Would I be encouraged to use OpenBSD as embedded system

2007-11-24 Thread PowerMan
Hello, My English is poor and I wish I could express myself clearly. I am an embedded software engineer developing arm-linux based system. In fact, ebmedded system is an huage industrial domain in P.R.China now, and linux is the most popular OS. But the linux kernel 2.6 is

[AV DiD] the death of AV defense in Depth

2007-11-24 Thread xavier brinon
Hi, misc ! I think this is worth reading, http://www.nruns.com/ps/The_Death_of_AV_Defense_in_Depth-Revisiting_Anti-Virus_Software.pdf If anyone know an AV that is conceptually well made, please, tell me.

Would I be encouraged to use OpenBSD as an embedded system

2007-11-24 Thread PowerMan
Hello, My English is poor and I wish I could express myself clearly. I am an embedded software engineer developing arm-linux based system. In fact, ebmedded system is an huage industrial domain in P.R.China now, and linux is the most popular OS. But the linux kernel 2.6 is

major problems in 4.2

2007-11-24 Thread Moe Sizlak
Hi, Recently I moved from 4.0 to 4.2 as a full-reinstall. However since then i have had nothing but problems. No longer is sk0 detected as a device although it is the kernel, pc has frequent freezes (cause unknown). Doesnt even respond to keyboard/network requests but does continue to update

Re: ntop out-of-date version

2007-11-24 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
Probably because their is not maintainer for the port? Update it yourself submit the update to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ntop will nolonger be out of date then :) It's an idea. I've established e-mail contact with ports lists and ntop author about this. If nobody is working in ntop port maybe I'll do

Re: File collision while using pkg_add

2007-11-24 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:31:30AM +0100, Pieter Verberne wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install gnome-doc-utils : $ sudo pkg_add gnome-doc-utils perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE =

Re: Would I be encouraged to use OpenBSD as embedded system

2007-11-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:16:18 Nov 24, PowerMan wrote: Hello, My English is poor and I wish I could express myself clearly. No problem. English is not my native language either. ;) I am an embedded software engineer developing arm-linux based system. In fact, ebmedded system is an huage

CARP not failing-over

2007-11-24 Thread Insan Praja SW
Hi Guys, Currently set things up with CARP here.. I got two machines, supposed to be doing IP load balancing when I setup them to be like this, NET-BCARP MachinesNET-A _ || __|Machine A|__ || | NET-B | |

Re: major problems in 4.2

2007-11-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/24 17:22, Moe Sizlak wrote: Recently I moved from 4.0 to 4.2 as a full-reinstall. However since then i have had nothing but problems. Please see 'Include important information' in http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html

Re: File collision while using pkg_add

2007-11-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/24 10:53, Marc Espie wrote: The package should say it's already installed if it is, and should say there's a conflict with a partial-* of the same name. I don't know how you did it, but something very wrong happened here. Did you erase /var/db/pkg ? Corruption of the filesystem

Re: 7800GS + 2 monitors under 4.2-release

2007-11-24 Thread Chris Harper
I was just wondering if anyone has made any progress? I'm still using one monitor and it feels like I lost a finger. On 11/11/2007, Paulo Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, I confirm again. The xenocara build from the last snapshop gave me zero results. I still have the garbled

Re: CARP not failing-over

2007-11-24 Thread Marco Pfatschbacher
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:14:04PM +0700, Insan Praja SW wrote: The ifconfig: Machine A# [...] vlan2: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lladdr 00:15:17:25:0a:9e vlan: 2 priority: 0 parent interface: em2 groups: vlan inet6

Re: OBSD Functionality ala DTrace

2007-11-24 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 23/11/2007, Tito Mari Francis EscaC1o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the most developer- and sysadmin-friendly tools in Solaris is DTrace (dynamic tracing framework), enabling one to troubleshoot or observe the system's behavior and performance in real-time. However, I'm not sure if

Re: CARP not failing-over

2007-11-24 Thread Insan Praja SW
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:51:41 +0700, Marco Pfatschbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:14:04PM +0700, Insan Praja SW wrote: The ifconfig: Machine A# [...] vlan2: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lladdr 00:15:17:25:0a:9e

Re: OpenBSD/i386 won't boot on Transmeta Efficeon CPU

2007-11-24 Thread Anders Langworthy
Travers Buda wrote: * Anders Langworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-23 18:56:35]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2007 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD

Re: File collision while using pkg_add

2007-11-24 Thread Pieter Verberne
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:53:51AM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:31:30AM +0100, Pieter Verberne wrote: I'm trying to install gnome-doc-utils : $ sudo pkg_add gnome-doc-utils perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale

Re: File collision while using pkg_add

2007-11-24 Thread Marc Espie
Just to make one point clear: yep the collision report does not give you an `easy' way to delete the files (though saving the file and apply some simple sed/awk like pattern is not that hard), because that's the wrong way to think about the problem. If you've got files in /usr/local, and pkg_*

Re: OpenBSD/i386 won't boot on Transmeta Efficeon CPU

2007-11-24 Thread Ted Unangst
On 11/23/07, Anders Langworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Sharp MP30 notebook that won't boot on OpenBSD/i386. I am unsure if my situation is a bug or unsupported hardware. The issue seems to be the CPU. It is a Transmeta Efficeon processor at 1.60 GHz. The processor is supposedly

Re: Would I be encouraged to use OpenBSD as embedded system

2007-11-24 Thread Karthik Kumar
Most importantly audio support has been excellent with OpenBSD. There are problems with exotic hardware however. OSS is available, for those who are willing to go a little CDDL. -- Karthik http://guilt.bafsoft.net

Paper about memory speed with multi-core CPUs

2007-11-24 Thread Alexey Suslikov
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] FYI. Abstract As CPU cores become both faster and more numerous, the limiting factor for most programs is now, and will be for some time, memory access. Hardware designers have come up with ever more sophisticated memory handling and acceleration techniquessuch as CPU

Re: Paper about memory speed with multi-core CPUs

2007-11-24 Thread Johan Mson Lindman
On Saturday 24 November 2007 15:22:17 you wrote: Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] FYI. Abstract As CPU cores become both faster and more numerous, the limiting factor for most programs is now, and will be for some time, memory access. Hardware designers have come up with ever more sophisticated

root fs mount problem with bsd.mp + acpi + ahc on i386

2007-11-24 Thread Serge Basterot
Hello, I just received an old multi-proc system (an 1999's ABIT BP6, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6) and installed a current system. Boot process runs fine with bsd and bsd.mp + disable acpi in UKC, but it ends in ddb with bsd.mp (acpi is now enabled in GENERIC.MP), unable to mount root

Re: [AV DiD] the death of AV defense in Depth

2007-11-24 Thread Steve Shockley
xavier brinon wrote: I think this is worth reading, http://www.nruns.com/ps/The_Death_of_AV_Defense_in_Depth-Revisiting_Anti-Virus_Software.pdf Important to note on page 42/46: N.runs is developing a secure system solution... The market introduction begins in the 4th quarter of 2007. If

cwm: alt-tabbing behavior

2007-11-24 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi there, I have noticed some odd behavior of the alt-tab feature of cwm. Occasionally alt-tab will get stuck at a specific window and refuse to go and futher. Moving the window, will unstuck it. Has anyone else noticed this? -- Best Regards Edd

Re: OT - MIPS idle loop

2007-11-24 Thread Ted Unangst
On 11/24/07, Dan Shechter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In x86 I know (or think I know) that the idle loop is implemented with the HALT command. I could not find any HALT command in MIPS assembly. I tried to read the idle loop in MIPS asm, but as I don't know mips assembly I could not follow the

OT - MIPS idle loop

2007-11-24 Thread Dan Shechter
Hi All, Sorry about the OT. In x86 I know (or think I know) that the idle loop is implemented with the HALT command. I could not find any HALT command in MIPS assembly. I tried to read the idle loop in MIPS asm, but as I don't know mips assembly I could not follow the logic in it. And

Re: OpenBSD/i386 won't boot on Transmeta Efficeon CPU

2007-11-24 Thread Travers Buda
* Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-24 06:13:45]: *snip* can you build and boot a kernel with option CPU_DEBUG in the config? Actually use option CPUDEBUG, note the missing underscore. -- Travers Buda

Re: Getting HD Audio to work on Sony VIAO SZ460N

2007-11-24 Thread Deanna Phillips
Rob Lytle writes: Allright both speakers and headphones work now and show up on XMMS as master volume control in the mixer section of the output config. Same thing with mixer apps. Great. The fix has been committed, thanks.

Re: Any OpenBSD users in Berlin?

2007-11-24 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscw=2r=1s=berlinq=b I am (very) unfortunately leaving Berlin in 20 days, though... probably one of the worst tragedies of my life 2007/11/23, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, If there are any OpenBSD users in Berlin could you please contact me off list please?

Re: OT - MIPS idle loop

2007-11-24 Thread Miod Vallat (on the road)
In x86 I know (or think I know) that the idle loop is implemented with the HALT command. I could not find any HALT command in MIPS assembly. R5000 and above have a ``wait'' instruction which achieves this. I tried to read the idle loop in MIPS asm, but as I don't know mips assembly I could

Welcome to Club Penguin

2007-11-24 Thread Club Penguin Support
Dear Parent, Your child has created the penguin account: Ncstategirl5 If you would like to learn more about our website, please go to: http://www.clubpenguin.com/parents.htm To allow your child to start playing, please click on the URL below, which contains the personal activation

Issues with USB wireless adapter in hostap mode

2007-11-24 Thread dormando
Hey, I bought a hawking HWUG1A USB wireless adapter with external antenna port thingie. Using it with OpenBSD 4.2 in hostap mode. I'm having issues where it'll drop clients off the network if they're not constantly ping'ing something. It also tops out at 100k/sec, even though the adapter links up

Annoying startx problem on 4.2/i386

2007-11-24 Thread Manuel Ravasio
Hello list. I am running 4.2/i386 on my company's Dell Latitude D510 laptop. I started with a fresh 4.2 install, all hardware got recognized, everything went just great... until a couple of days ago. I'm experiencing an annoying problem with startx. Since a few days each time I log in (via

Re: Issues with USB wireless adapter in hostap mode

2007-11-24 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:52:00AM -0800, dormando wrote: Hey, I bought a hawking HWUG1A USB wireless adapter with external antenna port thingie. Using it with OpenBSD 4.2 in hostap mode. I'm having issues where it'll drop clients off the network if they're not constantly ping'ing

Unable to install 3.8-4.2, able to install 3.8 on old 486DX. probably wscons(4)/wskbd(4) related.

2007-11-24 Thread Jasper Valentijn
Hello misc@, First of all sorry for not mentioning this earlier but, better late than never! Problem definition: As stated in the subject. Abstract: Keyboard works in 3.7. Keyboard works in boot(8) and UKC. Keyboard is dead after booting the kernel in 3.8 and higher. dmesg for 3.7-release and

Re: Unable to install 3.8-4.2, able to install 3.8 on old 486DX. probably wscons(4)/wskbd(4) related.

2007-11-24 Thread Miod Vallat (on the road)
Can you try to run either a 3.7 kernel with sys/dev/ic/pckbc.c r1.10 (stock 3.7 is r1.9) and report whether this causes the keyboard to become unresponsive? Miod

howto restored rm-ed files/directory

2007-11-24 Thread Insan Praja SW
Hi Misc, I got an important directory in my 4.1 bsd and it's deleted using rm -rf :(. Anyone had experience restoring them? I really.. (I mean Really) need help on this one.. Thanks, Kind Regards, Insan -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Re: OpenBSD/i386 won't boot on Transmeta Efficeon CPU

2007-11-24 Thread Anders Langworthy
Travers Buda wrote: * Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-24 06:13:45]: *snip* can you build and boot a kernel with option CPU_DEBUG in the config? Actually use option CPUDEBUG, note the missing underscore. Here is the output: OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC_DEBUG) #0: Sat Nov 24

Re: Unable to install 3.8-4.2, able to install 3.8 on old 486DX. probably wscons(4)/wskbd(4) related. [FIXED]

2007-11-24 Thread Jasper Valentijn
2007/11/24, Miod Vallat (on the road) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you try to run either a 3.7 kernel with sys/dev/ic/pckbc.c r1.10 (stock 3.7 is r1.9) and report whether this causes the keyboard to become unresponsive? Sure, it will take me some time to get the kernel though. Unless you

Re: OpenBSD/i386 won't boot on Transmeta Efficeon CPU

2007-11-24 Thread Anders Langworthy
Anders Langworthy wrote: I have a Sharp MP30 notebook that won't boot on OpenBSD/i386. I am unsure if my situation is a bug or unsupported hardware. The issue seems to be the CPU. It is a Transmeta Efficeon processor at 1.60 GHz. The processor is supposedly Pentium Pro (686) compatible.

adjusting the mtu with vr(4)

2007-11-24 Thread Sevan / Venture37
Is the support for adjusting the mtu with VIA Rhine-II chipset based interfaces missing because of hardware limitations or because support for it hasn't been written yet?? # ifconfig vr0 mtu 1492 ifconfig: SIOCSIFMTU: Inappropriate ioctl for device Sevan / Venture37

Re: Annoying startx problem on 4.2/i386

2007-11-24 Thread Manuel Ravasio
check your DNS configuration. xauth(1) needs a working DNS to translates names to addresses and vice-versa. If it block, this blocks X startup. Hmmm... Maybe the first time the problem showed up the laptop was disconnected from the network, but I'm positive it showed more than once when the

Re: howto restored rm-ed files/directory

2007-11-24 Thread Insan Praja SW
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:17:52 +0700, Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's called having a backup. once the inode is gone, the data is scattered, and the blocks likely reused quickly. no chance for undelete on unix. Yep.. totally agree.. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail

Re: howto restored rm-ed files/directory

2007-11-24 Thread Travers Buda
* Insan Praja SW [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-25 06:34:21]: On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:17:52 +0700, Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's called having a backup. once the inode is gone, the data is scattered, and the blocks likely reused quickly. no chance for undelete on unix.

Re: Would I be encouraged to use OpenBSD as an embedded system

2007-11-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On Nov 24, 2007 3:13 AM, PowerMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My English is poor and I wish I could express myself clearly. I am an embedded software engineer developing arm-linux based system. In fact, ebmedded system is an huage industrial domain in P.R.China now, and

Re: Getting HD Audio to work on Sony VIAO SZ460N

2007-11-24 Thread Rob Lytle
Thanks for the great work Deanna. I'm sure other Sony laptop owners are appreciative as well. Now to start work on the wpa_supplicant. Sincerely, Rob. -- Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds Bob Marley, Redemption Song

Looking for ideas on stability research for Sun X4100 M2

2007-11-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, You may have seen a few posts from me on this box. I continue to try to isolate the problem as much as possible with it and it's now narrow to a more specific setup in the current kernel, but still this box WILL NOT be stable what so ever if use with the amd64.mp kernel. I am running

How do you start a non-standard daemon/program near end of boot?

2007-11-24 Thread Rob Lytle
Hi, I've read all the relevant boot and rc type manuals and they only give a vague reference to starting programs with rc.local or rc.conf.local. I want to start wpa_supplicant and I haven't seen any variables for doing it. Some OS's have the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory for such purposes.

Re: How do you start a non-standard daemon/program near end of boot?

2007-11-24 Thread NetOne - Doichin Dokov
Rob Lytle P=P0P?P8QP0: Hi, I've read all the relevant boot and rc type manuals and they only give a vague reference to starting programs with rc.local or rc.conf.local. I want to start wpa_supplicant and I haven't seen any variables for doing it. Some OS's have the /usr/local/etc/rc.d

Re: How do you start a non-standard daemon/program near end of boot?

2007-11-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On Nov 24, 2007 10:37 PM, Rob Lytle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've read all the relevant boot and rc type manuals and they only give a vague reference to starting programs with rc.local or rc.conf.local. I want to start wpa_supplicant and I haven't seen any variables for doing it. Some

Re: How do you start a non-standard daemon/program near end of boot?

2007-11-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
I've read all the relevant boot and rc type manuals and they only give a vague reference to starting programs with rc.local or rc.conf.local. I want to start wpa_supplicant and I haven't seen any variables for doing it. Some OS's have the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory for such purposes. It's

xterm color issues

2007-11-24 Thread Jon
hi I have installed OpenBSD 4.2 on a 32 bit x86 platform. full install/ all packages. When I start a xterm on a VNC # xterm -fg green Warning: Color name green is not defined does not understand any of the colors. Please help.

rxvt / aterm etc.. cannot open due to Colour issue

2007-11-24 Thread Jon
hi I did a new install of OpenBSD 4.2 on a 32bit i386 box. I then pkg_add rxvt, but it wont start with a color error. Error www# rxvt rxvt: can't determine colour: Black rxvt: can't determine colour: Black rxvt: aborting This seems to be an issue with the rgb.txt file and Xorg etc.. Can some

Re: Looking for ideas on stability research for Sun X4100 M2

2007-11-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Just for the records. Here is what help some for the stability in BIOS: * Hotplug USB FDD Support[Disabled] * * Hotplug USB CDROM Support [Disabled] * Everything is default, or as F9 would put it when you load optimum setting in BIOS. Then you only need to

Re: How do you start a non-standard daemon/program near end of boot?

2007-11-24 Thread Rob Lytle
NetOne - Doichin Dokov said: Rob Lytle P=P0P?P8QP0: Hi, I've read all the relevant boot and rc type manuals and they only give a vague reference to starting programs with rc.local or rc.conf.local. I want to start wpa_supplicant and I haven't seen any variables for doing it. Some OS's

Re: howto restored rm-ed files/directory

2007-11-24 Thread scorch
Insan Praja SW wrote: Hi Misc, I got an important directory in my 4.1 bsd and it's deleted using rm -rf :(. Anyone had experience restoring them? I really.. (I mean Really) need help on this one.. Thanks, Kind Regards, Insan depends how much trouble you want to go to and in what format

How to track down a suspected memory leak?

2007-11-24 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
Hello list, I am looking for suggestions how to identify the source(s) of what appears to be a memory leak of approx. 10 MByte/day on a clustered pair of filtering bridges. These bridges are running i386 -current snapshot from Nov 2nd. They form outer, Internet-facing stage of a two stage