On Hand, Patriot PCUSB3EXP (NEC PCIE-XHCI) expresscard usb3 adapter.

2010-09-14 Thread Sean Kennedy
All: I got this for my Lenovo S10 to support the USB CD-RW drive I got, as a closer USB Power adapter (Which does not work at this time BTW...) tech@ question: If there is someone looking at XHCI already, Please let me know, I looked in FreeBSD and found some XHCI work beginning (last month

Re: X41 ACPI suspend hints

2010-08-12 Thread Sean Kennedy
DELL LATITUDE D630 does not suffer this problem. -sean > Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:15:34 -0600 > Subject: Re: X41 ACPI suspend hints > From: b...@ticoit.com > To: tech@openbsd.org > > > Unfortunately, it shows the same behavior also with this patch applied: > > it immediately wakes up after zzz. >

Re: PF FAQ example ruleset

2010-06-18 Thread Sean Kennedy
pf.conf and typical workstation settings aside, I am wondering about PF FAQ and 'Some" examples. Really a pf.conf for what I use DD-WRT for running on a linksys. (as compared to default Linksys Firmware) (outside world)<-->[OpenBSD box{PF, dhcpd, services}]<-->({NAT}wired/wireless lan)<-->[PSP,

Re: defining ports LOCKDIR

2010-06-18 Thread Sean Kennedy
Marc, Everyone. I say /tmp This; if anything, is what makes OpenBSD - Unix -. The correct usage of /tmp /etc/daily I strongly urge be fixed. -sean > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:17:40 +0200 > From: es...@nerim.net > To: tech@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: defining ports LOCKDIR > > I should have be

Re: disklabel - 'P' option

2010-04-09 Thread Sean Kennedy
Meh, nothing like being an Inconsistent mad typist. . . (I did learn on a Manual Typewriter... It was a "Green" Terminal, it worked even if the power was out...) I'd give a Yay to this variant. ( an Even Bigger Yay now it does 'p m' even... ) -sean > Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:03:27 +0200 > Subje

Re: disklabel - 'P' option

2010-04-07 Thread Sean Kennedy
When I use Disklabel, I have been in the habit of issuing 'p m ' rather than just 'p ' Since I do it for disk / usb thumb setups, and so forth, I find the 'megabyte-able' printing more consistent to my liking. I'd say leave it out, since CHS information may get scrolled off the screen if it was r

Re: which ISO for a VM?

2010-04-05 Thread Sean Kennedy
> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:36:14 -0300 > Subject: Re: which ISO for a VM? > On 3 April 2010 15:56, Gleydson Soares wrote: > > virtualize your brain. it is nice. > > > What a stupid comment, why don't you shut up ? > If you have nothing to add to a valid question why bother wasting bandwith ? I c

Read_Write buffers for dd WAS: little cp diff

2010-02-08 Thread Sean Kennedy
Moving this to m...@... Would part of this discussion usefully related to such issues like using 'dd' for diskwipes/copies/reformatting and slow data movement speeds? There are times when I am wiping (for reuse) hard disks using 'dd' and I set the BlockSize to > 512 (like 1M or so sometimes) and

Re: UBC? And a Mr. Allen

2010-02-02 Thread Sean Kennedy
FWIW, Hey, I have been to the RTFM side, as well as asking if "YXZ feature is looked into" But I see the response to Mr. Allen's RFC (See Initial Posting) appropriate. Including the initial inside humour. In fact, it did spawn a related set of tests where the differences between amd64, and i386 a

Re: Improved Build Process

2009-12-26 Thread Sean Kennedy
Hi David. As a person who has worked with the OpenBSD process for easily 12+ years, and longer with a Variety of other platforms; a Wholesale Change such as you are recommending is going to be negatively looked at. Not that what You are typing about is not possible; In fact having a Slice for the

Re: too many cpus

2009-12-10 Thread Sean Kennedy
> Subject: Re: too many cpus > > 2009/12/9 Theo de Raadt : > > > >> Being different just to be different is also pretty silly. So unless > >> there is a good reason not to choose '1' for this purpose, I'd love to > >> see a new diff from Ted. > > > > Being the same is a burden. You should go read

Re: OpenBSD 4.6 crashing on kernel boot due to ahci0 seemingly

2009-10-08 Thread Sean Kennedy
I cannot speak firsthand on the issue other than the SATA SCSI3 signalling is doing something undocumented/unexpected. With the CD-Drive out of the system, then the system functions.(Did you attempt to try using a DATA-CD {An AOL coaster might work here} )My Suggestion in the interim is to either u

Re: Installer Insists on Keeping HFS Partition

2009-07-06 Thread Sean Kennedy
Oddly, I always started with a new hard drive (saves valuable backup time) and DD'ed the first 5-10 Megs to zap any legacy MS-DOS / ext2 partitions.I never hit the problem, but it was faster than attempting to remove partitions definitions, and rebooting the Ramdisk. Leaving the partitions intact a