hardware

Hi all, After struggling to get GhostBSD/FreeBSD to work with my laptop, I've decided to, instead, research parts with 100% compatibility in mind and build a desktop system from scratch. I was reading through the Hardware Notes for 14.3 and frankly, I'm baffled. How can I tell if (for instance)...

Hi there, I've got a new laptop, and I am dual booting FreeBSD 14.2 with Windows 11, but unfortunately I am having some trouble with the AX203 wifi card under FreeBSD. On Windows 11, I get 532 Mbps download, and 480 Mbps upload. However, FreeBSD only gives me 17.60 Mbps download, and 4.23 Mbps...

Hi all, Apologies for yet another ALC257 thread, but I checked the handbook, this thread, and this thread, and I still can't work out how to resolve this issue. I am running XFCE on FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1, and although the sound works fine when I plug in external speakers, as soon as they are...

Hello FreeBSD (BabaOS) community, I'm experiencing issues with a Bluetooth USB dongle on my FreeBSD system and need your help. System details: FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE releng/14.2-n269506-c8918d6c7412 GENERIC amd64 Hardware: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Vendor ID: 0x0a12...

Hi, who can suggest a DAC, with 32bit sound output that will be working out of the box with FreeBSD 14.2? Thank you.

I hope this is the right forum for this... Just wondering if anyone is running a Raspberry Pi 5 with dual gigabit ports and pf. Been thinking about minimizing/updating my current almost 15yo Mac Mini running pf and RP5's form factor is appealing. I am NATting and have relatively simple pf...

I plan to build my first PC with the following characteristiscs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 4.4 GHz 12-Core Processor Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 GAMING X AX V2 ATX AM5 Motherboard Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory Storage: Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4...

Hi everyone. A common question from FreeBSD users across desktop, server, and vendors is "which chips, NIC, SSD, WiFi, etc. hardware makers consistently offer good FreeBSD support?" This is a priority for me and a first step is to catalog the hardware makers that DO offer good support so the...

What is your experience with HPE ProLiant vs Dell PowerEdge vs Lenovo servers when used primarily with FreeBSD (I mean bare-metal)? What servers do you use in your environment and if you had the opportunity to buy the hardware for your company (mainly for FreeBSD), what brand would you buy...

hello, all! currently having issues with my trackpad not working on my (frankly ancient c740 chromebook, Auron_Paine). i've had to use a usb mouse for the time being, but i would like to use my trackpad when on the go (and other situations). results from hw-probe any idea how to get this to...

Hi Everyone I'm a member of Powerpc notebook Group We have aim to produce Notebook that uses Power ISA CPU The notebok can run Free/Net/OpenBSD using U-Boot You can visit our Website Open Hardware PowerPC notebook We are Innovating and would like to have volunteers for this project Any...

Hello everyone, I've recently attempted to get FreeBSD working as my desktop OS, with moderate results (working, but not working great). Most of the problems I faced were related to hardware incompatibilities because I was using hardware that was too new / unsupported. Since I don't want to...

Hi, forum. I have the ASUS M5A78L-M LX3 motherboard, and I wonder if it'll work fine with freeBSD.

I am looking for a GPU that is compatible with FreeBSD and has decent graphical acceleration, any recommendations? I plan for this system to be able to play 1080p 60FPS videos smoothly, it will also have 16GB of DDR4 Ram, and probably a Ryzen 5 3600, thanks.

For anyone, who's thinking about buying - I'm documenting my experiences/pains... UEFI boot+install works out of the box w/ 13.1 X11 does not work, unless switching to vesa framebuffer (I'll post later, how I got it running), don't bother installing kmod, because it appears we're SOL with Alder...

İ checked handbook and forums and i need to know if my bluetooth device is broadcom or not. How can i learn my bluetooth device. İ mean inside the computer.

drm loads nine different firmware images, there is a struggle setting up the amplifier ? and multiple entries starting with 'pcm' The output of dmesg looks ugly, what might have gone wrong with the settings? My speakers are not connected at the moment, I modified config files while trying...

Hello everyone, I'm a linux and windows user who never tried any form of BSD before, I'd like to install BSD on my computer and try it out, possibly learn about it and its usage. I'm wondering if my computer will be capable of running FreeBSD with a desktop environment, as I don't know if my...

Worked well, works well with Kde Plasma, but for the last few days shutdown now doesn't fully shut down the computer (it is not a network of server-client computers, but one dekstop computer) shut down process goes through almost till the end, the monitor goes blank, the hardware probably comes...

I had problems with a lot of linux distros related to missing wifi drivers that are a pain in the butt or near impossible to install, will i need to install wifi drivers first before installing freebsd?