Re: VLAN offloads on FreeBSD 6.3 & 7.0

2008-11-16 Thread Yony Yossef
Hi Max, do you happen to know if TSO (as other capabilities) can be enabled on a VLAN interface? I've already posted this question so I'm not sending this mail to the list. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Max Laier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2008 15:10:19 Yony Yossef wrote

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:19:49PM -0500, jT wrote: >Yes it will require a firmware blob as the 4965 one does. You are > required to take notice to the legal aspects of the blob via setting a > key in loader.conf. The firmware "blob" here is simply a large binary file that is loaded directly

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Sam Leffler
The 4965 firmware license does not require an ack via the loader tunable. This used to be true but was changed recently as I was mistaken about the license (only iwi and ipw firmware requires the end user acknowledge the EULA). Everything else that was said seemed spot on. Sam jT wrote:

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Max Laier
On Monday 17 November 2008 05:27:48 jT wrote: >I know you are busy, but can you explain what about my response was > wrong when you say doesn't require sysctl ack -- you mean > acknowledgment? I just would like to know for my future reference and > Steve sorry for my misinformation. the firmw

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread jT
Sam, I know you are busy, but can you explain what about my response was wrong when you say doesn't require sysctl ack -- you mean acknowledgment? I just would like to know for my future reference and Steve sorry for my misinformation. > > iwn firmware does not require a sysctl ack. > > Sam

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Sam Leffler
jT wrote: Steve, A few Iwn drivers *are* supported, mine being iwn 4965 -- is supported and has been committed to 8.0-CURRENT. You can find more information about development on this hardware here : http://www.clearchain.com/blog/posts/iwn. I'm pretty sure that there is not that much work do

RE: How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

2008-11-16 Thread Peter Steele
> How does it fail? There doesn't seem to be any error generated. Or at least I tried to capture stderr and got nothing. > Is the binary you added statically linked? The command I'm doing most of my testing with is gmirror. I pulled it from one of our operation FreeBSD boxes, and it appears to b

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread jT
Steve, A few Iwn drivers *are* supported, mine being iwn 4965 -- is supported and has been committed to 8.0-CURRENT. You can find more information about development on this hardware here : http://www.clearchain.com/blog/posts/iwn. I'm pretty sure that there is not that much work done on your m

Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Steve Tremblett
Is there any development being done to support the Intel 5100 wireless device? Linux support is very recent (within the last month), and I believe it requires a firmware blob. Does FreeBSD align with OpenBSD on the whole blob debate? ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: VLAN offloads on FreeBSD 6.3 & 7.0

2008-11-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Yony Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Second, my NIC is capable of holding a vlan table on HW, filtering > vlans on it's own, now I need to find a way to update that HW table > with added/deleted VLANs in order to use that VLAN filtering offload. If I may piggyback a question here: What is the

Re: How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

2008-11-16 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Peter Steele wrote: I want to make a custom FreeBSD install CD-ROM with additional commands available in the mfsroot image. Adding the new commands to the image is easy enough, and I've made an install.cfg file on the CD-ROM as well so that when the CD runs the commands in i

How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

2008-11-16 Thread Peter Steele
I want to make a custom FreeBSD install CD-ROM with additional commands available in the mfsroot image. Adding the new commands to the image is easy enough, and I've made an install.cfg file on the CD-ROM as well so that when the CD runs the commands in install.cfg are automatically executed. This

Re: Request for individuals interested in reviewing test / python topics

2008-11-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Alexander Leidinger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Quoting Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:08:02 >> -0800): >> >>> Hello Hackers and Porters, >>>I'm c

Re: Request for individuals interested in reviewing test / python topics

2008-11-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:08:02 > -0800): > >> Hello Hackers and Porters, >>I'm currently working on a proposal to the FreeBSD foundation to >> use Python Nose as a

Re: convert bootable freebsd iso to bootable flash image

2008-11-16 Thread Tim Kientzle
Luigi Rizzo wrote: Just in case people have a similar need, or can point me to better code to do the same job: i needed to convert a bootable FreeBSD iso image into a bootable flash image, and have come up with the following code (derived from PicoBSD). The nice part is that this is all done wit

Re: VLAN offloads on FreeBSD 6.3 & 7.0

2008-11-16 Thread Yony Yossef
Thanks! it looks like a solution. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Max Laier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2008 15:10:19 Yony Yossef wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm working on an Ethernet driver for FreeBSD, currently implementing >> VLAN offloads. >> I have two problems, one is e

Re: VLAN offloads on FreeBSD 6.3 & 7.0

2008-11-16 Thread Max Laier
On Sunday 16 November 2008 15:10:19 Yony Yossef wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm working on an Ethernet driver for FreeBSD, currently implementing > VLAN offloads. > I have two problems, one is enabling TSO over the VLAN interface and > the second is enabling the VLAN filtering offload. > > About the TSO p

VLAN offloads on FreeBSD 6.3 & 7.0

2008-11-16 Thread Yony Yossef
Hi All, I'm working on an Ethernet driver for FreeBSD, currently implementing VLAN offloads. I have two problems, one is enabling TSO over the VLAN interface and the second is enabling the VLAN filtering offload. About the TSO problem, I'm currently suffering a hugh performance penalty since I ha

Re: Request for individuals interested in reviewing test / python topics

2008-11-16 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:08:02 -0800): Hello Hackers and Porters, I'm currently working on a proposal to the FreeBSD foundation to use Python Nose as a testing framework for writing tests. If there are Are you aware of the history of the current

Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance w/ HP DL 585 using FreeBSD 7.1 Beta2

2008-11-16 Thread Won De Erick
> - Original Message > From: Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Won De Erick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 10:16:31 PM > Subject: Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance w/ HP DL 585 using > FreeBSD

Re: KLD loading, liking

2008-11-16 Thread Ed Schouten
* Alexej Sokolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sysinit_set -contain a structure with a pointer to function which will be > called by loading of KLD When you place SYSINIT() lines in your code, you can request functions to be called when the code is loaded. There are also some macro's such as MTX_SY