Re: linux_base-7.1 problem

2002-07-08 Thread Nate Williams
DWC On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:35:41AM -0600, Jason Porter wrote: glibc-2.1.2-11. It finally exists with an Error code 1 and stops the install. Anyone else have this problem? DWC This happens sometimes when there are leftovers in /compat/linux from DWC linux_base-6, if you can rm -fr

Re: linux_base-7.1 problem

2002-07-08 Thread Nate Williams
DWC On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:35:41AM -0600, Jason Porter wrote: glibc-2.1.2-11. It finally exists with an Error code 1 and stops the install. Anyone else have this problem? DWC This happens sometimes when there are leftovers in /compat/linux from DWC linux_base-6, if

Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness

2002-01-28 Thread Nate Williams
Note that do not enable firewall (which is implied by firewall_enable=NO) is *not* equivalent to disable firewall. Maybe we're having an English language question. If something isn't enabled, doesn't that imply that it's disabled? Last I checked, enabled/disabled were binary operations. If

Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness

2002-01-28 Thread Nate Williams
: If I enable the clutch in my car, my car moves (assuming it's in gear). : If I disable it, the power is no longer going to the drive wheels. That's not quite right, but it is a good analogy. If you disable your clutch, then you are going to have to shift without it and deal with putting

Re: firewall config (CTFM)

2002-01-28 Thread Nate Williams
Could you please explain how the following makes sense? 1) I enable ipfw in my kernel 2) I do not configure it to allow by default 3) I reboot with firewall_enable=NO 4) The firewall defaults to allow If I set the default in my kernel config to deny, then that is

RE: firewall config (CTFM)

2002-01-28 Thread Nate Williams
Also, even *I* can't find answers to my questions with 30 minutes, and I know where to look, so I find you statement, well, to be brutally honest, both humerous and a little bit egotistical. : man rc.conf: firewall_enable (bool) Set to ``NO'' if you do not

Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness

2002-01-27 Thread Nate Williams
See above. It can easily be done in a more standard way. (One can argue that the '-z' should be the default flag, but so far I've failed to convince Warner of this fact. :) :) Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but the pccard_ether script (when last I looked at it) seems to assume exactly

Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness

2002-01-27 Thread Nate Williams
See above. It can easily be done in a more standard way. (One can argue that the '-z' should be the default flag, but so far I've failed to convince Warner of this fact. :) :) Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but the pccard_ether script (when last I looked at it) seems to assume

Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness

2002-01-26 Thread Nate Williams
You still haven't responded to my comment that I have it setup like this on some of my boxes so that I can do things that don't fit in well with the current firewall paradigm. Nor to my comment that we shouldn't be changing a security feature in a fail*UN*safe way. Explain to me how

Re: TCP NewReno causing wild performance fluctuations

2001-11-12 Thread Nate Williams
I think you should MFC this, Nate. I too think it should be merged, but I wanted to get Jayanth's feedback first. Nate :We've been using FreeBSD boxes as our reference ftp servers at work, and :because of the recent security issues, I've went through and updated a :number of our

Re: 4.4RC5: snd module testing (Test #1)

2001-09-17 Thread Nate Williams
Also, I get /kernel: csa: card is unknown/invalid SSID (CS4610) and /kernel: csa0: CS4610/CS4611 mem 0x5000-0x500f,0x5010-0x5010f irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci0. - I have a Thinkpad 600e (2645-4au) with the CS4610 PCI Accelerator and a CS4239 ISA audio sound chip. we

Re: HEADS UP: PCI bus breakage yesterday

2001-08-23 Thread Nate Williams
But now I am getting spontaneous rebooting of the computer. I'm seeing the same on my Thinkpad T22 -- pccard works again, but the machine's spontaneously rebooting after a while when I use a pcmcia WaveLAN card. It's a bit unfortunate. It doesn't reboot if I use the mini-PCI fxp card,

Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well

2001-05-31 Thread Nate Williams
It is being pulled from OpenBSD for what seems like a pretty good reason to me. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224mode=nested This is really quite sad as IPFilter really is a nice piece of software. The FreeBSD core team and Darren Reed have agreement in principle

Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well

2001-05-31 Thread Nate Williams
The FreeBSD core team and Darren Reed have agreement in principle that we can keep the sources in the source tree. We're still working on the details, but the amount of attention this issue is getting is just getting people needlessly upset. Is the license going to be modified to

Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot

2000-11-17 Thread Nate Williams
P.S. I am considering changing it back to non-polling given the problems. But that has other problems (eg on some Compaq? machines you want to use 3, but using 10 will wedge the machine). One of the 'biggest' reasons is that there isn't any good 'default' to use for polling. I had code in

Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot

2000-11-17 Thread Nate Williams
[ PCIC defaults to polling mode ] There are six million brands of laptop in the world. To be honest, this thread is basically the first one to say that there's something wrong. PAO3 has done this for some time, if I understand thigns correctly, and hasn't reported problems. FWIW, I

Re: Java v1.3 JDK/JRE for FreeBSD v4.x

2000-09-12 Thread Nate Williams
In dealing with the Netscape issue, I was reminded of the latest Java implementation on v1.3 of the JDK/JRE. Has there been effort to add Java JDK/JRE v1.3 to -current or possible -STABLE?!? Because Java is not open-source, it will never become a default part of the FreeBSD OS. An external

Re: Suggestion for change of /usr/src/UPDATING (was: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels)

2000-08-02 Thread Nate Williams
: : follow rebuild disk /dev entries above[1] : : -- reboot -- : : in single user : [...] : : This line should be "shutdown now", isn't it? Any further suggestions to : : make life of Warner easier? : : No. It should be "reboot" since that's the

Re: Suggestion for change of /usr/src/UPDATING (was: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels)

2000-08-02 Thread Nate Williams
: That's wrong. 'shutdown now' takes you to single user mode. 'shutdown -r now' : will make it reboot. That's changed since the last time I did shutdown then :-). Of course, that was 5 years ago or so... It's been that way since 4.3BSD, at least. Not sure which OS you were using at the

Re: APC Back-UPS Pro

2000-06-08 Thread Nate Williams
I'm having a bit of trouble with getting an APC Back-UPS Pro running on freebsd. It seems to be working with upsd from the ports collection. But every while I get a whole load of lines looking like this: upsd[355]: apc_tune: negative repsonse: N upsd[355]: apc_tune: negative repsonse: ^M

Re: CVS Commits (was: Re: ** HEADS UP ** /dev/[u]random file changes.)

2000-05-10 Thread Nate Williams
I got the same failures last night. Is it common to make commits to the -stable branch without attempting a build? Don't get my tone wrong, I'm just curious about the FreeBSD development process. I track it fairly often and no, its not common. More common are people getting

RE: 3c589D followup, almost working.

2000-04-09 Thread Nate Williams
[about my 3c589D card troubles] John Is it a combo card? If so, you might have to set the media for John it to work right. The media is set to 10BaseT/UTP How do you know? At least with the older driver, different versions of the card required different link flags, despite what was set

GDB on C++ programs under FreeBSD 3.X

2000-03-01 Thread Nate Williams
Any idea what would cause this? A co-worker is debugging a C++ program, and this sort of things works fine under 2.2, but doesn't work under 3.X. The "-static" linker flag did not appear to change anything. Any additional insights would be greatly appreciated. FreeBSD Version:

RE: Sendmail, 3.3-STABLE, relaying

2000-01-06 Thread Nate Williams
ok, so how would i deny access to an entire C-Class? Put "198.64.0 REJECT" in your access database (substituting the appropriate first three octets for the Class C network in question, of course), and then re-run makemap to update the access database. Ok, how do you

Re: URGENT! SHOW STOPPER! moused is broken!

1999-12-17 Thread Nate Williams
I am sorry. A report just came in, and I now have to conclude that the last minutes MFC of moused was ill-conceived. That supposed improvement on the 3 button emulation actually broke the wheel/roller support in moused ;- (Moused is now broken in both -CURRENT and -STABLE.) Eek.