On 12/16/09, Fred Crowson fred.crow...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 12/16/09, Predrag Punosevac punoseva...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
Is anybody using Learning Management System ATutor? The only LMS I
noticed in ports is Moodle which is terribly outdate. I looked into
installation of ATutor
you choose.
Fred
On 12/11/09, Ismail OZATAY ism...@ismailozatay.net wrote:
Fred Crowson yazmD1E :
On 12/10/09, Ismail OZATAY ism...@ismailozatay.net wrote:
Hi all ,
Today my openbsd server started to send some errors to syslog that i
could not find anything about this error.
symon
On 12/10/09, Ismail OZATAY ism...@ismailozatay.net wrote:
Hi all ,
Today my openbsd server started to send some errors to syslog that i
could not find anything about this error.
symon: if(mtd0) failed (ioctl error)
what does it mean ?
Regards
ismail
On 12/4/09, Alexander Bochmann a...@lists.gxis.de wrote:
Hi,
did anything change in regard to pf rules with the
route-to option in recent versions of OpenBSD?
I've just reinstalled an old system that was running
OpenBSD 3.9 with 4.6, and gave it my old pf rulesets.
There is a rule that is
file.
(Thanks Rivo for the useful things you run on your anoncvs mirror :-)
Hi Stuart,
Thanks for the link - I spent the weekend building kernels - but I've
not got it past 4.3-current as of 3 Apr 08 :~(
Hopefully this weekend coming I'll get round to get the libretto to
boot a new kernel.
Fred
.
I'm guessing I need to somehow back out the changes to 1.28 of it.c
and 1.8 of itvar.h in the current versions of the file and see if that
allows the Libretto to boot - but my brain cannot cope with that
tonight :~(
I'll report back if it works :~)
Fred
it running the
latest and greatest OS with 4.6 :~) I am happy to continue debugging
this issue but would be keen to have any pointers in the right
direction.
Thanks,
Fred
[1] http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-wrapper?full=yesnumbers=6052
[2]The verbose output is shown below:
Script started
Rene wrote:
You can try to disable apm inthe kernel config.
Christian wrote:
Remco wrote:
If I remember correctly, the following hack in /etc/sysctl.conf worked for
me on a Pentium II machine:
machdep.apmhalt=1# 1=powerdown hack, try if halt -p doesn't work
It does work for my Pentium
I've just resurrected an old Pentium 3 system with the 22 October i386 snapshot
of OpenBSD 4.6-current. It works great, however after issuing shutdown -hp
now (I'm greeted with the message shutdown: switch -p must be used with -h.
when using shutdown -p now), I'm getting the system message
running system.
Any help greatly appreciated. I tried google, but didn't see anything
to fix this.
How are you getting the various OS to boot?
A bit more info would be a help...
Fred
have been the calling unit cua*
Fred
FW:q7 rev 1.10/0.06 addr 2
#v-
My config:
#v+
[apc]
driver = usbhid-ups
port = /dev/ugen0.00
pollfreq = 60
desc = Back UPS CS-350
#v-
Your port looks incorrect for OpenBSD.
It should look like: /dev/ttyU0
see: tty(4) for more info
Fred
I've been looking at what books Amazon has on embedded programming, and the
number is quite large. I would most certainly appreciate anyone's opinion on
books on this subject. Since I'm pretty proficient in C programming and to a
lesser degree assembly level programming, I'm looking for
server,
etc and point out that the old article so many people cite is indeed
*old*.
Firewall and mail server - may be. But desktop would not be so fine.
I've been using OpenBSD as my main desktop OS since 2.9 - it rocked then
and it is awesome now.
Fred
PS YMMV - but for me it is far more stable
Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
tbox:fred ~ uname -a
OpenBSD tbox.crowsons.net 4.1 GENERIC#1435 i386
hth
Fred
in the past successfully used the birda package on i386 laptops
to get IrDA working with OpenBSD.
YMMV - I've not done this recently...
hth
Fred
the
standard 9600:
alix:fred ~ grep tty00 /etc/ttys
tty00 /usr/libexec/getty std.38400 vt220 on secure
alix:fred ~
HTH
Fred
,
iwi does seem to be a bit picky about changing access points without a
reboot (I've though about replacing it on my laptop with another
card), what usually works for me is the following sequence of
commands:
x41:fred ~ sudo ifconfig iwi0 down
x41:fred ~ sudo ifconfig iwi0 nwid myaccesspoint nwkey
suggesting that it cannot find one of the
font libraries, and fontconfig seems to have been removed - can any one
suggest how I can go about debugging this?
Thanks
Fred
x41:fred /etc/X11 dmesg|head -2
OpenBSD 4.6-current (GENERIC) #62: Wed Jul 15 17:27:21 MDT 2009
dera...@i386.openbsd.org
James Hartley wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Fred Crowson open...@crowsons.net
mailto:open...@crowsons.net wrote:
The problem I've got is the output window of netbeans is displaying
small squares instead of fonts suggesting that it cannot find one of
the font libraries
James Hartley wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Fred Crowson open...@crowsons.net
mailto:open...@crowsons.net wrote:
The problem I've got is the output window of netbeans is displaying
small squares instead of fonts suggesting that it cannot find one of
the font libraries
:~)
Fred
for sustaining a link from
the iMac to the OpenBSD laptop as a hostap for more than several
seconds.
Surely I must be missing something obvious?
Cheers,
b
How is your iMac getting its IP address?
Have you set up dhcpd on the OpenBSD laptop?
Fred
:
https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order
hth
Fred
)? Does that give you a different result?
Thanks
Fred
Hi Daniel,
Which Mac is it?
Hopefully you should be able to recover the error - you might need to
boot his Mac OS X disks which should enable you to get OpenProm to
recognise the HFS part of the disk again.
Fred
On 5/2/09, Tony Abernethy t...@servacorp.com wrote:
Daniel Ouellet wrote:
Tony
On 4/27/09, Christopher Intemann intem...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you very much, your guide will be very helpful to me.
Maybe you should blog it somewhere?
snipped
That's what mailing list archives are for:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscw=2r=1s=Netra+X1q=b
hth
Fred
On 4/27/09, Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alf...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Felipe Alfaro Solana
felipe.alf...@gmail.com wrote:
Again, not a single or valid technical argument on why a bridging
On 4/25/09, Aaron Martinez m...@proficuous.com wrote:
I'm running OpenBSD 4.4 Stable and have created a little shell script menu
program that I want certain users to have as their only interaction with
the system. I created users using the script as their shell and also put
it in /etc/shells
the
issue fixed - if there is one.
Fred
[1] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscw=2r=1s=E220q=b
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On 4/16/09, 7I7I feifei...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Fred
I check my dmesg output, it include the Realteck 8139, but have many bad
interrupt line in the log.
I attach the output of 4.4 and 4.2.
Pls have a look at it.
thanks.
Can you please attach the full dmesg - the two screenshots don't give
that gets
everything working better and more stable.
Fred
than.
Thanks
Plug it in and if /var/log/messages has a line like:
Apr 16 21:57:45 x41 /bsd: ucom0 at umodem0
You might be in luck.
HtH
Fred
snapshot?
And can you show the dmesg's from the working 4.2 install and the one
that failing?
Fred
On 4/12/09, Juan Jimenez Galdos juangmgald...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi. I need two things: I need to use the command mkdir, the command
mount and umount, but ONLY THOSE. Somebody could say me what could i
write in sudoers? I have searched and i have tried several things but it's a
little difficult
.9600 vt100 on softcar
Any information would help. Thanks!
Aapo Lehtinen
Hi,
Have you tried cu(1):
cu -l /dev/ttya -s9600
According to the zs man page their are some bugs that might affect
serial consoles:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zsarch=sparc64#BUGS
HTH
Fred
.
I also googled for any idea, but it also fails.
It works on linux with modified config, but I don't want it on my machines.
Every idea or question is welcome. Thanks.
have you tried xrandr(1)?
HTH
Fred
For the archives my /etc/ppp/peers/three and /etc/ppp/peers/three.chat
files follow - note how the CPIN and CGDCONT fields are commented out.
The mysecret for chap-secrets was bizarrely the mobile number
not the best approach to security.
HTH
Fred
x41:fred ~ uname -a
OpenBSD x41.crowsons.com 4.5 GENERIC
On 3/3/09, Nenhum_de_Nos math...@eternamente.info wrote:
On Mon, March 2, 2009 21:04, Fred Crowson wrote:
What's the output of: ifconfig -a ?
# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 33204
groups: lo
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00
inet6 ::1
What's the output of: ifconfig -a ?
What's the output of: route show -inet ?
What happens when you do: /sbin/dhclient aue0
A bit more information would be helpful.
Fred
On 3/2/09, Nenhum_de_Nos math...@eternamente.info wrote:
On Mon, March 2, 2009 01:43, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
hail,
I have
Scouring the archives didn't answer the following question; neither has poking
about the Web.
The Wistron CM9 mini-PCI card has 2 miniature SMT coaxial connectors. Is it
possible to use just a single antenna, and is this advisable?
Thanks for any insight shared.
This may be incredibly simple to answer.
Section 6.11.1 states that members of a CARP group need to reside on the same
subnet with static IP addresses.
So, does this mean that CARP can't be used in typical home environment using IP
addresses coming from an ISP's DHCP server? I was wondering
to windows, changed my settings
to what they were so everything wasn't
so open ;)
Thanks.
Mike
Did ifconfig -M bwi0 show the network you were trying to join?
Fred
,
The /etc/boot.conf deals with loading the kernel - adding set tty
com0 tells the kernel to use com0 as the default console.
Using boot.conf won't solve your serial console issue man 4 cua might help...
Fred
to look at the geometry of the cd part of the flash drive I get:
x41:fred ~ sudo fdisk cd1
Password:
fdisk: DIOCGDINFO: Input/output error
fdisk: Can't get disk geometry, please use [-chs] to specify.
I'm about to see in the U3 software will work on it.
Fred
an alternative approach to solving this issue.
Thanks
Fred
Script started on Sun Jan 11 23:59:45 2009
x41:fred ~ cu -l /dev/cuaU0 -s9600
can't open log file /var/log/aculog.
Connected
OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.02
boot
booting hd0a:/bsd:
/-\|/6018908
an
xorg.conf.
Can anyone suggest a fix?
Thanks
Fred
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OpenBSD 4.4 (GENERIC) #1021: Tue Aug 12 17:16:55 MDT 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class)
1.60 GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE
g. Perhaps atw(4) has a few things that might work
but I wonder if anyone has had any good performance from any cards in
particular,
or know any to avoid?
thanks much
I have a few cheap Edimax pci cards not sure which model which are well
supported by ral(4).
HTH
Fred
Hi Misc,
4.4 has made it to England!
Thanks to all the developers for an excellent OS!
My pre-ordered[1] 4.4 CD's turned up at last - would have been last
Friday if the delivery service had better geo spatial awareness :~)
Thanks
Fred
[1] Orders available in Europe at:
https
of 11840224-11840287 (wd0 bn
11843248; cn 11749 tn 4 sn 4), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
/snip
I would get a new disk soon.
Fred :~S
PS Out of interest how is the disk partitioned?
complaining
about not having x11 installed. Is my only option here to install the x11
filesets? I was hoping to avoid that if I could, but if it's my only option I
guess its what I'll have to do.
Any ideas?
Thanks much!
-Paul
Hi Paul,
You might need xbase [1].
HTH
Fred
[1] http://openbsd.org
Fred Crowson wrote:
snipped
Doh wrong reference
[1] http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade42.html#libexpat
but xbase does have other libraries
Press Release
5:46:05 PM
The American Grants and Loans Book is now
available. This publication contains valuable
information with more than 1800 financial
programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants
and loans offered by the United States federal
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It also includes over 700
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Hi Edd,
The online XFree modeline generator [1] can generate interlace modelines
- are they any different to the one's you've tried?
HTH
Fred
[1] http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl
I tried and it didn't seem to make a difference ) ?
Thanks in advance for any advice ?
Nathen Hinson
Hi Nathen,
I've seen this on my X41 with iwi:
x41:fred ~ dmesg|grep iwi
iwi0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG rev 0x05: irq
11, address 00:16:6f:c1:16:40
Usually just
help.
HTH
Fred
I have been looking at sed to insert non-printable characters into text files.
The sed(1) manpage states that I should be able to insert octal values by
preceding the three character octal value with a backslash. However, my foo
apparently isn't strong enough. eg.
$ cat file
first line
remember that I filed PRs with FreeBSD/NetBSD a few years ago to get
this changed, but Redhat Support is giving some some noise about:
Well the source vendor doesn't disable it by default ...
~BAS
Hi Brian,
The default is: PermitRootLogin yes
As illustrated on below.
HTH
Fred
bsd:fred /home
I'm a bit confused by what I am seeing in the logfiles when compared to the
information found in the manpages and FAQ. I would appreciate if someone could
provide some perspective.
I've set up OpenNTPD on a 4.3-current server (192.168.0.4), and the time has
finally reached synchronization as
Jordi Espasa Clofent [EMAIL PROTECTED] write:
?Can you attach some log/info from _server_?
Sure! I've attached a cheap USB GPS unit. The idea came from a thread back in
October:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscw=2r=1s=configuring+ntpd+to+use+GPSq=b
server $ cat rc.conf.local
There was mention a few days back that the following still contains useful
information when it comes to reducing the amount of writing done to CF-like
systems:
http://blog.innerewut.de/2005/05/14/openbsd-3-7-on-wrap
Yet I'm puzzled by the desire/need to move /dev into mfs. The timestamp on
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try this:
ls -ltr /dev | tail ; date ; tty
This explains a lot. Thanks.
The article referenced discusses copying /tmp, /var, and /dev into a
memory-based filesystem. Obviously, the contents of /tmp don't need to
I apologize for the newbie question, but how is one supposed to add a FAT32
partition? The following shows where I have verified the partitioning of a USB
flash drive containing two partitions through fdisk. One for OpenBSD (type A6)
the rest FAT32. Yet when entering the disklabel, I am not
Please excuse my ignorance.
In reading through the recent Intel Mac Mini thread, I'm confused by what
appears to OpenBSD's support? OpenBSD now supports EFI? Or is EFI have some
compatibility mode with the older BIOS standard?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
0 -1 0 0 3 0x2080200 scheduler swapper
ddb{0} ~
Thanks again for a great OS!
Fred
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dmesg:
OpenBSD 4.3-beta (GENERIC.MP) #558: Thu Feb 21 15:53:39 MST 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
cpu0: Intel(R
environment variables.
HTH
Fred
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=20071007002942pid=6mode=expanded
HTH
Fred
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RafaE Brodewicz wrote:
Fred Crowson pisze:
Have you tried boot -c and enabling acpi?
After enable acpi and enable acpiec
http://brodewicz.pl/boot_acpi.jpg
Sorry for image, but this laptop doesn't have serial port to drop dmesg
output.
Regards.
I'm not sure it that's progress - but I'm
if I am the only british OpenBSD
user :p
(Apart from that troll a few months back)
Also we don't have any decent conferences :P
These aren't in Britain but how about:
http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/
in September or at the end of November:
http://www.opencon.org/
HTH
Fred
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openbsd misc wrote:
Hello again,
I tested the gentoo live cd. I was able to ssh to another machine, so I was
able to get a complete (linux) dmesg output. Hope that helps:
Linux version 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo
4.1.1-r3)) #1 SMP Tue Apr 3 01:19:22 UTC 2007
of the dmesg?
Have you tried boot -c and enabling acpi?
HTH
Fred
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? Driver problem? Unsupported hardware? The
hardware was checked twice by producer (and I don't have the problems
using linux), I don't think that is a hardware defect.
Thanks.
Regards
Hagen Volpers
Have you tried:
ssh -vvv host.to.connect.to
That might give some clues.
HTH
Fred
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.
The printer does have lpd enabled - but I've not managed to get it
working could you enlighten me :~)
My printcap and log message from /var/log/lpd-errs follows:
x41:fred ~ cat /etc/printcap
# $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $
#lp|local line printer:\
# :lp=/dev/lp:sd
and not very helpful :~( they also said they don't support Unix so
I'm using Mac OS X to try and get the issue resolved...
Thanks for the quick response.
Fred
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subnet?
The output from ifconfig, pfctl -sn and route might be useful for
debugging this issue.
Fred
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HTH
Fred
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Alex Kwan wrote:
Hi!
I am first time to install Open BSD, is the OpenBSD files' system same
as FreeBSD?
many thanks!
Alex
man hier
will answer your question.
HTH
Fred
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David Greenberg wrote:
Where can I find this project, or more specifically a working kernel
source/binary image or an entire Xen domU image? Thanks!
David
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=openbsd+xen+domu+image
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with another ram stick) and I get the same result..a crash
every 10-15 hours. Any suggestion?
Someone more knowledgeable than me might be able to help diagnose this
issue if you can post the output of ps and trace from ddb.
The other thing to try might be a different PSU.
HTH
Fred
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my_SSID nwkey 0xP789J497CA
Any kind of help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
0x says your key is in hexadecimal but P is not a hexadecimal.
What you want is:
dhcp none none none nwid my_SSID nwkey P789J497CA
HTH
Fred
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Raimo Niskanen wrote:
Hi all!
I have an old laptop on whith I want to use ppp
to connect to Internet, using a PCMCIA modem
3Com 3CXM756 Global GSM Cellular Modem PC Card
First, I _think_ it shows up as /dev/cua03. In
dmsg it pops up as device pccom3, and when trying
with tip it appears that
Tang Tse wrote:
Thanks all of you.
I have an internal DNS server ( a vmware machine on my desktop computer
) so name resolution shoudn't be a problem, isn't it?
When you say allow dns lookups, you mean to open dns port?
Thanks!!
Tang
2007/5/4, Fred Crowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL
about a rule like:
pass out on $ext_if proto { tcp, udp } from any to $my_nameserver \
port 53 keep state
HTH
Fred
PS http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/ is well worth reading
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ps and trace from ddb.
Thanks
Fred
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bsd.mp dmesg followed by trace and ps from ddb:
OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC.MP) #1225: Sat Mar 10 19:23:18 MST 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family
Fred Crowson wrote:
Hi Misc,
I have dual cpu that I've just installed OpenBSD 4.1 on - it works fine
with the generic kernel (bsd) but panics with the bsd.mp kernel.
Any ideas why bsd.mp is failing to boot on this dual intel machine?
The working dmesg and the dmesg from bsd.mp follow
?
HTH
Fred
PS a dmesg would be useful...
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.
Is there some way of rule like FORWARD of netfilter?
Thanks and sorry if isn't in this list to talk about pf rules...
Do you mean something like:
so2:fred /var/log sudo grep www /etc/pf.conf
pass log on $ext_if proto tcp from any to $webserver port { www, https }
keep state
Or do you mean
Antonis Faragitakis wrote:
Hi all,
I want to install postfix on my openbsd3.9 system and i was wondering
how can i remove sendmail, is there a standard procedure to do that?
thanks
Atn.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscw=2r=1s=sendmailq=b
might give some clues.
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HTH
Fred
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/share/zoneinfo/
HTH
Fred
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Lawrence Horvath wrote:
when using rc.conf.local do you need to add
#!/bin/sh -
at the top of the file, or just start inserting lines?
thanks
Just start inserting the lines.
The hashbang is in the rc.conf script.
HTH
Fred
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Vim Visual wrote:
Fred, would you like to marry me?
Sorry I'm taken :~)
Oh, my! I always forget that I am already married! Too bad!
Thanks!
That did it! But it requiered a reboot, which I don't like much, but
the network is there and I can connect!
Does this mean that I have
.
HTH
Fred
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and I have created the user _postgresql to run the RDBMS.
HTH
Fred
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?
HTH
Fred
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=105961768115644w=2
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255.255.255.0 NONE \
chan 6 media autoselect mode 11b \
nwid MyName nwkey persist:abcde123456
HTH
Fred
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the media like:
inet 172.16.211.1 255.255.255.0 NONE \
nwid MyName nwkey abcde123456
should just work with a /bin/sh -x /etc/netstart unless the AP isn't
playing ballcan you get a tcpdump from the AP that might give some
clues as to why it's failing...
HTH
Fred
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ivorob wrote:
Fred Crowson wrote:
ivorob wrote:
Hi, folks.
Within my notebook I have internal modem. How Can I force to work my
modem? Is it possible?
Best regards,
Vorobyov Ivan.
Without a dmesg its impossible to tell.
Fred
Look below:
OpenBSD 3.8 (BLUETOOTH) #0: Sun Jul 23 12:32
, Vorobyov Ivan.
Unfortunately I can't help you with programming. Bluetooth was disabled
as it was broken, but there is good news on the bluetooth front - its is
being actively developed at the moment.
Fred
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