BSD hardware compatibility list
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Twe27ySeven · 2020-05-22 19:17

I'm not a BSD user (yet) but would like to help if I can. Does it need
to be run on hardware or can I spin up a VM on all my computers and do
the probe?

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Kernigh · 2020-05-22 20:10

Each VM has its own virtual hardware. This isn't the same as the real
hardware, so the guest system doesn't use the same device drivers.

If your real hardware can boot from USB, then you might install BSD on
a USB stick. (You might need 2 sticks: 1 installer + 1 installed
system. This would erase both sticks. You only need 1 stick if the
installer can run from RAM and overwrite the stick.)

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BumpitySnook · 2020-05-22 22:48

For FreeBSD laptop hardware compatibility specifically, see also:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops

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wwolverrine · 2020-05-22 23:24

i am in. Btw what is the difference works and detected ?

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nahnah2017 · 2020-05-23 01:16

This is how rootkits get installed.

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jaypatelani · 2020-05-23 02:38

You might be able to use live usb like nomadbsd where you can install
proble application.

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linuxbuild · 2020-05-23 12:12

Yep, install [https://www.nomadbsd.org/download.html](https://www.noma
dbsd.org/download.html) to the USB stick and probe all available
computers. NomadBSD==FreeBSD in the terms of base system and drivers.

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linuxbuild · 2020-05-23 12:15

Works == Driver is found and passed simple operability test
Detected == Driver is found, but not tested


See [https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-
probe#operability](https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe#operability)

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aftli · 2020-05-23 16:39

Be careful: running this tool will publicize your entire `rc.conf`
with all comments preserved, and no way to remove it yourself, which
was entirely unexpected. I'm now waiting for them to remove it.

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linuxbuild · 2020-05-23 19:06

Fixed in master: [https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-
probe/commits/master](https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-
probe/commits/master)


Your configs have been removed from the server.

Thanks for reporting this.

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aftli · 2020-05-23 19:08

Great, I figured it was just an oversight as you're pretty good at
hiding everything else. I'll go ahead and re-run it after awhile so
the data remains helpful - I didn't have a problem with any of the
other stuff.

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laffer1 · 2020-05-26 17:24

I'm pretty excited about this project. There is some overlap with
[bsdstats.org](https://bsdstats.org) but it's still quite useful.


I've already submitted 4 of my systems.  Very happy to see most of the
\*BSD projects listed.  (Missing MirBSD)

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linuxbuild · 2020-05-26 18:48

\`rc.conf\` is not collected by default anymore. Not possible to
anonymize it properly in general case.