Some interrupt coalescing tests

2001-10-11 Thread Mike Silbersack
Well, I've been watching everyone argue about the value of interrupt coalescing in the net drivers, so I decided to port terry's patch to 4.4 & -current to see what the results are. The patch included applies cleanly to 4.4's if_dc, and will apply to -current with a one line change. Whitespace i

Strike three, you're out

2001-10-11 Thread Doug Barton
For the first time in as long as I can remember (several years at least), I've backed my workstation at home down to -STABLE. The three problems I'm having currently are just too much for me to put up with, and at this point in my life I need something that works. Yes... I know that this i

current.freebsd.org successfully building snapshots again

2001-10-11 Thread Jordan Hubbard
drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 1024 Oct 11 22:17 5.0-20011011-CURRENT Come 'n get it. No warrantees stated or implied as to how far these bits get you after you transfer them, of course. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current"

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2001-10-11 Thread info
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Patch: mfsroot.flp to include more and more kernel modules

2001-10-11 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
I've posted (old version of) this patch before at cvs-committers, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more appropriate list so I post a new version of patch here. *** Attached below is a patch to make more kernel-modularize installation flopppies. - Why need this? Because we have very few space

ACPI panic at boot time in -current

2001-10-11 Thread Brian Somers
Hi, I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions about why this might be happening in -current: Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x32f34 data=0xf9c+0x1028 syms=[0x4+0x49c0+0x4+0x61a]- Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 198

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Re: my dc now doesn't work

2001-10-11 Thread Bill Paul
> > After the last cvsup (changes from 29 of september) i've got dead > dc (21143 based NIC). You have to tell us _exactly_ what card you have. Find the manufacturer and model info. Look on the box the card came in. Look at the card itself. Show us the output from pciconf -l so we can see the PC

Re: my dc now doesn't work

2001-10-11 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >After the last cvsup (changes from 29 of september) i've got dead >dc (21143 based NIC). LEDs are dead, but card is successfully probed and >attached, so i have device but can't use it. What should i send to help >investigate this problem? > >$FreeBSD:

Re: Approach to integrate a driver into the kernel [winmodem]

2001-10-11 Thread Scot W. Hetzel
From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Benjamin Close wrote: > > I've now been using the FreeBSD winmodem driver (Available at: > >http://www.geocities.com/wtnbkysh/) under -current for a few weeks now > >and haven't noticed a single glitch. Whilst I know this is a

PAM && NIS?

2001-10-11 Thread Matthew Jacob
The latest installworld seems to not be happy with me in NIS- I get: Oct 11 09:47:39 quarm sshd[8160]: PAM pam_set_item: NULL pam handle passed Oct 11 09:47:39 quarm sshd[8160]: PAM pam_set_item: NULL pam handle passed Oct 11 09:47:39 quarm sshd[8160]: PAM pam_set_item: NULL pam handle passed

RE: Error compiling kernel

2001-10-11 Thread John Baldwin
On 11-Oct-01 Gunnar Flygt wrote: > cvsuped two days ago, and made buildworld today, which went OK. Tried > make kernel (aka GENERIC). It fails at nfsclient code: Already fixed two days ago. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~joh

Error compiling kernel

2001-10-11 Thread Gunnar Flygt
cvsuped two days ago, and made buildworld today, which went OK. Tried make kernel (aka GENERIC). It fails at nfsclient code: cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -W missing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -an si -g -nost

Iomega Peerless USB supported?

2001-10-11 Thread Konstantin Chuguev
Hi, Are Iomega Peerless USB drives supported in CURRENT? I assume they can be recognised as a generic SCSI-over-USB drive, but want to be sure they work OK. Thanks, Konstantin. -- * * Konstantin Chuguev Francis House * * Application Engineer 1

my dc now doesn't work

2001-10-11 Thread Ilmar S. Habibulin
After the last cvsup (changes from 29 of september) i've got dead dc (21143 based NIC). LEDs are dead, but card is successfully probed and attached, so i have device but can't use it. What should i send to help investigate this problem? This is strings from working kernel: $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev

Re: Why do soft interrupt coelescing?

2001-10-11 Thread Terry Lambert
"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > If the receive ring for that packet size is full, it will hold off on > DMAs. If all receive rings are full, there's no reason to send more > interrupts. I think that this does nothing, in the FreeBSD case, since the data from the card will generally be drained much f