Where to get Loongson hardware?
With the recent security issues in Intel CPUs in mind I'm curious how to get hands on Loongson hardware? There seems to be an active OpenBSD release, but only for older hardware while a newer, more macbook-like Loongson netbook seems to exist as well. Is there still any active development in Loongson hardware and the corresponding release at https://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html ? Wikipedia doesn't help much and I couldn't find hardware distributors either. Thank you in advance. Chris
Bochs on OpenBSD/Sparc64
Hi, I just found out that the bochs-package: http://www.openbsd.org/4.4_packages/sparc64/bochs-2.3.7.tgz-long.html is available for OpenBSD/Sparc64. I therefore wonder if: -Linux/x86 would run on a OBSD netra server and if -isdn4linux with usb-modem would run smoothly -a fonera (www.fon.com) linux-x86 binary for offering hotspots using a usb-wifi-stick could be run as well. Does anybody have experience regarding -performance -security -stability ? Thanks, Chris
Re: OpenBSD on the desktop / 3D acceleration / printer
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Joe Gidi wrote: > Christopher Intemann wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm thinking about installing OpenBSD on my desktop workstation. > > As far as I know, there are commercial (binary) drivers for some Nvidia > > and > > ATI cards applicable. > > Do these drivers work on OpenBSD as well? > > There is no support for binary blob drivers, and I'd be absolutely shocked > if it was even considered at any point. OpenBSD doesn't work that way. > > > If not, which graphics cards are supported for 3D acceleration at all? > > Intel and some ATI cards have working DRI/DRM. See > http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20081029164221 > Thanks for the hint. This looks very promising to me, even though I'm not very sure how to use the driver on OpenBSD yet. Is there any good straight forward-howto I could learn from? One more thing: I could get my hands on a cheap Sun Blade sparc workstation. Since the drivers mentioned above are OpenSource, would it be possible to plug a supported ATI graphics-card in the PCI-slot of the sparc box and compile the driver in order to use it? Which graphics card would be recommended (most current cards seem to be AGP-cards - are there any newer PCI-cards with current chipsets applicable at all?) > > > Then, I would like to connect my USB printer/scanner (Epson SX100). > > From what I've learned from google, this device should work with Linux - > > but > > does it work with OpenBSD? > > I can't speak to that particular printer model, but odds are very good > that it will work with either lpd or CUPS when the appropriate > configuration is done. Some links on printing in OpenBSD: > > http://www.stilyagin.com/darrin/blog/2007/05/16/2200/ > http://www.stilyagin.com/darrin/blog/2006/08/27/1218/ > http://erdelynet.com/tech/openbsd/using-foo2zjs-with-openbsd-lpd/ > > Thanks. I'll check that as well. Regards, Chris
OpenBSD on the desktop / 3D acceleration / printer
Hi, I'm thinking about installing OpenBSD on my desktop workstation. As far as I know, there are commercial (binary) drivers for some Nvidia and ATI cards applicable. Do these drivers work on OpenBSD as well? If not, which graphics cards are supported for 3D acceleration at all? Then, I would like to connect my USB printer/scanner (Epson SX100). >From what I've learned from google, this device should work with Linux - but does it work with OpenBSD? Thx, Chris
Re: OpenBSD on Sun Netra X1
Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > depends how you plug the pins in when you get the adapter. if you do > it this way, assuming the usual colour code for these, you can just > use a normal ethernet cable. > > 2 black > 3 yellow > 4 brown > 5 red+grn (ground; you /should/ join these together) > 6 orange > 7 white > 8 blue > > Great, thanks for this hint! This will help me a lot. I've just learned that there obviously is no single standard for rs232-to-rj45 adapters, and I was wondering how to figure out which would fit for this box. Thanks a lot! Chris
Re: OpenBSD on Sun Netra X1
Hi, thanks for the hint, however, I'm in fact a bit more confused now:-) Couldn't I use such a thing: http://cgi.ebay.de/SERIAL-RS232-DB9-9-PIN-FEMALE-TO-RJ45-FEMALE-ADAPTOR_W0QQitemZ390041017767QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Networking_SM?hash=item390041017767&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177 In addition, I would then only need a RJ45 serial cable. Or an ordinary telephone cable with 4 wires, right? Thanks, Chris On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Jussi Peltola wrote: > Many (probably 50%) of RJ11 4-wire telephone cables were crimped wrong > by the factory and are in fact roll over cables (RJ11 fits in RJ45, > but you need 4 wires, 2 won't work). > > Saved me some from hair loss one sunday far away from everything. > > -- > Jussi Peltola
Re: OpenBSD on Sun Netra X1
Thank you very much, your guide will be very helpful to me. Maybe you should blog it somewhere? I'm just only getting a bit confused about the serial ports of the Netra box. Where do i get the appropriat cables to either connect this port to an ordinary RS/232 port, or to another netra x1? By the way, I just learned from the OBSD 4.5 changelog that the 4.5 release will be able to scale down the CPU frequency of UltraSPARC IIe CPUs to save power, thats great! Regards, Chris On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > OK, > > Here I put a little bit of details on how to setup that box from scratch. I > guess I spend a little bit of time putting it together because I also I > remember my first one, years ago, where I did plenty of Google before I > could set one up. > > It wasn't a 5 minutes process then, but it is sure not hard either. So, to > save you time and may be for the next guys as well to make life easier for > them here it is. > > First question you may have is.. Where do I plug my keyboard, or monitor. > Or if you are an MCSE, where do I plug my mouse. (;> OK, just a joke, but > surprisingly many can't do much without GUI. > > Anyway, joke aside. > > You do everything from a console access on these boxes. T1-105, AC200, X1, > V100, V120, etc, etc. There isn't monitor port, or keyboard, or mouse ports > there. (;> Nor there is a need for it either. > > On the back you have the serial A that is also use for LOM. That's what you > need to use to have console access to that box. Use any software you want, > doesn't matter as long as you set it up VT100 emulation and use 9600-8-N-1 > for the setting communications. Plain old serial cable, like any Cisco > console cable do just fine, or what ever you have available as long as the > connector is RJ-45 to go to the Sun box. > > Now, one command that is very useful and that I had to dig on Google is how > to switch to LOM and the console from that terminal. Well, it's very simple, > but I had to dig it up. > > To access the LOM: > #. > > To go back to the console: > console > > To get of of the console: > ~. > > Simple command, but when you don't know them, well, you can search a long > time. (;> > > Next, to stop the booting process as who know the stage in witch you will > get the box. > > It may try to boot from the network all the time, or what not. > > So, when the box is plug in the AC, but actually off. The console will give > you the LOM access by default. > > The following steps may or may not be needed, depending on what stage the > box was ship to you, but as a rule of thumb, I like to reset everything to > defaults, just to know where I am, so: > > From there, make sure the box will not try to boot, but give you the # > prompt so that you can access the box hardware. > > So, first is to stop the auto boot: > > lom>bootmode help > Usage: bootmode [[-u] forth|reset_nvram|diag|skipdiag|normal] > > So, just do bootmode forth > > This will simply stop the normal boot process and when the box goes to the > usual hardware check, it will then give you the OK prompt. > > And a side note, in case you haven't seen that before, or use Sun before, > you can turn on/off the box from the console, reset it and all, witch can be > useful at time specially if you have two of these boxes connected together > via a simply flat cable between the console port and the serial port of the > other box, but will get back to that later. > > So, turn on the box: > > lom>poweron > > Then when you get the # prompt may be one minute later or so. > > init 0 > ok setenv auto-boot? false (This is so that it doesn't try to reboot all > the time yet) > > #depending on which Hardware and OBP Version you are running it is > either or ( I do both in order to be sure on my SunFire) > > ok reset > > ok reset-all > > Each step above, like the reset and the reset-all will, well like it said > reset the box. > > Then, when the OBP is back you can run eg > ok probe-scsi-all (for the SCSI type server, T1, AC200, V120, etc) > > or > > ok probe-ide-all for the IDE servers type, like the V100, X1, etc. > > I do both anyway on all boxes, it doesn't create any problem and even on > system without and SCSI drives, the probe-scsi-all will actually find the > drives oppose to the probe-ide-all one. (;< It may be related with the LOM > version, I can't say really and I am sure better mind then me would know. > > I never find a way to upgrade the LOM anyway without having Solaris running > on these boxes. I would love to know how, or even if possible, but really, I > haven't got a clue on that! > > If anyone actually know how, I would really, really love to know how! > > Anyway, lets move one. > > It detect the hardware you have in case hardware was changed between the > real last run and what was ship to you. (;> Not always needed, but good > practice anyway. In some cases it will save you lots of time specially wen > you get the "processor miss align errors" I can't recall exactly
Re: OpenBSD on Sun Netra X1
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Paul Ouderkirk wrote: > > > However, as it comes without hard-drives, I was wondering if i would have > to > > buy a drive <137GB or if I could give a 500Gig drive and a PCI-IDE Card a > > try. > > The Netra X1 has no PCI slots. > > > http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/Netra_X1/spec > > The Netra X1 is a fun little box to play with, and as you already > know, available quite cheaply, but it's also very limited. > > For a huge step up in capability, while staying in the same price > range, I'd suggest any of the Netra T1 boxes (model 105, AC200, etc). > Uh, thanks for the hints. I guess I somehow mixed the specs of T1 and X1. Strange, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it HAS a pci/e slot. Well, anyways, I will know it for sure once the box arrives. I guess I will go for 120gig drives then... Thx®ards, Chris
Re: OpenBSD on Sun Netra X1
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:14 PM, wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:34:50AM +0200, Christopher Intemann wrote: > > However could not find any information if I could boot from discs > connected > > via a PCI-IDE controller. > > Read up on these EEPROM commands: > > probe-ide-all > show-disks > Yes, thanks, sure. But I just won an ebay auction on a Netra X1 (for 30b, :-)), and I'm now desperately waiting for the box do ship. However, as it comes without hard-drives, I was wondering if i would have to buy a drive <137GB or if I could give a 500Gig drive and a PCI-IDE Card a try. It has 1Gig of Ram, should be enough for file serving and routing, I guess. By the way, what is that configuration-card(-slot) good for? Looks like an ordinary PC/SC slot? Can I do anything with it (like access control or something?) Thanks, Chris
OpenBSD on Sun Netra X1
Hi, does anyone here have experience with OpenBSD on a Sun Netra X1 server? I read somewhere that it does only support hard drives up to 137GB of size. Is there any way to avoid this restriction? I read somewhere (else) that using a PCI-IDE controller could do the trick. However could not find any information if I could boot from discs connected via a PCI-IDE controller. Any hints? Thanks, Chris
isdn/dsl pci cards? (I4b)
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > However, I did not find much information about which cards are actually > > supported by OpenBSD? > > Furthermore, I want to log isdn traffic. Therefore I was thinking to > either > > use the Fritz DSL hybrid DSL/isdn card mentioned above, or, if that > wouldn't > > work, to plug in a dedicated FritzPCI ISDN card into the box. Are those > > cards supported by either OpenBSD and/or I4b? > > i4b was dropped from OpenBSD quite some time ago. > Oh. That's too bad. Why is that? I mean why drop something that is working and might be of need for at least some people? Anyway. As it doesn't matter why - is there any documentation about how to compile a kernel module for PCI ISDN-cards? Which is the latest kernel with *official* ISDN-support, and which ISDN card would be recommended for *BSD? If ISDN/i4b is still maintained on FreeBSD, it should not be to much of an effort to get it running on OpenBSD as well, right? Thanks, Chris
isdn/dsl pci cards? (I4b)
Hi, I just got myself a Sun Netra X1 Sparc64 1U server. I wonder if I could use it to either connect to my DSL provider directly (using a DSL-PCI-card, such as this one: http://tinyurl.com/cqddxj). However, I did not find much information about which cards are actually supported by OpenBSD? Furthermore, I want to log isdn traffic. Therefore I was thinking to either use the Fritz DSL hybrid DSL/isdn card mentioned above, or, if that wouldn't work, to plug in a dedicated FritzPCI ISDN card into the box. Are those cards supported by either OpenBSD and/or I4b? Thanks for any hints, Chris
HP 2133
Hello, Does anyone here have OpenBSD up and running on an HP 2133 netbook? I wonder in particular if there is support for the pc-card interface and the audio device? Since it has VIA graphics, running X shouldn't be too much of an issue... Regards, Chris
