On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Stefan Molnar wrote:
I have not built clusters over 200 nodes, but I almost never
go into the BIOS for configurations. And the systems that
I have used, include serial access within the BIOS. And
adding PXE roms will make things nicer on the install front.
But my
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On Wednesday, 14 June 2000 at 1:00:27 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
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
John Baldwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
The best people to determin if it is nessesary is Yahoo and Hotmail.
Since they have worked with these issues in the thousands of machines.
Actually, Yahoo is basically who funded the PXE development as their
employees did most of the development
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".
Maybe I'll have my graphics guy whip up a picture of Tux with horns and
holding a
Two words: "forget it".
I read an article about Linux BIOS project on Slashdot.org. Is there
anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?
I really like to see something like 'boot net - install' or serial
console. It would be cool to have dignostics routine, too.
I haven't looked at the
Hi,
I haven't done anything with this yet, but I plan to take a look
soon. This is just a note to let you know that your post hasn't gone
unnoticed.
The libalias allows to transport only TCP stream on the RealSystem
(RealAudio and RealVideo).
It can not transport UDP stream, rtsp and pna,
So, I repeat: easily done, not acceptable to freebsd core.
Erm, hello?
I really don't understand this message at all, Ron. As far as I know,
FreeBSD core has expressed NO opinion on this issue whatsoever and
it's therefore highly unfair of you to state that we:
a) Even have a firm
The key is that freebsd may need to change a few things to make it
bootable from cold hardware. I don't think this is for sure, but it may
happen. I hope the team is receptive to such changes ...
ie. "LinuxBIOS won't initialise the system correctly, so you'd better
clean up after it"?
How
Brian, this is just to let you know that:
1) I am currently in process of applying *big* PPTP patch to libalias
so I would really appreciate it if you do not touch libalias before
I finish with PPTP part.
Ok, no problem - I'm pretty busy at the moment anyway.
2) Erik Salander
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
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On Wednesday, 14 June 2000 at 1:00:27 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
So, if you are in the Singapore Changi international airport,
the internet center in the transit area will loan
Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
I looks to me like Julian's machine has the configuration problem.
The dhcp client cannot get enough bpf's.
So why did tcpdump work? Both dhclient and tcpdump need one bpf, no? I
initially thought the same as you but then asked myself that question.
--
Ben
I'm interested, since from reading the linixboot page it seems like
you can get, essentially, and instant-on rommable FreeBSD if this
were done, and I can think of lots of things to do with that!
I can think of a few useful things too! I might even be able to offer a
bit of help (at
Sergey Babkin wrote:
Eh ? I don't quite get how Sun could be associated with Open Firmware.
Probably because they developed it?
It always looked quite proprietary to me.
Yeah, those IEEE standards are terribly proprietary. IEEE-1275 in this
case. You can find more info at
hi all,
i have a question regarding mmap and file write. a file is mmap'ed and
data is written into the mapped region. now the same region is written.
(as shown below)
buf = mmap(NULL, len, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
.
. /* some data put in buf */
.
write(fd, buf, len);
now
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Doug White wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Stefan Molnar wrote:
I have not built clusters over 200 nodes, but I almost never
go into the BIOS for configurations. And the systems that
I have used, include serial access within the BIOS. And
adding PXE roms will
We really were hoping we'd get some help from a motherboard vendor but
that just hasn't been the case. No-one seems interested in the
relatively low quantities of boards we'd move.
Too bad we're already a big customer of these boards -- We'd love to have
this kind of information about
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:- None of the motherboard or chipset vendors (except for SiS) are even
:- slightly interested in talking to us.
Are they interested in talking to Linux folks? If so, isn't that a
reasonable alternative? (I mean, team up with some Linux folks to
get the info...)
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06/16/2000 10:55 AM ---
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Subject: Problem installing FreeBSD 4.0
Hi,
My name is Satcha Benitez and I'm trying to install FreeBSD
sorry, jordan.
my bad. Anyway we're going to try a kernel next week that parag sent me.
ron
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(paul asks a good microcode question). I can't answer it yet.
Here's my take on this: we're going to do a proof of concept of this idea.
We now have three partners: SiS, Compaq, and Dell. Long-term goal is to
get industry to pick it up. This is a means to an end. I don't want to be
Mr. LinuxBIOS
Here's the address of the 3dfx device driver I wrote for freebsd:
http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~cokane/
Please test it some more and give me feedback. Could someone please email me
with information on submitting this to the CVS commit team?
--
Coleman Kane
President,
UC Free O.S. Users Group -
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:13:18 EDT, Robert Withrow wrote:
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:- None of the motherboard or chipset vendors (except for SiS) are even
:- slightly interested in talking to us.
Are they interested in talking to Linux folks? If so, isn't that a
reasonable alternative? (I mean,
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 02:33:00 EDT, Mike Nowlin wrote:
Maybe I'll have my graphics guy whip up a picture of Tux with horns and
holding a pitchfork
(Actually, I think I've seen something like that before.)
Can your graphics guy whip up a couple of Daemons in the style of
Southpark (esp.
Parag Patel wrote:
Can your graphics guy whip up a couple of Daemons in the style of
Southpark (esp. Cartman) and the PowerPuff Girls? Just a couple of
things I want to see...
Oh... My... God... I would pay to print the t-shirts.
--
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I found this funny site look at it :)
http://www.rewls.nu
Have Fun ;-)
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Parag Patel wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 02:33:00 EDT, Mike Nowlin wrote:
Maybe I'll have my graphics guy whip up a picture of Tux with horns and
holding a pitchfork
(Actually, I think I've
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Parag Patel wrote:
No-one else seems to be interested.
actually, that's not quite true. we're seeing a fair amount of interest
here. I suspect vendors are not that interested in supporting another BIOS
unless/until they see potential $$$ ("value proposition" in MBA
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:46:58 PDT, Jack Rusher wrote:
Parag Patel wrote:
Can your graphics guy whip up a couple of Daemons in the style of
Southpark (esp. Cartman) and the PowerPuff Girls? Just a couple of
things I want to see...
Oh... My... God... I would pay to print the t-shirts.
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Jack Rusher wrote:
Parag Patel wrote:
Can your graphics guy whip up a couple of Daemons in the style of
Southpark (esp. Cartman) and the PowerPuff Girls? Just a couple of
things I want to see...
Oh... My... God... I would pay to print the t-shirts.
Oh my
Ben Smithurst wrote:
Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
I looks to me like Julian's machine has the configuration problem.
The dhcp client cannot get enough bpf's.
So why did tcpdump work? Both dhclient and tcpdump need one bpf, no? I
initially thought the same as you but then asked myself
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Stefan Molnar wrote:
I delgated the remote-hands to being my human on-off switch, or a
"blinky light" monitor.
Buy a bunch of RPC-2s or RPC-4s
http://baytechdcd.com/products/rpcseries.shtml
--
| Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD |
|
I'd buy one hehe
Jack Rusher wrote:
Parag Patel wrote:
Can your graphics guy whip up a couple of Daemons in the style of
Southpark (esp. Cartman) and the PowerPuff Girls? Just a couple of
things I want to see...
Oh... My... God... I would pay to print the t-shirts.
--
Jack
:hi all,
:
:i have a question regarding mmap and file write. a file is mmap'ed and
:data is written into the mapped region. now the same region is written.
:(as shown below)
:
:buf = mmap(NULL, len, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
:.
:. /* some data put in buf */
:.
:
:write(fd, buf,
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Regarding the freebsd bios and availablity of firmware you should check out
http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/index.htm
The sample implementation uses a FBSD core and provides
a tcp/ip stack
ftp client and server
python interpreter
read
Wes Peters wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
Eh ? I don't quite get how Sun could be associated with Open Firmware.
Probably because they developed it?
Ah, that was my ignorance. never knew that Open Firmware is a trademarked
concept, like Open Source.
It always looked quite proprietary
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
my bad. Anyway we're going to try a kernel next week that parag sent me.
Mmmm. I saw no comments on my loader question.
Loader(8) runs using BIOS services, and loads the kernel from any drive
that BIOS recognizes. It has also been enhanced with PXE knowledge, so
he
Now that the heat wave is over in SFback to my loadable module project
changes to isp... maybe this is more for the toolchain folks than kernel
hackers...
So, I notice that '#pragma weak' appears to work for me for the compilers and
linkers we currently use for i386 alpha (at least in user
Not that it adds any more weight to my patch - but the linux
folks are essentially doing the same thing:
http://reality.sgi.com/dimitris_engr/pda_patch-2.4.0-1
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18524
-Arun
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What you're doing here is generally referred to as multi-netting. When
you're wandering through the references, use that as a starting point.
Multi-netting is certainly valid, when implemented correctly. I would
definately echo the sentiment elsewhere in this thread that you and your
ISP
At 5:29 PM -0700 6/16/00, Arun Sharma wrote:
Not that it adds any more weight to my patch - but the
linux folks are essentially doing the same thing:
http://reality.sgi.com/dimitris_engr/pda_patch-2.4.0-1
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18524
Ah, the per-CPU stats. I was wondering
Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote:
- support S2, S3, S4 (hibernation) sleeping transition. S4 sleep
require some hack in boot loader needs help.
I thought hibernation was entirely controlled by kernel? What do you
need?
--
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote:
- support S2, S3, S4 (hibernation) sleeping transition. S4 sleep
require some hack in boot loader needs help.
I thought hibernation was entirely controlled by kernel? What do you
Hi, here is the latest report on our ACPI project's progress.
Current status:
The aml interpreter development is going on and we've ported it to
kernel simultaneously. Now that we can build ACPI namespace and
search any named objects from there in kernel space.
The aml interpreter code can
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:17:13PM -0400, Colin wrote:
[...] I honestly see no reason that what
you're doing should work at all. Effectively you're telling your system that
the way to connect to networks that it's address is not part of is to send a
message to a host that is on a network
This is now my splash screen.
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The more I look at the preload way of doing things, the more I see this as
something of a lose.
What we want to do is to load the fw module if and only if there is h/w for
it, and then unload it when we're done. We want to do this w/o user
intervention, else why bother (as we could have gotten
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:35:51 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
my bad. Anyway we're going to try a kernel next week that parag sent me.
Mmmm. I saw no comments on my loader question.
Loader(8) runs using BIOS services, and loads the kernel from any drive
that BIOS
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Marinos J . Yannikos wrote:
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:17:13PM -0400, Colin wrote:
It's not exactly a "catch-22", since the (perfectly valid) static route to
the default gateway's network takes precedence over the above rule (the
default route).
So how are they
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, I notice that '#pragma weak' appears to work for me for the compilers and
linkers we currently use for i386 alpha (at least in user space), so you
can do things like:
-
extern void
Hi,
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote:
- support S2, S3, S4 (hibernation) sleeping transition. S4 sleep
require some hack in boot loader needs help.
I thought hibernation was entirely controlled by kernel? What do you
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