On 2006/06/08 14:35, akonsu wrote: > i can change my whole setup. what i have now is the best that i could think > of. basically the problem is that my laptop's wireless card is not supported > yet
If it's minipci, it's usually cheap and not difficult to swap it for a ralink-based card (but check you don't have anything silly to do first, like run tpwireless on an IBM). Or you probably have the option of using plug-in wireless (USB/PC-card), which might be slightly annoying, but is probably less annoying than having to run Windows like this... > but since VM window is too small, i want to run openbsd applications on > windows desktop, so i am using cygwin X. > > this response suggests that i can use ssh to connect to openbsd. could you Yes, you can still ssh to something running on the same physical box... > give me more pointers? is there a better setup that i can use? For console apps just run sshd on the OpenBSD vm and connect to it with PuTTY (or OpenSSH compiled under Cygwin, but then you have crappy Windows terminal emulation to put up with, which I mostly try and avoid - if I'm running some cygwin/windows box I usually putty to localhost for CLI). If you have GUI apps to run too, turn on X11 forwarding (in the GUI for PuTTY, or in ~/.ssh/config for OpenSSH) and it will send it over a tunnel in the SSH session and set DISPLAY for you, so you type 'xterm' in the session and it appears on your local screen. Of course by connecting from Windows to OpenBSD, you are reliant on Windows for security of those sessions...
