Don't document non-bugs in the BUGS section, or anywhere else. It
is not a bug to drop data when overloaded. The compile-time tuning
options turned out to be not very useful, and aren't supported
offically.
Documented the not so new option CY_PCI_FASTINTR.
to implement multi-link ppp over more than one ISP with
the ability to lose ISPs without loss of connectivity.
It *requires* that you either have administrative access
to a machine that's already connected to the 'net or at
least know a really nice person that does.
(QIC) written under 2.X may not be easily read under the current
driver without explicitly setting to variable mode or to the blocksize
these tapes were written under 2.X with.
PR: 6681
similar to the PNIC I (supported by the pn driver). In fact, it's really
a Macronix 98715A with wake on LAN support added. According to LinkSys,
the PNIC II was jointly developed by Lite-On and Macronis. I get the
feeling Macronix did most of the work. (The datasheet has the Macronix
logo on it, and is in fact nearly identical to the 98715 datasheet, except
for the extra wake on LAN registers.) In any case, the PNIC II works just
fine with the Macronix driver.
The changes are:
- Move PCI ID for the PNIC II from the pn driver to the mx driver.
- Mention PNIC II support in mx.4.
- Mention PNIC II support in RELNOTES.TXT and HARDWARE.TXT.
- Mention that the 6Mbps turbo adapters are supported in HARDWARE.TXT
and RELNOTES.TXT and the wi.4 man page
- Mention turbo adapters in the wicontrol.8 man page and provide a
complete table of available transmit speed settings
ADMtek AL981 "Comet" chipset. The AL981 is yet another DEC tulip clone,
except with simpler receive filter options. The AL981 has a built-in
transceiver, power management support, wake on LAN and flow control.
This chip performs extremely well; it's on par with the ASIX chipset
in terms of speed, which is pretty good (it can do 11.5MB/sec with TCP
easily).
I would have committed this driver sooner, except I ran into one problem
with the AL981 that required a workaround. When the chip is transmitting
at full speed, it will sometimes wedge if you queue a series of packets
that wrap from the end of the transmit descriptor list back to the
beginning. I can't explain why this happens, and none of the other tulip
clones behave this way. The workaround this is to just watch for the end
of the transmit ring and make sure that al_start() breaks out of its
packet queuing loop and waiting until the current batch of transmissions
completes before wrapping back to the start of the ring. Fortunately, this
does not significantly impact transmit performance.
This is one of those things that takes weeks of analysis just to come
up with two or three lines of code changes.
is likely the intent of the original author since no other places use
tabs.
Sync us.unix.kdb to us.iso.kbd. It should now only swap ESC and `~,
bs and delete, control and caps lock and make no other changes from
us.iso.kdb.
adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol
utility to manipulate some of the card parameters.
This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light
library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly
because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross).
The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF
library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has
just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone
with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would
have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary
too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary
HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.)
Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have
only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on
BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with
an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results
to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
are from 3.x-stable which was branched quite some time after 3.0-release
(about Jan 15 if I recall correctly).
----> FreeBSD-3.0-----\----- FreeBSD-4.x-current -----....
\
3.x-stable ----> 3.1 ---> 3.2 ....
Submitted by: peter
Added upcoming releases FreeBSD 3.2, NetBSD 1.3, OpenBSD 2.5
NetBSD 1.2.1 is a patch release of NetBSD 1.2 (a branch of 1.2)
NetBSD 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3 are a patch release of NetBSD 1.3 (a branch of 1.3).
FreeBSD 3.0, FreeBSD 3.1 and FreeBSD 3.2 are a releases
from the 3.0-stable branch.
Added FreeBSD 4.0-current.
Added FreeBSD 3.1 release date.
This is a seriously beefed up chroot kind of thing. The process
is jailed along the same lines as a chroot does it, but with
additional tough restrictions imposed on what the superuser can do.
For all I know, it is safe to hand over the root bit inside a
prison to the customer living in that prison, this is what
it was developed for in fact: "real virtual servers".
Each prison has an ip number associated with it, which all IP
communications will be coerced to use and each prison has its own
hostname.
Needless to say, you need more RAM this way, but the advantage is
that each customer can run their own particular version of apache
and not stomp on the toes of their neighbors.
It generally does what one would expect, but setting up a jail
still takes a little knowledge.
A few notes:
I have no scripts for setting up a jail, don't ask me for them.
The IP number should be an alias on one of the interfaces.
mount a /proc in each jail, it will make ps more useable.
/proc/<pid>/status tells the hostname of the prison for
jailed processes.
Quotas are only sensible if you have a mountpoint per prison.
There are no privisions for stopping resource-hogging.
Some "#ifdef INET" and similar may be missing (send patches!)
If somebody wants to take it from here and develop it into
more of a "virtual machine" they should be most welcome!
Tools, comments, patches & documentation most welcome.
Have fun...
Sponsored by: http://www.rndassociates.com/
Run for almost a year by: http://www.servetheweb.com/
transceiver. Note in the manual page that autoselection doesn't
work on the 82c168 because the built-in NWAY support is horribly
broken. Manual mode selection works fine, but autoneg is broken for
everything except maybe 10Mbps half-duplex. There's no simple way
to fix this at the moment, so I have to settle for documenting the
bug for now. Fortunately, there aren't anywhere near as many 82c168
boards around as there are 82c169s.
I changed to "Christopher G. Demetriou" since the page appears to be a
revision of lkm(4).
PR: docs/8611
Submitted by: Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <rv@fore.com>
Networks Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets. There are a _lot_ of OEM'ed
gigabit ethernet adapters out there which use the Alteon chipset so
this driver covers a fair amount of hardware. I know that it works with
the Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3c985 and Netgear GA620, however it should also
work with the DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000, Silicon Graphics Gigabit
ethernet board, NEC Gigabit Ethernet board and maybe even the IBM and
and Sun boards. The Netgear board is the cheapest (~$350US) but still
yields fairly good performance.
Support is provided for jumbo frames with all adapters (just set the
MTU to something larger than 1500 bytes), as well as hardware multicast
filtering and vlan tagging (in conjunction with the vlan support in
-current, which I should merge into -stable soon). There are some hooks
for checksum offload support, but they're turned off for now since
FreeBSD doesn't have an officially sanctioned way to support checksum
offloading (yet).
I have not added the 'device ti0' entry to GENERIC since the driver
with all the firmware compiled in is quite large, and it doesn't really
fit into the category of generic hardware.
/usr/sbin/sysctl -> ${DESTDIR}/sbin/sysctl in some versions of 2.2,
and this link was broken if DESTDIR was set.
Added a SYMLINKS macro. This works the same as LINKS, except it
creates symlinks and the linked-to pathname may be relative. This
is more flexible than LN_FLAGS, since it supports installing
symlinks independently of hard links.
Use `ln -f[s] ...' instead of `rm -f ...; ln [-s] ...' for LINKS and
SYMLINKS. This is equivalent if the target is neither a directory nor
a symlink to a directory.
PR: 8279
kernel and userland modules.
Describe the superdevice method of ensuring that people at least
recognize the problem if they run into a debug synchronization problem.
