Re: Belinea s.Book1 can't boot OpenBSD

2008-03-01 Thread Andrew Smith
Oh my, another Nanobook variant. Try disabling ACPI in the kernel before you boot. You may want to do this from another machine and copy the new kernel to the machine using the Install CD boot because the PS2K device doesn't seem to be handled on mine (Packard Bell EasyNote XS) at all and

Re: Terrible messages in /var/log/messages

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Smith
Are you actually using the I2C interface for anything? It may be that you have a variant of the hardware that isn't quite supported and it should be possible to disable the driver in the kernel and avoid these messages. -Andy On 21 Nov 2007, at 11:47, Evgeniy Sudyr wrote: Hello misc,

Should the amd64 page be updated yet? (revisited)

2007-10-17 Thread Andrew Smith
I'm wondering if anybody knows the stepping numbers of the ia32e processors that implement the no execute bit properly in the page tables? I think this would be useful information for the amd64 page, I know there is an errata on the core 2 boxes around this bit effecting both cores when

Re: Changes to sysctl mibs recently?

2007-08-10 Thread Andrew Smith
Thanks, But no, this isn't the case on the Zaurus. The hw.cpuspeed sysctl is a read only value. The machdep.maxspeed was introduced to scale up and down the hw.setperf parameter on this system. The Zaurus normally operates at 416Mhz, the sysctl.conf contains the line machdep.maxspeed=520

Re: router wont stop sending icmp redirects

2006-11-16 Thread Andrew Smith
net.inet.ip.redirect = 0 Means that the machine will not honour redirects. The value is used to ignore redirects sent by routers not to disable sending of redirects if you happen to be running as a router. -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

OT: Adaptec SATA Raid controllers

2006-09-16 Thread Andrew Smith
Hi, I have just taken a contract at a company for to help with driving some procedure into their IT services to meet their growth demands. As an aside I have picked up on discussions about number of failures of SATA RAID subsystems using Adaptec 2610SA controllers provided by HP (running under

Re: OT: Adaptec SATA Raid controllers

2006-09-16 Thread Andrew Smith
Yeah, sorry Theo, I did post it as OT, I value this groups input greatly but point taken. -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Theo de Raadt Sent: 16 September 2006 20:59 To: Andrew Smith Cc: 'OpenBSD-misc list' Subject: Re: OT: Adaptec

securelevel(7) and machdep.allowaperture

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Smith
Just a question about the man page securelevel(7) really. It doesn't mention that for architectures where the aperture is enabled that the aperture value can only be lowered once in securelevel 1 or higher. Is this intentionally omitted because some architectures may not have it? and if

Re: Multi-tabbed Terminal

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Smith
The last time I looked at this there seemed to be only gnome-terminal and Konsole in the ports tree that fulfilled this. Neither of these could really be considered light weight though. I will watch this thread with interest if anyone has a port of something decent that is small enough to run

really strange issue running sma from daily.local

2006-07-10 Thread Andrew Smith
I think this must be a misc issue rather than a ports issue but the issue concerns the use of mail/sma in /etc/daily.local. For several days I have had /etc/daily.local set up to run sma to produce an ascii summary of /var/log/maillog as follows.. sma -a /var/log/maillog /tmp/maillog.out mail

Re: really strange issue running sma from daily.local

2006-07-10 Thread Andrew Smith
about the log flush post rotate. -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Smith Sent: 10 July 2006 10:16 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: really strange issue running sma from daily.local I think this must be a misc issue rather than a ports

Re: How to pass mount protocol traffic (mountd/NFS) using pf?

2006-06-23 Thread Andrew Smith
It is interesting that the use of ephemeral ports was really aimed at reducing the number of well known port allocations in an environment that was heavily RPC based, however, locking the port number means that the RPC endpoint becomes well known and more vulnerable to attack so personally I can

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

2006-06-13 Thread Andrew Smith
The last time I looks there was no Firewire or Firewire disk support in the Kernel. Expect that if it is done at some stage that it is done correctly, you won't get Disk support without Firewire being supported as a bus type (no quick hacks here). -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Time on, since resumption from a suspend?

2006-04-13 Thread Andrew Smith
How about using apmd to run a resume script where you touch a file and then having sometime that simply subtracts the current time from the touched file time? A simple script should be able to do that -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: Installing X after OpenBSD 3.8 installation

2006-04-11 Thread Andrew Smith
tar -zxpf permissions are important -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Guenther Sent: 12 April 2006 04:21 To: OpenBSD-Misc Subject: Re: Installing X after OpenBSD 3.8 installation On 4/12/06, Andrew Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: GNU license files rules replacement guidelines with BSD one

2006-04-05 Thread Andrew Smith
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 April 2006 01:14 To: Andrew Smith Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: GNU license files rules replacement guidelines with BSD one On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 00:15:02 +0100 Andrew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GPL cannot be revoked by the author and, what is more, a new version

Bluetooth in OpenBSD

2006-04-05 Thread Andrew Smith
The Broadcom Blutonium chipset is a special case. It requires a firmware download for the device to function as a Bluetooth device. ubt currently does not support the download but will recognise the adaptor once the firmware is downloaded. I do have a preliminary patch set that I created (it's a

Re: GNU license files rules replacement guidelines with BSD one

2006-04-04 Thread Andrew Smith
No, I don't think this is quite correct. GPL cannot be revoked by the author and, what is more, a new version being classed as a 'derived work' would still under the terms of GPL be classed as GPL and the original author couldn't do anything about it. - Linus faces this issue with future versions

Twisted

2006-03-31 Thread Andrew Smith
I'm wondering if anyone has taken a look at, or spotted anything nasty in the Twisted Python framework. It looks like a wonderfully functional suite for async network application development, however, it does require Zope 3 which is a little untried at the moment. Any comments with

Re: Problems with X in OpenBSD (3.9) -current with LCD WideScreen Monitor

2006-03-30 Thread Andrew Smith
Please give some details about the actual model number of the monitor, the exact model of display card etc. If you are using the radeon driver for instance specifying the radeon option for DDC is a good way of getting the mode information correct. Man radeon discusses the DDCMode parameter.

Re: Errors during start of Xorg on 3.9

2006-03-30 Thread Andrew Smith
You should be using the wrapper script called xorgconfig This should work run as root and double check the /etc/sysctl.conf value machdep.allowaperture. Make sure that is set to 2, this no longer gets set to 2 by answering yes to running X - this is a deliberate decision in 3.9 and has been left

Re: Errors during start of Xorg on 3.9

2006-03-30 Thread Andrew Smith
Antoine, thanks, quite right.. I saw the memo and misread it - the prompt defaults to [no] now. It may be worthwhile double checking the Aperture setting though. -Original Message- From: Antoine Jacoutot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 March 2006 15:26 To: Andrew Smith Cc: misc

Re: copying software from the official iso

2006-03-24 Thread Andrew Smith
I thought my 'take' on the idea of the CDs was more commonplace. I will clarify it for consideration. The actual content of the CD is secondary in importance to many people purchasing it. People purchase the CD to support OpenBSD but with the added advantage that there is useful stuff for the

Re: Problem with uvisor0, comms/pilot-link, and LifeDrive, on i386

2006-03-17 Thread Andrew Smith
This error is coming back from uvisor.c which is part of the Kernel. The init function is there to initialise the device and get the USB Serial endpoints back... I recently fixed this for a range of Sony CLIE devices but that fix was Sony vendor code specific and wouldn't touch this device. There

Re: using openbsd on zaurus

2006-03-15 Thread Andrew Smith
Didier, Here are a few things that may interest you... Java support is pretty problematical.. the desktop benchmark of success and compatibility for a lot of java sites would be to have J2SE in a fairly current version running. Unfortunately to build this from source you need an earlier version

Re: using openbsd on zaurus

2006-03-15 Thread Andrew Smith
on the side of caution and wait until somebody announces that OpenBSD is up and running on that device before purchase. -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Smith Sent: 15 March 2006 11:43 To: 'Miscellaneous OBSD' Subject: Re: using

Re: Why packets are not blocked

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Smith
Try flushing the state table too. -Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Sent: 08 March 2006 03:00 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Why packets are not blocked When my kid gets grounded I block the gameroom computer from getting to the

Re: ath and 802.11a

2006-03-03 Thread Andrew Smith
Seconded (as if I needed to with Theo responding :P) I have an old Atheros based cardbus adaptor that will supposedly do b+g but I know for a fact not a, check the specs of the device please and do as Theo asks... dmesg is useful. Having said that... Theo it may interest you that the man

Info on major/minor device mappings for device drivers

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Smith
I know you are going to tell me to rtfm, it's bound to be in there but I can't find anything relevant here so assume I'm stupid and please point me at something obvious :P I have just become acquainted with the differences between FreeBSD and OpenBSD by porting over the ubtbcmfw driver which

Can anyone suggest a browser with JavaScript for ARM?

2006-02-17 Thread Andrew Smith
Hi, It's a plain fact that mozilla/firefox and all the derivative browsers like Epiphany won't build for ARM at the moment due to some issue with NSPR which causes the a segmentation fault during the signing phase of the libraries. 19 hours of build time on both Firefox and Mozilla have shown

Re: Can anyone suggest a browser with JavaScript for ARM?

2006-02-17 Thread Andrew Smith
- From: David Terrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2006 19:13 To: Andrew Smith Subject: Re: Can anyone suggest a browser with JavaScript for ARM? On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:01:54PM -, Andrew Smith wrote: Try out moinmoin on the sandbox at http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de http

Build sanity messages

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew Smith
Hi, I'm noticing quite a few sanity messages on the ports tree (notably sdl is one of them) when running make on a Zaurus. The messages pop up in the configure stage and state that the binary produced is older than the distribution. Are we interested in these messages? Seems like there

Re: Any conclusions on the uvisor STALLED status with CLIE devices?

2006-02-05 Thread Andrew Smith
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Smith Sent: 04 February 2006 14:00 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Any conclusions on the uvisor STALLED status with CLIE devices? I have an old CLIE PEG-T625C device that I have been trying to make work with the uvisor driver to get ucom endpoints mapped to cuaUx

Re: Inappropriate processes being 'stopped' when the system is busy.. - mystery solved.

2006-02-04 Thread Andrew Smith
this happens the processes don't get a -CONT signal so stay in a stopped state. dbus is now off again and the issue is gone. - Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Smith Sent: 03 February 2006 12:12 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject

Any conclusions on the uvisor STALLED status with CLIE devices?

2006-02-04 Thread Andrew Smith
I have an old CLIE PEG-T625C device that I have been trying to make work with the uvisor driver to get ucom endpoints mapped to cuaUx with a USB cable. The device IDs itself to the driver (based upon the standard table in the driver) as USB_PRODUCT_SONY_CLIE_40 which is mapped to the PALM4

Inappropriate processes being 'stopped' when the system is busy..

2006-02-03 Thread Andrew Smith
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can make a suggestion here. I have been pushing my X server on my Zaurus, logged in as a regular user whilst running a large compile in the background. This is really to test the stability of the ws_drv patches that just came through on [EMAIL PROTECTED] In

Re: Broadcom BCM5752 NIC

2006-02-03 Thread Andrew Smith
I'm not sure about the level of support for this card in OpenBSD (this says more about the level of support by Broadcomm for Open Source operating systems development effort). The bge driver does support some of that range of cards but I can't say if that one specifically is supported. - if it

FW: Broadcom BCM5752 NIC

2006-02-03 Thread Andrew Smith
*sigh* ok, ignore that last posting. I'm an idiot responding to these posts when I'm spaced out with a cold. (no flame needed) I was looking for 5725 not 5752. There is an ID for the 5752 in the driver :P Good luck, - Andy -Original Message- From: Andrew Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /etc default dir and file permissions.

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Smith
Not sure if there's a more formal way of doing this but this works... Boot single user again, obtain the etc38.tgz distribution archive and from the root of the file system extract it as follows.. tar -zxpf etc38.tgz Take note, this archive also contains seeded directories for /var and /root