Thanks for all the helpful responses. Here is a summary, for the

archives.
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:04:25AM -0600, Mark Zimmerman wrote:

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> Greetings:

>

> I just got a new alix 2c3 board and it came with bios version 0.99

> (12/10/07).  There is a new version, 0.99b (1/27/08) available. Has

> anyone experienced problems with 0.99 using OpenBSD?  I prefer not to

> reflash bioses without a reason.

0.99 works fine with -current as of 08-Jun-2008. I am running it now,

as are others. One off-list response reported undesirable results with

reflashing through the serial port and recommended reflashing with

bootable CF, if necessary. I am sticking with 0.99.
>

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> Related question: If I need to reflash, I am using a serial connection

> from a laptop running -current.  The upload needs to use xmodem

> protocol. I found the ~C command in tip to use an external program for

> upload but I have not found anything in base or ports that will do the

> xmodem upload. Is there something?  My fallback is to use a linux

> machine with minicom but I wondered if OpenBSD can do this.

> 

minicom is in ports (I forgot to look). Also, lrzsz is a smaller

program in ports that should work with tip.