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A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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This 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?

Intel 7260 comes in mini PCI form and is readily available if you feel like replacing the card. Works fine with iwm(4).

Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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I like the subject matter, but the bold italic typeface is very difficult to read.

Haha. They noticed your kvetching.

> Avoid making yourself look stupid! For those readers commenting on third-party sites that you don't like our color scheme and transparency effects, use the THEME SELECTOR to choose one of TEN options that suits you. It's been there for SIX YEARS! Also - please comment directly to US via the contact page, as we don't habitually monitor third party discussion forums, thanks!

Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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post #10
post #7

This 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…

dkms helps with keeping a module working across Linux kernel upgrades (I use RTL8812AU, but RTL8814AU is problematic [1] being broken. I also use dkms + ZFS on Proxmox and Ubuntu), but other than that don't upgrade Linux kernel, unless you have to. I guess OpenBSD doesn't include the binary blobs, but back in the days (about 10-15 years ago) I used to have a stable WLAN on OpenBSD, on a Soekris. This was 802.11n (later rebranded WiFi 4), I don't now about 802.11ac / WiFi 5. Worked perfectly fine. IIRC it was either Atheros or IWL.

[1] https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8814au

Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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The layout of this website makes the content barely readable. Reader mode fixes it though.

They responded by saying you make yourself look stupid by complaining about their 10 themes. That and the fact it takes months to write a little wiki sums up the use of that site.

Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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post #4

I like the subject matter, but the bold italic typeface is very difficult to read.

Haha. They noticed your kvetching. > Avoid making yourself look stupid! For those readers commenting on third-party sites that you don't like our color scheme and transparency effects, use the THEME SELECTOR to choose one of TEN options that suits you. It's been there for SIX YEARS! Also - please comment directly to US via the contact page, as we don't habitually monitor third party discussion forums, thanks!

The problem is: 1) Knowing that theme selector even exists without their angry little paragraph pointing it out. 2) All of the other themes are equally awful.

Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha. They noticed your kvetching. > Avoid making yourself look stupid! For those readers commenting on third-party sites that you don't like our color scheme and transparency effects, use the THEME SELECTOR to choose one of TEN options that suits you. It's been there for SIX YEARS! Also - please comment directly to US via the contact page, as we don't habitually monitor third party discussion forums, thanks!

The problem is: 1) Knowing that theme selector even exists without their angry little paragraph pointing it out. 2) All of the other themes are equally awful.

That's what I love about the Theme Selector there. Every option is passive aggressively the same.

Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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post #16
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is: 1) Knowing that theme selector even exists without their angry little paragraph pointing it out. 2) All of the other themes are equally awful.

That's what I love about the Theme Selector there. Every option is passive aggressively the same.

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." (mutatis mutandis)

Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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post #7

This 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?

The Asus USB-N10 NANO adaptors work. They are easy to find and pretty cheap. Due to a licens chance from RealTek I also believe fireware will be included in OpenBSD 7.1, so you don't have download it in advance or start up on a wired connection.

See: https://man.openbsd.org/man4/urtwn.4

Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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post #4

I 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.

about:reader?url=https://www.exoticsilicon.com/jay/reckless_guide_to_openbsd/

Re: A Reckless Guide to OpenBSD

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post #4

I like the subject matter, but the bold italic typeface is very difficult to read.

Haha. They noticed your kvetching. > Avoid making yourself look stupid! For those readers commenting on third-party sites that you don't like our color scheme and transparency effects, use the THEME SELECTOR to choose one of TEN options that suits you. It's been there for SIX YEARS! Also - please comment directly to US via the contact page, as we don't habitually monitor third party discussion forums, thanks!

The problem is that all the themes are terrible.

Thank goodness for gemini.

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