Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-20 Thread Duncan Barclay
t; Wes Peters Softweyr > LLC > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://softweyr.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the bo

Re: httpfs

2001-03-15 Thread Duncan Barclay
e you using stdout to create an anonymous file handle? What happens if two processes concurrently read from /p/http/*? Duncan -- _ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the alcoholics, and the perman

Help with network driver development

2000-04-10 Thread Duncan Barclay
he driver won't be advanced to > RELENG_3 :-( PPS. This is my first driver. --- Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ___

Re: Help with network driver development

2000-04-11 Thread Duncan Barclay
gt; RELENG_3 :-( > > So I understand. Grr. Now that Warner's fried his iOpener, maybe he'll > get back to this. 8) It looks like there is a way to jury rig something for RELENG_4 but by hacking pccard.c to export a few functions. I'll also

Help with SIOCADDMULTI, IFF_ALLMULTI and IFF_PROMISC

2000-04-21 Thread Duncan Barclay
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Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-06 Thread Duncan Barclay
ng isn't built into the GSM system - yes they can tell what sector of a base station a mobile is in but much more than that is difficult. The other cells a mobile is aware of aren't aware of the mobile. Duncan --- __________

Getting an aligned IO port

2000-05-08 Thread Duncan Barclay
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RE: Getting an aligned IO port

2000-05-08 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 08-May-00 Duncan Barclay wrote: > Hi > > How can get a 16byte aligned ISA IO port from the resource allocator? I need > this to get if_xe working for Realport cards. It's okay I've worked it out and got RealPorts (well mine) working in -current again. Patches mail

Re: Getting an aligned IO port

2000-05-08 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 08-May-00 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Duncan Barclay > writes: >: How can get a 16byte aligned ISA IO port from the resource allocator? I need >: this to get if_xe working for Realport cards. >: >: This aspect of the driver is nothing to do

Re: Getting an aligned IO port

2000-05-09 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 08-May-00 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Duncan Barclay > writes: >: It's okay I've worked it out and got RealPorts (well mine) working in >: -current >: again. >: >: Patches mailed to -mobile. > > Cool. I'll commit

xxx_stop and ifq->if_snd in NIC drivers

2000-05-23 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hi all In a wireless NIC driver should one drain the output queue when the interface is stopped? I've been perusing /sys/dev/awi.c and the output queue is drained in that driver. Duncan --- Duncan Barclay

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-25 Thread Duncan Barclay
nts to ask him for them? > - Jordan Duncan, with tongue firmly in left cheek. --- ____ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. __

wakeup() question

2000-06-05 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hi all Does wakeup() ever cause a sleeping processes to run before the wakeup() function returns, or does it just mark the process as running? Duncan --- Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children

Re: Article: Network performance by OS

2001-06-16 Thread Duncan Barclay
estion, does anyone have an idea of what the split of Suns/HPs /SGIs etc. is between "internet/intranet server" vs. "work station on a desk" is? > -Matt Duncan --- Duncan Barclay

Re: trouble with 802.11 and kernel bridging (more)

2001-06-25 Thread Duncan Barclay
- Original Message - From: "list tracker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:27 AM Subject: Re: trouble with 802.11 and kernel bridging (more) > > ok, thank you! This explains my inability to perform bridging like I > expe

Re: Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)

2004-02-06 Thread Duncan Barclay
From: "Al-Afu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 6:44 AM > In Reference To: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-September/003151.html > > the above specifies a patch to include the bfe driver into a 4.8 kernel. How > do I proceed with this? > > Pardon my ignor

Re: Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)

2004-02-06 Thread Duncan Barclay
I've put Pavel's patches at http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bfe-4.8.tar.gz Duncan - Original Message - From: "Al-Afu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 6:44 AM Subject: Call for Help: patching if_bfe aga

Re: FreeBSD 4.7R and SATA

2004-03-02 Thread Duncan Barclay
From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FreeBSD 4.7R and SATA > Hello, > > Does FreeBSD 4.7R support SATA drives? I was planning on using an ASUS > A7V600 motherboard, which has a serial ATA RAID configuration. Check the archives for a couple of hacks to recognise the chipsets correctly. I ca

Re: FreeBSD 4.7R and SATA

2004-03-02 Thread Duncan Barclay
> > > Hello, > > > > > > Does FreeBSD 4.7R support SATA drives? I was planning on using an > > > ASUS A7V600 motherboard, which has a serial ATA RAID configuration. > > > > Check the archives for a couple of hacks to recognise the chipsets > > correctly. > > Thanks for replying. I neglected to men

Re: bluetooth

2001-10-04 Thread Duncan Barclay
on is based on Netgraph and supposed to be completely > optional. > > thanks, > max > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > --- __________

Re: Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD (full status)

2002-02-04 Thread Duncan Barclay
From: "Terry Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I haven't really taken an active interest in BlueTooth, > since there are no laptops or printers that come with > it already present; I rather think it will end up as > still-born because of 802.11e Gigabit wireless, which > can use as little or less pow

interrupt handlers in -current

2003-06-06 Thread Duncan Barclay
ndler does the kernel report a stary interrupt? -current for me is 5.1-BETA1 and I'm doing a driver for the BCM 4401 NIC. I'm transmitting packets but my handler isn't being called to clean up the DMA. Duncan -- ______

Re: interrupt handlers in -current

2003-06-06 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 05-Jun-2003 M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Duncan Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >: This is more of a confirmation of my understanding than anything else. >: In -current, should an interrupt thread be created you set up an int

Re: interrupt handlers in -current

2003-06-06 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 05-Jun-2003 M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Duncan Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It may also be the case that the interrupt for this isn't being > properly routed. 5.1-BETA has a bug that, for some laptop machin

RE: Rrrrrr.....

2003-05-27 Thread Duncan Barclay
gt; = > "If stupidity were a handicap, you'd have the best parking spot." > = -- Duncan B

Re: Broadcom 44xx (Re: Rrrrrr.....)

2003-06-02 Thread Duncan Barclay
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:08:22PM -0700, Bill Paul wrote: > > *NO*, the 44xx chips are *NOT* the same as the 57xx chips. The 57xx > > devices are 10/100/1000. The 44xx are 10/100 *ONLY*. > > Where is the 44xx showing up? I've got one in my new Acer 800Cli laptop (try www.acer.co.uk as Warner

Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver

2003-06-12 Thread Duncan Barclay
I am in the process of rewriting this driver for FreeBSD. It can transmit, but RX is not yet going properly. As this is evening work, it's likely to take at elast another week. > This is the onboard ethernet on my dell inspiron 8500 laptop and I > wondered when drivers might get to freebsd. The

RE: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver

2003-06-18 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 18-Jun-2003 David Gilbert wrote: >>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Duncan> I am in the process of rewriting this driver for FreeBSD. It > Duncan> can transmit, but RX is not yet going properly. As this is >

Re: BCM4401 driver

2003-07-28 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hello Bruce, From: "Bruce Cran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I realise that there's a 'beta' FreeBSD driver out for this card, and I've > been attempting to learn the kernel interfaces such as bus_dma and mbuf > handling to debug it, but without much success. On my Dell, it seems to > mostly work if I

Re: BCM4401 Support for FreeBSD

2003-07-29 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hello Terry, From: "Terry Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 12:18, Aeefyu wrote: > > > i.e. Broadcom 440x NIC support for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x (as found on > > > latest Dell's Notebooks - mine is a 8500) > > > > > > Would anyone be so kind to enlig

Re: BCM4401 Support for FreeBSD

2003-08-18 Thread Duncan Barclay
From: "Aeefyu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-hackers&m=105593188923273&w=2 > > I cant compile the above on my machine > Its only applicable for 5.x and not 4.x? > Sighs Correct, at present it is only for 5.x. A backport should no be too hard though. I now ha

mbuf/mbuf cluster adjustments (bcm driver)

2003-08-25 Thread Duncan Barclay
adj. Thanks Duncan -- ________ Duncan Barclay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send

New BETA of Broadcom 440x chipset driver

2003-08-25 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hi I think I have fixed the RX packet loss and memory corruption problems with the previous version of the driver. Please try the code at http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bcm-0308252140.tar.gz I have manged to get full link speed ftping large files in both direction. Also, I have successfully pop

Re: mbuf/mbuf cluster adjustments (bcm driver)

2003-08-26 Thread Duncan Barclay
From: "Harti Brandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > DB>I then account for this header by doing an m_adj(m, 30) before > DB>if_input(). However, this doesn't seem to work all the time. Looking at > DB>the code for

Re: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver

2003-08-26 Thread Duncan Barclay
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Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hello James and Ken, Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you have a Dell 8500. This is James' dmesg output, which from memory looks very similar to your Ken? > bcm0: mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaff irq 11 > at device 0.0 on pci2 > bcm0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:f

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 27-Aug-2003 Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: >> Hello James and Ken, >> >> Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you >> have a Dell 8500. >> >> This is James'

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-28 Thread Duncan Barclay
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This is a little loop that waits for the card to finish DMAing a packet. There > > should be a DELAY(1) in there. But it may be commented out. > > That's bad...in general the chip should DMA the packet and then update the > consumer index and genera

sata on -stable

2003-12-02 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hi Soren and all, Having just got a nice new motherboard, a PATA drive and a bunch of SATA disks I discover that my homework wasn't too good. -stable isn't detecting the VIA-8237 controller, and in particuluar it is not finding the SATA disks. I can hack the device recognition code to pick up the

Re: sata on -stable

2003-12-02 Thread Duncan Barclay
> From: "Soren Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> I can hack the device recognition code to pick up the 8237 and set UDMA133 >> mode on the PATA drive I have in the machine, but I cannot seem to find my >> two SATA drives. Any suggestions on how to at least find the drives - I >> don't need the h/w

Re: sata on -stable

2003-12-03 Thread Duncan Barclay
Thanks Soren, this seems to work. There is a load of chat about incorrect cable types, but the drives are nice and fast according to a simple dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k ... Duncan - Original Message - From: "Soren Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Duncan Barclay&qu

Re: sata on -stable

2003-12-04 Thread Duncan Barclay
From: "Soren Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >It seems Duncan Barclay wrote: >[ Charset windows-1252 unsupported, converting... ] >> Thanks Soren, this seems to work. There is a load of chat about incorrect >> cable types, but the drives are nice and fast accord

TIOCSCTTY not implemented in linuxulator?

2002-09-03 Thread Duncan Barclay
1_1 linux_devtools-6.1 linux_kdump-1.4 Thanks Duncan -- ____________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Steven King To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: PCMCIA questions: mapping attribute and common memory?

2002-09-07 Thread Duncan Barclay
isn't in the CIS - so I have to reset the window. If your cards are 16bits, then you won't need to do any of this. Whereas, the AM code above had to create a new mapping for the AM as pccardd doesn't leave that around for the driver (this is all OLDCARD). There is a raylink CIS at http:

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-17 Thread Duncan Barclay
line then? The techniques used for transmitting 100Mb/s down copper are certainly not digital. Pulse shaping, line estimation, ISI removal are all analogue! The cable itself is less improtant than the impedance matching at connectors and bends in the cable. Duncan --- ____

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-17 Thread Duncan Barclay
discussion was about cables. To carry your reasoning a bit further - a digital cellular phone system is not an RF/Wireless system because the data is digital. I hope we agree that it is! Duncan --- ________ Duncan Barclay |

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Duncan Barclay
fy customizing new installitions - one no longer needs to add exit 0 to scripts. Duncan --- ________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, d...@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the perm

Re: Algorithm used to delete part of a file

1999-05-29 Thread Duncan Barclay
removing/adding bytes into a storage area with block addressing. Duncan -- ________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, d...@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. __

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-17 Thread Duncan Barclay
g at connectors and bends in the cable. Duncan --- ________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-17 Thread Duncan Barclay
discussion was about cables. To carry your reasoning a bit further - a digital cellular phone system is not an RF/Wireless system because the data is digital. I hope we agree that it is! Duncan --- ________ Duncan Barclay |

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Duncan Barclay
fy customizing new installitions - one no longer needs to add exit 0 to scripts. Duncan --- ________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the alcoholics, and the perm