Re: Power consumption of Pinebook Pro running OpenBSD

2024-05-04 Thread Brett Mahar
>The lack of hardware accelerated video >*anything* on the PBP (unless this has changed in the last couple of releases) >will murder your battery life and make >videos rather stuttery. > Thanks Daniel, Based on your info I will do the opposite of what I had planned, and install OpenBSD on my

Re: Power consumption of Pinebook Pro running OpenBSD

2024-05-04 Thread Daniel Wilkins
On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 05:56:10PM +1000, Brett Mahar wrote: > Hi misc, > > I am getting a Pinebook Pro soon and just wondering how many hours the > battery tends to last from a full charge with OpenBSD? I ran openbsd on my PBP for a while. To answer your question: a lot less than Linux. The

Re: obsd wifi

2024-05-04 Thread Chris Petrik
Hello, You need to pre search for devices before you buy or you will run into this. A device driver needs the code and the fw sometimes it's not the code but the fw luckily OpenBSD has fw_uodate which does an awesome job. But if you want to use any BSD you need to either do a approps for

Re: Desktop performance

2024-05-04 Thread Chris Petrik
Hello, The best docs I've seen are the ones in OpenBSD they praise to provide very nice docs, Linux by fare sucks in this regard the issue is most people who provide howtos are just kids who try to setup a web server and document how they did it, as well as you get 45 people replying the same

Re: Desktop performance

2024-05-04 Thread Kirill A . Korinsky
On Sat, 04 May 2024 22:32:46 +0200, Chris Bennett wrote: > > My luck with web searches is about zero. Even swapping to different > search engines just gives me crap that's too old or ridiculously wrong. > I have a strong feeling that LLM models adds too much "new" text that makes the OpenBSD

Re: Desktop performance

2024-05-04 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 06:19:54PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Hm. Back in the day I did some conference tutorials on "transition to the most > recent OpenBSD release", with some desktop/laptop oriented tweaks I had found > useful myself. Some of those tweaks may still apply, but some are

Re: Desktop performance

2024-05-04 Thread Manfred Koch
Hi, There is no problems with performance, only tested the settings, nevertheless I will undo the changes to the default . I appreciate your recommendations. By the way the website https://www.nechtan.io/articles/openbsd_minimalist_desktop.html comes with the desktop suggestion. By then and

Re: obsd wifi

2024-05-04 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 03:01:54PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > I have just installed OpenBSD in my brand new notebook. It is a dell > notebook that came with just a wifi NIC. How do i discover the name o my > wifi nic ? ifconfig with no arguments should list all network interfaces the kernel has

Re: obsd wifi

2024-05-04 Thread Kirill A . Korinsky
On Sat, 04 May 2024 21:39:18 +0200, Manuel Solis wrote: > > You could check your interfaces with "ifconfig", then you could see which > interface you have, the most common are iwm0, iwn0, or something like that, > Here the catch: they need a firmware and system needs an internet to get one. --

Re: obsd wifi

2024-05-04 Thread Manuel Solis
Hello Gustavo, You could check your interfaces with "ifconfig", then you could see which interface you have, the most common are iwm0, iwn0, or something like that, Then you could save your SSIDs info at /etc/hostname.interface, ex: /etc/hostname.iwm0 nwid LAN1 wpakey PASSWORD dhcp For

Re: obsd wifi

2024-05-04 Thread Kenneth Gober
On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 2:05 PM Gustavo Rios wrote: > I have just installed OpenBSD in my brand new notebook. It is a dell > notebook that came with just a wifi NIC. How do i discover the name o my > wifi nic ? > If your nic is supported, it will appear in the list of configured network

Re: obsd wifi

2024-05-04 Thread Chris Narkiewicz
On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 03:40:18PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > how to install via pkg_add if i have no network connection ? dmesg and ifconfig should give you a name of the wifi chipset already. To install required packages and firmware, buy a USB adapter. They are $5 and work out of the box. I

Re: obsd wifi

2024-05-04 Thread deich...@placebonol.com
ummm, did you try ifconfig? On May 4, 2024 12:01:54 PM MDT, Gustavo Rios wrote: >Hi folks! > >I have just installed OpenBSD in my brand new notebook. It is a dell >notebook that came with just a wifi NIC. How do i discover the name o my >wifi nic ? > >Thanks a lot. > >-- >The lion and the tiger

Re: obsd wifi

2024-05-04 Thread Gustavo Rios
how to install via pkg_add if i have no network connection ? Em sáb., 4 de mai. de 2024 às 15:25, Mikhail Pchelin escreveu: > On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 03:01:54PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > > Hi folks! > > > > I have just installed OpenBSD in my brand new notebook. It is a dell > > notebook

obsd wifi

2024-05-04 Thread Gustavo Rios
Hi folks! I have just installed OpenBSD in my brand new notebook. It is a dell notebook that came with just a wifi NIC. How do i discover the name o my wifi nic ? Thanks a lot. -- The lion and the tiger may be more powerful, but the wolves do not perform in the circus

Re: Desktop performance

2024-05-04 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 03:41:28PM +0200, Manfred Koch wrote: > These specifications origin from a website > > I could need your judgments to these settings, so that I can use it. It would be interesting to hear which website recommended those settings, just for reference. It's hard to come up

Re: Desktop performance

2024-05-04 Thread Brian Conway
On Sat, May 4, 2024, at 8:41 AM, Manfred Koch wrote: > Hi community, > > I'm a newbie and have a few questions according performance in > workstation. The following changes I've made in sysctl.conf: > kern.maxproc=4096 > kern.maxthread=4096 > kern.maxfiles=32768 > > further in the login.conf: > >

Desktop performance

2024-05-04 Thread Manfred Koch
Hi community, I'm a newbie and have a few questions according performance in workstation. The following changes I've made in sysctl.conf: kern.maxproc=4096 kern.maxthread=4096 kern.maxfiles=32768 further in the login.conf: staff:\     :datasize-cur=4096M:\     :datasize-max=infinity:\    

Power consumption of Pinebook Pro running OpenBSD

2024-05-04 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi misc, I am getting a Pinebook Pro soon and just wondering how many hours the battery tends to last from a full charge with OpenBSD? Use case is some web browsing, light code compilation and coding in terminal, watching occasional tv show on mpv. Brett. -- Sent from my Android