Apparently there is a spam problem on this board and it will not let me post urls:
"You are only allowed to post URLs once you have at least 5 posts."
So you will have to cut/paste them....
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Originally Posted by ocicat
The following may give you an answer explaining why you are having to disable APM:
url: marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=124545473209570&w=2
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Thank you for the link. The machine was built to use Windows 98 which apparently was the first operating system to use ACPI.
url: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface
ACPI was designed to replace APM.
url: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Power_Management
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666
t's not really a big deal to disable either or if a problem occurs.. but the developers are trying to make things easier..
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It was not "intuitively obvious" either. I could find no error messages about APM and discovered the fix by scanning the web with Google and by trial and error.
I started with changing bios settings. That didn't work.
Then I pulled out all of my hardware until I got down to a mother board and a floppy disk drive. That didn't work.
(I tried booting OpenBSD from a floppy because I thought it might be the CDROM drive. And I tried using two different CDROM drives...that didn't work.)
Then I tried older versions of OpenBSD, 4.4 and 4.5. That didn't work.
Finally I discovered the "boot -c" command and tried "disable acpi". That didn't work.
And then I tried "disable apm" and finally success.
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666
Also, am I the only person that doesn't consider his system old? looks rather decent if you ask me.. AMD Athlon systems were much better then the Intel equivalents of the time.
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Well the system is 10 years old and I agree it is not too bad.
But a typical Athlon desktop system today is a dual core Athlon 2.5 Ghz with 3 Gbytes ram and a 320 Gbyte disk drive.
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666
Given the surplus of networking equipment, are you planning on turning this system into a router/firewall?
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It doesn't make economic sense, but yes I am turning it into a wireless router just for fun and knowledge.
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