Error: stack overflow on boot

2010-11-08 Thread Etienne Robillard
Hi, why is this message happening with 8.1 and sometimes CURRENT ? I tried recompiling the bootloader but the error still happens, forcing user to hit Enter to enter manual boot. Any takes ? :) Many thanks, Etienne ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mai

Re: Error: stack overflow on boot

2010-11-09 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 08/11/10 06:37 PM, Etienne Robillard wrote: Hi, why is this message happening with 8.1 and sometimes CURRENT ? I tried recompiling the bootloader but the error still happens, forcing user to hit Enter to enter manual boot. Any takes ? :) Many thanks, Etienne

shared lib issue in /usr/obj?

2010-12-09 Thread Etienne Robillard
Hi $ sudo rm -rf /usr/obj/* rm: /usr/obj/usr/local/freebsd8/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libc.so.7: Operation not permitted rm: /usr/obj/usr/local/freebsd8/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libcrypt.so.5: Operation not permitted rm: /usr/obj/usr/local/freebsd8/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libthr.so.3: Operation not permitted

Re: shared lib issue in /usr/obj?

2010-12-09 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 12/09/10 07:57, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:38:38 -0500, Etienne Robillard wrote: Hi $ sudo rm -rf /usr/obj/* rm: /usr/obj/usr/local/freebsd8/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libc.so.7: Operation not permitted rm: /usr/obj/usr/local/freebsd8/src/lib32/usr/lib32/libcrypt.so.5

Re: wlan/wpi are more broken than 3 weeks.

2010-12-26 Thread Etienne Robillard
piled with IEEE_DEBUG ? I would also like knowing which wireless NIC you're using. Is this bug related to a USB wireless card ? I have similar issues (recurring) on Freebsd 8.1. my current understanding is that USB wireless on FreeSD is somewhat a itchy business.. Regards -- Etienne Robill

Stack overflow before kernel load..

2011-02-21 Thread Etienne Robillard
Hi, Any ideas why the bootloader prints a 'error: stack overflow' message and request user confirmation to load the kernel manually? $ uname -a FreeBSD marina.localdomain 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #1: Wed Feb 16 03:38:23 EST 2011 root@:/usr/local/freebsd8/src/sys/amd64/compil

RE: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

2011-03-02 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 02/25/2011 07:31, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: On Friday, February 25, 2011 12:47:12 Etienne Robillard wrote: On 25/02/11 06:18 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: On Friday, February 25, 2011 11:03:04 Etienne Robillard wrote: On 25/02/11 04:11 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote

Re: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

2011-03-02 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 02/03/11 11:47 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:00:26 am Etienne Robillard wrote: > >> On 02/25/2011 07:31, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Friday, February 25, 2011 12:47:12 Etienne Robillard wrote: >>> >>&g

Re: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

2011-03-03 Thread Etienne Robillard
(random) page faults with the run(4) driver as well but since I don't use a driver requiring a external firmware to be loaded, I would prefer fixing the errors in the generic wireless code happening unconditionally with run(4), rt2870, and possibly urtw(4). Plus, a external firmware seems not nec

Re: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

2011-03-03 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 03/03/11 06:42 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Thursday 03 March 2011 12:26:20 Etienne Robillard wrote: > >> On 03/03/11 02:45 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> >>>>>> I forwarded this thread on -current. >>>>>> >>&g

Re: urtw0: could not allocate USB transfers

2011-03-03 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 03/03/11 08:25 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Thursday 03 March 2011 14:07:52 Etienne Robillard wrote: > >> ieee80211_newstate_cb >> > Hi, > > I think the problem is in the ieee80211 layer not draining its taskqueues > properly and/or other activities

can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
ethernet based nics) so that no ones get hurt being a WLAN (802.11ng ethernet-class) subcarrier ? -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e...@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 450-936-2123 Website (Company): https://gthc.org

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 09:33 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Sunday 06 March 2011 15:23:02 Etienne Robillard wrote: > >> Hi, as the subject line implies, can someone explains why OFDM (Orthogonal >> Frequency Division Multiplexing) is required for running run(4) ? Is there >>

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
ist point-of-view about the harmfulness of EMF fields; in particular the ELF/VLF frequencies as defined in OFDM, for operating WLAN devices as 'ethernet-class subcarriers'.. Kind regards, -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-ma

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
re one of 'those'. You are one of the conspiracy nutters. > > I think this guy should be blocked from this list. > > - Diane (VA3DB) > This is out-of-scope but I respect your opinion to call me a name attempting to shed some lights on the security aspect of implict

Fwd: Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
my best bet is that VLF/ELF frequencies are using FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) algorithm to increase compression ratio of WLAN devices operating with OFDM-enabled hardware. If that is true then not all WLAN devices can do OFDM thus explaining why you could use 802.11g without it... Origi

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory > You are a nutter if you believe they are chemical trails. QED > > P.S. Have you noticed the colours from a sprinkler in the Sun? > > (I will not reply to any more postings about this on freebsd-current) > - Diane (VA3DB) > -- Etienne Robillar

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
> fences around their antennas and warning signs. The high power stuff > is dangerous. > > Its not phone lines who are the main issue, rather the radiation levels of OFDM ethernet class devices (including USB devices and routers) using ELF/VLF frequencies below 30khz as per the newer

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
/ELF waves ? Thanks, On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 10:38:30AM -0500, Etienne Robillard wrote: > my best bet is that VLF/ELF frequencies are using FFT (Fast Fourier > Transform) algorithm to increase compression ratio of WLAN devices No. FFT has nothing to do with this. FFT is a mathematical tr

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 09:49 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > OFDM is part of 11g, 11a, and 11n (2/5ghz.) > > I don't understand why you're asking about it in a security context. > > > Adrian > Approaching security can be seen with onion paradigm: True paranoids will want to have multiple layers of security wheth

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 11:31 AM, Etienne Robillard wrote: > On 06/03/11 09:49 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> OFDM is part of 11g, 11a, and 11n (2/5ghz.) >> >> I don't understand why you're asking about it in a security context. >> >> >> Adrian >>

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 11:46 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 11:31:00AM -0500, Etienne Robillard wrote: > >> On 06/03/11 09:49 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> >>> OFDM is part of 11g, 11a, and 11n (2/5ghz.) >>> >>> I don't understan

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
vert the raw ELF/VLF energy input to a external server (the Power Server).. could then this not require a security advisory for hardware OFDM devices circulating in the wild to boost 802.11 'speeds' and 'ranges' ? Thanks, -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 12:36 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Sunday 06 March 2011 18:19:31 Etienne Robillard wrote: > >> On 06/03/11 11:58 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> > >> yes, the difference with 'software OFDM' and hardware OFDM - as in >>

OFDM kernel (Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?)

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 12:46 PM, Etienne Robillard wrote: > On 06/03/11 12:36 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > >> On Sunday 06 March 2011 18:19:31 Etienne Robillard wrote: >> >> >>> On 06/03/11 11:58 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >>> >>>

Re: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD?

2011-03-06 Thread Etienne Robillard
On 06/03/11 12:36 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Sunday 06 March 2011 18:19:31 Etienne Robillard wrote: > >> On 06/03/11 11:58 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> > >> yes, the difference with 'software OFDM' and hardware OFDM - as in >>

Re: Request to test if_ath - TX power control changes

2011-03-10 Thread Etienne Robillard
> X-Keywords: > > Content-Length: 0 > > just my 2 cents from a conspiracy nutter... :-) Regards, -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail

Re: [CFR]RT305xF support, w/o attachment

2011-03-21 Thread Etienne Robillard
hat you meant to say without the implicit assumptions you don't know what you're doing. -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: e...@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 450-936-2123 Website (Company): https://gthc.org/ Website

Re: Request to mailing list freebsd-security rejected

2011-03-21 Thread Etienne Robillard
ur brain reacting to cognitive dissonance in a bizarre way so please quit trolling if you cannot second your comments with arguments and not opinions. Google "cognitive dissonance" for more info... Cheers! The truth is in the semantics of the language -:) -- Etienne Robillard Compan

Re: [CFR]RT305xF support, w/o attachment

2011-03-21 Thread Etienne Robillard
ike suggesting Aleksandr a patch to add a 'WITHOUT_OFDM' and/or 'WITHOUT_FIRMWARE' option to disable compiling any BSD licensed driver code related to OFDM without the user explicit consent. kind regards, -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club

Re: [CFR]RT305xF support, w/o attachment

2011-03-22 Thread Etienne Robillard
eBSD unless it requires a hardware firmware module as in run(4), and unless there's a way to skip compiling hardware-assisted modules in FreeBSD using the WITHOUT_FIRMWARE option. Likewise, a WITHOUT_OFDM patch for FreeBSD could be ported nicely to OpenBSD... :) Etienne -- Etienne Robillard

Re: [CFR]RT305xF support, w/o attachment

2011-03-22 Thread Etienne Robillard
have done technical errors but i do not drink in the morning!! :) On 22/03/11 06:30 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > So I'm curious - what exactly about OFDM do you have a problem with? > > > > > Adrian > > On 22 March 2011 18:23, Etienne Robillard <mailto:e...@gthcf

i love freebsd

2010-07-20 Thread Etienne Robillard
pise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky -- Etienne Robillard Green Tea Hackers Club E-mail: [4]e...@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 1 (514) 962-7703 Website:[5]https://gthc.org/ During times of universal deceit, telling the truth beco

Re: thunderbird-3.0.6 stuck in ucond upon start

2010-08-02 Thread Etienne Robillard
linux.ko acer % Regards, Rene ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Etienne Robillard Green Tea Ha

Re: thunderbird-3.0.6 stuck in ucond upon start

2010-08-03 Thread Etienne Robillard
ble at ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/freebsd/ktrace.out You'll need a amd64 machine to kdump it. Note that nothing user-visible happens when I start thunderbird. Regards, Rene 2010/8/2 Etienne Robillard: a kernel backtrace would be a nice visual aid to debug!!! Cheers, Etienne René Ladan w

Re: thunderbird-3.0.6 stuck in ucond upon start

2010-08-03 Thread Etienne Robillard
st be the GENERIC kernel, it is attached for completeness. Rene 2010/8/3 Etienne Robillard : Please show us the kernel config too. It compiles and runs without side effects on FreeBSD 8.1 (GENERIC) and native gcc... cheers! Etienne On 08/02/10 17:18, René Ladan wrote: Fair enough.