at the grocery store and I get not one but three security emails and I go into a panic as I shove things in the cart and scurry away to get back home and to a terminal... to which i then get sidetracked

What happend to koobs ? haven't seen him in a couple of days.

jb1277976: Working through storage issues.

mason: storage as in technology right?

FreeBSD-SA-22:15.ping sucks :-) But anyway. Is this related only to FBSD?

As there is not much information available to the CVE or elsewhere..

ping is in base and (as far as I can tell) not contributed software, but I'm unable to tell how long that vulnerability has been present. If long enough, it may have been inherited from Net/2, and thus maybe also present in other BSDs.

spicy...

rtprio: That's probably true.

rtprio: Thankfully, this is just for me (for now at least). If anyone else has interest in it, then great, but it'll have a very clear warning on the label.

I'm working my way through the headers right now and figuring out the necessary types that need to be generated for this FFI layer.

*bindings

Tried to open up the developer's handbook and I was very quickly reminded.

Hey, quick question freebsd 13 and 14 does not support my wireless card on one of my laptop. (bug is open on freebsd bug). The linux kernel has a driver for it github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/mast…s/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921 . Can we do something with this source to compile it ? Is there a utility or process to follow that can produce the .ko usable by freebsd kernel, without

Title: linux/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921 at master · torvalds/linux · GitHub

being a kernel dev ?

shlTlord: try wifibox

Not without being somewhat knowledgeable of that, I think. There's a Linux KPI shim, but my impression is using it still requires more care than just dropping in driver source code and expecting it to compile and run.

meka: this github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox ?

Title: GitHub - pgj/freebsd-wifibox: wifibox: Use Linux to drive your wireless card on FreeBSD

I mean, "pkg search wifibox"

and then install the one for your wifi, it is supported

meka: thanks will check !

V_PauAmma_V: affraid to not have enough skills for that :/

mwl.io this channel might appreciate this link more than #linux did

Title: Michael W Lucas – "Sufficiently Amusing Author"

#Linux needs a bot to check links like VimDiesel. Thanks brotha.

is the proper way to have a GUI in freebsd nowadays entirely xwayland?

I use X for all my GUI needs

I don't think there's One Proper Way. I use XFCE, although some apps seem to depend on wayland too. Maybe they're bimodal apps.

thanks

ive recently has to reinstall the bootdisk on a 13-stable system

it uses nvidia-driver-470

ive followed all the instructions in the handbook but what results is a blank screen with a cursor in the top left

some of the handbook instructions seem contradictory/incomplete

xorg.conf is required it seems yet the handbook discourages its use

im also trying to get xfce to work. have also tried kde, same result. maybe theres a problem with the driver

when the driver installs, it completes but there's this message

(nvidia-driver-470-470.141.03) /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-470/work/stage//usr/local/lib/libnvidia-vulkan-producer.so.1 - required shared library libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1 not found

bingo. you know what fixed it?

nvidia-modeset.ko needs to be loaded. nothing in xorg.log to indicat that

Oh, apparently 13 broke libzfs_core dependencies.

I was scratching my head for a couple of hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong lol.

xorg.conf is not required most of the time

_xor: that's a lot of head scratching!

Is it okay to `rm -rf /var/db/freebsd-update` ? my boot disk is tiny (well, it's like 30GB).

antranigv: probably ok; but it will fill up the next time you update

yup, all worked fine!

30GB is huge, not tiny

yuripv: back in my day, the boot disk was 720kb and fit in my pocket

Back in my day, it was 1.2MB and 8" to the side. I didn't have pockets large enough.

V_PauAmma_V: still used on boeings.

now, i had used the washing machine tub machine disks too

My pockets aren't large enough for boeings either, more's the pity. I'd love to steal one.

Demosthenex: ok grampa, now it's time for your nap

rtprio: don't forget to run badblocks to keep your disk map up to date

i had a bunch of batfiles which zippped and unziped the games i wanted to play because i only had room for a couple a time on the 380mb hard drive

is it possible to ping a wireguard endpoint? i'm seeing some unusual messages.

ping: sendto: Capabilities insufficient

No biscuit!

unusual indeed, "#define ENOKEY ENOTCAPABLE"

not seeing anything in any freebsd writeup that i need net.inet.ip.forwarding or anything of the sort

or maybe it's something on my end. 🤔

rtprio: theres nothing about wireguard that prevents or enables pings specifically...

it must be on my end; perhaps because wireguard is not running on that network gateway