Re: 11.2-RC3 regression - networking igb driver

2018-06-24 Thread Jim Pingle
On 6/23/2018 1:27 PM, David Samms wrote: > There is a regression in 11.2-RC3 that effects the igb driver for Intels > C2000 SoC I354 Quad GbE Controller > > Supermicro A1SRi-2558F > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SRi-2558F.cfm > > This server has run 10.x and 11.x fine

11.2 dhclient MTU behavior is broken

2018-05-18 Thread Jim Pingle
The DHCP client, dhclient, in 11.2 was changed to support server-side MTU ( https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206721 ), but this MTU feature being enabled by default causes an unexpected change in behavior on upgrade, which to me is a POLA violation. My ISP sends a bogus MTU

Re: Ipsec VPN tunnel from a Win/7 box?

2013-02-22 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/15/2013 10:45 AM, Karl Denninger wrote: On 2/15/2013 9:37 AM, Kurt Lidl wrote: Hmm. I've got IPSEC tunnels from Windows XP and Windows 7 working to a FreeBSD 8.3 host, using NAT/T. I'm using the Shrewsoft client: http://www.shrew.net/software -Kurt _ The goal is

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-30 Thread Jim Pingle
On 8/30/2012 9:53 AM, Stas Verberkt wrote: I spent a little time today setting up an SVN mirror after reading this thread and wrote up a how-to for those looking to do the same. http://www.pingle.org/2012/08/24/freebsd-svn-mirror Comments/Flames/Corrections welcome... Just wondering: do

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-24 Thread Jim Pingle
On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: I found two good primers: http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html

Re: IPv6 and CARP crashes boxes

2012-06-01 Thread Jim Pingle
On 5/31/2012 5:31 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 31 May 2012, at 22:31, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 31 May 2012 06:42, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Hey list, The thread about Why Are You Using FreeBSD, listing the pros and cons of FBSD, has brought back a topic to mind.

Re: Policy on static linking ?

2011-01-15 Thread Jim Pingle
On 1/15/2011 5:11 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: If I compile openldap-client against openssl from ports, then it creates massive problems elsewhere. [snip problems] I dislike this method, because should openldap gets upgraded again and be linked against openssl port, I will lock myself out of

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-10-16 Thread Jim Pingle
On 9/16/2010 12:20 PM, Eivind E wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Eivind E wrote: (WW) RADEONHD(0): !!! Option HPD is set !!! This shall only be used to work around broken connector tables. Please report your findings to radeo...@opensuse.org

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-03-07 Thread Jim Pingle
On 3/7/2010 3:34 PM, Sam Leffler wrote: Not following the wlanX naming convention will cause confusion for things like rc config files (I believe). Definitely any tool I touched expects vap's to be named wlanX. Duly noted. I wasn't aware of just how many issues would arise from straying from

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/28/2010 7:54 AM, Rui Paulo wrote: On 28 Feb 2010, at 03:22, Jim Pingle wrote: Are you aware if similar work ongoing for the mwl(4) based 802.11n cards? I picked up a couple cheap this past week and have them working with hostapd but, as with the OP in the thread, only with G rates

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/28/2010 2:29 PM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Jim Pingle wrote: [snip] In this case, the mwl card is the AP. The client line is from an associated Windows 7 laptop with an Intel 5100abgn card which does show the AP as 802.11n in the AP list. I'm

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/28/2010 7:03 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: On 28 Feb 2010, at 17:38, Jim Pingle wrote: Are there some other bits that need set in order to have clients associate with HT rates? Or some other prerequisite conditions such as number of attached antennae? I do only have one antenna attached as I

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/28/2010 9:41 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: On 1 Mar 2010, at 02:26, Jim Pingle wrote: Ah, I wasn't aware of wlandebug(8). However, it doesn't seem to operate on this mwl(4) card. It sets the value of the sysctl net.wlan.0.debug and that doesn't show up on my system. Another system with a ral(4

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/28/2010 10:16 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: On 1 Mar 2010, at 03:05, Jim Pingle wrote: On 2/28/2010 9:41 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: On 1 Mar 2010, at 02:26, Jim Pingle wrote: Ah, I wasn't aware of wlandebug(8). However, it doesn't seem to operate on this mwl(4) card. It sets the value of the sysctl

Re: FreeBSD-8.0 802.11n support with ath/mwl

2010-02-27 Thread Jim Pingle
On 2/27/2010 9:09 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: On 27 Feb 2010, at 20:29, Robert Watson wrote: Progress on supporting 11n with atheros cards is on going. There's much more to it than adapting the rate control algorithm. Please stay tuned. Are you aware if similar work ongoing for the mwl(4) based

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-10 Thread Jim Pingle
On 12/10/2009 2:32 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: Which ALIX board exactly? There are some differences (even various BIOSes). Any chance you have vga driver in kernel? TinyBIOS emulates VGA a bit, redirects output to serial port. If at the beginning you are trying both VGA and serial port, output

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-10 Thread Jim Pingle
On 12/10/2009 2:28 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: On 12/9/2009 11:13 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: hi, FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu is ok,

Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes

2009-12-09 Thread Jim Pingle
On 12/9/2009 11:13 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: hi, FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu is ok, but booting off the CF (using boot0sio),

Re: 8.0-rc2 dropped hardsupport

2009-12-03 Thread Jim Pingle
Marten Vijn wrote: Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and 7.2 and higher): - WRAP 1C - WRAP 2E (EOL) - ALIX 1C Both devices stopped booting as described in several postings and pr's. My question/suggestion to announce this in the 7.2 and 8.0 release

Re: Freebsd 7.2-RC boot problem

2009-04-27 Thread Jim Pingle
subbsd wrote: Hello, i've got some problem with my SATA Optiarc DVD RW: message output on the screen in not stopped, but repeating with incremental delay: ... acd0: DVDR Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200S/1.06 at ata3-master UDMA33 HEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_Install Did

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Jim Pingle
Andrew Thompson wrote: Also an entry in UPDATING that a config error that was once harmless now renders the system unbootable (without intervention). Would this also be something that mergemaster could check for and warn against? Jim ___

Re: Possible regression in ifconfig under7.0 - removes validdefault route

2008-11-17 Thread Jim Pingle
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Summary: confirmed. Above two tests show that even if changing the IP to something else within the same network block, the default route is removed and not put back. This is pretty major, if you ask me. I've encountered similar issues before, and typically just added

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-01 Thread Jim Pingle
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: P.S. -- You're the 2nd person I've encountered in under a week who's using 440BX/GX-based hardware in present day. I would not be surprised if the board is simply going bad/failing due to age. :-) I still have quite a few of these in active use. They are good

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Pingle
Wesley Shields wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:28:44PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: Hey, these great comments bring up a different solution, which may be the way to go. It is simple: have a few of the common apps that are net-centric (like firefox) be simply calls to pkg_add -r in the

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Pingle
Dan Allen wrote: On 4 Sep 2008, at 8:22 AM, Jim Pingle wrote: Okay, so how about for packages on the base CD: * cvsup-without-gui (I also always use this) * rsync * perl As others have mentioned, there are plenty of uses for packages, even if I do not use them out of the box there are lots

Re: apachectl gracefult causes Signal 11 crash after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade [SOLVED]

2008-06-12 Thread Jim Pingle
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jim Pingle wrote: I need to see if I can improve the script any (suggestions are most welcome) then open a PR to see if it -- or logic like it -- can be included in the php-extensions meta port. Adding the script to the port seems like the way to go

Re: apachectl gracefult causes Signal 11 crash after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade [SOLVED]

2008-06-11 Thread Jim Pingle
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I myself haven't ever run into extension ordering issues like those described (and we've done hosting for years), but I don't doubt those who have experienced such. I am currently experiencing this :( In the past I shuffled

Re: php5 and postgresql 8.2/8.3

2008-04-17 Thread Jim Pingle
Claus Guttesen wrote: I have installed php5 with support for postgresql (php5-pgsql). If I install postgresql-client ver. 8.2.7 or 8.3.x apache (httpd) core-dumps. If I install postgresql-client 8.1.11 or 8.2.6 apache does not core-dump. I have confirmed that it's postgresql which makes

Re: jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE

2008-02-29 Thread Jim Pingle
Kris Kennaway wrote: Teemu Korhonen wrote: Did anyone find a solution to the jerky mouse -problem? It still exists in 7.0-RELEASE. I have pretty much exact same symptoms as in this post: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039599.html Part of the problem here is

Re: 7.0-PRERELEASE Fatal Trap 12 with sysctl and acpi

2008-02-27 Thread Jim Pingle
Jim Pingle wrote: Jim Pingle wrote: I'm having some trouble with a SuperMicro SuperServer 6022L-6 that previously ran 7.0-BETA4 without problems. Today, I updated this machine to 7.0-PRERELEASE and now it will not fully boot unless I disable ACPI. A quick search of the PR database didn't turn

Re: 7.0-PRERELEASE Fatal Trap 12 with sysctl and acpi

2008-02-15 Thread Jim Pingle
Jim Pingle wrote: I'm having some trouble with a SuperMicro SuperServer 6022L-6 that previously ran 7.0-BETA4 without problems. Today, I updated this machine to 7.0-PRERELEASE and now it will not fully boot unless I disable ACPI. A quick search of the PR database didn't turn up anything

7.0-PRERELEASE Fatal Trap 12 with sysctl and acpi

2008-02-14 Thread Jim Pingle
I'm having some trouble with a SuperMicro SuperServer 6022L-6 that previously ran 7.0-BETA4 without problems. Today, I updated this machine to 7.0-PRERELEASE and now it will not fully boot unless I disable ACPI. A quick search of the PR database didn't turn up anything similar with sysctl and

Re: Rebuilding World Problems

2008-02-13 Thread Jim Pingle
Gavin Spomer wrote: Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/12/08 7:01 PM make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE If you put KERNCONF into make.conf, you can simplify it to: make kernel Just to be clear, if I add the appropriate KERNCONF line in

Re: /usr/bin/objformat is missing

2008-01-29 Thread Jim Pingle
Chris H. wrote: [snip] While it didn't fix my seeming php5 module number limitation. I was able, after trial and error, to discover that the recode module was the module causing Apache to dump core. Simply removing it from the list cured it. :) Further investigation reveals that there are some

Re: Also seeing 2 x quad-core system slower that 2 x dual core

2007-11-30 Thread Jim Pingle
Pete French wrote: Have you checked that your dir hash isn't suffering due to lack of memory this can have a marked impact on seemingly trivial things like this as could silly things like the RAID card being installed in a different slot. RAID card is onboard on these things - how would I

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-20 Thread Jim Pingle
Artem Kuchin wrote: A day ago at 11 am i have turn off the server, pull out the old driver, installed a new one, turned of the server and started rebuild in an hour from remote location via web interface. After about 5 minuted the machine became unresponsive. Tried rebooting - nothing. I went

Re: long pause in startup

2007-07-18 Thread Jim Pingle
Charles Sprickman wrote: Any ideas on this one? This machine (one of those ancient VALinux 2U boxes, Intel L440GX+ board, dual PIII) hangs for a very long time between the second processor launching and geom_mirror kicking in. It does always boot, but the hang is more than a minute - just

Re: upgrade 6.2 to xorg 7.2

2007-06-08 Thread Jim Pingle
Stephen Clark wrote: There is a deadly embrace. The /usr/src/UPDATING says I am going to miss out if I don't have the meta port installed (which I currently don't), but when I try to install the meta port it tells me I should use portupgrade to upgrade Xorg, but the /usr/src/UPDATING

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-27 Thread Jim Pingle
Roland Smith wrote: Most spammers do not bother to return if they get a resend request. That's the whole point of doing this. So practically it doesn't increase bandwidth consumption. This conversation is getting rather OT for -stable, but I felt the need to ask a question: To defeat this,

Re: Adaptec 2100, asr driver

2006-12-13 Thread Jim Pingle
Willem Jan Withagen wrote: So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state of the RAID and its disk out into the open? It shure would give me a much better feeling, knowing that at least serious trouble would be detected by me. Instead of getting this call from a NOC.

Re: asr / raidutil not available for 6.x either ... ? :(

2006-12-12 Thread Jim Pingle
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Installed it from ports, and it installed the compat4x stuff, but although it runs with no args, as soon as I try to access the controller: # raidutil -d 1 -L physical osdIOrequest : File /dev/rdptr17 Could Not Be Opened Engine connect failed: COMPATILITY number

Re: php in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense

2006-11-23 Thread Jim Pingle
Dominik Zalewski wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 release on i386. I have a problem with pear and apache. Here is what I'm getting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pear list Installed packages, channel pear.php.net: = PackageVersion State Archive_Tar

Re: long timeout on boot

2006-06-02 Thread Jim Pingle
Antony Mawer wrote: On 3/06/2006 2:43 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: On 6/2/06, Gavin Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:30 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: Both on my own machine, and on systems in our test group's lab, we notice these long (like 2min maybe?) delays near the end of

Re: Freebsd 6.1 and Palm Tungsten C

2006-02-18 Thread Jim Pingle
Viktorija wrote: I have following problem. I have Palm Tungsten C and FreeBSD 6.1 on my laptop. I'm trying to synhronize my palm with freebsd, but without any success. What i did: in kernel added devices: ucom and uvisor. in usbd.conf: device Palm Handheld devname ucom[0-9]+

Re: [5.4-p6] Trouble with swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer on LSI(PERC4)-RAID on Dell PE6650

2006-01-11 Thread Jim Pingle
Raphael H. Becker wrote: Hi *, swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device amrd1s1d, blkno 77 Any access to the RAID is impossible (e.g. login on console, shutdown, ... ), have to powercycle it. What is the meaning of this message? I have encountered this error once before, and it

Re: Why use 60 sec on da0 during boot?

2005-11-19 Thread Jim Pingle
Lukas Ertl wrote: On 11/9/05, Ingeborg Hellemo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fresh new ProLiant dl380 2 CPU/dual core Fresh new FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE During boot I arrive at da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: COMPAQ RAID 1 VOLUME OK Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 135.168MB/s transfers