[osol-discuss] Re: general attitude toward licensing problems

2005-09-13 Thread Ché Kristo
go easy mate... just think about this for a second, let me point out one fact that kind of limits GPL V3 compatability. GPL V3 does not exist as a final license, or to be fair it is a moving target. Making CDDL compatible with GPL3 would be likewell...writing drivers for Linux (moving

Re: [osol-discuss] general attitude toward licensing problems

2005-09-13 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Robert W. Fuller wrote: I find the general attitude toward the problem of incompatibility between the GPL and the CDDL distressing. Sun seems unwilling to resolve the issue. People who are NOT lawyers post their opinion with a clear anti-GPL bias. I do not consider this project viable

[osol-discuss] Re: putback logs for snv_20 - snv_22

2005-09-13 Thread Bob Palowoda
We've compiled putback logs for the putbacks that were made in between our 20050818 (snv_20) and today's 20050909 (snv_22) builds. They are up on the Nevada community page here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/putbacks_ 20050909.html They contain the bugids and files

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris Source Study Blog

2005-09-13 Thread Casper . Dik
from here http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStorecmdViewProduct_CPcatid=138714 $745 has no soalris 10 preinstalled that I can understand but no hard disk !? This message posted from opensolaris.org No harddisk, so no preinstalled OS. Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Porting xxxFS to Solaris? (was Porting ReiserFS to Solaris?)

2005-09-13 Thread Casper . Dik
Disclaimer: *I know very little about file systems* With all the discussion about porting ReiserFS and other filesystems to OpenSolaris I wondering whether it is possible to have a glue code in the kernel that can delegate all the filesystem operations to the user-level code and do it in a

Re: [osol-discuss] Wireless situation?

2005-09-13 Thread Eric Enright
On 9/12/05, Andrei Dorofeev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently working on releasing binaries for the ath(7D) driver for Atheros AR53xx chipsets and the wificonfig tool for Beta testing. I've got all required legal approvals and expect that this package will hit SDLC next if not this week.

[osol-discuss] Re: Hang installing b20

2005-09-13 Thread Jürgen Keil
Hmm, so uhci is hanging, and this is a AMD 850 MHz box. What kind of chipset is used in that box? VIA VT82C686A (VIA KT686) perhaps? This could be bug ID: 6311029 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6311029 Try workaround #1 or #2 from that bug (workaround #3 probably

[osol-discuss] Re: Hang installing b20

2005-09-13 Thread Andrew Pattison
The motherboard in question is an Asus A7V133 which does indeed use a Via chipset. I'll try those workarounds and let you know how it goes. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Hang installing b20

2005-09-13 Thread Andrew Pattison
That seems to have fixed it! I guessed how to combine the -B acpi-user-options=2 argument with the existing -B argument that was already present - it seems that writing: -B acpi-user-options=2,install-media=cdrom works. Does anyone know when this bug might get fixed? Cheers Andrew. This

[osol-discuss] Re: Hang installing b20

2005-09-13 Thread Jürgen Keil
When you have snv_b20 installed, please test the other workarounds, too. I'd like to know if acpi-user-options=8 works around the bug. And if setting the kernel variable uppc_unconditional_srs to 0 (instead of setting acpi-user-options) works around the bug, too. If you grab the opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Wireless situation?

2005-09-13 Thread Jason W
Cardbus uses PCI IDs so as long as the slots are working and the PCI IDs are in the device list, I think it should work. One thing that concerned me was on my HP laptop I can't get the Atheros card to work in linux because I can't get the Wifi light to ever come on since it is controlled by a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: priorities for additional Solaris consolidations

2005-09-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Common Desktop Environment (CDE) No plans to open source While I realize that's not under your control, has anyone approached TOG and the other contributing companies to at least consider it? The biggest obstacles to CDE are that given the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: No CDE in OpenSolaris

2005-09-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Do you really think that anything will happen here? It is not the first time that someone begs for making Solaris CDE opensource or at least accessible under NDA to allow customers/users do fixes and improvements. Solaris CDE source has been available under NDA to any educational instution

Re: [xwin-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] priorities for additional Solaris consolidations

2005-09-13 Thread Jay Cotton
Alan: You forgot FBPM. It makes sense that we should put that one out there. It will require some 'modifications' to be ready for prime time JC Alan Coopersmith wrote: Felix Schulte wrote: X Window System MED Maybe this should be changed to HIGH - Sun

[osol-discuss] Sol x86 w/GRUB booting single-user?

2005-09-13 Thread Bill Bradford
How the heck do I boot single-user when using Solaris x86 w/GRUB? I need to disable the GUI login and stay in text mode, otherwise I get thrown into a cant display this video mode brick wall. Bill ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Sol x86 w/GRUB booting single-user?

2005-09-13 Thread Robert Johnston
Try adding an entry like this to /boot/grub/menu.lst (of course, substitute the device in the root line for what's appropriate on your hardware) title Solaris 11 (single-user) root (hd0,1,a) kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot kernel/unix -s module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive rob Bill Bradford

[osol-discuss] usb cdrom install ... possible ??

2005-09-13 Thread Martin Cassidy
Hi All, Anyone know if its possible to install solaris express (b20) using an exteral usb cdrom ? i have tried and it boots until the point of configuring the network setting, dns etc then fails as cant find /cdrom or something (cant remember the exact error as i dont have the laptop live

[osol-discuss] Re: Wireless situation?

2005-09-13 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 9/13/05, Eric Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/05, Andrei Dorofeev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently working on releasing binaries for the ath(7D) driver for Atheros AR53xx chipsets and the wificonfig tool for Beta testing. I've got all required legal approvals and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Wireless situation?

2005-09-13 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 16:01, Bob Palowoda wrote: I venture to say that the majority of the users are going to assume cardbus is supported. It's going to look a bit funny if you have to have a release note saying the wifi cards are not supported only internal newer builtin mini-pci

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Wireless situation?

2005-09-13 Thread Andrei Dorofeev
The problem is that both pcic and pcmcia drivers have to be updated on laptops with S10 FCS to support newer laptops and make sure that all 16-bit PC Cards and 32-bit CardBus PC Cards get properly recognized. Also, for laptops running with snv_13 and later (when Advanced DDI Interrupt Framework

Re: [osol-discuss] License Discuss List?

2005-09-13 Thread Alan Hargreaves - Product Technical Support (APAC)
Simon Phipps wrote: On Sep 13, 2005, at 00:51, Jim Grisanzio wrote: Since we opened in June there have been several long threads on CDDL in general and CDDL vs GPL. As a result of those conversations many people have suggested that we add a license-discuss list. A license-discuss list would