Warner's Random Hacking Blog

We've released the next beta snapshot of FreeNAS. You can read the release notes for all the details. Here's a highlight of the iss...

Just after the release of the first beta, a couple of serious problems came to life. As such, we've respun the release to fix these iss...

iXsystems is pleased to announced FreeNAS 8.0 Beta. FreeNAS 8.0 has undergone a complete rewrite. We've redesigned the GUI to be easier...

I've recently been given the task of moving some software from FreeBSD 4.x to FreeBSD 6.x on a consulting basis. This move was very sim...

After a few unforeseen delays, we have a new FreeNAS snapshot available over at source forge . As an experiment, we are distributing these ...

Recently, I tried to get PC-BSD onto an older system. This system didn't support booting off of USB, nor did it support swapping in a D...

If you are following the commit messages to FreeNAS, you'll already know that FreeNAS 8 is shaping up nicely. If not, allow me to summa...

I just gave Will Backman over at BSDTalk an interview on FreeNAS 8, NanoBSD, ZFS and embedding FreeBSD. You can check it out at the BSDtalk...

My blog has been somewhat quiet lately. I've been busy with other things lately. The biggest of the other things is FreeNAS. iXsystems...

I've been getting questions about what TBEMD means in my commits to FreeBSD head. First, I'll tell you the name. TBE stands for TAR...

I spent a lot of time before the 8.1 release adding code to transparently map COMPAT_IA32 to COMPAT_FREEBSD32. I tested all kinds of differ...

I finally got frustrated by the inability of /etc/resolv.conf to do what I'd say in pseudo code: if domain==example.com; then nameserver...

Hans Peter Selasky has been very busy adding support for web cams and other usb video devices. We tried a number of different cameras that ...

Here's a quick note on how to net boot the Cavium EBT3000 board running uboot. The Cavium kernel is still a work in progress as I resto...

After hitting a dry hole with my DIR-615 REV A1, I thought I'd try the DIR-615 REV C1 that I have. It has an Atherose AR9130 in it. Th...

Yesterday I burned a couple of hours playing with the DIR-615 REV A1 that I have had for ages. FreeBSD runs on the Marvell Orion SoC that...

Greetings to one and all. As you have read elsewhere, I recently merged all the changes from the projects/mips branch onto head. In other ...

For years I've had a love/hate relationship with my wireless card. On the one hand, it allows me to roam. On the other I like being ab...

The base/projects/mips branch has been merged into base/head. The merge is complete and the sanity tests have passed. The code has booted ...

Recently, I started hacking a TiVo HR10-250 that I've had for a million years unhacked. Back when I first got it, there were dozens of t...