Re: What laptop's do you guys like?
I got an ASUS Nitro 5 when the screen on my Lenovo i3 kept cutting out and voided the warranty before I got it home by installing a 1 TB SSD with Arch instaaled. To boot Arch I have to hold the F12 key down while it powers up or it boots windows 10. Wouldn't buy another ASUS mick down under On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 10:00, Nic Strike wrote: > > Personally, I'm currently using a Razer Blade 15 that I'll be replacing soon > with the Framework 16. If the Framework wasn't coming out, I'd likely be > buying a thinkpad. > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 6:18 PM Eric Waller wrote: >> >> >> >> > However I have heard it is a pain in the ass to repair, and replacement >> > parts are scarce. >> >> Have not had the need to repair, but I was astonished it shipped with >> brackets and FPC cables for the second drive. >> >> Here is a link to the service manual >> >> https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/Customer_self_repair_guide/X712EA_Customer_Self_Repair_Guide_20210701.pdf?model=k712ea >> >> > How long is the battery life (typically with normal load)? >> >> When I am on batteries, I am using the system to diagnose embedded >> systems. This includes the use of USB to serial converters and serial >> terminal emulators. I do embedded systems development with jtag >> programming tools for uploading code to microcontrollers. I also use >> network tools such as wireshark. This includes the continuous use of >> WiFi, and the display of multiple video streams generated by our >> systems. In this sort of operation, I get about six hours if I start >> at 100% and take the batteries all the way down. I try not to do that. >> I prefer to set charge limits to 80% and cycle to not deeper than 20%. >> >> Eric > > > > -- > > Nicolas Strike
Re: "Please append your preferred default BLAS implementation to the regular -Syu command line"
Thanks for raising this issue, many times when installing new (to me) packages I get this type of issue and I have no idea which way to leap blindly. On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 10:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-06-15 at 02:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Out of feeling and because OpenBLAS was already installed in the old > > version, I decided to run > > > >$ sudo pacman -Syu blas-openblas > > Followed by > > $ sudo pacman -S blas64-openblas > > ;D >
Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle
Sounds promising if I can sneak into the house with my ether cable while my daughter is at work. mick in hellharbour On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 at 11:21, Genes Lists wrote: > > On 1/27/23 19:02, Genes Lists wrote: > > > > It's worth checking if this patch made it - sorry haven't had a chance > > to check but if so, then the in-kernel driver for realtec dongle may > > just work out of the box for some of the chipsets: > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220518082318.3898514-1-s.ha...@pengutronix.de/ > > > > regards, > > > > gene > Looks like a series of patches are in kernel as of December 2nd. > > e.g. this one looks like might support the dongle you mentioned - > certainly worth a try: > > commit 45794099f5e1d7abc5eb07e6eec7e1e5c6cb540d > Author: Sascha Hauer > Date: Fri Dec 2 09:12:22 2022 +0100 > > wifi: rtw88: Add rtw8822bu chipset support > > Add support for the rtw8822bu chipset based on > https://github.com/ulli-kroll/rtw88-usb.git > >
Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle
I do have wifi on my laptop getting internet but I haven't tried to use it beyond email and browsing the web. I am now struggling to to wrap my mind around new concepts, I'm 70 y.o. and in poor health, the cause of my moving 1000 km from where I had everything working and had contacts. mick in hellharbour On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 at 10:46, Genes Lists wrote: > > On 1/27/23 18:43, Genes Lists wrote: > > > (3) Since ether over power didnt work would it work to add a second > > access point closer even if not all the way? > > > > duh sorry - brain fart - ignore that - lol ... obviously no help at all > without working wifi. where's my coffee ... > > gene >
Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle
I have just moved to a house where I can't get an Ethernet connection to the broadband 'modem' so I need to finally adopt a wifi setup to connect my two desktops and random Raspberry Pi and Arduinos to the 'modem' & the internet. That raises two problems: I don't know anything about wifi except for my Acer Nitro 5 just asked for a password then worked. The only brand of wifi hardware sold by any of the local shops is TP-Link brand. I have one of their Archer T3U AC1300 dongles that is listed as might work. I tried to build it on the laptop with aur but the package errors with 'ERROR: Missing xxx kernel headers for module rtl88x2bu/5.13.1r179.a2ac3b2' where xxx is one of a list including sys, srv, boot, home, etc, bin, rootfs-pkgs.txt, desktopfs-pkgs.txt, run, usr, lib, dev, lost+found, lib64, tmp, opt, proc, mnt, sbin, var, root I tried to build the driver on the desktop but makepkg immediately crashed because I have no internet connection. The laptop is 6 months more up-to-date than the desktops that have been in storage. What I'm looking for is 1. a way to build the driver for the Archer T3U and/or 2. the make/model of a dongle that will work and/or 3. other options? I have tried Ether of Power setup but the basement my daughter has relegated me to is on a different circuit to the rest of the house. please help mick in the dungeon
Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working
seems so obvious you already illuminated it but some buffer not clearing old data? mick in glen innes 2370 On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 09:32, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: > > Following up on this crash issue I keep having with my Arch server. > Basically server just completely freezes up - doesn't respond to pings, > or keyboard/mouse input, and eventually has to just be rebooted. > > Good news is: > > a) after upgrading everything (including the router firmware) it no > longer seems to hang my entire router/network (yay!) > > b) I was able to get a screenshot of the issue (more details about that > below) > > Bad news is: > > It keeps happening! (About once a week or so.) > > > I was able to capture a screenshot from the VM. (See > http://darose.net/ServerCrash20220209.png) Basically this is the only > thing that's providing me with any detail as to why it's crashing: > "rcu_preempt detected stalls on cpus/tasks". But searching on that > phrase didn't really give any clear indication what the problem might > be. Plus the rest of the details from that message got obscured in the > garbled video output. > > > Any thoughts/suggestions as to what might be happening here / how to > debug welcome! > > Thanks, > > DR > > > On 1/21/22 12:54 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > Been experiencing a weird issue several times recently that's got me > > stumped. > > > > A couple of weeks ago, my entire home network went dead right in the > > middle of a zoom call. Same problem happened again late last night. The > > problem is intermittent/occasional: everything runs without issue for > > several days, then suddenly crashes. > > > > I figured the issue was a problem with my wifi router, but after much > > debugging I don't think that's the case. I have a new (Arch) linux > > server I built a few weeks ago. What seems to be happening is that my > > server crashes for some reason >
