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Submission + - OpenBSD netboot problems - unknown error code 72

Submitted by Saint Aardvark
Saint Aardvark writes: While trying to get a Sparc machine to boot disklessly so I could install OpenBSD on it, I kept getting these errors:
Boot: bsd.rd
Automatic network cable selection succeeded : Using TP Ethernet Interface
Using BOOTPARAMS protocol: ip address: 192.168.23.25, hostname: roark
root addr=192.168.23.10 path=/home/aardvark/openbsd-sparc64/chroot
open /sbus@1f,0/ledma@e,8400010/le@e,8c00000/bsd.rd: Unknown error: code 72

tcpdump showed that the machine was trying to contact the NFS server (192.168.23.10) by udp on port 0; the server kept responding with an ICMP port unreachable error. Googling turned up one other person back in '99 (!) who had the same problem, but no fix.

The problem? PEBCAK: I'd symlinked the bsd.net file to the IP address in hex (ie, ln -s bsd.net C0A81719) but had neglected to append the architecture after that. So after I did this:

ln -s bsd.net C0A81719.SUN4

everything worked.
Media

Submission + - History "Unavailable for reasons of copyright&

Submitted by
Saint Aardvark
Saint Aardvark writes: "When, in 1992, US Vice-President Dan Quayle accused the TV show Murphy Brown of 'mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice'", the clip showed up in many TV news shows. And when the show replied, that reply was broadcast to millions of viewers. Yet, as Lawrence Lessig complains, "the part of our culture that is recorded in the newspapers remains perpetually accessible, while the part that is recorded on videotape is not". A researcher who decided to see just how hard it would be to get the video clips of this debate verified this recently: Quayle's speech was forbidden from being distributed digitally "for reasons of copyright", the Murphy Brown episode is "not currently available to the public", and he had to pay $111 for four brief clips of news broadcasts on the brouhaha. His final report says that "the resulting gap between our expected ability to review public discourse and our ability to do so was surprising, and suggests that much public debate about access to the historical record, and the need to prevent off-air taping, is based on false assumptions.""
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Theo de Raadt: OLPC "Morally Bankrupt"

Submitted by
Saint Aardvark
Saint Aardvark writes: "As reported by Undeadly.org, Theo de Raadt has written an open letter to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project criticizing their willingness to sign NDAs in order to write drivers for Marvell's wireless chipset. Claiming strong agreement from RMS, he wrote: "I've heard claims that you (OLPC members, Red Hat employees) think this relationship with Marvell will eventually prompt/teach them to be more open in time. Do you not realize how much of a DELUSION the history of free/open operating systems shows that point of view to be?" He also cited part of a a private reply from Jim Gettys, VP of Software Engineering for OLPC saying that "Free and open software is a means to an end, rather than the sole end unto itself for OLPC," and agreed with a fellow developer that OLPC's stance was "morally bankrupt". In return, Gettys wrote: "At anything like this price and power point, there simply isn't anything else on the market that remotely resembles that particular Marvell part. There are no other alternatives given our constraints on power and cost....Marvell is not in a position to open their wireless firmware as it is currently dependent on the third party operating system kernel [for the chipset's embedded ARM processor] that they do not own. A GPL Linux device driver for the Marvell wireless chip, the Libertas driver, still under development but also fully functional can be found in our GIT tree.""

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