Re: 8-ports serial card compatible with OpenBSD
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:36:55 -0400 Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 06/17/12 18:24, Jiri B wrote: Hello, could anybody recommend OpenBSD compatible 8-ports serial card? I'd like to build a small console server. Thank you. jirib So cheap, it's worth a try: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124099 I bought a few of these cards a few years back. They didn't work. Then somewhere around 4.8 or 4.9, support for the chip I had was added, but the older card I had didn't work on anything under than a P4, and even there, it caused a huge interrupt storm, slowed the machine down and drastically increased power consumption. On a P3 or slower system (inc. macppc or sparc64), the system just hung as it spun up the serial ports. Then, somewhere before 5.1, iirc, something fixed that and now it works nicely on anything I've put it in. BUT: This is not the card I ordered. Same vendor, same price point, but the card has clearly been revised. So I can't tell you if THIS card works. I keep getting tempted to buy one, but I also look at the older card still in the box on my shelf...and think...sheesh, when I buy this one, it will be revised a week later, and nothing will be gained by anyone. Nick. We use one from www.visionsystems.de: VSCOM 800H UPCI 8x RS232 16C950 (128Byte FIFO),921kbps + MINIBOX 8 X RS232/DB9 Anschlussbox RS232,8x DB9 puc0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 VScom 400H/800H rev 0x00: ports: 4 com com3 at puc0 port 0 irq 11: st16650, 32 byte fifo com4 at puc0 port 1 irq 11: st16650, 32 byte fifo com5 at puc0 port 2 irq 11: st16650, 32 byte fifo com6 at puc0 port 3 irq 11: st16650, 32 byte fifo puc1 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 VScom 800H rev 0x00: ports: 4 com com7 at puc1 port 0 irq 11: st16650, 32 byte fifo com8 at puc1 port 1 irq 11: st16650, 32 byte fifo com9 at puc1 port 2 irq 11: st16650, 32 byte fifo com10 at puc1 port 3 irq 11: st16650, 32 byte fifo com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo in an old desktop PC - 2 other machines we tried couldn't cope with it (died or crashed after 2-3 weeks uptime, maybe unrelated though). Alf
Re: HP DL360 G6
Thanks! Alf On Friday 06 November 2009 18:17:23 you wrote: machines and because the HP DL360 G6 seems to be cheaper (and 'newer'), does anyone here use such beast successfully with OpenBSD? As promised the output of dmesg and sysctl below. Note that the memory sockets in this machine are empty, e.g. it comes with 4 GB on board apparently by default. # sysctl hw hw.machine=i386 hw.model=Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) hw.ncpu=4 hw.byteorder=1234 hw.pagesize=4096 hw.disknames=sd0,sd1,cd0 hw.diskcount=3 hw.sensors.acpitz0.temp0=8.30 degC (zone temperature) hw.sensors.cpu0.temp0=57.00 degC hw.cpuspeed=2001 hw.vendor=Hewlett-Packard hw.product=ProLiant DL360 G6 hw.serialno=CZJ929074N hw.uuid=34373030-3635-435a-4a39-32393037344e hw.physmem=3747438592 hw.usermem=3747229696 hw.ncpufound=4 # dmesg OpenBSD 4.6 (GENERIC.MP) #89: Thu Jul 9 21:32:39 MDT 2009 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 2.01 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFL USH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX 16,xTPR real mem = 3747438592 (3573MB) avail mem = 3638829056 (3470MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 12/31/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf, SMBIOS rev. 2.6 @ 0xdf7fe000 (123 entries) bios0: vendor Hewlett-Packard version P64 date 06/02/2009 bios0: Hewlett-Packard ProLiant DL360 G6 acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SPCR MCFG HPET SPMI ERST APIC SRAT BERT HEST DMAR SSDT SSDT SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices 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: unknown i686 model 0x1a, can't get bus clock (0x0) cpu0: apic clock running at 133MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 4 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 2.01 GHz cpu1: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFL USH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX 16,xTPR cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor) cpu2: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 2.01 GHz cpu2: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFL USH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX 16,xTPR cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 6 (application processor) cpu3: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 2.01 GHz cpu3: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFL USH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX 16,xTPR ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 8 pa 0xfec0, version 20, 24 pins ioapic1 at mainbus0: apid 0 pa 0xfec8, version 20, 24 pins acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 1 (IP2P) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (IPT1) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 3 (PT01) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 10 (PT02) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 7 (PT03) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 11 (PT04) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 12 (PT05) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 13 (PT06) acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus 14 (PT07) acpiprt9 at acpi0: bus 2 (PT08) acpiprt10 at acpi0: bus 4 (PT09) acpiprt11 at acpi0: bus 15 (PT0A) acpiprt12 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C3, C1 acpicpu1 at acpi0: C3, C3, C1 acpicpu2 at acpi0: C3, C3, C1 acpicpu3 at acpi0: C3, C3, C1 acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 31 degC bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xb000 0xcc400/0x3600! 0xcfa00/0x1e00! 0xd1800/0x4000 ipmi at mainbus0 not configured cpu0: EST: unknown system bus clock pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 vendor Intel, unknown product 0x3406 rev 0x13 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 Intel X58 PCIE rev 0x13 pci1 at ppb0 bus 3 ciss0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 Hewlett-Packard Smart Array rev 0x01: apic 0 int 4 (irq 7) ciss0: 2 LDs, HW rev 2, FW 1.62/1.62, 64bit fifo rro scsibus0 at ciss0: 2 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: HP, LOGICAL VOLUME, 1.62 SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 139979MB, 512 bytes/sec, 286677120 sec total sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: HP, LOGICAL VOLUME, 1.62 SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd1: 139979MB, 512 bytes/sec, 286677120 sec total ppb1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 Intel X58 PCIE rev 0x13 pci2 at ppb1 bus 10 ppb2 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 Intel X58 PCIE rev 0x13 pci3 at ppb2 bus 7 ppb3 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 Intel X58 PCIE rev 0x13 pci4 at ppb3 bus 11 ppb4 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 Intel X58 PCIE rev 0x13 pci5 at ppb4 bus 12 ppb5 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 Intel X58 PCIE rev 0x13 pci6 at ppb5 bus 13 ppb6 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 Intel X58 PCIE rev 0x13 pci7 at ppb6 bus 14 ppb7 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 Intel X58 PCIE rev 0x13 pci8 at ppb7 bus 2 bnx0 at pci8 dev 0 function 0 Broadcom BCM5709 rev 0x20: apic 0 int 7 (irq 7) bnx1 at pci8 dev 0
HP DL360 G6
Hello, since we need a new server and had good experiences with HP DL360 G5 machines and because the HP DL360 G6 seems to be cheaper (and 'newer'), does anyone here use such beast successfully with OpenBSD? Alf
Re: Donations (was, sadly, European orders)
Theo, as far as i am concerned (and most likely the majority of OpenBSD users) there is no need for you to justify yourself (or any other developer) in public. The product (OpenBSD) speeks for itself. Alf P.S.: To me the sentence about hiking on Wim's page looks like a silly rethoric trick that gives the rest of his text an objectionable taste. On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:11:07PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: So what if it's founder lives a mountain biking/hiking lifestyle? There are people being misled that I pay for this extravagant lifestyle out of donations. Hah. Shame on those people who spread that rumour, and also shame on those who are so easily deceived. I hike near conferences that I am invited to; flights paid for. I hike near hackathons that I must attend with developers -- hackathons tend to be near hiking areas but I am not alone in preferring this (our hackathon locations are otherwise chosen for cheap accomodation with free internet2... perhaps internet2 usage is correleted to good terrain..). Once a year I pay with my hard earned salary for a trip to hike somewhere. Then one further time a year I use the reward points -- from all my other flights and hackathon hotel bills and developer flights paid with donation money -- to get to another hiking destination. Yes... I have to take time off to do this, but as many of you know when I get back from a trip I go through all the thousands of mails I received and the project moves on. And between hikes in a foreign country I find insecure ways to partially get in touch a bit and some developers really hate that. I work hard. When I don't hike, and especially during pre-release times, I sometimes don't get outside for days at a time except on forced 10km runs. Extravagant? No. Just a life choice. I have had people accuse me privately of this. I hope others are not so easily deceived. Trust me, with the OpenBSD donations are a loss. Just look at this page, and estimate the hotel bills: http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html After you estimate those numbers, where would I find money to spend on even a slurpee? Gimme a fucking break... Donations help a lot, but they are not the whole picture. That is why we are so eager -- as a project -- get the money that Wim has taken from us, because it will help OpenBSD run more hackathons. The systems code you are running, almost half of it came from hackathons. If I can give him that and he can continue to provide this wonderful product for free, I'm happy to help him live his lifestyle (even if he doesn't play well with others at times). It's a deal. It's too bad the project doesn't have greater financial backing to allow more development of the OS goodness we enjoy--and also allow more OpenBSD people to live a Theo-like lifestyle, if they so choose. Others are trying to do it too, but they are just more quiet about it. And then there's the other catagory... the breeders...
Re: European orders
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:52:04PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: From a commit message an hour or so ago: Disable future European orders since the distributor is way too far behind in reconciling payments to the project for past sales, and years of trying to resolve it have made very little progress. Sorry guys. Hmm, I used to order my sets from http://www.ixsoft.de. Is this the same channel for europe? CD: http://www.ixsoft.de/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?ref=Products/de/OOOB0450DV.html On a side note, I see a OpenBSD 4.5 DVD there, is it authorized? http://www.ixsoft.de/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?ref=Products/de/IXOB0450DV.html Alf
The right thing to do
Instead of bla-blaing on dump threads to obvious fanatics, do what i did. Show the FSF the $-finger and donate. Because that flame really burns;) Alf
Re: need a machine for an itanium port
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 12:56:08AM -0400, Martin Gignac wrote: One more just donated $100. And here's another one. Ditto. -Martin One more. Alf
Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'
I had this problem too and seems like it is fixed in the latest snapshot. Synopsis: sync(8) hangs on reboots State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: pedro State-Changed-When: Fri Apr 20 02:56:01 MDT 2007 State-Changed-Why: Very likely fixed in revision 1.21 of vfs_cache.c, thanks for the report Alf Am Montag, 23. April 2007 14:42:01 schrieb Han Boetes: Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Han Boetes wrote: Of course I crash, I crash at every reboot, I got the problem where the rebooting proces gets stuck at `syncing disks' after which I have to m-c-ESC and then boot sync. I have this on a i386 and I met someone on #openbsd who had it on a sparc. When will this bug be fixed? After you provide a proper report? About 50% of the shutdowns get stuck at `syncing discs...' The only filesystem which is marked dirty is / Here is the output of `dmesg dmesg'. Yes dmesg remembers the output of the previous boot on my system. And this time it didn't happen. Anything else you'd like to know? Would you like me to post this one with sendbug? ontaining 40366080 bytes (39420K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 03/28/02, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfdad0, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0630 (22 entries) bios0: MSI MS-6380E apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf/0x1 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf7f00/192 (10 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:17:0 (VIA VT8233 ISA rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xf800 acpi at mainbus0 not configured cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 VIA VT8366 PCI rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 VIA VT8366 AGP rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 rev 0xa4 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) uhci0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0x50: irq 5 uhci1 at pci0 dev 6 function 1 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0x50: irq 12 ehci0 at pci0 dev 6 function 2 VIA VT6202 USB rev 0x51: irq 10 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: VIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered re0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 Realtek 8169 rev 0x10: RTL8169S (0x0400), irq 12, address 00:08:a1:3c:34:7a rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 0 rl0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 Realtek 8139 rev 0x10: irq 5, address 00:e0:4c:67:52:80 rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY viapm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 VIA VT8233A ISA rev 0x00 iic0 at viapm0 iic0: addr 0x2f 00=00 02=0f 03=00 04=00 06=0f 07=00 08=00 0a=06 0b=00 0c=00 0d=07 0e=84 0f=00 10=c0 11=11 12=00 13=60 pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 1 VIA VT82C571 IDE rev 0x06: ATA133, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: Maxtor 6Y080L0 wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 78167MB, 160086528 sectors wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: Maxtor 6L250R0 wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 239372MB, 490234752 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: LITE-ON, LTR-40125S, ZS0N SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 uhci2 at pci0 dev 17 function 2 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0x23: irq 10 uhci3 at pci0 dev 17 function 3 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0x23: irq 10 usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 uhub3: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 uhub4: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered isa0 at mainbus0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker spkr0 at pcppi0 lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: W83697HF npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 biomask fffd netmask fffd ttymask pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support wd0c: aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 64 (wd0 bn 64; cn 0 tn 1 sn 1), retrying wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 5 wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4,
Re: Strange behavior for booting new kernel?
Am Samstag, 23. September 2006 22:51 schrieben Sie: On 9/23/06, Tom Cosgrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Thomas 23-Sep-06 19:37 I just upgraded my storage box to -current to test the ath upgrades on another slower computer. I ran make install after compiling the kernel instead of copying the kernel manually: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ethant# ls -al /*bsd* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6049422 Sep 23 10:53 /bsd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5002407 Aug 21 18:00 /bsd.rd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6028254 Aug 21 18:00 /obsd But the first 3 times I rebooted the system it booted the Aug 21 /obsd kernel. The 4th time it finally booted the Sep 23 one. I kept getting interrupted by the cat, the phone, and the cat while at the boot prompt while I was troubleshooting and then the last time it finally booted /bsd. Any ideas on why that happened? I doubt this is what happened. In this case I'm sure of what I saw because I scrolled through the entire dmesg and saw 4.0-current compiled by Theo 2 times before the one 4.0-current compiled by me even though I had rebooted several times with new kernel in place. Anyway, I've rebooted enough times now that they're all my kernel so I'll just strike it up to me not having had coffee yet. Greg You may be a victim of the feature that ( for hardware related reasons) the dmesg buffer doesn't get cleared after reboot so you actually have 2 dmesgs, (or maybe even more ?) one after the other, in dmesg buffer. This can easily be overlooked by scrolling back to fast. The exact reasons are somewhere in the archives. Alf
