Am Mo., 1. Juli 2024 um 05:27 Uhr schrieb Robert Alessi
:
> To my knowledge, the only flavor of Linux that provides an operative
> tlmgr is VoidLinux.
That does not speak good about texlive.
> The way to have an operative tlmgr on OpenBSD is to install a native
> TeX Live over the internet with
I think, firefox behaviour may concern security. I am curious to know if it is a
(permitted!) misuse of the shared memory extension and if it is possible
to disable this misuse.
I consider the answer of Jan Stary just as noise.
Rod
Am Sa., 29. Juni 2024 um 16:16 Uhr schrieb Roderick :
>
>
What would be interesting, is to have a package with the commands and
a minimal texmf-dist., with a working tlmgr. Then I would not need to
compile when upgrading.
After I compile, I get tlmgr, but it does not work, something with
paths. I do not care of it, because I only need tex, mf and other
c
Am Sa., 22. Juni 2024 um 17:22 Uhr schrieb Robert Alessi
:
...
> I would like to share that since the release of TeX Live 2024, anyone
Thanks!
> The page given above provides an easy way to build one's own custom
> binaries to be used for the installation of TeX Live 2024 over the
> internet.
Do
Long ago I wanted to run firefox on OpenBSD on an OpenBSD xterm
displayed on an X server
running on FreeBSD. I expected, of course, a firefox running on
OpenBSD displayed on my
FreeBSD X server. What else could I have expected? To my surprise, it
run the firefox installed
on FreeBSD.
I found it an
Is it not ARC meant to be the solution for
this problem?
Would DMARC then consider the original
DKIM and SPF tests?
Todd C. Miller schrieb am Mi., 13. März 2024, 14:56:
> I've just added support to our majordomo for rewriting the From:
> header when the sender's domain has a DMARC policy. Mess
twm. I use there freebsd-esr that till now does not
have the problem.
What did change with chrome on 2014 and with firefox jet?
Rod.
Am Sa., 6. Jan. 2024 um 13:19 Uhr schrieb Roderick :
>
> Not only on a Samsung nc10 nettop with OpenBSD 7.4 I have the following
> problem:
>
> Wh
Not only on a Samsung nc10 nettop with OpenBSD 7.4 I have the following problem:
When I use chrome with twm, context menus, for example the ones that
appear by clicking the right mouse button on a link,
disappear immediately after clicking, so that I do not have time to
select anything.
This does
Am Fr., 5. Jan. 2024 um 18:02 Uhr schrieb Roderick :
> Yes. It was mentioned in the list one or two years ago.
> The clock is OK, the internet connection also.
Indeed, this time was the clock!
I set the date to 2023-01-05 ... :)
Now corrected and is OK.
Rod.
Am Fr., 5. Jan. 2024 um 17:44 Uhr schrieb Capitan Cloud :
> Why you say old, is it reoccuring maybe?
Yes. It was mentioned in the list one or two years ago.
The clock is OK, the internet connection also.
> Do you mind to show here the actual content of resolv.conf?
nameserver 127.0.0.1
lookup f
The problem is old. Unbound does not resolve. I upgraded today to OpenBSD 7.4,
before I did not use the Nettop for some months. But when I upgraded
to 7.3 it worked,
today neither before nor after upgrading to 7.4 worked.
I added to the standard configuration file only:
do-ip6: no
log-servfail: y
Am Fr., 5. Jan. 2024 um 12:50 Uhr schrieb Stuart Henderson
:
> > # bioctl -v -P wd0e
> > bioctl: BIOCDISCIPLINE: inapeopriate ioctl for device
> wd0e is not a softraid volume. Use the softraid volume,
> e.g. sd1 or sd0 or similar.
Thanks a lot. After doing
bioctl -c C -l /dev/wd0e softraid0
an
I get
# bioctl -v -P wd0e
bioctl: BIOCDISCIPLINE: inapeopriate ioctl for device
Is it not possible to change the pass?
What was supposed that I do under
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade74.html#ConfigChanges
???
Thanks for any hint!
Rod
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, Stuart Longland wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 07:26:54 +0100
Caspar Schutijser wrote:
I find that, even with Firefox configured to separate the two, I'll
start keying in an address like `http://some.internal.site/` and
Firefox "thinks" I want to do a Google search for `htt
I see, thanks! :)
Rod.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2022, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 07:35:51PM +, Roderick wrote:
I thought
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1 bs=1m
would delete the mbr. But I still see the partition table
with fdisk.
Any explanation?
Rod.
You just created a
I thought
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1 bs=1m
would delete the mbr. But I still see the partition table
with fdisk.
Any explanation?
Rod.
On Sat, 8 Jan 2022, Jan Stary wrote:
Buy a bigger machine. Or use Linux,
Now that is just rude ...
You are also rude, much ruder than that, to others. Did you think,
you are very special, so that you deserve a different treatment?
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Roderick wrote:
It seems there is a way to disable the search in chrome "omnibox",
but it is still not clear to me how to do it.
I added a "search engine" in settings with URL "http://localhost?q=%s";,
set it as default and deleted all othe
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
But you might encounter increasingly more websites that do not work
with them, as the web grows in complexity.
Agreed.
And this is the main point. I need the web browser for example for
internetbanking, not just "surfing". The web developers decide
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
Are you actually running on hardware that doesn't support amd64?
That is the case. A light and small samsumg nc10 nettop. No amd64,
only 2 GB RAM.
The problem is that important Web-Sites are done for chrome and firefox.
I do not see much choice.
I
I just updated OpenBSD to 7.0. After pkg_add -u, it seems
firefox was not updated:
firefox core dumped, I deleted it, but I cannot reinstall it
(cannot find that package).
With chrome I have a problem, because it does not separate URL
entry from search entry. And I do not know an alternative t
What is the easiest way to do the following with openbsd:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-March/042040.html
???
I do not see an :al: capability in "man gettytab".
I think it is exagerated to write a substitute for getty for
only circumventing the login dialog.
If
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020, Georg Bege wrote:
keep in mind that the ZFS supported versions may be quite different.
The "one ZFS for many OS" isn't really working in reality,
you may not be able to import your pool into different OS than the one
you've created it with.
Indeed there is this risk. I
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
OpenBSD is super simple and most reliable OS I have personally dealt
with but the storage OS, it is not. Nevertheless some people are using
in that capacity and to paraphrase Nick's point if OpenBSD is your goto
OS, there is nothing wrong in storing
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
FreeBSD, ZFS wins hands down. That being said I neither have a need nor
a hardware good enough to use ZFS at home.
I am testing a 500GB ZFS mirror on an intel D945GCLF atom board with 2 GB
Ram. I boot FreeBSD as diskless. It seems to work fine.
R
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020, Bryan Steele wrote:
It took you *6* emails before finally mentioning which platform were
on, even after being asked..
Yes, excuse me, I answered to Nick Samsung nc10, but not mentioned i386.
i386 removed the base gcc compiler in OpenBSD 6.6, so the binaries were
Your
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Todd C. Miller wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:07:33 +, Roderick wrote:
g++, gcc and gcov in /bin are from Apr 13, 2019. The rest are from
Oct 5, 2020.
That explains your problem. The upgrade would have removed any
obsolete /usr/lib/gcc-lib/amd64-unknown-openbsd
Thanks you both, Nick, Todd!
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Todd C. Miller wrote:
There should now be a /usr/lib/gcc-lib/amd64-unknown-openbsd6.8
directory for use by the updated gcc/g++ but for some reason you
don't have those updated gcc binaries.
I do not even have a directory /usr/lib/gcc-lib, bu
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Nick Holland wrote:
Worst case, unload all pacakges, then go through the /usr, /bin and /bin
directories looking for files older than your current install, and
removing
them (most of them aren't bad. But something isn't right). Then do
another upgrade to whatever you wan
had there, base gcc. I never used
something called egcc. If I installed the package now, then because
I though gcc was removed.
In worst case I back up some files and reinstall. But perhaps someone
knows the cause.
Rod.
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Nick Holland wrote:
On 2020-11-19 08:36, Roderick
broken gcc is the old gcc, the one of the package is installed as egcc.
Do only I have a broken gcc?
R.
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Roderick wrote:
After upgrading, I still have gcc, but no package gcc.
I get the above error. I get it also after installing gcc, and also after
deinstalling it
After upgrading, I still have gcc, but no package gcc.
I get the above error. I get it also after installing gcc, and also after
deinstalling it, making "pkg_delete -a" and reinstalling.
Any hint, what can I do?
Thanks.
R.
And by the same logic, the original BSD license does not demand that
the permission ("Redistribution and use in source and binary forms,
with or without modification, are permitted provided that the
following conditions are met") be copied.
It only demands that the copyright note and the discla
Well, my last question is perhaps superflous, because it is
impossible to make the many authors agree, but I wonder that
FreeBSD copyrights "The compilation of software known as FreeBSD"
in its /usr/src/COPYRIGHT:
The compilation of software known as FreeBSD is distributed under the
follow
I just read this:
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=HEAD
It is a nice license, because it is short, and I wonder why a permisive
license cannot be shorter (well, I do not understand the many legal
words).
But perhaps to short? It does not mention that the disclaim
On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
There's an #ifdef __LP64__ ...
Yes. That is not to oversee, but I oversaw it, because I wanted to
oversee it.
For lazyness I use snprintf to fill the mtime field of a component of
a v7 tar file I generate:
snprintf(&hd[136],12,"%011lo", time(
am doing something wrong. Perhaps there is a definition
that makes the difference. I write only small programs I need,
no macros, and copy the necessary includes from the man pages, no
nested includes ad nauseam.
Rodrigo
On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, Roderick wrote:
Thanks anybody for the instructive
Thanks anybody for the instructive answers!
On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, Todd C. Miller wrote:
Are you sure about that? FreeBSD declares __time_t to be __int64_t
on amd64. On FreeBSD/amd64 __int64_t is defined as a long.
You are right. My error. I just run:
#include
#include
int main() {printf(
The result of time() has type time_t and we know what kind of number
goes there: seconds since 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, January 1,
1970, Coordinated Universal Time.
In my FreeBSD running on a 64 bit processor this type is: int (__32_t).
It considers this size enough for above information.
On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
Recent versions of tar(1) on {Free,Net}BSD stipulate: [...]
As far as I know it was always so, as it is also in OpenBSD. But
that is a very interesting issue on history of the tar command.
I see only a documentation problem.
Rod.
We read there:
"
-f archive
Filename where the archive is stored. Defaults to /dev/rst0. If set to
hyphen (‘-’) standard output is used. See also the TAPE environment
variable.
""
Well, hyphen (‘-’) may also mean stdin as expected, but it seems not
to be mentioned/insinuated on th
(1) I would separate login to Email (smtp+imap authentication)
from any other login (to machine) as many people told you here.
(2) Perhaps write a cgi script? But that needs a lot of care
due to security.
(3) offer a web mailer that has this service? Prayer webmail has
this, but it
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Rupert Gallagher wrote:
This is stupid.
Your tone is the real stupid.
Well, at least it is not diabolic like the infame tritone.
Rod.
On Sat, 1 Aug 2020, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Public service announcement: The original BSD repository can be
browsed here (converted from SCCS):
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/
Wanna know what those hippies at Berkeley really did?
You can look it up.
Thanks for the nice repo with the co
On Sat, 1 Aug 2020, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
On 2020-08-01, Roderick wrote:
It is not documented in 4.4BSD. I suppose this is not original BSD?
Public service announcement: The original BSD repository can be
browsed here (converted from SCCS):
https
On Sat, 1 Aug 2020, Theo de Raadt wrote:
People should really use rsync (which has it's own oddities), ...
For example the ugly behaviour when the source file ends with / ?
Also FreeBSD's cp behave like rsync and is documented in its man page:
-R If source_file designates a directory, cp
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen wrote:
What usually works better is to install an sftp client (I use AndFTP
in sftp mode) on the phone and use that to transfer the pictures to your
machine.
No, no! Better the server on the phone, as I wrote before.
Do you get why? :)
R
The easiest way I know is to install in the phone:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.galexander.sshd
and use the WLAN hotspot to transfer files with scp / sftp / rsync.
Rod.
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020, Justin Muir wrote:
Hi,
Just wishing to mount my phone to access photos.
Her
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
I'd think that a degausser would also erase the servo tracks which will make
the disk irrevocably unusable. If that's what you want then just drill holes
through the disk - it's quicker.
Or perhaps to put it on an induction cooktop?
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Janne Johansson wrote:
Then again, if you count how many hours it will take to securely erase a
disk, one might doubt the option of "just run this command and it will do
the same in 10 seconds".
Not 10 seconds, but there will be sure a difference if the task is done
by th
Is not there a SCSI command "sanitize" for that?
Can be issued with OpenBSD?
Perhaps his disc supports it.
Rod.
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
O.K., deprecated. And what is the alternative?
The paragraph above it (discussing timelocal()) suggests it's
mktime().
Thanks. I would preffer to reimplement timegm if it disappears than
going trhough the locale: it should be one or two lines with
Acording to the man page: "timegm() is a deprecated interface that
converts [...]"
O.K., deprecated. And what is the alternative?
Thanks for any hint
Rodrigo
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, Florian Obser wrote:
I thought so, too. No context, no explanation just a one-liner.
I mean the algorithm. It seems there is a lot of hard work to do
with string routines. Also the regular expressions in OpenBSD seems
to be the inefficient, perhaps historical implementa
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/lib/libc/string/memmem.c?rev=1.4&content-type=text/plain
Is that not a little too primitive?
Rod.
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Because either string could be shorter than len.
Thanks. I get it. :) My non-strings do not have a '\0' in the
first len bytes and I need a case insensitive comparison.
Of course I could ignore strncasecmp and use tolower() to write
the trivial funct
From the man page:
"
These functions compare the NUL-terminated strings s1 and s2 and
return an [...].
strncasecmp() and strncasecmp_l() compare at most len characters.
"
Why NULL-terminated when comparing at most len characters?!
Rod.
From me
From me
Do you see the two above lines as identical?
mail.local quotes only the first line above with ">".
"mail" does not delete it. See:
https://man.openbsd.org/mail.local
Many years ago I used "mail" a lot with the old SunOS (BSD derivative).
I remember it used MMDF, I rememb
On Sat, 25 Jan 2020, Michael G Workman wrote:
> their bank accounts are empty, due to banking malware like Zeus, others are
>
> It seems like most of the victims were using windows computers when these
> attacks happened,
But how do they internet banking? With the web browser? Then they must
BTW.
If the purpose is transfering files, you can install in Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.galexander.sshd
and perhaps
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm
Then using the WiFi hotspot of Android, you can do sftp, rsync,
ssh and scp t
Theo, please, give him the travel blessing, before departure.
Rod.
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, cho...@jtan.com wrote:
> Some people have needs that OpenBSD doesn't meet. Of course the
> logical thing to do is to adapt it to meet them or to use something
> which does but to some -- in line with the ge
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Sean Kamath wrote:
> Having said that, I use whatever repo projects provide. I’m not here to
> say VCS “A” is better than VCS “B”, just saying installing various
> VCS’s under OpenBSD is pretty damn simple.
It seems to be like the wars perl vs python, emacs vs vi, etc.
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Zé Loff wrote:
> Someone had the same issue some weeks ago. See:
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=157548338310097&w=2
> and the following discussion. Solution: add -md md5
Thank you very much for the fast answer. I was a litle in panic.
Rodrigo
I cannot decrypt files with
openssl aes-256-cbc -d -a -salt < encrypted-file.encrypted
That I encrypted with
openssl aes-256-cbc -e -a -salt < file > file.encrypted
I get the error:
bad decrypt
616640944:error:06FFF064:digital envelope routines:CRYPTO_internal:bad
decrypt:/usr/src/lib/libcr
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Philippe Meunier wrote:
> Roderick wrote:
> >I do use openssl for encrypting files in my laptop.
>
> So do I. I only encrypt the 0.001% of files that are really important and
> then those files are encrypted on my computer too, not just on the backup
>
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020, go...@disroot.org wrote:
> so I don't understand what's wrong with FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
I do not see a problem in CVS.
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Karel Gardas wrote:
> Fossil is superfine and I'd like it for various reasons too, but unfortunately
> it does not scale to the OpenBSD repo size well.
>
> As a test, you can try and clone fossil repo of NetBSD and I'm sure you will
> find out quickly why people are working
I would perhaps write a script that calls openssl for encripting and
signing, rsync to send new files, something simple.
I do use openssl for encrypting files in my laptop.
Rodrigo
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, Aham Brahmasmi wrote:
> Namaste misc,
>
> What tool(s) would you recommend to encrypt and
BTW. Also tcl has coroutines since a while:
https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/coroutine.htm
Rodrigo.
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Roderick wrote:
>> I am curious to know why tcl, my fovourite scripting lanuage, would
>> not be a candidate.
[...]
> Wow, it's a lot like you can't read.
It is more an academic question. I wanted to know more obj
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Marc Espie wrote:
> lua would definitely NOT be appropriate for that. The only half valid
> candidate would be python.
I am curious to know why tcl, my fovourite scripting lanuage, would
not be a candidate.
I suspect, tcl is being underestimated, and the decission for one
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> system user XOR virtual user
> That's what I have to setup now. Correct?
As said, I had UW imap serving system user mailboxes, and now
cyrus imap serving virtual users. You have to decide. With
dovecot I have no other experience than compiling it.
I
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> > Is dovecot or fetchmail who create the mailboxes?!
> fetchmail doesn't configure anything, especially not mailboxes.
> I regret having mentioned fetchmail.
> It happens as part of setting up dovecot with virtual users.
If they are virtual users, why
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> I'm using an IMAP mailserver with dovecot which is entirely limited to my
> local network.
> It pulls my external mail with fetchmail. [...]
> user username1@foodomain.local.fantasea mailbox is owned by vmail [...]
> Obviously dovecot has other ideas a
On Mon, 30 Dec 2019, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> wrote:
>
> > A smaller base afforded to by Lua will reduce the
> > attack surface and complexity of the OpenBSD project as a whole.
>
> 1) I think that is a baseless and irrelevant claim.
>
> 2) No.
It is not about the claim, he is trying to sell
I find the question strange. The program depends on the laws of
the country and personal taste. Nothing to do with OpenBSD.
I would write a script with tcl (and eventually tk) that access a
db (sqlite prefered if there is no big amount data) and generate tex
code. Is that really difficult?! It
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> for 6.5 onwards, all you had to was type
>
> sysmerge
> sysupgrade
I read somewhere that something like this was coming for 6.6, but
I remember that I followed the instructions for upgrading from 6.5
to 6.6, and this was to be done manually
What can be newer or not existent yesterday, but has the same filename?
Something that one changed with an editor? Would not be better to use
a version contro system?
Rod.
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019, Nick Holland wrote:
On 2019-11-17 11:39, Jean-François Simon wrote:
Hi,
I found it, there exist g
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote:
I assumed that the canonical reference for ed was K&P, "The Unix Programming
Reference = man page. Under /usr/share/doc/usd/ in an old BSD System
you may find Brian W. Kernighan ed Tutorial. Just google for it.
Sam looks very interestin
On Thu, 22 Jan 1970, Chris Bennett wrote:
Yes, but ed also allows one to easily work with only 1-3 lines of
screen.
I think with every line editor is so?
The power of ed is in the regular expressions, search and substitution.
The only thing that I find more comfortable in sos and miss in e
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Ian Darwin wrote:
Who needs cat when you have echo?
Echo? Necessary?! Terrible waste of paper in a teletype terminal!
I remember editing with sos in TOPS 10 after giving the command:
tty noecho.
Rod.
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
How large is a C implementation of TECO?
he probably means cat plus the shell's redirection capability.
I think, TECO is much more powerfull that ed and vi.
But perhaps DEC 10s SOS?
I do not know if it runs in unix
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Noth wrote:
ed is included in the ramdisk, but if your use case is using vi to fix a
I imagine, it is there for using it in scripts.
I think, for editing config files, there are sure editors that
are simpler, smaller, not so powerful, but easier to use than ed.
Rod.
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, Jan Betlach wrote:
Should I byte the bullet and build the NAS on FreeBSD taking advantage of
ZFS, snapshots, replications, etc? Or is this an overkill?
I built my "NAS" with FreeBSD due to the self healing properties of
ZFS with checksums and redundant data, and due to t
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, Theo de Raadt wrote:
The mailing lists are full of discussions of bugs in usb.
This could explain, why devices that have problems in OpenBSD have
no problem in FreeBSD, although they ported the driver from OpenBSD.
But no, let's keep concluding these problems is narrow
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Oliver Leaver-Smith wrote:
The use case I have is for a novel which should require less formatting
than a technical book, so I should be able to retrofit that after once
I have investigated the many tools mentioned in the thread.
Plain TeX would mean in that case a simple
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Steve Litt wrote:
[...] If you can even conceive of it being ePub or some
other lineflow reading format, Texlive and all the TeX/LaTeX
tools dead-end you.
TeX produces dvi, a well documented and simple page description language.
Then it is transformed to postscript or pdf
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Jonathan Drews wrote:
I thought Skype used a protocol that allowed other clients to connect to
it then I read the Wikipedia page on Skype. The technology is owned by
Microsoft.
A standard is SIP. Then a solution would be something like:
https://kb.asipto.com/kamailio:sky
Here is an old system, written in FORTRAN and C, perhaps compiles in
OpenBSD:
http://www.tustep.uni-tuebingen.de/tustep_eng.html
But I never used it and I am hyppy with TeX.
Rodrigo
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
And finally, the only thing that is seriously wrong with
the "print/texlive" port is how ridiculously large it is.
That is "texlive". Donald Knuths TeX/mf is exactly the opposite to bloat.
Just tried EDIMAX EW7811Un with RTL 8188CUS chipset (urtwn driver).
It is recommended for OpenBSD in many places, for example here:
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/some-mini-usb-wifi-adapters
It works perfectly. It does not disconnect.
I think this is the choice if the internal WLAN Device
It seems, it disappeared from ifconfig because only wi supported it.
Can I be sure that my WLAN is not sending stronger than the law allows?
Rodrigo
Report on new experience. :)
I bought a used no name, Model WS-WN689HN2, distributed in germany
by conrad electronics. The good news: till now it does not disconnect.
It is a coarseness with two big antenae, I read "wireless N high
power". But that is all: no where it is written how many watts
As far I remember, they did not run in underground, but blocked the
terminal. Am I wrong?
Rodrigo
On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, Roderick wrote:
Now I am waiting to see if the link gets lost.
rsu0: could not send join command
rsu0: could not send site survey command
--
# ifconfig rsu0
...
status: no network
...
Another WLAN Stick I have is rsu, recognized as RTL8188S, but
with it I do not even get the link.
A small discovery: it is a little diferent from other sticks.
It requires "ifconfig rsu0 up" before "dhclient rsu0".
It seems to work very good: no packet loss. Now I am waiting
to see if the l
Another WLAN Stick I have is rsu, recognized as RTL8188S, but
with it I do not even get the link.
Below an up to date dmesg.
Soo I will perhaps buy an urtwn for my collection of USB sticks.
Rodrigo
OpenBSD 6.5 (GENERIC.MP) #1356: Sat Apr 13 15:16:41 MDT 2019
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/
On Wed, 25 Sep 2019, Roderick wrote:
I would like to buy another USB UMTS stick and try with it. Is there
a recommendation of a good working one, that is also sensible and
powerfull enough to send and receive through some walls?
Lapsus. I mean WLAN stick. Any recommendation?
What I have
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Sebastian Benoit wrote:
Today a fix was okayed for a problem that sounds like it might be yours:
The AP I am using does not change channel, hence that is not the problem.
I would like to buy another USB UMTS stick and try with it. Is there
a recommendation of a good wor
I still have this problem:
https://marc.info/?t=15148946743&r=1&w=2
Now tested with other AP (FritzBox).
I am the only one?
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