Re: Rumpkernel comments by Linus

2016-04-27 Thread matthew sporleder
He hasn't looked at it so I don't think he's giving a real critique. As far as I can tell he's talking about things like NDISwrapper or softmodem and fails to grasp what rump is about. On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: > > Linus seems to frown on the rumpkernel efforts since he

Re: wireless configuration

2016-04-27 Thread Michael van Elst
riccardo.mott...@libero.it (Riccardo Mottola) writes: >OpenBSD can do it and I love that. I would love that in NetBSD too. >wpa_supplicant can remain for the more complex cases, but get the BSD >simplicity back. If it were just the command, it would be easy. But OpenBSD integrated part of the w

Rumpkernel comments by Linus

2016-04-27 Thread Swift Griggs
Linus seems to frown on the rumpkernel efforts since he believes it'll put the OS into a straight jacket (my words, not his). The original post is below. However, what say you folks? Is he reacting to something he doesn't know anything about based on his general instincts or is he making a leg

Re: A Web Interface for Apropos: http://man-k.org

2016-04-27 Thread Abhinav Upadhyay
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Timo Buhrmester wrote: >> I would appreciate any feedback that you might have to improve it :) > What I find mildly annoying is that when it says "Did you mean xyz?", > it really means "I'm going to pretend you meant xyz and hey, I'll even > update the search box t

Re: HP 620 - first install and where is my wireless?

2016-04-27 Thread Leonardo Taccari
Hello Riccardo, Riccardo Mottola writes: > [...] > do we have lspci in NetBSD? Yes, there is pcictl(8) (`list' command) or if you need lspci is provided by sysutils/pciutils package. Ciao, L.

Re: HP 620 - first install and where is my wireless?

2016-04-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Benny Siegert wrote: Unfortunately, I cannot find anything that looks like a Wi-Fi device in your dmesg. Perhaps it is actually switched off? Christos spotted the RT3090 device. Try looking at lspci and a USB device dump to find out if there are any devices that show up as „not config

Re: HP 620 - first install and where is my wireless?

2016-04-27 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > However, what bothers mee is that I have no wireless itnerface device shown > by ifconfig, nor do I see in dmesg something related. It should be a Ralink > device. For this reason I carry a USB wifi dongle around with me literally in my p

Re: Realtek RTL8188EUS driver (urtwn)

2016-04-27 Thread Steve Blinkhorn
Do you know when rtwn arrived in NetBSD? My 7.0 manual does not have the man page you excerpt, /usr/src/sys/dev/pci has no if_rtwn_pci.c (which I would have expected to see), and config -x | grep rtw yields: rtw*at pci? dev ? function ?# Realtek 8180L (802.11) rtw*at cardbus? fu

Re: HP 620 - first install and where is my wireless?

2016-04-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Robert, Robert Swindells wrote: I think Christos has imported the latest OpenBSD code for the PCI driver. You might want to try a -current kernel from the autobuild cluster. I did get the latest kernel and booted it. The PCI device is still unconfigured. Riccardo

Re: A Web Interface for Apropos: http://man-k.org

2016-04-27 Thread Timo Buhrmester
> I would appreciate any feedback that you might have to improve it :) What I find mildly annoying is that when it says "Did you mean xyz?", it really means "I'm going to pretend you meant xyz and hey, I'll even update the search box to what you most certainly meant". I for one prefer to see no re

Re: Realtek RTL8188EUS driver (urtwn)

2016-04-27 Thread Michael
Hello, On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:51:06 -0400 Greg Troxel wrote: > st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes: > > > vendor 0x10ec product 0x8179 (miscellaneous network, revision 0x01) at > > pci3 dev 0 function 0 not configured > > > > refers to pci3, whereas from the driver name I would have though

Re: Realtek RTL8188EUS driver (urtwn)

2016-04-27 Thread Greg Troxel
st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes: > vendor 0x10ec product 0x8179 (miscellaneous network, revision 0x01) at > pci3 dev 0 function 0 not configured > > refers to pci3, whereas from the driver name I would have thought it > should appear as a usb device. That probe message is not from a par

Re: HP 620 - first install and where is my wireless?

2016-04-27 Thread Christos Zoulas
On Apr 27, 11:08am, riccardo.mott...@libero.it (Riccardo Mottola) wrote: -- Subject: Re: HP 620 - first install and where is my wireless? | Hi Christos | | thhansk to you and all others. | | Christos Zoulas wrote: | | > No, this is bluetooth, the below one is the network: | | indeed, most pro

Re: Realtek RTL8188EUS driver (urtwn)

2016-04-27 Thread Steve Blinkhorn
The device is sealed so I can't look, but from Realtek's description there appear to be different versions of the same chipset for PCI and USB. I'm out of my comfort zone when it comes to knowing how the hardware probe operates. -- Steve Blinkhorn You wrote: > > 2016-04-27 11:56 GMT+02:00 Ste

Re: Realtek RTL8188EUS driver (urtwn)

2016-04-27 Thread Felix Deichmann
2016-04-27 11:56 GMT+02:00 Steve Blinkhorn : > refers to pci3, whereas from the driver name I would have thought it > should appear as a usb device. Strange, is this a PCI Express Mini Card which has both PCIe and USB on the same connector? Could explain why the device is USB, but (also) seen on P

Realtek RTL8188EUS driver (urtwn)

2016-04-27 Thread Steve Blinkhorn
I asked this on port-amd64 but got no positive responses. I have a number of nettop machines which contain a Realtek RTL8188EUS wireless NIC chipset with the device code 0x8179. With the GENERIC 7.0 kernel, during the hardware probe phase at boot time the chip is correctly recognised but does no

Re: wireless configuration

2016-04-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Greg, Greg Troxel wrote: To me the point is that wpa_supplicant is hard to configure. In the old days, one just specified a nwid and key. Now, WPA2 is more complicated than WEP, but from the usual user viewpoint it's mostly the same thing: a network name and a password. So it would be re

Re: HP 620 - first install and where is my wireless?

2016-04-27 Thread Robert Swindells
Riccardo Mottola wrote: >Robert Swindells wrote: >> An external dongle or built in to the laptop ? > >It is built-in into the laptop. Most probably the button activates both >WLAN and BT. I am interested in WLAN first. > >> Does the Ralink wifi device show up if you run usbdevs(8) ? >> >> There a

Re: HP 620 - first install and where is my wireless?

2016-04-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Christos thhansk to you and all others. Christos Zoulas wrote: No, this is bluetooth, the below one is the network: indeed, most probably there is a single button that turns on both WLAN and BlueTooth. vendor 0x1814 product 0x3090 (miscellaneous network) at pci2 dev 0 function 0 not

Re: HP 620 - first install and where is my wireless?

2016-04-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Robert, Robert Swindells wrote: An external dongle or built in to the laptop ? It is built-in into the laptop. Most probably the button activates both WLAN and BT. I am interested in WLAN first. Does the Ralink wifi device show up if you run usbdevs(8) ? There are a number of newer Ral