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I have a Framework 16 laptop. It has small expansion cards that clip in on the bottom of the laptop. I installed a USB-C connector in one of the expansion bays and connected a USB-C to Ethernet adapter to one of them. It sort of works and sort of doesn't. When I connect the adapter the media...

I have a Framework 16 that I'm working with, trying to get fully running in FreeBSD. Surprise, surprise, the stock WiFi6/BT card is not supported. It's a MediaTek MT7922A22M. I read somewhere that there is a serious push for FreeBSD to add support for this card and Framework hardware more...

Genuine question, does this work on desktops out of the box? Does this work on any hardware?

I just recently installed libreboot on my Lenovo ThinkPad T480 with the hope I could run FreeBSD on it, but unfortunately the installer doesn't work for me. The last things I see while booting are 'can't find /etc/hostid' and 'can't find /boot/entropy', but to my understanding these are just...

thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call on 2025/07/09! There has been some great progress on the Foundation's Laptop project - this call highlights work around graphics by dumbbell@ and progress on sleep states improvements by obiwac@...

thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call on 2025/05/14! This one includes a great introduction to Mark Philipps, the Foundation's new technical marketing manager! There's some great progress, particularly from the Foundation's Laptop...

So I got myself a cheap (well, everything is relative) Apple MacBook Air 13.6 M2, this is comparable to the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge - everything is soldered in. Of course I had to try booting FreeBSD on it for fun. I used the...

Hello! I installed FreeBSD on a thinkpad x250, everythink works correctly but resume. when I run acpiconf -s 3 , the machine goes to suspend (at least power light and thinklight blinking slowly) but opening the lid, pressing a key in keyboard or power button does not make machine wake up! I...

Hi all, I am struggling to get sleep working with my laptop. sysctl tells me "hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S4 S5". If I type "acpiconf -s 4", it appears that the laptop is going to sleep very quickly. However, the only way to "wake" it is to press the power button, and doing that causes it to...

thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call ob 2025/03/12! Unfortunately, the timezone shift between US/Americas and EMEA did throw a wrench into the schedule this time, but we still managed reasonably well in terms of attendance. For...

This is a weird one. I have a 6th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, where brightness adjustments via Fn keys and sysctl *used to work* but have now *stopped working*, and I'm unable to figure out why. When I first set up the system, a month or so ago, one of the first things I checked was that I could...

I have this Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge laptop now. As everything is soldered in, it is more of an overgrown phone, but anyway. For fun I tried booting a recent FreeBSD snapshot on it, the snapshot was FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20250227-8a85584785e3-275712-memstick.img.xz which I put on a...

I have a Dell Inspiron. I would like, console-only, to control volume up/down/mute with the special keys on my laptop; a solution that works is mixer(1) and I would like, console-only, to brightness up/down of the screen with the special keys on my laptop; a solution that works is...

Dear community, This is a friendly reminder about our upcoming Laptop and Desktop Workgroup (LDWG) call is scheduled for Monday, January 20, 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UTC. Whether you participated in our first meeting or are joining us for the first time, we warmly welcome your presence and...

Hi! I'm currently trying to install FreeBSD 14.1 on a Thinkpad T14 Gen3 (Intel) with the interactive bsdinstall TUI but have some questions regarding the partitioning step. My plan is to run FreeBSD alongside Windows 11 on a single SSD using the BIOS to switch between installed EFI...

We - a group of people involved with the FreeBSD community - would like to propose the formation of a new working group dedicated to improving the functionality and usage of FreeBSD on desktop and laptop environments. Objective The primary goal of this working group is to enhance the user...

I have been setting up freebsd the past few days and can't find a fix for my keyboard issue. My laptop keyboad and trackpad work when typing in the hard drive password and the boot menu. Once in the terminal both stop working, but a usb keyboard does work. dmesg recognizes them. Was wondering if...

I'm trying to compile my own FreeBSD kernel for my HP Pavilion g4 (2012) laptop. I have tried everything, including recompiling the GENERIC kernel to see if there was anything wrong in my configuration file. It turns out that, after I booted with the Verbose option enabled, I got the error...

The machine paniced, and produced a kernel dump: root@kg-starone:~ # cat /var/crash/info.1 Dump header from device: /dev/nda0p2 Architecture: amd64 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 2360213504 Blocksize: 512 Compression: none Dumptime: 2024-01-09 20:16:38 +0100 Hostname...

Upgraded to 14 last year with no issues, but recent pkg upgrades breaks brightness buttons on ASUS UX461(F). kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2 i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2 Keyboard backlight buttons are working but: ACPI Error...