Booting from a USB disk

2020-04-26 Thread Vincent DEFERT
Hi, I've installed NetBSD on an external USB disk and made sure its /etc/fstab was correct. However, when I reboot on this disk, I have a "Heap full" error and the machine boots on its internal disk. If I drop to the boot prompt and type "boot hd0:", NetBSD boots normally. My guess is that I n

Re: Booting from a USB disk

2020-04-26 Thread Vincent DEFERT
details could help you to help me, feel free to ask more precise questions. On 26/04/2020 14:46, Greg Troxel wrote: Vincent DEFERT <20@defert.com> writes: I've installed NetBSD on an external USB disk and made sure its /etc/fstab was correct. However, when I reboot on this disk, I

Re: Booting from a USB disk

2020-04-26 Thread Vincent DEFERT
In case anyone else would want to do the same, I've finally found out that in order to boot from an USB disk, the loading of modules must be enabled, i.e.: installboot -o modules /dev/rsd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2 Vincent

Re: Booting from a USB disk

2020-04-26 Thread Vincent DEFERT
   1   - i2cexec xc5k   driver   builtin  -    1   - i2cexec zlib   misc builtin  -    3   - - On 26/04/2020 20:31, Martin Husemann wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 08:04:44PM +0200, Vincent DEFERT wrote: In case anyone else would

Re: Booting from a USB disk

2020-04-26 Thread Vincent DEFERT
x27;Heap full' error. On 27/04/2020 06:53, Martin Husemann wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:23:03PM +0200, Vincent DEFERT wrote: Here is the output of modstat in single user mode: NAME   CLASS    SOURCE   FLAG  REFS    SIZE REQUIRES aac    dri

Re: Booting from a USB disk

2020-04-27 Thread Vincent DEFERT
2020 at 08:53:16AM +0200, Vincent DEFERT wrote: No, I haven't changed anything else and no modules are listed in /boot.cfg. Is there any chance it worked due to a side-effect of not loading modules? Yes, and I am currently out of ideas what went wrong. I wonder if we should make the l

Re: Booting from a USB disk

2020-04-28 Thread Vincent DEFERT
20 06:35, Martin Husemann wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:02:41PM +0200, Vincent DEFERT wrote: The problem I had there is that NetBSD does not support EFI partition sizes greater than 128 MB. Can you explain this? What exactly goes wrong? Martin

I2C trackpad support?

2020-05-02 Thread Vincent DEFERT
Hi, OpenBSD 6.6 already supports I2C trackpads (iichid module) and FreeBSD 12.2 will include support for them. Are there any plans to support I2C trackpads in NetBSD too? Vincent

Re: I2C trackpad support?

2020-05-02 Thread Vincent DEFERT
The ims man page is there, but I can't see it in modstat, nor in /stand/amd64/9.0/modules. How can I load it? On 02/05/2020 17:17, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Vincent DEFERT wrote: Hi, OpenBSD 6.6 already supports I2C trackpads (iichid module) and Fr

Re: I2C trackpad support?

2020-05-02 Thread Vincent DEFERT
I have installed GENERIC_KASLR, could this be the reason I don't see it? On 02/05/2020 18:06, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 05:59:19PM +0200, Vincent DEFERT wrote: The ims man page is there, but I can't see it in modstat, nor in /stand/amd64/9.0/modules. How can I loa

Re: I2C trackpad support?

2020-05-02 Thread Vincent DEFERT
lun per target [    37.483841] sd1 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0: Drive, PMAP> disk removable [    37.483841] sd1: fabricating a geometry [    37.483841] sd1: 59064 MB, 59064 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 120963072 sectors [    37.493861] sd1: fabricating a geometry On 02/05/2020 18:19, Ma

Re: NetBSD install experiences

2020-05-11 Thread Vincent DEFERT
I also had tons of package installation problems of the same kind for weeks... Until I tried and use the German mirror and everything worked fine. This means that between Feb. 14th and Apr. 25th, I've been unable to install NetBSD 9.0, and I've finally succeeded just by chance. I'm happy I've

Re: NetBSD install experiences

2020-05-12 Thread Vincent DEFERT
Thanks for your explanations, Robert, I now better understand some issues I recently ran into. As for the packaging system, it is certainly the greatest weakness of the whole BSD family, not only NetBSD. Am 11/05/2020 um 21:56 schrieb Robert Nestor: I’m not sure if this is still true, but it

Re: Unusable Realtek NIC after upgrading to NetBSD 9

2020-09-16 Thread Vincent DEFERT
You could try opening the firmware update's executable as an archive (they are often SFX - self-extracting ZIP archives), extract its contents to a FAT-formatted USB pen drive, reboot the laptop with the pen drive attached and enter the BIOS firmware flash utility (often the F7 key). If you found

Re: Unusable Realtek NIC after upgrading to NetBSD 9

2020-09-17 Thread Vincent DEFERT
I have extracted it using Engrampa and made a tgz archive with the files in it. You can download it here: http://defert.com/tmp/sp66770.tgz There's a .bin file in it, I think it's all you need on your USB stick. On 17/09/2020 10:52, Rocky Hotas wrote: On set 17 8:55, Vincent DE

Re: Unusable Realtek NIC after upgrading to NetBSD 9

2020-09-18 Thread Vincent DEFERT
g. On 18/09/2020 11:02, Rocky Hotas wrote: On set 17 13:13, Vincent DEFERT wrote: I have extracted it using Engrampa and made a tgz archive with the files in it. You can download it here: http://defert.com/tmp/sp66770.tgz There's a .bin file in it, I think it's all you need on your U

Re: BSDstats

2020-09-20 Thread Vincent DEFERT
The idea itself is interesting, but when you look at their home page: TrueOS: officially discontinued in 2020 RUS-BSD: last update in 2013 PC-BSD: predecessor of TrueOS DesktopBSD: abandoned - last updatein 2015, developer confirmedin 2017 having moved to TrueOS This seriously questions the r

Re: BSDstats

2020-09-21 Thread Vincent DEFERT
behaviours) On 21/09/2020 01:40, Clay Daniels wrote: You are right, the site is not really informative and it is out of date. On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 2:45 AM Vincent DEFERT <20@defert.com <mailto:20@defert.com>> wrote: The idea itself is interesting, but when you l

Mailing-list misconfiguration?

2020-11-08 Thread Vincent DEFERT
Hi, I'm receiving DMARC reports such as the one below. The 199.233.217.200 source_ip points at mail.netbsd.org. My understanding is that when NetBSD's mailing-list software forwards my posts to other subscribers, it keeps my email as sender address instead of replacing it with netbsd-users@n

Re: Mailing-list misconfiguration?

2020-11-09 Thread Vincent DEFERT
On 09/11/2020 10:00, Robert Elz wrote: SPF is nonsense as spam prevention. It is one (of several) absurd technologies that happened to work for a few weeks when they were first introduced, and now accomplish absolutely nothing. I do 100% agree with you! However, if I want my emails delivered,

Re: Mailing-list misconfiguration?

2020-11-09 Thread Vincent DEFERT
pass         netbsd.org     pass         In the end, you're right, there is probably no need to worry about this. On 09/11/2020 13:49, Greg Troxel wrote: Vincent DEFERT <20@defert.com> writes: I'm receiving DMARC reports such as the one below. The 199.

Re: sponsor NetBSD for 2020 https://github.com/sponsors/NetBSD

2020-11-10 Thread Vincent DEFERT
On 10/11/2020 17:53, Jason Thorpe wrote: Yah, that's Amazon Smile, and NetBSD is already on it. Are there geographic restrictions to this program? I can't find it on smile.amazon.de.

Re: Tunneling in NetBSD

2020-11-16 Thread Vincent DEFERT
Of course, all clients have to install the VPN client of their choice, as well as well as any certificate or complementary authentication SW/HW tools (e.g. smartcard, OTP tokens). In my experience, small companies often use OpenVPN and large ones (e.g. banks) prefer proprietary solutions such