Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-28 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 04:57:55 STeve Andre' wrote: > On Monday 21 December 2009 22:48:45 James Hozier wrote: > > This will be my first purchase that is focused primarily on having only > > OpenBSD on it and nothing else to be used as a main workstation. The > > budget is around $900 or so. I'

Re: Supporting OpenBSD

2009-09-09 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 08:45:41 you wrote: > I have a few questions about the stores in Australia (since we're on the > topic here). (http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html#au/lsl) LSL doesn't seem > to be doing pre-orders (see > http://www.lsl.com.au/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=openbs

Re: OT: reliable 4-port switches

2007-08-15 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 03:30:48 Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > i'm carping a couple machines with public IPs and would appreciate > recommendations for reliable 4-port switches for the task. there is a > single ethernet cable uplink to the ISP that i will feed into the > switch, then to the firewa

Re: Chances of this hardware running OpenBSD?

2007-06-04 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
ld you so" is unnecessary at this point. http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=18018 Regards Johan M:son Lindman

Re: Chances of this hardware running OpenBSD?

2007-05-08 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Tuesday 08 May 2007, you wrote: > Hi list, > > during the last days news popped up [0] verifying that the new 'Power > System' (aka Amiga) will be based on PA Semi's very nice PowerPC chip. > > I was disappointed quite often by vaporware in the Amiga universe, > especially during the hard, lon

Re: 4.0 on Dell 2650

2007-02-09 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Saturday 10 February 2007 00:09, you wrote: > Hi guys > >Just wanted to ask if any of you have experience putting openbsd 4.0 to > a dell 2650? I tried to boot up using both cd40.iso and floppyB40.fs but it > always says no disks found. haven't seen any scsi drives loaded. I tried an > initi

Re: Slow write performance on Compaq Smart Array 64xx (ciss0)

2007-01-29 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:21, you wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:28:27AM -0800, Joe wrote: > > Some more tests: > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=./testfile count=100 > > 100+0 records in > > 100+0 records out > > 51200 bytes transferred in 16.354 secs (31306797 bytes/sec) > >

Re: How to use bioctl with ciss0?

2007-01-28 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Sunday 28 January 2007 14:19, Vijay Sankar wrote: > Good day, > > What do I have to do to get info about a raid array on a HP DL380 G4 with > bioctl? Is this supported? > > # bioctl -v -h ciss0 > bioctl: Can't locate ciss0 device via /dev/bio That's interesting, I can replicate this problem on

Re: Slow IO on Compaq Smart Array 6

2007-01-26 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Friday 26 January 2007 22:17, you wrote: > I've got a new box with the following hardware: > > 2x Intel Xeon 3Ghz > 4 GB RAM > 2x 72GB U320 10K drives > > I've configured the RAID for RAID-0 (i have reasons for this). > During installation, I create a 20GB / and 106?GB/data partition. > > It too

Re: Ethernet Card

2006-05-17 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 10:44, you wrote: > I see. Thanks a lot and sorry for the stupid question. > By the way, is there any way, how to use the two NICs for load balancing? > > Karel Yes there is. trunk(4) will tell you how. Regards Johan M:son

Re: AMD64 Experience Report: Pundit-AE3

2005-11-28 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Monday 28 November 2005 10.30, you wrote: > Hi. > > Just in case anybody's interested in building an amd64 machine for using > with OpenBSD: I wouldn't recommend the asus pundit ae3 barebone. > > It is based on what seems to be a KS-8-MV motherboard which has an sis > chip providing SATA, Networ

Re: Marvell 8053 Based NIC

2005-11-16 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
mesgs are not very helpful. 2. Could you please try -current, that way you will see if this problem has been fixed recently. 3. If in doubt please read http://www.openbsd.org/report.html Regards Johan M:son Lindman

Re: ciss is slow and uses all the CPU

2005-11-02 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
I think this is enough to file a Problem Report, could you please do that? Read sendbug(1) and http://www.openbsd.org/report.html if unsure. I have a DL380 G3 which shows the same "ciss0: cmd_stat 2 scsi_stat 0x0" messages so chances are mine's affected as well, I'll try to load it a bit and see

Re: Two Isp Fault Tollerance Help

2005-10-07 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Friday 07 October 2005 15.33, you wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 14:29:08 +0200 > > "Johan M:son Lindman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of my clients has got an Internet connection with a no much > > > affidable provider. He reports continual dis

Re: Two Isp Fault Tollerance Help

2005-10-07 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Thursday 06 October 2005 10.24, you wrote: > Hi to all. > > One of my clients has got an Internet connection with a no much affidable > provider. He reports continual disconnection and so on. I would like to do > a second connection with another provider to obtain a sort of redundancy, a > fault

Re: Need Opteron Motherboard Help - Supermicro?

2005-09-28 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 03.31, you wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 18.47, Mike wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Anyone here using one of the Supermicro AMD 8131-based > > motherboards on their OBSD system? If these are > > unsuitable for OpenBSD, then what AMD64 or Opteron > > motherboards

Re: Need Opteron Motherboard Help - Supermicro?

2005-09-27 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 18.47, Mike wrote: > Hi All, > > Anyone here using one of the Supermicro AMD 8131-based > motherboards on their OBSD system? If these are > unsuitable for OpenBSD, then what AMD64 or Opteron > motherboards are the current cream of the crop that do > work well with Open

Re: HP DL145 G2?

2005-07-26 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Monday 25 July 2005 16.52, Mike Shaw wrote: > Hey folksI'm about to build another obsd server for some pseudo-mission > critical work, and HP is kind of our standard now. I've verified with > someone off list that a DL140's run well, but for performance and > philosophical reasons I'm choosi

Re: USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-20 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 21:43, you wrote: > WARNING, this is likely going to sound offensive to some people... > > Johan M:son Lindman wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 July 2005 17:02, you wrote: > >>Since OpenBSD is not very helpful in this case I can only enclose the > &g

Re: USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-19 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 17:02, you wrote: > Since OpenBSD is not very helpful in this case I can only enclose the > dmesg without the enclosure plugged in. But first here's the info for > the enclosure as Linux sees it (dmesg): Read this, http://www.openbsd.org/report.html (hint, you should try a

HP DL145 G2, new Opteron/nForce4 based server - mpt(4) problem

2005-07-15 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
We recently got a bunch of the new HP DL145 G2 servers. In a rather retarded move HP decided that these generation 2 of the excellent DL145 series servers should be implemented on top of Nvidias nForce 4 chipset instead of as with the first generation which used the reference AMD chipset. So I t

Re: Audigy LS PCI (soundcard) support in 3.7/i386?

2005-07-13 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 06.04, Anon Y. Mous wrote: > Hi: > > I have two audio cards, one on the motherboard: > Ensoniq Audio PCI97 (eap0), and one PCI Creative Labs > Audigy LS (pci0). The kernel won't configure the > Audigy. > > Is the Audigy series supported by OpenBSD as of > 3.7/i386? No

Re: em0 and SMP problem

2005-07-01 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Saturday 02 July 2005 00.22, MichaE Koc wrote: > Ok, > > starting from the beginnig, > > The em nics are visible in dmesg and ifconfig. > They do transmit packets as I can see in tcpdump on the destination > machine. But they do not recive any packets. > ie. I ping from SMP machine to dest > on

Re: em0 and SMP problem

2005-07-01 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Friday 01 July 2005 21.49, MichaE Koc wrote: > Hello all, > > I've a problem with em0 (and eventually any other nic connected to the > pci bus) on double Xeon, while I run smp kernel. What problem? Are you not even going to describe your problem? > I have no idea what could couse it, there wa

Re: OpenBSD 3.1 and OpenBSD 3.5 pf problems

2005-06-29 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Thursday 30 June 2005 02.47, you wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 21.23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi! > > > > After switching from OpenBSD 3.1 (with Intel fxp0) to OpenBSD 3.5 (with > > OpenBSD 3.5 is EOL (see link below) which means you can't expect support > for it. as anounced here...

Re: OpenBSD 3.1 and OpenBSD 3.5 pf problems

2005-06-29 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 21.23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > After switching from OpenBSD 3.1 (with Intel fxp0) to OpenBSD 3.5 (with OpenBSD 3.5 is EOL (see link below) which means you can't expect support for it. The latest release is available at ftp://ftp.su.se/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/i386/ Get

Re: Eric Raymond talks about GPL and BSD licenses on MyFreeBSD.com

2005-06-16 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Thursday 16 June 2005 13.10, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: > Eric Raymond gave an interview on MyFreeBSD.com about the GPL and the BSD > licenses. Though on MyFreeBSD.com, it ain't a FreeBSD specific article. > > Jasper http://www.catb.org/~esr/guns/ Regards Johan M:son

Re: Cross compile release from amd64 to i386?

2005-06-06 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Monday 06 June 2005 23.04, you wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is it possible to use an AMD64 machine (as 64 bit not i386) to cross > compile release for i386, without additional tools or extras? Google > reveals that cross compiling releases is an issue for some people, but > with i386 being fairl

Re: [slightly OT] Zaurus -- to buy or not to buy?

2005-06-01 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 23.11, Matthias Kilian wrote: > Hi, > > reading the OpenBSD mailinglists, undeadly.org and several stories > and interviews on kerneltrap.org, I'm increasingly tempted to order > a Zaurus C3000 from Wim. It's really difficult to resist ;-) > > However, I wonder wether this de

Re: Installing KDE

2005-05-27 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Friday 27 May 2005 10.47, Ami Emanuel Bizamcher wrote: > hey all, > > how do i start kde from xdm ? > (i want my users to start KDE and not fwvm by default) > > thank is what installed: > openbsd 3.7 (GENERIC) > kdebase-3.3.2p3.tgz > > p.s. > > i tried to set the .xinitrc file to: > exec /usr/lo

Re: High Interrupt usage on new amd 64 machine. Please help.

2005-05-23 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Monday 23 May 2005 13.41, Richard D wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Your best solution at this point (assuming you continue using the same > > > motherboard) would be to get a PCI IDE card (such as Promise Ultra > > > 100, etc.), which can be found for about $25 at online vendors, and > > >

Re: Dell HW?

2005-05-19 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Thursday 19 May 2005 21.10, L. V. Lammert wrote: > We have been requested to use Dell HW for some new systems. Any recommended > models (RM) for: > > 1) Gateway/firewall? > > 2) SAN? > > In the alternative, any to avoid? > > Thanks! > > Lee We ditched Dell mostly due to their inhere

Re: 3.7 AMD64 Install

2005-05-17 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Monday 16 May 2005 20.42, Country Joe wrote: > Hello, > > amd64 install stops with : > CD-ROM: 9F > Loading /3.7/AMD64/CDBOOT > probing: pc0 mem [638K 510M a20=on] > disk: hd0+ cd0 > > >> OpenBSD/amd64 CDBOOT 1.00 > > > > wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout > typ

Re: my talks at fh wedel, decix technical meeting, and RIPE50

2005-05-08 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
ery nice and funny evening. Oh and some pictures from that occasion... http://frink.mine.nu/beer/ Regards Johan M:son Lindman

Re: Xeon 64 Bit

2005-04-30 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Saturday 30 April 2005 19.51, you wrote: > > Does OpenBSD support Intel Xeon 64Bit processors? > > Of course. What about dual core AMD64? Any decision wether to support that?