Re: Just how standard is APM?

2001-01-05 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Donald J . Maddox" wrote: Yeah, I thought that APM was APM, but the apm device does nothing on my desktop with power management hardware... That is, things like 'shutdown -p now' don't work, both 'apm' and 'apmd' just return 'device not configured', etc. Interestingly, at least 'shutdown

Re: Just how standard is APM?

2001-01-05 Thread Graham Wheeler
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: If this is still about the Presario laptop, APM works (or did up to november) on the Compaq Presario 1621. Note the apm and acpi can't be used together in the same kernel. It's a 1700; previously I had a 1600 which worked better with everything (the VIA sound was

Re: RFC: a CUI controlpanel for FreeBSD

2001-01-05 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
AGX wrote: Antonio, you are welcome to contribute to FreeBSD. I would like to know if you think that is usefull or not to do this job or if there are more urgents work to do upon the FreeBSD distribution/ installation process. I've wasted 4 years trying to create my personalized GNU/Linux

Re: RFC: a CUI controlpanel for FreeBSD

2001-01-05 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Thu 2001-01-04 (23:13), AGX wrote: I firstly developed everything using cdialog but them are very buggy togheter with somebody i did developed "libgringo" that is a generic library that interface both ncurses and Gtk (depending how you compiled it) and allow you to write script that can

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-05 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Doug White wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Zhiui Zhang wrote: I have written a KLD and am debugging it. The program often hangs after runs for a while (I guess it enters into some dead loop). Is there a way to attach to the process and somehow find out which code it is

Re: Just how standard is APM?

2001-01-05 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:57:37PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Warner Losh wrote: APM is standard. Except when it is broken in some brain damaged ways. However, you likely have your apm device disabled in your kernel and all you need to do is enable it. Nope - as I said,

Re: Strange fwrite() behavior in a+ mode

2001-01-05 Thread Joshua Rosen
Alfred Perlstein writes: So in Linux, if you have a "a+" file, you can 1) seek somewhere (mid file) 2) read some data (not until EOF) 3) after the read you are at EOF again? this doesn't sound really intuative. No, it doesn't sound intuitive; luckily, that isn't what happens;) The issue

if_fxp driver???

2001-01-05 Thread Dennis
Has the issue with the new rev intel parts been resolved yet? Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

IEEE 1394/Firewire

2001-01-05 Thread simond
Does anyone know if any work is being done on this? Especially the TCP/IP over firewire (rfc2734), which would make it nice and easy to network up my vaio with my desktop PC :) -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange fwrite() behavior in a+ mode

2001-01-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joshua Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010105 09:31] wrote: Alfred Perlstein writes: So in Linux, if you have a "a+" file, you can 1) seek somewhere (mid file) 2) read some data (not until EOF) 3) after the read you are at EOF again? this doesn't sound really intuative. No, it

Re: IEEE 1394/Firewire

2001-01-05 Thread Andrew R. Reiter
Plz search -hackers On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if any work is being done on this? Especially the TCP/IP over firewire (rfc2734), which would make it nice and easy to network up my vaio with my desktop PC :) -- Simon Dick

Re: Just how standard is APM?

2001-01-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graham Wheeler writes: : Nope - as I said, I added log messages to apm.c to log the BIOS probe : and they log a failure (I have "device apm0" in my config file). What's the failure mode? Is it enabled in the BIOS (I assume it is, otherwise it wouldn't work in 'Doz).

Re: Just how standard is APM?

2001-01-05 Thread John Baldwin
On 05-Jan-01 Josef Karthauser wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:57:37PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Warner Losh wrote: APM is standard. Except when it is broken in some brain damaged ways. However, you likely have your apm device disabled in your kernel and all you need to do

open PR WRT syslogd vs. serial consoles

2001-01-05 Thread Brian Reichert
I'm chasing down a syslogd problem on a 3.4-R box, only to discover that I'm being bit (still!) by a PR I submitted two years ago: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8865 I'm responsible for a wad of machines hanging off of a terminal server. - I wanted syslog messages reported to

Re: BSD dlopen and such

2001-01-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:19:56AM -0800, Doug White wrote: 1) Can a native binary dlopen a Linux ELF GL, yes or no? No. The linux compatbility is through the image activator. The syscalls have to be translated, otherwise if you were running as root and loaded a linux lib into a freebsd

Re: FreeBSD + Mylex DAC960 (RAID 1) + DEC Prioris HX 6000 Serverwill not recognize boot record for some reason

2001-01-05 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Mike Smith wrote: This is a FAQ; you have a geometry mismatch. Make sure the BIOS on the card is set for 2GB mode, make sure sysinstall detects a */128/32 geometry. 8GB mode doesn't work (my fault, will be fixed once I get my lab set up and some free time). Hmm, I just

encrypt h/w for FreeBSD?

2001-01-05 Thread Len Conrad
Sorry, got no answer in -questions. Just my quarterly check to see whether there's support coming up for hardware assisted IPsec, SSL, whatever? In addition to SSL on web servers, we'd recently have found some need like to run TLS for SMTP and postfix. Thanks, Len

Re: OT: silence as an answer? (was: how to test out cron.c changes?)

2001-01-05 Thread Doug Barton
Gerhard Sittig wrote: [ this message is no personal affront against you, Doug, but an expression of what feeling this kind of behaviour causes for those who want to share and find themselves ignored ] Actually, I wouldn't care if it were, but thanks for the clarification. FYI, you

RE: encrypt h/w for FreeBSD?

2001-01-05 Thread Charles Randall
nCipher's nFast card supports FreeBSD 3.3 and 3.4. http://www.ncipher.com/products/nfast_specs.html -Charles -Original Message- From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: encrypt h/w for FreeBSD? Sorry,

RE: encrypt h/w for FreeBSD?

2001-01-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05-Jan-01 Charles Randall wrote: nCipher's nFast card supports FreeBSD 3.3 and 3.4. http://www.ncipher.com/products/nfast_specs.html I think Mike Smith is 'sort of' working on support for HW crypto cards.. No idea how far he has got. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Diskless

2001-01-05 Thread Rachmat Hidajat
Hi All, I want to try to boot the diskless system, so I compile nb8390.com with NE2000 support. But I got the following error during the process. Did I make a mistake? # make Warning: Object directory not changed from original