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Hey that worked! So it was either the sysctl settings or the "tap1 up". Will narrow down later. On to the next problem: iPXE doesn't like my root-path from the dhcp server...

Found an old prepare script that at least worked in FreeBSD 14.x. Maybe it's the sysctl settings... #!/usr/local/bin/bash sysctl net.link.tap.user_open=1 sysctl net.link.tap.up_on_open=1 if [ -z "$(ifconfig | grep tap0)" ] then ifconfig tap0...

Found an old prepare script that at least worked in FreeBSD 14.x. Maybe it's the sysctl settings... #!/usr/local/bin/bash sysctl net.link.tap.user_open=1 sysctl net.link.tap.up_on_open=1 if [ -z "$(ifconfig | grep tap0)" ] then ifconfig tap0...

And I never did it, although I would want to try it, but it is perhaps not for X on a local net and not the best for X.

Remove everything from each entry and only set the url (and perhaps leave enabled in there for convenience). Then once you are done with the base OS upgrade, rename FreeBSD to FreeBSD-ports, and FreeBSD-kmods to FreeBSD-ports-kmods.

I don't have them. Will create. ETA: did not help

Present and accounted for: bridge0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 options=10<VLAN_HWTAGGING> ether 58:9c:fc:10:cc:75 id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15...

Do the empty executable files qemu-ifup and qemu-ifdown exist? I remember this was called by Qemu because the tap device is stateless. Not sure if it's still needed. ln -fs /usr/bin/true /etc/qemu-ifup ln -fs /usr/bin/true /etc/qemu-ifdown

I don't understand what the OP's issue with X-forwarding is though, I've done this a million times and it typically works without any issues. The only thing that bit me at some point was the fact X-Forwarding defaulted to "off" instead of "on"...

As far as I know, with xdm security mechanisms are activated. Perhaps you can try and see. I do it with xinit, I have files .xinitrc and .xserverrc where I start Xorg with tcp flag, far of the ideal. I do not know how to do it with xdm. Yes, a...

Connections never worked, and you've never had an X session started on this account, so the file doesn't exist yet.

No, this is a direct connection to X, nothing to do with X forwarding.

I am trying to run a QEMU VM while bridging the virtual network interface to my physical Ethernet. The physical interface is cabled so the usual Wifi problem with spoofing doesn't apply. Here is what I have and it doesn't work...

Hehe, no, it's a common idiom that means the issue or problem exceeds my knowledge and/or expertise.

If I remember correctly that 32 bit WINE trick that was previously used took some time to materialize too. I'm interested but it's way above my paygrade to even attempt it.

Refer to https://www.snbforums.com/threads/unbound-tuning-for-gaming.95021/ No need to go over the whole thing again here. Thread closed.

Getting 32 bit Wine working poses a bit of a problem in 15.0. It was more or less a hack to get a 32 bit version installed on a 64 bit system. Don't get me wrong, it was impressive someone got it to work at all. Now it just requires a different...

So, you didn't notice the "X server already running..." message? No. It doesn't exist any more. It got deprecated more than 5 years ago. sysutils/hal

You do not need x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel and/or Driver "intel". As a matter of fact, try without any configuration, it should simply detect everything automagically (and settle on the modesetting driver)...

If you want to boot PC-DOS 2000 off USB you just dump the entire installed image onto USB. You install that image via a VM or emulator. To repeat, you create a virtual PC, backed by HDD image that is of exact size as your USB drive. Then you...

I usually have a situation that I have just installed a port and I immediately want to find an appropriate manual page for it using apropos, but it can't locate it. The reason why is that apropos uses the database generated by makewhatis and...

This doesn't work for rc.conf. Keep in mind that rc.conf is essentially a shell script that only contains variable assignments. += is a syntax error. etcupdate will not and does not touch /etc/rc.conf.

Nice. That is the most primitive way of X forwarding. I use it only for short periods of time. Take care of security, 'xhost +' means allow anyone. Perhaps look at xauth.

Alright, that looks good. Now use it to switch to 1280x720; xrandr -s 1280x720 That should work, just want to rule out issues caused by configuration settings from the various DEs you tried.

I know this. I was following a guide to create a DOS bootable USB stick and that guide uses MS DOS.

Yes, that is exactly what you shouldn't do ;)

Maybe related by my good friend Jeff Geerling who lives 10 minutes from me and I've never met: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ai-is-destroying-open-source/ Actually, I live closer to Wayne Gretzky but now I'm really getting off topic.

You misunderstood me. Of course I do appreciate your program and I made a bookmark to it for the case I need it. Thanks for it. That is what I wanted to say: it is not my workflow. No big plan before beginning coding, but yes, making notes on...

That's EXACTLY what it was! The dual "ifconfig_eth0" lines! I had the 2nd line commented out a few lines after this (omitted). But for some reason I threw it back in there and didn't realize it. The whole point of that line is because I had...

ifconfig_eth0="inet 100.100.100.2 netmask 255.255.255.248" ifconfig_eth0="-rxcsum -txcsum -lro -tso" These two lines seem to be in conflict. The second one is overwriting the first. Perhaps you meant to use += instead of = for the second one...

Greetings, I'm running into a strange issue that I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. The following FreeBSD version is running on my VPS (Virtual Private Server)... [carltonfsck@ssh ~]$ freebsd-version -k 13.5-RELEASE-p9...

I partially turn on AI blinders if I detect too much initial fluff :p

X Files Season 11 Episode 2 is about this topic. :D But what they don't talk about in that episode is writing documentation, sadly.

I think that it means that whatever is to follow is not mediocre. Either it's above average by a significant margin or below average by a significant margin. I'd wager that it's probably somewhat more likely to be above average than below, but...

You're supposed to copy/paste these to a prompt, the # of root's prompt kind of adds a layer of protection, as it's interpreted by the shell as a remark. It prevents accidentally copy/pasting something utterly destructive as root. Think it's...

That's weird, does the system that you're using generally support booting from CD with a USB drive? As far as USB goes, I generally use one of the specialist utilities to put the file on the USB stick. I can't remember last time whether I used...

Really?! 1. Please explain what a FreeBSD loader inferface has to do with legacy BIOS. 2. Even if loader(8) and by exention byhyveloader(8) was to provide a legacy BIOS interface, why would you need it to provide a legacy BIOS interface? Which...

I’m going to put you on ignore bro. The level of paranoia in your messages is setting off a lot of red flags for me.

We don’t really get to choose who we work with because we operate under government contracts and must follow DoD regulations. To work with us, you would need to submit a bid and meet specific requirements the contract typically goes to whoever...

They will probably reject my merge request but I have poked the bear. 🤣 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/-/merge_requests/107/diffs#fb94cd5d91673499b20f51d18b361552fc5a0bd3

Okay.... Here comes the 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-chat-transcripts-lawsuit-privileged-ruling-2026-2 I don't mess with 3rd party AI Labs. 👆👆👆 WE DO LOCAL LLM!!! WE RUN HPC | High Performing Computing !!! WE RUN...

Thanks for the response, but my use would fall under commercial usage.

Now we have the web browser widget working in hml/js and c++ its not perfect but its a start, also this is being shown on fedora because this library is especially hard to get working on FreeBSD.

My point was atax1a is criticizing others work without showing us there's. They look like a hippocrat.

My point was directed at another commenter who is convinced that the us government is going to let Microsoft crash the us economy in the next 12 - 18 month by eliminating 60% of the workforce. Which is absolutely ridicules. I mean we price...

Well some of you completely ignore the aspect of graphical Unix workstation. You can run slim X11 environments booted with startx. I right now do the startx too because I haven't gotten around taking care of sddm yet. Sudo is useless? If you...

McKusick owns the copyright for Beastie and you're free to use it if it's for advocating FreeBSD.

But.. in answer to your original question. man(1) pages were usually hand created using vi(1) and/or emacs(1) or similar back in the day. Of course we just copied (another) existing man(1) page and edited that file into a new man page for our...

TeX or nuffin'.

Hello, I am not new to FreeBSD and I have not migrated from another operating system as reply to OPs question. Well, technically I came to FreeBSD via the ZX Spectrum - Amiga - PC route. The hobbyist route. (Short break here to thank SirDice...