FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 SOEKRIS Image

One of the best things about the Pi is that it’s small, and portable.  It’s very tempting to use it on wireless networks, unattended.  Sadly, in the real world, any wireless network can be hacked, and any device on wireless should be considered vulnerable.  So, pf is an easy way to harden your Pi. The…

I got interested in building Crochet images for Chromebook.  The first step, naturally is to build U-boot for Chromebook. In order to build U-boot, you’ll need to have already installed gmake gcc You can get these from the ports tree.  You’ll also need xdev, the FreeBSD cross-compiler toolkit. I started with the latest U-boot 2014…

If you happen to have had an Apple][, you might be interested in retrieving your data from old DOS 3.3 floppies.  Or maybe you’re just interested in retrocomputing and downloaded some floppies at Apple2Online.  In my case, I had an ulterior motive.  I’ve been learning about FreeBSD device drivers and was wondering how difficult it…

Some printers, like the one I have (HP 8600 Pro), have “Print-to-Folder” capability.   Unfortunately, I have no Windows server, only a FreeBSD box to print to.  I can mount folders from the FreeBSD box on my MacBook.. if I can get files to scan there.   So, to do that, I need a Samba…

My preferred server OS is FreeBSD. Each time I install it, I have to go through numerous steps to secure it. So, to avoid that effort, and to make sure I get it right each time, I’ve created an Ansible playbook to automate the entire process. You can learn about it here. Some of the…

I’ve been learning about FreeBSD kernel development, and discovering that, not surprisingly, it’s very, very slow to compile on a Raspberry Pi.  So, I decided to figure out how to compile the Pi kernel on a nice fast AMD-64. Firstly, get the kernel sources to a subdirectory under a non-root user profile: mkdir fbsd cd…