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author: dhananjayishere
comments: true
date: 2012-11-21 21:45:00
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slug: netbsd-chronicles
tags: netbsd
title: NetBSD Chronicles.
wordpress_id: 169330104
---

To be frank I wasn't doing much for almost an year, got lazy as one can ever be. Today was the day to break it. Got a little push do something and I got down to do it. I was looking at BSD development for a long time, and thought this is the best time to get involved. I am a total noob at BSD, I never really used one. So it was challenging when I started to install NetBSD into an old Comapq nx6120 that was lying around. I know anyone could get to the root shell easily, with help from brilliant click and go installers, configuring and customizing was the real problem.

Its 0300 now, and I got my laptop running NetBSD 6.0, and connected to wireless (easier than I thought - thanks to legacy hardware.)

**Configuring Intel PRO/Wireless **

** **Unlike linux, BSD can include all the microcode (firmware) in the distribution itself, due the flexibility of licensing system. Reading up _iwi(4)_ reveals youve to accept the EULA by setting the sysctl variable hw.iwi.accept_eula to 1

```
# sysctl -w hw.iwi.accept_eula=1
```

The university wireless is open, so I didnt had to mess too much.

```
# ifconfig ssid "SSID" iwi0 dhclient iwi0
```
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			`author: dhananjayishere`
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Convert from old categories to tags import sys import yaml with open(sys.argv[1]) as fp: data = fp.read() if not data.find("---") == 0: # no head print("NO YAML HEAD FOUND") sys.exit(-1) data = data[3:] head_end = data.find("---") head = data[0:head_end] data = data[head_end+3:] metadata = yaml.safe_load(head) cats = metadata.pop('categories', None) if cats != None: if type(cats) == list: tags = cats elif type(cats) == str: tags = cats.split() tags = list(map(lambda t: t.lower(), tags)) metadata["tags"] = ", ".join(tags) new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" # write it print(f"coverted: categories to tags: {tags} - {sys.argv[1]}") with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) if not metadata.get("tags", None): metadata["tags"] = "untagged" new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" print(f"untagged: {sys.argv[1]}") # write it with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) print("No changes needed") 2019-01-28 22:16:27 +00:00			`tags: netbsd`
intial commit 2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00			`title: NetBSD Chronicles.`
			`wordpress_id: 169330104`
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			To be frank I wasn't doing much for almost an year, got lazy as one can ever be. Today was the day to break it. Got a little push do something and I got down to do it. I was looking at BSD development for a long time, and thought this is the best time to get involved. I am a total noob at BSD, I never really used one. So it was challenging when I started to install NetBSD into an old Comapq nx6120 that was lying around. I know anyone could get to the root shell easily, with help from brilliant click and go installers, configuring and customizing was the real problem.

			`Its 0300 now, and I got my laptop running NetBSD 6.0, and connected to wireless (easier than I thought - thanks to legacy hardware.)`

			`Configuring Intel PRO/Wireless `

			` Unlike linux, BSD can include all the microcode (firmware) in the distribution itself, due the flexibility of licensing system. Reading up _iwi(4)_ reveals youve to accept the EULA by setting the sysctl variable hw.iwi.accept_eula to 1`

			```
			`# sysctl -w hw.iwi.accept_eula=1`
			```

			`The university wireless is open, so I didnt had to mess too much.`

			```
			`# ifconfig ssid "SSID" iwi0 dhclient iwi0`
			```