On Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 4:17:46 PM UTC-5, awokd wrote:
> 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!

Whew, it's not just me :-} .  Thanks awokd.

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