I've just installed freebsdHas anyone had luck acessing a google captive portal on freebsd?

*oops

Has anyone had luck accessing/signing in to a google captive portal?

yes

I travel a lot and frequently have problems connecting to hotel WiFi. When I stay as a guest at B&B it is rarely a problem, it is always at hotel chains. I would be curious to if there is any way to trouble shoot this?

Basically I get connected to the AP but don't receive an IP address with status: associated in ifconfig wlan0. Sometimes no carrier, but the correct SSID.

There's probably a captive portal that requires you to authenticate; I can't remember if that's supported.

On the other hand, that might not be relevant here if you're not getting an IP (and I should probably wake up more, before responding..)

debdrup: yea you should get an IP.

don't those normaly let you connect normaly and just block you from doing most stuff except reaching the captive portal to accept their terms?

Gud: try to check what "kind" of AP it is trying to connect to. Had problems at home with the googles meshed APs and once i connect to a mac-specific one I got my IP as I should

Hm, maybe. I also seem to recall that if there's a captive portal, Firefox will redirect you to it when you try to browse anywhere.

Gud: what hotel chain are we talking about specificly?

yeah, afaik they do that redirect by giving their IP for all DNS querys

debdrup: never had any "troubles" what that kind of setup.. It will only block my traffic to the internet, at least the ones I have been exposed to, at like Scandic that is a common hotel chain in Norden

nimaje: yea, that is at least the kind I have been exposed to

Gud: I would take a look at what kind ap's you get when you scan. Try selecting a specific one by supplying the mac-adress to the AP and see if you then are able to get an IP.

drobban: In this case Van der Valk. But I've had the same problem with most of them to be frank. I have enabled some options in wlandebug

thankfully I managed to get the USB tethering working. It also wasn't working too well with my wifi iphone hotspot for some reason, that's always my plan B

humm. I assume you are using wpa_supplicant to set up the wlan

yes

do you supply a bssid?

Yes, I've tried with bssid

okey. and none of them work+

?

Not sure about the bssid format

bssid=e4:5e:1b:95:5d:85

I just copy paste the MAC address from ifconfig wlan0 scan

ich

no quotes?

nope

XD

Okay I'll try

that is what mine looks like at least

But it looked like it was connecting to the ap with the strongest signal.. but I'll try anyway

this was always annoying me but here even the 4G is pretty bad

yea, do you notice any differences between them - if there are more then one with the same SSID?

wifi hotspot*

there are three of them

with the same ssid

yea, im not expert in wifi. My setup at home, I have three APS, and each report as two different types.

all with the same ssid.

I only have problems with hotel wifis... never anywhere else

and not everytime

and I had problems getting IP from one of the types, but selecting the other type I worked fine and dandy

okey.

let us know if you were able to get an IP after testing each of them

every each *

Mar 31 13:15:18 x1 wpa_supplicant[2888]: Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant

Mar 31 13:15:18 x1 wpa_supplicant[2888]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=20, val=0, arg_len=7]: Invalid argument

Mar 31 13:15:18 x1 syslogd: last message repeated 1 times

from wlandebug

Title: Mar 31 13:18:19 x1 wpa_supplicant[2889]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all - Pastebin.com

Gud: sorry, do not know what that means

I take it, that testing each AP specificly didnt solve your issue

I'd suggest digging out tcpdump in order to figure out what's generating the invalid argument.

meena: got around to resizing my disk and getting enough space to install llvm15 port, but then `clang` still points to the system one, and anyway `clang15` does not have `/usr/local/include` in its search path

yannd: that sounds very frustrating (and somewhat familiar)

I would lodge a complaint with #bsdports (on EFnet)

k thx

a while ago someone linked wiki.freebsd.org/WarnerLosh/UsrLocal

Title: WarnerLosh/UsrLocal - FreeBSD Wiki

last edited 2015-10-28

I hope there's been some progress since then

Is the fish shell considered stable/safe?

For non-root use that is.

Can it be fitted aurally?

Like a babelfish you mean?

afaik the only problem with changing roots shell is, that it should work if you somehow break your system and missing /usr/local/ is one thing what could happen

nimaje: My question is for non-root usage. Root has the default shell, if you need fancy root shell use toor user :-)

could you explain what you mean by stable/safe in context of a shell? I don't really see what you mean with your question (as the only point I saw for root shell is external to the shell itself, how would that be diffrent for other users?)

I am migrating from zsh to fish on my laptop, workstation etc.

thorre: I know many people that use fish as their default, non-root shell. No problems so far.

ek thank you.

thorre: rule of thumb is never change root's shell on any unix to a shell not included in the base install. freebsd does csh and sh. the reason why is that all the testing is done only with those shells.

you don't want the root shell to have any foriegn dependencies

as to a user shell, anything goes. it can only impact that user.

so "stable" has little meaning

Demosthenex: I agree. That is why my question is for non-root accounts.

i use zsh as my user, and i use csh as root's default shell. i DO often run zsh after logging in as root, and i'm aware if a command fails to exit zsh and retry it in csh

Demosthenex: ok, I see your reasoning. Thank you

llua: you can change it of course, but that's not the best practice. i already gave some reasons why

I have two users with UID 0 on my system. Root that is vanilla, and toor who has a nice shell etc.

they wasn't really good ones

13.2rc6 is not released yet, right ? worth waiting before downloading an ISO ?

acording to the schedule building of rc6 has begun, not sure when exactly and how long those builds need freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/schedule

Title: FreeBSD 13.2 Release Process | The FreeBSD Project

Hello I haven't upgraded the kernel in a while. Do you have a recommendation about how often I should do this upgrade ?

I don't do anything critical on this computer so I guess it's ok. I update port tree regulary too

I need to reboot I will be back quickly.

use freebsd.org/security/feed.xml base system and kernel updates are only erratas and security advisories

Title: FreeBSD Security Advisories and Errata noticesFreeBSD Security Advisories and Errata noticesFreeBSD-EN-23:04.ixgbeFreeBSD-EN-23:03.enaFreeBSD-EN-23:02.sdhciFreeBSD-EN-23:01.tzdataFreeBSD-EN-22:28.heimdalFreeBSD-EN-22:27.loaderFreeBSD-EN-22:26.camFreeBSD-EN-22:25.tcpFreeBSD-EN-22:24.zfsFreeBSD-EN-22:23.vmFreeBSD-SA-23:03.opensslFreeBSD-SA-23:02.opensshFreeBSD-SA-23:01.geliFreeBSD-SA-22:15.pingFreeBSD- (1 more message)

what is this nimaje ?

ah ok I see (I have followed the links)

But they don't talk about 14.0 just 12 and 13. Is there a tool to search into maybe ?

a rss feed (well, atom I guess in that case), give it to some feed reader and it will inform you when there are new entries

For -CURRENT, that is 14 currently, system subscribe to the mailing list, lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current

oh yes indeed

Title: freebsd-current⊙Fo

ah cool

thank you

I think I will check that regulary from the browser. Maybe subscribe to this mailing list

.oO( Wonder if there is some 15 branch already ... )

did you read docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#current ? you should subscribe to that mailing list if you are following -current

I am checking that

Title: Chapter 25. Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD | FreeBSD Documentation Portal

apparently not carefully enough nimaje

thanks

I thought I could just check `git log` from my local copy

the last time I signed up for a mailing list I was getting a lot of spam

it was a long time ago

I don't think I can contribute much as a contributor so maybe just following the emails from the browser is enough

Well I am going to think about this. Thank you

but why do you follow -current? it is a development branch

why not ?

I made a mistake at the beginning, but so far it's gone pretty well

I could come back to stable If I run onto problem

as i said there are no critical things on this device. I can break it, no problem.

I am using it for coding and learn freebsd

I'm not sure that the downgrade will go smoothly

If for $reasons I need to have ipfw loaded, I can set firewall_type="open" in rc.conf

What similar can I set for IPv6?

I'm pretty sure that is for ipv6 and v4, what are you missing?

v6 can't pickup a SLAAC address.

Hi, Does anyone know how to setup l2tpv3 on freebsd?

i only know of net/mpd5 (that i used ages ago for l2tp), not sure if it does "v3"

I can't find anything on its manual

FreeBSD went through a CVS to Git migration. Is there some place where the process was documented ? I am going to be going through something similar at work, but would be interested in learning about the processes and methods used to do the conversion.

mns: wiki.freebsd.org/Git has some info on it

Title: Git - FreeBSD Wiki

though it was cvs -> svn and later svn -> git

but some people are trying to import csrg into Git, however, it's turning out very difficult, because RCS did not deal well with renames

git does not know about renames at all :)

well, yeah, but it's got some heuristics where it can reasonably deduce it

ahh so it was done as CVS -> SVN - Git. For some reason I thought it was direct CVS-Git.

svn one was long time ago, pre-2010

mns: nah, but OpenBSD is probably going CVS -> GoT (which uses git's backend and protocol)

yuripv: I was an ASF committer at the time sve totally hyped for it

What is GoT ?

a/sve/and/

Title: Game of Trees

it's a frontend, the kind of frontend that OpenBSD developers want / need, built on top of the Git protocol / data store

imagine someone building a new frontend for their favourite language on top of LLVM or GCC

The funny thing is that the site is blocked at work because it falls into the "Games" category. Time to send another report for an incorrect block.

🤦🏻‍♀️

conwaylife.com what about this one? :P

Title: Conway's Game of Life

yeah even that one

well, conways game of life is at least a zero player game

Nullitaire?

mason: sounds like my kind of game

(for those who don't know: i suck at games. and only recently now that games have "Story mode" i can play them thru)

already in 1986 there was a game called Portal published by Activision which was rather an interactive scifi book than a game

when i was 2, i knew nothing about computers… I dunno when i learned about them… probably some time around ten? I think it took way too long to grasp that computer games and computers are related

I think I understand right off that computers *were* games, and really fun ones. :)

understood*

this is weird so im running freebsd as a host with virtualbox once i started to configured my vm to used my bridge interface my network connection started acting wierd once i did a service netif restart my machine reboots

anyone else ran into this issue

 

?

bsdbandit: can you refine "started acting"?

pretty sure no service … should result in a reboot

oh, i… just that bit

maybe it's time to… boot a CURRENT kernel with all the debugging enabled

and/or sleep