From owner-freebsd-ppc Fri Feb 28 7:26:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FE937B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:26:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C01B43F93 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:26:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from welchsm@earthlink.net) Received: from ernie.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.243]) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18omOh-000505-00; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:26:03 -0800 Received: from [207.217.78.205] by EarthlinkWAM via HTTP; Fri Feb 28 07:26:03 PST 2003 Message-ID: <4059018.1046445963312.JavaMail.nobody@ernie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:26:02 -0600 (GMT) From: Sean Welch Reply-To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org To: Benno Rice Subject: Re: ATA patch and others Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Web Access Mail version 3.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay -- I'll desist on the USB front for the moment -- any plans to change that soon? Sean -------Original Message------- From: Benno Rice Sent: 02/27/03 06:34 PM To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org Subject: Re: ATA patch and others > > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 09:16, Sean Welch wrote: > Found the problem! It was sendmail. I had to add the following > to my rc.conf: > > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > > Looked like maybe it couldn't resolve localhost. Sendmail > still starts but doesn't hang the box. > > I tried to run ppp on dev/ttya but it complained it was > failing to initialize the device -- no echo back. Exiting > the program produced a complaint that the physical speed > couldn't be set to "0". Hmm. I'll have to play with that at some point. Note that zs doesn't have the right bits to do proper modem control yet. It was written purely as a console driver for now. > I wasn't able to use vi because it couldn't find a terminal > database -- I'll look for that. > > I wanted to see if the USB would work but there are no > kernel modules -- do I have to recompile the kernel with > USB enabled or can the module be built and run? You don't want to do that. =) ofwcons uses the USB controller for it's keyboard, and if FreeBSD sticks it's nose in and tries to take control of the USB controller, Bad Things(tm) will happen. > Is there any way to drop back down to the OFW prompt from > FreeBSD? I tried a sysreset -r but it just halted and > ignored further input. I got the same results with halt... Not yet. That needs to be addressed. -- Benno Rice > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message