Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-20 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:07 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote:
 hmm, on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 03:38:06PM +0400, Alexander Polakov said that
 Try setting OS Installation in BIOS Setup to Finished.

 has been like that all the time.

Yes, mine too. Still same problem.



Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-19 Thread Alexander Polakov
2009/9/18, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org:
 hmm, on Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:20:09PM -0400, Brad Tilley said that
 drives so I lay them out manually, but other than that, everything
 works OK (except the built-in wireless). I'm considering an Acer

 does the built in usb emulated sd card reader works?
 i can read anything from it, but writing anything big
 ( 100MB) freezes first the process doing the writing,
 then the io subsystem, and eventually the whole system.

Try setting OS Installation in BIOS Setup to Finished.



Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-19 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 03:38:06PM +0400, Alexander Polakov said that
 Try setting OS Installation in BIOS Setup to Finished.

has been like that all the time.

-f
-- 
nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.



Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-18 Thread Dawe
Brad Tilley wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:58 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote:
 
 does the built in usb emulated sd card reader works?
 i can read anything from it, but writing anything big
 ( 100MB) freezes first the process doing the writing,
 then the io subsystem, and eventually the whole system.
 
 I tested this evening on i386 -current as of 9-14-2009.
 
 # dd if=/dev/zero of=big.bin count=750 bs=1m
 750+0 records in
 750+0 records out
 786432000 bytes transferred in 46.633 secs (16864064 bytes/sec)
 
 I then tried to copy the 750 MB file to a 2 GB SD card that had a
 msdos (fat) file system. The eeePC froze-up rather hard, but was still
 sort-of usable. I would be glad to debug more should an OS developer
 show me how/what to do. Here is some output I could copy before the
 system went totally unresponsive... about 5 mins passed before the ath
 msgs appeared on console:
 
 # cp big.bin /mnt
 ath0 detached
 ath0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 Atheros AR5424 rev 0x01: apic 1 int 18 (irq 
 10)
 ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 0.0, WOR0W, address 00:15:af:xx:xx:xx
 
 Rebooted (pressed and held power button) and tried the same thing with
 an older 32 MB SD card (also formatted msdos), dd'ed a 28 MB file and
 attempted to copy it. Same thing happened.
 
 So just for fun, I formatted newfs on both SD cards and tried the
 copies again. Both worked fine with ffs file systems. This is not the
 most accurate test, but it seems that it may to be msdos file system
 related. Were your SD cards formatted fat? Have you had the issue on a
 ffs formatted card?
 
 Brad
 

It doesn't seem like just an msdos issue to me.
I can reproduce the described behavior (without the ath detachment) on
my eee pc 900 with an msdos and an ffs sd card.
When it freezes while writing, there is a file created with a size of 0
bytes.
Sometimes the write succeeds. But an ls on the mount point freezes with
a D+ state.
Building a kernel with MSDOSFS_DEBUG showed nothing so far.

Dawe



Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-18 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Dawe dawed...@gmx.de wrote:

 It doesn't seem like just an msdos issue to me.

I made my 701 model lock-up while using a ffs formatted SD card, but
not by coping files ( I tried that a few dozen times w/o issue). I
directed the output of dd to a file on the SD card and that did the
trick.

Brad



OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-17 Thread Brad Tilley
Hey Misc,

I'm running -current on a first gen Asus eeePC (701 series). It has
the small 4GB drive, so I use an additional 4GB USB flash drive
mounted as /usr in order to have room to do stuff. Works OK, just
wondering if anyone else runs OpenBSD like this on these laptops. The
new disk setup sizing algorithm doesn't work well on these small
drives so I lay them out manually, but other than that, everything
works OK (except the built-in wireless). I'm considering an Acer
Aspire One as an upgrade to the old eeePC, can anyone recommend those?

Brad



Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-17 Thread Robert

Hi,

I'm using a MSI Wind U100, and so far I'm happy with it.
Everything works (wireless, bluetooth etc.), except for the built-in 
webcam (or maybe that's just me... any hints are welcome).


The Aspire One has an Atheros wireless cards; afaik there were problems 
with this driver - I don't know if it works reliable yet.


Apart from the hardware compatibility I would also look at the keyboard 
size - some (a lot?) of the netbooks have very small keys and it's 
really  a hassle to type on them.


Robert


(ignore the Belkin devices; they're from my KVM)

OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERIC.MP) #108: Sat Feb 28 14:58:58 MST 2009
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 
1.61 GHz
cpu0: 
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,xTPR

real mem  = 2136244224 (2037MB)
avail mem = 2057338880 (1962MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 04/14/08, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 
0x7f607010 (45 entries)

bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version 4.6.3 date 05/21/2009
bios0: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD U90/U100
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC MCFG SLIC SSDT SSDT SSDT
acpi0: wakeup devices P0P2(S4) PEGP(S4) USB0(S1) USB1(S1) USB2(S1) 
USB3(S1) EHCI(S1) MC97(S4) P0P1(S4) P0P4(S4) P0P5(S4) P0P6(S4) P0P7(S4) 
P0P8(S4) P0P9(S4)

acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: apic clock running at 133MHz
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 
1.61 GHz
cpu1: 
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,xTPR

ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec0, version 20, 24 pins
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (P0P2)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 1 (P0P4)
acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 2 (P0P5)
acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (P0P6)
acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (P0P7)
acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (P0P8)
acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus -1 (P0P9)
acpiec0 at acpi0
acpicpu0 at acpi0
acpicpu1 at acpi0
acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 100 degC
acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online
acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT1 model 
 serial
 type LION
 oem 

acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID0
acpibtn1 at acpi0: PWRB
acpibtn2 at acpi0: SLPB
acpivideo at acpi0 not configured
bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xea00! 0xcf000/0x1000
cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU, msr 0x060f0c1e06000c1e
cpu0: using only highest and lowest power states
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1600 MHz (1180 mV): speeds: 1600, 800 MHz
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel 82945GME Host rev 0x03
vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 Intel 82945GME Video rev 0x03
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
intagp0 at vga1
agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xc000, size 0x1000
inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 2 int 16 (irq 11)
drm0 at inteldrm0
Intel 82945GM Video rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured
azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 Intel 82801GB HD Audio rev 0x02: 
apic 2 int 16 (irq 11)

azalia0: codecs: Realtek ALC888
audio0 at azalia0
ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 Intel 82801GB PCIE rev 0x02: apic 2 int 
16 (irq 11)

pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
re0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 Realtek 8101E rev 0x02: RTL8102E 
(0x3480), apic 2 int 16 (irq 11), address 00:21:85:e1:26:6e

rlphy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 Intel 82801GB PCIE rev 0x02: apic 2 int 
17 (irq 10)

pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
ral0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 Ralink RT2790 rev 0x00: apic 2 int 17 
(irq 10), address 00:21:85:bc:7d:56

ral0: MAC/BBP RT2872 (rev 0x0200), RF RT2720 (MIMO 1T2R)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x02: apic 2 int 
23 (irq 5)
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x02: apic 2 int 
19 (irq 3)
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x02: apic 2 int 
18 (irq 7)
uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x02: apic 2 int 
16 (irq 11)
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x02: apic 2 int 
23 (irq 5)

usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 Intel EHCI root hub rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
ppb2 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI rev 0xe2
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 Intel 82801GBM LPC rev 0x02: PM 
disabled
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 Intel 82801GBM SATA rev 0x02: DMA, 
channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility

wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: WDC WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152627MB, 312581808 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 Intel 82801GB SMBus rev 0x02: apic 2 
int 19 (irq 3)

iic0 at ichiic0
spdmem0 

Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-17 Thread graeme
Yup I like them.

- WiFi is same as eeePC (Atheros 5424) so I swpped it out with an Intel wpi
- JMicron mukti card reader not supported
- Intel drm :)
- bsd.mp (Intel Atom supports hyper threading)
- built-in camera appears to work but I've never used it.

OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERIC.MP) #108: Sat Feb 28 14:58:58 MST 2009
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80clock_battery
cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 1.60
GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,xTPR
real mem  = 1060163584 (1011MB)
avail mem = 1016795136 (969MB)
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80clock_battery
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 05/09/08, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe8e70
(32 entries)
bios0: vendor Acer version v0.3114 date 05/09/2008
bios0: Acer AOA150
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT HPET APIC MCFG ASF! SLIC BOOT
acpi0: wakeup devices P32_(S4) UHC1(S3) UHC2(S3) UHC3(S3) UHC4(S3) ECHI(S3)
EXP1(S4) EXP2(S4) EXP3(S4) EXP4(S4) AZAL(S0) MODM(S0)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: apic clock running at 133MHz
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 1.60
GHz
cpu1:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,xTPR
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 4 pa 0xfec0, version 20, 24 pins
ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 4
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 5 (P32_)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 1 (EXP1)
acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 2 (EXP2)
acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 3 (EXP3)
acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 4 (EXP4)
acpiec0 at acpi0
acpicpu0 at acpi0
acpicpu1 at acpi0
acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB
acpibtn1 at acpi0: LID0
acpibtn2 at acpi0: SLPB
acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT1 not present
acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online
acpivideo at acpi0 not configured
bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xec00! 0xcf000/0x1000
cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU, msr 0x060f0c2406000c24
cpu0: using only highest and lowest power states
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1600 MHz (1276 mV): speeds: 1600, 800 MHz
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel 82945GME Host rev 0x03
vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 Intel 82945GME Video rev 0x03
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
intagp0 at vga1
agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0x4000, size 0x1000
inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 4 int 16 (irq 11)
drm0 at inteldrm0
Intel 82945GM Video rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured
azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 Intel 82801GB HD Audio rev 0x02: apic 4
int 16 (irq 11)
azalia0: codecs: Realtek ALC268
audio0 at azalia0
ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 Intel 82801GB PCIE rev 0x02: apic 4 int 16
(irq 255)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 Intel 82801GB PCIE rev 0x02: apic 4 int 17
(irq 255)
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
re0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 Realtek 8101E rev 0x02: RTL8102EL (0x2480),
apic 4 int 17 (irq 11), address 00:1e:68:d5:61:e0
rlphy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 Intel 82801GB PCIE rev 0x02: apic 4 int 18
(irq 255)
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
wpi0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG rev 0x02: apic 4
int 18 (irq 11), RoW, address 00:18:de:15:1a:36
ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 3 Intel 82801GB PCIE rev 0x02: apic 4 int 19
(irq 255)
pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x02: apic 4 int 16
(irq 11)
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x02: apic 4 int 17
(irq 11)
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x02: apic 4 int 18
(irq 11)
uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x02: apic 4 int 19
(irq 11)
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x02: apic 4 int 16
(irq 11)
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 Intel EHCI root hub rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
ppb4 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI rev 0xe2
pci5 at ppb4 bus 5
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 Intel 82801GBM LPC rev 0x02: PM
disabled
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 Intel 82801GBM SATA rev 0x02: DMA,
channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: ST9120817AS
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 114473MB, 234441648 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 Intel 82801GB SMBus rev 0x02: apic 4 int
17 (irq 11)
iic0 at ichiic0
spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x51: 512MB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-5300CL5 SO-DIMM
usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 Intel UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2 Intel UHCI root 

Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-17 Thread Nick Holland
graeme wrote:
 Yup I like them.
 
 - WiFi is same as eeePC (Atheros 5424) so I swpped it out with an Intel wpi
 - JMicron mukti card reader not supported

actually, I think we (for a they sort of we) figured out the issue
was ACPI related, the power to the thing is turned off by the BIOS if
there is no card in the reader.  If you have a card in the reader at
boot, it stays on.  So..for SOME definitions of usable, it is usable. :)
(I can't recall if having one flash card in activates both or not, or if
having one in place at boot allows the removal and reinsertion, I *believe*
I have tested both, but I won't swear to it).

In my case, I stuck an 8G SD flash card in the thing, and use it to back
up my work using rsync's --link-dest option to the flash device, and work
off the hard disk.  Every time I boot the thing, it does a backup to flash
to save the current version of what I'm about to mess up. :)

 - Intel drm :)
 - bsd.mp (Intel Atom supports hyper threading)
 - built-in camera appears to work but I've never used it.

it works.  ok, it works.  now what do I do with a camera on my laptop?
I know, I'll ignore it!


Anyway, I've got one of the first generation Acer Aspire One machines,
bought it the day the six-cell battery version became available at my
local store, had it for almost a year now.  I love it.  Yes, I paid far
more than most people are paying for them no (I deserved it,
http://nickh.org/warstories/priest.html), no regrets.  Heck, I once paid
$400 for a 1200bps modem.  It happens in this business, don't whine.

I was very excited about the eeePC, but when I put my hands on it, the
keyboard was just too small for me.  The first generation AAO was
usable for me...and yes, most of what I do with it is typing (most of the
FAQ updates for about the last year, and a lot you haven't seen yet have
been worked on on my AAO.  I credit the thing with improving my
productivity significantly!).  The lack of wireless hasn't hurt me much
at all, I usually use it when I semi-want to be disconnected.
The bigger keyboard on the current generation AAO is interesting, but not
enough to upgrade at this point.

My favorite feature is the battery -- runs OpenBSD for something like five
hours on a full charge, so I don't normally carry the power pack with me.
Also..the power socket on the AAO and its voltage requirements and polarity
are compatible (more or less) with a lot of other older systems, so I've
got something like five or six power packs for it (including an auto adapter)
for a total investment of around $50.  I have a couple power packs at home,
one at my girlfriend's house, one at work.  So, all I carry with me is the
computer and a USB wireless interface that I almost never use in a very small
case.

My girlfriend named it Suzy (Because it is small and cute!), which has
become a running joke with a lot of people (including my GF, who accuses me
of taking suzy more places than I take her).  I'm waiting for ACPI suspend
and resume to work, so I can (you know what is coming, right?) Wake Up
Little Suzy (*rimshot*)  (for those not familiar with 1950s US pop music
may not get it, and you aren't missing that much, joke wasn't that good)

The screen is really small, but holds two 80x25 xterms side-by-side.
cwm works nicely with the small screen.  Performance is sufficient for MOST
of what I do with it, but Mozilla products beat the snot out of it (like
they do everything else I've tried).  The newer AAOs are a little bigger,
looks like they put the extra size on the keyboard, that wouldn't hurt,
but I do find I can type pretty well on the little thing (my hands are not
at all small, my cycling gloves are at least XL (I think 2XL).  I find the
trackpad usable, not great, but beats the heck out of the trackpad on a
much larger Dell D620, I do not use an external mouse on it.

The default CTRL-G beep on the thing is Just Wrong...big beefy BP coming
out of a tiny little computer (which I often use in places where beeps are
not overly welcome), so I xset the thing down to a very tiny peep. :)

I got the one with the 160G HD and the big battery, I'd recommend both,
though the idea of a flash-only system with the big battery could also
interest me.

It runs OpenBSD very well.  In fact, the wireless and wired networking
barely work in Windows, until I found the trick of turning off the power
management on the network devices.  In OpenBSD, wired Just Worked.

I wish it had a serial port (tough, I suspect nothing in the netbook
format ever will), I wish it had the screen res of the HP2133 (1280x768),
wish the northbridge chip didn't need a fan (apparently, that's the only
fan in the thing...the CPU doesn't need one. *sigh*).

The thing has, on maybe three occasions, given me an ERR M on boot,
which is really nuts, powering it down and back up always fixes it.

In no way take this as the Acer Aspire One is the greatest thing out
there.  I think it was the best I could get my hands on easily when
I bought it (I'm 

Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-17 Thread Robert
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:08:32 -0400
Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:

 Anyway, I've got one of the first generation Acer Aspire One machines,
 bought it the day the six-cell battery version became available at my
 local store, had it for almost a year now.  I love it.  Yes, I paid
 far more than most people are paying for them no (I deserved it,
 http://nickh.org/warstories/priest.html), no regrets.  Heck, I once
 paid $400 for a 1200bps modem.  It happens in this business, don't
 whine.

Don't feel bad for that.
I once payed over 2k (*cry*) for something that ppl might call a netbook
today, a Sony Vaio PCG-U101...
It runs OpenBSD and does its delegated job just fine.
Atleast the screen is 4:3, but so is the keyboard...

- Robert



Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-17 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:20:09PM -0400, Brad Tilley said that
 drives so I lay them out manually, but other than that, everything
 works OK (except the built-in wireless). I'm considering an Acer

does the built in usb emulated sd card reader works?
i can read anything from it, but writing anything big
( 100MB) freezes first the process doing the writing,
then the io subsystem, and eventually the whole system.

i have asked on this list before if the eeepc 701 users
see this, noone answered.  so perhaps it's just my
darling, it is not that impossible with these cheap
components.

there is no bug report, because apart from the freeze,
i can't report anything, can't get a ddb, and i have
no idea how i could go about reporting.  i made a most
usb verbose kernel but there were no messages about
anything related..

a real pitty actually, in usb key vs sd card clearly
an sd card would be a winner.  but no point in buying
8/16G cards if i can use them only read only.

well, i am waiting for an arm baby anyway..

-f
-- 
some cures are worse than the disease.



Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-17 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:58 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote:
 does the built in usb emulated sd card reader works?
 i can read anything from it, but writing anything big
 ( 100MB) freezes first the process doing the writing,
 then the io subsystem, and eventually the whole system.

I've have not noticed any issues, let me dig out my 2G SD card and try
writing some large files to it. I'll let you know how it turns out.