Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on torsmo (see conky(1) manual). In this tutorial you will learn how to setup conky on both Archlinux and FreeBSD. Here’s what mine look like in FreeBSD. In my Archlinux machine it looks pretty much the same.
In Archlinux:
$ sudo pacman -S conky
In FreeBSD via package manager:
I had an old laptop that I tried installing FreeBSD, unfortunately, I totally forgot it uses an old Broadcom BCM4313 chip for a wireless network. This chip for some reason is a pain in the rear in FreeBSD mainly because Broadcom doesn’t consider much writing an open-source driver for this chip. Anyway, so I just installed Archlinux with it.
By the way, for those who would like to get a new laptop and install FreeBSD in it, I would strongly advise you to find one with either Atheros or Realtek chip in it. Saves you some headache.
Here’s how to make the Broadcom BCM4313 working for Archlinux. There are some other ways to do it for sure but in my case, I just went with the broadcom_wl_dkms and wpa_supplicant packages. You would also need to install linux-headers if you don’t already have it.
Setting up a wireless adapter on FreeBSD may not be as straightforward as it does in Linux, at times. I actually had several attempts before I finally get it to work. Below is a simple tutorial (that worked for me) on how you can setup a USB wireless adapter on FreeBSD 11. Let’s get started.
First, you need to identify your wireless adapter. On FreeBSD 11 and newer versions you can check for your wireless adapter by typing this command:
$ sysctl net.wlan.devices
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