[Trisquel-users] Bright control on Trisquel
Today I installed Trisquel LXDE on a old laptop. There is apparently no bright controller. Nor does the keys assembled with functions (raise and shrink sound, control bright, switch wireless) seems to work. It has to be possible to make em work. How should I start? Never used LXDE before, thought.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison
Please note that I've no intention of attacking the project. I backed it- everything from a demonstrable commitment to liberty and environmental conscience to the disproportionately impressive concept of internal USB ports- and am thus far satisfied with Luke's updates on progress, even if that does mean delays. Nor do I wish to condemn ThinkPenguins' involvement- this was definitely worth the investment, and I am grateful for your willingness to support a great concept. What I was requesting was some guidance as to how I would find the actual designs published. I'm not greatly vested in what has and what has not- hardware liberty is not a significant issue for me, except as pertaining to firmware- but I've yet to actually see anything. I'm simply asking if somebody could advise me on where I would look, so that I (and perhaps others) can understand exactly what is being discussed.
[Trisquel-users] Make PC a streaming server
How can I setup my pc to stream media files anywhere? Also I'd like to ssh into my computer and be able to access youtube-dl to download m4a audio files from youtube. How do I setup ssh?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem
Is there another way to reinstall besides a bootable usb, cd, or dvd? I don't have the option to use cd or dvd and the usb I had no luck with.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem
Hi justinTime I have the same issue on a Lenovo T400 with Azerty Keyboard, when it boot up the keyboard my case stays Qwerty.So i reinstalled and chose to make along passphrase with "only the same letters" that one can find on a Azerty & Qwerty Keyboard.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless not working
I had talked about this problem in the forum more than once. But please permit me to repeat: The wireless thing is big factor for people to go away from Trisquel. We are told always the solution: buy in think penguim a wireless card, but if the prices are too high for our wallets, is there not any other solution? yes there are, liberate and condensate the knowledge on how to get around that big problem by other means: 1. A site or document with update wireless cards that do function on Trisquel; 2. that site or document could contain the brands of computers and laptops that function with no problem with Trisquel; 3.That site or document could contain also information on how to get around the wireless problem by other means (code, installing a specific program in order to avoid, get around or isolate that specific problem, or else). If we continue to ignore this problem it is a big exit door for newbies and people who being in Trisquel want to switch to a more modern laptop. have said that before on at least two ocasions. I am now switching for Debian for that reason, but still using trisquel on the old computer.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy US law now allows collecting data without consent
Howdy mangy :) there always are..
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless not working
>I have no reason to believe it might work You are right. Proprietary firmware is required for it to work.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem
Unfortunately when I put my USB drive into the computer it doesn't give me any option to do anything with it. Everything just remains the same in GRUB as I described above. I'm pretty certain that I didn't trick myself or mistype my password. I was very careful and took my time while typing into the computer and I wrote it down carefully as well making sure that there would be no confusion with the font when I wrote it down. The only thing I can think of is that there is a slight tweak in the keyboard setup but I doubt that even. I tested the keyboard out when selecting the layout and I selected the default English layout. I probably should've tested the password out when I tested the layout but I didn't. I'm almost certain I tried all the numbers and letters on the main part of the keyboard at least but I did not use shift to test out all of the main keys I mentioned. Everything seemed fine during the test and my keyboard is set up pretty standard (comparable to most if not all keyboards I have come across).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless not working
You are right. I rushed to jump to conclusion and I didn't pay proper attention to the outputs. The driver is "RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter" and I have no reason to believe it might work. Sorry for any inconveniences to everyone.
Re: [Trisquel-users] The Replicant project calls for the Android SDK to be included in Trisuqel. Can you help?
It will be in Trisquel 8: http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/a/android-sdk-meta/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem
Not sure about that... ..but the trivial answer would be that either you ACTUALLY mistype your password, OR you tricked yourself when writing down the password, and the one you noted down isn't exactly the one you created.. Can you try to reinstall everything with a simpler password, just to make sure it works? If it does, you can then do a third install with your actual strong password, making sure you actually use the right one.. Also, when reinstalling pay attention that the keyboard layout you provide during the installation actually matches the physical layout of your keyboard! Sorry, I don't have any other clue in mind..
[Trisquel-users] The Replicant project calls for the Android SDK to be included in Trisuqel. Can you help?
Hello everyone, here's the announcement: http://blog.replicant.us/2017/04/there-wont-be-a-replicant-6-0-sdk-because-there-is-already-something-better/ Basically, the Replicant project won't be maintaining a libre version of the Android SDK anymore. The reason is that it will be included in the next Debian release by default, so it makes no sense to waste time and resources to the same job. The hope is for Trisquel to follow up on that, and to include all the free fundamental parts of the SDK in the upcoming Trisuqel 8. Please, read the announcement and join the effort, if you can! Replicant people will be available for helping, if required. Happy hacking, Fil
Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem
It also says, "No key available with this passphrase," before the part where it says, "mdadm: CREATE group disk not found." There is also a list of commands before and after those two lines I just mentioned but they don't mean anything to me.
[Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem
When I tried to install Trisquel from a USB drive I had no problems until I tried to start the system. During installation I chose to encrypt my hard drive and I set a password making sure they matched and I wrote it down before I actually typed it. I used 20 characters of a mixture of upper and lowercase case, numbers, and symbols. But when I start Trisquel from GRUB using the Trisquel GNU/Linux option it asks for my passphrase after running through about half a screen to a full screen of commands I'm not familiar with and I have entered it exactly as it is probably a dozen times but every time I'm told: cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? It then asks me again until a third time of unsuccessful login at which point it says the same thing but then, "done." It then says a whole screen full of things that I'm not familiar with until it says, " mdadm: CREATE group disk not found." It will repeat this skipping a line each time as what appears to be forever until I shut down my computer using the power button. If I then use Ctrl+alt+del it restarts my computer into GRUB. I tried the other two options in GRUB (Advanced options for Trisquel GNU/Linux and System setup) but when it asks for my username and password and I enter it, nothing happens it just takes me back to the GRUB screen. Can someone give me hope of unlocking my computer again? I don't understand what is going on. Is it possible that the problem lies in my non free hardware?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Privacy US law now allows collecting data without consent
Hi SuperTramp83 There is pros & cons about TBB via VPN ==> https://airvpn.org/tor/ https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/42672/using-vpn-tor-together/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless not working
This link you've provided is not for a WiFi card but an HECI controller (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Embedded_Controller_Interface), which has nothing to do with your WiFi card. So we need to ignore that particular h-node link, since that isn't a WiFi card, and start over from scratch by asking: What is the make and model of your WiFi card? The output of lscpci should say.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy US law now allows collecting data without consent
Either bridges or VPN before Tor. You connect to the VPN and after that you open the TorBB. That will hide Tor usage from the ISP. The ISP will know you use a VPN and will only see encrypted traffic the whole time. I highly recommend everyone to use a decent VPN all the time, it's the bare minimum nowadays if you want to maintain **some** privacy. Again, at least when using TorBB for important stuff - don't allow javascript. The Firefox browser is huge and it's attack vector really doesn't need further increase via javascript..
Re: [Trisquel-users] How would I go about launching Icecat from firetools through a tar?
Nice! cheers mate :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless not working
What do you mean "does not see it"? Not detected at all? What does 'lspci' say? Is it on? Ie. not disabled in BIOS.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Wireless not working
If it worked for Trisquel 6, there's a good chance it will work on Trisquel 7 is that your question? You can try, and if unsucessfull try with installing the latest kernel from https://jxself.org/linux-libre/ There is also wifi dongles at Thinkpenguin https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux
[Trisquel-users] Wireless not working
I have found that my wireless should work with free software and exactly Trisquel for that matter; on h-node [1]. However Trisquel (7) does not see it. Do I have to configure the kernel module or do some manual settings for it to work ? https://h-node.org/hostcontrollers/view/en/1545/Intel-Corporation-8-Series-HECI-0--rev-04-
Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy US law now allows collecting data without consent
As far as blocking the ISP this works for all your devices: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-mini-vpn-router-tpe-r1100 It won't stop websites from tracking you or anything like that... it's mainly to hinder an ISP from spying on you where you don't need a super private setup. If you've got the possibility of government agents spying on you and your in a scenario where you need more protection Tor and Tor bridges are probably the best thing to utilize. Tor bridge will probably keep your ISP from detecting that you are using Tor. It's not perfect- but it's better than non-bridge mode. If it doesn't matter if your ISP knows you use Tor then your best bet is to not use bridge mode.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison
A story has been written and the video has been posted: http://freekeene.com/ The video you see here is video of another media correspondent and it does not place me in the best of light. I had no reason to think I'd be arrested that night. I took no initiative to make myself look good for the camera. I admittedly look like a 'hoodlum' in both the image Ian decided to use (it was a protest for NH independence) and the video itself. Without understanding the background and routine abuse by police of media in New Hampshire it's hard to see this in its proper context and my choice of clothing doesn't help.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison
Yea- I'm aware. Nobody has had harsher penalties applied as of yet so if they did it would be quite a case considering the very meaning contradicts the accusation and labelling. Free stater implies participation in the Free State Project which is a migration of those who believe in freedom and liberty to New Hampshire to partake in peaceful change. The very foundations of which are nobody should utilize violence against peaceful people. Neither the state nor oneself where there has been no violence. That is called the non-aggression principle and it's the bedrock principle of those participating in the Free State Project. This is almost pacifist philosophy if not for the belief in the right to use violence in self defence. ie someone aims a gun at you and threatens to kill you you'd be perfectly within your right to return fire killing the other person. The state comparatively is dependant on violence to exist. If you don't do what it says you will be incarcerated even if you've not committed any act of violence yourself. Even the mere presence of a police officer's statements could be reasonably constructed as an act of violence as failure to obey an illegal order is a crime.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison
Well, I'm not sure I'd say EOMA68 isn't libre. It's available for others to utilize as well in their own device designs. Though that said we can start talking about certain aspects of what is being manufactured. There is the Libre Tea Computer Card. That is going to get RYF'd once there is a finished run and the cards can be submitted to the FSF for certification- which is a condition of RYF certification. The laptop housing and the desktop housing can also be RYF'd. Certain internal issues at the FSF and how it operates have made the crowd funding campaign a bit challenging and tct is taking advantage of that to claim it's not libre. I can't help that the FSF did not have any means of certifying it RYF prior to the finished product being manufactured. We attempted to get them to do that- but it's just not how they've setup RYF. Instead they made a statement of support and looked at and hand some of the hardware. The prototypes were unfortunately damaged and not properly reviewed. However those most apt to and capable of reviewing the hardware for RYF are those involved in LibreCMC's development and working on the designs (Luke).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison
Thank you! I knew it wasn't some secret hush hush thing. It's sad what happened, but best to talk about these things I feel than ignore them.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison
The hardware hasn't been manufactured yet so of course the final designs aren't released, but that isn't what makes something libre hardware anyway within the context of free software. The hardware which has been designed is not dependant on any proprietary pieces. That's the key thing that makes it libre hardware. Anyway. The designs for the hardware have been released (to the extent that it's prototypes have been manufactured, even if never shipped, as they are prototypes). Parabola GNU/Linux has been demo'd on the prototypes and there is code for everything here far above and beyond any other laptop on the market. The idea it's not librea hardware is just propaganda by someone whose not got freedom in mind, but a personal vendetta against me. tct is attacking EOMA68 because of that vendetta because I've funded and supported it via ThinkPenguin.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison
Not sure if I followed you, but I'd probably contribute to Bogatov's legal defence fund if you got a few dollars: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-dmitry-bogatov-freebogatov At this point I'm still mostly waiting on some motions I filed to get the evidence and anything else they might try and use against me.
