Re: wireless support

--- "David Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "David Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:19:46 -0400 (EDT) To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: wireless support Hello - My neighbor has a Linksys WAP11 access point. We would like to join networks.Both our networks are in our base

wireless support

Hello - My neighbor has a Linksys WAP11 access point. We would like to join networks.Both our networks are in our basements. The distance is about 70ft. Would I get better signal/performance buying something similar to my neighbor, or purchasing a wireless PCI card for my OpenBSD box? If th

Re: nforce3 problem

On 6/28/05, Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 00:52 +0200, Rogier Krieger wrote: > > Why limit your options? > > Well, it's about *not* limiting options. And this one is a particularly > attractive option (from the hardware price/performance point of view). True, th

Re: Is it possible to run named not in chroot?

Chris Kuethe wrote: > Why? > > a bit of RTFM on the named manpage suggests a way to do this. The man page is wrong. It says: When invoked without arguments, named will fork into two processes for privilege separation.chroot() to /var/named,read the defa

Re: Tutorial

On 6/28/05, Matt Juszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried to install OpenBSD but kept getting errors that it couldn't create > the disklabel. Maybe I was doing something wrong. Is there a nice > tutorial to install it? The book "Absolute OpenBSD" has a very detailed chapter on installation,

Re: Tutorial

On 6/27/05, Matt Juszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried to install OpenBSD but kept getting errors that it couldn't create > the disklabel. Maybe I was doing something wrong. Is there a nice > tutorial to install it? I definitely like the ease of use (or so far it > seems). http://www.open

Tutorial

Tried to install OpenBSD but kept getting errors that it couldn't create the disklabel. Maybe I was doing something wrong. Is there a nice tutorial to install it? I definitely like the ease of use (or so far it seems). -Matt

Limit access to msn to a couple of hours a day

Hi, I have an openbsd firewall on my home network. My daughter has become addicted to msn and I've spoken to her about restricting the time she spends on it. What I want to do is only allow her access to msn for say 1 or 2 hours a day and enforce this on the firewall as well. I can block a

Re: openbsd fdisk

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Tony Lambiris wrote: > is there a way to have fdisk re-inititalize the disk (fdisk -i ) without > being prompted to go ahead with the init? no, but echo y | fdisk -i should work. -- And that's why we're still blocking imports.

Re: Suggested hardware for server?

On 6/27/05, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was thinking about that as well. Has anyone installed OpenBSD on > something like what these people sell: > > http://soekris.com/ > > Basically, if I had a dedicated firewall box, I'd like it to be as > small and cool as possible.

Is it possible to run named not in chroot?

Or alternatively, to have the configuration files read from someplace else. I.e. having the named.conf someplace other than /var/named/etc. And have the conf be able to have: options { pid-file "/var/run/named.pid"; directory "/export/config/named"; ... For example. -- -- Grafik - Don

Re: nforce3 problem

> /* > * forcedeth: Ethernet driver for NVIDIA nForce media access controllers. > * > * Note: This driver is a cleanroom reimplementation based on reverse > * engineered documentation written by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > * and Andrew de Quincey. It's neither supported nor endorsed > *

Re: PF-Question

# Redirect all kinds of obnoxious trafffic to localhost port 24 rdr on { $ext_if1 , $ext_if2 } inet proto tcp from any to any \ port { 445, 135, 139, 5554, 5000, 1434, 15118 } -> 127.0.0.1 port 24 ## First Rule block in quick from label "Bad Hosts" # Trap pass in log quick inet proto t

Re: nforce3 problem

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 00:52 +0200, Rogier Krieger wrote: > I've given up hope on the ethernet chip ever > getting supported as well as the S-ATA controller on board. In both > cases, I blame nVidia. /* * forcedeth: Ethernet driver for NVIDIA nForce media access controllers. * * Note: This drive

Re: Suggested hardware for server?

Matt Garman wrote: So my question is, what hardware is recommended for this box? I can't afford "enterprise grade" hardware, but I do want the most reliable equipment I can afford. You may be surprised at how reasonable used "enterprise-grade" hardware can be. Search eBay and look for server

Re: Suggested hardware for server?

--On 28 June 2005 01:44 +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Matt Garman wrote: I was thinking about that as well. Has anyone installed OpenBSD on something like what these people sell: http://soekris.com/ You should rather go with an openbrick or a mini-ITX via C3. Everyone has their o

Re: OpenBSD Zaurus - Installed but fails to boot

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I understand what you mean with the discrepancy "between the start of the BSD partition and the OpenBSD block". fdisk shows the A6 partition starting at 1828160. I chose to put the swap disklabel at 1828160 with a size of 409584 and a: at 2237744 (1828160+40958

Re: Suggested hardware for server?

* Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050627 17:49]: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:42:02PM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: > > > However, I have slowly been expanding this computer's role: it's > > > always been a firewall/gateway/NAT box. But I also want it to > > > be a massive data store (to house fi

Re: Suggested hardware for server?

Matt Garman wrote: I was thinking about that as well. Has anyone installed OpenBSD on something like what these people sell: http://soekris.com/ You should rather go with an openbrick or a mini-ITX via C3. Regards, Antoine

Re: LDAP Support

Matt Juszczak wrote: the system so that all authentication is done via LDAP? I know OpenBSD does not have NSS/PAM like FreeBSD does, so I'm trying to investigate how quick and easy it would be to switch our solution to OpenBSD. Well, PAM is not included with OpenBSD which uses bsd_auth instea

Re: LDAP Support

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openbsd fdisk

is there a way to have fdisk re-inititalize the disk (fdisk -i ) without being prompted to go ahead with the init? thanks. -- Tony Lambiris [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] "so if it is really hard for you then perhaps you are just retarded and need treatment w/ electricity and if that does not help then

Re: AMD64 and xl* ?

> "Bernd" == Bernd Schoeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bernd> When I boot into 3.7 using the i386 image, my 3c905b network Bernd> card is detected as expected as xl0. Bernd> When I boot using the amd64 image (3.7 and snapshot), the Bernd> 3c905b network card is not available

Re: LDAP Support

actually here is the correct patch : ) arghhh to much code : )) On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 19:12 -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: > > > Have you considered there might be a problem with the hardware and not > > the OS. maybe memory has become faulty. Ive got 62 FreeBSD 5.4 Servers > > running and they dont

Re: LDAP Support

On 6/27/05, Matt Juszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to integrate LDAP into the system so that all > authentication is done via LDAP? You may want to check out login_ldap from ports (sysutils/login_ldap) which uses BSD auth present in OpenBSD. See how you like it and give it a tes

Re: LDAP Support

Have you considered there might be a problem with the hardware and not the OS. maybe memory has become faulty. Ive got 62 FreeBSD 5.4 Servers running and they dont crash. Maybe you are using a piece of incompatible hardward, or something may have started to show signs of becoming faulty. Before yo

Re: LDAP Support

Have you considered there might be a problem with the hardware and not the OS. maybe memory has become faulty. Ive got 62 FreeBSD 5.4 Servers running and they dont crash. Maybe you are using a piece of incompatible hardward, or something may have started to show signs of becoming faulty. Before you

[OT]: Garmin GPS Handheld with USB

Is anyone using a Garmin GPS handheld unit with USB connectivity? I'm thinking about getting a new handheld and just need to make sure USB works under OpenBSD for gardump/garload. Serial works perfectly using the DB9 connection, but I've never tried the USB interface. Any replies are appreciated.

Re: nforce3 problem

On 6/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] are there other lurking problems with this board that I should be aware > of that may make replacing the whole board a better choice? If you ask me, forget about nVidia until they clean up their act and supply developers with docume

OpenBSD Zaurus - Installed but fails to boot

I tried sending this to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list but got no response, so let me try misc. The install of the OS and core packages completes just fine. I am pretty sure that fdisk and disklabel configs are correct. Boot behaves very strangely in that it doesn't appear to see hd0a at all and can'

Re: Suggested hardware for server?

--On 27 June 2005 16:40 -0500, Matt Garman wrote: I was thinking about that as well. Has anyone installed OpenBSD on something like what these people sell: http://soekris.com/

Re: Suggested hardware for server?

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:42:02PM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: > > However, I have slowly been expanding this computer's role: it's > > always been a firewall/gateway/NAT box. But I also want it to > > be a massive data store (to house files for a video-on-demand > > system) using nfs/samba, a b

Re: LDAP Support

Try to search at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com on this subject. OpenBSD have BSD-auth. On Monday 27 June 2005 23:13, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently experiencing major problems with FreeBSD 5.4 (stability, > system keeps crashing) and i'm looking for an alternative solution. > > Right no

LDAP Support

Hi all, I'm currently experiencing major problems with FreeBSD 5.4 (stability, system keeps crashing) and i'm looking for an alternative solution. Right now, we have a mail server which is completely 100% LDAP (no local accounts on the system at all). Is it possible to integrate LDAP into th

AMD64 and xl* ?

Hi misc, When I boot into 3.7 using the i386 image, my 3c905b network card is detected as expected as xl0. When I boot using the amd64 image (3.7 and snapshot), the 3c905b network card is not available. It looks like the driver for this card is missing in the kernel image. The hardware list show

Re: Suggested hardware for server?

> However, I have slowly been expanding this computer's role: it's > always been a firewall/gateway/NAT box. But I also want it to be a > massive data store (to house files for a video-on-demand system) > using nfs/samba, a backup server (rsync) and house some relatively > light-weight subversion

Suggested hardware for server?

I'm thinking about re-building the server on my home network. Right now it's running Gentoo Linux (though it has been OpenBSD in the past). I'm thinking about going back to OpenBSD for the *simplicity* (which hopefully implies better robustness and reliability) of the system (install, configure a

Re: wireless usb

> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:26:21 -0500 > From: Qv6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: wireless usb > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I just don't want to buy another one and not have it work. > > Howdy, I have been using the D-Link DWL-122 usb device, it's a Prism chi

Re: wireless usb

Linksys WUSB12 recognized as wi0 on 3.6 and 3.7 configures for the network by running dhclient wi0 connecting to an open access point On 6/26/05, Qv6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > I'm trying to set up a wireless system and looking to use a wireless usb > adapter. If anyone has successfu

Re: openbsd as basis for something better?

On 6/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i'm curious whether anybody would like to team up with me, to try and map out the ideas for how a real next generation unix would be. i'll soon have a pdf ready for those who are interested. in my humble opinion, this would be a great way f

Re: Getting X11 to start on a Mac Mini (?)

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Chandler May wrote: > Hi, > > I recently set up OpenBSD 3.7 for the first time on a new Mac Mini, > and I haven't been able to get X11 up and running on it. I installed > X11 during the initial operating system install, and have not > installed anything X11-related since. I'm

nforce3 problem

I am rather new to OpenBSD and have been running it on a Compaq M700 laptop for about a month. I was building a new system over the weekend and the sales guy suggested a Gigabyte K8NS motherboard (nforce3-250) and Sempron 2800 combo that was on clearance sale. I had the i386 install document wi

Getting X11 to start on a Mac Mini (?)

Hi, I recently set up OpenBSD 3.7 for the first time on a new Mac Mini, and I haven't been able to get X11 up and running on it. I installed X11 during the initial operating system install, and have not installed anything X11-related since. I'm a newbie to OpenBSD, so perhaps there are required gr

Re: HA firewall

I used to get similar errors with dhcpd, and noticed the clock was about 18 hours off. Setting the time and turning on ntpd seemed to fix that issue. --Bryan On 6/27/05, Paolo Perrucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Till now the firewalls seems to be stable. No panic for now. It seems > the first s

Re: Slow PCI write access to twe or pciide

The dmesg for OpenBSD/i386 (-CURRENT) shows things about the IRQ routing table, anyone who can provide me some more info about what could be going wrong? OpenBSD 3.7-current (GENERIC) #204: Fri Jun 24 21:25:02 MDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: AMD Athlon(t

Re: Changing OS fingerprinting response

> Hi all, > > Is it possible to change os detection that returns openbsd when nmap > is launched??? Actually, openbsd response with this: > Device type: general purpose > Running (JUST GUESSING) : Linux 1.X (85%) > Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 1.3.20 (x86) (85%) > No exact OS matches for host (te

Re: openbsd as basis for something better?

On 6/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm curious whether anybody would like to team up with me, to try > and map out the ideas for how a real next generation unix would be. > i'll soon have a pdf ready for those who are interested. in my > humble opinion, this would be a great

Changing OS fingerprinting response

Hi all, Is it possible to change os detection that returns openbsd when nmap is launched??? Actually, openbsd response with this: Device type: general purpose Running (JUST GUESSING) : Linux 1.X (85%) Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 1.3.20 (x86) (85%) No exact OS matches for host (test conditions n

Re: openbsd as basis for something better?

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:30:22 -0700, el-sino wrote: > The only talk I'm interested in is brainstorming. My idea is good, > but > the reason I went to these mailinglists was not to produce talk, > but to > initiate talk and then exploit talk, so my idea can become better. So, then, by all mean

Re: openbsd as basis for something better?

On Mon, June 27, 2005 9:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What point are you trying to make here? > I have 19 kernel hackers, 3 architects and 5 multimedia designers > on my team so far. Wow. Any code yet?

Re: HA firewall

Till now the firewalls seems to be stable. No panic for now. It seems the first small step was in the right direction... Thank you Rogier. Now my last problem regards the pf weird logs. I have two type of strange logs: 1) Jun 27 15:51:09 ip-11-53 /bsd: pfsync: ignoring stale update (4) id: 4

Re: openbsd as basis for something better?

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:30:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What point are you trying to make here? > >I have 19 kernel hackers, 3 architects and 5 multimedia designers >on my >team so far. And I expect it to grow; as our codebase gradually >inclines >with our goal. > Who haven't any code to

Re: wireless usb

On Monday 27 June 2005 01:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > the ids for this device were added only a few weeks ago, so you have > to run -current for it to work. otherwise it will just attach at > ugen: > > ural0 at uhub0 port 1 > ural0: Belkin Belkin 54g USB Network Adapter, rev 2.00/0.01,

Re: openbsd as basis for something better?

Hej Janne, >The thing is, I believe, that the troll part comes not so much >from the crossposting and stuff, but rather from the general "I have a >good idea but I can't code anything so I'll produce talk and papers and >talk and a maillist and talk and a theme song and talk and gather >othe

Re: Disappearead packets (another problem) - SOLVED

Investigating on the problem I discover that the pop3 client reuse the tcp source port when it make the connection causing pf to drop the sync packets due to a BAD state error. Solution: change pop3 client or lower the timeout tcp.closed value (in the normal optimization mode the value is 90s).

Re: difference between newfs and newfs -m 1 on a 250G hd?

eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 15:48:58 -0400, Ted Unangst proclaimed... > > > perhaps not, but not every knob is meant to cranked to the extremes. > > there are more important things to be worked on than find out why newfs -m > > 1 doesn't work. > > Definitely, and

Re: SH programming

Try escaping the * \* Peter Bako wrote: > Hum, I get a "syntax error: '*' unexpected" > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Erdely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 6:20 PM > To: Peter Bako > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: SH programming > > > On 6/26/05,

Re: 3.7-release: X.org dies with signal 11 on startup (3.5-stable XFree86 is fine on same hardware)

In message I wrote: | I'm having trouble configuring the 3.7-release X.org (6.8.2) on a | Fujitsu/Siemens E6646 laptop: the X server dies on startup with | > Fatal server error: | > Caught signal 11. Server aborting | [[...]] F

Re: openbsd as basis for something better?

>Spam, Troll - whatever. This has been sent to the FreeBSD list as >well a mail sent to two mailinglists at different times can't be considered spam. a person who is serious in his approach, and rather innovative at that, can't be considered a troll. a person who does what he can to put other pe

Re: SH programming

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following seems to work. > > $ year=2005 > $ foo=$(expr $year - 1900 ) > $ dayscount=$(expr $foo \* 365 ) > $ echo $dayscount > 38325 > > Problems include an unescaped asterisk > man expr indicates that parentheses should work > but my pla

Call for disk donations (was Re: difference between newfs and newfs -m 1 on a 250G hd?)

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > Try to reproduce the problem after having run fdisk (if it is > applicable, still don't know your platform, arghhh), disklabel and > newfs. If you can still reproduce the problem, I'll put this on my > TODO list, but not very high. OK, you got me curio

Re: SH programming

The following seems to work. $ year=2005 $ foo=$(expr $year - 1900 ) $ dayscount=$(expr $foo \* 365 ) $ echo $dayscount 38325 Problems include an unescaped asterisk man expr indicates that parentheses should work but my playing with them seems to indicate otherwise. ---Correction: $ daysc

Re: human-time limit.

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 05:55:25PM +, David Pluoe wrote: > Are you gonna add anytime soon a resource limit for human-time, so it would > be easier to keep dead locks and any other same kind of type processes in > control? > httpd would really benefit from it when providing service for many ne

Re: Does openbsd support LVM?

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:23:38 +0900, vudghkzm proclaimed... > I am wondering that openbsd supports LVM(Logical Volume Manager). > Does openbsd support LVM? Answer: no Answer: yes (man 4 ccd) Depends on what you consider an LVM.

Re: difference between newfs and newfs -m 1 on a 250G hd?

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, bofh wrote: > On 6/26/05, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > > > you changed a default and found a bug. less than 1% of users ever use > > -m. > > > there's really no good reason to use -m 1, and several reasons n

Re: SH programming

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Peter Bako wrote: > Ok, so this is not really an OpenBSD question but I am doing this on an > OpenBSD system and I am about to lose my mind... > > I have done some basic shell scripting before but I've not had to deal with > actual integer math before and now it is killing me