7 Apr 2002 will   » (Master)

Well I just spent a weekend trying to get my nice new hardware working. Thanks to a FreeBSD user, I received a 40GB ATA100 Maxtor drive which I am using in my new Sun Blade 100, which also got an infusion of 512MB additional ECC PC133 SDRAM for a total of 640MB. But after all that trouble I went to, I discover some time later that the IDPROM contents became invalid. Great. So I scampered all over the net looking for how to rewrite the ether & hostid info into the IDPROM. Doesn't seem like there's any way, even though the machine is brand spanking new directly from Sun. So it seems I'll have to call them tomorrow and get a new IDPROM shipped to me, probably. Ethernet device *seems* ok, as I config'd the ethernet address in solaris and was able to get pinging and stuff.

Then the laptop router I'm trying to setup. I got the USB ethernet device (D-Link DSB-650TX which works with FreeBSD's aue(4) driver) last Tuesday. I'd been putting off trying to actually get it working due to lack of time. Finally, on Friday I go to try it, and what do I find out? The kernel panics if I try to ifconfig it, with the March 31 -current. So I updated to the latest kernel only to find out that it panics as soon as aue0 tries to attach.. before the kernel can even call init(8). So I talk to Joe Karthauser, the guy who's been doing the recent merges from NetBSD and OpenBSD and find out the scoop. Seems neither of us atm can figure out how to get useful dumps when this happens. I guess I'll have to leave this for later.

Due to all that, I think it will be at least a few more days before I commit the KDE 3.0 ports for FreeBSD. I'm not really getting very much useful feedback on those anyway. It would be nice if more people tested the packages. Sigh. Oh well. Time to get lunch now...

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