Re: Help need please--Kernel Panic... 2nd post....

2002-06-18 Thread Doug Barton
[ You should post questions about 5.0-current on the freebsd-current mailing list first, for future reference. ] Andy Sporner wrote: Hi Hackers, I am using FreeBSD 5.0-20020302-PREVIEW and have the following panic. This is actually a pretty good time to cvsup your sources and build the

The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Bill Flamerola
Okay, this is not really intended as a flame, but kinda necessary, given the current situation in the FreeBSD camp. Let's see, some weeks ago a couple of people dropped their ports maintainership, why did this happen? Sergey dropped his ports because David O'Brien is an asshole. Yes, no news,

sbc/embedded FreeBSD friendly

2002-06-18 Thread Danny Braniss
for a lab course, we are looking for FreeBSD friendly boards, any suggestions are welcome, thanks, danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: sbc/embedded FreeBSD friendly

2002-06-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Danny Braniss wrote: for a lab course, we are looking for FreeBSD friendly boards, any suggestions are welcome, Depends on quantity. My favorite boards for this kind of thing are laptop motherboards, since they have the connections for a built in UPS, automatic software controlled power

Re: sbc/embedded FreeBSD friendly

2002-06-18 Thread dirkx
The soekris.com boxes work very well for me. Dw. -- Dirk-Willem van Gulik On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Danny Braniss wrote: for a lab course, we are looking for FreeBSD friendly boards, any suggestions are welcome, thanks, danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

mmap and MAP_NOSYNC

2002-06-18 Thread joy ganguly
Hi all, Hi, I want to use mmap as a means of doing IPC between unrelated processes. I do *not* want the data to hit the disk. So this is what I do :- fd = open(file, O_RDWR); p = mmap(fd, MAP_NOSYNC | MAP_SHARED); mlock(p, len); /* Whack around with shmem */ Now my question is , once I have

Re: mmap and MAP_NOSYNC

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Sporner
joy ganguly wrote: Hi all, Hi, I want to use mmap as a means of doing IPC between unrelated processes. I do *not* want the data to hit the disk. So this is what I do :- fd = open(file, O_RDWR); p = mmap(fd, MAP_NOSYNC | MAP_SHARED); mlock(p, len); /* Whack around with shmem */ Now my

Re: The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Bosko Milekic
Bill H., is that you? On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:39:57AM +, Bill Flamerola wrote: Okay, this is not really intended as a flame, but kinda necessary, given the current situation in the FreeBSD camp. [...useless stuff...] -- Bosko Milekic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Thanks Developers (Was The problem with FreeBSD)

2002-06-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
Please ignore the rhetoric from the anonymous poster... Thanks developers for good work. tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Christopher Schulte
At 08:39 AM 6/18/2002 +, Bill Flamerola wrote: Okay, this is not really intended as a flame, but kinda necessary, given the current situation in the FreeBSD camp. OMG R U SERIOUS? Thx for the warning, I'll ditch FreeBSD and load NetBSD right now.

Couple of issues with TGIF and HylaFax

2002-06-18 Thread Peter Elsner
Hi all, I just installed HylaFax on our FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE machine. Couple of small issues. First with regards to TGIF (in particular netpbm). 1) I created a fax cover sheet/page using the TGIF program. First problem with this is that the netpbm port that is required to properly install TGIF

Re: The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Jun 2002 at 10:21, Christopher Schulte wrote: At 08:39 AM 6/18/2002 +, Bill Flamerola wrote: Okay, this is not really intended as a flame, but kinda necessary, given the current situation in the FreeBSD camp. OMG R U SERIOUS? Thx for the warning, I'll ditch FreeBSD and load

Re: The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Randall Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020618 04:13] wrote: right... and to bring all these VILE people to public knowledge...you use a hotmail addr and a name that we are supposed to see as 'witty' or 'clever'. please don't take the silence from the people on the respeced boards you

Re: Couple of issues with TGIF and HylaFax

2002-06-18 Thread Sergey A. Osokin
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:27:26AM -0500, Peter Elsner wrote: Hi all, I just installed HylaFax on our FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE machine. Couple of small issues. First with regards to TGIF (in particular netpbm). 1) I created a fax cover sheet/page using the TGIF program. First problem with

Retrieving interface MAC address

2002-06-18 Thread Kevin D. Wooten
How can I go about retrieving the MAC address for an interface? Since SIOCGHWADDR doesn't seem to be implemented. Can anyone help?? Thanks, Kevin Wooten To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Retrieving interface MAC address

2002-06-18 Thread Robert Watson
I tend to retrieve address information about interfaces using getifaddrs(), which will (among other things) retrieve the link layer addresses of an interface. It might be overkill for your application, however. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL

Septic Tank Information 3572Uzd-7

2002-06-18 Thread customerservice3673s64
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Wide Character Support

2002-06-18 Thread Kevin D. Wooten
I am trying to figure out what wide character support is available for FreeBSD; I am in need of the i/o routines (i.e. swprintf). If they are not available standard ( which they dont appear to be ) is there a patch or a library that can provide this support?? Thank You! To Unsubscribe: send

Re: The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Hiten Pandya
--- Bill Flamerola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm talking to you, fucking Hiten Pandya, damned asshole. And I'm talking to you, stupid Alfred Perlstein. Alfred is an interesting person. He seems I know this address of yours is shit, but I know you read this list. I think you are making nice

Re: The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Eric Anderson
Lets stop the thread now please. Hiten Pandya wrote: --- Bill Flamerola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm talking to you, fucking Hiten Pandya, damned asshole. And I'm talking to you, stupid Alfred Perlstein. Alfred is an interesting person. He seems I know this address of yours is shit,

Re: The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: All I really have to say about the matter is that nothing says lack of genitalia like an anonymous hotmail account. :) You have a way with words there, Alfred. To add insult to injury nothing says lack of grey matter like: X-Originating-IP:

Re: The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:39 AM 6/18/2002, Bill Flamerola wrote: Okay, this is not really intended as a flame, but kinda necessary, given the current situation in the FreeBSD camp. Let's see, some weeks ago a couple of people dropped their ports maintainership, why did this happen? Sergey dropped his ports

Re: The problem with FreeBSD

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Percival
At 13:48 18/06/2002 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: At 02:39 AM 6/18/2002, Bill Flamerola wrote: [snip] You actually make some good points about the nastiness of some people in the FreeBSD community. I don't understand this. Where does all this nastiness happen? Maybe it's on -core. I don't

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2002-06-18 Thread Morsal Rodbay
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Chad Leigh -- Shire. Net LLC wrote: On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 08:31 , Morsal Rodbay wrote: I recenetly bought an Athlon XP 1800+... and it turned out that it wouldnt run XFree. Everything worked well besides X. Since a workstation

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2002-06-18 Thread Morsal Rodbay
Someone mentioned this MTRR problem earlier, I even tried a patch but it was unsuccessful. I think I'll make a new try with FreeBSD 4.6, maybe things will be more successful then. On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:53:07PM -0700, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: I'll bet you wouldn't have any trouble running

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2002-06-18 Thread Morsal Rodbay
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:16:25PM -0400, Scott wrote: At 10:26 2002/05/31 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 31 May 2002 at 2:31:32 +0200, Morsal Rodbay wrote: I recenetly bought an Athlon XP 1800+... and it turned out that it wouldnt run XFree. Everything worked well besides

Re: Retrieving interface MAC address

2002-06-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 13:41:02 -0700, Kevin D. Wooten wrote: Robert Watson wrote: I tend to retrieve address information about interfaces using getifaddrs(), which will (among other things) retrieve the link layer addresses of an interface. It might be overkill for your application,

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2002-06-18 Thread Morsal Rodbay
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:24:38PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:17:57PM +0200, Morsal Rodbay wrote: Someone mentioned this MTRR problem earlier, I even tried a patch but it was unsuccessful. I think I'll make a new try with FreeBSD 4.6, maybe things will be more

Re: LINT CPU features table

2002-06-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-06-16 22:38 -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Lucky Green wrote: If only a few CPU's would benefit from the CPU-specific options, creating a table of CPU options for those few CPU's should be all the simpler. What I am I missing? IMHO, the performance benefits

8 floppy drive anyone ?

2002-06-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I have a bunch of 8 floppies I need to try to recover contents from, is there anybody out there who has a 8 drive they'd be willing to part with for $$ ? If it comes with the magic SA800-PC cable it would be just perfect. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

Re: 8 floppy drive anyone ?

2002-06-18 Thread Julian Elischer
hard or soft sectorred? what OS? what format? double or single sided? I have leads in AUS if that helps.. On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have a bunch of 8 floppies I need to try to recover contents from, is there anybody out there who has a 8 drive they'd be willing to

Re: jail with multiple IPs (patch)

2002-06-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Michael Alyn Miller wrote: Hi, folks, [...] patch for multi addresses in jail. I apreciate that you have done this work, but I have a question why would it be useful? Do you have a need for it or is this an aesthetic issue? thanks Julian To Unsubscribe: send

Re: jail with multiple IPs (patch)

2002-06-18 Thread Chad Ziccardi
begin quote from Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] written 2002-06-18: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Michael Alyn Miller wrote: Hi, folks, [...] patch for multi addresses in jail. I apreciate that you have done this work, but I have a question why would it be useful? Do you have a need for

Re: jail with multiple IPs (patch)

2002-06-18 Thread Hans Zaunere
--- Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Michael Alyn Miller wrote: Hi, folks, [...] patch for multi addresses in jail. I apreciate that you have done this work, but I have a question why would it be useful? Do you have a need for it or is this an

Re: Wide Character Support

2002-06-18 Thread Tim Robbins
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:38:05AM -0700, Kevin D. Wooten wrote: I am trying to figure out what wide character support is available for FreeBSD; I am in need of the i/o routines (i.e. swprintf). If they are not available standard ( which they dont appear to be ) is there a patch or a

Re: 8 floppy drive anyone ?

2002-06-18 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have a bunch of 8 floppies I need to try to recover contents from, is there anybody out there who has a 8 drive they'd be willing to part with for $$ ? Got rid of anything this ancient years ago, but I'd suggest checking with the local university

Re: Wide Character Support

2002-06-18 Thread kevin
I am very interested in contributing in this area. Maybe you could point me to a starting place or person; as I have never contributed to FBSD as of yet. On Wed, 19 June 2002, Tim Robbins wrote On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:38:05AM -0700, Kevin D. Wooten wrote: I am trying to figure out

Re: Wide Character Support

2002-06-18 Thread Tim Robbins
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:41:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very interested in contributing in this area. Maybe you could point me to a starting place or person; as I have never contributed to FBSD as of yet. dec and kbyanc (both @freebsd.org) are apparently working on this

Re: sbc/embedded FreeBSD friendly

2002-06-18 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : for a lab course, we are looking for FreeBSD friendly boards, any suggestions : are welcome, We've had good luck with boards from Axiom, Teknor, Megatel, and Adastra running FreeBSD. The model numbers change

I Volunteer

2002-06-18 Thread Evan Dower
I don't know who might have use of my services (or what my services might be for that matter), but I hereby offer them up. I'm a student at the University of Washington and I'll be applying to the Computer Science major in February. I'd like to get involved with the OS that is serving me so

Re: I Volunteer

2002-06-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Evan Dower wrote: I don't know who might have use of my services (or what my services might be for that matter), but I hereby offer them up. I'm a student at the University of Washington and I'll be applying to the Computer Science major in February. I'd like to get involved with the OS

Re: I Volunteer

2002-06-18 Thread John Nielsen
- Original Message - From: Evan Dower [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:35 PM Subject: I Volunteer I don't know who might have use of my services (or what my services might be for that matter), but I hereby offer them up. I'm a student at the