03:45:14 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: https://github.com/alexdupre/rtl_bsd_drv ? 05:10:17 Chipset programming manuals are often only available to licensed hardware resellers. 05:11:08 I'm sure there's a comprehsive programming manual for the NIC. . . it may just not be publically available or publicized. 06:38:51 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 06:39:03 they show some default picture which now won't go away 06:45:46 iprog4u: if you check the pkg-descr for the net/realtek-re-kmod, it says it's official driver with some local patches 06:47:10 oh, and the readme for that repo says the same 07:48:50 <[tj]> iprog4u: you should contact adrian@ who has been refactoring the upstream re driver 08:13:43 [tj]: re or rtwn? log suggests the latter 09:57:58 <[tj]> re 09:58:11 <[tj]> we has factored out the firmware and reduced the driver size down a lot 09:58:15 <[tj]> he is also working on rtwn 14:34:08 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? 15:14:35 it will probably try to creat a kernel module 15:14:43 that's why it needs kernel sources 15:15:02 getting it over git is OK 15:15:08 as long as the version matches 15:15:14 git checkout ... 16:00:38 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. 16:01:16 i did the checkout for my release as well (which is 14.2, I mistyped 14.1 above) 16:05:08 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 16:08:03 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 16:08:03 put windows on it for one program we need. 16:09:26 maybe I work through building these missing dependencies from ports (kmk, gcc9, etc) and just see if anything else breaks... 16:11:03 jnewt: you might be interested in trying this to save some time: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports/2024-December/006997.html 16:13:10 this isn't a "we hate our users" problem, it's just a technically-challenging thing with some kmods 16:16:04 kevans: software is hard, i'm years / decades past complaining, so that is not what this is at all. 16:20:05 jnewt: i wouldn't test out software on your 'production' server, even on christmas eve 16:20:22 use a different one to play around, and when you figure it out, do it a second time on productoin 16:22:13 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. 16:23:18 rtprio: trying to backward duplicate this system that has been running for at least a decade would take someone a lot smarter than me 16:23:52 use packages to install the dependancies 16:23:56 er, i would suggest 16:25:18 rtprio: i think that's the cause of the problem, mismatches of some sort between the pkg installed dependencies and the ports code 16:25:50 is transitioning to bhyve from the virtualbox setup an option? 16:26:02 maybe, i'm not familiar 16:26:19 are all the other packages up to date? 16:26:22 i take it, this ia windows "image" you are working with.. hence the windows pc reference? 16:27:08 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 16:29:27 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, 16:31:38 does texinfo still complain after that upgrade 16:38:55 can you pastebin the error 16:41:56 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. 16:43:36 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 17:06:51 it shouldn't take much more than an hour 17:07:07 but the key is that you downloaded the right kernel sources for your running system 17:09:08 you can easily mix pkg and ports, there are generally few problem with it 17:09:31 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 17:10:28 great 17:12:43 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/ 17:18:53 i will continue to assert that poudriere is totally unnecessary for one or two hosts 17:24:22 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 17:47:52 it worked. thanks everyone, 18:37:30 rtprio: i would agree, just an idea to help jnewt but in the end, it looks like he is good to go 20:23:38 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. 20:23:49 (I am using X Windows and WindowMaker) 20:25:45 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...? 20:31:22 I mean I keep getting this page: https://imgur.com/a/Ec6ymFZ 20:31:43 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 20:31:50 I'd like this process to happen automatically 20:32:17 I think I am using this package: linux-chrome-131.0.6778.139 Google web browser based on WebKit 20:32:36 wow that package description couldn't be more wrong lol 20:33:07 but.. i'm not sure. what is ring? 20:33:35 ring is Amazon's doorbell + camera 20:33:47 they want to charge you moneys to view video that is not live 20:33:57 so i'm setting up an automated ffmpeg capture from their website 20:34:10 ah. so it sounds like that chrome instance is not remembering login details/perhaps clearing out the cookies...? 20:34:36 hrmm, maybe? or is it possible ring is nefariously trying to throw people out to the login page to deter such automations? 20:34:51 because it happens in the middle of a session 20:35:12 hard to tell, honestly. are your other login details fine? 20:35:22 e.g. if you log into gmail or something of sort, does it do the same thing? 20:35:36 let's see 20:36:03 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. 20:36:29 oh i think this is chromium 20:36:33 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 20:36:34 pretty good chance this is happening for security reasons 20:37:09 right 20:38:05 and from a quick search.brave.com ring does not have an api for you to do this 20:39:28 i mean google itself does this too, it's just that for google it takes maybe two weeks for your session to expire 20:39:35 and here it's like a couple of hours 20:39:44 yeah, it sounds like that's not a browser thing then 20:39:53 it'll be amazon nullifying your session 20:39:57 right, but what would be the ideal way to automate this? 20:40:43 dunno, probably some tampermonkey plugin? we're sort of veering into offtopic for #freebsd though 20:41:08 sorry, #chrome is kinda dead 20:41:16 but tampermonkey sounds like a good direction, thank you 21:04:12 yashi: perhaps something like phantomjs 21:06:48 rtprio: phantomjs has been stagnant since 2018 or so i believe 21:08:16 well, piss 21:15:03 i made it work with tampermonkey 21:15:06 perfect tool for the job 21:28:51 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 21:30:09 i have, unfortunately, blink camers and a lot of the tools that do similar things.. have been "kicked off" 21:30:44 which started my build out of www.zoneminder.com and replacing with more "professional" cameras 22:33:13 voy4g3r2: i was playing with https://frigate.video/ 22:33:27 but yeah, i think i would prefer a non-cloud solution too 23:18:21 \1 23:22:25 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.. 23:23:51 oh google coral gpu thingie use 23:24:11 they keep popping up on my amazon, you may like this.. as i am eyeing up GPUs and mikrotik equipment 23:38:25 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 23:59:31 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 23:59:38 nda0 is my nvme ssd 23:59:56 now i have a boot menu giving me F1 ? and F6 PXE