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. -- 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/40132bbc-f418-4899-8157-9fd2d898ed8e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
