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?

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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

Any old timers in here have pdf copies of old daemon news magazines? Or even print versions you could archive?

I was working on a threat detection home lab and I was trying to figure out a way to forward auditd logs to wazuh in a way that it can then decode them. I haven't been able to find a way to make auditd save the logs in plain text, so I assume it's not possible. The only thing I can think of is to create a cron to run praudit /var/audit/current and put it into a file, but then there are a ton of extraneous execv logs. Does anyone have any idea?

Edit: I think I figured out a solution to this. What I have set up now is a service that runs tail -f -n 0 /var/audit/current | praudit -pl >> /var/audit/audit.log. This takes all new logs, converts them into human readable text, and appends them to a log file. I can them forward this to the wazuh manager for it to decode.

I've been curious about what makes BSD a good operating system in its unique well, I've been using linux for the past few years and moved to Arch Linux last year but my curiosity about BSD have been increasing in the last few months, so in your opinions what made u use BSD or switch to it from ur previous operating system? I know this can be answered by googling but I just want to have a conversation with others with more experience than me regarding this topic instead of just reading old conversations of others. Thanks for anyone willing to share their wisdom with me and u have my sincerest gratitude.

On Lenovo Thinkpad t460s, my left trackpad button acts as a left click and up arrow key and my right trackpad button acts as a right click and down arrow.

This has been a problem since i install GhostBSD and is making it hard to copy/paste and select text. I tried every Generic and Lenovo (previously IBM) keyboard model at it didn't work.

Hope there is a solution to this. :(

Welcome to NetBSD 10.0_RC6! Official announcement should follow.

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2024/03/12/msg150403.html