Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-05 Thread Wean Irdeh
Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop environment for NetBSD?

/proc/cmdline in NetBSD? how to get kernel boot parameter?

2018-08-27 Thread Wean Irdeh
In Linux, parameter passed from bootloader to kernel can be obtained from /proc/cmdline Like 'linux /boot/vmlimuz root=/dev/sda2 mychoice=custom' and I can get it from terminal by running cat /proc/cmdline Which output: root=/dev/sda2 mychoice=custom What if I passed 'knetbsd /netbsd

Is it possible to boot from LVM?

2018-08-16 Thread Wean Irdeh
Hi. Is it possible to boot NetBSD from LVM, just like how it is possible with FreeBSD?

Re: NetBSD 8 error: Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver

2018-08-16 Thread Wean Irdeh
I can confirm that the issue also occurred on BIOS boot when using the ISO. It seems that the problem lies on the ISO image, not because of UEFI.

Re: NetBSD 8 error: Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver

2018-08-16 Thread Wean Irdeh
> > > Note: The error I've described earlier only occur when booted using ISO image, this problem does not occur when using filesystem image.

NetBSD 8 error: Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver

2018-08-16 Thread Wean Irdeh
I tried to create LVM, I have created PV and VG, but there's an error when I tried to create LV as described from title. I have loaded the dm kernel module earlier. On NetBSD 8 installation shell booted from UEFI using GPT partition. Any help is appreciated. Thanks a lot!

NetBSD 8 error: Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver

2018-08-15 Thread Wean Irdeh
I tried to create LVM, I have created PV and VG, but there's an error when I tried to create LV as described from title. I have loaded the dm kernel module earlier. On NetBSD 8 installation shell booted from UEFI using GPT partition. Any help is appreciated. Thanks a lot!

Fwd: Cannot create LVM on NetBSD 8.0 installation

2018-08-09 Thread Wean Irdeh
Hi all. Boot using UEFI and using GPT, after creating a partition in Linux and formatting them as Physical Volume, I still can't use the Physical Volume to create a Volume group. Even when I tried to create a PV' in NetBSD installation, the 'Format as LVM PV' option returned 'Operation not

Re: Any Guide/resource to port broadcom (bcm43142) wifi driver?

2018-04-30 Thread Wean Irdeh
Another great resource for porting wifi driver to NetBSD https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/driver-api/80211/index.html

Re: Any Guide/resource to port broadcom (bcm43142) wifi driver?

2018-04-30 Thread Wean Irdeh
I'm sorry for sending you a lot of email, my emails doesn't appear in the mailing list because I forget to cc netbsd-users Here's the resource to anyone looking to port linux wifi driver: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/ Thanks for replying to my email I prefer to buy a new card if someone could

Any Guide/resource to port broadcom (bcm43142) wifi driver?

2018-04-29 Thread Wean Irdeh
https://www.broadcom.com/support/download-search/?pf=Wireless+LAN+Infrastructure My laptop contain bcm43142 wifi pcie card, which is not supported by NetBSD, so I'm looking for porting the driver on the link above to NetBSD, any guide/resource is appreciated. Thank you

Has anyone applied for 'Userland PCI Drivers' project yet?

2018-03-30 Thread Wean Irdeh
Hi Has anyone applied for 'Userland PCI Drivers' project yet?