Re: Battery monitoring does not work properly

2011-06-02 Thread Matthias Guedemann
Hi, not sure what to do, perhaps you can provide some more details, I had some problems with batteries on laptops, I'll try to help OpenBSD 4.9 (GENERIC.MP) #794: Wed Mar 2 07:19:02 MST 2011 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP did you use this kernel before

Re: Predictable disk device numbering

2011-02-04 Thread Matthias Guedemann
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:32:15 +0100, Christopher Zimmermann madro...@zakweb.de wrote: I have a similar problem since I an using softraid to encrypt /var and /home. The softraid device is usually on sd0. But when I have an usb mass storage device plugged in during boot up it gets assigned to sd0

[PATCH] acpibat power units for battery on EEE 901 and Samsung N220

2010-11-24 Thread Matthias Guedemann
fixes wrong power unit reporting when booting without battery and inserting the battery later on Asus EEE 901 and Samsung N220. Index: src/sys/dev/acpi/acpibat.c === RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/acpi/acpibat.c,v retrieving revision

wrong power units for battery on EEE 901

2010-11-23 Thread Matthias Guedemann
Hi, when booting my Asus EEE 901 netbook without battery, the power unit type is reported as Watthour, whereas if booted with battery inserted its Amphour. The same behavior appears on my Samsung netbook at work. Although not really serious, I just noticed because it broke my shutdown scripts

Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD

2010-03-20 Thread Matthias Guedemann
Is there an official guide somewhere for making a bootable OpenBSD USB drive? I have a 2GB USB drive my school gave me and I never use it. The easiest is to go here: http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net/ If you want to try a newer version than 4.6, you can follow the instructions there

Re: How to create an installation image of OpenBSD for a USB stick?

2010-03-03 Thread Matthias Guedemann
Hi, I have a pretty tricky challenge before me. My main (and only) machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s. The problem is that it doesn't have an optical drive. Second problem is that I live in a dorn, so I only have access to wireless connection, not wired. And I want to install OpenBSD to a