Re: Exist operating systems that ship without blobs?

2016-02-23 Thread David Young
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 09:25:52PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:33:40PM -0600, David Young wrote: > > > > BTW, I think a reasonable precaution to take with a lot of devices, > > their firmware and drivers, open- or closed-source (but especially > > closed

Re: non-ASCII support?

2016-02-23 Thread Petar Bogdanovic
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 07:46:56AM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > Folks - I use a combination of bash, screen, irssi (all on NetBSD) at > the remote end and putty (on Windows) or Terminal (on Ubuntu) at the > local end and haven't been able to get utf-8 working end-to-end ... > > Are

Re: non-ASCII support?

2016-02-23 Thread matthew sporleder
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > Folks - I use a combination of bash, screen, irssi (all on NetBSD) at > the remote end and putty (on Windows) or Terminal (on Ubuntu) at the > local end and haven't been able to get utf-8 working end-to-end ... > > Are there

Aw: Re: ext2fs mount issue maybe just a temporary problem

2016-02-23 Thread Carsten Kunze
Swift Griggs wrote: > Just out of curiosity, since I also use ext2fs somewhat often, did you > create the file system with NetBSD or with Linux? I've noticed a lot more > problems when I create the file system under Linux. I always created them on Linux since I did

Re: Changing one's subscribed-from email address

2016-02-23 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 21 February 2016 at 14:32, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, at 07:18, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: >> You can "talk" to majord...@netbsd.org, i.e. send commands to majordomo >> within the body of messages addressed to majord...@netbsd.org. >> >> Examples: > : >> >>

Re: UMTS/LTE support

2016-02-23 Thread Pierre Pronchery
On 02/23/16 19:21, Frank Wille wrote: > Pierre Pronchery wrote: > >> Try to obtain more information about the card you can get: >> - is it exposing a USB device? (my PCI express cards do) >> - in turn, is it exposing a serial port? > > Ok. Doing that is a lot of work, though. Just googling and

Unexpected error while trying to mount ext2fs

2016-02-23 Thread Carsten Kunze
Hello, I have a USB flash drive with ext2fs as second and third MBR slice (no slice 1 and 4 exists). Slice 2 and 3 are mapped to partition sd0e and sd0f. When I try to mount partition sd0e I get an unexpected error: # disklabel sd0 # /dev/rsd0d: type: SCSI disk: DataTraveler 2.0

Re: UMTS/LTE support

2016-02-23 Thread Pierre Pronchery
On 02/21/16 14:27, Frank Wille wrote: > I don't find much information about WWAN (UMTS, LTE) data card support in > NetBSD. Do I have to be careful which one to select? Try to obtain more information about the card you can get: - is it exposing a USB device? (my PCI express cards do) - in turn,

Re: Changing one's subscribed-from email address

2016-02-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Thomas Mueller" wrote Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:12:40 + > I am subscribed to several @netbsd.org emailing lists, and would like to > change my email address for all. > > Do I have to unsubscribe from the old and subscribe to the new, one by one > for every individual list, or is there a way