On Saturday 04 May 2019 11:07:56 am Jon Elson wrote: > If the Wiki is actually going to be abandoned, then I would > very much like to get some important pages off it. I have > no backup of a number of pages I wrote or contributed to. I > assumed the Wiki was being maintained and backed up by > <someone>. > > I would again like to emphasize there is a lot of info on > system setup, servo tuning and special applications like > rigid tapping, pendants and homing that may not be anywhere > else. > > Jon > Information I have found extremely useful, please restore it.
This is going to be the first email I've sent, using tde-kmail installed over your "testing stretch" iso install. So far I am liking what I see but I've some suggestions of what to add to the next respin. 1. mc,mc-data so we've the original swiss-army knife file manager 2. strace so we can trace a failing network. 3. 3 days battling the network failure was experienced here because it was stuck in ipv6 mode only. Someone needs to make a script called ipv4-only, which adds to the /etc/sysctl.conf, the following lines: # this kills ipv6, delete these 7 lines if it ever gets to West (by God) Virginia net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.eth1.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.ppp0.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.tun0.disable_ipv6 = 1 After adding the above, reboot. I have apparently enough ipv6 here at the coyote.den to encourage networking to think it works, but the nearest ipv6 connectivity is likely 100 miles south in Charleston WV, or 150 miles north in Pittsburg PA. Very very frustrating to have pings stop at your local router. You would be far friendlier to the new installer to include the above in the basic installer, and if actually anyone has ipv6, tell them to nuke the above ad reboot. And not your fault, but somebody needs to write a man page for ip. Its probably all there but the lack of examples to make it show you the basic stuff like ifconfig and route did, is a major impediment, so you wind up playing 10,000 monkeys tasked with rewriting William Shakespears work, hoping the .01% of what you type might be the magic trick that is NOT a syntax error. I had several problems with this machine as it was getting flaky over the months, and I thought it was wheezy's bit rot. That I found was actually a nearly dead, 1.35 volts left, 2032 in the bios battery socket. How dare it run down, it was only 11 years old! ;-) Now. Lets see if I can send this. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Sig by hand, I need to get a lot of stuff copied over yet. _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
