On Tue, September 11, 2018 3:56 pm, Guy Frank wrote: > Apparently a new post will not be necessary. I did some digging on this > users group and learned that the following command would enable my > ethernet controller (so it wasn't a driver issue at all): > > qvm-pci attach --persistent --option permissive=true --option > no-strict-reset=true sys-net dom0:00_1f.6 > > So, it took me only about 55 hours of tearing my hair out to get Qubes > running on my computer. Admittedly, I'm not an IT professional, but I > know a fair amount about linux systems, which I've been using for 12 > years.
It took me days as well to figure out that no-rs hack and get Qubes installed the first time. > If the goal is that more people adopt Qubes, it really should be a lot > easier to install (and hopefully won't run into difficult bugs while > running--have already had two boot ups where I couldn't get the qubes > manager or any qube other than dom0 running. error was something like > 'unable to open line 9 in qubes.qubes.manager'). Ok, so there are bugs > in the UEFI firmware, but shouldn't it be possible to do a bit of testing > in the code to see if the bug is there and then automatically implement > some of the fixes on the UEFI troubleshooting page? And shouldn't an OS > be able to recognize and run an Ethernet card w/o the user issuing root > commands? > > Well, easy for me to say--I don't have the programming skills to actually > contribute to Qubes and I realize the development team for Qubes isn't > large and has limited resources. I persisted w/ Qubes because it seems > to have some marvelous capabilities. So, kudos to the development team, > albeit some frustration as well. Agree this is a good goal, but afraid to say I'm not a good enough coder either to tackle it... Glad you got it working finally! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/27faf4b5fcce81c9b75d63dacb5af74b.squirrel%40tt3j2x4k5ycaa5zt.onion. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
