Re: wifi firmware for lenovo thinkpad E420

2013-12-02 Thread Craig McCormick
Siju George sgeorge.ml2 at gmail.com writes: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Henning Brauer lists-openbsd at bsws.de wrote: I have one of these somewhere - basically, all that is needed is a pci attachment for the existing urtwn. shouldn't be too hard, but as usual - somebody has to

Re: Easy for a newbie to manage an OpenBSD server?

2006-08-01 Thread Craig McCormick
Thee: In your experience, would it be possible for someone with no *NIX Thee: experience to maintain a simple FTP server? In my opinion, OpenBSD is the most logical and straight forward UNIX-like operating system around. There isn't much in the way of how-to's and tutorials, but it is straight

machdep.userldt implications.

2006-02-20 Thread Craig McCormick
Hi all. I've been googling around for the answer to this, but can't find anything concrete to answer it one way or another, or at least not that I understood. ;) I am presuming that it wouldn't be a good idea to set machdep.userldt to 1, by default and that I should enable it and disable it, as

machdep.userldt implications

2006-02-20 Thread Craig McCormick
Hi all. I've been googling around for the answer to this, but can't find anything concrete to answer it one way or another, or at least not that I understood. ;) I am presuming that it wouldn't be a good idea to set machdep.userldt to 1, by default and that I should enable it and disable

Re: machdep.userldt implications.

2006-02-20 Thread Craig McCormick
Jeff Quast wrote: The lock-ups may have been related to the caveat in the manual page for emu(4), which I have since removed from the system for this very reason. Well, I didn't realise that one. I've always sworn by Creative cards up until now and I have a fair few SBLive cards here :( Looks

Re: machdep.userldt implications.

2006-02-20 Thread Craig McCormick
Ted Unangst wrote: On 2/20/06, Craig McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am presuming that it wouldn't be a good idea to set machdep.userldt to 1, by default and that I should enable it and disable it, as and when I need to make use of it. So far, I only need it for the win32-codecs package

Re: OpenBSD for a desktop environment ?

2006-02-15 Thread Craig McCormick
Bruno. I'd been experiencing terrible problems with FreeBSD and Gnome and so I chose to install OpenBSD 3.8 and fluxbox So far, so good and it's all operating very smoothly and reliably. So far, the only application that I haven't brought on board is Evolution which I really need, but I am

Re: OpenBSD security could be tightened up easily

2006-02-08 Thread Craig McCormick
Being a genuine novice wrt OpenBSD, I am not overly qualified to pass judgement here. However, I read pretty much everything that is posted to misc@ and have read every one of Dave's troll-like rants, for the last couple of months. Sorry Dave, but from here you appear to be either a troll, an M$

Re: openbsd's future plans?

2006-02-08 Thread Craig McCormick
Now I don't feel at all bad about not being able to run bsd.mp on my clunky old dual-266 Dell PowerEdge 4200. Pah! Programmers nowadays, no idea of commitment! ;) On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 22:36 -0600, Benjamin Collins wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:51:31PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: digressed

Re: OpenBSD hardware router

2006-02-02 Thread Craig McCormick
Have you checked out the Soekris boxes at kd85.com? Regards, Craig On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 14:41 -0600, Kenny Mann wrote: I'm looking for something that which I can slap OpenBSD 3.8 on and use it as a router. This will be used for a house (~ 4 people) and I'm looking for something small in

Buy OpenBSD CD set in UK. Which benefits OpenBSD most?

2006-01-05 Thread Craig McCormick
Hi. Not sure if this is the right place for this post and I can't find anything to answer the question on the site. I think it time I bought a CD set and was wondering which method benefits the project most, financially? I'm in the UK, by the way. kd85.com would entail paying for Belgium - UK

Re: Buy OpenBSD CD set in UK. Which benefits OpenBSD most?

2006-01-05 Thread Craig McCormick
, from the OpenBSD project's point of view. Thanks. Craig On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 21:03 +, Craig McCormick wrote: Hi. Not sure if this is the right place for this post and I can't find anything to answer the question on the site. I think it time I bought a CD set and was wondering which

Re: learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-03 Thread Craig McCormick
I asked a similar question on here recently and had some good books recommended to me. This relates to C programming. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=113596339716980w=2 As a starting point, until my books arrive, I have been working from this online primer, which is getting me

Re: Dell PowerEdge 4200/266 resets under bsd.mp

2006-01-02 Thread Craig McCormick
re: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=113578617328369w=2 Sorry to be a pain, I'm trying my best to flounder through this one on my own initiative. In SMP land, if the SMP kernel were to crash at this point in my dmesg, when trying to boot bsd.mp: - Point of crash (this is from

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-01 Thread Craig McCormick
On a related subject and please forgive any ignorance on my part, how would the interrupt load compare, between a multi-port NIC and the same number of ports via individual single port NICs? For example, a firewall with one WAN port and three LAN ports. One LAN (and of course the WAN port) port

Re: Books and resources for a C beginner.

2005-12-30 Thread Craig McCormick
and prosperous new year to all, Craig McCormick bsd squiggle slashboot d()t org mccraigy squiggle googlemail d()t com http://slashboot.org/

Re: Dell PowerEdge 4200/266 resets under bsd.mp

2005-12-29 Thread Craig McCormick
, Craig McCormick mccraigy squiggle googlemail d()t com http://slashboot.org/ http://live.lamppost.info/ # Does anybody have any experience with these machines (Dual Pentium2 Dell PowerEdge), running i386 bsd.mp? http

Books and resources for a C beginner.

2005-12-29 Thread Craig McCormick
offered and apologies if this isn't the place for this post. -- Best regards, Craig McCormick bsd squiggle slashboot d()t org mccraigy squiggle googlemail d()t com http://slashboot.org/

Re: Books and resources for a C beginner.

2005-12-29 Thread Craig McCormick
Well, well, well. How helpful are the OpenBSD community? Very, in my mind. Thanks to the advice from here, I've now decided that I'll start the ball rolling with: Programming in C Kochan ISBN: 0672326663 to get me started. I'm a bit blown away by all the hugely positive reviews of this book, at