Re: WiFi card comes up as device lo0

2019-05-19 Thread Greg Troxel
Carl Miller writes: > Does this mean this card is not supported or does it mean it just > needs to be configured? This card uses the RTL8185L chip but not sure > what the brand/manufacturer is. Looking over the manual pages it looks > like the closest driver for this card would be rtw. It means

Re: WiFi card comes up as device lo0

2019-05-19 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 12:33:43PM -0500, Carl Miller wrote: > Hello, > > I am a new NetBSD user and I am trying to learn how to configure my wifi > card in my Gateway MT3707 laptop. > > when I run ifconfig it comes up as device lo0. lo0 is the loopback device, no any kind of physical network

WiFi card comes up as device lo0

2019-05-19 Thread Carl Miller
Hello, I am a new NetBSD user and I am trying to learn how to configure my wifi card in my Gateway MT3707 laptop. when I run ifconfig it comes up as device lo0. Does this mean this card is not supported or does it mean it just needs to be configured? This card uses the RTL8185L chip but not

Re: installation on UEFI system w/ encrypted filesystem

2019-05-19 Thread Alexander Nasonov
Tiago Seco wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to install NetBSD on a UEFI system with encrypted root. > ... > When booting the system, it is not trying to boot from hd0c, but from hd0a. If you intend to use cgdroot.kmod, the system should create a md(4) disk and boot from it rather than hd0.

installation on UEFI system w/ encrypted filesystem

2019-05-19 Thread Tiago Seco
Hello, I've been trying to install NetBSD on a UEFI system with encrypted root. I've tried to combine the instructions on * https://wiki.netbsd.org/Installation_on_UEFI_systems/ * https://wiki.netbsd.org/security/cgdroot/ *

Re: Serialization of binary floating point numbers

2019-05-19 Thread Sad Clouds
On Sat, 18 May 2019 22:14:24 -0500 "J. Lewis Muir" wrote: > On 05/17, Sad Clouds wrote: > > A bit of a random question/thought - what is a good and portable > > method of storing/transmitting binary floating point numbers? > > Maybe heavier than you'd like, but Protocol Buffers has a double