Re: Exist operating systems that ship without blobs?

2016-02-23 Thread David Young
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 09:25:52PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:33:40PM -0600, David Young wrote: > > > > BTW, I think a reasonable precaution to take with a lot of devices, > > their firmware and drivers, open- or closed-source (but especially > > closed source),

Re: non-ASCII support?

2016-02-23 Thread Petar Bogdanovic
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:22:59PM +0100, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: > > I remember only setting LANG for screen and clearing TERMCAP for irssi, > the latter only being relevant for irssi-colors: > >irssi_su LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/pkg/bin/screen -S irssi -d -m -e^Yy \ > sh -c \"TERMCAP= exe

Re: non-ASCII support?

2016-02-23 Thread Petar Bogdanovic
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 07:46:56AM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > Folks - I use a combination of bash, screen, irssi (all on NetBSD) at > the remote end and putty (on Windows) or Terminal (on Ubuntu) at the > local end and haven't been able to get utf-8 working end-to-end ... > > Are

Re: non-ASCII support?

2016-02-23 Thread matthew sporleder
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > Folks - I use a combination of bash, screen, irssi (all on NetBSD) at > the remote end and putty (on Windows) or Terminal (on Ubuntu) at the > local end and haven't been able to get utf-8 working end-to-end ... > > Are there tips or pointer

non-ASCII support?

2016-02-23 Thread Malcolm Herbert
Folks - I use a combination of bash, screen, irssi (all on NetBSD) at the remote end and putty (on Windows) or Terminal (on Ubuntu) at the local end and haven't been able to get utf-8 working end-to-end ... Are there tips or pointers on getting more-than-merely-ASCII working with this

Aw: Re: ext2fs mount issue maybe just a temporary problem

2016-02-23 Thread Carsten Kunze
Swift Griggs wrote: > Just out of curiosity, since I also use ext2fs somewhat often, did you > create the file system with NetBSD or with Linux? I've noticed a lot more > problems when I create the file system under Linux. I always created them on Linux since I did expect fewer problems then.

Re: Changing one's subscribed-from email address

2016-02-23 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 21 February 2016 at 14:32, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, at 07:18, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: >> You can "talk" to majord...@netbsd.org, i.e. send commands to majordomo >> within the body of messages addressed to majord...@netbsd.org. >> >> Examples: > : >> >> AFAIR, more than one

Re: UMTS/LTE support

2016-02-23 Thread Pierre Pronchery
On 02/23/16 19:21, Frank Wille wrote: > Pierre Pronchery wrote: > >> Try to obtain more information about the card you can get: >> - is it exposing a USB device? (my PCI express cards do) >> - in turn, is it exposing a serial port? > > Ok. Doing that is a lot of work, though. Just googling and r

Re: UMTS/LTE support

2016-02-23 Thread Frank Wille
Pierre Pronchery wrote: > Try to obtain more information about the card you can get: > - is it exposing a USB device? (my PCI express cards do) > - in turn, is it exposing a serial port? Ok. Doing that is a lot of work, though. Can you provide details about your working PCIe cards? -- Frank Wil

Re: ext2fs mount issue maybe just a temporary problem

2016-02-23 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Carsten Kunze wrote: But I could test option "noatime" now and this works really well! Thank you! Just out of curiosity, since I also use ext2fs somewhat often, did you create the file system with NetBSD or with Linux? I've noticed a lot more problems when I create the fi

ext2fs mount issue maybe just a temporary problem

2016-02-23 Thread Carsten Kunze
Hello, I did now reinstall CURRENT and mounting the USB drive works. May there had just been a temporary issue during boot. But I could test option "noatime" now and this works really well! Thank you! --Carsten

Unexpected error while trying to mount ext2fs

2016-02-23 Thread Carsten Kunze
Hello, I have a USB flash drive with ext2fs as second and third MBR slice (no slice 1 and 4 exists). Slice 2 and 3 are mapped to partition sd0e and sd0f. When I try to mount partition sd0e I get an unexpected error: # disklabel sd0 # /dev/rsd0d: type: SCSI disk: DataTraveler 2.0

Re: UMTS/LTE support

2016-02-23 Thread Pierre Pronchery
On 02/21/16 14:27, Frank Wille wrote: > I don't find much information about WWAN (UMTS, LTE) data card support in > NetBSD. Do I have to be careful which one to select? Try to obtain more information about the card you can get: - is it exposing a USB device? (my PCI express cards do) - in turn, is

Re: Changing one's subscribed-from email address

2016-02-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Thomas Mueller" wrote Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:12:40 + > I am subscribed to several @netbsd.org emailing lists, and would like to > change my email address for all. > > Do I have to unsubscribe from the old and subscribe to the new, one by one > for every individual list, or is there a way to

Aw: Re: Aw: Re: mount_ext2fs: -o atime: option not supported

2016-02-23 Thread Carsten Kunze
Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote: > ..and it looks like Christos already made that change. Assuming you're > running -current, if you update and rebuild (or at least rebuild > .../src/sbin/mount_ext2fs) then you should be good to go. Yes, I had noticed that yesterday (thank you, Christos!). I do a co