💻 OpenBSD Installation

This page was created before 2020

Please refere to the OpenBSD Handbook for more up to date installation instructions.

Because 6.4 defaults to fvwm

• sysctl hw.disknames

• disklabel [disk]

  disklabel sd1

Rosewill Realtek rtl8188eufw

• OpenBSD / Firmware / urtwn-1.2.tar.gz

• cp /dir/urtwn-1.2.tar.gz /etc/firmware/urtwn-1.2.tar.gz

• cd /etc/firmware

• tar zvxf urtwn-1.2.tar.gz

• cp /etc/firmware/urtwn-1.2/urtwn-rtl8188eufw /etc/firmware/urtwn-rtl8188eufw

• ifconfig urtwn0 up

• ifconfig urtwn0 scan

• vi /etc/hostname.urtwn0

  ++ join "mynetwork"
  ++ wpakey "mykey"
  ++ dhcp
  

• reboot

  I had zero luck with ```ifconfig urtwn0 [down/up]

• ping -c 4 8.8.8.8

• fw_update -v

• OpenBSD / FAQ / Introduction

• Mouse cursor movements in XY directions (pressure sensitive) can ‘randomly’ switch to one of nine virtual desktops

  I don’t remember why this was important. I hardly ever use FVWM