Bridging problems.. (WaveLan related?)

2000-07-01 Thread Chris Csanady
I have been trying for over a week now to get bridging working, but without success. I have tried both 4.0 and current, but with no luck. Anyways, my setup is as follows.. On one end is a Lucent WavePoint attached to the outside world. (Some sort of switch I believe. I really don't understand

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], KATO Takenori writ es: The invlpg instruction causes strange signal 11 problem on some PentiumPro box. This problem seems to hapen when (1) mother board is very old and (2) BIOS update is not available and (3) cpuid 0x619. Following patch automatically disables

Re: Bridging problems.. (WaveLan related?)

2000-07-01 Thread Chris Csanady
It never fails.. I always post stuff just minutes too soon. Anyways, it seems that the problem is with the WaveLan network. In ad-hoc, or infrastructure mode, the card can only send frames with its own mac address as the source. Apparrently, the card needs to be set up as an access point (or

Re: Bridging problems.. (WaveLan related?)

2000-07-01 Thread Mark Newton
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 01:56:51AM -0500, Chris Csanady wrote: It never fails.. I always post stuff just minutes too soon. Anyways, it seems that the problem is with the WaveLan network. In ad-hoc, or infrastructure mode, the card can only send frames with its own mac address as the

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread Mike Smith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], KATO Takenori writ es: The invlpg instruction causes strange signal 11 problem on some PentiumPro box. This problem seems to hapen when (1) mother board is very old and (2) BIOS update is not available and (3) cpuid 0x619. Following patch automatically

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Smith writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], KATO Takenori writ es: The invlpg instruction causes strange signal 11 problem on some PentiumPro box. This problem seems to hapen when (1) mother board is very old and (2) BIOS update is not available and (3)

Invalidating PACK!!!

2000-07-01 Thread Mustafa Deeb
hi all, we build our own servers, we've always used the intel N440BX and the Barracuda disks.. and we liked it so much, this time we bought intel's L440GX+ and the chettah disks from seagate (Ultra2 DIsks) and I'm getting these errors, ofcourse the server goes nuts when an error like this

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 11:27:37AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wilko Bulte writes: Look at the first paragraph: This is for Pentium Pro cpus running in motherboards where the BIOS does not contain the needed microcode updates. The patch disables

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wilko Bulte writes: Maybe make it conditional via an option in the kernel config file? Off by default of course. Looking at LINT/NOTES I see very obscure things for Cyrix and Bluelightning CPUs already. But Wilko, Those hacks are because the silicon, when

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread KATO Takenori
in stepping sB0 (cpuid = 0x619). I have both sA0 (cpuid = 0x617) and sB0 steppings and the signal 11 problem occurs only with the sA0 stepping. Oops, sA0 - sA1 and sB0 - sB1. ---+--+ KATO Takenori [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread KATO Takenori
Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we are talking about errata #34 the correct solution is to not use 4MB pages. Is FreeBSD #29-safe? variable MTTRs are set as follows: MSR (200): 0006 MSR (201): 000ffc000800 MSR (202): 0406 MSR (203):

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread KATO Takenori
Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the first paragraph: This is for Pentium Pro cpus running in motherboards where the BIOS does not contain the needed microcode updates. I have one question. Does microcode update modify a CPU permanently? I used a CPU on the M/B with

vmstats for pages that go inactive-active

2000-07-01 Thread Paul Herman
Hi, vmmeter-cnt.v_reactivated counts the number of cache pages that get promoted to either active or inactive queues. My read (and I could be wrong) from vm/vm_page.c is, there is no statistic to count the inactive pages that get "reclaimed" into the active queue. I would think this would be

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread KATO Takenori
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's something that can be done as eg. a KLD we might want to do that instead, or through some other mechanism for handling these sort of CPU quirks. It sounds good. If binary-format quriks is supported, we can supply update

stray interrupts in 4.0

2000-07-01 Thread Dennis
We're seeing lots of "stray" interrupts in 4.0 while running 3.4 on the same hardware reports nothing. The interrupt its complaining about is IRQ7 even though parallel port is disabled and no other device. It happens on more than 1 MB. dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Invalidating PACK!!!

2000-07-01 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2701 11:18], Mustafa Deeb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Invalidating pack (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Invalidating pack (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Invalidating pack (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): SCB 0x62 - timed out while idle, SEQADDR == 0xb (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Queuing a BDR SCB (da2:ahc0:0:4:0

Re: style(9)

2000-07-01 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2701 09:25], Wes Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Or simply get a wider editor. Seriously. Writing code in 80 columns is an anachronism. Tastes do differ for that. Often the 80 column boundary reminds me not to use functions_which_have_crazy_long_names_with_underscores

Re: Invalidating PACK!!!

2000-07-01 Thread Jon Parise
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 11:11:47AM +0200, Mustafa Deeb wrote: is there someone who've used the L440GX+ motherboard with 18G disks and he is happy with it No problems here with assorted 18G and 9G IBM Ultrastars and some 9G Cheetahs. -- Jon Parise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) . Rochester Inst. of

Re: Invalidating PACK!!!

2000-07-01 Thread Mustafa N. Deeb
.. cheers Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: -On [2701 11:18], Mustafa Deeb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Invalidating pack (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Invalidating pack (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Invalidating pack (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): SCB 0x62 - timed out while idle, SEQADDR == 0xb (da2:ahc0:0:4:0

Re: Invalidating PACK!!!

2000-07-01 Thread Joey Miller
had the same problems. make sure you are using LVD ribbon cables. On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 11:11:47AM +0200, Mustafa Deeb wrote: // hi all, // // we build our own servers, we've always used the intel N440BX and the // Barracuda disks.. and we liked it so much, // this time we bought

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-01 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: : Maybe make it conditional via an option in the kernel config file? : Off by default of course. Looking at LINT/NOTES I see very obscure things : for Cyrix and Bluelightning CPUs already. I was going to make that same argument. There's a need to

ECU files and MLB BIOS

2000-07-01 Thread gouders
Hi, I am having understanding/translation problems, again. Can anyone help me with the terms "ECU files" and "MLB BIOS" (Hackers section of the FAQ)? Thanks, Dirk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: XFree86 4.0 - What are people using for dual-head video?

2000-07-01 Thread Coleman Kane
I have been using a Matrox MGA G200 and a matrox Mystique 220. The mystique card has a shot bios chip, so it only works as a secondary video board. Besides, the G200 is far better to put on my 19" KDS VS-195e. My Mystique is connected to an older NEC SVGA monitor, 14" at 1024x768@60Hz. Matthew

UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-01 Thread Coleman Kane
Hello, is anyone currently working on code to implement the UDF filesystem? For those not familiar with it, it is the filesystem that DVDs use. I'd like to look into getting the support under FreeBSD, since the players already seem to work. If no one is working on this, then I could probably use

Intel Pro/100+ Dual Port Server Adapter and Fault Tolerance

2000-07-01 Thread Nick Evans
Title: Intel Pro/100+ Dual Port Server Adapter and Fault Tolerance Does anyone know if the FXP driver in 4.0-STABLE supports the AFT Fault Tolerance features of this network card? I know the fault tolerance is set in the driver under WindowsNT but I'm not quite sure whether or not it is

Why do we always create a malloc disk for md?

2000-07-01 Thread John Baldwin
I'm attempting to resolve why sysinstall keeps dying in -current at the moment. It seems that the problem is that md_drvinit() always creates a malloc disk during initialization: static void md_drvinit(void *unused) { ... [ load preloaded disks such as mfsroot.tgz from install floppy ]

Re: style(9)

2000-07-01 Thread Sergey Babkin
Chris Costello wrote: On Friday, June 30, 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: No. Anyway, you can set your tab size to whatever you want. So long as it is a _tab_, and not 2 or 4 or 8 spaces. If you're heading into the margin constantly, you should simplify your code, or break it up into