February 2010
12 posts
Toggling Alix2c LEDs →
I’ve found that the three LEDs at the front of a PC Engines Alix2C board
can be toggled on and off via their attachment to the GPIO bus.
Here are the commands for this:
left:
gpioctl…
Turn your ALIX into KITT →
Drop the following script into /etc/rc.d/alixkitt,
put “alixkitt=yes” into /etc/rc.conf and enjoy:
#!/bin/sh
# Turn ALIX2c front LEDs into running LED
#...
January 2010
11 posts
Unfilling my inbox: NetBSD news from the past few... →
Herre are some more things that I’ve caught in my inbox for too long,
and I’m finally finding some time
to sum them up here: NetBSD’s “let’s move kernel parts to the userland” RUMP project is…
New package security checks →
The pkgsrc tools have had, for a long time, the ability to validate the installed packages against a database of known vulnerabilities. We have encouraged administrators to add the proper commands…
Kernel modules for macppc and shark →
As of past night, the macppc and shark ports have support for the new-style kernel modules. I’ve added support for these through a workaround in the build system, which makes the compiler generate…
NetBSD and ISO 8859-2 →
Flying by one one of our mailing lists, I found this gem:
“This short article aims to help people that want to use ISO8859-2 character encoding in NetBSD/i386’s wscons(4) console. It is very…
New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2010-001 (Module... →
Two new security advisories were published:
NetBSD-SA2010-001 File system module autoloading Denial of Service attack
NetBSD-SA2010-002 OpenSSL TLS renegotiation man in the middle…
Hardware crypto with Geode LX based ALIX board →
I’m using an Alix 2d13
machine as home router for quite some time now - uptime was 158 days
today. The board has a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 CPU, which can do
AES crypto in hardware.
Today, I’ve…
New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2010-001 (Module... →
A colorful collection of NetBSD news from the... →
AKA “I’ve been slacking again, and there’s a whole pile of stuff
here now that I’m putthing into one blog posting”. Here we go: Initial support for the FriendlyArm Mini2440 board has…
sysupdate - an addition for etcupdate(8) →
I wanted to update a few machines with latest netbsd-5 and -current today, and found that there’s a certain lack of tools to aid in the process: we have etcupdate(8) and postinstall(8), but nothing…