PC-BSD: issue installing SCFB driver

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pwdr

Note: thread created at request of dch to better reflect the nature of the issue.

MacBook Pro 13" Retina (Intel Iris Graphics 6100) trying to boot into PC-BSD Live USB key. The boot goes fine except that xorg won't launch (as expected, given this thread).

It seems dch is having luck using scfb but I can't get it to work. I followed directions the FreeBSD Wiki directions at https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/SCFB but can't install pkg as no active repositories are configured. The Answer at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40080493/no-active-remote-repositories-configured suggests configuring /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf, which I have done. The last line was
Code: 
enabled: no
so I amended it to read
Code: 
enabled: yes
mkdir goes fine but wget can't resolve http://geocoding.io/images/2016/02/pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301

I've tried installing scfb as per the Wiki but again, repos can't be found (pkgs can't be updated).

First question: is this a wild goose chase I'm on or is this going to get scfb working?
Second question: how do I resolve the geocoding link?
Third question: I assume when I shutdown these settings will be lost? If so, how can I make them stick so I can reuse the Live USB?

Thanks!
 
For the "can't resolve" issue; does it help if you ping the host first? Ie.
Code: 
ping geocoding.io
wget http://geo...
 
tingo said:
For the "can't resolve" issue; does it help if you ping the host first? Ie.
Code: 
ping geocoding.io
wget http://geo...
Click to expand...

Unfortunately not. At first I realised I hadn't initiated wifi so I rebooted, connected to wifi, then booted to the PC-BSD USB. Same issue.
Code: 
ping geocoding.io
returns:
Code: 
ping: cannot resolve geocoding.io: Host name lookup failure
while
Code: 
wget http://geo...
returns:
Code: 
Resolving geocoding.io (geocoding.io)... failed: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution
wget: unable to resolve host address 'geocoding.io'
 
Ok. Can you ping IP addresses at all? For example the ip address of your router, or another machine on your LAN?
 
tingo said:
Ok. Can you ping IP addresses at all? For example the ip address of your router, or another machine on your LAN?
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Thanks for the help, but I've decided to kill the PC-BSD Live USB idea (I only wanted to try it to get a Desktop BSD going with minimal hassle, that clearly isn't working).

I've installed FreeBSD11 to another USB key (proper install, not Live) and I may have found the problem. I've got the basic installation done and created a new user but, during setup, I couldn't set any ipv4 interfaces (none were presented as an option). It looks like it's a wireless adapter driver issue? I have a Broadcom BCM43xx and I understand that there are problems with these as Broadcom don't release the source.

As I'm booting from the USB key and can't get onto a network I can't download any further packages/ports!

I'll pick up a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter when I can and try again, but it looks like it's on hold until then.

Edit: following on from another thread in which dch mentions the Edimax wireless adapter, I looked up the Edimax EW-7711MAC for compatibility. I noticed this on the FreeBSD 11 Hardware Information page:

The bwi(4) driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based wireless devices, including:

  • Apple Airport Extreme

  • Apple Airport Extreme
The bwn(4) driver supports Broadcom BCM43xx based wireless devices, including:

  • Apple Airport Extreme
Click to expand...

So I wonder why the driver doesn't run when FreeBSD explicitly states it should?

(Before I reboot AGAIN! :) do you think it would be successful if I edit /boot/loader.rc to include if_bwn_load="YES" as suggested at man bwn4()?
 
What does # kldstat say? Is if_bwn loaded?
If not, you can try to load it with # kldload if_bwn and see if that changes anything.
 
I'll try it some time but not right now. I still have the USB but actually decided to try a VirtualBox first then transfer it to the USB key.
 
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