Re: RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-18 Thread Michael van Elst
tomd...@wavecable.com ("Thomas D. Dean") writes: >What is the wifi device in the RPi 4b? Driver? It's a chip similar to the one in the older RPIs: bwfm0: chip 0x4345 rev 6 bwfm0: Firmware file default:brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin bwfm0: Firmware file model-spec:

RPi 4b Wifi Device

2024-04-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
What is the wifi device in the RPi 4b? Driver? Tom Dean

Re: Install Failure RPi 4

2024-04-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 4/18/24 13:56, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I followed: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2023/07/19/msg008301.html and it boots. download https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases/download/v1.35/RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_v1.35.zip > mount mmcblk0p1 /mnt > cd /mnt > unzip ~/RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_v1.35.zip

Re: Install Failure RPi 4

2024-04-18 Thread adr
Of course I'm assuming that you meant dd if=arm64.img ... dd if=armv7.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1m conv=sync

Re: Install Failure RPi 4

2024-04-18 Thread adr
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I have an RPi 4b using a USB flash drive and RPi OS. I attempted to install NetBSD 10 on an SD card. On the RPi, I downloaded arm64.img.gz and extracted arm64.img. ls -l arm64.img rw-rw-r-- 1 tomdean tomdean 1582301184 Apr 3 15:02 arm64.img I

Install Failure RPi 4

2024-04-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have an RPi 4b using a USB flash drive and RPi OS. I attempted to install NetBSD 10 on an SD card. On the RPi, I downloaded arm64.img.gz and extracted arm64.img. > ls -l arm64.img rw-rw-r-- 1 tomdean tomdean 1582301184 Apr 3 15:02 arm64.img I used dd to copy the image to an SD card. > dd

Broken Link

2024-04-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/ Select NetBSD/evbarm 10.0 INSTALL notes Produces Error 404. Tom Dean

Re: unattended install

2024-04-18 Thread Taylor R Campbell
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:12:21 +0200 > From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" > > is there any way of unattended installation (eg. from the ISO) ? > > Rationale: I need to create VM images by a build pipeline (on kvm). If there isn't an image that already serves your needs, the

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread adr
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Taylor R Campbell wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:53:27 + From: Taylor R Campbell To: adr Cc: netbsd-users@NetBSD.org, Liam Proven Subject: Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg Hi adr, Liam provided valuable feedback in both reviews, and

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread adr
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: This all was uncalled for, and is not welcome in this community. If you think that encouraging someone that wrote this: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/10/netbsd_93/ is ok, then I'm not interested in your opinion more that I'm in the

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread Taylor R Campbell
Hi adr, Liam provided valuable feedback in both reviews, and if anything we haven't put enough effort into smoothing out the rough edges Liam pointed out, like figuring out why command-line editing and PATH weren't set up right out of the box. There's always room for improvement, and our

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 03:23:34PM +, adr wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Liam Proven wrote: ~ ~ > > Comments and feedback welcomed! > > [...]The last time we looked at NetBSD, we checked out version 9.3[...] > > I remember reading that and not understanding how the person who > wrote that

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread adr
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Liam Proven wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:00:32 +0100 From: Liam Proven To: Netbsd-Users-List Subject: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg I thought this might interest folks here... NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 14:21, Benny Siegert wrote: > > Wonderful article, thanks for sharing! :D Oh thank you! Thank you too for your help in inspiring it – and putting me in touch with Martin. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB:

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread Michael Huff
On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 3:01 AM Liam Proven wrote: > I thought this might interest folks here... > > NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades > later > > Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types > >

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread Benny Siegert
On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 1:01 PM Liam Proven wrote: > NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades > later > > Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types > > https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/30yo_netbsd_releases_v10/ > > Comments and

Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread Liam Proven
I thought this might interest folks here... NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/30yo_netbsd_releases_v10/ Comments and feedback welcomed! --

Re: pkg_admin: Cannot open /usr/pkg/pkgdb/pkg-vulnerabilities

2024-04-18 Thread Christopher Pinon
Jay writes: > Can you do > pkg_admin fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities Yes, as su > pkg_admin audit This works as an ordinary (wheel) user as well > ? > Also are you running as root or sudo? The message that I mentioned was a system message from Charlie Root, presumably due to a daily cron job In

pkg_admin: Cannot open /usr/pkg/pkgdb/pkg-vulnerabilities

2024-04-18 Thread Christopher Pinon
Hi, If I may, just a simple question. On a fresh NetBSD-10.0 installation, I receive the following message: pkg_admin: Cannot open /usr/pkg/pkgdb/pkg-vulnerabilities: No such file or directory This puzzles me because both the directory /usr/pkg/pkgdb and the file

Re: Use a wallpaper

2024-04-18 Thread Vitaly Shevtsov
If you start X with startx, then you can put "feh --bg-fill wallpaper.png" into .xinitrc before last "exec " ср, 17 апр. 2024 г., 23:35 Todd Gruhn : > My current root (?) window is black. > > How do I put a graphic or wallpaper on there > when I start X11? >