Re: [leaf-user] uClibc Boot CD problem

2004-12-26 Thread groups, freeman
Kory Krofft wrote: when Nero burns it, sh-httpd becomes sh_httpd. FWIW, this is a feature of burning proper-spec ISO-9660 CD's. That charset for 'ISO' filenames is limited (i.e. dashes are not valid filename chars) so Nero is 'helping' you by renaming the file for ya, to be compliant with the

Re: [leaf-user] Leaf guide - Available on Archive.org

2005-06-28 Thread groups, freeman
You can get a Nov 2004 version of the guide from here: http://web.archive.org/web/20041106175146/http://leaf-project.org/doc/guide/leaf-guide-collection.pdf (When sites/pages can't be found on the net but you know they used to be there, archive.org is your friend.) scott; canada Fabricio

[leaf-user] 404 Error seeking leaf-guide-collection.pdf

2005-10-31 Thread groups, freeman
This error was observed and posted by another on Oct 16 and the problem has returned (or persisted). I'm seeking to acquire the PDF doc. On page: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/ I click the hyperlinked text pdf version, which links to:

[leaf-user] Notes on mini_httpdS + webconf

2005-11-03 Thread groups, freeman
Whew, that was a bit of an exercise. Some issues I discovered and some quick things that I learned - maybe this will help others. Likely I need some correction/clarification too?! FWIW I use a CD for the bulk of the packages and a floppy for 'partial' backups of the packages that I adjust.

Re: [leaf-user] lrcfg backup problem

2005-11-24 Thread groups, freeman
Jim Ford wrote: I'd be interested in the experience (and workarounds) of others. I use a CD-ROM drive and find that gives me a number of benefits... - CD-ROM is read-only, so integrity of its files can be preserved - simple, no-hassle 1.44MB floppy for config changes - faster package saves

Re: [leaf-user] RE: Bering uClibc Package Updates

2005-12-04 Thread groups, freeman
I'm of the mindset that this is, for all practical intents and purposes, ill advised and here's my reasoning. The packages are the products of various authors, Tom Eastep for one. Unless he and all contributors were to adhere to some protocol there's the definite potential for problems.

Re: [Solution?!] Re: [leaf-user] p9100 not working

2006-04-10 Thread groups, freeman
Eric Spakman wrote: To the package maintainer: - is it possible to remove the dependency on /etc/hosts.allow since it would seem to be redundant with shorewall rules? It is possible to remove the dependency, but there is a reason why p9100 (and a few other packages) are compiled with

[leaf-user] Seeking pppd debug tips

2006-04-20 Thread groups, freeman
Hi, I'm using BuC 2.3 with a dynamic-IP, PPPoE, DSL connection. pppd and pppoe are both version 2.4.2 Rev 2 (current, per the packages page). I'm seeking info from my ppp(oe) software about (esp) the name of the access concentrator I'm connecting to. If I had a standalone pppoe executable I'd

Re: [leaf-user] Seeking pppd debug tips

2006-04-21 Thread groups, freeman
Eric Spakman wrote: But pppd/pppoe is logging to /var/log/ppp.log, did you also looked at that one? My ppp.log is always empty. All logging that I can find is located in daemon.log. (I've got an old ppp.log that had chat entries from a modem connection but /pppd/, in all cases, seems to

[Solved?!] Re: [leaf-user] Seeking pppd debug tips

2006-04-23 Thread groups, freeman
Whew, what a journey down source code lane... One thing that was killing my effort was that the debug statements in the source code were using printf's, so the fact that, by default, pppd spins itself off into the background means that one would never see the printf's at all! Wanting to

[leaf-user] Packages Unavailable - SF problems?!

2006-04-26 Thread groups, freeman
I've noticed for the past day-ish that two packages I'm interested in (tc, qos-htb) have been unavailable from the sf website. e.g. URL: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/leaf/bin/bering-uclibc/packages/qos-htb.lrp?rev=HEADcontent-type=application/octet-stream times out eventually and

[leaf-user] QoS for VoIP (for a QoS Newbie)

2006-05-18 Thread groups, freeman
I've got myself a sweet Sipura SPA-2100 but even though it has built-in QoS routing that seems to perform superbly (http://www.tomsnetworking.com/2005/06/22/review_spa2100/page4.html) I prefer to place it behind my LEAF firewall so as to: - learn QoS - keep my LEAF unit as the PPPoE login unit,

Re: [leaf-user] [RFE] LEAF on CD - other improvement(s)? [SysLinux/ISOLinux]

2006-06-01 Thread groups, freeman
I'm of the mindset that the way the LEAF CD-image is presently constructed is unnecessarily obtuse. Regarding BuC 2.4.1 in particular (though I recall that recent versions of BuC-from-CD all work this way): The LEAF ISO is bootable and this is effected via a floppydisk image that is stored on

Re: [leaf-user] [RFE] LEAF on CD - other improvement(s)? [SysLinux/ISOLinux]

2006-06-02 Thread groups, freeman
Sorry, a small word omission (**) that made obscured the functionality I was trying to describe (and made me look all-too-easily impressed). groups, freeman wrote: Instead of timing-out to the LEAF bootup, I can also elect to have the system boot a DOS diskette *image-file*, for e.g. if I want

Re: [leaf-user] [ANN:] Second maintenance release 2.4.2 for LEAF Bering-uClibc 2.4

2006-06-08 Thread groups, freeman
KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: The Bering-uClibc team releases LEAF Bering-uClibc 2.4.2 This version provides another fix dnsmasq 2.27 and the usual shorewall update (now up to shorewall version 3.0.7). Thanks! Yesterday I had observed (on BuC 2.4.1), 2 instances of the dnsmasq process

[leaf-user] BuC3b2: USB Ethernet Adapter Success

2006-11-18 Thread groups, freeman
Just sharing my success at employing a USB network adapter on BuC3 beta2. I have a USB CATC (Netlink II) adapter and found these modules needed to make it work: usbcore usb-uhci (AIUI for some people usb-ohci might be used here, instead) catc (In particular I was pleasantly surprised

[leaf-user] FeatureVsBug: saving config removes 'unloaded' config files

2006-11-24 Thread groups, freeman
Way back on Aug 23, regarding apkg Eric Spakman wrote: A 'complete' backup is always done for a few reasons: -it removes stale changed config files from no longer installed packages. -it's fast because the configdb is not big -it's much simpler and robust it's the removal of stale

Re: [leaf-user] FeatureVsBug: saving config removes 'unloaded' configfiles

2006-11-24 Thread groups, freeman
Eric Spakman wrote: Hi Scott, I don't want to make the config system more complex than it needs to be, also for future enhancements like remove packages and current options like upgrade and show config changes (which will show strange output because the default config file wouldn't

Re: [leaf-user] Bering-uClibc on extended floppy images

2006-12-04 Thread groups, freeman
Heh, I spent some time messing with 1680 floppies in a DOS/Windows environment. What I observed was that 1680 size isn't recognized properly in pure DOS and/or XP, so it was in my case a very unfriendly format. Given how much simpler one's life is with 1440 size disks (including, one

Re: [leaf-user] Bering uClibc 3.0, PPTPD and Shorewall

2007-01-30 Thread groups, freeman
Eric Faden wrote: Found it. hosts.allow. -Eric Wow. I went thorough the same painful discovery of hosts.allow as did Eric (for me it was p9100). At the time I posted about this issue and made some suggestions but nothing was agreed upon between all we various opinions :) Perhaps

Re: [leaf-user] OOT:LCD terminal

2007-03-31 Thread groups, freeman
I'm not sure why the two items you linked to aren't 100% suitable for you... but matrix orbital at http://www.matrixorbital.com/ makes RS-232-connected LCD displays that also have input (buttons) functionality all built-in. A 2-line LCD like I have is something like $40-$50 IIRC. I'm using

Re: [leaf-user] Using NIC DFE-580TX

2007-04-20 Thread groups, freeman
Kwon wrote: I am thinking of using the following for Bering uClibc for a quiet low power solution: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=301 Please post again of your findings? Thanks! I can share with you my measurements about power consumption for one

Re: [leaf-user] Using NIC DFE-580TX, Cute Mobos

2007-04-21 Thread groups, freeman
Kwon wrote: Thank you for posting! Btw, what tool did you use for the above measurements? Is that a software tool and open source? A hardware gizmo called P3 Killawatt: http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-CE.html Cost is approx $30; sometimes they're available on

[leaf-user] Seeking Samba v3 Pkg for BuCv3

2007-05-10 Thread groups, freeman
Hi folks, as always thanks for everyone's work on LEAF! FWIW I'm presently on Bering v3.0 RC2. I'm setting up a FAT32 fileserver and thought that LEAF would make a nice tight base upon which to build that ... and I know LEAF quite well. I'm having some difficulty with the provided v2.2 of

Re: [leaf-user] Seeking Samba v3 Pkg for BuCv3

2007-05-11 Thread groups, freeman
Paul G Rogers wrote: I'm setting up a FAT32 fileserver and thought that LEAF would make a nice tight base upon which to build that ... and I know LEAF quite well. Pardon my asking but, why on Earth would anyone want Samba on a perimeter firewall/router?! Uh, cuz I'm not setting up

Re: [leaf-user] Seeking Samba v3 Pkg for BuCv3

2007-05-11 Thread groups, freeman
Martin Hejl wrote: Hi bino, I see that it's not just me that see BuC is to hot to just positioned as router/firewall I see BuC as Platform that we can build anything on top of it. one _can_ - but it doesn't mean that the people working of LEAF should necessarily spend their time on

[leaf-user] Seeking busybox_allyes for 3.0RC2 (uC 0.9.28)

2007-10-12 Thread groups, freeman
Wow, I've been around and around (e.g. BuC Dev. Guide, Chapter 1. Development) trying everything under the sun to get a busybox built - I did get it built using buildtool, but then observed that 1.2.x doesn't have the arp command which I assume was patched in. I was seeking the patch, in .svn

[leaf-user] Missing USB drivers on USB image

2008-05-14 Thread groups, freeman
Hi, I'm testing with BuC 3.1, having downloaded the USB image and dd'd it onto a 256MB USB stick. (Mobo is a very new ASUS Wolfdale.) However the bootup would not complete - none of the .LRP files get found (nf!) and finally I get the msg: /linuxrc: source: line 277: can't open

[leaf-user] BuC 3.0beta2 support MP (aka MLPPP/MultiLink PPP)?

2008-06-15 Thread groups, freeman
I've got a BuC 3.0beta2 box connected via PPPoE using DSL. I'm wanting to implement single-physical-connection MLPPP but it's not working, so at the top level I'm wondering if anyone has tried this (MLPPP using one or more physical connections) and had success or failure? Specifically for

Re: [leaf-user] [write-protectable USB key-fob a boot media] What's the current way to save your changes?

2008-07-08 Thread groups, freeman
Gordon Bos wrote: Craig Caughlin wrote: 1.)If you're using the Bering-uClibc CD, how do you make changes and then back those up? You'll need writeable media ;) Although deprecated the 3.5 floppy disks are still a good choice because of their write inhibit switch. The only other

Re: [leaf-user] [write-protectable USB key-fob a boot media] What's the current way to save your changes?

2008-07-08 Thread groups, freeman
Jim Ford wrote: Is there anything against using a SD to CF adaptor, eg: http://tinyurl.com/6nzbau Then using it in a CF to IDE adapter (which is a set-up I use)? You would then effectively have a write protectable IDE disk. Jim Nope, that would do just as well ... in fact it's be a tad

[leaf-user] Missing i2c folder from Modules in 3.1.1b2?

2009-03-16 Thread groups, freeman
Hi, just starting to look at 3.1.1b2 and seem to have noticed that the folder \2.4.34.6\kernel\drivers\i2c is missing the the modules tarball, that I grabbed from: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/leaf/Bering-uClibc_modules_2.4.34.6.tar.gz?use_mirror=internap I think this may cause bustage

[leaf-user] pppd vs Fatal signal 11 @ 3.1.1b2

2009-03-29 Thread groups, freeman
Hi, working with the new 3.1.1b2 release. I am working with the floppy image in a pretty near-to-defaults setup, just to try to get the pppd working (PPPoE actually). I'm having trouble getting the pppd to behave - in the syslog I'm seeing, every time I try to cause a PPPoE connection, my

Re: [leaf-user] pppd vs Fatal signal 11 @ 3.1.1b2 (incl pppd debugging tip)

2009-03-31 Thread groups, freeman
KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: Am Sonntag, 29. März 2009 18:09:53 schrieb groups, freeman: Hi, working with the new 3.1.1b2 release. I am working with the floppy image in a pretty near-to-defaults setup, just to try to get the pppd working (PPPoE actually). I'm having trouble getting the pppd

Re: [leaf-user] pppd vs Fatal signal 11 @ 3.1.1b2 (incl pppd debugging tip)

2009-04-22 Thread groups, freeman
KP sent me a fix for this Fatal Error 11, which made the problem go away for me, so just a heads up that there seems to be a known problem with the PPP(oE) of 3.1.1b2. Hat tip, of course, to KP :) scott -- Stay on

[leaf-user] More nits re 3.1.1b2

2009-04-22 Thread groups, freeman
for redistribution of the resultant exe. This contrasts with the 2.4.1 imaging-1680 exe which does not offer that admonition. This might be a no-no for a project like LEAF :) Thanks as always for LEAF, hopefully this is helpful to the project! scott groups, freeman wrote: Hi, just starting

[leaf-user] [Few] More nits re 3.1.1b2

2009-05-04 Thread groups, freeman
Hi, a few more things I noticed, my perspective is functional differences between BuC 3.0b2 and BuC 3.1.1b2. no shutdown facility - /sbin/shutdown doesn't exist - /sbin/halt has no '-p' (poweroff) option =-=-=-=-=-=-=- My setup: boot from CD using pure isolinux, cfg stored on floppy

Re: [leaf-user] Bering-uClibc 3.1.1-beta3 - Still some missing i2c modules

2009-07-12 Thread groups, freeman
davidMbrooke wrote: there are some other core i2c modules that come from source package i2c, (for example i2c-dev, i2c-proc). Those are missing. I found that the i2c-core.o and i2c-proc.o files from the BuC3.1.1b1 release worked on my BuC3.1.1b3 setup. scott

Re: [leaf-user] Bering-uClibc 3.1.1-beta3 - Still some missing i2c modules

2009-07-12 Thread groups, freeman
KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: Am Samstag, 6. Juni 2009 16:45:17 schrieb davidMbrooke: there are some other core i2c modules that come from source package i2c, (for example i2c-dev, i2c-proc). Those are missing. Thx for reporting; corrected both issues for the next version. kp As a sanity

[leaf-user] Packages Download URL? bug

2010-07-12 Thread groups, freeman
Under both Firefox IE getting err 400 for packages. E.G. for BuC v3 packages, try: 1. 6wall.lrp [45 k] gives link of: http://leaf.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/leaf/bin/packages/uclibc-0.9/28/6wall.lrp?rev=HEADcontent-type=application/octet-stream and resultant page: === An

Re: [leaf-user] Packages Download URL? bug

2010-07-12 Thread groups, freeman
wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 11:11 -0400, groups, freeman wrote: Under both Firefox IE getting err 400 for packages. -snip- Everyone, I have an open ticket with SourceForge Staff concerning this issue. http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/11869

Re: [leaf-user] Problems with BlackBerry device and Leaf Router

2011-01-06 Thread groups, freeman
BB via WiFi, through a LEAF router (v3.1.1 something), works fine - personal experience. (If special ports needed to be opened then every open HotSpot would need special config to support BB users ... so no special config being required makes sense, right?) I'd verify that your BB plan

[leaf-user] BuC4 - Pkgs HTML Page Broken?

2011-03-03 Thread groups, freeman
Hi, taking a peek at BuC4. Wanted to check the packages page by clicking on link on left side of LEAF's SF site, which sends me to: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/bering-uclibc/index.php?module=pagemasterPAGE_user_op=view_pagePAGE_id=13MMN_position=33:33 However when I view the page in FF I get:

[leaf-user] Migrating to OpenVPN, BRIDGE Mode

2011-10-10 Thread groups, freeman
Sort of a brief, general question, having spent 8 hrs on this and gotten nowhere. I currently have LEAF uC v3.1.1b3 router, with extensive shorewall rules for eth1 (my LAN). If I want to migrate to using OpenVPN, road warrior setup (incl using bridging and not routing to access the eth1

[leaf-user] Manually unpacking mounting initrd.lrp

2012-01-19 Thread groups, freeman
Hi, I'm testing with 4.2b1 and want to examine the uncompressed-then-mounted contents of the initrd.lrp file. On my running 3.1.1b3 I'd gunzip the lrp file via: gunzip -c initrd.lrp /tmp/initrd.minix and then loop-mount the output as a minix filesys ... but that doesn't work now :( First

[leaf-user] Missing /usr/bin files in v4 EasyRSA

2012-01-22 Thread groups, freeman
There appear to be missing, from the current (v4) EasyRSA package, a handful of files from the /usr/bin dir ... at least when compared to the v3 EasyRSA package. e.g. clean-all, build-ca, build-key-server, etc FWIW I'm trying to follow the v4 VPN setup instructions at:

Re: [leaf-user] Missing /usr/Sbin files in v4 EasyRSA

2012-01-22 Thread groups, freeman
On 12/01/22 10:42, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: Look in /usr/sbin My bad, I was in fact originally looking in /usr/Sbin. I also noticed that clean-all is there, however the one I actually need, build-ca, is definitely missing. Cheers!

Re: [leaf-user] Missing /usr/Sbin files in v4 EasyRSA

2012-01-23 Thread groups, freeman
On 12/01/23 00:31, n22e113 wrote: Try: # /usr/sbin/pkitool --initca # /usr/sbin/pkitool --server ${SERVER} http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/OpenVPN_server I ended up just pulling in the missing scripts (from the easy-rsa/2.0 dir) from the OpenVPN source:

Re: [leaf-user] Missing /usr/Sbin files in v4 EasyRSA

2012-01-23 Thread groups, freeman
On 12/01/23 07:23, groups, freeman wrote: I ended up just pulling in the missing scripts (from the easy-rsa/2.0 dir) BTW the output of 'help easyrsa' displays the version 1.0 README file, instead of what I think it should show, which would be the ver 2.0 README file. Cheers thanks for LEAF

[leaf-user] LEAF 4.0 Packages - D/L problems

2012-02-12 Thread groups, freeman
1) The 4.0 packages now download as files named '4_0_pkgname.lrp' instead of the traditional 'pkgname.lrp' - I suspect this is unintentional. 2) The EasyRSA package that downloads as a singular package is not the newest (i.e. it doesn't contain KP's addition of the 'build-ca' script),

Re: [leaf-user] Leaf Upgrade

2012-02-24 Thread groups, freeman
On 12/02/23 14:30, Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp. wrote: I'm running it on older low end (P4 class) PCs with various NICs. Me too. I boot from old hard disks that spin down after boot. Me, CD-ROM + floppy for config. Is there some way I could push a disk image onto those? I can

Re: [leaf-user] Leaf Upgrade

2012-02-24 Thread groups, freeman
On 12/02/22 13:43, Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp. wrote: The current release (4.2 beta) is too large for the root drive of my storage (vfat /dev/sda1). If I move these files into a subdirectory rather than the root of the hard drive, how do I reflect that in leaf.cfg and

Re: [leaf-user] Change the order of eth0,1 etc

2012-03-30 Thread groups, freeman
On 12/03/26 05:11, Andrew wrote: 26.03.2012 07:03, ads...@genis-x.com написал: How do I change the order of NIC detection? or how can I force the system to load e1000e BEFORE the igb driver? Bering-uClibc_4.2_i686_syslinux_vga {{ snip }} Hi. Just add e1000e in /etc/modules - it is

Re: [leaf-user] Change the order of eth0,1 etc

2012-03-31 Thread groups, freeman
) output at all times since diag output is pretty 'cheap' to implement, but it could instead be set to only show this info if $VERBOSE is true. Cheers thanks for LEAF! On 12/03/31 05:41, Andrew wrote: 31.03.2012 00:27, groups, freeman написал: On 12/03/26 05:11, Andrew wrote: 26.03.2012 07:03

Re: [leaf-user] Load files from USB flash card

2012-04-16 Thread groups, freeman
On 12/04/10 16:57, davidMbrooke wrote: Does anybody still use Floppy Disks? I do (bootable CD, configdb and leaf.cfg on floppy). I'd speculate this however - it's probably only the more technical (or old-timer) people who use floppy, so they might be a group of users most able to reconfig

[leaf-user] Seeking tor.lrp Update (and sugg'n re 4.2+ pkg requirements notice)

2012-04-16 Thread groups, freeman
My tor client (running on BuC 4.2b1) is warning me that the server version I'm using is needing an update: [warn] Please upgrade! This version of Tor (0.2.2.33) is not recommended, according to the directory authorities. Recommended versions are: 0.2.1.32 0.2.2.35 0.2.3.10-alpha

Re: [leaf-user] Seeking tor.lrp Update (and sugg'n re 4.2+ pkg requirements notice)

2012-04-16 Thread groups, freeman
On 12/04/16 13:06, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: [Tor version]0.2.2.35 has been committed to git and will available soon. Thx KP! Generally the packages are for 4.x, but kernel related packages for 4.2 only. We don't test newer packages on oler releases, though they may work. Eeek! I've been using

[leaf-user] dmesg overrun by 'asb100' debug msgs

2012-04-16 Thread groups, freeman
I'm using BuC 4.2 beta 1, on an ASUS P4E mobo, using the sensors pkg. My dmesg log is getting overrun with repetitions, every 7-8 secs, of this pair of debug lines: [ 687.583914] asb100 0-002d: starting device update... [ 687.777041] asb100 0-002d: ... device update complete and this is

[leaf-user] Incorrect? 'latest_ver' DL link?

2012-04-17 Thread groups, freeman
I noticed that atop the DL page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/leaf/files/Bering-uClibc/) it says: Looking for the latest version? Download Bering-uClibc_4.2-rc1_i686_isolinux_vga.iso (74.2 MB) .. but wouldn't 4.2 release be a better (latest, finalized) version? Cheers thanks for LEAF!

Re: [leaf-user] [solved using syslog-ng] /var/log overrun by 'asb100' debug msgs

2012-04-19 Thread groups, freeman
First, I somewhat conjoined two effects of these debug msgs from asb100 so let me clarify the effects and resultant problem (and modify the subject line): 1) the debug msgs from asb100 (invoked via dev_dbg() in asb100.c) get dumped into the kernel ring buffer, such that it gets outputted if

[leaf-user] In BuC v5.1.5 [USB] ez-ipupd.lrp is missing its .conf file

2015-08-09 Thread groups, freeman
Seems as well to be the case for 5.1.6. Cheers thanks for LEAF! -- leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [leaf-user] In BuC v5.1.5 [USB] ez-ipupd.lrp is missing its .conf file

2015-08-29 Thread groups, freeman
is absent. Cheers thanks again for LEAF! On 15/08/10 12:44, kp kirchdoerfer wrote: Am Sonntag, 9. August 2015, 04:58:18 schrieb groups, freeman: Seems as well to be the case for 5.1.6. It's missing since about three yrs. The commit message by Yves Bluessaeu says: This allow ezipupd to manage

[leaf-user] Missing AMD/PCnet32 Driver from 5.2.*?

2016-08-31 Thread groups, freeman
I seem to need the an AMD 79C970 driver (which is fulfilled by PCnet32) for my VMWare Player v5 testbed. Trying BuC v5.2.7, I notice that the modules.sqfs filesystem contains no "amd" dir under the 'drivers/net' subdir and since the pcnet32 driver is stored in that 'amd' dir, it explains the

[leaf-user] Seeking vmxnet3 driver; was: Re: Missing AMD/PCnet32 Driver from 5.2.*?

2016-09-02 Thread groups, freeman
On 16/09/01 13:09, kp kirchdoerfer wrote: > HI; > > Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2016, 19:49:43 schrieb groups, freeman: >> I seem to need the an AMD 79C970 driver (which is fulfilled by PCnet32) >> for my VMWare Player v5 testbed. >> >> [...] > Yes you are right

[leaf-user] More/Many Missing Drivers in 5.2.x Series?!

2016-09-04 Thread groups, freeman
Having setup BuC5.2.7 under a VM and gotten it all setup I went to run it on my production machine (an old ASUS mobo with Semperon 3400+ CPU) and came up missing some more drivers. Of particular urgency is for me is the 'forcedeth' drive (/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia), since this is the

[leaf-user] VMware 5 NetDrivers Fixed in 5.2.8-rc1

2016-10-18 Thread groups, freeman
I just gave a quick test to the latest BuC branch and made the two observations: - starting up a new VM with default devices results in 5.2.8-rc1 installing drivers for all netcards - manually adjusting the cfgfile of VMware, to use the aforementioned "vmxnet3" driver, results in LEAF