Some tips on FreeBSD

LAST UPDATE: $Date: 2005/04/30 14:49:55 $

nForce3 Ethernet on FreeBSD-AMD64
Uvisor on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE
RealProducer on FreeBSD
Flash plug-in on Netscape
Plugger on Netscape
POPS: Package of PackageS for FreeBSD
How to make a PICKLES-like FreeBSD (in Japanese)

nForce3 Ethernet on FreeBSD 5.3-amd64 and -CURRENT-amd64.

Original source is made by Quinton Dolan.
I've tested latest version at 4/3/2005, and it is working on 6-CURRENT at that time.
Nve driver has been commited in March, but It is not working on my box. Quinton told me that nve driver was based on a little bit older version. So maybe nve will be corrected soon.

FreeBSD 5.3 can use kernel modules even on amd64. Thus we can compile nvnet as kernel module.

Obtain nvnet-src-20040813.tar.gz and NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0275.tar.gz (for amd 64).

Extract both tar.gz and apply a patch to nvnet/src/if_nv.c

*** if_nv.c.orig        Mon Oct 11 12:04:44 2004
--- if_nv.c     Mon Oct 11 11:57:07 2004
***************
*** 86,91 ****
--- 86,92 ----
  #include <sys/socket.h>
  #include <sys/sysctl.h>
  #include <sys/queue.h>
+ #include <sys/module.h>
  
  #include <net/if.h>
  #include <net/if_arp.h>

Run make in nvnet/, then you can get if_nv.ko.
Copy if_nv.ko into appropriate directory and 'kldload if_nv.c'.

nForce3 ethernet will be recognized like as follows.

nv0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP3 Networking Adapter> port 0xb400-0xb407 mem 0xe8000000-0xe8000fff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci0
nv0: Ethernet address 00:30:1b:b3:b8:1d
nv0: Ethernet address: 00:30:1b:b3:b8:1d
nv0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
miibus1: <MII bus> on nv0
rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> on miibus1
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

nForce3 Ethernet on FreeBSD 5.2-AMD64

This way is only for FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE. This is not appliable to FreeBSD-CURRENT.

ABSTRACT:

ports/net/nvnet is kernel module to use nForce Ethernet Controller.
Driver for Linux-AMD64 is officially available.
FreeBSD-AMD64 doesn't support kernel module currently.
Thus, possibly I can use the driver for AMD64 with static linking.

PREPARATION:

Obtain two files:
nvnet-src-20040108.tar.gz and Official nForce Drivers for Linux AMD64(1.0.0269) . Then, extract them in your temporary directory.

DRIVER INSTALLATION:

Make dir /usr/src/sys/dev/nvnet and collect the following files into the directory.

(nvnet-src-20040108.tar.gz):
nvnet/src/{if_nv.c, if_nvreg.h}
(NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0269.tar.gz):
nforce/nvnet/{basetype.h, os.h, adapter.h, nvnetlib.o, phy.h}

And, touch /usr/src/sys/dev/nvnet/nvnetlib.c.
At this point, you can see eight files under /usr/src/sys/dev/nvnet.

# cd /usr/src/sys/dev/nvnet/
# ls
adapter.h       if_nv.c         nvnetlib.c      os.h
basetype.h      if_nvreg.h      nvnetlib.o      phy.h

Apply the patch in the directory.

# patch -p1 < nvnet-amd64-patch.diff

Append the following lines to /usr/src/sys/conf/files.amd64.

dev/nvnet/if_nv.c               optional nv pci
dev/nvnet/nvnetlib.c            optional nv pci

COMPILING KERNEL:

Append a line to your kernel CONFIGFILE.

device   nv

Then, execute 'config CONFIGFILE', move into compilation directory, copy /usr/src/sys/dev/nvnet/nvnetlib.o into the directory (make sure that nvnetlib.o is newer than /usr/src/sys/dev/nvnet/nvnetlib.c). And make depend and make. You can build new kernel with nvnet driver.
dmesg is like this.

Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #15: Mon May  3 20:28:10 JST 2004
    root@XXXXX:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/EIRENE
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xffffffff80788000.
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (1994.86-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0xf48  Stepping = 8
  Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
  AMD Features=0xe0500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
real memory  = 536805376 (511 MB)
avail memory = 508452864 (484 MB)

(snip)

nv0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP3 Networking Adapter> port 0xb400-0xb407 mem 0xe8000000-0xe8000fff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci0
nv0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xe8000000
nv0: Ethernet address 00:30:1b:b3:b8:1d
miibus1: <MII bus> on nv0
rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> on miibus1
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
nv0: Ethernet address: 00:30:1b:b3:b8:1d
nv0: [GIANT-LOCKED]

Uvisor on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE / FreeBSD-CURRENT

My Palm Tungsten T doesn't work via uvisor on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. So, I've modified uvisor.c so that it can attach Tungsten T (and other Palm device) properly.

This is a patch for uvisor.c on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE.
This is a patch for uvisor.c on FreeBSD 6-CURRENT (2005.04.03).
This patch adds support for TungstenT, CLIE 3.5 and CLIE 4.0.

I'll send-pr again after I send same send-pr on NetBSD.

RealProducer on FreeBSD (linux emulation)

Real Producer doesn't work on linux emulation on FreeBSD (3.x/4.x). Please apply the following patch corresponding to you version. This patch has been commited into -CURRENT tree in Nov. 17th, 2001.

And rebuild linux.ko. The patch is as shown below (for FreeBSD 4.1):

*** sys/i386/linux/linux_ioctl.c.orig	Mon Nov 20 20:22:07 2000
--- sys/i386/linux/linux_ioctl.c	Mon Nov 20 20:23:11 2000
***************
*** 1044,1049 ****
--- 1044,1053 ----
  		args->cmd = SETDIR(SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_LINE3);
  		return (ioctl(p, (struct ioctl_args *)args));
  
+ 	case LINUX_SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_RECSRC:
+ 	        args->cmd = SETDIR(SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_RECSRC);
+ 	        return ioctl(p, (struct ioctl_args *)args);
+ 
  	case LINUX_OSS_GETVERSION: {
  		int version = linux_get_oss_version(p);
  		return (copyout(&version, (caddr_t)args->arg, sizeof(int)));
*** sys/i386/linux/linux_ioctl.h.orig	Mon Nov 20 20:23:43 2000
--- sys/i386/linux/linux_ioctl.h	Mon Nov 20 20:24:08 2000
***************
*** 163,168 ****
--- 163,169 ----
  #define	LINUX_SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_LINE1	0x4d0E
  #define	LINUX_SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_LINE2	0x4d0F
  #define	LINUX_SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_LINE3	0x4d10
+ #define LINUX_SOUND_MIXER_WRITE_RECSRC  0x4dff
  #define	LINUX_OSS_GETVERSION		0x4d76
  #define	LINUX_SOUND_MIXER_READ_DEVMASK	0x4dfe
  #define	LINUX_SNDCTL_DSP_RESET		0x5000

Flash plug-in on Netscape

Newer version than /usr/ports/www/flash-plugin/ is here (0.4.10). Put it into /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/.

Plugger on Netscape

Plugger is the front end of plugin for netscape to play multimedia contents.
To compile it by ports, c++rt0.c of FreeBSD 2.2.x is needed.
Compiled binary of plugger is here. Put it into /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/, and put pluggerrc into /usr/local/etc/. Ofcourse you should prepare many multimedia players, such as mtvp, xanim, timidity and so on.

Masahiko KIMOTO, Ph.D. <kimoto@ohnolab.org>

Last modified: Sat Apr 30 23:49:01 JST 2005