Re: aout gdb in 3.x

1999-12-19 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 18 December 1999 at 14:51:59 +, Doug Rabson wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: How does one compile a version of GDB that can read a.out files? I know there is a way of doing it but I have totoally failed to work

XDM, KDM, PAM, FreeBSD, and a partridge in a pear tree...

1999-12-19 Thread Rob King
Once again, I apologize for asking a question that is probably off-list, but... Here's the problem: I'm running a fresh install of 3.3-STABLE, and trying to get the nice graphical login, with either XDM or KDM. Unfortunantly, I get an 'incorrect password' error no matter what I type. I also get

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 switched hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be reset by power-cycling). So we don't buy them any more. Also at my pre-previous employer we had small 8-port 10Mpbs hubs from

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-19 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel C. Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: As I say, my understanding is that FreeBSD still doesn't have real and/or complete thread support in the kernel. So if you have a multi-threaded application and one thread blocks (e.g.

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-19 Thread Chrisy Luke
Wes Peters wrote (on Dec 16): Have you considered buying Metro-X? It supports up to 4 screens on just about any combination of AGP and PCI Matrox cards. For more information, see http://www.metrolink.com/productindex.html and look for Multi-Headed Display Support. Metro-X is only $39.

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon had to walk into mine and say: :At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 switched :hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be :reset by power-cycling). So we don't buy them any more. Also

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Uhm uhm uhm. You do *not* want to say things like that within earshot :of me. Describe the cards better. Describe how you came to the :conclusion that they aren't supported. What chip is on them? If it's :the LC82C115 then these are the LNE100TX Version 2.0 with Wake On LAN, :and they *are*

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have a D-Link DSH-5 5-port 10/100 dualspeed hub here at home, :and I'm reasonably happy with it. It certainly doesn't hang. One :of the machines here has trouble negotiating a working 100Mbit/s :link, but that's just as likely a problem of the Linux tulip driver. :... :Christian "naddy"

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon had to walk into mine and say: :Uhm uhm uhm. You do *not* want to say things like that within earshot :of me. Describe the cards better. Describe how you came to the :conclusion that they aren't supported. What chip is

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:with a *really* big heatsink attached -this is the "bridge on chip". And :I noticed another, smaller IC which had a hole blown out of the epoxy case :(which subsequently allowed the smoke to escape. : :It was than than I make the connection - Hmm.. SGI LCD monitor don't work. :Ethernet switch

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : I'll try adding 'dc' in. If it works, can I add a comment about : 'LNE100TX' cards to the comments in LINT for 'dc'? : :Sure, if you like, however note that "man 4 dc" should also yield a :list of supported cards, including the LNE100TX v2.0. : :-Bill Yup, but that assumes you

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-19 Thread Chris Sedore
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Kevin Day wrote: The _clean_ way of doing it would be to write your multi-user server using threads, and to assign one thread to each connection. If you can do that, then the logic in the program becomes quite

Re: XDM, KDM, PAM, FreeBSD, and a partridge in a pear tree...

1999-12-19 Thread Stefan Lindgren
Try this, cat ~/.xsession xterm -sl 1000 -sb twm(or the famous $SOMEPATH/startkde;) Ctrl-d /stefan Rob King wrote: Once again, I apologize for asking a question that is probably off-list, but... Here's the problem: I'm running a fresh install of 3.3-STABLE, and trying to get the nice

Alternate ftpd?

1999-12-19 Thread David Miller
Hello all:) I'm looking for an alternate ftpd which allows me to take certain (configurable) actions based on the receipt of certain files. For exmple, I want to "process" a tar file full of jpg images upon receipt. I know there are alternatives. I can run swatch on the log file or torture

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-19 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: As I say, my understanding is that FreeBSD still doesn't have real and/or complete thread support in the kernel. So if you have a multi-threaded application and one thread blocks (e.g.

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-19 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel C. Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: As I say, my understanding is that FreeBSD still doesn't have real and/or complete thread support in the kernel. So

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-19 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 12:40:09PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD has userland threads. This is faster than kernel threads, but Actually, userland threads *should* be faster, but for lots of things, they

USB ethernet hacking

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
For those of you who don't know, I've been working on a driver for the ADMtek USB Ethernet chip (AN986 Pegasus). It kinda sorta works: aue0: ADMtek Inc. ADMtek 10/100 USB MAC, rev 1.10/1.01, addr 2 aue0: Ethernet address: 00:00:e8:00:00:a2 miibus0: MII bus on aue0 ukphy0: Generic IEEE 802.3u

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: :with a *really* big heatsink attached -this is the "bridge on chip". And :I noticed another, smaller IC which had a hole blown out of the epoxy case :(which subsequently allowed the smoke to escape. : :It was than than I make the connection - Hmm.. SGI LCD monitor

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
"Matthew" == Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew :At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 Matthew switched :hub. It works fine except that it hangs Matthew occasionally (can be :reset by power-cycling). So we Matthew don't buy them any more. Also :at

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-19 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Richard Seaman, Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would really be very grateful however if _someone_ would explain to me the actual low level-mechanics of how this works, i.e. how one thread in a ``multi-userland-thread'' process can manage to get control and/or

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Heh heh. Indeed, they are LNE100TX V2.0 cards. : : I'll try adding 'dc' in. If it works, can I add a comment about : 'LNE100TX' cards to the comments in LINT for 'dc'? : :Sure, if you like, however note that "man 4 dc" should also yield a :list of supported cards, including the

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
: I really hate these switching regulated DC wall plugs. They always use : cheap caps in them to save money and then don't bother adding any : protection to the motherboard. I prefer AC wall plugs or unregulated DC : wall plugs and then a small switching regulator on the

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'd like to just take a second and re-express my growing confusion on :this whole topic. : :Why do you say that this complete-process-blocking effect only takes :place in the case of disk reads?? Isn't a read a read? What difference :does it make what the device type being read from is? : :Is

Parallel-port ethernet interfaces

1999-12-19 Thread Brian Beattie
Anybody know of any currently available, that are supported by FreeBSD? Brian Beattie| The only problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: USB ethernet hacking

1999-12-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Bill Paul wrote: For those of you who don't know, I've been working on a driver for the ADMtek USB Ethernet chip (AN986 Pegasus). It kinda sorta works: aue0: ADMtek Inc. ADMtek 10/100 USB MAC, rev 1.10/1.01, addr 2 aue0: Ethernet address: 00:00:e8:00:00:a2 miibus0:

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-19 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 01:21:15PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: It sounds to me like each and every time there is a thread context switch, some code in the library may have to execute a (perhaps enormous) call to select() or else to poll(). Yes? poll(). It used to use select(). And,

Re: USB ethernet hacking

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Julian Elischer had to walk into mine and say: Doug Ambrisko and I wrote a netgraph based USB-to-USB networking device node. We used the async method and it works fine. We just added a queue and called an interrupt level 'start

Re: Parallel-port ethernet interfaces

1999-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Beattie writes: : Anybody know of any currently available, that are supported by FreeBSD? No. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-19 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :I'd like to just take a second and re-express my growing confusion on :this whole topic. : :Why do you say that this complete-process-blocking effect only takes :place in the case of disk reads?? Isn't a read a read? What

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-19 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Richard Seaman, Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 01:21:15PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: It sounds to me like each and every time there is a thread context switch, some code in the library may have to execute a (perhaps enormous) call

CVS Log comments for large changes

1999-12-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
[This might not belong on -hackers, but I'm not sure where this sort of discussion _does_ belong}. Occasionally, single CVS changes affect large numbers of files. The comments associated with those commits generally fall into 3 categories: 1) Import version x.y into vendor branch z 2) [Detailed

FreeBSD Threads (was Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?)

1999-12-19 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 02:49:26PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I dunno if it goes without saying or not, but this certainly makes the current FreeBSD threads implementation highly unpalatable, except to support ported code which has been developed elsewhere and which is already written

Page attribute table (PAT) support?

1999-12-19 Thread Alexander N. Kabaev
Are there plans to add support for PAT on Intel P6 and AMD Athlon processors? This feature provides more flexible interface allowing to setup various memory cache modes on a page-by-page bases. It is much easier to program than MTRRs and does not suffer from their size/alignment limitations.

Re: USB ethernet hacking

1999-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
I have worked around this for now by hacking usbdi.c so that it polls the controller interrupt/status register instead of tsleep()ing. I'm not sure this is the best solution, but it's the only one that seems to work. why not use the async method? Because this is not an