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How much of a hassle was it to set it up? Are all peripherals working?
by somethingsimple 9y ago
How much of a hassle was it to set it up? Are all peripherals working?
- 2trill2spill 9y agoTo get a working install it was very easy. I just grabbed the latest FreeBSD 12 snapshot iso and put it on a usb drive and installed like normal. Everything but the wifi works. So I'm using a usb wifi dongle. You need the new (experimental) drm-next code and drivers for suspend and resume support. If your comfortable with a unix command line environment you can get a working dev environment in a couple hours. So besides the wifi everything is working and iirc someone has been working on a driver for the builtin wifi card and plans on merging it into 12 sometime this year. But so far I'm loving it, I have ZFS, Dtrace, Sublime3, Firefox57 and xterm, which is an ideal dev environment for me.
- somethingsimple 9y agoNice! What usb dongle are you using for Wi-Fi, if you don't mind me asking?
- 2trill2spill 9y agoNo problem, I'm using a TP-LINK TL-WN725N. I found it at my local Microcenter for under $20. Otherwise look at this list of supported wifi NICS [1]. [1]: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/hardware.html#wlan https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/hardware.html#wlan
- cyberpunk 9y agoI’m toying with converting mine from arch to FBSD on the same machine — where did you get the drm-next bits? Is it from Ports or a branch on /usr/src? I bought a dongle to try it out but somehow ended up with one of the few unsupported ones... which one are you using?
- 2trill2spill 9y agosudo pkg install drm-next-kmod The command above should get you the required drivers and stuff. Then follow the directions that are displayed after running that command. The USB wifi dongle is a TP-LINK TL-WN725N. I found it at my local Microcenter.