[talk] OpenBSD on iBook G4

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:13:13PM -0400, Robert Menes wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I successfully installed OpenBSD 6.0 on my iBook G4. I'm packing it along
> for tomorrow.
> 
> If possible, I'd like to get a little assistance with a couple of little
> projects I want to do with
> it, namely switching the desktop environment for something nicer like Xfce
> and getting Wifi
> completely working (I installed the necessary firmware packages but can't
> seem to get
> ifconfig to see any ESSIDs).

One thing that I've found, at least with the iwn drivers is that they don't
work with a hidden WPA2 network.  (Someone on daemonforums had a similar
experience).  Not knowing your situation, I don't know if that's relevant.


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Scott Robbins
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