installfest statuses: Asus S400C

[James E Keenan]

On 1/27/14 11:15 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
> No one from the installfests posted anything yet, so I thought I'd take
> it upon myself to post...
>
[snip]
>
> Tonight we dealt with an Asus S400C.  This laptop is six months or so
> old, and a full UEFI nightmare.  It takes a bunch of reboots and power
> downs to deal with UEFI and BIOS settings.  That took a good hour of
> tinkering to get things to recognize the USB with the install media, and
> a few more reboots to get it to boot back from the disks.  If this is
> the future of laptops, then the future is grim.
>
> (yes, I'm aware of the FreeBSD Foundation's grant for dealing with UEFI,
> but don't forget it's an ugly road we're all being forced down. . .)
>
> After finally getting a recent OpenBSD snapshot to boot on the Asus
> S400C, *no* physical network devices were listed in ifconfig.  The wired
> is an Attansic AR8161, and the wireless is Atheros AR9485, and were
> recognized out of the message log.
>

http://nycbug.org/?action=dmesgd&dmesgid=2518

Please let me know if that looks complete.

ifconfig output attached.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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