[talk] Ike's OpenBSD laptop meeting

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Mon Feb 2 07:45:13 EST 2015


On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 07:41:25AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 07:06:11PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 06:56:56PM -0500, Isaac Levy wrote:
> > > Maybe...,
> > > 
> > > > On Feb 1, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> 
> > > 
> > > This *might* be the USB ports themselves, as the kernel takes over, OpenBSD doesn't currently support usb 3.0- which is all over on Lenovo kit.  Typically, the inner fin on a usb3 port is blue.
> > > 
> 
> Yup, that's what it was.  Changing ports fixed the problem. 
> (There were no USB3.0 ports, but the port that I'd used didn't work with
> OpenBSD.  Next step is to play with the wireless, either the builtin or the
> Edimax 7811UN.  That will probably have to wait, but at least I know it
> works with OpenBSD. 
> 
> Thanks Ike!

Bah, sent to soon.  (After the install but before the first reboot)
Upon reboot, it fails.  Probably slightly flakey hardware. 
At this point I don't have time to do further troubleshooting, I may do so
further down the road.

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