Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-12 Thread bblochl
Martin Neubauer schrieb: If you don't boot from cd you still need to have access to the data that is getting installed. So you can either put the cd image somewhere on the system (this can be a problem if you want to install Plan 9 on the whole hard disc) or download it during installation. I als

Re: [9fans] Bitsy's WaveLAN problem

2008-05-12 Thread Axel Belinfante
> > you might check out a few of the changes in the pc version of the > > driver. (particularly parsekey.) > > I just tried the PC version of the WaveLAN driver, but it does > not seem to work better. > > Since few hours, I am not able to run the Wi-Fi card anymore, > even with a high timeout.

Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-12 Thread Martin Neubauer
* bblochl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Martin, thank you very much for your helpful answer! Indeed it might be > somewhat strange to install plan 9 as a standalone system and I am sure > that this is seldom done. At least I have plan 9 on the laptop happily > now. Let me describe the problem sol

Re: [9fans] Bitsy's WaveLAN problem

2008-05-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> I copied what seemed to be the necessary bits from a lunix driver. > while I did get it working, I got carried away making other changes > inspired by the lunix driver, to the point where I no longer felt > like proposing it as a patch. I may help you, though. > I put it on sources under contrib/

Re: [9fans] Bitsy's WaveLAN problem

2008-05-12 Thread Paweł Lasek
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I copied what seemed to be the necessary bits from a lunix driver. > > while I did get it working, I got carried away making other changes > > inspired by the lunix driver, to the point where I no longer felt > > like

Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-12 Thread bblochl
Martin Neubauer schrieb: I started out with a small installation on a spare partition of a laptop to get the hang of the system. Later I set up a standalone file server I can boot a terminal from (usually said laptop.) This can be regarded as the normal mode of operation. The installation never g

Re: [9fans] Bitsy's WaveLAN problem

2008-05-12 Thread Axel Belinfante
> > > I copied what seemed to be the necessary bits from a lunix driver. > > > while I did get it working, I got carried away making other changes > > > inspired by the lunix driver, to the point where I no longer felt > > > like proposing it as a patch. I may help you, though. > > > I put it o

Re: [9fans] Bitsy's WaveLAN problem

2008-05-12 Thread David du Colombier
I thought this might be a hardware problem, but it does not seem to be the case. I tried the Lucent ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC Card on my Slackware Linux laptop, and it seems to work fine with the "orinoco" driver. The driver load without any problem. I can scan and connect to an essid. Even the ligh

Re: [9fans] Bitsy's WaveLAN problem

2008-05-12 Thread Axel Belinfante
> I thought this might be a hardware problem, but it does not seem to be the > case. > > I tried the Lucent ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC Card on my Slackware Linux > laptop, and it seems to work fine with the "orinoco" driver. The > driver load without any problem. I can scan and connect to an essid.

Re: [9fans] Bitsy's WaveLAN problem

2008-05-12 Thread David du Colombier
> do you have a single or double slot sleeve? > the double slot sleeve needs extra code to work -- > hmm... if you would have such one it wouldn't have worked at all > and you mentioned that it has somewhat worked, thus, single sleeve? I have a single slot sleeve since I seen before on this mailin

Re: [9fans] Bitsy's WaveLAN problem

2008-05-12 Thread David du Colombier
I made two log files of messages displayed on the serial console by Plan 9 during the boot on the iPaq. The first file [1] is Wi-Fi "working" (but cannot ping, as described before), the second [2] is Wi-Fi not working. They used exactly the same kernel and the same ramdisk. There should be only f

Re: [9fans] Glenda transparent PNGs

2008-05-12 Thread Michaelian Ennis
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 4:27 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The goal was to add drawterm to the OS X dock with a nice icon, which > turned out to be more difficult than it should be. I decided I wanted to use this icon on my dock in OS X and found these instructions. http://docs.info.apple.

Re: [9fans] bootsetup problem

2008-05-12 Thread bblochl
Martin Neubauer schrieb: Using /dev/sdD0/data worked for me. Did you actually try it? I am sorry I made a mistake in the last posting. i used the word decide instead of distinguish! So the text could be misinterpreted. Please read One must decide distinguish between the prompt "mountdisk",

Re: [9fans] 9P support for MC

2008-05-12 Thread Michaelian Ennis
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd just want to let you know I've added 9P support to the > Midnight Commander (via libmvfs + libmixp). Is that read/write or just read? Ian

[9fans] upas/fs rfc 2047 encoding

2008-05-12 Thread erik quanstrom
is there any reason that upas/fs does rfc2047 translation for the files "header" and "info" but not for files like "cc", "bcc", "subject", &c? is this something that some tools depend on? i don't think that marshal does since it encodes subjects typed directly at it. - erik

[9fans] ms problem

2008-05-12 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Hello. The just-updated ms macro set for troff has a problem: if you use .P1 and .P2, you have an .IP followed by an .RE, which winds up doing nothing, so the indent stays. Try it out. .PP The following... .P1 abc() { def; }

[9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus

2008-05-12 Thread Charles Forsyth
please don't, or at least check spf before spamhaus. the quality of their data is at best questionable, and there is no (usable) way to correct it.

Re: [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus

2008-05-12 Thread Charles Forsyth
> the quality of their data is at best questionable, as is their rationale

Re: [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus

2008-05-12 Thread Charles Forsyth
as i was saying ... Your request ``mail net!quanstro.net quanstro '' failed (code smtp 2838130: Permanent Failure). The symptom was: Mon May 12 21:57:03 BST 2008 connect to net!quanstro.net: 554 5.7.1 rejected: spamhaus: sh policy ===> 2/ (message/rfc822) [inline] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus

2008-05-12 Thread erik quanstrom
what's a better idea. having an extra 6400 spam emails is the problem. how to i solve this without using spamhaus? - erik On Mon May 12 18:32:04 EDT 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > as i was saying ... > > Your request ``mail net!quanstro.net quanstro '' failed (code smtp 2838130: > Permanent

Re: [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus

2008-05-12 Thread Armando Camarero
Can you send mail to, for example, gmail.com addresses? I found myself in the same situation months ago (I host my email at home): my mail was bloked by almost every server. Althrought I'd like it to be different, blacklists are quite effective blocking spam. It's the best solution as long as

[9fans] ext2srv

2008-05-12 Thread Iruata Souza
9fans, I have hacked ext2srv to support symlinks so that now, when resolving a name, a walk will present the client with the file pointed to by the link, not the link itself. In hope for it to be useful to someone I have put it under /n/sources/contrib/iru/ext2srv.tgz iru

Re: [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus

2008-05-12 Thread a
// Althrought I'd like it to be different, blacklists are quite effective // blocking spam. It's the best solution as long as we continue using SMTP. This entirely depends how you prioritize things. If "best" and "effective" are measured on what percentage of spam emails get blocked, yes, service

Re: [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus

2008-05-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> please don't, or at least check spf before spamhaus. > the quality of their data is at best questionable, > and there is no (usable) way to correct it. the problem is that spf only validates that the sender is an allowed sender. this is ineffective against backscatter attacks. i've gotten as m

Re: [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus

2008-05-12 Thread erik quanstrom
i agree that spamhaus is a big hammer. i'm open to suggestions. preferably ones that do not require daily maintence. > Things like SPF don't catch as much spam (yet; it'll improve as the > acceptance improves), but have a very attractive false hit rate. the rate just isn't good enough for me. h

[9fans] Glenda transparent PNGs

2008-05-12 Thread Michaelian Ennis
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 4:27 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The goal was to add drawterm to the OS X dock with a nice icon, which > turned out to be more difficult than it should be. I decided I wanted to use this icon on my dock in OS X and found these instructions. http://docs.info.apple.

Re: [9fans] ext2srv

2008-05-12 Thread Federico G. Benavento
thanks iru! On 5/12/08, Iruata Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 9fans, > > I have hacked ext2srv to support symlinks so that now, when resolving > a name, a walk will present the client with the file pointed to by the > link, not the link itself. > In hope for it to be useful to someone I have p

Re: [9fans] /n/sources/patch/spamhaus

2008-05-12 Thread Jason Gurtz
The botnets have ruined the sandbox forever. On 5/12/2008 18:34, Charles Forsyth wrote: > well, i'm now on the list for the simple reason that i got a different > cable modem, which prompted a new IP address. The solution for people on dynamic addresses (typically with some generic and non-matchi