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Tasmanian Devil | 1 Dec 2006 01:09

Re: Mac Mini (intel) status

> I don't have a bluetooth keyboard to play with.   I can, however,
> make a bsd.rd that has ACPI it that's what it takes.   Time to
> play some more.

Yes, that should work if you can build the bsd.rd just like the bsd.mp
with ACPI enabled, even configuring the network while installing
should work then and you should be able to do an install from FTP/HTTP
servers! The bsd.mp with ACPI kernel is the only kernel I have so far
that makes the Marvell Yukon NIC work. Such a bsd.rd kernel would be
very interesting for me, too. :-) Would be very kind of you if you
could post the config file for such a kernel (I think that's what is
needed?) as I don't know much about bsd.rd yet.

Tas.
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Tasmanian Devil | 1 Dec 2006 01:28

Re: Mac Mini (intel) status

> > Thank you.   The goal is to have the mini replace my dying sparc64
> > as a web server.  Small, low power draw, quiet: I like that.
>
> Yes, too bad it only includes 1 ethernet adapter.

Um, no, there are two ethernet adapters included, the Marvell Yukon
and the wifi adapter:

$ dmesg | grep ath
ath0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 17 (irq 11)
ath0: AR5424 10.3 phy 6.1 rf 10.2, WORAW, address 00:17:f2:4d:21:4a

I didn't test that one yet with OpenBSD as I won't need wifi, but I'm
quite sure it works fine. :-) (It worked out-of-the-box with a NetBSD
test install, sorry to say that, it was at the time when it didn't
work with OpenBSD yet, was just a test, I didn't want to use that
other OS).

Tas.
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Jason Dixon | 1 Dec 2006 01:38
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Re: Mac Mini (intel) status

On Nov 30, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Marco S Hyman wrote:
>> Thank you.   The goal is to have the mini replace my dying sparc64
>> as a web server.  Small, low power draw, quiet: I like that.
>
> Yes, too bad it only includes 1 ethernet adapter.

That's what VLANs are for.  Just make sure your switch doesn't allow  
hopping.  :)

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L. V. Lammert | 1 Dec 2006 01:54

bioctl compatible LSIs?

Is there a list somewhere of exactly which LSI controllers are bioctl 
compatible? We're getting ready to build some new servers, and the current 
LSI models seem to be newer than what's on the HCL.

	TIA,

	Lee
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Marco Peereboom | 1 Dec 2006 02:02
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Re: bioctl compatible LSIs?

All mfi and ami should be supported.  What exactly do you think isn't supported?

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:54:09PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> Is there a list somewhere of exactly which LSI controllers are bioctl 
> compatible? We're getting ready to build some new servers, and the current 
> LSI models seem to be newer than what's on the HCL.
> 
> 	TIA,
> 
> 	Lee
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Nick Guenther | 1 Dec 2006 03:43
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Re: VMware player on OpenBSD host?

On 11/30/06, Frank Bax <fbax <at> sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Does VMware player run on OpenBSD 4.0 host?

No. Only windows and linux. Anything more will require magic hackery,
if it's possible at all.

-Nick
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Nick Holland | 1 Dec 2006 04:09
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Re: xorg config for imac 333Mhz

Bryan Irvine wrote:
> I'm having a devil of a time setting up xorg on an ancient imac 333Mhz.
> 
> Anyone have a working config? 

yep, but being the mean guy I am, I'm not giving it to you. :)
But I will tell you how I did it, more educational that way...

(besides, knowing apple, I wouldn't put it past 'em having five different iMac
333MHz machines.  The exterior color probably corresponds to the chipsets.  So,
I may not have the same iMac 333 as you... :)

> The default one worked but was
> pixelated so I tried to make it look better and now it doesn't work at
> all... :-(

I presume you are trying to use the accelerated ATI driver.
(if not, forget all the following, and set the res. as you want in MacOS)

Start with the example in /usr/X11R6/README.

When I started with this (from memory), I got an immediate error message.  The
PCI BusID was wrong for this computer.  The right value is hinted at in your
dmesg and told to you in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.  Use that.

Now, I got the power light turning orange on the thing, which probably means
"out of range"...but it's a Mac, it could mean it thinks orange looks better on
the front of the machine at the moment.

Turns out the "VertRefresh" number is wrong for an iMac333.  I'm not sure what
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Bryan Irvine | 1 Dec 2006 04:51
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Re: xorg config for imac 333Mhz

Bingo!  You hit every nail right on the head.

I guess I just had to configure it for the blue chipset ;)

thanks!

--Bryan

On 11/30/06, Nick Holland <nick <at> holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> Bryan Irvine wrote:
> > I'm having a devil of a time setting up xorg on an ancient imac 333Mhz.
> >
> > Anyone have a working config?
>
> yep, but being the mean guy I am, I'm not giving it to you. :)
> But I will tell you how I did it, more educational that way...
>
> (besides, knowing apple, I wouldn't put it past 'em having five different iMac
> 333MHz machines.  The exterior color probably corresponds to the chipsets.  So,
> I may not have the same iMac 333 as you... :)
>
> > The default one worked but was
> > pixelated so I tried to make it look better and now it doesn't work at
> > all... :-(
>
> I presume you are trying to use the accelerated ATI driver.
> (if not, forget all the following, and set the res. as you want in MacOS)
>
> Start with the example in /usr/X11R6/README.
>
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jared r r spiegel | 1 Dec 2006 07:03
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prepping for big spamd(8) rollout

  working on getting a dual core dual cpu 64b 2MB cache 
  xeon 2.8GHz w/12GB RAM and dual copper em(4) put
  in place in front of our MX vip for a greylisting spamd(8).

  i've got a similar machine with faster CPU ( 3.0 GHz / 4MB )
  but it "only" has 4GB of RAM with 4.0 installed on it now
  that was planning on using but i'm wondering if i'm going
  to definately need that extra 8GB of RAM.

  reason being we want to keep as much crap from talking to the MXs
  as we can (and thus to the spamassassin and all that stuff)
  - we also have some RBLs we use to flat out 5xx some
  incoming clients with - would like to use those for the
  <spamd> table with spamd-setup(8) - don't want them to go through
  greylisting trials and do want to be able to specify the "blacklist"
  message they see based on what RBL they're in.  i'm not the biggest
  fan of RBLs, but we use some of them, so if spamd(8) can help us
  use them *better*, hooray.

  i did a few tests with pfctl(8) and spamd-setup(8) and see
  a concerning difference in the amount of time it takes to complete
  the operation of populating the addresses ( mostly in part because
  of the size of these RBLs, i believe ).

  here's a comparison of loading the 'CBL' list (i sorted it first,
  ascending) into pf via pfctl and then via spamd/spamd-setup.

# wc -l /root/rbldns/cbl/cbl.zone.plain.sorted
 3899399 /root/rbldns/cbl/cbl.zone.plain.sorted
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Antoine Jacoutot | 1 Dec 2006 07:13
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Re: Mac Mini (intel) status

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Tasmanian Devil wrote:
>> Yes, too bad it only includes 1 ethernet adapter.
>
> Um, no, there are two ethernet adapters included, the Marvell Yukon
> and the wifi adapter:

Since when is a wireless adapter an ethernet adapter?

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