NetBSD for Pinebook

**Luke** · 05-24-2018, 10:55 PM

NetBSD is now available for the Pinebook. There appear to be 32 and 64bit images available.

Download from here.

Wizzard · (This post was last modified: 05-25-2018, 12:30 AM by Wizzard.)

According to Distrowatch it does not contain KDE neither Gnome.

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=netbsd

**pfeerick** · 05-25-2018, 02:55 AM

(05-25-2018, 12:30 AM)Wizzard Wrote: According to Distrowatch it does not contain KDE neither Gnome.

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=netbsd

Looks like it's xfce. But hm... Gnome and KDE are in the 'Desktop' list... and er... the full package list?

It may be running MATE...

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/pinebook

**Luke** · 05-25-2018, 04:31 AM

I guess someone has to flash it and actually give it a go so we find out Smile

Regardless, I am curious which features work and do not work using NetBSD (e.g. suspend, etc.,)

Wizzard · 05-25-2018, 04:47 AM

I would like to try it tonight, will give a feedback.

Wizzard · 05-25-2018, 01:49 PM

Any idea, how to connect to wifi and to install something? Smile

**pfeerick** · (This post was last modified: 05-25-2018, 05:11 PM by pfeerick.)

(05-25-2018, 01:49 PM)Wizzard Wrote: Any idea, how to connect to wifi and to install something?

You'll need to use a plug in wifi adapter or usb ethernet adapter

From https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/pinebook

Quote:SDIO Wi-Fi is not yet supported.

And you have to love the attention to detail - "In addition, headphone jack sensing is supported to automatically mute the internal speakers when headphones are plugged in." and "The sleep (Fn+Esc), home (Fn+F1), volume down (Fn+F3), volume up (Fn+F4), and mute (Fn+F5) keys on the keyboard are mapped to uhid(4) devices. These can be used with usbhidaction"

Wizzard · 05-26-2018, 01:55 PM

Damn, ok, so it is not usable for me Smile

thanks

rookieone · 05-27-2018, 05:34 AM

Trying this Big Grin

For pacakges the URL for 32bit seems to exist:

www.invisible.ca/packages/NetBSD/earmv7hf/8.0/All

But not for 64bit??

www.invisible.ca/packages/NetBSD/aarch64/8.0/All

Is not found...

I am probably doing something wrong? I-)

jmcneill · 05-29-2018, 04:23 AM

You haven't done anything wrong, I've only built packages for 32-bit ARM at this point (the 64-bit ARM NetBSD port is only a few months old). I replaced that part of the web site with instructions for building packages from source with pkgsrc.

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