----- Original Message -----
From: "Felix Miata" <mrma...@earthlink.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 2:20:54 PM
Subject: Re: internet connectivity from Comcast
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-15 13:36 (UTC-0400):
> It certainly isn't DSL. I have an Ethernet cable running from my machine
> to a Comcast provided "modem" -- except that it is called a router. Quite
Called a "router" by whom, and where? Maybe help could better be forthcoming
if you announced its brand name and a model number. From the description so
far in this thread, yours seems to be one of those boxes that combine modem,
router, switch and firewall. Does it also provide wireless?
I don't think so: the little box on my desk is made by
Cisco. Model number: LinksysWUMC710
> Also: although ALSA and pulse-audio are installed on the Jessie side, I get
> no sound there...
Different and new problem belongs in a virgin thread.
<LOL> One will be forthcoming tomorrow.
This too belongs in a separate thread, but I'll provide a seed for you to try
to fix on your own. This is from Jessie on a multiboot Dell that includes
Windows 10:
# grep ntfs /etc/fstab
/dev/sda6 /win/C ntfs-3g
nofail,users,gid=100,fmask=0111,dmask=0000,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
Already this doesn't work. I put my /etc/fstab on a USB stick which has a
VFAT file
system on it, and my Windoze made a most satisfying chime when I stuck the
stick
into one of the sockets on my USB splitter. I would give you the whole
short text
file if I could swipe my mouse over it. But this is no go in Windoze, and
I don't
know how to Copy and Paste in the Windoze world. So I'll just say here
that my
fstab simply enumerates the partitions I made when I installed. Those are
/dev/sda3,
/dev/sda4, etc. No mention of /dev/sda1, which is I believe called C: in
the Windoze
world. I have my fstab, on E:, open as I write, but the wretched Notepad
pays no
attention to the Unix 'CR's ! ! Takes me back decades!<G>.
This is another failure of the installer failing to recognize that there
is another OS
on my hard drive. There is a class of people on this E-list who seem to
think that
the Jessie installer couldn't possibly be expected to recognize a Windoze
OS, especially
since Windows 10 is "so new". My reaction is: codswallop!
Thanks for your helpful attempt, Felix. Were your examples from a box
with Windoze already
on it?
Alan
