On Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 9:11:34 PM UTC-8, John Smiley wrote: > I've been having head-banging issues with 4.0 and 4.0.1-rc1 ever since I > became a fledgling Qubes user a few weeks ago. I never did get Qubes working > well with Whonix 14 on the desktop. > > When 4.0.1-rc2 came out the other day, I made a new bootable USB stick with > it and replaced Ubuntu on my Thinkpad T480 with it. It booted and installed > without a hitch. Perfect first use impression (minus a point for nagging > about template updates that aren't there). > > Then I decided to do a reinstall (for the N thousanth time) on my X299-based > desktop. 4.0.1-rc2 fired right up. No problems whatsoever. It works like I > expected 4.0 and 4.0.1-rc1 to work. > > Then for the really impressive part. I have a Caldigit TS3 Plus that I like > to use to move all of the wire mess to it and have a single Thunderbolt3 wire > running from it to the T480. It provides lots of things but I use it for > power to my laptop (replacing the brick), Ethernet, Displayport for a second > monitor, and USB 3.1. After the 4.0.1-rc2 install went so well, I decided to > plug that bad boy in and watch Qubes fall to the ground writhing in agony. > > My expectations were not met. 4.0.1-rc2 handled it like a champ. I had to > do some minor fiddling with the display settings to get the second monitor > working via DP and after a bit of hunting around, I discovered that all I had > to do to get Ethernet working was to add the new Ethernet controller it saw > to sys-net. Shutdown the Whonix GW and sys-firewall, reboot sys-net, restart > sys-firewall and the Whonix GW, plug in my Ethernet cable and voila. It > works! > > Now the first question that comes to mind is, how much security did I throw > out the window when I plugged that Thunderbolt 3 hub in?
Oh and one more thing. Everything installed with default settings. No fiddling with kernelopts to get the Debian-9 template to boot on the X299 desktop by setting noxsave. -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/bb11bb26-4f07-4772-a1cf-6699a08a48ef%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
