Re: It is 2010. Still no 3GB support by default?
maybe I haven't been on this list long enoug.. but it seems like 2010 has been the year of the troll, first update to the chinese calander in ages.. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Dexter Tomisson dexterto...@gmail.com wrote: I'd really, really like to know what's the matter with a larger memory support? Why is 'bigmem' still not default? What faults/bugs does it still has? What do you need to make it ok? Do you need a hardware donation to make that better, do you need few bucks, do you need a good coder to improve that, or again some license problems perhaps?, what's the problem, share with us please, I'd really like to help with everything i can. I hope, maybe someday, our beloved Puffy will catch up to the 21st century. Regards. deX
Re: OT: javascript deobfuscator?
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:20 PM, bofh goodb...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet jean-phili...@ouellet.biz wrote: On 4/7/10 4:47 PM, bofh wrote: Anyone know of a good standalone javascript deobfuscator? We want to run it against something like the results from tcpflow. Standalone... not really, but I use a firefox plugin[1] and that has worked nicely for everything I've had to do so far. I looked for a good standalone deobfuscator a while back, but couldn't find one, and came to the conclusion that it was because you'd need a javascript engine anyway, and to make sure the code was properly reverse engineered to what is done in the browser, it would be best to actually use a browser and trace what is done. I know this isn't standalone, but I still hope it helps in your scenario. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10345 Thanks. I know about that, but I need it to run in a from a script, and have the output parseable by a script. doing some fun stuff with bro?
Re: DDOS on Apache / PF countermeasures
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:59 PM, mowsen mow...@googlemail.com wrote: Hej volks! I'm experiencing some DDOS attacks against my wordpress blog wich runs on a PIII/600 MHz/256 MB Ram/100 MBit machine lately. The attacker commands approx. 500 different IPs to my blog that all request the same post. Have you considered giving nginx a run? you could set this up as a reverse proxy mitigating requests for apache running on localhost:8080 or whatever you desire. nginx is much more capable of handling this sort of situation, and you might have more leverage towards selectively/accurately (to a degree) filtering the illegitimate requests out. maybe, maybe not.. but this is one of the roles nginx was built for, so I imagine it might get you a little further than apache so far.. :) ~Jason
OT: vmware mind control (WAS: Re: Dell PE850 CERC SATA controller)
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: Tomas Bodzar wrote: Which VMware August bug you mean? This one or different? http://communities.vmware.com/thread/162377?tstart=0start=0 yep, that's the one. Short version: VMware accidentally shipped a production release of ESX and ESXi (yes, both the expensive and no-charge version) which turned off management of the VMs on August 12, 2008 -- a turned on VM could stay running, but an off VM could not be started, and their wonderful vmotion feature stops working...which would be critical for less painful recovery from this problem. VMware regularly time bombed their beta versions of the software, and in this case, the time bomb slipped out the door. Hilarious, yet depressing (and telling): FAQ for Express Patches 1. What do the express patches do? There are two express patches: * For an affected ESX 3.5 Update 2 (build number 103908), use ESX Update 2 Express Patch (build 110181) * For an affected ESXi 3.5 Update 2 (build number 103909), use ESXi Update 2 Express Patch (build number 110180). They are specifically targeted for customers who have installed or fully upgraded to ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 or who have applied the ESX350-200806201-UG/ESXe350-200807401-I-UG patch to ESX/ESXi 3.5 or ESX/ESX 3.5 Update 1 hosts. For customers who havent done either, these express patches should not be applied. Note: These patches have been validated to work with both esxupdate and VMware Update Manager. Maintenance mode is required, but a reboot of the ESX host is not required with these patches. We are currently testing an option to apply the patch without requiring VMotion or VM power-off and re-power-on at the point of patch application. To immediately refresh vmx on the VM, one can VMotion off running VMs, apply the patches and VMotion the VMs back. If VMotion capability is not available, VMs can be powered off before the patches are applied and powered back on afterwards. Did anyone else find an answer to the proposed question?1. What do the express patches do? from the kb article (their follow up) to that issue: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=disp layKCexternalId=1006716 What a crock of shite. Good to know as I am just getting into a few small-scale virtualizing projects.. not so sure I am at *all* surprised. /end rant. ~Jason
Re: OT: vmware mind control (WAS: Re: Dell PE850 CERC SATA controller)
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jason Beaudoin jasonbeaud...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: Tomas Bodzar wrote: Which VMware August bug you mean? This one or different? http://communities.vmware.com/thread/162377?tstart=0start=0 yep, that's the one. Short version: VMware accidentally shipped a production release of ESX and ESXi (yes, both the expensive and no-charge version) which turned off management of the VMs on August 12, 2008 -- a turned on VM could stay running, but an off VM could not be started, and their wonderful vmotion feature stops working...which would be critical for less painful recovery from this problem. VMware regularly time bombed their beta versions of the software, and in this case, the time bomb slipped out the door. Hilarious, yet depressing (and telling): FAQ for Express Patches 1. What do the express patches do? There are two express patches: * For an affected ESX 3.5 Update 2 (build number 103908), use ESX Update 2 Express Patch (build 110181) * For an affected ESXi 3.5 Update 2 (build number 103909), use ESXi Update 2 Express Patch (build number 110180). They are specifically targeted for customers who have installed or fully upgraded to ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 or who have applied the ESX350-200806201-UG/ESXe350-200807401-I-UG patch to ESX/ESXi 3.5 or ESX/ESX 3.5 Update 1 hosts. For customers who haven t done either, these express patches should not be applied. Note: These patches have been validated to work with both esxupdate and VMware Update Manager. Maintenance mode is required, but a reboot of the ESX host is not required with these patches. We are currently testing an option to apply the patch without requiring VMotion or VM power-off and re-power-on at the point of patch application. To immediately refresh vmx on the VM, one can VMotion off running VMs, apply the patches and VMotion the VMs back. If VMotion capability is not available, VMs can be powered off before the patches are applied and powered back on afterwards. Did anyone else find an answer to the proposed question?1. What do the express patches do? from the kb article (their follow up) to that issue: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=disp layKCexternalId=1006716http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.d o?language=en_UScmd=disp%0AlayKCexternalId=1006716 What a crock of shite. Good to know as I am just getting into a few small-scale virtualizing projects.. not so sure I am at *all* surprised. Hey, I got a 2 GB usb stick for my troubles over a recent fiasco with VMWare's release of Fusion 3. It seems their PR department is doing a better job than QC. HAH! just to think they believe that is suitable in buying you off.. it's just ridiculous..
Re: Dell R610 problems with Openbsd?
Hi Theo, That is great news! On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: I'm planing to get a Dell R610 with single Xeon 5570 (since it's the only supporting the 5570) and and dual Intel PRO/1000 ET for routing/pf. I jumped on this http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=126350942910630w=2 and http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=126015771720104w=2 mentioning about problems with R610 and OpenBSD. Do you guys still have problems with -current on this machine? Bot the R610 and R710 had issues (2nd generation bnx(4) was unsupported, and the disk performance sucked). Two people stood up and contributed one of each to the project, and these issues were resolved. Getting these leading edge machines into our hands is always the best way to ensure that support for them will be improved! They now work very well. The amd64 snapshot builds are done on one: zoom zoom zoom. To clarify, this was very recent work, so only really available in cvs/snapshots, correct? Thanks! ~Jason
Re: Average time for compiling userland? == benchmarking CPU/IO? best result for database hosting?
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Andres Salazar ndrsslz...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I dont have obj on ram, or /tmp . Iam using make build. Use gentoo? Thank you Andres On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:02:37AM -0600, Andres Salazar wrote: Hello, Iam confused on the different result I get when I compile userland on any machine better then a Dual Core 2.5Ghz 2GB RAM 160GB 7200 SATA / SATA ii You're not even telling us how you compile userland. How should we help ? is your obj in ram ? your tmp in ram ? are you building with make build ? make -j4 build ? something else ?
Re: OT: opinions on IDS / IPS solutions
Having looked into BroIDS and a couple of potential options/setups, I'd be interested in hearing anyone's experience working with either or both BroIDS / Snort.. - i like that BroIDS is network-based as opposed to signature, though it doesn't seem like Bro has frontend as polished as one might like.. are the alarms only sent out via mail/etc.. or are there utilities to help parse/graph/htmlize the results? I like the idea of something like BASE for analysis. - anyone running BroIDS / snort who might be able to share the system specs and what sort of traffic / analysis / capturing they are doing? - is BroIDS capable of working in sentry mode, as a sensor reporting to one analysis system? I see the options for full capturing and offline analysis, but this is just going to spit out some flat files.. getting them to another system for analysis seems a bit cumbersome.. - in terms of BroIDS/Snort and PF.. who comes first in processing network traffic? - is Bro able to log, compress, store and index events for later reviewing/searching? or should I just have the events forwarded to a central logging server running splunk..? thanks for the insight.. ~Jason
Re: OT: opinions on IDS / IPS solutions
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Johan Beisser j...@caustic.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Jason Beaudoin jasonbeaud...@gmail.com wrote: - in terms of BroIDS/Snort and PF.. who comes first in processing network traffic? hardware interface kernel device driver bpf/pcap -- application (tcpdump, snort, BroIDS, etc) packet filter (PF) thanks you Johan!
Re: OT: opinions on IDS / IPS solutions
Hi Rich! On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:59:05PM -0500, Jason Beaudoin wrote: As I often have greater respect for a much larger portion of this list than the rest of the internet, I am curious what is thought about current IDS/IPS hardware from vendors like Trustwave, Checkpoint, Alert Logic, mod_security, even snort.. etc, and in particular, the sensibility and effectiveness of using them in high-security environments. They're very-overpriced junk. I'm not going to argue, and this discussion has certainly brought up a few good points which enumerate why, I had just been hoping that the investment spent would not go towards hardware or a crap system, as much as the service of having someone looking over the information. Let me explain why. First, if you're using a good firewall (like pf on OpenBSD) and you've configured it sensibly (read: default deny-all, bidirectionally) and you've done the other things that good network and system design tell you to do, then you've done far more for your operation's security than any of these overpriced overhyped devices will do for you. agreed, my situation isn't one with overall flexibility - an IDS/IPS is a compliance requirement, but I don't really see a commercial solution fitting my network so much any more. Don't forget the value of application-aware proxies behind a stateful packet filter. yes, I am considering mod_security for this, though I'm still trying to determine how to best organize it, as I just put in an nginx proxy. And don't forget to drop packets to/from as much of the Internet as you can -- see ipdeny.com. (Do you *really* need to allow incoming port 22 connections from Korea? Peru? the US?) Also use the Spamhaus DROP list in your perimeter devices *and* in onboard firewalls just in case there's a configuration screwup. Once you've done this, you can fret a lot less about what particular SQL injection attack is being carried via HTTP...because you're not even allowing [most of] the packets to get anywhere near a web server. Definitely great suggestions - and while our client-base is international, and we do travel, I can still use this selectively and it makes sense to do even with the added overhead to maintain. Second, these devices are guaranteed to fail when you'll need them most: when an attack comes that they don't have a signature for, won't recognize, and won't stop. (And please don't anyone tell me that this won't happen: the Bad Guys can test against them, too, you know.) See Marcus Ranum's Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security and note #2: Enumerating Badness, which is expounds the fundamental error that all these devices make. Quoting Ranum: One clear symptom that you have a case of Enumerating Badness is that you've got a system or software that needs signature updates on a regular basis, or a system that lets past a new worm that it hasn't seen before. Yeah. Like that. Indeed. see the ref below Third, any sufficiently determined attacker will either bypass or elude these devices. I don't know where you are, what your operation is, etc., but I'll bet that if I *really* wanted to get inside it, that handing out free USB memory sticks (with your company's logo on them) to your colleagues in the parking lot would be enough to gain a foothold. So rather than buying one of these, I think a much more prudent step would be to install *internal* firewalls that treat end-user systems as untrusted. Here's a great article that exemplifies the results: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/02/another_massive.htm l To put it another way: your own users are easily the biggest threat. Presume that they are either apathetic, idiotic, or actively hostile, and defend accordingly. ---Rsk indeed, hence the challenge. thank you for sharing! ~Jason
Re: OT: opinions on IDS / IPS solutions
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:47 PM, mehma sarja mehmasa...@gmail.com wrote: Don't bypass Snort because PFSense package makes it so easy to install and configure. A a one-click install of Snort and the only thing left to do was register and select what you want it to do. Mehma Hi Mehma, I'm hoping you can expand on this - maybe it is just me, but I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say or communicate.
Re: OT: opinions on IDS / IPS solutions
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Johan Beisser j...@caustic.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Jason Beaudoin jasonbeaud...@gmail.com wrote: From a compliance perspective, I don't have much choice. From the costs, infrastructure, and administrative perspectives, I am currently evaluating whether or not I should be leaning towards and IDS or IPS solution, and of course which system/vendor. My understanding is that something like snort requires a fair bit of maintenance and IT-attention, the trade-off being cost, so I am leaning away from this. Between detection and prevention, preventing break-ins seems a bit sillier than trying to actively monitor what's going on and to then look for threats, so this pushes me more towards IDS over IPS. I agree with you. High rates of false positives, but fairly low rates of false negatives. Once the care and feeding is taken care of (turning off everything and gradually fine tuning to your current traffic helps), they're useful for alerting against unusual traffic leaving your network; not so much against automated attacks coming in the network. My own deployments are specifically to monitor for odd outbound traffic from my office. It's a rapid way to find out about the latest trojan, worm, or other infection my users have brought in on their laptops. Indeed, this is why IDS makes more sense to me, and I am glad to see this confirmed/validated by others here. So I guess this is now just a question of setting up snort versus a commercial solution. That said, the usefulness of an IDP is specifically preventing most automated and known attacks from passing in to your network. By using one of the commercial systems, you gain support, tuning, and the fact that you don't have to spend as much time with the care and feeding or writing/testing new rulesets against your current version. This is the difficult place I'm in.. to me, the commercial solution means I have someone else looking at and dealing with all of the false positives, which is something that I won't kid myself on - I don't know if I even have the time to be the fine tuning machine.. then again the cost is just plain silly when compared with a snort/bsd setup. Are there any good open source alternatives to Snort that are worth considering here? As a compliance feature, I've found most administrators put them in place and promptly turn the reporting off due to the high rate of false positives reducing the signal from the noise. jb right, which is just silly and a waste of everyone's time. thanks for sharing.. ~Jason
Re: OT: opinions on IDS / IPS solutions
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/index.html especially number 2 is targeted against IDS/IPS, antivirus and similar solutions. I found this link thanks to my colleague and it's really very descriptive. Great article, and definitely right on.. and it certainly makes me appreciate the openbsd community, as I've picked up on this more true perspective of security having hung around here for long enough that it all rubs off. Anyway.. thanks Tomas!
Re: OT: opinions on IDS / IPS solutions
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Vijay Sankar vsan...@foretell.ca wrote: bro-ids Great suggestion! thank you :)
Re: OT: opinions on IDS / IPS solutions
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:59 PM, bofh goodb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Laurens Vets laur...@daemon.be wrote: interesting spot on remarks Just don't get ISS crap. Also, snort is good, but you must know what you're doing. Our snort box, running on an old throw away box, and only capturing/analyzing 10 minutes of every hour, is giving us *MORE* useful data than half a mil worth of ISS crap. Care to elaborate? :) Which parts? ISS suck so much that even though IBM spent $$ to acquire them, IBM is now killing the entire product line? What kills me (and *TAKE NOTE - THOSE WHO REPORT TO PHBs*) is that just a few months ago, we read a report on how ISS's IPS took top billing in some magazine or review. I haven't done my indepth homework on commercial solutions - we're a small company with a small budget, and have been reviewing various solutions in the 20k / yr range (trustwave, alert logic, tripwire, etc). But a good point has been brought up about overall access and the depth of information available.. I'll have to dig deeper on this. I don't know if this is a big enough issue for us to overcome the major plus (offloading the constant analysis, our team is small). On what we're doing internally, we're capturing data for 10 minutes every hour, and then having the box analyze that data using a variety of tools including snort. It then sends us information on crap such as botnet command/control traffic among other things. Things that we have full packet captures on, that ISS refuses to provide. We also drop it into a graphing tool, so we get nice maps of green/good traffic and red/bad traffic, and you can see that 3 boxes that's talking to all the botnet CC servers, etc. Sounds pretty rockin' - I'm sure it took a while to get that sorted out and up to a usable form. We're still working on it, and I hope the new(er) servers we are putting in will be able to provide better/more info. Hopefully we'll buy some really beefy servers later in the year so that we can do full analysis. I'll send a list of the tools we used later, have to ping my guy for it :) That would be fantastic, I am surely interested in some of the details of how you have put this together. Thanks for sharing! ~Jason
OT: opinions on IDS / IPS solutions
Hi There, As I often have greater respect for a much larger portion of this list than the rest of the internet, I am curious what is thought about current IDS/IPS hardware from vendors like Trustwave, Checkpoint, Alert Logic, mod_security, even snort.. etc, and in particular, the sensibility and effectiveness of using them in high-security environments. From a compliance perspective, I don't have much choice. From the costs, infrastructure, and administrative perspectives, I am currently evaluating whether or not I should be leaning towards and IDS or IPS solution, and of course which system/vendor. My understanding is that something like snort requires a fair bit of maintenance and IT-attention, the trade-off being cost, so I am leaning away from this. Between detection and prevention, preventing break-ins seems a bit sillier than trying to actively monitor what's going on and to then look for threats, so this pushes me more towards IDS over IPS. Thoughts, suggestions, flames, are all welcome. Thanks. ~Jason
Re: brgphy(4) diff needs testing. | hijacked thread: jetway nf76-n1g5
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.orgwrote: On 2009-09-03, Jason Beaudoin jasonbeaud...@gmail.com wrote: -- 401.837.8417 jasonbeaud...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2009-08-29, Jason Beaudoin jasonbeaud...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya Kevin, I'm hoping this dmesg is from a jetway NF76-N1G: http://www.mini-box.com/Jetway-NF76-N1G6-mini-ITX_2 try again. might you know what it actually is? (curious) I quoted that bit back but you trimmed it; On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Kevin Lo ke...@openbsd.org wrote: bios0: iDOT Computers, Inc. iDOT VED8900 Series. (easy to find in a web search). I'm trying to determine which (if any) chips from this board might be a problem in openbsd. Between this dmesg (which shares some of the chipsets) and a few snippets I've seen elsewhere it looks good, the only thing I haven't determined is the sound chipset. For the NF76? it's on the page you quoted actually; VT1708B. One (the?) major problem nowadays though isn't with support for the chips, but with the information about how they're connected together. You can have two systems with the same chips and have one work totally ok and another be unusable, just because of buggy or wierd AML in the acpi tables provided by the BIOS. This isn't just a set of static information, it's a computer program in a special restricted machine language stored in the BIOS that the OS runs - see a disassembled version with acpidump. With white box systems these appear to usually be provided by the BIOS vendor then tweaked, with varying levels of competence, by the OEM. So without someone having the same system, BIOS version, settings in the BIOS configuration screens, etc, you won't get more than most things on the board are likely to work (and that's already the case with most PC hardware). http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#45 indeed, thank you for the insight! ~jason
Re: brgphy(4) diff needs testing. | hijacked thread: jetway nf76-n1g5
-- 401.837.8417 jasonbeaud...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.orgwrote: On 2009-08-29, Jason Beaudoin jasonbeaud...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya Kevin, I'm hoping this dmesg is from a jetway NF76-N1G: http://www.mini-box.com/Jetway-NF76-N1G6-mini-ITX_2 try again. might you know what it actually is? (curious) I'm trying to determine which (if any) chips from this board might be a problem in openbsd. Between this dmesg (which shares some of the chipsets) and a few snippets I've seen elsewhere it looks good, the only thing I haven't determined is the sound chipset. ~jason
Hardware compatibility question : VIA VX 800 chipset
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Benjamin G. aza...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I would like to buy a motherboard based on Via Nano and VX 800 chipset. Before buying this motherboard I would like to be sure that OpenBSD works well on it. This is the motherboard Jetway JNF76 VIA NANO 1GHz and here is the specs : Did you have any luck with this? I'm considering the same system.. Cheers, ~Jason
Re: Hardware compatibility question : VIA VX 800 chipset
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Benjamin GUERIN aza...@gmail.com wrote: No, I didn't receive any response from the list and I have given up this project for now.So I still don't know if OpenBSD works on it. Benjamin. Thanks for the reply! From what I can tell: - the NIC (RTL8111C) is supported by re(4), there may still be an issue with jumbo frames - not something that should concern a desktop/home server user.. - audio is the VIA VT1708B, I've only found references to alsa, so this may or may not work.. the dmesg below suggests azalia support? - this appears to be the board, and very promising: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2009-06/0681.html - this dmesg points out: VIA VX800 IOAPIC rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 0 function 5 not configured - not much of a surprise knowing APIC, but other APIC devices came up - not sure what this is referring to, but this may be an issue for CF readers (available through the add-in daughter cards): VIA VX800 SD/MMC rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 not configured Looks promising.. ~jason
Re: brgphy(4) diff needs testing.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Kevin Lo ke...@openbsd.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 01:06 -0400, Brad wrote: Please test the following diff for brgphy(4), especially for bge(4). Also for bnx(4) and gem(4), any other NICs if I've forgotten any. Seems to be working fine. Please send a full dmesg. OpenBSD 4.5-current (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jun 11 14:05:05 CST 2009 r...@via:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 938213376 (894MB) avail mem = 898895872 (857MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0xfb7e0 (47 entries) bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version 1.0A-0008-0523 date 02/26/2009 bios0: iDOT Computers, Inc. iDOT VED8900 Series. acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC MCFG OEMB HPET SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices PS2K(S3) PS2M(S3) P0P4(S4) PWRB(S3) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: VIA Nano processor u1...@1000+mhz, 1296.94 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,VMX,EST,TM2,CX16,xTPR,NXE,FFXSR,LONG cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 16-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 16-way D-cache, 1MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu0: ITLB 128 4KB entries 8-way cpu0: DTLB 128 4KB entries 8-way cpu0: RNG AES AES-CTR SHA1 SHA256 cpu0: apic clock running at 203MHz ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 1 pa 0xfec0, version 3, 24 pins ioapic1 at mainbus0 apid 2 pa 0xfecc, version 3, 24 pins acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (P0P4) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C2, PSS acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 94 degC acpibtn0 at acpi0: SLPB acpibtn1 at acpi0: PWRB acpibtn2 at acpi0: LID_ acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT0 model NBP3A62-3S1P serial 093E type Li-ion acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpivideo0 at acpi0: VGA_ acpivout0 at acpivideo0: CRT_ acpivout1 at acpivideo0: LCD_ cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1296 MHz: speeds: 1300, 1200, 1100, 1000, 900, 800 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 VIA VX800 Host rev 0x12 pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 VIA VX800 Host rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 VIA VX800 Host rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 VIA VX800 DRAM rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 0 function 4 VIA VX800 Host rev 0x00 VIA VX800 IOAPIC rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 0 function 5 not configured pchb5 at pci0 dev 0 function 6 VIA VX800 Host rev 0x00 pchb6 at pci0 dev 0 function 7 VIA VX800 Host rev 0x00 vga1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 VIA Chrome9 HC3 IGP rev 0x11 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) sdhc0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 VIA VX800 SDIO rev 0x10: apic 1 int 22 (irq 11) sdmmc0 at sdhc0 sdmmc1 at sdhc0 VIA VX800 SD/MMC rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 not configured pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 VIA CX700 IDE rev 0x00: ATA133, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: ST9160310AS wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152627MB, 312581808 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0xa0: apic 1 int 20 (irq 11) uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0xa0: apic 1 int 22 (irq 7) uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0xa0: apic 1 int 21 (irq 6) ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 4 VIA VT6202 USB rev 0x90: apic 1 int 23 (irq 11) usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 VIA EHCI root hub rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 viapm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 VIA VX800 ISA rev 0x00 iic0 at viapm0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-5300CL5 SO-DIMM pchb7 at pci0 dev 17 function 7 VIA VX800 Host rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 VIA VX800 PCI-PCI rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 bge0 at pci1 dev 5 function 0 Broadcom BCM5788 rev 0x03, BCM5705 A3 (0x3003): apic 1 int 18 (irq 6), address 00:1e:33:17:f0:4f brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5705 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 2 azalia0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 VIA HD Audio rev 0x20: apic 1 int 17 (irq 7) azalia0: codecs: Realtek ALC262 audio0 at azalia0 usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 VIA UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 VIA UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 VIA UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 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 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker spkr0 at pcppi0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uvideo0 at uhub0 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0 Importek Corp.
Re: Winbind Samba on OpenBSD
The major advantage of Winbind is that it automagically enumerates your ADS users and binds them to UIDs on your *nix box. I've not worked with ypldap specifically, but IIRC it's going to require that the Win server have an NIS server aboard with UIDs already mapped. See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/r2/unixinterop/default.mspx for info on the ADS NIS server. If you're just looking for authentication and don't mind creating the individual users on your OpenBSD system, just use Kerberos.It's a much simpler and resilient setup. -HKS yea.. I'm looking to serve files to a set of AD-authenticated windows users, and based on my understanding of the various constraints involved (between yldap, nfs, samba/winbind, etc and openbsd), it looks like a samba/AD-auth'd serve is better setup on FreeBSD - unless there is another suggestion? Cheers! ~Jason
Re: Winbind Samba on OpenBSD
Did you have a look at www.kernel-panic.it ? There are some tutorials. yes, there's some helpful info for samba, but I haven't yet seen anything related to winbind.. unless my google foo needs some work.
Winbind Samba on OpenBSD
Hiya, I'm considering using OpenBSD in a way that would need to run Samba and Winbind to authenticate users against a windows 2003 active directory. In the searching I've done so far, it doesn't appear like too many folks are using OpenBSD to do this (though there's enough out there to suggest it, nothing really recent though). Thus, I am curious: Is anyone currently successfully running Samba/Winbind on OpenBSD, and if so, is the configuration pretty standard to what Samba/Winbind require on other BSDs? I'd much rather use OpenBSD here than Free, so I'm simply looking for some confirmation that this is possible, workable, and sensible for production use. Thanks! Regards, ~Jason
Re: Winbind Samba on OpenBSD
Geoff, Thanks for the reply! On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Geoff g...@lib.oat.com wrote: Is anyone currently successfully running Samba/Winbind on OpenBSD, and if so, is the configuration pretty standard to what Samba/Winbind require on other BSDs? I've been using Samba successfully for years. The small amount I've used various M$ authentication schemes have also worked OK. Making sure user IDs and so on are congruent across machines is sometimes a pain; once that's set up it works. to clarify.. you are using Samba, or Samba Winbind? ~Jason
Re: atheros 5424 wireless chipset
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:46 PM, jimerickso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does openbsd current have support for the atheros 5424 wireless chipset? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/atheros-5424-wireless-chipset-tp20610633p20610633.html Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com. from ath(4): The ath driver provides support for wireless network devices based on the Atheros AR5210, AR5211, and AR5212 chips. I don't know if there are other drivers that support other chipsets, but either way, you can check the manpage, you can also check the supported hardware list off www.openbsd.org regards, ~Jason
Re: Research for a Software Security paper
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Jose de Paula Eufrasio Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, before anything else, I did read all material about the OpenBSD security policies on the website. Now I am trying to get some more insider insight on it. Writing a paper about open source software security and not including OpenBSD case is kinda idiot so I am running against time to find more info. I don't believe you'll adequately summarize or even fully understand, what makes OpenBSD succeed where it has, with a 5 question survey.. particularly the questions you've asked. spending time in the community sure will expose these characteristics though. in my opinion, the problem is that you are rating the success of these projects based on meaningless points. for example: 4) How the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects deal with security problems and vulnerabilities found on the wild? Are the OpenBSD and OpenSSH discovered vulnerabilities full disclosed or are they worked under a blanket until fixed? Security fixes are rapidly developed and integrated on the current released version or only for a next release? from my humble perspective, these sorts of things are *NOT* what make for success, this is the corporate mentality. it's the philosophies (or difference from others) that have brought success. either way, understanding the philosophical differences we (the developers, the project as a whole, and the community of users) have from other projects might lend you your best guest. if I were to make a suggestion, (aside from getting what you can out of the official website) combing through the misc@ archives for cases where both openbsd developers and users have spoken up, capturing the essence of what sets openbsd apart. I could give you a list of such threads that come to mind, but I think you should seek these out yourself, this is a research paper right? best of luck, ~Jason
Re: PF and the old SIP issue
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Mikel Lindsaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:44 AM, marrandy [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008 09:07:31 you wrote: OpenBSD PF firewall consisting of ext, DMZ, internal/private interfaces. VOIP server sitting in the DMZ. Multiple (pick any number, 5, 10, 100) SIP phones in the private LAN. Multiple mobile (pick any number, 5, 10, 100) SIP phones anywhere in the USA. (NOTE: Mobile means they are carried and plugged in anywhere, but are programmed with the static IP gateway address. How would you create a working pf.conf file so everything 'just works'. Sounds like a lot of work. I need to go and hit the asterisk list. I'll let you know if I find anything out. FWIW I run about 8 asterisk servers behind openbsd firewalls. I have found the most non-problematic way to run them has been by using the asterisk servers as a SIP proxy for your SIP clients and making sure that canreinvite in asterisk is turned off, this increases your load on the asterisk server, but I haven't found that to be a real problem. sounds like a great article for undeadly.org! :)
Re: smtpd - developer blog on undeadly
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 13.11.2008 at 18:17:24 +0100, RC)mi Bougard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you who where asking informations about (open ?)smtpd : Gilles Chehade writes a long and clear text about it on undeadly.org : http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20081112084647 what about using this: http://smtpd.develooper.com/ It's BSD licensed, too. Kind regards, --Toni++ it's remarks like these that give the rest of misc a bad rap. did you lose your appreciation for the work *others* do, or what's the problem? ~Jason
Re: 3.8 stable to 4.4 snapshot and the system is about 95% in interrupts with tcpdump on em(82541GI)
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Denis Doroshenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, upgraded a box from 3.8 stable to 4.4 snapshot and am wondering now, why it is hogged with interrupts when i run tcpdump on em0. According to vmstat iterrupt rate is more or less the following: snip re upgraded from 3.8 to 4.4 snapshot: how (explicitly) did you do this? is this a fresh install? or an actual upgrade? if it was an upgrade, did you go from 3.8-3.9---4.4, or did you fudge from 3.8 -- 4.4 with a snapshot? cheers, ~Jason
Re: (open)smtpd, the mystery smtpd daemon
snip I am willing to give it hundreds of hours of my time because it is a fun and interesting project, and I have free time. As to the rest of the mail, I can't be bothered to answer it all, mostly because I disliked the tone of it. If you want to know if it is ESMTP or if it has chroot/privsep/whatever, you can either grep the sources or be patient and wait until I write something up for undeadly, or ask it with a less aggressive tone as I don't owe you any of my time. Gilles -- Gilles Chehade http://www.poolp.org/~gilles/ Please, contribute to my happiness ;) http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2O09ACKR1A8HD/ while I wasn't a fan of the tone that came across in the original email, I too am curious about this new development (and I have complete confidence that smtpd will be a far better piece of work for OpenBSD's needs :) so, I would like to express my excitement and anticipation over a future undeadly article, or whatever type of communication you send forth, if it happens. If not, I look forward to stmpd's progress. thank you for the great work! oh.. is the stuffed puffy (seen in your photos) available for purchase? I threw out my stress-tux, but my speaker needs a replacement toy :P thanks and appreciation for sharing your work and time! ~Jason
Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK
Your negativity sucks. Porting Java to OpenBSD was and is not a trivial effort. It also serves as an excellent test bed for threads, the runtime linker and large memory applications. Porting Java to OpenBSD enabled the LOCKSS project to use it for its noble goals. It uncovered deadlocks in our pthread lib that resulted in large improvements to libpthread. Its use of dlopen() and friends resulted in significant improvements in our runtime linker. Oh and who made those improvements??? The same person who took the time to port Java to OpenBSD!! Me and other OpenBSD developers who saw the need to improve things. BTW, all those system level improvements have made significant stability gains for applications like firefox, KDE, OpenOffice, Asterisk, etc, etc which all use threads and dlopen() alot. Quite frankly I'm pretty upset at all the 'Java sucks' banter on misc. If you and the other naysayers don't realize that porting Java to OpenBSD was a 'Good-Thing' then you are just UNINFORMED! -Kurt Any negativity shed on misc@ or elsewhere shall never be enough to overcome how much you folks rock, and how much appreciation had for the work we all invest in progressing this system we love so much! So thank you, to all, saying it is never enough, let's hack :) Cheers, ~Jason
Re: Need some information...
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:17 PM, mojo fms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sadly it needs to be realtime syncing. I found a program called Fileschanged but its limited by the amount of files it can monitor, I was hoping for a file system based one that can watch the real time files system changes and then maybe call rsync to update the file on the replication client server. I basically need it to update everything with the exception of ports and dev. Is there another program similar to fileschanged that could could report directories as well? what is the higher-level goal you are really trying to accomplish? It sounds like maybe that can be reconsidered for a better solution? share your situation here, maybe someone has a good idea or another path.. cheers, ~Jason
Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?
snip This sounds great! I think we should take this off list perhaps to stop boring people. Bye misc@ I am certainly interested in your results though, maybe you can update us in the end? thanks! ~Jason
Re: cross-compiling for NetBSD?
Nick and Ted,
Thank you for the responses.
The warning never kills the process. That warning is generated by
OpenBSD's modified ld(1). It looks like the error is in a shellscript
(perhaps `nbmake`?). Probably something is getting generated wrong
because OpenBSD doesn't work the way NetBSD's tools expect, but it's
hard to say any more.
awesome, and you are correct, nbmake was the offending process.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/17/08, Jason Beaudoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
has anyone attempted (maybe with success) building a NetBSD toolchain
on OpenBSD?
This would fall more into the NetBSD camp. After all, it's their toolchain.
indeed.. I sought out assistance in #netbsd, getting only childish responses.
make: illegal argument to -d option -- e
usage: make [-BeiknPqrSst] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-f makefile]
[-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable]
[NAME=value] [target ...]
dir.o(.text+0x54e): In function 'DirExpandCurly':
: warning: strcpy() is almost always misused, please use strlcpy()
/bin/sh: syntax error: `(' unexpected
This means your executable was not identified, and the kernel passed
it off as a shell script.
with some help from #netbsd-code and ktrace, we were able to determine
that nbmake uses uname to get information about the system.
This build script breaks the posix standards with uname -p, which on
NetBSD, prints MACHINE_ARCH.. where as uname -p on OpenBSD prints the
extended processor information.. this is where that extraneous ( came
from.
Changing uname -p to -m in the build script got me past this error,
but I now have others to sort through :)
I'll post here if I get this working, simply for the archives.
Thanks again Ted and Nick.
regards,
~Jason
Re: cross-compiling for NetBSD?
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:27 AM, dermiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and what about NetBSD on qemu ? sure you'll get speed loss, but you won't have to worry about inconsistencies ... it is certainly another option, though I feel rather involved at this point, and interested in fixing what ever is broken. :P ~Jason
Re: Memory not detected
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:59 AM, John Nietzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear OpenBSD user, i am installing openbsd 4.3 on a dell poweredge 2900 hardware. It has 8GB RAM but openbsd seems to detect only 4 GB. Any suggestions on this matter (i would like to have openbsd detecting 8 GB)? what arch are you trying to install with? amd64? have you looked at the apci options? regards, ~Jason
Re: UPDATE: mozilla-firefox-3.0
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have done just fine without flash for years. For me it is very simple; if your site has flash it means: 1. I suddenly don't care 2. I will not purchase anything from you 3. I'll find alternatives who make my experience better 4. I'll save some time by not watching some retarded video It wouldn't be the first business/site I abandon. It wouldn't be the first site at work that I simply reply to originators saying: sorry can't view the content. and I agree. my point is that there are many times, particularly in artistic communitities, where this simply does not apply. and no, I could not care less about the flash ladies. Regards, ~Jason
Re: GPL version 4
Most of the people who have replied seem to be missing the point. I just don't know what you brought the discussion to this mailing list. If it is of serious concern to you, and if you haven't realized that he probably won't care (or agree), talk to rms about this. Either way, it's all your freedom of choice. But bringing the conversation here seemed pointless. Regards, ~Jason
cross-compiling for NetBSD?
Hiya!
maybe I'll get flames for inquiring, but I'll try anyway:
has anyone attempted (maybe with success) building a NetBSD toolchain
on OpenBSD?
I understand that this might seem senseless to some folks, but it's a
good option for my situation. From the research I've done (archives,
google, etc) it doesn't appear that others have tried (or documented
trying), but I find it hard to believe that this hasn't been attempted
before.
I'd like to do this for the same reason you would cross-compile for
another architecture; I've got to build NetBSD kernels for
development, the system is currently running on seriously underpowered
hardware, and I've got my more powerful (and idle) OpenBSD workstation
sitting next to me (I'm perfectly happy with OpenBSD and not putting
NetBSD on my workstation :)
NetBSD has a build script that facilitates building the system,
including cross-compilation situations. Aside from make complaining
about options for -d (about printing errors), I ran into the
following:
make: illegal argument to -d option -- e
usage: make [-BeiknPqrSst] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-f makefile]
[-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable]
[NAME=value] [target ...]
dir.o(.text+0x54e): In function `DirExpandCurly':
: warning: strcpy() is almost always misused, please use strlcpy()
/bin/sh: syntax error: `(' unexpected
ERROR: raw_getmakevar TOOLDIR: /tmp/nbbuild22761/nbmake failed
*** BUILD ABORTED ***
in this case, is the strcpy() string warning killing the build
process? If so, can it be suppressed for the build? Should I hack the
build script to use gmake?
any and all thoughts welcome,
thanks..
~Jason
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Re: UPDATE: mozilla-firefox-3.0
snip This guy's day job is at a bank, and they're really into it-- it solves a number of problems for them. So if this is the kind of thing that developers are going to pick up en masse, then it's something that will need to be addressed, else people who won't or can't run Flash will be increasingly marginalized. Flash is only good for a few things such as naked ladies performing anatomic tricks, dude getting punched in the ding-dong Trogodor the burninator. Nothing makes me happier than visiting a website and having some ad puking its irrelevant content on me. What's perplexing to me is that most people sit idle watching the internet as we know it disintegrate in front of their eyes. Allowing themselves to be bombarded with ads. Removing the actual reason for why html exists which is indexing content so that it can be retrieved and used by many. Those people are all ok with being shat on as long as they can watch youtube or $whatever_infantile_site_here. The 14 year old demographic is apparently the dominating one on teh intartubez these days. I for one can't wait to be marginalized. While I agree with you in many respects, I will also acknowledge that there are plenty of legitimate cases where viewing flash content is necessary. This is particularly true in artistic communities (and increasingly so, for the reasons Daniel pointed out). Flash sure is shit, I'll agree.. and philosophically, I believe its use continues its proliferation by adobe.. but regardless, casting it all off isn't a viable solution. For example, if a site has information I absolutely need to access (maybe you're researching a particular artist or company that uses flash on their site, etc..) your options are to either not view that content, attempt opera or gnash or some other broken open alternative, or boot up windows. Not viewing the content doesn't help you. opera and/or gnash are close options, sometimes booting windows is not an option I feel good about even considering, and as soon as I give away this extra laptop I have, there won't be any windows here. so protest if you must, but I hope you can acknowledge a user's legitimate use, as opposed to adobe's horrific domination, or spammer's obsession with inducing seizures. regards, ~Jason -- 401.837.8417 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Google in shell - looks interesting
2008/6/4 Tomas Bodzar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://goosh.org while borderline useless in some respects, it's a tremendously interesting concept. :D thanks! (sorry Marti for that last message..) -- IEEE Student Branch President Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA. 02115 401.837.8417 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M
I talked with the nvidia guy and he assured me that there is no way that they'll fix this in the open source driver. that's rather horrendous.. anymore info on this? Was he referring to the nv developers from being able to figure out the magick? or that his nVidia people were unwilling to intervene? both? so frustrating.. thanks for sharing! regards, ~Jason
Re: Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Leonardo Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damnit, my T61 will arrive next week, and I didn't know how serious this issue was when I ordered the laptop =( I may be stuck with it, since Lenovo takes almost a month to deliver a laptop here in Brazil, and if I decide to change the motherboard, I wouldn't like to even think about the time it would take. How about using the vesa driver instead? I've been using/testing the vesa driver for about a week now with my (older) 6200 PCIex, as I was experiencing similar sporatic lockups in X. My only issue with the vesa driver is support for running mplayer in full screen mode.. no problems other than that. cheers, ~Jason
Re: Rolling release?
wouldn't be in such situation reasonable to switch to s.c. rolling release model - and even more convenient for both devs and users? -- the devs have been hard at work for many years, and I'd be willing to bet that they like the system they've come up with. If they didn't, they'd change it. No harsh intentions, just logic. Regards, ~Jason
Re: Optimising OpenBSD
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks As part of my move from GNU/Linux to OpenBSD on my server, I just want to clarify what I need to do to ensure that I have performance optimised. I am coming from Gentoo Linux, where optimisation is mostly about using the appropriate compiler flags. What one does in Gentoo does not apply to OpenBSD. If I were to use the appropriate base distribution (x86_64), configure my kernel correctly (as per the likes of http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/10/31/OpenBSD.html) and set the appropriate compiler flags, is this all I need to do? Linux mannerisms don't apply either - you're better off with the stock kernel. I'm only really concerned about the base system as I always build all my LAMPP components, Postfix, etc., by hand so that migrating box-to-box can go without [a hitch|many hitches]. At times, PpenBSD doesn't seem as snappy as Linux.. (more so with desktop stuff) but then again, Linux *never* seems as stable. So take your pick. I imagine, if you run the standard OpenBSD system on your servers for some time, you'll be satisfied. Cheers, ~Jason
Re: xenocara source
I'm not concerned about long time users like you or me, or people who are already familiar with UNIX and it's tools. But if this was your very first adventure into CVS, both the docs and ways things work should be clear and correct. As a new user of CVS and maintaining an OpenBSD install, I'm certainly a bit confused about this. Even more so now.. what is the suggested method.. I understand that depends on what you're trying to accomplish: I'm not (yet) modifying any code under /usr/src.. so my goal is simply pulling the -stable repositories and updating my system as needed. thanks! ~Jason
Re: photo/ image viewing software
Cheap USB memory card readers are well recognized as a mass storage device and probably should be the last resort for the most stubborn digital cameras. agreed. Personally, I use Sony Cybershot DSC-W70. Unfortunately the camera can not be mounted directly as a file system. As with quite a few Sony cameras the trick is to put the camera into PTP mode. Once in PTP mode camera memory can be accessed by gphoto2 command line and library of drivers program. I believe that fancy GUI applications as gtkam and digkam are using the same library of drivers. Other people on the list probably correct me if I am wrong. I dunno what luck you've had, but I always ran into problems when trying to transfer movies (and I think larger photos). but as you pointed out.. cheap flash readers work to resolve this. regards, ~Jason
Re: photo/ image viewing software
On Feb 1, 2008 8:24 PM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am after a software that would allow me to view photos from my digital camera which I usually mount in /mnt/camera. I tried from the ports tree: digikam, gphoto, gtkam, kphotoalbum, wmphoto, kamera - none of them really work well in showing the pictures; some of them want to detect my camera when all I want is to view my photos (thumbnails and full size) from /mnt/camera. Anyone would recommend any decent program to do this? Thanks. I usually use gqview for general photo viewing, simple fast, and effective. The underlying assumption here is that you've successfully mounted the camera, which is seen as a mass storage device (sd*) if the camera manufacturer has obfuscated the flash storage behind other stuff, you'd probably do yourself a favor by getting another camera (I've never had good results with those types) Good luck.. ~Jason
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like security on a lot of systems is trying to play catch-up with the latest patches. I I have an enemy, that is exactly where I want him. Seems like long ago OBSD tended to have fixed the latest whatever about 6 months before everybody else woke up to the whatever. Compared to most other systems, methinks you'd come out ahead by waiting for the next CDs and then upgrading. The -release does need to be in place just in case anything critical is actually needed. To paraphrase something or other, Security is never having to patch. Dunno if OBSD is really there yet, but seems like they're close. Well.. I agree in some ways.. though I think I'm a bit too experienced to really know better. That being said, my real goal is to understand the system, how it works, and how development is done, so I'm investing the effort to better understand how to do these things. Kind regards, ~Jason
Re: Real men don't attack straw men
I've been trying for a couple of years to get going a modified version of Firefox that won't offer to install any non-free plug-ins, but we don't have enough people to make this work very well. If you would like to help, please let me know. It is an important project. One last question.. simple: how is this a useful venture of engineering effort? more involved remarks: The people who'll use an application such as this, with these restrictions, won't be installing said non-free software any way... and trying to provide other folks (i.e. the general public, who wouldn't otherwise know better...in that they'll use whatever application they're given) with this type of software is simply upsetting and frustrating for them (what?! no youtube??), resulting in them not wanting to use open source stuff (because they don't know the basic difference in what you've provided versus what opensource, or free software, or whatever we're trying to provide the world, is about, etc).. and *avoiding* applications *they* label as such. Why does that matter? well.. it would seem to me, that it should matter to you because this would effectively work against the software world you are trying to create. Regards, ~Jason
Re: Real men don't attack straw men
What puzzles me is why you think this mistake was a lie, or that it might make me look like a fool. People normally don't call someone a liar, or a fool, because of a little (and tangential) mistake like this. Because someone in your position, with the influence you have, communicating these messages, requires that the information you base these statements on be more accurate, more of the time.. and if anything at least more so than has been displayed in *this* discussion. With greater influence and power comes greater responsibility. Kindest regards, ~Jason
Re: Getting envolved
On Dec 13, 2007 11:11 AM, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you like the current way it works, you should be able to continue with this system. But what if my mum, who has low computer skill, would like to install a free, functional and secure system? I think the software should help her to make the most accurate choices. Because I think my mum too deserves a reliable operating system. :P I disagree. A complex interface implies a lot of code. a lot of code leads to unreliablity, either through bugs or detracting valuable developer time from more important things A simple interface (well designed) imples less code, which leads to reliability. Users who can no invest the effort learn enough to use a simple interface do not deserve a reliable operating system. They deserve windows, and they deserve pop up buttong in their browsers that they click ok blindly for everything. Agreed. and as a relatively new user.. and coming from the linux world. I found the openbsd installer to be the SIMPLEST I have ever used. Setting aside disklayout and slicing, I've yet to give OpenBSD to my fellow students and experience problems. ~J
Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??
On Dec 13, 2007 1:05 PM, Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:07:17PM +, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: First, I'd like to thank those who provided useful responces to my query (which started this thread), both on- and off-list. I had missed the announcement (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-portsm=119347390302171w=1) that -stable ports packages are no longer maintained. As I recall from the FAQ and installation manual, an overall philosphy for OpenBSD is that the package system is the recommended. Users are encouraged to install from binary packages. And regular users should follow the stable branch. Does this still apply. It seems not from this thread, so in what way should a regular user now follow the stable branch? And yes, it should be in the FAQ. Or is this just a temporary setback? As an inexperienced user, I still hear: use the package system. But on -release.. which is *supported.* If security is of the utmost importance, following security announcements and applying patches yourself, as necessary, is the thing to do. The developers have work to do.. which involves continuing development. If you want to use -stable, which is unmaintained/unsupported, use the appropriate cvs repo and build from ports. This is how I've interpreted things, maybe I'm wrong.. but I see no point in bothering developers for package maintenance. They should be able to invest themselves as they see fit, and I'd be willing to bet that more often than not, this work would be in developing the system.. making it better for themselves, and in turn, us. We are free to do as we please. and our beloved developers are not under any support contracts. Let us let them invest themselves as they see fit.. I'm sure we'll all benefit, we have thus far. In turn, let's see where and how we can give back to them. Best regards, ~Jason
Re: Real men don't attack straw men
This is what I've learned - and how my perspective has changed - In following this thread, over the last two days: - Stallman cares more about appearances and outward responses than actions - Stallman is a hypocrite, circles himself within his words, and attempts to confuse others in the process. - Words seem to mean more to Stallman than actions. - Stallman is incapable of admitting any wrong doing. What an ego. - Stallman has yet to actually use OpenBSD, least I have yet to see evidence otherwise - Not only has Theo been awarded the open-whatever award from the FSF, which Stallman seems to play a great role in leading, Theo was also a finalist *two* other years, yet OpenBSD seems to be a problem for Stallman.. - Stallman likes to lose people in speech. - Stallman's arguments make no sense. - Stallman's greatest actions are that of requests. At best, he will ask developers to make the changes which he sees necessary. - Stallman will overlook facts to further prove a failing point. - Theft of BSD code (or any other code for that matter.. and theft in the sense that something has been taken, expanded upon for the greater good of the community, and later cannot be returned to its original owner), means nothing to Stallman when for the greater GPL good. - Stallman cares little about empowering people through code and software, caring more about folks following in his ways.. even when this concerns or involves intellectual theft. - Stallman sees the *use* of a given application or pieces of code as a mechanism that *supports* said application, BUT his use of linux (despite being free of non-free software/code), is seen as not supporting the greater use of Linus' linux itself, which he agrees is non-free - Stallman hasn't looked at (or thought about) his own gcc code in a *long* time Mr. Stallman, while it may mean little to you, it's pretty clear you have made a fool out of yourself on this list. I personally, have lost what respect I had for you. You make no sense. ~Jason
Re: : Real men don't attack straw men
snip If OpenBSD's port tree would be stated to contain only (pointers to) free software, that is the current port tree would be split into a free port tree in the distribution and a non-free tree to download from some other site ready to drop into the free port tree. Then the distribution would be Stallman-kosher. With a not too huge effort. nope. From what I am interpreting, the OS should not (in any way) recommend non-free software. Recommendations would be in the form of acknowledging (in any way) how to install/use non-free software on the OS. If then the installation pages would have links to and explanation about the non-free part of the port tree, I do not know if that would render the whole distribution non-Stallman-kosher. yes. again, from how I have interpreted his (distorted and often twisted) writings. But if there is enough benefit for OpenBSD to be on Stallman's list of free operating systems, to do such a change, that is a completely different question. personally.. I could care less about what he promotes and what he doesn't.. and if individuals can't see through his garbage, that's too bad. Stallman's influence, one way or the other, won't be stopping OpenBSD's efforts.. not as I see it. Regards, ~J
Re: Real men don't attack straw men
On Dec 11, 2007 2:00 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenBSD is by far the most free OS in the landscape. Everything that ships with it is free or else it won't be distributed with it. Yes, that's what I was told. I was also told that OpenBSD's ports system includes non-free programs. Is that accurate too? There is not a single open source OS out there that is more careful than OpenBSD on licensing, copyrights and frivolous patents. Maybe that is true, but it's not the issue I'm talking about. I'm not a supporter of open source anyway; I fight for free software. Ututo and gNewSense have the policy not to include non-free programs, not even in a ports system. Thus, they don't do anything that contradicts the philosophy of free software. That's why I can recommend them. While I completely understand this point of view - and (more importantly) the motivation behind such decisions - what I am hearing from you is that an individual's (or project's) actions in fighting *against* proprietary and the closed-source mentality (whether it's a blob, no documentation, not considering NDA's etc..) is *less* important than whether or not users are allowed the *freedom* to add in software, that might possibly not follow these other goals.. This I simply don't understand. We are fighting for the same thing. And you cast the OpenBSD project out because there are users that invest the effort to provide other users ports that may or may not follow the *projects* goals and work? Mr. Stallman, it is with great respect that I say these things, as I believe your noble efforts in these areas are commendable and have had a great influence on our communities, but I do not understand the discrepancies here. Unlinke linux OpenBSD does not contain proprietary firmware blobs in the distribution. Torvalds' version of Linux is not free software, for this reason. Ututo and gNewSense include a version of Linux which remove the firmware blobs, in order to make it free software. that's awesome, can users add these back in if they choose? is your project worthless because of these users 'actions? kind regards, Jason
Re: Real men don't attack straw men
RMS, Given what I've read, listened to, and specifically what you've said here: From what I have heard, OpenBSD does not contain non-free software (though I am not sure whether it contains any non-free firmware blobs). However, its ports system does suggest non-free programs, or at least so I was told when I looked for some BSD variant that I could recommend. I therefore exercise my freedom of speech by not including OpenBSD in the list of systems that I recommend to the public. ..maybe you should look into the OpenBSD project, methods, and the end result - not necessarily to promote OpenBSD in some way, because I don't believe anyone here sees value in that - but to educate yourself, rather than speak from what someone else has commented on, or little bits of cursory research. I think it's difficult getting a sense of what OpenBSD stands for without having used the OS itself, or what it provides. I could recommend OpenBSD privately with a clear conscience to someone I know will not install those non-free programs, but it is rare that I am asked for such recommendations, and I know of no practical reason to prefer OpenBSD to gNewSense. the ultimate freedom is that of free choice. As I've seen, the OpenBSD developers have fought tooth-and-nail, in many cases to the bitter end, to provide the cleanest and freest operating system available. It is coherent, and cohesive. In some cases, it's frustrating, simply because support for non-free entities are sketchy or flat-out aren't available. But at the same time, the opportunity remains open for folks to implement their non-free whatevers if they so choose, though they probably won't get the support of the developers, they may get support from other users.. all of us are working with varying levels of conviction and outside influences. That being said, I believe those of the developers, many openbsd users, are stricter and more focused any other single group of computer users. again.. my words come from my perspective, from what I've heard/read on this list and across the internet, as well as my experiences in using windows, linux, *BSD, and seeing the effects of these sorts of issues even in the non-technical areas of our lives. So again.. I think OpenBSD should be tried and explored before being labeled. Thank you for your time, ~Jason
Re: OT: OpenBSD on Asus eeePC
I just bought one to play and hack around with, I'll let ya'll know how the experiment goes when it comes in! ~Jason
Re: Instant Messenger client
snip Gaim? It's compatible with AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise, and Zephyr networks. And simple enough to use. Note that as of gaim's 2.0 release, the project has been renamed to pidgin I've been using it in linux for quite some time now with no problems, but I am not sure how it runs on openbsd (though I'd expect no issues). ~Jason
Re: No i partition when connecting camera to USB
On 5/30/07, Martin Toft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When connecting a Nikon Coolpix L10 camera to my laptop via USB, no i partition shows up: snip Check out the gphoto2 libraries, there are a couple qt/gtk based gui frontends to extract the photos. Most of these cameras have proprietary methods of accessing the memory card in an attempt to convolute the process..so you often won't see the memory card as a sd* device..like you should. I also picked up a simple memory card reader from newegg, because while I could extract photos through the gphoto method, mpeg movies liked to crash the various apps I tried. Good luck. ~Jason
Re: openbsd on a geode
And PC Engines WRAP boards, too, but neither it nor the Soekris net4801 units are as small as what the other person is looking at. Greg Nor as feature-packed..these little Geode boards end up having quite a list of devices/chips integrated into the system. ~J -- IEEE Student Branch President Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA. 02115 401.837.8417 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: openbsd on a geode
snip hahaha.. I actually *just* started working on getting OpenBSD on the geode. I picked up one of these (used): http://www.alptech.com/html/embedded/em_351a.htm where did you buy it from, and how much was it, if you don't mind me asking? Found it around the engineering firm I have been working for ;) I got lucky. These things aren't cheap. Industrial grade We have 3, I have one, another guy got one, and the third will be swapped if either of ours is toast. If both of ours are bricked, I'm out. But I'll let you know how it all goes :D Cheers, Jason
Re: Recommendation for a UPS
- Fresh install of 4.1 (as soon as my copy gets here) - I Will probably be using nut to shutdown the server. I'm trying to find something that won't require too much configs/poking around. I'm not looking for something fancy either, I just need enough juice to shutdown the server properly when the electricity goes out. What are your power requirements? Just a single server? How big of a system are we talking about? ...mainframe, onyx, or a single opteron? Regards, ~Jason
Re: iwi firmware error on snapshot
On 4/7/07, James Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running OpenBSD -current from the snapshot dated 04-06. Everytime I bring my thinkpad x40 out of sleep I get iwi0: fatal firmware error. I'm running the generic kernel and have a intel 2200bg card. Yep..the card sucks. I have the same issues on 4.0. ~J -- IEEE Student Branch President Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA. 02115 401.837.8417 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: obsd with soekris as On board computer
On 4/2/07, Raul Aldaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc, Does any body know of any experience mounting this in a vehicle? I would like to use it to provide wireless internet access with something like a Merlin or Novatel pcmcia card. What sort of specifics do you have in mind..physically mounting? Type of chasis? Where to put it, considerations to make when mounting a computer inside a car? or something specific to the soekris? ~J
Re: iwi0: XXX too many rates (count=13, last=108)
can anyone please give me some knowledge on this: # dmesg iwi0: XXX too many rates (count=13, last=108) snip I've had nothing but problems with my iwi card: iwi0 at pci2 dev 3 function 0 Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG rev 0x05: irq 11, addr ess 00:0e:35:53:ed:56 cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0 cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 3 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0x20 pcmcia0 at cardslot0 When I've got the card enabled, and are around ap's that have auth/encryption, the card freaks out. dmesg is slowly filled with authentication and firmware errors. I ended simply picking up an orinoco pcmcia card for cheap.. uses the madwifi driver in linux, wi in BSD..works wonderfully. Cheers, Jason
Re: Are Atheros AR5005G Wifi Network Adapter and Marvell Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller supported?
On 3/26/07, Tito Mari Francis Escaqo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! I need to know if Atheros AR5005G Wifi Network Adapter and Marvell Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller are already supported in OBSD 4.0 or will be in the next release. Have you checked the hardware compatibility page? http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware I bought me a laptop built-in with these and I'd love to have OpenBSD on it rather than any other OS. ::yay::
Re: adding X11 libraries after the fact
On 3/20/07, Lars D. Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I excluded X11 from an installation of OpenBSD 4.0 and now find that some packages I would use seem to depend on some of the X11 libraries. What is the best way to resolve package dependencies and/or install X11? I believe this is covered in the FAQ..but you can simply boot an install cd. Also check the archives for misc@ Regards, Jason
Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?
wget? and no..your subject does not say it all..I interpreted that as file manager, as in mc, xfe, nautilus, etc.. On 3/20/07, Leonardo Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone =) So, the title says it all. Anyone know a nice download manager utility for OpenBSD? Something along the lines of downloader 4 X for linux, or maybe even something like flashget/getright from the Windows world. I get the feeling that a nice download manager is a rare sight in the Unix world... not a bad assumption.. though wget works great for me.. Cheers, Jason
Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops
snip Everything is much slower than existing Linux system. For example, Firefox takes 3-5 seconds to start on Linux but ~10 seconds on OpenBSD on same machine! I have the same problem. The FFS doesn't seem to be as fast as ext2. The issue is not filesystem speed, but rather prelinking and the differences in how libraries are loaded. Trying comparing transfer times for a given set of (differing) files on both filesystems.. Regards, ~J -- IEEE Student Branch President Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA. 02115 401.837.8417 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient on a Sokeris
The only solution I see right now is making a script that watches for a dhclient process, and then manually starts it whenever it goes away. This doesn't seem that elegant in my mind. What about a simple program that checks for a network link, then call dhclient? I dunno if you could do something like that with a script..but I believe this would be relatively easy with a little C. :D Cheers, Jason
Re: OpenSSH 4.6 released?
Read the article more carefully; And you should check more sources before making assumptions. thought #2: maybe you are misinterpreting what the article is saying? OpenSSH 4.6 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly. ^^^ Released may not be used properly, but the article makes it clear it's not actually available yet. What about the possibility of the author covering for delay in propagation? The mirror servers do sync off of one *another* Think before you come to conclusions, then argue about them. Regards, Jason --- Consider yourself wrong, before assuming others are.
Re: Wireless PCI card recommendation needed
Could someone please recommend an 802.11g card that as a stronger transmit power? Or another card they have had good success with? I use an orinoco card in my laptop..works wonderfully. Under linux the madwifi driver is used, wi0 in OpenBSD. I know you're looking for a pci card; I would look for cards based off of the same chip. Here is the relevant info from dmesg.. wi0 at pcmcia0 function 0 Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE, Version 01.01 port 0xa000/64 wi0: Firmware 8.72 variant 1, address 00:02:2d:8a:d5:31 good luck, Jason -- IEEE Student Branch President Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA. 02115 401.837.8417 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST)
On 3/7/07, Claus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the new daylight saving times for the US effect an generic OpenBSD installation with a US time zone (e.g. US/Central) that has not been patched with the 009_timezone.patch? Do things change if ntpd is being used? The timezone data is simply a set of dates and times to tell the system when to switch to/from DST. So without the patch, the system will not make any changes. Ntpd won't change this, as the DST change occurs on the next level. (i.e. ntp sets the system time, the system will then change that time based on the DST settings) please correct me if I am wrong.. Either way, you need that patch for things to work smoothly, and it isn't a difficult update to make. Regards, Jason
Re: ctrl+alt+del reboot
On 3/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: guys what file should i need to edit so that if i'm going to press ctrl alt del my box will just reboot? Have you checked either the FAQ or mailing list archives? What does google have to say? ~J
Re: OT: parallel programming book recs
On 3/6/07, Bret Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the OT post, but I wanted to pick the list's hive mind as to any recommendations for solid, in-depth references for parallel programming. College-level textbooks would be preferred. While I don't have any good suggestions for books specifically, I ended up resorting to the numerous white papers found online and in various technical publications (IEEE, supercomputing, etc). Unfortunately, documentation in the clustering and supercomputing industries is rather poor, difficult to find, and/or highly specific to that group's research. I did a fair amount of research on this topic last year for a cluster at my school, and found generic information in short supply. I would also consider looking directly at the MPI library as a good place to start.. Goodluck, ~J -- IEEE Student Branch President Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA. 02115 401.837.8417 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh in to a qemu guest
On 3/5/07, Lars D. Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qemu is now running on an OpenBSD host, with Debian as the guest system. I can reach the net from inside the guest systems. What changes must be made to the networking on the host so that I can ssh *into* the guest systems from outside? Depends on whether how the networking has been setup for qemu; if the guest system has it's own ip..use ssh like you would otherwise. If the guest shares an IP with the host, well then, you'll have to look into qemu's configuration - something I'm not terribly familiar with. VMware also has an option for host - guest only networking..but if you've got the debian guest connected to the net already..I'm assuming this isn't setup. Good luck ~Jason
Re: nv(4) driver on nVidia 7600GS card.
On 3/1/07, Sunnz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I am keen to be a tester, any documentation on how does one test and send useful information to the port maintainer? (Will be getting -current, but that's only the first step.) I have learnt C from college as well, so I like to do a bit of code too if I can... any documentation on how Xorg was ported and such? Linkage would be good. Thanks. you could start with x: http://www.X.org no? ~J 2007/3/1, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:22:22AM +0100, Andreas Maus wrote: On 3/1/07, Sunnz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an nVidia 7600GS Graphics card, and attempted to get it to work with the NV(4) driver. This is not a hardware problem. It is the nv driver. I had similar problems with my 7800GS. The thread was discussed here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=116017301426487w=2 As a workaround you have to use the vesa driver till we have X 7.x P.S.: By the way ... will we switch to X 7.x in 4.1 ? The vesa driver can be annoying, because I can't watch movies in fullscreen with mplayer. ;) No, but you can already use 7.1 in -current. (To help with testing, obviously, and some stuff is still broken. So it's not a good idea if you want the easy way out. Xenocara, and 7.1, will be merged as soon as 4.1 is sent to the CD guys). Joachim -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- IEEE Student Branch President Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA. 02115 401.837.8417 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Issues on Dell Inspirion 6400 with wpi (3945ABG) + WEP on current (+-ACPI)
Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: Hello misc@, on my quest to promote OpenBSD I found a new user today, but we ran into some issues concerning wpi. The laptop is a Dell Inspirion 6400. snip I have a similar Dell Inspiron 8600 currently running 4.0 I too have had a difficult time with the built-in WiFi card (using the iwi driver). It's a piece of junk Intel that simply *cannot* and encrypted traffic/communication. I can use the device just fine when connecting to an ap without any encryption enabled. But just being in the presence of an ap supporting the secure communication, iwi spits out Firmware and Authentication Errors. Eventually I came across an orinoco based card that uses the wi driver (madwifi in linux). So far my week has been great :D I would just pick up a similar, well-supported pcmcia card and avoid the Intel hardware. Cheers, Jason
Re: iwi unknown authentication state 1
I'd like to say this is amusing..but it really isn't. I too receive the same kernel messages from my iwi interface, though on a Dell Inspiron 8600. The variety I see: iwi0: fatal firmware error iwi0: unknown authentication state 1 This is among one of the many reasons [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be taken out of existance. Cheers, Jason
Re: Dedicated OpenBSD web hosting.
On 2/5/07, Francisco Valladolid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. Dedicated OpenBSD web Hosting ?, In the past this theme has been too discussed. Now I want to know if some people have experience using some OpenBSD web hosting in dedicated enviroment such as www.servepronto.com or some other. if any, please let me know, I'm searching a good service running OpenBSD for migrate a old Linux server If it has been too discussed, why are we discussing it any further? Do you have specific questions or issues that you are having difficulty with? Regards, Jason
Re: [OpenSSH] an option for setting the login name?
snip On the other hand, if options cannot be specified after the hostname I doubt this patch will be really useful. I would like being able to type something like sftp hostname -l username (most times I type -l username because I missed the username when I was typing the hostname and do not want to edit the command.) Might want to take a look at zsh and it's *powerful* autocomplete functionality. Super customizable. When I ssh, I am able to tab complete usernames, hostnames, and (through the use of keychain/ssh-agent) even directories on the remote system. snip Regards, Jason
