[qubes-users] fyi - System76 Will Ship 2 Linux Laptops w Coreboot
No need to even install your own coreboot, and risk bricking your brand new system. 1) Galago Pro is apparently already on the Qubes HCL 2) Darter Pro - not yet on the HCL Currently on preorder, so I doubt anyone has tried this one with Qubes yet (32 GB DDR4, Intel UHD Graphics, i7-10510U) https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/10/system76-will-begin-shipping-2-linux-laptops-with-coreboot-based-open-source-firmware/ Just wish they had docking station options. Unfortunately the 'Thelio Massive' desktop systems still have no coreboot option. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/69b92830-ee22-c3c7-e55c-1b65f6a01202%40jhuapl.edu.
[qubes-users] Re: Easiest way to redirect USB to a VM?
after reading carefully I found the option to automatically add the keyboard and create the sys-usb vm On Monday, October 7, 2019 at 2:04:05 AM UTC-3, Guerlan wrote: > > I tried to create sys-usb, and my keyboard stopped working. I then > rebooted and couldn t use keyboard to put my LUKS password. I had to > reinstall qubes entirely. > > Is there an easier way to pass USB from dom0 to a VM? I don' t want to > create a sys-usb and I don' t care too much about security in this level. I > just need to have my Android phone inside the virtual machine. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/ff51ed42-3a71-4acc-86ce-32253570c8e9%40googlegroups.com.
[qubes-users] Using Qubes on old hardware
Hi all I've been laid up for a while. My father brought me in a laptop but grabbed an old x220 i5 with an HDD. It wasn't *too* bad - everything worked but a bit slow to open qubes. Once open the qubes were perfectly usable. Fortunately, a friend picked up some others from my desk (Thanks Rani). So there I was, time on my hands, and 4 laptops - only 2 with drives though. :-( And it turned out that they were pretty much identical Qubes setups. So I put together some scripts for git and wget, a selenium session, and wrote a test plan. Cadged a screwdriver and got to work swapping out RAM and disks. I ran each test 10 times, and averaged results. The timings are: Login - Time from entering disk password to login screen Desktop - Time from entering password to KDE desktop Browser - Time from clicking Menu to open disposable web browser to loaded home page (www.qubes-os.org, of course) This required starting sys-net, Tor and disposableVM. Open in DispVM - 8 qubes running, including one streaming YouTube, one playing music from attached USB,one running selenium session. Measured time taken to open 42 page Word document in a disposableVM. And here are results, (hope this table works): === | i7 HDD | Login | Desktop | Browser | Open in DispVM | |==| | x220 16 | 80| 28 | 133 | 73 | |--| | x230 12 | 79| 27 | 136 | 51 | |--| | x230 16 | 77| 26 | 135 | 50 | ===| === | i7 SSD | Login | Desktop | Browser | Open in DispVM | |==| | x220 16 | 13| 04 | 034 | 18 | |--| | x230 12 | 12| 03 | 033 | 18 | |--| | x230 16 | 11| 03 | 033 | 16 | === === | i5 SSD | Login | Desktop | Browser | Open in DispVM | |==| | x220 16 | 13| 05 | 039 | 17 | === Completely unscientific, and undoubtedly ymmv. If it matters, the RAM was Crucial, so was SSD. The HDD was a WD Blue. It's obvious that switching to SSD makes *huge* performance difference. I was surprised how well the x220 performed, and the i5 too. But on the "Open" test you could hear the fan thrashing away on the i5. Ear plugs useful. There you are - pretty much what you'd expect. Add RAM if you can, but prioritise getting a good SSD. Conclusion - If money is tight, you can still get a good Qubes experience with an x220 or x230 - pick one up for less than $300 and start upgrading when you can. Incidentally, one of the x230s was corebooted. I really found it hard to see a difference in boot time from stock BIOS. Otherwise performance was much the same. unman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20191010154246.GA20286%40thirdeyesecurity.org.
[qubes-users] Is there a fix for constantly failing wifi?
I have a Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32) It constantly goes off. I tried the rmmod and insert from the qubes wifi page and it didn't work. I then discovered that simply turning it off and on in the tray icon works. However I have to do it every 15 mintutes, and if I download something huge (that is, I use a lot of wifi) it goess off and I have to restart it every 30 seconds, itś very annoying! Is there a way to fix it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/46b024fe-41f0-4e27-b5be-92352e58d0ac%40googlegroups.com.
Re: [qubes-users] laptop screen wont appear after closing lid
I did the HCL report and sent. I tried the manual sleep and it wont work, the same thing happens as when I close the lid: the keyboard goes off and the screen goes blank and nothing returns when I open. I tried pressing the power button but also didn't work. The workaround isn't good for me because my notebook has very limited battery, so I need for it to sleep while closed. I tried Fedora 30 and sleep worked perfectly. I just closed the lid and reopened and it worked. On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 7:52:03 PM UTC-3, Claudia wrote: > > Guerlan: > > Whenever I close the lid of the notebook, when I open again, I see the > > keyboard light lightning up but the screen never lights and I have to > > reboot. > > > > Is there a fix for it? > > > > It sounds like suspend/resume isn't working correctly on your laptop > under Qubes. Does the same thing happen when you click suspend from the > logout menu? > > As a workaround, open the Xfce Power Manager (Start -> System Tools -> > Power Manager) and change the lid switch to "do nothing." This way it > won't go into suspend when you close the lid, but it'll at least turn > off the screen. > > Something else to try: download Fedora 30 and boot into a live CD/USB, > and try suspend/resume (by closing the lid) from there, and see if the > screen comes back on. If it does, it probably means Qubes' dom0 (F25) is > too old for your hardware. > > Also it would help to know the make and model of your laptop. Ideally, > you can submit an HCL report: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/hcl/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/3a901720-bb25-44b1-ac81-d0f0085c66b7%40googlegroups.com.
Re: [qubes-users] Thunderbird Addon for launch attachments in dispVMs
Thank you Sven and Andrew. John On Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 7:44:10 PM UTC-4, Andrew David Wong wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 2019-10-03 4:39 PM, Sven Semmler wrote: > > On 10/3/19 3:05 PM, John Maher wrote: > >> All of a sudden Thunderbird (68.1.0) no longer has the Qubes > >> addon that allows the launching of attachments in dispVMs. Did > >> something change that I can change back? > > > > It's Thunderbird that changed, but the issue is already fixed. > > Update the thunderbird-qubes package from the current-testing repo > > and you're back in business! > > > > /Sven > > > > For further details, please see: > > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5318 > > - -- > Andrew David Wong (Axon) > Community Manager, Qubes OS > https://www.qubes-os.org > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > > iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEZQ7rCYX0j3henGH1203TvDlQMDAFAl2Wh7sACgkQ203TvDlQ > MDAbyQ/+MZGermCrWEBopfGZ78V4ld4e1fnhAmV43Gqkr1em4bu6puqgBmUZL3K+ > aO8RHbx4qcxNi4qdk+avbRy03DVf2u6lc7tRUsD77WMWYle55PtvGs09/+eX/igb > ZqPYa3Res0BKhLrvCaQVIAqrs3ql5LjjmFCNCRtNDqK93bo5zYI5cZjT2WhMl9tm > zBZNhzV9q/MrHTPpLcxZc1pHPU4kTVqa8TrBDxM6yrt2UnmNzxxRYGbenIFU2X0k > A0lcY3TgAXW9n0AOLWeTv5WYln7I8TrVN3CR7+lbXUt9pBAtS9w1LHYmGrKDK3/y > IkY9gxw+1JGBOzj7qtCF6tUl5yQN7HYPLhlbEkz4I2pEl62e98LeJf43wVMyyqNx > WCDVKUyqwrPgiJMpvw69Jo1czu/7DTeekewamZPAyN4e34ocnXMW8BqVPij9fjJn > S6DOc220rVH1QtAYIFGIrC0AxkJFxrTWrS1NMmefuOxW+Kjra80OCM1/McNo1sQq > SK2ktFSq0ZeYRIqawvKi+L0oUHIEKtRIRnzm/w+FhhewFxZLuCZuHLyjimWQnV1U > n6OCtlHKJnzVlM1u1fwSyefFZRWqVDaLE98U9pPoNd9KhsYTy2mP6PCNOs2Q3lES > S+kDvtK6PL6pMpZDaK/pz++QiZch1IRX9fTMXj3T6I5JsiGweLs= > =Z9xR > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/356afb82-5eda-44e1-be0e-fe2b654854a7%40googlegroups.com.
Re: [qubes-users] Easiest way to redirect USB to a VM?
On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 5:05:16 PM UTC+10, Jackie wrote: > > 'awokd' via qubes-users: > > > to create one manually. Pay close attention to how to identify a free > > USB controller. Some machines only have one, in which case it is not an > > option unless you have a PS/2 keyboard. > > I haven't done this but according to the docs it's possible to create > sys-usb even if you depend on a usb keyboard to enter luks passphrase. > See the "enable a usb keyboard for login" section of the doc page. > > > I have done this. Namely, installed without sys-usb, and then much later decided I need it, and went thru some steps to enable it. I have only one USB controller and a USB keyboard and mouse and enter the LUKS password at boot. I did backup everything prior to doing so, but there were no drama. What doesn't work for me is using the GUI to assign USB devices to a VM. I have to go into dom0 and do `qvm-usb; qvm-usb attach ...`. The GUI presents the list of USB devices, and the list of potential VMs to attach to, but never works to select the VM to attach to. No error. Silent failure. Been meaning to open a defect for this, but it is not something I do often. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/89e02b13-2b53-4521-ac88-a794d97301fc%40googlegroups.com.
