[geeks] Today was a Good Day

[Mike Hebel]

On May 5, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Mark wrote:

> I've had a fun day today.
>
> This morning I went on a 6 mile walk around the hills here with my  
> parental units, really nice warm sunny day and lovely scenery.  
> Company wasn't bad either ;)
>
> I also recompiled the NetBSD 4.0 cobalt-mips kernel on my Qube2  
> (well, it's a Gateway Microserver technically) to allow the use of  
> a FireWire PCI card in the PCI slot, which allows the use of IP- 
> over-FireWire and FW400 Mass Storage devices.
> You still have to mount them manually at the moment, so if anyone  
> knows how to setup dynamic auto-mounting of HotPlug storage devices  
> in NetBSD then I'd appreciate some tips :P The potential as a  
> quiet, high volume NAS box is really intriguing me.

Does 4.0 support audio better?  I'd like to make mine into an audio  
media server but I can't seem to get an audio card working in NetBSD  
on that box.

USB audio would be ideal because then I can add both storage and  
audio at once.
-- 
Mike Hebel

See with eyes unclouded, think with mind uncluttered, act with heart  
unchained!