Re: [Trisquel-users] ThinkPenguin now accepting Bitcoins with BitPay
You make a good point. Maybe in the new version of our web site we'll post the titles of blog posts to the front page. Or something similar. I'm hoping to also add a check box at checkout to opt-in to a mailing list. It would probably amount to what ends up getting posted on the blog.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't get Qualcomm Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC to work
While it isn't realistic that free software drivers/firmware will work indefinitely (and we certainly wouldn't claim that) but there is a certain level of community support behind these drivers and support over the long haul. These drivers have been pushed into the mainline kernel and things have tended to work very well for a very long time. The thing with Atheros is if you go back far enough they were no better than broadcom (broadcom's a headache, although there is one chipset that has support, but I was told by the developer its usage is ill-advised, but there are people here who use at and think its fine). Now getting a realistic perception of the problems is a challenge because there are many other issues which can negatively impact networking and wifi. From on/off switches (common issue on laptops) that don't work to people having BIOS configuration issues (plug-n-play support disabled in BIOS) to blacklisting to having installed non-free wrappers and screwed up there wireless/networking. Sometimes figuring out where the problem actually lies is hard to near impossible. I think the problem is the ath5k stuff was never terribly well supported. It was “good enough” for the time period (and actually a lot of stuff I'd still say is just “good enough” unfortunately, but at least it generally meets 95% of users needs). I have tested ath5k wireless cards as we have a batch and they worked fine a year or two ago. We never actually sold these cards mind you and the ath5k drivers and cards date back 10+ years if I'm not mistaken. The fact they are still working at all is pretty impressive given the majority have moved on. Well.. we did accidentally sent out a batch of several to a certain free software organization... that was a bit embarrassing. However- I learned from them that some additional issues with the ath5k stuff I wasn't aware of. But even before this I was aware older Atheros stuff was not that great. And before that there wasn't any support at all. Atheros did a reverse flip several years ago. They went from not supporting GNU/Linux at all to hiring an outside developer to come and work for them who was working on drivers for its chipsets already. The result of all this is I have a lot of respect for the company or somebody within for taking action and fixing the problem. Mind you like most companies they are far from perfect though and I'd still advise avoiding many of the companies products (although in many cases I'd still advise there products over others because the others don't provide any free software support and there is a better chance Atheros might... if we push a bit... which is another reason I'm a big fan of ThinkPenguin... as we are pushing as one might expect... and after all I did founded it...).
[Trisquel-users] Strange thing about WLAN card and etc
Hi there, I'm new in Trisquel and today I tried to install Trisquel 4.0 LTS in a legacy Thinkpad laptop. I used netinstall and things went pretty well that the installer can detect and use my IBM WLAN card out of box. Netinstall finished successfully whereas I found the WLAN card not being detected after rebooting to the newly-installed system. In other systems including Linux distros, MS Windows, and even the net installer of Trisquel, this wireless card can be detected and used. However I cannot make it work in Trisquel as an installed one. lspci gives no information about this card, but iwconfig and ifconfig give eth0 as a wireless connection. Now I cannot detect any hotspot or establish a connection manually. So it is a little confusing for me. No idea where the problem lies. Anyone has idea over this? Thank you a lot!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Strange thing about WLAN card and etc
I highly recommend installing the latest version of trisquel, 6.0. It's also LTS and there is no need for 4.0. I expect your problems will disappear using an up-to-date version.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Strange thing about WLAN card and etc
thank you for reply. the reason I chose 4.0 LTS is that it uses kernel 2.6.32 series. I tried Kernel 3.x before but it always failed to work. I believe the new kernels have dropped support for such old hardware. The machine is soo old.. :P
Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox
mmm... this don't seem like a solution (at all)
Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox
man, this hasn't to do with your version of kernel. A solution may be sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`-generic sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox
On 04/09/13 23:23, brianyroush wrote: man, this hasn't to do with your version of kernel. A solution may be sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`-generic sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms I have headers and dkms installed with my 3.10 kernel (from jxself's repo) and I still get errors. The solution isn't so simple, unfortunately. I also have 3.2 installed, which has always worked for me. Also, if you have any fixes, it would be great if you could keep this bug report updated: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8166 Andrew.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre Guitar Tuner
Thank you for the tip! I'm currently using Lingot, which is in the repos and works wonderfully.
Re: [Trisquel-users] You might be using a google name server
Good to know, thank you! Does anyone know or can confirm that if I download the image again today, this bug will already be fixed?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu 13.10 the second step to spy its users ?
Just adding to the conversation: you have to have an Ubuntu One account to register in the ubuntu forums now: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2164051 In order to improve login security, Ubuntu Forums now only accepts login via Ubuntu One single sign on at https://login.ubuntu.com. You cannot login via other SSO providers. Neither can you login from your Launchpad account, which was an option prior to a major upgrade to the forum software in February 2013. It seems what they are doing is, you have to have Ubuntu One to login into everything Canonical. This kind of centralization may make some sense to their security team, but for users it isn't.
[Trisquel-users] Tomb: Problem with GnuPG
I am trying to use tomb. It makes movable encrypted folders which need a separate key and a passfrace to open. Tomb is free software and a part of the dyne:block GNU/Linux. I have used tomb succesfully before but now I have a problem with it. Tomb moved from package format to being a script. I can create a tomb and a key to encrypt it but when I try to use the key to encrypt the tomb I created the script fails. It won't accept the passfrace I made for the key. I installed all the dependencies but I still get a GnuPG error: gpg: keyblock resource `/home/lammi/.gnupg/secring.gpg': file open error gpg: keyblock resource `/home/lammi/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': file open error gpg: AES256 encrypted data gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase gpg: decryption failed: bad key tomb [E] No valid password supplied It seems I'm missing a few files. I couldn't even find the .gnupg folder. How can I solve this issue? I installed all the additional GnuPG related packages. My GnuPG version is 1.4.11.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tomb: Problem with GnuPG
Tomb's home page: http://www.dyne.org/software/tomb/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu 13.10 the second step to spy its users ?
If they get your wife or husbands address and so called secrete info what will they do with it to harm you. Maybe send it to the KGB or a hit-man. They will have to look through thousands of info and then target you (are you that important). Canonical are not gathering any info to hurt, damage or spy on you. If you are a criminal or have some very dark secretes rather watch out for the cops. Its like these people saying Elvis never really died or aliens are spying on us and doing some experiments on us. Or are you really really that important? Canonical I believe are very responsible and use any info only to better it and your experience. I have no skeletons in my cupboard. The are not collection any info like banking accounts, salary info or any stuff that can harm you.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Strange thing about WLAN card and etc
In order to help you, the best thing to do is telling us what card you have in order to know if it can work with free software only. You can see h-node.org for this purpose.
Re: [Trisquel-users] You might be using a google name server
Yes I can confirm. Use: http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Strange thing about WLAN card and etc
old? what's the year and model?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Tomb: Problem with GnuPG
You need to generate a key. Open a shell and execute: gpg --gen-key
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't get Qualcomm Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC to work
jxself, Tried the other router, with nothing connected wireless or wired except the modem. Used the Atheros card to try and connect. Didn't work. Tried 3 kernels, all the same response when giving up: deauthenticating by local choice reason 3. Each of the kernels were slightly different in dmesg listings and the listings themselves were a little different because of this router which has dual bands, etc. the results were pretty much the same and definitely no connection at all. Plugged in the USB WiFi, that again worked just fine. I can check the dd-wrt forum, haven't done that yet, but things are looking dim. I've put enough time into this and on a $10 part, it's time to move on. There's lots I need to figure out in Trisquel yet as I try to set it up for daily use. I read about some ath5k bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269253 Trouble since 2008 and still so in 2012. Different from what I am experiencing but still bugs. Quite a few WiFi bugs on deauthenticating also (a long link but it should work copy and paste): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux?field.searchtext=deauthenticatingsearch=Searchfield.status%3Alist=NEWfield.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSEfield.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSEfield.status%3Alist=CONFIRMEDfield.status%3Alist=TRIAGEDfield.status%3Alist=INPROGRESSfield.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTEDfield.assignee=field.bug_reporter=field.omit_dupes=onfield.has_patch=field.has_no_package= Thanks for your help. Hope to hear more about your core boot one day. Take care.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't get Qualcomm Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC to work
Chris, Interesting. Like Mic sings, You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometime... Looking at some bug reports I was amazed at how torturous bad code can be to hardware. Temporarily freezing it up and so on. Also in looking over the various outputs, there is WAY MORE activity going on under the hood than I ever knew. Things just going and going, good, bad, and otherwise. It's a miracle anything works at all. A much less efficient and elegant process than I had thought. I thought coders just wrote and compiled, but man their hardware takes a beating on some things. Much more physical than I had thought. It's not just code, it's hardware and software. Would be great to get it right. One hand into the other. Proprietary approaches make such efforts hopeless. How can things ever get ironed out that way? I never knew, or never appreciated I guess. Look for my order shortly for one of those USB Wifi nubs. Glad you are offering hardware that is known. Need the coders too but with known hardware/firmware at least they'll know what they are up against. So much to be amazed by around here. Thank you for your help and the backgrounds on Atheros/WiFi. Take care.
[Trisquel-users] Can't Unlock VPN Tab
Initially I figured it was locked because the network manager wasn't installed by default but after sudo apt-get install openvpn network-manager-openvpn I'm still unable to unlock it. Any thoughts?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Strange thing about WLAN card and etc
It is a thinkpad i1300 produced in around 2000. In windows it is detected as IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Mini PCI Card. I found one on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Lenovo-08K3309-Laptop-Wireless-Network-Card-for-ThinkPad-i1200-i1300-/271250406076 On h-node there is no info about any ibm card. So I suppose it is not supported? But why can the net installer recognize and utilize it? Don't Trisquel system and net installer share the same thing?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Strange thing about WLAN card and etc
If there's no information about the card on h-node, it doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't work; it's because no one has added information about it to h-node. H-node has information on both hardware that is and is not free software-compatible.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't Unlock VPN Tab
On Thursday 05 September 2013 05:07 AM, milind...@gmx.com wrote: Initially I figured it was locked because the network manager wasn't installed by default but after sudo apt-get install openvpn network-manager-openvpn I'm still unable to unlock it. Any thoughts? It's irony that Trisquel-mini already has those packages. -- Sachin Dey
