Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up. It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option. When I switch to the debug tty, I see da0, and all my device parameters. I've even created a second USB stick

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Ian Smith wrote: One more thing, while I remember .. seeing the USB stick is here ad0a, isn't that the old 'dangerously dedicated mode' now dropped from 8.0? That's da0a of course. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-05 Thread Randi Harper
:   Hi,     Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the   8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up.     It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB   devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option.     When I switch to the debug tty, I

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-01 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
For the archives, there's now a PR for this: bin/140972 - Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
Hi, Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up. It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option. When I switch to the debug tty, I see da0, and all my

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) 48225...@razorfever.net wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up. It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
Randi Harper wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) 48225...@razorfever.net wrote: It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option. Anyways, has anyone successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick

RE: Unknown devices

2009-10-16 Thread Arkady Tokaev
Fogot to ask. When I login as a root I see invitation sign %, not #. What it means? Arkady Tokaev From: tok...@hotmail.com To: free...@edvax.de CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Unknown devices Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:15:58 +0400 Grate thanks!I had installed from 3 CD

Re: Unknown devices

2009-10-16 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:14:29 +0400, Arkady Tokaev tok...@hotmail.com wrote: Fogot to ask. When I login as a root I see invitation sign %, not #. What it means? The prompt character shows if you are logged in as root or not. Most shells use $ or % for non-root, and # for root. Which shell are

Re: Unknown devices

2009-10-16 Thread RW
19M 18K 19M 0%/root /dev/md331M6.1M 24M20%/var $ What is the md devices?How I can remove them? See man md: The md devices refer to memory disks, RAM that emulates a hard disk. Sadly, I don't recognize a reason why your /etc, /usr/local/etc, /root

RE: Unknown devices

2009-10-15 Thread Arkady Tokaev
because I very novice in FreeBSD. I just followed the instruction for FreeBSD router. Once more thanks, Arkady Tokaev Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:38:03 +0200 From: free...@edvax.de To: tok...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unknown devices On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:04

Unknown devices

2009-10-14 Thread Arkady Tokaev
/dev/md0 9.4M 2.8M6.5M30%/etc/dev/md131M 16M 13M55% /usr/local/etc/dev/md219M 18K 19M 0%/root/dev/md3 31M6.1M 24M20%/var$What is the md devices?How I can remove them? freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Arkady

Re: Unknown devices

2009-10-14 Thread Polytropon
%/var $ What is the md devices?How I can remove them? See man md: The md devices refer to memory disks, RAM that emulates a hard disk. Sadly, I don't recognize a reason why your /etc, /usr/local/etc, /root and /var subtrees are mounted onto memory disks... seems that you're not running a default

Re: Additional sa devices?

2009-07-25 Thread Brian Seklecki
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 11:52 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, My question is what the difference is between 'sa0.0' and 'sa0.[1-3]'. I can't seem to find it documented anywhere. Maybe submit a PR+Patch to the man page file? ~BAS From the top of my head, I think I remember devices

Re: How to symlink devfs devices?

2009-07-09 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
to completly hide re0: # ifconfig re0 name lan0 Hi FreeBSD community Thank you all for replies. Yes, USB Mass Storage devices could be symlinked (may be others too) but ethernet devices cannot be symlinked but ethernet interfaces can be renamed. I have one more question, how do I know what

Additional sa devices?

2009-07-09 Thread Marcus Reid
Hi, I just plugged in an old SCSI tape changer, and got the following devices: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel6 Jul 10 03:28 esa0 - esa0.0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 96 May 14 05:43 esa0.0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 102 May 14 05:43 esa0.1 crw-rw

Re: Additional sa devices?

2009-07-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, My question is what the difference is between 'sa0.0' and 'sa0.[1-3]'. I can't seem to find it documented anywhere. From the top of my head, I think I remember devices sa0.[1-3] would represent different compression mode. Bests, Olivier

How to symlink devfs devices?

2009-07-08 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Hi Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? 1. A disk /dev/camera - /dev/da0s1 2. A network device re0 - lan0 Kind regards Sagara ___

Re: How to symlink devfs devices?

2009-07-08 Thread Paul B. Mahol
Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? 1. A disk /dev/camera - /dev/da0s1 devfs.conf(5) 2. A network device re0 - lan0 same as above, but there is way to completly hide re0: #

Re: How to symlink devfs devices?

2009-07-08 Thread Roland Smith
. But not in this case, I think. You don't want any old usb device to be linked to /dev/camera! USB devices are enumerated in the sequence thay are plugged in. So there is no hard guarantee that the camera will always be available as da0s1. It might be da1s1 if another USB drive was plugged in earlier. And not all

Re: How to symlink devfs devices?

2009-07-08 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:33:42 -0500, Sagara Wijetunga sag...@tomahawk.com.sg wrote: Hi Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? 1. A disk /dev/camera - /dev/da0s1 2. A network

Re: How to symlink devfs devices?

2009-07-08 Thread RW
. A disk /dev/camera - /dev/da0s1 devfs.conf(5) Geneally, yes. But not in this case, I think. You don't want any old usb device to be linked to /dev/camera! USB devices are enumerated in the sequence thay are plugged in. So there is no hard guarantee that the camera will always

IDE Devices and FreeBSD 7.2 Release Install

2009-06-30 Thread Mark Jacobs
I just built a new computer with an ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard and the install isn't seeing the IDE devices. I'm using the AMD64 DVD to install the OS. The computer sees both the 120GB IDE drive and the DVD drive, but FreeBSD only sees the six SATA drives once

FreeBSD 8.0: how to exchange order of recognized HDA devices?

2009-05-13 Thread O. Hartmann
(via on-board soundcard/chip and the attached speakerset and/or headphones). I see 4 mixer-devices: mixer0 through mixer3. mixer0 seems to be attached to the graphics-card, mixer1 shows the usual devices I recognize and mixer 2 and 3 are unknown to me, they show up only 2 facilities. To make

Re: FreeBSD 8.0: how to exchange order of recognized HDA devices?

2009-05-13 Thread Pieter de Goeje
problems - they either play no sound through the usual pathways (via on-board soundcard/chip and the attached speakerset and/or headphones). I see 4 mixer-devices: mixer0 through mixer3. mixer0 seems to be attached to the graphics-card, mixer1 shows the usual devices I recognize and mixer 2 and 3

Re: FreeBSD 8.0: how to exchange order of recognized HDA devices?

2009-05-13 Thread O. Hartmann
etc. do have problems - they either play no sound through the usual pathways (via on-board soundcard/chip and the attached speakerset and/or headphones). I see 4 mixer-devices: mixer0 through mixer3. mixer0 seems to be attached to the graphics-card, mixer1 shows the usual devices I recognize

Re: FreeBSD 8.0: how to exchange order of recognized HDA devices?

2009-05-13 Thread Alexander Leidinger
, like vlc, mplayer etc. do have problems - they either play no sound through the usual pathways (via on-board soundcard/chip and the attached speakerset and/or headphones). I see 4 mixer-devices: mixer0 through mixer3. mixer0 seems to be attached to the graphics-card, mixer1 shows the usual

Re: mounted usb devices crash

2009-02-27 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 15:58:53 Mel wrote: I looked for status on this project, can't seem to find it atm. Found it: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=306 Looks like it's even gonna be MFC'd \o/ -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and

Re: mounted usb devices crash

2009-02-27 Thread Marco
hej mel, thanx for the information. so it's fixed (ufs, msdosfs) on CURRENT. finally after years of pain, i cannot wait to test that :D best regards marco Mel wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2009 15:58:53 Mel wrote: I looked for status on this project, can't seem to find it atm.

mounted usb devices crash

2009-02-25 Thread Marco
hello list, i ran into a lot of crashes because of problems with externally mounted devices through usb. after successful mount, an ejecting of the device, w/o unmounting it, ususally results in a freeze of the system, followed by reboot. also with defect hardware, or cable problems this occurs

Re: mounted usb devices crash

2009-02-25 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 15:07:06 Marco wrote: hello list, i ran into a lot of crashes because of problems with externally mounted devices through usb. after successful mount, an ejecting of the device, w/o unmounting it, ususally results in a freeze of the system, followed by reboot

Current - USB2 - cups and lp devices.

2009-02-24 Thread eculp
I just rebooted my laptop that I have today's USB2 hopefully with the latest USB compatibility, if I understood the GENERIC kernel correctly. I'm using i386 version, up to date as of this morning. Ports are completely up to date. all etc/dev* stuff is as it was with USB1. With

Re: 7.4 - X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
on FBSD 7.1-stable i386. I followed the UPDATE procedures, had no errors on build, but on X -configure I get No devices to configure. Configuration failed. This is a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop, old I know, but 7.3 worked fine. The graphics is by Chips and Technologies

Re: 7.4 - X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:31:43PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:42 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 made X unsuable on FBSD 7.1-stable i386. I followed the UPDATE procedures, had no errors on build, but on X -configure I get No devices

Re: 7.4 - X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-13 Thread Robert Noland
no errors on build, but on X -configure I get No devices to configure. Configuration failed. This is a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop, old I know, but 7.3 worked fine. The graphics is by Chips and Technologies, nothing fancy, and the driver is xf86-video-chips-1.2.1. The full log

Re: 7.4 - X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-12 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:42 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 made X unsuable on FBSD 7.1-stable i386. I followed the UPDATE procedures, had no errors on build, but on X -configure I get No devices to configure. Configuration failed. This is a Compaq Armada 1700

7.4 - X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 made X unsuable on FBSD 7.1-stable i386. I followed the UPDATE procedures, had no errors on build, but on X -configure I get No devices to configure. Configuration failed. This is a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop, old I know, but 7.3 worked fine. The graphics is by Chips

Changing network devices looses internet traffic

2009-02-03 Thread Warren Liddell
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE an due to my old modem//router being on its way out to the graveyard in worakability, i have had to swap over to another, but having to use a USB connection instead of my onboard network card. Problem i have is telling my machine to stop looking for traffic on

X - configure - No devices to configure. Configuration failed

2009-01-27 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x - 0x00ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) Primary Device is: PCI 0...@00:08:0 No devices to configure. Configuration failed. What's going on? Obviously nothing happened with devices during the ports upgrade. The driver is still chips

boot-only?which cds?reprobing network devices during setup? (my minor experience/complaints today..)

2008-12-19 Thread Jay
working. It was working fine from Linux.It is a Sun machine with onboard nVidia ethernet. So I connected a USB to ethernet adapter.It works.But I had to reboot the computer.It would a little nice if setup would re-probe devices. Also, when you boot the boot only CD, and say to use the CDfor the install

Re: boot-only?which cds?reprobing network devices during setup? (my minor experience/complaints today..)

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
works.But I had to reboot the computer.It would a little nice if setup would re-probe devices. exit just setup and get back. kernel do autoattach, just setup scans devices once. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

use different mouse/input devices in X.org

2008-12-13 Thread Marco
Hi List, i've using a Notebook with touchpad which works perfeclty fine. However, i'd like also to use in paralell an external via usb connect mouse. If i configure this hard into X.org config it will work but i stumble here on problems. First of all, i have to shutdown the X.org Server to do so,

Re: use different mouse/input devices in X.org

2008-12-13 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:53:02 +0100, Marco ilikef...@web.de a écrit : Hi List, Hello, i've using a Notebook with touchpad which works perfeclty fine. However, i'd like also to use in paralell an external via usb connect mouse. If i configure this hard into X.org config it will work but i

Re: use different mouse/input devices in X.org

2008-12-13 Thread Marco
Hello Patrick, works like a charm. I had to test a little bit, but i ended up with /dev/sysmouse in Xorg config and the following lines in the devd.conf: attach 200 { device-name psm0; action /usr/sbin/moused -a 2 -p /dev/psm0 -I /var/run/moused.psm0.pid; /usr/sbin/vidcontrol -m

SATA devices not added/probed from ICH7 sata300 controller, FreeBSD7.0, 7.1beta, 8.0 Daily

2008-10-14 Thread John R. Huston
/3knjrp ) which utilizes the intel ICH7 southbridge for sata devices. I am currently running FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE. The issue is that although the sata controller is apparently detected correctly (It shows up by name in dmesg) the devices attached to it do not show up when running 'atacontrol list

PF traffic management on two devices + VPN

2008-08-22 Thread assetburned
Hi, I use PF to manage the traffic going through a VPN connection (ng0 to ng1). I am also able to manage the traffic on the device where I expect the VPN traffic (ed1 and ed2). But now my problems starts I also want to manage the outgoing traffic on ed0 to the WAN side. On my router s

Re: Has anyone used libusb for accessing usb devices here?

2008-07-23 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 06:20:09 Andrew Falanga wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 08:38:58 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to know if anyone here on the list has ever used libusb (http://libusb.sourceforge.net) for accessing usb devices. I successfully

Has anyone used libusb for accessing usb devices here?

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'd like to know if anyone here on the list has ever used libusb (http://libusb.sourceforge.net) for accessing usb devices. I successfully compiled and installed it on my FreeBSD 7 laptop but when I run a test program no USB HUBs are found. The same test on a Fedora box works fine. I

Re: Has anyone used libusb for accessing usb devices here?

2008-07-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to know if anyone here on the list has ever used libusb (http://libusb.sourceforge.net) for accessing usb devices. I successfully compiled and installed it on my FreeBSD 7 laptop but when I run a test program no USB HUBs are found. The same

Re: Has anyone used libusb for accessing usb devices here?

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to know if anyone here on the list has ever used libusb (http://libusb.sourceforge.net) for accessing usb devices. I successfully compiled and installed it on my FreeBSD

Re: Has anyone used libusb for accessing usb devices here?

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 08:38:58 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to know if anyone here on the list has ever used libusb (http://libusb.sourceforge.net) for accessing usb devices. I successfully compiled and installed it on my FreeBSD 7 laptop

Re: Reading from USB devices

2008-07-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the device? Start with usb(4). HID devices tend to be easier to deal with than others, but I doubt your instruments are in that category. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Reading from USB devices

2008-07-21 Thread Chuck Robey
things like VID/PID, and most importantly, reading the data from the device? Start with usb(4). HID devices tend to be easier to deal with than others, but I doubt your instruments are in that category. Actually, if it was a thumb drive, yes it would surely not be a hid device, but an oximeter

Reading from USB devices

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'd like to read data from a USB device that is not a thumb drive. How would I do this? For instance, it's an oximeter for reading biometrics. What libraries exist for reading things like VID/PID, and most importantly, reading the data from the device? Thanks, Andy

Re: Capturing ATA devices serial numbers

2008-07-08 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Monday 07 July 2008 19:24:36 Wojciech Puchar wrote: atacontrol cap device _Really_nice_ ... Will add it to my repertoire :) thanks for the hint Wojciech ! -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Capturing ATA devices serial numbers

2008-07-08 Thread Vaughn Clinton
Okay - I've tried this against two devices in the system. The devices queried are report as ad0 and ad2. When using the following command against either device I get the following response: usage: atacontrol command channel [args] Now, it must be noted that I am using a ccd device that's has

Capturing ATA devices serial numbers

2008-07-07 Thread Vaughn Clinton
All, I'm looking for a FreeBSD utility that will allow me to query a disk for its serial number. Can you point me to such a tool that'll allow me to do so? Regards, * Vaughn E. Clinton Systems Analyst Scientific Computing Resources HPC-3 Los Alamos

Re: Capturing ATA devices serial numbers

2008-07-07 Thread Jason Morgan
On 2008.07.07 13:54:06, Vaughn Clinton wrote: All, I'm looking for a FreeBSD utility that will allow me to query a disk for its serial number. Can you point me to such a tool that'll allow me to do so? Assuming you mean a hard disk, if you can run smartmontools, this is from smartctl(8):

Re: Capturing ATA devices serial numbers

2008-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
atacontrol cap device On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Vaughn Clinton wrote: All, I'm looking for a FreeBSD utility that will allow me to query a disk for its serial number. Can you point me to such a tool that'll allow me to do so? Regards, * Vaughn E. Clinton

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require a write to a physical disk. i don't think so. but if you use FreeBSD 7 use tmpfs. it says

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
-store is swap, I would have expected that changes would only be written-out when memory is needed elsewhere rather than to keep the backing-store synchronized. Let's recap :-) You said: Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode devices? In neither case does a write to the file

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Wojciech Puchar wrote: mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require a write to a physical disk. i don't think so. but if you use

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread RW
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:39:35 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I was referring to vnode devices. I guess there was some confusion because in your reply you mentioned swap, not vnode. Sorry, that was my fault. I meant to ask about about malloc and swap backed devices, and never

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but if you use FreeBSD 7 use tmpfs. it says it's experimental feature, but still not crashed on 3 computers i use it. There are known bugs, don't use it if you value your stability :) what it's missing is some kind of quota, you may crash the system by simply filling it up and using all swap

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Wojciech Puchar wrote: but if you use FreeBSD 7 use tmpfs. it says it's experimental feature, but still not crashed on 3 computers i use it. There are known bugs, don't use it if you value your stability :) what it's missing is some kind of quota, you may crash the system by simply filling it

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
RW wrote: But isn't the normal point of async to avoid having the cpu waiting for the disk with nothing to do. If there's nothing to block on, the cpu can be consistently utilized without async. I suppose with SMP it might help spread the work between cpus, but with a single cpu it seems like

md devices mounted with async

2008-06-14 Thread RW
mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require a write to a physical disk. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
RW wrote: mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require a write to a physical disk. Well, for vnode devices it does write to the disk

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-14 Thread RW
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:19:46 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
RW wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:19:46 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-14 Thread RW
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:08:34 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: I meant that a write to the filesystem doesn't require a corresponding write to disk, and the change can stay in memory indefinitely. Presumably, more or less, the same inactive pages get written-out to

listing attached devices

2008-04-10 Thread Chad Perrin
I feel like I'm missing something obvious. When I plug in a compact flash card reader, I can check /var/log/messages to see what devices it has recently detected. What I'd like to be able to do, however, is just enter a simple command at the shell prompt and get a list of what devices

Re: listing attached devices

2008-04-10 Thread Mel
On Friday 11 April 2008 00:50:00 Chad Perrin wrote: I feel like I'm missing something obvious. When I plug in a compact flash card reader, I can check /var/log/messages to see what devices it has recently detected. What I'd like to be able to do, however, is just enter a simple command

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-21 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the removal seems to come

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 16:21 +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the removal seems to come

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-20 Thread Patrick C
into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the removal seems to come unstuck. I have some barely literates on my systems, so I do need

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-20 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 08:43 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:55:37PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the removal seems

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-20 Thread Da Rock
devices working with my card reader), but the removal seems to come unstuck. I have some barely literates on my systems, so I do need to work this out. Is it possible to use a forced umount to do this? What are the options here? In all honesty, I'm not sure FreeBSD (or any other

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-20 Thread Michael Ross
Am Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:40:39 +1000 schrieb Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That last point would only occur if the device was still being written to- right? No. Removing a mounted device will cause a panic, writes pending or not. Maybe look at the emulators/mtools port, which gives you access to

removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-19 Thread Da Rock
I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the removal seems to come unstuck. I have some barely literates on my systems, so I do

usb devices don't wake up

2008-02-12 Thread Michael S
works as expected, except after putting the laptop to sleep with acpiconf -s 3, upon wake up, the USB devices (network card or flash drive) wouldn't work anymore. I tried to restart usbd and devd, and that wouldn't help. Anyone has an idea? Here are the dmesg and kernel config. Regards, Michael

Multiple if_bridge devices

2008-01-29 Thread Chris
. After trying to design the rules, I concluded that it was either illogical or beyond my ipfw rule skills. Then it occurred to me to try to run three if_bridge devices as shown in the second Target One box, 6 NICs, 3 networks kept isolated for arp but IP-managed in a single instance of ipfw. I got

Re: Multiple if_bridge devices

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Pratt
with a single LAN backbone as shown first here. After trying to design the rules, I concluded that it was either illogical or beyond my ipfw rule skills. Then it occurred to me to try to run three if_bridge devices as shown in the second Target One box, 6 NICs, 3 networks kept isolated for arp but IP

FreeBSD 6.2, bge devices not coming up (hanging at link state changed to DOWN)

2008-01-08 Thread Matthias Kellermann
Hi list, I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 on a IBM x236 dual Xeon server. This device has two network interfaces working with the bge driver. pciconf -v -l output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0: class=0x02 card=0x026f1014 chip=0x16a714e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device

Are 8K sector sizes sane for geli devices?

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
In creating a geli encrypted drive, I tried using a sector size of 8K, but experienced random panics. I've now switched to 4K and am using bonnie to stability test the partition. Is anyone aware of stability issues with geli partitions with blocks larger than 4K? The docs indicate that larger

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 6.2 - No floppy devices found!

2007-11-21 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 07:32:36 pm Cameron Stuart wrote: Hardware: Maxtron AMD opteron with 3ware 4 port PCI express SATA II raid 5 Problem Description: The 3ware driver must be loaded into the kernel using KLD, but the floppy device cannot be found However, the drive exists, and is

Problems Installing FreeBSD 6.2 - No floppy devices found!

2007-11-20 Thread Cameron Stuart
Hardware: Maxtron AMD opteron with 3ware 4 port PCI express SATA II raid 5 Problem Description: The 3ware driver must be loaded into the kernel using KLD, but the floppy device cannot be found However, the drive exists, and is configured correctly in the BIOS (IE, the system can boot from

Re: Install on new INTEL motherboard, can't find ATA devices

2007-10-24 Thread Thomas David Rivers
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:13 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: I just got a new INTEL motherboard - chock full of these new-fangled SATA connectors... and one legacy ATA connector. I moved a disk drive from an older box to this new one.. The machine can boot from the disk drive, but

Re: Install on new INTEL motherboard, can't find ATA devices

2007-10-24 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Just to follow up on the Intel DG33UB issues. I tried the 7.0 BETA bootonly ISO image today; and low-and-behold, that found the missing CDROM drive. I'm going to try the 6.3 BETA when it rolls out... - Thanks - - Dave Rivers - -- Work:

Re: Install on new INTEL motherboard, can't find ATA devices

2007-10-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:13 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: I just got a new INTEL motherboard - chock full of these new-fangled SATA connectors... and one legacy ATA connector. I moved a disk drive from an older box to this new one.. The machine can boot from the disk drive, but then

Install on new INTEL motherboard, can't find ATA devices

2007-10-22 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I just got a new INTEL motherboard - chock full of these new-fangled SATA connectors... and one legacy ATA connector. I moved a disk drive from an older box to this new one.. The machine can boot from the disk drive, but then after the kernel is up-and-running - it can't find the drive to mount

Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found

2007-09-04 Thread L Goodwin
it aborted, but when you press Enter, it goes ahead with the install). BTW, this is in FreeBSD 6.2. As a work around, if I go into the options and select rescan for hardware devices (not sure if that is the exact wording) after inserting the floppy disk, it will work OK as well. Might

Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
into the options and select rescan for hardware devices (not sure if that is the exact wording) after inserting the floppy disk, it will work OK as well. Might be worth a try. No luck. I've rescanned time after time, and get nothing. No sloppy devices show up in dmesg, cannot use mount_msdosfs

/boot/device.hints only work for some devices in FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-05 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Dear list I followed documents I found on the Internet which says by editing /boot/device.hints I can assign IRQ or disable devices, and I tried to do so, modification in /boot/device.hint do have effect over some device, for example: hint.fdc.0.disable=1 but some seetings do not have effect

Re: /boot/device.hints only work for some devices in FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I get knowledge of how device.hints works? e.g. maybe it can only work with device that is not managed by a PNP BIOS or maybe it only manage ISA devices but not PCI devices? It sounds like you haven't read man device.hints. That is a good place

Re: /boot/device.hints only work for some devices in FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-07-05 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2007-07-05四的 09:19 -0400,Lowell Gilbert写道: Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I get knowledge of how device.hints works? e.g. maybe it can only work with device that is not managed by a PNP BIOS or maybe it only manage ISA devices but not PCI devices? It sounds like you

Re: syslog to monitor devices

2007-05-30 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 30 May 2007 10:22:09 +0200 grace Ingabire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your quick reply. np Yes, I have seen that file in etc/syslog.conf. I want to monitor some of my devices, to know exactly who has log in, who is doing what on my system... It depends a lot on what

RE: syslog to monitor devices

2007-05-30 Thread grace Ingabire
Thanks for your quick reply. Yes, I have seen that file in etc/syslog.conf. I want to monitor some of my devices, to know exactly who has log in, who is doing what on my system... Can you advise me a script or any tool to examine the log files as I want to consider this machine as a server

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