Re: meetings

On 24/02/17 15:34, Andrew Pam via luv-main wrote: On 24/02/17 15:23, Michael Pope via luv-main wrote: I recommend The Dan O'Connell down the road from Melbourne University. It's free early in the week and I would be happy to introduce you to the functions room manager. We run the MLUG meetings

Re: Fwd: Debian 7 - Update error

On 22/01/17 08:54, Brian May via luv-main wrote: Peter Ross via luv-main writes: thanks. I did already. I used the GUI (and should never do this again;-) but realized it does not do the "apt-get update" behind the scenes. The GUI should do this by itself, I believe,

Re: Virtualbox

On 29/11/16 14:32, Steve Roylance via luv-main wrote: On 29/11/16 11:37, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox Has anyone used Virtualbox? What's it like? hi I use VB extensively and usually have at least one client

Re: USB-powered Ethernet to Wireless adapter

On 15/11/16 09:33, Peter Ross via luv-main wrote: Hi all, I want to reanimate an old HP netbook (my other laptop died) but the wireless does not seem to work. (I will try again tonight after FreeBSD upgrade from 10 to 11, but I failed with 10 a while ago. Some firmware issue I could not figure

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

On 12/10/16 13:48, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:42:03AM +1100, Allan Duncan wrote: On my todo list. It happens when I boot after failing to alter fstab to match the actual disks connected. it seems to happen at the slightest excuse, whether the machine ends up

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

On 12/10/16 10:42, Allan Duncan via luv-main wrote: On 12/10/16 01:31, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: ... it's really annoying to have to wait and watch those damn stars when you just wnat to get a shell and start investigating & fixing whatever's gone wrong. There should be an

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

On 12/10/16 01:31, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: ... it's really annoying to have to wait and watch those damn stars when you just wnat to get a shell and start investigating & fixing whatever's gone wrong. There should be an easy and obvious way to display those binary logs from the

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

On 11/10/16 20:14, Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote: ... The coming and passing of systemd will in hindsight be seen as a storm in a teacup, I suspect. (Not comparable with the couple of hours after noon on Sunday, here in the Dandenongs. From my windows I saw three 1m diameter Redgum

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

On 30/09/16 08:29, Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote: On Thursday, 29 September 2016 5:00:39 PM AEST Andrew Pam wrote: I miss TECO. Oh no, wait, no I don't. Grin, I think I missed that one, instead having to use FRED on a Honeywell L66 running GCOS-3 (from memory). That was a pure line

Re: pppd discarding proto 0x8021 in phase 5

On 25/07/16 20:36, James Harper via luv-main wrote: Recently I have been seeing a problem on multiple devices where pppd never completes. It looks like the ISP thinks that pppd is ready for IPCP, but pppd isn’t and so discards the IPCP packet (discarding proto 0x8021 in phase 5) and things just

Re: Ubuntu Kernel upgrade on a non-pae processor

On 30/05/16 16:56, Michele Bert via luv-main wrote: ... By the way do anyone have suggestion about a nice distribution I could install on that laptop? At this stage Fedora supports i686 non-pae kernel builds. And you can have the shiny 4.5.5 version.

Re: DG834G series (NetGear)

On 16/05/16 10:12, MikeH via luv-main wrote: I started work on re-using these devices ages ago and have a new burst of energy with them. Anyone else interested in re-using these? Mike I've got a couple them - keep having to press them into service as a stop-gap when something else falls over.

Re: initramfs and USB sticks that won't boot

On 09/05/16 13:32, Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote: Allan Duncan via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> writes: I have a number of bootable USB sticks, all 32 bit. These work fine on all my boxes, and work quite well with the one box that will actually _boot_ USB3. I would like to do a

Re: SP Ausnet and ZigBee devices

On 09/04/16 18:49, Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote: On Saturday, 9 April 2016 4:39:06 PM AEST Brian May via luv-main wrote: Has anybody had any recent experience talking to smart power meters via ZigBee, preferably on Linux? e.g. what hardware? what software? Still not here, because Ausnet

Re: Parted and a removable HDD (USB)

On 16/02/16 07:33, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: Hi , I am trying to return a WD Elements HDD to a contiguous state, it had a Fat32 and an EXT2 partition, having deleted the 2 partitions to start again Here is what I have in parted: Model: WD 1600BEV External (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 160GB