Bluetooth status, compatible USB Bluetooth adapters?

Realtek firmware blob has to be loaded. By the way, to interoperate with Bluetooth Low Energy devices, is anything beyond a compatible USB Bluetooth adapter needed? For example, kernel or utility changes? David -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: problem getting hostapd and bridging to work

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 06:56:43PM +0100, Dave Tyson wrote: > /etc/ifconfig.run0 > apbridge > up run(4) may not support `hostap` mode? David -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

wondering about Xilinx Zynq 7000 support

I noticed the other day that NetBSD was ported to the Xilinx Zynq 7000, a neat 2-core ARM SoC with FPGA on-die. I'm curious if anyone is currently developing on that SoC. Are there any serious obstacles to making use of the FPGA from NetBSD? David -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrban

Re: NPF/interface tuning? shell unusable on gateway

et.ip.ifq`, and `netstat -dvI re0; netstat -dvI re1` may be revealing. What link speed is negotiated on WAN and LAN ports? Is any flow-control negotiated? It sounds like the LAN is quite slow? I may have misunderstood. Is the LAN all wired or is there any wireless involved? Dave -- David Young d

Swift Language port?

Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?

rvice that scans the medium and, finding no FAT/NTFS/HFS+/APFS volume on it, declares it unrecoverable when, in actual fact, every bit is intact. Is there a service that I can trust my NetBSD disk to that has a reasonable fee structure? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217

Re: Java for NetBSD

m named in the #! directive in the first line of the script may be missing. Run `file ./java` to see if it's a script. Run `head -1 ./java` to look at the first line. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Portable Makefile ideas

etrograde---I mean, what is that, m4 syntax? I agree that mk-configure is delightful. Highly recommended. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: /var on tmpfs

e CD-ROM. # critical_filesystems_remote="" # Don't mount /usr, it comes with / on the CD-ROM. # critical_filesystems_memory="/etc /home /root /tmp /var" If this works for you, too, maybe mountcritmem should go into the base system.

Re: Simple way to securely access remote machine that's behind a NAT?

o has a UDP encapsulation for GRE. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: reading older disks

If all else fails, and one decides to send a disk for recovery, is the manufacturer the best bet (I see that Seagate will try to recover its own disks for a rather high flat fee), or is there a BSD-friendly service provider? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: How to debug IPV6

d properly when the interface was configured? When I get unexpected results, I like to check for a route to the particular host: route -n get -inet6 2605:2600:1001::43 Hope that helps. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Status of run0 support on NetBSD 8.0_RC1

3070 and be less than 0x0201. I think that's what you mean when you say that it can't be right? On second glance, there are actually two members involved: one is a `version` number and the other is `revision` number. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Unable to join open WEP wireless network

etwork is functioning. What do you mean by an "open WEP" network? Seems like any WEP network should have a key, but you're not configuring the interface with any key. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Error trying to create gre tunnel

s, so the NAT-piercing UDP tunnels helped us maintain administrative control of them. There is no authentication, but a determined developer should be able to add some. I guess that you could add privacy with IPsec. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981 # $Id: Makefil

Re: 8.0 BETA i386 : atheros wifi support

aper over. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: NetBSD on embedded devices

e a dual-image embedded setup in open source, too. I would be happy to share the scripts if you want to mine them for ideas. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Updates to man-k.org

ures are one-to-one with choices: consider using a pair of radio buttons instead of checkboxes to select/deselect each OS, if space allows. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Problem with Intel WiFi card

fore I ran out of time to work on the project. I can probably scratch up the code, but it's probably bit-rotted, and I don't know if I would carry on with the same project using C. Swift in the kernel, anyone? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

portable /usr/share/mk/ ?

Has anyone produced a portable version of the NetBSD .mk files? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Semetic/fuzzy-logic code comparison tool ?

blem, myself. It's an optimization problem. Or maybe that is just the way I choose to think of it. :-) I suspect that it is easier to produce a tool that produces useful results on many (but not all) texts consisting of tokens and nested structures that are common on the web, than to produce a tool that in produces a perfect result on, say, every compilable C program. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Tracking down TCP & UDP listeners

reveal what processes have sockets open on those ports. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Exist operating systems that ship without blobs?

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 09:25:52PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:33:40PM -0600, David Young wrote: > > > > BTW, I think a reasonable precaution to take with a lot of devices, > > their firmware and drivers, open- or closed-source (but especia

Re: Exist operating systems that ship without blobs?

the employees of vendors, and urging people to hound them, made much positive difference. BTW, I think a reasonable precaution to take with a lot of devices, their firmware and drivers, open- or closed-source (but especially closed source), is to put them under supervision of, say, an IOMMU. Da

Re: Firsts in NetBSD

t80211, by Atsushi Onoe. First with the extensible 802.11 radio-information header, radiotap. When the 802.11 MACs known as "dumb packet engines" came out, NetBSD led with some of the first drivers that were fully open-source (no binary vendor blob), for ADMtek and Realtek chipsets. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

re-introducing ARFE; teaching ARFE new tricks

multiple records per input, a couple of really interesting programs should be possible. Alas, it may be at least as difficult to program an algorithm for identifying record boundaries as to program everything in ARFE that came before! Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 72

groff & NetBSD & relevance (was Re: Re: Re: Request to reconsider removal of groff from base system)

st document preparation system in NetBSD (supposing that is even what's going on) is pretty lame, but it seems to me that neither *roff nor an MS Office knock-off will buy UNIX much relevance in 2015. What's next? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: ixg(4) performances

So that you cannot set the flags to a different state than the hardware, SIOCSIFCAP returns EINVAL when you make an unsupported selection. Try 'ifconfig ixg0 tcp4csum-rx tcp6csum-rx udp4csum-rx udp6csum-tx', that should work. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: RAM based block device driver

ck-drivers/ > http://blog.superpat.com/2010/05/04/a-simple-block-driver-for-linux-kernel-2-6-31/comment-page-2/ > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1406.1/04553.html Yes, see md(4) and mdconfig(8). Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: oversize frame

+ 2-byte outer ethertype (VLAN) + 2-byte VLAN tag + 2-byte inner ethertype + 1500 MTU = 1518 bytes. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

bonjour printer?

Has anyone successfully set up NetBSD to detect and to print to a Bonjour printer (mine is a Brother HL-5470DW)? What packages did you have to install? Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Downloading NetBSD - Too complicated ?

want to use NetBSD. I disagree. The path is going to lose website visitors who have limited time and patience, no matter how intelligent or educable they are. The more sensitive a visitor is to efficiency in website organization and to a proper division of labor between user / designer / comp

kernel dumps on ahci, known to be broken in 6?

) i/o error Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Wi-fi problems with channel 12

to choose the parameters that are legal in the country where the device is operating---that might be determined something more sophisticated or complicated than the above It could be that not all of our drivers are selecting the set of legal channels in the way that the vendor intended. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: some keys not seen in xev(1) when pressed in combination with both Alt_L and Alt_R

ptions (e.g., some implementations of "lock" keys are odd). Any other events or flags (e.g., indications of the modifier keys held down) were just a bit of "icing". I also thought that you could could dependable press/release events even if you held 10 keys at a time, since we have

Re: NetBSD on modern laptops

on on this laptop. See if you can detach any of the devices after boot. Try, for example, 'drvctl -d puc0'. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981

Re: Question about nmbclusters

kernel should shift packets from the kernel's maps & limits and onto the user servers' maps & limits much more aggressively than it does, today. So you see there is lots of room for improvement. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.comUrbana, IL(217) 721-9981