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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>duckland.org news (FreeBSD)</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/</link><description></description><atom:link href="http://www.duckland.org/categories/freebsd.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2015 05:13:30 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>http://getnikola.com/</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, End Report</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/30daychallengefreebsdsa.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, again, I hit something which is causing massive disk performance issues.  That, and suspend/resume does not work on either laptop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would try to debug the issues, but that means learning a whole new set of tools, and I will not have time for a while.  Next week, I am in week long meetings which will run late every day, and then I have to finish writing and present a training class the last week of the month.  The hour or two I can spare will be far better spent for me by backup, re-installing &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.archlinux.org"&gt;ArchLinux&lt;/a&gt; than by starting to learn the tools.  Yes, a bit of a cop-out, but I need the machines to do what I need to do.  I will keep the servers FreeBSD, however, as it works great there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will revisit the issue of FreeBSD on the laptops when I either get new kit, or support for my models gets better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>linux</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/30daychallengefreebsdsa.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:43:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, Day 30 Update</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-30-update.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the month draws to a close, I am further into the switch.  I have rebuilt my main laptop to &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org"&gt;PCBSD&lt;/a&gt;.  I am still setting a few things up, but it seems to be going well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two things I need to fix:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul class="simple"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skype&lt;/strong&gt;: While there is not a native client, there are lots of folks who report success with the Linux client.  I will need to do some research.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nikola&lt;/strong&gt;: The software I use for my blogs.  It throws a python error when I run it, so I cannot update things.  Again, I think I just need to do some more research.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, the fun of the weekend is here, so I am off!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-30-update.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 21:38:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, Day 14</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-14.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today is day 14 (pushing day 15 at this hour), and things are looking very good.  Today, I got word from the &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org"&gt;PCBSD Project&lt;/a&gt; that a patch which I submitted to fix the &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html"&gt;issue with the WiFi NIC&lt;/a&gt;.  Well, I got notice today that &lt;a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/7330"&gt;PCBSD Bug #7330&lt;/a&gt; has been resolved, and I tested on the R810.  It works!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, I just need to get a few things configured here first, like snapshots, backups, and porting my SDCARD reading scripts over to FreeBSD, and I should be good.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then, fun things like configure &amp;amp; use IPv6.  I have two FreeBSD VSP servers to test with...it will be fun!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-14.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 05:51:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>One step closer</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201408one-step-closer.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I have upgraded my servers at the house to FreeBSD, and have set up the basic functions needed on them.  So, now, I am down to only my main laptop running Linux.  Oh, and the work machine which runs Windows 8.1.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So far, not much different than running Arch for the server.  But, the magic will be when I start working with jails...&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201408one-step-closer.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 01:08:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Switch</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I just noticed I have not updated this in a few weeks. Sorry  about that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have my R810 running PCBSD 10.0.2, and I just patched and configured WiFi on it.  I need to figure out how to submit a patch to see if I can get the Centrino supported in the main-line kernel so I do not have to compile a custom kernel just for that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I almost have this working where I can switch to it full time.  I need to deal with getting my &lt;strong&gt;killer&lt;/strong&gt; apps installed and working.  I had most (all?) of them working before, so I know I can do it again.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Currently, FireFox is not working for me for some reason, but Chromium is, so I will use that for now.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have started a wiki to keep some notes for myself on this (what SA has not done that?), so I hope this process will be easier this time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;peace.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:07:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Back to FreeBSD (maybe back to the challenge)</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201406back-to-freebsd-maybe-back-to-the-challenge.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I had a bit of time over the weekend, and spent it doing a bit of hacking around.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I had re-installed &lt;a href="http://www.pcbsd.org"&gt;PC-BSD&lt;/a&gt; on my HP EliteBook R810.  I used 10.0.2, and everything but the wireless looked good.  I decided to try to get the wireless working with the internal WNIC.  &lt;a href="http://www.duckland.org/2014/04/freebsd-challenge,-day-17"&gt;Previously&lt;/a&gt;, I used an external dongle to get WiFi working, but it was a pain to remember to pull it out, so I decided to try again.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I updated the base OS to 10-CURRENT, and then 'patched' the source tree using the info I found &lt;a href="https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=35467"&gt;in this forum post&lt;/a&gt;.  Once I rebooted, and used the PC-BSD tools to enable the device, things worked!  Since this was only last night, I need to test it a bit to make sure it stands up to load.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169433"&gt;PR&lt;/a&gt;, and support &lt;strong&gt;has&lt;/strong&gt; been added to HEAD.  I am going try to write a patch to get this added before then.  I will need to see if I can figure out how to do that. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since my work laptop uses the same WNIC, I am one step closer to being able to install it on the work machine.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am going to see about trying to use &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;dragon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as my non-work daily driver and shake out what I need to do, so I may be restarting the &lt;a href="http://www.duckland.org/tag/30DayChallenge"&gt;30 Day Challenge&lt;/a&gt; again, but a lot of that depends on how work goes.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201406back-to-freebsd-maybe-back-to-the-challenge.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:06:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge final (for now)</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-final-for-now.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Well, 
Something broke on the main computer.  The speed when trying to run
a few terminal apps, firefox, and thunderbird at the same time was
appalling.  I never had that sort of performance issues under
ArchLinix on the same kit. I would love to take the time to debug it,
but I am almost four weeks behind in dealing with my photos, including
those from my trip to England, and I am getting ready to do run some
training courses for work which will suck up all my free time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am re-installing Arch on the two laptops.  I should have restored
working configs in a day or two, and then I can start working on my
backlog of photo and other projects.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Also, since my laptops are not supported under 10-RELEASE, I want to
wait until 10.1 to see if my WLAN NICs are supported.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I still need to rebuild my server which has a failing drive (backed up
the data already, just need time).  I may go ahead and put 10-RELEASE
on it since the NICs are fully supported.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;d&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-final-for-now.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 03:04:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge, Day 17</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-day-17.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Today, I got my new laptop &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;dragon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; up on wireless with a little &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MTTJOY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;psc=1&amp;amp;smid=A2N1S6D8VVCNZ3"&gt;Edimax EW-7811Un 150 Mbps Wireless 11n Nano Size USB Adapter&lt;/a&gt;.  Now, setup begins in ernest.  I have disabled the on-board wireless NIC in the BIOS, and started to set up shop on it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Next major task.  Configure X. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;d&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-day-17.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:04:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge, Update</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-update.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey,
  Sorry about the lack of updates over the last two weeks, but my job sent me out of country for two weeks, and I had no time to work on this project.  Once I unbury myself, I will return to this with a vengence.  I am planning on &lt;em&gt;upgrading&lt;/em&gt; my two servers to FreeBSD10 from Linux.  One will involve a major disk reworking as one of the disks is about dead.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Stay tuned, and thanks for coming back!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;d&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201404freebsd-challenge-update.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:04:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge, Day 16</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-16.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Busy day with other things than play computers, but I found a little time.  I have FreeBSD 10-STABLE loaded with the custom WiFi hack on my &lt;a href="http://notebookplanet.blogspot.com/2013/04/hp-elitebook-revolve-810-g1-tablet.html"&gt;Elitebook Revolve 810&lt;/a&gt;. I would have to let it try to boot off the USB stick.  After multiple tries, it would finally run the installer.  I tried ZFS a few times, but if I did not select MBR format for the partition table, then it  would not boot (no OS error).  With MBR and ZFS, it would fail to mount the ZFS filesystem with &lt;strong&gt;error 2&lt;/strong&gt;.  After trying the various fixes listed on-line, I gave up and went with MBR and UFS.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Once installed, it was fairly easy to get going.  I have not configured it to take on the role of daily driver yet.  If I have time tomorrow, then I will do it then, otherwise, it will have to wait a bit as I am getting on a plane this weekend, and I will not have room for the second computer.  I will try to get it as far as I can with ssh.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The neat thing I found based on &lt;a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-April/083317.html"&gt;this email post from 2005&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.freebsdonline.com/content/view/829/524/"&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt; is that I can have a fancy screensaver at the console!  Pretty rad. :)  Next steps will be improving the screen resolution in text-mode.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-16.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:03:18 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>