Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Tony Finch
Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >James Housley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I believe a correct and true statement is "FreeBSD is a direct decendant >> of Unix(TM). Based on the BSD sources" > >I don't think there's all that much left of the original BSD >sources... at least not

Re: burncd utility for atapi burners

2000-10-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > > I would like to communicate the proposed changes to the author but I did not > > find his address. Could somebody provide his email to me? > > [ ... ] > > This is going to be a problem in getting your changes accepted: > > > +/*- > > + * t.h. changes copyright

Cache Questions

2000-10-23 Thread Christopher Harrer
Hello All, We're working on a driver for a PCI card, we're currently running into a problem that's symptomatic of a cache coherency problem. We have a area of memory that we manipulate and pass a physical address to our card. In other OS's (Linux, NT), before we manipulate this memory area, we

Re: Cache Questions

2000-10-23 Thread Johan Karlsson
At Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:33:04 EDT, "Christopher Harrer" wrote: > Hello All, > > We're working on a driver for a PCI card, we're currently running into a > problem that's symptomatic of a cache coherency problem. We have a area of > memory that we manipulate and pass a physical address to our card

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Travis Leuthauser
I haven't used Linux for quite a while, I am however an avid supporter of FreeBSD. It is true that you can update your sources and rebuild everything in one shot. That may seem kinda risky, but I run several FreeBSD servers and have never had a problem remotely rebuilding/installing world withou

Re: Routing issue with cable modem

2000-10-23 Thread Marko Ruban
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 06:35:02PM -0400, Marko Ruban wrote: > > Joel said HTML was badly formatted, so I'm resubmitting in plain text. > > Thanks :) > > That's progress ... but if you would wrap your lines around 70-74 > columns, it would be even better. Thank you. I wish I'd get as much help

Re: smbfs-1.3.0 released

2000-10-23 Thread Joseph Scott
When is this going to be brought into -current? Boris Popov wrote: > > Hello, > > At first, I'm want to say 'thank you' for everybody who provided > me with feedback on my work. So, here is a records from the HISTORY file > for last two releases: > > 20.10.2000 1

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Dennis
At 05:25 PM 10/21/2000, Sergey Babkin wrote: >Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: > > > > > We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to > > > choose from to drive our website. > > > > Choose FreeBSD. It's faster. > >Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly >

Re: Boot off USB SanDisk?

2000-10-23 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:11:09PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Miller >writes: > : SanDisk makes a IDE-like flash card one could plug into a $30 USB > : flashcard reader. > : > : Would FreeBSD have any idea how to boot off such a beast? Alternatively, > : an

Understanding what happens on open() within the kernel

2000-10-23 Thread d_f0rce
Hi, i'm currently working on understanding the FreeBSD kernel. Therefore I read the book "The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD OS". As I know that most of the things described in this book are probably no longer up to date, I think that the basics should be the same. As I would like to exp

Re: Boot off USB SanDisk?

2000-10-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > You can use a IDE <-> CF adapter to boot off this device. You can't > > boot it off via the USB device however. > > As a matter of curiosity: what does such an adapter cost (roughly) ? i bought one from TAPR (www.tapr.org i think) for some 59US$ but it is really just a connector and a PCB s

Re: Boot off USB SanDisk?

2000-10-23 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Luigi Rizzo writes: : > > You can use a IDE <-> CF adapter to boot off this device. You can't : > > boot it off via the USB device however. : > : > As a matter of curiosity: what does such an adapter cost (roughly) ? : : i bought one from TAPR (www.tapr.org i thi

Re: Cache Questions

2000-10-23 Thread Mike Smith
> Hello All, > > We're working on a driver for a PCI card, we're currently running into a > problem that's symptomatic of a cache coherency problem. We have a area of > memory that we manipulate and pass a physical address to our card. In other > OS's (Linux, NT), before we manipulate this memo

gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Marko Ruban
Summary of the problem: Can't assign cable modem gateway (10.17.56.12) to interface ed0 with assigned IP (208.59.162.242) - "network unreachable". I called RCN (my cable provider) and asked them to give me a gateway on the same subnet; they said they "don't do that". Part of solution: I set a

Re: gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Mike Smith
> Summary of the problem: > > Can't assign cable modem gateway (10.17.56.12) to interface > ed0 with assigned IP (208.59.162.242) - "network unreachable". > > I called RCN (my cable provider) and asked them to give me > a gateway on the same subnet; they said they "don't do that". Your gateway

Re: DMA in drivers?

2000-10-23 Thread mark tinguely
> "This register is used to establish the PCI address for data moving from the > the Host Computer Memory to the card. It consists of a 30 bit counter with > the low-order 2 bits hardwired as zeros. The address stored may be any > nonzero byte length that is a multiple of 8, since 8 bytes are

Re: gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Fred Clift
Hm -- how about using proxy-arp style routing? If their router has has proxy-arp support turned on, then you can set yourself (ie your own IP) as the default and will arp for _all_ addreeses of _all_ remote boxes you try to connect to. Then their router sends a response to the arp-request and

Re: gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Marko Ruban
Mike Smith wrote: > > > Summary of the problem: > > > > Can't assign cable modem gateway (10.17.56.12) to interface > > ed0 with assigned IP (208.59.162.242) - "network unreachable". > > > > I called RCN (my cable provider) and asked them to give me > > a gateway on the same subnet; they said the

Re: gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Les Biffle
> Hm -- how about using proxy-arp style routing? Here's what I've done in the past: 1. Have a friend out in the net ping your address 208.59.162.242 2. Run tcpdump and look for someone ARPing for you. That someone will very likely be your default gateway as seen from your site. If that route

Re: DMA in drivers?

2000-10-23 Thread Mike Smith
> I am in the process of writing a PCI driver for an encryption card. The > specifications state that the DMA Destination Address, DMA Dest. Length, DMA > Source Addr, and DMA Source Length should be loaded into registers in the > card. Part of the info states: > > "This register is used to est

Re: Boot off USB SanDisk?

2000-10-23 Thread Mike Smith
> > I'm booting to single-user in 3 seconds using these things. The IDE delays > > are high, even for Flash IDE, so going for the socket is a good thing. > > should have said: single user Linux. FreeBSD did not work, I think because > the bootup stuff in the kernel wants to as the BIOS "a few qu

Re: gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Nick Rogness
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Les Biffle wrote: > > Hm -- how about using proxy-arp style routing? > > Here's what I've done in the past: > > 1. Have a friend out in the net ping your address 208.59.162.242 > > 2. Run tcpdump and look for someone ARPing for you. That someone > will very likely be yo

Re: gateway on different subnet

2000-10-23 Thread Kherry Zamore
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Summary of the problem: > > > > Can't assign cable modem gateway (10.17.56.12) to interface > > ed0 with assigned IP (208.59.162.242) - "network unreachable". > > > > I called RCN (my cable provider) and asked them to give me > > a gateway on the same

How to install BootEasy?

2000-10-23 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, Apologies for this, I'm sure I've seen the answer recently but I'm *&^%ed if I can find it in the archives[1]. I have an installed FreeBSD hard disk that I want to use as the second drive on a machine with other stuff on the first drive. How do I install BootEasy on the first drive? TIA [1]

Device Number

2000-10-23 Thread Jim Dixon
As it says in the 'majors.i386' file, I guess Im supposed to send a request to this email address asking for the assignment of a Device number. Okay, I'm requesting the assignment of a character device number. Please take a look at the preliminary project documentation at: http://www.bsdtelephon