[osol-discuss] help!help!!help!!! Problem about charactor device driver

2008-05-06 Thread xulari
I wrote a driver xxx, I want it to be loaded when i start the computer so i put xxx into /kernel/drv/sparcv9/xxx but after i reboot the solaris10, i check the /var/adm/messages i found just after driver "attach", it "detach" ... then i "add_drv xxx" failed , instructions "Driver (xxx) i

Re: [osol-discuss] help me...! system call rename(2)

2008-05-06 Thread leno
thanks , i remember that you asked the same question. i want to know how you do with "rename(2)". This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] WPC54G Wireless Card.....

2008-05-06 Thread Judy
Elwood Edwards wrote: > I just downloaded and burned the latest LiveCD and have booted it but I'm > hessitant to install it on my laptop because it appears to not see my Linksys > WPC54G PCMCIA card (Atheros). Can "prtconf -D | grep ath" show the PC card? If not, send me the output of "prtco

[osol-discuss] Progress on kernel PPS for NTPD?

2008-05-06 Thread Matthew Smith
Can anyone advise when kernel PPS is expected to be working with NTPD? Also, will NTPD support various GPS inputs as the 'standard' version does - for example NMEA, Motorola Binary, etc.? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] help me...! system call rename(2)

2008-05-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 08:59:48AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > mv /export/home/us/oldfile /export/home/us/newfile > > but rename(2) never update cache path. v_path = /export/home/us/oldfile. > > help me...,how about update caceh path? > > Why do you need that ? > > v_path is _NOT_ the ca

Re: [osol-discuss] 76B Cannot find install software

2008-05-06 Thread kristof
| Is there a way to get Solaris to install from pxeboot via FreeBSD? I think it should work, but it will need some more work then if you are using (open)solaris, because they provide scripts such as add_installserver which does most work for you, I think those scripts won't work on BSD, So will

Re: [osol-discuss] [arc-discuss] Project planning and ARC/no-ARC integration (was "was Alpine, now Exim...")

2008-05-06 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 5 May 2008, James Carlson wrote: > You're assuming that the port was complete, and that the bits in the > port were put into some suitable format (a package) in order to upload > them somewhere. Yes, there will possibly always be this barrier, and it is most likely the best we can do s

[osol-discuss] opensolaris, ist it compatible with toshiba equium l30-149 ?

2008-05-06 Thread krughan
well most other distro are not. in terms of sound. i have a toshiba equium l30 and the only operating that is fully compatible with it is windows xp and vista unfortunate for me i bound to use the very same products that i dislike. so now im here asking this question too does any of your OS wor

Re: [osol-discuss] [arc-discuss] Project planning and ARC/no-ARC integration (was "was Alpine, now Exim...")

2008-05-06 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Mark Martin wrote: How would you be more helped by an external repository that doesn't have Alpine in it than an internal repository that doesn't have Alpine in it? Mark, In your description here, it wouldn't matter at all. What I was thinking is that we would actually ha

Re: [osol-discuss] [arc-discuss] Project planning and ARC/no-ARC integration (was "was Alpine, now Exim...")

2008-05-06 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Darren Reed wrote: > FWIW, I agree with the above - often > # ./configure && make && make install > is all I need to do. > > What I find annoying is when you use some package system (blastwave, > pkgsrc, etc) to build a package as they often insist that all of the > dependencie

[osol-discuss] WPC54G Wireless Card.....

2008-05-06 Thread Elwood Edwards
Hi :) I just downloaded and burned the latest LiveCD and have booted it but I'm hessitant to install it on my laptop because it appears to not see my Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA card (Atheros). I've tried other Gnome distros that didn't see my wireless card while running the LiveCD but DID see t

[osol-discuss] High kernel cpu time

2008-05-06 Thread Kriwet, Stephan
Hallo You have asked for that on Oct 2006. Did you ever get a solution for that? http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-October/020809.html Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards Stephan Kriwet * T-Mobile Deut

Re: [osol-discuss] Debian/Solaris

2008-05-06 Thread Salokine Terata
Yes I known Ian Murdock for its contributions in Debian project. It's for one of this reason I talk about Debian in this post. Distribution problematic - What I think: - Coherence between each package like APT: But I don't know what is the package tools for Solaris. - Provide workspaces

[osol-discuss] Blastwave now has 1, 800 software packages for Solaris

2008-05-06 Thread Dennis Clarke
ALL Solaris and OpenSolaris users : As of this morning and after focused effort by many people in the community, we now have 1,800 software packages at Blastwave.org which are all in the standard SVR4 style package format. They are all built to run on Solaris 10 and Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 an

Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...

2008-05-06 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 5 May 2008, James Carlson wrote: > I mostly agree with that. I don't envy the owner of that repository > -- he's got a tough row to hoe in terms of hosting content of unknown > and possibly legally risky origin -- but I don't think the existence > of such a place has much to do with this

Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...

2008-05-06 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I do feel that people need a zero barrier to access playground that > allows the university student or the guy trapped inside a corp somewhere > with no free resources to just jump in and play. Definitely, and I'd even like to see a program in place th

Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...

2008-05-06 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Two things : > > 1) happening : > 2 ) working on it : Wow, sounds good. I know a lot of folks use your packages, and I'm sure they will benifit from it greatly. Good stuff! -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group ___

Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...

2008-05-06 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 5 May 2008, James Carlson wrote: > I see no existing case for Exim or postfix. I don't know if anyone's > working on it. I believe that David Comay has a master list of open > source software that people are working on integrating, and you should > check with him. Yeah, I talked to Davi

Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...

2008-05-06 Thread James Carlson
Alan Coopersmith writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > We used to have such a thing in the Companion CD, but that's > > apparently fall out of favor with the rise of Indiana. > > Actually the Companion CD is the main other IPS repository currently > available, hosted at sunfreeware.com. Ah, that's t

[osol-discuss] Very poor performance BM5787

2008-05-06 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, I have a Compaq 6710b laptop with the BM5787 mobile gigabit network cad. All nevada builds give very poor performance, network wise. SCP sessions stall, sites take two minutes to open, etc. Under Solaris 10u4 I had the same problem with the bge driver, which I fixed by installing the BCME dri

Re: [osol-discuss] help me...! system call rename(2)

2008-05-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On Sun, 4 May 2008, leno wrote: > > > mv /export/home/us/oldfile /export/home/us/newfile > > but rename(2) never update cache path. v_path = > /export/home/us/oldfile. > > help me...,how about update caceh path? > > Why do you need that ? > > v_path is _NOT_ the cached path used for name looku

Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...

2008-05-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > Whether it's a vendor or a community site, I want to > know if I can trust the > software to do what one might reasonably expect that > particular FOSS to do, > and to continue to do so after an OS upgrade. > > "This worked for me, if it works for you too, that's > cool" is too weak, IMO;

Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...

2008-05-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On Mon, 5 May 2008, James Carlson wrote: > > > Alan DuBoff writes: > >> I am giving my committment to the Alpine package, > which I just compiled > >> and am sending this message with. > > > > Paul Jakma had PSARC 2007/609 approved for Alpine. > I don't know the > current status of it, though.

Re: [osol-discuss] help me...! system call rename(2)

2008-05-06 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Sun, 4 May 2008, leno wrote: > mv /export/home/us/oldfile /export/home/us/newfile > but rename(2) never update cache path. v_path = /export/home/us/oldfile. > help me...,how about update caceh path? Why do you need that ? v_path is _NOT_ the cached path used for name lookups via system call.

Re: [osol-discuss] [arc-discuss] Project planning and ARC/no-ARC

2008-05-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > What I find annoying is when you use some package > system (blastwave, > pkgsrc, etc) to build a package as they often insist > that all of the > dependencies must be present rather than some - which > defeats > the purpose of having "./configure". > > Darren Many of these things, it's a

Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...

2008-05-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
James Carlson wrote: > We used to have such a thing in the Companion CD, but that's > apparently fall out of favor with the rise of Indiana. Actually the Companion CD is the main other IPS repository currently available, hosted at sunfreeware.com. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROT