USB nics to give away

2007-02-18 Thread Paul de Weerd
Hi all, I have two USB nics (one wired, one wireless) to give away. They were cheap, so I bought them to see if they were supported. Since they're not, maybe some developer can use them. I know nothing about documentation for these things, but this is what dmesg and usbdevs -v say : # dmesg # for

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-02-18 Thread Nick Nauwelaerts
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:06:43 +0100 Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since prebind has already been explained in detail, I want to add that does indeed work, but if you use it on your ports it will invalidate all of the hashes used by pkg_add (which is most likely one of the issues theo

Re: USB nics to give away

2007-02-18 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 10:14:07AM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two USB nics (one wired, one wireless) to give away. They were > cheap, so I bought them to see if they were supported. Since they're > not, maybe some developer can use them. I know nothing about > documentation f

Re: USB nics to give away

2007-02-18 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:21:14PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: | On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 10:14:07AM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > I have two USB nics (one wired, one wireless) to give away. They were | > cheap, so I bought them to see if they were supported. Since they're | > not

OpenOSPFd and kernel routing table

2007-02-18 Thread Falk Brockerhoff
Hello, I just set up OSPF to talk within two OpenBSD-Boxes (Pinky and Brain, do you remember? :-). On both machines I configured a carp interface to provide a default gateway for my local VLANs. The configuration was very easy and intuitive. OSPF is redistributing routes only for carp-interfa

Re: OpenOSPFd and kernel routing table

2007-02-18 Thread Falk Brockerhoff
And the output of the forwarding database with the unexpected nexthop of the local interface instead of the opsf-neighbor: # ospfctl sh fib flags: * = valid, O = OSPF, C = Connected, S = Static Flags Destination Nexthop C 195.140.212.0/24 link#22 I killed the ospfd-process a

Re: USB nics to give away

2007-02-18 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 02:40:43PM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:21:14PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: > | On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 10:14:07AM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote: > | > Hi all, > | > > | > I have two USB nics (one wired, one wireless) to give away. They were > | > c

Re: missing isakmpd.fifo

2007-02-18 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Matthew Closson wrote: > Hello, > > I am experiencing the same problem. I am testing it to see if I can > find what is causing it. I am running OpenBSD 4.0-stable and I went > to add a new tunnel today and was greeted with a message the > isakmpd.fifo did not exist. I have isakmpd enabled in /et

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-02-18 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Joachim Schipper wrote: > > Since you didn't mention what you are using at the moment, I can't very > well tell you to switch to a lighter window manager, can I? Ion *is* > nice, though... ;-) > > ion whips a "giraffe's ass with a belt from a balcony" [0]. [0] wesley willis ( http://en.wikiped

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-02-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On last thing that might add to openbsd's startup overhead is the > aggresive security stance. I don't know if library randomization has > anything to do with it, but w^x & propolice have been stated to give a > 5% to 10% performance impact in certain cases. I've noticed this mostly > in applicat

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-02-18 Thread Nick Nauwelaerts
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:03:37 -0700 Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh really, "it has been stated". By who? Overall, I doubt that all > of our security technologies add more than about 2% of a performance > hit. Even a 'make build' on most architectures did not add that. I > think y

Re: perl webapp and threads

2007-02-18 Thread Julien TOUCHE
for the archives, a small guide to thread perl in chroot + modules get latest perl use a non-root account with rights on chosen destination dir (to avoid any conflict with system perl) $ cd perl-x.x.x $ rm -f config.sh Policy.sh $ sh Configure -Dinstallprefix='/var/www/perl5web' -Dusethreads -Dus

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-02-18 Thread Jon Drews
On 2/17/07, R. Fumione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am using OpenBSD on server since few years now, and I am very happy with it's easy maintenance and it's stability. I want to try on desktop, and I am having trouble. Everything is much slower than existing Linux system. For example, Fir

Re: Wanted: RALink based (2501/2600) pcmcia-Card with the possibility to add an external Antenna

2007-02-18 Thread mniche-news
Hi Sebastian, Which brand of Ral card that you want? I need to implement hostap mode for 802.11 b/g, do you have any recommanded PCI card that works better with hostap? Should you want to stay with pcmcia-Card form factor from RALink 2501/2600 based, do you know any specific brand? I would pr

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-02-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
> > Oh really, "it has been stated". By who? Overall, I doubt that all > > of our security technologies add more than about 2% of a performance > > hit. Even a 'make build' on most architectures did not add that. I > > think you need to go back and read my slides again. Spreading lies > > abou

Re: Wanted: RALink based (2501/2600) pcmcia-Card with the possibility to add an external Antenna

2007-02-18 Thread djgoku
On Feb 18, 2007, at 11:01 AM, mniche-news wrote: Hi Sebastian, Which brand of Ral card that you want? I need to implement hostap mode for 802.11 b/g, do you have any recommanded PCI card that works better with hostap? Should you want to stay with pcmcia-Card form factor from RALink 2501/

Re: is there [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive?

2007-02-18 Thread scorch
Theo de Raadt wrote: i'm looking for new mobos (both embedded & "normal") & wondered if there's any way to search through sumbitted [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you do all send in your dmesg don't you?) to see what people ran into previously. gmane & marc have proved reasonably light on Sorry, but

Re: is there [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive?

2007-02-18 Thread scorch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: And they will NEVER receive as many dmesg's as we do, because our we promise privacy... There's no middle ground. Our developers never look at those, so they do not serve our purposes. We don't want to distract our users from sending in reports whic

Supported GPS receivers

2007-02-18 Thread Phusion
What are the best supported GPS receivers under 4.0 release and stable code-base? I would like to find a GPS receiver (serial or USB) that is supported under OpenBSD that will work for OpenNTPD or NTP. Phusion

Re: Supported GPS receivers

2007-02-18 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 2/18/07, Phusion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are the best supported GPS receivers under 4.0 release and stable code-base? I would like to find a GPS receiver (serial or USB) that is supported under OpenBSD that will work for OpenNTPD or NTP. As a time source, any receiver that outputs NM

Re: perl modules/chroot apache

2007-02-18 Thread Marc Winiger
Julien TOUCHE wrote: i know about mod_perl and i was considering it to replace perl in chroot. but as far as i know, it does not replace perl modules ... or i miss it ? You can load the modules on apache startup. They don't have to exist in chroot. http://www.apacheref.com/ref/mod_perl/PerlR

Re: Serial console not working for IBM Aptiva

2007-02-18 Thread Damon McMahon
Thanks for the response, Nick, I'm almost there and just one further query: On 18/02/07, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Been there, seen that, kicked self in butt once I realized the port I was trying to use as a serial terminal was also configured as a serial console for the

Re: is there [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive?

2007-02-18 Thread Craig Barraclough
> The dmesgs submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are not publicly accessible. > At some point in time this was discussed, but we can't do that, since > we never told people that they would be published. So they remain > accessible to developers only. They are consulted very often, so keep > them coming

Re: is there [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive?

2007-02-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
> > The dmesgs submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are not publicly accessible. > > At some point in time this was discussed, but we can't do that, since > > we never told people that they would be published. So they remain > > accessible to developers only. They are consulted very often, so keep > > th

Re: is there [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive?

2007-02-18 Thread Lawrence Horvath
I agree with scorch, how do we find out what hardware is working best and most used with OpenBSD. Even we you cant release the dmesg reports, what about a statistics page, something along the lines of, x amount of x mobos is used with OpenBSD, and other hardware as well. would that be possible?

Re: is there [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive?

2007-02-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I agree with scorch, how do we find out what hardware is working best > and most used with OpenBSD. Quite honestly anything I get just works. Really. Everything works. And if it does not work perfectly, I talk to the various developers and we try to get it to work better. I talk to the variou

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-02-18 Thread Travers Buda
* Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-18 14:42:34]: > * Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-18 11:17:08]: > > > On 2/17/07, R. Fumione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >I am using OpenBSD on server since few years now, and I am very happy > > >with it's easy maintenance a

serial console on macbook?

2007-02-18 Thread Ben Calvert
can't install 4.0 or snapshots on my macbook due to what appear to be issues with the usb controller. ( lots of errors about the usb controller, and the keyboard is nonresponsive... no capslock light, no input ) does anyone have any ideas about how to capture the dmesg so i can submit?

Sony laptop sound problems with auich0 and openbsd 3.9, 4.0, 4.1-beta.

2007-02-18 Thread zion
Hello list, Having serious problems with Sony PCG-V505EX laptop. Basically, sound doesn't work unless there is some activity (traffic) on fxp0 or iwi0 interfaces. Even if there is some traffic, sound grinds to a halt after few seconds. It doesn't matter what source sound is coming from: cd, dvd, m