Re: Wireless card not being detected

2007-02-21 Thread Coleman Kane
On 2/18/07, DAK GHATIKACHALAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Freebsd I have an issue with new card I need to make it work with freebsd, on /var/log/messages I get Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0: (manufacturer=0x0192, produc t=0x0710, function_type=6) at function 0 Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK

Re: Which file to request SIOCGIFMAC on?

2007-02-21 Thread Don Hinton
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:03, nocturnal wrote: > Hi > > Well that's weird, is MAC defined by default at all? I tried searching > for the definition but couldn't find it. > > I never thought it would be this hard just to get the ethernet address > from an ethernet interface in FreeBSD. I thin

Re: HEADS UP: interrupt filtering & newbus API breakage

2007-02-21 Thread Paolo Pisati
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:17:21AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Paolo Pisati wrote: > > > So, if none as anything against it, i'm going to commit this work on > > Friday 23 around 14:00 UTC, so speak now or forever hold your peace. > > With any kind of luck this is redundant information for you, b

Re: Which file to request SIOCGIFMAC on?

2007-02-21 Thread nocturnal
Hi Well that's weird, is MAC defined by default at all? I tried searching for the definition but couldn't find it. I never thought it would be this hard just to get the ethernet address from an ethernet interface in FreeBSD. I think i'll take a look at the netlib source next, something tells

64-bits platform question

2007-02-21 Thread Aard Nerd
Hi list, as far as I know Intel 64 architecture (formerly known as Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology, or Intel EM64T) enables 64-bit computing on desktop when combined with supporting software. If I am right, 64-bit computing (on Intel architecture) requires a computer system with a processor

Re: How to contribute to the pkg_* tools project ?

2007-02-21 Thread Lockless
Alexander Leidinger a écrit : Quoting Lockless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:30:19 +0100): We (Lucas H. and Alexandre C.) are two young students from France. We have a quite good theoretical knowledge of C programing, but we would like to improve our experience in real projec

Re: beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory)

2007-02-21 Thread Arone Silimantia
--- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know, but this seems to be a VM related > issue (not issue as in > bug). I think you've probably allocated pretty much > all your memory to > user-space stuff, and not left enough for the system > to function. If > you're on i386, and h

Zombie Jails - why don't they disappear?

2007-02-21 Thread Josef Karthauser
I've got zombie jails on a freebsd 6.x box (currently 6.2). There are no processes running under any of them, but they still appear on the jail list: server# jls JID IP Address Hostname Path 2 xxx.xxx.1.234host1.domain /data/jails/host1 1 xxx

Re: How to contribute to the pkg_* tools project ?

2007-02-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Lockless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:30:19 +0100): We (Lucas H. and Alexandre C.) are two young students from France. We have a quite good theoretical knowledge of C programing, but we would like to improve our experience in real projects. So we looked at the Projects

Re: beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory)

2007-02-21 Thread Arone Silimantia
--- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > after this attempt, swapinfo still shows zero swap > in use. > > > > What does this mean ? > > > > Is my system now in an unstable state ? Should I > reboot ? > > Did you try reducing your maxdsiz to something a few > hundred mb's less? No -

Re: Zombie Jails - why don't they disappear?

2007-02-21 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:00:35PM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > > > > Sockets (stuck in a state which can not be released immediately?) or > > other resources? I really think that this is a bug, though. > > It was discussed millon times already and there is at least one open > PR: > > http://

Re: Zombie Jails - why don't they disappear?

2007-02-21 Thread Maxim Konovalov
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, 01:21+0800, LI Xin wrote: > Josef Karthauser wrote: > > I've got zombie jails on a freebsd 6.x box (currently 6.2). > > There are no processes running under any of them, but they still appear > > on the jail list: > > > > server# jls > >JID IP Address Hostname

Re: Zombie Jails - why don't they disappear?

2007-02-21 Thread LI Xin
Josef Karthauser wrote: > I've got zombie jails on a freebsd 6.x box (currently 6.2). > There are no processes running under any of them, but they still appear > on the jail list: > > server# jls >JID IP Address Hostname Path > 2 xxx.xxx.1.234host1.domain

Re: Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > A couple of things. > > - The newer rt2661.c driver has not been MFC'd to 6.2. That is most > likely why your card is not working. > - 'ifconfig' when run as root will load the module for a network > driver provided it is a) in the path and b) name if_ name>.ko > >-Kip >

Re: beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory)

2007-02-21 Thread Eric Anderson
On 02/20/07 11:44, Arone Silimantia wrote: --- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: after this attempt, swapinfo still shows zero swap in use. What does this mean ? Is my system now in an unstable state ? Should I reboot ? Did you try reducing your maxdsiz to something a few hundred

Re: Fwd: Abyssmal dump cache efficiency

2007-02-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
Peter Jeremy wrote: > I've found that you do get a worthwhile improvement in dump|restore > performance by introducing a large (10's of MB) fifo between them. > This helps reduce synchronisation between dump and restore (so that > dump can continue to read whilst restore is busy writing a batch