{"id":9202,"date":"2008-01-29T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/openbsd-4-2-macppc-on-powermac-g4-agp\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:29","slug":"openbsd-4-2-macppc-on-powermac-g4-agp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/openbsd-4-2-macppc-on-powermac-g4-agp\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenBSD 4.2 (macppc) on Powermac G4 AGP"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Shiny serif console font on OpenBSD 4.2 (macppc).
(Click for bigger…)<\/center><\/p>\n

OpenBSD 4.2 (macppc)<\/a> on the console (framebuffer) on a Powermac G4 AGP has a nice, shiny, traditional UNIX-y hardware (think Sun) serif font. Normally I don’t like serif fonts, but for some reason I really like this.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Open Firmware<\/a> stuff is still a nice, small monospaced font, and the bootloader is dark grey text on a light grey screen in the same font as OF.<\/p>\n

Hopefully once I have this box installed I’ll have a serial port to be used as the console, and the video card will be removed, but I still have to wait for the G4Port<\/a> to be delivered. It replaces the modem and provides a mini DIN 9 Apple-style serial port. I’ll be replacing the mini DIN 9 cable \/ connector with a DB9 which will be fitted in place of the modem port on the back of the chassis. This will be wired crossed over so that a straight-through cable will provide a console.<\/p>\n

Oh, and tonight I was able to confirm that the bridge works as I want. So, in the end I’ll have:<\/p>\n

gem0<\/tt>: public interface
\nfxp0<\/tt>–fxp7<\/tt>: bridge0<\/tt>, acting as a switch<\/p>\n

fxp0<\/tt> will also have an IP and be the gateway \/ DNS \/ whatever for the internal network.<\/p>\n

fxp7<\/tt> may be used as a span port for troubleshooting, but I’m not sure of this yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shiny serif console font on OpenBSD 4.2 (macppc).(Click for bigger…) OpenBSD 4.2 (macppc) on the console (framebuffer) on a Powermac G4 AGP has a nice, shiny, traditional UNIX-y hardware (think Sun) serif font. Normally I don’t like serif fonts, but for some reason I really like this. Of course, the Open Firmware stuff is still\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24690,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions\/24690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}