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!


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