From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 21 10:42:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689B716A4D0 for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 10:42:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spork.qfe3.net (spork.qfe3.net [212.13.207.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C4AD43D8E for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 10:42:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tom.hurst@clara.net) Received: from [81.104.55.176] (helo=voi.aagh.net) by spork.qfe3.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DZRRN-00013X-VU; Sat, 21 May 2005 11:42:46 +0100 Received: from freaky by voi.aagh.net with local (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1DZRRN-0007nJ-Fm; Sat, 21 May 2005 11:42:45 +0100 Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 11:42:45 +0100 From: Thomas Hurst To: Vizion Message-ID: <20050521104245.GA27958@voi.aagh.net> Mail-Followup-To: Vizion , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200505200619.41798.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <200505200619.41798.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Organization: Not much. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Thomas Hurst X-RBL-Warning: 81.104.55.176 is in RBL blacklist at dnsbl.sorbs.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 10:42:48 -0000 * Vizion (vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) wrote: > This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony > 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat - then intention is to > be able to disconnect it from the ships network, lug it to a position > in range of a wireless network and do a portupgrade as the need arises > ). Is this card recognized by freebsd. Is there a suitable > driver? How do I set it up? Looks like it's based on the Prism2 chipset, which should be supported by the wi(4) driver (man wi). kldload if_wi and see if it's detected, and follow the examples in the driver manpage to set it up. > 2. Uhicio [GIANT LOCKED] What does this mean? It means the uhci (USB Host Controller) driver isn't multi-processor safe, and thus needs to grab the Big Giant Lock around the kernel when it's doing stuff to operate safely. Don't worry about it; if you really want to get rid of it, it looks like it's been made MPSAFE in 5.4. > 3. (da1:umass-sim0:0:0:1): Unretryable error > What is the significance if any of these lines? USB mass storage devices use the SCSI Direct Access (da) driver. You don't have any memory cards in your card reader, so attempts to read =66rom them to determine the size of the "disks" are producing an unretryable error. Again, this is normal. > 4. I want to use energy saving (mainly to protect the drive from > unnecessary risk of damage in rough weather) to turn off the hard > drive when access is not required. How do I do that? Look at sysutils/ataidle. Taking measures to avoid unnecessary disk access is left as an exercise for the reader ;) --=20 Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/