Get Network Interface Card GUID in Windows

Method 1 - using netsh

PS C:\> netsh lan show interfaces

Below shows sample output

There is 1 interface on the system:

    Name             : Ethernet
    Description      : Microsoft Hyper-V Network Adapter
    GUID             : 17ab0088-6ca5-4aac-82bb-c533700cda21
    Physical Address : 00-15-5D-1C-45-00
    State            : Connected. Network does not support authentication.

Method 2 - using PowerShell WMI

PS C:\> Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_NetworkAdapter | Select-Object -Property DeviceID, GUID, Name

Below shows sample output

DeviceID GUID                                   Name
-------- ----                                   ----
0                                               Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter
1        {17AB0088-6CA5-4AAC-82BB-C533700CDA21} Microsoft Hyper-V Network Adapter
2                                               WAN Miniport (SSTP)
3                                               WAN Miniport (IKEv2)
4                                               WAN Miniport (L2TP)
5                                               WAN Miniport (PPTP)
6                                               WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
7                                               WAN Miniport (IP)
8                                               WAN Miniport (IPv6)
9                                               WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)

Control Panel console command equivalent

There are cases where you might need to run some of the Control Panel applets to perform quick configuration like add user accounts under different user credentials(say administrator account). Anyway below lists the files and equivalent Control Panel applet.

Command	Description
access.cpl	Accessibility Options
appwiz.cpl	Add or REmove Programs
bthprops.cpl	Bluetooth configuration
desk.cpl	Display Properties
firewall.cpl	Windows Firewall
hdwwiz.cpl	Add Hardware Wizard
inetcpl.cpl	Internet Properties
intl.cpl	Regional and Laguage Options
irprops.cpl	Infrared Properties
joy.cpl	Game Controllers
jpicpl32.cpl	Java Control Panel
main.cpl	Mouse Properties
mmsys.cpl	Sounds and Audio Devices Properties
ncpa.cpl	Network Connections
powercfg.cpl	Power Options Properties
sysdm.cpl	System Properties
telephon.cpl	Phone and Modem Properties
timedate.cpl	Date and Time Properties
wscui.cpl	Security and Maintenance

Enable SSH server on QNX 6.5

This is quick start guide how to run ssh server on QNX. Tested on QNX 6.5 (650SP1-VM.tar).

# ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ''
# ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N ''

This is not security best practice but this is only a test machine. Enable direct root ssh login to the machine.

# sed -i 's/#PermitRootLogin no/PermitRootLogin yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config

To start ssh service interactively, do:

# /usr/sbin/sshd

Use /usr/sbin/sshd -ddd to view debug output

To run sshd on start, add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

/usr/sbin/sshd &

Reference:
http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/660/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.qnx.doc.neutrino.utilities%2Ftopic%2Fs%2Fsshd.html

Using INTEL PRO/1000 Gigabit driver in QNX 6.6 running on VMware ESXi

When installing QNX 6.6 using VM-QNXSDP660-201402230339.iso on VMware ESXi (8.0 update 2) the default network apapter used is AMD Lance PCNet 32. The PCNet 32 driver reports to only support 10Mbps, for cases where higher network bandwidth is needed Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit is a good choice. To load Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit, edit /etc/rc.d/startup_aps.sh and comment out pcnet.so driver and add dirver for e1000, like:

#io-pkt-v4-hc -d /lib/dll/devn-pcnet.so &
io-pkt-v4-hc -d /lib/dll/devnp-e1000.so &

Installing Vim 7.2 in QNX 6.5 using pkgsrc

QNX 6.5 self-hosted Neutrino host ships with vi but Vim 7.2 is a big imporovement over the default application. Below are the steps to install Vim 7.2 using pkgsrc.

• Download the bootstrap package
  http://archive.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc-archive/packages/QNX/i386/6.5.0_head_20110826/bootstrap.tar.gz
• Download Vim package and dependencies from the link below
  http://archive.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc-archive/packages/QNX/i386/6.5.0_head_20110826/All

  vim-share-7.2.446.tgz
  libiconv-1.14.tgz
  gettext-lib-0.18.1.1.tgz
  vim-7.2.446nb1.tgz
      

• Copy the files into /tmp using ftp, Momentics IDE, sftp, etc

  #: ls /tmp
  bootstrap.tar.gz
  vim-share-7.2.446.tgz
  libiconv-1.14.tgz
  gettext-lib-0.18.1.1.tgz
  vim-7.2.446nb1.tgz
  

• Install bootstrap package into the root folder

  #: tar -xvzf bootstrap.tar.gz -C /
  

• Add pkgsrc utilities into the path

  #: echo 'export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin' >> ~/.profile
  

• Modify /etc/rc.d/rc.local to update CS_LIBPATH system variable

  setconf CS_LIBPATH $(getconf CS_LIBPATH):/usr/pkg/lib
  

• Logout and then log back in
• Install dependencies and Vim

  #: pkg_add -v /tmp/libiconv-1.14.tgz
  #: pkg_add -v /tmp/gettext-lib-0.18.1.1.tgz
  #: pkg_add -v /tmp/vim-share-7.2.446.tgz
  #: pkg_add -v /tmp/vim-7.2.446nb1.tgz
  

• Fix backspace not deleting the character by adding the following to ~/.vimrc

  set backspace=indent,eol,start
  

• Run Vim!

  #: export TERM=ansi
  #: vim
  

Refs:
https://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.pkgsrc/wiki/BinaryPackages

How to apply QNX 6.5 SP1 into an existing QNX self hosted installation

This was tested on VirtualBox with QNX 6.5.0 self-hosted Neutrino host.
Below are the quick steps

• Mount the QNX 6.5 SP1 iso (qnxsdp-6.5.0SP1.iso)
• Run the following command in QNX terminal
  Load CD/DVD-ROM driver

  devb-eide cdrom
  

  Mount the cd/dvd-rom

  mount -t cd /dev/cd0 /cd
  

  Install the update

  cd /cd
  sh ./qnxsdp-6.5.0SP1-201206270843-nto.sh
  

Building in QNX Momentics 6.5 SP1 throws "Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0"

Buiding barebones QNX C++ program throws "Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0". See sample output below

C:\QNX650\host\win32\x86\usr\bin\make.exe -k CPULIST=x86 all --file=C:/Users/u1/AppData/Local/Temp/QMakefile169726255947317724.tmp 
      0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487
AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x71690000, RegionSize 0x330000, State 0x10000
C:\QNX650\host\win32\x86\usr\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0
C:/QNX650/host/win32/x86/usr/bin/make.exe -j 1 -Cx86 -fMakefile all
make.exe[1]: Entering directory `C:/ide-4.7-workspace/test1/x86'
C:/QNX650/host/win32/x86/usr/bin/make.exe -j 1 -Co -fMakefile all 
make.exe[2]: Entering directory `C:/ide-4.7-workspace/test1/x86/o'
make.exe[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `C:/ide-4.7-workspace/test1/x86/o'
C:/QNX650/host/win32/x86/usr/bin/make.exe -j 1 -Co-g -fMakefile all
make.exe[2]: Entering directory `C:/ide-4.7-workspace/test1/x86/o-g'
make.exe[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `C:/ide-4.7-workspace/test1/x86/o-g'
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `C:/ide-4.7-workspace/test1/x86'

It seems like "C:\QNX650\host\win32\x86\usr\bin\msys-1.0.dll" needs to be loaded at specific address, to fix do the following: 

• Install 32-bit version of Git for Windows - it ships with rebase.exe
• Then run the following commands:
  
  Create a backup, just incase we need to revert back.

  cp "C:\QNX650\host\win32\x86\usr\bin\msys-1.0.dll" "C:\QNX650\host\win32\x86\usr\bin\msys-1.0.dll.bak"
  

  
  Change directory to the rebase.exe executable

  cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin"
  

  
  Perform rebase

  rebase.exe -b 0x50000000 C:\QNX650\host\win32\x86\usr\bin\msys-1.0.dll
  

Refs:
https://www.qnx.com/support/knowledgebase.html?id=5011O000001OLXD