Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.
On Friday, September 9, 2022 2:52:01 A.M. AEST Alan Grimes wrote: > Ok. I'm going to have to do it. I'm going to have to get my blessed > printer working. > > It is the finest laser printer money can buy. God himself uses it to > process the paperwork involved in assigning souls to either heaven or > hell... What I'm saying is that the printer is such an immaculate > example of printing perfection that linux is going to give me absolute > hell getting it working. > > I will be sthocked if I can get it working in less than two weeks > working full time and without influcting a migraine and/or an ulcer on > myself. > > (meanwhile, Windows can print to the thing effortlessly) > > Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny all > attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The config > file is written in moonspeak, I just need the motherfucking thing to say > yes when I tell it to do a thing. I expect it to take 2-3 days just to > get over this hurdle. > > How can people actually go around installing linux on people's computers > as if they were doing them a favor when it really is this bad? Two points. 1) Did you bother to research the Linux support situation before you purchased the printer? World's finest printer or not, if they keep parts of the interface as proprietry secrets then there is not much the Linux maintainers can do. 2) Remind us again why you still try to run Gentoo when you obviously dislike it. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem logging on to wifi
On Friday, 9 September 2022 15:40:04 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > Here are the first 4 lines from scan_result at an establishment. I've > replaced the 3-word ccompany name with " ". Note that they > share the same bssids with "BELL342". > > Selected interface 'wlan0' > bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid > 26:20:c7:c2:b7:a7 5220-53 [WPA2-PSK-CCMP][ESS] > 24:20:c7:c2:b7:a7 5220-53 [WPA2-PSK-CCMP][ESS] > BELL342 24:20:c7:c2:b7:a6 2462-28 [WPA2-PSK-CCMP][ESS] > BELL342 26:20:c7:c2:b7:a6 2462-46 [WPA2-PSK-CCMP][ESS] > > > I've tried... > > wpa_cli password " " > wpa_cli password \ \ > > ...and they both return "FAIL". Any ideas on what to try next? You could try: wpa_cli add_network " " which will return a 'network id'; e.g. 0 if your wpa_supplicant.conf is empty and has no AP configured in it. Then use this 'network id' number to specify a password: wpa_cli password 0 "blah-blah" or wpa_cli password 0 '"blah-blah"' NOTE: Either the " ", or the "BELL342" SSID may be for non- public users and it could reject your attempts to authenticate if your device is not whitelisted, so try the other SSID if one of them won't work. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Problem logging on to wifi
Here are the first 4 lines from scan_result at an establishment. I've replaced the 3-word ccompany name with " ". Note that they share the same bssids with "BELL342". Selected interface 'wlan0' bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid 26:20:c7:c2:b7:a7 5220-53 [WPA2-PSK-CCMP][ESS] 24:20:c7:c2:b7:a7 5220-53 [WPA2-PSK-CCMP][ESS]BELL342 24:20:c7:c2:b7:a6 2462-28 [WPA2-PSK-CCMP][ESS]BELL342 26:20:c7:c2:b7:a6 2462-46 [WPA2-PSK-CCMP][ESS] I've tried... wpa_cli password " " wpa_cli password \ \ ...and they both return "FAIL". Any ideas on what to try next? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] qbittorrent crashes after to many files open error
On 22/09/08 05:24PM, Dale wrote: > root@fireball / # cat /etc/security/limits.conf | grep nofile > # - nofile - max number of open file descriptors > * hard nofile 8192 > I logged out and back in. I ran the command you shared and it was > indeed set to the new amount. I'm going to upgrade qbittorrent to the > new version again and test it some more. I don't think 8k opened files will be enough for 10TB of torrents. Keep in mind this is more for multi user purpose, in case someone writes and uses a buggy program, so the whole system won't crash for other users. If you just have single user computer it's safe to just set it to the max limit. I'm certain it's not a bug in qbittorrent, but rather this limit is just very low by default for you, as I've mentioned for me it was 2^19, and I'm on 512GB laptop. Regards, mmokulus
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.
>On Thursday, 8 September 2022 21:40:25 BST Wols Lists wrote: >> On 08/09/2022 21:24, Lee wrote: >> > Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying >> > cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood >> > Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and they print out in HD >> > whatever I need for pennies a page. Ymmv. >> >> YMMV. But if your neighbouhood Kinkos is fifty miles away your mileage >> most definitely does vary :-) > >What is a Kinkos? Was a copy shop chain. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx_Office DaveF > >-- >Regards, >Peter. > > > >
