Re: not insecure, rather unsecured.

2017-03-17 Thread Christoph Viethen
Hello, on 17.03.2017 08:10, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: i just installed 6.0 amd64 and rebooted the machine after creating /etc/hostname.iwn0. the boot script(s) issued a warining related to the permissions on the above file. they mentioned "hostname.iwn0 is insecure, fixing it". that word should no

Re: I need to get a Russian keyboard

2016-05-27 Thread Christoph Viethen
Hello, on 27.05.2016 06:27, Chris Bennett wrote: This question has probably been asked before, but a lot has changed since then. I want to buy a new one, sent to the USA. Looked at Amazon briefly. Not sure if there may be a better place to order from. Cherry, for one of the largest manufactur

Re: IPv6 fragmentation woes

2016-05-17 Thread Christoph Viethen
I tried "ping6 2001:7f8:54::250" myself right now. Sorry, that should have read: "I tried $ ping6 -s 1234 2001:7f8:54::145 " (I did send the packets to ..::145 , not the other one)

Re: IPv6 fragmentation woes

2016-05-17 Thread Christoph Viethen
Hello, on 17.05.2016 14:05, Laurent CARON wrote: When sending a ping 6 to a destination not accepting fragmented packets, I experience loss with "big" (but < 1500) packets. % ping6 -s 1234 2001:7f8:54::250 Ex: 14:03:07.959532 2001:7f8:54::145 > 2001:7f8:54::250: frag (0xbfb11fea:1232@0+) icmp

Re: ftp/www.openbsd.org will be down for an upgrade today.

2016-05-09 Thread Christoph Viethen
Hello, on 08.05.2016 23:44, Stefan Wollny wrote: Anyone know of an up2date mirror of 'current.html'? (Google just found one with the latest entries from 2005...) :-( In case of doubt, http://web.archive.org/web/20160401125246/http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html isn't far too "way back",

Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated

2016-05-04 Thread Christoph Viethen
Hello, on 04.05.2016 05:30, Gabriel Guzman wrote: I figured out the issue. On my machine (DEL XPS 13) it was the "Intel Rapid Boot" option in BIOS. Disabling that resolved all my boot issues. I can now boot with MBR or GPT off the internal SSD. And, I can also access the BIOS with the intern

Problem with SSD on Marvell 88SE9230 (Supermicro X9SBAA)

2015-12-24 Thread Christoph Viethen
Hello, on my little X9SBAA mainboard, I'm faced with a strange phenomenon. I've got two SATA drives at hand, one SSD, the other a regular mechanical harddisk. As long as I connect the SSD to a PCI card (with VIA VT6421 chipset), I can nicely boot from it (or use it in any other way, for that

SCSI_DELAY setting ...

2008-08-16 Thread Christoph Viethen
Hello all, had a little problem getting OpenBSD to run on one of our machines. It has a SCSI adapter nicely supported by the ahd(4) driver, but the problem I had was that all SCSI devices would show up, with the exception of - ta dah! - the hard disk. The only one in the machine, supposed