Re: Beating a dead horse

2015-11-26 Thread Michael van Elst
lue 63). -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Beating a dead horse

2015-11-26 Thread Michael van Elst
f right for non 512 byte sector disks, but still >does lots wrong. It is still a mess in this area. Works for me... -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

RE: How to allow root telnet to a NetBSD 6.1.5 box

2015-11-09 Thread Davis, Michael T.
Mike Pumford (mpumf...@mudcovered.org.uk) writes... >Wow is he living in the past. Windows doesn't have a telnet client >either in recent versions and quite frankly I'd rather download PuTTY >anyway. ;) > > >Mike Actually, a telnet client is available in newer versions of Windows as a feature

Re: Console Resolution

2015-11-02 Thread Michael van Elst
On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 09:26:19PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Michael van Elst wrote: > > >The other path was already mentioned, you can configure the bootloader in > >/boot.cfg to disable the framebuffer console. > > Thanks. May I infer that this

Re: Console Resolution

2015-11-01 Thread Michael van Elst
phical console will have the resolution of your display and use the only existing console font in the kernel. Building a custom kernel with additional larger console fonts helps. Starting the kernel without DRM helps, but you probably lose X11. Greetings, -- Micha

Re: Console Resolution

2015-11-01 Thread Michael van Elst
poo...@ruptured-duck.com (Bob Bernstein) writes: >On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Michael van Elst wrote: >> In NetBSD 7.0 you get a graphical console (thanks to the new >> DRM support) The graphical console will have the resolution of >> your display and use the only

Re: Fwd: Problems installing NetBSD 7.0

2015-10-11 Thread Michael van Elst
d failure? -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Fwd: Problems installing NetBSD 7.0

2015-10-10 Thread Michael van Elst
device is found but cannot be accessed, that might even not be the system disk. If that's server hardware (and Haswell-EP tells this) then it probably has some RAID controller that we don't even recognize. -- -- Michael van Elst I

Re: old partition table, old filesystems and old scsi

2015-09-18 Thread Michael van Elst
m.pahlevanza...@gmail.com (Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh) writes: >I have attached the following file: >dd if=/dev/sdc of=./sector_zero.dump bs=1024 count=1 That looks like something from Motorola System V/68. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serp

Re: old partition table, old filesystems and old scsi

2015-09-17 Thread Michael van Elst
or a start, try to make a hexdump of the first blocks and try to find something intelligble. It is also possible that the 'file' command will recognize something. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Sna

Re: termcap issue

2015-08-24 Thread Michael van Elst
g...@ir.bbn.com (Greg Troxel) writes: The fact that this tset change is provoking complaints is a testament to how well the propagation of local settings is working. Only DEL was propagated in 4.4BSD. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de

Re: termcap issue

2015-08-24 Thread Michael van Elst
terminal uses as the backarrow key is near hopeless. Here is something from the Linux world, showing the conflict between the Debian keyboard guidelines (DEL) and the official ncurses way (BS). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142659 -- -- Michael van Elst

Re: termcap issue

2015-08-23 Thread Michael van Elst
k...@azeotrope.org (Dave Huang) writes: On Aug 22, 2015, at 18:02, Michael van Elst mlel...@serpens.de wrote: It depends on what keyboard you use, pckbd sends ^?, ukbd sends ^h. Doesn't that inconsistency cause problems then? E.g., if the terminfo entry for wsvt25 says that erase is ^H

Re: termcap issue

2015-08-23 Thread Michael van Elst
, -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: Partitioning help: what would you do?

2015-08-22 Thread Michael van Elst
partition). The NTFS code in NetBSD doesn't really support writes. It would be pretty risky to use a pagefile on an NTFS filesystem, if it works at all. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk

Re: disklabel fun

2015-08-07 Thread Michael van Elst
:oa#0:ta=4.2BSD:ba#0:fa#0:\ :pd#104857600:od#0: Where is 2097152 coming from?! Probably from the disklabel. What does it tell about the 'total sectors' ? Is there even a disklabel written to the disk? -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de

Re: LVM question

2015-07-27 Thread Michael van Elst
can be very useful. Would be even better if we had a filesystem that could be resized online. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: Correct/safe way to set ugen*/USB device permissions

2015-07-21 Thread Michael van Elst
so far the only method. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: IrDA

2015-07-20 Thread Michael van Elst
which also has tools for the obex protocol which can be used to transfer calendar and phonebook information. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread Michael van Elst
and the kernel should just learn how to handle raid partitions (and LVM partitions and ...). But for now that's how it works. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread Michael van Elst
. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: Raid1/LVM layout via installer

2015-07-07 Thread Michael van Elst
, at least as large as your RAM. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: newfs_udf(8) and other OSes

2015-06-28 Thread Michael van Elst
,nodev,nosuid 1 2 Greetings, -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: newfs_udf(8) and other OSes

2015-06-27 Thread Michael van Elst
?). Invalid argument usually comes from duplicate wedge names or from overlapping wedges. With autodiscovery, the wedge might already be there. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every

Re: USB-keyboard with a non-standard layout in wscons

2015-06-21 Thread Michael van Elst
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Re: gptmbr.bin vs RAIDframe

2015-06-18 Thread Michael van Elst
simpler to just use a GPT on the raid device. No magic needed. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: More prepping to install

2015-05-19 Thread Michael van Elst
. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: More prepping to install

2015-05-19 Thread Michael van Elst
w...@hiwaay.net (William A. Mahaffey III) writes: On 05/19/15 01:28, Michael van Elst wrote: The safer approach is to have a small RAID0 on the first two disks for booting. This is usually the root partition. s/RAID0/RAID1/ ? that is in fact what I will be doing :-) Right

Re: Prepping to install

2015-05-16 Thread Michael Parson
in swap don't get re-used over reboots, you don't lose any data should a disk fail between reboots. Not 100% sure what would happen if the disk fails while there is active swap going on though. snip -- Michael Parson Austin, TX KF5LGQ

Re: RAID and GPT

2015-05-02 Thread Michael van Elst
k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes: Date:Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:26:27 + (UTC) From:mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) Message-ID: mhs0c2$6i1$1...@serpens.de | RAID autoconf will tell the kernel to use partition 'a' of | the RAID device as root

Re: RAID and GPT

2015-04-29 Thread Michael van Elst
x 4T disks, and wants to run NetBSD in something functionally similar to the above, what should I do? Here are some of my experiences with using large disks: http://wiki.netbsd.org/users/mlelstv/using-large-disks/ -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel

Re: Problem with cgdconfig

2015-04-11 Thread Michael van Elst
. The outer filesystem can then also store the parameter file. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: NetBSD and 4k sectors

2015-03-27 Thread Michael van Elst
a long time ago. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: SCP file transfer speed

2015-03-20 Thread Michael van Elst
on sequential write). I can copy to other Linux and Solaris boxes in this network with about 10 - 11 MB/s from the NetBSD boxes - just receiving is slow. Are you sure that this always uses the same cipher? -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de

Re: Android adb toolkit on NetBSD, any takers?

2015-03-01 Thread Michael van Elst
mayur...@acm.org (Mayuresh) writes: I get the following error with this adb version: error: device offline Do you know any workarounds? It probably depends on how exactly the various USB libraries work. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de

Re: NetBSD for the dekstop

2015-02-18 Thread Michael van Elst
is Intel Graphics in a notebook, there is a good chance that it works. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: Apple iMac G4/700 - Black text at boot

2015-02-12 Thread Michael
Hello, On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:20:00 -0500 m...@jeremiahford.com wrote: On 2015-02-11 21:16, Michael wrote: Hello, On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:23:41 -0500 m...@jeremiahford.com wrote: I just installed netbsd 6.1.6 macppc on an iMac G4/700. After first boot from hardrive

Re: Apple iMac G4/700 - Black text at boot

2015-02-11 Thread Michael
logging in fine. Just can't see text. Has anyone run into this issue before? What kind of graphics hardware is that? I assume some sort of nvidia? have fun Michael

Re: Disks w/non-512-byte sectors?

2015-01-18 Thread Michael van Elst
not allocated! That's some bug in the adv driver or possibly the SCSI layer. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: ntpd not correcting system time, offset keeps increasing

2015-01-14 Thread Michael van Elst
a single time server and this is below the configured number of sane time servers. That's why ntp ignores it. If you only have one time server you need something like: tosminsane 1 -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de

Re: compact flash in pcmcia slot

2014-12-29 Thread Michael van Elst
IO address but which either conflicts (never seen this) or isn't supported by the hardware. How would you guess values? -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de A potential Snark may lurk in every tree.

Re: NPF on domU - more clarity required

2014-12-28 Thread Michael van Elst
jnem...@cue.bc.ca (John Nemeth) writes: I understood what you meant, I was just thinking about the complexity of dealing with everything. BTW, pvgrub doesn't use PV ops. It sits in dom0 and uses regular filesystem ops to extract stuff from the domU's disk. That sounds like a mixup.

Re: NPF on domU - more clarity required

2014-12-26 Thread Michael van Elst
lists+netbsd.us...@netmail.ie (Gerard Lally) writes: compiling the kernel as a normal user instead of root? I've just noticed the owner and group on /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/custom-20141226/ are gerard:wsrc. Should that be root:wsrc instead? It doesn't matter who is the owner of the build

NetBSD Network Tuning

2014-10-22 Thread Michael D Spence
this (since this one is, IIRC, from the last century)? Are there more appropriate NICs to use for this? Thanks, Michael D. Spence Mockingbird Data Systems, Inc.

Re: /usr/bin/host localhost

2014-10-07 Thread Michael van Elst
pe...@smokva.net (Petar Bogdanovic) writes: I noticed this: $ host localhost Host localhost not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) and that's how I actually noticed this. Therefore I'm not 100% sure if `host' was always behaving like that. 'host' is a DNS tool, it does nameserver queries. On

syslog differences depending on action

2014-05-20 Thread Davis, Michael (Mike)
Say I have the following (consecutive) lines in /etc/syslog.conf: *.err;kern.*;auth.notice;authpriv.none @192.0.2.1 # not real address *.err;kern.*;auth.notice;authpriv.none user (The whitespace is one or more tabs in production.) When I'm logged on via SSH (for example) as user, I see

Re: Booting arguments for NetBSD under qemu

2014-04-29 Thread Michael
is present and tcx isn't the console. Looks more like a bug in qemu though. have fun Michael

Re: Booting arguments for NetBSD under qemu

2014-04-23 Thread Michael
, meanwhile someone can have a poke at NetBSD and see why -nographic and emulated tcx have issues... :) See above. A proper workaround would be to either add the missing bits to qemu or find a way for our tcx driver to detect qemu and skip the hardware that's not actually emulated. have fun Michael

Re: Booting arguments for NetBSD under qemu

2014-04-23 Thread Michael
Hello, On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:39:42 +0100 David Brownlee a...@absd.org wrote: On 23 April 2014 11:32, Michael macal...@netbsd.org wrote: Hello, On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:32:19 +0100 David Brownlee a...@absd.org wrote: tcx0 at sbus0 slot 3 offset 0x80 level 5 (ipl 9) (8bit only

Re: Cross-compiler

2014-04-22 Thread Michael van Elst
itgee...@googlemail.com (IT geek 31) writes: Hi, I'm running NetBSD 5.2.2 on a few Cobalt Qubes and I think they're fantastic. However, when it comes to building packages from pkgsrc, they're not so great... mainly due to their 200MHz processor. Would it be possible to cross-compile for the Qube

RE: netbsd 5 and high speed internet

2014-04-21 Thread Michael D. Spence
I will try this tonight after work. -Original Message- From: netbsd-users-ow...@netbsd.org [mailto:netbsd-users- ow...@netbsd.org] On Behalf Of Thor Lancelot Simon Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 8:24 PM To: Michael D. Spence Cc: 'NetBSD' Subject: Re: netbsd 5 and high speed internet

netbsd 5 and high speed internet

2014-04-20 Thread Michael D. Spence
I have been using an old 1ghz 1 or 2Mb PC to run netbsd 5 and act as a firewall for a number of years. It is not used for anything but this and has been working great, until yesterday when I upgraded my cable modem to 100 Mbs. If I run a speed test on a windows machine inside the firewall,

RE: netbsd 5 and high speed internet

2014-04-20 Thread Michael D. Spence
- From: Thor Lancelot Simon [mailto:t...@panix.com] Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 7:43 PM To: Michael D. Spence Cc: NetBSD Subject: Re: netbsd 5 and high speed internet On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 07:39:34PM -0400, Michael D. Spence wrote: I have been using an old 1ghz 1 or 2Mb PC to run netbsd 5

RE: netbsd 5 and high speed internet

2014-04-20 Thread Michael D. Spence
- From: netbsd-users-ow...@netbsd.org [mailto:netbsd-users- ow...@netbsd.org] On Behalf Of Greg Troxel Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 7:49 PM To: Michael D. Spence Cc: NetBSD Subject: Re: netbsd 5 and high speed internet I have been using an old 1ghz 1 or 2Mb PC to run netbsd 5 and act

Re: Booting arguments for NetBSD under qemu

2014-04-11 Thread Michael
send me the device properties for your emulated tcx? If there's anything to distinguish it from the real thing I could just let the driver treat it as a dumb framebuffer when running under qemu. have fun Michael

Re: Downloading NetBSD - Too complicated ?

2014-02-08 Thread Michael van Elst
v...@nifelheim.info (Volkmar Seifert) writes: With all this talk about easing/shortening the path to the download and CDN= , we could probably do something else: Introduce Torrent as a possible way = to download an iso. You can already use BitTorrent.

Re: Install i386 or amd64?

2014-01-25 Thread Michael van Elst
ottavio.car...@googlemail.com (Ottavio Caruso) writes: Unless you're going to be using applications that don't compile on x64, then I would go for the amd64. The only example of application that I wanted to install from binary on amd64 and couldn't is emulators/wine. But it night well compile

Re: raidframe: deleting a large file takes minutes and makes system unresponsive

2014-01-22 Thread Michael van Elst
pe...@smokva.net (Petar Bogdanovic) writes: Is it normal that a simple rm can starve everything else? /dev/raid0a on / type ffs (log, NFS exported, local) ffs logging (aka WAPBL) on raid is known to have such issues.

oversize frame

2013-11-08 Thread Michael T. Davis
I'm running NetBSD v6.1.2 configured on a packet filtering bridge with IP Filter (ipf -V reports v4.1.34 (400), as packaged with this particular NetBSD release). The kernel has been modified to enable GATEWAY and BRIDGE_IPF. I have a largely identical system running under NetBSD 5.1

Re: Computation of 'ulimit -dH' hard-limit values?

2013-10-30 Thread Michael van Elst
jdba...@mylinuxisp.com (John D. Baker) writes: Just how are the hard limit values for 'ulimit' (particularly data size, -d) calculated? Are there any machine-dependencies that affect this calculation? The data size limit is bounded by the arch dependent value MAXDSIZ defined in

Re: formating a large disk

2013-10-16 Thread Michael van Elst
derrick.l...@givex.com (Derrick Lobo) writes: I googled this and could not find a solution to netbsd. I have 2 x 2Tb SATA disk that are setup as CCD and am trying to format the with newfs and keep getting errors.. I can format a drive if the partition is less than 2Tb however need more space..

Re: Raspberry Pi as a print server w/ Samsung CLX-3180 Series printer

2013-10-14 Thread Michael van Elst
mw+net...@barfooze.de (Moritz Wilhelmy) writes: ulpt0 at uhub1 port 3 configuration 1 interface 1 ulpt0: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. CLX-3180 Series, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 4, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode -snip- but when I redirect files there, the printer makes happy beepy

Re: cannot configure X in 6.1.2

2013-10-10 Thread Michael van Elst
mueller6...@bellsouth.net (Thomas Mueller) writes: from Michael van Elst: I cannot beleive Xorg is so broken on netbsd-6 branch that I cannot configure ant X card. What is wrong with Xorg -configure? Dunno about netbsd-6, but Xorg -configure is deprecated. Try without. If Xorg -configure

Re: Various size of (Project) ideas for NetBSD and pkgsrc

2013-10-04 Thread Michael van Elst
net...@precedence.co.uk (Stephen Borrill) writes: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Patrick Welche wrote: I might add some projects encountered during this morning's work: - add HVM support to xen 4 (Maybe part of Support latest features of Xen) - add snapshot support to lvm I'd add multipathing (MPP and

Re: imap configuration

2013-09-27 Thread Michael Parson
or cheap offerings, you probably don't need to fork out for a $1000/year service. -- Michael Parson Austin, TX KF5LGQ

Re: Poor SSD write performance (new install)

2013-09-11 Thread Michael van Elst
nicklafo...@gmail.com (Nick LaForge) writes: FWIW, I untaring pkgsrc.tar is just as slow in FreeBSD as in NetBSD. Perhaps Linux is more optimized for my (outdated and slow) compact flash based SSD. It probably just cheats more by buffering all the I/O in memory.

Re: resize_ffs hangs on needbuf

2013-08-28 Thread Michael van Elst
t...@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes: It looks rather counter-intuitive to resize the mounted root but that works. Immediate reboot seems advised since df does not report the new size after resize_ffs completes successfully. Indeed you may want reboot -n! Hopefully not necessary for a

Re: NetBSD on modern laptops

2013-05-26 Thread Michael van Elst
peter@xs4all.nl (Peter Bex) writes: On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 03:59:28PM +, Michael van Elst wrote: I don't know what kind of devices these are, exactly (I'm pretty sure I don't have three modems in it, and no old-fashioned COM port either), The 3 modems report as Lenovo H5321, that's

Re: systat % busy and raidframe

2013-03-26 Thread Michael van Elst
) = SNUM_DIFF(mirrorQueue-last_deq_sector, mirror_pda-startSector)) { usemirror = 0; } else { usemirror = 1; } } -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de

Re: Problem configuring IPV6 - Kindly help

2013-03-16 Thread Michael David
Thank you Greg. It works now and am happy. Michael On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Michael David servers.da...@gmail.com writes: I want to allow ALL outgoing traffic on wm0 and only allow ssh and http in on wm0 My rules are as follows: * pass

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