Upgrade from 10.4 to 11.1 : a couple of things
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:13 am
I've just finished the upgrade to 11.1 from 10.4 following the freebsd method. I've found a couple of things don't work as expected. Maybe it could be useful for other users or taken into account for ghostbsd new installs.
1) wlan0 doesn't attach to my wifi router. This is because wlan0 device is created (from iwn0) with default option "regdomain FCC". This prevents the wlan0 can connect to some channels (i.e. channel 12 or channel 32). So, at least for users in Europe, this should be added to rc.conf:
Despite I live in Europe I put "country us", but what really makes the trick is "regdomain NONE". Maybe this should be added to new GhostBSD 11.x installs for Europe users.
2) virtualbox in "host-only adapter" mode seems to fail. Host and guest can't talk each other despite of belonging to same network (in my case 192.168.56.0). It's not a firewall problem. In a forum I've seen another virtualbox networking issue and seems to be solved after building "virtualbox-ose-kmod" from ports. I haven't still test it.
VirtualBox performance seems to be ok and Networkmgr seems to work very well too (not much tests indeed).
And finally a small issue with "Update Station". After upgrade to 11.1 "update station" is continuously throwing messages about a 10.4 Release upgrade, but the system is fully upgraded to 11.1. How can I prevent this?
BR
Jes
1) wlan0 doesn't attach to my wifi router. This is because wlan0 device is created (from iwn0) with default option "regdomain FCC". This prevents the wlan0 can connect to some channels (i.e. channel 12 or channel 32). So, at least for users in Europe, this should be added to rc.conf:
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create_args_wlan0="country us regdomain NONE"
2) virtualbox in "host-only adapter" mode seems to fail. Host and guest can't talk each other despite of belonging to same network (in my case 192.168.56.0). It's not a firewall problem. In a forum I've seen another virtualbox networking issue and seems to be solved after building "virtualbox-ose-kmod" from ports. I haven't still test it.
VirtualBox performance seems to be ok and Networkmgr seems to work very well too (not much tests indeed).
And finally a small issue with "Update Station". After upgrade to 11.1 "update station" is continuously throwing messages about a 10.4 Release upgrade, but the system is fully upgraded to 11.1. How can I prevent this?
BR
Jes