Re: reset with fss on 5.1.2

2013-02-25 Thread Malcolm Herbert
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:02:45PM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote: |I've been looking at using fss with dump to prevent filesystem skew |when taking backups. The method explained in the NetBSD Guide[1] looks |promising, however I'm experiencing immediate host reboots when running |the initial

Re: Printer recommendations

2013-02-25 Thread Greg Troxel
Richard L. Dery dickd...@centurylink.net writes: On 02/24/2013 04:01 PM, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: I'm in the market for a new printer but need some guidance from this group. What current models are supported? Ideally, I want a multifunction station for scanning and printing, but from my

Re: Printer recommendations

2013-02-25 Thread beaker
So, what printers do NetBSD'ers use? I use an HPLJ 2100TN. Has a Jet Direct card so really all you need is a lpd of some sort. Can even ftp files to it. Basically any network printer will likely work for you as long as it speaks CUPS or Unix LPD.

NetBSD 6-STABLE: only one virtual terminal and no /dev/console

2013-02-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
A recent problem I have with NetBSD, building from source, and not only in the 6-STABLE branch, now at 6.1_RC1, is only having one virtual terminal. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2,Ctrl-Alt-F3, etc, has no effect. I also notice at the end of dmesg, there is no /dev/console. I tried MAKEDEV and mknod

Re: NetBSD 6-STABLE: only one virtual terminal and no /dev/console

2013-02-25 Thread Dave Huang
On Feb 25, 2013, at 14:04, Thomas Mueller muelle...@insightbb.com wrote: A recent problem I have with NetBSD, building from source, and not only in the 6-STABLE branch, now at 6.1_RC1, is only having one virtual terminal. Did you enable them by setting wscons=YES in /etc/rc.conf? You might

NetBSD 6-STABLE: only one virtual terminal and no /dev/console: update

2013-02-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
A recent problem I have with NetBSD, building from source, and not only in the 6-STABLE branch, now at 6.1_RC1, is only having one virtual terminal. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2,Ctrl-Alt-F3, etc, has no effect. Now with the upgrade to 6.1_RC1, there is /dev/console and /dev/constty , but still only