Hi there
i'm new to FreeBSD and this forum. I've used Linux since 2005, and decided to force myself to daily drive FreeBSD. I appreciate all the work you guys/galls are putting in. I love the handbook.
I need some help from the experts. I have a few problems which I couldn't find a suitable solution yet.
I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad P50. I managed to setup KDE, Mate and XFCE. I mainly use KDE but noticed that these issues occur in XFCE aswell. Worse, XFCE freezes and I can't even switch between CTRL+ALT-1/F1 TTY consoles! At least KDE manages to restart itself automatically.
1. After a resume my ifconfig shows wlan2 is connected with an IP but I can't connect to the internet. So i need to manually restart the network.
After I issue `sudo service netif restart` i noticed that KDE crashes.
KDE also crashes sometimes after a resume or during it's use it due to.. various reasons I have yet to figure out. NOt all the time, just sometimes.. out of nowhere.
On Debian I previously failed to use KDE due to some freezes (like the ones I'm experiencing with XFCE on Freebsd). I haven't worked enough on this device with mate to see if it crashes as I don't want to customize it fully.. but i guess it's the same.
2. Another problem is that I can't seem to be able to setup IPV6 for wireless on this device.
3. I couldn't get slick-greeter to work/boot... unfortunately so stuck to lightdm-gtk-greeter. Heard somewhere that KDE may crash due to sddm? No ideas.
4. After problem 1. the scrolling on my mouse fails to work i all windows.. untill I force quit a few apps and then it automagically works again sometimes.. sometimes only after a restart
And other such weird stuff
Oh and worth mentioning, that the NVME in this sytem was swapped form another notebook I installed freebsd on to test it and I manually had to set up XORG and wireless to work.
I've had plenty of other freebsd issues for the past 2 weeks but resolved most of them including networking, drivers. After reading the forums I finally got HDMI working by installing both drm for intel AND for nvidia.
Not to mention I tried installing and configuring freebsd on at least 4 devices and gave up multiple times due to installer bugs/issues. FInally managed to set it up.. I feel masochistic going forward but like the learning experience.
I don't know if i've posted it in the correct subthread, please advise. Thanks
Some core files generated due to crashes
/etc/rc.conf
Hardware as pciconf -lv
SEE ATTACHMENT AS i was limited to posting only a few chars here
dmesg -a
Thank you for your help in advance.
i'm new to FreeBSD and this forum. I've used Linux since 2005, and decided to force myself to daily drive FreeBSD. I appreciate all the work you guys/galls are putting in. I love the handbook.
I need some help from the experts. I have a few problems which I couldn't find a suitable solution yet.
I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad P50. I managed to setup KDE, Mate and XFCE. I mainly use KDE but noticed that these issues occur in XFCE aswell. Worse, XFCE freezes and I can't even switch between CTRL+ALT-1/F1 TTY consoles! At least KDE manages to restart itself automatically.
1. After a resume my ifconfig shows wlan2 is connected with an IP but I can't connect to the internet. So i need to manually restart the network.
After I issue `sudo service netif restart` i noticed that KDE crashes.
KDE also crashes sometimes after a resume or during it's use it due to.. various reasons I have yet to figure out. NOt all the time, just sometimes.. out of nowhere.
On Debian I previously failed to use KDE due to some freezes (like the ones I'm experiencing with XFCE on Freebsd). I haven't worked enough on this device with mate to see if it crashes as I don't want to customize it fully.. but i guess it's the same.
2. Another problem is that I can't seem to be able to setup IPV6 for wireless on this device.
3. I couldn't get slick-greeter to work/boot... unfortunately so stuck to lightdm-gtk-greeter. Heard somewhere that KDE may crash due to sddm? No ideas.
4. After problem 1. the scrolling on my mouse fails to work i all windows.. untill I force quit a few apps and then it automagically works again sometimes.. sometimes only after a restart
And other such weird stuff
Oh and worth mentioning, that the NVME in this sytem was swapped form another notebook I installed freebsd on to test it and I manually had to set up XORG and wireless to work.
I've had plenty of other freebsd issues for the past 2 weeks but resolved most of them including networking, drivers. After reading the forums I finally got HDMI working by installing both drm for intel AND for nvidia.
Not to mention I tried installing and configuring freebsd on at least 4 devices and gave up multiple times due to installer bugs/issues. FInally managed to set it up.. I feel masochistic going forward but like the learning experience.
I don't know if i've posted it in the correct subthread, please advise. Thanks
Some core files generated due to crashes
Code:
-rw------- 1 artemie artemie 257M Nov 25 08:53 /home/artemie/caja.core
-rw------- 1 artemie artemie 901M Nov 25 13:46 /home/artemie/falkon.core
-rw------- 1 artemie artemie 197M Nov 24 13:48 /home/artemie/konqueror.core
-rw------- 1 artemie artemie 340M Nov 24 13:48 /home/artemie/librewolf.core
-rw------- 1 artemie artemie 42M Nov 13 14:31 /home/artemie/mate-session.core
-rw------- 1 artemie artemie 102M Nov 16 17:29 /home/artemie/octopkg.core
-rw------- 1 artemie artemie 277M Nov 19 16:32 /home/artemie/plasma-discover.core
-rw------- 1 artemie artemie 1.2G Nov 24 19:59 /home/artemie/plasmashell.core
/etc/rc.conf
Code:
#wlans_rtwn0="wlan0"
ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
powerd_enable="YES"
powerdxx_enable="YES"
moused_nondefault_enable="NO"
# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
dumpdev="AUTO"
zfs_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
#kde plasma
#sddm_enable="YES"
#sddm_lang="en_US"
#xfce
lightdm_enable="YES"
#linux_enable="YES"
#fuse_load="YES"
#fusefs_load="YES"
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
kld_list="nvidia-drm iwm iwlwifi if_iwlwifi i915kms"
#wlans_iwm0="wlan0"
#wlans_iwlwifi="wlan0"
#ifconfig_wlan1="WPA WPA2 DHCP"
#ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
#create_args_wlan0="country RO regdomain ETSI"
ifconfig_ue0="DHCP"
#asus laptop
#wlans_rtw880="wlan1"
#kld_list="amdgpu radeonkms"
#
sshd_enable="YES"
wlans_iwlwifi0="wlan2"
ifconfig_wlan2="WPA DHCP"
ifconfig_wlan2_ipv6="inet6 dhcp accept_rtadv"
ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES"
#ipv6_enable="YES"
rtsold_enable="YES"
slim_enable="YES"
Code:
vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10de device=0x13b1 subvendor=
0x17aa subdevice=0x222e
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
device = 'GM107GLM [Quadro M1000M]'
class = display
subclass = VGA
vgapci1@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x030000 rev=0x06 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x191b subvendor=0x17aa subdevi
ce=0x222e
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'HD Graphics 530'
class = display
subclass = VGA
iwlwifi0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x3a hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x24f3 subvendor=
0x8086 subdevice=0x0130
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Wireless 8260'
class = network
pcib5@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x060400 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor=0x8086 device=0x1576 subvendor=
0x2222 subdevice=0x1111
rtsx0@pci0:63:0:0: class=0xff0000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10ec device=0x525a subvendor=
0x17aa subdevice=0x222e
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader'
dmesg -a
Code:
---<<BOOT>>---
Copyright (c) 1992-2025 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 15.0-STABLE stable/15-n281079-71bd17b879a7 GENERIC amd64
FreeBSD clang version 19.1.7 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-19.1.7-0-gcd708029e0b2)
VT(efifb): resolution 1920x1080
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz (2700.00-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x506e3 Family=0x6 Model=0x5e Stepping=3
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
.....
nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 580.105.08 Wed Oct 29 22:04:36 UTC 2025
[drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
sysctl_add_oid: can't re-use a leaf (hw.dri.debug)!
[drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for nvidia0 on minor 0
kldload: can't load iwm: No such file or directory
/etc/rc: WARNING: Unable to load kernel module iwm
kldload: can't load iwlwifi: No such file or directory
/etc/rc: WARNING: Unable to load kernel module iwlwifi
iwlwifi0: <iwlwifi> mem 0xd4d00000-0xd4d01fff at device 0.0 on pci3
iwlwifi0: Detected crf-id 0xbadcafe, cnv-id 0x3000000 wfpm id 0x80000000
iwlwifi0: PCI dev 24f3/0130, rev=0x201, rfid=0xd55555d5
iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260
iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode'
iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version 36.ca7b901d.0 8000C-36.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
iwlwifi0: base HW address: f4:96:34:12:6c:81, OTP minor version: 0x4
[drm] Got Intel graphics stolen memory base 0x5a800000, size 0x4000000
drmn1: <drmn> on vgapci1
vgapci1: child drmn1 requested pci_enable_io
vgapci1: child drmn1 requested pci_enable_io
i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin either
skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin either
i915_skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/i915_skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin either
drmn1: successfully loaded firmware image 'i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin'
drmn1: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin (v1.27)
lkpi_iic0: <LinuxKPI I2C> on drmn1
iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on lkpi_iic0
iic0: <I2C generic I/O> on iicbus0
lkpi_iic1: <LinuxKPI I2C> on drmn1
iicbus1: <Philips I2C bus> on lkpi_iic1
iic1: <I2C generic I/O> on iicbus1
lkpi_iic2: <LinuxKPI I2C> on drmn1
iicbus2: <Philips I2C bus> on lkpi_iic2
iic2: <I2C generic I/O> on iicbus2
sysctl_add_oid: can't re-use a leaf (hw.dri.debug)!
sysctl_add_oid: can't re-use a leaf (hw.dri.vblank_offdelay)!
sysctl_add_oid: can't re-use a leaf (hw.dri.timestamp_precision)!
lkpi_iic3: <LinuxKPI I2C> on drm4
iicbus3: <Philips I2C bus> on lkpi_iic3
iic3: <I2C generic I/O> on iicbus3
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20201103 for drmn1 on minor 1
VT: Replacing driver "efifb" with new "drmfb".
start FB_INFO:
height=1080 width=1920 depth=32
pbase=0x60000000 vbase=0xfffff80060000000
name=drmn1 id=i915drmfb flags=0x0 stride=7680
end FB_INFO
Autoloading module: acpi_wmi
Autoloading module: hcons
Autoloading module: hms
Autoloading module: hmt
Autoloading module: hsctrl
Autoloading module: ichsmb
Autoloading module: pchtherm
Autoloading module: rtsx
pchtherm0: <Skylake PCH 100 Thermal Subsystem> mem 0xd584a000-0xd584afff at device 20.2 on pci0
ichsmb0: <Intel Sunrise Point-H SMBus controller> port 0xefa0-0xefbf mem 0xd584d000-0xd584d0ff at device 31.4 on pci0
smbus0: <System Management Bus> on ichsmb0
rtsx0: <2.1g Realtek RTS525A PCIe SD Card Reader> mem 0xd4b00000-0xd4b00fff at device 0.0 on pci10
rtsx0: No card is detected
acpi_wmi0: <ACPI-WMI mapping> on acpi0
acpi_wmi0: Embedded MOF found
acpi_wmi1: <ACPI-WMI mapping> on acpi0
acpi_wmi1: Embedded MOF found
acpi_wmi2: <ACPI-WMI mapping> on acpi0
acpi_wmi2: Embedded MOF found
acpi_wmi3: <ACPI-WMI mapping> on acpi0
hms0: <Logitech USB Receiver Mouse> on hidbus1
hms0: 16 buttons and [XYWH] coordinates ID=2
hcons0: <Logitech USB Receiver Consumer Control> on hidbus1
hsctrl0: <Logitech USB Receiver System Control> on hidbus1
hmt0: <Logitech USB Receiver TouchPad> on hidbus3
hmt0: Multitouch touchpad with 0 external buttons, click-pad
hmt0: 5 contacts with [CP] properties. Report range [0:0] - [2775:1786]
hms1: <Microsoft Microsoft Nano Transceiver v2.0 Mouse> on hidbus5
hms1: 5 buttons and [XYWH] coordinates ID=26
hcons1: <Microsoft Microsoft Nano Transceiver v2.0 Consumer Control> on hidbus5
hcons2: <Microsoft Microsoft Nano Transceiver v2.0 Consumer Control> on hidbus6
hsctrl1: <Microsoft Microsoft Nano Transceiver v2.0 System Control> on hidbus6
Setting hostname: mirific.
Setting up harvesting: PURE_RDSEED,RANDOMDEV,[CALLOUT],[UMA],[FS_ATIME],SWI,INTERRUPT,NET_NG,[NET_ETHER],NET_TUN,MOUSE,KEYBOARD,ATTACH,CACHED
Feeding entropy: .
ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg /usr/local/lib/alsa-lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg /usr/local/lib/gcc13 /usr/local/lib/mysql /usr/local/lib/mysql/plugin /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.42/mach/CORE /usr/local/lib/qt5 /usr/local/lib/qt6 /usr/local/lib/samba4 /usr/local/lib/signon /usr/local/llvm19/lib /usr/local/llvm19/lib/x86_64-portbld-freebsd15.0
32-bit compatibility ldconfig path: /usr/lib32 /usr/local/lib32/gcc13
mixer: speaker.volume=0.00:0.00: Device not configured
wlan2: Ethernet address: f4:96:34:12:6c:81
Created wlan(4) interfaces: wlan2.
lo0: link state changed to UP
Starting wpa_supplicant.
iwlwifi0: lkpi_sta_scan_to_auth:2415: lvif 0xfffffe013c1f5000 vap 0xfffffe013c1f5010 iv_bss 0xfffffe0109624000 lvif_bss 0 lvif_bss->ni 0 synched 0, ni 0xfffffe0145798000 lsta 0xfffff8002f8f9800
iwlwifi0: lkpi_sta_a_to_a:2718: lvif 0xfffffe013c1f5000 vap 0xfffffe013c1f5010 iv_bss 0xfffffe0109624000 lvif_bss 0xfffff8002f8f9800 lvif_bss->ni 0xfffffe0145798000 synched 0
iwlwifi0: lkpi_iv_newstate: error 95 during state transition 2 (AUTH) -> 2 (AUTH)
Starting Network: lo0 em0 wlan2.
lo0: flags=1008049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
groups: lo
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=4e524bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,LRO,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG>
ether 54:e1:ad:39:69:1e
inet6 fe80::56e1:adff:fe39:691e%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
wlan2: link state changed to UP
media: Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
wlan2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=0
ether f4:96:34:12:6c:81
inet6 fe80::f696:34ff:fe12:6c81%wlan2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
groups: wlan
ssid ByteCastle channel 5 (2432 MHz 11g) bssid 68:77:da:4a:ee:68
regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM ucast:128-bit txpower 30
bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme roaming MANUAL
parent interface: iwlwifi0
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
status: associated
nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
Starting devd.
Autoloading module: if_iwm
Cannot 'start' webcamd. Set webcamd_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or use 'onestart' instead of 'start'.
Cannot 'start' webcamd. Set webcamd_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or use 'onestart' instead of 'start'.
Cannot 'start' webcamd. Set webcamd_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or use 'onestart' instead of 'start'.
iwmbtfw: iwmbt_fw_read: open: /usr/local/share/iwmbt-firmware/ibt-11-5.sfi: No such file or directory
iwmbtfw: main: Firmware download failed!
Autoloading module: ng_ubt
Starting dhclient.
DHCPREQUEST on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.134 -- renewal in 43200 seconds.
Starting rtsold.
route: message indicates error: File exists
add host 127.0.0.1: gateway lo0 fib 0: route already in table
route: message indicates error: File exists
add host ::1: gateway lo0 fib 0: route already in table
add net fe80::: gateway ::1
add net ff02::: gateway ::1
add net ::ffff:0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net ::0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
Clearing /tmp (X related).
Updating /var/run/os-release done.
Updating motd:.
Creating and/or trimming log files.
Starting syslogd.
No core dumps found.
Starting powerdxx.
powerd++: (EDRIVER) frequency control driver not supported: hwpstate_intel0
/etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start powerdxx
Tue Nov 25 13:48:10 EET 2025
Nov 25 13:48:10 mirific polkitd[3859]: Error compiling script /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/10-xfce.rules: SyntaxError: unterminated statement (line 9)
Nov 25 13:48:37 mirific pulseaudio[3949]: [] module-x11-xsmp.c: Failed to open connection to session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
Nov 25 13:48:37 mirific pulseaudio[3949]: [] module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: "display=:0 xauthority=/home/artemie/.Xauthority session_manager=local/mirific:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3961"): initialization failed.
Thank you for your help in advance.