Re: Development for older FreeBSD releases

2001-07-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruce A. Mah writes: : Unfortunately it's not guaranteed...a lot of new hardware has been : released since December 1998 (the date of 2.2.8-RELEASE). :-p Copy the 2.2.8 cdrom onto a disk. Put your sources in that tree. Chroot. you now have the 2.2.8 compilers. W

Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/lib/libdialog checklist.c menubox.c radiolist.c textbox.c tree.c yesno.c

2001-07-17 Thread Eric Melville
> Modified files: > gnu/lib/libdialogchecklist.c menubox.c radiolist.c > textbox.c tree.c yesno.c > Log: > Improve the interface provided by libdialog. Move a cursor around over > the components and trigger actions based on its position. This reduces >

Re[2]: Flight of the rat, living wreck.....

2001-07-17 Thread Igor Podlesny
> Igor Podlesny wrote: >> > /* >> > * Macro for finding the interface (ifnet structure) corresponding to one >> > * of our IP addresses. >> > */ >> > #define INADDR_TO_IFP(addr, ifp) \ >> > /* struct in_addr addr; */ \ >> > /* struct ifnet *ifp; */ \ >> > { \ >> > regi

Details ... (please confirm or deny pccard bridging)

2001-07-17 Thread Joesh Juphland
/etc/rc.conf looks like this: pccard_enable="YES" pccard_mem="DEFAULT" pccardd_flags=" -i 10 -i 15" removable_interfaces="ep0 ep1" network_interfaces="lo0" (I have tried with and without that last lo0 line) and /etc/defaults/pccard.conf looks like this: config auto "ep0" 10 config auto "ep1"

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2001-07-17 Thread daemon
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please confirm or deny - bridging possible between PC cards ?

2001-07-17 Thread Joesh Juphland
Ok, so I finally got two identical "ep" cards to come up at the same time and both work. Thanks. But when I run: sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge=1 Nothing happens. They don't get put in promiscuous mode, and bridging does not get turned on, even though I have bridging in my kernel. Can an

Re: Network performance roadmap.

2001-07-17 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:37:46PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > Jiangyi Liu has been working on mbuf limiting code for the past week or > so. What he has is pretty complete, I expect to get most of it committed > once Bosko gets back. Well, I'm back. I'm now going to bed but my INBOX

Re: System unable to resolve hostnames

2001-07-17 Thread Ben Smithurst
Magnus wrote: > What makes it even more wierd, is that I am able to resolv hostnames by > using > 'nslookup'. > prompt # nslookup freebsd.org > server: dnscache01.chello.no > address: 212.186.255.29 > > Name:Freebsd.org > address: 216.136.204.21 > > Wich means I am able to resolve hostnames

System unable to resolve hostnames

2001-07-17 Thread Magnus
FreeBSD Alpha.chello.no 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD I have a wierd problem, where the system is unable to resolve hostnames. Even though I have configured resolv.conf, here is the output of the file: search chello.no nameserver 212.186.255.29 nameserver 212.186.255.30 I have checked the addresses, and

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-17 Thread Sergey Babkin
Julian Elischer wrote: > > The proble is that teh ethernet header is 14 bytes so you must choose > to allighn either the whole packet, or the IP header, but you cannot do > both. Hm, it seems to be a waste of CPU time memory bandwidth: only the IP and TCP headers have to be aligned but the payl

RE: x86 unaligned access followup.

2001-07-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 17-Jul-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: > > >> Actually, since the 486, it's been possible for us to turn on unaligned >> access exceptions on the x86. We should probably consider doing this, to >> ensure better performance, and to avoid the unnecessary bus overhead we >> eat for unaligned access to

Re: BIOS reading physical RAM

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Smith
> > Does anyone have a reference to the values of "type" field in the Intel > BIOS physical system RAM mapping? > > I am curious why we are using only entries of type "0x01". This table (from Ralf Brown's Interrupt List) is self-explanatory: Values for System Memory Map address type: 01hm

BIOS reading physical RAM

2001-07-17 Thread mark tinguely
Does anyone have a reference to the values of "type" field in the Intel BIOS physical system RAM mapping? I am curious why we are using only entries of type "0x01". --mark tinguely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

CTM is down again

2001-07-17 Thread Carlo Dapor
Dear fellow hackers I haven't received any CTMs since July 12th. Am I the only one ? My guess is that the main distribution point is malfunctioning. Can anybody with closer access to the 'feeder' check into it ? Thanks ! Ciao, dewrweil, -- Carlo To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swapping in diskless ? (was :Re: [hackers] Re: getting rid of sysinstall)

2001-07-17 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Matt Dillon([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.13 15:27:08 +: > Also, do performance testing with dynamic-linked verses static-linked > binaries. Static-linked binaries may look larger, but they have a > much lower dirty-page overhead then the dynamically linked equivalent. > It depe

SPARE_USRSPACE

2001-07-17 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Can anyone tell me why FreeBSD has 256 bytes of spare space in the user area? Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: math library difference between linux emulation and native freebsd

2001-07-17 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Terry Lambert writes: > "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: >>> The defaults for the Linux emulator are different than >>> the defaults for Linux. Linux sets some stuff up wrong, >> >> FreeBSD sets stuff up wrong. This is a choice between bad >> and worse, since the CPU does not support what you want. >

Re: Package based configuration control

2001-07-17 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Terry Lambert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > A surprising number of people have expressed an interest > in working on a package-based install in private email, > so it's probably an idea whose time has come. We should I think the base distribution will be a package in libh. We will have more

Re: math library difference between linux emulation and native freebsd (and native linux)

2001-07-17 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
: On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:45:29 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >One obvious reason that the Linux approach is wrong is >that it ends up requiring the save and restore of FP >registers on context switches, which is overhead they >ate anyway, by doing TSS based context switching. The >amount of state

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-17 Thread Richard Hodges
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > Richard Hodges wrote: > > Go ahead and beat me up if you have to :-) But why is there _any_ issue > > with RX buffer alignment? I get some mbufs and set the data pointer to > > any point I want, or I get a cluster, which is always on a 2k boundary. >

x86 unaligned access followup.

2001-07-17 Thread Matthew Jacob
> Actually, since the 486, it's been possible for us to turn on unaligned > access exceptions on the x86. We should probably consider doing this, to > ensure better performance, and to avoid the unnecessary bus overhead we > eat for unaligned access today... not to mention how it could shake ou

Re: math library difference between linux emulation and native freebsd (and native linux)

2001-07-17 Thread Terry Lambert
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > >> There are only two shared libaries in common (libc and libm) and > >> both are the same on FreeBSD (in /compat/linux) and Linux. > >> > >> So any ideas on where the program is going wrong? > > > > man fpsetround > > That won't change a thing. Both systems round to

Re: Whitespace at end of line

2001-07-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > Maybe I'm just plain dim today (I will add a beer to > > > > rectify this situation at first convenience..) but what > > > > is so bad about some trailing whitespace that a massive > > > > commit-a-thlon is called for? > > > > > > You use emacs, don't you? > > > >

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-17 Thread Len Conrad
Here´s an explanation from today´s BIND-users traffic: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Path: not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind Subject: Re: Am I wrong? References: <9j1i3n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Genuity, Cambridge, MA Higher-level servers

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Bill Paul wrote: > Now, before any of you armchair geniuses out there start chiming in > with your incredibly brilliant solutions for this problem which you > just made up on the spot, forget it. This issue has been discussed > to death and there's just no easy way around it. > > Terry Lambert an

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Richard Hodges wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Bill Paul wrote: > > > They're "okay." The NatSemi chip has one flaw, which is that RX buffers > > must be aligned on a 64-bit boundary. None of the more expensive NICs have > > this restriction. > > Go ahead and beat me up if you have to :-) But

RE: pagedaemon + vmdaemon

2001-07-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 16-Jul-01 Dan wrote: > > ya it seems it is running into swap abit. > hmmm watching apache with truss i see alot of error #35's > in the sys callswhat is that related to again? >From sys/errno.h: /* non-blocking and interrupt i/o */ #define EAGAIN 35 /* Resource

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-17 Thread Len Conrad
> If you look at the cache dumps and dig output below, you can clearly > see the timeout for fuji.jamcracker.com is less then the timeout > for jamcracker.com AFTER we've looked up other elements for fuji, > which means that when it timed out, that IN A record will be gone. >

Re: disabling reboot on kernel panic

2001-07-17 Thread Dima Dorfman
"Eugene L. Vorokov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > maybe it's a bit offtopic, but still: how can I disable reboot on kernel > panic in 15 seconds, so that it just hangs and I'm able to see what > happened when I come ? Set PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME to -1. > > Regards, > Eugene > > > T

Re: pagedaemon + vmdaemon

2001-07-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:34:52PM -0700, Dan wrote: > > ya it seems it is running into swap abit. > hmmm watching apache with truss i see alot of error #35's > in the sys callswhat is that related to again? /usr/include/errno.h says: #define EAGAIN 35 /* Resource t

Re: disabling reboot on kernel panic

2001-07-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:26:22PM +0400, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: > Hello, > > maybe it's a bit offtopic, but still: how can I disable reboot on kernel > panic in 15 seconds, so that it just hangs and I'm able to see what > happened when I come ? compile with DDB or if you enable crashdumps in

Re: Really simple patch...

2001-07-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
fixed. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harti Brandt writes: > >Could please somebody make this little, trivial and obviuos patch, I >requested it a while ago, or should I make a PR for it?? > >Hi, > >()s are missing around the macro argument in cv_waitq_empty. The call > >if(!(cv_waitq_e

Really simple patch...

2001-07-17 Thread Harti Brandt
Could please somebody make this little, trivial and obviuos patch, I requested it a while ago, or should I make a PR for it?? Hi, ()s are missing around the macro argument in cv_waitq_empty. The call if(!(cv_waitq_empty(&sc->foo_cv))) ... will otherwise fail to compile

disabling reboot on kernel panic

2001-07-17 Thread Eugene L. Vorokov
Hello, maybe it's a bit offtopic, but still: how can I disable reboot on kernel panic in 15 seconds, so that it just hangs and I'm able to see what happened when I come ? Regards, Eugene To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the messag

Re:

2001-07-17 Thread Bruce Dang
look in /usr/include/net/if_var.h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello. > I am reading TCP/IP Illustrated and it is making references to variables in > the BSD4.4 code. I would like to use these same variables, specifically the > variable ifnet, which was declared in BSD4.4 as a struct ifnet *ifn