{"id":2705,"date":"2006-08-12T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/12\/pear-shaped-plan\/"},"modified":"2006-08-12T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T18:11:59","slug":"pear-shaped-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/12\/pear-shaped-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"pear shaped plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fear my plan to have the T21 as a home server has gone wrong. Looks like the mini-PCI network card has blown, leaving it invisible to the network. Since the screen backlight is dead, I can read no diagnostics &#8230; ;-(<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Aha! The backlight gods must&#8217;ve heard me, for the T21 actually graced me with a visible screen for a few hours. It was down to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bad line in my fstab which was trying to mount an unattached USB drive. This drops OpenBSD into single-user mode.<\/li>\n<li>no dhclient configuration, so the machine would not automatically appear on the network. Since I swapped out the purportedly faulty mini-PCI network card for a spare (what?! you mean you don&#8217;t have spare mini-PCI network cards about the house? Tsk.) I had to tell the system that this was the new card to get a DHCP address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So all works now, and I&#8217;m happy. Now to attack the LaserJet 4 duplexer, and swap it onto my refurbed printer &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fear my plan to have the T21 as a home server has gone wrong. Looks like the mini-PCI network card has blown, leaving it invisible to the network. Since the screen backlight is dead, I can read no diagnostics &#8230; ;-( Update: Aha! The backlight gods must&#8217;ve heard me, for the T21 actually graced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1302,1254,85,175,841,148,1031,269,893,304,137,593,786,922,1176,1278,303,985,229,879],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-ack","tag-bad","tag-car","tag-date","tag-drive","tag-light","tag-low","tag-mac","tag-network","tag-openbsd","tag-pc","tag-pen","tag-ppe","tag-printer","tag-screen","tag-server","tag-t21","tag-tab","tag-usb","tag-wrong"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-HD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}