Hello,

So I am debating getting a pinebook pro since my laptop just died and I wanted something a little bit more fun, tinkery, inexpensive, etc. Than what I would get out of a normal laptop.

I just have one fear though, my school uses pulse secure as their vpn, and I would need to use this laptop a lot for schoolwork, and I need the vpn for various things (remoting in to shared computing resources, accessing my home drive, reading papers from IEEE xplore, ACM, SAE, etc.) but from what I have gathered, the pulse secure vpn client ONLY runs on x86 and AMD64.

I went over and asked about x86 emulation on ARM similar to WOW64 over on the level 1 forums, but they just recommended I use QEMU+chroot and said that you'd probably be more help over here.

So here's my issue, is there a way to emulate x86 to run the pulse secure vpn client on the Pinebook Pro? My issue with chroot is that the whole system wouldn't inherit the connection.

Thanks!

Following on from this post, here's a recap and some extra info.

Install the anbox modules:  [ Edit: No longer required from kernel 5.7 so read this post ]

I would really like to see familiar apps in UT, such as Firefox, LibreOffice and - most importantly - a working e-mail client. Dekko2 does not seem to work (cannot enter data in account setup), so something like Thunderbird or Sylpheed will be good to have.

Is this what "Libertine" is for? It tells that it needs some setting up, but I have not been able to do so.

Hi.

Looks like mobile data is not working in latest images (it used to work before).
I tried to enable it using this command:
nmcli d connect quectelqmi_0
and
nmcli c up  <uuid>
But no luck.
Also noticed APN is not selectable in the settings.
Anyone else having same issues, was able to fix it?

Hi there; i plan to buy a PinePhone on the next weeks and i got some questions: 

the first is: does the PinePhone already launched ? and ready to grab ?

i had to choose between PinePhone and Fairphone; but i prefer PinePhone due to personal preferences and special options on it; 
can somebody tell me more about materials used for build the Pinephone ? 
like: "is the Pinephone "fair" like Fairphone" ? 

thank you for an answer, and sorry for my bad English because i'm French :)

My PBP ANSI from January batch will be up for sale by end of next week.

It has 64GB eMMC, all is working without issues. 
I will add a secondary 64GB eMMC card along with USB adapter along with it (I have used the second one for backup)
A fresh manjaro instalation will be installed on both eMMC cards.

200EUR is the price, I pay postage for ordinary post service. DHL is an option, but then buyer pays p&p since it is much more expensive.
Paypal accepted. 

Anyone interested?

I own 4x Rock64 boards.

3x of them of them will not boot.

They turn on all lights and never do anything. No HDMI output. Nothing.

I have a custom script that installs ArchLinux ARM which used to work/boot just fine. I've used it dozens of times.

I also tried the Armbian and Manjaro Arm images. Same results. All lights turn on, no HDMI output, it just sits there.

Two of the boards are V3, one is V2.

Yes, the jumper is installed.

Is the epiphany browser working for anyone? I always get an error in the console:

I turned on notifications for Geary (using Settings => Notifications). Now I would like to turn them off. But turning them off under Settings => Notifications doesn't work. They are still popping up. Is it a bug or am I missing something? I don't see a setting in Geary itself, other than telling it to not check for new mail in the background..

-john

Does anyone know how to get the English International keyboard on the ISO Pinebook Pro running Manjaro? What I am looking for specifically is a way to change the keyboard layout so when I press the alt gr key (the right alt key) I can get accented Os and tildes over the Ns. I am taking a Spanish class and it is really aggravating not to have that option! I know that on Chromebooks all one has to do is go to the keyboard layout tab and select English International Keyboard, but when I go to do that on Manjaro I can't find a layout by that name. Any ideas? Thanks!