From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 09:14:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD7516A402 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:14:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@bsam.ru) Received: from mail.kuban.ru (mail.kuban.ru [62.183.66.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E623413C4C5 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:14:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@bsam.ru) Received: from bsam.ru ([85.172.12.235]) by mail.kuban.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id l2U9DvWU029012; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:14:07 +0400 (MSD) Received: from bsam by bsam.ru with local (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HXDB7-0000F7-JO; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:13:49 +0400 To: Andriy Babiy References: <200703281944.58223.ABabiy@shaw.ca> <77801502@serv3.int.kfs.ru> <200703292301.29197.ABabiy@shaw.ca> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:13:49 +0400 In-Reply-To: <200703292301.29197.ABabiy@shaw.ca> (Andriy Babiy's message of "Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:01:29 -0700") Message-ID: <02755522@bsam.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Boris Samorodov Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: skype replacement X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:14:15 -0000 On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:01:29 -0700 Andriy Babiy wrote: > > > Since skype requires some i386 binary, it doesn't build on amd64. > > > > Where did you manage to get the sources? > > Why didn't you give a try to use the port (/usr/ports/net/skype)? > > It works just fine at amd64 (COMPAT_IA32 and COMPAT_LINUX32 > > should be used for kernel configuration). > Thank you. I didn't know about those parameters. I'll give it a try. Well, there are the defaults and are presented at the GENERIC kernel. > Perhaps, if I add the parameters to the kernel configuration, > linuxflashplugin will build on amd64 too? Yes, it should work. > Can it be applied to the kernel modules? I have an intergrated network card > from Marvell. They provide i386 binary module only. Is it assumed to be > working if I indicate these parameters; however I think they're helpless > in this case. Are you sure that your network card adapter is not supported? Did you ask (if you run -stable) at the freebsd-stable@ about this network card? To answer your question. The default (GENERIC) kernel should use i386 binaries, can't say about kernel modules though. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve