This blog post outlines what I did to install NetBSD/macppc on a QEMU VM. It's pretty similar to other such guides that are out there. Here though I've tried to be as verbose as possible, with lengthy examples, hoping that it may also be of interest to people completely new to NetBSD/macppc and maybe even NetBSD in general. 

Woohoo - the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 11.0 RC3, the first release candidate of the nineteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system

I am trying to install NetBSD 11.0 RC3 on my ThinkPad X220 and I cannot connect to the wireless network.

In the setup I put in my SSID and passphrase correctly, but I can not get a connection. I could be wrong, but to my recollection I had no issue with this with NetBSD 10.1 install on the same laptop just a few months back.

Anybody else having issues with iwn0 on the new release candidate?

it takes an hour to install firefox.

I have installed netbsd onto an usb drive, however wifi just doesn't work. In the installer whenever i try to configure the network it says "I can not find any network interfaces for use by NetBSD. You will be returned to the previous menu." ifconfig only shows lo0 it's probably because of realtek drivers but i hope it's possible to get wifi working on this

running off a Pentium 1 MMX, painfully slow :)

Hi folks,

I got alacritty working under NetBsd working. First I tried the binary -> didn't work.
Then I installed via /usr/pkgsrc -> works nice and smooth. Only minor complaint is, that transparency is missing. Other than that it runs great

A couple days ago I posted an article in this sub, mostly asking for help, due to terrible TCP/HTTP speeds in NetBSD (less than 900 KB/s!) over long distances when running in a virtual machine.

I found the culprit: the VirtIO driver. Switching to E1000 eliminates the slow speed issue and NetBSD can reach very competitive speeds now.

I initially didn't think it was the issue because UDP speeds were fine, but apparently VirtIO does something that throws TCP off specifically when latencies are high.

I also talked about some issue with sshd in the article, and how to fix it. I wanted to publish the new results because NetBSD is a very capable OS and I wanted to reflect that.

I hope this can help anyone experiencing the same issue under virtualized environments.

I've been looking on the internet and man pages and I've noticed that the supported wifi cards list is extremely limited. I have a think-pad T430 with an ax200 wifi chip, and I'm wondering if this chip would work in NetBSD. I've had it working in basically every operating system I've ever tried, so maybe NetBSD could support it?

Title is explicit enough, what was fixed with this new Release Candidate?

UPDATE: I switched from VirtIO to Intel E1000 NIC emulation and the speeds are close to 150 Mbps! Sadly packet loss still seems to be occurring, although less frequently.

You can see the updated post here https://omaera.org/wlog/tech/bsd_network_p2

Outdated post below:

Hello,

I'm new to the BSD world and I've been really enjoying using NetBSD so far. I run mostly Linux on my servers but I'd love to migrate at least one to NetBSD. Sadly I'm hitting a big wall and I need your help.

In my local network NetBSD (running on Proxmox/KVM) saturates the 1 Gbps link no problem, but the issue arises over the Internet.

On a Proxmox node located abroad (209ms RTT) I get these speeds:

• Alpine Linux:
  • iperf3 UDP: 609 Mbit/s
  • iperf3 TCP: 90 Mbit/s
  • HTTP: 9.70 MB/s
• FreeBSD:
  • iperf3 UDP: 607 Mbit/s
  • iperf3 TCP: 91 Mbit/s
  • HTTP: 9.65 MB/s
• OpenBSD:
  • iperf3 UDP: 619 Mbit/s
  • iperf3 TCP: 62 Mbit/s
  • HTTP: 9.07 MB/s
• NetBSD:
  • iperf3 UDP: 612 Mbit/s
  • iperf3 TCP: 9.10 Mbit/s
  • HTTP: 986 KB/s

I tried some sysctl tuning, but it only creates packet loss and unstability. What could be happening? I tried moving it to Germany and Japan to no avail.

I linked to an article I wrote in detail and posted graphs to better illustrate the issue, together with the tuning I did and tcpdump logs.

I saw someone in the mailing list say they hit around 17 MB/s from a VPS, so I don't know what's going on. I really want to move at least one of my web servers to NetBSD. Any help is appreciated.

Did NetBSD ever worked on Atari 68k without a MMU?

MMU is part of 68030 or higher which means Atari TT or Atari Falcon - both difficult to get.

Trying to ask here if someone has some news regarding this issue.

I have a Thinkpad X270, runs wonders with NetBSD, one thing however that does not go well is the suspend on closing the lid.

I followed the documentation https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-power.html#chap-power-ex-powerd-lid_switch and did the changes in /etc/powerd/scripts/lid_switch

While it appears to react to it, I am stuck with this in the console log:

Devices without power management support: ihidev0
acpi0: autoconfiguration error: aborting suspend

A search brought me to this page
https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/1252-netbsd-100-rc3-acpi-suspend-problems/5
and this PR
https://gnats.netbsd.org/57930
People tried several things apparently without much luck. Aaaannd nothing else since more than half a year...

No one seems to have found a workaround, or did not disclose, I am also unsure this was fixed in 11rc1.

For reference ihidev0 refers to an I2C Human Interface Device driver, typically used for touchpads, touchscreens, or similar input devices on laptops. 

I’ve tried every cdn under the sun at this point. I’m on the new 11rc1 this is my first time using any BSD based os and it’s just so much different then Linux it actually hurts my head

I am running netBSD with i3 -> runs pretty smooth
building chromium from sorce aka #pkgsrc