How can I clone a mac address on wlan0?

2011-03-28 Thread Doug Barton
For a variety of boring reasons I need to clone a mac address on wlan0. The documented way to do this: ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 wlanaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55:66 works in the sense that it sets up the interface with that mac, but then the wlan0 interface never associates. Doing everythin

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-28 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
2011/3/29 Tim Kientzle : > II. Package signing. That would be really nice. >>> >>> Right know we only planned to sign the repo database, so we can trust >>> the sah256 of the packages stored in the database. Then if the package >>> has the same sha256 as the one in the repo database i

Re: What's so special about 0xffff EEPROM checksum

2011-03-28 Thread Nerius Landys
> Where else have you found this check? Hrm. All over the ath code. I guess that's the only place I saw it. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

Re: What's so special about 0xffff EEPROM checksum

2011-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
Where else have you found this check? Adrian On 29 March 2011 08:41, Nerius Landys wrote: > I'm looking at driver code in the FreeBSD kernel, and pretty much > everywhere I look I see a check for EEPROM checksum. It's always > 0x. What is so special about this value 0x? Is this valu

Re: Installer request

2011-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 29/03/2011, at 4:28, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 03/28/11 00:20, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like it if the installer had an option to exit to live CD mode after >> installation. >> >> The reason being that I have a tar file I want to splat onto the newly >> installed system re

RE: GSoC 2011 - EFI support for FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64

2011-03-28 Thread DU Cheng
Dear Madam/Sir, I am Du Cheng from National University of Singapore and I am very interested in participating in Google Summer of Code 2011 to work on the project "EFI support for FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64". I have looked up information from FreeBSD wiki and Mr Paulo's blog and learned a

Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC

2011-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 29/03/2011, at 12:11, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 29/03/2011, at 11:06, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> I made the same complaint recently in a semi-private forum, so you're not >>> alone. :) I just haven't taken the time to figure out how best to "fix" it. >> >> I'll provide a patch that I w

Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC

2011-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 29/03/2011, at 11:06, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> I made the same complaint recently in a semi-private forum, so you're not >> alone. :) I just haven't taken the time to figure out how best to "fix" it. > >I'll provide a patch that I wrote to 'fix' the original behavior > when I get home (be

What's so special about 0xffff EEPROM checksum

2011-03-28 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm looking at driver code in the FreeBSD kernel, and pretty much everywhere I look I see a check for EEPROM checksum. It's always 0x. What is so special about this value 0x? Is this value agreed upon by hardware manufacturers? So basically they have one end slot for data where they put

Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC

2011-03-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 03/28/2011 16:24, David Cornejo wrote: > >> To me it seems that the fault is that I can find no way in tzsetup to >> specify UTC.  Though it seems the system defaults to UTC if you don't run >> tzsetup anyway, so maybe it would suffice to ju

Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC

2011-03-28 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/28/2011 16:24, David Cornejo wrote: To me it seems that the fault is that I can find no way in tzsetup to specify UTC. Though it seems the system defaults to UTC if you don't run tzsetup anyway, so maybe it would suffice to just say not to do that. (tzsetup is a no-op anyway if you're u

Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC

2011-03-28 Thread David Cornejo
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 28/03/2011 12:08, Matthias Andree wrote: > > Perhaps the installer should instead: > > > > display CMOS and system time, and ask which one of them is correct, and > > offer a third option to actually co

Re: Installer request

2011-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 29/03/2011, at 4:28, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 03/28/11 00:20, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like it if the installer had an option to exit to live CD mode after >> installation. >> >> The reason being that I have a tar file I want to splat onto the newly >> installed system re

Re: ipv6 / rtadv problem

2011-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 29/03/2011, at 8:29, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 29/03/2011, at 1:37, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: >> 1) ipv6_enable is obsolete in HEAD, see UPDATING. > > Ahh UPDATING, of course, thanks :) > >> 2) Normally hosts ignore rtadv packets if ipv6_gateway_enable is also >> set (as per rfc4861). >> All

Re: ipv6 / rtadv problem

2011-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 29/03/2011, at 1:37, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: > 1) ipv6_enable is obsolete in HEAD, see UPDATING. Ahh UPDATING, of course, thanks :) > 2) Normally hosts ignore rtadv packets if ipv6_gateway_enable is also > set (as per rfc4861). > All you need is something like ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_

Re: msk0 interface stops working when downloading

2011-03-28 Thread Andrew Moran
To close the loop on this, I upgraded the latest freebsd current (8.2) and it now seems to work with the integrated chip.Huzzah. --Andy On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Andrew Moran wrote: > Good to know about the GB switch vs 100MB switch. > > But rather than downgrade my switch, I went ah

Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC

2011-03-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/03/2011 12:08, Matthias Andree wrote: > Perhaps the installer should instead: > > display CMOS and system time, and ask which one of them is correct, and > offer a third option to actually correct the timezone or time if neither > is correct. > > That's much easier to grasp. ... and a 4th

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-28 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:52:08 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote: > >  FC> hastd backtrace is here: >  FC> http://www.sd73.bc.ca/downloads/crash/hast-backtrace.png > > It is not a hastd crash, but a kernel crash triggered by hastd process. Ah, interesti

Re: Fix softdep_request_cleanup difference w/ and w/o SOFTUPDATES

2011-03-28 Thread Aleksandr Rybalko
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:32:12 -0400 Ryan Stone wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I found a difference of definition softdep_request_cleanup. > > when SOFTUPDATES undefined softdep_request_cleanup take only two > > arguments. > > > > Patch to fix

Re: Installer request

2011-03-28 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 03/28/11 00:20, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I would like it if the installer had an option to exit to live CD mode after installation. The reason being that I have a tar file I want to splat onto the newly installed system residing on the USB stick the installer is on. In chroot mode I can'

Re: Fix softdep_request_cleanup difference w/ and w/o SOFTUPDATES

2011-03-28 Thread Ryan Stone
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: > Hi, > > I found a difference of definition softdep_request_cleanup. > when SOFTUPDATES undefined softdep_request_cleanup take only two arguments. > > Patch to fix this: > > Index: sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c > ==

Re: ipv6 / rtadv problem

2011-03-28 Thread Sergey Kandaurov
On 28 March 2011 16:55, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to get a -CURRENT box to get an IPv6 address via RTADV, however I > am not having any luck. > > I have tried the following in rc.conf :- > ipv6_enable="YES" > ipv6_gateway_enable="YES" > > ifconfig_em0_ipv6="RTADV" > > (the last o

ipv6 / rtadv problem

2011-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I am trying to get a -CURRENT box to get an IPv6 address via RTADV, however I am not having any luck. I have tried the following in rc.conf :- ipv6_enable="YES" ipv6_gateway_enable="YES" ifconfig_em0_ipv6="RTADV" (the last one I haven't seen before but it didn't seem to have an effect anywa

Re: SUJ Bugs

2011-03-28 Thread Lucius Windschuh
Hi Jeff, I still have the problem that filesystem I/O from programs stalls while there is disk activity about every second on a SUJ volume (now with 4k block size, -CURRENT r219341, i386). It was reported earlier on, there were fixes, and the problem happens really seldomly (which makes it hard to

detection os arch

2011-03-28 Thread Veniamin Gvozdikov
Hi everybody. I have question about packages. Why packages don't supported detection os arch?___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubsc

Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC

2011-03-28 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 28.03.2011 07:53, schrieb Garrett Cooper: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Daniel O'Connor >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I am trying the new installer and I find that it still asks you for a time >>> zone even if you answer Yes to using UTC.

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-28 Thread Pete French
> It is not a hastd crash, but a kernel crash triggered by hastd process. > > I am not sure I got the same crash as you but apparently the race is possible > in g_gate on device creation. > > I got the following crash starting many hast providers simultaneously: This is very interestng to me - my

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-28 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:47:22 +0100 Pete French wrote: >> It is not a hastd crash, but a kernel crash triggered by hastd process. >> >> I am not sure I got the same crash as you but apparently the race is >> possible >> in g_gate on device creation. >> >> I got the following crash starting

Fix softdep_request_cleanup difference w/ and w/o SOFTUPDATES

2011-03-28 Thread Aleksandr Rybalko
Hi, I found a difference of definition softdep_request_cleanup. when SOFTUPDATES undefined softdep_request_cleanup take only two arguments. Patch to fix this: Index: sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c === --- sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c (re

heads-up: breaking up ath (back) into sub-devices

2011-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi all, I'd like to split the ath driver back up into some of its sub-components in -HEAD before 9.0-RELEASE is done. Those components are: * ath (the BSD/net80211 facing interface itself) * ath_hal (hardware layer) * ath_rate_* (the rate control modules) * ath_pci (the ath<->PCI glue) Since I'