.link'. Following the istruction I made the those steps: 1) hurd-developer:~/src/ppp# settrans -acp /tmp/foo /hurd/pfinet -i tun1 hurd-developer:~/src/ppp# ps

Re: How to upgrade without ppp

2001-08-26 Thread Soete Joel
Soete Joel wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2001/debian-hurd-200108/msg00218.html ... > > Re: How to upgrade without ppp > > ... > > There's an APT Offline Howto (included in the Debian package...), > which explains how to upgrade a system via

Re: How to upgrade without ppp

2001-08-15 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:54:26PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > We don't recommend trying to cross-install packages from Linux. What I > would recommend is that you use your Linux system to download everything > you want onto your disk (you can write your Hurd partitions from Linux, or > access

Re: How to upgrade without ppp

2001-08-15 Thread Moritz Schulte
Tristan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just installed Debian GNU/Hurd for the first time using the > F2 cds, and have managed to install most of the packages i need. But > since I use a dialup internet connection and ppp is not ready for > use (and i assume it won'

Re: How to upgrade without ppp

2001-08-14 Thread Roland McGrath
We don't recommend trying to cross-install packages from Linux. What I would recommend is that you use your Linux system to download everything you want onto your disk (you can write your Hurd partitions from Linux, or access a Linux filesystem no larger than about 1GB from your Hurd).

How to upgrade without ppp

2001-08-14 Thread Tristan
I have just installed Debian GNU/Hurd for the first time using the F2 cds, and have managed to install most of the packages i need. But since I use a dialup internet connection and ppp is not ready for use (and i assume it won't be ready for quite a while?) is there a way for me to up

Re: status of ppp or pthreads?

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:50:09AM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > Also how much of the pthreads implementation is finished? I want to > try tekNap on hurd, but it needs pthreads. Not useable yet. The development was stalled because I needed to learn more about glibc internals. But then I got si

Re: status of ppp or pthreads?

2001-08-11 Thread Daniel E Baumann
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:50:09AM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > I'm wondering if ppp is in a usable enough state that I would be > able > to use irc or icq with it? PPP is not usable as it is pushes select() hard which afaik is very broken. I cannot eve apt-get anything nor

status of ppp or pthreads?

2001-08-11 Thread James Morrison
I'm wondering if ppp is in a usable enough state that I would be able to use irc or icq with it? Also how much of the pthreads implementation is finished? I want to try tekNap on hurd, but it needs pthreads. = James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Di

Bug#107934: ITP: um-pppd -- User mode Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon

2001-08-07 Thread Gergely Nagy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I intend to package um-pppd, the user-mode ppp daemon, for The Hurd. Though it can be used on other architectures, I'm not planning to compile it for anything but the Hurd (at least, not now). Upstream URL is: http://www.Awfulhak.org/~brian/src.uue However

[ANNOUNCEMENT] ppp - 20010804

2001-08-06 Thread Neal H Walfield
I am very pleased to announce the availability of a new version of ppp entitled 20010804, which shall also to be known as the `Emily Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> put her bank account on the line to get me Internet access because France Telecom is lame appreciation release.' As usual, t

Re: PPP works! (sorta)

2001-08-03 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Dios Del Tiempo wrote: > --- Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > I do hope you have a later pfinet than this: > > > > 2001-06-08 Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > By the way, the F3 CDs will have the latest version of pfinet? > If the latest version

Re: PPP works! (sorta)

2001-08-03 Thread Dios Del Tiempo
--- Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I do hope you have a later pfinet than this: > > 2001-06-08 Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By the way, the F3 CDs will have the latest version of pfinet? = - | | |Cronos | | |"No

Re: PPP works! (sorta)

2001-08-03 Thread Daniel E Baumann
over the serial line. I few the problem > > is that ppp pushes select harder than any other application in the Hurd. > > Which is to say: this is now a Hurd problem and not a ppp problem. I > > found that hitting enter on the ppp command prompt sometimes woke the > > progra

Re: PPP works! (sorta)

2001-08-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:35:35AM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > Only problem is that it hangs a lot, especially when doing a > > large transfer. > > I saw the exact same behavior over the serial line. I few the problem > is that ppp pushes select harder than any oth

Re: PPP works! (sorta)

2001-08-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
> OK, after monkeying around like neal said and setting the gateway address by > hand doing fsysopts /servers/socket/2 -g x.x.x.x I am able to access the > outside > world with ppp. Great! > Only problem is that it hangs a lot, especially when doing a > large transfer. I

PPP works! (sorta)

2001-08-02 Thread Daniel E Baumann
OK, after monkeying around like neal said and setting the gateway address by hand doing fsysopts /servers/socket/2 -g x.x.x.x I am able to access the outside world with ppp. Only problem is that it hangs a lot, especially when doing a large transfer. Seems the only thing that works all the time is

Re: Status of ppp

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel E Baumann
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:13:46AM +0800, csj wrote: > Is ppp now working in the Hurd? I read some months back in the list that > there are still problems with it. No it is not working. I will be getting back to the list shortly with the status of things, but I am busy with work right now

Status of ppp

2001-05-22 Thread csj
Is ppp now working in the Hurd? I read some months back in the list that there are still problems with it.

Re: PPP On hurd

2001-04-16 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
ThanX . On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 06:57:08PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:00:54AM -0700, Pankaj kaushal wrote: >> who is working on PPP ? > >Daniel Baumann is, although just right now he is busy elsewhere (that >doesn't mean he has abandoned it,

Re: PPP On hurd

2001-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:00:54AM -0700, Pankaj kaushal wrote: > who is working on PPP ? Daniel Baumann is, although just right now he is busy elsewhere (that doesn't mean he has abandoned it, he has just stalled it). > what are the things I need to brush up to contribute? Get Dan

PPP On hurd

2001-04-16 Thread Pankaj kaushal
Hello A Few months back marcus floated news about PPP As at home i'm runnin a hurd box and updating it is not possible without ppp. I was intrested to know how far has it gone is ppp available yet. I also talked with him and wanted to contribute but was just waiting for some one senior t

Fwd: Re: glibc 2.2.2-1 uploaded (-> network ioctls, ifconfig, eventually PPP)

2001-02-28 Thread Daniel E Baumann
ifconfig, eventually PPP) On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:01:04AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > I uploaded glibc 2.2.2-1 packages. They are currently in > http://incoming.debian.org, and will beinstalled with the next dinstall run > if everything goes well. They work fine fo

glibc 2.2.2-1 uploaded (-> network ioctls, ifconfig, eventually PPP)

2001-02-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
('i', 91, struct ifreq_int)/* set IF name */ A working ifconfig utility is in GNU inetutils CVS version (head branch). To compile it you need to add it to the top level Makefile.am and conigure.in, though. It should also be included in the next version of the Debian package of inetut

Re: ppp

2001-01-10 Thread Roland McGrath
These bugs are no reason not to post your code.

Re: ppp

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel E Baumann
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 11:49, Petros Sidiropoulos wrote: > I would like to hear good news about support for ppp in GNU/hurd > 'Life is miserable without sex and ppp' :) > > thanks in advance > --Petros > [EMAIL PROTECTED] The good news is I have ported user sp

ppp

2001-01-10 Thread Petros Sidiropoulos
I would like to hear good news about support for ppp in GNU/hurd 'Life is miserable without sex and ppp' :) thanks in advance --Petros [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP port: Quick question about file_name_lookup function

2000-11-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 07:45:27PM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > If I remember correctly, 2 is there because the value of the PF_INET macro > is 2. If you want more modularity you might watn to do something like > this: sprintf(file_name, "/servers/socker/%d", PF_INET); alse defines _SERVERS and

Re: PPP port: Quick question about file_name_lookup function

2000-11-24 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:30:40AM -0600, Daniel E Baumann wrote: > Hi, I am currently hacking around the routing stuff in PPP by just allowing > you to do "add default HISADDR", which makes the peer at the other end the > gateway and no other routing entries can be made or re

Re: ppp in hurd

2000-10-21 Thread Daniel E . Baumann
> I heard recently that HURD now has ppp. Is this true? Who wrote it? > How mature is it? etc. Marcus has written a tunnel interface for the pfinet server. I have now started to port BSD user space PPP. So it will be coming soon :)

ppp in hurd

2000-10-21 Thread J Scott Jaderholm
Hi, I was unable to find a link to a mailing list archive at the debian hurd webpage. I heard recently that HURD now has ppp. Is this true? Who wrote it? How mature is it? etc. I used to follow the hurd a bit but it didn't have PPP so it wasn't much use to me... Thanks for any i

Re: PPP

2000-10-10 Thread Roland McGrath
> > completely. The principle example of this is the port name space: in the > > hurd, the port name space is the file system while in OSF/Mach, there is > > a separate name space. > > Does this mean that the hurd does not have a name sever as discussed in the > server writer's guide? Yes. The

Re: PPP

2000-10-09 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > An equally great benefit (or greater) would be an afternoon spent reading > the source code :) All I know I learned from the source code and asking > specific questions on the list. That's right, but the problem is where to start with. Anyway, the rest of your message

Re: PPP

2000-10-09 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > completely. The principle example of this is the port name space: in the > > hurd, the port name space is the file system while in OSF/Mach, there is > > a separate name space. > > Does this mean that the hurd does not have a name sever as discussed in the > server writer's guide? This is c

Re: PPP

2000-10-09 Thread Daniel E . Baumann
> completely. The principle example of this is the port name space: in the > hurd, the port name space is the file system while in OSF/Mach, there is > a separate name space. Does this mean that the hurd does not have a name sever as discussed in the server writer's guide? -

Re: PPP

2000-10-09 Thread Neal H Walfield
> can you please put up a document explaining the various concepts and > real examples from say your implementation of tun device, on how to use the > various interfaces like trivfs etc etc (or update these on the Hurd Reference > Guide)? Programmers coming from Unix, who want to contribu

Re: PPP

2000-10-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:57:07AM +0530, Ramakrishnan M wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > You should make yourself familiar with libtrivfs and pfinet first. > > Hi Marcus > can you please put up a document explaining the various concepts and > real examples from say your implem

Re: PPP

2000-10-09 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > You should make yourself familiar with libtrivfs and pfinet first. Hi Marcus can you please put up a document explaining the various concepts and real examples from say your implementation of tun device, on how to use the various interfaces like trivfs etc e

further preparations done (was: Re: someone can port user space ppp now

2000-10-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:44:00PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > b. Porting ppp. I have now prepared a ppp source tar file which is hacked to compile the lot of the source files cleanly. This involved providing a few preprocessor symbols (MAXHOSTNAMELEN, MAXPATHLEN, _BSD_VA_LIST_) and mess

Re: someone can port user space ppp now

2000-10-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:53:29PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Here is what you need: > > Current CVS Hurd, at least the pfinet directory. > > The patch from > > http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/files/pfinet-tun-20001005.diff.gz > > You should go ahead and check your code in, Marcus. Done. T

Re: someone can port user space ppp now

2000-10-05 Thread Roland McGrath
s with this. When I suggested mpd, I didn't realize that netgraph was its only option. > b. Porting ppp. This is the one to use for now. I don't think there is too much to it.

someone can port user space ppp now

2000-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I have finished my work on the tunnel interface so far[1] that I think someone can have a go at porting user space ppp. Don't count on me[2], I took a look at it, and it's quite ugly, because ppp does a lot of things we don't support, so you have to butcher to code a bit. See

Re: PPP

2000-10-01 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
go for the real ideal solutiopn to the problem (the > channel abstraction explained by Roland), then libstore is the analogy. But > there is nothing that libstore has to do with this apart from being a good > analogy, so libstore will tell you a lot about the Hurd, but nothing about > pfi

Re: PPP

2000-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 12:32:01AM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > Hello all as I hope some of you know I am attempting to get PPP to work for > the HURD. Great. I was already giving up waiting and started to take a look myself yesterday. There's a lot of work to be done. > As

PPP

2000-10-01 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
Hello all as I hope some of you know I am attempting to get PPP to work for the HURD. As of right now I am still trying to figure out some of the HURD internals, Mach and all how it all works. I am making some progress and I am writing a Programming HOWTO. I heard that there was a patch for pfinet

Re: modems should work now (who was going to work on ppp?)

2000-09-30 Thread Steve Bowman
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 06:51:37PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 03:42:55AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > [snip] > > > > This was all discussed awhile ago on this list in various threads, and > > several people made summaries. > > Whenabouts in the archive should I loo

Re: modems should work now (who was going to work on ppp?)

2000-09-30 Thread Steve Bowman
be it gets faster when we cooperate, and settle on a common approach. > > > So far, I've got the ppp network interface device mostly wired into > > gnumach (slip, too). I've got a few critical pieces ifdef'd out so I > > can see if I've got the build flags

Re: modems should work now (who was going to work on ppp?)

2000-09-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Doh. On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 03:42:55AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > So far, I've got the ppp network interface device mostly wired into > > gnumach (slip, too). I've got a few critical pieces ifdef'd out so I > > can see if I've got the build fl

Re: modems should work now (who was going to work on ppp?)

2000-09-30 Thread Steve Bowman
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:27:19PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > So far, I've got the ppp network interface device mostly wired into > > gnumach (slip, too). > > This is an entirely wrong approach that is just not likely to get you very > far towards something usef

Re: modems should work now (who was going to work on ppp?)

2000-09-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
;s going to take awhile so be patient. > I may come back to the list a few times for questions/guidance. Maybe it gets faster when we cooperate, and settle on a common approach. > So far, I've got the ppp network interface device mostly wired into > gnumach (slip, too). I've go

Re: modems should work now (who was going to work on ppp?)

2000-09-30 Thread Roland McGrath
> So far, I've got the ppp network interface device mostly wired into > gnumach (slip, too). This is an entirely wrong approach that is just not likely to get you very far towards something useful for the Hurd. There is nothing the kernel should have to do with it.

Re: modems should work now (who was going to work on ppp?)

2000-09-30 Thread Steve Bowman
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 08:14:48PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > [snip] > > So, who was going to work on PPP? Well, I'm not sure about volunteering to take the lead on this, but I have started working on it. It's going to take awhile so be patient. I may come back t

Fwd: Re: modems should work now (who was going to work on ppp?)

2000-09-30 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
should work now (who was going to work on ppp?) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:31:06 -0500 From: Daniel E. Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, you wrote: > Hi, > > I just fixed a relevant bug in gnumach: > > 2000-09-29 Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

modems should work now (who was going to work on ppp?)

2000-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
So, who was going to work on PPP? Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://h

Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd

2000-09-28 Thread James Franklin
http://licensing.qnx.com/ - Original Message - From: "dP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marcus Brinkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Farid Hajji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 4:07 PM Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD'

Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd

2000-09-28 Thread dP
Take a look at http://www.qnx.com search for 1.44Demo... ( asingle floppy takes you on to the net!!) search for the download area of qnx RTP... it´s a 25MB download, but worth to try... a RTOS in search of development... POSIX standarts... so any linux apps could be easylly ported... and so.

Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
use the ttyS? notation as linux (although we could). > Thanks Marcus. I figured this out and was able to use serial devices and > term as expected. I didn't pursue porting *BSD's ppp(8) to the Hurd now, > since I'm not sure how to access pfinet in a canonical manner. At

Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd

2000-09-28 Thread Farid Hajji
}/$I device $I;; > > So, "settrans /dev/com1 /hurd/term /dev/com1 device com1" > > would connect /dev/com1 with com1 in GNU Mach. > The Hurd doesn't use the ttyS? notation as linux (although we could). Thanks Marcus. I figured this out and was able to use serial devic

Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 04:32:20AM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > > > 2. If there is no such translator, is there an officially approved or > >preferred way to access native gnumach drivers? Of course, there is > >always the possibility to get the master device port from the PROC > >serve

Re: State of ppp

2000-09-17 Thread rt
> I am trying to make sense of the current pfinet, but I don't have the > Mach/HURD programming basics down. I'm in roughly the same place, since I am adding an entropy driver to the kernel to power a /dev/random translator and then from there, adding IPv6 support.

Re: State of ppp

2000-09-16 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
lot of discussions on "HOwto do it" has happened in > this > list, without any logical conclusion. I do not claim to understand each and > every method suggested. Why is it so difficult to fix up a way to implement > it? > > I think once we fix the way to go,

Re: State of ppp

2000-09-16 Thread James Franklin
- Original Message - From: "Ramakrishnan M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-hurd" ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 15, 200

Re: State of ppp

2000-09-15 Thread Ramakrishnan M
do not claim to understand each and every method suggested. Why is it so difficult to fix up a way to implement it? I think once we fix the way to go, rest of the job will be smooth. Without PPP, I don't think, individuals (particularly in Asia), will be able to try out GNU/Hurd, and hence the

Re: State of ppp

2000-09-15 Thread James Franklin
here is some more ppp info http://kt.linuxcare.com/debian-hurd/dh2816_57.epl#2 Jim - Original Message - From: "Jim Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "debian-hurd" Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:34 AM Subject: Re: State

Re: State of ppp

2000-09-13 Thread James Franklin
urd" Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:11 AM Subject: Re: State of ppp > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Ramakrishnan M wrote: > > Hello > > I would like to know the present status of ppp support into the GNU/Hurd > > system. I read the documents at the following li

Re: State of ppp

2000-09-13 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Ramakrishnan M wrote: > Hello > I would like to know the present status of ppp support into the GNU/Hurd > system. I read the documents at the following links. > > http://lyonfyre.net/hurd/ > http://lyonfyre.net/hurd/discussions.html > > What e

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