Re: Ideas? (fwd)

2001-01-07 Thread Roman Shterenzon
--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:36:05 -0800 Subject: Re: Ideas? * Roman Shterenzon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010107 10:24] wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch of licence Jiha...

2001-01-07 Thread Mark Murray
Hi Could you people please take this flamewar off our lists? Thanks! M > > --part1_f8.65bd20b.278a2f74_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > In a message dated 1/7/2001 11:27:46 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: >

Re: Xbox

2001-01-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mohan Khurana writes: : Well, this is going to seem like a rather strange question. I understand : that Xbox is simply IA-32, however I have heard that the Xbox has a : special ROM that boots Windows CE, to ensure that people do not purchase : the Xbox for the sole

Re: [Question] CVS and CVS@freebsd

2001-01-07 Thread opentrax
On 7 Jan, Wes Peters wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> [Trimmed] >> Can anyone give me suggestion on implementing this? >> Specifically I'd like to know about tools available, >> concepts that would aid developers and any suggestions >> out-of-scope that would aid developers.

kthread_exit & zombification

2001-01-07 Thread Robert Lipe
Hi, Gang. In 4.1.1, I have a pretty simple need for a kernel thread or two, but I'm having problems with kthread_exit(). The problem is that the thread goes zombie after I kthread_exit in it, but it never gets reaped. Since I'm doing this during a MOD_UNLOAD phase, if I happen to do a `ps -ax'

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!)

2001-01-07 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>So, question: is there a reason why we can't enable both the USB keyboard >and a native PS/2 keyboard with syscons? It seems that I frequently find >myself in a position where I'd like to plug in a keyboard, or switch KVM >choices to a machine, and discover myself with no access to the hardware

Re: StrongARM support? (was also: Group for porting to other proccessor families)

2001-01-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 8 January 2001 at 0:22:01 +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: > Hi all > > Is their a group of FreeBSD Enthusiasts that are working on porting > free to embedded controllers that are not x86 I am in the process of > developing a security / access / building management system, and am > lookin

Re: Xbox

2001-01-07 Thread David Preece
At 17:37 7/01/01 -0500, you wrote: >Does anyone know enough about Xbox internals to verify that >FreeBSD will or will not be able to run on Xbox without any type of >hardware modification? No, but if you'd like to be into that kind of thing I understand the NetBSD/Dreamcast port is coming along

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V5 #1

2001-01-07 Thread Bill Vermillion
> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 05:07:06 -0800 (PST) > From: Gordon Tetlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OT: silence as an answer? (was: how to test out cron.c changes?) > Hello there! > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Doug Barton wrote: > > Gerhard Sittig wrote: > [snip] > > Consider the following. We are i

Xbox

2001-01-07 Thread Mohan Khurana
Well, this is going to seem like a rather strange question. I understand that Xbox is simply IA-32, however I have heard that the Xbox has a special ROM that boots Windows CE, to ensure that people do not purchase the Xbox for the sole reason of running FreeBSD or any other operating system on it

Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch oflicence Jihad crap

2001-01-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > You're saying the most common definition of "free" isn't no cost ? I'm a free man, not a commercial sample! Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.co

Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch of licence Jihad crap

2001-01-07 Thread Wes Peters
Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > > Claiming that software isn't "free" because it's not valuable is > redefining > > > the word "free" to mean something that has no cost, yet has value. > > > > > > free (fr) adj. Costing nothing; gratuitous: > > > > Yeah, and 'gay' means 'joyful'. > > You're saying t

Re: [Question] CVS and CVS@freebsd

2001-01-07 Thread Wes Peters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [Note: I've BCC'd to arch to get advanced implemention suggestions] > > Hey everyone OpenCountry.org has asked me to setup > a CVS repository for them. Their business plan includes > packageing, wrapping and selling LINUX open source software. > > They want to buil

Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch of licence Jiha...

2001-01-07 Thread CldFsn
In a message dated 1/7/2001 11:27:46 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > [ The dict command is your friend ] > > > > 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under > > restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's > > own impulse

Re: SCSI DAT tape detection on Compaq DL380

2001-01-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 14:35:53 +0100, cristian nicolae wrote: > Dear all, > I have a Compaq DL380 with an integrated Compaq Smart Array Controller. > I have succesfully managed to install the FreeBSD 4.2-20010104 > and everything is fine but the DAT drive which is not detected. > The DAT is conn

Re: fsck problem on large vinum volume

2001-01-07 Thread Ian Dowse
[moved to -fs] In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Dowse writes: > >Jaye sent me a ktrace.out for the fsck that was failing. It appears >that the kernel had overshot the end of the superblock fs_csp[] array >in ffs_mountfs(), since the list of pointers there extended through >fs_maxcluster, fs_c

Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch of licence Jihad crap

2001-01-07 Thread Jeremiah Gowdy
> [ The dict command is your friend ] > > 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under > restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's > own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's > own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.

Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch of licence Jihad crap

2001-01-07 Thread Jeremiah Gowdy
> > Claiming that software isn't "free" because it's not valuable is redefining > > the word "free" to mean something that has no cost, yet has value. > > > > free (fr) adj. Costing nothing; gratuitous: > > Yeah, and 'gay' means 'joyful'. You're saying the most common definition of "free" isn't n

Re: umodem and manual

2001-01-07 Thread Nick Hibma
I have no Zyxel modem, nor do I have any specs for what the device. So you might be better off asking on the usb-bsd mailing list: USB BSD list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nick On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Kaltashkin Eugene wrote: > KE: I try testing 3com USB modem, but don't know, how connect to him

Re: umodem and manual

2001-01-07 Thread Nick Hibma
The change to MAKEDEV will be committed. Thanks! Nick > KE: I try testing 3com USB modem, but don't know, how connect to him ? > KE: Maybe i can get some help about it ? > > I found problem (MAKEDEV create umodem0 with rw--- permissions, change it to > 660) > When Zyxel Omni USB modems be

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!)

2001-01-07 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > I guess your KVM switch won't let the kernel talk to the keyboard, if > the switch wasn't pointed to the FreeBSD box. > > Remove the flags 0x1 from atkbd in your kernel config file. This flag > makes atkbd fail, if it doesn't detect a keyboard. Wi

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver

2001-01-07 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>I've got a Belkin OmniView Pro 8-Port KVM switch which thinks it's >much smarter than it really is. I've had so many problems with this product that I dumped it for an Apex Outlook. I couldn't be happier. Since I donated the Belkin to another group, I've heard that they were able to send it in

Re: Broken-by-design USB device?

2001-01-07 Thread Nick Hibma
There is, I think, at least a bug in subr_bus.c that might cause this, although, this is just a hunch. I've not been able to explain what's happening yet. What is happening is that device_probe_child sets the device class, and in case of an error unsets it. But in this case attach (instead of pr

Re: fsck problem on large vinum volume

2001-01-07 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jaye Mathisen writes: > >I have a 930GB vinum volume >However, I can't fsck it, I have to always use the alternate block. >newsfeed-inn2# fsck /dev/vinum/v-spool >** /dev/vinum/v-spool >BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE

Re: StrongARM support?

2001-01-07 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> I'm definitely interested in both StrongARM and PPC. (and so are very > many people) My understanding is that FreeBSD *wants* a FreeBSD/ARM, > but lack the resources/man-power to do so. I'd prefer to see an > official decision on the above by someone (hint hint -core :)) though. I don't thin

SCSI DAT tape detection on Compaq DL380

2001-01-07 Thread cristian nicolae
Dear all, I have a Compaq DL380 with an integrated Compaq Smart Array Controller. I have succesfully managed to install the FreeBSD 4.2-20010104 and everything is fine but the DAT drive which is not detected. The DAT is connected to the same Controller as the RAID system. I have checked the arch

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

2001-01-07 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Hello there! On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Doug Barton wrote: > Gerhard Sittig wrote: [snip] > > Consider the following. We are in the spring and DST is "springing > forward" at 2am. We have a job scheduled at 2:15 that takes one hour to > run. There is another job scheduled at 3:20 that ABSOLUTELY P

Re: natd bug

2001-01-07 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Scratch that, I still get the error messages. For some reason they didn't show up for an hour or two. They usually show up immediately. -gordon On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > I used to get this exact same message, although my natd setup worked just > fine. It was just filling up the

Re: BSD dlopen and such

2001-01-07 Thread Pascal Hofstee
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:19:56AM -0800, Doug White wrote: > 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 binary, then that lib called fcntl(), your system > would r

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!)

2001-01-07 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>Do you know if this fixes the problem the following problem that I started >experiencing somewhere in the RELENG_4 line? For some machines, if the >KVM is not pointed at the box, the keyboard will not probe properly, and >does not respond for that session. As long as I boot with the KVM pointe

Re: Boot process robustness

2001-01-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
John Baldwin wrote: > > /boot/loader.conf perhaps, but how does the loader know that the previous boot > failed so that it knows to fall back? This is much harder, as a failed kernel > boot usually results in a hang or an instant CPU reset. Loader sets a flag before booting, and the boot proces

Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch of licence Jihad crap

2001-01-07 Thread Jonas Luster
-- 06/01/01 21:44 -0800 - Jeremiah Gowdy : > Claiming that software isn't "free" because it's not valuable is redefining > the word "free" to mean something that has no cost, yet has value. > > free (fr) adj. Costing nothing; gratuitous: Yeah, and 'gay' means 'joyful'. > The word has absolutel