Dear Riccardo,
The 6.2 release installs flawlessly from the CD drive onto
the disks of the machine. The network card is just dynamically
configured via dhcp in /etc/hostname.rl0. During the boot
process of the laptop my ADSL router (which is only 12 years old)
assigns an address to the network card of the laptop in the range
of my local subnet. The only new thing at boot is the rearrangement
of libraries to build a random kernel which takes quite a while.
But then, after login I can connect to every machine
in the local network as well as to the wide area network
via the ADSL gateway address stored in /etc/mygate.
I had nothing to adjust in the network after the installation!
The main purpose of the machine is for regular backup
and as a fallback device for LaTeX text processing using
a GNUstep desktop environment which works quite well.
Sometimes, I also remotely control my headless server
via console redirection over the serial port.
This old laptop is a heavy brick and rock-solid like a tank,
hence I do not have the heart to throw it away.
Possibly, it even outlives some of my newer machines ...
With best regards,
Jens
On 12/15/17 23:10, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi Jens,
On 2017-12-03 19:24:48 +0100 Jens A. Griepentrog
<m-griepent...@t-online.de> wrote:
OpenBSD 6.2 (GENERIC) #1: Fri Dec 1 12:00:30 CET 2017
r...@syspatch-62-i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Celeron ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 256KB L2 cache) 366 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,PERF
real mem = 200785920 (191MB)
avail mem = 182915072 (174MB)
mpath0 at root
<...>
rl0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 11,
address 00:19:e0:18:0c:fe
rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY
root on wd0a (98c8f8a7f56949dd.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
That is cool.. BSD rocks, doesn't it? At least OpenBSD and NetBSD are
still very capable here.
Question: how do you configure your network and does it work?
I just upgraded a similar vintage ThinkPad from 6.1 to 6.2 and network
stopped working after the upgrade, both using a Wired and a Wiredless
card: can get an IP address, but not ping even a local address.
I did not make a report yet because getting a dmesg and more information
is a bit cumbersome, so just curious how it i for you. You have your
network card on cardbus like me.
Riccardo
