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? -- 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/41c3b812-0e84-43d2-956c-208a263f7e0a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
