How to set up ethernet and pppoe

2019-01-16 Thread jpff
My firewall computer is showing problems, including a failed update from wheezy to jessie, and I reported disk read error (according to smartd) so I am trying to build a new machine. I have installed stretch on the new system but I have got problems beyond my knowledge. The install gave me a

Re: More on locale

2018-07-10 Thread jpff
I have those files except the last htl one. I should have added that I have been running this macine for years and this started recently, a month or two I think. On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:37:19PM +0100, John wrote: A short time ago I sought your

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread jpff
The next installment I booted the machine just recently and I am not sure what I did but I noticed that both the wired and wifi interfaes were up. I took the wired down ifconfig enp2s1 down and it continued to ping my gateway and the bbc. More than that it allowed be to use aptitude

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread jpff
On Mon, 7 May 2018, Brian wrote: On Mon 07 May 2018 at 18:17:07 +0100, jpff wrote: Things are getting better if not quite right. I have a lean x/fvwm system installed and I have managed to get an xterm displayed. The major issues I have left outstanding are If you have fvwm on the system

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-07 Thread jpff
Things are getting better if not quite right. I have a lean x/fvwm system installed and I have managed to get an xterm displayed. The major issues I have left outstanding are 1: The X40 has a three-mbutton trackpoint but while button 1 works, button 2 has no affect and button 3 does what

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-07 Thread jpff
And thank you all who pointed me at the non-free installer files. I will try that later today with luck well, modified rapture1 i booted from the usb stick with the firmware .iso and tried an install. I accepted the licence for the firmware and proceeded to configure the wifi. It

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-07 Thread jpff
That looks interesting; it attemts to answer my deep problem about no X, xdm, xterm etc. My problem nowis I do not know where/how to apply this. I have not seen any mention of a kernel command line in the net install. More please! And thank you all who pointed me at the non-free installer

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2018 #128

2018-01-31 Thread jpff
/main.cxx.o -o ../winsound -rdynamic /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfltk_images.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfltk_forms.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfltk.a -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lm ../libcsound64.so.6.0 -lpthread -lpng -lz -ljpeg -lXft -lfontconfig -lXinerama -lX11 -lm -Wl,-rpath,/home/jpff

Upgrade problems (wheezy->jessie)

2017-09-20 Thread jpff
I seem to need to upgrade to Debian stretch to install my printer as it needs hplip 3.16.11, ad I was running wheezy. I understand this needs to be done in two stages, wheezy->jessie->stretch, but I still need advice as I cannot find out the solution to my problem. I tried upgrading from Wheezy