On Sat, Jan 03, 2026 at 11:20:04AM +0000, requiem. wrote: > I managed to find and re-flash the stock F.16 BIOS version from HP > (usually don't trust those 3rd party "driver installer" sites but it > came through this time). The whitelist is back (yay, I guess), but with > the wi-fi card removed I've managed to run some more tests. As I opened > up the case I also installed a new CMOS battery, just to be safe. > > On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:28:07 +0000 Crystal > Kolipe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [ 1.023181] wmihp0 at acpiwmi0: HP WMI mappings > > > [ 1.023181] wmihp0: autoconfiguration error: failed to get data > > > for event 0x80: AE_BAD_DATA > > This seems to be the case also with the stock BIOS. dmesg.boot on > NetBSD still has the same error after flashing the stock F.16 BIOS. > > > > Just brwowsing through the dmesg I notice the CMOS clock is way off. > > > Possibly a dead battery. Would that cause issues? > > > > Probably not the cause of this specific problem, but in general a > > faulty CMOS battery can potentially cause all sorts of non-obvious > > and difficult to identify issues, so if you can replace it that would > > probably be a good idea. > > I did, well, didn't seem to make a difference. Clock keeps time at > least. > > > For testing purposes only and to try to gather more information, can > > you try booting the OpenBSD installer and disabling the acpi driver > > in the bootloader? > > > Dropping to config with `boot -c` and then calling `disable acpi` gets > me a working installer. Attaching a dmesg for this one too. >
Sorry, I'm lost here. To summarize: 1. you had a configuration that worked before. 2. you changed a bunch of devices and flashed some hacked/sketchy bios 3. things broke I don't understand the dmesg pastes above, they don't look like openbsd. I would recommend you start undoing the changes you made one at a time, and tell us which change breaks things. And if it's the hacked/sketchy bios then you might be SOL. It's too hard to diagnose "I changed a bunch of things and now nothing works, please help". PS at this point I don't even grok from the mail above if reverting the BIOS change fixed anything. It seems like you're replying to multiple threads. -ml
