On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 01:07:25PM +0000, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 03:04:59AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > I am sending you a whole hardware probe of my ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405MA > > because I wish to run OpenBSD as my daily driver ! I hope I somehow can > > help with mailing this hardware probe for others too. > > Back in October you sent a similar mail to -misc, and were advised that it > would be much more helpful to send information directly related to OpenBSD > rather than hardware probes from other operating systems. > > * Have you tried to install OpenBSD on this machine? > > * If so, what happened when you tried? > > * Unexpected error messages? > * Incomplete hardware support? > > Sending hardware information gathered from an OS other than OpenBSD is usually > only useful if the system is unable to even boot the OpenBSD installer. I can only second what Crystal says here.
ASUS Zenbooks (or at least the ones I have tried) have been "mostly harmless", as in, they would boot the OpenBSD/amd64 installer just fine, but there might be one or two devices that could be too recent for any developer to have gotten their hands on just yet, but not actually hard to fix when feeding relevant data to developers via bugs@. The other thing I encounterd was some firmare setting that was set to a weird default, but again that was actually easy to correct permanently. My (possibly a little overlong) field notes on a couple of ASUSes https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blog_wild_wild_world_of_windows.html is a few years old, but describes what is likely close to a worst-case scenario for what to expect for that particular hardware. All the best, Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
