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Steve Bellovin | 1 Aug 2003 02:58
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netbsd mouse type and name for vmware?

vmware complains that it can't use full-screen mode because it can't 
figure out the mouse type.  (I'm running vmware 2.0.4 via pkgsrc under 
NetBSD 1.6.1 with XFree86 4.2.0.)  What should I tell it?  I know that 
it's /dev/wsmouse -- is that enough like a standard mouse type that I 
can successfully lie?

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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Nathan Langford | 1 Aug 2003 16:33
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recommendation for 802.11 pcmcia?

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good wireless lan card for an IBM thinkpad
that works well with NetBSD?  It would be extra nice if it was also
supported under OS X on a powerbook g4.

Thanks!
-Nathan
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Peter Bui | 1 Aug 2003 17:13
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Re: recommendation for 802.11 pcmcia?

Hello:
	I haven't used NetBSD that much, but I have gotten my Lucent/Orinoco 
wireless card (802.11b) and 2 3Com AirConnect cards to work with the OS. 
   Hardware detection is pretty automatic using 1.6.1, but you'll have 
to manually configure rc.conf or ifconfig if u use WEP.  You can find 
these pcmcia cards online; probably try ebay (I got 2 AirConnects for 20 
dollars) or amazon or pricegrabber.com.  I highly recommend the Orinoco 
wireless card.  The 3Coms are good, but are a bit flimsy at the end, so 
you have to be careful.  Both have good range.  I hope this helps.

-	Peter

Nathan Langford wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone recommend a good wireless lan card for an IBM thinkpad
> that works well with NetBSD?  It would be extra nice if it was also
> supported under OS X on a powerbook g4.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Nathan
> 
>
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Yoseff Francus | 1 Aug 2003 18:16
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Java VM query

I have netscape 7 for linux installed, and it works very nicely. Also,
have SDK and JRE 1.3.1_08 installed with the plugins moved to the right
place. When I start up Netscape and try to connect to a specific location
it complains that it needs application/x-java-vm. This plugin is in fact
defined on my Netscape 7 for Windows but on the netbsd side it has
nothing under Java VM. I have searvhed the archives and the SUN web page
and all I see on SUN is an indication that they now have it under
application/x-java-bean which of course does not help me much. Anyone
know what last piece I need to install?

RUnning Netbsd 1.6 on an i386 (HP Pavillion)
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Thomas Runge | 1 Aug 2003 18:40
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Re: recommendation for 802.11 pcmcia?

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Nathan Langford wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good wireless lan card for an IBM thinkpad
> that works well with NetBSD?  It would be extra nice if it was also
> supported under OS X on a powerbook g4.

Under NetBSD:

man 4 wi

and scroll down to "HARDWARE".

If you do not have a NetBSD account, try this:

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?wi+4+NetBSD-current

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Greg Troxel | 1 Aug 2003 20:26
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Re: recommendation for 802.11 pcmcia?

The lucent cards are good.  Beware that they seem to have replaced the
'classic' card with a new version.  The old one lists Linux as
supported, and the new one doesn't - just MS Windows.  I haven't tried
a new one, but that's a big clue that the standard wi(4) driver won't
work.

Note the ADMtek driver just committed to NetBSD-current and the
Atheros driver just committed to FreeBSD-current.  Waiting a bit may
be a good plan if you want to buy new.

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Jan Schaumann | 1 Aug 2003 22:25
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Netscape7 and Java

Hi,

So apparently the latest version of Netscape7 does not longer include
the java plugin[1].  I found that the only way to make Netscape7 work
with a java plugin is to do the following:

  * install sun-jre14-2.0 from pkgsrc-wip (or using the patches
    from [2])
  * install gcc-3.3;  do set PKG_GCC3_JAVA
  * install netscape7-1
  * ln -sf 
    /usr/pkg/lib/netscape/netscape7/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
    /usr/pkg/java/sun-1.4/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
  * export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pkg/gcc-3.3/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

For whatever reason, using any of the other JDKs did not work for me,
only the one with the gcc-java-plugin.

Now, if somebody can tell me why konqueror can use the java plugin but
not mozilla...

-Jan

[1] http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/ns7/relnotes/7.html#java
[2] http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/netbsd/sun-1.4.2.diff

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Michael D. Spence | 2 Aug 2003 00:15
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Backing up a disk

I have a (really old) system which has two identical 1G drives (wd0 and wd1)
and an 8G drive (wd2).  I keep / and such on wd0 and /usr on wd2.

I tried this to make a copy of wd0 on wd1:

    dd if=/dev/wd0d of=/dev/wd1d

This seems to work, but are there any issues about not being in single user
mode or having stuff mounted on wd0 that are going to bite me later?

Also, I'd like to set up a Raid1 set on wd0 and wd1 (note that wd0 is the
normal boot device).  I thought there was a HOWTO on this somewhere, but 
Google can't seem to dredge it up and I can't remember where I think I
saw it.  Was I imagining things?

Michael D. Spence 
Mockingbird Data Systems, Inc.
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Quentin Garnier | 2 Aug 2003 00:24

Re: Backing up a disk

Le Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:15:34 -0400
Michael D. Spence a ecrit :
> I have a (really old) system which has two identical 1G drives (wd0 and
> wd1) and an 8G drive (wd2).  I keep / and such on wd0 and /usr on wd2.
> 
> I tried this to make a copy of wd0 on wd1:
> 
>     dd if=/dev/wd0d of=/dev/wd1d
> 
> This seems to work, but are there any issues about not being in single
> user mode or having stuff mounted on wd0 that are going to bite me
> later?

Well, that way you're doing a live copy. Thus, you'll have to fsck the
partitions on wd1, since they are in the same state as in wd0 at the time
of the copy, unmounted (and almost certainly not sync'd).

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"Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down.
Should I lay my fiddle down and take a rifle from the ground ?"
Leigh Nash/Sixpence None The Richer, Paralyzed, Divine Discontents, 2002.
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Dirk Ruediger | 2 Aug 2003 11:26
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Re: Netscape7 and Java

Hi Jan,

Jan Schaumann wrote:
> <...>
>   * install sun-jre14-2.0 from pkgsrc-wip (or using the patches
>     from [2])

My sun-jre14 (from pkgsrc/wip) allways crashes (correctly: it hangs ant 
uses 100% of CPU).
Do I have to use -current for jdk1.4? I'm currently using 1.6.1 (stable).

Regards
Dirk
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