Re: STRIP in /usr/share/mk/

2004-09-23 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
> > while playing around ifconfig.c, I needed to use gdb(1) on the generated > > binary : > > > > z6po:ifconfig# make clean ; make DEBUG_FLAGS=-ggdb && make install > > [...] > > install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ifconfig /sbin > > install -o root -g wheel -m 444 ifconfig.8.gz /usr/shar

Re: ifunit and struct ifnet/ieee80211com

2004-09-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:23:21PM +1000, Phillip Crumpler wrote: > Hi hackers, > > A few questions re. ifunit and struct ifnet/ieee80211com, if anyone can > help me out: > > I assume that for a wireless interface ifunit will return a pointer to a > struct ieee80211com. Is there any way to tell

ifunit and struct ifnet/ieee80211com

2004-09-23 Thread Phillip Crumpler
Hi hackers, A few questions re. ifunit and struct ifnet/ieee80211com, if anyone can help me out: I assume that for a wireless interface ifunit will return a pointer to a struct ieee80211com. Is there any way to tell which of these I have, so I don't try to access ieee80211com members in a struc

Re: STRIP in /usr/share/mk/

2004-09-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-09-21 15:47, Jeremie Le Hen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > while playing around ifconfig.c, I needed to use gdb(1) on the generated > binary : > > z6po:ifconfig# make clean ; make DEBUG_FLAGS=-ggdb && make install > [...] > install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ifconfig /sbin >

Re: STRIP in /usr/share/mk/

2004-09-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi, > > while playing around ifconfig.c, I needed to use gdb(1) on the generated > binary : > > z6po:ifconfig# make clean ; make DEBUG_FLAGS=-ggdb && make install > [...] > install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ifconfig /sbin

Re: Crystalfontz LCD display from kernel?

2004-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:01, Tim Pushor wrote: > Theres' really nothing to port. I just want to output various things at > different points in the bootup process, and again when the system is > safe to shut off. I mean test the basics in a place that's easy to debug. > How painful is it to open/use

STRIP in /usr/share/mk/

2004-09-23 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi, while playing around ifconfig.c, I needed to use gdb(1) on the generated binary : z6po:ifconfig# make clean ; make DEBUG_FLAGS=-ggdb && make install [...] install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ifconfig /sbin install -o root -g wheel -m 444 ifconfig.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8 As you ca

Re: Dell gx280 and acpi problems

2004-09-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 23 September 2004 04:29 am, Danny Braniss wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 September 2004 04:58 am, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > could some acpi expert shed some light? > > > > > > -current panics on boot with BIOS default settings (Suspend Mode is S3) > > > fix: set Power Management/Suspend Mo

Re: Niagara 2250/2260 dual Gigabit passthrough NIC watchdog driver?

2004-09-23 Thread Brenden Grace
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:46, Guy Helmer wrote: > Has anyone done a FreeBSD driver for this card or patched if_em.c for it? The Niagara "driver" is really just the em driver with a character device to handle the user land utility. I have ported the basic functionality of the Niagara cdev to FreeBS

Niagara 2250/2260 dual Gigabit passthrough NIC watchdog driver?

2004-09-23 Thread Guy Helmer
I'm looking at the Interface Masters Niagara 2250 dual gig passthrough NIC for a filtering system. It has a watchdog timer that can bypass the interfaces if the software fails to update the timer. Interface Masters' web site claims FreeBSD 4 support, but when asked they were only able to prov

Re: Error 1802: IBM T41 doesn't like other network cards

2004-09-23 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:57:25PM +1000, Phillip Crumpler wittered thus: > Anyone else has similar problems? BMS@ reported ditching the Centrino > card in his T40 but didn't mention if he replaced it with something else. I used an official IBM Atheros part, so I didn't run into this problem

Re: Crystalfontz LCD display from kernel?

2004-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:18, Tim Pushor wrote: > My question is, I would really like to be able to display various things > during startup, shutdown, and once shutdown is complete to the LCD. I > assume I would have to modify the kernel for this. I done lots of C > programming, and hardware interface

Crystalfontz LCD display from kernel?

2004-09-23 Thread Tim Pushor
Hi hackers, I originally submitted this question on 'questions' but didn't receive much response. I am planning on putting a small 16x2 line LCD panel (crystalfontz 633) on a FreeBSD system, and writing a small application to control and display various things via the LCD and buttons. This is f

amdpm0: could not map i/o space

2004-09-23 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! A Google search for the Subject brought up a recent thread on this list. We have an amd64 system running 5.3-BETA5, with almost-working amdpm0: amdpm0: port 0xe0-0xff,0xb400-0xb41f irq 19 at device 7.2 on pci0 amdpm0: could not map i/o space device_attach: amdpm0 attach returned 6 The p

Re: slow login, app launching, etc

2004-09-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> inspired me to look at my resolve.conf one more time and try using names > instead of ip numbers. Sorry, not quite clear here, but numbers must come from somewhere, if not resolv.conf, then /etc/hosts or local named + maybe via root servers whose numeric addresses are themselves compiled into l

Re: execute a user process in the kernel

2004-09-23 Thread Jari Kirma
Gordon David wrote: Hello, I have a question. Anyone would like to tell me how to execute a user process or shell script in the kernel? As we know, the kernel forks a process named initproc and executes /sbin/init, etc. If I want to execute a user level process, such as a simple printf("Hello wor

Error 1802: IBM T41 doesn't like other network cards

2004-09-23 Thread Phillip Crumpler
Hello hackers, Wanting to try out Sam Leffler's wireless layer back-port I tried to replace the Intel miniPCI wireless card in my Thinkpad T41 (2373) with an Atheros based one. I had a Netgear WAG311 handy - these are an Atheros miniPCI wireless NIC on a PCI carrier - so I levered the top off

Re: Copy data from kernel to user space memory

2004-09-23 Thread Niels Heinen
> > I'm not sure that you get some performance with this method, usually > an application allocates memory, makes syscall and tells how many bytes > the kernel (the module) can store in this memory. But I don't see > the complete picture, so may be you can't use this standard approach. > Thats

Re: Copy data from kernel to user space memory

2004-09-23 Thread Andrey Simonenko
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:38:28AM +0200, Niels Heinen wrote: > The module buffers packets and currently copies it into user memory > when its system call interface is used. At the moment my user space > application is the one that allocates the memory. I want the memory > to be allocated by th

Copy data from kernel to user space memory

2004-09-23 Thread Niels Heinen
Hi all, I'm working on a kernel module that I want to use to copy packet data, obtained trough the phil hooks, to user space memory. The module buffers packets and currently copies it into user memory when its system call interface is used. At the moment my user space application is the one tha

Re: execute a user process in the kernel

2004-09-23 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:18:14AM +, Gordon David wrote: > Kqueue is a good method to notify the user. But I want the code in the > kernel directly calls a user program. This is Very, Very Hard indeed, because it's not something supported by the system, but it should be possible. Look at cre

Re: Dell gx280 and acpi problems

2004-09-23 Thread Danny Braniss
> On Wednesday 22 September 2004 04:58 am, Danny Braniss wrote: > > could some acpi expert shed some light? > > > > -current panics on boot with BIOS default settings (Suspend Mode is S3) > > fix: set Power Management/Suspend Mode to S1 in BIOS > > > > disabling ACPI on boot is not good, since this

Re: execute a user process in the kernel

2004-09-23 Thread Gordon David
From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gordon David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: execute a user process in the kernel Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:02:18 + (UTC) On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Gordon David wrote: > That's the point. I do not want the userland program to che

Re: execute a user process in the kernel

2004-09-23 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Gordon David wrote: > That's the point. I do not want the userland program to check /dev/fooctl > from time to time. I want the kernel to notify the userland program > instead. So how shall I do it? Maybe linker_load_file is a better way. man 2 kqueue ? -- Bjoern A. Zeeb

Re: execute a user process in the kernel

2004-09-23 Thread Gordon David
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:49:11AM +, Gordon David wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a question. Anyone would like to tell me how to execute a > > user process or shell script in the kernel? > > You probably really don't want to do this and if you do, there is > likely a better approach. Readi