Re: Fingerprint authentication?

2001-03-24 Thread Mike Nowlin
On 0, David McNett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23-Mar-2001, Michael Aronsen wrote: Has anyone been working on or know of any work being done on getting any fingerprint gadgets working in FreeBSD? This is mostly off-topic, but I wanted to take the opportunity to point out an excellent

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:36:30AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Shouldn't the FreeBSD project issue a press release welcoming Apple's MacOS X ? Good idea, write one :-) Kris PGP signature

udp checksum problem..

2001-03-24 Thread Madhavi Suram
Hi I am modifying FreeBSD 4.1 kernel. I am hacking all UDP packets in ip_input, changing some headers and finding the udp checksum using in_pseudo() and setting the packet header csum_flags to CSUM_UDP (I know this is a dirty way of doing it.. but, had to do it for efficiency reasons). When I

Re: udp checksum problem..

2001-03-24 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:10:04PM +0530, Madhavi Suram wrote: Hi I am modifying FreeBSD 4.1 kernel. I am hacking all UDP packets in ip_input, changing some headers and finding the udp checksum using in_pseudo() and setting the packet header csum_flags to CSUM_UDP (I know this is a

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded s cerver

2001-03-24 Thread Anton Berezin
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:11:03PM +0100, Adrian Chadd wrote: A while back I started running through the undocumented sysctls and documenting them. I didn't get through all of them, and the main reason I stopped was because there wasn't a nifty way to extract the sysctls short of writing a

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:36:30AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Shouldn't the FreeBSD project issue a press release welcoming Apple's MacOS X ? Good idea, write one :-) To be a really effective press release, it should be joint released

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robe rt Watson writes: On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:36:30AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Shouldn't the FreeBSD project issue a press release welcoming Apple's MacOS X ? Good idea, write one :-) To be a really

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Matthew Jacob
1 - Give a select group of people the docs under NDA 2 - If there are any specific features Intel wants avoided, get them to identify them up front. 3 - Let them write a driver that uses whatever features that are useful, with header files that define the register bits etc that

Re: AW: Best Gigabit ethernet for 4.x

2001-03-24 Thread Dennis
At 05:04 PM 11/18/2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:33:29 -0500, Dennis wrote: At 04:28 PM 11/17/2000, Schmalzbauer, Harald wrote: I just heard that Intel doesn't supply documentation on ther chipset and the FreeBSD and Linux support is quiet bad. The Netgear GA620

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: I have read the thread for a while, and i wonder: why in the world someone should go through the effort and responsibility of SIGNING THE NDA _and_ negotiating with Intel for getting permissions to redistribute the code ? Because NDAs come as a

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Richard Hodges
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: I have read the thread for a while, and i wonder: why in the world someone should go through the effort and responsibility of SIGNING THE NDA _and_ negotiating with Intel for getting permissions to redistribute the code ? I do not see how this is

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded s cerver

2001-03-24 Thread Matt Dillon
:Matt Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : So you would be able to create approximately four 17GB swap partitions. : If you reduce NSWAP to 2 you would be able to create approximately : two 34GB swap partitions. If you reduce NSWAP to 1 you would be able : to create approximately

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread scanner
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: I have read the thread for a while, and i wonder: why in the world someone should go through the effort and responsibility of SIGNING THE NDA _and_ negotiating with Intel for getting permissions to redistribute the code ? sleep deprived venting

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Jordan Hubbard
I think you can assume that Jordan will veto me writing anything even remotely like a press-release for the project. I just thought it was a very good opportunity to beat the drum... I don't think you can assume any such thing - I say go for it! :) One of the things that makes the Linux

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Dennis
At 01:33 PM 03/24/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: I have read the thread for a while, and i wonder: why in the world someone should go through the effort and responsibility of SIGNING THE NDA _and_ negotiating with Intel for getting permissions to

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Richard Hodges
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Richard Hodges wrote: For many (most?) people that may be practical. But what about those of us with a 1RU system using fxp on the motherboard and NEED the single PCI slot for something else? I suspect that there are

Patch to disallow the build of modules

2001-03-24 Thread Maxime Henrion
Hi, Here is a patch to select the modules you want and don't want. The patch is for /usr/src/sys/modules/Makefile from RELENG_4. Then you have to put variables in make.conf (i'm writing the patch for defaults/make.conf) like this : NO_KMOD_FPU=true NO_KMOD_GNUFPU=true ... Thanks for

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jordan Hubbard writes: I think you can assume that Jordan will veto me writing anything even remotely like a press-release for the project. I just thought it was a very good opportunity to beat the drum... I don't think you can assume any such thing - I say go

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Will Andrews
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:49:14PM -0500, Dennis wrote: You use the term "our developers" as if you are some sort of closed cult. They have something in common, and it's not a cult. It's called being an "open source developer". I have NEVER complained about Intel not releasing full

Re: AW: Best Gigabit ethernet for 4.x

2001-03-24 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:31:05 -0500, Dennis wrote: At 05:04 PM 11/18/2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:33:29 -0500, Dennis wrote: At 04:28 PM 11/17/2000, Schmalzbauer, Harald wrote: I just heard that Intel doesn't supply documentation on ther chipset and the

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread scanner
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Richard Hodges wrote: Thanks for the tip on the XL driver. Over the years, I have seen many questions about which driver/card was the best, and all the answers were pretty vague, or suggested that Intel had the edge. Yes. It's currently my understanding that the

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Dennis
If the if_wx driver sucks, why not fix it rather than trying to coerce a mega-companies with a deep political structure to change is policies? But if youre not going to maintain it, dont do it at all. You cant stick it to users by deciding later that you dont want to support it anymore.

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Dennis
At 02:45 PM 03/24/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Richard Hodges wrote: Thanks for the tip on the XL driver. Over the years, I have seen many questions about which driver/card was the best, and all the answers were pretty vague, or suggested that Intel had the edge.

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Will Andrews
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:11:54PM -0500, Dennis wrote: Most drivers are written without full docs. Intel supplied drivers for linux are available for both eepro100 and gigabit cards. The info is out there. Cobbling together the info to produce a driver...THATS what open source is all

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Dennis
At 03:12 PM 03/24/2001, Will Andrews wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:11:54PM -0500, Dennis wrote: Most drivers are written without full docs. Intel supplied drivers for linux are available for both eepro100 and gigabit cards. The info is out there. Cobbling together the info to produce a

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 24 Mar 2001, at 16:12, Dennis wrote: And why does all of your email have that stupid attachment? Whats the matter, cant figure out how to use an open-source mailer? :-) It's called a PGP signature. Could you two kids please take this pissing contest off -hackers? Thanks. -- Dan

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Will Andrews
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:12:34PM -0500, Dennis wrote: For your info, Bub, what makes the BSD license attractive is its usability by commercial vendors, so maybe you should go play in Linuxland because you are the one in the wrong camp, not me. the ability to take code, fix it and

Patch to allow cvs diff to diff date ranges on a branch

2001-03-24 Thread Matt Dillon
This patch allows cvs diff to diff a date range on a branch. e.g.: cvs -d /home/ncvs diff -j RELENG_4:2/15/01 -j RELENG_4:3/06/01 I'm not quite sure what to do with it yet... I suppose submit it to the cvs maintainers since its in contrib. The patch is fairly

Re: Displaying options for current NFS mounts

2001-03-24 Thread Dima Dorfman
Gerald Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I'd like to see is `mount -v' printing vexpert:/files5 on /.amd_mnt/vexpert/files5 (nfs: v3, udp) instead of vexpert:/files5 on /.amd_mnt/vexpert/files5 (nfs)

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Jordan Hubbard
I don't think you can assume any such thing - I say go for it! :) Well, how soon we forget history :-) I have no idea what this means. Right, I fully agree. Chart me up in the "kernel architecture" category and lets find somebody else do the PR writing... Right. Can we see a show of

make release

2001-03-24 Thread Alexey V. Neyman
Hello there! I just read FAQ on making release and have one question. FAQ says I must be having full CVS source tree (or be able to access it via CVSROOT), but I'm behind modem connection. So I'm curious why it is not enough to have a cvsupped src-all/doc-all/ports-all collections? And is there

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 06:31:44PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: 2) even if you have hardware with an "fxp" on board, adding a second supported card is cheap and easy -- nothing like having to put in a second video card; Many, many U1-form-factor systems have two fxp on-board NICs. No room

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Jacob wrote: 1 - Give a select group of people the docs under NDA 2 - If there are any specific features Intel wants avoided, get them to identify them up front. 3 - Let them write a driver that uses whatever features that are useful, wi th header files that

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Dennis
At 04:19 PM 03/24/2001, Will Andrews wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:12:34PM -0500, Dennis wrote: For your info, Bub, what makes the BSD license attractive is its usability by commercial vendors, so maybe you should go play in Linuxland because you are the one in the wrong camp, not me.

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Dennis
At 04:07 PM 03/24/2001, Dan Langille wrote: On 24 Mar 2001, at 16:12, Dennis wrote: And why does all of your email have that stupid attachment? Whats the matter, cant figure out how to use an open-source mailer? :-) It's called a PGP signature. Could you two kids please take this pissing

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yes, I agree. We should delete the rest of this thread. On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Dennis wrote: At 04:07 PM 03/24/2001, Dan Langille wrote: On 24 Mar 2001, at 16:12, Dennis wrote: And why does all of your email have that stupid attachment? Whats the matter, cant figure out how to use an

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 24 Mar 2001, at 19:59, Dennis wrote: the only thing more annoying the 2 people having a discussion is a third person telling them to stop. Feel free not to read any more messages in this thread. Feel free to read the list charter. You two are in a pissing contest unreleated to this

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server

2001-03-24 Thread dannyman
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:50:51AM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: One thing that comes to mind is that you can smarthost your outgoing email to another host so the queues don't build up. This should greatly reduce mail load. In fact, I would recommend offloading email entirely if

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:11:54PM -0500, Dennis wrote: Most drivers are written without full docs. Feh. *EVERY* wpaul written Ethernet driver was written _with_ having the full docs. wpaul will not write a driver otherwise. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GNU is Not Unix / Linux

Re: Displaying options for current NFS mounts

2001-03-24 Thread Boris Popov
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Dima Dorfman wrote: Implementing the above functionality in mount(8) isn't actually that hard. We would need to export the filesystem-specific fs_args structures (e.g., nfs_args, ffs_args) to the userland. If we do that, mount(8) will be able to display all kinds of

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:36 AM +0100 3/24/01, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Shouldn't the FreeBSD project issue a press release welcoming Apple's MacOS X ? For what it's worth, the Red Herring article on MacOS 10, at: http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=storychannel=2002doc_id=1380018338 Mentions that:

Re: Displaying options for current NFS mounts

2001-03-24 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Dima Dorfman wrote: I tried to export this stuff in struct statfs, but ran into a problem: I'd need the complete definitions of fs_args in sys/mount.h, but I can't include, e.g., nfs/nfs.h because the latter includes the former (sys/mount.h)! mount.h used to know too

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Rich Morin
As a part-time journalist, I receive a fair number of press releases. Most get tossed, unopened, in an effort to simplify my life. When I do open a release, it all too frequently contains news of some VP of paper clips who has gotten promoted to Senior VP of office supplies. I have considered

ata driver problems with CTX laptop

2001-03-24 Thread Ron Dzierwa
I have a CTX EzBook 800 series on which I have used FreeBSD version 2.2.8 since that version was current. At the time I had to use some of the PAO stuff to get the pcmcia enet to work, but everything else seemed to work fine. I just bought a new disk, and figured i'd install 4.2. The

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Dan Feldman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 1 Apr 2000 SEATTLE - The FreeBSD Project, Inc. officially welcomed today the introduction of Apple Computer's Mac OS X. The next-generation operating system uses the TCP/IP stack of an obsolete version of FreeBSD's flagship product, and is otherwise completely unrelated.

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Peter Seebach
In message Pine.BSF.4.21.0103242148060.89919-10@localhost, Dan Feldman wr ites: under the moniker "Public Source," after refusing to comply with Open Source Foundation rules for using the Open Source trademark. OS X ships with such industry-standard sofware as the Z shell and the Apache Web

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Dan Feldman
You're right, there's no need to pick fights. But I'm just pointing out that there's no reason FreeBSD should work particularly hard to create the appearance of an alliance with Apple, when all they've done is use the source of some kernel components and a number of utilities for a commercial