From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: help-guix@gnu.org, jerome moliere <jerome@javaxpert.com>
Subject: Re: Coreboot,T440P & GUIX installer
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:13:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4AC356-AE07-461B-B8D3-48452FBA630D@tobias.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADVEE2LcDrjWwR0_OhWOP45302HkfwmwVGqw8_yCv0WjawaQtA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Jerome,
Many people run Guix [sic] System on Coreboot (including Libreboot &c.) machines. I have 3. It's probably the most common single firmware implementation amongst Guix users—if you count all the copy/paste/modified vendor ones separately ;-)
I also use an Atheros card (ath9k, can't say which chip) without issue. It's a fact that some routers refuse to reliably connect to older/less common hardware. I'm lucky not to've encountered many.
The simple connectivity test performed by the Guix installer is at <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/installer/newt/network.scm#n130>. Only one of these two servers need respond.
> (git repos for GUIX ?)
No, pre-built artefacts that are opportunistically 'substituted' for the result of local builds, whenever they are available. Guix can and will always fall back to local builds without user intervention. Of course, these will take very long and require (source code) downloads of their own.
So, questions:
- Can you not continue after this red screen about substitute availability? I can't test it now, but IMO this should not be fatal. If you can't, see the link above for a work-around to be performed *before* this check:
# touch /tmp/installer-assume-online
- Can you reach either server from the command line?
- You specifically mention 'resolving GitHub'. Why the focus on address resolution? You don't mention it being relevant before that part. Can you download content?
- Could you try the 'latest' (daily) image, even if I'm not aware of any pertinent bug fixes since 1.4? <https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/latest/>.
If the installer has emacs as I think it does, you can use eww to test Web browsing. If it doesn't have wget or curl (I really don't remember), you can use 'guix download URL' as a hacky substitute (...heh).
Kind regards,
T G-R
Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-23 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-22 11:14 Coreboot,T440P & GUIX installer jerome moliere
2023-02-22 19:02 ` Felix Lechner via
2023-02-22 19:20 ` jerome moliere
2023-02-23 9:48 ` Wil deBeest
2023-02-23 11:13 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2023-02-23 14:15 ` jerome moliere
2023-02-23 19:30 ` jerome moliere
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