Monday, April 27, 2026

Re: x200 with Ultrabase NIC

On 26/04/26 07:06PM, Onana Onana Xavier Manuel wrote: > Hello, > > I recently purchased an Ultrabase for my Thinkpad x200 hoping to have > an additional NIC to set it up as a router but noticed when connecting > the Ultrabase that the Thinkpad's NIC gets disabled. There is only 1 > em interface "em0" and not another one, "em1", for either the Ultrabase > or the Thinkpad. > > Is this normal? > > For records my Thinkpad x200 is running OpenBSD 7.8. > > Thank you, > > Xavier > I think this has nothing to do with OpenBSD(or another OS) and rather it is about firmware related to docking. What I understand from my experience with Thinkpads is that, they disable on-board ethernet when connected to a dock.

Re: Possible comment added to set install step in ramdisk kernel?

I did not try this approach, thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it next time.

As veduma.

Apr 24, 2026 18:10:02 obsd@mulh.net:

On 2026-04-24 13:24:02, Pietro Leone Pola Falletti di Villafalletto wrote:
And I hate when sysupgrade installs all the sets regardless I have
originally installed them or not, but, as someone already said, the
storage is cheap now.

You can work around this by:
Run "sysupgrade -n" to download and verify the sets to /home/_sysupgrade.
Remove the sets you do not want from /home/_sysupgrade.
Shutdown and reboot to have sysupgrade continue.

Or alternately just download bsd.rd to /, boot to it and do manual upgrade.