Re: Why does OpenBSD use CVS?

2013-04-28 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2013-04-20 12:15, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013-04-20, Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: > > Hi, > > > > first, I don't want to start a flame war about why is CVS better or not better than X - it's just a question. > > > > If you say, we use it because it just works - it's okay. :) > > > > So why

Re: Why does OpenBSD use CVS?

2013-04-28 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2013-04-20 23:32, Nick Holland wrote: > On 04/20/13 03:42, Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: > > Hi, > > > > first, I don't want to start a flame war about why is CVS better or > > not better than X - it's just a question. > > > > If you say, we use it because it just works - it's okay. :) > > Good, 'c

Re: dhclient drops address on re-exec in 5.3 bsd.rd

2013-04-28 Thread David Higgs
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 05:29:05PM -0400, David Higgs wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Kenneth R Westerback >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 02:41:36PM -0400, David Higgs wrote: >> >> Confirmed in 5.3-current downloade

Re: open source laptop battery repair?

2013-04-28 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
If the battery doesn't want(/show) to charge, sometimes a sleazy trick can do the job: detach it while pc is running on AC and reattach it, sometimes you need to do that more than once. Sometimes after this you gotta keep'em charging some hours and then try again (it all depends on batteries, this

Re: ARK-2120L

2013-04-28 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera writes: > Hi, Hi, > I'm intending on getting a ARK-2120L [1] to server as a gateway for my > network. > I've been doing some research as to whether or not it'll work on OpenBSD. > > So far I've evaluated: > > CPU (Intel Atom, should work fine). > LAN (82583V, is listed as w

Re: dhclient drops address on re-exec in 5.3 bsd.rd

2013-04-28 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 05:29:05PM -0400, David Higgs wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Kenneth R Westerback > wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 02:41:36PM -0400, David Higgs wrote: > >> Confirmed in 5.3-current downloaded several minutes ago. > >> > >> Steps to reproduce: > >> - Boot bsd

Re: dhclient drops address on re-exec in 5.3 bsd.rd

2013-04-28 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 05:29:05PM -0400, David Higgs wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Kenneth R Westerback > wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 02:41:36PM -0400, David Higgs wrote: > >> Confirmed in 5.3-current downloaded several minutes ago. > >> > >> Steps to reproduce: > >> - Boot bsd

Re: open source laptop battery repair?

2013-04-28 Thread Alan Corey
On 4/28/13, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Alan, > Although the document contains interesting "internal details" about the > hardware, I don't think these are very useful when dealing with broken > batteries. Most of the communication is shielded by the APM/ACPI/other > power manager. Being the auth

Re: dhclient drops address on re-exec in 5.3 bsd.rd

2013-04-28 Thread David Higgs
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 02:41:36PM -0400, David Higgs wrote: >> Confirmed in 5.3-current downloaded several minutes ago. >> >> Steps to reproduce: >> - Boot bsd.rd >> - Select upgrade, hit enter until dhclient gets and assigns an addre

ARK-2120L

2013-04-28 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
Hi, I'm intending on getting a ARK-2120L [1] to server as a gateway for my network. I've been doing some research as to whether or not it'll work on OpenBSD. So far I've evaluated: CPU (Intel Atom, should work fine). LAN (82583V, is listed as working with "em"). However, I'm curious as to wheth

Re: dhclient drops address on re-exec in 5.3 bsd.rd

2013-04-28 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 02:41:36PM -0400, David Higgs wrote: > Confirmed in 5.3-current downloaded several minutes ago. > > Steps to reproduce: > - Boot bsd.rd > - Select upgrade, hit enter until dhclient gets and assigns an address > - Complete upgrade or control-C, then restart the upgrade proce

Re: dhclient drops address on re-exec in 5.3 bsd.rd

2013-04-28 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 02:41:36PM -0400, David Higgs wrote: > Confirmed in 5.3-current downloaded several minutes ago. > > Steps to reproduce: > - Boot bsd.rd > - Select upgrade, hit enter until dhclient gets and assigns an address > - Complete upgrade or control-C, then restart the upgrade proce

dhclient drops address on re-exec in 5.3 bsd.rd

2013-04-28 Thread David Higgs
Confirmed in 5.3-current downloaded several minutes ago. Steps to reproduce: - Boot bsd.rd - Select upgrade, hit enter until dhclient gets and assigns an address - Complete upgrade or control-C, then restart the upgrade process - dhclient on 2nd run REMOVES the assigned address Probably affects t

OpenSSH sshd -E

2013-04-28 Thread Lars Nooden
I see a useful feature in OpenSSH 6.2(?) in current that is not in the release notes for 6.2. In the man page for sshd(1) in current there is this: -E log_file Append debug logs to log_file instead of the system log. But I can't find anything about it in the release notes:

Re: open source laptop battery repair?

2013-04-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Alan, Alan Corey wrote: Just wondering if anyone knows about tools for laptop battery repair that might run under OpenBSD. The "smart batteries" have a microprocessor that interfaces to the cells and talks to the cpu over an smbus. ACPI talks to that bus, but it can't help with broken batte

Re: panic: got error 5 while accessing filesystem

2013-04-28 Thread Jan Stary
On Apr 28 12:55:58, m...@online.fr wrote: > > I wasn't able to find out what "error 5" is. > > EIO. There are probably horrible I/O error messages in your dmesg prior > to this panic. Actually, there are none. Could this indicate that the USB enclosure or the cable is faulty? The disk is function

Re: open source laptop battery repair?

2013-04-28 Thread Alan Corey
The repair I was talking about is mostly physically replacing cells with new ones and making the pack work with the laptop again. There's enough difference between the prices of cells (lithium ion) and the packs (Dell wants $110 for mine) to make that worthwhile. But there are other repairs. You

Re: panic: got error 5 while accessing filesystem

2013-04-28 Thread Miod Vallat
> I wasn't able to find out what "error 5" is. EIO. There are probably horrible I/O error messages in your dmesg prior to this panic. > I will try disabling softdeps on that filesystem. This will indeed avoid the panic (which occurs because at this point there is no way to propagate the I/O erro

Re: rtl_sdr (was: Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports)

2013-04-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-04-27, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > $ rtl_fm -W -f 102.8M | aucat -h raw -r32000 -c0:0 -i - > wav(-|): couldn't get file size > Found 1 device(s): > 0: Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR, SN: 0001 > > Using device 0: Terratec T Stick PLUS > Found Elonics E4000 tuner > [...] > > Looks, I mean,

panic: got error 5 while accessing filesystem

2013-04-28 Thread Jan Stary
My december-current/macppc panicked tonight, saying got error 5 while accessing filesystem Looking at the log tails, it apparently happened when daily.local started the nightly dumps. These are done to an USB connected Seagate. (see full dmesg below). Looking at the code, this is ufs/ffs

Re: How does OpenBSD do backups?

2013-04-28 Thread Gregor Best
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:38:24PM -0700, Robert Connolly wrote: > I am a minimalist. I strongly prefer to use what is in base to do what I > need to do. I know "Duplicity" exists, but how would I reproduce what > it does with the OpenBSD base? Set up a local CVS server, and send > differences off

Re: OpenBSD freeze after DRM changes

2013-04-28 Thread Alexis Fouilhe
Hi all, Following up on this: On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 08:50:33AM -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: > Hi misc@, > > after one of the screenshots that include the DRM changes, my laptop > began to freeze after the first boot. Sometimes it freezes at Pentium > Pro MTRR support, but most of the times

Re: ThinkPad 600 hdd spindown

2013-04-28 Thread Alexander Hall
Maybe atactl can help. Riccardo Mottola wrote: >Hi, > >I experience very short-cycling of the hard disk. It appears to spin >down very aggressively. But what happens is that it spins up. Just type > >"ls" or so. Then it will spin down however within seconds, yielding a >continuous spin-up spin

Re: ThinkPad 600 hdd spindown

2013-04-28 Thread Robert
Hi, you can try to disable power management for it: "atactl /dev/wd0c accousticdisable", or "apmdisable", or "apmset 253" (man atactl) kind regards, Robert On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:40:39 +0200 Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > I experience very short-cycling of the hard disk. It appears to sp

ThinkPad 600 hdd spindown

2013-04-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I experience very short-cycling of the hard disk. It appears to spin down very aggressively. But what happens is that it spins up. Just type "ls" or so. Then it will spin down however within seconds, yielding a continuous spin-up spin down. This happens when running on mains (the battery

Re: open source laptop battery repair?

2013-04-28 Thread Francois Pussault
Battery repair soft-tools are just fake or legend for laptops, because most of batteries are using LI-ON technology so when battery has been badly used (for example still in the machine while running 100% of time on sector for about a year), the battery is chemically modified inside of itself. s

Re: D-Link Wireless card not recognized

2013-04-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: On Thursday, April 11, 2013 00:02 CEST, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I don't see it in ifconfig, dmesg says: vendor "Atheros", unknown product 0x0020 (class network subclass ethernet, rev 0x01) at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0 not configured take a look at man ath(