Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ISC had been kicked out of the house without so much as a bye-or-leave. Ask brooks@ since he imported it I guess.. It seems to be a classic case of mis-communication :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Problems updating from 5.4 to 6.0

2006-01-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hardware, eg bad PSU, motherboard, RAM, or CPU. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2

2006-01-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on 20/12/05 prevented the nvidia driver building. Only yesterday did I revert those changes and built a new kernel installed it. Unfortunately I don't have any logs or top/ps output from before the new kernel :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2

2006-01-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
but I don't install world without first doing install kernel :) P.S. You're posting to the wrong list ;) Doh! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Have the device names for hard discs been changed? (fwd)

2006-01-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, and then it will correctly use /dev/ad6s1. If you're using 5.x or 6.x which have devfs, it would point to a bug in geom (or somewhere in the kernel anyway) as the device names are generated inside the kernel. Personally I'd just stick to not using dangerously dedicated. -- Daniel O'Connor software

KDE 3.5.0 seems much chubbier than 3.4.2

2006-01-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
seems to be using so much more memory? I did recently update to the latest -current (ie new malloc implementation) but the the sluggish behaviour was still present prior to that (although maybe not as bad) I have.. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 2 Oct 8 22:01 /etc/malloc.conf - aj -- Daniel O'Connor

nVidia RAID + FreeBSD 6.0

2006-01-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
read routine, but no write one - I think this means I can use it after it's been defined, but not rebuilt or create an array in the first place. Any clarification welcome. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: [5.4] mode bits changed by close(2)

2006-01-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on -current. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpXBGy2IS1v1.pgp

QEmu + floppies

2006-01-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on isa0 Google shows other people having the same problem and the likely candidate is fdc.c r1.290 although I haven't tried backing it out yet.. Does anyone have a fix for this problem? (or a work around) Thanks -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Using [Open]LDAP for authentication

2006-01-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to look for a different group and make sure the LDAP group is unique. Yeah, I worked around it by adding the few sudo/su users to the group file. I am surprised that this is necessary though - I would expect nss to look through all resources and merge group entries. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: Using [Open]LDAP for authentication

2006-01-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
should work for bootup too except that nss_ldap seems to sleep trying to reconnect to the ldap server instead of giving up quickly. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Using [Open]LDAP for authentication

2006-01-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I'll try that and see :) Even if that does fix it, I think it would be good to be able to run OpenLDAP as early as practical. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: fdisk on mounted disks ?

2006-01-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:11, Luigi Rizzo wrote: So, does anyone know the trick to be used to modify the slices on a mounted disk ? Or do i have to boot from a different media ? man 4 geom Set the kern.geom.debugflags sysctl to 0x10 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: newfs_msdos onto an image file

2006-01-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
all disk, and you should be ready to newfs it. I tried that and it didn't work. Seems that md is missing some magic newfs_msdos needs..? ie I did fdisk -BI md0 then fdisk -i md0 and changed the type to 6 but still couldn't newfs_msdos it :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates..

2006-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of poor coder those mean FreeBSD people keep ignoring. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E

Re: SUMMARY: Fast releases demand binary updates..

2006-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, or clueless.. This sort of attitude is necessary otherwise you'd waste heaps of time dealing with clueless people or trolls. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 )

2006-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:07, Jo Rhett wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:20:11PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I imagine there are a few committers interested, but I'd say you need to ask the right way first.. As in...? I don't know any personally, but then again I only know about 3

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 )

2006-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to say you're an idiot or your ideas [taken out of context] are wrong etc and such forth. I think people disagreeing with you is perfectly acceptable.. Calling you an idiot is no, but it seems to be fairly rare (even in this thread) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: powerd effectiveness

2006-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
if setting the above sysctl is not possible (but don't mix the two). How come? (I am just curious :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: powerd effectiveness

2006-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
down when the clock was (allegedly) very slow. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: Two PPP connections to the same ISP with same remote gateway

2006-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-RC1 #0: Wed Oct 26 13:29:47 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/local0/src/sys/GENESIS amd64 Same result.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: powerd effectiveness

2006-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpKYbiecSqq3.pgp

Re: powerd effectiveness

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
chipset . I'm suprised a system this old even supports a clock speed as low as 75Mhz. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: powerd effectiveness

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the frequencies you say with the hardware you claim. What does sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels say? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: powerd effectiveness

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is fraught with complexity because there is probably a significant delay between a change in power consumption and a corresponding chaange in heatsink temperature. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 )

2006-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, but I'd say you need to ask the right way first.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: FreeBSD Update is the binary update solution [Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006]

2006-01-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:02, Jo Rhett wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:26:44AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: How do you expect these two to be handled in a binary upgrade? I can't see how it's possible.. Look around. Every major commercial OS does it just fine. Most of the open source OSes

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 )

2006-01-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
[cross post to -current removed] On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:54, Jo Rhett wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:36:11AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On each 'client' PC.. NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj installkernel reboot installworld Works fine on home computers behind firewalls. Useless

RELENG_6 devfs problem

2006-01-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is alive but not very functional. What can I do to try and debug it? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766

Re: problems with wifi

2005-12-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
for it you need to run ndisgen to create a module for the driver in question. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 )

2005-12-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to the remote host, and then exposes it as if it were a real filesystem. Someone ported FUSE to FreeBSD for the Google SoC. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Booting from ZIP 750 ...

2005-12-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
another OS on it? If it looks like a hard disk I would think it *should* work as long as the partition FreeBSD is installed onto is set to be bootable. How did you partition and label the disk? I've booted FreeBSD from a Jazz drive but it was a long time ago (and on SCSI ISTR) -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: FreeBSD Update is the binary update solution [Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006]

2005-12-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
your jail(s). If you mean that it would be good if you could automatically upgrade a large number of jails and rebuild link farms etc etc.. well sure that isn't supported, but it is a very difficult problem to solve (I believe). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 )

2005-12-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
necessary, b) it may not solve the problem, c) there are no patches to evaluate. I think the people suggesting it see it as a panacea to fix their problems but haven't fully evaluated it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Re: Release Schedule for 2006

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on 2 development machines (still no clue how to fix this). Bit of a hammer, but you could try rebuilding php.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: devfs.rules and serial devices question

2005-12-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. NUT should definitely work without being able to open them. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(or even 50) syscalls a second is a big CPU load unless there is a specific problem with sysctls or the cpufreq infrastructure. I run powerd like this - /usr/sbin/powerd -i 90 -r 30 -a adaptive -b adaptive -n adaptive -p 200 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: nfs locking (was: Re: OOO 2.0 compiles but doesn't work properly)

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: Silicon Image 3132under RELENG_5

2005-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
corruption, etc, so you'd be better off buying another card. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Barton. Look here http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/ata/ I'm pretty sure those patches are for 4.x.. P.S. But, if all else fails, FreeBSD 6 looks like the direction I need to go anyway. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bios, acpi...? Can someone suggest to me whether these are both safe choices? I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d). Am I better off installing 5.4 or 6.0? I'd try 6.0 myself. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
typing this on an Inspiron 8600C with ATI Radeon). Mmm, the radeon man page claims Radeon 9000's are supported without caveats. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

2005-11-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and then the whole PC will lock up because the OS isn't polling the error register.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

2005-11-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a losing battle - you will be hard pressed to find a new PC for which the devices are properly supported. (eg stuff like onboard ethernet) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
signals to be missed. Strange.. I wouldn't expect to miss signals.. Missing frames I can believe - the picture quality sucks due to a long cable. Time to dig into the code myself I guess :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) and dropped frames. I don't use either of those, but a small program I wrote which captures YUV frames and uses the Xv extension doesn't show the problem. Capturing only pictures at 25 fps (with mplayer vo) can be handled easily. Hmm OK. So much to learn! :) -- Daniel O'Connor software

mplayer + bktr

2005-11-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it look much nicer :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
with xawtv and fxtv? Does the problem only show with mplayer? What other build options did you enable when building the software? I don't use either of those, but a small program I wrote which captures YUV frames and uses the Xv extension doesn't show the problem. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the mplayer lists to see if this problem appears on other systems. I'll try to do some research as well. Yeah, the long haul :( I was hoping for a magic wand ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: USB Card Reader Permissions

2005-11-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
or how to test a rule without rebooting. It isn't very obvious :( You can test your changes by doing.. /etc/rc.d/devfs restart -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: USB Card Reader Permissions

2005-11-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:20, Andy Fraser wrote: On Tuesday 08 Nov 2005 10:11 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I was wondering if someone could tell me how to set the permissions for a USB card reader when it's plugged in? I've been Googling for hours and found nothing concrete so far although

Re: burncd and dvd-drives

2005-11-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it to talk to SCSI devices) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Qualcomm modem via USB

2005-11-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
woulud say it's because umodem doesn't support modems that don't do multiplexed mode. See /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/umodem.c line 78. So, basically, it's an unsupported device unless someone writes the code to get it going. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to a tmp directory on my largest partition. This is a per system policy issue though so doing it by default is not the right answer. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
i386 Ahh that explains it.. Continue using wicontrol :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c

2005-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:05, James Long wrote: Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:05:23 +0930 From: Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c The command I use most is wicontrol -L Try ifconfig ath0 list scan

Re: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c

2005-10-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:31, James Long wrote: wicontrol is obsolete and you should not need to use it, particularly for ath(4) devices. Why are you using it? Is some feature you need missing from ifconfig? The command I use most is wicontrol -L Try ifconfig ath0 list scan -- Daniel

ath problem with 6.0-BETA5

2005-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to this problem. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpjbiqxg4M8C.pgp

Re: Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to be ignored. Services like SERVERS, NETWORKING, LOGIN, etc, are all provided within /etc/rc.d. rcorder /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* I believe rcorder is not used to start stuff in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (unfortunately). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: application to check cpu / system temp?

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
= 1.30, 2.62; Volt. = 1.54, 5.67, 11.73, -10.68, -4.55 If you have functional ACPI support you can use sysctl too. [inchoate 12:22] ~ sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 45.5C -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: lpt0 always busy

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
difference is that lpt0.ctl ignores BUSY on open so lptcontrol can use it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: Infra-red in FreeBSD... Remote control in XMMS... LIRC ??

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
will be committing RSN (when I get back to him anyway :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: lpt0 always busy

2005-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
printer will toggle the BUSY line as it should.. I don't believe you'd be able to print on any OS if this was broken. Are you sure nothing else is using the port? (lpd, cups, etc) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: lpt0 always busy

2005-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/EPP extras) very very simple. Have you tried using lptcontrol to put it into simple mode? What do you see in dmesg? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: lpt0 always busy

2005-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
busy ... It seriously looks like the printer, cable or port are broken, or the printer is very very special.. What sort of printer is it? You could try printing to /dev/lpt0.ctl since that will ignore BUSY for the open. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: Can't Logon as Root

2005-09-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT -PW And.. Don't login as root! Use su or sudo! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: wireless, ndis and my ovislink wl8000

2005-09-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the error message. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: wireless, ndis and my ovislink wl8000

2005-09-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is bridging the wireless network and your wired network so rl0 and ndis0 are on the same segment. Pick one or the other. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: wireless, ndis and my ovislink wl8000

2005-09-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
look forward to doing this all again with ndisgen when 6.0 is released. There are lots of Atheros cards you can buy (cheap ones too :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: NFS directory copies cause crash

2005-09-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a crashdump (or at least a stack trace via the console) so you could determine if their fix is applicable. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Can't reboot into single mode

2005-09-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
really booting into single user mode.. Try breaking into the loader (ie press space at the count down) then type 'boot -s'. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Can't load if_fwip on 6.0-BETA3

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
6:20] ~sudo kldload if_fwip interface firewire.1 already present in the KLD 'firewire.ko'! kldload: Unsupported file type if_fwe works OK though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Building Qt on 6.0-BETA3 amd64

2005-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
QString::makeSharedNull() *** Error code 1 Stop in /local0/tmp/work/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt33/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.4/src. *** Error code 1 It is built with.. WITH_CUPS=true WITH_KDE_PATCHES=true WITHOUT_NAS=true WITH_OPENGL=true WITH_XFT=true I'm just using the package for now. -- Daniel

textproc/aspell install problem

2005-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
with the PC in particular.f -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

6.0-BETA3 panic (vge)

2005-09-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a better idea of where the problem is. It appears to be tickled by doing recursive make operations on an NFS mounted ports tree (NFS server is running 4.x) eg make config-recursive seemed to trigger it pretty easily. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Can't dump on ATA RAID in 6.0-BETA3

2005-09-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(master) using ad4 at ata2-master ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master I have been able to dump on ATA RAID in 5.4 (using a Promise FT100 TX2) so I think this is a regression. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Re: VIA 6420 SATA150 RAID on 5.4

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
'broken', but I can try to boot. When FreeBSD boot: ar0: 194480MB VIA Tech V-RAID RAID1 status: BROKEN And I can't mount the raid. Hmm that's not good.. A mirror array should definitely not be broken with one drive removed :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

6.0-BETA3 tests

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that option does but I suspect it might be stale from a time when the atkbd default device flags were 0, not 1 and hence the PS/2 keyboard was always seen by default. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: VIA 6420 SATA150 RAID on 5.4

2005-09-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
BANC1G10 at ata3-master SATA150 ar0: 194480MB VIA Tech V-RAID RAID1 status: READY ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad4 at ata2-master ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master Have you tried pulling a disk while it's running to see how it copes? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: VIA 6420 SATA150 RAID on 5.4

2005-09-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 03 September 2005 00:35, Dominique Goncalves wrote: On 9/2/05, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried pulling a disk while it's running to see how it copes? No, because I don't know, if this controler and FreeBSD support hotplug for SATA disks. What about if you

Re: USB camera

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
out why :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpEClwtQk3f0.pgp

Re: /dev/midi and /dev/sequencer

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it, but not anymore. -Dan You can try OSS drivers from www.opensound.com. You will surely get at least software MIDI support. AFAIK Rosegarden can play using timidity.. The latency is fairly abysmal, but if you're listening to a composition it's tolerable. -- Daniel O'Connor software

VIA 6420 SATA150 RAID on 5.4

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
mean [g]vinum either :) I am interested to know if FreeBSD will grok the metadata etc on the array disks. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net80211 ieee80211.c ieee80211_input.c ieee80211_ioctl.c ieee80211_node.c ieee80211_node.h ieee80211_output.c ieee80211_proto.c ieee80211_proto.h ieee80211_var.h src/sys/dev/ath if_ath.c src/sys/dev/ipw if_ipw.c ...

2005-08-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 13 August 2005 14:27, Sam Leffler wrote: [Not sure why you're sending this to cvs-all] Oops, freebsd-stable@ is probably better. Daniel O'Connor wrote: ipw is still broken [for me].. Sorry but that wasn't the question. I don't believe the commit you are responding to changed

Firewire oddity..

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
: fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. When I tried this earlier with 65000 much larger files I managed to get rsync to use 125% of the CPU (no HT/SMP here).. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: x for users slow

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I would say your DNS is broken. Either the forward or reverse lookup is timing out. If that isn't it then maybe you have a strange card/driver? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: kb error

2005-07-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Thanks. What version, exactly? What sort of hardware? PS/2 or USB keyboard? Do you have anything in /etc/rc.conf? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: IrDA question

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
completed query completed query completed No peer station found The mobile phone had Ir switched on and I have tried running the command from various distances. Hmm, any way you can test it besides in FreeBSD? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
think the best way to rectify this is to test RC candidates on YOUR hardware.. This finds the bugs you need fixed at a time when people are very receptive to fixing them. It's not realistic for the release engineer to test on a lot of hardware as they are very busy doing other things. -- Daniel

Re: IrDA question

2005-07-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
which is rather annoying.. It has to be 15-20cm away otherwise it won't work (closer is as bad as far away). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4.mumble as I have installed plenty of systems like that. I will try some earlier 5.x releases (say, boot only ISOs) and see how it goes. - 5.1 works. - 5.2 insta-reboot. - 5.2.1 BTX halted - 5.3

Re: ndisgen intended to be the only way to generate ndis?

2005-07-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
expects to be linked to a .sys file. I suggest the best approach would be to submit improved documentation for the ndiscvt man page (and a new ndisgen page) along with some handbook changes. It would also be fairly trivial to modify ndisgen to take some arguments. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of these things since I don't have any spare hard disks or much time :( The disks I have used have been fresh from the maker so they shouldn't have any trace of FreeBSD on them anyway. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I think most reasonable people are sitting - they want decent tests, and have a good attitude to fixing the problems. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
doesn't reflect real world with but I *do* use dd in real world. Read what I said.. ... IN GENERAL ... -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on an Epox nForce2 board (I can't remember exactly which model) and it has never worked. They all have AWARD BIOSen (if it matters) I wonder if it's a problem where a memory area is overwritten because there is more info from the BIOS than expected (ie floppy, CDROM, RAID). -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
curious to see if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times). OK, well I'll try it a few times and see :) Thanks for your input. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
+ CD boot problem? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tree? Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the kernel source installed? I think you may need that to build the xfree86-dri port (I don't know why it doesn't check) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

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