Re: WebRTC software

On 2019.04.26 10:43, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: WebRTC is not one but a range of things. Since you mention Asterisk, you are probably looking for an SFU - one of the best SFUs, Janus, is in Debian (maintained by me). The contrib package janus-demos can be used as basis for custom applications

Re: is xdvi broken?

On 2019.04.22 06:51, Bill Wood wrote: Is there a reason not to use pdflatex? My workflow then is = In emacs, save the doc foo.tex = switch to a virtual terminal = execute "pdflatex foo.tex" (as many times as needed) Why would it be necessary to execute pdflatex more than once? = execute

Re: is xdvi broken?

On 2019.04.22 01:43, David Wright wrote: ... most people will be receiving a good proportion of documents as PDF files, and so will have their printing system (like CUPS) set up to handle them ... rather than the previously conventional .tex→DVI→PS→PDF workflow. On the average, I print only

Re: is xdvi broken?

On 2019.04.21 02:31, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On 2019.04.20 19:42, David Wright wrote: So you expect that visitors can print from PDFs but you print locally with PS. Any reason? Kindly forgive my deficiency in the field of reading comprehension. I finally understand your question. I

Re: is xdvi broken?

On 2019.04.20 19:42, David Wright wrote: Then it might be worth revisiting your deliverables and seeing whether a DVI workflow is still worth using after two decades. ... It's too long to remember exactly how I produced output for both static HTML pages and hardcopy. I still have macros for

Re: is xdvi broken?

On 2019.04.19 20:24, David Wright wrote: But it's interesting to see that you're (still) using a DVI workflow: any particular reason for this? I suspect a majority are using one of the direct-to-PDF workflows, like pdflatex or lualatex. I use this workflow simply because it is the only Linux

Re: is xdvi broken?

On 2019.04.19 17:33, Étienne Mollier wrote: ... It has this look and feel typical from monochrome X graphical interfaces released in the 80's. Tasty ! :) At least for diagnosing this problem, I would be interested in an alternative to xdvi. another desktop environment. LXDE may, or

Re: is xdvi broken?

On 2019.04.17 13:20, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: I had forgotten about the concept of focus; I thank you for reminding me, and for pointing me to the window manager. After replacing the keyboard, it still appears that either xdvi is broken, or that there is a strange interaction between xdvi

Re: is xdvi broken?

On 2019.04.17 12:38, Kushal Kumaran wrote: You may be able to configure your window manager to disallow certain kinds of windows from stealing focus. I had forgotten about the concept of focus; I thank you for reminding me, and for pointing me to the window manager. So many things in Debian

Re: is xdvi broken?

On 2019.04.16 19:21, Kushal Kumaran wrote: Do you have some kind of live-preview configuration? It's been a while since I did LaTeX, but I remember latex-mode had some configuration that allows to to continuously run (pdf)latex and keep a previewer running. I think the latexmk command does

Re: is xdvi broken?

On 2019.04.16 14:20, Dan Ritter wrote: I would be looking at the keyboard. Is it possible that you have some stickiness in your bottom row modifiers? Unintentional presses and slow releases can cause symptoms like you have described. I thank you, kind sir. I am aware that my expensive and

is xdvi broken?

my desktop system: amd64, Debian 9, xfce, Emacs 24, TeXLive, xdvi While using xdvi to view a LaTeX document being written with Emacs, the display keeps jumping from the Emacs window to the xdvi window. The behaviour persists even after the xdvi window is closed; while in Emacs I suddenly am

Re: exim4 smtp-auth

On 2019.04.12 03:51, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples: Thanks for pointing me to the examples file, Tomas; that is one source I missed. I printed out that file and I shall go over it in the morning after I catch a bit of sleep. RLH

exim4 smtp-auth

For SMTP-AUTH in exim4, the authorization string saved in /etc/exim4/passwd.client is of the form: smarthost.isp.net:login_identification:password with the colon character (:) being the delimiter. Can this scheme work with a password which itself contains a colon, such as:

Re: Accessing USB storage attached to network router

On 2019.04.10 08:01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I'm revisiting now this old thread in which I solved my problem... Now I have the problem again with my new router Zyxel VMG8823-B50B. I can access the USB stick via Nautilus: ... but don't manage to mount the USB stick. In /etc/fstab I have: I

Re: May be silly question, but: Lost my qq(´) and qq(´) key

On 2019.04.08 14:25, Dan Ritter wrote: IBM Buckling Spring: nobody knows, but there are a lot of keyboards still working 25-30 years later. Cherry: 50 million. https://www.cherrymx.de/_Resources/Persistent/e005dff11a2e406babe9e8718fec9fc8835bb9ce/EN_CHERRY_MX_BLUE_RGB.pdf Kailh: 50 - 80

Re: May be silly question, but: Lost my qq(´) and qq(´) key

On 2019.04.08 05:29, Martin wrote: since a few days, my qq(´) and qq(´)¹ don't work with a single press. I have to press twice. The problem most likely is oxidation of the electrical contacts of the key switch. The silver or gold plating of the contact surfaces may be compromised by

Re: xfce launchers

On 2019.04.03 23:26, Mike Kupfer wrote: I don't know about MC, but for Synaptic, is policykit-1-gnome installed on that system? (cf. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881365) According to Synaptic, policykit-1-gnome is NOT installed.

xfce launchers

I installed Debian 9 on three or four machines, some are i386 and others are amd64. I installed both Gnome and Xfce desktops on every machine, but I am using Xfce on all of the machines. On at least one machine, some of the Xfce launchers are inoperative, including the launcher for Synaptic

Re: System Freezing

On 2019.03.30 07:13, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 30.03.2019 12:20, Martin Marais wrote: Following installation of Debian 9.8 the machine would run a short time then become unresponsive. The remedy I found was to set all power management options to NEVER.

Re: keyboard macros

On 2019.03.28 12:58, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Not responding specifically to the following, but keyboard / keystroke macros are not a strictly EMACS function, and I don't think EMACS was first. ... Just saying, you don't need EMACS to get the benefit of keyboard macros. The package with

Re: text editors

On 2019.03.28 03:16, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: "r" == rlharris writes: r> Need to make alterations to dozens of lines? If you can figure out r> a repetitive sequence of keystrokes to accomplish the change, you ... Or said with other words: - replace a repetitive task wh

Re: need sources.list example for lan with approx-server

On 2019.03.27 07:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 11:01:38AM +1100, David wrote: The important differences to be aware of are probably: Also: * apt removes the .deb files that it downloads, after installing them. apt-get leaves them in /var/cache/. This is configurable,

Re: text editors

On 2019.03.27 09:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 09:00:07AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: tomás writes: > It /is/ a steep learning curve at the beginning (I can confirm, having > come from vi, then vim -- in which I'm still fluent). But it is worth > every turn in that panoramic

Re: need sources.list example for lan with approx-server

On 2019.03.26 03:40, David wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 14:33, wrote: Would someone kindly point me to (or email me) an example sources.list for machines running Debian-9 (Stretch) in a LAN with an approx server? I have used approx for many releases. But I've never used Synaptic. I

need sources.list example for lan with approx-server

Would someone kindly point me to (or email me) an example sources.list for machines running Debian-9 (Stretch) in a LAN with an approx server? Following the installation of Stretch on a machine in the LAN, I used Synaptic to add packages, but pressing the RELOAD button of Synaptic produces

blogofile debian package

I am thinking about blogging, using the blogofile debian package. I am following the tutorial in the blogofile documentation, using the "simple_blog" example. But the command "blogofile build" fails with the error "Cannot find requested controller: blog". Is this controller (as well as other

Re: cannot rename with mv - SOLVED

On Tue, January 17, 2017 12:39 am, Reco wrote: > EBUSY The rename fails because oldpath or newpath is a directory > that is in use by some process (perhaps as current working directory, or as > root directory, or because it was open for reading) or is in use by the > system (for example as

Re: cannot rename with mv

On Mon, January 16, 2017 11:08 pm, David Christensen wrote: > It's probably a permissions issue. > > Please paste this command into a terminal (as any user) and then paste > the command and output into a reply: > > $ ls -d -l / /backup > > Have you set ACL's, SELinux, or any such thing? I am

Re: cannot rename with mv

On Mon, January 16, 2017 11:23 pm, Doug wrote: > if /backup is actually in the root directory, you need to su (or sudo) to > root and then rename the file: > > [name@pcname]$ su > Password: > [root@pcname name]# mv /backup /newbackup I did this; it did not work. > if this doesn't work, try ./

Re: cannot rename with mv

On Mon, January 16, 2017 11:06 pm, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Mon, January 16, 2017 10:45 pm, Armando Cerna wrote: > >> You might want to be sure to double verify that fact nothing is >> accessing that directory using lsof ex: lsof | grep backup > > > lsof indicates no opened files for the

Re: cannot rename with mv

On Mon, January 16, 2017 10:45 pm, Armando Cerna wrote: > You might want to be sure to double verify that fact nothing is > accessing that directory using lsof ex: lsof | grep backup lsof indicates no opened files for the directory

cannot rename with mv

I wish to rename the directory "/backup" to "/backup.new". / is on a 452G partition with 54% in use. / is owned by root. /backup is owned by normal user "rh". The command "$ mv /backup/ /newbackup/" fails with " cannot move ... Permission denied". The command "# mv /backup/ /newbackup/" fails

flashing window button

On the XFCE desktop, sometimes a window button for the Firefox ESR browser (45.5.1) flashes or blinks between light and dark. As with anything which flashes or blinks, this behaviour is extremely annoying; is there a way to disable the flashing or blinking? RLH

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

Working both with Debian and Windows7PRO, I routinely use the default Debian disk utility (gnome-disks) to format and re-format all varieties of USB drives, including flash sticks and mechanical drives by WD, Seagate, and Toshiba. I format to FAT or VFAT. I have no difficulty transferring files

Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

On Sun, September 18, 2016 7:10 pm, Seeker wrote: > Is this web page on the PWS or out on the internet? > Is the PWS using the same data connection you are using to access the > web page? Is there advertising on this page? > If you do not leave the page open in a tab, does your data allocation >

Re: Laserjet p1109w - anyone got it working?

On Sun, September 18, 2016 5:10 pm, brian wrote: > My dear old Laserjet 5N finally having died, I bought an HP Laserjet > P1109w to replace it. I have managed to install it to the extent that > it's recognised (USB connection, not wireless) but the problem is that it > apparently needs a

page RELOAD by Firefox

My limited G4 data allocation is being depleted much too rapidly for my budget. I suspect that the culprit is the web page of a personal weather station (PWS) in which page measurements are updated every ten minutes. I keep a Firefox window open to monitor the web page. I do not understand the

Re: usb-tethered verizon/netgear airpack + ethernet printer -- SOLVED

On Thu, September 15, 2016 11:52 am, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:01:10AM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > >> Is it possible to use the ethernet port of a laptop to feed a printer >> while the laptop is connected to the Internet via a usb-tethered >> verizon/netgear

usb-tethered verizon/netgear airpack + ethernet printer

Is it possible to use the ethernet port of a laptop to feed a printer while the laptop is connected to the Internet via a usb-tethered verizon/netgear airpack 791L? Network manager appears unable to find the printer. RLH

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

On Sat, May 28, 2016 1:17 pm, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am not using XLR's, but I do use 1-to-1 isolation transformers > between the audio sources and sound inputs Hum in audio systems almost always is a consequence of improper grounding. Although an XLR connector on a piece of apparatus

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

On Tue, May 24, 2016 1:27 pm, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Basically, are there any good new USB sound cards these > days that record and play stereo under Linux? > > Thanks for any suggestions. Lexicon Alpha (powered by USB) and Lexicon Omega (external supply) are excellent broadcast-quality USB

Re: Good keyboard"David Niklas" <do...@mail.com>

On Sun, March 13, 2016 7:23 pm, David Niklas wrote: ... > I'm learning dvorak, but the numerals are all in the top bar with the > punctuation marks, only the home and adjacent rows are changed. Where are > your numerals? I just type loadkeys dvorak (there are only 3 dvorak > layouts, dvorak-ASCII,

Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster

On Sat, March 12, 2016 9:59 pm, Kynn Jones wrote: > OK, post-mortem: ... > 1. after reviewing everything, the best hypothesis I have is that > the root of the problem was a bug in my backup script: it should have... I use gnome-disk-utility to mount the external usb3 drive and then I open a

Re: 5000 Folders in a directory

On Wed, February 17, 2016 1:13 pm, Chris wrote: > is it possible to save 5000 folders in the same directory (ext4 FS) > without any performance issues? > > It's a Maildir structure with a .-separator, e.g. > > /var/vmail/public/folder1 > /var/vmail/public/folder1.subfolder1a >

Re: Good keyboard

On Sun, February 14, 2016 7:12 pm, Gary Roach wrote: ... >> I've been using a microsoft Ergonomic model 4000 v.1 for years. I love >> it. I recently looked around for a replacement ( turned out not to be the >> problem). I found that the newer Microsoft keyboards were garbage in >> comparison. The

Re: changing partition names

On Sun, February 14, 2016 2:42 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: > Can I just use fdisk or fsdisk to dump the existing partition record > edit the file to change sda4 to sda3 and then use fdisk or sfdisk to read > the file and create a properly named partition record ? To rename partitions, I use

Re: Good keyboard

On Sat, February 13, 2016 2:39 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > You used to be able to get these with Dvorak, not sure if that's > still the case. For the Dvorak layout, just select the appropriate xkb map (APPLICATIONS->SETTINGS->KEYBOARD). Several are available; I use and recommend the Classic

Re: Good keyboard

On Wed, February 10, 2016 11:00 pm, David Niklas wrote: > If I'm remembering rightly, a while back (months), there was a > discussion about keyboards. I noticed this one and wanted to know if it > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/ugl/ultimate-hacking-keyboard To add a bit of perspective, can you

Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

On Wed, January 13, 2016 12:31 pm, Amr Saber wrote: > The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally deleted > and I can't find any version of it online deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free

Re: some attachments disappearing

On Sat, December 26, 2015 2:20 pm, Fred Smith wrote: > some emails in which photos or other images are sent arrive here with no > such item, neither attached, nor inline. ... > If I ask the sender to resend that mail to my gmail (or office) account, > the image is there. The SMTP server at my ISP

Re: Annoying Keyboard switch

On Thu, December 24, 2015 9:46 pm, Bhasker C V wrote: > When I swtich keyboards, however, I see that the keyboard variant resets > back to US even if last keyboard selected was UK and the system was > shutdown. Running Jessie/Xfce, I occasionally switch from DvorakClassic to QWERTY to accommodate

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

On Tue, December 22, 2015 7:09 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs Look for "Weber" as well as for "Coulumb". Russ

Re: Sound from computer to TV monitor via HDMI

On Sun, December 20, 2015 4:31 am, Ken Heard wrote: ... > Wheezy is my current Debian iteration; > alsa is the sound system I am using. For my setup (Jessie and external USB interface, no HDMI), the key to getting sound working was installation of the PulseAudio volume control package,

Re: Long neglected OS ... updating

On Thu, December 3, 2015 5:15 am, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 12:36:23AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Resurrecting a neglected OS, need a little coaching about the output of >> `aptitude full-upgrade'. The best approach for long neglect likely is a fresh installation, which

Re: error message after apt-get update

On Sat, November 28, 2015 8:50 pm, Charles Kroeger wrote: > I was hoping someone might know what this message means after running > apt-get update: ... > Reading package lists... Done > W: Problem unlinking the file q - Clean (21: Is a directory) Now and then something gets corrupted with apt. A

Re: error message after apt-get update

On Sat, November 28, 2015 11:18 pm, Charles Kroeger wrote: > Ah, thanks so much..the offending q directory was in there (///lists) so > I just deleted that instead, but all is now well. If you delete the entire directory, it is rebuilt automatically as soon as you execute "apt-get update". If I

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

On Wed, November 25, 2015 7:22 am, Brian wrote: > On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 11:29:52 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> David >> is talking about using the USB as an installation target. > > Personally I would forget about a customised Debian Live and follow > David's suggestion to install Debian on a USB

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

On Wed, November 25, 2015 9:37 pm, David Christensen wrote: > No, I'm talking about disconnecting all hard disk drives and solid state > drives, plugging in a USB flash drive, booting a Debian installer CD, and > installing Debian onto the USB flash drive. Debian then runs from the USB > flash

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

On Wed, November 25, 2015 10:32 pm, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/25/2015 07:47 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> Dare I ask whether this would work with a USB-interface drive such as >> the Toshiba Canvio Connect II (reformatted, for example, to ext4)? ... > I suppose. But, I prefer small,

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

On Tue, November 24, 2015 10:54 pm, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/24/2015 01:26 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > >> I am attempting to recover data from a virus-damaged Windows machine. >> For >> this work, I wish to run debianlive with xfce desktop and clamav. > > I have found that I am able

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

On Tue, November 24, 2015 11:28 pm, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/24/2015 09:16 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: ... > I discovered the install-Debain-to-USB trick a couple of years ago, when > I was using Wheezy. I am only just starting to migrate to Jessie, and > expect that it works too.

debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

I am attempting to recover data from a virus-damaged Windows machine. For this work, I wish to run debianlive with xfce desktop and clamav. I found at: ttps://www.debian.org/CD/live/ ISO images for Jessie with xfce desktop. And debianlive includes synaptic, so it it fairly easy to install

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

On Thu, November 19, 2015 12:50 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Doesn't lugging that thing around defeat the purpose of having a > laptop? :) 6 inches by 6 inches by 1.5 inches, knobs and all. To me, the added package is a small price for features such as headphone jack plus RCA

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

On Thu, November 19, 2015 4:38 am, David Parfitt wrote: > I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. > All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of online > research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY other practical ideas, > please. In my

Re: default English (US) QWERTY layout

On Sun, November 15, 2015 3:46 pm, Ric Moore wrote: > Mine says "Generic 105 (intl) PC" for keyboard model and "English (US)" > for layout. Hope that helps. That is the "system default" setting used at > install time. Ric In my previous posting, I neglected to tack on " -> +add" at the tail. But

Re: default English (US) QWERTY layout

On Sun, November 15, 2015 2:10 pm, David Christensen wrote: > I just did a fresh install of debian-8.2.0-amd64-xfce yesterday: > > Keyboard modelGeneric 105-key (Intl) PC Obviously, the keyboard settings menu (reached from xfce by applications -> setting -> keyboard -> layout has

Re: default English (US) QWERTY layout

On Sun, November 15, 2015 12:00 pm, Patrick Bartek wrote: > As I don't run a desktop (window manager only -- Openbox) on my very > custom installed Wheezy 64-bit system, I can't follow your menu request, > but 'debconf-show keyboard-configuration' reports: Thanks for introducing me to

default English (US) QWERTY layout

Would some kindly soul who is a English (US) QWERTY user and who is running Jessie on an i386 system follow the path: applications -> setting -> keyboard -> layout and tell me which is the default English (US) layout which is selected by the installer? I routinely switch to "classic Dvorak"

Re: default English (US) QWERTY layout

On Sun, November 15, 2015 12:20 am, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > I'm in (debootstrapped) Sid Unstable on AMD64, but I played along > anyway. Mine's default is: > > Model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC > Layout: English (US) > > That's on an ASUS 1015px'y Eee PC.. :) Thanks. The only "English (US, ...)"

Re: Need ftp program with site-to-site capability

On Fri, November 13, 2015 7:52 pm, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Been looking but haven't found it yet. > > My hosting has changed servers and I have to move all my > stuff pretty soon. I need a ftp program that will do site-to-site transfers > without having to download to my PC first then upload to the

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sun, November 8, 2015 2:18 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 09/11/15 04:38, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: ... >> eth0: flags=4098 mtu 1500 >> ether 00:a0:c6:00:00:00 … usb-:00:0.3-1, RNDIS device, >> 00:a0:c6:00:00:00 > > That looks like your hotspot device right there.

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sun, November 8, 2015 6:26 am, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > What does "ifconfig -a" display ? eth0: flags=4098 mtu 1500 ether 00:a0:c6:00:00:00 ... lan-1: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sun, November 8, 2015 6:54 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Now you can try to set the interface up, run a DHCP client on it > (dhclient, pump, dhcpcd, udhcpc...) and check what happens. IPCop responds only to dhcpcd; but I do not know what to specify, and to get the man page I need to stop and

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sun, November 8, 2015 4:34 pm, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > You might have more luck on the IPCop list > ipcop-u...@lists.sourceforge.net Thanks. I have posted there (but not a cross-post) as well as on the Netgear list. And perhaps I can find a Netgear DC113A. Russ

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

> On Saturday 07 November 2015 13:59:47 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Living in Darkest Paraguay, I have had no problem getting Trendnet > USBToRJ45 adapters sent from Amazon. The local Apple Store has an adapter for US$30.

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sat, November 7, 2015 12:13 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Why would you need a USB 3 port ? Doesn't a USB 2 port provide enough > throughput ? I do not know. If USB2 provides reasonable performance, then I am satisfied. ... > These are serial ports, not network interfaces. With the proper

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sat, November 7, 2015 1:46 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > The USB device I'm talking about is the Netgear > AirCard 791L hotspot in "tethered" mode. So all you may need to buy is a > USB cable with the proper connectors at each end if you don't already > have one, to connect the USB port on the

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sat, November 7, 2015 4:26 am, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Doesn't your i386 machine have an available USB port ? > Or does IPCop2 just not include USB drivers ? It has a USB-2 port; and I suppose I can purchase a PCI card with a USB-3 port at the computer store. In the IPCop manual, the only

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sat, November 7, 2015 3:02 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > rlhar...@oplink.net a écrit : >> and then I stall, at the dialog asking configuration type for RED >> interface. The options are: >> >> - analog modem >> - GSM/3G modem >> - ISDN >> - PPPoE >> - PPTP >> - static >> - DHCP >> >> What now?

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sat, November 7, 2015 7:50 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > IIUC, according to the user guide it should be seen as a network > interface. Can you identify the device with lsusb ? Yes: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0846:68e1 Netgear, Inc.

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sat, November 7, 2015 8:26 pm, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, November 7, 2015 7:50 pm, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> IIUC, according to the user guide it should be seen as a network >> interface. Can you identify the device with lsusb ? > > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0846:68e1 Netgear, Inc.

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sun, November 8, 2015 12:32 am, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 07/11/15 23:59, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > >>> Or does IPCop2 just not include USB drivers ? >>> >> It does, and I have used them on my IPCop box for years; better burn >> out an USBToRJ45 adapter than the motherboard when there is

convert between ethernet and usb

In order to provide Internet access to a LAN consisting of several computers in a location in which DSL is not available, I am in search of a reliable and inexpensive way to use the USB port of a G4 Wi-Fi "hotspot" to feed the WAN port of a router. In particular, my plan is to use a

Re: convert between ethernet and usb

On Sat, November 7, 2015 12:14 am, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 07/11/15 12:16, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> In particular, my plan is to use a VerizonWireless JetPack with a i386 >> machine running IPCop2. I envision dedicating a small Linux machine >> with USB3 capability as a Ethernet-to-USB

verizon-netgear aircard 791L (USB) + debian jessie

I am pleased to report that the newly-available (October 2015) Verizon 791L "Jetpack" (aka Netgear "AirCard") appears to be compatible in tethered mode (USB) with Debian Jessie i386 with the Xfce desktop and NetworkManager. The sequence of events was: (1) Immediately out of the box, and without

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Thu, October 29, 2015 10:34 am, Doug wrote: > A few months ago I bought a Pyle surveilance-type camera. Supposed to > be controllable by wireless from the computer. When I got it, I discovered > it only has drivers for Windows. I said, "commonly used." Either "surveillance" or "controllable

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Wed, October 28, 2015 7:59 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba_ >> wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html > >> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireles >> s_ac1200_db.html > > Any word on how well they work

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Thu, October 29, 2015 12:05 am, moxalt wrote: > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-dual-band-usb-a > dapter-gnu-linux-tpe-nusbdb > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu > -linux-tpe-n150usb > >

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Wed, October 28, 2015 1:46 pm, Doug wrote: > I recently bought an adapter fro an old Dell that I couldn't get the > Broadcom driver to work on. The adapter hardly stuck out above the > surface where the USB port was. It worked, but it had very limited range. The antennas on WiFi routers

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Wed, October 28, 2015 3:03 pm, Tim McDonough wrote: > The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken > internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick" > type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I > have nothing now I'd just

Re: MiFi 4G LTE Global USB Modem U620L

On Sat, October 24, 2015 8:37 am, chris wrote: > You can get a cradle point or something that act as a plain cellular to > Ethernet bridge and then you won't be exposed to the mess of cellular and > you will have a pure Ethernet interface . I don't think you will get > anything directly from the

MiFi 4G LTE Global USB Modem U620L

I have been searching without success for user reports on MiFi 4G LTE Global USB Modem U620L with Debian. The device is a current offering by Verizon, and claims compatibility with Ubuntu 13 & 14, and certain versions of Fedora and Suse. Russ

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

On Sun, October 18, 2015 9:39 am, Stefan Monnier wrote: > How small is "small"? My intent is to avoid the necessity of getting a smartphone simply to have Internet access on the road. And though it would be nice ("icing on the cake") to be able to use GoogleEarth when I am exploring out in a

Re: early Lenovo S205 Ideapad + Debian Jessie + Xfce -- success

On Sun, October 18, 2015 5:23 am, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Using the official Debian 8.1.0-amd64-netinst image dated 20150606-14:16 I changed the subject line to make "S205" more prominent; over the years I have spent hours with Google searching for reports on Debian with that specific

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

On Sun, October 18, 2015 2:23 am, Terence wrote: > FWIW I run Debian without problems on my eeePC. Terrence, would you kindly tell me the model or series number? The ones which I found in stock are "EeeBook X205". Russ

success with Jessie 8.1.0 + Xfce on an early Lenovo S205 Ideapad

Using the official Debian 8.1.0-amd64-netinst image dated 20150606-14:16 copied to a usb flash stick, I today installed Debian Jessie with Xfce desktop to an early Lenovo S205 Ideapad which utilizes UEFI. The installation boots successfully from the hard drive, and appears to run properly.

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

On Sat, October 17, 2015 6:23 pm, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > Or get a second-hand one on ebay; I still take along my EeePC 4G when I > travel, and have recently upgraded its system with MX-14 (non-PAE) which > suits that aging machine better than Debian. > > Completely sufficient to check my email,

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

On Sat, October 17, 2015 4:58 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > And contrary to Debian Mailing List CoC ... Speaking of the Code of Conduct, a matter of much greater import is a severe constraint which is being forced upon e-mail users in general by the stupid and widespread practice of (1) associating an

Re: smartphone forum for the technically-oriented

On Sat, October 17, 2015 5:06 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > If we are ignoring age, my early Acer Aspire One ZG5 fits (most of) the > bill admirably and runs Debian beautifully. Does anyone know whether the successor (if any) to the Aspire One ZG5 runs Debian? Russ

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