Re: axen - need working USB NIC using axen to test driver change

2020-05-03 Thread Carl Trachte 
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:12 PM gwes  wrote:

> Currently axen.c has its PHY address hardwired to 3.
> I have a StarTech which has the PHY at 0.
> The driver currently searches for all PHYs connected to the MII
> and then ignores the result.
> I want to test my fix on devices which work now.
>
> Can anyone point me to a USB NIC which works with axen?
> thanks
> Geoff Steckel
>

I’m using the StarTech usb 3.0 one on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. I don’t have
the machine booted up at the moment but I’m running OpenBSD 6.6 and it
works with the axen driver.

I also purchased a usb 2.0 one - this is recognized as an axen device but
it did not work on the ThinkPad X1.  I have not yet tried it on another
older laptop.

>
>

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2016-11-11 Thread Carl Trachte 
Off topic (durability):  I've owned a couple X220 ThinkPads now and I
don't disagree with the Cappuccino report - fans are a real weak point
on the ThinkPad - and they break at the worst times - usually when
travelling.  Basically, the laptop get squished a little, the fan
stops working, and you have to get a new one.

Other little stuff:  the ThinkPad lettering forward of the keyboard
just fell off one day - now there's a bare metal spot on the black.
While the ThinkPad's are known for durability, the X220 is a little
weak in that area.  I love the little screen.  I love even more that
everything works so well under OpenBSD.  I just can't afford to have
the one computer I take on a trip poop itself at the wrong time.  My 2
cents.

I am tempted to give the Toughbook a shot now.  Thanks for the heads up.


On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Chris Cappuccio  wrote:
> harry666t [harry6...@gmail.com] wrote:
>> On 11 November 2016 at 03:25, Brian  wrote:
>> > Thinkpads are used often by folks wanting to get that penguin OS going
also.
>>
>> Typing this on a Thinkpad X200s, running 6.0, very very happy with it.
>
> I consistently get junk when I buy old Thinkpads. Usually the problems are
not major, but I started buying Panasonic Toughbook CF-C1A (1st gen intel) and
CF-C1B (2nd gen intel) laptops which are equivalent to X200 and X220. I have
several units on ebay now for $60 USD which have 14,000 hours (basically on
since they were manufactured) and they look and act brand new. I also started
getting CF-19 MK3 (Core 2 duo) and CF-19 MK4 (i5) for field use. They are
basically rock-solid, even with 8000 hours. Not every single used one has been
great, but most have been very, very good...

Re: image view and manipulation

2016-07-03 Thread Carl Trachte 
feh is lightweight (relatively). I use it from xterm, then use
keyboard chords and dropdown menus to manipulate images (usually view,
zoom, rotate, and save as) once they're up on screen.  CBT

On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 5:34 PM, jsg  wrote:
>Hi folks
> Can some of you recommend what packages or package
>you use to manipulate, view, resive  .png or .img (other) imaeges
>for website content.
>
>
>thanks in advance

Re: HUAWEI dongle

2015-12-19 Thread Carl Trachte 
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Read, James C  wrote:
>>> Read, James C wrote:
>>> > I just installed 5.8, I know my dongle is detected and correctly
>>> > switched to the right mode because
>>> >
>>> > a) I can see in dmesg output that the device is detected and
>>> > labelled ugen0
>>>
>>> See ugen(4). Basically, the dongle isn't supported.
>
>>There was recently a good discussion about which WiFi dongles are
>>reliably supported. I'd suggest finding cheap well-reviewed options
>>online and searching their names on the list archives.
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/umsm.4?query=umsm
> =4
>
> My modem is explicitly listed here (Huawei Mobile E353). And, in fact, the
> dmesg mentions umsm0 when the device is detected in dmesg.
>
> Like I said I know the device is detected and working because I can see the
> light continuous. This only happens when the device mode has been succesfully
> switched.
>
> What do I need to do to bring this up with ifconfig?
>
> Raed Samej
>

I'm jumping in late, sorry if I'm missing context.

If you have your dongle plugged in and it is supported, ifconfig (no
switches) should show it as an interface like urtwn0 or another
chipset family (in your case, umsm0).

I have a Verizon MiFi unit for my wireless internet.  Your setup will
naturally be different unless you're using the same Verizon MiFi unit
for internet.

(with root privileges)

ifconfig umsm0 up nwid Verizon-291LVW-0007 wpakey 

You may need firmware for the driver.  I have to install iwn firmware
for the intel wireless on my X201 ThinkPad.

If your network associates with that command above, then

dhclient umsm0

I always test by pinging google

ping www.google.com

Good luck.

FWIW, OpenBSD does a better on wireless stick driver support than do
the other BSD's, at least last time I went through this a couple years
back.  The trick is buying a chip (manufacturers switch them out all
the time, so you can't depend on the unit model name) that's
supported.

Carl T.

Re: Wireless connection mystery two OpenBSD machines suddenly cannot connect

2015-12-12 Thread Carl Trachte 
from the command line

ifconfig  down
I think this resets the device IIRC

ifconfig  up nwid  wpakey 

At this point you should within a few seconds get an associated
conneciton - if not there's another problem.  On my thinkpad the
little antenna light blinks then stays on constant when it's right.

dhclient 

ping www.google.com

to check to make sure everything works.

Sorry if I've reviewed stuff you already tried or know.  Good luck.



On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Jack J. Woehr  wrote:
> I have two very different laptops running OpenBSD 5.8 with all patches.
>
> Both were connected to my home wireless via very simple hostname files:
>
> nwid foo
> wpakey bar
> dhcp
>
> Both stopped connecting today .. no link (sleeping).
> Both see the station via ifconfig  scan with reasonable dB levels
> (>55dBm)
> My mobile phone still connects to the station with the same credentials, as
> does my Kindle.
>
> Of course this is ridiculous. I don't know enough to be dangerous on this
> one. Any tips?
>
> --
> Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
> www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the
> universe
> www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl
> Sagan

Re: CD's arrived

2015-10-14 Thread Carl Trachte 
Tucson, Arizona

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Ralph Siegler  wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:51:28 +, M Wheeler wrote:
>
>> CD's arrived today UK. Thanks again.
>
> Just arrived just north of Chicago, IL USA  (pre-ordered Sept 15)  Many
> thanks!

Re: lynx is gone?

2015-03-04 Thread Carl Trachte 
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:15 PM, L.R. D.S. arrowscr...@mail.com wrote:
1) lynx has some amazingly insecure code

 So, remove Xombrero from base too, he segfault everytime
 and is much more insecure due to ECMAscript engine of WebKit.

curl

 Please guys, a browser is different from a http/ftp downloader. A
 browser have HTML parser, and funcionality's for you... ahm... browse?



I accidentally posted off list the first time.  I'm just a user, but
my preference is to let the devs, for lack of a better word, dev.  If
I knew how to run the OpenBSD project to end up with something like
OpenBSD, which I'm fond of, I'd be . . . a lot smarter . . .

The app (lynx) is on the CD's as a package, for now, at least.  That
works fine for me, and I am a pretty frequent lynx user.

My 2 cents.

Carl T.

Re: Realtek RTL8192SE wireless card support in OpenBSD 5.5

2014-10-20 Thread Carl Trachte 
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Dylan Socolobsky dsocolob...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello.

 I just decided to give OpenBSD 5.5 (amd64) a go in my netbook,
 everything is working flawlessly so far, except for the Wireless
 Network. I did install rsu-firmware which did nothing.

 My netbook has a Realtek RTL8192SE wireless chip, which I can't get to
 work with OpenBSD. When running ifconfig this is what I get:

 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 33144
 priority: 0
 groups: lo
 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00
 re0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
 lladdr 00:03:0d:fb:20:69
 priority: 0
 groups: egress
 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
 status: active
 inet6 fe80::203:dff:fefb:2069%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
 inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
 enc0: flags=0
 priority: 0
 groups: enc
 status: active
 pflog0: flags=141UP,RUNNING,PROMISC mtu 33144
 priority: 0
 groups: pflog

 So as you can see, I can only see the Ethernet card (re0) which is
 working properly via DHCP, however, the Wireless interface is nowhere
 to be seen.

 Running dmesg | grep Realtek reveals the following:

 Realtek 8192SE rev 0x10 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 not configured

 Which leads me to believe that the device is not being properly
 recognized by the ACPI Interface.

 Looking at /src/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs_data.h , I found the following:

 {
 PCI_VENDOR_REALTEK, PCI_PRODUCT_REALTEK_RTL8192SE,
 8192SE,
 },

 However I could not find any kind of implementation or interface for
 the device, all I could find were if_re_pci.c, if_rl_pci.c and
 if_rtw_pci.c none of which implement the RTL8192SE card.

 What can I do? Is the card not supported at all? Is it just bad
 mapping maybe?

 Thanks for your help.


Disclaimer:  Wikipedia is not guaranteed to be up to date and accurate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wireless_drivers

That said, I did a further search on google and can't see a definitive
mention of that chipset being supported (yet).

I've had some experience outfitting my laptops with those cheap USB
WIFI sticks.  The cost is hardly prohibitive (sometimes under $10) but
nailing down the chipset can be a pain.  My suggestion:  find a
readily available one supported by OpenBSD, install whatever firmware
is required, and go that route.

Good luck.

Carl T.

Re: [Bulk] Re: a half-baked analysis of the verification chicken-and-egg problem, and request

2014-08-13 Thread Carl Trachte 
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Eric Furman ericfur...@fastmail.net wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 13, 2014, at 05:36 PM, Worik Stanton wrote:
 On 13/08/14 22:13, Eric Furman wrote:
 [snip]
  The most absolutely best way any one can contribute to OBSD
  is to BUY CD'S. Buy some cd's and then buy some more.
  Buy them for the stickers. Buy them because they fund OBSD.
  Without cd sales OBSD would cease to exist.
  It is as simple as that. So, BUY CD'S!
  That is worth repeating;
  Without CD sales OpenBSD will cease to exist. PERIOD.
  Contrary to what a lot of you assholes think

 I would rather have a 5.5 T'shirt.

 I am new and when I am ready I will be back here asking questions but
 for now, I do not want a CD (totally useless to me) but a T'shirt would
 be cool.  It would cover my nakedness.

 Looking on http://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html I can see no 5.5 T'shirt.

 Actually given that today I am at home because of snow on the  Lieth
 Saddle a 5.5 merino hoodie would be best. It would cover my nakedness
 and keep me warm(er)

 Fine, buy a T-shirt, but realize that only a small fraction of the cost
 actually goes to OpenBSD. When you buy a CD the vast majority
 of the cost goes to OpenBSD. Who cares whether you need the
 CD or not. Buy if for the cool stickers. Throw the CD in the trash
 for all I and the OpenBSD developers care.



For people earning decent money, $100 a year really isn't much. I've
always failed to see why this is such a big deal. I'd prefer not to
flame, but if you're a dev and a sysadmin earning decent money, or
just someone who uses OpenBSD (like me) and earns OK money, if you
refuse to kick in $50 every six months, you probably shouldn't be
posting to this list.
My OpenBSD knowledge is weak, but I've always had good luck here. I
like the OS; it's simple. For me the continued development of the OS
and this list are more than worth the $50 every six months.

My 2 cents.

Puff on!

(off topic) Booth at SCaLE

2014-01-26 Thread Carl Trachte 
The project has a booth at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE)
as it has in the past, I will be available to sit the booth and help
out.

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale12

I've fallen out of touch with my previous contact and cannot get a
hold of him.  If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd
appreciate it.  Thanks a ton.

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale12x

Please contact me by e-mail off line.

Thanks.

Carl T.

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-18 Thread Carl Trachte 
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Kent R. Spillner kspill...@acm.org wrote:
 I notice a lot of people have suggested use an emulator, as if that had 
 never occurred to the OpenBSD developers before, but nobody has volunteered 
 to verify that the available emulators are good enough to actually replace 
 real hardware.

 Also, I don't understand why anyone thinks emulation would reduce the power 
 bill.  Even assuming the OpenBSD developers were interested in using 
 emulators it's not like they're just going to install one and then power down 
 the old machines.  The old hardware would still run while they're validating 
 the emulators, and that process would probably take a really long time.  So 
 there's no potential cost savings for a really long time, and in the meantime 
 some of the devs are now distracted from actually working on OpenBSD because 
 they're so busy verifying the accuracy of the emulators.


Disclaimer:  I'm loathe to comment because I'm fairly ignorant and
late to the OpenBSD party (I've been a user for about 7 years and have
purchased about 5 or 6 CD's and two T-shirts that I can account for).
I volunteered at SCaLE a number of years ago at the OpenBSD booth and
hope to do that again next month.  I just made a donation of an amount
that I could afford to make today.  Against my better judgement, I
will proceed with my input.

1) I don't want the OpenBSD project to change anything - that includes
the way it develops for platforms and the way it raises funds.  My
belief (not proven) is that the intransigent nature of the project and
its personalities yields the operating system that I want - less is
more, beholden to no one, truly open.

2) Send money to the project now.

My 2 cents.  CBT

Re: One thinkpad still wanted

2013-12-19 Thread Carl Trachte 
Sorry for top post.

I am using a second hand X201 right now, but I don't want to part with it.

I can kick in $100 for the one Marcus proposed if that's the way the
(OpenBSD) project and project leadership want to go.

Please contact me off list for any money transfer arrangements.

Thanks for your continued hard work on drivers, hardware, and the
OpenBSD OS and packages.  I am using it almost exclusively now for my
home computing.

All the best.

Carl T.


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Marcus MERIGHI mcmer-open...@tor.at wrote:
 12/19/13 15:37, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org:
 Jonathan Gray and Mark Kettenis are still missing one generation of
 Intel video.  They need a Arrandale/Ironlake model.

 The Thinkpad x201 is the best laptop for this.

 They could use a laptop from a different vendor.  To verify, pcidump
 -v will show that the HD Graphics device has a Product ID of 0046.

 I do not have one of these at hand but:

 A quick look (http://www.lapstore.de/ = second hand) made me think this
 will be in the EUR 300-400 range.
 I have bought a dozen Notebooks there over the last decade.

 I can donate EUR 100,--
 Anyone else wanting even better X windows?

 http://www.lapstore.de/a.php/shop/lapstore/lang/x/a/10874/kw/Lenovo_Thinkpad_X201_-_3680-KV4

 It's a german page but the facts are english. Is Intel Integrated
 Graphics 4500MHD what is wanted?

 I have wasted an hour on the lenovo website without success. The closest
 I got to x201 3680 KV4 was here[1], the closest to a serious product
 specification here[2].

 [1] http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guides-and-manuals/default.page
 [2] http://www.lenovo.com/psref/
 (Do not search those PDFs, the x201 3680 KV4 is not there. Or I am
 too stupid. Whatever.)

 Bye, Marcus

 Looking to receive it in either in Netherlands, Australia, or here
 in Calgary so that I can get it to them at the next hackathon.
 Actually, since the next hackathon is happening fairly soon, we could
 receive it in a number of other places as well, as long as that is
 soon.

 Thanks.


 !DSPAM:52b304d8316501861912341!

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Carl Trachte 
 OpenBSD has one of the fastest easiest installs of any operating
system out there.  The doc is clean and excellent.

I've never heard less is more as an OpenBSD philosophy, but it is my
philosophy and part of why I like OpenBSD.  I'm a geologist who does
programming in high level, dynamic languages as a hobby and part of my
job.  My sysadmin skills go as far as I need them to to administer an
OpenBSD laptop.

The community (this list, for example) will expect you to refer to the
documentation and experiment a bit before coming here and asking for
help.  The one time I got help here on a wireless setup for my Verizon
MIFI unit, I got an answer almost right away.  People were pretty
kind, too, as I did not have a handle on the ins and outs of
encryption keys and what a wpa key was.  Since then, through working
through more than once, I've learned those things.

As your machine's admin, you will learn things through using it with
OpenBSD.  This can take time and it helps to have an interest in these
things.  Your reward is a machine that behaves the way you expect it
to and fewer security problems (every Windows user I know complains
bitterly about viruses :-\  ).

My 2 cents.


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Salim Shaw salims...@vfemail.net wrote:
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 OpenBSD is for the world. You have to ask yourself a few questions. Are
 you an open source advocate? Do you like the freedom to use an operating
 system the way you want to? Do you value stability and code correctness
 in an operating system? Is security paramount in your computing world?
 Do you value accurate documentation and a developer world who pride
 themselves on correctness? If the answer to these few question is yes,
 then OpenBSD is for you.

 If you like for someone to tell you, how to use an operating system and
 don't mind your OS crashing and security exploits, then you're in the
 wrong place.




 On 11/19/2013 10:37 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote:
 Hi

 I am new to OpenBSD. In fact, I am a total newbie here. After reading
 many posts on this list, I formed the impression that all or most
 OpenBSD users are high-end IT professionals.
 I was wondering: are there OpenBSD users who are not so advanced in
 terms of IT expertise? That is, who are simple computer *users*, not IT
 professionals?
 I need to know this because I am starting feeling that, as an average
 computer user, I might be out of place here. I was attracted to OpenBSD
 by its security-by-default philosophy. Admittedly, I don't know much
 about security and I would not be able to set the proper security
 settings on my own, so I have decided to adopt OpenBSD and use it for
 simple day-to-day tasks, as a desktop OS (as I would any popular Linux
 distribution). Does this choice of mine, and its underlying reasoning,
 make sense?
 Are there any significant drawbacks to my adoption of OpenBSD (such as
 OpenBSD being too technical and too difficult, as compared, say, to
 Linux distros)?

 Please, give me some advice. If OpenBSD is not for me, I would rather
 know it sooner than later.

 Thanks

 Zaf



 - --
 Salim A. Shaw
 System Administrator
 OpenBSD / Free Software Advocate
 Need stability and security --- Try OpenBSD.
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Re: What should we look before buying a laptop?

2013-08-27 Thread Carl Trachte 
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Amit Kulkarni amitk...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.ukwrote:

  In my experience, now that video is out of the way, the thing to look
  out most for is getting a well supported built-in wireless card.
  That's starting to become difficult when buying new laptops because
  most drivers are lacking support for newer hardware variants.


 Perhaps someone knows of a usb wireless card with good range that works
 well under OpenBSD.


 I bought a Edimax N300 Wifi extender...connected with a 10/100 LAN cable to
 the back of this desktop machine. Removes the hassle of having a wireless
 driver. This machine came with a Atheros wireless card which is currently
 unsupported. Good luck.


Hopefully on topic, this is a blog post from an OpenBSD user from the
end of last year (8 months ago).  He had to purchase some parts and do
some config and order a specific wireless setup, but it sounds like a
pretty sharp system (Lenovo Thinkpad X320):

http://brycv.com/blog/2012/lenovo-thinkpad-x230-for-openbsd-and-linux/

I have a ThinkPad Edge that I bought blind.  I eventually got a urtwn
based TP-LINK USB WIFI stick that works well, but it was luck.  The
model number is TL-WN821N (300Mbps), but the chipset has to be right
(urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8192CU, RF 6052 2T2R).

Good luck.

Re: Wireless Connection Problem - Verizon MiFi2200

2010-09-30 Thread Carl Trachte 
On 9/28/10, Anders Langworthy lagrang...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Carl Trachte ctrac...@gmail.com wrote:
 ifconfig iw0 scan detects the mifi device and identifies it:

 nwid Verizon MiFi2200 BB2F Secure chan 11 bssid 6 part id 82db 54M
 privacy,short_preamble,short_slottime

 I try connecting using the network id shown above and the 11 digit
 password on the back of the mifi unit:

 ifconfig iwi0 up nwid network id nwkey 01234567891

 That doesn't work because that password is not a WEP key.  It's a WPA
 key.  WEP keys can't be 11 digits.

 You want something like this:

 ifconfig iwi0 nwid Verizon MiFi2200 BB2F Secure wpa wpapsk \
 `wpa-psk Verizon MiFi2200 BB2F Secure 01234567891`

 Note that if your iwi device has the same quirk as mine you have to
 run a scan after you change the nwid or you won't be able to get an IP
 address.

 Cheers,
 Anders.


Anders, it worked!  (I had had wireless disabled on the Thinkpad -
that's what was wrong once you gave me the right command.)  Thanks so
much.

Carl T.

Wireless Connection Problem - Verizon MiFi2200

2010-09-28 Thread Carl Trachte 
Hello.  I am having difficulty establishing a connection to the
internet through the subject device which serves as our internet
connection at home.

Computer: Lenovo T43 Thinkpad running OpenBSD 4.6 (I will be upgrading
to 4.8 later this year); iwi wireless driver; I downloaded the
firmware and installed it as a package.

I have read ifconfig but I'm missing something.

What I have tried and what works so far:

ifconfig iw0 scan detects the mifi device and identifies it:

nwid Verizon MiFi2200 BB2F Secure chan 11 bssid 6 part id 82db 54M
privacy,short_preamble,short_slottime

I try connecting using the network id shown above and the 11 digit
password on the back of the mifi unit:

ifconfig iwi0 up nwid network id nwkey 01234567891

The output of ifconfig shows status: no network

dhclient times out with no link.

I am neglecting to do something or doing something wrong.  I've seen
at least one person on Twitter get this working with OpenBSD, so I
know, at least in some configurations, it's possible.

Any help would be appreciated.

Carl T.

Re: Wireless Connection Problem - Verizon MiFi2200

2010-09-28 Thread Carl Trachte 
On 9/28/10, Anders Langworthy lagrang...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Carl Trachte ctrac...@gmail.com wrote:
 ifconfig iw0 scan detects the mifi device and identifies it:

 nwid Verizon MiFi2200 BB2F Secure chan 11 bssid 6 part id 82db 54M
 privacy,short_preamble,short_slottime

 I try connecting using the network id shown above and the 11 digit
 password on the back of the mifi unit:

 ifconfig iwi0 up nwid network id nwkey 01234567891

 That doesn't work because that password is not a WEP key.  It's a WPA
 key.  WEP keys can't be 11 digits.

 You want something like this:

 ifconfig iwi0 nwid Verizon MiFi2200 BB2F Secure wpa wpapsk \
 `wpa-psk Verizon MiFi2200 BB2F Secure 01234567891`

 Note that if your iwi device has the same quirk as mine you have to
 run a scan after you change the nwid or you won't be able to get an IP
 address.

 Cheers,
 Anders.


Anders,
Thanks for the command and the distinction between WPA and WEP.  This
is the closest I've gotten to talking to someone who has
gotten this to work on a non-windows system, and I appreciate your
time.
I ran the command and got:
ifconfig: SIOCS80211NWID: Device not configured
ifconfig: SIOCG80211WPAPARMS: Device not configured

Not sure what these mean, but it looks like I've got a problem on my
end.  Thanks again for the command, though.

Carl T.

Re: Wireless Connection Problem - Verizon MiFi2200

2010-09-28 Thread Carl Trachte 
On 9/28/10, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Carl Trachte ctrac...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 9/28/10, Anders Langworthy lagrang...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Carl Trachte ctrac...@gmail.com wrote:
 ifconfig iw0 scan detects the mifi device and identifies it:

 nwid Verizon MiFi2200 BB2F Secure chan 11 bssid 6 part id 82db 54M
 privacy,short_preamble,short_slottime

 I try connecting using the network id shown above and the 11 digit
 password on the back of the mifi unit:

 ifconfig iwi0 up nwid network id nwkey 01234567891

 That doesn't work because that password is not a WEP key.  It's a WPA
 key.  WEP keys can't be 11 digits.

 You want something like this:

 ifconfig iwi0 nwid Verizon MiFi2200 BB2F Secure wpa wpapsk \
 `wpa-psk Verizon MiFi2200 BB2F Secure 01234567891`

 Note that if your iwi device has the same quirk as mine you have to
 run a scan after you change the nwid or you won't be able to get an IP
 address.

 Cheers,
 Anders.


 Anders,
 Thanks for the command and the distinction between WPA and WEP.  This
 is the closest I've gotten to talking to someone who has
 gotten this to work on a non-windows system, and I appreciate your
 time.
 I ran the command and got:
 ifconfig: SIOCS80211NWID: Device not configured
 ifconfig: SIOCG80211WPAPARMS: Device not configured

 Not sure what these mean, but it looks like I've got a problem on my
 end.  Thanks again for the command, though.

 Some info about those messages :


http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/net80211/ieee80211_ioctl.h?rev=
1.17

 and especially here :


http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/net80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c?rev=
1.33


 case SIOCS80211NWID:
   if ((error = suser(curproc, 0)) != 0)
   break;
   if ((error = copyin(ifr-ifr_data, nwid, sizeof(nwid))) != 0)
   break;
   if (nwid.i_len  IEEE80211_NWID_LEN) {
   error = EINVAL;
   break;
   }
   memset(ic-ic_des_essid, 0, IEEE80211_NWID_LEN);
   ic-ic_des_esslen = nwid.i_len;
   memcpy(ic-ic_des_essid, nwid.i_nwid, nwid.i_len);
   error = ENETRESET;
   break;

 case SIOCG80211WPAPARMS:
   error = ieee80211_ioctl_getwpaparms(ic, (void *)data);
   break;

Thanks.  I'll have a look at the links.

Carl T.




 Carl T.





 --
 bIf youbre good at something, never do it for free.b bThe Joker

Re: selling bsd in cd for profit??

2010-02-26 Thread Carl Trachte 
On 2/26/10, Martin SchrC6der mar...@oneiros.de wrote:
 2010/2/27 Richard Toohey richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz:
 No problem?  Maybe not (I don't know) a legal/licence problem, but you
 are
 biting the hand that feeds / killing the golden goose.

 It's not nice, but legal. And people doing this should wear asbestos here.

 Best
 Martin



I know the BSD Certification group includes a base OS for i386 on
their CD - they sell that CD for $40, but it's not for profit, nor is
it anywhere near what the official CD set offers.

Now that I have the 4.6 one, I'm very happy with my CD's.  Really
don't know how you could sell OpenBSD for profit unless you play on
someone's ignorance - everything is out there on the internet.

Befuddled or sucessfully trolled,

Carl T.

Re: creating instalation CD

2010-01-21 Thread Carl Trachte 
On 1/21/10, Yamidt Henao yamidthe...@gmail.com wrote:
 *Hi,

 I try make instalation CD, from OPENBSD machine, I read the
 http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Release, but in the step:
 # cd /usr/src/etc
 # make release
 show me message
 make: don't know how to make release. Stop in /usr/src/etc.

 Can Anybody explain me how make this procedure?**

 Best regards,

 Y.H
 * http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Release



1) if you have the money, buy the 4.6 cd's; everything will be easy
from there on out.

2) if not, download the iso and burn a cd.

The iso is here:  http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html

You will need to select the correct iso for your architecture (i386,
64 bit or 32 bit, etc.)

If you need help burning the iso image to the cd, write back at that point.

Carl T.

Re: Announcing: JigglyPuffBSD

2010-01-19 Thread Carl Trachte 
On 1/19/10, Jason Dixon ja...@dixongroup.net wrote:
 I'm proud to announce the rebirth of JigglyPuffBSD.  Catering to the
 distinguished *BSD user, JigglyPuffBSD aims to meet the demanding
 requirements of today's enterprise architectures.  With support for a
 broad range of buzzwords, it excels in B.S. and P.O.S. applications.

 As a fork of OpenBSD, we're proud of our heritage.  We've taken great
 pains to craft our regex with performance and precision in mind.
 Copyrights have been rewritten and attributions vanquished.  This is not
 your grandfather's BSD.  We're American and damn proud of it.

 http://jigglypuffbsd.blogspot.com/

 --
 Jason Dixon
 DixonGroup Consulting
 http://www.dixongroup.net/



I'm a total community newb, so I hadn't seen this before.  Name and
kitty puff fish graphic with the raytraced eyes made me LOL.  Well
done, if somewhat unkind to naive newbs like myself.

Please keep up the good work on the dev end and I'll keep buying the
CD's - really getting my 50 or 60 bucks worth.  Thanks for the product
and the laugh.

Carl T.

Re: OpenBSD's Songs

2010-01-01 Thread Carl Trachte 
On 1/1/10, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello list,
 I just would like to thank once the work around the songs and arts for the
 project, it really is kind of awesome every-time, and is I believe, an
 important part in the project.

 Regards

The evolution of the fish was my favorite 4.6 sticker.  Good times.

problems with X on 4.6 (mtrr?)

2009-12-26 Thread Carl Trachte 
Hello, first post.

I am writing to request help with X.

I had been running OpenBSD 4.5 on a Dell L733r; X worked well.

In the fall I purchased the new OpenBSD 4.6 cd set.  Since then, I
have not been able to get X going.  The error I'm seeing is mtrr
invalid argument.  Googling the problem suggests either that this
isn't the source of the problem or that I need to set Memory Remap to
off in the BIOS.  The BIOS does not have this option.

I would be most grateful for any help.

Output from startx command:

# startx


xauth:  creating new authority file /home/carl/.serverauth.993





X.Org X Server 1.5.3

Release Date: 5 November 2008

X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

Build Operating System: OpenBSD 4.6 i386

Current Operating System: OpenBSD puffy.my.domain 4.6 GENERIC#58 i386

Build Date: 01 July 2009  05:20:42PM



Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org

to make sure that you have the latest version.

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,

(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat Dec 26 14:48:52 2009

(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

mtrr set failed: Invalid argument




waiting for X server to shut down





X log file:

# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log


(--) checkDevMem: using aperture driver /dev/xf86

(--) Using wscons driver on /dev/ttyC4 in pcvt compatibility mode (version
3.32)



X.Org X Server 1.5.3

Release Date: 5 November 2008

X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

Build Operating System: OpenBSD 4.6 i386

Current Operating System: OpenBSD puffy.my.domain 4.6 GENERIC#58 i386

Build Date: 01 July 2009  05:20:42PM



Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org

to make sure that you have the latest version.

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,

(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat Dec 26 14:48:52 2009

(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

(==) ServerLayout Simple Layout

(**) |--Screen Screen 1 (0)

(**) |   |--Monitor sonycpd-100sx

(**) |   |--Device intel 82810E

(**) |--Input Device Mouse1

(**) |--Input Device Keyboard1

(==) Not automatically adding devices

(==) Not automatically enabling devices

(==) Including the default font path
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X
11/fonts/OTF,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/.

(**) FontPath set to:

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/

(==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules

(II) Loader magic: 0x3c01e2e0

(II) Module ABI versions:

X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4

X.Org Video Driver: 4.1

X.Org XInput driver : 2.1

X.Org Server Extension : 1.1

X.Org Font Renderer : 0.6

(II) Loader running on openbsd

(--) PCI:*(0...@0:1:0) Intel 82810E Video rev 3, Mem @ 0xf800/0,
0xffa8/0

(II) System resource ranges:

[0] -1  0   0x0010 - 0x3fff (0x3ff0) MX[B]E(B)

[1] -1  0   0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B]

[2] -1  0   0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B]

[3] -1  0   0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B]

[4] -1  0   0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B]

[5] -1  0   0x - 0x00ff (0x100) IX[B]

(II) extmod will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also
specified in the config file.

(II) dbe will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also
specified in the config file.

(II) glx will be loaded by default.

(II) freetype will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also
specified in the config file.

(II) dri will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also
specified in the config file.

(II) LoadModule: dri



(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions//libdri.so

(II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation

compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0

ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1

(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI

(II) LoadModule: dbe



(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions//libdbe.so

(II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation

compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0

Module class: X.Org Server Extension

ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1

(II)