On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:24:09 -0800 wes <p...@the-wes.com> dijo: >On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:04 AM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> >wrote: > >> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:14:19 -0800 >> wes <p...@the-wes.com> dijo: >> >> >On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> >> >wrote: >> When I ran ifconfig it gave me enx+long-number which was the >> ethernet, and no IP address for it, and it gave me virbr0 with an >> address of 192.168.122.1. This has to be the wifi, but where did the >> 122 come from? My network is192.168.1.x. > > >virbr0 is for virtualization software. virtualbox, vmware, etc. that's >where the 122 comes from.
That's interesting. Of course, I spent hours yesterday fiddling with VirtualBox, and finally got it working. But since last night it has been shut down. And just to be sure there are no virtual machines still running, just now I rebooted, but ifconfig still shows virbr0, with the same funny IP address. Is it possible that VirtualBox running Windows 10 (the only machine that I ran) created this 'device' for the machine? And if it did, when I shut down Windows 10 and VirtualBox, why didn't it delete it? I might add that it doesn't appear on my other two computers. I thought it might be a neighbor's wifi, so I tried iwlist. It showed half a dozen wifi networks (including my own), but iwlist doesn't list the IP address of the network, and ifconfig doesn't display the name for 192.168.122.1. Before running iwlist I tried the network icon in the panel, because if you click on it you can see all the networks available. But it's not in the panel on the Latitude, nor is it available to be added to the panel. I can't find it in Synaptic. It's in the panel on my other Xubuntu computers, where it appears in the Notification Area panel plugin. Apparently on Xubuntu 21.10 the Notification Area has been removed. Xubuntu 21.10 does have a penal plugin for the network, called 'Net,' but if you click on it all you get is the name of the connection device and the last four messages - no options to connect to other networks, list of available networks - basically useless. I also tried to run network-manager, which Synaptic says is installed, but evidently it never occurred to the writers of the documentation to tell users HOW TO LAUNCH IT! I tried nm, network-manager, network-manager-applet (with and without dashes), and numerous others, all of which return 'no such file.' Meantime, I can ping 192.168.122.1, although the ping command just says that it connected and the time it took for the response. And I tried to connect to it by putting it in the URL bar in Chromium, but got 'refused to connect.' >> At this point I was finally able to launch seahorse. I explored it a >> bit, but couldn't figure out how to use it. One of the buttons that I >> clicked on displayed 'Keyring Locked.' I could probably have unlocked >> it, but I left it for now because I want it to be unlocked at login, >> but that option must be buried someplace that I didn't look at. >there isn't a specific option to have the keyring unlocked by default. >you have to implicitly do this by unlocking the keyring, and then >setting the password to empty. I click on Unlock Login Keyring and it just asks for my password. If I enter it all it does is unlock the keyring; there is no option to set the password to empty, although there is an option 'Unlock this keyring when I'm logged in.' But the checkbox has always been selected, yet it still asks me repeatedly to unlock the keyring. I mostly agree with points about security from Tomas. The Latitude will be used just for reading electronic books and articles; it has no sensitive information on it, not even my bookmarks for Firefox and Chromium. Security needs are negligible. Yet Ubuntu forces me to give the secret handshake for permission to go to the bathroom. Bah.
