A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
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A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
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Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
#2The layout of this website makes the content barely readable.
Reader mode fixes it though.
Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
#3The layout of this website makes the content barely readable. Reader mode fixes it though.
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
#4I like the subject matter, but the bold italic typeface is very difficult to read.
Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
#5I like the subject matter, but the bold italic typeface is very difficult to read.
I agree.
It would help if the website owner added a way to load the site with a simplified style.
Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
#6I like the subject matter, but the bold italic typeface is very difficult to read.
The thing is that the website is kind of close to be a decent minimalistic web (it displays quite ok on my phone), but the font choices and the transparencies make the reading experience a bit miserable for me.
Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
#7This is nice. I recently experimented with OpenBSD on a Librebooted X200. Took some time to figure out how to boot it with Grub. And then it turned out that the particular Wifi chipset wasn't supported. But this gives me some motivation to get a USB Wifi dongle and continue. Any suggestions for one that works?
Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
#8This is nice. I recently experimented with OpenBSD on a Librebooted X200. Took some time to figure out how to boot it with Grub. And then it turned out that the particular Wifi chipset wasn't supported. But this gives me some motivation to get a USB Wifi dongle and continue. Any suggestions for one that works?
See this man page: https://man.openbsd.org/?query=wireless&apropos=1
Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
#9I like the subject matter, but the bold italic typeface is very difficult to read.
Fear not, the website has a theme selector: https://www.exoticsilicon.com/themes. I quite like the 1980s theme.
Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD
#10This is nice. I recently experimented with OpenBSD on a Librebooted X200. Took some time to figure out how to boot it with Grub. And then it turned out that the particular Wifi chipset wasn't supported. But this gives me some motivation to get a USB Wifi dongle and continue. Any suggestions for one that works?
Good luck. If you find a reliable way to find them then please shout that far and wide.
I tried about 10 different wifi usb dongles and all but one were completely unsupported or unusably unreliable (as in 5-10% packet loss, and sometimes needing unplug/replug) on OpenBSD.
All the guidance I found was "just get one with this chipset". But it's not that simple. It's usually not listed on product pages, so you have to guess.
And even the ones that do have the right chip can be very unreliable. Granted, most that I tried were super cheap. But those super cheap ones worked fine on Linux.
In the end I found one that worked properly with OpenBSD. Old and unbranded, so it wouldn't even help you.
I don't think there's a single 802.11ac USB dongle with free drivers. On Linux there are separately downloadable kernel modules, but I've found that to be a nightmare not necessarily to get working, but to keep working across kernel upgrades.
So my suggestion is to look at supported chips, try to guess which products have that chip, and buy a few. Hopefully one works.