Thanks for all the helpful responses. Here is a summary, for the archives. On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:04:25AM -0600, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > Greetings: > > I just got a new alix 2c3 board and it came with bios version 0.99 > (12/10/07). There is a new version, 0.99b (1/27/08) available. Has > anyone experienced problems with 0.99 using OpenBSD? I prefer not to > reflash bioses without a reason.
0.99 works fine with -current as of 08-Jun-2008. I am running it now, as are others. One off-list response reported undesirable results with reflashing through the serial port and recommended reflashing with bootable CF, if necessary. I am sticking with 0.99. > > Related question: If I need to reflash, I am using a serial connection > from a laptop running -current. The upload needs to use xmodem > protocol. I found the ~C command in tip to use an external program for > upload but I have not found anything in base or ports that will do the > xmodem upload. Is there something? My fallback is to use a linux > machine with minicom but I wondered if OpenBSD can do this. > minicom is in ports (I forgot to look). Also, lrzsz is a smaller program in ports that should work with tip.
