freebsd

I've looked at the Handbook, Developer's handbook, and pored through a number of google searches and haven't found what I'm looking for. I would like to learn to write network programs on FreeBSD, in C. What is a good way for me to learn the basics? I have seen lots of books, but I'm a little...

Setting up obs studio on freebsd Boot up with the external usb mic plugged in + install obs and obs browser plugin # pkg install obs-studio-25.0.4 obs-qtwebkit-g2018090201_2 + set the xdg_runtime_directory directory to /tmp/username for pulseaudio edit your shell config file, replace vi...

I recently switched from dwm to xmonad and made a few videos about setting up xmonad on freebsd xmonad.hs https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-dotfiles/blob/master/.config/xmonad/xmonad.hs xmobarrc https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-dotfiles/blob/master/.config/xmobar/xmobarrc

I am trying to put FreeBSD 11.4 or 12.1 on my RasPi original and after I power it on it goes through the boot process but says it can't find a device to write too. I have an 8GB SD card in there. If I can get a video of it I will post. But wanted to see if anyone had experienced this as well.

Hi, I installed FreeBSD on an old computer, which has a 3com 3C900-COMBO NIC. The problem here is that it looks like it detects the NIC, and installs the driver for it, which is called "xl", but unfortunately, it doesn't look like the interface is working properly. This is because I've got a Hub...

Hi, I'm having some trouble trying to install FreeBSD on my Pentium 3. I burned a disk with the FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso, and when I try to install it on the Pentium 3 PC I get this error: lua error cannot open /boot/lua/load.lua no such file or directory. So at first I thought maybe...

What to do to create a FreeBSD Greek User Group ? Is there any help i need to open one ? How i can add my group to FreeBSD list of user groups ?

Hello. I try to http://motp.sourceforge.net/pam_mobile_otp-0.6.2.tgz compile in FreeBSD 12. I try to compile it with GCC, i get : gcc -fPIC -D_REENTRANT -c pam_mobile_otp.c pam_mobile_otp.c: In function 'otp': pam_mobile_otp.c:134:5: warning: implicit declaration of function 'md5_calc'...

Hey guys. I hope everyone is staying safe with COVID-19. Here's hoping it will go to /dev/null soon... So, anyway, as the title of this post says, I'm having trouble getting X to start (XFCE4 works fine when it manages to load properly with Xorg). I know things are working fine because the text...

Hi, newcomer here. I'm having problems with unusually long boot time of the system. It takes around 45 seconds. I don't remember it being that way last time I tinkered with FreeBSD. The system I installed it on is Thinkpad T440p with i5-4300m, 12GB RAM and I used the m.2 SATA SSD for it. I used...

I am trying to compline a program on FreeBSD 11, I am getting this error, Thanks, checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling...

I'm just setting up HardenedBSD, which is based on FreeBSD. I was trying to install and get Ice-WM running but whenever I try to run it, I get some messages telling me that it can't open the display and that X must be running. I have a screenshot of the problem at hand. So how do I get X...

Hi all I`m trying to monitor the traffic of the firewall using netflow following the steps on the below article https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-monitor-network-traffic-with-netflow-nfdump-nfsen-on-freebsd.49724/ everything works fine ,however everytime i add lagg0 by entering this...

Hello, I updated my FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE-p9 to 11.2 using freebsd-update. After second reboot it won't boot again. ok Booting... / I tried to boot in Single or in Verbose mode - nothing changed.

I'm planning to install FreeBSD on my windows laptop. Is there a way to go back to windows? Thanks

Hello. I've been using several distros of Linux in the last couple of years so while I am seeing some similarities between it and FreeBSD (both being Unix-based, I'm aware), I realize I need some help to fully get around it. I can see that FreeBSD isn't an out-of-the-box desktop experience...

Hi. I installed Freebsd (12.1). But then i installed Xorg. Then a tried to run Xorg but unsuccessfully. It sayed Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs . What I did wrong?

Hello, I have problems with MariaDB. Installation works well, MariaDB is running fine, too. But it won't start after boot automatically and service command do not work. root@thesaurus:/home/XXX # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server status mysql is running as pid 1417. root@thesaurus:/home/XXX #...

Edit: the issue turned out to be due to my devices being too old for my headphone jack, using a splitter has solved the issue so I am marking this as solved Sound works okay on my hp probook 450 g1 (haswell) Other than the headphone jack, whether I plug in speakers, headphones or earbuds only...

I try to open GOG (Linux) games via FreeBSD but I always get this error: Found path: /home/ezio/Documents/GOGGames/Oxenfree/game/Oxenfree.x86_64 Mono path[0] = '/home/ezio/Documents/GOGGames/Oxenfree/game/Oxenfree_Data/Managed' Mono path[1] =...