Crash after: discard frame without packet header

2004-12-27 Thread Olafur Osvaldsson
Hi, I've had two crashes on two different machines (one on each) running the same kernel and same hardware in the last week. I see the following two entries in /var/log/messages on both machines right before the crash: Dec 27 09:00:21 bastet kernel: bge0: discard frame w/o packet header Dec 27 09

Mysterious system freeze-ups on my consoles...

2004-12-27 Thread Barry Bouwsma
Howdy. I've had this problem on FreeBSD 4.x for some time, on occasion. What happens is that when using a handful of full-screen applications on the normal syscons consoles (alt-F1 on up), the system occasionally locks up entirely right as I'm doing some navigation on the screen. I can't get into

Re: parameters for tsleep(9)

2004-12-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roman Kurakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : >I am just writing a device driver for the i82527 (can-bus) chip. : >For testing I need the driver to poll the chip instead of running : >in interrupt mode. There's a canbus implementation in the pc98 specific

Re: i386_set_ioperm on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom Alsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Hi there. : : I'm trying to use some code I wrote quite a while ago using Doug : White's FreeBSD IPMI code (kcs.c, send-kcs-command.c, etc.). : : It still works as it did back then on FreeBSD 4.10. On FreeBSD 5

Re: HTT/SMP servers instability on 5.3-STABLE

2004-12-27 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 10 December 2004 03:48 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:58:06AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've heard it can penalize performance because the scheduler isn't > > optimized for logical CPUs. Does having HTT enabled impacts the > > stability of the system? > >

Re: Kernel crash w/o reason

2004-12-27 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 24 December 2004 07:13 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> What should I use instead? A semaphore? > > > >You shouldn't have unrelated kernel threads waiting for a user > >process at all, so this sounds like a design problem, regardless > >of which mutual exclusion primitive you use. (Bear in

Supported wireless PCI card?

2004-12-27 Thread security
Hi, I need to get a wireless card for my lan gateway.. But I have few options as what to buy in my country. I need a card that's supported (FreeBSD 5.3) and is capable of being an access point.. Here is the list of the cards I could find: - Belkin F5D7000 - SMC SMC2802W - SiteCom WL-121 Not too