USB WLAN dongles

2008-01-24 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Hi, I have a thinkpad T40 running OpenBSD and live in a small, nice city close to Barcelona whose city hall offers free wifi Internet to everybody. Unfortunately they do not have a good coverage and where my building is, I don't get any signal. The card is identified by OpenBSD as ath0. I was

Re: USB WLAN dongles

2008-01-24 Thread Ryan McBride
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:11:14AM +0100, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: I was thinking, as somebody in the thinkpad forum suggested, of an USB WLAN dongle, but one of those with an external antenna that is connected through a standard (typically: Reverse) SMA-connector. Next, get a sufficiently

Re: USB WLAN dongles

2008-01-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/24 10:11, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: connected through a standard (typically: Reverse) SMA-connector. Next, get a sufficiently long, low-loss cable and a parabolic antenna (some Low-loss microwave transmission cable is expensive and thick, (0.2dB/m loss on 11mm cable which wouldn't fit

Re: spamd, CARP and relayd

2008-01-24 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Urban Hillebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (3) I found several hints in the archives that some people believed to have problems with spamd and SMTP servers using address verification, open relay checkers, and some broken SMTP software. Does any of this still pose a problem for you? Some

Re: USB WLAN dongles

2008-01-24 Thread Dmitrij Czarkoff
Wouldn't wi-fi router ve more effective here? Or is it too expensive to be a solution? -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: Install OpenBSD from USB ?

2008-01-24 Thread markus ploner
just for the record: you could've just dd'ed the floppy42.fs to the usb device this has worked for me several times. markus

Re: USB WLAN dongles

2008-01-24 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:19:12PM +0100, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: what do you mean? I have to increase the gain of the reception on my laptop. Just to make it clear: you need to increase the gain of reception and transmission. Increasing transmit power helps little if you can't hear the replies.

Re: USB WLAN dongles

2008-01-24 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
what do you mean? I have to increase the gain of the reception on my laptop. Or do you mean I can use the built-in antenna of a router to do that? If so, how? I do have an old wifi router 2008/1/24, Dmitrij Czarkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wouldn't wi-fi router ve more effective here? Or is it too

Re: spamd, CARP and relayd

2008-01-24 Thread Renaud Allard
Urban Hillebrand wrote: On Mittwoch 23 Januar 2008 18:56:52 elpinguim wrote: [...] Bob Beck's presentation on spamd pf should provide some useful insight as to how you could deploy a similar setup. I found the presentation(s) to be quite helpful a few years ago.

Re: Install OpenBSD from USB ?

2008-01-24 Thread Unix Fan
markus ploner wrote: just for the record: you could've just dd'ed the floppy42.fs to the usb device this has worked for me several times. markus That'd be a pretty dumb way to do it... 1) The bsd.rd on the floppy image is considerably smaller then the one on the CD. 2) USB thumb

Re: Install OpenBSD from USB ?

2008-01-24 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:14:56AM -0800, Unix Fan wrote: | markus ploner wrote: | just for the record: | you could've just dd'ed the floppy42.fs to the usb device | this has worked for me several times. | | markus | | That'd be a pretty dumb way to do it... Actually, it's not so bad... |

Hard Drive Errors

2008-01-24 Thread Jonathan Steel
Hi Everyone I would like to revisit a problem I was unable to solve about a year ago, an error messages I was getting about pciide temouts. Several times we have had hard drives that will display the following error and then the computer freezes: wd1(pciide1:1:0): timeout type: ata

Anyone lucky with pf rtable ?

2008-01-24 Thread Insan Praja SW
Hi Misc@, I'm currently setup bgp router using openbgp. Routes learned from openbgpd are stored in routing table 1. So, I got this client from NET2, coming from the same interface that my ibgp peer coming from, and I want to pass client from NET2 going to regional exchange to QUAGGA router.

Re: Hard Drive Errors

2008-01-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
Both look like a disk going bad. run a dd and read the entire contents of the disk to allow the disk to reallocate the bad sectors. Then run it again to see if it is clean; if it is you have a good chance that the drive will be fine. If not it is going to be dead soonish... On Thu, Jan 24,

Re: Install OpenBSD from USB ?

2008-01-24 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Thursday 24 January 2008 14:02:28 markus ploner wrote: just for the record: you could've just dd'ed the floppy42.fs to the usb device this has worked for me several times. markus Really ? I tried that but it didn't seem to work... -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\

Re: Install OpenBSD from USB ?

2008-01-24 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:16:17PM +0100, Firas Kraiem wrote: Really ? I tried that but it didn't seem to work... The only sure thing about usb boot is that it depends on your BIOS... -- Jussi Peltola

setup degraded array using raidframe

2008-01-24 Thread Bogdan Plevit
Hi misc! First of all i'm a newbie, so please excuse my lack of knowledge. Now, let's get to the point. I'm trying to setup a raid 1 degraded array using RAIDFRAME. I'm using a PII machine with hard-drives wd0,wd1. Step 1) a) recompiled the kernel with pseudo-device

Re: building a kernel for net4801 from dmassage

2008-01-24 Thread Tobias Weingartner
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Noodin wrote: 2) Under what circumstances (generally) would one encounter a situation where it would strongly desirable to have a custom kernel? When I happened to get an obsd kernel running on an 8M memory machine by stripping out network support,

Vietnam Tourism Property Opportunities Conference and Exhibition 2008

2008-01-24 Thread Quang Huy
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Re: brute force voip QoS

2008-01-24 Thread scott
1. Your topology: On the inside lan, are you hosting clients or service? So is this an outside-to-inside -or- an inside-to-outside problem? 2. altq queue-type priq effectively does what your asking -- if voip traffic is allocated to priority 6, then nothing flows from queues 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1

Re: USB WLAN dongles

2008-01-24 Thread raven
Pau Amaro-Seoane ha scritto: what do you mean? I have to increase the gain of the reception on my laptop. Or do you mean I can use the built-in antenna of a router to do that? If so, how? I do have an old wifi router If you have a fonera, you can use it like a repeater with an selfmade Twin

pgt0: timeout waiting for management packet response to 0x17000013

2008-01-24 Thread Daniel Melameth
On rare occasion, I receive the following on the console and need to ifconfig the interface down and up again to restore normal operations. Any recommends on a way to address this? pgt0: timeout waiting for management packet response to 0x1713 pgt0: state dump: control 0x20004400

OT: Can an SSH alternative to WebDav be use on OpenBSD

2008-01-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, I need some possible suggestions if I may asked to not setup, or have to setup WebDav on OpenBSD to allow users to do their web folder stuff. It can be setup with ftp for example to allow them to map a folder in their network place on XP for example, but then they can't do the stupid

Dell PE1950 III - Perc 6i

2008-01-24 Thread J.W. Zondag
Hi, Just got this machine from Dell. Tried to install OpenBSD 4.2-current (23-01-2008) but it dit not recognize the raid1 disk. Any idea when Perc 6i will be added? --- Thanks JW

Re: Dell PE1950 III - Perc 6i

2008-01-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
I added the pci ids but it obviously didn't work. Can you send me the dmesg? On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:18:36AM +0100, J.W. Zondag wrote: Hi, Just got this machine from Dell. Tried to install OpenBSD 4.2-current (23-01-2008) but it dit not recognize the raid1 disk. Any idea when Perc 6i

Re: Can an SSH alternative to WebDav be use on OpenBSD

2008-01-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Thanks Thomas,' But that solution sis to be install on Windows server, witch I have kill all years ago and I am not going back. http://www.webdrive.com/products/webdrive/sysreq.html I sure appreciate your suggestion and time however. Thanks Daniel Thomas Althoff wrote: www.webdrive.com

Re: Can an SSH alternative to WebDav be use on OpenBSD

2008-01-24 Thread NetOne - Doichin Dokov
Daniel Ouellet P=P0P?P8QP0: Thanks Thomas,' But that solution sis to be install on Windows server, witch I have kill all years ago and I am not going back. http://www.webdrive.com/products/webdrive/sysreq.html I sure appreciate your suggestion and time however. Thanks Daniel Thomas

Re: OT: Can an SSH alternative to WebDav be use on OpenBSD

2008-01-24 Thread Andrew Ruscica
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 05:58:57PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: .. I only allow ssh access and in very special case, I had accepted ftp from If you're considering a commercial product, http://www.sftpdrive.com If the product performs as it says, you shouldn't need to change anything on the web

Re: Can an SSH alternative to WebDav be use on OpenBSD

2008-01-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
NetOne - Doichin Dokov wrote: I really didn't fully understand you - do you want or not to allow FTP acces, and why clients are not able to save as when using it? Do you mean that they need it mapped as a network drive? If so, they can use something like this:

Re: OT: Can an SSH alternative to WebDav be use on OpenBSD

2008-01-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Andrew Ruscica wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 05:58:57PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: .. I only allow ssh access and in very special case, I had accepted ftp from If you're considering a commercial product, http://www.sftpdrive.com If the product performs as it says, you shouldn't need to