Re: NVIDIA Drivers for XF4

2000-06-14 Thread Trent Nelson
Brandon Fosdick wrote: Does anybody have the new nvidia drivers working yet? Aparently I'm not as smart as I thought. :) From what I've been told - FreeBSD's kernel is unable to run Linux's kernel modules. Hence, the source provided by nVIDIA for the kernel module needs to be ported

Looking for a way to test Performance.

2000-06-14 Thread Mustafa Deeb
hi, I'm installing alot of squid proxy servers with Freebsd my servers config is like this Intel 600MHz Dual 1G Ram 3*18G Ultra2 (seagate Cheetah) disks.. I'm using vinum, and it is running transparent proxy with wccp V1 I want to make sure that I'm getting all of the power the box can

cool

2000-06-14 Thread Julian Elischer
So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport, the internet center in the transit area will loan you for FREE, a wavelan PC-CARD. So here I am waiting for my next flight and I'm on the net! (well they hold your passport in exchange but that's ok) I couldn;t get teh DHCP client

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-14 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Tue 2000-06-13 (22:40), Bernd Walter wrote: I've often thought it would be nice to be able to get syslogd to make choices based on hostname. I'm sure a patch would be easy enough to produce, but the trick would be to produce a good syntax fox syslog.conf. Are there any syslogds that

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
I'm only going to reply once to this thread In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Watson writes: : And in a sense, we already have two kerneld's -- pccardd and usbd, which : maintain mappings between named devices and drivers, etc. Combining them, : and adding another source of requests (and LPC

Re: PCI Wavelan adapter timeouts

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Csanady writes: : Has anyone one successfully used one of these? I have read through : the list archives, but I never saw the problems resolved. I have : tried 4.0, and current with no luck. My dmesg output looks like: : : pcic-pci0: TI PCI-1225 PCI-CardBus

Re: PCI Wavelan adapter timeouts

2000-06-14 Thread Julian Elischer
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Csanady writes: : Has anyone one successfully used one of these? I have read through : the list archives, but I never saw the problems resolved. I have : tried 4.0, and current with no luck. My dmesg output looks like: : : pcic-pci0: TI PCI-1225

Mylex AccelRAID 150 and Quantum Drives...

2000-06-14 Thread Essenz Consulting
I am having problems getting a Mylex AccelleRAID 150 RAID Card to see my Quantum Atlass 10k SCA 80-pin drives. Mylex is a little unclear as why quantum drives dont work. Has anyone used quantum atlass 10k SCA drives with a Mylex card? Thanks. -john v. e. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: NVIDIA Drivers for XF4

2000-06-14 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Trent Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What's porting going to involve? I can't see porting the kernel module being *too* difficult (I'd love to start on something after exams) - but I don't know how the Linux object files for the XFree86 interface are going to be dealt with

[Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religious wars! (fwd)

2000-06-14 Thread Mark Newton
This is a message which appeared on the aussie-isp mailing list earlier today. I thought people here might like it :-) Ross is a reliable source, so I doubt we can chalk this one up to "urban legend". - mark -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:45:51 +1000

RE: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religious w ars!(fwd)

2000-06-14 Thread Koster, K.J.
"Even the site talks about a deamon being 'unleashed' in you computer blah." Have you perhaps pointed out that Linux is full of daemons too? If you listen closely to the box you can hear them chitter amongst eachother. Inetd for example, a.k.a. "The Mother of All Deamons". Phew, they

Re: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religious w ars! (fwd))

2000-06-14 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+[ Koster, K.J. ]- [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] | | "Even the site talks about a deamon being 'unleashed' in you | computer blah." | | Have you perhaps pointed out that Linux is full of daemons too? If you | listen

Re: PCI Wavelan adapter timeouts

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Elischer writes: : well I'm typing this across the following: : : pccard: card inserted, slot 0 : wi0: WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 9 slot 0 on pccard0 : wi0: Ethernet address: 00:60:1d:1e:42:6c : I'm not seeing problems there.. : (though

Re: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religious w ars! (fwd))

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
Tell them that it is a daemon, not a devil. A daemon isn't the devil, nor does it promote the worship of devilry. In Japan, the daemon is viewed as a nice, lovable creature. The Japanese think he is cute. Too bad the BSD magazine isn't more widely available in the states. The daemons in it

Conflict between Intel 82558/9 and VIA MVP4?

2000-06-14 Thread Les Biffle
We're having problems with the Intel EtherExpress 10/100 NICs in our product platform. We suspect unfavorable interaction between the 82558 and 82559 Intel parts and our motherboard chipset. Here are some specifics: We're using 3.4-STABLE, with the "latest" fxp driver code: $FreeBSD:

Re: PCI Wavelan adapter timeouts

2000-06-14 Thread Tatsumi Hosokawa
At Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:36:47 -0600, Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Elischer writes: : well I'm typing this across the following: : : pccard: card inserted, slot 0 : wi0: WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 9 slot 0 on pccard0 : wi0:

Re: PCI Wavelan adapter timeouts

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tatsumi Hosokawa writes: : At Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:36:47 -0600, : Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Julian Elischer writes: : : well I'm typing this across the following: : : : : pccard: card inserted, slot 0 : : wi0:

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Nelson writes: : In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from "Alfred Perlstein" on :Wed Jun 7 11:41:59 GMT 2000 : X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT : : In the last episode (Jun 07), Alfred Perlstein said: : Brech, Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000607 10:33] wrote: : Lucent

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : Actually, there's still a *lot* of work that has to be done to make this : work "right" - let me say two things only: : : "resource allocation" : : "interrupt routing" Yes. Given cardbus support, these are easy. We don't have cardbus support

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sergey Babkin writes: : 1. When the card is physically removed inform the driver that it : should shut down and don't try to get to the card afterwards. That means : it would handle some subset of configuration requests and delay or : throw away any data transfer

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Wemm writes: : There is? There is a well-known leak for preload stuff - the pages : are not (yet) reclaimed after unload. We have the infrastructure to : do that now. See vm_page_t vm_add_new_page(vm_offset_t pa); : This can be used to reclaim the space

Re: Conflict between Intel 82558/9 and VIA MVP4?

2000-06-14 Thread David Greenman
We're having problems with the Intel EtherExpress 10/100 NICs in our product platform. We suspect unfavorable interaction between the 82558 and 82559 Intel parts and our motherboard chipset. Here are some specifics: We're using 3.4-STABLE, with the "latest" fxp driver code: $FreeBSD:

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-14 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:52:22AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: On Tue 2000-06-13 (22:40), Bernd Walter wrote: I've often thought it would be nice to be able to get syslogd to make choices based on hostname. I'm sure a patch would be easy enough to produce, but the trick would be to

limit on MAXDSIZ ?

2000-06-14 Thread Florent Parent
Can anyone tell me what is the upper limit on the per process datasize specified in MAXDSIZ ? A quick look in the kernel code reveals that ressource limit struct uses rlim_t which is quad_t which is int64_t. Setting MAXDSIZ to "2048UL*1024*1024" works fine. Over 2Gb, the machine

USENIX dinner.

2000-06-14 Thread Pat Lynch
can people send me email (privately) if they plan on attending an after-hours freebsd dinner. also, if people can help me plan possible times: 7-9 on Tuesday is out for me. Wednesday is all BSD Thursday at 8 is Linux... do we go out instead of hearing what Linus has to say? enclosed is my

loading modules from within the kernel....

2000-06-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
There seems to be a number of ways to approach this from within -current, so I thought I'd ask- While I'm configuring a PCI driver, I want to refer to another (possibly loadable) module- I can name it anything I want. It doesn't have any standard entry points- basically, it's a container for

Re: loading modules from within the kernel....

2000-06-14 Thread Mike Smith
Since your driver initialisation is going to (often) happen before disk I/O, I'd be inclined to put a dependancy in your module to another module with a container object containing the firmware. Of course, this brings to light the fact that I don't think we support "soft" dependancies, ie.

Re: loading modules from within the kernel....

2000-06-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
Since your driver initialisation is going to (often) happen before disk I/O, I'd be inclined to put a dependancy in your module to another module with a container object containing the firmware. Right. I would expect that the loader(8) would DTRT. Of course, this then raises an issue

Re: loading modules from within the kernel....

2000-06-14 Thread Mike Smith
Since your driver initialisation is going to (often) happen before disk I/O, I'd be inclined to put a dependancy in your module to another module with a container object containing the firmware. Right. I would expect that the loader(8) would DTRT. Of course, this then raises an issue

pricerange for dinner.

2000-06-14 Thread Pat Lynch
Also, does anyone have a prefereed pricerange for dinner? I have one restaurant alreading bidding at 40/plate -Pat __ Pat Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Has anybody looked at RAID-5 vinum performance on the whole system?

2000-06-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 13 June 2000 at 16:39:01 -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: I was just curious what people's thoughts were on the potential "total system throughput" (whatever you choose it to be), wrt using software RAID. It would seem that software RAID would just kill big chunks of cache,

subdomain

2000-06-14 Thread FENIX
I guess this is not a really FreeBSD question, but i guess it is still related :) I want to know if anyone can give me a subdomain with an NS record, my ISP hostname is very ugly and my existing subdomainname is often offline , their DNS server are not to be trusted :( So if anyone can help me

Re: pricerange for dinner.

2000-06-14 Thread David Kelly
Pat Lynch writes: Also, does anyone have a prefereed pricerange for dinner? I have one restaurant alreading bidding at 40/plate Considering the stature of famous and soon-to-be-famous people who will be attending, one should be able to demand more than $40 and dinner for one's presence. :-)

question abt top...

2000-06-14 Thread Joy Ganguly
hi all, what does CPU0 in the STATE field of "top" mean. i am running a SMP kernel. a process utilizes 99% of cpu and shows CPU0 in its STATE field. thanx in advance joy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

BAFUG DNS

2000-06-14 Thread Nicole Harrington.
Is anybody on right now that has access to cdrom.com DNS servers? Thanks Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ __ /| (`\ http://www.unixgirl.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | o_o |__ ) ) http://www.dangermouse.org/

install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive

2000-06-14 Thread Jeff Kreska
I tryed to install FreeBSD 3.3,3.4, and 4.0 release on the last three gig of a 25 gig drive with no success. After an install attempt the partition table of my disk is corrupt. Now it is so screwed up that Partition Magic cant read it. Through testing I determined that all I have to do to

Programming problem, Shared Memory

2000-06-14 Thread Shawn Workman
Please help me with the simple 'Shared Memory' example.. I cant use fork, many different applications may speaking to one 'server' application.. This small function can run as the memory server (pass bogus parameters) and as a client in another terminal (dont pass any parameters) I can read