Hi,
I have troubles with configuring NetBSD system on VM from the following course: https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

Specifically, after the reboot you can't log in anymore and there is this message: "login incorrect or refused on this terminal".
I can login as root or choose to boot as a single-user though.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

This whole time I didn't see any posts from here, I saw one today. The whole time I thought that this sub is about the anime Bungou Stray Dogs, BSD in short. I didn't notice it earlier because I didn't look at any posts, now I feel really stupid

What is the process trouble shooting the lack of a Network? all installers can't see my WiFi chip & can't understand my USB dongle, and I'm not getting anywhere with online content for help.

it's a old blue hp stream that's older then my nephews, Linux works just fine on it so I'm fairly confused.

edit: solved

Hi, I've been banging my head and it stopped being fun a long time ago.

My /etc/fstab has:

1.2.3.4:/share /share nfs rw,late,failok 3 3

If I omit the "late", it boots into single-user mode, complaining that the server is unreachable. Clearly, I need to delay the mount until the network is up.

Once booted, I can mount it with mount -al. But it won't mount on its own.

I've tried different numbers for pass and dump and I've tried every combination of those options.

dmesg shows nothing relevant. I don't really believe the problem is in my fstab, but I don't know how to make BSD tell me where it's failing.

So I guess my questions are:

1. If the error isn't in dmesg, where is it?
2. What process mounts a mount that has the "late" option?

It's opnsense, if that sheds any light.

Using a popular os as a desktop thats mainstream makes you less cool gives you more malware bsd has alot of malware made for it its a huge target thats why i use Solaris now

ive been using Solaris since the day it came out 1972 febuary 5th and with my 50+ years of expiernce its alot better then bsd it has alot more avalible programs and is better for everything

Hi, I am a bit of an advanced Linux user and I will to give BSD as a desktop a spin.

I mostly want the good hardware support (especially for a Wi-Fi card because it will be the main source of network connection), specifically i will install the BSD on my Thinkpad-T410s.

I do not mind setting up the system from the ground up and asking the community for support, a documentation would be also welcoming.

I am currently porting my napp-it ZFS web-gui from Illumos/Solaris for ZFS server(groups) on *BSD, *Linux, OSX and Windows with Pool, Filesystem, Snap, Share, Jobmanagement and repliction from any to any. This already works quite well incl SAMBA on Proxmox but not with SAMBA on Free-BSD 14 where i wanted to enable anonymous shares for a ZFS filesystem with the following smb4.conf

[global]
unix charset = UTF-8
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = FreeBSD
guest account = nobody
create mask = 0775
directory mask = 0755
browsable = yes

# zfs:tank/data
[data]
path = /tank/data
guest ok = yes
read only = no
# :zfs

Permissions for everyone on /tank/data is granted
aclmode and aclinherit=passthrough, sharesmb=off
acltype=posix but zfs properties seems not the reason

I always get a login and not anonymous access

any idea?

​

What BSD should I try, what's noticeably different, etc.

I'm also curious why you use BSD. What do you prefer about it compared to alternatives?

I'm using a ThinkPad T480, and Wi-Fi is absolutely essential.

Hi All,

With 14.0 out and 14.1 out this summer for FreeBSD I was thinking about giving it another shake and see if it works on my laptop with weird sound issues on OpenBSD.

I have an iwx wifi card in this ThinkPad that is WELL supported under OpenBSD, and it is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't have a native driver for the Intel AX200 or AX201 cards but instead has a Linux emulator for this type card. Is that makeshift driver as buggy as I have read online or is it in pretty good shape with 14.0?

Wifi looks a lot harder to set up than openBSD but I think I can manage it.

Lastly, and the reason I didn't post this to the FreeBSD sub, I was wondering if there are any advantages to going with GhostBSD based on 14.0 STABLE or going with vanilla 14.0 FreeBSD?

Thanks in advance!

Oh and I won't be nuking my new OpenBSD 7.5 install, I'll be using a second NVMe Disk. Will I be able to just tell the UEFI which disk to use with my F11 key or will it always default to the newer FreeBSD install?

I hate weird Pedos and the fact is I hate them

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2024/04/04/msg000370.html

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/29/malicious_backdoor_xz/

I currently use Linux for pretty much everything (server, desktop, mobile phone) and am kind of bored with it. I have tried FreeBSD and GhostBSD for a bit but ended up going back to Linux desktop.

I am wondering where would be a good application for BSD. My server is for media, *arr stack and file storage though I may expand this.

From what I can tell there is no docker for FreeBSD or similar though I hear runj is being worked on. I understand there are other jail tools though I had some issues with these. Is it better to setup jails manually instead of using Bastille? Is there another tool I should use like IO Cage?

I would consider using a different BSD for desktop than the onse I tried if anybody has a recommendation. The main issues I had where software and hardware compatibility as well as ease of use. My BSD skills aren't as good as my Linux skills, though I am sure there are things I can improve there as well.

Hi !

I've managed to install netBSD 9.3 on a PowerBook G4 Titanium 500Ghz. It boots fine from the HD, but the video gets all messed up half way during boot process. Can't even read the console.

I can ssh into it though.

Does anyone had this problem ? That model is listed as supported in the NetBSD MacPPC faqs, and there is no mention of any video problems.

Could it come from the Nouveau driver ? If so how could I disable it ?... Even though that model has a ATI radeon card.

Any insight welcome.

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2024/03/28/msg150579.html

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2024/03/28/msg000367.html