Re: RC4 still gives me trouble with i915

2024-02-09 Thread Jörn Clausen
, reflection none [53.699] (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 270 On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 10:01 PM Mike Pumford wrote: > > > On 08/02/2024 16:08, Jörn Clausen wrote: > > Hello! > > > > For the last RCs, I've tested the live image for amd64 on my desktop

RC4 still gives me trouble with i915

2024-02-08 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hello! For the last RCs, I've tested the live image for amd64 on my desktop machine, that has been running 9.x with X for years now. Whenever I start X11, either via "startx" or "/etc/rc.d/xdm onestart", the display gets unusable. I see fragments of ctwm and an Xterm in the first case, and parts

Re: support for 802.11n?

2023-07-26 Thread Jörn Clausen
of a device actually working with higher speeds? Thanks, Joern On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 1:07 PM Jeandre Kruger wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2023, 8:27 pm Jörn Clausen, wrote: > > > > > > What is the state of support for 802.11n in NetBSD? > > > > Between the

support for 802.11n?

2023-07-26 Thread Jörn Clausen
What is the state of support for 802.11n in NetBSD? Between the NetBSD Guide, the Networking FAQ and the Wiki, it is a little bit hard to assess the current state of affairs with regard to 802.11n. The Wiki mentions "the new Wifi stack", but it is not entirley clear if this a current work in

Re: Thoughts regarding system-backups

2021-07-30 Thread Jörn Clausen
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 7:49 PM David Brownlee wrote: > I've had good experiences with dirvish - backing up both locally and > from remote machines. > around 12TB of data synced/online backed up from one master to two > offsite copies, but thats a differnt use case :-p > Never heard of dirvish.

Re: IPv6: in6_setscope: can't set scope for not loopback interface

2021-04-22 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hello Robert, Andy and everyone! I hope I address all the questions... As requested: $ ifconfig -a vioif0: flags=0x8843 mtu 1500 ec_capabilities=1 ec_enabled=0 address: 00:16:3e:b3:00:8a inet 5.2.76.44/24 broadcast 5.2.76.255 flags 0x0 inet6

Re: IPv6: in6_setscope: can't set scope for not loopback interface

2021-04-22 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hello Robert! Thanks for the reply. As you suggested, I tried tcpdump. BTW: This is all happening on the actual network interface, not the loopback interface. I can see a constant stream of these packets: 10:31:46.504046 IP6 2a04:52c0:101:7b1::.5344 > ff15::efc0:988f.6771: UDP, length 138

IPv6: in6_setscope: can't set scope for not loopback interface

2021-04-21 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hello! I have a NetBSD 9.1/amd64 machine running at an ISP under KVM. /var/log/messages is flooded with lines like Apr 21 22:36:50 texel /netbsd: [ 789.0834680] in6_setscope: can't set scope for not loopback interface vioif0 and loopback address ::1 Apr 21 22:36:54 texel /netbsd: [ 793.0880294]

Re: NetBSD 9.1 amd64, base X11: garbled display

2021-04-09 Thread Jörn Clausen
Someone on this list suggested this change to me (also using i915drmkms0) --- /etc/X11/xorg.conf 2020/04/01 20:12:03 1.1 +++ /etc/X11/xorg.conf 2020/04/01 20:16:15 @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ #Option "DebugWait"# [] #Option "BufferCache" # []

Fwd: Booting on Raspi 4

2021-03-08 Thread Jörn Clausen
I tried sending this to port-arm twice (March 2nd and 7th), but it didn't show up in the archive, so I guess it didn't make it to the list. Maybe more luck here... -- Forwarded message - Hi! I am trying to boot a HEAD image from a few days ago on a Raspberry Pi 4 B. I tried both

NetBSD/arm on VMware ESXi

2021-02-15 Thread Jörn Clausen
Just in case anybody is interested: Last October, VMware published a technical preview of their hypervisor "ESXi" for the ARM processor. As the Raspberry Pi 4B is supported, it's quite easy to give it a try. Within no time, Jared McNeill had NetBSD running as a guest. As his instructions were

Send-PR form gone?

2020-08-25 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hi! Is http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi gone only temporarily? Or is there a new page for this? http://www.netbsd.org/support/send-pr.html still points to it. -- Joern Clausen https://www.oe-files.de/photography/

status of autofs

2020-08-18 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hi! What is the status of autofs on NetBSD? It seems, all the binaries and man-pages are in place, yet I can't find any mentioning of it e.g. in The NetBSD Guide. Are there any comprehensive manuals that describe how to set up autofs, maybe transition from amd? Or is the port so in line with

using (3rd party) Bluetooth on Raspberry Pi

2020-08-01 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hi! I am trying to use some bluetooth devices on a Raspi 2 (Model B Rev 1.1) with a USB thumbnail BT adaptor. I have downloaded the correct firmware and followed the corresponding section in the NetBSD Guide. With these instructions, it works immediately on an amd64 machine, but on the Raspi, the

Re: I finally bricked my NetBSD system

2020-07-16 Thread Jörn Clausen
If you actually bricked your root account: boot single user and chsh to /bin/sh or /bin/csh. I always keep /bin/sh as my root shell and do if [ -x /usr/pkg/bin/tcsh ]; then exec /usr/pkg/bin/tcsh fi in /root/.profile. I know why, and now you do too... On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:16 PM

Re: Securing DNS traffic

2020-05-25 Thread Jörn Clausen
US company by default. But YMMV... On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:22 PM Sad Clouds wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2020 20:55:29 +0200 > Jörn Clausen wrote: > > > I simply don't get how this is a use case for DoT or DoH. Even if you > > disguise the DNS lookup, the next p

Re: Securing DNS traffic

2020-05-24 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hi! I'm also worried about this, but also fear datamining by my ISP. So I > completely ditched Google, and split my queries between Cloudflare and > Quad9 - neither gets the complete picture. > I simply don't get how this is a use case for DoT or DoH. Even if you disguise the DNS lookup, the

Re: Perlman

2020-05-10 Thread Jörn Clausen
Did you try http://shop.oreilly.com/category/customer-service/faq-examples.do "Advanced Perl Programming" is still mentioned in their catalogue. On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 10:25 PM Todd Gruhn wrote: > I have a book titled " Advanced Perl Programming" from O'Reilly. > Its dated 1997 (first ed.).

Re: Changes to PERL

2020-04-13 Thread Jörn Clausen
This question is better asked in a Perl forum. ... but anyways: I think the syntax of Perl 5 has changed very little in the past 10 years, your books are still good. Most changes will be in packages from CPAN. To catch up with the smaller changes in Perl itself, read the perldelta manpages. I.e.

Re: VMWare ESXI 6.7 U3 and NetBSD/AMD64 9.x

2020-03-21 Thread Jörn Clausen
> Compatibilty: "ESXi 6.7 U2" or "ESXi 6.7" > This shouldn't matter to the guest OS, it concerns only the downward compatibility of the VM (if you vMotion to an ESXi host with an older version). > Guest OS Family:"Linux" or "Other" > Guest OS Version: "FreeBSD 12 or

X broken after upgrade to 9.0

2020-03-03 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hi! I just upgraded my NetBSD desktop machine (ASRock mainboard with Celeron J1900 CPU) from 8.1/adm64 to 9.0. It ran X11 without any problems before, but now I have glitches. Lines of pixels are not updated correctly, as if parts of the screen are constantly XORed. It's hard to describe... The

Re: ZFS howto?

2020-02-29 Thread Jörn Clausen
You mean something more recent/NetBSD specific/less Oracle tainted than the original ZFS Administration Guide at https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/E37384/index.html ??? On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 1:16 AM Greg Troxel wrote: > > I realize there are man pages, but it seems we could use a ZFS

Re: /usr/pkg and unprivileged pkgsrc in parallel

2019-08-09 Thread Jörn Clausen
> If the pkg_chk "binary" compiled in /vol/pkg/20190803 looks in /usr/pkg > at all, I'd say that's a bug, and patch welcome. As I said, I am bad at guessing, so what's the correct approach here: The problem is, that pkg_chk tries to determine PKGSRCDIR and LOCALBASE and gets both wrong. The code

Re: /usr/pkg and unprivileged pkgsrc in parallel

2019-08-09 Thread Jörn Clausen
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:06 AM Greg Troxel wrote: > If the pkg_chk "binary" compiled in /vol/pkg/20190803 looks in /usr/pkg > at all, I'd say that's a bug, and patch welcome. I'll look into it and open a PR. > I would not be surprised if you find several such bugs, but squash on! I was looking

/usr/pkg and unprivileged pkgsrc in parallel

2019-08-08 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hi! I am using pkgsrc on several NetBSD machines the "native way", i.e. compiling in /usr/pkgsrc, installing to /usr/pkg and configuration in /etc/mk.conf. Now I want to add an unprivileged installation, that I want to distribute via NFS (hence the question regarding symlinks the other day, as

Re: log-structured filesystem in netbsd : still there?

2019-08-05 Thread Jörn Clausen
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 8:40 AM Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > how do i get to read up more on it, other than reading the source? Chapter 8.3 of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System" (i.e the newer Beastie Book) is the original documentation by McKusick. But I don't know how

Re: static Wifi connection

2019-08-02 Thread Jörn Clausen
On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 12:05 PM Robert Elz wrote: > I have an iwm0 in my laptop too, and yes, the driver is flaky... > Jul 27 00:20:32 jinx /netbsd: [ 283635.3448994] iwm0: autoconfiguration > error: could not load firmware (error 35, ok 1) Yeah, I've seen that one, too. > A lot of the time

Re: static Wifi connection

2019-08-02 Thread Jörn Clausen
e any known problems with the support for Intel 3165 in iwm(4)? On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:34 PM Greg Troxel wrote: > > Jörn Clausen writes: > > > I have a NetBSD box as gateway between my DSL router and the rest of > > my network. At the moment, it uses a NIC which connects to

static Wifi connection

2019-08-01 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hi! I have a NetBSD box as gateway between my DSL router and the rest of my network. At the moment, it uses a NIC which connects to a Netgear WNCE2001 (an "access point in client mode", for want of a better description), and everything works fine. I would like to get rid of the ageing Netgear

Re: Raspberry Pi as bridge

2019-01-22 Thread Jörn Clausen
Thanks for all the feedback! Just saw mlelstv reply while I almost finished my answer, so I post it anyway :) First of some information I should have included right away :) $ brconfig -a bridge0: flags=41 Configuration: priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20

Raspberry Pi as bridge

2019-01-22 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hi! I am trying to use a Raspberry Pi running NetBSD armv7 8.99.30 NetBSD 8.99.30 (RPI2) as a bridge to extend my WiFi net to some devices. I have two NICs, usmsc0 (internal RJ45) and urtwn0 (WiFi USB). urtwn0 is up and running and works as desired. I have followed the bridge instructions in

Re: Extremely poor disk performance on ProLiant DL360 G5 RAID

2018-07-29 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hi! Will the cache battery only improve performance when the internal RAID is actually used? I have two (older generation) Proliants and use them essentially as JBODs, with a RAIDframe on one of them. I was never really satisfied with the performance, even for the single disks, but just live with

Zotac ZBOX nano

2018-06-23 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hi! I would like to run NetBSD on a Zotac ZBOX C1327 nano https://www.zotac.com/product/mini_pcs/ci327-nano My server running on a fanless VIA EPIA board failed, and I hope to use this as a replacement. Booting the daily build of the 8.0 UEFI install image shows a lot of recognized hardware,

NetBSD on Intel Celeron J1900 / ASRock Q1900B-ITX

2015-10-16 Thread Jörn Clausen
Hello! Maybe this is a similar problem to the one reported by Sridhar earlier this month, maybe it's something different... I am trying to install NetBSD 7.0 on an ASRock Q1900B Mini-ITX board, but installation hangs there as well. The hard disk is detected, then the installer waits for about a

Re: NetBSD on VMware ESXi

2014-07-04 Thread Jörn Clausen
I have never had any issues (crashes, panics) with NetBSD on ESX(i). I use both i386 and amd64. The network card (E1000) is detected as wm(4) and works without problems. A more recent version of VMware Tools in pkgsrc would be nice, though. Joern On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:30 PM, 三輪晋( Miwa Susumu