For the Precision, I fortunately had an Intel NIC (Precision M4700 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/-5Vbi5vhbms) but experienced the Broadcom pains too. Here's some ideas:
You can get an RTL8187 for about $5 on eBay, works great. I would remove the Broadcom wifi card and swap in a Realtek wifi card, disable the integrated NIC ethernet card in Bios, and install Qubes in legacy mode - not UEFI (in case you need Grub for recovery options later). In Bios, this should be in System configuration, Integrated NIC and uncheck those boxes (check the whole menu for other locations too). If you need ethernet, then after install you can look online on how to install the specific Broadcom drivers into sys-net VM's template (if you can find a safe source). Then reboot into bios and re-enable the ethernet NIC, and after boot in the Qubes sys-net VM settings move the PCI bridge for the ethernet controller into the "selected" column and try restarting the VM and using the ethernet card. If it works reboot to see if everything is still successful. If it won't boot, then just disable ethernet again in Bios and try maybe switching the sys-net VM template to Debian and installing the drivers there in case you get the support. On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 4:35:06 PM UTC-4, craig....@gmail.com wrote: > > I am having at boot problem with my Qubes OS 3.2. When I boot up I enter > the disk password and the boot process continues until it gets to the > line... > > A start job is running for Qubes NetVM startup (32s / no limit) > > And it hangs. The HDD turns off and the computer will stay here never > booting or shutting down until you force it to turn off. Anyone have an > idea of what is going on and how to fix it? > > Thank you, > > Craig > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/cbc291a6-257b-4551-9092-d240f3f238b2%40googlegroups.com.
