Climbing the learning curve, in baby steps.
Hello fellow BSDians, I know it's baby steps, but I am, I thnk, off to a good start in climbing the learning curve of using OpenBSD. I set myself the dual goals of getting the src tree and the ports tree onto the box. Well, early in my Tuesday (14 July, 2009) I accomplished those goals. I feel pretty darn good about it!! My next goal is to get pf setup and get this box operational as a Firewall/NAT box. Which was the original intent of putting OpenBSD onto it in the first place. Have a great week everyone!! Sincerely and Respectfully Yours, Wayne M. Scace
Re: Climbing the learning curve, in baby steps.
Richard Toohey wrote: While I'm sure everyone is very happy for you, can I respectfully ask that your postings are a bit more technical in nature? Thanks. Hello Richard, Sure, I'll bear that in mind in the future. Wayne
Re: tmux vs screen questions
Hello, What exactly is tmux? Thanks in advance Wayne
Re: tmux vs screen questions
Bret S. Lambert wrote: It's a floor wax...*and* a dessert topping! ROFL!! Thanks for the laugh Bret! It's good to see someone else has a sense of humour in this group. Wayne
Re: dmesg, the whole enchilada
Brynet wrote: Hi, If you read the man page as Stuart suggested, you would know that placing the card into a different slot would not help at all. The Davicom interfaces require a grossly high PCI latency timer value to function properly. This means when a Davicom adapter is present in the machine, it is given an unfairly high amount of bandwidth on the PCI bus, unnecessarily taking time away from other devices. Therefore, Davicom network cards are not recommended for use with OpenBSD. Be careful; some motherboards have Davicom interfaces built-in. Also, the modem in your system is a Winmodem.. so even if you wanted to use ppp/pppd, you couldn't. -Brynet Hi Brynet, I did read the man page that Stuart suggested and I've, pulled out the modem and the Davicom NIC. I scavenged a 3Com card out of another box I had around and have headed off the potential problem of the Davicom card. Thank you for pointing out what I had missed in my first read through of Stuart's email. Have a pleasant weekend. Wayne
dmesg ?
Nick Guenther wrote: Cool! What's the box (dmesg?)? Is it cheap? Is it fast? I have a WRT-DD install but it always lags out my connections for some reason (perhaps because the NAT is full) and I would like to be able to run OpenBSD on it so I could actually tweak things. -Nick *Hi Nick, is this what you were asking about? Or do you need the whole dump? Wayne. = OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERIC) #1749: Sat Feb 28 14:51:18 MST 2009 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium III (GenuineIntel 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 498 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MM$ real mem = 2400 (63MB) avail mem = 5518 (52MB) *
Re: Success!!
Stuart Henderson wrote: most people who have tried the -current installer are highly reluctant to go back to the 4.5 installer... *Hello Stuart, This was my first attempt at installing/using OpenBSD since a couple of years back. I'll admit it took me a few tries to get the disklabel figured out, but I kept at it and finally nailed it. My current project on the box is to try and figure out how to get cvs to work so I can get the ports tree installed. I'll keep working at it until I get it... LOL Wayne*
dmesg, the whole enchilada
* Hi Nick and the group, here's the whole dmesg dump. Wayne == OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERIC) #1749: Sat Feb 28 14:51:18 MST 2009 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium III (GenuineIntel 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 498 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36, MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 2400 (63MB) avail mem = 5518 (52MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 11/02/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd780, SMBIOS rev. 2.1 @ 0xefca0 (49 entries) bios0: vendor Intel Corp. version 4W4SB0X0.15A.0017.P12 date 12/21/1999 bios0: Gateway Tabor3 WS440BX apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd780/0x880 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf10/208 (11 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 (Intel 82371FB ISA rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0x1 0xd/0x1800 0xe4000/0xc000 cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel 82443BX AGP rev 0x03 intelagp0 at pchb0 agp0 at intelagp0: aperture at 0xf800, size 0x400 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 Intel 82443BX AGP rev 0x03 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 NVIDIA Vanta rev 0x15 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) piixpcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA rev 0x02 pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 Intel 82371AB IDE rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility pciide0: channel 0 ignored (disabled) atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: PIONEER, DVD-ROM DVD-114, 1.17 ATAPI 5 /cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 Intel 82371AB USB rev 0x01: irq 9 piixpm0 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 Intel 82371AB Power rev 0x02: SMI iic0 at piixpm0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 64MB SDRAM non-parity PC100CL2 dc0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 Davicom DM9102 rev 0x40: irq 5, address 00:60:6e:75:ad:27 amphy0 at dc0 phy 1: DM9102 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 emu0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live rev 0x07: irq 11 ac97: codec id 0x83847609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23) ac97: codec features 18 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, SigmaTel 3D audio0 at emu0 Creative Labs PCI Gameport Joystick rev 0x07 at pci0 dev 14 function 1 not configured pciide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 Promise PDC20262 rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI pciide1: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: IBM-DPTA-372050 wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 19574MB, 40088160 sectors wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 pciide1: channel 1 disabled (no drives) Conexant 56k Winmodem rev 0x08 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 not configured xl0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 3Com 3c905B 100Base-TX rev 0x30: irq 5, address 00:01:02:34:4f:a9 exphy0 at xl0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface isa0 at piixpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo 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 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 Intel UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 biomask e74d netmask e76d ttymask f7ff mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b *
Re: dmesg ?
??? wrote: i believe he meant the whole dmesg dump. can anyone enlighten me, whats so special about this device? just an old pIII, used as router, as far as i get it... or is it a highly specialized router platform? * Hi, As far as I know there's nothing too awfully special about the machine. Except, perhaps that it's life is being extended by using a real operating system on it and wiping out the windows virus that resided on it's hard drive. Thereby keeping it out of a landfill until it dies a natural death. Wayne *
Re: dmesg, the whole enchilada
Stuart Henderson wrote:
dc0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 Davicom DM9102 rev 0x40: irq 5, address
00:60:6e:75:ad:27
those ...how shall I put it... aren't very friendly to other devices on the
bus. see near the bottom of dc(4) ('man 4 dc').
Hi Stuart,
Well, the dc0 is the 2nd NIC I installed onto the box and it's in
the only slot I could fit it into.
I might be able to put it into another slot if I pull out the modem
card, which might not be a bad idea as I
don't see this box being used to connect using ppp.
Hello
*Hello, I've no problem, as of yet. This email is just to jump in and say hello to the list. I'm a newbie to OpenBSD, but not to BSD as I've tinkered with FreeBSD Since the fall of 2000. Sincerely and Respectfully Yours, Wayne M. Scace *
Success!!
*YES I've got OpenBSD 4.5 installed on an older box that is earmarked as a Firewall/NAT box. I've added a regular user account and pkg_add'd some packages of CLI apps that I prefer to use. I must say, the install process was a LOT less painful than the last time I attempted to tinker with OpenBSD. Have a great weekend!! Sincerely and Respectfully Yours, Wayne M. Scace *
