Wed Apr 8 02:12:34 CEST 2015
Welcome, eddie!
New in da house: eddie.marshlabs.gaertner.de
This is one more ASUS Eeepc 1000H netbook (Atom N270, 1GB RAM,
160GB spinning harddisk), just like the old one bootable into
{ngyuen,robert,stanley,joni}.marshlabs.gaertner.de.
Why yet another one? The new netbook will be used to (re-)port
OpenBSD's extensions for more chipsets in the Ralink wireless
ral(4) driver into NetBSD-7 (aka -current
at the moment). Patches already existed (and worked!) for adding
the OpenBSD driver code into NetBSD-5.x but with NetBSD-6 too much
infrastructure changed to do that again.
I was able to install NetBSD-current last night after finally figuring out what made the video go blank during kernel loading.
userconf disable i915drmkms
got me going. (There had been reports on the
current-users mailing list with trouble in the area
starting early March; now someone's dmesg output
provided some clues about what drivers could be disabled.)
Thanks to sonnenschein for letting go of her
hardware for really cheap instead of letting it rot in some
shelf.