Re: Debian as My home firewall/router

[Jose Martinez]

On 02/27/2016 08:22 AM, heqamilus wrote:

Hi,
I know that is possible to build a firewall using Debian.
I'm searching for some tutorials, I need to know the system's utility 
to configure  Debian installation in this way.

For example, manage network interfaces, NAT, vlan and optionally DNS

I'm able to do basic firewalling and install and use server application.

Thanks for you help
H.

I use iptables for this application in Debian.  I have a gateway machine 
whose purpose is firewalling as well as a couple of other server 
applications on my local LAN.  The iptables tutorial has been very 
informative for me:


https://www.frozentux.net/documents/iptables-tutorial/

This can be read online or downloaded for offline use.

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Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

[Jose Martinez]

On 01/13/2016 02:38 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200
Amr Saber  wrote:


Hi there,
While I was configuring some thing in the sources.list file as apt-get
couldn't get any package I wanted or asked for (I double checked the
spelling for each package) and it just said package not found ...
any way, The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally deleted
and I can't find any version of it online and ofcourse the apt-get is no
longer working at all


When you are ready to learn how to build a new one:
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList



You can also check out man 5 sources.list for some good information.
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Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

[Jose Martinez]

On 01/13/2016 05:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Wednesday 13 January 2016 23:22:30 David Christensen wrote:

On 01/13/2016 10:31 AM, Amr Saber wrote:

Hi there,
While I was configuring some thing in the sources.list file as apt-get
couldn't get any package I wanted or asked for (I double checked the
spelling for each package) and it just said package not found ...


You can search for packages here:

  http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages


any way, The problem is that the sources.list file was accidentally
deleted


It's useful to make copies of original configuration files before
editing them:

  # cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list-orig

  # vi /etc/apt/sources.list


Better yet is putting them into a version control system.

  > and I can't find any version of it online and ofcourse the apt-get is
  > no longer working at all

Somebody already posted a Jessie file.  Here's my Wheezy file:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 xfce-CD
Binary-1 20150110-14:41]/ wheezy main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main

deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main


David


And in case you are less purist:

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free

deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports iceweasel-release



Lisi, where can you get the authentication signature for the the 
mozilla.debian.net repository??



Though in both cases Brian's choice of mirror was better.

Lisi



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Re: Problem with apt-get and sources.list

[Jose Martinez]

On 01/13/2016 06:10 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote:

Jose Martinez:


Lisi, where can you get the authentication signature for the the
mozilla.debian.net repository??


I am not Lisi, but have you considered just going straight to
http://mozilla.debian.net/? :)


J.


Hmmm...What a novel idea!!

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Re: ngspice

[Jose Martinez]

On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 21:42 +0100, Siard wrote:
> Jose Martinez writes:
> > Does anyone know why this package was dropped from the Debian
> > distribution???  What would it take to get this package brought back
> > to Debian??
> 
> Apparently it has moved to non-free, as you can see here:
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ngspice=names=all=all
> You could add non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
> 
It is indeed in non-free, but not in i386 architecture since Debian
Squeeze.  The amd64 package exists past Squeeze but not the i386.  This
turns out to be a known "bug" and there is an open bug about it.  If
there is any way I can help, I will try to aid in the return of the i386
package to Debian.  I've sent out a couple emails in regards to this,
and hope to get some responses soon.  In the mean time, I'm using the
source package from upstream compiled on my system for the latest
version.

ngspice

[Jose Martinez]

I have used the ngspice package for quite some time.  Version 20 of this
package is found in the Squeeze repositories, and this is the version
that I have been using until just last week.  Since the Squeeze release,
it appears that this package has been dropped in Wheezy and Jessie
releases.  Since then, ngspice has progressed to version 26, which I
have acquired in source form, successfully compiled, and installed under
my current debian system (Jessie 8.2.0).

Does anyone know why this package was dropped from the Debian
distribution???  What would it take to get this package brought back to
Debian??

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Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

[Jose Martinez]

On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 07:04 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:43:51 -0400 (EDT), Jose Martinez wrote:
> > 
> > I sure appreciate the info.  The internal B43 wireless on my laptop does
> > not play nicely with the b43legacy driver and locks up fairly
> > frequently, and has limited data rates.  (the b43 driver doesn't work at
> > all).  This seems to be a pretty common problem, as I've run across it
> > mentioned on several sites.  So, I thought I'd get something that was
> > less problematic.alas and alack the solution seems to have its own
> > issues!!
> 
> In Debian, the driver and the firmware are separate.  Make sure you have
> the firmware installed also.  Usually, you can detect missing firmware
> with
> 
>dmesg|less
> 
> and search for the string "firmware" (without the quotes).  See if there
> are any error messages regarding the attempt to load firmware.  You will
> need Debian package firmware-b43legacy-installer or firmware-b43-installer,
> depending on which chipset is built in.  firmware-b43legacy-installer is
> needed for chipsets BCM4301, BCM4306/2, or BCM4306.
> 
> firmware-b43-installer is used for chipets BCM4306/3, BCM4311, BCM4318,
> BCM4321, BCM4322 (only 14e4:432b), or BCM4312 (with Low-Power a.k.a. LP-PHY).
> 
> Make sure that you have the contrib and the non-free sections of the
> archive enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, as this involves non-free stuff.
> 
I have all the b43 packages installed, the b43legacy driver (which is
apparently now main-line, though it wasn't when I installed it) and the
firmware package (via the fwcutter package).  The legacy Broadcom B4306
I have does work with these packages most of the time.  However, the
data rates are extremely slow, and on occasion, the transmitter
completely drops out.  I've looked at the kernel error messages that
result when this happens, and it involves receiving unexpected values.
Usually multiple times, until it simply gives up.  When this happens, I
can usually turn the interface off and back on again and it will connect
back up and be fine for a while.  Sometimes that does not work, and I
modprobe -r the b43legacy driver and then re-load the driver and it will
come up.  On rare occasion, even that won't work, and I have to
completely reboot the system.

I got tired of that situation and bought the RealTek USB WIFI, which is
now working and making life a whole lot easier!! :)

Re: [Solved] RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

[Jose Martinez]

On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 21:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:24:07 -0400 (EDT), Jose Martinez wrote:
> > 
> > I recently purchased a USB wifi adapter which has a RealTek RTL8192EU
> > chip (ID  0bda:818b) in it.  A CD came with the wifi adapter which had
> > drivers for Windows (which worked properly) and purports to have linux
> > drivers as well.  Of course the linux driver has to be compiled.
> > Following their instructions, and using their install.sh shell script, I
> > attempted to compile and install the driver.  Unfortunately, the
> > compilation failed (attached is a copy of the output from the
> > compilation run).  I am running Debian 8.2 with kernel 3.16 (sometimes
> > 4.2, though 4.2 seems to have some issues that 3.16 doesn't, but that is
> > another conversation).  I have all the headers installed and can compile
> > the kernel successfully on the system, so I'm sure it's not a matter of
> > missing headers/source information.  Any assistance, either to get the
> > distributed driver to compile, or to obtain a driver that does compile
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I found this:
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/619840/rtl8192eu-driver-does-not-work
> 
> This is for Ubuntu, not Debian; but perhaps it can be adapted for
> Debian.
> 
I went to this site and downloaded the .deb dkms package referenced
there.  This is an Ubuntu package, so there were a couple of issues in
getting it installed -- The Ubuntu package name for the linux header
files is different than the Debian package name so dpkg failed on
dependencies. Nevertheless, I bypassed the normal package system (bad
thing to do under most circumstances), and unpacked the .deb file and
manually moved the files to the appropriate places and ran the postinst
configuration script manually.  The driver compiled and installed just
fine, and I am now using the RealTek usb adapter as I write this.  My
data rates went up 10 fold on my home network and haven't had a network
failure since.

Thanks to all who responded to my request.  All the information was
helpful.

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

[Jose Martinez]

Yea, I had checked that site first, they don't have anything on the
8192EU.  In fact, their support for the 8192E is pretty spotty.  They
don't have anything for the 8192EE either, which is the PCI version of
the same chip.

I saw drivers for an 8192E and an 8192U both for windows, but nothing
for linux.  There are a couple of other versions of the 8192 up there
too, but nothing for the E series.

On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 20:05 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> For Realtek drivers, you can checkout one on
> Realtek Driver Download Center
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> Himanshu Shekhar
> IIIT-Allahabad
> IRM2015006

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

[Jose Martinez]

Thanks, that is something that didn't show up in my searching.
I've downloaded the specified deb file.  As it is a dkms, I expect that
it will compile OK for debian as wellwe shall see!!

I sure appreciate the info. The internal B43 wireless on my laptop does
not play nicely with the b43legacy driver and locks up fairly
frequently, and has limited data rates.  (the b43 driver doesn't work at
all).  This seems to be a pretty common problem, as I've run across it
mentioned on several sites.  So, I thought I'd get something that was
less problematic.alas and alack the solution seems to have its own
issues!!

On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 21:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:24:07 -0400 (EDT), Jose Martinez wrote:
> > 
> > I recently purchased a USB wifi adapter which has a RealTek RTL8192EU
> > chip (ID  0bda:818b) in it.  A CD came with the wifi adapter which had
> > drivers for Windows (which worked properly) and purports to have linux
> > drivers as well.  Of course the linux driver has to be compiled.
> > Following their instructions, and using their install.sh shell script, I
> > attempted to compile and install the driver.  Unfortunately, the
> > compilation failed (attached is a copy of the output from the
> > compilation run).  I am running Debian 8.2 with kernel 3.16 (sometimes
> > 4.2, though 4.2 seems to have some issues that 3.16 doesn't, but that is
> > another conversation).  I have all the headers installed and can compile
> > the kernel successfully on the system, so I'm sure it's not a matter of
> > missing headers/source information.  Any assistance, either to get the
> > distributed driver to compile, or to obtain a driver that does compile
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I found this:
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/619840/rtl8192eu-driver-does-not-work
> 
> This is for Ubuntu, not Debian; but perhaps it can be adapted for
> Debian.
> 

RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

[Jose Martinez]

I recently purchased a USB wifi adapter which has a RealTek RTL8192EU
chip (ID  0bda:818b) in it.  A CD came with the wifi adapter which had
drivers for Windows (which worked properly) and purports to have linux
drivers as well.  Of course the linux driver has to be compiled.
Following their instructions, and using their install.sh shell script, I
attempted to compile and install the driver.  Unfortunately, the
compilation failed (attached is a copy of the output from the
compilation run).  I am running Debian 8.2 with kernel 3.16 (sometimes
4.2, though 4.2 seems to have some issues that 3.16 doesn't, but that is
another conversation).  I have all the headers installed and can compile
the kernel successfully on the system, so I'm sure it's not a matter of
missing headers/source information.  Any assistance, either to get the
distributed driver to compile, or to obtain a driver that does compile
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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##
Realtek Wi-Fi driver Auto installation script
Novembor, 21 2011 v1.1.0
##
Decompress the driver source tar ball:
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524.tar.gz
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/clean
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/efuse/
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/efuse/rtw_efuse.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_ap.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_br_ext.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_bt_mp.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_cmd.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_debug.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_eeprom.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_io.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_ioctl_query.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_ioctl_rtl.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_ioctl_set.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_iol.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_mlme.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_mp.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_mp_ioctl.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_p2p.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_recv.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_rf.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_security.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_sreset.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_sta_mgt.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_tdls.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_vht.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_wapi.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_wapi_sms4.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_wlan_util.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/core/rtw_xmit.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/HalPwrSeqCmd.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/hal_com.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/hal_com_phycfg.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/hal_intf.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/hal_phy.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/led/
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/led/hal_usb_led.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/HalPhyRf.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/HalPhyRf.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_debug.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_debug.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_HWConfig.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_HWConfig.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_interface.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_interface.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_precomp.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_reg.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_RegDefine11AC.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_RegDefine11N.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/odm_types.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/rtl8192e/
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/rtl8192e/Hal8192EReg_Odm.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/rtl8192e/HalHWImg8192E_BB.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/rtl8192e/HalHWImg8192E_BB.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/rtl8192e/HalHWImg8192E_FW.c
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/rtl8192e/HalHWImg8192E_FW.h
rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.20130524/hal/OUTSRC/rtl8192e/HalHWImg8192E_MAC.c

Re: Gnome Audio Alerts

[Jose Martinez]

Fortunately, the audio card was recognized.  I am able to use the audio
card to play music and videos, etc.  It is only the audio alerts from
gnome that do not work.  Since then, I had another problem with my
system which resulted in dumping many of my personal settings (read
config files).  When gnome came back up, the alerts were working again.
Somewhere in one of the configuration files in my personal directory
there was an odd setting that caused the problem.  Unfortunately, I have
no idea which file or what setting.  But in any event, the alerts are
again working the way they are supposed to.

I suspect that many of the intermittent and odd problems I have from
time to time on this system is the result of using an old laptop
(Gateway M675).  Several features of the linux system are non-functional
on this laptop, especially the ability to suspend to ram, or hibernate
to disk.  I've done some research, and this is a common problem with all
linux distros with this laptop.  As far as I can tell, no one has solved
that particular problem.

Thank you for responding to my post, Martin.  I appreciate your help.

On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 07:03 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Jose Martinez <jomartinez...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Sat, 2015-09-05 at 02:42 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > Thank you for your response, Ric.  I hadn't tried alsamixer. In fact,
> > I've never pulled the alsa mixer up since install, I'm using PulseAudio,
> > and so have used the PulseAudio controls.  In any event, I'm not sure
> > what I should see with the alsa mixer, but I only have a master playback
> > control, which is at 100% and a capture control, also set for 100%.
> > There are no other controls available on the alsamixer.  I'm almost to
> > the point of completely un-installing gnome, and then re-installing
> > gnome from scratch (if that is even possible) to see if I can get them
> > back.  I play music and other audio all the time, but I also use the
> > audio notifications, especially for email, and hate it when they are
> > out.
> 
>   You should have a few more sound controlls and they
> usually have less granularity than 1/100TH. Some have 16 or 32
> discrete levels and you can set them to X% but that X% rounds up
> or down to the nearest setting. If your card shows 0 to 31 level
> settings, amixer will, for example, set the level to 8 if you ask
> for 50%. If you ask for 51%, it will still probably set the level
> to 8 because there isn't a discrete level in the hardware that
> neatly correspond to 51%.
> 
>   In many cases, this isn't that bad since your ears can
> normally not detect changes up or down of much less than 3 DB.
> What you are actually dealing with is the driver's interpretation
> of what the hardware for your sound interface will allow you to do.
> 
>   I had something somewhat similar happen earlier this year
> when I stopped using pulseaudio due to several weird behaviors of
> sound which, on this older Dell system, is always itching to
> break any time I upgrade Debian. After upgrading from squeeze to
> wheezy, the CS4236 on-board sound chip disappeared so
> $ aplay -l
> produced only external sound cards such as usb cards or a SBLive
> card as Card 0.
> 
>   After turning off pulseaudio, amixer for Card 0 produced
> an output something like the one you described.
> aplay -l showed no Card 0 and 1 Card 1.  amixer for Card 1 showed
> all the bells and whistles that should have been there and they
> worked. Playing something using Card 0 would play the audio file
> but all the controls but playback and possibly capture were gone
> and playback had that fake 0-100 range of granularity.
> 
>   This, by the way, was all under the command-line, no
> gnome so when the system gets confused about sound hardware and
> the drivers being used, the problems show up in all kinds of odd
> or missing behavior.
> 
>   On this system, I guess the CS4236 is a goner for
> anything above squeeze which is a pain because that on-board
> sound system used inputs from the PC speaker beeper and could
> send outputs from the analog sound card to the little speaker
> making it possible to send analog sound to that device if one
> needed to.
> 
> Martin

Re: Broadcom 4311 network adapter doesn't work under Jessie (was debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1143)

[Jose Martinez]

On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 19:08 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:23:39 -0400 (EDT), Edward Lukacs wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, yes ... I can't get the ... Broadcom 4311 internal card
> > running under Jessie.  ... Strange, but up to and including Ubuntu
> > 10.04, it ran right out of the box without any fuss ...
> 
> Sounds like missing firmware.  Do you have the non-free and contrib
> sections of the Debian archive enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list?
> Do you have Debian package firmware-b43-installer installed?
> 
> After installing it, and rebooting, issue
>  
>dmesg|less
> 
> and search for the string "firmware" to see if the firmware loaded
> properly this time, and to see if there are any other missing firmware
> files for other hardware that requires firmware.
> 
> By the way, please choose a more appropriate subject line in your posts
> to this list.  It's more likely to get attention that way.
> 
> I am CCing you because the subject line implies that you are not
> subscribed to the main list.  Please do not CC me back; just reply to
> the list, since I am subscribed to the list.
> 
I'm also using an old laptop with an old B43 wireless NIC.  I have also
had a little trouble making it work, but after some effort have got it
pretty well figured out.  Make sure that the b43 driver package is
installed (firmware-b43legacy-installer).  You will also need the
b43-fwcutter package to obtain and install the proprietary firmware for
the NIC. Installation of the firmware package will require internet
access as it downloads the firmware from Broadcom.  As I recall, the
b43-fwcutter package is automatically installed when you install the
firmware-b43legacy-installer package, but you might want to make sure
that that is true.

Once you install these packages, reboot the system!! (I forgot to do
this once, and spent quite a bit of time scratching my head wondering
why my NIC didn't come up.)  When the system boots up, it will load the
firmware into the NIC and you should be good to go.  Be sure to be
patient when booting the system, the wireless card may not come up until
just about the time the login dialog appears on the screen.  That's the
way mine works, so don't get worried if the light for the wireless card
doesn't come on right away when the system starts booting, it may be
nearly login time before it does.

Re: Gnome Audio Alerts

[Jose Martinez]

On Sat, 2015-09-05 at 02:42 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 09/03/2015 10:44 PM, Jose Martinez wrote:
> > Once again, the audio alerts on my gnome desktop have ceased to work.
> > This problem occurred once before and was addressed here on the list.  I
> > have looked up that old thread on the debian.org site, and double
> > checked everything that was mentioned there.
> >
> > I have checked that /org/gnome/desktop/sound/event-sounds is indeed
> > checked in the dconf editor.
> >
> > I have checked that gnome-session-canberra is in fact installed.
> >
> > I have check that sound-theme-freedesktop is installed.
> >
> > In the settings (gnome-control-center) the alerts show to be on, and the
> > volume for them is set at the max.
> >
> > I have run the command canberra-gtk-play --id="dialog-error".  The
> > result of that command is no audio output of any kind, and no errors
> > reported on the console.
> >
> > I re-installed both gnome-session-canberra and sound-theme-freedesktop
> > packages and rebooted the system.  This also had no effect.
> >
> > Anyone with any more ideas???
> 
> Have you tried alsamixer yet? Ric
> 

Thank you for your response, Ric.  I hadn't tried alsamixer. In fact,
I've never pulled the alsa mixer up since install, I'm using PulseAudio,
and so have used the PulseAudio controls.  In any event, I'm not sure
what I should see with the alsa mixer, but I only have a master playback
control, which is at 100% and a capture control, also set for 100%.
There are no other controls available on the alsamixer.  I'm almost to
the point of completely un-installing gnome, and then re-installing
gnome from scratch (if that is even possible) to see if I can get them
back.  I play music and other audio all the time, but I also use the
audio notifications, especially for email, and hate it when they are
out.

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Gnome Audio Alerts

[Jose Martinez]

Once again, the audio alerts on my gnome desktop have ceased to work.  
This problem occurred once before and was addressed here on the list.  I 
have looked up that old thread on the debian.org site, and double 
checked everything that was mentioned there.


I have checked that /org/gnome/desktop/sound/event-sounds is indeed 
checked in the dconf editor.


I have checked that gnome-session-canberra is in fact installed.

I have check that sound-theme-freedesktop is installed.

In the settings (gnome-control-center) the alerts show to be on, and the 
volume for them is set at the max.


I have run the command canberra-gtk-play --id="dialog-error".  The 
result of that command is no audio output of any kind, and no errors 
reported on the console.


I re-installed both gnome-session-canberra and sound-theme-freedesktop 
packages and rebooted the system.  This also had no effect.


Anyone with any more ideas???

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Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

[Jose Martinez]

NaCL -- Sodium Chloride -- common table salt.   That just means you have 
to add your own!!:-D




On 06/22/2015 11:18 PM, Tim Beelen wrote:

Wow, thanks! An actual thing I can try.

I also found out in the mean time that Chromium does not come with/is 
not compiled with NaCl enabled (whatever that is) and that would 
prevent actual execution of the plugin.


Thank you for pointing me in the direction of the tools to figure out 
what program is accessing my mic.


On 6/22/2015 8:01 PM, Jose Martinez wrote:
Say, maybe a tin-foil hat for the affected system could be designed 
to prevent this from happening?? :-D




On 06/22/2015 05:25 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:38:30PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:

On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote:

Tim Beelen writes:

How do I find out which application is accessing what device?

It's all software.  There is no hardware involved at all: they use a
virtual device.  It works even when the computer is off. Doesn't 
matter

if your machine has a microphone or even any audio input capability.
I would truly like to know how they could manage that. Back in the 
day, you
could make your floppy drive heave and grunt like it was in the 
throes of

passion, but to make a non-audio device turn into a passive listening
device?? While turned off?? Pull my other finger! cackles :) Ric

You reprogram the BIOS to upload new firmware to the hard drive. That
firmware reads the subtle variations in the magnetic patterns that the
sound waves have caused (that is, the sound waves jostle the data on
your hard drive. When the computer boots, the new firmware reads this,
recalculates what was said, and passes this to chrome).

/bunkum

To be serious to the OP, though, if you're running PulseAudio, run the
paman program to see what applications are recording and playing
audio. Alternatively, you could try a command such as:

  $ lsof /dev/snd/*

to see which applications are using the sound hardware. Note, though,
that this won't differentiate between what's playing sound and what's
recording sound.

As a last resort, consult the code for chromium.




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Re: Nova Desktop

[Jose Martinez]

Thanks, Sven.  I guess there isn't any point in scratching my head over it.

Que te vaya bien.


On 06/22/2015 06:23 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 16:27 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:

Yeah, that was my understanding as well.  However, with
desktopnova-module-gnome installed, it doesn't change the desktop
wallpaper.  Everything indicates that it is working, I get no
errors.

[...]

I am running Jessie and gnome on an old HP Pavilion d9000 with nvidia


Doesn't work on GNOME, open bug with patch, but no action from the
maintainer for a couple of years:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651313



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Re: Nova Desktop

[Jose Martinez]

On 06/22/2015 05:52 AM, Curt wrote:

On 2015-06-21, Jose Martinez jomartinez...@gmail.com wrote:


Yeah, that was my understanding as well.  However, with
desktopnova-module-gnome installed, it doesn't change the desktop
wallpaper.  Everything indicates that it is working, I get no errors.
When I start the daemon, it reports that it is started, and a ps command
verifies that it is indeed running.  But there is no effect.


Well, my understanding is there's more to it than just installing the
app and its corresponding module and starting up the daemon. Doesn't it
have to be configured (maybe you configgured that out)?


Yes, I did the configuration, and that didn't help.  Sven sent a post 
saying that there is an open bug for this issue, and that it doesn't 
work with Gnome 3.  The last post from the maintainer is about two years 
ago.  I think that I'll not worry about this issue, as it's not all that 
big of a deal.


Gracias, y que te vaya bien.

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Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

[Jose Martinez]

Say, maybe a tin-foil hat for the affected system could be designed to 
prevent this from happening?? :-D




On 06/22/2015 05:25 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:38:30PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:

On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote:

Tim Beelen writes:

How do I find out which application is accessing what device?

It's all software.  There is no hardware involved at all: they use a
virtual device.  It works even when the computer is off.  Doesn't matter
if your machine has a microphone or even any audio input capability.

I would truly like to know how they could manage that. Back in the day, you
could make your floppy drive heave and grunt like it was in the throes of
passion, but to make a non-audio device turn into a passive listening
device?? While turned off?? Pull my other finger! cackles :) Ric

You reprogram the BIOS to upload new firmware to the hard drive. That
firmware reads the subtle variations in the magnetic patterns that the
sound waves have caused (that is, the sound waves jostle the data on
your hard drive. When the computer boots, the new firmware reads this,
recalculates what was said, and passes this to chrome).

/bunkum

To be serious to the OP, though, if you're running PulseAudio, run the
paman program to see what applications are recording and playing
audio. Alternatively, you could try a command such as:

  $ lsof /dev/snd/*

to see which applications are using the sound hardware. Note, though,
that this won't differentiate between what's playing sound and what's
recording sound.

As a last resort, consult the code for chromium.




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Re: Nova Desktop

[Jose Martinez]

Yeah, that was my understanding as well.  However, with 
desktopnova-module-gnome installed, it doesn't change the desktop 
wallpaper.  Everything indicates that it is working, I get no errors.  
When I start the daemon, it reports that it is started, and a ps command 
verifies that it is indeed running.  But there is no effect.


I also uninstalled desktopnova and installed gbackground, which appears 
to be a package to perform the same function.  I also has no effect on 
my desktop background.


I am running Jessie and gnome on an old HP Pavilion d9000 with nvidia 
graphics (nouveau driver).  I'm really mystified as to why this doesn't 
work.


On 06/21/2015 08:19 AM, Curt wrote:

On 2015-06-18, Tom Ashley tomashle...@gmail.com wrote:

I have no experience with the package but noticed the following in the
description supplied by aptitude: There is at least one module needed.
Without a module this package will not work as expected! See packages
desktopnova-module-*. 


The app works with either Gnome or Xfce and requires the corresponding
module, depending on which of former you're running (you are running one
of the former, are you not?)

desktopnova-module-gnome - GNOME module for DesktopNova
desktopnova-module-xfce - Xfce module for DesktopNova

At least that's my understanding.





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RE: Nova Desktop

[Jose Martinez]

Hey, Lisi,

I'm running Gnome.  It appears to me that desktopnova is supposed to
work under gnome, but I haven't been able to get it to do so.  I did
however, just notice in the package lists package gbackground, which is
supposed to do the same thing, and is designed for Gnome, and so is
probably a better option.  I hadn't seen that package before.  I'm going
to give it a try and see if that solves the problem.

Thanks everyone for your input.

On 06/18/2015 08:08 AM, Tom Ashley wrote:


 On 06/18/2015 07:55 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
 On Thursday 18 June 2015 11:37:18 rob wrote:
 On 18/06/15 10:43, Lisi Reisz wrote:
 On Thursday 18 June 2015 00:04:12 Jose Martinez wrote:
 Anyone know anything about the Nova Desktop application.  I have it
 installed and set it up, but it doesn't seem to affect my desktop
 background.  I have several .jpg images that I had wanted to cycle
 through the desktop background, and it seemed that Nova was just the
 ticket
 I have found references to Android and references to Ubuntu.  Are you
 sure that it works on Debian?

 Which DE are you trying to use it on and why is the DE's own
 background manager not adequate?

 Lisi
 Debian package desktopnova
 Thanks, Rob.  But:

 Which DE are you (the OP) trying to use it on and why is the DE's own
 background manager not adequate?

 Lisi


 I have no experience with the package but noticed the following in the
 description supplied by aptitude: There is at least one module
 needed. Without a module this package will not work as expected! See
 packages  desktopnova-module-*. 

 HTH,

 Tom Ashley



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Nova Desktop

[Jose Martinez]

Anyone know anything about the Nova Desktop application.  I have it 
installed and set it up, but it doesn't seem to affect my desktop 
background.  I have several .jpg images that I had wanted to cycle 
through the desktop background, and it seemed that Nova was just the 
ticket


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Re: Broadcom b43 Drivers

[Jose Martinez]

On 06/05/2015 02:16 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:54:40PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:

I forgot to mention in my last post, when I attempted to install the
old driver from broadcom which I have used before, I get the
message:

insmod: ERROR: could not insert module wl.ko: Invalid module format

This has not happened in the past, it just installed and worked fine.]

This means that the module was compiled for a different version (or for a
significantly different configuration) of the kernel you're trying to
feed the module to. You can look int that with modinfo (lives in /sbin):

   tomas@rasputin:~$ /sbin/modinfo 
/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl1.ko
   filename:   
/lib/modules/3.2.0-3-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl1.ko
   version:2.1.3
   license:GPL
   author: Xiong Huang xiong.hu...@atheros.com, Chris Snook 
csn...@redhat.com, Jay Cliburn jclib...@gmail.com
   description:Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet Driver
   srcversion: 21557C61B6BC6DA20309204
   alias:  pci:v1969d1048sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
   depends:mii
   intree: Y
   vermagic:   3.2.0-3-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
   parm:   int_mod_timer:Interrupt moderator timer (array of int)
   parm:   debug:Message level (0=none,...,16=all) (int)

HTH
- -- tomás
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I understand.  It is true that this driver was compiled back in August 
under Wheezy.  What I do find interesting is that I know that this 
driver was working on a system upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie. However, 
with a clean install of Jessie, it does not.


Nevertheless, the problem was solved when I got the original Jessie 
kernel, without my tramping around messing it up, and installed the 
firmware-b43-install package.  I didn't think that that had worked 
because I forgot the necessary step of rebooting after the 
installation.  The driver automatically uploads the firmware to the chip 
at boot up, and since I didn't reboot, the firmware did not get uploaded 
and it did not work.  Once I rebooted, everything came out fine.  In 
fact, this post is being sent through that BC4321 chip to my wireless 
network.  (I was wired yesterday.)


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Re: Broadcom b43 drivers

[Jose Martinez]

On 06/05/2015 03:25 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:41:27PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:

OK, I probably have my system all messed up.  Here's the sequence of
events:

  Discovered errors with the nouveau driver (I'm using NVIDIA GeForce 7130
  chipset) and did some research, nvidia-detect recommended the legacy
  304xx driver, so I followed all the instructions on the wiki for
  installing said driver.  This broke the system.  X would not start, I
  have only command line.

  Not being really up to speed on everything needed to fix the system, and
  having tried several thing to no avail, I boot to rescue mode, using the
  installer environment so that previous root is not mounted.  I deleted
  everything, except /root and /home, wherein I have data I do not want to
  lose, in order to start with a basically clean slate.

  I download and burn the jessie net-install CD and boot to that and
  install jessie.

  My broadcom wireless (using the BC4321 AG chipset) will not come up.
  This is not unexpected, there is no firmware installed as of yet for
  that NIC.

  I follow all of the instructions on wiki for obtaining the firmware and
  installing it to bring the card up (which worked in a previous
  incarnation of the system).  The card still will not come up.

Check the syslog and/or dmesg. The kernel SHOULD log a message to the
effect that it has found the firmware and loaded it.


  I pulled out the old driver I was using which I got from broadcom, and
  had installed it in the past to get everything working.  I attempted to
  install it using the instructions provided with the driver (which had
  worked in the past). The card still will not come up.

  I do an lspci | grep Network command and the controller does show up
  (03:00.0).

As an interim measure, are you able to install using a different (e.g.
wired) adapter. You may find getting the firmware to work on an
installed system easier than on the installer.


What the devil am I doing wrong, and how do I get my wifi adapter back??
Note that I had used the firmware-b43-installer package in a past jessie
incarnation and it worked great.

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Sven, Darac, Thank you for your input.  The driver was not compiled for 
the current Jessie kernel.  It had been compiled for Wheezy back in 
August.  What threw me off was the fact that if I had a Wheezy system 
and updated to Jessie, the driver was happy.  This time, however, was a 
clean install of Jessie with no upgrade from Wheezy. I don't understand 
all the ins and outs of the situation, but I suspect that there is a 
little difference in the compile between the two distributions, but that 
if Wheezy is already installed, the kernel is maintained through the 
upgrade.  But, with a fresh install of Jessie with no previous kernel, 
the kernel installed isn't quite the same and so causes the error.  I'm 
basically guessing at that, but I suspect I'm not far off the mark.


In any event, I did have a wired option, I have a second adapter on this 
laptop that is wired, so I was able to connect up to the router using 
that nic, which incidentally was how I was sending messages on this 
list.  Ultimately, I did get it working, and am now using it. I had 
forgotten the necessary step of rebooting after installing the firmward 
package in contrib, so the firmware didn't get uploaded. As a result, I 
thought it wasn't working (and started tramping around in things better 
left alone) when in fact all I needed to do is reboot.  This of course 
made for a whole lot more work to get back to the virgin state and get 
the contrib package in again.  I really need to be slapped, I think. :-[



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Re: Old Computers

[Jose Martinez]

On 06/03/2015 04:48 PM, John Hasler wrote:

Renaud writes:

Which certainly taught you the hard way to draw one (or several)
diagonal pencil or ink lines across the top of your card deck...

Or to number your cards so that you could simply run a scrambled deck
through the card sorter.


That's cheatingyou have to hand sort those things!!


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Broadcom b43 driver

[Jose Martinez]

Problem fixed... Rebooting is a wondrous thing!!  I ended up 
re-installing the original jessie kernel to get rid of my bull in the 
china shop hacking, then re-installed the firmware-b43-installer.  Then 
with things back the way they should be, I rebootedLife is good, 
wifi is on the air.


I really shouldn't be messing around with things when I don't know what 
I'm doing:-!



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Broadcom b43 drivers

[Jose Martinez]

OK, I probably have my system all messed up.  Here's the sequence of events:

   Discovered errors with the nouveau driver (I'm using NVIDIA GeForce
   7130 chipset) and did some research, nvidia-detect recommended the
   legacy 304xx driver, so I followed all the instructions on the wiki
   for installing said driver.  This broke the system.  X would not
   start, I have only command line.

   Not being really up to speed on everything needed to fix the system,
   and having tried several thing to no avail, I boot to rescue mode,
   using the installer environment so that previous root is not
   mounted.  I deleted everything, except /root and /home, wherein I
   have data I do not want to lose, in order to start with a basically
   clean slate.

   I download and burn the jessie net-install CD and boot to that and
   install jessie.

   My broadcom wireless (using the BC4321 AG chipset) will not come
   up.  This is not unexpected, there is no firmware installed as of
   yet for that NIC.

   I follow all of the instructions on wiki for obtaining the firmware
   and installing it to bring the card up (which worked in a previous
   incarnation of the system).  The card still will not come up.

   I pulled out the old driver I was using which I got from broadcom,
   and had installed it in the past to get everything working.  I
   attempted to install it using the instructions provided with the
   driver (which had worked in the past). The card still will not come up.

   I do an lspci | grep Network command and the controller does show up
   (03:00.0).

What the devil am I doing wrong, and how do I get my wifi adapter 
back??  Note that I had used the firmware-b43-installer package in a 
past jessie incarnation and it worked great.



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Broadcom b43 Drivers

[Jose Martinez]

I forgot to mention in my last post, when I attempted to install the old 
driver from broadcom which I have used before, I get the message:


   insmod: ERROR: could not insert module wl.ko: Invalid module format

This has not happened in the past, it just installed and worked fine.]

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Re: Old Computers

[Jose Martinez]

On 06/03/2015 09:55 AM, Mike McClain wrote:

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 07:04:13PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:

And I will probably not use these system(s) on line much if any at
all.  So most of the security issues will fixed or not will not
really be a problem in this situation.

I see I've sparked a pretty good discussion on the list.  I sure
appreciate all the advice/information it will come in very handy
when I actually have the systems in hand.
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If you need linux on a 386 that's where I started with DosLinux.
I still have a copy if you're interested. As I recall no Xwindows just
command line.
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I may take you up on that, depending on what I end up with. Hopefully, 
I'll have at least one motherboard with a pentium class chipset.  But, 
still, it might be interesting to get even the older ones up, just for 
laughs.






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Re: Old Computers

[Jose Martinez]

On 06/03/2015 05:30 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 19:04 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:

I see I've sparked a pretty good discussion on the list.  I sure
appreciate all the advice/information it will come in very handy when I
actually have the systems in hand.

You could always try mining Bitcoin:
http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-ibm-1401.html

But I guess none of your systems are quite as old? ;)

Oh, Man, Holerith (It's been so long I'm not sure how to spell it 
anymore)...I learned to type on an IBM keypunch machine punching 80 
column cards full of data for some statistical analysis (wrote the 
analysis proceedures in SPSS, too).  Those were the days:-D



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Re: Old Computers

[Jose Martinez]

On 06/02/2015 11:45 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:

On 06/02/2015 08:11 PM, Jose Martinez wrote:



On 06/02/2015 10:08 PM, Celejar wrote:

On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:46:17 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:


On Tuesday 02 June 2015 16:28:30 lostson wrote:

On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Tuesday 02 June 2015 14:55:51 Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 21:14 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:

Hmm, that is a little disappointing.  But, I can probably run
Squeeze. Nothing like stone knives and bear skins!:-)

I think even squeeze would be a challenge (maybe a fun one though!)
when it comes to ram and disk space.

But there's always vintage operating systems for vintage 
computers :)

I thought of DSL.  But it needs an i486. :-(
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall

Lisi

  How about Tiny Core Linux

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html#req

Needs i486. :-(

Ah, nostalgia. I learned linux using BasicLinux, which is still around,
and will apparently run on a 386:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BasicLinux

I still remember that incredible feeling, some many years ago, when I
put the floppy into a Windows box, rebooted, insmod'd the relevant
ethernet driver module, brought the network up, and had an actual
working networked *nix terminal ;)

Yeah, there's nothing like making an antique useful.  I remember the 
days of the PDP-11 running *nixWhat I wouldn't give to come up 
with one of those old things!!



Lisi

Celejar




My first programming class, back in 1976 was on a PDP-11.  Those were 
the days.  Bootstrap with physical toggle switches on the box to enter 
the binary code.


Marc


Boy do I remember those toggle switches!!!  A few years back, I built a 
Z-80 based toy, and that was one of things I wanted t have...Toggle 
switches and lights on the front panel!  Made it work too.




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Re: Old Computers

[Jose Martinez]

On 06/02/2015 12:41 PM, Gary Dale wrote:

On 02/06/15 12:49 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Tuesday 02 June 2015 17:37:01 Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:

But there's always vintage operating systems for vintage computers :)

I thought of DSL.  But it needs an i486. :-(
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall

I was thinking more along the lines of really old Debian releases,
something that would be contemporary with the hardware.
In view of the kernel problem, you are obviously right.  But in 
general, I

would rather use something that is security updated.  So I was trying to
think of other possibilities.

Lisi
On the other hand, the old releases were updated for all the security 
problems known at the time. They may well be immune to newer issues 
introduced after the release became unsupported and there may be few 
people trying attacks that haven't worked on atypical computers in 
over a decade.


And I will probably not use these system(s) on line much if any at all.  
So most of the security issues will fixed or not will not really be a 
problem in this situation.


I see I've sparked a pretty good discussion on the list.  I sure 
appreciate all the advice/information it will come in very handy when I 
actually have the systems in hand.



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Re: Old Computers

[Jose Martinez]

On 06/02/2015 10:08 PM, Celejar wrote:

On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:46:17 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:


On Tuesday 02 June 2015 16:28:30 lostson wrote:

On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Tuesday 02 June 2015 14:55:51 Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 21:14 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:

Hmm, that is a little disappointing.  But, I can probably run
Squeeze. Nothing like stone knives and bear skins!:-)

I think even squeeze would be a challenge (maybe a fun one though!)
when it comes to ram and disk space.

But there's always vintage operating systems for vintage computers :)

I thought of DSL.  But it needs an i486. :-(
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall

Lisi

  How about Tiny Core Linux

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html#req

Needs i486. :-(

Ah, nostalgia. I learned linux using BasicLinux, which is still around,
and will apparently run on a 386:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BasicLinux

I still remember that incredible feeling, some many years ago, when I
put the floppy into a Windows box, rebooted, insmod'd the relevant
ethernet driver module, brought the network up, and had an actual
working networked *nix terminal ;)

Yeah, there's nothing like making an antique useful.  I remember the 
days of the PDP-11 running *nixWhat I wouldn't give to come up with 
one of those old things!!



Lisi

Celejar




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Re: Old Computers

[Jose Martinez]

On 06/01/2015 09:10 PM, Martin Read wrote:

On 02/06/15 01:56, Jose Martinez wrote:

The question is, will jessie install and run on these old systems? If
not, can I still get a debian distro that will?  I expect that the
processors on at least one of them will be at least i386 or better, so I
also expect that jessie will install and run, but that my main problem
will be with drivers for the legacy peripherals.


https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en says:

However, Debian GNU/Linux jessie will not run on 486 or earlier 
processors. Despite the architecture name i386, support for actual 
80386 and 80486 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the 
Sarge (r3.1) and Squeeze (r6.0) releases of Debian, respectively. The 
Intel Pentium and clones, including those without an FPU 
(Floating-Point Unit or math coprocessor), are supported. The Intel 
Quark is not supported, due to hardware errata. 



Hmm, that is a little disappointing.  But, I can probably run Squeeze.  
Nothing like stone knives and bear skins!:-)


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Old Computers

[Jose Martinez]

Hey guys,
I'm about to be blessed with several old PC computers.  By old I mean 
that some of them will not even have CDROM drives on them.  I will 
probably tear them all down, mix-and-match parts and make the best 
system(s) I can from those parts.  This is something I've done before, 
so the technical aspects are not a problem.  I expect to use the 
resulting system(s) solely for play purposes to experiment with and 
delve into the depths of the system programming primarily for 
educational purposes.  If any of you remember Scotty from the original 
Star Trek series and how he spent his off/vacation time pouring over 
tech manuals and playing with gadgets, well that's me!


The question is, will jessie install and run on these old systems? If 
not, can I still get a debian distro that will?  I expect that the 
processors on at least one of them will be at least i386 or better, so I 
also expect that jessie will install and run, but that my main problem 
will be with drivers for the legacy peripherals.


I just can't find it within me to throw out what is, other than being 
old, a good usable computer system.


I appreciate any information y'all can send my way.

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Re: Missing audio notifications

[Jose Martinez]

I did log-out, and in fact rebooted the system with no change. However, 
I just checked and the freedesktop audio theme was not installed.I'm 
pretty confused at this point.  I know the notifications worked, but 
then they shouldn't have without that stuff installed.I must be 
losing my mind:-( It's a little early for that, I'm only 52!!


On 05/29/2015 03:18 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 14:35 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:

The output from this command follows:

Failed to play sound: File or data not found

Hope this information helps.


Does logging out and in again make a difference?

sound-theme-freedesktop is installed?

(Please answer directly to the mailing list! :)




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Re: Missing audio notifications

[Jose Martinez]

I just did another system reboot after installing the freedesktop audio 
themeThe notifications are back.:-) Once again, I must have lost my 
mind at some point in timeI think I'll go look for it:-D I 
appreciate your help.  I sure need to get up to full speed on the gnome 
desktop and Linux system.  There is just s much to look at and learn.


On 05/29/2015 03:18 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 14:35 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:

The output from this command follows:

Failed to play sound: File or data not found

Hope this information helps.


Does logging out and in again make a difference?

sound-theme-freedesktop is installed?

(Please answer directly to the mailing list! :)




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Missing audio notifications

[Jose Martinez]

I am a relatively new Debian user.  I had my system set up properly and 
everything seemed to be working well.  I used the Pithos front-end for 
the pandora service (which I like fairly well, by the way) which caused 
all of my audio notifications from the gnome system to stop.  I no 
longer get the sounds from the various parts of the system notifying me 
of changes, i.e. icedove pops up a visual notification that I have 
recieved new e-mail, but the sound that had been associated with that no 
longer happens.  This is not isolated to icedove.  The system used to 
make a sound when I changed the volume level using my mouse wheel which 
no longer occurs either.


The audio on the system does work.  I can play MP3 files through 
Rhythmbox or other audio player.  I can play movies with audio, etc.  So 
the audio sub-system of the computer is functional.  It is just the 
alerts that do not work.  I went to the system settings and made sure 
that alerts were turned on and the volume for them was turned up.  They 
were and it was.  I adjusted both anyway, and this made no difference. 
Basically none of the sounds coming from the operating system are 
functional.


What should I look at/check to solve this problem.  Again, I have been 
able to isolate the problem as having started when I used the Pithos 
package.  I am using an older laptop system, an HP Pavilion dv9000 
system, if that makes any difference.


Anyone with any information/help will be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Impresora HP LaserJet 1020 plus

[Raimundo Jose Martinez Arnal]

Mario Daniel Carugno escribió:

El día 31 de octubre de 2009 17:14, Javier Argentina
javier.debian.bb...@gmail.com escribió:

El 31/10/09, Yacell Vázquez Jorge yac...@rc.gr.rimed.cu escribió:


Saludos listeros, tengo una impresora HP LaserJet 1020 plus y no logro
que imprima, uso debian lenny, me guié por este material pero con todo y
eso no logro que imprima. Que me recomiendan.

Gracias de antemano, no
tengo acceso a internet.

Instalamos estos paquetes para empesar:

#aptitude install cups
 Y en caso que no tenga instalado el make gcc para
compilar:
 #aptitude install make gcc
1- Descargamos los driver de :
 $
wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
2-
Desempaquetamos y nos metemos dentro de la carpeta:
 $ tar zxf
foo2zjs.tar.gz
 $ cd foo2zjs
3- Luego Compilamos:
 $ make
 $ ./getweb 1020
# Get HP LaserJet 1020 firmware file
#-Instalar el controlador, foomatic
archivos XML, y archivos extra:
 $ sudo make install
 # make install

(Opcional) configuramos hotplug (USB; HP LJ 1000/1005/1018/1020):
 $ sudo
make install-hotplug
 #-(Opcional) Si utiliza CUPS, reinicie la cola de
impresión:
 $ sudo make cups
3- Lebantamos el navegador por defecto para
configurar la impresora
 http://localhost:631
 debe de quedar más o menos
así:
 Descripción: Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1020
 Ubicación: Work

Fabricante y modelo: HP LaserJet 1020 Foomatic/foo2zjs (recommended)

Estado de la impresora: inactiva, aceptando trabajos, pública.
 URI de la
conexión: usb://HP/LaserJet%201020

Dos cosas:
1º - Asegurarse que no esté instalado hplip o hpijs. A veces traen
problemas. Si los necesitas, una vez que funcione tu impresora,
instalalos  y ve si no hay conflictos.

2º - Instala los paquetes foo2zjs y hannah-foo2zjs de la propia
distribución de lenny. No compiles uno externo, pues ya está hecho.
Trae menos dolores de cabeza.
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=foo2zjssearchon=namessuite=stablesection=all

JAP


Perdon que discrepe, pero en la pagina de rkkda precisamente dicen que
no se debe usar
el foo2zjs de la distribucion, sino compilar el de la web.
El caso que se describe esta bien, pero creo que cuando se hace el
'getweb' el modelo debe
ser 1020p o algo por el estilo. Ya me paso con alguien que tiene ese
modelo, y la 'p' era importante.
Por alguna razon, el paquete foo2zjs de Debian no funciona con estas
impresoras. He visto que funcionan en una primera impresion, pero
luego dejan de funcionar. Hay que usar el driver
de rkkda.
Saludos




Bueno este hilo me hizo pensar porque habia conseguido hacer funcionar 
la 1018 con el Ubuntu, para mi mujer y porque en Debian no lo conseguí, 
si tenia que imprimir algo usaba el Ubuntu.

Bueno me puse ayer manos a la obra y lo conseguí, bueno esto es lo que hice.
1.- Desinstale hplip
2.- Instale foo2zjs y hannah-foo2zjs.
3.- Hice correr el hannah-foo2zjs y asi descargar el firmware privativo.
4.- Instale hplip, pero se quedaba atascado al final de la instalacion y 
el setup no funcionaba, elegi la opcion re-plug, y no habia manera que 
viera la impresora.
5.- Fuí a la pagina de https://launchpad.net/hplip para ver si otros 
usuarios tenian algun problema similar, evidentemente consulte sobre la 
1018, salieron varias consultas y una de ellas me hizo pasar al 
siguiente punto

6.-Debia instalar y configurar un plugin: http://hplip.sf.net/plugin.conf
bien me descargue el paquete wget: 
http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.9.8-plugin.run
y lo instalé: sh ./hplip-3.9.8-plugin.run esto ultimo desde la consola 
de root.

Bueno a partir de aquí hplip si comunica con la impresora e incluso imprime.

Bueno espero haberte ayudado.


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