(maniacal laughter, flash of lightning, roar of thunder)

[reddragdiva]

THE LAPTOP WORKS! It boots and we can log in! 233MHz and 96 megabytes of IBM Thinkpad 560X 2640-700!

Of course, there is the minor detail that (a) it's running OpenBSD (which is a damn good sign as it indicates highly standard hardware) (b) there are two accounts, root and test (c) test isn't in wheel. So I might just have to go hunting for 'sploits against OpenBSD 3.3!

It's missing a network card. Spare PCMCIA Ethernet, anyone?

*pint*s of glory to mstevens for bringing this boon into our lives!

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Oh, is it?

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

And exactly what is wrong with OpenBSD (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrn99jljv.3q8.fun%40blowtorch.softcell.com.au&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain)?

[pir.livejournal.com]

First thing I do when I get new hardware is reinstall it anyway, so that's how I'd deal with it (that or boot from cdrom/floppy/etc and mount / to edit shadow).

I've got a spare 10Mbit pcmcia ethernet card if it's any use to you.

Re: Oh, is it?

[reddragdiva]

Nothing, except when you can't break into your own machine!

[reddragdiva]

If I can't find one locally, I'll be sure to ask ;-)

I'll probably use the machine for 333vil experiments with FreeBSD 5.x. I have nothing against OpenBSD (it's a damn fine sign that the laptop's hardware is standard enough to run it), but FreeBSD has more candy.

[pir.livejournal.com]

I'll be in England next month.

Re: Oh, is it?

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

No root password==reinstall. For "fuck it" values of reinstall.

Re: Oh, is it?

[reddragdiva]

But that takes away the fun!

[reddragdiva]

If we don't have one by then, I'll definitely want it!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I've a Xircom 10/100 card that I don't think I'm ever going to use.

[reddragdiva]

Gidday!!

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

I'm very convinced that I have a couple of spare PCMCIA cards...

[mendel.livejournal.com]

It is indeed Highly Standard Hardware. I've got a 570E, and never had a problem with anything that wasn't just a plain old hardware failure.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

There are very few StinkPads that OpenBSD won't at least chug along on. Sometimes there's X issues, but since when is X a safe assumption ever?

Re: Oh, is it?

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

You know you are going to do it anyway.

[paulsoth.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the two old ThinkPads salvaged from my Uncle's place when he was put into care. One is a 300 Mhz, somewhat decent. The other is a 486 I think, one of those small, monochrome deals. Hell, it's still running 3.1.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Er, quite.

If you don't get an offer from within the M25 force-wall, I'll, um, think of something. We'll be at the Brixton Academy next weekend, but the likelihood of me wanting to go anywhere but there and the offy is minimal.

[reddragdiva]

Yep. The sort of thing you definitely want to keep around as Nice Hardware, because it really doesn't take much machine to be an X terminal.

[ickle-yuki.livejournal.com]

I've a PC-card 10/100 card... only problem is i broke the dongle.. if you can find a dongle its yours for zilch.

it's a 3com model: 3ccfe575bt

got a compaq one somewhere too and an old 3com 10baseT one that has a tempermental dongle...

Hahahaha!!!

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Told you so (http://www.livejournal.com/users/reddragdiva/125709.html). Nah nah, nah nah nah!

[reddragdiva]

The trouble is that if it's a 3com card it'll need a 3com dongle. They aren't standard between manufacturers. THAT WOULD BE TOO EASY.

Re: Oh, is it?

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Why doesn't booting from a floppy that understands the filesystem work?