The LearN@BSD Project - Technicalities

Created - April 17, 2007 | Modified - Oct 12, 2007

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Reference Lists

Applications

Internet
Opera broken on NetBSD4/i386? - check follow-ups
Opera broken on NetBSD4/i386?

Benchmarks

Xen Disk I/O Benchmarking: NetBSD 3.0 beta dom0 vs Linux dom0 2005/07/25

Embedded Systems

Embedded News - from hubertf's NetBSD Blog
NetBSD on Soekris net5501 - AMD Geode LX AES crypto performance
Jesse's Page - NetBSD/evbarm support on the TS-7200
Technologic Systems Designs NetBSD Controlled Toaster
Porting NetBSD to a new ARM SoC
decTOP running on NetBSD/i386 - fanless, low power PC, with AMD Geode GX2 500/1W

Example Installations

Examples
Installing BSD on IBM Netvista S40

Partitioning
adding multiple partitions? - check follow-ups

Emulations (Binary Emulations)

Binary emulation in NetBSD
9. Linux emulation - from NetBSD Guide

Graphics, Drivers

ATI
ATI Radeon X1300/1700 - on ASUS F3Jp laptop (follow the thread)
ATI Proprietary driver on X11 and NetBSD - (was Re: Thinkpad T60 mostly works - trouble with wm(4))
ATI Proprietary driver 8.40.4, problem, and workaround

Intel
Re: DRI Support - Intel HW - GMA950 (945M)

nVidia
NetBSD device driver for the NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter
NetBSD with NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (PCI), GeForce2 MX/MX 400, Vanta(AGP) - 2002 yr
Quake 2, with Nvidia glx under NetBSD - 07/04/1999

Dual Heads, Xinerama
Howto nvidia dual head netbsd
Troubles with Xinerama + radeon driver on Xorg
Troubles with Xinerama + radeon driver on Xorg
More (different) problems with Radeon 9500 Pro
Dual head with XFree86 4.5.0 nv driver

Flash
Flash - on hubertf's NetBSD Blog
Flash plugin for NetBSD Firefox I
Flash plugin for NetBSD Firefox II
Flash 9 in Opera
Which package for Flash player for Firefox 2?

XFree86
XFree86 4.6.0 video drivers - from www.xfree86.org

Graphical Installers

ECBSD
OFInst

Hardware

Discussions
Intel Core 2 considered evil - "These processors are buggy as hell"
Now the core duo/solo errata - Relevant notes from Matt Dillion
Linus contradicts OpenBSD founder on Intel TLB issue - June 29th, 2007

Dual Processor Machines
gnome 2.18 and 4.0 Beta 2

Installations

Basics
The NetBSD Guide - basic information
NetBSD 3.0 Installation Quick and Clean
NetBSD A Short Guide
g00bers' guide to mastering NetBSD - concise introduction to installation ans usage

System Upgrades and Updates
How to upgrade NetBSD - from Community Wiki
How to checkout and update system sources and pkgsrc with cvsup - from Community Wiki
Updating a stable NetBSD release
Tracking NetBSD-current
Upgrading a release of NetBSD - from BSDnexus forums

Motherboards, Computers

Amd64
Amd64 News - from hubertf's NetBSD Blog
Re: motherboard that will run amd64 03/01/2006
Re: motherboard that will run amd64 03/15/2006
Re: motherboard that will run amd64 03/16/2006
Re: Experiences with Asus A8N-VM CSM? 04/29/2006
Re: X2 Motherboard and PCI-E 16x video support 07/12/2006
Shuttle SN27P2: success, mostly 09/30/2006

Recommendations, Suggestions, Explanations
NetBSD on a Shuttle SD32G2 barebone - check follow-ups
Re: NetBSD on a Shuttle SD32G2 barebone - check follow-ups
NetBSD on HP Pavillion dv6000t - check follow-ups
Dell Optiplex 320 - check follow-ups

Mobile Computing

Basics
A few more links: embedded, mobile IPv6, filesystems, appliances, packages - from hubertf's NetBSD Blog
How to install - (on hpcarm, NEC MobilePro 780, Power Macintosh 7300, Power Macintosh G4 (Grey))

HP Jornada
NetBSD on HP Jornada - HPCSH/NetBSD (Czytelnia: articles in Polish)
NetBSD binary packages for hpcsh Port - esp. for the Jornada 680/690

Toshiba
NetBSD on Toshiba Laptops
Tales of Rescuing Old Hardware - Toshiba T2130CS

Laptops
Laptops: How to blank and unblank screens on lid close/open
Power Management for Laptops

From Mailing Lists
thinkpad: T60p vs Z61p... or macbook - from port-i386

Recommendations, Suggestions, Explanations
Recommended systems - from NetBSD Wiki

Multimedia

Audio
How to use 5.1 surround sound with NetBSD - from Community Wiki

Java in Web Browsers
Opera problem

Video
Getting images from digital camera - from Community Wiki

CD-ROM, LiveCD
How to build your own NetBSD LiveCD - from Community Wiki
NetBSD Bootable CD ROM HOWTO - from official Documentation
How to create bootable NetBSD image - from NetBSD Wiki
The NetBSD Packages Collection: sysutils/mklivecd - NetBSD/x86 Live CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
mklivecd Update - [20070411]

Networks - LANs

Basics
The NetBSD Network FAQ - reference page

CARP
27. Introduction to the Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) - from NetBSD Guide

Diskless stations
Diskless NetBSD HOW-TO - official pages
Diskless client - from "g00bers' guide to mastering NetBSD"

IPv6
22.7. Next generation Internet protocol - IPv6 - introduction
IPv6 Networking FAQ
28.4. IPv6 Connectivity & Transition via 6to4 - from NetBSD Guide

IP Filters
IP Filter (Firewall) resources, including HOW-TOs and FAQs - reference pages
IP Filter Current version: 4.1.22 - short and easy, introductory overview of ipf and ipnat
Packet Filter (pf) FAQ -
Configuring IPFILTER - NetBSD firewall step-by-step configuration
IP Filter Based Firewalls HOWTO - Excellent and comprehensive document about IP-filter package

Networks - Wireless

Basics
Wireless Networking - Introduction to Subject (reference website)
HardwareComparison - (reference website)

Bluetooth
19. Bluetooth on NetBSD - from NetBSD Guide
How does Bluetooth support in NetBSD work? - official page
Bluetooth - Bluetooth is available since version 4 of NetBSD - from Community Wiki
How to use Nokia 6230i over Bluetooth as a GPRS modem - from Community Wiki
Bluetooth chapter for the NetBSD guide state of the works

GPRS
Steps to connect via GPRS/CDPD - official page

Infrared
Infrared modems and NetBSD

WiFi
NetBSD wifi ap - (Finnish)

WLAN, etc
WLAN News - from hubertf's NetBSD Blog
Using WaveLAN IEEE under NetBSD - from NetBSD Documentation
Open-Source based access to Cisco VPNs - Using vpnc on NetBSD and Linux (Access via the Wireless LAN)
Wireless networking using the Lucent WaveLAN - from NetBSD Documentation

WPA
How to get connected using WPA - from Community Wiki

Pkgsrc - Packages Collection

Optimizing pkgsrc speed - from pkgsrc-users mailing list (follow the thread)

Recommendations
Recommendations for PCI 802.11 Wireless adapter? - check follow-ups

Programming

Basics
The NetBSD Hackathon - occasional few days for intensive debugging
The NetBSD projects for Google's Summer of Code - list of all projects
Google Summer of Code: NetBSD
NetBSD Summer-of-Code Projects 2007
The NetBSD CVS Digest
Shell accounts for NetBSD development - the NetBSD Developer Resources Page
Significant Source changes from NetBSD 4.0 to 5.0 - (Updated nightly)
Significant Source changes from NetBSD 3.0 to 4.0 - (Updated nightly)
Significant Source changes from NetBSD 2.0 to 3.0 - (Updated nightly)

Java
Java 2 for NetBSD Downloads

Projects
Valgrind for NetBSD - "Valgrind is an excellent debugger"

Security

Basics
Comparison of operating systems
Secunia: Vulnerability Report: NetBSD 1.x
CryptoGraphicFile (CGF), or how to keep sensitive data on your laptop (Updated)
Security patches

CGD
Inside NetBSD's CGD
Chapter 13. The cryptographic device driver (CGD)
CGD(4) man
VND(4) man
PDF: CGD

CFS
Encrypted filesystem with cfs - "cfs is the so called cryptographic filesystem"

PAM
16. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) - from NetBSD Guide

Veriexec
18. NetBSD Veriexec subsystem - from NetBSD Guide

System Commands Explained

mtree
Adding /usr/local to daily security audit - check follow-ups

Systems

Basics
NetBSD Internals - UVM, vfs, memory and vnode management, file system internals
Tuning NetBSD VM behaviour (swap usage)
Tuning Virtual Memory to improve performance on low-memory systems - official page

Building systems
V. Building the system - from NetBSD Guide

FUSE
How to use FUSE in NetBSD - from Community Wiki
Filesystems in User-Space: puffs, refuse, FUSE, and more

HAL
Hardware monitoring and HAL port - part of NetBSD Summer-of-Code Projects 2007
Hardware monitoring and HAL port - Google Code Home

Kernel
NetBSD Documentation: Kernel - official page
31. Compiling the kernel - from NetBSD Guide
Writing loadable kernel modules (LKMs) - by Benedikt Meurer
Kernel-tuning without recompiling - from hubertf's NetBSD Blog
Unix KISS: MacOS X vs. Linux - PDF file (not NetBSD but worth reading)

Tuning System
17. Tuning NetBSD - from NetBSD Guide

Virtualizations
Running VMWare on NetBSD
Xen

File Systems
Porting ZFS - Google Code Home
How to mount FFS partition under Linux - from NetBSD Wiki

Text Processing

Install TeX Live 2007 on NetBSD - Tex Live (TL) 2007 doesn't ship with NetBSD binaries.
Install TeX Live 2007 on NetBSD - icu problems resolved (follow thread).

USB Memory, Disks, Memory, etc.

HDD. LANdisk
g4u - Harddisk Image Cloning for PCs
Installing *BSD on PX-EH40L - OpenBSD/landisk and NetBSD/landisk [NAS disk]

Keyboards
USB keyboard extra key
USB keyboard extra key

RAID
Chapter 15. NetBSD RAIDframe - from Oficial Guide
Installing RAIDFrame level 1 root NetBSD system - on SS5 and an SS10 systems

Tapes
etBSD with PV100T tape driver - some good hyperlinks

USB
Let's play USB Webcam on NetBSD - reference page
PNY Attache 256MB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
How to install NetBSD from an USB Memory Stick - from Community Wiki
Portable encrypted CD/USB - check follow-ups

X Window System

Basics
What is X? - from NetBSD Guide
NetBSD Documentation: The X Window System

XFree86
Release Notes for XFree86(R) 4.6.0 - docs from April 2006

Xorg
I want to switch to modular Xorg I - from mailing list
I want to switch to modular Xorg II - from mailing list

Varia

How to set up a guest OS using xen3
UTF-8 Character support in xterm
UTF-8 - How to use Unicode in NetBSD
Wasabi Systems: NetBSD 1.5.2 Package Release for Desktops

Przemysław Pawełczyk - Cracow, Poland [Static website generated with Rexx scripts in NetBSD]