How to use an IrDA/USB bridge.

2016-05-29 Thread Justin Haynes
Misc - I have an ACTiSYS IR4000US-KD USB IrDA bridge which is actually Sigmatel inside. I would like to use this to transfer files to and from my Handspring Visor. My problem is that this IrDA/USB bridge device is only configured on a ugen device, while the birda utils are not able to attach to

documentation - how can one know if a base command is excluded from an arch?

2014-09-05 Thread Justin Haynes
How can one know if a command appearing in the man pages is excluded from the base install of an architecture without extracting base tarball to discover this fact? As an example, take pdisk in 5.5 RELEASE At http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi, a search for pdisk in All Architectures, mac

Re: documentation - how can one know if a base command is excluded from an arch?

2014-09-05 Thread Justin Haynes
On Sep 5, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > > The web interface has some peculiarities. It can be helpful, but it > doesn't quite reflect the man pages you will see on any actual OpenBSD > system. > > If you look carefully at the path for man.cgi and pdisk, you'll see it > says macpcc, eve

Re: documentation - how can one know if a base command is excluded from an arch?

2014-09-17 Thread Justin Haynes
On Sep 6, 2014, at 11:04 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > Manuals applying to multiple, but not all...architectures... > are faced will the ill choice of either > singling out one of their architectures or not specify[ing] any > architecture at all, in which case they look like [they apply] to > any ar

Working macppc OpenBSD 5.0 system drops to ddb> when additional drive is added.

2012-05-23 Thread Justin Haynes
Misc - My ppc based Mac G4 (Digital Audio) boots and functions properly 24x7 in its role as fileserver in my home network. The machine has two IDE hard drives (wd0(wdc0:0:0) and wd1(wdc0:0:1)) attached. It boots from wd0 and mounts wd0a as / with wd0b as swap. These partitions are specified by

Re: Working macppc OpenBSD 5.0 system drops to ddb> when additional drive is added.

2012-05-23 Thread Justin Haynes
/pci@f2000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1F000/disk@0:/bsd root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b panic: root filesystem has size 0 This is my only guess since wd1a and wd1b would be the disks specified by the DUIDs in /etc/fstab. -Justin On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Justin Haynes wrote: > Misc -

Re: Working macppc OpenBSD 5.0 system drops to ddb> when additional drive is added.

2012-05-24 Thread Justin Haynes
ds that do work. Ideally I'd like to have 10-20 sata ports I can continue to add drives to. Thanks. On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:24:17PM -0500, Justin Haynes wrote: >> misc - >> >> What I don't und

"em0: Invalid mac address" and the device is not configured.

2012-06-07 Thread Justin Haynes
Misc - I have an Intel PRO/1000MT (82540EM) 32-bit PCI card which I've just added to an i386 architecture machine running OpenBSD 5.1. I have an extra card I can donate to a developer who may need it. The following line appears in my dmesg, and my Intel PRO/1000MT (82540EM) ethernet device fails

ASUS E35M1-M PRO Fusion AMD E-350 APU

2012-06-22 Thread Justin Haynes
misc - I used a brand new ASUS motherboard I referred to in the subject with the AMD Fusion APU and associated chipset(s) with OpenBSD 5.1 i386. This ran well for a few days but ultimately dropped to ddb> repeatedly when i copied several gigabyte of files from one SATA disk to a softraid mirror o