My goal is to port some NIC driver work done in FBSD to the Illumos kernel. I wish to learn how some clever people were able to get drivers working for Realtek 8125 NICs when there is little to no documentation. What is the most appropriate method to reach out to a FreeBSD dev that worked on Realtek NIC drivers? Specifically Alex or Konstantin of: github.com/alexdupre/rtl_bsd_drv ?

Chipset programming manuals are often only available to licensed hardware resellers.

I'm sure there's a comprehsive programming manual for the NIC. . . it may just not be publically available or publicized.

XFCE updated recently. After the new update, all my FreeBSD UNIX PCs no longer show my XFCE vertical gradient despite I did settings: desktop: style: none

they show some default picture which now won't go away

iprog4u: if you check the pkg-descr for the net/realtek-re-kmod, it says it's official driver with some local patches

oh, and the readme for that repo says the same

iprog4u: you should contact adrian@ who has been refactoring the upstream re driver

[tj]: re or rtwn? log suggests the latter

re

we has factored out the firmware and reduced the driver size down a lot

he is also working on rtwn

I'm trying to install virtualbox-ose-kmod from ports, as a possible solution to my vm not starting after upgrading to 14.1 a while back. it requires kernel source in /usr/src, which I do not have. forum says ad src to /etc/freebsd-update.conf which is already there. what else could be missing before I go down the git clone route?

it will probably try to creat a kernel module

that's why it needs kernel sources

getting it over git is OK

as long as the version matches

git checkout ...

gustik: i cloned the repo into /usr/src seems as though the port will now attempt to compile, but getting an invalid version perl5 5.36 from texinfo-6.6_4 I don't like mixing ports and pkg, usually stay solely on the pkg stuff for ease of use, but this vbox kernel module apparently needs to be compiled from ports from what I'm reading. seems like it's going to be a mess.

i did the checkout for my release as well (which is 14.2, I mistyped 14.1 above)

jnewt: yeah, you kinda need a ports tree that matches what the builders used if you're going to do that, or do clean builds in poudriere locally

i'm kind of stuck now though, this is what a big biz would consider a "production" server, I run all sorts of stuff on it for my small (micro) business. I had vbox running at some point in the past, but it seems this is a known thing post 14.0 where you can't just use pkg for vbox, which I need. so I'm in a corner, either wipe out all the pkg installs and go back to ports (been years since I've done that), or go buy another pc and

put windows on it for one program we need.

maybe I work through building these missing dependencies from ports (kmk, gcc9, etc) and just see if anything else breaks...

jnewt: you might be interested in trying this to save some time: lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports/2024-December/006997.html

this isn't a "we hate our users" problem, it's just a technically-challenging thing with some kmods

kevans: software is hard, i'm years / decades past complaining, so that is not what this is at all.

jnewt: i wouldn't test out software on your 'production' server, even on christmas eve

use a different one to play around, and when you figure it out, do it a second time on productoin

rtprio: already did that, vbox runnin on a freebsd install on a laptop as we speak and yet not on this one. it went off without a hitch, but there are hardware and software package differences.

rtprio: trying to backward duplicate this system that has been running for at least a decade would take someone a lot smarter than me

use packages to install the dependancies

er, i would suggest

rtprio: i think that's the cause of the problem, mismatches of some sort between the pkg installed dependencies and the ports code

is transitioning to bhyve from the virtualbox setup an option?

maybe, i'm not familiar

are all the other packages up to date?

i take it, this ia windows "image" you are working with.. hence the windows pc reference?

voy4g3r2, yeah, I have the vdi we've been running for years but can no longer get it to start due to this kmod problem

rtprio: best I can tell. this perl5 thing is weird, I've run an update on it twice, and it just reinstalls. i'm not sure what version it's looking for, .36 is the latest I see, may install from ports instead of pkg, idk squat about perl,

does texinfo still complain after that upgrade

can you pastebin the error

I may have it fixed after trying a forum post to reinstall p5-Locale-gettext, seems as though the kmod is building. will paste errors if there are any, but not sure how long it will take.

seems like the kernel module wasn't the longest build previously, but this is not the newest piece of hardware, so it may be a while

it shouldn't take much more than an hour

but the key is that you downloaded the right kernel sources for your running system

you can easily mix pkg and ports, there are generally few problem with it

rtprio, i cloned the git repo and then checked out the releng14.2 branch. my system is 14.2, so unless i need to match something else, it seems right

great

jnewt: if you have to go down poudriere route, as you said it has been a while, this article was awesome:https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/simple-freebsd-poudriere-harvester-guide/

i will continue to assert that poudriere is totally unnecessary for one or two hosts

and we have exactly 2 freebsd hosts, and 6-8 windows and linux clients. I think I looked into it in the past and decided adding it was not necessary

it worked. thanks everyone,

rtprio: i would agree, just an idea to help jnewt but in the end, it looks like he is good to go

Is there a way to auto-login to a website on Chrome? I am trying to auto-capture the ring website and it keeps sending me back to the login page after some time.

(I am using X Windows and WindowMaker)

yashi: what do you mean by auto login? by chrome, do you mean chromium or google chrome via linuxulator? if latter, and you have google sync on, you should be able to hopefully sync down the password and just autocomplete your login details...?

I mean I keep getting this page: imgur.com/a/Ec6ymFZ

and then I have to manually click on the box for chrome to auto-fill my details, then manually click login, and only then am I back to my page

I'd like this process to happen automatically

I think I am using this package: linux-chrome-131.0.6778.139 Google web browser based on WebKit

wow that package description couldn't be more wrong lol

but.. i'm not sure. what is ring?

ring is Amazon's doorbell + camera

they want to charge you moneys to view video that is not live

so i'm setting up an automated ffmpeg capture from their website

ah. so it sounds like that chrome instance is not remembering login details/perhaps clearing out the cookies...?

hrmm, maybe? or is it possible ring is nefariously trying to throw people out to the login page to deter such automations?

because it happens in the middle of a session

hard to tell, honestly. are your other login details fine?

e.g. if you log into gmail or something of sort, does it do the same thing?

let's see

it's not that the details are lost. they are saved within chrome. it's just that i keep having to ask chrome to re-fill them and re-click "login" manually.

oh i think this is chromium

i'm leaning towards amazon kicking you out, but it's worth testing on other sites just to be sure that there's not something weird going on

pretty good chance this is happening for security reasons

right

and from a quick search.brave.com ring does not have an api for you to do this

i mean google itself does this too, it's just that for google it takes maybe two weeks for your session to expire

and here it's like a couple of hours

yeah, it sounds like that's not a browser thing then

it'll be amazon nullifying your session

right, but what would be the ideal way to automate this?

dunno, probably some tampermonkey plugin? we're sort of veering into offtopic for #freebsd though

sorry, #chrome is kinda dead

but tampermonkey sounds like a good direction, thank you

yashi: perhaps something like phantomjs

rtprio: phantomjs has been stagnant since 2018 or so i believe

well, piss

i made it work with tampermonkey

perfect tool for the job

yashi: i was reading a little more be mindful of the amount of times you ask for the information.. they seem to have rate limiting wording in their terms of service

i have, unfortunately, blink camers and a lot of the tools that do similar things.. have been "kicked off"

which started my build out of www.zoneminder.com and replacing with more "professional" cameras

voy4g3r2: i was playing with frigate.video

but yeah, i think i would prefer a non-cloud solution too

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rtprio: ohhh, thanks for sharing, the AI component is intersting.. the ip cameras i got does that on camera.. what i am not liking is zoneminder needs a plugin.. which does not work anymore..

oh google coral gpu thingie use

they keep popping up on my amazon, you may like this.. as i am eyeing up GPUs and mikrotik equipment

rtprio: what cameras do you use with the system? i have an anpvix 5mp poe ip camera, i think it may be "too much" granularity wise

i installed freebsd on my notebook, which has windows 10 on it; it didnt dual boot out of the box; i booted the installer's shell once again and told my shell: boot0cfg -B /dev/nda0

nda0 is my nvme ssd

now i have a boot menu giving me F1 ? and F6 PXE