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I recently installed it on a Lenovo X1 Carbon 2nd Gen. The only headache was the Intel wifi chipset needing proprietary firmware (easily obtainable after install, but I wasted a bunch of time trying to get it working on install only to learn I really didn't need it despite thinking I did). Other than that hiccup, literally no other OS issues at all and no custom tweaking needed to get a solid setup in place.

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my lenovo yoga only comes with wifi (no rj45) that's not detected during openbsd install.

could you please share where you get firmware for lenovo? thx

My recommendation is to do the install using 'disk' option rather than 'http' skipping verification as needed. Then you don't need to worry about the firmware during install. The installer's ramdisk is only 2mb, so the 675k firmware for the wifi doesn't fit. Yes, you can have the firmware on a second USB drive, but as the installer unmounts all mounted volumes it takes extra steps that's more hassle than it's worth. Once you complete the install, you'd normally use `fw_update` to get the firmware, but as you are caught in a catch-22, you'll need to grab it from here [0] from another machine and then extract to /etc/firmware on your own manually.

[0] http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/5.9/

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