Re: reboot loop on -current, one machine of several

2017-11-12 Thread Mihai Popescu
> booting hd0a:/bsd: 8484712+2429968+244048+0+667648 [636809heap full > (0x9d304+65536) Maybe a corrupted or too big /bsd file? I am curious about the cause.

Re: HDD fail signal

2017-11-17 Thread Mihai Popescu
> to make the failure LED flash. I think it is better to contact the manufacturer of that backpane and ask them what is the purpose of that LED. Maybe they can tell you what they had in their minds with that LED.

Re: Can't boot 6.2 on Intel Celeron J1900

2017-11-23 Thread Mihai Popescu
> What could be the issue? It stops at inteldrm, you can try to disable it at boot and see what is happening.

Re: Image viewer alternative to eog

2017-11-26 Thread Mihai Popescu
gqview

Re: Do not give-up on marketing

2017-12-02 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Q2xpY2sgb24gc3RpY2tlcnMuCgpodHRwczovL3d3dy5wYXJhbGxlbGxhLm9y > Zy9idXkvCgpEbyB0aGUgc2FtZSBhbmQgYmUgaGFwcHku Man, please quit using that encoding of ASCII mail. Many people told you that is useless and it is not use by mainstream servers. Please have a try and disable this, you are killing the in

Re: Problem booting OpenBSD/amd64 with LSI MegaRAID card

2017-12-02 Thread Mihai Popescu
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#MailLists http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#Bugs http://www.openbsd.org/report.html

Re: Do not give-up on marketing

2017-12-03 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Just filter @protonmail.com (I have it for message-id and in-reply-to), > you'll have a more pleasant > misc@-reading experience. I use to read lists in marc.info. It is a little bit off topic, but I dare to ask: what combination are you using, like email client and misc@ configuration( i.e, da

Re: BSDCAN2017 Interview with Peter Hessler Reyk Floeter and Henning Brauer

2017-12-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Thanks for your time and I hope you enjoy the video Thank you and the developers. P.S. I hate that TAXI more than the cheaters in the background.

Re: Video-conferencing tool a la Skype or Facetime for OpenBSD?

2018-01-04 Thread Mihai Popescu
On OpenBSD side, install from packages: pjsua (but no video, no GUI) baresip (no GUI) On Windows: microsip Both of you need one account each on iptel.org.

Re: gcc-4.9.4 package build signal 11 [Segmentation fault] on Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway

2018-01-05 Thread Mihai Popescu
> the PH00 screws don't want to turn with my jeweler's screwdriver. They may be PZ00. Take care not to mix different types of screws and bits! PH and PZ look very much alike.

Re: ucom not attached to umsm at boot

2018-01-08 Thread Mihai Popescu
> [ ... ] Dmesg is _fully_ displayed at boot time with a reason. Can you guess it?

Re: Segmentation fault / firefox (core dumped)

2018-01-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
Just a hint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzJJbNRErVQ&t=30m38s

Re: OpenBSD IRQ sharing on ISA

2018-02-08 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Then i setup only one port using configure command all ports work normally. I worked a lot with multiple RS-232 ports boards. They all had some hardware jumpers to configure the IRQ and Address for each port ( a lot of jumpers!). Maybe this option is integrated in your board BIOS, check it. How

Re: dhclient not renewing

2018-02-10 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Upgraded to latest current snapshot, and it looks like dhclient doesn't renew > the ip anymore. I'm > running it in debug mode now, to see if there is > anything in the log. Thank you for letting people know. It will take forever if it is not correctly setup. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.

Re: Segmentation fault when opening a particular PDF file in mupdf

2018-02-17 Thread Mihai Popescu
> I guess that evince is heavier than mupdf, when I consider its dependent > libraries. Some of that dependencies are already requested by another must have applications. mupdf looks like it is written by a company with ties in ghostscript. Must try it!

Re: Upgrade 6.1->6.2 fails with "id 0 on/: file system full"

2018-02-21 Thread Mihai Popescu
Let me guess, that /bsd link was another "security" idea from that mercury chloride .org?

Re: Supermicro SuperServer E200-9A

2018-02-27 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Looks like ProtoMail Mobile could use some assistance with proper quoting... > :) That is not the only problem, look to a sample: Tm90IG5ldyBhdCBhbGwuDQoNCmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNlcnZldGhlaG9tZS5j b20vaW50ZWwtYXRvbS1jMzMzOC1iZW5jaG1hcmtzLXdoeS1kZW52ZXJ0b24t Going back to the subject, I still fail to

Re: would like: unix user and softraid crypto sharing same password

2018-03-04 Thread Mihai Popescu
Did they remove the SHIFT key support on macOS?

Re: booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument

2018-03-09 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Someone an idea how to proceed? Maybe stop talking to yourself on the email and debug more?

Re: Upgrading to current prep

2018-03-11 Thread Mihai Popescu
> ... should be ... Why are some people considering OpenBSD should suit them and only them? They are not even part from development project, they are not even close to the concept and still proclaiming on the mail list what "should be". I always wonder where this feeling of better knowledge comes

Re: How to configure baresip on OpenBSD 6.2 AMD64 ???

2018-03-13 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Now I can call but my interlocutor does not hear me Most likely there is misconfigured microphone at your side. You can use /auloop , /auloop_stop commands in baresip, to see if you can hear yourself. I used a microphone port on the soundcard, seen as audio0 by OpenBSD. I was not able to use aud

Re: PPPoE connection closing right after authentication?

2018-03-23 Thread Mihai Popescu
> To me this further indicates a "double authentication" It is not clear what hardware you use in front of openbsd, but i guess it is just a dsl modem. Is it a pure modem, or maybe it has some router capabilities. If so, is it configured to act as a bridge? Can you get a conection on your ISP wit

Re: counting dropped packets for pf

2018-03-30 Thread Mihai Popescu
> You would need a 1/4" wrench and a screwdriver tip that fits an impact driver. I want to see you using your method for a deep sunken screw inside a cylindrical channel of a case. You can give a chance to the other guy, too. People like you do not understand concepts like evolution, smart tools,

Re: counting dropped packets for pf

2018-03-30 Thread Mihai Popescu
> ... better badly does work ... If it so, then it should not be done from the start. A bad implementation can trigger other problems. Try to think a little bit. ( hint: Chernobyl)

Re: PPPoE connection closing right after authentication?

2018-04-01 Thread Mihai Popescu
>The good news is that just PAP authentication should work, and does on >Windows. The bad >news is that on OpenBSD I'm still not getting an IP address >from Tek/Telus after the Authenticate-Ack. I remember some time ago, that someone requested some help with pppoe implementation since his ISP w

Re: Did OpenBSD just go green?

2018-04-05 Thread Mihai Popescu
> ... did OpenBSD go green with 6.3 ... You know, OpenBSD is not working so go on your smart tv or microwave owen for the moment. They struggle to meet the Green standard on house appliances these days.

Re: Internal microphone not working

2020-10-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
[ ... ] So, why do you trim outputs? Where is the full dmesg? Do you fear something? Do you realize that your and other people's problems with sound in particular CAN BE related to other hardware present in your computer or a specific configuration?

memory usage at a given time

2020-11-13 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, My computer has 2 x 4GB memory, as one can see in dmesg. A part of it is used by the video card, I'm not sure how much, maybe around 256MB or less I want to know if I will hit the swap space when I will let it run on 1 x 4GB memory, but I'm not sure how to interpret some of the following ou

Re: memory usage at a given time

2020-11-14 Thread Mihai Popescu
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 9:29 AM Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > vmstat only swows pi an po, pages paged in and out, not swap usage. > > For sysyat: the vmstat view does not show swap usage, but it does show > paging/swap traffic. The swap view does (per swap device), as does the > uvm view (swpginuse,

Re: memory usage at a given time

2020-11-14 Thread Mihai Popescu
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 12:30 PM Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 12:21:30PM +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > [ .. ] > > CPU0: 22.4% user, 0.0% nice, 3.8% sys, 0.6% spin, 0.6% intr, 72.7% > idle > > CPU1: 21.2% user, 0.0% nice, 3.0% sys, 0.2% spin,

APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-15 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, In the scenario of building a router with APU4, one interface is for wan, the rest of three are free to use. What is the most sane and performance wise ( CPU load, interface load, etc.) way to tie together the remaining three interfaces as a switch, and avoid using one IP class per interfac

Re: Wrong net in vlan

2020-11-15 Thread Mihai Popescu
> What is wrong here? You show info about vlans then suddenly complain about non working dhcpd. Hint: show some dhcpd configs.

Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-16 Thread Mihai Popescu
> bridge(4), and add a vether ... Reading thru man pages I see there are other options: switch, aggr, trunk, etc. I barely understand these, since IP is an ugly business. My intention is to replace ISP router with something based on OpenBSD I can configure myself. I see now that APU4 is too much,

vmm-* missing from http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/snapshots/

2020-11-16 Thread Mihai Popescu
Recent snapshot install for amd64, first run reports the missing package from firmware.

Re: Multiple USB NICs

2020-11-17 Thread Mihai Popescu
Lee Nelson wrote: > If I have multiple USB Ethernet adapters of identical make and model, > how does OpenBSD distinguish them over time. Is this happening to APU with same hardware interfaces, too?

Re: [SPAM] Re: APU4 hardware network interfaces tied together

2020-11-17 Thread Mihai Popescu
> The combination of the computer and switch together can be considered a router. I have Mikrotik hAP ac2 in test for a few days. That is exactly something like this, 4 cores ARM for routing, switch attached for vlan'ed interfaces, plus wifi. And it is a real charm as performance and price. But it

Re: sndiod -F does not switch to device

2020-11-22 Thread Mihai Popescu
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=158436621701274&w=2

Re: PayPal pool for developer M1 Mac mini for OpenBSD port

2020-12-02 Thread Mihai Popescu
I have only good wishes for the project, but I still don't get one thing: why do some people start to behave oddly whenever Apple comes into discussion. They are doing a proprietary thing, closed as hell, no documentation and so on. Why is this impulse to write code for such a thing. Just asking ..

Re: OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 4

2020-12-04 Thread Mihai Popescu
> I've managed to [...] Others too. Try to read a...@openbsd.org or arm-openbsd on MARC [1]. [1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm

RISC-V and OpenBSD

2020-12-09 Thread Mihai Popescu
Would it be interesting from the OpenBSD point of view [1] ? [1] http://www.micromagic.com/news/RISCv-Fastest_PR.pdf

Re: RISC-V and OpenBSD

2020-12-09 Thread Mihai Popescu
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 7:57 PM Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 05:30:48PM +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > Would it be interesting from the OpenBSD point of view [1] ? > > > > [1] http://www.micromagic.com/news/RISCv-Fastest_PR.pdf > > No, this is ju

Re: RISC-V and OpenBSD

2020-12-09 Thread Mihai Popescu
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:21 PM Theo de Raadt wrote: > Mihai Popescu wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 7:57 PM Claudio Jeker > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 05:30:48PM +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > > > Would it be

Re: -current amd64 packages not updated? Impatient or broken?

2021-01-07 Thread Mihai Popescu
I was in the same situation, impatient to have a 2021 snapshot. Dirty hint: the .hk mirror still has the base part from 2020! But try it as a last option, the folks there are not so bandwidth fortunate. After installing the base, please switch /etc/installurl to something more suitable as distance

Re: phonetics on OpenBSD: IPA transcription

2021-01-08 Thread Mihai Popescu
> I mostly use macOS for that now [...] I think it's better to stay on that system only, and avoid spamming misc with your cross-breeding experiments. Seriously now.

Re: -current amd64 packages not updated? Impatient or broken?

2021-01-10 Thread Mihai Popescu
> While at it, link /bin/ls to /bin/rm An Apple fanboy trying to look 1337 in a linux style on an OpenBSD mailing list. Impressive not.

snapshot kernel panic related to radeondrm missing firmware

2021-01-12 Thread Mihai Popescu
I took the chance and installed from a recent snapshot - 12.01.2021. I got a kernel panic at first boot after install, related to missing firmware for radeondrm. I disabled the radeondrm then the boot process was fine and I installed radeondrm firmware by hand. At the next boot everything was fine

pkg_add multiple package install weird output

2021-01-18 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, I use to run pkg_add with multiple package names, something like: pkg_add -vV gimp libreoffice geeqie audacity inkscape vlc mupdf I am sure gimp is ahead of vlc in the command line. I saw something strange in output: [ ... ] gimp-2.10.22p1:aalib-1.4p7: 63/78 gimp-2.10.22p1:OpenEXR-2.5.4:

Re: auto-boot

2021-01-21 Thread Mihai Popescu
[ ... ] That serial port is a plug (male connector), so not so easy to put resistors on it. Plug the null modem cable in it, so you will get a socket (female connector) on the other. Grab the socket from the other end, and stick a plain metallic wire in pin 5 (GND) and 2 (RXD). Then check your bo

Re: auto-boot

2021-01-21 Thread Mihai Popescu
Correction: pin 3 and pin 5 must be connected.

Re: FDE disk setup instructions are misleading when installing from USB

2021-01-24 Thread Mihai Popescu
> I am therefore extremely grateful to Cullum Smith and the other "OpenBSD on a > laptop" howtos for making it feasible to get this far. Go get grateful on that blog's address and stop spamming here, please. Your point is totally wrong. Totally!

Re: auto-boot

2021-01-25 Thread Mihai Popescu
That short with a metallic wire was just for quick check. It is not recommended for prolonged usage! It will block any communication on the RS232 cable. For future usage you still need a resistor.

DHCP client always no lease message but got IP

2021-02-19 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, Most recent snaphots. amd64, DHCP client for interface is always displaying no lease . sleeping. It actually gets the IP address, but this message is always there. I tried with more routers, same thing. Thanks

Re: baresip-gtk

2021-02-24 Thread Mihai Popescu
> How do you use baresip-gtk? If I recall correctly, all you get is an icon in the system tray bar if you have one. You can click there and get a not very rich GUI.

Window Manager performance impact on applications

2021-03-03 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, Technically speaking, is it possible for a window manager to have a performance impact on running applications in the GUI area? Real case: i had to run firefox very fast on a fresh snapshot install, so i used the default fvwm instead of cwm. The graphical response is instant, much much bet

snapshot odds: mail for root and xenodm

2021-03-25 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, I just installed an amd64 snapshot and spotted 2 odd things. I see there is a mail for root, but when i run mail command i get the text No mail for root. The other is I login in xenodm to use cwm for the fisrt time after install and the xenodm is restarted. Second login and future logins ar

snapshot miniroot69.img not bootable anymore

2021-06-29 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, I was using miniroot69.img to create an USB bootable stick using the FAQ method: dd if=miniroot69.img of=/dev/rsd1c bs=1m When I boot, using this USB stick i get this: Using drive 0, partition 0 Nos-system disk Press any key to reboot. I tried another USB stick, same problem. Old images

Re: snapshot miniroot69.img not bootable anymore

2021-07-04 Thread Mihai Popescu
I tried another USB disk with newer snapshots, same problem, the image does not boot Using drive 0, partition 0 Nos-system disk Press any key to reboot. Is it something changed? Thanks

Re: snapshot miniroot69.img not bootable anymore

2021-07-04 Thread Mihai Popescu
Update: the issue was solved by one of the developers. It looks like the wrong partition was marked active on the USB stick, partition zero instead of 3. It can be done manually with fdisk. And yes, the non-EFI boot is affected only. All the actions was fast. Thank you.

Re: pkg_add multiple package install weird output

2021-07-07 Thread Mihai Popescu
I have another instance of this, maybe someone can look if it really is of interest. Somehow, the current package name is messed up. geda-0.1p1:gerbv-2.7.0p0: 184/194 geda-0.1p1:tcl-8.5.19p4: 185/199 geda-0.1p1:tk-8.5.19p1: 186/199 geda-0.1p1:gtkglext-1.2.0.20191219: 187/199 geda-0.1p1:gd-2.3.2: 1

Re: Ryzen 9 (7x000) users: do you experience hangs?

2023-08-03 Thread Mihai Popescu
Not a Ryzen 9, but an AMD. I installed the snapshot, and started playing endless-sky from packages. Went away and we i came back, the game was not responsive anymore. Switched to console with Alt+Ctrl+F2, logged in as an user and used top command. endless-sky was listed as sleep / kqread. Logged o

Re: Ryzen 9 (7x000) users: do you experience hangs?

2023-08-04 Thread Mihai Popescu
I got the system freeze from the previous email again. I don't know what "debug" commands to run, please point me in the right direction. Thank you.

pkg_add -vV slow progression

2023-09-17 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, Is there any recent major change in base packages or pkg_add? I ask because the pkg_add -vV is slower than usual at each package, most of the time spent in Extracting ... phase. I use amd64 recent snapshot. I checked my disk and https downloads, they are fine. Thank you.

Re: pkg_add -vV slow progression

2023-09-18 Thread Mihai Popescu
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 7:09 PM Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 09:17:58PM +0300, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there any recent major change in base packages or pkg_add? > > I ask because the pkg_add -vV is slower than usual at e

Re: Upgrading from 7.3 to 7.4 with sysupgrade

2023-11-17 Thread Mihai Popescu
> I still have gsysupgrade lying around somewhere. It's a gtk app. I never > made a port for it because I got sidetracked rewriting it to use qt. > It isn't written in rust? The shame. Make it Rust or GTK based, but please include the support for http, it is more convenient to do it remotely usi

Re: OpenBSD alternative setup to ZFS on Linux or FreeBSD

2023-11-24 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Another interesting thread. Not at all. Hollywood's movies are providing much interesting ideas about human trying to obtain immortality. Also midnight psy therapy threads are not very interesting.

Re: PineView not using the whole screen

2023-11-26 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Can I make the VGA output the default globaly? I have some board from ASRock Industrial with VGA and LVDS outputs. There is a BIOS settings for my model where I can choose what to enable and what will be the primary. When I let both outputs enabled, the BIOS messages appears only on the primary

Re: Weird network performance with iwn(4)

2023-12-07 Thread Mihai Popescu
On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 03:39:33PM +, Lévai, Dániel wrote: > Hi all! > > Recently my trusty T410 died (had iwn(4) in it) and had to switch to an E450 > - but \ > this has iwm(4). Never had any issues with iwn(4) and iwm(4) seems to operate > \ > perfectly fine in some scenarios, e.g. speedtes

Re: Appimage

2023-12-19 Thread Mihai Popescu
> The point of appimage is to work on any Linux distro. But it is not working. Like many other ideas created to work on any distro ...

Re: mpv won't play video : "Consider fixing your graphic drivers"

2023-12-20 Thread Mihai Popescu
Please post your dmesg. If you don't know what it is or how to get it please search the internet. Tell the list how the /home/media is mounted. Again , if you don;t know how ... search the internet. If you are using some configuration options inside a file for mpv please list them here. I don't

Re: Post (snap) update emails: fsck errors and (in)security output

2023-12-20 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Why didn't you just bump the daemon datasize in /etc/login.conf to the > required value? Because The Creator said once this is there for a reason and if you keep "bumping" it, maybe it should be removed.

Re: self-hosted man.openbsd.org script?

2023-12-27 Thread Mihai Popescu
[ removed elaborate instruction about going html from almost txt with man pages ] All this to jump in html boat? Or I got it wrong? Are old man pages deprecated?

Re: self-hosted man.openbsd.org script?

2023-12-27 Thread Mihai Popescu
: > > Hi Mihai, > > Mihai Popescu wrote on Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 01:32:34AM +0200: > > > [ removed elaborate instruction about going html from almost txt with > > man pages ] > > > > All this to jump in html boat? Or I got it wrong? > > Are old m

Re: If you need to gamify...

2024-02-23 Thread Mihai Popescu
Captain Warez, Sir, This list has already its share of spam and i think it doesn't need yours. Some of us are reading messages from web list archivers like marc.info. I don't need your offtopic messages there and neither your answers to your own messages. Find another list for this purpose. Thank

Re: dmesg hangs 7.4

2024-03-09 Thread Mihai Popescu
Just curious, what happens when you do: # cat

Re: files are going missing

2024-03-12 Thread Mihai Popescu
>I have a problem where files recently downloaded go missing ... > I tried searching internet, nothing of answer came in view Well, since we are at the fun section of @misc (explanation: there is a message where user claim keyboard types by itself, mouse is moving by itself, one user has missing s

Re: Getting "Boot error" after replacing a disk in softraid

2024-04-24 Thread Mihai Popescu
> That seems... unusual. Do you have an (old) IDE compatibility option turned > on in > the BIOS? I would have expected it to attach via AHCI: > sd0 at scsibus1 targ 2 lun 0:

Re: Fwd: bad first impression of OpenBSD at install time

2024-04-25 Thread Mihai Popescu
I do not compile a qualitative list of bullshits, but this got a place on some imaginary bullshit list for sure. From: Katherine Mcmillan Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2024 12:30:03 PM To: Harald Dunkel Subject: Re: bad first impression of

Re: >10W idle power usage on framework laptop 12th gen 13inch

2024-04-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Any ideas if it's remediable or where to start digging? Linux has drivers for devices shutdown when not used and idle power states, pretty much like Windows has. Android, who is Linux derived, took this concept to a much higher level. Think of a wireless card and you can see on man ath(4): " The

Re: >10W idle power usage on framework laptop 12th gen 13inch

2024-04-30 Thread Mihai Popescu
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=165231418528297&w=2

Re: fw_update

2024-05-01 Thread Mihai Popescu
> How does fw_update install the drivers? > How does it know which driver is missing on the system? Just list the following sequence (outputs inserted too): $ which fw_update /usr/sbin/fw_update $ cat /usr/sbin/fw_update #!/bin/ksh # $OpenBSD: fw_update.sh,v 1.56 2024/03/21 01:02:29 afresh1

Re: Firefox and stuttering USB audio

2022-08-07 Thread Mihai Popescu
Courtney, I will try to suggest something. First, I was having problems in the past with Firefox. I use to let mpv play in the background ( a stream of internet radio) and the sound has stuttering and pauses whenever Firefox loaded some pages. I was told to use sndio for mpv as an option with ao=s

OpenBSD-current freeze at boot on efi0

2022-10-27 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, I did an OpenBSD-current installation from snapshots on a computer I use to run OpenBSD a few months ago. I used UEFI boot with GPT disk format since it was working fine in the past. I was able to boot the installer, the setup completed fine, but the boot process was stuck at efi0: device e

OpenBSD-current boot stuck at efi0 entry

2022-10-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
I was trying to install OpenBSD-current from snapshots, UEFI mode boot and GPT disk - the install went fine, but the boot after installation remains stuck at efi0 entry listing. I have to use the switch off button to exit from this. The install and boot works if I use Legacy mode boot with MBR disk

efi0 - usb install boot vs main disk boot

2022-12-02 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, I am trying to figure out a problem with my UEFI boot not working anymore using snapshots. I am able to UEFI boot from USB install disk, but at first boot from the main disk the sequence stops at efi0 entry. Can someone, please, explain why efi0 is not detected on boot from the USB install

efi0 experiements ended with computer dead

2022-12-06 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, Just a post for the users: since my computer refused to boot anymore in UEFI mode after install from snapshots, but it was able to do it from previous snapshots, i switched to Legacy BIOS and used it like that. I tested with Debian in UEFI mode and it was fine. I asked on the misc@, i conta

Re: Selecting a 10G NIC

2023-02-18 Thread Mihai Popescu
i don't see why you had to hijack the thread and scare people away ... for poor people's sake, not all of us are "kernel experts", "C veterans", "admins" "sysops" or what else does exists in these days... tired of this mess, i understand there are hard days but come on...

Re: Selecting a 10G NIC

2023-02-19 Thread Mihai Popescu
> I have a fairly good idea of what presentation or possibly even journal > article you read and are > still taking as gospel truth. It was a side by > side benchmarking thing, wasn't it? The @misc has a lot of messages about single threaded subject. Even some well know posters have said cryst

Re: PC Engines APU platform EOL

2023-04-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 11:30 AM Martin Schröder wrote: > https://www.pcengines.ch/eol.htm > The end is near for APUs :-( It may be the end for open/free source as we know it. The market is moving to ARM for hardware. As for the software, Linux is preferred - a lot of code, a lot of options

Re: hardware

2023-04-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
Gustavo Rios wrote: > What is the best supported servers by OpenBSD ? The older, the better! Take the oldest machine that will suit your needs. If it old enough, then someone: o released some (in)complete documentation o was pissed enough to start writing drivers and code for it o noticed bugs a

Re: Porting RTL8723AU

2013-05-20 Thread Mihai Popescu
> In conclusion, reverse engineering is the only option for support. Not really. You could ask Realtek for documentation; if they will release it, someone will pick it up and will code a new driver or adapt an old one if it is of high demand.

Re: floods in Calgary, is the project affected?

2013-06-23 Thread Mihai Popescu
Puffy has no problems with water, even the mud is acceptable, he can use the well known filter.

5.4 fw_update firmware path

2013-07-19 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, The path for firmware files used by fw_update needs to be updated for 5.4, otherwise a manual install is necesary. Thank you.

Re: 5.4 fw_update firmware path

2013-07-19 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Please elaborate. I'm sorry for the quick suggestion. Here are the details... I was installing from snapshots and the fw_update was run at first boot. I was using bge0 for network connection in a hope that the firmware for iwi0 will be installed. I got a message, then when I was trying to use iw

Re: Two primary OBSD partitions on a HDD

2013-08-25 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hi, Before investigating further, be sure to read the FAQ about i386 disk layout and pay attention to the two very important things there: slices and partitions.

Re: Installation on EdgeRouter Lite

2013-08-27 Thread Mihai Popescu
Folks, it say that "there is no USB support yet, which means that there is no storage". "No onboard CompactFash" means that this model is not using compact flash. If you look at the bottom link, you can see that this model storage is an USB stick mounted on the board. Please look at the pictures,

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-19 Thread Mihai Popescu
> Since I mentioned the likelihood of a non-recoverable disk error, > here's a terrific paper that should make everbody sleep very poorly: > > "An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack" > http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/fast08.pdf They claim the paper is based on 1.53 million d

Re: why icmp timestamping is enabled by default ?

2013-10-13 Thread Mihai Popescu
> it is famous "your mother if fat" openbsd community style. I was not > asking whether it is secret or not. I was curious about common use > scenarios, where icmp timestamping is involved. Hi, 1. Maybe I'm wrong but I think OpenBSD doesn't have a "community" like other praised OSes, so there is

Re: rtwn

2018-12-13 Thread Mihai Popescu
About your card, you can extract it from the laptop and ask here for a wi-fi PCIe model that is fully supported and functional. Then buy that recommanded card and mail this one to a developer, since you can't make use of it soon.

pkg_add source code modification

2018-12-15 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, I want to modify the char used for pkg_add (and other pkg_ suite) progress bar from "*" to "|" but i am unable to figure out where is the actual code for this. I managed to found /usr/sbin/pkg_add but there are another links in there, and perl for me is a no idea language. It could be that

UEFI/Legacy boot and install

2018-12-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
Hello, My desktop computer has these two option to boot from an USB drive prepared with amd64/miniroot.fs for install: UEFI and Legacy. I used Legacy only, with MBR disk partitioning. A few days ago i tried out of curiosity the UEFI boot mode, same USB install disk. The console is some kind graph

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