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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 08:16:52 -0000
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.1 / 11 on a Raspberry Pi B+ / 2 ?
From: beastie@nawi.is
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> beastie@nawi.is wrote:
>> At the moment I have ordered a version B+ and be interested whether X
>> also
>> could be configured using the above listed images (the link on the info
>> page refers to another image) ?
>
> The FreeBSD-10.1-STABLE-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20150217-r278906.img boots the
> B+ but does not enable power to the USB (and therefore) LAN ports. No
> HDMI video output unless forcing it with an entry in config.txt.
>
> The FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20150217-r278908.img boots the
> B+ and mostly works except for:
>
> 1) The files rpi.dts (r276161) and bcm2835.dtsi (r278915) have not yet
> been updated for the Raspberry Pi Model B+ GPIO pin mappings which are
> different to the A and B models.
>
> 2) My EDUP "nano" wireless dongle (urtwn0 - Realtek RTL8188CUS) can
> receive at 220KB/s with no issues, but when transmitting more than a few
> KB nonstop it dies and needs restarting.
>
> --
> Trevor Roydhouse
> BJuris, LLB, LLM (UNSW)
> Systems Developer
> Australasian Legal Information Institute    Web  : www.austlii.edu.au
>

Then FreeBSD is very far from what Linux runs on this box ? From time to
time I think, I should learn codeing ... but many things are like the holy
grail.