Technology
Unfortunately, the Broadcom BCM4315 wireless adapter from the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 is not supported by OpenBSD (as of 5.0). So I looked for a wireless USB adapter. First I looked at my favorite online shops to see what was available. Then I searched for the chipset of the adapter I’ve selected.
The Hercules Wireless N USB Pico (HWNUp-150) looked perfect as it is really small. Having a look at urtwn(4), I read that, in theory, this adapter should work. In practice, it does:Continue reading...
I own a MacBook Pro (5,5 with Core 2 Duo) and wish to test running OpenBSD on it. But I don’t want any impact on my OS X installation. So I’m going to install and run OpenBSD from a USB stick.
What I used A mid-2009 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro5,5); A Corsair VoyagerGT 16GB; An OpenBSD 5.0 (/snapshots/) CD; The rEFIt 0.14 boot selector.Continue reading...
The Freebox Server is an ADSL/FTTH router provided by the french operator Free SA. From it’s Web interface, you can apply changes and reboot the box. But if you can’t access this Web interface, you just won’t be able to reboot the box.
Didier Segura provides a PHP script that can be used to remotely reboot the box .
On my OpenBSD box, the installation and launch is quite straight forward:Continue reading...
I already configured Munin to monitor my Synology DS409slim . Today, I’m going to configure Munin to monitor my Apple Airport Extreme, using SNMP.Continue reading...
By default, my MacBook Pro goes into deep sleep (hibernate) mode when I close the lid. This is nice but I have 8GB of RAM and it is quite a slow process. Furthermore, I never went out of battery during a whole sleep process. So I’m going to avoid dumping my whole RAM content to the SSD disk and save of bit of it:
# pmset -a hibernatemode 0 # rm /var/vm/sleepimage Should I want to re-enable hibernate mode, I’d runContinue reading...