Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
by Dracophoenix on Saturday August 06, 2022 @03:52PM
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> - My wifi card doesn't work. The installer recognizes it, but the driver doesn't work.
It really depends on your Wi-fi card. If you're installing FreeBSD on bare metal with an Intel card, iwx now supports Wifi 6 and 6E cards. Although, since I haven't tested it myself, I can't say it will work as expected if it works at all.
> - The console terminal defaults to 80x25, I don't know how to resize it.
Select console terminal at the boot screen and type the following:
gop list
gop set {mode number}
and then reboot the VM
> - I can't figure out how to start X Windows.
Assuming you've installed the appropriate graphics driver from the pkg or ports repo:
pkg install xorg
startx
If you don't have the appropriate graphics driver, proceed to step 8 in the webpage below.
> - If I run it in a VM (e.g. VirtualBox), the network bridging doesn't work so my FreeBSD instance has no internet access.
It really depends on your Wi-fi card. If you're installing FreeBSD on bare metal with an Intel card, iwx now supports Wifi 6 and 6E cards. Although, since I haven't tested it myself, I can't say it will work as expected if it works at all.
> - The console terminal defaults to 80x25, I don't know how to resize it.
Select console terminal at the boot screen and type the following:
and then reboot the VM> - I can't figure out how to start X Windows.
Assuming you've installed the appropriate graphics driver from the pkg or ports repo:
If you don't have the appropriate graphics driver, proceed to step 8 in the webpage below.> - If I run it in a VM (e.g. VirtualBox), the network bridging doesn't work so my FreeBSD instance has no internet access.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/resources/inst...
Step 8 might help.