HG2F09 "mystery" USB-to-ethernet adapter fix

2013-03-03 Thread Chuck Guzis
y searching the web for "HG2f09". Perhaps there should be some sort of USB VID/PID "aliasing" capability to avoid having to rebuild the kernel for this sort of thing. Submitted for whatever it's worth... Cheers, Chuck Guzis Sydex, Inc.

Re: goodbye to some isa devices

2013-03-27 Thread Chuck Guzis
t; slogan rings a little hollow these days. Perhaps expecting software to run on both new and old gear isn't practical. If that's the case, I'll continue to hang onto my old copies of distros, the same way that I hang onto copies of MS-DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows 98. All the best, Chuck Guzis Eugene, OR

Re: goodbye to some isa devices

2013-03-27 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 03/27/2013 01:01 PM, Creamy wrote: Or, more realistically, perhaps you could just choose to maintain the -patch branch of a particular version that was of interest to you. For example, if we stopped supporting 486 in 6.0, by way of example, what is to stop you taking 6.0 and maintaining a -p

Re: goodbye to some isa devices

2013-03-27 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 03/27/2013 03:06 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: OpenBSD/i386 isn't likely to change major platform support any time soon, if ever. The port for dropping legacy crap would be OpenBSD/amd64. Now, look at its kernel config. You'll see, that was already done. ta-da! I bought an old, high-end 80386 s