Re: Thinkpad x260 not connecting to network

or, unofficially, c) my blog post on configuring the X270, subsection #wifi: https://www.coreystephan.com/openbsd-thinkpad/#wifi Cheers, Corey -- Corey Stephan, Ph.D. coreystephan.com

Re: Reference/Citation Manager -- Zotero or JabRef? (+ compilation of Zotero?)

leaving almost all OSes behind in hope that they might redirect some attention to portability: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/9745 (Very) old versions of JabRef (3.8.2 and earlier) should still run with OpenJDK 8 (jdk-1.8.0). - Deus vos benedicat, Corey Stephan, Ph.D. coreystephan.com

Re: switching to DUIDs (and back)

>On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:30:51AM -0400, Josh Grosse wrote: >> Basically, replace "wd0" with the drive's DUID. >I'm wrong, of course. Replace "/dev/wd0" with the drive's DUID, >then append "." followed by the partition. Thank you, I was thinking every partition has a UUID and I needed to find

switching to DUIDs (and back)

I thought this was documented somewhere but I'm not finding it in Googling. I don't really like DUIDs, but I want to stick in a second drive controller temporarily to recover data off some old hard drives. Which means /dev/wd0a etc is going to change since the added controller (in a PCI slot)

Re: Deleted everything in /

and rebooted, everything came back. On 3/6/14, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: > Got it. Thanks. I burned a 5.2 install and used the ramdisk > /usr/mdec/installboot from that. I don't have 5.5 and it would take > weeks by modem to get it. > > On 3/6/14, Chris Cappuc

Re: Content filtering through pf?

I'm looking at privoxy although I'm not sure it's more appropriate than squid. I'm hoping to run this on a Raspberry Pi or Zero so it'll most likely be under Raspbian. Right now I use the standard Android "Portable Wi-Fi hotspot" in the phone. I run it open (no password) because I'm in a very

Content filtering through pf?

I'm wondering if it's possible to do content filtering in a firewall. Maybe with something that cooperates with pf. I'm on a very limited (5 GB/month) metered internet connection through a cell phone and I'm not the only user when I have it shared over wifi. I'd like to block video because it's

Re: Browser is getting slower?

I don't use Chromium (don't tell me I don't need a menu) but in Firefox the user profile gets clogged up with cruft about once a year. A quick test is to just make a new profile and see if it's faster. Then copy over your bookmarks and gradually reestablish your cookies which keep you logged into

Re: Why on earth would online voting be insecure?

OK, it's relevant to OpenBSD because I wouldn't consider anything else safe enough to run on the servers. Not that I'm in a position to do any of it. The servers could even be run from custom official live CDs so they were harder to tamper with, with maybe a RAM drive for speed. There seems to

Why on earth would online voting be insecure?

This sounds like heel-dragging to me, or they're trying to do it under Windows or something: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/05/17/more-than-30-states-offer-online-voting-but-experts-warn-it-isnt-secure/ It seems simple to me, you use firewalls and only make the results

Re: 2 files, same name, same dir

it, I've hit other characters by accident and had those end up in filenames. I've been using Joe for ~20 years. But a trailing space on a filename, after the extension, is pointless to keep. Probably featureitis to build in looking for them though. On 10/22/16, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.

Re: 2 files, same name, same dir

Bingo, a trailing space. I would have thought that would get trimmed off somehow. I don't normally put spaces in filenames, I must have fat-fingered something. But I see no reason to keep trailing spaces. -rw-r--r-- 1 alan wheel25549 Oct 22 10:55 pi.c\$ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel25152

2 files, same name, same dir

This is in 5.7 but I don't understand how it could happen (and I never noticed it before). Two files in the same directory with the same name, different owners. Last night I was noticing that my edits to my program sometimes weren't taking effect, this seems to be why. Ideas? I can delete the

Re: Weird cursor problem

Just to clarify, I see the left-pointing hand, but that's just a symptom, I can't do anything with the mouse like use the pager or any other application. Cursor movement isn't restricted to one window. I get out of it by using the keyboard shortcuts of Ctrl-arrow which normally jumps to another

Re: Weird cursor problem

and any arrow gets out of it. On 12/3/15, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see anything in the archives about this. On 5.7 i386 with > fvwm several times a day my cursor changes to the left-pointing finger > arrow that Firefox uses to point to links and clickin

Re: FOSS tools for flashing motherboard BIOS?

> Are you sure there is no iso image with self boot and update, ready to > be burned on a cdrom? I don't know for sure, but I think last time I > was using that. I don't own HP gear, but IBM/Lenovo has this kind of > iso image and I've used it a lot. Not as far as I can tell, and the guy at HP

Re: FOSS tools for flashing motherboard BIOS?

going to try the Vista drivers on HP's page, they might work with XP and let me boot not into Safe Mode. On 6/6/16, li...@wrant.com <li...@wrant.com> wrote: > Mon, 6 Jun 2016 23:36:46 +0300 li...@wrant.com >> Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:09:46 -0400 Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> >

Re: FOSS tools for flashing motherboard BIOS?

> Upgrading sqlports-compact keeps your pkg_mgr aware of current ports. > >> So, I guess I should look at BiosDisk too. > > If one utility warns you could potentially have unpredictable flashing > results, how is the other utility that does not warn you so different? > > Tech support may not be

Re: FOSS tools for flashing motherboard BIOS?

OK, so that's why it wasn't in pbrowser yet. Running in single user mode sounds like a pain. Also the install puts the man page in /usr/local/share/man/man8 . And I haven't gotten to why it says not to run on laptops yet. On 6/6/16, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: > See this:

Re: FOSS tools for flashing motherboard BIOS?

We will not help you if you force flashing on a laptop because this is a really dumb idea. So, I guess I should look at BiosDisk too. On 6/6/16, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, so that's why it wasn't in pbrowser yet. Running in single user > mode soun

FOSS tools for flashing motherboard BIOS?

I have an HP Pavilion DV2700 laptop with an old BIOS version I'd like to update. HP's official solution is to run something under the dinosaur Windows Vista, which I was glad to wash my hands of about 7 years ago. I opened up HP's exe file (rename to a zip and unzip), inside is a 1 meg file

Re: the balance between OpenBSD and life

For me, I went from Linux -> FreeBSD -> OpenBSD about 15 years ago and stayed here. I dabble in other things like Linux du jour but OpenBSD is the reliable backbone, reads partitions of other operating systems on multiboot machines (ok, not ext4). I've never screwed it up so bad I couldn't fix

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Re: Performance of Firefox and Chromium > I'm not sure what hardware you guys run OpenBSD on, but on my (old, > crusty, crummy, shitty) laptop, it and a lot of Gui-requiring and My laptop was made in 2008, my desktop in 2002. > javascript heavy sites send > javascript from many

Re: Performance of Firefox and Chromium

>> A language has nothing to do with speed of execution! It seems like Javascript's gotten faster in the last 10 years or so. I used to write little benchmarks to compare Turbo C and Turbo Pascal, Pascal always won. > (Point being once things reach a certain level of complexity, issues > like

Re: Performance of Firefox and Chromium

Re: Performance of Firefox and Chromium Several seconds? Oh my. Try 20 minutes or more on some of the most bloated sites, with lots of reloads and watching iftop to see when they're stuck like on my connection. But thanks for the tip on Noscript, I'm trying it out. -- Credit is the root of

Re: Trying to move my httpd chroot

. On 3/16/16, Rick Hanson <r...@tamos.net> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't have enough room in / to have my htdocs there so I want to >> move it to /usr/htdocs. This is in 5.7. No problem I thought, I've >

Trying to move my httpd chroot

I don't have enough room in / to have my htdocs there so I want to move it to /usr/htdocs. This is in 5.7. No problem I thought, I've had to do it before. So my /etc/httpd.conf looks like this: chroot "/usr/htdocs" server "d530.my.domain" { listen on * port 80 } And I get logging into

Re: uvm fault booting

time I see that I'll try just rebooting without doing anything else. But it happened this time without doing anything with USB at all, I just ran the battery down. On 2/29/16, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: > SMART is on but it's never been tripped. > > Windows is sca

Open source SD card utilities?

They aren't hard drives, it's a whole different process. They work superficially the same because that's a layer designed on. If you go to sdcard.org there are technical specifications and formatters for Windows and Mac, like that's the whole world. I've seen formatting with hard disk tools

Re: uvm fault booting

but it came up. So maybe the Seagate stuff remapped some sectors, maybe not. So do I dare scan my SD card or not? I think I'll try it from Windows, that's more expendable. Over half the drive is OpenBSD, the rest is Windows and Linux. On 2/29/16, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: uvm fault booting

6.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b umass0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Kingston DataTraveler 2.0" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus4 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd0 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: <Kingston, DataTraveler 2.0, PMAP> SCSI4 0/direct remov

Re: uvm fault booting

Transcribing from a cell phone picture of the screen on another machine later: /dev/rwd0a fscked OK /dev/rwd0e fscked OK (both of my OpenBSD partitions) acpivideo1 unknown event 0x00 uhubs 0-6 detached uhubs 0-6 at usb0-6 "Intel UHCI (and EHCI) root hub" rev 1.00 (2.0 on the EHCI) uvm_fault

uvm fault booting

Everything's been stable for months. Then I was running badblocks on an SD card plugged into a USB card reader. The screen went white, I couldn't ssh to it, so I killed the power. It boots to just past the file system checks and hangs, disk access light on. Did that before so I went away for

Thousands separator in printf?

I'm not dyslexic but I have trouble looking at big numbers like 10 digits and telling which is bigger. So I Googled and with most GCC versions with a working locale you put something like %'u in a printf. I also saw mention of a SATSEP macro, but I'm not getting anything to work. I know I could

stubborn athn

I have an Atheros AR5418 mini-PCI card in my laptop, which I think came from an eBay seller in China. It used to work under OpenBSD, but that may have been back about 5.2 or 4.7. Now I'm using 5.7. It works now in Kismet under OpenBSD, but an ifconfig scan comes up not finding anything. If I

Re: Daily digest, Issue 3715 (21 messages)

Re: dhcrelay: send_packet: No buffer space available If it's easy to do try a different network card. The only time I've ever seen that error came from a urtwn card under OpenBSD 5.7 and earlier. But Stuart knows a lot more about it than I do. On 2/13/16, owner-m...@openbsd.org

Re: text-mode gui

I can't resist jumping in. I see what y'all are saying but have you considered the possibility of multiple installers? The standard officially supported and maintained one that's guaranteed to work. Others, clearly labelled as contributed works, buried in sysutils and maybe on github that have

Re: QIV is faster in Linux

If I could get logs from the mplayers would that help? I tried but it didn't work so I skipped it. I don't know how to profile on Linux. The machine has 4 gigs of RAM. On 12/14/15, Michael McConville <mm...@mykolab.com> wrote: > Alan Corey wrote: >> I'm thinking this is gr

Re: QIV is faster in Linux

Stuck them on devio, simpler than that GUI crap http://devio.us/~ab1jx/files/slowness/ Outputs from time(1) too time qiv dsc_2258.jpg Copied and pasted, not redirected Debian: 0.572u 0.316s 0:03.28 26.8% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w OpenBSD: 1.920u 0.510s 0:05.97 40.7% 0+0k 182+19io 762pf+0w

Re: QIV is faster in Linux

> Can you share a photo taken with your camera and the dmesg of your > computer? Sure, but where? The jpegs are 6 - 15 megs each. I don't know anything about pastebin-type services yet except that they exist. I'm thinking this is graphics slowness or filesystem slowness. Both OpenBSD and

Thanks guys

/sda6329734188 395279324 65545137 31.3G b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda7395279388 4034724748193087 3.9G 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8403476480 1427476479 102400 488.3G a6 OpenBSD /dev/sda9 1427487768 1953520064 526032297 250.9G 83 Linux Alan Corey, ab1jx

QIV is faster in Linux

Just an observation on my multiboot laptop. My current Nikon takes 24 megapixel images, 6000x4000 and I almost dread looking at them in QIV under OpenBSD. It's not so bad in Debian, same hardware. I don't know how to localize or quantify that. I guess I'd need to build a profiled version of

Re: Hitting the bootable cylinder limit?

Another possibility is that something like a bootloader was looking for a file at a particular location (sector, inode) on the disk. In installing Grub under Arch Linux there's mention of that. Linux has an immutable flag on files, with a utility chattr for setting and unsetting it, when it's

Re: disklabel suggestion

For posterity the problem was that I had a shared swap partition which of course didn't show in the list of mounted stuff. Added it a week or two ago and forgot it. But my original point was that this was an editor which lost what was being edited just because it couldn't save. With no warning.

Re: disklabel suggestion

I understand what it's saying but I can't figure out which one it's complaining about. All I have mounted is: freebie# mount /dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local) /dev/wd0i on /win_c type msdos (local) /dev/wd0l on /win_d type msdos (local) /dev/wd0m on /win_e type msdos (local) /dev/wd0n on /usr type

Weird cursor problem

I don't see anything in the archives about this. On 5.7 i386 with fvwm several times a day my cursor changes to the left-pointing finger arrow that Firefox uses to point to links and clicking on things has no effect. I can't change the focus, if an rxvt window has the focus I can type in it.

disklabel suggestion

I'm trying to make several changes to my disklabel at once. If I try to do it with -R to read in a file I get disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink So I used -E and used the interactive editor, which let me get through the same edits without complaining about anything,

Is OpenBSD dump/restore compatible with Linux?

More of my running out of BIOS-accessible space saga. My Linux partitions with a few gigs of Android development stuff are intact on my laptop, I just need to rearrange the boot partition (I think). I've got empty partitions set aside for installing Linux on my desktop machine. Can I do a dump

Re: Daily digest, Issue 3641 (37 messages)

re: bootable cylinder limit? >The point is that if you use Windows you must use its boot menu, and it's > easier to configure it to boot multiple OS than grub or lilo. EasyBSD > handles all the boot blocks for you. One problem is that everything is old (including me). The computers are from

Re: Daily digest, Issue 3641 (37 messages)

re: bootable cylinder limit? All manner of things seem to have broken when I went from a 500 gig drive to 1 TB, or maybe it's because I added Linux. For years I've been using the method that used to be in the OpenBSD FAQ of using dd to write out the first sector of the partition you want to boot

Re: Hitting the bootable cylinder limit?

so off-list? > > ;-) > > 2015/11/24 1:55 "Alan Corey" <alan01...@gmail.com>: >> >> It seems like there should be a better way to detect this other than >> trial and error. I put a new 1 TB drive in my laptop (Seagate >> ST1000LM024) about a month ago. Be

Hitting the bootable cylinder limit?

It seems like there should be a better way to detect this other than trial and error. I put a new 1 TB drive in my laptop (Seagate ST1000LM024) about a month ago. Being aware there was such a limit I made small boot partitions at the beginning of the drive (I thought): 32 GB Windows, 64 GB

dpb - um, priority?

dpb's great, especially since I rtfm'd enough to find the -I flag. But I'm trying to build and install ports on a machine and use it for something else at the same time. It's not like I've got a lot of machines. It seems like priority or niceness would need to get set on each process that's

Anyone experienced with 4G/LTE modems?

Anybody have good experiences with any of the currently available 4G/LTE modems that start around $30 on eBay, mostly by Huawei? I won't have a real internet connection for at least a year. Right now I'm using cell phones, connecting to them by WiFi or urndis over USB. Even for cell phones I'm

Re: Anyone experienced with 4G/LTE modems?

. Some Androids turn off WiFi when they sleep. Some are low powered to try to improve the battery life. And I mostly hate Android 5. On 11/3/15, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > Alan Corey [alan01...@gmail.com] wrote: >> >> I have used USB tethering from a phone

Re: Anyone experienced with 4G/LTE modems?

7PM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: >>What I'd like to get is something I can connect to an OpenBSD machine >>over USB or go for one of the slightly better ones that offers an >>ethernet connection. Firewall it, connect it through my wired LAN, >>run a WiFi AP for portable d

dpb - wow!

I'd never tried it before but it's saving me a lot of babysitting to start the next build compared to doing them one at a time. There's probably a way to do this but I'd never tried dpb because I didn't have a list of pkgpaths to feed it. I could query sqlports I guess, but a command-line flag

Re: dpb - wow!

cell phone, it's the best internet connection I've got. On 11/2/15, Josh Grosse <j...@jggimi.homeip.net> wrote: > On 2015-11-02 13:33, Alan Corey wrote: >> I'd never tried it before but it's saving me a lot of babysitting to >> start the next build compared to doing them one at

Install kernel panic with 2015-10-02 i386 snapshot

=14417300842=1=2 Thanks, Corey boot> boot /5.8/i386/bsd cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory booting hd0a:/5.8/i386/bsd: 7690836+2030032+189444+0+1069056 [72+414192+409165]=0xb43224 entry point at 0x2000d4 [ using 823844 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1

Re: urtwn driver has problems

Any chance of the stability fixes getting released as an official patch? The problems go back to at least 5.0. I just mostly finished a clean install of 5.7 on a new drive in my 5.2 machine. I've got another new 1 TB drive for my 5.0 machine. The Firefox 5.0 in this is getting ancient anyway.

urtwn driver has problems

I don't know how to document this but my 5.7 laptop about once a week has a hard crash when running ifconfig or dhclient on urtwn0. I have to hold down the power switch, turn it off, reboot. My 5.0 machine with a different urtwn adapter is slightly worse, I stopped using it and use an old

Why does my 5.7 laptop suspend when I close the lid?

I didn't ask it to do that and I don't know how to unsuspend. As far as I'm concerned this is an undocumented feature. If I want to suspend I'll type zzz. I haven't found a way to turn this off. -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX

Re: Why does my 5.7 laptop suspend when I close the lid?

to add this feature, because most people wanted it. Search the archives On Tue, Jun 30, 2015, at 02:38 PM, Alan Corey wrote: I didn't ask it to do that and I don't know how to unsuspend. As far as I'm concerned this is an undocumented feature. If I want to suspend I'll type zzz. I haven't

Re: Robustness in ports fetch program?

Oh, I apparently can't do FTP, but that's a recent thing so I'm not sure. I'm using a cell phone data connection. On 5/20/15, Alan Corey alan01...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't override it because I didn't know how. I've defined FETCH_CMD in the environment before but I've never messed

Re: Robustness in ports fetch program?

'/var/db/pkg/qiv-2.3.1/+CONTENTS') *** Error 1 in /usr/ports/graphics/qiv (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2473 'install') On 5/18/15, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 08:18:06AM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: I don't think it did this back in 5.0 days or maybe

Re: 5.7: size for ninja distfile?

I seem to be getting a lot of size does not match errors (unusual) leading to error 1. But when I up-arrow and replay the line it goes past it. On 5/18/15, Alan Corey alan01...@gmail.com wrote: I kept getting size does not match for ninja-1.5.3p0 and several of the alternate sources were giving

5.7: size for ninja distfile?

I kept getting size does not match for ninja-1.5.3p0 and several of the alternate sources were giving errors like 404. I have a file size of 168829 for 3309498174411e02e7680ea8b470bb7d1d70bdb8.tar.gz and the archive tests OK with gunzip -t. This size does match the distinfo, but there are notes

Re: Robustness in ports fetch program?

frustrating, maybe counterproductive in testing. Try a modem, you can probably find a free one. Connection interruptions and resets happen many times a day. On May 17, 2015 1:22 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:31:24PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: I'd seen this happen

Robustness in ports fetch program?

I'd seen this happen in 5.6 too, but I just caught an example of it in 5.7. My connection leaves a lot to be desired, but there's nothing I can do about that. I normally have FETCH_CMD set to use wget once I get it installed but this was in doing a standard make install of a port. The first

Dealing with a mix of DHCP and fixed addresses

I'm pretty sure I haven't seen this in the FAQ. I don't like DHCP, I consider it useful in temporary situations only. I've had a few machines on a LAN with fixed IPs for years and it all works fine. Along comes a cell phone and it becomes my internet gateway, at least most of the time. Typical

disabled voice and video in Pidgin?

This is under OpenBSD 5.2. I built pidgin from ports, it worked, I decided I want sound so I removed it and libpurple, set FLAVOR to audio. It built libpurple-audio and pidgin-audio and installed them but when I go into Help - Build Information it says audio and video are disabled. Why? I have

Re: disabled voice and video in Pidgin?

I've been working for months on 5.6 to clone, by dialup it's slow. I only upgrade every few years. Going to 1 TB drives. I'm ab1jx on devio btw. On 3/5/15, Jiri B ji...@devio.us wrote: On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 03:49:33AM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: This is under OpenBSD 5.2. I built pidgin from

Short path to making Android APKs under OpenBSD?

Somewhere I read that Android now only officially supports their own Android Studio. Eclipse might work but needs to be newer than even OpenBSD 5.6's version. Gradle might work but seems to need Groovy, there seems to be no end to the bloatware. Android Studio is a 1 gig download and wants 4

Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections

This is probably unrelated but I've noticed that the fetching that happens with make install in ports seems less robust than it used to be. If my internet provider disconnects or the connection gets reset beyond that, it doesn't resume the download. And I've tried setting FETCH_CMD to wget -c,

Re: Using WiFi hotspots with OpenBSD?

The advice I got works, in principle. What's screwy is that it doesn't work with my Atheros cards, either in my laptop or a desktop machine. I've got a couple of urtwn generic RTL8188 USB adapters and those work fine. One Atheros is an ath and one's an athn. It's almost like they're stuck in

Using WiFi hotspots with OpenBSD?

OK, I'm new to the concept of hotspots and why they're different from regular APs. I just got a phone that I can set to be a hotspot to relay the phone's data stream over WiFi. It works fine when I'm booted into Windows, works like any other AP. Under OpenBSD no luck so far. I can set the

setting WiFi txpower with ifconfig

I'm trying to do some antenna work so I want a weak signal from the other side of the basement. So I try stuff like ifconfig athn0 txpower 1 and get ifconfig: SIOCS80211TXPOWER: Invalid argument. Any number I've tried gives the same thing. If I leave out the number it tells me I need one.

FAQ entry for printing?

Could we have an FAQ entry for how to set up printing with lpr and/or cups? I had lpr working once years ago with a text printer. Now I want to print (mostly JPEGs) to an HP color laser printer (cp2025dn). I've got a PPD file I found on the web (it's Postscript) for the printer which has its own

Getting unswapped?

Several hours ago I edited a few big images in The Gimp so there was some swapping. I still have about 60 megs swapped out even though I've got 600 megs of RAM free. I've seen this before, sometimes it'll stay swapped out overnight until I reboot to clear it. The Gimp was closed hours ago. Is

Re: Getting unswapped?

, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Alan Corey alan01...@gmail.com wrote: Several hours ago I edited a few big images in The Gimp so there was some swapping. I still have about 60 megs swapped out even though I've got 600 megs of RAM free. I've seen this before, sometimes it'll stay swapped out overnight until I

Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

by tomorrow if it works under FreeBSD 10 on my Raspberry Pi but otherwise I could only use it under Windows. Email me a snail mail address if you want it. On 4/20/14, Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:23:06PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: So it does need a different

Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

I just got a cheap USB WiFi adapter that I thought was a Realtek for some reason, turned out to be Ralink. I was interested in small because I want to mount it at the focal point of a TVRO satellite dish. If I'd known it was Ralink I wouldn't have bought it. So I plug it into my laptop running

Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

On 4/19/14, Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:12:23AM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: I just got a cheap USB WiFi adapter that I thought was a Realtek for some reason, turned out to be Ralink. I was interested in small because I want to mount it at the focal point

xnecview broken?

This should probably go to ports@ but I don't belong to that. I'm running 5.2 as the latest, but 5.4 looks the same (has the same setjmp patch). There was an old problem with xnecview under OpenBSD that caused it to crash if you tried to use it on more than about 6 frequencies, but this is new

Deleted everything in /

I wasn't too concerned until I discovered the machine wouldn't boot, comes up to ERR M or something like that. I put a kernel and a copy of boot in place from /usr/mdec but it still comes up and just says loading then nothing. Do I need to do installboot? I was half asleep and did rm tempdir /*

Re: Deleted everything in /

wrote: Alan Corey [alan01...@gmail.com] wrote: I wasn't too concerned until I discovered the machine wouldn't boot, comes up to ERR M or something like that. I put a kernel and a copy of boot in place from /usr/mdec but it still comes up and just says loading then nothing. Do I need to do

Re: Deleted everything in /

Got it. Thanks. I burned a 5.2 install and used the ramdisk /usr/mdec/installboot from that. I don't have 5.5 and it would take weeks by modem to get it. On 3/6/14, Chris Cappuccio ch...@nmedia.net wrote: Alan Corey [alan01...@gmail.com] wrote: I'm at 5.2. Booting from a 5.4 install image I

backdir: a simple little backup/versioning tool

For about a year now when I'm working on some little program I make a backups subdir and whenever I get around to it I copy the file I'm working on in there with the date and time on the file as part of the file name. I finally wrote a little C program that does the same thing. It makes a

Re: rtl_sdr (was: Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports)

Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 09:25:52 + (UTC) From: Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: rtl_sdr (was: Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports) Message-ID: slrnko1nt5.9sa@naiad.spacehopper.org On 2013-04-29, noah pugsley noah.pugs...@gmail.com wrote: So glad to

Re: open source laptop battery repair?

Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:32:28 +0200 From: Paolo Aglialoro paol...@gmail.com To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: open source laptop battery repair? Message-ID: cadd75v-sz3hzomjqtpmfjqjnj-qtgy2246jkpbofb-bmum+...@mail.gmail.com If the battery doesn't want(/show) to charge, sometimes a sleazy

Re: open source laptop battery repair?

technologies. hardware tools exist that can do the job with better results but they are not cheap. From: Alan Corey alan01...@gmail.com Sent: Sun Apr 28 07:16:46 CEST 2013 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: open source laptop battery repair? Just

Re: open source laptop battery repair?

On 4/28/13, Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: Hi Alan, Although the document contains interesting internal details about the hardware, I don't think these are very useful when dealing with broken batteries. Most of the communication is shielded by the APM/ACPI/other power

open source laptop battery repair?

Just wondering if anyone knows about tools for laptop battery repair that might run under OpenBSD. The smart batteries have a microprocessor that interfaces to the cells and talks to the cpu over an smbus. ACPI talks to that bus, but it can't help with broken batteries or replacing cells.

Re: faxing

that would matter. Corey

Re: mixing ports and non-ports programs

On 4/14/13, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:40:09PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: I'm not sure how to look this up, and it doesn't seem to be in the FAQ. There does not seem to be a question in your message... I'm just wordy, I'll get to it. I frequently add stuff

mixing ports and non-ports programs

I'm not sure how to look this up, and it doesn't seem to be in the FAQ. I frequently add stuff that isn't in ports by building from sources. Sometimes this real world stuff needs newer versions of other things than what's in ports. But the port is already installed and has things depending on

Re: i965 DRI crashes with 5.2

, Chris Cappuccio ch...@nmedia.net wrote: Alan Corey [alan01...@gmail.com] wrote: Not much to go on probably, but anyone else seeing this? OpenBSD 5.3-current (post 5.3 release) now supports the latest Intel XF86 driver with KMS. It's worth trying before you do look at much else. See

i965 DRI crashes with 5.2

I don't know that it didn't happen before 5.2. I bought a used Dell Latitude D530 to load 5.2 onto, and most things work except when I installed xscreensaver I find that about 1/3 of the individual screensaver programs crash. The main program just says no preview available but when I quit that

Re: automake 1.11.5: never mind

, 2013 at 01:04:51AM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: I'm defining setenv AUTOMAKE_VERSION 1.11.5 In my .cshrc, I don't know why exactly. The value should be 1.11 not 1.11.5. -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX

Broken dependency: automake 1.11.5 in sqlports

While installing sqlports from ports under openbsd 5.2 I got pass #2 +++ converters/ruby-json,rbx +++ databases/db/v4,bootstrap,no_java,no_tcl Broken dependency: devel/automake/1.11.5 non existent +++ databases/ruby-activerecord,ruby19 Died at /usr/ports/databases/sqlports/files/mksqlitedb line

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