Re: NTFS GSoC Project Idea

2012-03-28 Thread Gleb Kurtsou
On (28/03/2012 18:43), Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hello Efstratios ; > > In general, I agree with Gleb that you should start from > the Apple Darwin port instead of spending time on the > current FreeBSD driver. I'd suggest submitting two proposals -- too much depends on a mentor availability for a p

Re: NTFS GSoC Project Idea

2012-03-28 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello Efstratios ; In general, I agree with Gleb that you should start from the Apple Darwin port instead of spending time on the current FreeBSD driver. Please note that last year someone attempted to bring in smbfs from Darwin with your same strategy and failed: http://lists.freebsd.org/piperm

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, * have you filed a PR? * is the crash easily reproducable? * are you able to boot some ramdisk-only FreeBSD-8.2 images (eg create a ramdisk image using nanobsd?) and do some stress testing inside that? It sounds like you've established it's a storage issue, or at least interrupt handling for

Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, If there's a linux/netbsd/openbsd driver then you could work with us to port them. We in the wireless stack hacker group are sorely lacking developers working on the chipsets that are out there. OpenBSD tends to have a bunch of wireless drivers that Damien has either ported or reimplemented

Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Felder
Alright guys, I'm at the end of my rope here. For those that haven't seen my previous emails here's the (not so) quick breakdown: Overview: FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 crashes FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested (Sorry, not possible in our production at this time,

Re: Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-28 Thread Brandon Falk
Reverse engineering a whole driver could take a very long time, even with the proper tools. If it's possible, return the adapter, and buy a new one and verify that the chipset is supported before you buy it. Last time I bought a wireless card I sat in the store looking at the Wireless support list

Reverse engineering; How to...

2012-03-28 Thread Chris.H
Greetings, Over the past year, in an effort to convert my server farm to wireless, I've purchased some half a dozen USB wireless dongles, at a total cost of ~150.00. Unfortunately, none of them are (yet) supported — I know, I know, I've already had this debate with both dev's, & users. On the u

Re: NTFS GSoC Project Idea

2012-03-28 Thread Efstratios Karatzas
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Attilio Rao wrote: > 2012/3/27, Efstratios Karatzas : > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Gleb Kurtsou > > wrote: > > > >> On (26/03/2012 21:13), Efstratios Karatzas wrote: > >> > Greetings, > >> > > >> > I am a FreeBSD GSoC 2010 student, looking to participate

Re: NTFS GSoC Project Idea

2012-03-28 Thread Attilio Rao
2012/3/27, Efstratios Karatzas : > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Gleb Kurtsou > wrote: > >> On (26/03/2012 21:13), Efstratios Karatzas wrote: >> > Greetings, >> > >> > I am a FreeBSD GSoC 2010 student, looking to participate in this years >> > GSoC. The project that I wish to work on is the Fre