Re: [qubes-users] Re: Broadcom wireless driver issue.

2019-03-10 Thread Ivan Ivanov
> I got close to quitting Qubes since I was not able to get the wifi working > properly but everything is working great right now. Glad for you ;-) Although the proper solution is to get rid of Broadcom in favor of something better (like Atheros ath9k), also for the security reasons... -- You

Re: [qubes-users] g505s BIOS settings for installing 4.0.1

2019-02-26 Thread Ivan Ivanov
On 25 Feb 2019 23:44, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > > On 01/10/2019 10:27 AM, cyber.citi...@tutanota.com wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'd like to install Qubes 4.0.1 on a g505s, but the installation routine is > > telling me that IOMMU/Vt-d/AMD-Vi, and Interrupt Remapping are not > >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Broadcom wireless driver issue.

2019-02-22 Thread Ivan Ivanov
22 Feb 2019 at 20:11, wrote: > > I have the same wireless chipset BCM4331 and just got it working. > Thank you for sharing your solution. Hope you understand that Broadcom chips require the closed source binaries at firmware/drivers which could contain the backdoors - and that is why they are

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505S Coreboot

2018-05-22 Thread Ivan Ivanov
1=2 . More messages from this author - https://marc.info/?a=13724479713=1=2 Best regards, Ivan 2018-05-22 15:34 GMT+03:00 Ivan Ivanov <qmaster...@gmail.com>: > I think: at the moment, the only possible way to become confident that > a new 15h microcode at linux-firmware.git is

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505S Coreboot

2018-05-22 Thread Ivan Ivanov
I think: at the moment, the only possible way to become confident that a new 15h microcode at linux-firmware.git is the same (or at least close to being the same) as being offered to us under an NDA, without signing this NDA, is to install this microcode to your coreboot and then run some tests to

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505S Coreboot

2018-05-17 Thread Ivan Ivanov
microcodes, as well as some other older ones, should be possible to obtain without any NDAs. We will keep you updated Best regards, Ivan Ivanov 2018-05-16 5:50 GMT+03:00 awokd <aw...@elude.in>: > On Sat, May 12, 2018 7:58 pm, matthewwbradl...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Saturday, May 12,

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505S Coreboot

2018-04-10 Thread Ivan Ivanov
ANYO cells are the best performance Best regards, Ivan Ivanov aka qmastery 2018-04-04 4:53 GMT+03:00 <qubesthrowa...@gmail.com>: > Among other suggestions, I added an 8-cell battery to my G505s. What kind of > battery life are people getting with these? Mine seems hardly better than &

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505S Coreboot

2018-04-01 Thread Ivan Ivanov
t even have g++ in its' toolchains, so I'm unsure how to merge them together. And using a "random g++" provided by some distro does not guarantee that this will be bootable. Maybe you know a great way of how to put C++ code into coreboot and make it compile? Best regards, Ivan Ivanov aka qm

Re: [qubes-users] Intel ME Backdoor, called Odin's Eye

2018-01-07 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Yes, hopefully one day we would see more leaks, that could help us to truly get rid of ME ;) Meanwhile, perhaps the only thing we could do is to stockpile those few computer models that are both coreboot (or libreboot) supported and without Intel ME / AMD PSP 2018-01-07 20:01 GMT+00:00 haaber

Re: [qubes-users] Intel ME Backdoor, called Odin's Eye

2018-01-07 Thread Ivan Ivanov
*not all the whistleblowers 2018-01-07 20:22 GMT+00:00 Ivan Ivanov <qmaster...@gmail.com>: > Yes, sadly not whistleblowers are reasonable, but we need any > whistleblowers - not just the Snowden tier! ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [qubes-users] Intel ME Backdoor, called Odin's Eye

2018-01-07 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Yes, sadly not whistleblowers are reasonable, but we need any whistleblowers - not just the Snowden tier! ;-) -- 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

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2018-01-06 Thread Ivan Ivanov
fee Best regards, Ivan Ivanov 2018-01-07 0:27 GMT+03:00 taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com>: > On 01/05/2018 07:00 PM, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: > >> On Fri, January 5, 2018 11:19 pm, 'Emil Novik' via qubes-users wrote: >>> >>> Does any G505s owner

[qubes-users] Re: [coreboot] G505s with Coreboot unable to run any version of Qubes

2017-12-30 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Hi Emil, thank you very much for your report. Regarding Qubes 3.2 : at the Qubes HCL list I wrote: "after Qubes R3.2 installation it cant boot - cant reach GRUB Boot Menu because MBR (or GRUB) is corrupted. Use grub2-install to fix it (read more) Everything else is OK "

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-30 Thread Ivan Ivanov
w Year :) Ivan 2017-12-30 3:20 GMT+03:00 taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com>: > On 12/29/2017 06:39 PM, awokd wrote: > >> On Fri, December 29, 2017 11:32 pm, Ivan Ivanov wrote: >>> >>> 2017-12-30 1:57 GMT+03:00 taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com>: >>>

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread Ivan Ivanov
it soon ;) 2017-12-30 2:25 GMT+03:00 awokd <aw...@danwin1210.me>: > On Fri, December 29, 2017 10:50 pm, Ivan Ivanov wrote: >> awokd, Thank you very much for your microcode research ;) >> >> Please remind me, which version of G505S do you have: >> integrat

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread Ivan Ivanov
2017-12-30 1:57 GMT+03:00 taii...@gmx.com : > I am glad there are still some good people in the coreboot community. > > Thanks for the info, yeah I have put up a stink about it many times but it > seemed like no one cared. I have been moderated from the list many times for >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Lenovo G505s with Coreboot and Qubes R4-rc3 fails to boot

2017-12-29 Thread Ivan Ivanov
awokd, Thank you very much for your microcode research ;) Please remind me, which version of G505S do you have: integrated /// integrated + HD 8570M /// integrated + R5 M230 ? Last time we experimented with Mike, we were 100% sure we extracted vgabios'es correctly, in the best possible way, but