USB serial port adaptor

2011-12-10 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I need to buy a USB serial port adapter and there is no specific mention of these in the supported hardware list. Archive search indicates that they all suck, but the Prolific chipset sucks less. Anyone care to offer a recommendation? Thanks -- Mark

Re: USB serial port adaptor

2011-12-10 Thread Mark Zimmerman
ALIX board at home. cu -s 38400 -l /dev/cuaU0 Of course, you can't get output from my laptop, because of the USB nature... but it works great with the proper connectors... On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:07, Mark Zimmerman markz...@frii.com wrote: Greetings: I need to buy a USB serial

Re: 4.7 CDs arrived in Colorado

2010-04-28 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Mark Zimmerman markz...@frii.com wrote: Not much to say, except Thanks and WooHoo! I'll have mine as soon as priority mail gets it from there to here! On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:38

4.7 CDs arrived in Colorado

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Not much to say, except Thanks and WooHoo!

Re: Clearing the console each time a user logs out

2009-07-10 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 08:48:12PM +0200, Olivier Regnier wrote: I have already modified the file gettytab with these lines: P:Pc:Pc console:\ :np:sp#9600:\ :cl=\E[H\E[2J: This does not work ? An idea ? The FAQ entry for this has been wrong for a few releases now. Try this:

Ralink RT2860 PCI cards?

2009-02-01 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I am looking for a Ralink RT2860 PCI (not mini pci) card. Any recommendations? Nobody puts the chipset in their ads. -- Mark

Re: ipv6 neighbor discovery over a wpa wireless link

2009-01-30 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:17:02PM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:56:50PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-01-24, Mark Zimmerman markz...@frii.com wrote: Greetings: I am trying to get ipv6 neighbor discovery working over a wpa wireless link between two

Re: ipv6 neighbor discovery over a wpa wireless link

2009-01-27 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:56:50PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-01-24, Mark Zimmerman markz...@frii.com wrote: Greetings: I am trying to get ipv6 neighbor discovery working over a wpa wireless link between two ral interfaces. I get nothing, and no error messages from rtadvd

Re: ipv6 neighbor discovery over a wpa wireless link

2009-01-25 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:56:50PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-01-24, Mark Zimmerman markz...@frii.com wrote: Greetings: I am trying to get ipv6 neighbor discovery working over a wpa wireless link between two ral interfaces. I get nothing, and no error messages from rtadvd

ipv6 neighbor discovery over a wpa wireless link

2009-01-24 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I am trying to get ipv6 neighbor discovery working over a wpa wireless link between two ral interfaces. I get nothing, and no error messages from rtadvd on the router. The router is 4.4-current and the laptop is a 4.3 snapshot that I really need to update. Ipv4 works fine. Before I

Re: Oddly high load average

2008-11-07 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:51:51AM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: The load average on my machine is inexplicably high; when idle, it sits up between 0.6 and 0.7. Though I'm running a snapshot from last night, I've seen the same behaviour since I first installed a 4.4 snapshot from about three

Re: Panic in latest snapshot - vr, perhaps

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:51:10AM +0200, Reyk Floeter wrote: hi, On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 08:28:57AM -0600, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: Sorry for not using sendbug, but I wanted to get something out quickly while I have a moment. it is always better to use sendbug because

Panic in latest snapshot - vr, perhaps

2008-07-20 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: Sorry for not using sendbug, but I wanted to get something out quickly while I have a moment. Summary: I have a jetway board with two interfaces. vr0 (external) and ral0 (wireless access point). When I boot up a laptop that uses the wireless access point, the jetway board panics. This

alix 2c3 bios version

2008-06-08 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I just got a new alix 2c3 board and it came with bios version 0.99 (12/10/07). There is a new version, 0.99b (1/27/08) available. Has anyone experienced problems with 0.99 using OpenBSD? I prefer not to reflash bioses without a reason. Related question: If I need to reflash, I am

Re: alix 2c3 bios version - SUMMARY

2008-06-08 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Thanks for all the helpful responses. Here is a summary, for the archives. On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:04:25AM -0600, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: I just got a new alix 2c3 board and it came with bios version 0.99 (12/10/07). There is a new version, 0.99b (1/27/08) available. Has anyone

Re: alix 2c3 bios version

2008-06-08 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:29:01AM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Mark Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My fallback is to use a linux machine with minicom but I wondered if OpenBSD can do this. Is minicom's xmodem support tied to Linux? OpenBSD's ports

Re: Google in shell - looks interesting

2008-06-04 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:46:26AM -0700, Dag Richards wrote: Ted Unangst wrote: If it were actually usable from a shell, it'd be interesting. If I'm already running a graphical interbrowser, it's because I want graphical interwebs. Exactly. So, can you launch a graphical browser

Patch for FAQ 7.3

2008-05-15 Thread Mark Zimmerman
OK, enough whining about this. Here is a suggested patch for FAQ 7.3 if anyone wants it: Index: www/faq/faq7.html === RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq7.html,v retrieving revision 1.78 diff -u -r1.78 faq7.html --- www/faq/faq7.html 1 Mar

Console no longer clears after upgrade to 4.3

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: Following the procedure in FAQ 7.3. I had set up /etc/gettytab to clear the screen after logoff. After upgrading to 4.3, this no longer works. The Upgrade Guide mentions that /etc/ttys has changed; could this have had an impact on this? I would like to get this working again, so advice

Re: Console no longer clears after upgrade to 4.3

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Zimmerman
, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: Following the procedure in FAQ 7.3. I had set up /etc/gettytab to clear the screen after logoff. After upgrading to 4.3, this no longer works. The Upgrade Guide mentions that /etc/ttys has changed; could this have had an impact on this? I would like

Re: OpenBSD with pf on a mini-ITX?

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 07:52:15AM +0100, Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:57:41PM +0100, Jordi Prats wrote: Hi all, Have anyone tried to run OpenBSD with pf on a Jetway J7F2 (or similar) motherboard to act as a firewall and do NAT? Any inputs will be welcome!

Re: Samba(SMB) or Netatalk(AFP)?

2008-03-10 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:01:45AM +1100, Sunnz wrote: Basically I want to set up a network share on my OpenBSD box which my Mac laptops and Linux laptops can access to. (snip) So now I am looking at AFP via Netatalk, which seem to be Unix like enough but have password authentication like

Cannot install 4.3-beta firefox from snapshots/packages/amd64

2008-02-23 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I just installed the latest amd64 snapshot and wanted to test some packages. Firefox will not install due to a chain of dependencies stretching back to glitz which requires libGL.6. The snapshot I installed this morning has libGL.7. Since the snapshots/packages/amd64 directory is over

Re: Network Time Synchronization using timed or ntpd or a Combination?

2007-10-25 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:19:21AM -0500, Boris Goldberg wrote: Thank you very much for that (valuable) reply! BTW, this is an argument for making an OpenNTPD ntpdate tool or adding one_time_synchronization functionality into ntpd. :) From ntpd(8): -s Set the time

Re: machine which freeze with openbsd 4.2

2007-10-22 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:32:36PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: On 10/21/07, Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicolas Letellier wrote: Firas Kraiem a icrit : Salut ;) I have the very same problem on my laptop (running 4.2) and I've discovered that the freezings stop if

Re: filesystems?

2007-09-11 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:54:59PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Watch out for USB sticks!! Many now are coming with 'U3' - a piece of crap piece of s/w that will try to crash your machine whenever you insert it. oh, so that's what happened

Re: filesystems?

2007-09-11 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:36:50AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: At 08:52 AM 9/11/2007 -0600, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Here's a link to the removal page from U3: http://www.u3.com/uninstall/ ah, thanks for the link. Is it possible to remove it with fdisk/disklabel

Re: disklabel != /dev content

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:13:05PM +0200, hyjial wrote: Hi list ! I recently jumped into the OpenBSD's world from GNU/Linux's one. I am still not familiar with some of OpenBSD's practices and encounter some problems. Well, here is the point : I have just installed OpenBSD-4.1-release on a

Re: alternatives to sendmail

2007-06-04 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:02:08AM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: Hmmm, actually, I don't believe sendmail has a steep and tall learning curve. ;-) It's just that you don't grok it yet. You're almost there since you know you want to use a smarthost. For example copy

Kernel panic in 4.1-beta

2007-02-14 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I will not have time for a proper bug report until this evening when I get home, but I thought I would throw this out there for now. This issue is reproducible, and it occurred in the previous snapshot as well. Briefly, here is how it happens: I have net.inet.ip.forwarding=1, and two

Re: linux emulation without redhat_base

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:04:36PM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: Hi Now I tried to make yes work without the redhat base. I uninstalled redhat_base, partial-redhat_base and partial-partial-redhat_base (??). Then ldd yes on the Linux system shows these libraries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Zimmerman
: Or missing interrupts... On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:29:52PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: Mark Zimmerman wrote: You will notice the sucky DMA of the Jetway board in all of them. ... wd0a: aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 671456 of 671456-0 (wd0 bn 5571281; cn 5527

ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-28 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I almost didn't submit this because there were no outright failures, but then I noticed that with acpi enabled, the hw.setperf sysctl is missing. Without acpi, it is present and works properly. Anyhow, here are the four dmesgs in case they are illuminating. You will notice the sucky

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-28 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:52:08 -0700 Mark Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings: I almost didn't submit this because there were no outright failures, but then I noticed that with acpi enabled, the hw.setperf sysctl is missing. Without acpi, it is present and works properly

Re: authpf shell at startup

2007-01-23 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:48:36PM -0500, Daniel Barowy wrote: Daniel Barowy wrote: The Rogue Fugu wrote: You can make it run a shell script using this procedure: 1) Create a directory called MyApp.app 2) Create a directory within MyApp.app called Contents 3) Create a directory within

4.0 errata

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: I just upgraded to 4.0 (without incident) and copied in the new source trees from the CD. A cvs update to the 4.0 patch branch brought in a number of changes that look suspiciously like some of the latest 3.9 errata entries. And yet, the 4.0 errata page is empty. This seems odd. Was

Re: your mail which lacked a subject

2006-10-31 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:19:09PM -0500, John Kintzele wrote: Hello, OpenBSD 4.0 installed from official CD (i386). No problems. In trying to install various Gnome apps (e.g., gedit), I'm running into a missing lib problem, and while I've people who've had the same problem on Google, I

Re: your mail which lacked a subject

2006-10-31 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:15:02PM +0200, Paul Irofti wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:40, Mark Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:19:09PM -0500, John Kintzele wrote: Hello, OpenBSD 4.0 installed from official CD (i386). No problems. In trying to install various Gnome

Re: your mail which lacked a subject

2006-10-31 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:37:05PM -0500, Harry Menegay wrote: Paul Irofti wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:40, Mark Zimmerman wrote: deleted excess repetition On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:19:09PM -0500, John Kintzele wrote: He said official CD, so you might reconsider your answer

Re: Bug in egrep?

2006-09-07 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:44:40PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, AndrC)s wrote: egrep shouldn't find anything, you are searching for the string in some text here, clearly, it isn't there. Nah, an empty search pattern should match any line, as defined by SU and the man

Re: Problems with PCMCIA cards

2006-07-28 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:33:04PM -0700, Paul Maurer wrote: I am a new user having just installed OpenBSD for the first time. I am having trouble with my PCMCIA cards. I have 2 cards, both 3COM, and two PCMCIA slots (TI-PCI1130, see dmesg below). I am currently having two issues: system

Re: sensorsd

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:42:01PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: Hey folks, I am running a Dell Precision Workstation, is it possible to have sensors working with such hardware? Any special consideration? First, try 'sysctl hw.sensors'. If you get nothing (like on the Dell I am using right