From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 20 5:14:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from scrooge.parallelconsulting.com (www.parallelconsulting.com [195.242.42.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D8B37B92A for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:14:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonas.bulow@parallelconsulting.com) Received: from parallelconsulting.com ([193.150.232.120]) by scrooge.parallelconsulting.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA1E6 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:14:25 +0100 Message-ID: <38D623F1.577E56AF@parallelconsulting.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:13:21 +0100 From: Jonas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FClow?= Organization: Parallel Consulting Group X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: IBM Thinpad 600X (26455FU) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! I'm about to get a new computer. Right now I'm using a IBM TP 570 and it works like a charm with FreeBSD3.3 (except the sound :-) ). I consider to get a Thinkpad 600X (partnumber 26455FU). Does anyone have any experience with this one using FreeBSD? Does the "SpeedStep technology" cause any problems? Does the video (NeoMagic MagicGraph 256ZX ) work with XFree86? Is there any hope to get some sound out of the machine? Can the internal DVD be used with FreeBSD? Please, give me any hints/feedback on using freebsd on a TP600(X)! regards, jonas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 20 5:42:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from bne004m.webcentral.com.au (bne004m.webcentral.com.au [202.139.235.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 015A037B6C3 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:42:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 1691 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2000 13:42:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO timberwolf) (203.147.163.137) by bne004m.webcentral.com.au with SMTP; 20 Mar 2000 13:42:31 -0000 Message-ID: <006d01bf9272$f7d63180$89a393cb@timberwolf> From: "Haikal Saadh" To: Subject: multi-head in X4.0 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:47:50 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I just tried to install xfree86 4.0, with disastrous results. Anyways, my question is, how well does the multiheading|xinerama work? Anyone tried it? I've got a RivaTNT and an S3 Virge (Odd combo, I know...virge and monitor salvaged from old box),and it works fine under win98SE. Thanks. Join the ProcessTree Network: For-pay Internet distributed processing. http://www.ProcessTree.com/?sponsor=5934 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 20 8:44:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.79.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628F937B890 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:44:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.79.115]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23570; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:44:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24838; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:43:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:43:59 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003201643.JAA24838@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jonas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FClow?= Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Thinpad 600X (26455FU) In-Reply-To: <38D623F1.577E56AF@parallelconsulting.com> References: <38D623F1.577E56AF@parallelconsulting.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I consider to get a Thinkpad 600X (partnumber 26455FU). Does anyone have > any experience with this one using FreeBSD? I have a 600E, which is a bit different. > Does the "SpeedStep technology" cause any problems? It shouldn't. > Does the video (NeoMagic MagicGraph 256ZX ) work with XFree86? This is the reason I did not get it, since the video is an unknown. However, XIG's product should support it. > Is there any hope to get some sound out of the machine? Maybe. > Can the internal DVD be used with FreeBSD? Yes, but it *might* not be supported as a DVD (yet). DVD support is not complete yet in FreeBSD. > Please, give me any hints/feedback on using freebsd on a TP600(X)! If you decided to buy it, I would certainly like to hear your experiences with it. :) nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 20 11:28:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E9F37BCB5 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:28:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA07744; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:28:35 -0500 (EST) To: "Chris" Cc: Subject: Re: Digital Cameras References: <003001bf9045$157cd930$820b0a0a@direct.ca> From: Chris Shenton Date: 20 Mar 2000 14:28:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Chris"'s message of "Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:14:57 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I recently got a HP C200 megapixel; HP has a $100 rebate if you buy a camera and peripheral (or is it a printer and peripheral such as camera?). So list was about $290, after rebate $190. It has an 8MB flashram and can hold 80 640x480 images, or about 40/20 1152x900 or so images depending on pixel depth. I'm happy with the images but it's my first digicam. Anyway, it's not yet supported by gphoto, but the command-line "psmutils" (linked to from the gphoto site) work quite well with it. I slurp the images via serial line; they appear as JPEG files. (Oddly, I couldn't pull them out with the supplied WinDoze software to my laptop -- but I wanted FreeBSD anyway :-) The utils indicate this is a clone of a Konica digicam, for what it's worth. Seems like good quality for an excellent price. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 20 12: 9: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F4B37C163 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:08:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com ([216.88.157.130]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12997; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 06:38:28 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA03483; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:08:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:08:08 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OnStream Tape drives Message-ID: <20000320120808.H2898@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <8auka9$mkl$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <8auka9$mkl$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>; from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:57:45AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 18 March 2000 at 1:57:45 +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > fbsd-dave wrote: > >> Looks like a used or pull DLT from ebay is still the best ticket for >> onesy-twosy requirements. > > BTW, can anybody comment on the prospects of buying used DLT drives? > I'm told they're robust, but... > > Earlier this week there was a 4-year old DLT4000 at a local auction > site. It seemed kind of interesting, but I have no idea in what > condition such a drive is after (possibly) four years of daily > (ab)use. I have a refurbished DLT4000. I haven't had any trouble with it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 20 12:47:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.targetnet.com (mail.targetnet.com [207.245.246.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE7B37C72F for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:39:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james@targetnet.com) Received: from james by mail.targetnet.com with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 12W1Lr-00081b-00 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:19:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:19:59 -0500 From: James FitzGibbon To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: amr or mlx RAID products Message-ID: <20000317131959.F41950@targetnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i Organization: Targetnet.com Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm trying to get feedback on the AMI Enterprise and Mylex AcceleRAID controllers, running under 4.x or (preferably) 3.4. Specifically, I'd like to use the Ultra160 devices (Mylex 352 and AMI 1600), but Ultra2 will suffice. Can anyone who has used these devicese successfully give me a short opinion on them ? I'm interested in hearing how difficult they were to configure (both the controllers themselves and the FreeBSD integration), and if the units have performed reliably since. TIA. -- j. James FitzGibbon james@targetnet.com Targetnet.com Inc. Voice/Fax +1 416 306-0466/0452 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 20 16:13: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298F837B717 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:12:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e2L0Cto38277; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:12:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:12:55 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200003210012.e2L0Cto38277@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@yogotech.com Subject: Re: IBM Thinpad 600X (26455FU) In-Reply-To: <200003201643.JAA24838@nomad.yogotech.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:43:59 -0700 (MST) >From: Nate Williams >Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) [??!? Overridden. dhw] >> I consider to get a Thinkpad 600X (partnumber 26455FU). Does anyone have >> any experience with this one using FreeBSD? >> Does the video (NeoMagic MagicGraph 256ZX ) work with XFree86? >This is the reason I did not get it, since the video is an unknown. >However, XIG's product should support it. I don't know the extent to which this might be relevant, but I'm using a Fujitsu LifeBook 675Tx, which has a "NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD SVGA controller" (according to dmesg); XF86Setup says it has 2MB memory onboard. I have it set to 1024x768x16, which seems to be OK. I'm running FreeBSD 4.0-R (w/XF86 3.3.6) just fine. [Only nuisance so far is the touchpad: tapping it appears to be *identical* to a press/release of the left mouse button, thus preventing the ability to make a distinction between the two actions.] Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 20 16:32:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AAC37BE6D for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:32:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03941; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:35:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003210035.QAA03941@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: James FitzGibbon Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amr or mlx RAID products In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:19:59 EST." <20000317131959.F41950@targetnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:35:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The Mylex 352 isn't supported yet, I'm waiting for documentation and hardware from Mylex. I'm not recommending the AMI controllers at the moment because there's a lockup bug in either the driver or the firmware that I haven't been able to track down (if someone has the time and hardware to play with this, please get in touch with me). I'd be inclined at the moment to recommend the Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100 if you're looking for a high-end controller. > I'm trying to get feedback on the AMI Enterprise and Mylex AcceleRAID > controllers, running under 4.x or (preferably) 3.4. Specifically, I'd like > to use the Ultra160 devices (Mylex 352 and AMI 1600), but Ultra2 will > suffice. > > Can anyone who has used these devicese successfully give me a short opinion > on them ? I'm interested in hearing how difficult they were to configure > (both the controllers themselves and the FreeBSD integration), and if the > units have performed reliably since. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 20 21: 1:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.nj.home.com (ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com [24.3.128.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A7237B90E for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:01:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garycor@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.3.185.85]) by mail.rdc1.nj.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000321050112.BHOM20681.mail.rdc1.nj.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:01:12 -0800 Message-ID: <38D7024A.4390CA67@home.com> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:02:02 -0500 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@yogotech.com Subject: Re: IBM Thinpad 600X (26455FU) References: <200003210012.e2L0Cto38277@pau-amma.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Wolfskill wrote: > > I don't know the extent to which this might be relevant, but I'm using a > Fujitsu LifeBook 675Tx, > > [Only nuisance so > far is the touchpad: tapping it appears to be *identical* to a > press/release of the left mouse button, thus preventing the ability to > make a distinction between the two actions.] I've only used a touchpad PC for about 10 seconds (and didn't like it), so I'm no expert on this, but I'm curious: I thought that the whole *idea* of tapping a touchpad was that this is how you "click" your substitute mouse. What behavior were you expecting? Again, I'm just curious... Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 20 21:32:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C2437B976 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:32:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e2L5VuW39624; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:31:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:31:56 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200003210531.e2L5VuW39624@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: dhw@whistle.com, garycor@home.com Subject: Re: IBM Thinpad 600X (26455FU) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@yogotech.com In-Reply-To: <38D7024A.4390CA67@home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:02:02 -0500 >From: "Gary T. Corcoran" >> [Only nuisance so >> far is the touchpad: tapping it appears to be *identical* to a >> press/release of the left mouse button, thus preventing the ability to >> make a distinction between the two actions.] >I've only used a touchpad PC for about 10 seconds (and didn't like it), >so I'm no expert on this, but I'm curious: I *does* take some getting used to -- but then, so does a mouse. And at least the touchpad doesn't wander off in response to gravity.... :-} >I thought that the whole *idea* of tapping a touchpad was that this is how >you "click" your substitute mouse. What behavior were you expecting? >Again, I'm just curious... The following except from moused (4) may help clarify: Many pad devices behave as if the first (left) button were pressed if the user `taps' the surface of the pad. In contrast, some ALPS GlidePoint and Interlink VersaPad models treat the tapping action as fourth button events. Use the option ``-m 1=4'' for these models to obtain the same effect as the other pad devices. It is the latter behavior that I desired: I was able to get that behavior with an NEC Versa 6030X, so that even though the machine only had 2 apparent physical butons, they could be mapped to (logical) buttons 2 & 3 (respectively), while tapping the touchpad would be treated as pressing button 1. This way, the "chord" to simulate button 2 would be unnecessary. The thing I find obnoxious in the case of the LifeBook is that it seems very well-designed in all other respects, and had it been put together so that the tapping were to generate a slightly differnt input than pressing the left button, the user would have some hope of being able to treat the 2 events as similar or otherwise, as said user might desire. By causing them to generate the same input, there is no way to distinguish them. :-( The only saving grace is that I'm able to do the "chord" about 90% of the time with the LifeBook (vs. about 15% of the time with the Versa). Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 21 2:20:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from kallisti.iag.net (mailhub2.iag.net [204.27.210.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6C5437B60E for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 02:20:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b.j.smith@ieee.org) Received: (qmail 24361 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2000 10:20:17 -0000 Received: from max1-095.mtld.fl.iag.net (HELO ieee.org) (207.30.74.95) by mailhub2.iag.net with SMTP; 21 Mar 2000 10:20:17 -0000 Message-ID: <38D74C1E.23B7C806@ieee.org> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 05:17:02 -0500 From: "Bryan J. Smith" Reply-To: b.j.smith@ieee.org, thebs@theseus.com Organization: Personal/Home Account X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.15-2.5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Looking to use FreeBSD as an NFS/App server for 10 Solaris clients ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Looking to use FreeBSD as an NFS/App server for 10 Solaris clients ... [ Sorry about the Questions/Hardware cross-post. This is my first "main" post that covers a lot. I will use only a single list to post follow-up and future questions. ] A couple of questions for a NON-seasoned FreeBSD admin. I've only used it on and off since 1995, but never in a production environment. But I'm not a UNIX newbie, just familiar with more System V or SV-like systems. Four questions: =============== I. Looking to install from the new 4.0-RELEASE ISO Comments versus 3.4-STABLE? II. Cost aimpoint is only $1,000 due to budget (2)Cel466+256MB+(2)30GB-7200+Tulip will meet that Comments on SMP, RAM size, IDE, Tulip? III. Software RAID-0 for speed? Installer, tools ... IV. Sole purpose, NFS v3 server to Sol2.6 clients ~28GB App/ROdata and using 4GB CacheFS on clients Comments on compat with Solaris? V. NIS/YP server is Linux. No shadow. Comments? I. Install from 4.0-RELEASE ISO ================================ I am looking to install my first production FreeBSD system from 4.0-RELEASE stable. The main reason is that I have heard the NFS v3 and locking is very mature. Secondly is the fact that SMP is supposively quite stable. Lastly, the feature list is nice. Based on the hardware, use and other criteria below, am I better off with 3.4-STABLE, or will 4.0-RELEASE be either better or not any less stable? II. System is $1,000 due to budget =================================== I've priced it out and have managed to get a total of $996.xx (including shipping, under the $1,000 mark before I have to kiss a lot of @$$) from my favorite reseller (mwave.com) for a Abit BP6 dual-Celey, (2) Celeron 466MHz processors, a generic 256MB PC100 DIMM (only runs at 66MHz in this config), (2) Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 30GB 7200rpm ATAPI drives (40GB series, 3 platter), a Linksys 10/100 card (Tulip) and a 4MB ATI AGP Rage IIc card. I will buy the enclosure separately (looking a few $100-130 good airflow enclosures from SuperMicro, or my favorite enclosure reseller, directron.com). The mainboard/CPU combo. I have been using this combo in both home and production Linux boxes. I always get the retail Celeys to make sure. MWave is always good to give me the same stepping/sub-stepping too. Any comments on this under FreeBSD 4.0 (or 3.4)? How's the SMP support? Should I expect to have to recompile the kernel to get it (not hard, just new to doing it in FreeBSD)? The memory is 256MB. I feel that should be sufficient if it's running headless (no GUI, etc...). Basically there for the OS, the NFSd's and caching. Any comments? The hard drives are Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40-series, only 3 platters instead of 4 (30GB). These babies are only $209 at Multiwave! Personally, I _love_ Maxtor's ATAPI drives, and so does StorageReview.com. They rank very high on NT benchmarks (not so much Win9x), and the Adaptec ThreadMarks (Maxtor's 5400rpms often beat out other vendor's 7200rpms). Personally, I think Maxtor has a nice command chipset that gives it some SCSI-like features for low-multiuser apps (like power workstations or little workgroup servers, etc...). I have gotten _awesome_ performance out of them in Linux on my web, ftp and other Internet content servers. Now I would still use SCSI in a full-up, main file server, this system only serves one purpose (see IV below). I think it'll work for what I need without taxing the CPU much. I am going to _disable_ the UltraDMA/66 support (down to UltraDMA/33, done it before on my Linux boxes), and use the native PIIX4e southbridge on the BP6. Does FreeBSD do full UltraDMA/33 (I assume so)? Or does it even support the HPT366 controller and UltraDMA/66 now? Lastly, any comments on the Linksys card? It's a recent Tulip variant, probably the Lite-On and I have used them with great success. I was a Intel EEPro100+ fan until the transmitter starting crapping out my main Linux fileserver (stupid i82558, although my older 100B i82557s seem to be fine). III. Software RAID-0 for speed? Installer, tools ... ====================================================== I would like to go software RAID-0 for speed, alongside using softupdates. Since my files will be largely static (see IV. below), I think this will be fine. Does the 4.0-RELEASE installer have RAID-0 setup in the setup? Or will I need to do it in a post-install? The later will be fine, and I'll just stripe the data partitions (as one big ~50GB one). Secondly, how are the tools? I am thoroughly upset with Linux's tools, at least for RAID-1. If you disconnect one drive to "test" your LILO config/script to make sure the 2nd drive can boot, when you reconnect it loses the spare! Ouch! There seems to be no way to manually restore RAID-1 (RAID-5, yes, but not for RAID-1 and the automatic scripts seem to miss it). But I'm no expert. Any other comments? IV. Sole purpose, NFS v3 server to Sol2.6 clients ================================================== Okay, this is the _meat_n_potatoes_. Before I got to my employer, there was (and still is) a bit of cross-mounting going on between the Sun workstations. Generally, a no-no in my book. And as users slam the systems and hit 100% utilitzation and 100% VM usage (2GB+!), the NFS/network performance stalls. These cross-mounts are for app sharing. I am trying to centralize these apps because every box needs to run every app, and the total of all binaries we use are ~28GB -- so local is out-of-the-question (let alone a headache on 10 systems!). I would normally use one of the Sun boxes, but I am running up against that fact that A) I need all the SPARC CPUs I can get (At least until more EDA tool vendors port to Linux = cluster time! And I've done it with Aerospace apps before too!), and B) the 30GB+ in external SCSI drives would probably cost me >$1,000. So I arrived at the FreeBSD headless box solution as described in above. The data will be largely static, apps only. I am also going to setup a 4GB CacheFS file on each Solaris box (except two, which will only have 1GB due to disk contraints) to reduced network traffice. I need to know how stable FreeBSD's NFS v3 is for Solaris 2.6 clients. In 4.0-RELEASE? How about 3.4-STABLE? V. NIS/YP server is Linux. No shadow ====================================== Lastly, a little one. My NIS/YP server is Linux. It seems to work fine with Solaris as long as I remove the shadow file entries for NIS users and put them in the passwd file (separating the two with the +:::::: allows me to still put local, shadowed users at the top of the passwd file, and NIS, non-shadowed users at the bottom -- works great with Linux's NIS server). Any issues being a client to Linux that does not use shadowing for NIS? Again, I assume not because even the "picky" Solaris 2.6 boxes seem to be fine with it. THANX IN ADVANCE GUYS! FreeBSD rocks!!! -- Bryan "TheBS" Smith Theseus Logic, Inc. -- Bryan J. Smith Engineer, IT Professional and Hacker mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org,thebs@theseus.com Disclaimer: http://www.SmithConcepts.com/legal.html ************************************************************** TheBS, serving E-mail filters to /dev/null since 1989 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 21 2:37:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757E237B774; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 02:37:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs10.alcatel.fr (mailhub2.alcatel.fr [155.132.188.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id LAA29198; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:29:38 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs10.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id LAA11885; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:30:44 +0100 (MET) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id C12568A9.003A5FF9 ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:37:36 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL To: b.j.smith@ieee.org, thebs@theseus.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:37:24 +0100 Subject: Re: Looking to use FreeBSD as an NFS/App server for 10 Solaris clients ... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, (see answers interleaved with your questions) TfH "Bryan J. Smith" on 21/03/2000 11:17:02 Please respond to b.j.smith@ieee.org; Please respond to thebs@theseus.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG cc: (bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL) Subject: Looking to use FreeBSD as an NFS/App server for 10 Solaris clients ... Looking to use FreeBSD as an NFS/App server for 10 Solaris clients ... [SNIP] Four questions: =============== I. Looking to install from the new 4.0-RELEASE ISO Comments versus 3.4-STABLE? II. Cost aimpoint is only $1,000 due to budget (2)Cel466+256MB+(2)30GB-7200+Tulip will meet that Comments on SMP, RAM size, IDE, Tulip? III. Software RAID-0 for speed? Installer, tools ... IV. Sole purpose, NFS v3 server to Sol2.6 clients ~28GB App/ROdata and using 4GB CacheFS on clients Comments on compat with Solaris? V. NIS/YP server is Linux. No shadow. Comments? I. Install from 4.0-RELEASE ISO ================================ I am looking to install my first production FreeBSD system from 4.0-RELEASE stable. The main reason is that I have heard the NFS v3 and locking is very mature. Secondly is the fact that SMP is ------------ NFS locking is not yet part of any version of FreeBSD SMP on FreeBSD will give you nothing if your main load is I/O (only one processor can do I/O tasks at one given time) ------------ supposively quite stable. Lastly, the feature list is nice. Based on the hardware, use and other criteria below, am I better off with 3.4-STABLE, or will 4.0-RELEASE be either better or not any less stable? II. System is $1,000 due to budget =================================== I've priced it out and have managed to get a total of $996.xx (including shipping, under the $1,000 mark before I have to kiss a lot of @$$) from my favorite reseller (mwave.com) for a Abit BP6 dual-Celey, (2) Celeron 466MHz processors, a generic 256MB PC100 DIMM (only runs at 66MHz in this config), (2) Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 30GB 7200rpm ATAPI drives (40GB series, 3 platter), a Linksys 10/100 card (Tulip) and a 4MB ATI AGP Rage IIc card. I will buy the enclosure separately (looking a few $100-130 good airflow enclosures from SuperMicro, or my favorite enclosure reseller, directron.com). The mainboard/CPU combo. I have been using this combo in both home and production Linux boxes. I always get the retail Celeys to make sure. MWave is always good to give me the same stepping/sub-stepping too. Any comments on this under FreeBSD 4.0 (or 3.4)? How's the SMP support? Should I expect to have to recompile the kernel to get it (not hard, just new to doing it in FreeBSD)? The memory is 256MB. I feel that should be sufficient if it's running headless (no GUI, etc...). Basically there for the OS, the NFSd's and caching. Any comments? The hard drives are Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40-series, only 3 platters instead of 4 (30GB). These babies are only $209 at Multiwave! Personally, I _love_ Maxtor's ATAPI drives, and so does StorageReview.com. They rank very high on NT benchmarks (not so much Win9x), and the Adaptec ThreadMarks (Maxtor's 5400rpms often beat out other vendor's 7200rpms). Personally, I think Maxtor has a nice command chipset that gives it some SCSI-like features for ------------ Soren (the FreeBSD ATA-guru) generally recommends IBM drives, as they more closely follow the IDE standards - YMMV ------------ low-multiuser apps (like power workstations or little workgroup servers, etc...). I have gotten _awesome_ performance out of them in Linux on my web, ftp and other Internet content servers. Now I would still use SCSI in a full-up, main file server, this system only serves one purpose (see IV below). I think it'll work for what I need without taxing the CPU much. I am going to _disable_ the UltraDMA/66 support (down to UltraDMA/33, done it before on my Linux boxes), and use the native PIIX4e southbridge on the BP6. Does FreeBSD do full UltraDMA/33 (I assume so)? Or does it even support the HPT366 controller and UltraDMA/66 now? Lastly, any comments on the Linksys card? It's a recent Tulip variant, probably the Lite-On and I have used them with great success. I was a Intel EEPro100+ fan until the transmitter starting crapping out my main Linux fileserver (stupid i82558, although my older 100B i82557s seem to be fine). III. Software RAID-0 for speed? Installer, tools ... ====================================================== I would like to go software RAID-0 for speed, alongside using softupdates. Since my files will be largely static (see IV. below), I think this will be fine. Does the 4.0-RELEASE installer have RAID-0 setup in the setup? Or will I need to do it in a post-install? The later will be fine, and I'll just stripe the data partitions (as one big ~50GB one). ------------ vinum(4) will do exactly what you want (I'v got two 10G IDE drives at home striped into one partition) ------------ Secondly, how are the tools? I am thoroughly upset with Linux's tools, at least for RAID-1. If you disconnect one drive to "test" your LILO config/script to make sure the 2nd drive can boot, when you reconnect it loses the spare! Ouch! There seems to be no way to manually restore RAID-1 (RAID-5, yes, but not for RAID-1 and the automatic scripts seem to miss it). But I'm no expert. Any other comments? IV. Sole purpose, NFS v3 server to Sol2.6 clients ================================================== Okay, this is the _meat_n_potatoes_. Before I got to my employer, there was (and still is) a bit of cross-mounting going on between the Sun workstations. Generally, a no-no in my book. And as users slam the systems and hit 100% utilitzation and 100% VM usage (2GB+!), the NFS/network performance stalls. These cross-mounts are for app sharing. I am trying to centralize these apps because every box needs to run every app, and the total of all binaries we use are ~28GB -- so local is out-of-the-question (let alone a headache on 10 systems!). I would normally use one of the Sun boxes, but I am running up against that fact that A) I need all the SPARC CPUs I can get (At least until more EDA tool vendors port to Linux = cluster time! And I've done it with Aerospace apps before too!), and B) the 30GB+ in external SCSI drives would probably cost me >$1,000. So I arrived at the FreeBSD headless box solution as described in above. The data will be largely static, apps only. I am also going to setup a 4GB CacheFS file on each Solaris box (except two, which will only have 1GB due to disk contraints) to reduced network traffice. I need to know how stable FreeBSD's NFS v3 is for Solaris 2.6 clients. In 4.0-RELEASE? How about 3.4-STABLE? ------------ the best NFS implementation should be on 4.0 (however, this is not *yet* recommended for production) ------------ [SNIP] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 21 4: 2:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from router.difi.de (router.difi.de [212.6.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F3337B7F6; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:02:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from uwe.laverenz@difi.de) Received: from max.difi.de (max [192.168.1.2]) by router.difi.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA27629; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:01:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uwe.laverenz@difi.de) Received: from difi.de (edv1.difi.de [192.168.1.54]) by max.difi.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05189; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:02:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uwe.laverenz@difi.de) Message-ID: <38D764AE.301F55D6@difi.de> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:01:50 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz Organization: DIFI Dierk Filmer GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: b.j.smith@ieee.org, thebs@theseus.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking to use FreeBSD as an NFS/App server for 10 Solaris clients ... References: <38D74C1E.23B7C806@ieee.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Bryan, > Looking to use FreeBSD as an NFS/App server for 10 Solaris clients I use FreeBSD for nearly everything and I'm not very familiar with Solaris(yet), but since all your NFS-Clients are running Solaris, I wouldn't recommend using FreeBSD as your NFS-Server. Sun is actually giving the new Solaris 8 for Intel/Sparc away almost for free (just the cost for the media, $75 I think). So in your case I'd rather setup an Intel box running Solaris 8, although it hurts to say that... > II. Cost aimpoint is only $1,000 due to budget > (2)Cel466+256MB+(2)30GB-7200+Tulip will meet that > Comments on SMP, RAM size, IDE, Tulip? Have a look at http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/index.html for hardware compatibility with Solaris. > III. Software RAID-0 for speed? Installer, tools ... You'd need the Solstice Disk Suite to create software RAIDs on Solaris (similar to vinum on FreeBSD). I think the Disk Suite is shipped with Solaris 8. I'm not yet absolutey sure about this, I'm still waiting for my Solaris 8 media kit... > FreeBSD rocks!!! Yep. :-) Uwe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 21 6:54:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBD737B7F0; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 06:54:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from ragnet.demon.co.uk ([158.152.46.40]) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12XQ3D-000NoR-0A; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:54:32 +0000 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12XQ2Z-000H96-00; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:53:51 +0000 Content-Length: 5655 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:53:51 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Driver for Webgear Aviator Wireless LAN NICs Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all I've got a driver for the Webgear Wireless LAN cards ported from NetBSD. Download from http://www.ragnet.demon.co.uk/raylink-0.9.tar.gz Only for FreeBSD-3.x README included: Basic Instructions for if_ray - a FreeBSD driver for Webgear/Raylink 2.4GHz Wireless LAN cards. Author: Duncan Barclay, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk Acknowledgements: Christian E. Hopps for his NetBSD driver. Corey Thomas for his Linux driver. Version 0.9: 21/3/00 Updates since 0.1: Signifcant functionality added to driver and control program written. Essentially, complete control of the card is now possible from user land. Promiscious (tested) and multicast (not tested) support added. bpf (i.e. tcpdump) fully supported. Manual pages written. Statistics available. Nearly all code is "knf" - see style(9) Version 0.1: 6/3/00 This driver is my first attempt at any drivers for FreeBSD. It has also been developed without documentation and is essentially a port of the NetBSD driver. This version is essentially alpha code, it does run fine for a few days on my Libretto. It will only work on FreeBSD 3.something, I test/develop on FreeBSD-3.1 with PAO patches, and FreeBSD-3.3. The tar file that this comes with should be unpacked somewhere. You will get the following ./if_*.[ch] code ./module makefile for building klds ./raycontrol makefile and code for configuration utility To try things out, first make sure that you have the PCCard drivers installed (pcic devices and card controller in your kernel configuration). Then remove all other pccards and plug in the Webgear card. At present the "safe" way of starting things is to kill all pccard functionality and start the driver manually. This is due to some problems with the memory allocation and mapping routines in FreeBSDs card services. The following works on FreeBSD-3.1 with PAO, and FreeBSD-3.3 without PAO. First recompile the KLD # cd /sys/i386/isa # ln -sf $R/if_ray.c # ln -sf $R/if_rayreg.h # ln -sf $R/if_raymib.h # ln -sf $R/if_ieee80211.h # cd /sys/modules # mkdir raylink # cd raylink # ln -sf /module/Makefile # make clean # make RAY_DEBUG= Don't worry about the "statment with no effect" warnings. # killall pccardd # kldload `pwd`/ray.ko # pccardc pccardmem 0xd0000 # IRQ= # SLOT=<0, or 1 - the slot you plugged the card into> # pccardc enabler $SLOT ray0 -m 0 0xd0000 48 -i $IRQ If you set the debug level to 2, then you should see this on the console: card0: assign ray0 irq 9 maddr 0xf00d0000 msize 0xc000 ray0: Memory window flags 0x41, start 0xd0000, size 0xc000, card address 0x0 ray0: Fixing up CM flags from 0x41 to 0x40 ray0: maddr 0xf00d0000 msize 0xc000 irq 9 flags 0x0 on isa (PC-Card slot 0) ray0: Start Up Results Firmware version 4 Status 0x80 Ether address 00:00:8f:48:e4:04 Program checksum a7 CIS checksum 32 Japan call sign ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff You may get more information if you have "Firmware version 5". If you get a message about the card status being 0xff then it is likely that the memory on the card is incorrectly mapped (see below). Now you can ifconfig the card and try a ping. # ifconfig ray0 192.168.247.33 ray0: Network parameters after start/join network completed. bss_id ca:00:e0:3e:07:80 inited 0x00 def_txrate 0x03 encrypt 0x00 net_type 0x00 ssid "NETWORK_NAME" priv_start 0x00 priv_join 0x00 # ping 192.168.247.36 PING 192.168.247.36 (192.168.247.36): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.247.36: icmp_seq=0 ttl=32 time=17.569 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.247.36: icmp_seq=1 ttl=32 time=9.289 ms The default parameters (ssid) are set to those provided in the Webgear windows driver. They can be changed using the raycontrol utility. The box I was pinging (192.168.247.36) is a windows PC. APM is not supported, but you should be able to plug in and remove the card, as well as ifconfig'ing it up and down. From my Libretto, bing reports about 1.2Mbits/s bandwidth. If things don't work first make sure that the line has maddr 0xX00d0000, X is f or c for me but will vary with ammount of RAM in your machine msize 0xc000, if it's not 0xc000 it won't work and that there is a message saying that the CM flags are 0x40. Essentially, the trick to getting it working is to ensure that the memory has been mapped correctly. Try # pccardc rdmap 0 Mem 0: flags 0x040 host 0xd0000 card 0000 size 49152 bytes ... If you don't get a line like the above you're hosed - try redoing the setup. If all this seems well, try running with a higher debugging level (to use a new version of the driver you have to reboot - this is not my fault but you can't unplug kld from the network stack on 3.x). Send me the output from starting the card up and raycontrol. Also, read the comments at the top of the code for more information. Feedback welcome/wanted. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 21 13: 6: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from relay.globe.cz (relay.globe.cz [212.27.196.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532E037BECF; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:05:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.papezik@post.cz) Received: (from root@localhost) by relay.globe.cz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA04562; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:05:35 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:05:35 +0100 From: m.papezik@post.cz Message-Id: <200003212105.WAA04562@relay.globe.cz> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Reply-To: m.papezik@post.cz X-mailer: POST.CZ mailer v1.2 Subject: Supported CardBus controllers? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I saw a few messages about missing CardBus support in current and I am wondering what is current status? If someone is activelly working on this I can try to test things on ThinkPad 600E (with TI 1251 controller and SMC/Megahertz NIC). Pehaps the list of PCcard and CardBus controllers used in ThinkPad systems will help too: http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/YAST-3JZU4X.html?selectarea=SUPPORT&brand=root&x=0&y=4 Thanks in advance, Milon -- m.papezik@post.cz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 21 14:39:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ossex1.ossinc.net (OSSEX1.webb.net [207.182.166.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2563037BC5B for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:39:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bnoecker@corp.webb.net) Received: by ossex1.ossinc.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:39:59 -0700 Message-ID: <8D96EDA0AC04D31197B400A0C96C1480E39F0A@ossex1.ossinc.net> From: Brian Noecker To: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Kingston DataPak 520 MB PCMCIA Hard Drive Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:39:58 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm a newbie in the FreeBSD world, so I'm looking for advice. I'm looking at a solution of booting off of a floppy, onto a Kingston Datapak 520 MB PCMCIA Hard Drive. I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop, and currently the install doesn't see the Datapak. Has anyone worked with this? I was trying BSDI, but they told me to move to FreeBSD. I didn't see it on the hadware list, but maybe someone has worked with it? I would like to negate using it prior to spending gobs of time trying to get it to work if its not common. A non-common solution will not really work well. Thanks in advance! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 24 13: 8:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from borderware.com (gateway.borderware.com [207.236.65.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACF937BAAF for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:08:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from branko@borderware.com) Received: by gateway.borderware.com id <117139>; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:05:11 -0500 Message-Id: <00Mar24.160511est.117139@gateway.borderware.com> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:07:17 -0500 From: Branko Miskov X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: subscribe freebsd-hardware Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org auth 2fbafc5d subscribe freebsd-hardware branko@borderware.com -- Branko Miskov tel. +1 905 804 1855 Senior Escalations Analyst fax. +1 905 804 1865 Borderware Technologies Inc. mail branko@borderware.com "I need George Orwell to break this down into livestock terms for me." Lee Wooton, Factory Worker (The Onion) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 24 13:20:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from borderware.com (gateway.borderware.com [207.236.65.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D1C37BB41; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:20:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from branko@borderware.com) Received: by gateway.borderware.com id <117131>; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:16:57 -0500 Message-Id: <00Mar24.161657est.117131@gateway.borderware.com> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:19:03 -0500 From: Branko Miskov X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Compaq onboard NIC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, Has anyone experienced any difficulties with high traffic volume through their onboard card on their Compaq with FreeBSD 3.x? It seems that the interface hangs when high volumes of traffic pass through it. Bringing the interface and up seems to cure the problem. Doesn't happen on other operating systems. Has anyone else noticed this? We're running a Compaq Proliant 800 and the card is a Intel Ether Express 10/100. The device is picked up as the tl driver. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Branko -- Branko Miskov tel. +1 905 804 1855 Senior Escalations Analyst fax. +1 905 804 1865 Borderware Technologies Inc. mail branko@borderware.com "I need George Orwell to break this down into livestock terms for me." Lee Wooton, Factory Worker (The Onion) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 24 13:35: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from web125.yahoomail.com (web125.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 897E737B8C4 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:34:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eaglez69@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 24519 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Mar 2000 21:34:54 -0000 Message-ID: <20000324213454.24518.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Received: from [130.65.210.24] by web125.yahoomail.com; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:34:54 PST Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:34:54 -0800 (PST) From: Eaglez Subject: Re: Compaq onboard NIC To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Some 100baseTX eth cards don't do 100baseTX, full-duplex very well. I think it has something to do with the card's processor, or maybe the buffer, i forget. The point is, if you ARE doing 100baseTX, full-duplex, try putting it down to half-duplex, and see if that helps. It worked for me :) -Jesse P.S. It's strange, I thought there wouldn't be any problem with Intel's cards, but coming from the people who made the P2/3, i guess i shouldn't be surprized :P --- Branko Miskov wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone experienced any difficulties with high > traffic volume through > their onboard card on their Compaq with FreeBSD 3.x? > It seems that the > interface hangs when high volumes of traffic pass > through it. Bringing > the interface and up seems to cure the problem. > Doesn't happen on other > operating systems. Has anyone else noticed this? > We're running a > Compaq Proliant 800 and the card is a Intel Ether > Express 10/100. The > device is picked up as the tl driver. > > Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > Branko > -- > Branko Miskov tel. +1 905 804 > 1855 > Senior Escalations Analyst fax. +1 905 804 > 1865 > Borderware Technologies Inc. mail > branko@borderware.com > > "I need George Orwell to break this down into > livestock terms for me." > Lee Wooton, Factory Worker (The Onion) > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of > the message > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 24 13:50:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ossex1.ossinc.net (OSSEX1.webb.net [207.182.166.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F15837BB27 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:50:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bnoecker@corp.webb.net) Received: by ossex1.ossinc.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:50:27 -0700 Message-ID: <8D96EDA0AC04D31197B400A0C96C1480E39F46@ossex1.ossinc.net> From: Brian Noecker To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: npx0: INT 16 interface Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:50:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm installing FreeBSD 3.4 on a laptop. I've removed any conflicts and left the 3COM 3c985D card (PCMCIA), but on bootup the system stalls at: npx0: INT 16 interface and it looks like the PCMCIA indicator goes bezerk. I've let it stand around for enough time to know it won't continue bootup. Ideas? _Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message