Running out of time, I reverted it to Freebsd-14, where I discovered: rtwn0-usb, onboard wifi, failures most likely due low battery life Even if wlan1 showed "associated" , internet did not come up for some reason... I finally got ethernet with em0. ifconfig: route add default: after count...

Following web examples,
ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default 192.168.0.1 # the lan part on the router
" network is unreachable"
....
also dug out an eu0/axe0 usb-to-ethernet, recieved "device not configured" at connection attempts

I've a dell latitude with an onboard iwm0, [ no iwlwifi.ko on the system ], and a small usb dongle rtwn0. going thru all manner of configurations, 'service netif start' has wpa_supplicant giving up. ............................. 3 entries for the rtwn in loader.conf were not enough. wlan1="WPA ...

I ran across this issue. [ the title of the thread ]. update of 7/25 user cannot login after entering the correct password, it cycles back to enter the correct password again. .... pending test: /usr/local/bin/glib-compile-schemas /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas [ from a linux forum, so just guess...

I installed ghost twice and ran it for a few hours and then had a load of problems (hanging, I do not remember what because I was so annoyed and disappointed). During the installation sequence a screen came up with a number of possible selections (Radeon cards, Vesa etc) and I selected on and it wo...

Probably, but am short of time to setup an xinitrc. I found 'lightdm' after logging in as root, gets to the MATE desktop as usual, so problem fully solved.

Worked. Now remains to test...
start MATE by some mate-session OR lightdm command, or setup xinitrc to do the same...

That answers my question perfectly if it works. Won't have time to test for a few days... thanks.

bump. no setting to login in at bootup NOT into X ??? ...

/ [ vs var tmp usr ] have to be in a primary parttion AFAIK * unless * some boot loader gets around that, don't know if any do.