Re: Implementing ioctl to set MAC address -- question.

1999-11-01 Thread Steve Gailey
I don't have the answer to this question, but I would be most interested in hearing how this project goes as I was thinking of doing the same thing. Steve I'm trying to implement Bill Paul's "setmac" code in the actual source code as a project (and will have it reviewed before it's

Re: rune questions

1999-11-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Alexey Zelkin wrote: But I don't see anywhere descirptions on PHONOGRAM and IDEOGRAM. Manpages shown that these categories were used by Japan locale only (again without any descriptions :-( ) On a guess, it might distinguish between hiragana/katakana and kanji. The former are a syllabic

Re: journaling UFS and LFS

1999-11-01 Thread Don
There is a difference between a log-structured filesystem and a journaling filesystem... And? *Very* different from LFS. (What are features? "Has files and directories"? Time-complexity? Implementation details? Buzzwords?) You know. Features. As in those things that people would like to

Re: rune questions

1999-11-01 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexey Zelkin writes: : But I don't see anywhere descirptions on PHONOGRAM and IDEOGRAM. Manpages : shown that these categories were used by Japan locale only (again without any : descriptions :-( ) A PHONOGRAM is a symbol that stands for more than one sound without

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Doug White
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you don't need to adjust the disklabel. The subdisks must have disklabels, and you can't use the C partition since ccd only uses partitions of type 4.2BSD. Does that mean I

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 31 October 1999 at 19:53:51 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: On Fri, 29-Oct-1999 at 08:56:01 -0700, Doug White wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/x205.html I

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 30 October 1999 at 6:14:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because Vinum is being maintained, and because Vinum will allow you to stripe your disks instead of simple concatenate them, which will probably result in better I/O rates. Some simple measurements shows ccd to be

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 08:36:35 -0800, Doug White wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you don't need to adjust the disklabel. The subdisks must have disklabels, and you can't use the C partition since

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 10:42:21 -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 31 October 1999 at 19:53:51 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: On Fri, 29-Oct-1999 at 08:56:01 -0700, Doug White wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at

RE: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-11-01 Thread Alton, Matthew
I spent an hour on the phone with SGI's lead FS scientist Dan Koren discussing the XFS situation, Margot Seltzer's LFS work, ships, sails, sealing wax... The code is not yet open. It is being "disencumbered" and retrofitted to the Linux kernel interfaces by a team of contractors and university

Re: Problem: 3.3-STABLE floppies: ep0/zp0, laptop falls off net

1999-11-01 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Shenton writes: : Unfortunately, it thinks my 3com 3c589 PCMCIA card is an ep0 -- it : has no driver for the correct zp0 device. It is correct. That is the right device to use. zp0 is a kludge that will die in 4.0 if I have my way. : It is able

Ethernet TAP device driver released

1999-11-01 Thread Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO
Hello All, It is time for new release :) The beta version of Ethernet TAP device driver for FreeBSD is released. I've written this device driver for VTUN (http://vtun.netpedia.net) software package. It is possible the coolest software to make tunnels over TCP/IP networks. For more details

Re: Ethernet TAP device driver released

1999-11-01 Thread Mike Smith
The beta version of Ethernet TAP device driver for FreeBSD is released. This looks like BPF, only much less smart. Why reinvent the wheel? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 1 November 1999 at 17:49:29 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 08:36:35 -0800, Doug White wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you don't need to adjust the disklabel. The subdisks

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:BTW, it's pretty trivial to change things. Run 'disklabel -e da0' (or :whatever your drive is), duplicate the line and change to, say: : : c: 453226440unused 1024 819216 # (Cyl.0 - 2810*) : e: 4532264404.2BSD 1024 819216 # (Cyl.0 -

Re: CCD questions

1999-11-01 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 10:15:01 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: :BTW, it's pretty trivial to change things. Run 'disklabel -e da0' (or :whatever your drive is), duplicate the line and change to, say: : : c: 453226440unused 1024 819216 # (Cyl.0 - 2810*) : e:

RE: Ethernet TAP device driver released

1999-11-01 Thread Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO
Hello Mike, It seems to me bfp can bind to EXISTING interface. I.e. you have to have phisical interface. (if I wrong, correct me :) This driver will create a VIRTUAL Ethernet interface "tapX" with random MAC address etc. You can attach bpf to this interface. In other words you can connect

IDA driver issues upon installation. Probing devices hangs

1999-11-01 Thread Scott Benjamin
I am trying to install the stable snapshot from 10301999 on a compaq proliant 4500 with a smart array controller. I recompile the installation kernel and dropped it on the disk. The newly compile kernel has the ida driver included (as the drives are on that controller). It finds the controller

docs/14112: replacement for diediedie() in docs

1999-11-01 Thread Nik Clayton
-hackers, Could someone take a look at docs/14112 please. The online kernel debugging section in the Handbook mentions calling diediedie() or boot() to reboot the system. According to the PR, these don't exist in 3.3-R, and I don't know what calls / actions should replace the existing text.

Re: Ethernet TAP device driver released

1999-11-01 Thread Gerard Roudier
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: The beta version of Ethernet TAP device driver for FreeBSD is released. This looks like BPF, only much less smart. Why reinvent the wheel? May-be for the same reason the horse-power has been invented. ;-) GĂ©rard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: NASM programs for freebsd

1999-11-01 Thread Jonathan Towne
Ok, if i happen to remember correctly, assembly isn't so easy under freebsd or linux as it is under dos, mainly because we aren't in real time anymore..and the kernel prevents you from accessing the hardware so easily via assembly. You might wish to try using system calls.. example below..

RE: VTun...

1999-11-01 Thread Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO
Hi, [...] I notice that you support traffic shaping. I was wondering if you plan to offer support for slower than 8KBytes / sec (64Kbits/s). Everything should be there ;) What I'd like to be able to do, is create some tunnels to my end points, and then using the firewall /

Re: gdb and kld symbols -- how to (and handbook is outdated)

1999-11-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 29 October 1999 at 9:05:15 -0400, Robert Watson wrote: I've mostly debugged kernel modules running as lkm's, but decided to start up my debugger on code in a kld a couple of days, and needless to say the procedure is different :-). And unfortunately, also not documented in the

Vinum (was: CCD questions)

1999-11-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 29 October 1999 at 8:56:01 -0700, Doug White wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote: I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/x205.html I am the author of said document ;) It seems that this page

Ping - sized tests with 0% and 100% packet loss! Any ideas?

1999-11-01 Thread Josef Karthauser
Hey guys, A wierd one. I'm trying to track down a packets size (I believe) problem on my network. During ping testing I've come across the following strange which I don't understand. Using various sized packets ($n) with: ping -f -c 300 -s $n localhost I'm getting results that I

Re: IDA driver issues upon installation. Probing devices hangs

1999-11-01 Thread Mike Smith
None of the interested developers have access to one of these machines anymore; it's quite possible that things have been changed or broken to some degree of late. I am trying to install the stable snapshot from 10301999 on a compaq proliant 4500 with a smart array controller. I recompile

Re: IDA driver issues upon installation. Probing devices hangs

1999-11-01 Thread Mike Smith
I've tried moving irq's around and removing some other cards but nothing. If I boot without the ida driver, it works ifne except that I don't have any drives to install on. Oops, I forgot to mention; you can't install onto an 'ida' drive; you need a system drive. You will want one anyway;

Re: IDA driver issues upon installation. Probing devices hangs

1999-11-01 Thread Scott Benjamin
The array only contains two drives. Hmm.. the only other way is to use a drive on the embedded controller, which is a ncr (chipset 53C825) which isn't found by probing when the kernel loads. It's and embedded EISA compaq 32-bit Fast-Wide Scsi2-/e .. On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote:

Re: Ping - sized tests with 0% and 100% packet loss! Any ideas?

1999-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
At Tue, 2 Nov 1999 00:16:02 +, Josef Karthauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone any idea what's going on? The problem doesn't exist in 2.2.5-RELEASE. I can't readily test anything other than that and -current at present. As far as I can determine, the problem with 1-byte packets is that

Secondary IDE cannot be detected

1999-11-01 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
I am really sorry to post here a problem that's not related to hacking, but i have already sent many posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] without a solution to my problem. I am trying to get my Secondary IDE detected, but FreeBSD DOES NOT detect it! This device is working well under another OS like Linux

RE: Secondary IDE cannot be detected

1999-11-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 02-Nov-99 Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: I am trying to get my Secondary IDE detected, but FreeBSD DOES NOT detect it! This device is working well under another OS like Linux and Win98 (i have 3 OSes in my machine), so i believe there is no hardware problems. Does it have a device on it?

Re: Secondary IDE cannot be detected

1999-11-01 Thread Jonathan Towne
On 02-Nov-99 Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: I am trying to get my Secondary IDE detected, but FreeBSD DOES NOT detect it! This device is working well under another OS like Linux and Win98 (i have 3 OSes in my machine), so i believe there is no hardware problems. My fix to this, was to use the

Re: Ping - sized tests with 0% and 100% packet loss! Any ideas?

1999-11-01 Thread Archie Cobbs
Josef Karthauser writes: A wierd one. I'm trying to track down a packets size (I believe) problem on my network. During ping testing I've come across the following strange which I don't understand. Using various sized packets ($n) with: ping -f -c 300 -s $n localhost I'm getting

Re: Ping - sized tests with 0% and 100% packet loss! Any ideas?

1999-11-01 Thread Tamiji Homma
Happens to me to on -current, but not -stable. With -current's ping on stable it doesn't happen, and with -stable's ping on -current it still happens. Therefore it must be a kernel bug. Can you recompile ping without -O (or -O0)? Tammy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Ping - sized tests with 0% and 100% packet loss! Any ideas?

1999-11-01 Thread Justin C. Walker
From: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1999-11-01 17:49:29 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ping - sized tests with 0% and 100% packet loss! Any ideas? Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i Content-return: prohibited Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop:

Re: Secondary IDE cannot be detected

1999-11-01 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 02-Nov-99 Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: I am trying to get my Secondary IDE detected, but FreeBSD DOES NOT detect it! This device is working well under another OS like Linux and Win98 (i have 3 OSes in my machine), so i believe there is no hardware problems.

Re: Secondary IDE cannot be detected

1999-11-01 Thread Alex
Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: I am trying to get my Secondary IDE detected, but FreeBSD DOES NOT detect it! My kernel config file: (again, only relevant part) options "CMD640"# work around CMD640 chip deficiency controller wdc0at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 disk

Netgear FA410 pccard ethernet?

1999-11-01 Thread Guy Middleton
Does anybody have a Netgear FA410 pccard ethernet adapter working with FreeBSD? I'm using version 3.2, installed from the distribution CD. -Guy Middleton To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-11-01 Thread Russell Cattelan
"Alton, Matthew" wrote: Hmm interesting... Guess I need to read the hackers list more often. So anybody interested in what is going on right now? Legal BS; The encumbrance work is progressing at an expected snails pace. The hardest question to answer at this point; What is encumbered and what

AMD PCnet-FAST+ ethernet chip.

1999-11-01 Thread Julian Elischer
Under 3.3R does anyone have this chip working? I get the following dmesg info: lnc1: PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter rev 0x36 int a irq 10 on pci0.5.0 lnc1: PCnet-FAST+ address 00:d0:12:01:04:53 Interestingly no PHY information.. ifconfig says: # ifconfig lnc1 lnc1:

Re: RTLD_GLOBAL/RTLD_LOCAL dlopen mode flags

1999-11-01 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Max Khon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any plans to implement RTLD_GLOBAL/RTLD_LOCAL mode flags for dlopen? RTLD_GLOBAL has been supported in -current since around the beginning of September. What is RTLD_LOCAL, and which OS supports it? I've never heard