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debdrup
nmz: Aah, gotcha - yeah, I have a habit of doing that :)
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tm512
just got a first-gen ThinkPad E14 and I'm getting the itch to check out FreeBSD for the first time since I stopped using it as a desktop OS back in like 2017. I think it's going to have the RTL8822CE wireless chipset. seems like that could be a problem?
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AmyMalik
i don't know. can you use ethernet?
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tm512
guessing I can forget about bluetooth support especially if I have to hand off the PCIe device to wifibox
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tm512
I wouldn't buy a laptop just to be constantly tethered to a wired connection
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AmyMalik
if you are using wifibox you probably can forget about BT support, yes.
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tm512
I'll just use Linux if I can't get at least wifi working, but preferably bluetooth as well. just wondering if anyone else has this chipset and can comment on the rtw88 driver. does the same driver handle both wifi and bt?
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tm512
there's a chance this machine will have an intel 9560 or AX201 but it seems like those are higher-end chipsets, and I've got the low-end (Core i3) configuration of this ThinkPad. going to boot into this Linux liveUSB and confirm through lspci though
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debdrup
tm512: check out the net/realtek-re-kmod driver
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tm512
debdrup: that seems to be specific to ethernet
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debdrup
Oh, yeah that's right. Sorry, brain not working too well on too little sleep.
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tm512
it seems like wifi will work through wifibox, just internally debating whether I'm willing to sacrifice bluetooth support (or go out of my way to buy a USB dongle that is supported), or if I should just go the boring route and install Linux
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tm512
it appears that I can swap the wireless out for one that FreeBSD supports, assuming there are any that fit in this slot where both wifi and bluetooth are supported
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tm512
dunno exactly what the slot is called, I just know that it's PCIe and it's similar to an M.2 slot with a different key
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AmyMalik
M.2 AE?
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AmyMalik
I have a few of those
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AmyMalik
atheros, intel
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tm512
looks like it. this is one of the cards pulled from an E14:
ebay.com/itm/404108505793
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VimDiesel`
Title: Lenovo ThinkPad 14" E14 Gen 1 Genuine Laptop Wireless WiFi Card 02HK700 | eBay
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tm512
oh it even says A and E
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tm512
if I do end up using wifibox I wonder if I could hack something up to have the VM pair with bluetooth speakers and like, expose it as a pipewire sink to the host. assuming pipewire is actually usable without too many caveats on FreeBSD
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tm512
so this laptop does indeed have the RTL8822CE. turns out if I give the wifi over to wifibox, the bluetooth radio is connected over USB, not PCIe, so wifibox wouldn't take it over
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AmyMalik
aha
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Aedil
I wish you all good progress in this new year 2024.
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kenrap
Aedil: thanks, also how about giving a kind donation to the foundation? :)
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dvl
I've encounterd my first 4K drive and I'm mixing it in with 512 sector drives. I found out with gpart restore failed. Please review my math at the end. I think this is the correct way to make the paritions on two drives identical in size:
dan.langille.org/?p=7791&preview=1&_ppp=81b06e73eb
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VimDiesel`
Title: Adding another pair of drives to a zpool mirror on FreeBSD – Dan Langille's Other Diary
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albertus
Hello everyone! I bought an ODROID H3 and installed FreeBSD 14. It will serve as (manually set-up) NAS, mostly for backups (using restic upon ZFS). The board has an Intel N5105 with integrated graphics, and I'd like to attach it to my TV via HDMI to play media or streaming (via the browser, YouTube etc.) which I would like to "remotely control". I thought of something like RustDesk for remote control,
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albertus
but that is only available for Linux, not FreeBSD. is there any chance to passthrough the iGPU(!) with bhyve to a Linux guest running Xorg? or any other ideas - like Xorg on the FreeBSD host with VNC? (don't know if that will be a pleasure for video viewing)
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lw
albertus: have you considered Kodi? i'm not sure if this runs on freebsd off hand though, but i think it does basically what you want. -- you should be able to pass through the gpu though
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albertus
lw: you mean Kodi primarily for remote control, instead of something like RustDesk?
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lw
albertus: i was thinking kodi connected to the TV then control it with... uh, something? (i'm assuming it supports that somehow, but maybe not?)
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lw
oh it has a web interface
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albertus
I thought of remotely contorlling with other devices like Laptops, smart phones etc. (Android, iOS)
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albertus
there are some sources for Kodi on FreeBSD, I can give it a try
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lw
albertus:
kodi.wiki/view/Web_interface says the web interface can do remote control
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VimDiesel`
Title: Web interface - Official Kodi Wiki
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albertus
regarding iGPU passthrough with bhyve, though, I am not sure it will work, since most passthrough guides speak of PCIe devices. is an integrated GPU a PCIe device?
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lw
but i've never actually used kodi (on freebsd or anywhere else), i'm just vaguely aware it does seem to do what you want
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lw
albertus: i'm sure it must be a PCIe device, but check 'pciconf -lv' to be sure
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lw
i remember someone had issues trying to pass through an NVidia GPU though... i think these can sometimes behave in odd ways that bhyve/vmm.ko doesn't like
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albertus
I will take a look, thanks for the quick ideas so far
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lw
albertus: how are you getting on with the H3 in general? i was thinking about buying either one of those or the H3+
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albertus
I just started installing FreeBSD, which was breeze after offline-carrying (via USB thumbdrive) the pkg for pkg and realtek-re-kmod. haven't set up anything else yet. I thought the price tag for H3+ over H3 was too much higher for just 0.1 GHz or so
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lw
dstolfa: i do this in reverse by having /src/src.git and /src/ports.git and cloning from there, but maybe i should switch to worktree...
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lw
er, wrong channel
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dvl
It seems that new 12T - 4K drive is 8K smaller than my existing drives. I wonder how ZFS would have reacted if I was using whole drives instead of partitions?
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albertus
lw: `pciconf -lv` indeed shows a device called JasperLake UHD Graphics. now hopefully that is on a different "channel" (don't remember the exact term - but there was something that could only be passed through in its entirety, I think)
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albertus
there's Kodi 20.3 (seems current) in the packages. :) should I jail it?
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lw
albertus: if you're running it natively (not on bhyve) i would jail it, although it might want some devices passed into the jail to access the display... not really sure how this works
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dvl
I added all the partitions to
dan.langille.org/2024/01/27/adding-…drives-to-a-zpool-mirror-on-freebsd - let's see who can give feedback on properly alignment.
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VimDiesel`
Title: Adding another pair of drives to a zpool mirror on FreeBSD – Dan Langille's Other Diary
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shdw
dvl: when does zfs do the balance of the mirrors, is it only happening on new writes, or does existing data is moved?
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lw
shdw: only when new data is written
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dvl
shdw: O^ that
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dvl
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VimDiesel`
Title: PrivateBin
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dvl
shdw: Also, if you look at the old post (see link at above URL), the data did eventually even out.
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jmnbtslsQE
albertus: i don't think GPU passthrough is supported. i would recommend using your device to serve the data over the network (either a media sharing program or NFS) and use some other device to actually render it, such as roku
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lw
jmnbtslsQE: really? i thought i'd seen people using this successfully
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jmnbtslsQE
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VimDiesel`
Title: bhyve/pci_passthru - FreeBSD Wiki
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jmnbtslsQE
when i last searched on it, i don't remember any successful efforts for it to work
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lw
ah :-(
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jmnbtslsQE
on the other hand,
freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes does mention that it works, but i guess it's basically experimental and users will need to venture into it
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VimDiesel`
Title: FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE Release Notes | The FreeBSD Project
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rtprio
if i want to pci passthrough my second nic, how do i keep the bhyve host from attaching to it?
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rtprio
oh, pptdevs
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mp322
reminder: BSDCan 2024 CFP closes Feb 12th
bsdcan.org/2024/papers.php
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VimDiesel`
Title: BSDCan 2024 - Call for papers
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fspkwon
Is anyone available that can help Servicing a quadro nvs 5000m on FreeBSD 14?
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fspkwon
i have vesa working on KDE but not nvidia-drm-kmod because its too -new-
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fspkwon
not the card the cards a 2012 model card
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xa0z
What would be a good way to figure out why an SSH session to a local server is extremely laggy? 'top' shows high idle, and nealy 50gb free of 64gb RAM, 0 swap used.
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dvl
how's the pings?
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xa0z
below 1ms
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xa0z
I can even go to the console in the server room and it seems to be working perfectly fine. No lag at the machine itself. Loading the websites on that server seem to be just fine as well. SSH is the only thing that's really lagged. I can type a command and it takes a few seconds to show it all on the terminal.
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fspkwon
i've seen this issue is related to when theres a high traffic infrastructure
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fspkwon
just because it uses a router doesnt mean its not that the router may have high traffic internet
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fspkwon
means your thinking ok so its nothings doing anything #correction the operating system is
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fspkwon
im downgrading to 9.3 from 14 for my quadro card , the HDD Partitioners broken....
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fspkwon
: ()
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fspkwon
i made sure it works 2012 machine, 2012 bsd
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fspkwon
if anyone also wants to help figure out the ipv6 information like class/prefix: hsd1.il.comcast.net
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fspkwon
DNS IPV4 : 75.75.75.75 75.75.76.76
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fspkwon
DNS IPV6 : 2001:558:feed::1 2001:558:feed::2
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fspkwon
ive figured these if you see -> Windows is asking users to use a Private DNS instead of associating with the Comcast DNS
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rtprio
2012 was a long time ago in bsd land
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rtprio
fspkwon: you want to know you ipv6 info from comcast? does your bsd box get an ipv6 address?
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jmnbtslsQE
xa0z: not sure if this would help, but you could try truss -dp $PID on the sshd process for that connection on the remote machine, and see where time is being lost
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fspkwon
@rtprio all computers do - atleast now they do #windows95 im guessing>
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rtprio
fspkwon: all computrs do what?
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fspkwon
rtprio what like if they have a driver for the gt630m nvidia and im using the
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fspkwon
ipv6
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fspkwon
open source bsd driver
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fspkwon
its skipping probe saying the cards too old
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rtprio
fspkwon: are you asking about ntworks or video cards?
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fspkwon
its a 2012 quadro
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fspkwon
oh im here for video thats why
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rtprio
then why are you blabbing on about comcast dns
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fspkwon
no lag or ssh ipv6 - is it for a service daemon
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xa0z
jmnbtslsQE: I'm not exactly sure how I'd be able to know where time is being lost...
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fspkwon
openssh using ipv6 am i right or did i just fail
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fspkwon
:*(
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fspkwon
"Mehem Mehem!"
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jmnbtslsQE
xa0z: well it'll show timestamps, so it will at least show when it reads/writes on the socket and likewise on the terminal. so you may be able to see which side involves a delay
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jmnbtslsQE
you could open a tmux session, split the window, and do while true; sleep 0.5; tmux send-keys -t 0.0 'a'; done or similar to send a key every half second and observe what's happening, including tcpdump on the remote side.
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rtprio
xa0z: is it every terminal?
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jmnbtslsQE
i imagine there is a natural plausible cause for what's happening in your situation, but personnally no idea
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xa0z
rtprio: It's only this one server. I've even stopped all services except ssh and netif and it's the same.
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xa0z
It's just over ssh. At the physical machine, it doesn't appear anything is wrong.
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fspkwon
ah the usb-memstick image of freebsd 9 doesnt recognize the hard disk
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fspkwon
but itll let you install to it
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albertus
handbook on jails: I followed the thin jail setup guide with nullfs mounts. I had to twiddle some stuff until I found that in the .conf for the jail I'd need to say path = "/usr/local/jails/thinjail-nullfs-base" rather than path = "/usr/local/jails/containers/${name}". can someone double-check, regarding the suggested fstab right below? see
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albertus
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VimDiesel`
Title: Chapter 17. Jails and Containers | FreeBSD Documentation Portal
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albertus
what's more, I also think the instruction `ln -s skeleton/usr/local usr/local` is wrong, it should be `ln -s ../skeleton/usr/local usr/local`
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fspkwon
OMG it worked: GUID FreeBSD 9 on 2012 Dell Latitude E6350
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fspkwon
just spamming firewire errors
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jmnbtslsQE
albertus: i think you are right about both. the terminology seems it could be slightly unusual since customarily the root directly might be named someting like 'thinjail' not 'thinjail-nullfs-base', which one might think would be the thing that's mounted
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albertus
jmnbtslsQE: thanks. I've edited it within the Github editor and submitted a PR
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albertus
the .conf is a little inconsistent in using or not using ${name} thought
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albertus
s/ght/gh/
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rtprio
xa0z: i just use mosh now, but that's since i'm 150-250ms away from my server
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xa0z
My server is around 300-400 feet from me.
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xa0z
rtprio: the weird thing is, the jails on the same server all seem to work okay. I can SSH to them without any issues. :/