Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 00:30 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > Obviously you have missed some of my commentaries on the GPL vs. BSD > philosophy. I don't hate the GPL. I dislike it compared to the BSD > alternative in general (I dislike milk chocolate compared to dark > chocolate, too, but either beats

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:39 +, Sebastien Carlier wrote: > Rui, > > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > > The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for all users. > > You don't seem to get the fact that the BSD license is *more free* > than the GPL because the B

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread asdf
--- Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed FreeBSD once in my life. Took me 3 tries and I am sure some > kittens were murdered in the process. I am also pretty sure I wept at > some point. Honestly I can't remember a much worse installer; maybe SCO > OpenServer but not by much

Re: Hifn 7955: fatal: cipher_init: EVP_CipherInit: set key failed for aes256-cbc

2007-09-14 Thread Erick Turnquist
A new kernel with those options disabled did not change anything. On 9/14/07, Breen Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not have experience with the net5501, but as for the vpn1411, you > may want to check out this thread: > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=117826557508813&w=2 > > It

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Stallman
Please omit me from the cc list on these messages.

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Celso Fernandes
Yes, I'm always reading the documentation, I really think it's very good.. I don't know if I didn't speak right what I was thinking about or I really don't understand. Greg asked if OpenBSD will release a Install ISO, so I pointed him to the install42.iso that is in snapshots dir, these snapshots t

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Antti Harri
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Greg Thomas wrote: On 9/14/07, Celso Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No? OpenBSD is freezed for new features, new features are being added to -current branch.. I installed the snapshot and it indicate that is OpenBSD 4.2.. so I don't understand, could you please explai

Re: apache AllowOverride and .htaccess

2007-09-14 Thread Celso Fernandes
I think this is the part of documentation your looking for: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#allowoverride it show what you can specify to AllowOverride directive. Obviously if you put "AllowOverride All" in your httpd.conf and your user cannot change some of these settings, so it'l

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Greg Thomas
On 9/14/07, Celso Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No? OpenBSD is freezed for new features, new features are being added to > -current branch.. > I installed the snapshot and it indicate that is OpenBSD 4.2.. so I don't > understand, could you please explain it better for me? > Well, nothing

FW: Problem with ftp-proxy -- additional info

2007-09-14 Thread Jason
Hello all, Ok, here is a sample. I tried a connection from my workstation 10.0.0.103 to ftp.openbsd.org. Firewall's pf.conf ---BEGIN if_loopback="lo0" # loopback if_public="em1" # connected to public network if_int="bnx1" # connected to internal network (10.0.0.0/24) i

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Celso Fernandes
No? OpenBSD is freezed for new features, new features are being added to -current branch.. I installed the snapshot and it indicate that is OpenBSD 4.2.. so I don't understand, could you please explain it better for me? Thanks in advance, Celso 2007/9/14, Antti Harri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On F

Re: apache AllowOverride and .htaccess

2007-09-14 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:10:22PM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > have a few apache config settings that are needed in an .htaccess file, > such as SetEnvIf, RewriteEngine, RewriteBase and RewriteRule. by having > "AllowOverride All" for the Directory corresponding to where the > .htaccess fi

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: > Paul de Weerd wrote: >> >> Scenario A, this code is released under the BSD license. You can take >> it, improve it and never share your changes with anyone. >> >> Scenario B, this code is released under the GPL license. You can take >> it, improve it and never share your

Re: mc-4.6.1p1 is broken (4.1)

2007-09-14 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/09/14 16:49, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > Posted to ports-bugs, .. but nobody caught it. > > TBH, I never noticed that list before. Most ports discussion is > on ports@ (cc'd and reply-to set) or with the relevant maintainer > (see the output from

apache AllowOverride and .htaccess

2007-09-14 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
have a few apache config settings that are needed in an .htaccess file, such as SetEnvIf, RewriteEngine, RewriteBase and RewriteRule. by having "AllowOverride All" for the Directory corresponding to where the .htaccess file resides one can have these additional settings in the .htaccess file an

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread RW
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:06:56 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >There's no blind so bad as that which refuses to see. There's nothing I >can do to change that. Pot, Kettle, Black. R/ "Write a wise saying and your name will live on forever." - Anonymous

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Friday 14 September 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:25PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > | > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > | > > The spirit of the GNU G

Re: mc-4.6.1p1 is broken (4.1)

2007-09-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/14 16:49, L. V. Lammert wrote: > Posted to ports-bugs, .. but nobody caught it. TBH, I never noticed that list before. Most ports discussion is on ports@ (cc'd and reply-to set) or with the relevant maintainer (see the output from 'pkg_info '). > Has anyone else noticed the p1 package

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Sebastien Carlier
On 9/14/07, David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastien Carlier wrote: > > So, you are indeed taking the point of view that there is "good freedom" > > and "bad freedom", and that coercion is needed to allow "good freedom" > > to prevail. I am glad you said so since it is totally rel

Re: Problem with ftp-proxy

2007-09-14 Thread Kevin Cheng
For 4.0: -- /etc/inetd.conf: ftp-proxy stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/ftp-proxy ftp-proxy -m 55000 -t 180 -- /etc/pf.conf: wired_if="xl0" wireless_if="{ ral0, xl1 }" localhost_ip="127.0.0.1" # ftp-proxy nat-anchor "ftp-proxy/*" rdr-anchor "ftp-pr

mc-4.6.1p1 is broken (4.1)

2007-09-14 Thread L. V. Lammert
Posted to ports-bugs, .. but nobody caught it. Has anyone else noticed the p1 package is broken [Warning: Cannot change to directory - known bug]? Is there a simple way to revert to p0 (which does work)? Lee

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread K K
On 9/14/07, Pau Amaro-Seoane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't touch the installer. It's just perfect. Ditto. Talking to new users, the feedback I get is that they tend to screw up partitioning, but other than that, no substantial complaints about the install process. Sure, it's not pret

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has the freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow some users to loose freedom... You make the point of using BLOB so well, Thank you! Looking forward to see you fight for document

ambiguous paragraph in your news

2007-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/jul/31/openhal/ you have: -- About OpenHAL OpenHAL is low-level interface software for Atheros 802.11 wireless cards. Previously, Linux-based systems needed a proprietary Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) plus a wrapper driver to make

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thursday 13 September 2007, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:09:09AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > > Free software: It's all about the price. > > The rest of the talk about "freedom", etc. is just trying to keep > > them from looking like cheap, greedy bastards. > > At least fo

Re: Problem with ftp-proxy

2007-09-14 Thread Darren Spruell
On 9/14/07, Jason Calhoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an OpenBSD 4.1 system running as a NAT firewall for our office and > unfortunately I have to support a couple of active > FTP clients on the inside of the firewall, so I've set up ftp-proxy. I've > never used ftp-proxy before an

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
Sebastien Carlier wrote: So, you are indeed taking the point of view that there is "good freedom" and "bad freedom", and that coercion is needed to allow "good freedom" to prevail. I am glad you said so since it is totally related to what follows. Total freedom without coercion is anar

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread Steve McConville
> Anyway, a while later he comes back and says, "It's done! I couldn't > believe how easy it was." This mirrors my (linux-coloured) experience of trying an OpenBSD install for the first time. -- steev http://www.daikaiju.org.uk/~steve/

Re: Problem with ftp-proxy

2007-09-14 Thread Jake Conk
You should send us your pf configuration. On 9/14/07, Jason Calhoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an OpenBSD 4.1 system running as a NAT firewall for our office and > unfortunately I have to support a couple of active > FTP clients on the inside of the firewall, so I've set up ftp-pr

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Antti Harri
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Celso Fernandes wrote: Right.. you can do your own with less distribution sets (without X for example), but OpenBSD now releases a base iso for installation, you can found this for the pre-release 4.2 at ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/install42.iso if you w

Re: Problem installing openBSD 4.0 on intel S3000AH

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Carlson
On 9/14/07, Insan Praja SW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > I have recently facing a problem when installing openBSD 4.0 on intel > S3000AH, it seems that the embedded gigabit ethernet (em1) is causing > this, since openBSD installer trap a kernel panic message when it tried to > load the m

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
Paul de Weerd wrote: Scenario A, this code is released under the BSD license. You can take it, improve it and never share your changes with anyone. Scenario B, this code is released under the GPL license. You can take it, improve it and never share your changes with anyone. Where is the differ

Re: partitioning

2007-09-14 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > I am just wondering, how would it become worse if I would just set three > labels: /, swap and /home. What ways would it make my system worse? Ehhh, a disk has a label defining partitions. It does not have multiple labels. For an answer to your

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-14 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
On Friday 14 September 2007 07:09:51 you wrote: > Email the SFLC and FSF and remind them that Free Software consists of more > than the almighty penguin. They belive defending their work from use in close source software to be the only true way and therefore everyone who doesn't have the license s

partitioning

2007-09-14 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
I am just wondering, how would it become worse if I would just set three labels: /, swap and /home. What ways would it make my system worse? -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc ]

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread Craig Skinner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:44:57AM -0600, Steven wrote: > > > >You no likey, you no usey! > > > I do hope you realize that Bob didn't post what you were replying > too. :-) Yes. I just replied to the list only. > > At this point, I'd like to chime in and say that I find the > text-based OpenBSD

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Craig Skinner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:36:33AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > > As every release, many things are changed in the FAQ. Finding and > changing the things that need to be changed occupies a LOT of my time > between lock and release days. Thanks, used often!!!

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Craig Skinner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:03:00AM -0700, Greg Thomas wrote: > > $ sudo tip tty01 > > Is this just for boot messages? It's my understanding (minimal, at > that) that you can't do this for logins both directions because getty > will tie up the port? > Nope, full access as connecting from tty01 o

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/14 13:48, Trash Compactor wrote: > L. V. Lammert wrote: >> At 12:00 PM 9/14/2007 -0400, Trash Compactor wrote: Alternatively, you can put puc(4) cards into an OpenBSD box or hook up a tangle of ucom(4) adapters to a tree of powered USB hubs >>> There are several multi-port USB-

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread marina
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/09/14 12:55, Edwards, David (JTS) wrote: Have you ever tried to do an install of FreeBSD/Linux using a 9600 serial console? Oh thanks, I'd been trying to erase that from memory (-: FreeBSD, 9600 serial, PXE boot. Took the best part of a da

Problem with ftp-proxy

2007-09-14 Thread Jason Calhoun
Hi, I have an OpenBSD 4.1 system running as a NAT firewall for our office and unfortunately I have to support a couple of active FTP clients on the inside of the firewall, so I've set up ftp-proxy. I've never used ftp-proxy before and I've run into a problem with it. I've set up ftp-proxy and p

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-14 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:13:05 -0700, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can appreciate your intentions, but you're recommending waging a > propaganda campaign against a group of people that aren't going to be > moved by it. No, I'm asking you to protect your freedoms by expressing your distaste for

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Celso Fernandes
Right.. you can do your own with less distribution sets (without X for example), but OpenBSD now releases a base iso for installation, you can found this for the pre-release 4.2 at ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/install42.iso if you wish to try. ps: Don't forget to ask you CD set

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-14 Thread Rob
I can appreciate your intentions, but you're recommending waging a propaganda campaign against a group of people that aren't going to be moved by it. Theo de Raadt is both knowledgeable, public, and straightforward, and convincing a bunch of folks who are not also knowledgeable, public, and straig

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread Rob
One of the other sysadmins where I work has mostly used Linux, and got used to their various hand-holding tactics. I've been gradually moving us over to OpenBSD (and got them to purchase a CD set, and hopefully some meager donations soon). Usually, I handle the installation and administration, but

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread stuart van Zee
I have never claimed to be all that smart, so maybe I don't understand something. But I am wondering what this squabble over what this license says or what that license says is all about. My understanding of copywrite law is that the author of a work owns the copywrite. Therefore, that owner can

Re: Strange Lock-ups with Opera?

2007-09-14 Thread Celso Fernandes
The FreeBSD version can be runned with fbsd binary emulation, but adobe doesn't release the flash plugin for fbsd system, just for Linux, that's why most people need a Linux emulated host browser to run the binary flash plugin. So no reason to emulate the fbsd browser, use native firefox instead of

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Trash Compactor
L. V. Lammert wrote: At 12:00 PM 9/14/2007 -0400, Trash Compactor wrote: Alternatively, you can put puc(4) cards into an OpenBSD box or hook up a tangle of ucom(4) adapters to a tree of powered USB hubs There are several multi-port USB-serial adapters available. You can get bus-powered ones up

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Friday 14 September 2007 10:36, you wrote: >As every release, many things are changed in the FAQ. Finding and >changing the things that need to be changed occupies a LOT of my time >between lock and release days. Truly, thank you for your hard work. One of the many things that keeps me buying

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Greg Thomas
On 9/14/07, Trash Compactor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Thomas wrote: > > On 9/14/07, Craig Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Darren Spruell wrote: > >> > >>> For the scenario where you have two openbsd hosts, one connected to > >>> the second with a serial null modem cable, what is

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Greg Thomas
On 9/14/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:25PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > | > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > | > > > > | > > The spirit

Re: Problem installing openBSD 4.0 on intel S3000AH

2007-09-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/14 22:55, Insan Praja SW wrote: > I have recently facing a problem when installing openBSD 4.0 on intel > S3000AH, it seems that the embedded gigabit ethernet (em1) is causing this, Try 4.1 and, if that's no help, a snapshot. If that's still no help, try 'boot -c' at the boot loader

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Greg Thomas
On 9/14/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:49:33AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > > | I don't establish *anything*. It's in the preamble. > > > > Your exact words are "that's in the preamble, which establishes the > > spirit" (I left them in my reply

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Greg Thomas
On 9/14/07, Craig Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darren Spruell wrote: > > For the scenario where you have two openbsd hosts, one connected to > > the second with a serial null modem cable, what is the right device to > > use when connecting using tip(1) from the first to a console on the > >

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Greg Thomas
On 9/14/07, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris wrote: > > I was wondering whether this - http://openbsd.org/faq/faq3.html#ISO - > > FAQ entry should be changed as OpenBSD now does provide ISO for base > > install? > > As every release, many things are changed in the FAQ. Finding and >

Re: Problem installing openBSD 4.0 on intel S3000AH

2007-09-14 Thread Insan Praja SW
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:37:39 +0700, Sys.Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Sys Admin, However, is this mean that I cannot, forever, use the em1 :D ? Thanks again, Hello Insan, Friday, September 14, 2007, 8:55:21 AM, you wrote: IPS> Dear all, IPS> I have recently facing a problem when ins

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread Steven
* Craig Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070914 03:15]: Bob Beck wrote: I hope one day soon OpenBSD will adopt a nice ncurses setup similar to something like FreeBSD with ease to it. As OpenBSD grows there simply is no reason, or logic to keeping around such an archaic method of installation it now

Re: Strange Lock-ups with Opera?

2007-09-14 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A bit late too the discussion, but I have a similar issue with Opera > on OpenBSD. As with yourself, I don't even have to go to a > Flash-based site and Opera randomly freezes. I'm seeing many freezes using Opera 9.02 on Linux. I don't think it's an OBSD iss

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 12:00 PM 9/14/2007 -0400, Trash Compactor wrote: Alternatively, you can put puc(4) cards into an OpenBSD box or hook up a tangle of ucom(4) adapters to a tree of powered USB hubs There are several multi-port USB-serial adapters available. You can get bus-powered ones up to around 8 DB9 *OR

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: | On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: | > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:25PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: | > | > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: | > | > > | > | > > T

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Trash Compactor
Christian Weisgerber wrote: Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As we are on the subject and I do not want to deviate from the original question, I would however appreciate suggestions as to how I can have a one server witch can actually have up to 32 serial console to control LOM on

Problem installing openBSD 4.0 on intel S3000AH

2007-09-14 Thread Insan Praja SW
Dear all, I have recently facing a problem when installing openBSD 4.0 on intel S3000AH, it seems that the embedded gigabit ethernet (em1) is causing this, since openBSD installer trap a kernel panic message when it tried to load the module. In some discussion, to troubleshoot this is to cha

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Nick Holland
Chris wrote: > I was wondering whether this - http://openbsd.org/faq/faq3.html#ISO - > FAQ entry should be changed as OpenBSD now does provide ISO for base > install? As every release, many things are changed in the FAQ. Finding and changing the things that need to be changed occupies a LOT of my

Re: Looking for something similar to "screen"-command

2007-09-14 Thread Sunnz
Hey I checked out window(1)... doesn't seem like you can detach it, logout, after 5 hours, log back in, retach, blah blah? Or can you? 2007/9/13, Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Jon Sjvstedt wrote: > > > Ok, thanks! Please dont kill me any more!:) > > Well one more: > >

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:25PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: | > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: | "Fewer words", eh? -- Jack J. Woehr Director of Development Ab

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:25PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > | > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > | > > > | > > The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for all users. > | > > | > You don

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:50:45PM +, Sebastien Carlier wrote: > Your point is that the BSD license is a "wrong" because it gives people > too much freedom. You just stated this again, even more clearly than in > your earlier message. No, I never said the BSD license is wrong, you said that,

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread Allie Daneman
My $0.02...I've tried MANY different flavors of *BSD, Linux, etc. and I firmly think that OpenBSD's installer is exactly as it should be. It works well and doesn't need eye candy to make it work better. I can do a CD install in 20 minutes...you can't beat that. If you want more eye candy go try

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Bob Beck
* Bob Beck [2007-09-14 08:14]: > * Craig Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-14 02:58]: > > Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Doesn't this simply sound like making free software developers > and users lose their freedoms and work they've authored? Who wins? > probably the people who want to sell l

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Bob Beck
* Craig Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-14 02:58]: > Daniel Ouellet wrote: > > > >Look to me if a corporation wanted to kill the open source, they > >couldn't pick a better way to do it and here the GPL is walking right > >into it! Or may be some guys are well paid to create the problem and

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As we are on the subject and I do not want to deviate from the original > question, I would however appreciate suggestions as to how I can have a > one server witch can actually have up to 32 serial console to control > LOM on Sun server. I may need u

IPSec VPN gateway with only one interface

2007-09-14 Thread Markus Wernig
Hi all I'v looked through what documentation I could find, but didn't find this case mentioned, so I assumed it would work (which it doesn't): I have an OBSD 4.1 vpn gateway (A) with only one interface, over which the default route points out and over which the packets to forward through the

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread bofh
On 9/14/07, Craig Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To stay informed of new features, please supply your support contract > number on the page http://www.openbsd.org/update-me-when-stuff-is-done/ Unfortunately, 404 compliant. -- "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curios

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread bofh
On 9/13/07, Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't. The OpenBSD installer is a very underrated part of the > overall user experience. What other OS can you install in 3 minutes > flat? Keep it simple, stupid. Oh noes, you don't understand. See, I have a shaggy dog tale that demonstra

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Siju George
On 9/14/07, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 07:09 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > >> GNUspeak: > > > > These are definitely not the views of the GNU project. They *might* be > > views of the self-styled "Linux nerds" that think they are "k00l"

Re: Strange Lock-ups with Opera?

2007-09-14 Thread Celso Fernandes
I'm not using GENERIC.MP and Firefox freezes with the flash plugin.. But I really don't know if the problem is the flash plugin, I tried getting one at adobe site, latest firefox and firefox crashes when I enter some page that has no flash media. (firefox running with linux binary emulation :) I'm

Re: : serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Raimo Niskanen
Thank you! On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:05:06AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:40:44AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > > > > Can someone clarify the difference between /dev/tty00 and /dev/cua00? > > > > to some extent these are documented in tty(4). > jmc -- / Raimo N

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread Woodchuck
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Marco Peereboom wrote: > I installed FreeBSD once in my life. Took me 3 tries and I am sure some > kittens were murdered in the process. I am also pretty sure I wept at > some point. Honestly I can't remember a much worse installer; maybe SCO > OpenServer but not by much.

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:25PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: | > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: | > > | > > The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for all users. | > | > You don't seem to get the fact that the BSD license is *more free* | > than the GPL

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Sebastien Carlier
On 2007-09-14 12:24:25, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:24:25 +0100 > From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Sebastien Carlier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, misc@openbsd.org, > Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
Actually I do get the point that you are not talking about. In my point of view, the GPL has NOT kept you from being a social failure. You are what you see --- I sincerely hope not. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Silva S

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
I stopped and thought. You are confused. All your issues are confused. My insane opinion is much more valid than yours. Are you Tweedledee or Tweedledum? Do you even know who you are? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Silva

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:49:33AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > >> | I don't establish *anything*. It's in the preamble. > >> > >> Your exact words are "that's in the preamble, which establishes the

Re: Definition of the major number under OpenBSD

2007-09-14 Thread João Salvatti
Thanks Theo, my pseudo device works! On 9/13/07, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In which OpenBSD file do I define the major number for devices (both > > regular and pseudo-device)? I have searched in several sources, and > > the closest answer was for NetBSD, which says that major nu

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Craig Skinner
Paul de Weerd wrote: I'm afraid not. It must be a "real" serial port, supported by the BIOS and all that stuff. You can run a getty on a USB->serial adapter, but console must be the real thing. That makes perfect sense with the BIOS, thanks!

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:39:10AM +, Sebastien Carlier wrote: > Rui, > > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > > The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for all users. > > You don't seem to get the fact that the BSD license is *more free* > than the GPL becaus

Re: Wasting our Freedom (WAKE UP PEOPLE)

2007-09-14 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sep 14, 2007, at 5:33 AM, Lars Noodin wrote: Nice troll. There are some valid points. It is in this case that the interaction between the different open source licensing groups does *still* after all these years need to be smoothed out. This has little to do with the community and EVERYTH

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Sebastien Carlier
Rui, On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for all users. You don't seem to get the fact that the BSD license is *more free* than the GPL because the BSD license imposes *fewer requirements* on distribution. Do you seriously b

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
PS: From http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall/Amnesiac "the "novice" track, meaning as little interaction with the user as possible" This is what I meant... 2007/9/14, Pau Amaro-Seoane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Please don't touch the installer. It's just perfect. > > I have tried tons of different un

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Please don't touch the installer. It's just perfect. I have tried tons of different unix/linux OS's before I saw The Light and, pay attention, NONE of them was as reliable/robust/quick as OpenBSD's And guess... FreeBSD is getting a graphical installer: http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2007/08/

Re: tpb and tphdisk assistance

2007-09-14 Thread Don Scott
On 5/28/07, joshua stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tpb set to run as a daemon from ~/.xinitrc. The volume mute/down/up > > buttons work, but none of the Fn buttons do except for the thinklight. > > On-screen display also does not work. Is this something I can fix with a > > simple confi

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
No, according to your last email copncerning the introduction to the GPL, the purpose is to make people daft and unsorted. Are you Tweedledee or Tweedledum? Please sort yourself. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Silva Sea

Divide and conquer (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-14 Thread Lars Noodén
Nice troll. There are some valid points. It is in this case that the interaction between the different open source licensing groups does *still* after all these years need to be smoothed out. However, keep in mind that 1) a license is simply another tool 2) some[1] outside FOSS w

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:16:46AM +0100, Craig Skinner wrote: | Henning Brauer wrote: | >there are multiport usb-serial adapters. and of course you can use | >multiple of them. | > | | This may be really really stupid, but for Mac minis that have no serial | ports listed in their dmesg (e.g: | htt

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:49:33AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: >> | I don't establish *anything*. It's in the preamble. >> >> Your exact words are "that's in the preamble, which establishes the >> spirit" (I left them in my reply so you can see for yourself). So the

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
Daft? Nobody here defended that (the GPL)? Are you tweedledee or tweedledum? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Silva Seabra > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 4:33 AM > To: Tony Abernethy > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; misc@openbs

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:36:11AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: | On 2007/09/14 12:55, Edwards, David (JTS) wrote: | > Have you ever tried to do an install of FreeBSD/Linux using a 9600 | > serial console? | | Oh thanks, I'd been trying to erase that from memory (-: | FreeBSD, 9600 serial, PXE

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:49:33AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > | I don't establish *anything*. It's in the preamble. > > Your exact words are "that's in the preamble, which establishes the > spirit" (I left them in my reply so you can see for yourself). So the > spirit is established. I can play

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Craig Skinner
Henning Brauer wrote: there are multiport usb-serial adapters. and of course you can use multiple of them. This may be really really stupid, but for Mac minis that have no serial ports listed in their dmesg (e.g: http://erdelynet.com/tech/openbsd/openbsd-on-intel-mac-mini/) could you use a

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:42:13AM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: | > | 1. that's in the preamble, which establishes the spirit | > | 2. 4 paragraphs below you read: | > | | > | The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and | > | modification follow. | > | | > | 3. later

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