Re: Call for thread testers

2003-08-28 Thread Richard Coleman
OpenLDAP would also be interesting. Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Long wrote: All, This is kind of an unconventional call for help. As we approach the release of 5.2, we'd really like to show off the performance and stability of our new threading packages. So, I'm looking for people

/dev/lpt0 - always busy, except when acpi is disabled

2003-08-28 Thread Andrew Konstantinov
Hello, I am running: FreeBSD xxx.x.xxx 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Tue Aug 26 21:02:35 PDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386 I have a problem accessing the printer connected to the box via parallel port. Whenever I try to send something to /dev/lpt0, it

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-28 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:24:11 -0500, James Nobis wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:27, James Nobis wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: Hello James

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-28 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 18:27:57 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: On 27-Aug-2003 Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: Hello James and Ken, Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you have a Dell 8500. This

Re: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver

2003-08-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 at 20:31:22 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: On 26-Aug-2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; Wondering whatever further may have come of this discussion regarding FreeBSD support of the built-in ethernet for the Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook. Running a dual-boot

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-28 Thread Duncan Barclay
From: Kenneth D. Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a little loop that waits for the card to finish DMAing a packet. There should be a DELAY(1) in there. But it may be commented out. That's bad...in general the chip should DMA the packet and then update the consumer index and generate an

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-28 Thread Stuart Walsh
(apologies for the large cc list, im only subbed to -mobile so not sure who is where) On Thu Aug 28, 08:21P +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: From: Kenneth D. Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a little loop that waits for the card to finish DMAing a packet. There should be a DELAY(1) in there.

Atmel USB Wireless devices

2003-08-28 Thread Stuart Walsh
Hi, Firstly, it would be interesting to know if anyone else is working on support for these devices before I get too far into it :) I've started working on support for the above devices and have had some limited success so far. The device requires two sets of firmware to be uploaded for it to

Re: Atmel USB Wireless devices

2003-08-28 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Thursday 28 August 2003 15:26, Stuart Walsh wrote: Hi, Firstly, it would be interesting to know if anyone else is working on support for these devices before I get too far into it :) Yes, I have bought a bunch of them about a month ago, and at this moment I have a working driver for them.

Re: Call for thread testers

2003-08-28 Thread Geoff Buckingham
With reguards to apache, can I ask what the state of the network stack and drivers is? I last did any serious apache benchmarking a long time ago, circa FreeBSD 3.1. Then the request per second figure dropped by about 50% when you enabled the second CPU on an SMP system as the apached's fought

Re: Atmel USB Wireless devices

2003-08-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: I have come very far in this process, but I am doing something wrong with releasing the old descriptors... So at this moment I use a trick to reset the device. After uploading the internal firmware I unplug the USB connector just far enough

Re: Atmel USB Wireless devices

2003-08-28 Thread Stuart Walsh
On Thu Aug 28, 07:15P +0200, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2003 15:26, Stuart Walsh wrote: Hi, Firstly, it would be interesting to know if anyone else is working on support for these devices before I get too far into it :) Yes, I have bought a bunch of them about a

Re: Bug FreeBSD 4.8 ATA driver

2003-08-28 Thread Mikulas Patocka
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Dan Lukes wrote: Mikulas Patocka napsal/wrote, On 08/20/03 01:39: I am reading FreeBSD ATA drivers because I want to use them as base for my ATA driver and I found a total nonsence: in ata-dma.c in FreeBSD 4.8, there is line if

New European software patents law !!!

2003-08-28 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
http://petition.eurolinux.org/ sign the petition against the new patents law. find more about this law at http://swpat.ffii.org/ and mirror their website (for load purposes). close your website as did www.gimp.org and protest with banners, and in any other way. God bless the virus industry.

FYI - Just got a kernel panic - RELENG_4

2003-08-28 Thread Marc Ramirez
supped as of ~ 1:40pm EST today The panic: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x5b4984c8 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc02714a9 stack pointer = 0x10:0xd5d3ecf4 frame pointer =

non reliable nmi

2003-08-28 Thread Don Bowman
I have machdep.ddb_on_nmi=1. I can drop into the debugger with the magic key sequence. However, when i hit the NMI jumper, i don't always go there. Sometimes I do. The system is 4-way SMP [2xHTT xeon processors] with 4.7. Any suggestion on where my NMI might be going?