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OpenBSD / Wi-fi Tools

« on: August 03, 2006, 01:21:48 pm »

Hello,

to be honest I've actually never used wifi on openbsd before but I will use it very shortly.

I will use
1)current because wicontrol is gone and ifconfig had some major wifi improvements.
and
2) kismet from ports

I think that should be enough. Any other suggestions welcome!

kind regards

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OpenBSD / Browser (on Zaurus) Which Supports Inline Frames

« on: April 13, 2006, 07:36:29 am »

Hello,

Our company uses a webmail interface that uses javascript and inline frames.

Actually I'm not able to use the webmail on pocketpc devices and/or the zaurus. I did not find any suitable browser that correctly supports (our companies) inline frames which are used on the webmail interface.

I tried on
1) zaurus with openbsd: links, links+, konqueror-embedded.
2) zaurus with qtopia: netfront
3) on smartphone with windows mobile 5   , pocket ie, netfront, mozilla minimo

None of the above were able to view the webmail pages?

Actually I would like to stay with openbsd and zaurus.

Does anyone else have an idea about which browser (beside firefox & co which are too long to compile and to heavyweight for the zaurus) I could try?

thx a lot

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OpenBSD / Zaurus Sl-3200 Issue With Openbsd39_arm.ipk

« on: April 12, 2006, 09:20:19 am »

You could try modifying rc.zboot and adding the following line...
cardmgr -o

Yes, I will give it a try and let you know if I still run into the same problem!
thanks!!!

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OpenBSD / Zaurus Sl-3200 Issue With Openbsd39_arm.ipk

« on: April 12, 2006, 08:30:45 am »

i've experienced such a problem when CF memory card is inserted in CF slot and i'm doing a reboot.

Actually I only use the zaurus harddrive, I don't have any other devices inserted/connected, no sd-card or xyz, not even an usb mouse.

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OpenBSD / Zaurus Sl-3200 Issue With Openbsd39_arm.ipk

« on: April 12, 2006, 08:03:47 am »

It may sound a silly question but when you were asked for the package sets during installation you didn't deselect bsd did you?... double check that the file bsd exists on the root of your boot drive.
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  no of course not.

If I didn't install the /bsd kernel it would not have worked at all.

When I had the problem,
1) I booted into linux, launched the bsd.rd boot with the "openbsd install" icon.
2) I launched a shell (option 3, from install, upgrade or shell)
3) I manually mounted the old install via 'mount /dev/wd0a /mnt', and I could see the kernel and the entire installation I did, everything looked fine. I wanted to be sure everything was still there. I then umount /mnt and reboot into linux
4) uninstalled and reinstalled the openbsd39_arm.ipk package
5) openbsd boot was working again.

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OpenBSD / Performance Tuning For The 'overburdened' Zaurus

« on: April 12, 2006, 07:43:22 am »

oh another fs tuning for your disk is softdep (only for ffs partitions).. note softdep as an option cannot be used with -u option on mount, it can only be specified when the actual mount takes place.

http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/

I have just started using this and it seems pretty snappy so far... we shall see.

-Andy
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NICE article! You really seem to be the openbsd zaurus god  here  

Are you still using softdep, is it worth using it on the zaurus?

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OpenBSD / Zaurus Sl-3200 Issue With Openbsd39_arm.ipk

« on: April 12, 2006, 06:54:45 am »

and just checking, you haven't created an /etc/boot.conf have you (on the boot disk) ?

No I don't have a boot.conf.

actually it is compiling konqueror-embedded (for 3 hours now), so I can't reboot  

I'm sorry I can't remember the exact message,   ; I was to lazzy to write it down ... as this problem happens at random interval, I will have to wait until it happens.

As far as I can remember the message was something like:
boot> can't find /bsd
boot> can't find /bsd.old
boot> can't find wd0a:/bsd
etc

It tried to find the kernel like described in "man 8 boot"
"By default, boot attempts to load the kernel executable /bsd.  If that
fails, it will attempt to load /obsd and then /bsd.old.  If it fails to
find any of these files, and no alternative kernel image has been speci-
fied, the system will be unable to boot."

I also tried to enter by hand
boot hd0a:/bsd
But it was not able to boot.

1) I then entered an "r" to boot into linux.
2) I uninstalled the openbsd39_arm.ipk
3) reinstalled it.
4) choosed reboot in qtopia
5) and now, it was able to re-boot openbsd

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OpenBSD / Zaurus Sl-3200 Issue With Openbsd39_arm.ipk

« on: April 12, 2006, 06:30:00 am »

Yes, wd0a is the boot disk.

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OpenBSD / Zaurus Sl-3200 Issue With Openbsd39_arm.ipk

« on: April 12, 2006, 06:15:30 am »

Sure, here it is:

fdisk wd0
 0: 83    0   1  1 -   19  15 63 [          63:       20097 ] Linux files*
 1: 83   20   0  1 -   39  15 63 [       20160:       20160 ] Linux files*
 2: 0C   40   0  1 - 2120   8  8 [       40320:     2097152 ] Win95 FAT32L
*3: A6 2121   0  1 - 11904  15 63 [     2137968:     9862272 ] OpenBSD


disklabel wd0

# Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 2137968 size 9862272
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: HMS360606D5CF00
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 11905
total sectors: 12000556
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
#             size        offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:       1024128       2137968  4.2BSD   2048 16384  328 # Cyl  2121 -  3136
  b:        204624       3162096    swap                   # Cyl  3137 -  3339
  c:      12000556             0  unused      0     0      # Cyl     0 - 11905*
  d:        204624       3366720  4.2BSD   2048 16384  204 # Cyl  3340 -  3542
  e:        409248       3571344  4.2BSD   2048 16384  328 # Cyl  3543 -  3948
  f:       6291936       3980592  4.2BSD   2048 16384  328 # Cyl  3949 - 10190
  g:       1727712      10272528  4.2BSD   2048 16384  328 # Cyl 10191 - 11904
  i:         20097            63  ext2fs                   # Cyl     0*-    19
  j:         20160         20160  ext2fs                   # Cyl    20 -    39
  k:       2097152         40320   MSDOS                   # Cyl    40 -  2120*

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OpenBSD / Zaurus Sl-3200 Issue With Openbsd39_arm.ipk

« on: April 12, 2006, 04:47:38 am »

Hello,

I'm experiencing a strange problem.

This happened to me 3 times during the last 3 days.

I'm using the latest snapshot!

After some while the zaurus can't boot anymore. You see the Openbsd boot loader but it can't find the kernel anymore. I have to boot into linux (typing "r").

The openbsd39_arm.ipk has to be uninstalled and reinstalled to be able to boot again.

Does someone have same the problem?

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OpenBSD / Which Window Manager & Browser (obsd) Zaurus

« on: April 12, 2006, 04:39:48 am »

Thanks iamasmith!

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OpenBSD / Which Window Manager & Browser (obsd) Zaurus

« on: April 11, 2006, 04:46:07 pm »

Hi,
I got my zaurus 3200 yesterday, it's amazing :-)

I installed the latest obsd snapshot, it's still amazing :-)) and even better.

I have a few questions:
1) which windowmanager are you using on your (openbsd) zaurus?
2) which www browser (beside lynx ;-) are you using on your (openbsd) zaurus?

thx a lot
didier

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OpenBSD / Anyone Tried Yet On A 3200?

« on: April 10, 2006, 04:47:43 pm »

Hello, I told you that you need to compile from ports!
But I think that iamasmith can help you alot with this.

Tasos Varoudis
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I know  but I thought may be ...  (still hoping ;-)

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OpenBSD / Anyone Tried Yet On A 3200?

« on: April 10, 2006, 11:59:39 am »

Yes, I am  

I'm running the current snapshot on it.

Unfortunately there are no precompiled packages available    

Does someone know where I can get pre-compiled current packages?

thx