Hi Magnus. That was the issue - that directory didn't exist. It was my fault - playing with fstab ...
Unfortunately it seems there's bigger issue anyway. When I plug the card in there's either no action (no ifconfig, no LEDs, no console message) or I get a panic. It happens invariably (I think) if the card's in at boot, here's one (hand typed) ... cbb0: <rbus> no bus space panic: io alloc Stopped at Debugger+0x4: popl %ebp ddb> I've done 'ps' and 'trace' but they're a bit long to transcribe right now. I did 'boot dump' and can see the dump in /var/crash - when I get sometime I'll try and read some more man pages and see if I can extract anything useful. If anyone's interested and wants me to extract anything, please tell me how, and I'll do it soonest. I'm not sure what I'm looking for. Regardless, I might re-install so I can guarantee any other changes I've made are voided and try again. It's quite possible theres an issue with the card also. I might try it on another OS to verify that. Best wishes. On 27/02/2012, Magnus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > check that you have the path /var/db/pkg > > Information about the package(s) is recorded in a central repository, by > default located in /var/db/pkg/. This will, among other things, prevent > the dependencies of a package from being deleted before the package > itself has been deleted. This helps ensure that an application cannot be > accidentally broken by a careless user > > f.i. mine looks like this: > > # ls -Fl /var/db/pkg > total 76 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 19 11:29 bacula-client-5.0.2p1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 13 10:14 bash-4.1.9p0/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 dnsmasq-2.55/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 gd-2.0.35p0/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 13 10:14 gettext-0.18.1p0/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 joe-3.7p0/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 jpeg-8b/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 libdnet-1.12p1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 13 10:14 libiconv-1.13p2/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 lua-5.1.4p1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 nano-2.2.6/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 ngrep-1.45p1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 nmap-5.21p3/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 ntop-1.1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 pcre-8.02p1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 pfstat-2.3p1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 png-1.2.44/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 15 2011 postfix-2.8.20110113/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 12 12:56 screen-4.0.3p2/ > > // Magnus > > > > > On 2012-02-27 12:58, David Walker wrote: >> Thank you Peter. >> >> I still get the same error message (error line wrapped): >> >> pkg_add ./pgt-firmware-1.2p2.tgz >> Bad pkg_db: No such file or directory at >> /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackageInfo.pm line 63. >> >> Line 63: >> >> opendir(my $dir, $pkg_db) or die "Bad pkg_db: $!"); >> >> Somethings wrong with my environment but what ... >> >> On 27/02/2012, Peter Hessler <[email protected]> wrote: >>> NO! >>> >>> For the love of everything holy, don't fucking use wget. >>> >>> the built-in ftp(1) client can download from http servers. >>> >>> and, do NOT just extract the files. we have package tools for a reason. >>> >>> EITHER: >>> a) pkg_add http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/5.0/pgt-firmware-1.2.tgz >>> >>> OR >>> >>> b) ftp http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/5.0/pgt-firmware-1.2.tgz && >>> pkg_add ./pgt-firmware-1.2.tgz >>> >>> Anything else is stupid. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2012 Feb 26 (Sun) at 18:21:31 +0400 (+0400), Wesley M. wrote: >>> :Try this : >>> :add wget package using pkg_add -vi wget >>> :wget http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/5.0/pgt-firmware-1.2p2.tgz >>> :Then extract this in /etc/firmware. >>> :Halt your machine, Remove your network card, and now plug the new card, >>> :boot >>> : >>> :Hope that it will help. >>> : >>> :Wesley. >>> : >>> : >>> :On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:02:28 +1030, David Walker >>> :<[email protected]> wrote: >>> :> Thanks Wesley. >>> :> >>> :> I forgot about that. >>> :> I was going from man pgt which says: >>> :> FILES >>> :> >>> :> A prepackaged version of the firmware, designed to be used with >>> :> pkg_add(1), can be found at: >>> :> >>> :> http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/pgt-firmware-1.2.tgz >>> :> >>> :> The problem I have is that fw_update doesn't accept arguments and I >>> :> need the adjacent pcmcia slot for the ethernet card and they are both >>> :> bulky cards. >>> :> I need to remove the conexant card to insert the ethernet card to >>> :> access the network and then fw_update reports there are no devices to >>> :> update - the conexant card is no longer attached. >>> :> :] >>> :> >>> :> If you can think of a way to run this locally it'd be great. >>> :> >>> :> On 26/02/2012, Wesley M. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> :>> try fw_update (provided in OpenBSD 5.0) >>> :>> >>> :>> Wesley. >>> :>> >>> :>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:51:03 +1030, David Walker >>> :>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> :>>> Hi. >>> :>>> >>> :>>> I'm trying to do: >>> :>>> pkg_add http://firmware.openbsd.olg/firmware/pgt-firmware-1.2.tgz >>> :>>> >>> :>>> I get this: >>> :>>> parsing pgt-firmware-1.2.tgz >>> :>>> Bad pkg_db: No such file or directory at >>> :>>> /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackageInfo. >>> :>>> pm line 63. >>> :>>> >>> :>>> Do I need to add perl manually? >>> :>>> >>> :>>> Best wishes. >>> : >>> >>> -- >>> Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like >>> shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. >>> -- Phyllis Diller
