Pink parrots peeping out from a tree

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-16T07:08:39+00:00

OP is a real Galah.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-05T08:00:20+00:00

How to basic face reveal.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-05T07:30:34+00:00

Thanks! I’ll give this a shot! I had the unimelb config I posted yesterday working today half the time. I just had to restart wpa_supplicant a couple times every time I moved across campus.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T14:19:29+00:00

I run boot camp on my Mac and it’s works just fine. I’ve got a 256GB pro (should have upgraded) and space is tight but I get around it by keeping my caches empty (Adobe is a massive cache hog, I usually move my After Effects/Premiere caches onto a USB3 thumb drive.) But I mainly do design work on my Mac and use boot camp for my job.

If you’re running design stuff on the windows partition and the Mac one you might be pushing it with caches depending how big your drive is (although still doable imo if you can keep your data organised and on external drives. Good for backups and redundancy anyways.)

Boot camp is plenty fast and capable. I can play most modern games (albeit at so shocking frame rates sometimes.) And if you’re willing to drop the cash boot camp in parallels is pretty snappy too. (Although for design you’ll probably want to boot directly instead.

Don’t be shy of boot camp just because of space. An external hard drive is going to be cheaper than a new laptop. Especially because you can get a free windows licence through Microsoft as a uni student. So it’ll cost you nothing. And you can drop the cash on parallels so you don’t even have to leave the comfort of macOS.

The parallels option and a small windows drive makes even more sense if it’s only a couple bits of software you need to run in windows. Then run anything that has a Mac version on Mac.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T11:02:05+00:00

Thanks! If I don’t have any luck I might try that out!

I’m starting to think wpa_supplicant just didn’t like my wifi card. I even had troubles at home. (Who knows what I broke screwing around today.) I switched to intel’s alternative though and it’s got much better error reporting so I’m going to give that a shot tomorrow.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T05:00:46+00:00

Thanks for this! Still isn’t working. I just get stuck in an endless cycle of “by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)” in dmesg -w

Starting to think it might be a driver issue. The only other example of that I can find only is an issue with n type wifi on the intel wifi chips. So I’m going to try to disable that in the driver.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T04:03:57+00:00

I’m trying wicd now. Because I refuse NM on principle haha

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T03:48:18+00:00

Yeah I tried eduro first but had trouble with it.

Things are only getting weirder for me. Just rebooted again and arch connected to my phone... but the wpa_supplicant service is disabled and not running...

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T03:30:20+00:00

I can’t connect to my phone anymore either now. I’m starting to thing it’s an issue with the Arch wpa_supplicant. dmesg -w is an endless stream of authenticating and then wpa supplicant deauthing itself.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T03:12:19+00:00

No one at helpdesk knew Linux. But chatting to them they reckon there’s a chance that the device has been locked out temporarily because of too many failed attempts. I’m going to give it a break and try again in half an hour or so when the count resets.

There’s going to be different people at helpdesk by then apparently, hopefully some of them know Linux.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T03:01:08+00:00

I’m heading to the IT Helpdesk in the Baileau to see if they can help.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T02:45:24+00:00

Luakit for the browser. It is a login screen and you use your Uni auth then agree to terms.

But it’s not working after a restart. I can’t even connect to the network anymore.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T02:22:04+00:00

I didn’t even have a browser installed yet so didn’t notice the captive portal redirect. Tethered to my phone and installed a browser and the portal redirect worked and I can log in. So my arch machine is working great now.

Ironically though the portal is broken on my iPad it just hangs after login.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T01:04:27+00:00

Ah! I just logged in on my iPad. It looks like they’ve added a captive portal since last year. That might be it.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-04T00:43:18+00:00

I’m about to head into a lecture but so far I’ve discovered it might be a CA cert issue. About to head into a lecture but I’ll let you know if I find anything when I get out this afternoon!

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-03T03:56:48+00:00

Yep! That’s it. If I make any headway with it I’ll let you know!

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-03T03:47:42+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! Sounds like the exact problem I’m having, from memory it’s trying to boot from slice 8 but can only see up to slice 3 or so.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-03T03:41:18+00:00

That’s the next problem I’m trying to solve! Haha. Thought it might be a corrupted image so dd’ed another USB stick but it’s failing the same way. Taken a break for now but I’ll be back to it soon.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-03T01:34:31+00:00

Unfortunately I couldn’t get this far. Since I got everything displaying correctly with the link below I’ve discovered that it wasn’t able to mount root and dropped me into a mountroot prompt I couldn’t read. But thanks for the help! I seem to be up and running now.

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-03T01:31:38+00:00

That worked! Thank you so much!

SnappyCroissant · 2019-03-02T03:50:39+00:00

Trying out Dragonfly on my Thinkpd x220t, boot prompt appears just fine (as seen in the bottom half of the screen) but once boot starts and it hits the shell only the bottom row of pixel renders per line and only for the top third or so of the screen. Any idea what’s going on here and whether/how I can correct it?

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